Tea and Sympathy

Romarique Valeriant - Mateus Server - Crystal Data Center - FFXIV RP blog

[junelezen]

Hello everyone and welcome to Junelezen - a month dedicated to your elezen Warriors of Light and OCs in FFXIV!

We have 30 prompts for you to inspire screenshots throughout the month to show off your wonderful characters. Feel free to tag them with #Junelezen so we can see them and put them into our queue.

We hope you have a great start of summer and look forward to what you come up with.

[romarique-v]

“I’m old enough to make my own bad decisions so you can stop trying to push me away now…”

@lamp-post-criminal ❤️

[azure-seadragon]

“You fall in love with the little things about someone, like the sound of their laughter and the way their smile forms.”

— Unknown (via thoughtkick)

[romarique-v]

@lamp-post-criminal

[hug-your-face]

You AGE Miette? You put her body in the cave and ferment her like the wine?

[gilded-fancies]

@asheredwyne

[romarique-v]

JAIL FOR PATRON!!!

[shadowofthejackal]

“I can be gentle too. Hide your face. Hide yourself in my arms.”

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (via antigonick)

[andwhatexcellentboiledpotatoes]

No I do NOT want to date but I DO want to get in an intense and noble fight and end up moderately but not mortally injured and then have my love interest gently patch me up, their hands faltering slightly as they clean my wounds and then say something like “you look like crap” while gazing at me lovingly and realizing how empty their world would be if they ever lost me. 

[romarique-v]

@lamp-post-criminal you look like crap…

[virtuallyinsane]

[romarique-v]

Junelezen Day 3 - job

Slightly out of order, oops

Roma is a physician by trade, he heals primarily through non-aether cool methods and practices traditional surgery. What most don’t know is that he can heal using aether, he just chooses not to. There are multiple reasons for this choice.

[romarique-v]

Junelezen Day 7 - day

[romarique-v]

Junelezen Day 6 - night

With @lamp-post-criminal

[caughtinorbit]

moodboard: darkest academia

[arcanvm-arcanorum]

I can't help but notice the way his waist narrows into his hips and disappears under a piece of fabric. I want to know what it would be like to understand another person without those barriers. To know a person so thoroughly, so privately. I want to study the secrets tucked beneath his elbows and the whispers caught between his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trade rivers and galleys along the curved muscles of his body.

- unravel me, tahereh mafi

[sortofrogue]

@romarique-v oh fun! I can tag you in disgustingly cute things now

[romarique-v]

Junelezen Day 2 - Landscape

Gridania

Hanging out with @lamp-post-criminal

[asheredwyne]

Just some giraffe angst...

[asheredwyne]

Home

Roma’s eyes cracked open a few ticks before the alarm was set to sound.  Quickly, he turned to face the chronometer that sat on his bedside table, reaching out to stifle the bell the moment it began to ring.  He uttered a near-silent curse as he shifted to turn the mechanism off, carefully untangling himself from the limbs that held him still in the bed.  His head turned back towards his partner as he began to rise, slipping out from under Nath’s arm and leaving the other elezen to rest in the comfort of the plush, white bedding.  Nath shifted with a groan, pulling the down duvet tightly around himself as the warmth of his companion dissipated.

Roma stood still for a few moments as he rose completely, seeming to hang suspended in the air as he held his breath, waiting to ensure that Nath would not wake before making his way into the bath.  The doctor crept quietly over the wooden floorboards, tiptoeing into the room beyond and quickly grabbing his clothing on the way.  He dressed simply, a pair of running pants and a loosely fitted shirt that barely anyone would see as he completed his pre-dawn ritual of a run through the beds, as had been his custom for quite some time.

As he dressed, he fussed around the room, picking up a few stray items of clothing and tossing them into the hamper for washing.  He huffed a small laugh as he tucked away a few of Nath’s toiletries, setting them carefully into a drawer that held the ever-growing collection of his personal items.  There was now a toothbrush, a hairbrush, and silver pocket watch that Roma was certain had belonged to someone other than his companion until quite recently.  He smirked as his fingers ran over the engraving of the piece, shaking his head as he quietly shut the drawer and left the bathroom.  

Roma paused for another tick as he crossed the bedroom, his eyes flitting towards the dark head of hair that was the only visible evidence of another occupant in the bed.  He stepped carefully to the stairs in the dim light feeling his way along as he descended into the main room of the apartment.  Once downstairs, he moved a bit faster, flicking on a light or two as he entered the kitchen.  He set the kettle on the stove to heat, perching himself on a stool right beside the stove to wait for it.  He remained at his vigil until the steam began to rise thickly from the tea kettle, reaching to snatch it quickly before the vessel had a chance to whistle, holding it still in the air for a beat as he seemed to listen for any sounds of stirring from above.

Content that he’d managed to complete his morning ritual without disturbing, the doctor took his cup of tea into the clinic to enjoy it, sitting for half a bell at his desk while he prepared for the day.  As the china cup emptied to nothing but leaves, he left it to sit on the desk, slipping quietly out the front door and into the darkness for his run.

@lamp-post-criminal​

[romarique-v]

Day 1: Portrait

Screenshot by @lamp-post-criminal