[rougelame]

@eventide : ❛  i fled and did not return  ❜

Alisaie looked up from her cup of tea upon hearing her friend’s words, then sat up straight as she mulled it over. “Yeah, we all did at one point in our lives, didn’t we?” She said, drowning a coming chuckle with a sip of her hot beverage. Alisaie did return herself, but she had entertained the thought until the very end of her own journey. As such, she couldn’t even consider it as returning - she never felt like she belonged until she fought alongside the Scions.

[rougelame]

I have spent the last three hours leveling up my mining and my brain is currently rebooting.

I’ll get to everyone's asks after dinner!

[andolinii]

𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒

❛   The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist   ❜ ❛   One goes into an experiment knowing one could fail. But one does not undertake an experiment knowing one has failed.   ❜ ❛   At least that’s something we can agree on.   ❜ ❛   It does seem like a dreadful place to be stranded.   ❜ ❛   Heaven, friend. Or as close as we’ll see till Judgment Day.   ❜ ❛   I’m afraid of you.   ❜ ❛   We had a deal! Open this door, right now!   ❜ ❛   So you expect me to shoulder the burden?   ❜ ❛   Just ‘cause the city flies don’t mean it ain’t got its share of fools.   ❜ ❛   Heads? Or tails?   ❜ ❛   I told you…I’m not gonna do it! Now go away.   ❜ ❛   I never find that as satisfying as I’d imagined.   ❜ ❛   I guess you’re expecting me… Is anyone here? Hello?   ❜ ❛   Why are you following me?   ❜ ❛   Violence is not the answer! Blood must not be shed.   ❜ ❛   Violence is not a foregone conclusion.   ❜ ❛   I see every sin that blackens your soul.   ❜ ❛   Not all debts can be repaid.   ❜ ❛   Chin up. There’s always next time.   ❜ ❛   Prophecy is my business, as blood as yours   ❜ ❛   thy crook is bent and thy path is twisted.   ❜ ❛   It’s okay, I’m not going to hurt you. Just sit down, and everything will be fine.   ❜ ❛   Is this some kind of sales pitch? Because I am not interested.   ❜ ❛   I’m a friend. I’ve come to get you out of here.   ❜ ❛   I don’t dance. C'mon, let’s go.   ❜ ❛   This will end in blood. But then again, it always does with you, doesn’t it? It always ends in blood.   ❜ ❛   Oh, can you smell that? I’ve never smelled anything like that before, have you?   ❜ ❛   Give a man a little power, he falls in all kinds of love with himself.   ❜ ❛   Coming here was your idea.   ❜ ❛   that fall into the water did you no favors. I’ll keep an eye out for something that might ease your pain.   ❜ ❛   Knock it off! Will you stop it? Will you stop it! I’m not here to hurt you.   ❜ ❛   If you’re going to be a sore loser, then I shan’t do this again.   ❜ ❛   You’re a roguish type, what does it look like?   ❜ ❛   Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt.   ❜ ❛   Where did you learn to pick locks?   ❜ ❛   Whatever that was, it’s got nothing to do with the job at hand. This job’s getting worse all the time.   ❜ ❛   What interest does a prophet have in a bunch of carnies and carousels?   ❜ ❛   I never even heard of this place before I got here.   ❜ ❛   They frown on gardens in my part of town.   ❜ ❛   I don’t really understand what I just saw back there, but it sure as hell looks like a shortcut to getting us killed.   ❜ ❛   You’ve always been different, haven’t you? You crave no glory.   ❜ ❛   You see? You’re a killer, like it or not.   ❜ ❛   Now that you’re out of yours, you might realize cages have their advantages.   ❜ ❛   I can handle whatever comes along. Trust me.   ❜ ❛   A choice is better than none. No matter what the outcome.   ❜ ❛   What happened back there, that…that’s not the last of it, is it?   ❜ ❛   Maybe you’re the man I remember, maybe not.   ❜ ❛   There’s survival…and then there’s finding pleasure in the act.   ❜ ❛   Look, you seem like a decent enough sort. That said, the less you know about me, the better.   ❜ ❛   I’m leaving and there’s naught you can do to stop me.   ❜ ❛   Me busting you out, what do you think that was? Charity?   ❜ ❛   I got no quarrel with you.   ❜ ❛   Are you afraid of God?   ❜ ❛   I never claimed to be no hero.   ❜ ❛   There’s already a fight. Only question is, which side are you on?❜ ❛   Just hold up for a minute! I’m not angry with you.   ❜ ❛   You killed those people. I can’t believe you did that…they’re all dead… You killed those people.   ❜ ❛   I have no need for one such as you.   ❜ ❛   Don’t get too comfortable with my company. You are a means to an end, no more.   ❜ ❛   You’re either a great hero or the worst of scoundrels, depending on who’s doing the telling.   ❜ ❛   I am a believer, but I am not a fool.   ❜ ❛   What is the most admirable creature on God’s green earth?   ❜ ❛   Does this strike you as good news? It doesn’t strike me as good news.   ❜ ❛   I don’t much care for you… but I must admit, you know your way around a brawl.   ❜ ❛   Now, now, All I ask is that you finish what you started.   ❜ ❛   Son, I do say I like the cut of your chin.   ❜ ❛   You know, when your name was first passed to me, I wasn’t quite sure you were the man for the job.   ❜ ❛   What could people have done to deserve to be locked up in a place like this?   ❜ ❛   You’re a lion. But you can’t blame me for looking after my own interests, can you?   ❜ ❛   Lions walk with lions, not hyenas.   ❜ ❛   I killed them. They were dead.   ❜ ❛   You must think me some sort of…freak. I must seem ridiculous. ❜ ❛   Like all bastards, we serve it best by smothering it in its crib.   ❜ ❛   Let me tell you about sin.   ❜ ❛   Are you going to just sit there?   ❜ ❛   the biggest sin of all, the mother of all sins, is that we sit back and take it.   ❜ ❛   In this world, you were a martyr.   ❜ ❛   These folk need a better class of hero.   ❜ ❛   This isn’t our responsibility - none of it.   ❜ ❛   Why, that sort of ambition will serve you well.   ❜ ❛   I had a role in this catastrophe, if you want to pretend we’re innocents in this, then that’s your prerogative.   ❜ ❛   I saw you die. Saw it with my own eyes.   ❜ ❛   I know how this feels. Listen, I think you should talk to me.   ❜ ❛   How do you wash away the things that you’ve done?   ❜ ❛   Once people get their blood up, it ain’t easy to settle it down again.   ❜ ❛   This prophecy business… You don’t think anyone can really see the future, do you?   ❜ ❛   These are dire times and I could ever so use your aid.   ❜ ❛   That is an oath you cannot keep.   ❜ ❛   If you were to take me back…that’s death. Or something so like it, I cannot tell the difference. ❜ ❛   A mother who abandons their child doesn’t draw a lot of sympathy in my book.   ❜ ❛   You just got dealt a bad hand. ❜ ❛   The only difference between past and present is semantics.   ❜ ❛   If we could perceive time as it truly was… what reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?   ❜ ❛   You couldn’t have known this would happen.   ❜ ❛   One doesn’t expect a picture of one’s corpse to come across so lifelessly.   ❜ ❛   Listen to me. what you’ve been through… ain’t nobody in the world deserves that.   ❜ ❛   We are gettin’ outta here, you got it? And you’re never gonna have to look back.   ❜ ❛   Child! Child! You are the lie that spewed from my womb. You are the lie, the lie, the lie.   ❜ ❛   Some men dream of money, some men dream of love. My father dreamt of a flood of fire.   ❜ ❛   I can see all that would be, might be and must not be.   ❜ ❛   Child, would you like to pray with me?   ❜ ❛   All I ever wanted is to see you live up to your potential.   ❜ ❛   Humanity wrote a bad check, and the flood was the only way to settle the accounts.   ❜ ❛   You’ll need to eat sooner or later. If you hold out, you’ll just starve to death.   ❜ ❛   God put his faith in men once, too. It seems that we have something in common: disappointment.   ❜ ❛   Why do you ask ‘what’ when the delicious question is ‘when?’   ❜ ❛   All I can do is watch as what I set in motion slides into its terminal stage.   ❜ ❛   Time rots everything, even hope.   ❜ ❛   We’re going to cure you.   ❜ ❛   When the body cries out, the spirit listens.   ❜ ❛   Do you hear that screaming? That is the sound of your interference.   ❜ ❛   Is this where you start moralizing? You forget, I know you.   ❜ ❛   What are you going to do to stop me?❜ ❛   You struggle against prophecy, like a stone loosed from a sling.   ❜ ❛   I don’t understand. I heard you screaming, I was… I was coming to get you.   ❜ ❛   Do you think…it’s possible to redeem the kind of things that we’ve done?   ❜ ❛   We’re doing this together, or I’m doing it alone. Either way, I need to know the thing’s been done.   ❜ ❛   Rejoice! Rejoice! Death has no sting.   ❜ ❛   I may be the one who strikes you down, but you’ve always had a knack for self-destruction. Who’s to say you won’t beat me to the punch?   ❜ ❛   Some sins can’t be forgiven.❜ ❛   I’m not going to let you kill him.   ❜ ❛   I won’t abandon you.   ❜ ❛   You come to wipe your slate clean, but time will walk backwards before you find redemption.  ❜ ❛   Everything I’ve done…I’ve done to keep you safe.   ❜ ❛   You killed him. What did he mean? Huh? You tell me, what did he mean?   ❜ ❛   Just drop me off if you want to. This isn’t your problem.   ❜ ❛   I’m a fool. I’ve sent mighty armies to stop you; I’ve rained fire on you from above.   ❜ ❛   Will you do this for me, just…just this one last thing? Please…   ❜ ❛   You thought the streets were paved with gold, but they were paved with blood, sweat and tears.   ❜ ❛   Look at that. Thousands of doors…opening all at once. My god, they’re beautiful.   ❜ ❛   Baptism is the rebirth of the spirit…but sometimes the mind gets in the way.   ❜ ❛   There are a million million worlds. All different and all similar. Constants and variables.   ❜ ❛   We swim in different oceans but land on the same shore.   ❜ ❛   Are you ready to have your past erased? Are you ready to have your sins cleansed? Are you ready to be born again?   ❜ ❛   I can see all the doors, and what’s behind all the doors.   ❜ ❛   Hey, the deal is off, you hear me? The deal is off!   ❜ ❛   You think a dunk in the river’s gonna change the things that I’ve done?   ❜ ❛   If I don’t get caught, it’s going to be a very long time before we see each other.   ❜ ❛   Do you hate your wickedness?   ❜ ❛   Are we worth saving if we will not save ourselves?   ❜

