#orphelyn asks

[amus2110]

Been wanting to asking this for a while now bc I’m simply curious <3

I’m sure we can both agree Orphelyn is a couple ppl know not to mess with (for good reason). But in an actual fight, how do you see them working together as a battle couple? (Love a good battle couple >:3)

I’d also love to hear about Oprheus’s fighting style in of itself alongside the couple response ❤️‍🔥🔥 (talking about fighting styles in general is SOOO fun)

If it helps in ur response, Jocie’s fighting style is primarily offensive, as she’s most focused on dispatching the threat asap. She can appear impulsive, but rly what’s happening is she assesses the threat quickly and tries to give the quickest possible reaction before it can strike. She doesn’t think too far ahead, but she does consider what matters in the here and now; and acts on it. She’s quick on her feet and in her reaction times. Her primary weakness is that she forgets to play defensive; taking one too many hits before she realizes she actually needs to heal if she wants to keep fighting

Looking forward to your probably very fun reply X3

-Ruby💜

Ruby!!

Such a fun question!! Let’s get to it!!

Orphelyn is absolutely a “don’t start none, won’t be none” couple, well unless Jocie has the full reigns, and then it’s a free for all hahaha. But if you do start something? They’re a nightmare together because they don’t overlap or get in each other’s way, they stack….bodies haha…but really.

Orpheus fights like Sherlock Holmes with a mean streak and swamp-bred instincts hahaha. He’s watching feet, wand hands, breathing patterns, spacing. He’s deducing weaknesses and outcomes in real time. Offensively he’s precise, defensively he’s suffocating. He isn’t fighting to trade spells but to control the field until the other person panics and hands him the win.

And then you add the American Lowcountry upbringing? Girl!! That’s not “refined duelist,” that’s “I’ve fought gators with these bare hands” energy.

If you’ve wrestled gators and dugbogs and yanked tongues for fun, you learn a very specific style where you don’t go toe-to-toe like a gentleman. You’re taking something away, like balance, mobility, breath, confidence. It’s leverage, stamina, and dirty patience. Orpheus isn’t just smart, he’s hard to shake. He can outlast you, outthink you, and physically keep going long after you start making sloppy mistakes (sorry dear Ruby, I’m living in the gutter today hahaha).

Since Jocie forgets the defense, that’s where Orpheus makes them terrifying as a battle couple.

He becomes the defense she forgets to be.

He doesn’t slow her down, he just aims her. He positions them so Jocelyn never gets swarmed. He cuts off escape routes so the opponent can’t kite her. He watches her blindside and interrupts attacks she doesn’t see coming. It’s like he’s quietly herding the fight into a shape that suits her, and then letting her do what she does best, dispatch them as quick as possible. And when Jocelyn starts overcommitting he simply moves her. He steps into her flank. He drags her back a touch. He throws up a shield at the exact moment she would’ve eaten a hit.

I like to think that they also escalate emotionally in the scariest way in a fight. Jocelyn by getting faster when Orpheus is threatened. Orpheus by getting quieter when Jocelyn is hurt, and that’s when he’s at his most dangerous. If someone were to tag her too hard, he’d stop playing defensive and start playing lethal swamp predator closing the distance, breaking the rhythm, and removing options, leading the opponent to the inevitable outcome.

So yeah…they’d work really well….I’d rather not cross them honestly.

Thank you for such a fun ask Ruby ml!

Xoxo

Amanda

[amus2110]

Hi AMANDAAAAAA💜💜💜💜

Got more orphelyn asks to the surpise of no one😂

Let’s say Jocie did somehow survive? What kind’ve dad would Orpheus be? (We both know Jocie would be the doting, overprotective, hyper-affectionate mother who babies and spoils the kids😅)

The other Jocie survived au: after school the two split off to go the wit separate ways. He becomes the new leader of the Ashwinders and she becomes an aurpr: the very one who was apparently assigned to track him down and bring him in. How do you see this going? :3

Ok back to canon where she doesn’t survive- I know you answered this before but I’m curious as to how he personally handles her loss on na emotional level? How does he cope? Does the poor boy finally get the therapy he needs?😭💔 gold tell me he’s able to heal eventually😢)

Last q completely unrelated to the others lmao: one tiny quirk he likes about her? We know she loves his annoyed jaw twitch haha😂 (she’s very annoying about it, to pokes his face whenever she sees it🤣)

Byeeeeee rot buddyyyyy 

My Dear Ruby, let us rot together!

