#ranger-jahen

[litsenn]

🌟 Happy Birthday @ranger-jahen 🌟

I heard you wanted some Wyll content for this beautiful occasion, and although I'm not really good at anything, I thought I could at least play with the photomode for your birthday😊 (Those shots are yours now, do whatever you want with them!)

I wish you a wonderful day 💜

[riddlerosehearts]

request for a 100 word (or thereabouts, not a challenge to be exactly 100 just a short length) mini fic for elenion immediately kissing gale after he says pish posh and laughing into his mouth :D

hehe why am i not surprised you asked for that 💖 i still have asks in my inbox you sent a while ago that i fully intend to answer, but this made me start picturing something in my mind immediately. it's 176 words so close enough!

Elenion crouched over the display, brows furrowed as he rearranged a set of miniature sculptures—and then immediately started fiddling with it again. "Are you still rearranging that same exhibit?" Gale asked, watching from the doorway. "I quite liked how you had it half an hour ago." "No, it looked awful then and it still does... the layout's all wrong... Maybe I should just scrap the whole idea..." Gale leaned beside Elenion and rested his hand on his shoulder. "Oh, pish posh. It's perfect. You're overth—" Elenion chuckled into their hand. Before Gale could even finish his sentence, they grabbed his collar and pulled him into a mischievous kiss, laughter bubbling up into it as they pressed close. Soon, they were giggling against Gale's lips as they kissed him. "Len—!" Gale's eyes widened, and he huffed out a soft laugh. "You're a menace." "Me? You're the one who just said pish posh while I was obsessing over this silly museum exhibit." Gale shook his head with a fond smile, then leaned in to kiss Elenion's cheek.

[riddlerosehearts]

what would Elenion wear to a costume party? matching costumes with Gale are allowed. I’m most interested in what he would dress up as in the actual forgotten realms setting but if you have real world ideas that’s cool too!

you can send me asks, but watch out! i might accidentally forget about them and then come back weeks later with a longer answer than you probably wanted!

i can see two different options for this depending on what kind of crowd it's going to be or just on his own mood (which also reflects what he does in his normal life as a performer):

some kind of elegant celestial fey prince with a long dramatic half-cape over a sleek v-neck tunic, sparkly eyeshadow, an ornate silver circlet, and shimmery little wings.

an incubus. with bat-like wings and little horns and a tail and dark makeup. but with a more party-appropriate amount of clothing than, say, haarlep LMAO. honestly i can imagine him wearing something like this image of a succubus from the forgotten realms wiki but with shorts and much smaller wings.

and for matching costumes with gale, they'd both love something that allows them to be extremely theatrical and playfully possessive with each other! so the first things that came to mind were:

elenion wears the celestial fey prince costume again but now he's not a lonely prince aimlessly wandering his kingdom with no one to protect him—gale is his loyal knight in shining armor! gale insists on dramatically bowing to them and calling them "your majesty" and "my liege" all night. someone tries to flirt with gale at the party and gale is just very genuinely like "you honor me with your interest, but alas! i have already sworn fealty to my prince, and my oath is not so easily broken 💜"

gale dresses as a necromancer with black hooded robes, dark makeup, a dramatic circlet and staff with skulls on them. he half-jokingly suggests that elenion should go as his familiar and they take this to mean they should wear a sexy black cat costume and then go around swishing their tail and meowing at gale all night. people try to flirt with elenion at the party and he's like "ah, do be careful, i belong to a very powerful wizard who doesn't take kindly to theft~ ;)"

[riddlerosehearts]

do you have any specific or detailed ideas of what Elenion's personal lute looks like? :]

this is the kind of question that makes me wish i could draw literally at all so i could come up with a more concrete design haha! in-game i've always just given them the basic plain old lute but i need to start using the lute of the merryweather bard instead, because out of the game's extremely limited options it's the closest to what i imagine. elenion would never just have a plain instrument, he'd definitely have something elegant and intricately designed.

