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tsunael · 2 months
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for the word generator prompt - Lie!
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Fray was right, of course. Fray had always been right. Only when she renounced everything was she free to do anything. She could leave it behind─ all of it. The Scions. The Alliance.
Even Hydaelyn.
All she had to do was ask, and he would set her free.
She feels as if she’d been in a torpor. With so much lost, she could barely recognize what she had gained. And still, she rotted in this forsaken place that hated her as much as she hated it. Coerthas. She prayed for the day she never saw snow again.
White. Everywhere was White. White snow, white stone, white moon, white skin, white hair, a white eye.
Someone else’s blood coated her hands and warmed them against the cold before they froze over. Fray would be most unhappy that she took such a detour before their promised rendezvous. Yet another service of hers offered, with nothing given in return.
There were knights speaking over her, she realized, half-expecting it was simply mindless praise, but their words made little sense.
“… Certain… allegations have been made, sir. It would seem that she was observed conversing with… with a corpse. In the Brume.” The untiring knight’s voice wavered at the mere mention. “Not that anyone would ever believe such slander, of course…” he added, weakly.
Another voice. The one she arrived with, spoke for her. “Surely there is no need for concern. I mean, ‘conversing with a corpse’? What fools do they take us for?”
Tsuna worked a smile for that. He was right. What a ridiculous notion. She reaped corpses, but did not make a habit of speaking to them.
“I should warn you, mistress, that some of these allegations were made by Temple Knights. You, um… you may be asked to surrender your weapon…”
Surrender her weapon? Tsuna looked down at her bloodied hands, and the large bastard sword that suddenly manifested within them. Its weight felt crushing.
“After what happened in Ul'dah? They must be mad.” Fray– the singular man she had come to meet– stepped from behind her, seemingly out from the aether. “Pay attention, Tsuna. This could be the greatest moment of our life…”
They would kill them together, then. That familiar, welling of violence shot through her-- the self-preservation was paramount to all. She would not be put into a cage.
Though, to her surprise he did not stand with her. Instead, he barred her path, lifting a singular finger to aim at her heart. The moment his aim struck true, she felt an indelible pressure growing fast within her chest.
“That is, if you could stop denying the truth that's been staring you in the face since the moment we met.”
The truth. She winced as a pain, more acute than any vision the Echo could bring, roiled through her skull. The truth.
She withered at his feet, crying out sharply against the wind. The pain was much too much-- it would break her. She didn’t want the truth. She wanted gentle lies– she wanted them to tell her that it would all be okay if she just tried harder.
“Say my name,” Fray bellowed. “Say it. My real name. Our real name!”
And whose face did he bare, when he finally took off the mask?
Fray lifted his helm, and below it was a proud, Elezen knight with kind eyes and stark white hair. He was the corpse she left, but that wasn’t right. That wasn’t him.
Fray lifted his helm. Below it was a blonde woman, her hair put up in braids. She didn’t blame her for what she couldn’t do, but they would never see each other again. That wasn’t it, either. That wasn’t him.
A man who was free to say and do the things you would not.
Fray lifted his helm. A man coldly stared back. She would know his whiskey-brown eyes from anywhere, for she resented how they drank her in and stripped her bare. She resented him. That wasn’t him.
…Even now, you continue to deny it. Well. Deny me all you want. You cannot deny what we have done.
Fray lifted his helm. Black hair spilled forth over his shoulders like ink welling on a page. Curled, Auri horns proudly greeted her as Fray cradled the helm in his arms. It was her mother.
Her once-blue eyes were replaced with smoking voids that threatened to swallow her entire face in an unnatural pox. She was full of holes; her face blurred at the edges like watercolour. She couldn’t remember. She couldn’t remember her kind mother’s face.
Have I not been good to you? Have I not given you everything I promised?
“Stop!” Tsuna finally managed to cry out. Her throat felt raw, and her jaw ached from overuse. It felt as if she had been screaming for her life. “Gods– Stop, please. Enough!”
“Did I not help you to hear the whispers of our very soul!?” Fray moved closer. His body towered over her, cutting a stark figure against the white backdrop. He stooped to her level where she had fallen to her knees, and picked up her chin with a singular finger.
“Open your eyes. Look,” he ordered. “Do you see now?” He asked, softer, gentler. “Do you see?”
The pain in her head had moved southwind to burn a hole into her breast, as if her own heart had set itself aflame square between her ribs, and fanned itself with every breath. Weakly, she lifted her head, to stare into the abyss.
The Fray who stared back was not him. It was a woman– her own sickly pallor, and red, red lips greeted her with a smile.
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elaphaemourra · 3 years
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30 Questions Tag Game
Got tagged by @outcastcommander :DDDDD Thank!!!!!
Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 5 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better. HI I’M ACTUALLY REALLY SHY SO I’M NOT DOING THAT LOL I’m just gonna say, if u wanna do Intro and see this, go for it, and also bonus if u r Friend, absolutely feel free and also say i tagged u bc Yes Friendship.
Name/nickname: Elaphae,  Ela is most common (and great!! i love it fjdklajs), some people on the swtor art server called me ‘inquis’ a couple times ljfdklas.  
Gender: Nonbinary :DDD
Star sign: Virgo-Libra cusp :3
Height: 5’4 WOOP i am Short
Birthday: September 21
Time: 12:48 pm >:3
Favorite bands: Green Day, Volbeat, The Longest Johns, Alestorm… a lot more.  I’m a nerd lol.
Favorite solo artists: uh h hhhhh  o-O  there are Many.  Aurelio Voltaire is pretty solid lol.  Good for the heart.  Also, I can’t listen to too much of his stuff bc it gives me a Crisis, but Bo Burnham.  Shit’s a Bop.
