Four Kingdoms AU young Selene and Nithroel bonding?
Four Kingdoms AU
Nithroel belongs to @justanartsysideblog
The air around Selene sparks while shewaits eagerly for the doors in front of her to finally open. Verynearly jumping on the tips of her toes, hair bundled high on top ofher head and bouncing along with her until the attendant next to herplaces a patient hand on the top of it.
Selene lets out a loud (probably rude,whoops) breath. She is too eager, too excited.
The smell of smoke is light in the airaround them.
But just as she is about to take one ofher deep breaths in, the doors finally open. Any hope of 'calm' fliesfrom her head as she bounds away from her attendant, through the seaof elves and council members exiting the too long meeting. They makestartled noises as Selene kicks up purple sparks with each step, barefeet barely having time to touch the floor in her haste.
“Papae, papae!” She calls, bookbound and held high over her head as she grins and races towards theonly other white haired elf currently in the room.
His eyes go wide for a split second ashe catches sight of her racing past guards and attendants, bookflopping around in the grip of her tiny fingers, before they softenand a fond smile overtakes his face instead.
“Story time!” She reminds him asshe carefully pushes the book onto the table in front of him, notbothering to let him stand from his chair as she uses her newlyemptied hands to help clamber back into his lap. Tiny fists grippingand pulling on the soft fabric of his robes until she is comfortablyseated. She pulls the book back into her lap and pats at the covertwice before looking back up at him. “Now?”
“I said after the meeting,da'len,” Nithroel laughs.
Selene looks around the nearly emptyroom, and turns back to her Papae with a pout. “But it isafter th'meeting.”
He shakes his head fondly, head restingcomfortably against his hand. “Surely you'd rather go to a morecomfortable room for this?”
“Nope,” Selene says with anemphasized popping of the P. She lifts the book and motions itcarefully in front of her papaes face. “Story time?”
He finally relents (he always does,Selene thinks proudly), and takes the book from her grip, opening upthe colorful illustrations so that she can see them while he reads toher.
“Didn't I read you this one lastweek?”
“Uh-huh,”
“I'm a great storyteller you know. Icould write a new story, just for you if you wanted-”
“Noooo,” Selene whines,pulling on his sleeve. “I like this one! You do the funny voicesand make the paint go all swirly!”
“You know, stories told through dancecan also be...”
He trails off when she turns to look upat him, eyes unimpressed while she puffs out her cheeks in a veryclear signal of 'No'.
Nithroel lets out an overly put-uponsigh, rustling her curls slightly before he begins to read. A storyof adventure and talking animals and wise spirits helping a young elflearn how to make friends.
Selene falls asleep before he reachesthe last page, and he lets his voice trail off into silence.
The attendant from earlier stepsforward. “Apologies,” They say with a bow. “She just...”
“Ran off,” Nithroel nods. “Iunderstand. We will work on that.”
The attendant holds their arm out,gesturing to his sleeping daughter. “Would you like me to take herto her bed, my lord?”
“That won't be necessary,” He says,dismissing them as he finally stands from his chair, back aching fromthe prolonged position. “I'll take her myself. Thank you.”
It's a long walk back to his daughtersrooms, but one glance at the sleeping toddler in his arms and thehalls fall into near silence rather than their usual ambient noiselevel. She still stirs slightly when he turns around corners, butquickly readjusts and falls back into slumber each time.
He manages to sneak her into her bed,pulling a blanket over her to keep her warm in the cold of the fallnights outside. Nithroel turns to take his leave before he feelssomething tugging on the edge of his sleeve.
Selenes eyes are barely open, petiteolive fingers loosely curled into the silk of his robes.
“M'sorry,” She murmurs, barely awhisper. “T'morrow, you can show me th'dance... I like when youdance...S'pretty.”
Nithroel blinks slightly, beforesmiling and running a hand carefully over Selenes forehead, brushingstray curls away. “I'd like that very much,” He says, placing agentle kiss on her head. “If you'd like, I'll show you how to dancetoo. What do you think?”
Selene gives a quiet 'mm-hm' inresponse, but Nithroel isn't sure if it's a genuine agreement or justa reflexive noise because it's rapidly followed by gentle snores.
He pulls back all the same, and givesher one last smile before silently exiting her room, closing thedoors securely behind him.
I love her gentleness. She’s got a lot of good traits that run along harder lines, like resilience and determination, but she is always a fundamentally gentle person even when she’s put some gruffness over top.
least favorite thing about them:
When her determination works against her and means she doesn’t really stop to regroup properly.
favorite line:
“Where the corrupt grant power, it is usually conditional on the recipient allowing them to continue their corruptions.”
brOTP:
Kel x Curiosity
OTP:
Kel x Pride, although Kelwyn is a close second and gaining ground :3
nOTP:
Since her adoptions in some AU’s, I can’t ship her with characters like Dirthamen or Uthvir or Thenvunin anymore.
random headcanon:
She honestly didn’t think she liked halla all that exceptionally until she was surrounded by people who weren’t just naturally kind of nuts about them.
unpopular opinion:
...Hrm. Well. As far as Lavellans go, her enduring love for Solas probably veers into that for some of the fandom, since a lot of people prefer the idea of him getting completely rejected. But even that’s probably just borderline, because that isn’t the biggest part of fandom (and their preference is totally valid).
song i associate with them:
Youth by Daughter
favorite picture of them:
Oh gosh I cannot pick (or find links at the moment), but your portrait of her is definitely a top contender, along with @lillotte17‘s modern elves version of her, and a few others. Seriously, though, I love every single piece of art with her in it.
