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@tfwnicholas
POINT DIVIDER / APRIL 10 - APRIL 30.
𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔞𝔰 𝔤𝔯𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔰 / total 90. 20 points for this week.
Tom Weston-Jones as Colonel Francis Lennox SANDITON 2.02
OOC | Nicholas & Beatrice
so nick is def acquainted w the astleys, since he courted maddie back in the day when she was their servant!! cass doesn’t think much of fae finders given that she has lotsa fae sympathies obv, and she has probs complained about the whole situation to bea but yeah idk how bea might feel about them? or him as an individual?
So since Beatrice doesn’t have fae sympathies & def buys into the faes are evil!!! stuff since that’s how she was raised, plus she’s never witnessed anything to suggest that’s it’s otherwise. So she does think that Nicholas is in the right && so I think she would certainly like him as a person!! Also idk how much she knew him back in the day, but if she did, she definitely would have been very pro maddie/nick <3
bea like ‘nick, you might be the soldier, but ~im the captain of the ship!’ jk jk. honestly nick is the same -- he was raised w a v stringent belief system and so he takes it as gospel and truly believs he’s doing the right thing and protecting the innocent from these evil monsters!!! but meanwhile, unbeknownst to him, he’s friends w a whole troop of them *facepalm*
but anyway!! i do feel like lady astley, more likely than not, had to feign a headache whenever he was around so that she could...not be since, obv, she’s fae alksdfksjf so beatrice was probs the ~lady in charge~ for the most part when he was around but yeah!! he might’ve visited for dinner once or twice, but i think he was mostly going out on rides and walks and such w maddie so yeah! im not sure how well they’d know e/o either -- im down w whatever we wanna say tbh hahah
OOC | Nicholas & Eleanor
as i mentioned in the note to lucy, these two may be acquainted as nick is at least def acquainted w rebecca so!! yeah!! much potential <3
i feel like eleanor thought it was kind of hilarious a fae finder was trying to court her sister… the number of fae traipsing through their house/lands AND living under their roof? potential for disaster!
eleanor honestly might try to befriend him though on behalf of the resistance? Or at least convince him to play cards with her at the tavern in an attempt to get information AND take his money lol
dsjfsdjfdsjfjsdf rebecca hides cecily behind a curtain when she sees nick coming and then tries to distract him
nick: whenever you’re near, miss turner, i feel as if i can do anything
eleanor: oh, that’s just bc she’s hiding so many fae everywhere
nick and rebecca: *nervous laughter*
jk, jk but honestly!!!! so muchhhh potential for disaster! i feel like they were forever like bracing for impact essentially
kjfsjdfsdf eleanor trying her hand at espionage -- i love it!! and he’s generally pr friendly, he’d absolutely be down to chat, play cards, whatever and honestly probs wouldn’t see it coming at all, just be like ‘well we did strike up a friendship when i was courting her sister i suppose it stuck’ so i don’t think he’d be suspicious
POINT DIVIDER / APRIL 4 - APRIL 9.
𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔞𝔰 𝔤𝔯𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔰 / total 70. 70 points for this week.
OOC | Nicholas & Arya
since he’s at court, we have quite a few ways they could meet, whether he’s escorting her somewhere as a bodyguard, dancing w her at a party, or simply talking to her at breakfast, i def think we could throw these two together if we like!
tfwmadeline:
The One that Got Away | Nicholas & Madeline
The crisp chill of a spring morning was nothing to a creature of the sea. It had been quite some time since Madeline had stolen a moment alone, cradling her seal coat under her arm, whisking herself away from her lady’s side before the first light of dawn to finally breathe easy. A creek was not quite the same as the sea, of course, but the feeling of water rushing over her fur was the same. The smell of fish and wet rocks. She took in a deep breath of the cool air and revelled in the feeling of it filling her lungs. While perhaps she should have brought something to wrap her still-drying curls in for the trek home, Maddie was certain it would be of no issue. Who would she even meet upon her walk that would find it odd? Maddie wrapped her seal coat tighter about her arms in any case, hoping beyond hope that it would continue to look simply like a stole that perhaps she had picked up for her lady in town on an errand. She was so concerned with this task that the young woman had no longer than the merest moments before realizing that the regimental soldier walking towards her was the one person Madeleine North had been certain she would never see again. “Nichol–Lieutenant Griffiths… I… I had not heard that you… you would be coming with the King…” She could feel a fist clenching around her heart. Squeezing it tighter and tighter. She was not safe here. He was not safe here. If he was here… If his regiment was here… Than whomever it was that took him from her all those years ago, surely they had returned as well. “I… I meant to write…” Maddie’s voice was quiet. “I hope… I hope you are well? You look well. I am… I am happy you look well. At least I would like to believe that you look well. Not that I am attempting to say that I would know after… well, everything, that I would still know how you would look if you are well, but I suppose…”
His name slipped from her lips -- an admission, an omission. His gaze found hers, studying that all-too familiar gaze and the way it sparked in the midday sun. It seemed almost an invitation, at first. It seemed that he ought to go up to her, yes, and take her in his arms, holding her tight never to let go...but then the other name was on her lips and he nearly laughed. All it had been was foolish habit and nothing more. No -- remember, he thought. She fled once before. Do not force her to similar measures a second time.
