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█ ▌G W E N / et . zelda
▐▐ ░ * . — ZELDA KING IS CONSIDERED TO BE perhaps one of the smartest minds in alucard ; or at least , that’s the rumor that goes around . and while sometimes they relish in it to be known as more than just the lawyer’s child or the preacher’s child , they know this reputation was simply made for them out of their endless studies and work to suit their parents’ expectations . and it … is exhausting , very much so . but they can’t deny the fact that they do love the pursuit of knowledge - but only in the sciences ! because law is and never will be their thing , but science , history ?? absolutely .
the library is one of their favorite places to clear their head , because lately everything is too smothering ; the halls suddenly become tighter and tighter as zelda replays the gossip they’ve heard about themselves in another plane of existence . a failure , and insult to their divine bloodline . and everything is so loud , their head playing a permanent static that drowns out everything else until they can find a few moments of quiet peace , and with BURNING HANDS ( quite literally , on the back of their right ) & SILENCED WORDS , they try to manage . look for other things .
when they open the doors , the atmosphere is automatically a relief … and they do attempt to sit before noticing the items along the table - they peer over , maybe the scholar being a bit nosy , before the ( very pretty ) raven-haired woman speaks . zelda’s eyes , like sparks of holy fire , light up before their body almost shrinks into itself again , and they clear their throat . ❝ sorry , sorry — only if you have the space , i was just … very curious to see what you were working on . ❞
▬▬▬▬ LOOK OF MILD REGRET fell upon gwen’s features , girl shaking her head as dark locks tagged along . ❝ oh , it’s — ❜ she stumbled over her words , vague gesture made towards her books with cheeks flushed . there was no way to easily pass off the rather unreasonable number of books , much less the way she’d obviously been hyper - focusing . ❝ — for a study . ❜ that was reasonable , wasn’t it ? far more reasonable than trying to explain the true reason she had upwards of eight books splayed out around her with sticky notes sticking out from a great number of pages in each of them . points for dedication ?
gwen reached to grab three of the books she’d already combed through , pink & yellow annotation stickers clustering together into a conglomeration of colors . pink meant definitions & meanings that could potentially contribute to her research , yellow meant reference images , & the very scarce green tabs meant the possibility of explanations . contraptions with two or more of the parts she’d dreamt up . reaching to gently set a few of the books by her feet , gwen cleared the opposite side of the table in order to give her newfound company a place to sit . ❝ just . . . engineering stuff , mostly . god , i’m sorry for taking up so much room — i didn’t notice how crowded it’s gotten . ❜