and actually—i recently found this seller on etsy who makes handmade bouzoukis (greek long-necked lutes) and i'm obsessed with this design of theirs:

elenion wouldn't have this exact design though lol, just something similar to it!! his would definitely have celestial motifs rather than a floral pattern (though since he does like roses + they're a symbol of sune i could maybe see him including them in the design in a smaller way, but i never thought about it until just now). they'd probably have little stars painted along the neck and/or on the head too.

also i know you didn't ask, and i hardly ever talk about them playing the lyre since it's not their main instrument, but this handpainted lyre from etsy was one of the first things i ever put on elenion's pinterest board and i wanna share it:

i'm so in love with this design that whenever i do picture them playing a lyre i imagine almost exactly this but in a darker blue and with just, a big starburst symbol instead of the deer on it.

so uhhh basically i never really solidified a design in my mind but i'm absolutely sure elenion would custom commission a handmade lute with unnecessarily intricate celestial inlays because he's rich and fancy and dramatic about everything. 💙

[riddlerosehearts]

if Elenion were in a video game with some kind of gifting mechanic (like stardew valley) what would be his most-liked gifts?

i am being so slow in getting to these asks you sent lol, but this one makes me wanna get back into stardew valley omg!! i never post about it but there was a time a few years ago when i was obsessed enough with it to buy it on both PC and switch haha.

...so i decided to treat this like if elenion was in stardew valley and pick things that match up with the types of fun little gifts available in it! the first things i thought of that they'd definitely love are:

roses

opals

sapphires

floral tea

hot cocoa

chocolate-covered strawberries

if you play stardew valley you know how you can gift maru a battery pack and she's the only person who likes it because she can use it for her engineering hobby? imagine that except you'd be able to gift elenion a telescope lens and he'd get heart eyes over it 💙

also if they were in the game you'd be able to gift them all the artifacts that everyone else except penny hates (like the prehistoric handaxe, chipped amphora, ancient doll, etc), and elenion would love them and have a special dialogue line about how touched they are that you noticed they were interested in that stuff. out of the in-game ones he'd like the bone flute best.

i think it'd also be fun if you could give him a snowglobe that everyone else thinks is a little tacky but he just loves it LMAO

[riddlerosehearts]

this is super random but I’ve been thinking abt it and I just really wanna ask :3 with Elenion having a star theme, and Gale having a moon theme, do you have any thoughts about the visual motifs of either of those in association? like since Elenion’s earring is a sort of starburst and Gale’s earring is a crescent moon, are those the shapes that usually coalesce in your mind’s eye? or do 5-pointed stars also remind you of Elenion, and different phases of the moon also remind you of Gale? :] idk would love to hear any musings you have!

omg this is such a fun question thank you!! you didn't ask this but i feel like explaining it, so: elenion has a star theme because, well, i literally took his name from lord of the rings AKJDSGHF. i've always liked giving my OCs celestial theming of some kind, and when i was trying to come up with a name for him i decided to look through an elvish dictionary for something with a celestial meaning that sounded nice and settled on using elenion, the quenya word for "of stars"! and yes their earrings are a sort of 8-pointed starburst shape! just for fun here's some nice close-up photos showing both his earrings and gale's (which i actually had in my drafts to maybe post later but now i might redo gale's because i noticed it's less zoomed in oops):

i've also occasionally given len 4-pointed star studs for screenshots, first one here i used in an ask game and never posted separately and the second one is... also in my drafts to maybe post later lol:

(i spend way too much time in this game not doing shit except staring at my unreasonably pretty bard and their unreasonably pretty wizard husband. anyway.)

so, yeah, i'd say i associate elenion with that sort of elongated starburst shape and little four-pointed stars the most!

i started associating gale with that moon because of that really nice dialogue from elminster where he tells gale "be a moon unto yourself"—and with the crescent moon specifically because of various pieces of fanart i'd seen as well as the crest of waterdeep!! this reminds me there's this awesome gale fanart using that quote + a crescent moon motif that i wanna see if i can find again now. but now that you mention it i do often think of the full moon in association with him as well! i was so happy when i found the mod i use for his earring though lol, i had to make some edits to it myself to get it to be the right colors and make it only be on one ear but it was already so close to what i wanted to give him. previously i'd been using an edit i made of the vanilla darkmoon earrings which i knew wasn't what i had in mind but i hadn't seen anything better.

this is. a longer reply than it should've been so i hope it answered your question properly haha!!