@circadian-rhythm replied to your post “someone: makes even the smallest negative comment about meara in her...”
Ok but Meara and my city elf Alathan need to get together and talk because it sounds like they are very much on the same wavelength. He is ready to throw down and murder shems...and let Meara do the actually fighting because then he can stand back and make comments as it's happening. Also Red Jenny buddies!
yesssssssssss!!!!!!!
Meara is the Stoic Murder Elf who Loves Stabbing and Alathan is the one who does all the talking, together they commit crimes.
OC Fact Swap: Olwyn's great grandmother on her mother's side was an elf. The family kept it a secret until after her parents married, because they considered it a blemish on their noble bloodline. Olwyn's parents blame the elven blood for Olwyn being a mage. When Olwyn learns about it she finds it super fascinating and wishes she'd been able to meet her.
Thanks for the ask! I always love hearing about Olwyn! I think she’d definitely be friends with Dairine Lavellan!
Dairine Clearflame’s great-grandmother’s on her mother’s side’s name is Ishtar, who is a Ranger who inspired Dairine to become a Ranger as well. Ishtar’s companion animal is a lion named Duzell.
@circadian-rhythm replied to your post “@feynites @circadian-rhythm @my-beautiful-thief Some Star...”
Sylmae can be an old as fuck hermit/Yoda-esque character hiding off on a planet that doesn't want to deal with anyone's shit who could bench press a planet if she wanted to. But doesn't want to, for obvious reasons. Maibrit is a hot-shot smuggler who has like...ten bounties out on for smuggling refugees into abd out of places.
I love all of this
do you think all the “sad old masters who fuck off into exile” are all neighbors? like they all just got together and planned out their depression retreats? like was degoba a timeshare?????
I do tho really love the idea of Sylmae just being like “I’m too old for this shit fuck all y’all Imma get a sick shack and hang out with my cool force wife” after the trash fire of the Elvhen Empire collapse (if not earlier) bc like u know Nim is some kinda Cool Force Person like the Daughter or just Ascends to force ghostville at somepoint.
Maibrit nyooming thru the galaxy cackling wildly as she leaves gangsters and imperials in her dust. Like sure Han’s a lovable rogue or w/e but she’s the real deal robin hood type especially compared to him. Also probably helps the rebellion/resistance/whichever get supplies and shit.
Melarue is probably like Space Eboshi at this point. Buying out other crimelord’s shit from under them, freeing their slaves and taking care of all the people while building a sprawling network of businesses and working secretly with the good guys (only secretly bc u know spying and intelligence)
for the talented and awesome @circadian-rhythm
the artist creates stories without words
and the author creates pictures without art
the two talents combine to create something
far more than either could alone - such
beauty goes beyond words, as worlds rebuild
as they come alive, and she makes them better than
before, with chances and love and room to grow
she shines as a star to guide - to help the lost
bright as the moon; elegant and graceful her works
bringing joy and beauty into our lives for which
am grateful - the crafting of stories with many
authors to make worlds that entwine will forever
be a favoured and favourite memory of mine
Heacanon #1: Mirlen and Bernadetta were the top players on their soccer team, and the most competitive members. Headcanon #2: Div likes running his fingers through Eagerness' hair.
1. Mirlenand Bernadetta were the top players on their soccer team, and the most competitivemembers.
10. Yes, absolutely! Mirlen twisted her anklepretty bad one match, but continued playing because no way was she going to lose. She ended up breaking her foot thatday.
I also think the two of them would competea lot with each other just because, racing to the cafeteria every day, forexample x3
2.Div likes running his fingers through Eagerness’ hair.
10 here too. One of his favourite things todo, I’d say. It’s so soft and silky and he’d touch it as often as possible. IfEagerness lets him Div would brush his hair for him everyday ^-^
circadian-rhythm replied to your post “on todays round of Why Can’t I Write: yes, it’d be sexy, but is it in...”
Aelynthi just: sis, sis please we're supposed to be subtle you cannot have THREESOMES with the local lord and his servant oh my GOD. Then Selene shows him Victory and Melarue is left to just look at their children being ridiculous.
Melarue: my poor young children, when will they learn not to get involved with the mortals
Melarue: *Finds Kass and Ash and immediately takes them home*
Aelynthi and Selene:
Melarue: No, no, it doesn’t count as a stupid idea when I do it.
