#waitingrose

All kinds! That goes from listening to it, to dancing, to singing and playing it himself. He hasn’t found anything he dislikes yet.

( Doing one for each as there wasn’t a specified muse. )Rathorin: “Currently there’s quite the annoyance holding me back, but, with the help of my sister-in-law, I’m working on a solution. Other than that…? Not so much. It’s a fairly normal life and most things I want or need I find a way to get it.”Kona: “Absolutely not! There used to be. I had a break up that went pretty bad, but we patched things up and now I have a friend that’s helping me get past all that.”Cyrus: “Hm, I guess you could say so? I’ve been having a lot of issues with the Immortal Flames lately. I had my squad taken from me because I did more harm than good. I suspect I’ll be asked to step out of the Flames eventually which may or may not put me in a predicament.”L’ander: “My sister! She’s so over protective and frustrating! I’m thirteen and she still treats me like a little kid. I mean…I guess I am, but…that’s not the point! I might be planning on getting into a little bit of trouble against her wishes with this girl I know. It should be a bunch of fun!”Thanks for the ask! @waitingrose

GASP OMG THANKS SO MUCH ;W;

3: Games - Because I’m an epic nerd and played Halo for the story. The very first video game I played was paperboy on a commodore 64 back in the day. It was a terribly frustrating game, to the point I think Dark Souls might actually be easier, but it sparked a love of games. Since then I’ve played everything from obscure jrpgs, to mainstream shooters and a swathe of genres inbetween. The most prevalent being MMOs of course, because the social and mechanical aspect of them just draws me in every time I play them. Without video games, sure I’d probably be a bit more productive, but I wouldn’t have made the wonderful friends I have or find so much enjoyment from spare time.2: Friends - My nerdy ass friends are a constant source of lols and good times. I’ve had any number of chats with each of them, some I’ve been lucky enough to keep over the years, and some who’ve fallen out of touch as time passed. With each one though my life has been enriched and made better for having them. @catraenablazewing and @adilynia are the zaniest people I know and have been amazing because they are amazing people and if you don’t already give their pages a follow because their talents for writing are stellar. But beyond that they’re phenomenal nerds in general and if I don’t slap my face once a day from the crap jokes we trade it’s been a really off day.1: The Cat “Baby” - The little asshole of a fuzzball we call Baby who is both amazing, and infuriating. She’s the sort that’ll ignore you all day but the moment you walk by the treats she’s right there chatting up a storm like you’re old friends catching up over tea. Like a typical cat she wants affection, but only as long as she wants it then you need to fuck off. But I wouldn’t trade a thing in the world for her. Happy to have the jerk around, even if just for the way she likes to sleep on my chest and try and nom my glasses when she thinks she can get away with it.

“Keep them safe.”The last three words Seranah said to him before she perished, and the words that’ve both inspired and haunted him since. She was the one that always kept him safe from Aenlandrin’s wrath, and sometimes from Eri’s jabs though those were almost always joking in some fashion. She shielded him from their father’s incessant tutelage and cruelty towards them, especially near the end of his life when his mind began to slip. He’s never forgotten them, and in a way those words are the reason he is where he is today. Because everything he’s done, every choice, every battle and every decision, has been to keep ‘them’ safe. But the ‘them’ she mentioned has grown from their family, to a much broader spectrum because the longer he’s served, the more Denlandis has come to realize that he has to look beyond his own family. 

In a world of things that people forgot or lost, Dorian was one of the rare few that couldn’t. Even if he wanted to he’d always had a compulsion to keep the scraps of a puzzle even if it had been thrown against a wall and scattered to a million pieces. So when he found a file, her file, he knew the first thing that would meet his eyes would be her face.“Velest...”Rare it was to hear the Shadow whisper another’s name, and even more so with such an almost reverent tone. His form drew down into the simple wooden chair beside his oak desk, the finish freshly applied and smoothed over. With a sigh the folder was to the edge while he plucked the photo free and stared down at her beautiful face. The slip of cloth drawn from his face, and the hood tucked back let her see him for the first time. A face she would never see.“You were a trial....my trial...both the easiest and hardest I have had to bear since her passing....you will never know how much alike you are. Your softness, your generosity, your unflagging courage even standing before the horrors of the world...you would have liked her, and she you. I wish...I wish I could have stayed, and been more for you. Been...more than just your Shadow. There were a thousand things I wanted to tell you that evening by the lake, a thousand truths I won’t even tell myself. You don’t know how hard it was to leave you there, with them...with him. I visit now and then, you’ve almost caught me twice now, but I’ve gotten good at avoiding your keen eye when once I’d have stepped into the light at your faintest whisper...I know that you’re safe...that you’re...happy, and that’s enough. It will always be enough, but....I miss you. Terribly...”Another sigh blasted the air before the picture was hastily shoved back into the folder. A twist of the latch on his side drawer sprung it open, and her file was tucked away, one of only five others in that unique space. As the harsh sound of metal latching broke the silence, and left him with no other sound but its echo and his own thoughts his eyes shut to the world. He filed it away, like everything else, and moved on.