“Is telling my brother excuses to punish me fun? Isn’t it dishing out the punishments yourself that is the fun?” She countered with, pulling back up from cuddling the puppy under the table. Though she couldn’t help but laugh a bit at what he whispered to her, and leaned back in to whisper in return. “Just make sure my brother never hears it then. He is fairly protective though, so… Might want to be careful.”
“I know that.... there is nothing more satisfying than a bratty sub over your lap, ass exposed for a good spanking”, he mused, his mind wandering off to the last time he had enjoyed the satisfaction of some quality play time.
“But your brother and I are cast from the same mold...”, he said, knowing that even if she had no idea, he was so much more brutal and ruthless than her brother.
“And therefore I respect that he would kill me for touching you...”
Tricia was bone deep tired. The news of the Mayor’s death had shaken the whole community but where there was political uncertainty people worried more about their money. She understood it but she was worn down spending hours explaining to people that honestly the bank was a safe place to keep their money and that moving it to hide in their home was really not the best plan. Since that had taken most of her day she had been forced to stay far too late catching up on the daily priorities while cursing her siblings under her breath who had spent the day in important meetings and occasionally sending her emails about other urgent tasks. The quick drink at the bar had helped to soften her frustration a little but now she just wanted home.
Cutting through the park at night was not something she would usually do and especially on a day like this but it took so much time off her journey that she was willing to risk it. Something suddenly ran past her and she froze. Staring over she noticed the dogs and scanning the scene found the owner.
“I’m not sure scaring people with your dogs running around this late at night is a smart move either,” she remarked, her nerves still jangling.
A low, roaring laughter started in the depths of his chest when she talked.
“This is one of the dog-hotspots of the city. It is rather ingnorant to not assume that there are dogs running around here”, he retorted, not feeling the need to be actually particularily nice to her. He knew her, considering that her family controlled all of the money in the city,
“But for your own comfort...”, he said, using his thumb and middle finger to whistle very loud, his dogs were turning around and shot to him, laying down on his left and right.
“Are you feeling safer now, Miss van Doren?”
“Are you really going to be going on and picking on me asking if you were fine or not with me joining you, Ferdinand? Because I’m pretty sure if I just sat down, you’d have your fun with telling my brother just so I’d get my ass beat.” She couldn’t help but joke around and shake her head at him. But, would he really do that? Perhaps, he’d might do it. She did reach down to Pluto though, letting him sniff her hand before she scratched him behind the ear a little, just glancing up to Ferdinand.
“And that’s the tea. You’d lose your table, not lose my cute face.” She teased back in return to his joke. Nah, truth was quite worse than just losing his table. Take even more of Gabe’s family from him? Yeah, her brother would probably break and do some stupid shit she feared. So, she avoided situations that could hurt her as much as possible.
“You don’t want to grant an old man a little fun?”, he said, knowing that she was about half his age and if her brother would ever find that their comedic banter turned into something that even resembled flirting, he would be in serious trouble. So he leaned in a bit to whisper the following words.
“We both know that if I would have said this, I may lose my table or even my head too. And I couldn’t even blame him”
Lila was cutting through the park on her way to class and had not read the news this morning. She was limited with what she could do on her phone around her father, but not only that, she’d woken up a bit late this morning and was in a hurry. She needed to get to grab a coffee, get to school, and try to listen to whatever her professor was going to lecture about that day. She noticed the dogs first, chasing after the ball, and then saw him. She was going to give them a wide berth anyway, but then a dog barked at her and she stopped.
“Uhh…” she trailed off, eyeing the beasts warily. “No idea what you’re talking about.”
Oh, the wonderful bliss of the innocent. That was all he could think when he saw the young girl that almost seemed like little a little fawn staring into the headlights of a jeep.
“Mars, quiet”, he said, giving his dog a hand sign to lay down to his left, Pluto laying down to his right when he was finally standing in normal talking range to her.
“I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Mayor Lancaster was found dead in his home a couple of hours ago and I am not sure if a young girl should be out all on her own in the dark while there is a killer running free”, he said, smirking on the inside about the irony of this sentence, considering that he had probably more blood on his hand than most people who roamed this town, both by giving order and pulling the trigger himself.
“If you have to walk alone, better walk on the street where the lights are on. Better be safe than sorry...”
Leticia watched the dogs stir as she stood with her hand on the seat, and she knew if they didn’t trust her, they could easily have ripped her hands off but… They instead were used to her sneaking them a bite or two of food, and scratching them behind the ears whenever Gabriel brought Ferdinand around. “Still, it’s purely polite to ask, wouldn’t you agree?” She pointed out while pulling the seat back, before sitting down across from him, leaning back against the seat. Glass placed on the table, still not drank from even. God, even her favorite virgin drink wasn’t tempting as she dreaded any more bad news. “Three? Oh my, even you going to protect me? Because I do know these big teddy bears on the floor will have my back.”
“Polite yes, but never necessary”, he stated, putting down his phone on the table to fully shift his focus to the submissive at his table. He had known Gabriel for years and therefore he had watched the other grow up, even he couldn’t deny that she was by far not the child he had met way back when.
A small smirk appeared on his lips when he heard her talk about the teddy bears under the table. There were only a hand full of people who would look at his dogs without fear of being ripped to shreds at the wrong move, but even most of them were aware, that they could be lethal.
“Your brother would rip off my head if I would get you killed on my watch and I would lose my cosy corner table privilege”, he said jokingly, knowing that for those who didn’t know him at all, that small difference between joke and honesty wasn’t noticeable.
Ferdinand was not the kind of man who freaked out easily. There were very few moments when he had been truly nervous and when he was woken by the news of the passing of Mayor he to not get back to bed and just head out to go for a walk with his dogs. It was good to sort out his mind and figure out how his family and the entire Rhodes empire should react to such violent actions.
