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“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” -Haruki Murakami
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Thanks
Libba Bray, Going Bovine
Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.
Beau Taplin || T h e E x p l o r e r s (via afadthatlastsforever)
Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
you bring the safety of dark skies
So, Kyssa, how’s meeting all the draenei children going? Getting along okay? Making friends? Doing-
OH DEAR GOD
Don’t act like I didn’t see that, missy. You’re so grounded.
mcdraenei insanitywithapencil
For TMI Tuesday: 1
1. What is one thing others might find intolerable about them?
While Kyssandrith is not the sort of person who will go into someone else’s space and start cleaning, she’s very particular about her space. Her quarters have to be just so. And she can’t stand living in mess or clutter.
But… she sees spending hours and hours cleaning as a waste of her time. She’ll put things away and be generally clean as she goes, sure, but some mess naturally forms anyway.
Now, she’s stayed in a lot of places where someone else does the cleaning, and that’s just fine by her. HOWEVER. The people who are going to clean her room can only enter at certain specific times, which can vary depending on when she wants them… and often times she insists that she be present. And acts critical and grumpy while they clean.
If there aren’t people already there paid to clean, and Kyssandrith is staying there for some period of time… in that case Kyssandrith will buckle down and do it. And then gods forbid someone leave behind a mess in her space.
maukiaas
…What if Mikkaelos tried to clean her room (without asking, of course – in fact, without even telling her that he’s going to do it)?
KYSSA WOULD LIKE ME TO INFORM YOU, in her defense, that she hasn’t been that bad in a long long time. She’d also like to inform you that the incident of waking up covered in itchy purple welts thanks to powder in her bedsheets had nothing to do with her efforts to improve these particular proclivities of hers.
(The latter of those statements is a lie. That housekeeper got you good, Kyssa.)
However, that doesn’t mean that she isn’t sometimes a little… ridiculous when it comes to her personal space.
She and Mikk share personal space so much, I’m not sure she would really regard an area as not his space too, but let’s say that she had a room she did view as “not his” in any way, shape, or form.
I’m pretty sure she’d be momentarily extremely pissed to find out someone had been in there and touched all her things, and even perhaps *gasp* rearranged them but… for him, the feeling would pass quickly.
She’d still insist that he not rearrange anything or by the Gods I will hurt you-
Kyssa, stop that, you’re relapsing again.
mcdraenei
I must confess: I would friggin' love to see more of Kyssa's inadequacies as a druid come out in RP and writing. It's easy for me to forget that she's really new to druidism. I'm so curious to see where her lack of training gets her into trouble.
Heheheh. Well.
It already shows in how I play her, but it’s never really had attention called to it because she’s only been around better druids in passing since I started RPing her.
For one, she can’t heal. At all. But it’s more than that. She lacks the strength to pour the energies she wields outside herself to any significant degree. Now, I have bent this on a few occasions for the purposes of a greater story she ended up pulled into. BUT, the gist of it is, she just… can’t. Doesn’t work! More training required!
For two, she’s too… squishy in her animal forms. At least according to my headcanon (and game mechanics? kinda?), powerful druids could toughen their animal skin, enabling them to shrug off blows that would have caused extensive damage to their bodies. Kyssa can’t do that. Not really.
For three, she’s definitely not powerful enough to enter the Emerald Dream. She wouldn’t even be close, even before Nordrassil’s destruction. Her connection to the druidic magics just isn’t strong enough.
What she does have going for her is that she’s spent considerable amounts of time in her animal forms. She knows them well, and in some ways she’s almost addicted to how it feels. (Having a rich world of scent open to you is really something.)
She’s also just got a natural aptitude for it. Put those two things together with her unrelenting determination and stubborn disposition… and well, you’ve got a recipe for seeming far more competent than you actually are. At least to an untrained eye.
Buuuuut any druid worth their salt would be able to tell.
So once Kelridor shows up, I can guarantee you a lot of this is going to show.
mcdraenei
…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’
Friedrich Nietzsche (via loveage-moondream)
If Yuulis hadn't woken up and Kyssa was faced with trying to pull -two- injured adult draenei in a wagon already full of children, what would she have done? Would Mikk have been able to convince her to leave he and Yuulis behind (with the intention of coming to get them later)?
With the state Mikk was in pre-healing, he would be fighting an uphill battle trying to convince her to leave him behind. Or, for that matter anyone. Because, well… it seemed to her that leaving someone behind injured in this wilderness was just as good as condemning them to death. Hide in the brushes all you want, it would only be a matter of time before some hungry beast or rampaging orcs stumbled upon their location.
With Arkturas there, Kyssa would have tried to enlist him somehow- either to carry Yuulis or help push the cart.
If he had not been there… it’s hard to say, exactly. She certainly would have recognized how much of a risk it was to haul them out. But that doesn’t mean she would have accepted leaving them there. In fact, I’m preeetty sure she wouldn’t have. Sure, she’d know how stupid she was being, so there’s at least some possibility that Mikk would be able to convince her to leave them behind, but… even so. It would be a fight, and not one she’d give up on easily.
She might have, instead, put Azlaan in charge of getting the children out and stayed in the wilderness with Mikk and Yuulis. After all, he was a trained Rangari. And she’d trust that she’d be able to keep the injured pair safe long enough for more help to arrive.
Of course had the situation been reversed she would have demanded to be left behind.
She trusts her own ability to survive in that kind of situation. Much less so shiny ostentatious Mikk.
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What is one thing they do that can negatively affect their relationship with friends?
