𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐨.

         THE REACTION HE GIVES HER  makes the blonde nod assuringly ,  lips curling into a smile that conveyed something between pride and a bit of melancholy .  though there were many incredible things about this new life she’d been given ,  isolde couldn’t help but miss the company of a pegasus by her side .  there were only so many things that could compare to the feeling of seeing the world from above  —  even a battleground was easier on the eyes from such great heights .  ❝  i was ,  yes …  and  thank you .  i don’t think anyone has ever complimented me on that ,  ❞  a chuckle .  ❝  i was the only one amongst my peers ,  but that’s alright .  though becoming a cavalier wouldn’t have been bad ,  a pegasus seemed like a better option for keeping an eye on and  protecting  my friends …  not to mention ,  pegasi are very docile creatures .  i’m guessing you  like horses ,  too ?  ❞  

          when owen explained the reasoning behind his lack of formal training ,  her brows furrowed at the fact that he ,  who seemed ever enthusiastic about the same things as she ,  had not had the opportunity to learn the way she had .  though garreg mach was long gone ,  there were still fond memories of it in the knight’s heart and she was thankful for all she’d learned there …  or almost all of it .  ❝  i see …  it makes  absolute sense ,  yes .  as a mater of fact ,  the place where i learned most of what i know was very much ruined by war .  it was …  painful ,  to say the least .  ❞  isolde pauses ,  the memory of finding dimitri ,  the professor and her housemates in ruins overtaken by thieves still fresh in her memory .  still ,  her tone became a bit more cheerful mere seconds later ,  ❝  but we managed to save a few things and slowly rebuild the monastery ,  especially after the war .  ❞  brushing a blonde curl behind her ear ,  she raised her brows inquisitively ,  ❝  this  good place  you mentioned ,  do you wish you could see it again without the war ?  is that where you and inigo met ?  ❞

   — AT HER QUESTION , OWAIN STARTS TO THINK ; about . . . about many , many things. Firstly , there’s almost a level of pain he can feel from her due to the fact that she seems so . . . understanding. And then the confirmation maybe their paths aren’t exactly so different , that despite the fact they hail from different places , their stories run parallel like heroes’ fables that follow different worlds , different heroes , different legacies - but the story is relatively the same. And this is a tragedy where the story is written with the same ink , same words , but the tokens of this story , like some messed up game of chess , are different. Different performers that are forced to carry on the same old song and dance. And that makes his heart sink for her.

isolde: ( ... )

isolde: tros?

isolde: oh the rise of skywalker, yes? sorry, my mind is a bit all over the place.

isolde: but it's very sweet that you meant to surprise me. you didn't have to bother with that.

isolde: don't worry, it's alright. i'm sorry i had to leave all of a sudden, i was looking for a friend.

isolde: but the time i got spend with you was the best part of my night.

isolde: i feel ... um, i've been better, that much i can say for certain. how about you?

isolde: i'm sorry if i seem a bit off ... it probably isn't a very good thing to wake up to.

owen: No it's okay - are you okay??

owen: You're a great thing to wake up to!! A mesmerizing sight that a simple human such as myself - a peasant in the presence of a radiant pegasus knight goddess of battle - would give a thousand lifetimes to witness. I am forever grateful that I am bequeathed with the presence to talk to the likes of you!

owen: ...idk lol I tried to see if I could get something nice together but. Yeah.

owen: I'll be more tolerable once I wake up a bit, I promise. :)

owen: so

owen: i was gonna surprise you with tickets to see tros but then i heard it sucks so im not gonna deal w/ that but like

owen: ,,,,hi??? hello???

owen: i had a really good time last night n um. i liked it. ur really cool. n maybe i just woke up but youUUUUU are,,,,,

owen: wow.

