be silent.

22: My muse gravely injures yours and must help them or find them help.

Years of training had sharpened his reflexes and reaction time-- it wasn’t as if he had become Basilio’s champion just by sitting idle.  On top of this, Lon’qu was, just by the nature of his past, a rather on-edge person.  Regardless of whether or not he were to admit it aloud, many everyday occurrences simply startled him.  The screech of boiling water in a kettle, footsteps outside of his tent, the loud cawing of one of the crows that for some reason always seemed to make themselves comfortable around camp-- all of these things heightened his senses, and made the swordsman react quicker, more aggressively.

so, as per fucking usual, I have been very absent here!

without going into too much detail, my dad has been having an affair, and this has left me incredibly depressed (as such, affairs/infidelity/cheating/etc are very sensitive topics for me rn).  I’ve been struggling to motivate myself with just about everything and nothing really seems to be going my way. 

After their last exchange, Lon’qu was more than a little hesitant to go seeking out Miriel again.  He thought that he wouldn’t have to interact with her for a while, given how frustrated she had gotten before.  But now here she was, apparently needing him for something else.

11. What is your muse’s happiest memory from their childhood? 

When he was little, he would spend many of his summers looking for bugs.  Some of the kids in his village would sometimes have competitions (who could find the largest beetle, or the most, etc.) Lon’qu normally lost because he would impulsively grab the first beetle he could find, become attached to it (beetles are cool, man), and then bring that one back even if it wasn’t particularly large.  There was one summer though where that first beetle actually was the largest any of the kids found, and even though he hadn’t actively been seeking out the largest one, he was still very proud of himself. 

13. What is your muse’s deadly sin?

If we’re going by the Biblical 7 Deadly Sins (because there are a bunch of others!), then maybe some kind of tie between Wrath and Pride.  Wrath because he has a lot of unchanneled anger that he just doesn’t know how to deal with and hides in the presence of others, but then goes and just like fucking obliterates a training dummy or something.  He should probably get some hobby other than training.  

Pride could also apply because he can’t seem to conceptualize that people who aren’t *~Silent and Stoic~* like him could possibly be stronger, unless they actually manage to prove it to him.  He doesn’t exactly go around bragging about his strength, but he has a hard time viewing others who aren’t also reserved like him as equals. 

15. How does your muse see themselves in 5 years?  How about 10? 

3. Which parent (or guardian) does your muse prefer? 

Well, neither of his biological parents, that’s for sure.  He never knew his father and still carries some bitterness about that. His mother was rather neglectful, and he lost her when he was pretty young.  Basilio is kind of his adoptive father, having taken him in as a teenager, and is someone he really looks up to, admires, and is constantly trying to impress.   

4. Who are your muse’s closest friends?

Again, probably Basilio.  What a cool dad-friend.  Also probably Olivia, although he’d consider them to be more “workplace proximity associates.”  But since they both were kind of taken in by Basilio, they’ve always been around each other enough to form some kind of bond, even if there’s a lot of awkwardness involved.

10. How important is family to your muse?

1: When did your muse lose their virginity?

2: Who was your muse's first kiss?

3: Which parent(or guardian) does your muse prefer?

4: Who are your muse's closest friends?

5: Does your muse have any phobias?

6: Which sibling is your muse closest to? If they have no siblings, which family member?

7: Who was your muse's first crush?

8: What is your muse's sexual preference?

9: Most problematic thing your muse has ever done?

10: How important is family to your muse?

11: What is your muse's happiest memory from their childhood?

12: What is your muse's saddest memory from their childhood?

13: What is your muse's deadly sin?

14: What would your muse say to their younger self if they could go back in time?

15: How does your muse see themselves in 5 years? What about 10?

16: How does your muse deal with their anger?

17: How does your muse feel about religion?

18: Is your muse more self loving or self loathing?

It wasn’t that Lon’qu disliked being put on meal duty-- he just wished that he had a little more control over who he got to do it with.  Vaike, for example, may have been a bumbling idiot, but he was also surprisingly efficient when it came to meal duty (perhaps he was desperate to get his own share of food?).  And it also wasn’t as if he actively disliked who he was assigned to work with.  She was just... distracting.

Partner stress aside, the actual act of cutting up ingredients was vaguely therapeutic, and at the moment it was functioning as a form of escapism for him.  It was mind-numbing, sure, but it also gave him something to focus his attention on.  Chop this, slice this, the actions reminded him of training-- on a much smaller scale, of course.

“… I can assure you, it is all women,” Lon’qu deadpanned.  Why did everyone always question this?  It was as if everyone saw it as some kind of fun game to try and get him to “get over” his very deeply rooted fear.  That, or they relentlessly questioned it.  Lon’qu just couldn’t comprehend why everyone seemed to be so fixated on it– he had been with the Shepherds for some time, hadn’t they all learned of it by this point?