#kai things

He got right up in my ear, and said in the flattest, yet somehow sternest tone: "Take. A. Break."

The context? I was playing Dynomite for two hours straight. Needless to say, I'm now taking a break.

And yes: I almost screamed.

Tagged by @josiehastings

Instructions: Fill out the questions about your muse, repost don’t reblog, and tag as many people as you want.

Kairielle Lerathien - Introvert, Bookworm, Huntress, Alchemist.

1) What does your muse smell like? Depending on which of her pasttimes she's locked herself away with, there's equal chance she could smell of earthy fresh herbs, medicinal potions or the musty dust that tends to cover ancient tomes.  Fresh from a bath, she smells faintly of orange blossoms.

2) How often does your muse bathe/shower? Daily.  She's not overtly concerned with her appearance, but there's just something about being covered with muck or blood that she finds incredibly distasteful.  

3) Does your muse have any tattoos or piercings? She does.  Her ears are pierced at the lobes and several times along the length of the cartilage.  She also has a myriad of ink, ranging from the horde symbol atop one of her feet to a large, very personal collage of wildflowers climbing her side.

4) Any body movement quirks (e.g. tapping heel, shaking knee)? Kai is terrible at hiding her emotions, even when she's silent.  She tends to pinch the bridge of her nose or worry at her lower lip.  She also digs the toe of her boot into the ground when she's embarrassed.

5) What do they sleep in? Generally her smallclothes or an oversized shirt.  

6) What’s their favorite piece of clothing? Pauldrons.  Kai generally adopts a less is more mentality when it comes to armor, but there's just something about ornate pauldrons that really appeal to her.

7) What do they do when they wake up? Eat breakfast, likely while reading.  Get dressed for the day, depending on the plans.  Head out to herbalize or into the city for supplies.

8) How do they sleep? Position? On her stomach, hands tucked beneath the pillows.

9) What do their hands feel like? Much to her prissy sister's dismay, Kai's hands are definitely those that have seen hard work.  Calloused from practicing with her bow and working with potions and herbs, fingertips often stained from various flower pigments.

Once, there was a maiden...

Who ran away, and all evils in the world followed in her footsteps

She ran away from famine

She ran away from plague

She ran away from armies

She ran, and not even once she looked back.

Finally, the evils caught up to her

She was starving in rags

She was struck with sores

She was a pale witness to war

She stood up, and looked into her tormentor’s eyes,

She saw nothing she didn’t know.

“Violence is inescapable...

So if anyone wants to plot with Kai they have that to deal with. He has a six year old son.

AMBITION

You have a strong sense of potential and an intense drive to accomplish difficult things. The core of this is your ability to hold together the big goals and the daily efforts. Where other people’s hopes collapse when they encounter the tedium of the journey, you keep coming back. Oddly, it is actually your ability to endure feeling unheroic that counts. You know the power of working away solidly on what’s in front of you.

INDEPENDENCE

You don’t set out to be different for its own sake; you are more easily guided by what interests and moves you. You are more concerned about what is right for you than about the pressure to fit in. In sex you are more aware than others of impulses which are not entirely conventional. You know the value of selective irresponsibility, of forgetting occasionally about being ‘good’.

SHYNESS