#runictrolls

OKAY, SO LET’S GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY: Pheres’s willingness to forgive characters of their bad behaviour largely relies on if he thinks they’re hot or not.

Unfortunately, Jerath does not his his standards at all.

Pheres thinks he’s a cerulean who’s trying to raise above his station by pulling rank on him. He’s proud of Videle for managing to become matesprits with a blueblood, but his constant thoughts, towards Jerath, could be summarised as “she could do better” - he is a caste that’s scraping the bottom of the barrel of acceptable blue hues, trying to act like he’s navy.

His aggression, his terseness, Pheres’s perception of him as condescending and threatening all set him at edge. I forget if Pheres actually knows that Jerath is a raider, but that would not add to his opinion, unfortunately. Dude does not want to be in a room with Jerath right now. He doesn’t even particularly want to be in the same building.

Ask Prompt: Draw the OTP! Send an ask with a letter+number.

–okay what the fuck dude

–f-rst of all, /’m hemoanon spec-f-cally because my bloodcolor shouldn’t m a t t e r and / don’t really want to tell you–but second of all, l-ke, that’s so unor-g-nal? srsly that’s the best “mean quest-on” you could do, lmao

–look /’ll tell you th-s much–my blood’s warmer than the empress’s and cooler than the S-gnless Sufferer’s, okay?

–oh what, you want the hexcode?–f-ne, -t’s [CENSORED FOR NARRATIVE REASONS]

| Hm | ? |

| Well | No | Don’t Tell Emerel | Haha | But | Ah | There’s Nothing to Really Distinguish Them from Olives | Is There | ? | The Assignment of Jades to the Caverns is an Arbitrary One | They may be Rare | But They’re not Exactly a Unique Caste | in Anything Save for Their Gender Ratios |

@runictrolls

Next time your ancestors need somebody’s teeth busted in? They can grow some limbs back and do it their own damn selves. It’s cold as a seamonster’s tit out here, and the greenie’s blood is drying into an itchy mess on your shirt.

You’re looking for a stream to wash up in, when the white trees catch your eye. They’re hard to miss. Trees mean water, so you veer on in. Sure, the sun-bleached look is weird and probably ominous, but you’ll be damned if you’re going to use the last of your canteen to rinse off. Maybe some trees are just white out here. You’d think yourself into an early grave if you worried too much about all of nature’s quirks.

The further in you go, though, the less you’re thinking this is natural. Because it is nothing but white trunks and needles in here, for trees. There are weird things, to, dangling from the branches. Definitely troll-made. And there’s… is that a ceramic grub?

You almost trip over it. Once your realize what it is, you have to stop and laugh. Some of the wary tension in your spine relaxes. The little knick-knack is so out of place, it has got to be a punchline. Somebody’s obviously gone way above and beyond to try make this place as creepy as possible.

@runictrolls

It's finally starting to get warm out and you couldn't be happier about it, as nice and bearable as the days have been in the cold season, there's something about the warmer seasons' days that you love. It reminds you of being a kid, scaring your lusus by running out into places you didn’t need to be, and of staying out when the other kids had to either go back inside or risk serious injury.

Sipara honestly thinks Fettle is pretty fucking admirable. She has a lot of respect for her, and if she wasn’t having to deal with her semi-frequently, she’d probably think of her a lot more fondly. She’s a lowblood CEO who’s climbed her way to the top. That’s fucking amazing.

As is, they have some basic personality conflicts at a core level, especially after the Yule Ball. Sipara has the reoccuring problem that, to achieve the sort of flaming dumpster disaster she enjoys in pitch, she’s hooking onto possessive people. She’s just started to realise that Fettle falls into that camp - but the thing is, she can’t deal with it the way she usually would.

She likes Fettle. Fettle’s smart, and pretty, and would be fun in a fight.. but she’s also not a fighter, in any sense that Sipara can respect, and every time Fettle gets het up, Sipara thinks of maiming Pheres and Riccin, then promptly backs down. Fettle’s even mild show of possessiveness has freaked her the fuck out, because she has no idea how to handle that in what’s supposed to be a business arrangement.

She likes Fettle a lot, in a hate-friendship way. But she isn’t actually romantically inclined towards her, she’s bored of being even in a fake relationship, and she has no idea of how to break it off, or what Fettle wants from it and her - so, for once in her life, Sipara’s just being flat-out fucking avoidant. Keep her head down, don’t cause trouble with Fettle, and swing hardcore back into the pitch-fling lifestyle that she’s always had.