green knight screenshot redraw hehe. I don't want to talk about how many hours I spent making imperceptible expression tweaks trying to capture Dev Patel's big scared wet eyes.
I was looking for something else entirely and found this old snippet from the university au and honestly I liked it so much I had to post it lol. Meri teaches a third era history of Morrowind class (this is not why she was hired, they just make her teach it because she's oddly knowledgeable about the subject).
A hand shot up in Meri's peripheral vision and she grimaced. She knew exactly what was coming, it always did eventually.
"Sadri." She called on the student.
"But what happened to her after that?"
"To whom?"
"The Nerevarine. The primary source said she married Almalexia, is that true?"
"Most historical accounts seem to agree on that, yes."
"But how? Why? I mean she worked with the Ashlanders and the Dissident Priests. She read the alternate histories. Didn't she doubt her safety?"
Meri sighed. These questions had been so much easier to dismiss fifty years ago when she was still teaching exclusively Temple doctrine. In the years since several heretical documents had leaked with the Ashlander's account and been added to the historical conversation around the Tribunal.
"You would have to ask her that. There's no knowing for sure. However we do have some journal entries from her, and they don't seem to imply any kind of fear." She hoped that would end the conversation, but her hopes never seemed to turn out.
"They're SAPPY, too." Another student chimed in.
She should have burned that damn journal.
"Oh my gods, this passage killed me." One student snorted and flipped through his handouts. He placed a hand over his heart and vastly overacted as he read aloud. "Sometimes I get lost in her curls. Like the fires of red mountain they consume me and I can think of nothing else. The heat, the smoke, the sensations are all the same to me now. When I dream of her I feel lava. When I dream of the mountain I see her eyes."
"Is there a question there, Mero?" Her eyebrow quirked with irritation.
"No." Mero laughed. "I agree, she didn't sound scared to me."
"Well, yeah, she was brave." A tiny bosmer girl said.
"Fearless." Meri corrected. "Not quite so admirable as brave."
"Aren't they the same?"
"Bravery is acting in spite of fear." Meri walked slowly between the podium and her blackboard as she spoke. "If you're not feeling any fear, there's no bravery in your action." She pointed at Mero with her chalk. "Take Mero here, he doesn't fear being made a fool and acts without considering the possibility." A chuckle rung through the lecture hall. "If he, say, was anxious about the way he were perceived maybe it could be considered brave to constantly interrupt my lectures. Or me; I'm not afraid of spiders, is it brave to carry them out of my office in my hands? Or does it seem that way to you because you fear spiders? The spider could bite me, it could be poisonous, but I carry it all the same. It's not brave to take unnecessary risk, but it does imply a lack of concern for the consequences. Fearlessness."
"So... she married Almalexia because she didn't fear the consequences?"
"Perhaps. Perhaps it was political, or convenient, or any number of other things. But look through those journal entries again after class today. Try to find one example of fear, or any time she seems concerned about the consequences of action or inaction. I expect to hear your findings tomorrow when we finish discussing her trek beyond the Ghostfence."
These have been sitting in my drafts for actual months so. Woe pokemon au be upon ye. Full teams under the cut.
Meri on the left Ayem on the right. No type or strategy thoughts were put into this these are vibes only.
Meri has had Marowak the longest. She met it as a cubone soon after her daughter died and they bonded naturally. She used to have other pokemon but Marowak is the only one who came with her to Morrowind, the rest were caught or traded in Vvardenfell.
Meri’s Gardevoir and Almalexia’s Gallade are a bonded pair.
While I didn’t really consider type or team composition, I did make a point to try to favor hard physical hitters with high speed in Ayem’s team.
I’m not including the other two tribunes in this post but I gave each of them one of the lake spirits from the Sinnoh region. Just felt right. Almalexia gets Mesprit, the being of emotion.
