#cahal

Trilby: “It’s um … it’s really pretty but, um, also a ummm, a little chilly? And umm, this area…” 

Me: *Player/My Actions* Character Dialogue

Huh...symbolism.

Cool story bro.

Oh he's married and has a kid that's nice. And I'm gonna go ahead and call it; they're gonna kill one of them for plot.

A black what now?

I love how I can just grab someone and fucking yeet them out of existence.

Um, context please? Cahal: Five years ago... Ah, thank you.

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A simple little moodboard for @homesteadchronicles agriculture prompt! I though it’d be a good opportunity to introduce one of my side characters!

Cahal Ruane is the newest employee at The Den and was mentored by Cheshire and another courtesan named Petra. He doesn’t like to talk about his past but most know he’s a runaway from over the eastern mountains. From where exactly he won’t say.

But he loves to garden, squishing as many plants as he can into his room and balcony. The Madame even gave him reign over the courtyard to fill with flowers to his heart’s delight. Like most Marussians he keeps a small vegetable garden but he also grows a wide variety of herbs, most of which he uses for religious purposes.

Well,after the initial shock wore off… :-D

Back at the beginning ofthe journey, she’d had a dream (before magic tea even!) featuring a memory fromher infancy before being left at the temple - so it was vague impressions initself; she heard her mother’s singing voice and her father speaking Glanfathan, just before they left her at the temple. That helped to ease her past that initial shock, I guess: finding them wastotally unexpected, and yet they were already a tiny bit familiar. Of course,before she knew he was her father, Jarlath made the impression of, uh, takingher and her companions prisoner, so that was sort of awkward in retrospect. XDThat plus the stelgaer made her a little more hesitant around him at first.(Probably still, and him running off during that escort-to-prisoner-exchangepart of the journey isn’t gonna help.) 

Her first impression ofCeri is…like looking in a mirror that makes the colors way more vibrant thanin real life, and the image is also moving nonstop and just very perky. ButCeri was exceedingly welcoming and excited about meeting her missing sister. Dallooks forward to getting to know her, but with some trepidation because how does one person contain somuch energy? Plus Ceri has some preconceived notions about herlarger-than-life sister-of-stories that Dal is sure she’ll not live up to, sothat’s also awkward.

Herfirst impression of Zyanya was that her mother really, really regretted havinggiven Dal up all those years ago; there was much weeping and also much bustlinghospitality. Also, Dal is still wondering how she gets all those braids and beadsin place.

Herparents told Dal how they met and fell in love and why they had to give her up,unable to provide for a newborn when Jarlath was exiled from his tribe forconsorting with a foreigner and couldn’t find work in the Dyrwood as a wildorlan, and her first impression was to accept that and forgive them, seeing howmuch they regretted it. Plus part of her thinks they did the right thinganyway: she was content growing up in the temple. (There’s just a seed ofresentment, though, and we shall see if it grows as she spends more time withher family, that her parents managed to be settled enough not to give up hersiblings when they were born, but she really hasn’t given that muchthought so far.)

Lastof all, her first impression of Cahal is that…he doesn’t seem very happy with beingreleased from Dyrwoodan prisoner-of-war into her custody, whether that’sanything to do with her or with her insistence that, on their father’sorders, he doesn’t need to return to fighting for Waidwen. But she’s spent allof like ten minutes in the same room with him so far, so we’ll see what happensin their epilogue. :-D