#notyourranger

asmodeus: on whom do you want revenge and how would you take it?

Ophelia’s eyes gained a dark color. “On who? On a… somebody, who thought he had a right to hurt many. Badly. Including me.” Her lips curved in a light smirk, that was anything but friendly or even pleasant. “I feel justified to hurt him as much as he did hurt me. Unfortunately… we are kind of similar, I fear… And while I despise the mere thought of that…”

Her cruel smile only widened.

“…I know, what he wants the most. And I know, how to take that from him. I gave him the first taste of what’s to come. Fitting punishment, I believe.”

lix tetrax: if you could travel by wind, where would you go?

Their first meeting was positively unforgettable for both sides. Ophelia wanted to make small talk with him and act friendly and flirty, and then he said his famous first line "If I wanted a wench, I'd go to the local brothel!" and turned back to his drink.

Ophelia blinked, smiled, took off her lute from her back and crashed it on his head.

Rhiannon: Have you ever been betrayed?

Ophelia smiles. Horribly. It is a cold, cruel smile. Her light eyes suddenly gain a darker shade and they are resembling more a poison than emeralds.

Dear Bishop,

I don’t understand you and your motives. And frankly speaking, I do not bother to try to understand anymore. You’re not a human, you’re a mad, insufferable, constantly furious flea-covered scoundrel, which should be killed at the very first opportunity. You bark at and bite others, ready to rip off their throats for your own, sick satisfaction. You’re nothing but a cold-blooded mass murderer… In a way, you’re not any better than Lorne or Luskans. Ember or Redfallows Watch - all the same, Bishop, all the same.

You betrayed not only me – to Hells with me – you betrayed us all when we needed you the most. Do you think it surprised me? No, idiot. I’d seen that coming a long time ago. You were so predictable, egoistic son of a bitch. Do you think I was furious? Hurt? No. I was glad. Glad because you finally showed to them, who you are. And I knew that they would finally let me what I wanted to do a long time ago.

Let me make something clear: the fact that you are still walking free with occasional limbs, bruises and broken bones when I have the misfortune of accidentally walking into the same room when you’re in it, all this is not a sign of my mercifulness or poor memory. I wait, Bishop. Wait for the perfect moment and for a pretext you will surely grant me, and soon. Death is so simple, so trivial… besides, since my friend Kaelyn tore down the Wall of The Faithless, that kind of punishment isn’t adequate anymore. So I have another idea. Oh, you’re going to like it.

You thought that my good heart is a sign of inability to be cruel? I always knew you were an idiot.

One day, Bishop. Enjoy breathing while you can.

♙: Character my Muse hates.

Bishop. Ophelia deeply detest his cruelty, his philosophy of survival and egoism. Ironically, they are similar – they are both fixated on their sense of freedom, both ignore rules, both think that it’s the best to count on their own abilities. But all this, instead of bringing them closer to each other, just deepens the hate.

For my bard, Bishop is what she could have turned into if she had taken her sense of personal freedom too far, to the point of making it an excuse to hurt others. According to the page of NwN2 wiki, a deleted content made Bishop a Harborman, just like Ophelia, and for him, she is an example of what he could have been, if he had made different decisions in life. They are basically mirror images that ended on the two opposite endings of the same tale – one as a hero, one as a villain.

Ophelia understands that, but she has no mercy for Bishop, especially not after his betrayal during the siege of the Keep. She believes everyone is fully responsible for their choices, especially if they are free to do them – and by her logic, Bishop turned himself into a monster, not by betraying her, but much earlier, in the day he decided to burn his home village. He made a choice and now he has to life with the consequences. And one day he’ll pay for all evil he has done, for endangering her people and her friends – and for every single soul killed in Redfallows Watch. And by ‘pay’, I don’t mean death. The only reason, why Bishop still lives here, in RP canon, is because Ophelia considers death to be too merciful for him. She wants to literally break him, rid him off the one thing he values most in his life – his freedom. In her eyes, there is no crueler punishment and Bishop deserves just that.

Ugh, that’s disgusting!

Why would I want to think of Bishop killin’ me and eatin’ me corpse, suckling on me toes like some delicacy? Tis thoughts best kept for the ravenous undead, like zombies and vampires.

Khelgar reads the parchment before looking up.