“It,” he smiled, a hapless look; a helpless look. Her fiery tresses were damp, drying in the sun as it radiated upon her and her cheeks were rosy as from exercise, her green eyes glittering like emeralds, and he glanced away, towards anything, anything else, as he mastered himself, as his fingers pulled taut into a fist. His eyes found hers once again. “It was a sudden decision.”
This was not entirely true, Nicholas was sure. It had likely been planned for some time, but the ministers preferred to wait till the last moment to announce the king’s itinerary to anyone -- including those who would be accompanying him. Nicholas imaged this was a security measure but, personally, he thought he would have done the king better good if he’d been better prepared.
Easily he saw the discomfiture in her face: he knew her too well not to know it by sight. Yes, it was obvious in her face, and despite himself -- the fool, he ached. Sorrow wreathed his chest and, internally, he half-laughed at himself, at the fool he had been -- at the fool he still was. But she quickly recaptured him from these thoughts, her words instantly claiming his attention.
His smile was small, uncertain. “That is kind of you to say,” he replied, softly. He took a step closer. “But I assure you, no remembrance was necessary. I-I quite understand.” He swallowed hard. Her heart was kind -- little as she had longed for his attentions, she still wished to know that she had not done him any ill. But how could he reassure her? The truth was -- the truth was that she had broken his heart.
He glanced away, towards the happily gurgling creek that rushed by near their feet. The sun tripped and sprang in its mottled reflection and he looked back to her, shook his head. “I am well,” he said. “Are...are you well, Miss North?”
He shook his head, eager to speak of something else -- anything else -- beyond the condition of his heart. “I found my family...my sister, that is. I am actually here looking to rent a house for her use that she might join me here -- the barracks at the Tower, naturally, are no place for her.”
He paused. “And--” he cracked a smile, proud of his achievement but not wishing to be arrogant. “I’m afraid it is Lieutenant no longer. I’ve been promoted a few times since last we met -- it’s High Inquisitor, now.”
OOC | Nicholas & Beatrice
so nick is def acquainted w the astleys, since he courted maddie back in the day when she was their servant!! cass doesn’t think much of fae finders given that she has lotsa fae sympathies obv, and she has probs complained about the whole situation to bea but yeah idk how bea might feel about them? or him as an individual?
OOC | Nicholas & Eleanor
as i mentioned in the note to lucy, these two may be acquainted as nick is at least def acquainted w rebecca so!! yeah!! much potential <3
OOC | Nicholas & Lucy
so nick had a thing for lucy’s big sista asp, so these two may have met before now, given that?
OOC | Nicholas & Robert
robert: *talks* nicholas: are the gods punishing us?
jk, jk but nick def, uhhhh, disagrees w robert on some things aslkdjfskdf but then again they probs agree abt the whole fae menace thing so i guess they’ve got smth they can agree on at least laksjdflksdf
OOC | Nicholas & Cecily
so, nick at one point had a crush on her big sista!! but, given that he’s a fae finder, i can see where cecily and isabella may have been sort of...kept out of his way, a bit, by their non-fae relations? or maybe they did meet? idk! what would be the most fun? heehee
OOC | Nicholas & Rebecca
so!! i was thinking that nick, here, had a thing to becca ~asp~ and i was wondering, do you think it was mutual or just a one-sided thing or that anything at all really happened w that, or...yeah!! idk!! do you have any thoughts on it?