1. Oh ho ho! Daddy Orpheus! Orpheus would be the steady grounded dad who loves his children wholeheartedly, which is funny for a man who doesn’t do love. This has me giggling in the car line thinking about it. Having never known his own father, he would probably feel vastly unprepared at first. I mean what man is ever ready. But you would find that he is the dad who pretends he’s unmoved while his kid proudly shoves a silly drawing into his hands, like a stick figure family or a silly made up creature, and then that drawing ends up framed like a priceless work of art. The funniest part for this would be that if something happened, like a scrape, bad dream, etc, Jocelyn would be like….my babies, my angels, my precious. While Orpheus would be the one saying that they’re fine while lifting the kid onto his hip and letting them tuck their face into his neck. He’d definitely be protective, tender and sentimental. 100% Daddy material!

2. An Auror au!!

Let’s see… so Jocie and Orpheus split after school and rebuild themselves, obviously on opposite sides of the law where he rises to become the new leader of the Ashwinders, and she becomes an Auror. In a sick twist of fate or a ministry trick to draw Orpheus out, Jocie is assigned the case meant to track him down and bring him in. What think would follow would be a poisonous game of cat and mouse where Jocie is always a step behind and Orpheus is always heartbeat too close but stays achingly out of reach, controlling what she finds and when, while Jocie uses everything she knows about him to tighten the net to trap him. Until she realizes the net is tightening around her too. Lovers become exes, exes become enemies, and poor Jocie realizes Orpheus’ charm still works on her. Every near-capture turns into a conversation that cuts deeper than any blade, every victory costs them something, and the case stops being about justice versus crime and becomes about who gets to decide what happens to the person they can’t stop wanting. Oh I do so love enemies to lovers!

3. He dissociates at first, slipping into a numb, unreal kind of calm where he can still move and speak and function, but it all feels like he’s watching his life from a few steps away. Grief hits in lurches, sharp and unpredictable. Denial and anger come strongest, because denial is the only thing that lets him breathe and anger is the only thing that makes him feel solid. There isn’t much bargaining, so instead he clings to routines and small, stupid habits. It takes him a long time to accept that she is truly gone, and when it finally hits, it doesn’t feel like closure, it feels like something inside him collapses. Her absence becomes a constant, gaping hollow he keeps reaching for without thinking, the way you reach for a hand that used to be there. And we know she was always there. He walks around like a shell of himself, present but unreachable, carrying the weight of what he couldn’t save. If there’s any therapy it comes in the form of his friends, Garreth most of all, stubbornly showing up, filling the silence with warmth, making sure he eats, making sure he sleeps, making sure he doesn’t disappear into the dark parts of his own mind. And does he ever heal? Not in the way people like to promise when you lose someone so special. He will always ache for the love he lost. But the ache changes over time, less like an open wound and more like a scar that still throbs when pressed. A part of him will always be missing her.

4. Thank you for a light question after the heavy! Anyway! Orpheus adores the way Jocelyn’s eyes sparkle at the littlest thing. Almost like the world is handing her small miracles. So many things make them brighten and shine! A stupid joke, Orpheus, a new book, Orpheus, sunlight hitting glass, Orpheus, a stray cat choosing her lap… I think you get the just of it.

It gets him because it’s so honest and unabashedly her. To him Jocelyn’s eyes always betray her, wide and alive and shining like she’s in a constant state of delight, even when hyper focused. He adores it so much that he will feel his mouth soften before he can stop it, and much like with the same resigned fondness he gets when she pokes his jaw when it’s twitching. He thinks she’s impossible in the most endearing way. This is why he can’t win if she whips out those puppy dog eyes. When she pouts poor boy is a goner, his will crumbling beneath her gaze!

Let’s rot together some more soon!

Xoxo

Amanda!