#siltera

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A lovely and (over)confident Siltera from @a-lonely-dunedain!

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In other news, the way I squealed. :D

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She's so pretty in this dress. All classy and elegant and you totally can't tell she's running around barefoot while she fights off eight spiders at once.

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From the weird OC asks:

Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive? For Hira and Cele?

How loosely or strictly do they use the word ‘friend’? for Hal and Aelin?

and What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot? for Rhia?

Also, if there's one you've been particularly excited to answer and haven't gotten yet -- here's an excuse! Also PS I'm so taken with all of their designs wowow 😍

First off, I love that you split the Elves up that way, bc even if Hal and Hira are siblings, personality/vibes-wise it would be Hal & Aelin, Hira & Cele. xD

Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive? For Hira and Cele?

Hira is a forthright and tough love kind of girl. She's going to be bluntly honest, would like it if people return the favor for her. Definitely the type to prefer hard truth over easy lies.

Cele it sort of depends? He leans naturally more toward giving tough-but-well-intentioned love, but he knows he does better receiving gentle love so he tries to read a situation to see which will work better rather than just default to tough love all the time.

How loosely or strictly do they use the word ‘friend’? for Hal and Aelin?

Well, Hal considers Aelin his friend after he spends a couple thousand years talking to her while she's asleep and not contributing to the conversation, so he uses it pretty loosely. (He helps her friend Harthalín keep vigil while Aelin's recovering from being stabbed with a morgul blade High Elf intro yay) He also shrugs and rolls with it when Esmerelda Boffin declares him her friend after they've known each other, like, 6 hours and spent most of that time catching frogs and pranking her cousins sooooo :D

Aelin is a little more strict with it, just bc she's more withdrawn, especially in her recovery phase. She doesn't have a high threshold on being a 'friend' exactly, it's more that she prefers solitude while getting caught up on 3000 years of history and that's overwhelming enough without having people be all chatty and social with you. So she tends to shy away from people entirely in search of quiet. Part of how she and Hal become actual friends after she wakes up is bc he's 100% happy to just sit and read in the same room together and similar activities. There is she wants to talk, but also happy leaving things quiet.

What subject / topic do they know a lot about that’s completely useless to the direct plot? for Rhia?

She is extremely--and I do mean extremely--interested in and knowledgeable about lace-making. She loves to sew and all adjacent activities(so knit, crochet, quilt, weave etc), but lace-making became an area of special interest for her and she started learning everything she could about it, all the techniques available, which styles are more common in different areas, all of that.

For that bonus: What do they notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at them? with Tera

Tera first notices her teeth. She has a little bit of a gap between her upper front teeth that feels super noticeable to her, but hardly anyone else even registers, and the ones who do think it's cute. Other people notice either the red hair or the eyes first, since she has hazel/grey heterochromia.

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Tera is apparently Jas' spiritual successor in "redhead halfling babe kicks ass in a dress" + has already been spoiled via innkeeper's dress from Hira and mushroom hound from Ziin.

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I have discovered today, thanks to Tera's love of fancy dresses, that the Entwining Blossoms gown looks amazing with the Imladris Fallen Leaf dye. :D

also, I might need to rename her corgi Jesus bc while she was swimming around for Furtherholm dailies, uh,

he was walking on water.

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From the "questions you may not have thought of" list, for…hm…well, whichever of your LOTRO kids each question best calls to! #1, 6, 18, 19, 26, 42?

Prepare for a mixed bag and only some multi-answers. :D

1.What was their childhood nickname?

Rhia's dad used to call her Petal bc she was always coming home with so many different kinds of flowers, it was easier to be all-encompassing than pick one flower to be her nickname. xD Cele was called Draug (Wolf) a lot in his youth bc he has the tenacity, drive, and solitary tendencies of one.

6. Do they prefer cats or dogs?

Aelin definitely prefers cats, I feel like the rest don't have a preference, especially Hal with his menagerie xD

18. What noise do they find the most irritating?

Ironically, nothing puts Tera's teeth on edge faster than the sound of metal against a whetstone. Yes, even when she has to do it herself. She hates it.

19. What's their favourite animal?

Hal it's all of them. :) Cele I'd say foxes, Hira's is deer, Tera horses/ponies, Aelin is cats, Ziinnia it's birds, Rhia it's shrews. Yes, they're pests, but they're ADORABLE

26. How do they take their tea and/or coffee?

Oh, Cele 100% drinks black coffee. xD

42. What languages do they speak?

Hal knows Noldorin Quenya, Nandorin, Sindarin, Common, can speak to animals(at least enough to call them for help), and I feel like A) Esmeralda taught him hobbit-speech and B) he's gonna pick up Rohanese while running around Rohan. He want to learn Khazdûl, but the more guttural sounds are really hard for him.

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I finally got Tera high enough level to actually run some of the Herne stuff(through finding out about [redacted]'s betrayal) and yeah, her crush on Boromir's gotten worse. xD He's pretty much the archetypical warrior/adventurer she wants to be, the desire that inspired her to leave her home, to help. And the way he's so dedicated to his homeland, even so far away, and always courteous and noble and treats her as an equal(Meneldir does, too, but it hasn't always been her experience with Men since leaving Lyndelby). She's gonna be hanging on to that lucky wolf's tooth loooooong after she outlevels it as a pocket item.

Sorry about what I'm dooming you to, babe :)