Song stuck in my head: The theme for the uruk-hai from lotr lol
Last movie: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Last show: fjdklasj i don’t watch tv lol, i can’t make my brain sit still for it.  Gotta be Interactive.
When did I create this blog: uh, shit, when WAS that?? WOW 2014.  3 more years and I’ll have spent a decade on tumblr.  Which is WILD.
What do I post: things that make me happy ;v;  mostly star wars and dragon age, and Assorted Random Shit i think jfdlkfjd.  I don’t actually know what  my blog makeup is but it Sure Is Something.
Last thing googled: ‘the song from lord of the rings when saruman shows off the uruk-hai’ lmfaoooo, i couldn’t remember the name of it so i went looking.
Other blogs: HOO BUDDY okiedoke:  @haospart (art blog), @swtorcompanionsgoofin (swtor blog), @lyriumdisaster (dragon age blog, which i’ll get back to once i’m done on the swtor end of this bioware pingpong table of interests, and then i’ll be hopping BACK to swtor bc it IS a pingpong table), i have studyblr that I Never Fuckin Use and have only posted on in the past 2 years to go ‘what the fuck why do u people keep following me’ bc I LITERALLY HAVE NOT TOUCHED IT IN LIKE 2 YEARS why does it keep gaining followers, and then a few like, ‘no don’t look me i’m Embarassed’ repositories jfdklsjaf.
Do I get asks: Very rarely, but yes!! Lmfao usually when i go ‘GIVE ASK PLS I LOVE ASK’ and people are reminded that i am, in fact, a very friendly marshmallow who does not mind interaction and also Definitely Craves people asking questions about my stuff fjdla.
Why I chose my url: This is kind of a convoluted thing, but like, the easy version is that it’s the name of my trooper on the leviathan server (now called Aea out of the game bc they were supposed to be my self-insert but then they escaped into the woods and developed a storyline for themself).  The LONG thing is that I have an oc named Regia Elaphae, who I modeled after pnigophobia, the fear of choking or being smothered, and I made her snake-themed.  Rex is the latin word for king--for king snakes--which i swapped to regina and then took out the n bc ‘Regina’ didn’t fit her, and Elaphe is the genus for rat snakes, but i found two ways of spelling it so i spelled it Elaphae, and when I got into swtor I decided to use Elaphae in reference to myself.  I replaced my old url with this one after i started playing that trooper of the same name, bc my old one was :I .  I was into hetalia in middle school, and homestuck, and when I got on tumblr that followed me into my url.  I’m not into hetalia anymore, or anime at all, and homestuck fell off my radar into the ‘i’ll go “hey i know that” if i see it, but i’m not in the fandom anymore’ pile.  For the longest time my blog description was ‘it’s been 5 years and i still haven’t changed my url’, but it was time for change fjdklasfaj.  It’s better this way.  
Following: 953 (it was over 1300 but i did some clearing out of my follow list a month or so ago lol, mostly of people who haven’t been online in 6 years)
Followers: 616
Average hours of sleep: 7 and a half hours, if i want to be Functional
Lucky number: 19 :D  I love 19, it’s always been my lucky number, always will be.
Instruments: I don’t play much, but I can sing and also I can play beladi on the doumbek.
What am I wearing:  Fox onesie lol.  I wear basically nothing else at this point in my life.
Dream job: i mean, ideally i could just Not and vibe fjdkla.  But i mean like, i guess something working with my hands.  I’m in college to get a degree in french, and my next step after that is to go to trade school, to get smth that’ll make me money so i can keep doing Nerd Junk and also learning bc i like, actually really like school lol.
Dream trip: I want to go back to Rennes.  I miss it.  It was awesome, and, hilariously, I miss being able to get a burger that isn’t Drowning in its own grease.  America doesn’t know how to do healthy burger that tastes good.  Europe knows what’s up tho. I also miss being able to like, have just a pitcher of room temperature water next to a cute little glass and have it not be weird.  The cups are too big in america, i drink so much less water bc it’s just too daunting.  I’m dehydrated constantly.  Also i miss the METRO.  I loved the metro, loved nyooming along in the trains, wandering around the central part of the city, it was cool.
Favorite food: Eel!!  Eel’s tasty as fuck.  I love it.
Nationality: American
Favorite song: o-o uhhhhhhhhhhh, i have no idea lol.  I listen to so much random shit.  lol according to my spotify 2020 rewind it’s Starlight Brigade, from TWRP and Dan Avidan.
Last book read: i have got ZERO clue what the last book i read was.  I mean, technically it was a textbook for my myth, magic, and folk religion class, but like, blegh.  Nah.  Not fun.  I think before that I started reading Metro 2033???  I have a copy in french, and am flipping between that and trying to fckn get through au revoir là-haut.
Top three fictional universes I’d like to live in:  
1. swtorrrrrrr, i wanna be a space wizard [slap slap slap on the metaphorical counter] give me space magic
2. Pellinor, y’all it’s medieval and magic and COOL and i’m a big nerd for that.  (these books are so good ;v;)  Also they got wine that makes cramps and headaches go away and magic baths, so like, fuck yes give me that sweet sweet painkiller juice.  It’s magic babey.
3. Thedas, bc dragon age, and like, when things Aren’t all fucked sideways to hell, there are just like, People.  Going about their days.  It’s great.  Also MORE MAGIC  Science is all fucked up in my vicinity, so like, how much can i fuck up the magic o3o
tl;dr on that fictional universes thing, i really want to be a wizard apparently fjdklasj.
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