owen: ignore me i'm not at all thinking straight right now just

         THE TONE OF HIS VOICE  when he reacts to her comment about griffons makes the blonde curious and curiouser  —  it didn’t seem that owen was about to judge her opinion on those creatures  ( not that he ever seemed to judge her anyway ) ,  but that he shared the same thoughts on the matter .  yet another thing to add to the list of what they had in common .  the notion of that was enough to make a small ,  perhaps  unnoticeable  smile appear on isolde’s rosy lips ,  yet that smile grew bigger when he began to speak .  though the words were not her own ,  she could visualize what he described with clear perfection ;  after all ,  to be the one riding a pegasus felt just as natural as driving her car around town .  no ,  it felt even more natural .  it was the little things like that that made her miss  home ,  even with so many reasons not to .  with a chuckle ,  she bowed her head slightly ,  her green gaze returning to his shortly after .  ❝  but there’s no reason for that ,  milord .  in fact ,  i thank you for the compliment on behalf of the  pegasus knights  such as myself ,  ❞    after all ,  being taken away from the life she once knew made her no less of a knight at heart .  it might as well be the one thing they could never take from the woman .  ❝  to learn and form a bond with those creatures is no ease feat ;  you must be willing to take your time and put effort into it .  however …  they are as friendly and docile as they are brave ,  and even though horses are wonderful and equally as important on the battlefield ,  i wouldn’t change my role .  it appears your life was similar to mine in certain ways ,  ❞  which wasn’t necessarily a good thing ,  and she hoped the similarities were only when it came to the good parts .  pausing ,  isolde sipped from her glass of water before speaking again ,  curiosity  filling her every word ,  ❝  that being said …  was there truly no way for you to learn how to ride a wyvern ?  no place to go ,  such as a monastery maybe ?  ❞

   — WHENEVER ISOLDE SPEAKS , OWEN MAKES IT A POINT to listen to everything she says with more attention than he’s physically capable of giving. In other words , his eyes never leave her form , his ears are only tuned to her words , and the smile on his face is one that he hasn’t shown to many as of late. It’s GENUINE ; there is a genuine admiration for such an amazing person , such an otherworldly & extraordinary individual . . . He’d be a fool to waste any time with her. And while Owen is certainly colorful in every aspect to where it teeters on being foolish , he could never exercise such in her presence. He considers himself lucky - unworthy , even.

gotcha @fvtvrelegends !

          owen  had  probably  gone  over  this   a hundred times with apollo . there was no way it would register in his brain if it had not already but apollo was madly determined to get it locked and loaded . ❝ okay — explain it one more time , please , i promise i will get it this time ! ❞ he tells him , his eyebrows wiggling about in both thought and frustration . apollo was still new to this , uh , hobby , so he really relied on owen to lay it all out for him . he never knew something could be so simple , yet so complicated . ❝ please explain why this has to be so intricate ?  why can’t i just go up to people and heal them like a normal mage would ?  ❞

the  sight  of  owen  makes  him  glad  his  shift  wasn’t  earlier  ,  or  else  they  might’ve  made  him  do  this  .  “  jeez  ,  seth  really  has  you  working  this  holiday  thing  ,  huh  ?  well  ,  it  suits  you  !  ”  he  grins  stupidly  as  potential  customers  walk  by  them  ,  observing  the  scene  for  themselves  .  while  myde  would  rather  sneak  a  nap  in  the  warmth  of  the  store  ,  he  takes  out  his  phone  and  pulls  up  twitter  —  ‘  EVERYONE  WHO  COMES  TO  THE  HQ  RIGHT  NOW  &  BUYS  SOMETHING  will  get  a  selfie  with  me  &  a  cool  santa  jedi  !!  i’ll  even  be  signing  things  if  ya  want  :)  ’  .  maybe  it’s  not  good  to  use  his  following  to  the  store’s  advantage  ,  but  he  doesn’t  see  an  issue  .  it’s  helping  !  he’s  being  helpful  !  that’s  as  best  as  it’s  going  to  get  .  “  we  should  be  getting  more  customers  in  soon  ,  dude  .  oh  !  and  i  told  everyone  you  were  cool  ,  so  maybe  that’ll  help  .  ”

   — AT FIRST , HE’S A LITTLE CONFUSED - while the memories implanted in him from a life that wasn’t real familiarize him with social media , it’s still not the first thing his brain jumps to whenever someone pulls out their phone. So it takes a few seconds of wondering what in Ike’s beard the blazes he could be doing.

   And then Myde speaks.

   It hits.

   And Owen goes into full fledged ‘oh, fuck me’ mode.

He feels a bit mean, but he can’t help bursting out at the sight of Odin when he spots him as he walks down the street. It’s been a long time since Niles shopped at The HQ or anything like it, but he could spare the the time for nostalgia especially when it applied to both this life and the last. “Ridiculous as usual,” he says casually as he arrives to stand beside his ally. “Now tell me, if I go in there and buy something does that mean they’re going to keep you out here embarrassing yourself for more or less time,” Niko asks with a slight smirk. “And how much would it cost to make you breakdance.”

