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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-24 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ He gives a delicate scrunching of his nose. ]

How many people do you have to fight here?
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-24 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
...no wonder Johann adores you.

[ But that is when he reaches into the assembled fluff of his outfit, into a pocket, and pulls from it a small wrapped bundle. He holds it up and through the bars. Within is a quantity of biscuits, some with bacon and others with butter and jam.

While he is certainly too small and frail to do so, his expression says he will jam it down Trevor's throat if he tries to fight him on this. ]


No one's in a fit state to remember to feed a troublemaker.
Edited (...phone tags /facepalm) 2023-06-24 12:43 (UTC)
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-24 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It means quite a lot to Florian as well. He knows how easy it is to forget those locked away. He watches Trevor for a moment more, through the joke, before he lets his pale eyes fill with amusement and roll. ]

You get beer with lunch, you sloppy heathen.
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-24 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Which makes you a heathen to me. Why do you think it only works one way, hmm?

[ He will be back with lunch. And he will bring a bottle of beer with him, even if he has to sneak into the lounge to get it.]

You're only a heretic to your own, of course.
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-24 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine. Johann killed a few people but that's to be expected given the flood. He has few enough inhibitions as it is. Dorian took his knives once he found out and... made him stay in his room.

[ A slight tic there, though he'd be much more upset if they weren't in the midst of this flood. Now, he just sort of wonders why he feels like he ought to have some concern over someone locked inside a home. ]
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-25 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
I wanted to talk to him anyway, but I'd prefer not with that sort of request. I'm not terribly worried about my protection, to be honest.

[ A thoughtful frown. ]

I'd probably go bother Herr Archer if it came down to it. He and I have an understanding. Or Xie Lian. He's my current warden, after all. It's actually his job.
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-25 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Probably because he is a god. I was nearly offended myself before I read his features and realized he was genuine.
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-25 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That earns a soft giggle from him. ]

A terrible grudge against the old and ancient? Shall I keep an eye out for doddering opas in case they incur your wrath?
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-25 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
The last hardly requires centuries. I've met any number of merchants and businessmen who manage it in a few decades.
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-27 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
You say that and yet I doubt you have had to spend endless dinners listening to them drone on while clutching at women they are most certainly not married to, smoking the most odious cigarettes.
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-28 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
My family built the city. ...not that it saved them.

But it was considered the thing to do to invite me to any important dinner: 'Elendhaven's last true son', as it were. Thus did I sup with the profiteers who benefited from and those whose orders saw the death of my family most nights.

I'm not sure which is worse, really.
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cw starvation, disease, etc.

[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-28 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Funnily enough, Trevor is one of the few people he might tell this to otherwise. He won't regret telling him this. After all, everyone in Elendhaven knows anyway. ]

When the plague came, it struck first in the factories, and my father, fool that he was, was the sort who took pride in talking to his workers. He locked himself in his study in the hopes of protecting us after the first signs showed, but one of the servants gossiped.

More fool them, given they shared our fate.

[ A breath out. ]

My family is well known for the magic in our blood, for all that we have claimed it stomped out, and they blamed the plague on old 'Wizard Leickenbloom' and his cursed kin, his brothers and their wives and their children and us. And thus did they barricade us within our own house, locking us away in the hopes of keeping the plague from their doors.

It came for them anyway but it hardly helped my family.

26 rooms in the mansion of House Leickenbloom, each one filled with the dying and the dead. Those that didn't die of the plague died of starvation.

All except for me, the solitary sorcerer in their midst.

[ A soft swallow. ]

Though after two months, it was a close thing regardless.

[ And a breath in. ]

After that, I used what skills I had and what sorcery was at my disposal to convince a distant relative to finance my education.

And I became a living monument to the losses of the plague, a living grave, and a place to lay useless apologies. There is not a shop or businessman in Elendhaven who would turn down an audience with me.

Nor a single person who wouldn't be glad to see me in the ground so they could stop looking at me.
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[personal profile] a_titanum 2023-06-30 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's been fifteen years since he's spoken any of their names. And yet, they come out as easily as if it was yesterday. ]

My father, Florent. My mother, Wilhelmina. His brothers: Laurence, Aster, Otto, and Linden. Their wives: Adelaide, Willa, Millicent, and Emmeline. My cousins: Roderick, Florin, Basil, Celandine, Ansel, Conrad, Lily, Rose, Dahlia, Violet, Camellia, Zinnia.

[ A pause. ]

My twin sister, Flora.

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