[dancerknight]

marked by fury, bound by hope

[dancerknight]

marked by fury, bound by hope

[rougelame]

“I think I’ll be copying Y’shtola and do something somewhat productive. Like training my fencing on some mannequins. With Vauthry’s face painted on, for good measure.”

[rougelame]

bastard-son-aymeric·:

   Aymeric chuckled softly. “It’s but a rose from my families garden, nothing more, mistress Alisaie. It matches your eyes. Beautiful in the snow.” He complimented.

“Well, uh, thanks, sire Aymeric. I’ll cherish it for as long as it’s lively. Be sure to congratulate whoever grew it, it’s, uh. Quite something.”

[rougelame]

bastard-son-aymeric·:

    “Tis true, I do and I will not deny it. But even so my beliefs on the subject has naught faltered. Give it a chance m’lady. Perhaps you’ll find it quite enjoyable.” He murmured, offering her a beautiful blue rose with a friendly smile to match.

Alisaie accepts the blue rose, before looking it over. “Please tell me it doesn’t mean what I think it means. I don’t speak flowers.”

[rougelame]

@bastard-son-aymeric​: "Come now m'lady. It isn't all that bad. To cherish them whom you love is apart of the celebration. To honor them is all but manditory on such an event."

“Of course you’d say that, sire Aymeric. The event is hosted by House Valentione, which is one of many houses in Ishgard. You have a bias.”

[rougelame]

“Valentione is pointless. You shouldn't need an event to remind you to honor your loved one.”

[rougelame]

I so do want to make a blog for my lizard WoL but she is canon-divergent on one plot point and I’m not sure how this could possibly work out.

I’ve been delaying her because of that and it’s making me nervous.

[rougelame]

alisaie: thinks about tesleen alisaie: tries not to cry alisaie: cries a lot

[rougelame]

I can definitely see Alisaie joking around about who’s the older twin. She’s never consistent purely on purpose, because she doesn’t give a damn about it. Bringing it up gives a sense of superiority over the other, and Alisaie finds that dumb: she’s got her strengths, Alphinaud has his, there is no need for such competition.

[rougelame]

bastard-son-aymeric​:

@rougelame​  started following you

     “My Lady Alisaie, I’m glad to see you once more and back on your feet! Thank the Fury you and yours are safe.” The ebony haired Lord Commander gave a gentle smile and a low respectful bow towards her. It still haunted him that day she had turned up upon the manor in such a horrendous condition. Death but lurking at the poisoned girls side….and now not to mention her prone slumbering figure now etched into his mind like the rest of the Scions. To see her well and fighting fit once more was a blessing.

By the Fury’s good nature, she stood before him now, healthy and fit to sass her poor dear brother all the long day. He chuckled quietly to himself before standing upright once more, an endearing glint sparkling in sky blue orbs. “I trust your health is well my lady? I hope your trip back here was less troublesome than the first.”

Alisaie’s chuckle mirrored Aymeric’s, though hers felt awkward and forced. “I’ve had no encounter with archers this time around, so my trip was eventless,” she admitted, subconsciously grasping at her arm. She mumbled something about dishonor under her breath, before she caught herself and started addressing Aymeric properly.

“Or, well, about as eventless as one can make a trip to Ishgard, sire Aymeric,” she brought up with a smile, attempting to be as courteous as she could manage in front of Aymeric. “I heard all about my brother’s journey through here, but it was as he recalled, and I suspect he may have left out quite a lot - nay, I know he had. As his big sister, I’m able to tell, after all.”

[rougelame]

eventide​:

Undeterred by the girl’s apathy as she took the paper for herself, Kjerstie sighed. “Well… hmm, if only Thancred were here. He’d be suitable partner for such an… excursion.”

In fact, the man could do something like that all by himself, but the brunette didn’t dare say that out loud. However, the Warrior hardly minded going with the young Elezen, but sneaking around was hardly her forte, admittedly. Still…

“I’ll go with you! I promise not to let my clumsiness get in the way!”

“Hey, I’m about as competent as Thancred when it comes to sneaking around,” Alisaie muttered under her breath. It was hardly her first expedition, and she was pretty competent at working alone. On the other hand, she didn’t exclude the possibility of the existence of numerous crates of crystals.

“But, you did defeat Garuda before, so if things go further south than I planned, I may very well need your help with the primal.”

[rougelame]

eventide​:

“Alisaie… are you sure you want to take this hunt down all by yourself?” The Warrior of Light looked over the illustration of the bounty, then back to the shorter female.

Not that she didn’t trust the Elezen to take care of herself, but better safe than sorry.

“Why don’t I go with you?”

“Look, it’s just.. It’s just a pack of wayward Ixals. I can handle those myself.” Alisaie hid the bounty paper into her outfit, away from any inquisitive eyes.

“I just need to take their crystals discreetly. I won’t fight them if I can help it - I’ll just be ready to defend myself if they spot me.”

[eventide-deactivated20210807]

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