NAME: The Coolest Person Ever

PHOTO: x

RINGTONE: Rey’s Theme - John Williams

NAME: Asshole Coworker but From Nohr

PHOTO: x

RINGTONE: If you expected anything else, you are mistaken ( Owen’s default )

                    JEREMIAH  TENDS  TO  take  his  main  break  when  the  ring  is  at  its  busiest,  providing  he  isn’t  scheduled  for  a  lesson.  he  doesn’t  go  far,  usually  sitting  outside  for  some  fresh  air,  not  too  far  from  the  entrance.  his  focus  is  on  his  phone,  completely  occupied  with  posting  pictures  of  minerva  (  he  doesn’t  like  to  put  himself  out  there  all  that  much,  but  minerva  is  a  charismatic  kitty  and  deserves  the  amount  of  likes  and  retweets  she  gets  )  that  he  doesn’t  notice  how  his  legs  are  a  hazard  until  someone  comes  around.  he  quickly  pulls  his  feet  away  from  the  sidewalk,  barely  looking  up  from  his  phone.  ❝  apologies.  ❞

@fvtvrelegends​:  “Oh, we lost  e v e r y t h i n g.”

          ❝ No, we haven’t. Come on, Owain,             don’t think like that. ❞

          It’s hard not to think like that, though, he knows. He hasn’t recovered fully from that masquerade ball - he blinks and he still sees his mother on the ground, completely unmoving, completely gone. But he needs to stay strong, to not lose hope - if not for himself then for Owain.

          ❝ Everyone’s fine - and they’re alive.              We haven’t lost anything yet. And              hey  -  you have me here, right  ?              No matter how annoying you find              me ? ❞

   — NOTHING CAN REALLY STOP OWAIN FROM THINKING LIKE THAT , however. That’s the issue. Things . . . well , they haven’t necessarily been the SAME since the masquerade ball. There were good things , yes : Isolde for example , but then there were also things that negatively remained seared into his brain. Or rather , some things that brought those scars back to the surface , enough to shake Owain to his core.

         HAD SHE SEEN HIM  approaching before exiting the café ,  the blonde would have cursed herself for not putting an effort into looking her best even after a long day of work .  yes ,  isolde enjoyed working at jungle gym’s ;  not only did she get to spend time with the person who once was her  dear professor ,  but it was also the closest to knight training she could find in castle town .  the problem was ,  however ,  that this particular job didn’t require her to look radiant like a flower ,  and a part of isolde would have liked owen to have seen her sporting a hairstyle that was more elaborate than her  go - to braid ,  even if she cared little for things such as beauty and fashion .  as if that wasn’t enough ,  dodie would have given her an earful for being in public while wearing her gym clothes !  still ,  it seemed that fate had different plans for the blonde .

          when she heard owen’s ever characteristic greeting ,  her eyes grew wide in surprise ,  the coffee she’d just bought nearly spilling from her mouth .   what a surprise !    blinking once ,  twice ,  she quickly found balance and swallowed the drink before offering a smile to the man ,  attempting her very best to hide how  embarrassed  she felt .  at least she was getting to see him again ,  right ?   ❝  why this is a pleasant surprise ,  milord !  i see you are well ,  ❞  or at least she hoped so .  the final hours of the masquerade had not been so kind to isolde ,  but she did hope owen’s weren’t as painful .  ❝  but if i’m being honest ,  not much is up ;  this knight has just finished her duties at the …  jungle gym’s .  ❞  if her friends could see her now ,  they’d probably be laughing at her face .  ❝  what about you ?  i hope everything’s fine .  ❞

   — THE SMILE ON HIS FACE CANNOT BE HELD OR DENIED when she begins to reply in-character ; he’s not really one for emphasis on sickeningly sweet expressions , but he will admit that her . . . eager & joyful reply does make him feel happy. It’s like SUNSHINE has somehow emerged in his chest , and he almost feels his cheeks heat as he looks down. He’s NERVOUS ; nervous because he doesn’t want to ruin an encounter with her. Doesn’t want to make things awkward. Why ?? Well . . . maybe he KNOWS the reason why - but Owen doesn’t have time in the moment to unpack all of that.