[riddlerosehearts]

last one before I end my siege. how does Gale’s living space change once Elenion becomes a part of it? :] does Elenion decorate? clean? nest/add their own comforting clutter?

okay i love that you asked if elenion cleans because now i can tell you part of what's going through their mind during gale's act 2 romance scene:

"oh gods, gale wanted to show me his home, he wanted to share this with me, that's so sweet i—" *narrowing their eyes at the sight of a small mountain of books laying open on the floor and a haphazard stack of even more books with a candle on top of it* "i... am going to ignore all of that for now and let myself worry about it after i find out if i'll actually get to move in with him instead of having to watch him die! he's lucky i'm already in love with him :)"

because see, elenion's brain and his journals may be messy and chaotic, but he doesn't like for his living spaces to be. he loves collecting silly little trinkets and comforting clutter but it all has a place, his bookshelves at his own house have a system and things go back where they're supposed to be when he's done with them. keeping the world around them clean helps calm the storm in their mind.

so yeah he moves in and immediately just takes over the bookshelves and reorganizes them by genre and author like a library would instead of. whatever kind of nonsense system gale had that only he could understand. and then every single week he's like "gale. babe. sweetheart. darling. my muse. love of my life. why have you left a pile of books in the middle of the staircase again?? <3"

and as for decorating and adding their comforting clutter! in my first fic, guiding star, this little sentence i wrote seems like a really small thing but it's there for a very specific reason:

...starlit nights on Gale’s balcony (their balcony now, he reminded himself)

which is that in those first few tendays living together, elenion keeps unintentionally calling the tower "gale's tower", "your tower", not "theirs" or "ours". because while they may have lived in waterdeep for nearly half their life, it still never really felt like home. so even after he's brought in all his instruments and tacky souvenirs (that he swears have cultural significance, thank you very much) and intricate brightly colored wall hangings and random artifacts he's collected, he's still struggling with the idea that he can call the tower his home. gale eventually picks up on this and suggests that they go shopping to redecorate the tower together so it can truly feel like theirs. this definitely results in them buying too many stained glass suncatchers and throw pillows, and then building a little reading nook together beside a tall window that's enchanted to reflect whatever sky/weather the owner wishes.

[riddlerosehearts]

What kind of activity/outing would Elenion really enjoy for a date? c: I can imagine him being relatively easy to please, but I’d love to know if there’s anything that would genuinely just make their day, like a spot they like to visit or a type of food he likes to get, or anything of that nature.

you're right that when he's with gale at least, he can make the best of just about anything—they just want to spend time with him, no matter the occasion! but there are places they wouldn't choose to go to unless they saw a good reason. loud, crowded taverns or fancy galas, for example. the kinds of places he went on/picked up "dates" at back when his longest-lasting relationships were shallow, performative flings, and the kinds of places he would never admit he didn't want to be at.

...but this isn't supposed to be a sad question! so, i thought of two things that elenion would just absolutely love to do for a date. they would be delighted to go to some weird hole-in-the-wall bookshop or antique store, or a niche museum with a really specific theme (for example there is a museum in greece called The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments. it's exactly what it sounds like. elenion would make out with gale in the corner of that museum.) and just nerd out about everything together. and then go out to eat at a cozy little cafe afterward.

and then another thing that would just make them melt is having a nighttime picnic out under the stars. grabbing a blanket and a telescope and going out to a nice scenic spot, with gale preparing tea and really good cheese and fruit and cookies. and elenion obviously bringing his lute or lyre so he can play a song or two. they would absolutely do this at least once on a cloudy night when the stars aren't even real and gale is casting that same aurora he created in the shadow-cursed lands again, just because one of them was in the mood for a picnic 💙💜