#FORGING THE CRUCIBLE.

[darby-rowe]

🗝₊˚⊹♡ — thinking of daughter of hephaestus!reader awkwardly trying to flirt with luke castellan

luke first approached you in need of a new sword after some child of ares completely shattered his old one.

at first, you were confused as to why luke chose you specifically. but after the initial confusion wore off, butterflies immediately flared up deep within your tummy when the realization hit. luke chose you.

of course, you tried to rationalize the decision. all the other hephaestus children who were on blacksmith duty clearly had busier workloads. you, on the other hand, had your schedule cleared.

but still... the way luke smiled so politely at you, spoke to you with a gentle respectfulness — you were almost convinced he was thinking of kissing you. almost.

usually, your clients would leave and come back when you were finished, but luke stayed and watched your every move. asking you questions, humming in agreement and nodding his head, keeping his eyes on you. the whole exchange had you on edge, but every time you cracked a joke and heard him laugh, your already tense muscles loosened up just a smidge.

luke watched in awe as you hammered the glowing metal into his desired shape. you made it look so easy, and you didn't even flinch when some of the sparks caught on your uniform.

"and this... doesn't hurt? like at all?" luke asked as you handled the metal forged from fire.

and all you could do was smirk at him, sweat appearing on your hairline. "not at all, pretty boy,"

you gulped as those words left your mouth, but luke didn't seem to mind as he let out a breathless chuckle and looked down and away. was he... blushing?

you took the nearly-finished piece and plunged it into the bucket of water sitting off to the side, hearing it sizzle and watching the water boil almost immediately.

"sounds like a benihana's!" you commented, voice raised over the sound of sizzling metal. your face burned as luke looked at you with confusion and your face fell. "you never... been to a benihana's before?" luke shook his head, and you wanted stick your head into the forging fires.

when you handed luke the finished product, his face immediately lit up. taking a step back, he began to test it out, and you watched with slightly parted lips as you took your front-row seat for luke's swordsmanship.

"this is incredible," luke said, genuinely. "thank you so much. you're a life-saver,"

before you could say anything else, luke was already off to who-knows-where, but not before he's stopped by a couple of aphrodite girls who began to ooh and ahh at his new toy. dressed in all pink, smelling like luxury and springtime.

you pressed your lips together tightly before forcing yourself to swallow down the lump in your throat.

no time to feel like shit about yourself. you have to get back to work.

series masterlist.

[tonirambles]

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Me, who’s never done anything remotely close to forging a knife before, watching Forged in Fire: YOURE GOING TO WATER QUENCH?!?! YOU DUMB FUCKING IDIOT!!

[blazeball]

replaced a nonstick pan today and i feel like the devil for throwingit away. i feel like i should melt it down. into an ingot

[a-h-mad-hish]

“Alchemy posed as a sacred science, whereas chemistry came into its own when substances had shed their sacred attributes.”

― Mircea Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

[gremlins-hotel]

[dndtreasury]

Redsmith Crucible Set

[monbons]

When you wonder if glass working was a lucrative career choice for a historical fic, and accidentally end up watching a one-hour lecture on the history of glass production in 17th and 18th century Britain.

Just me?

(The answer is yes, btdubs. Very much yes.)

[catboyazem]

That is the power of legacy. The Iron Lords who fought beside me are with me still. I light their braziers every night. So long as I remember them, they are never truly gone. One day, I too will fall, and someone else will tend my flame.

[darby-rowe]

🗝️ — forging the crucible

the hands who created the sword carefully watches the man who wields the sword...

_________ ׂׂૢ་༘࿐ daughter of hephaestus x luke castellan

blurbs, asks, etc under the cut... 𝜗𝜚

awkwardly flirting w/ luke ...

[oniongarlic]

Still so fucked my lesbian ass parents moved us to alberta in 2008

[a-vexually-transmitted-disease]

Saladin: Hey, you want some leftovers?

Shaxx: What's that?

Saladin: You've never had leftovers???

Shaxx: No, because I'm not a quitter.

[sangre]

this is a oc heaven blog first and a whatever the fuck else second

[daisychainsandbowties]

Babes are you sure it’s a good idea drinking energy drinks, they are linked to so many heart issues😥

ah but you see my heart is extra strong because of the whole atropine poisoning thing when i was six weeks old which means that boy… he can go up to 280 no problem 😌

[a-h-mad-hish]

“The Arabian scholar and mystic, Ibn Sina (980 - 1037), declared that 'romantic love (al'-ishaq) is not peculiar to the human species but permeates all things, heavenly, elemental, vegetable and mineral, and its sense is neither perceived nor known; it is rendered even more obscure by the explanations made to account for it.”

― Mircea Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

[pb-and-birds]

TIMELINE

This is going to be a series of posts detailing what I currently have for my setting's timeline. It isn't much currently