#cloudryad

What if oropher didn’t die in the battle of the last alliance but just used the opportunity to fake his death and escape with his wife and go on an extended honeymoon and leave all the damn paperwork and diplomacy with the noldor/sindar to his poor son.

Thranduil, when his father is finally waking up after getting many fatal injuries during battle: Ada!! Everyone thought you were gonna die!

Oropher, pausing when his son’s words registered: Everyone?

Thranduil, as he watches in disbelief as Oropher bolts away from him with a few supplies: Ada WAIT! DON’T LEAVE ME TO DEEL WITH THEM!

Oropher: don’t worry son, i’m sure you’ll do great!

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Gil-galad: where is king oropher?

Thranduil, a petty lil bitch that will get back at his father: unfortunately, my my father king passed after suffering many grievous injuries during the last battle.

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Oropher, coming back from his long vacation in the third age: i’m dead? Nobody told me.

Thranduil: that’s what you get for abandoning me to those elves.

So cloudryad tried to teach her kids her name except “cloudryad” is not beginner friendly, the elflings shortened it to “dyadya” as that was the easiest to phonetically pronounce, and the other elves, mainly silvans, ended up adopting that without knowing it’s origins

Elladan: it must have sucked having your grandpa die in battle when you were young.

Legolas: Hm?

Legolas: Oh, not that.

Legolas: Grandfather stole the last slice of Grandmother Cloudryad’s favorite pie before he left for the war.

Elladan:

Cloudryad, through her tree telepathy: go back and get the twin peredhels

Oropher:… what?

Cloudryad: GO BACK AND GET ELURED AND ELURIN, DORIATH HAS BEEN RAIDED FOR A SECOND TIME AND THEY’VE BEEN ABANDONED IN THE SNOW. GO. GET. YOUR. NEPHEWS!

Hell, Oropher and his wife, Cloudryad, lived apart for almost 4000 years, the entirety of the time Oropher was in Doriath, because they disagreed on how much they should get involved with the ainur.

And when Oropher came back, their relationship was still as steady as a rock.

It’s not that their solitary creatures. In fact, most of them are rather extroverted, it’s just that they don’t need to constantly maintain their relationship with each other in order to have a good relationship.

In fact, while Lasgen tends to stick to her home base most of the time, her wife, Oasis, is very much a wanderer that travels all over the globe, doing what she will, and it’s not that uncommon for her to only come back once every few decades. Though there are definitely times they spend years together without fail.

Kleoyia and Legolas also have a more nomadic life style, which is partially due to their jobs. Kleoyia travels all over the get information, and legolas is sent everywhere where there’s a problem that needs fixing.

Lirion will only travel somewhere if it’s necessary for whatever he’s experimenting with at the time, and Thranduil might as well be one with the forest, for all that he does not leave unless it’s for political reasons.

Cloudryad looks so small, but she’s one of the only ones to have a normal height.

Oropher is a tall boy, and only slightly shorter than his nephew elwe.

Miriel and thranduil are identical twins, except thranduil’s trans so of course they’re the same height.

Lasgen somehow being the exact height of her father was interesting.

Lirion got some of those oropher genes, though not enough to break 7ft.

Kleoyia’s still resonably tall for most people, but she’s on the shorter side of the family.

Untill someone says smth along the lines of “elleths can’t/shouldn’t fight”

And he just:

Legolas: ya’ll know that the first ever elf, and i mean back at lake cuivienen, not feanor’s rediscovery, to forge a sword, to creat one is an elleth, right? Like, that’s not a secret.

Sexist: *splutters* p-proove it.

Legolas: well, for one said elleth is still alive and kickong and vicious to boot. For another, ask literally any elf that was an adult back then and they’ll tell you the exact same thing, and 3rd. Said elleth’s bloodline has consistently produced battle maniac elleths who are on the short list not to fuck with.

Legolas: like i said, it’s common knowledge. It’s not my problem if you didn’t so much as ask.

Legolas: you know it’s even more ironic that you aparently don’t know bc said elleth is Miriel Therinde’s mother, and is most known for her Hinryo Muta Swords, and for her contribution to the Goko’li weapons.

Arwen: …. Wait, you said that all the elleth’s fem ofspring are battle maniacs-

Legolas: *sees a group of elves do something less than steller*

Legolas: you know, sometimes i wonder why my grandfather felt the need to try and destroy the world. Or at least all the elves-

Legolas: and then i see things like this and i get it.

Elrond, on the way to break it up: *splutters* i’m sorry, Oropher tried to do what?!? When!? I don’t remember this!