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[feanors-daughter]

" you're either the bravest little elf I've ever met , or the biggest fool . "

Looking back, she would have scolded herself for such reckless behavior. She was still so young... young and naive and irrational. What did she think would come of such a poorly-thought out plan? Did she imagine that she would waltz right into Angband, rescue her brother, and manage to leave freely without getting caught?

Foolish. She was foolish.

She had been caught just as she reached the dungeons, a guard managing to sound the alarm before Laurelin ended his miserable life with a swift blade across his throat. Guards rushed to the dungeons as she attempted to make her getaway and though she fought, she was soon overwhelmed and defeated.

Still breathing heavily from the fight, covered in blood and sweat, she looked up from where the orcs had forced her to her knees.

Morgoth stood before her.

"I am no coward," she spat at the Vala, refusing to shrink away from him. "I do not fear you, Morgoth."

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[doomdefied]

" dangerous to be out so late . "

𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒

“And yet, I care not,” Efailwen retorts, punctuating each word with a pass of her dagger across a whetstone. “Imagine that,”

There was a time, within the safe bubble of Eregion, when Efailwen would’ve run screaming from even the mention of a giant spider, or a great slobbering warg with bloody fangs, but Sauron thoroughly did away with that. To survive the devastation afterwards, Efailwen embraced the spirit of fire running in her blood and instead, ran towards danger, fear be damned. If doom was her birthright, she would go to the Halls of Mandos with a sword in hand. 

Now, she looks upon Morgoth Bauglir, a dreadful figure much taller than she, and a deeply unsettling presence, just like that feeling lingering upon the remains of Utumno’s doors far beneath the ice. Efailwen valiantly suppresses the shudder that threatens to overtake her and she meets his eyes, as stalwart as her great-grandfather.

“More to the point, I carry a weapon everywhere I go, what self-respecting woman doesn't?” She adds incredulously. 

[motherednature]

@turefana​ asked: " We really are not all that different . We both taste of ruin and wrath . "

         THE ROOM LOOKS rather comfortable. humble, earthy wood furniture in an old house covered from ceiling to floor in creeping plants of all kinds -- lush and velvety leaves, intriguing violet blooms, startling red thorns. all in all, a woman obsessed with plants in the middle of the woods is a disguise that seems to pass well throughout any century. it’s the smell that’s a touch off-putting to the common palette. acrid and acidic and burning, as though a volcanic eruption had just taken place. there’s evidence on her person, too, her lithe hands covered in black soot. the only pleasant smell is a distant mint, which can only be discerned when brought close to mother nature.

          she eyes her fellow god with a predatory golden eyes as she continues in her task of sifting soil before pulling them back to her hands, jaw tense. not that he’s wrong, of course. her skin just pricks at having such traits pointed out by anyone else other than herself. 

          despite the lingering scent of incineration, her voice is frigid. ‘ is this a compliment? ’

[doomdefied]

" knowledge is power , and power is everything . "

𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒

"Your heart must be truly empty if you believe that to be so, pitiful thing," Efailwen answers bitterly, pale fire flickering in her eyes.

She finds she harbours a seething, violent hatred for Moringotto. It is so intense that it overpowers any fear she feels in his dreadful presence. She knows not how long it has lurked there within her, only that it has risen like a swift tide, leaving her hands balled into fists and her teeth clenched. Fortunately, Efailwen does not succumb to it, does not let it bend her out of shape. Morgoth Bauglir is not worth that.

"I wonder if you were always so utterly irredeemable," She says.

[the27percent]

" I do this for me . "

Atieno hums a little bit of thought. They let his words run through them a few times. Over and over again to let things sink in as they glance at him once more.

"Why wouldn't you? "

It was mostly a rhetorical, as they knew very well so many who did what they did .. were ultimately quite self-interested in their motivations. And they couldn't be surprised by it, especially not when it comes up in Melkor's behavior either.

"Doing things for one's own benefit, gain or purpose is something that has happen in so many ways, so many times. I suppose it is not new that you would have your own ways of expressing it."

Didn't they have their own things that they did for their own self too? Maybe not as often due to them feeling so terribly constrained by questions of what it meant to do things for themselves alone? What is their solo themselves even like?

Questions, many questions that had Atieno mostly focused on the things they knew that they had to do, versus the things that they wanted to do. But they find themselves considering the latter as least a little more seriously these days.

[the27percent]

❝ Change. You either change or you die in your stasis . ❞

Despite how seemingly collected Atieno can seem, there is a midst of change - always the potential for change being at their core. There is always something that seemed unsettled, the potential for movement being something that they could not and would not deny themselves.

Change is inevitable as far as they concerned. And even the thought of dying in ones stasis.. could be a shift as well. Albeit one that seems to come at the cost of refusing to change earlier.

With that in mind, they can't help but give a slight nod in response to his statement.

"I mean. Change is the only thing that can really be relied on. Change is something that always comes, that always needs to be engaged with, embraced even on it sown terms."

[the27percent]

" You feel it , too , don't you ? Something has shifted in the cosmos . " / Fallen deity v .

The question about something of being shifted in the cosmos is something that feels incredibly real and prescient.

"I definitely feel it. There's always certain aspects that continue to happen within the cosmos. But this.. what I've felt, what you've felt is certainly circumstantial. It's worth paying good attention to. Surely there are things that will inevitably arise from that shift."

[the27percent]

" Guess you dont appreciate true creativity , real music . Pity . Here , I thought I was gonna like you . " / Fallen deity v

"I feel like you're assuming a lot about me. I was just thinking about how I felt about the performance. I needed a moment to process it more than anything else."

Atieno gives a small sigh. Can't someone need a moment to process before they gave a response?

"If it means anything, I think it's memorable. I think it stands out and I can actually appreciate what you're doing with the music. Like me or not, that's really your choice to make. But that's my opinion. I do actually like the music. "