#endless rambles

Here it is: what kind of narrator are you?

Hi hello yes! I think this was a perfect ask to come up with the part I am in life/writing fanfic!

As you know, it’s been, uh, a while since I updated the latest installment of hextech house. Most likely I’ll get back to posting it when the new season comes out and the spark is back but for now! I’ve been playing around with other drabbles and fandoms.

My best advice for fledgling writers though? Keep posting fics you want to read. It doesn’t matter if they’re bad or they’re not this Shakespearean masterpiece you had in your head. If you want to read them, then that’s all a story ever needs right? Someone that wants to tell it and someone that wants to read it.

Even if I’m currently taking a break from writing, I still go back and read my own work. I see my old mistakes and typos and I fix it up cause your work is yours to transform and create into something you love.

So go out and make those fics! Do what feels right and the more fics you make the better it gets!

Elrond is older, this means that he gets to tease his brother about going grey before him, and Elros gets to tease him about taking so so long to settle down, and he does use this to torture/distract councilors and nobles he doesn't want to deal with. Oh he'd love to have that meeting, but unfortunately he's so worried about his poor wayward older brother who just can't seem to find the right person! (Elrond has received letters and marriage propositions whenever Elros feels particularly chaotic). And obviously this means that Elrond gets to watch his younger brother grow old and die! That was always going to be painful, but there's an added something about Elros being just a little younger for their entire lives until he dies and then the gap just keeps getting larger and larger. Elrond used to roll his eyes and say "oh it's only a few minutes", now there comes a point where he has to count their age difference in centuries

The reverse where Elros is older, this one has the advantage that the initial stages of Elros choosing mortality feels very natural actually! Of course he's going grey first, getting married first, having children etc... And it just makes sense when Elrond visits and Elros starts fussing over him. I'm a firm believer that regardless of their age difference, Elrond used to follow his brother around like a little duck when they were kids, and that habit follows them (in a slightly more dignified manner) into their adult years. But then Elros dies, and it's awful and painful but again, he's the older one so he always went everywhere first. Then one day Elrond wakes up in the middle of the night in Imladris (his own twins are just babies at this point and will not sleep through night no matter what) and realizes he's now older than his older brother.

Oh I would write this in a full fairy tale style I think. Arwen Undómiel and her eight ghosts that follow her around telling her stories, protecting her from harm, and giving snarky commentary throughout her life.

It starts when she's very little (at least from what she can remember), she's playing by a stream in the forest and a strange person with silver hair is teaching her how to call out to the birds. He seems nice, even though he keeps his distance, and he promises to give her some archery lessons when she's a bit older.

Then there's the one with the freckles who is always there to comment on what her sewing teachers get wrong (a lot apparently), and who guides her hand when her stitches get a little crooked. It's obvious how fond of her he is, even when sighs in frustrating (which is often). He also tells her stories. Her favorite is of the woman with steel in her veins and a tongue sharp enough to make the most dangerous of warriors blush! He gets a little quiet when telling that one sometimes, and centuries later he congratulates her on her wedding day and she could swear she'd never seen him smile so brightly before.

The twins are her favorite playmates when she's young (and when she's older too, they get up to so much mischief even when she's queen of Gondor). She used to be jealous of her brothers for being such a matched set (and it didn't help that they liked to do everything together), so this felt like getting a second set of brothers that would pay attention to her. And they're the ones that listen best when she's arguing with her parents, or worrying about whether Estel likes her the same way she likes him or not, and even during the war they stay by her side and make sure she has someone to talk to.

There are two dark haired ones who keep criticizing the smiths in Imladris, and they also keep rolling their eyes at Elrond's insistence she cannot have a sword (Elrond had barely wanted his sons to take up the sword, Glorfindel had taught them behind his back. Much like those two ghosts will teach Arwen. Yes, there's something about habits being hard to break and the cycle of violence). Though that's not the only thing they teach her. Arwen's talent for winning every game of Arda Scrabble is notorious and a little scary.

The redheaded one with all the scars is far more distant than the rest. He keeps watch over the roads when she travels, and stands guard by the door of whatever room she's in. But when she's crying or has a nightmare, he sits by her said and braids her hair. Sometimes he calls her granddaughter.

(I lied when I said it was eight ghosts. But two years after her coronation a bard comes asking for work at the court. He never takes his hood or his gloves off, but his songs are the loveliest things anyone born in the last two ages ever heard. Awfully familiar too, sometimes Arwen could almost swear they were lullabies from her youth)