#rapheus

Their camp was decimated after that and their medical supplies destroyed so Wilkes took it upon himself to set Rapheus' leg and try to heal it. This is a really difficult thing to do because Lizardfolk legs are a little like horse legs, in that when something happens to them its best to amputate or kill the ailing lizard, due to how delicately they're constructed. Wilkes knew if he amputated, he would likely be sentencing Rapheus to death because of everything that was going on and having no medical supplies, so as much as Rapheus asked him to (so Wilkes wouldn't have to carry on worrying about him) he didn't, and eventually the leg healed, but it was never right after that.

He now uses a cane to get around and while his fighting days were brief, they were enough for him and he was just glad to make it out of the war alive. Wilkes however, felt horribly guilty about everything and vowed to help him find a situation after the war. Rapheus declined, not wanting to be a burden on the newly made war hero, and returned home, much to Wilkes disappointment.

Eventually, Rapheus leaves home after discovering a love of botany, and wants to study plant-life across Oepus. He ends up traveling around a great deal before settling down in a small village called Obereyes in the March of Mern. The March of Mern is a location that is routinely attacked by pirates and one day, during a raid conducted by the Mirage, Rapheus meets Wilkes again, this time as Fay's Quartermaster. They obviously don't take his stuff and while Wilkes offers him a place on board the Mirage, Rapheus doesn't take it.

They meet several more times there and one day, Wilkes introduces him to Fay, and she ends up taking quite an interest in him. He shares with her his background as a printmaker and amateur botanist, but she is particularly interested in how well made his maps are. So interested in fact, that she kills her existing cartographer and hires Rapheus to replace him. Since then, he sails with them, not fighting but studying his plants and making his maps. He never says it, but part of the reason why he didn't deny Fay when she offered him the job (despite knowing his fate might be the same one day if she ever found a better mapmaker than him) is because he wanted to absolve Wilkes of his guilt from what happened all those years ago.

Goes on the hay ride and returns covered in straw?

Fay at the urging of Wilkes who really just wants to use it as an excuse publicly cuddle his wife. Little does he realize that her long wavy hair is very efficient at collecting hay 😅

Gets lost in the maze and has to be rescued?

Mariel LOL. She has a very bad sense of direction and at some point would probably give up and cry until she was found. Axtapor is the one that goes to get her and probably wrecks the maze in the process while also yelling at the poor dude running the attraction.

Shows up in a Halloween costume?

Probably Axtapor and only because Mariel said to dress seasonally and nothing else. He's technically not wrong but also not right haha.

Makes a beeline for the pumpkins and spends the entire time choosing the perfect one to carve?

Rapheus. He has a very intense interest in botany and would totally obsess over finding the perfect pumpkin!

Finds somewhere to wait and jumpscare the others?

[REDACTED] - "He has been freed."

[REDACTED] - "The Consumption continues to rot her body-"

Fay - "He was everything, you bastard!"

Mariel - “I suppose I was afraid too. I felt as though I’d heard something I shouldn’t have.”

Mariel - “Why can’t he come with me?”

Wilkes - “I think it’s best if you stop talking.”

[REDACTED] - “I see a camp. Riders. Knights. And I count three souls.”

Axtapor - “I nay be goin’ anyplace, wee thin’.”

Fay - “I want it all.”

Axtapor - “Then it nay matters to me how they be lookin’. Long as ye see me with love in the eyes, nary else matters, ey?”

Thelma-Louise - “Who are you?”

Mariel - “No, it’s just…I’ve always had to bear things like this on my own. I’m glad I don’t have to anymore.”

Axtapor - “Will right the sails. Catch the wind right strong.”

Fay - “Have you considered that I don’t want to come back to you?!”

Satoyev - “Speak the names and we shall feast in the way only the sea can.”

Axtapor - “Need to tie off the schooner proper seein’ as we will no sail soon. Settle in, ey?”

Mariel - “Brave. Just like the knights from my youth.”

Satoyev - “And all you did was slink away like a bitch with her tail between her legs while you let that unworthy coward protect you.”

[REDACTED] - “One must steal in. A trick of the light…”

Axtapor - “Ye be my treasure, ye know that?”

Thelma-Louise - "You are as dimwitted as the Captain always said you were."

Mariel - “Things will be okay. You’ll see.”

Anise - “I didn’t know they were hiring girls like you now. I suppose everyone has their own taste, though. How much does he pay you?”

Fay - “Stop hiding and show me who you are. Show me what I paid for with my memories.”

Axtapor - “Then why be it feelin’ as we had a row?”

Fay - “Leave. I’m tired of looking at you.”

Mariel - “I have been wondering what the sky would look like without it.”

Mariel - “I no longer wish to run.”

Fay - “It’ll go like this…”

Rapheus - “Swift winds guide ye, sea carry ye, well and true.”

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From AASOAF 3 and a continuation from the snippet in this post:

“Aye then. Jace it be.” I replied, “Call me Oxlo. Nary need to be ‘milordin’’ me.” “Aye, aye, mi—” He struggled for a moment, unsure of what to do. “Nay make it hard on ‘im, sir. He been a boy.” Rapheus chided. I frowned. “Aye then. Milord it be…” The boy relaxed, and a smile crossed his features as he uttered a word of thanks to Rapheus in Tlaxlian. Despite disliking Jace’s address, it was the correct one. Sign enough that he was well aware of his own position in the social hierarchy even if we weren’t presently in the Empire...