#leora-strauss

[one-traveling-panda]

Your character has been granted 3 wishes; what would they wish for and why?

Firstly and most importantly! His mother’s health. She was the whole family’s rock and strength for so long, and he and his siblings owe everything to her, and now she’s getting old and her health is failing and in his eyes it’s just not goddamn fair. 

Secondly, maybe someone to love. It’s lonely out in them there hills, and lonelier still when your lifestyle really doesn’t give you the chance to make much more than passing acquaintances before you’re off to visit someplace else, and lose track of people and others move on with their lives. One person to share that life with is really all he’d need.

Third? Just to feel like he’s really worth something, and that maybe when he dies some bard will come along and make a song of him.

[kultiranstrawberry]

Uther and Deck!

Deck: How do you prefer to approach your problems? Do you tackle them head on or work around them?

“I would love to say I tackle things head on. It seems like the noble way to overcome challenges. Sadly, given my history, I fear I have a knack for working around problems, to move past or try not to dwell on them.”

Uther: At what point do you believe justice becomes vengeance? Mercy becomes weakness?

“Intentions could cloud purpose, but I do not feel wanting to stop someone who has wronged you is inherently vengeance. If the person you want to be stopped is a risk to cause harm to others, I would say there is a grain of vengeance in your justice, but that does not corrupt it. As for mercy, I do believe in it, but there are limits; not everyone deserves mercy. Not everyone repents and some people are too dangerous to the world around them to grant the benefit of the doubt. Maybe that’s a firmer stance than some might expect from a priestess, but we live in a world with some dangerous people.”

[exurovolo]

Is there a place you can never return to? and If you could customize heaven to suit your exact tastes, what would it be like? (For the Bestboi Auto!)

“The barns. I can’t go back to the barns, even their ruins. Never.” He shakes his head, shuddering a little with a low whimper.

Clearing his throat, Auto adjusts his glasses and sighs. “I don’t know, err, I’m not sure I’ll go there, so why change it to suit my needs and wants?”

[one-traveling-panda]

⏳

“I remember first beating my elder brother Yanfa at the wrestling-rounds when I was fifteen. He was twenty by then, and just as bewildered as I was! Hah– but I was so full of hubris and victory, as I had looked up to him greatly and felt accomplished for taking him down, that in the following match I was overconfident and he threw me from the ring with spectacular ferocity. It was another eighteen months before I managed to beat him again!”

[one-traveling-panda]

⌛️ - How often does your muse think about death? Do they think about it at all?

Entirely too often.

His father and two older siblings all died well before their time in various bouts of Yaungol fuckery, and he misses them often – now his mother’s health is failing and he isn’t sure just what the hell to do. Each of those deaths left a noticeable impact on him, and he’s doing all he can to stave off the next death even if that’s just by giving her a reason to hang around and stay alive a little longer.

When it comes to his own death, Yang isn’t as concerned; he realizes it’ll happen, and that he’ll probably die young, and he just wants to leave some kind of legacy to be remembered by. Some glorious deed to be remembered in epic poetry, or just a few braziers here and there lit up in his memory. He likes to imagine himself soaring upward through a sea of spirits, tearing through the sky on fiery wings, to reunite with his lost loved ones amid endless feasting, battle, and song.

[one-traveling-panda]

❤️ ❤️

“She is so EXCITABLE. I love it! With those wide eyes and animated motions – she clings to every story I tell and spins it up like whirling flame. Simply a joy to be around!”

“She is so strong for being so small. Look at that build! Athletic, powerful. Strong arms, sturdy stance. She will be a terror to our enemies, and in fact already has been! Ahah– it swells my heart with pride to know this one, yes.”

[one-traveling-panda]

☽ ❥ ☠

☽ : Favorite time of day“Most definitely the very early morning! Sunrise is absolutely beautiful, and all is quiet except for the sounds of nature and rushing water in the streams and the wind blowing in the trees. The pan on the fire smells of griddle-cakes and the grass outside is wet with dew. It is the best time, yes.”❥ :Opinion on love from the first sight“Oh–!” Yang-Li threw his head back, laughing out a thunderous laugh. “Oh, this I know for a fact is true. I have felt it, yes, with my own heart!” Two thumps of a plate-clad palm to his chest, for emphasis. “I experienced it the first time many years ago in my youth, while traveling between villages with my father to sell our wares. The loveliest young lady came drawing up water from the well in the center of town, and immediately my heart was set to burst. I could not take my eyes off of her! 

Of course, I thought to woo her in the most courtly of possible ways, so I rode up to her side on my very most dashing of dragon-turtles, and I loudly proclaimed her beauty while handing her a half-bale of something flower-like I had yanked up off the side of an oxcart. My fairest damsel was not as strong as she looked and fell over beneath the weight of the bale, plus I think my bellowing frightened her, because her father came yelling and waving his stick, and I do not remember what happened next except that I woke up in my father’s tent. So I suppose the moral of the story is, if you must declare your heart to a lovely maiden, perhaps wait until you are older than fourteen, or you may end up doing it wrong!”☠ : Opinion on death“Bah. Death. Have I done enough deeds and captured enough hearts to be immortalized in song? Yes? Then let it come for me; I am not afraid.”