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eachdraidh2015-06-23 10:52 pm
survivra) wrote in eachdraidh2015-06-23 10:52 pm
Entry tags:
- alice liddell: american mcgee's alice,
- ariadne: inception,
- billy kaplan: marvel 616,
- elizabeth of york: the white queen,
- erik lehnsherr: x-men,
- garrett hawke: dragon age,
- hiro hamada: big hero 6,
- jack benjamin: kings,
- jason todd: dc comics,
- javik: mass effect,
- johnny storm: fantastic four,
- katsa: graceling realms,
- octavia blake: the 100,
- po: graceling realms,
- simon monroe: in the flesh,
- thor: marvel 616,
- zuko: avatar
video; unseelie.
Well, now that that silver nonsense seems to be sorted out, I think we need to start talking about things we can actually fight back when they attack us.
[ About as direct a greeting into the topic of this message as you can get. Katsa sits somewhere outdoors, cross-legged in the grass with her locket angled to show the sky clear behind her: fitting for the mismatched colors of her eyes, unusually bright green and blue. ]
I know our High Majestic King and Queen [ the titles spoken with a hint of irony ] don't seem to care always how old someone is or how much experience you've with weapons or fighting when they decide to claim you. Whatever you think of this war, whether you'd rather run right into the Void right now or wait for it to come to you, everyone here should have the skills to unlock their own strength. It's better that you've the ability to jam a knife into a man's eyeball and never have to do it than find yourself at the end of an attacker's blade with no way to get out of it. You shouldn't have to rely on anyone else.
So I'll teach you if you've no experience of your own. I usually teach young girls—children—but I'll not turn my back if you need it. That includes how to use your shard—the thing that Seelie will try to take right out of your chest.
[ She moves to close the locket—then halts, fumbles, and picks something off the ground to hold flat in her palm to show anyone watching. ]
And what in the name of the Middluns am I supposed to do with this?
[ WHO HAS TURTLE CARE TIPS???? ]
( dated after boon delivery on the 25th! )
[ About as direct a greeting into the topic of this message as you can get. Katsa sits somewhere outdoors, cross-legged in the grass with her locket angled to show the sky clear behind her: fitting for the mismatched colors of her eyes, unusually bright green and blue. ]
I know our High Majestic King and Queen [ the titles spoken with a hint of irony ] don't seem to care always how old someone is or how much experience you've with weapons or fighting when they decide to claim you. Whatever you think of this war, whether you'd rather run right into the Void right now or wait for it to come to you, everyone here should have the skills to unlock their own strength. It's better that you've the ability to jam a knife into a man's eyeball and never have to do it than find yourself at the end of an attacker's blade with no way to get out of it. You shouldn't have to rely on anyone else.
So I'll teach you if you've no experience of your own. I usually teach young girls—children—but I'll not turn my back if you need it. That includes how to use your shard—the thing that Seelie will try to take right out of your chest.
[ She moves to close the locket—then halts, fumbles, and picks something off the ground to hold flat in her palm to show anyone watching. ]
And what in the name of the Middluns am I supposed to do with this?
[ WHO HAS TURTLE CARE TIPS???? ]
( dated after boon delivery on the 25th! )
» video » private.
( Like right now, actually. She sucks in a deep breath at the irony. ) But I have always wanted only for you to be happy. And if I can, I will do whatever I must to ensure that you are.
( That is love, putting the happiness of someone else before one's own, in her point of view. A certainty that you would die for them, and they for you. Katsa is right; in that, the most important of things, nothing has changed from the first. And she is confident that it never will.
Though they both look a mess, and her own eyes and cheeks are red, puffy and wet with her tears, she manages a small, brave smile. )
No. But if a day should come in which we somehow find ourselves closer than we are, I would embrace it, and you with open arms.
» video » private.
[ The implication is strong and heavy: Katsa knows she will unwittingly make Elizabeth angry or sad. She already has. She cannot promise the wishes and desires of her heart, and she does not like the thought that she might cause someone pain. ]
You may embrace me as we are now too, you know.
[ Said as drily as Katsa ever says anything—but for someone who knows her, it might be read as the quip it's (mostly) intended to be.
It's time to shove off all this difficult, emotional business, as well as she can. ]