He knew that the police were on it, though he was not putting a lot of faith into the Clemonte’s and their will to figure out who did this and if he was honest with himself, he wasn’t really interested if it was a traditionalist who was pissed. He was more worried that someone was orchestrating all of this to make sure the world was distracted by a rising revolution while they would take it for their own advantage.
While these thoughts were running through his head he walked into one of the big parks, knowing that in these early hours he was pretty much on his own, throwing balls for Mars and Pluto.
It was only when his dog’s attention shifted from the game they played to someone who was watching them.
“If you want you can come closer. I am not sure if wandering these streets alone is a smart move after everything that happened tonight”
Leticia suspected her brother would lose his mind if he couldn’t keep an eye on her after the news, so when he had to open his bar, she came with him, and just decided to hang out. So staying sober as she had to, she just wandered around, trying to find someone to hang out with while she stayed occupied. Wandering over to someone who had a free seat by them, leaned over the back of it a little, smiling to them. “Do you mind if a girl sits down with you? Not really feeling like hanging alone after the news today.”
Ferdinand had only a hand full of places he went to after hours. For once, finding a place that matched his criteria was hard in itself, but to be able to bring his dogs too was usually what ruled out most of the places that were left, but not La Roca. Since it was owned by his friend his dogs had gotten an actual fair chance and since they were trained well and his regular table was in a nice and cosy corner, no one ever complained about Mars and Pluto.
Today had been a particularly nervewracking day, considering the news they had gotten about the murder of the major. Everything had gone bonkers, shaking up everyone and everything. Traditionalist views were very much present in this town and even though Ferdinand was probably by far not as progressive as his twin sister, yet they had overstepped a line. Not because he pitied the death of someone…but because the death of someone in a position this prestigious it was stirring up things he would have preferred to keep under the wraps.
While his mind was still preoccupied with the news of the day he felt a shift in the behaviour of his dogs who had been laying on the ground on his right and left. It was almost easier to read his dog’s behaviour to find out who was approaching than to look up, so a small smile grew on his lips.
“You know that there will always be a free seat at my table for you, darling. You know you don’t have to ask”, he replied, looking up to her. If they would have met in a different place without him knowing her brother, he probably would have boozed her up a bit to get her into his bed, but he knew Gabriel and he knew how much alike they were when it came to their younger siblings.
“And rest assured, you have three protectors by your side now”, he said, knowing that his dogs loved the girl, knowing her from an early age on.
Whenever Ferdinand has some time off (so once in a blue moon) he will spend time with the dogs on a training parcours or just outside for a walk to clear his head and stop thinking for a bit
[[ male, he/him, heteroflexible ]] FERDINAND RHODES is a DOMINANT and they work as a COO. They are 36 years old, and their mother says they look like HENRY CAVILL, but we think she’s exaggerating. They hold MODERNIST views, not surprising considering they are so CHARMING, but also so OVERPROTECTIVE. Are they really into EDGING, but not into ELECTRIC PLAY? No one knows, but maybe you’ll be the first to find out. [[ Kati, 25, GMT, she/her ]]
Ferdinand is the future heir of the legal and illegal business of the Rhodes family and he is very much living up to his father’s expectations
his parents' relationship is largely based on money, reputation and convenience with his submissive mother being a socialite and his dominant father being a workaholic and a cheater. A fact that his mother covers up, compensating the form of humiliation with shopping tours and even more champagne
Ferdinand and his twin sister are thick as thieves, her being the only human being that knows all of him. The bad, the ugly and even the good parts (that he is an expert hiding)
He has probably been more of a father to his siblings than their actual parents, including regular lectures about them sneaking out for parties and enforcing rules
The security system in the Rhodes mansion is state of the art, including a rather large staff of bodyguards that are assigned to the members of the clan at any given point
The Rhodes children have been growing up with dogs all their lives and the current family dog is an Akita Inu that they got as a puppy and who stayed with the family for almost 8 years now
Ferdinand started owning and training different types of guard dogs at the age of 16 (including German Sheperd, Malinois, Doberman, Rottweiler and later Cane Corso which he stuck with ultimately). All of the guard dogs that are currently protecting the Rhodes family members including the property have been bred, chosen and trained by Ferdinand and/or the head of security.
He has two dogs that he keeps by his side at all times, called Mars and Pluto
Ferdinand knows how to use a gun, has a concealed carry permit and he will not hesitate to use it if necessary
Ferdinand's motto could be broke down with "Si vis pacem, para bellum" and the other would be "No one hurts my family and lives"
He is an utter control freak, so if you are trying to get close to him, be prepared that he will have gone through all records of you, both sourced from publicly available and sourced in a rather illegal way
3) in a life-and-death situation, your muse would;
save themselves first | risk their life for someone else | risk their life only for someone they care about
4) has your muse done any of the things mentioned in the third question (above) and regretted it?
yes | no
5) has your muse ever;
lost a loved one | lost a family member | personally seen someone close to them die | personally seen someone close to them commit suicide | attempted to/successfully committed an act of suicide | been in a war
6) regarding past trauma, your muse is;
indifferent to it | sensitive about it | keeping it bottled up | insecure about it | afraid of others finding out about it | accepting of it
you are olive #808000
Your dominant hues are red and green, so you're definately not afraid to get in and stir things up. You have no time for most people's concerns, you'd rather analyze with your head than be held back by some random "gut feeling".
Your saturation level is very high - you are all about getting things done. The world may think you work too hard but you have a lot to show for it, and it keeps you going. You shouldn't be afraid to lead people, because if you're doing it, it'll be done right.
Your outlook on life can be bright or dark, depending on the situation. You are flexible and see things objectively.
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