IC Speed Dating Meme

[fairbrook]

IC Speed Dating Meme

Rules:
1. Post with your character by creating a "card" with your name, sex, and preferences.
2. Tag to others.
3. You supposedly only have seven minutes, but that's up to the muns how many comments. [To hell with that, let's not put a limit on how many comments]
4. Have fun.

Comments

[erythristic]

[evidently vanity wasn't a flaw of his.]

Quite admirable, in this day and age. In this realm, even.

[scramasax]

[Of course not - he finished off his mortal-ish existence looking like roadkill.]

Er - [A repressed huffing sound that was meant to be a self-deprecating laugh.] - I'd not know - about this day and age. But -- !

[And shakes his head lightly as if to fill in for some of that thought while he gets it back in order.]

-- Surely some of those in this realm are - merely displaced from where their loyalties would be. Normally. -- My lady.

[And he hasted it a little towards the end there. Drat it, what is it exactly that they're doing here, again?]

[erythristic]

[assessing each other's suitability for romantic partnership, naturally! dear Anthony, what did you think this was?]

If this is mere displacement, I'd hate to see the outcome of complete severance, my lord. With hearts and minds divided on the borders of not just the Courts, but matters they carry from their own realms, tracking who and what one will stand by is as branching as a spider's web and just as liable to have you stuck in an unfortunate position.

[scramasax]

[Not really happening, is what. And why is she calling him that oh right that's technically appropriate for this context.]

Uh -- a... [Long "a".] ...spider's web doesn't attach to nothing - however, and so they do, er - they do still have loyalty.

[Do not tell him he was insane for thinking that made sense.]

[erythristic]

[...good. he's at least trying to keep up. her lips twitch up into a smile.]

And who owns your loyalty now?

[scramasax]

[Is this a good thing or a bad thing.]

-- Ah.

[It's not that he doesn't know how to answer because he certainly does.]

The -- ...The court I hailed from in life. Um. -- Always...

[Which, of course, doesn't exist now, and may be primary consciously but second at best on a whether-you-like-it-or-not scale... Shakes his head.] -- Nothing could change that.

[erythristic]

Not even if your Court here promised you what you've always dreamed of?

[scramasax]

[He is honored to give this reply.]

-- I dream of little. My lady. Ah - certainly nothing that would -- be possible, any longer.

[Or if you're going to get pedantic about the wording used there a sort of huff of very tentative voiceless wry humor, for attempted conversationalism's sake - with a twitch of a sheepish smile to match.] Or that I would wish...!

[Yes, he is still trying to keep up.]

[erythristic]

Do not leave aside the fact that we are in a realm of magic, my lord, and so the impossible may be yet within your grasp.

[he's doing well enough at keeping up, she had written "good conversationalist" on her card.]

[scramasax]

[Another minute shake of his head. A bit of a smile's still there. Still twitchy. Still rueful.]

Years have passed and so has my court - my lady. Even where I'm from. Centuries -- even if I could make impossible wishes, I doubt that they'd be -- my place to make.

[As for being a good conversationalist he might not be talking about himself quite this much straight if he didn't feel somewhat as if this is a test.]

[erythristic]

[it's not something she can understand. not wanting to wish because it should be something you attain on your own, she can empathize. not wanting to wish for you weren't sure of the consequences, she could appreciate. but it not being your place to wish for your heart's desire...]

So it's more that you won't.

[scramasax]

It is that I couldn't.

[Which here means yes it is because he won't.] It-it'd surely interfere with the business of more people than me. More important -- far more important - things than me.

[He means that on a couple different scopes, and would try to skirt it with a "you wouldn't understand", as heck he isn't quite sure how he'd explain it, but ah-ha that's hardly proper! Instead, then:]

-- If you understand.