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: smile; angry (but he's not forgotten)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-24 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Jone nods, her lip curling in a crooked smile when he calls her Agnes. A promise of her mother. She will never be that holy.

"Then we ought to go north-west, toward the merchant quarter. It will buckle their industry, what little they have, and focus our energies on those who have called for this insurrection, desiring for ever more profits. They sleep above their shops, though the things are more mansion than stall."
poleaxed: static; tired; sad (they can't get)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-25 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Jone has lost the teeth needed for bitter words in the meanwhile. She savors the future, cutting down fat merchants who wasted the potential of states that wished to be free. The image succors her while she bides her time, making her way through clammy dungeons. There people were sold out not by Archadia, as they so feared, but by their own. Archadia's revenge-- and it is that-- on their behalf will almost be sweet.

But mostly, it will be painful.

The proffered cloak breaks Jone from her reverence. It takes her a moment longer than it ought, considering it, before she takes the thing to wrap about herself.

"Thank you," she says out of habit, though she's sure he'll answer with it is duty or some other nonsense. Maybe one day, Jone will become as she dreams, an automaton who functions only on protocol, sickened memories forgotten, disappointment displaced, until she is content only with necessity. Until then, it's all rather silly, isn't it? "I am sorry for whatever hit this causes your dignity to suffer. You will regain it; I am sure."
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poleaxed: fight; smile; angry (and into the black)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-25 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Jone does her best not to sneer. Cold anger always suited her better. "I hunger for its conclusion. Not from weariness," she says quickly, sharply, turning to face him. "I want to see their faces, when their petty fears are confirmed."

Will he think that too personal? He seems a creature of detachment. Should she care at all? Probably. But her soul is a pyre, and she wishes it to burn high, so it may for once be marked and respected.

She will never be the docile child they wanted.
poleaxed: joke; hand (living life when)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-25 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Jone nods. When they are inside, she drops her voice low, "we are hoping to find a posting with the Clucarin in the morning, if anyone asks." She doubts anyone will ask. She doubts anyone will look at Gabranth and think conversation with him is safe.

"I will take first watch."
poleaxed: static; angry; hand; fight (i am)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-25 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The watch makes her weary. She had thought she could do it all alone, but over her life she has thought she could many things, many times. The world exists to prove you wrong. That's why it has gravity.

Yet she cannot bear the thought of waking Gabranth, singularly beautiful in his sleep. He looks like a painting, one breathing slowly, face a memory of anger. She had not known what to think of him at first, and for some time, until he covered himself in darkness thus. She thinks she would die for him, now. It would uphold her oath. A thing beautiful for its impossibility, harsh in its touch; what is he, if not Archades?

Still, she's grateful when his eyes flicker awake.

"Allow me a moment's rest," she says quietly. "Five minutes, no more, and we may move on."
poleaxed: gent; hand (no no no.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-26 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Jone's sleep is not the repose Gabranth had. She twitches on the floor, jerks, always looking as though she is about to wake, but doesn't. It is all rather quiet; she learned long ago that loud sleepers were unfavored children. It lasts an hour before she kicks herself awake, blinking away confusion.

She knows she overslept. Gabranth was supposed to wake her. So this was his choice? So be it.

She stands quickly, dusting dirt from herself, she stands. "Right," she says, voice hoarse from sleep, "our armor, then the doors."

Jone can just barely see it from here, but those tall and looming fixtures are as rotted as ever.
poleaxed: static; angry; hand; fight (know you well.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-26 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
She dips her head in deference to his seniority-- or perhaps simply his unquestionable grandness. She notices she doesn't feel embarrassed when he disagrees with her, or angry, anymore. Just calmed, knowing she's being allowed to see a better way to accomplish their goals.

Their goals. Archades' goals. Maybe she isn't so alone, anymore.

"What plan have you now?"
poleaxed: hand; joke; emb (we are so alone)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-26 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
The smallest of laughs escapes her. She holds up both hands. "Wouldn't dream of it, m- sir." Her old accent sneaks through in her comfort, and she smacks it down as quickly as possible.

She searches their pack for rations, biting into some jerky. She offers him the same, jerky and pickled greens, a small skin of water.
poleaxed: gent (than fade away)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-26 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"I-" packed them myself, and was that wrong? Perhaps. Gabranth is a better, stronger creature than she, and her admiration for him only grows. He's not taking her under her wing, the don't do that, but he's letting her grow by example.

She, who had pushed him away at first, mocked him. Capricorns are capricious, foolish creatures. She'd meant it as a warning. Ram's horns, for stubbornness. A capricorn, for nothingness, living fully in neither land nor sea.

"Do you want me to tell you where the food stalls we can afford are, or have you scoped something out already?" Afford. But they need to look their part, landless and jobless, searching furtively for work.
poleaxed: hand; joke; emb (we are so alone)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-27 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Jone opens her mouth to disagree, but cannot find the words. Surely he knows better, and even if he does not, she will not make a scene from argument. She packs the food away, tossing the rations to a nearby beggar. She takes them with thanks, and she makes the Videreyn gesture for silence. Her compliance is enough.

"Let me order, at least," Jone says, walking by his side. "It's traditional."

Her smile says she might be teasing him. She isn't, but that's for him to decide. How well can he read her? She feels like an open book.
poleaxed: sad; static; scx. (hunter.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-27 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And all at once, everything is familiar, Fedlhelm never imploded upon itself, and she is ordering food to sneak back to whatever hovel she's claimed for herself this week. She is no scion of justice, she is no hope to the downtrodden, she is just as she was before everything unbalanced.

She smiles at the waitress, who has the same shade of hair as she. "Two fry ups," Jone says. Her accent is back. "Bake the veg in his. Likes it healthy, he does. Over easy. Thank you."

The waitress is polite verging on obsequious, and Jone wonders how many last legs this place is on. The entire area is starving, in its own way. The hunger strike is just a part of it.

But to Gabranth, all she says is, "forgot to ask how you like your eggs."
poleaxed: smile; hands ('cause rust never sleeps)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-05-28 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
A smile splits her face, and she doesn't know why. Everything is momentarily perfect; a trusted companion sits by her side and she is safe. A balm to a lonely life. She nods, and reaches over to tap his knuckle. It's fine, it's fine.

"It is, true as sunrise." She isn't sure if he means it, or if it's just some kind of cover, but Jone assumes this is the last time she'll get to be herself, ever again. She means to mean it.

The food arrives, a breakfast platter of bacon and egg and rice and potato, leek, mushroom, cabbage. Jone immediately flips her egg over on top of the rest of the food and stabs it, letting the yolk bleed down into a sauce. She eats with a quick efficiency born beyond the border of Archadia.

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