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The music played in Rowdy Raven. This was some new band and the music was new but the rhythm enticed people to dance. Julian looked at Julienne and with his charming, sly smile offered her his hand.

“Care to dance?” He arched his eyebrow and didn’t really wait for an answer before pulling her onto the floor.

“Rather forward, aren’t you?” Julianne quips, caught off guard for just a moment but quickly managing to match the rhythm of the music.

The magician was usually found on the other side of town, selling magical wares in her shop in the heart district. But tonight, she didn’t mind letting herself be found in Julian’s favorite tavern.

Despite not being a physical hand, Asra still felt the same warmth of Julianne as he guided her to shore. While Julianne was far into the middle of the pool, the distance shrank as she reached for his hand, their surroundings manipulated by the thoughts and actions of the present. He nodded his head knowingly, Julian was always up to something to make each moment exciting, although with Julianne he had grown a little less reckless, a little.

A kind smile spread on his lips, covering her hand with his own between his palms, “Maybe it’s both. What does your intuition tell you?”

Despite her prowess in magic, Julianne was beginning to realize that her time with Julian had made an effect on her, too. She’d spent a bit of time on the high seas by this point, and she began to wonder if this was, in a way, her intuition telling her that she should reconnect with her roots. There was, perhaps, a longing for magic that she wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.

Within his personal gate, Asra lounged beside the kaleidoscopic pool of shimmering water, Faust resting nearby in the towering multicolored trees. With a sudden turn, the energy around him shifts, something powerful and familiar tugging in one direction. He rises to his feet, shock plain on his features upon seeing who rose from the water, “Julianne?” He asked, although it was plain to see who exactly it was.

“What are you doing here,” he asked with a slightly breathless chuckle, offering a hand to aid her across the water’s surface disturbed only by the smallest of ripples under her feet, “You and Ilya aren’t in trouble, are you?”

Shock morphs to concern at the thought. With Julian and Julianne sailing the high seas together anything could happen.

Julianne took the magician’s hand with a smile, making her way through the shallow waters until she was soundly on the beach. It felt like ages since she’d visited Asra, and though it hadn’t been all that long, she was just as happy to see him.

“No, no trouble,” she replies, “unless you count Ilya’s usual antics as trouble. Which, to be fair...”

A soft shake of her head, and she was back on topic. “But, ah. I’ll be honest, I don’t really know how I ended up here either. Last I remember, I was heading to sleep - and now I’m here.”

Julian was practically beaming with delight, the smile he’d shown could light up the entire room on it’s own. Breathing heavily, he looked around the room, and passed several townspeople complimenting him or making jokes on his behalf. In his defense – he just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do something so impulsive and lively as dancing on the palace tables to wonderful music at a wonderful event, with an even more wonderful date. Julianne.

For a moment, he looked around a bit frantically, thinking he’d lost her. But there, he saw her blushing as she spoke to a stranger, and he called out to her from the few feet away he was. “I see you there, still shy but smiling~”

Julian’s voice cut through the masquerade like a bell, and Julianne couldn’t help but pull herself away from her conversation to look at him standing just a few feet away. Julianne excused herself from the stranger - she’d been taking a few too many compliments, anyways - and approached the doctor, reaching up to straighten out the feathers of his lapel.

Stepping back as she did, she couldn’t help but marvel a bit at how beautifully the costume fit him. The whole evening had been a bit of a blur to her; not a few hours ago, she’d just found out that she’d had a different life before all this. It was a miracle she was even here. But here she was, incredulous to the fact that she was standing in front of someone so... Julian.

Julianne let out a disbelieving laugh, putting a hand on Mayla’s shoulder. She herself only remembered about three years of her life, none of which were spent in a romantic relationship. She remembered learning to walk, learning to talk again; and while she had a feeling Asra had pined for her for a long while, Julianne never intended to reciprocate.

She gave Mayla a soft smile, gazing at her with honey brown eyes as she tucks some hair behind her ear.

“Unfortunately, dear, I haven’t the slightest bit of experience myself. We’ll just have to help ourselves through it, won’t we?”

Julianne’s perfect date with Julian would probably either be a hike on one of their travels or a night on the town with a stolen bottle of rum 😏

Julianne is incredibly quick-witted and visually-oriented, and Julian absolutely knows this - she’s just as much of a science nerd as he is, albeit in a different field. Many of her paintings are of plants and animals, and field study is a great part of that. Despite not remembering much of it, Julianne’s time in the tribes sparked a curiosity in learning as much as she can about wild flora and fauna; and she loves traveling to every new place Julian can take her, so it’s a bit of a win-win.

They absolutely would! As long as their date prepares for Julian to talk their ear off and then get either (1) drunk, (2) embarrassingly lovey dovey with his wife, or (3) all of the above. Julianne will hold out as long as she can, making intelligent conversation with their date until she’s finally spoiled to death (or to the point of becoming a public embarrassment, whichever comes first).

Her faves to go on a double date with:

-Asra and Arya (@aryatheapprentice)

-Asra and Theo (@bitters-enthusiast)

-Nadia and Portia

-Oraeus and Portia (@bitters-enthusiast)

Sappy is the b e s t I love it

1) The best way to describe how Julianne feels when she sees Julian in the morning is warm. Whether she’s up before him (unlikely) or he’s up before her, the magician gets butterflies in her stomach every morning that she gets to see him. He’s usually bringing her coffee in bed if he’s up, but otherwise, just watching him completely asleep and at peace gives her a feeling of domesticity that she couldn’t have imagined before they’d gotten together.

2) Personality-wise, Julianne loves how kind and truly selfless Julian is. One of her greatest flaws is her inability to trust in people outside herself - ‘if I make a deal with someone, how will I know they’ll keep their end of the bargain?’ type of thing. But Julian, despite his dramatics, seems to genuinely want to help people with no expectation of anything in return. Even though his route is about Julianne teaching him to put his reckless self-sacrificing beside, she’s found that Ilya has taught her more than one thing about kindness and caring.