OOC | Nicholas & Roland
that awkward moment when you think that ur crush (maddie) is crushing on ur political rival (horatio) but actually its his doppelganger (roland) laksdjfkjsdjf
The One that Got Away | Nicholas & Madeline
His sister needed a house. Oh, there were a few on offer in Valenmouth that might suit, but Nicholas suspected the pace of nearby Elsbridge might better suit and, as it happened, it was a place which Nicholas knew well. Carefully, he avoided the swaths that belonged to the Astleys, the ultra-distinct memories a lash of memory. Too clearly did he recall the glimpse of her running through the high grass, her laughter and the glow of the sunset rushing back to him; too well did he recall the sound of her voice, her brilliant vermillion tresses glowing like the firelight in the grate...
No, the Astley estate was not the place. But surely he could settle somewhere in the county, notwithstanding? Surely, he would not see the image of her everywhere he went...surely, not after all this time.
At his left, the creek which ran through the town gurgled happily, its abundance of foot bridges a cheerful sight particularly alongside the bright-painted shops and stone-built houses to his right. The familiar tingling at the back of his head told him that, indeed, fae were here or had been sometime recently and he swallowed, gaze sharpening as he began more warily to study the faces around him. As his glance alit upon a particular face, his heart gaze a strange squeeze. Nicholas stopped dead.
It seemed to him that he saw her. It seemed to him that she was walking towards him, large as life, her face just as it had been when last he’d seen her, her bright hair teased loose by the current of the breeze...she neared and neared and something tugged at his heart...and at his brain.
Was she...real?
He swallowed hard, clasping his hands behindhis back and one, one into a fist. Steeling himself, he strode forward. “Miss North?”
HIGH INQUISITOR NICHOLAS GRIFFITHS (34) Tom Weston-Jones - TAKEN BY KATE AA Status: Human Occupation: Fae Finder Inquisitor Relationship(s): Abigail Griffiths (sister), Nathaniel Acton, Henry Palmer, Frederick Masters, Xavier York (best friends), Antony Rivers (lord commander/best friend), Phoebe Clifford (fellow fae finder/best friend), Elias Ferrars, George Howard, Alice Roberts (fellow fae finders), Horatio Allerdale (political rival), Roland Marks, Alaric de Vere (romantic rivals), Rebecca Turner (former attachment), Madeline North (unknown quest/former attachment/interest)
the inquisitors are, by their nature, the most visible of the fae finders and nicholas, as their head, is perhaps most visible of all
like all other fae finders, nicholas was originally discovered to be a fae finder and brought to the tower by an inquisitor as a small child
there, like his fellows, he was trained and taught, his feelings and opinions formed till he believed w/o question that fae and daimon were uniformly evil
and must be stopped, whatever the cost
being of more or less the same age as ANTONY and PHOEBE, he grew up alongside them as dear friends
like most fae finders, he was given a new identity and efforts were made to remove his original one by the lord commander at the time
antony’s memories were preserved by the intercession of the king, while phoebe’s slowly slipped away
but nicholas was just old enough, and just determined enough, to remember bits and pieces
he remembered his name, and he remembered the lane to the house where he had once been dearly loved by his family
while on assignment, he happened upon this lane by chance, and out of half-forgotten memory, he wandered down it
soon, he came to a familiar cottage and knocked but, when he was let it, there were no familiar faces to be seen
only a young lady, who had clearly just been weeping, and who bore a strong resemblance to his mother
soon he discovered that the girl was his own sister, who had been born after he had been taken away, and that their parents had recently died
she was in the midst of losing everything so, calling in the fortune he’s amassed, nicholas saved her from poverty
and became her brother in truth and, now having been sent to valenmouth, is looking to let a house for his sister that she may join him
few enough of nicholas’ relationships have been as successful as this one, however
for one, as a young man, he fell desperately in love w REBECCA, but the matter did not turn out as he had hoped
when he grew older and more mature, nicholas met MADELINE while on the tray of a particularly tricky changeling
but, awfully enough, both managed to slip through his fingers, as he surrendered an opportunity to capture the changeling…
in order to ask madeline to marry him
but when he arrived, she was already fleeing in her carriage, apparently too distressed by the idea that he might propose to stay
so it is that nicholas has sworn off love, determined to finally live the rest of his life in whatever peace he can possibly find