#purplenightling

[talistheintrovert]

Congratulations!! You're so talented and it warms my heart to see all this love for you!! My request is Brienne x Jaime where they give each other belated Nameday gifts to make up for the ones missed in their eight years of knowing each other. Set during their month together at Winterfell, please. ♥

Thank you my dear! I’m sorry it took so long! You can thank @fen-ha-fuck-you for coming up with the right gift for Brienne to give Jaime, because she’s a genius.

HERE YOU GO!

[johnandrasjaqobis]

8, 43, and 58 for Yen, please!

8: what are three songs that suit them? Seven - Sleeping at Last Roots - Swingin’ Hammers No Instructions - The Happy Fits

43: why do they fight? The simple answer is because he genuinely thinks it is Very Fun. Some of that is leftover from his previous life, but he’s good at fighting and he enjoys the adrenaline rush and it’s fun. Especially lately, when it’s very easy to underestimate this little halfling kid with an axe nearly as tall as he is, right up until the echo appears behind you. The less simple answer...I mean this is always what he’s done. For over a thousand years at this point. Varak was a soldier before they even had a country to have a military for. He fought to get his people a decent home, he fought to keep that home safe, he fought to let them slowly start to spread out into a very unfamiliar country. And then they started making enemies and he fought to keep those people from ruining what the Dynasty had worked so hard to build. It’s always been about protecting his people and his country, and that’s gotten a tiny bit more complicated now that this particular life kind of. Grew up in the neighboring country that his previous self hated. But either way, he’s still a fighter (mechanically and narratively) and that’s what he’s good at and that’s how he looks after the people he cares about.

58: what do they think their role in the party is? what is their role in actuality? Yen’s pretty self-aware, I don’t think the two are very far removed; he’s the tank, mostly. He’s the one who can be up close and personal with things they’re fighting and take a lot of hits in the process. He’s quick and strong for his size and he is the fighter. Outside of combat...he does see himself as the kid from the little podunk town who still doesn’t entirely know what’s going on. The memories are back but he’s still a teenager and he’s kind of making a lot up as they go. And that isn’t entirely inaccurate but Yen is also like.....he’s the one who wants to trust everyone they meet, and is constantly determined to see the good in people, and even if it hasn’t come up yet for the party specifically, he is a very experienced military leader on top of all that. Not much in the way of a definitive answer for this one fjkdsl but y’know. He’s still trying to figure this out himself.