#darius roleplays

[noxianguillotinedarius]

Coffee Break.

spirit-of-an-exile moved from here

“Just a break from everything.” She breathed adjusting her coat, “The paper work, watching people making sure they don’t kill each other in the barracks, and this damn cold.” She would have offered a drink, but it was only the afternoon and she was trying to quit.

“Come on, I know a quiet place.” She gestured for him to follow. The small cafe she was referring too wasn’t too far from the capitol, so the trip wouldn’t be too long. She hadn’t much chance to venture far away from her work place. Too much needed attention. She knew they were purposely piling work on her, to see how much she could handle. Riven wondered if they did the same to Darius, or if he was just better at it than anyone else. Most likely the latter, he is The Hand, after all. It couldn’t hurt to ask.

He honestly couldn’t fault Riven for wanting a short break from her work, considering the sheer amount of it that he had. Darius himself had a similar load but, well, he’d gotten so used to the amount that it no longer bothered him. They mostly gave it to him because it wasn’t meant for anyone lower than him to do and they knew he’d get it done in a relatively timely fashion. Granted, there wasn’t much else he’d really do with his free time.

So Darius followed Riven’s lead to go to this quiet place she mentioned in order to get coffee. He could feasibly guess at where she meant but he’d let her lead the way regardless. “Can’t blame you for the cold.” He wasn’t a fan of the Winter months himself. “Didn’t miss the paperwork, did you?”

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Starter for generalofravens

It wasn’t very often that the Grand General and his right hand man had the chance to talk about anything besides the current state of Noxus and it’s affairs. As Darius walked into Swain’s office of sorts, he knew this occasion wasn’t likely to be different. Recently, he’d “taken care of” one of the nobles in Noxus and a few people had gotten upset over it, though none upset enough to really do anything about it since they’d have to take up the problem with Darius himself if they tried. It had long since passed the time that Darius would feel the need to explain why he axed anyone in Noxus since the two had strong mutual trust by this point, though Darius still liked to do so out of respect. 

Closing the heavy door behind himself, the General turned to face his superior and offered his usual nod in greeting. Likely, Swain could guess easily at why he’d come to visit on this occasion so he didn’t feel the need for preamble. “The Bineaux mistress had very strong views for a woman who couldn’t seem to back them up herself.” Darius assumed that Swain would know what this meant, given that it had been recently revealed, after her death of course, that the woman had been trying to sway people in Noxus toward a differing ideal from Swain’s own. He’d simply taken the easiest route and cut off the movement’s head before anything could come of it. Literally.

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Starter for summoner-vanille

It wasn’t too often that Darius actually saw or spoke to the summoner’s of the institute, much less after the League turned them all away and they had to pursue other careers. Seeing Vanille was even less likely for him, given that she was a Demacian summoner. Nonetheless, he vaguely recognized her when he saw her walking in neutral territory between the two city-states. Darius didn’t travel often, but somehow it didn’t come as a surprise that, one of the few times he did travel, he’d see someone he recognized somehow. Passing Vanille, he merely offered a nod of greeting to the former summoner and continued on his way.

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Starter for hardofhearingmagi

It had been a while since the last time he’d seen Ophi. He chalked that up to a number of things, chief among them being that both of them have been somewhat busy as of late. Darius was always busy, plus Ophi was moving out of the main city of Demacia in recent months. Of course, he hadn’t forgotten his... blunder that greymagic where he hadn’t realized that a certain someone happened to be Ophi in another form. Darius was fairly sure he still hadn’t been forgiven for that one yet. 

Still, he caught sight of her one evening while she was making one of her deliveries with a small package while he was out and about in Noxus. He didn’t actually say anything then but he saw her again without the package and thought that perhaps it would be a good time to speak with her and see if he was still on the naughty list in Ophi’s mind, or if he was, how bad it was. It wasn’t hard to approach her, for Darius just kind of joined her on her walk by catching up to the little woman and matching her pace. For a moment, however, he didn’t say anything because he didn’t know where to start.

After a moment of thought, he decided to just hop right into casual conversation. “How’s the new house?”

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Starter for experiment-alex

It was very clear to anyone who saw Alex that this person was somewhat... out of place in Noxus. He didn’t know for what reason they had come but he could tell with a glance that they weren’t from the area. Their ears, eyes, nails, and hair all have them away pretty easily. In a place as xenophobic toward beings that weren’t human, that was something one learned to identify upon sight. The second thing that gave her away was the way she, perhaps unintentionally, shielded her eyes from the sun like it bothered her. 

Deciding to take the initiative and approach the girl, Darius came from the direction of the sun and, being taller than her, just so happened to make a little shade for her eyes without even trying. Possibly the best unintentional kindness she’d get from most people here. “You seem pretty lost.” 

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Starter for the dog with the axe asknasus-thecuratorofthesands

Darius wasn’t overly sure why the Curator was so far from his homeland, but it must have been a pretty good reason to come all this way. Darius wouldn’t have imagined Nasus would be familiar with Noxus as a whole and his suspicions on that front seemed to be true, since it didn’t seem like he knew where he was going. Of course, Nasus was something of a celebrity in the same way that Darius himself was so he attracted some stares. Then again, he would have anyway since he was, oh, a large anthropomorphic canine of a man. Beings like him weren’t often found in Noxus... nor often welcomed. 

Taking it upon himself to approach the Curator, the General sought to attract Nasus’ attention by calling out to him while he approached. “Nasus.” His voice was raised for the purpose, though he wasn’t exactly yelling. More like that raised military tone he used to carry his voice across a battlefield. Nasus ought to recognize his voice just from their battles in the league. “What brings you to Noxus?” This wasn’t spoken as loud, since Darius had gotten closer by that point.

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Starter for voksmi-architect

It wasn’t hard to recognize this particular yordle, at least he was pretty sure by now that it was actually one of those pea-brained fuzzballs, while Darius was walking. The mere sight of it made him frown and he could just tell by the expression Voksmi made that they recognized who he was as well. Of course, this little abomination seemed to have the opposite opinion of him than he did of her. 

Before Voksmi could even say something, Darius shook his head and spoke first. “Oh, no. I don’t have the time to meddle with you right now.” Which was a lie, since he actually did have the time. He just didn’t want to bother with them.

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Starter for theenforcerofpiltover

It honestly wasn’t often that Darius ran into other champions outside of Noxus’ own, especially not those from places like Demacia, Piltover, and some of the other much further city-states. The general didn’t actually think that this creature was Vi upon first glance, he only knew that he hadn’t seen it before and that he didn’t know what it was doing in the area. Only when she turned did he realize it was Vi, and that was only because of the familiar mark on her cheek. He almost couldn’t help himself from questioning this aloud. “Vi?”