archademode: (When you feel the heat)
Jᴜᴅɢᴇ Mᴀɢɪsᴛᴇʀ Gᴀʙʀᴀɴᴛʜ ([personal profile] archademode) wrote in [community profile] albinomilksnake2021-05-06 01:46 pm

RP: OPEN POST



I: pick a character
II: write a prompt or pick some visuals

poleaxed: static; angry; hand; fight (when i only meant)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so he likes being reminded of getting blown. That shouldn't surprise her. Why does it surprise her? She has really got to stop overthinking this bastard.

Jone finishes a mouthful of food just as he asks, literal and figurative rumination interrupted by a fair question. She leans over a bit so she can pat her wounded side-- lightly, but still more than she would have managed otherwise.

She takes a drink before answering. "I'll have a pretty scar to add to all the ugly ones, nothing else."
poleaxed: static; joke; smile; hand (of insane)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Jone, meanwhile, stares at her food with confusion. She's supposed to eat this? But it's so pretty.

Luckily, Gabranth distracts her before she has to decide what spoon to destroy it with. Jone snorts, shaking her head. "No, Gabranth. Some really are... are evils writ upon the body."

Slipping back into that Archadian way of speech may be more convincing. It certainly has more decorum. She should try to keep up more, in his presence, but he makes her so bloody comfortable, these days.
poleaxed: joke; gent; sad (is here to stay.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Jone takes a careful spoonful, mirroring Gabranth. The desert is sweet, but not overmuch, a gentle sort of sugary flavor that melts pleasingly over her tongue. It mostly distracts her from memories of knives held when she was defenseless, rocks thrown, furniture she was thrown into.

Jone takes another spoonful of the desert-- it really is lovely-- before sitting back and thinking on how to answer. "I agree that wounds in battle are no thing to be ashamed of," she concedes lightly, "but scrabbles to escape, petty squabbling, traps and mistakes... I hold no pride in the evidence of marks."
poleaxed: joke; smile (no no no)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Jone takes another swipe at the desert. It is a bit sweet, especially for her unsophisticated palate, but she's mostly entranced by the look of it. Somehow that makes up for it.

"I'd point out some examples, but that would be quite untoward," she says dryly, without looking up from the sparkling gold flecks under her spoon.

She can't keep from smiling at his compliment, and the smile can't keep from going wry. "Ah, but if I cared what pettiness was said of me, I'd stoop to the tedious lows of defending myself against fools."
poleaxed: sad; static; scx. (hunter.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Jone sits back, frowning. She shakes her head. "Surely your time is worth more than pointless battles. If I'm underestimated, so be it."
poleaxed: fight; angry (it's better to burn out)

glad (????) our insomnia synced up.

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
I beg you? Jone turns her head with a look of concern.

"Something so zealously protected is often fragile," she murmurs. She can't eat any more of the desert; it's making the roof of her mouth ache. She pushes it gently aside. "But your judgement has never lead me astray."

So it's presumably worth it, to strike out in haughty pride. People are the same everywhere.
poleaxed: smile; (i cured my skin)

collapses.

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And how can you argue with that?

As much as Jone is aware she should be disgusted by the loss of life-- she isn't. They were all cunts. Gabranth did her a massive favor, and she didn't even realize until now, weeks later.

Gratefulness rises within her, far too earnest to bear, and she tempers it by imagining herself ripping off his clothes.

"I think we have different understandings of pride," she says evenly, though she's looking at him again as she sips her wine, calmly appreciative. "I like yours far better."
poleaxed: gent; emb (i have)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She just barely keeps herself from sucking her teeth, rolling her eyes. Instead, she gives him another love tap under the table, her heel to his ankle. "What a humble man you are," Jone says, words mocking only fondly.

The sun is almost set. She ought to leave now; it would be decorous. She doesn't want to. She wants to... well, she can think of a few things. Being able to touch him would assuage that, maybe a little, maybe a great deal, but she doubts he would allow it.

"Is this where you prefer to dine?" She's still utterly entranced by the balcony, the sweet-smelling air. "I should come here more often."
poleaxed: anger; static (is this what you think i do?)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I may make a habit of it," Jone says, but the tone she'd meant-- a warning-- comes out more like a promise. She keeps her gaze on the balcony, so it doesn't flicker back to his hands, his mouth.

"Where are your rooms? You've visited me, but I've never returned the favor."

Surely that's no secret. Their movements are doubtless accounted for. It is a grand palace, but it's still a beehive in the center of an imperial capital.
poleaxed: sad; emb; gent; joke (i have some news.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Jone's face twists into an expression of utterly fond longing, which is fine because she's still staring off the balcony rather than looking at him. How fucking embarrassing, otherwise.

"Yes, yes," she says, finishing off her drink. "I may as well be converted completely to the ascetic's lifestyle."

She can't imagine he has much flair for interior design, not that she can throw stones.
poleaxed: static; angry; hand; fight (insanely)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It's nice to be right. Jone won't crow over it-- she suspects he doesn't really care that much, beyond his general distaste for being ascribed any traits that don't require swords and gushing blood.

So sorry for him, then, that isn't what she's after. Door closed and locked behind her, she leans across its frame. "You'd have to sit down, first."
poleaxed: smile; fight; angry (this is the story)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-16 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Jone looks him over, finding no spark of recognition, not even the smugly petty satisfaction of earlier. Is he hiding it? Does he not care? Is he oblivious?

The last option seems the most likely, and she hates how that makes her skin itch for him, all affection and needing to touch. What a strange, strange man. She adores him.

Still, she retains her composure as she walks over to him. There is no smile, no warning, before she sits solidly in his lap. Leaning over, her head finds his shoulder, her breath finds his neck. "Now, I'm comfortable."

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