It's fair to say that pretty much every day is G'raha Tia day in Humble's world...
With my sincerest thanks to @amalthea-felsblood for the beautiful gposes above - I still get slightly emotional looking at them.
And thank you to everyone who encouraged me to go for it and try creating my very own Wolship - and to even try writing about it as well :)
I hoping to continue having fun portraying their developing relationship - and if anyone else happens to enjoy it then I would be even happier (and very honoured).
And finally a big thank you to @wolgrahaweek for hosting the event and giving me the kick up the backside that I needed to finally move things forward for my boy.
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Humble felt that he ought to learn as much as possible about the man with whom he was falling in love, even though the idea of actually admitting this openly still felt utterly terrifying.
His own heritage seemed fairly straightforward by comparison. His people had always lived in the mountains around Farreach, except for the bit before that when they hadn't.
In contrast, G'raha Tia was a Seeker of the Sun, a Sharlayan Archon, a Corvosian exile and, in some sort of complicated way that Humble still didn't entirely understand, a member of the Allagan Royal Family.
Deciding he had to start somewhere, Humble had resolved to begin by learning all he could about Seeker of the Sun culture and how they approached matters of the heart.
From what he had gleaned of traditional Seeker of the Sun culture, largely through his interactions with the M Tribe of Gyr Abania and the U Tribe of the Sagoli, their society was focussed around males who defeated other males in combat and then lots of females agreed to follow them and then they got to change their name from Tia to Nunh.
Humble wasn't exactly sure what a "harem" was, but it sounded quite crowded. He also wasn't at all sure how he would feel about sharing G'raha with twenty or so Miqo'te women - or exactly what the sleeping arrangements would be if he did.
Not that G'raha had ever given any indication that he was inclined towards that sort of thing, but Humble didn't want to make any assumptions, cultural or otherwise. Perhaps some Seeker of the Sun males had harems of other men and that's actually what G'raha would want, but the thought didn't really make him feel any better. In fact it felt worse somehow.
He also didn't think G'raha Nunh sounded as pretty as G'raha Tia, but he supposed he could get used to it.
It didn't help that his efforts to educate himself further on the finer points of Seeker culture were stymied somewhat by his rudimentary reading skills - especially as the only books he'd been able to find in The Noumenon had been weighty anthropological tomes with very few pictures and a lot of complicated punctuation.
He wondered if G'raha would tell him if he was going to go off to engage an existing Nunh in single combat and if he'd be allowed to help. He glumly supposed that it would probably be rather missing the point for soneone else to go wading into that sort of fight, but then again he couldn't bear the thought of anyone hurting him...
Not that G'raha had ever given any indication of wanting to fight anyone for a harem in the desert, but perhaps he'd just been too polite to mention it... Or perhaps Humble himself was actually getting in the way of G'raha's true destiny as a harem-having patriarch... Maybe he'd been stupid to imagine that...
Humble could feel his anxiety rising.
"Pack it in!" He told himself, as sternly as he could manage. "You be making up stories when you don't be knowin' all the facts!"
Perhaps, he reflected, he'd been going about it all the wrong way - trying to build a picture from information out of books he could barely read and half-remembered conversations with people who lived several thousand malms away from where G'raha had actually grown up.
There was nothing for it, he realised, but to ask the man himself.
Isn't that Wuk Lamat's companion? Over there, with the big axe?
I thought the Landsguard frowned on people carrying weapons openly in the streets?
Well he's a compatriot of the Vow of Resolve and the Vow of Reason both, so I bet that doesn't apply to him. Plus I hear he was instrumental in putting an end to the threat from Zoraal Ja and those murderous metal soldiers, so the city owes him a great debt of gratitude.
Who's that he's with then?
Some Hhetsarro scholar from across The Salt apparently. A powerful mage too, at least that's what people were saying.
I think they must be saying farewell then. They're getting a boat ready from what I can see.
Well I heard that they've fought alongside each other many times, so they probably have some kind of warrior's bond. You know, brothers in arms, that sort of thing.
I don't think they are.
You don't?
No - take a look at that.
Wha.... Oh. They're... er... er...
Kissing?
Sweet Hanu feathers! I didn't realise... I mean nobody told me...
Well why would anyone go telling the likes of you the business of the Vow of Resolve's ally? Anyway they seem happy enough, I think it's nice. He even knelt down to do it. That's actually really sweet - it must be tricky being so much taller I imagine.
Hey I was just surprised! I didn't mean anything bad. It's just I don't know much about that sort of thing, that's all.
How long did it take your OC to trust their lover or spouse? If they actually trust them at all of course…
For Humble :3
Humble is naturally very trusting - sometimes to a fault - and it didn't take him long at all to trust G'raha Tia as a friend, even after all the things that were kept from him during his time in The First (which Humble could sort of see the reasons for, even if he didn't completely approve).
To trust him enough to allow himself to be vulnerable and confess - or at least demonstrate - his romantic feelings, well that took much much longer. Mostly because Humble found it hard to believe that someone so clever and beautiful would ever entertain, for a single moment, the affections of a clumsy oaf like himself.