…Be a gigantic dick. >_>
Kyssandrith can be one hell of a jerk when she’s pissed off. And in an argument, she can go right for the jugular in the blink of an eye.
AND- here’s the kicker- even if she feels bad about it afterward, she rarely actually apologizes to the person she hurt. You know, maybe to everyone else involved, but… not to them.
It’s kind of like throwing a lit stick of dynamite into a structurally unsound building, then apologizing to the bystanders when the smoke got in their eyes… even as the building’s owners try to figure out what the fuck to do with the rubble left behind.
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For TMI Tuesday: 1
1. What is one thing others might find intolerable about them?
While Kyssandrith is not the sort of person who will go into someone else’s space and start cleaning, she’s very particular about her space. Her quarters have to be just so. And she can’t stand living in mess or clutter.
But… she sees spending hours and hours cleaning as a waste of her time. She’ll put things away and be generally clean as she goes, sure, but some mess naturally forms anyway.
Now, she’s stayed in a lot of places where someone else does the cleaning, and that’s just fine by her. HOWEVER. The people who are going to clean her room can only enter at certain specific times, which can vary depending on when she wants them… and often times she insists that she be present. And acts critical and grumpy while they clean.
If there aren’t people already there paid to clean, and Kyssandrith is staying there for some period of time… in that case Kyssandrith will buckle down and do it. And then gods forbid someone leave behind a mess in her space.
maukiaas
Happy TMI Tuesday! What are your character(s) thoughts on dance? Does they have any preference on style (tribal, court,etc)? Is they trained in dance?
Kyssandrith likes dance. But it’s been a veeeery long time since she’s actually done it. As a young child, it was impossible to make her sit still, and anything that was an outlet for her wild bursting energy was something she’d throw herself into. Dancing included! But she was surrounded by adults who wanted her to be serious, dignified, and focused. They saw her enthusiastic writhing to rhythm as just yet another way of Kyssandrith being far too wild and uncontrolled.
It’s one of those things that sort of… fell away as her aunt worked to mold her into a proper Sentinel soldier.
But, as far as style prefers, she definitely still prefers that wild gyration to music outside of any strict parameters. (No court dancing for her!) And when she sees people dancing like that with such enthusiastic joy, she longs to just let go and join in.
She rarely does.
deaderafterdark
Happy Monday! How good or bad are your character(s) senses?
I will answer this question! For it is Mon-tuuuuuuuuesday. :D
(derp)
Kyssandrith has very sharp senses, especially depending on the animal form she is in at that particular moment. But in her actual body, she still has very vivid hearing and vision. The former of which makes it very difficult to sneak up on her.
Her considerable time spent in her cat and bear forms have somewhat enhanced her kaldorei sense of smell. It’s not a physical change. Rather, she learned more about how to use them and what the scents could mean. And… well, she simply got more used to using scent to gain information.
But she’s still not a super taster/smeller in her kaldorei body, so… the longer she spends in her cat/bear forms at a time, the more jolting it is to switch away from them, because leaving behind their acute noses is like having an entire vibrant world of information suddenly ripped away from her.
deaderafterdark
Yesterday, I spent 60 dollars on groceries, took the bus home, carried both bags with two good arms back to my studio apartment and cooked myself dinner. You and I may have different definitions of a good day. This week, I paid my rent and my credit card bill, worked 60 hours between my two jobs, only saw the sun on my cigarette breaks and slept like a rock. Flossed in the morning, locked my door, and remembered to buy eggs. My mother is proud of me. It is not the kind of pride she brags about at the golf course. She doesn’t combat topics like, ”My daughter got into Yale” with, “Oh yeah, my daughter remembered to buy eggs” But she is proud. See, she remembers what came before this. The weeks where I forgot how to use my muscles, how I would stay as silent as a thick fog for weeks. She thought each phone call from an unknown number was the notice of my suicide. These were the bad days. My life was a gift that I wanted to return. My head was a house of leaking faucets and burnt-out lightbulbs. Depression, is a good lover. So attentive; has this innate way of making everything about you. And it is easy to forget that your bedroom is not the world, That the dark shadows your pain casts is not mood-lighting. It is easier to stay in this abusive relationship than fix the problems it has created. Today, I slept in until 10, cleaned every dish I own, fought with the bank, took care of paperwork. You and I might have different definitions of adulthood. I don’t work for salary, I didn’t graduate from college, but I don’t speak for others anymore, and I don’t regret anything I can’t genuinely apologize for. And my mother is proud of me. I burned down a house of depression, I painted over murals of greyscale, and it was hard to rewrite my life into one I wanted to live But today, I want to live. I didn’t salivate over sharp knives, or envy the boy who tossed himself off the Brooklyn bridge. I just cleaned my bathroom, did the laundry, called my brother. Told him, “it was a good day.
Kait Rokowski (A Good Day)
this…it hit me on such a hard level. i cant even describe it.
(via notsolegallyblonde)
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Happy Truthful Thursday! What are your character(s) thoughts on loyalty? How might they prove their loyalty to someone or a cause?
Heheh. Well. Loyalty is of tantamount importance of Kyssandrith. She herself is incredibly loyal to people and things that she cares about- at times to the point of jumping all too hastily to the defense of something or someone without really assessing the situation. …And sometimes to the great annoyance of said people she’s trying to protect. (*cough mcdraenei cough*)
But in a lot of ways, that’s what loyalty means to her: having someone’s back. In her mind, if she can’t rely on you when she needs you most, then what good are you?
So, the way that Kyssandrith proves her loyalty is quite simply stepping up to bat with all the relentless force she can muster.
And she can be a fucking hurricane.
deaderafterdark
