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hard to be impressed in this world. living torches, sun-made men, brutes and speedsters, miracle workers revered above all, granted station and privilege ( and suffering, of course, but that was hardly specific ) beyond what the simplest could afford ⸻ no, there was not much that would earn kou's acclaim at all. least of which were the petty governmental squabbles the small council dealt with day in and day out. she's always been glad for her work: creating potions was like a dance, requiring a certain amount of flourish and the right steps; diagnosing people was like putting together a puzzle. intellectual and physical stimulation in measure, and while her clientele weren't always the brainiest lot, kou could at least ignore them.
❝ why would i want to hear what a snot-nosed noble is complaining about now? ❞ she scoffs, only lifting her eyes from the tome in her lap for the briefest of moments. she could figure out the answer herself; that it was a better way to kill time than reading the first thing she could pluck from the archives, especially when she realized by the third page in that the subject matter utterly bored her.
she was here first. ignored probably because she was so still and so quiet that she almost blended in with the furniture. the thought amuses kou. she had nearly made a game of it, wondering when it would take him to notice her presence. now, if only he had jumped when he realized. ❝ unless it was a sordid love letter. then, i suppose, i'm all ears. ❞
Starter: Open to anyone! Location: A Communal drawing room in the Keep.
He had only stopped to read a letter, pressed into his calm but one of the Hands runner boys. Small and wide eyed, like he wasn't sure that what he was doing was right and was only made more timid when Laurent scowled down at him with an irate 'What?. He scurried of the moment Laurent had taken the thing from him.
So here he was, standing in one of the long and lavish public drawing rooms, the eyes of long dead Kings and Queens watching him read about the lack of funds for another Divine led vampyr hunting squad.
Fucking....true God above, he thinks, those flame throwing maniacs would be the death of him one day. Pushy and picky and frustratingly needed as they were.
He folded the letter back up, tucking it into the leather bound Filofax he seemed to never be without. He was tying the thing back up, looping the throngs around and around before tucking the ends down, when he eventually realised he was not alone. Perhaps he never really had been.
Laurent, with all the slow deliberance of a big cat on the hunt, lowered his folder and straightened his stance. Though it was all for show of course. With his hip jutted out at an angle that accentuated the trim lines of his waist, and one foot balanced in front of the other to flash the higher than normal heel of his boot. Those eerily pale eyes though, were unwavering as he regarded the person carefully.
"Terribly unexciting news, I'm afraid." He says dryly. "-unless you're a spy, then it was most damning to some noble retch or the other. Would you like to read it?."
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bitter is sorrow, ate raw and often, poison that weakens and does not kill .
𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑰𝑪𝑺
name. amagai kou ⁄ 天海 江. nicknames. none … unless the prickly one or that bitch count. age. thirty2. birthday. november 11th, 99 AD. gender. cis woman. pronouns. she ⁄ her. orientation. bisexual.
𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺
father. amagai kenjiro ⁄ 天海 健士郎. † ryouse touma ⁄ 両瀬 徹真, step-father. mother. yambe tama ⁄ 山家 玉. siblings. amagai tba, younger sibling. ryouse tba, younger half-sibling. significant others. none. children. none. extended family. tba.
𝑷𝑯𝒀𝑺𝑰𝑸𝑼𝑬
height. 155 cm ( 5' 1" ). build. slight but strong, elegantly precise, a tough nut to crack. hair color. black. eye color. brown.
𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑶𝑵𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀
positive. driven, meticulous, focused. negative. uncompromising, critical, brusque. mbti. intj-a ( the architect ). enneagram. 8w7. temperament. choleric-sanguine. tropes. agent scully ⁄ arbitrary skepticism. defrosting ice queen. good is not nice. heroic neutral. insufferable genius. iron lady. sour supporter. references. shonda rhimes's cristina yang. madeline miller's circe. supergiant's demeter and hecate. gege akutami's gojo satoru and shoko ieiri.
𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝒀
you've always had poor timing. even as a baby this was true, born in the midst ( or, as it turns out, at the beginning ) of war. delivered to denizens of denya, you should have no complaints. your people are hearty and hardy, born and bred for battle. when others crawled, you would stand. when others walked, you would run. when others held their first wooden sword, you swung yours with purpose. but blades are not your specialty. neither are bows, your father's trade. it is your intellect that is sharpest, quick where your reflexes are lacking. not that this helps much at the age of four ( or is it five? ) when the war takes kenjiro the bowyer. mother remarries quickly ⸻ too quickly, some may say ⸻ and you are expected to move on with your life, even with the threat of bretov breathing down your neck for the first third of your life. you truly can't blame them, which must be the worst part of it all. if your neighbors were purposefully withholding demigods at the expense of your people, you'd wage war too. but clearly the divines aren't worth all the bloodshed, seeing as your father is one, and that hadn't saved him.
you have something to prove, and that makes you … unlikeable. because you're certain in your talent, more than happy to show off whenever possible, ever eager to improve ( because anyone who's ever said the sky's the limit just wasn't thinking high enough ), you have few friends. that's fine. it doesn't matter in the end, anyway. with the royal family recognizing your skill, you don't bother with anyone else's opinion. it's almost alchemy, they say of your poultices and salves and draughts and pills, how you can take the natural and work it into the divine. no need for a salvator if one of amagai's bitter, pulpy brews can soothe your ulcer in a day. you try not to rub it in anyone's face. that's not becoming of you, and one of the few lessons your father left you with before bretov had stolen him from you, is that one should always carry themselves with dignity and respect. you need no noble title to consider yourself a lady. but if someone catches you sneering behind a divine's back, they'd best not say anything ⸻ unless they're eager for you to pour a potion down their throat that will leave them voiceless for a week.
you know what your problem is. you care about nothing but the craft. your employers are blue blooded, and it's highborn coin that fills your coffers. some would kill to take your place and brush those immaculately dressed shoulders. but you're not just anybody. you're you, a cut above the rest. and despite your diminutive stature, above is truly how you see it all. there is no doubting that powers and gifts beyond mortal ken exist in this world. try as you might to convince yourself that there is no need for them anymore, the divine still exist. they flock to the academy, and then they take roost in the frigid north you once called home. your mother writes to you of new conscripts and forgets she's told you before that mandatory military service was how she met your father ( which is truly astounding, because you could've sworn she forgot about the man almost immediately after his murder ). you are a woman of science, and you have greater things to contend with than this. so when someone mentions the vampyr and fledgling beasts, you roll your eyes and write them off as fairy tales. what once was taken as truth before does not mean it is still true now. so when strange things occur, one could say that you are ⸻ for the first time in a long, long, long time ⸻ well and truly defenseless.
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TODA MARIKO and OCHIBA-NO-KATA SHŌGUN | 1.09 Crimson Sky
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ever since i was a little girl i always knew i wanted to be some sort of horrendous freak
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yes i’m a gatekeeper and a hater. i’m also God’s favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world
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