Time for some more mates. I’ll introduce y’all to Thefri, Thesanth, and Felix; disclaimer though: FELIX AND THESANTH WERE JUST AN IDEA I STARTED. @wandering-gharasham gave them LIFE and I will do everything I can to do them justice. They belong to her, but she’s given me permission to include them because they are prominent characters in Alchumena’s life.
This will be long, so it’s going under a cut.
First, I’ll introduce Thefri Tlapuni, Ati’s third mate, whose faceclaim is Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
This boy is an idiot. A hot-headed dummy. He’s bold, sassy, dull-witted and gullible, but persistent. His friends make fun of him because he will fall for just about anything and is very quick to start a fight simply for the fact that he’s not the brightest and doesn’t really think before speaking or acting. His friends particularly like daring him to jump off of tall structures to see if he can transform into his monster form quick enough to fly off before he hits the bottom.
And every single time he forgets he doesn’t have wings.
Despite being just ridiculously dumb, he’s a loyal friend. He’s quick to give his buddies shit for anything and everything, but it’s his way of showing he cares. Though he’s also got a bit of a temper, he’s actually quite soft. He has a talent with art and likes to paint, though his works are more impressionist works, and thus not many people take to them like they would the more commonplace realist works. Regardless, his artwork helps keep him calm, but there are perhaps all of two people who know he even paints in the first place - it’s not something he advertises.
Alchumena’s attraction to him was nonexistent until he approached her first. Thefri was born post-Conjunction, so he is FAR younger than her, but when she advertised that she was looking for a mate, he took initiative and told her he wanted to be chosen rather than doing what all others did and competed for her affection. That he was so hell-bent on being her mate endeared him to her, so she agreed if only for the fact that never had anyone been so brazen to approach her like this. She is one of those few that knows about his art and actually quite adores it. Her adoration for his art resulted in her being his muse for a number of pieces despite her still being cold and manipulative. She still thinks he’s a moron, but it’s oddly endearing. He was willing to do anything and everything for her, even going so far as to wait on her hand and foot.
He still sees her at the reunions and makes a habit of trying to convince her to be his mate again at least once, to which she responds by swiftly telling him to piss off. It doesn’t stop him from trying though. He gets insanely jealous of her current mates every time as well (and was even dumb enough to challenge every one of them only to get his ass handed to him because he doesn’t really think).
NEXT, we have mate number two, Thesanth Vercna, whose faceclaim is Hugh Jackman, and I will fight you if you say anything.
Thasanth is a fucking goofball and we love him for it. He likes making jokes at everyone’s expense including his own and will stoop to any level even if it embarrasses himself. He’s just that good-natured and silly. No one takes him seriously as a result, but he’s still a good man and a good friend. When Ati says she’s made a mistake, his usual response is “I’m the mistake.” He’s a ray of sunshine and a bit of a clown, though he also tends to be childish and irresponsible as a result. He’s also a bit of a thespian and will put on full-blown acts for the sake of making himself and others laugh (we also potentially hc that he hangs around actors a lot). He likes to joke that the Conjunction was the best thing that happened to him because vampires generally have no sense of humor. Another unfortunate side-effect to his mischievous nature is that he tends to cause trouble and drag everyone around him into it.
The only reason he ended up being Ati’s mate was because she had gotten inebriated at a social gathering and had found him absolutely hilarious. She laid with him before having actually decided she wanted to take him as her mate, though that was mainly a result of the blood intoxication, but his good humor had sparked enough interest in her to convince her to stay. Being a pre-Conjunction vampire, he is also up there in age, though not quite as old as Alchumena or even Ladislav. Though he commands the respect of lessers, he really couldn’t give less of a damn and spends his time giving them shit. His son is usually pretty done with his shit, but that doesn’t keep him from being any less of a goof. Even though Ati was just as awful with him as she was with all of her mates, he is one of the only ones that can make her laugh and soften the blows of her foul temper. He is, perhaps, one of her favorites of all of her previous mates.
FINALLY, we have Felix Tiazu, her most recent mate prior to Ladislav, whose faceclaim is Michael Fassbender.
This is going to be brief(er), because honestly, this guy is a cryptid. No one’s really sure about anything with Felix except that he’s one of the biggest enigmas anyone has ever known. Thesanth adores him solely for the fact that anything and everything that Thesanth makes up about him, he just agrees. (ie: “I’m pretty sure he was born in a bog and lives in a cave with a family of bears. Isn’t that right, Felix?” “Mhm. Bears.”) He also has a propensity for mischief in that he simply enjoys his status as an enigma and will let anyone believe what they want while never necessarily disproving anything. Despite this, he is a fairly quiet and independent individual. He’s aloof and fairly superstitious as well, and always seems to have some strange sort of good-luck charm on him. No one knows why. He’s also got some sort of innate ability to predict the weather apparently. Really, this man is just off-the-wall, but he’s also oddly likable as a result.
Nobody has any idea what attracted Alchumena to him save for the fact that he likely just rolled over and let her have her way with him without so much as a peep. He’s a man of very few words, and when he does speak, it’s usually startling, unsettling, or else meant to vex and/or infuriate. He’s a little shit in his own respects, but we love him for it. His son knows a great deal more about him only for the fact that Felix keeps a meticulous journal, but his son is the only one who has ever found it. We’re pretty sure he’s a pre-Conjunction vampire and was likely in charge of the Gharasham’s army, if not at the very least a legate. He also a strange crush on Ladislav, and by that I mean he would be happy if Ladislav stepped on him.
Drath, holding Saskia: I have only had Saskia for a day and a half but if anything happened to her I would kill everyone in this plain of existence and then myself
❛ The woods are lovely, dark, & deep ... ❜ But he supposed it was the faultiest of times for poetry, stepping out of the trees & taking place by the armored lady, a gentle smile soon offered. ❛ If you’re lost, I can guide you out, in exchange for telling me why you've ventured here, that is. ❜
Iorweth immediately caught her hand to stop her from anything; afraid she would run away from him. He ruined too much relationships in his life; he let too much of them to simply walk away. ‘-Saskia…’
‘You never. You never did that. Some forced are stronger than any mortal; you don’t let me down as long as your heart stays the same. I don’t care for results; I would throw away this whole case ages ago if that was the point. I care for people’s intentions&yours are the purest I have ever known.’
He let that hand go; in the end, who was he to stop those who wished to step away from him? Iorweth was aware this hell of revolution wasn’t for everyone.
❛ Dh’oine form is a 4 -- you could’ve done better I suppose . Your dragon form is a 9 , although I’m disappointed to not find a single golden scale . ❜
