#blood harmony

[mrbexwrites]

OC 15 Questions

Tagged by @duckingwriting to answer some questions about my OCs.

Gently passing the tag onto: @queen-tashie @kaiafosterwrites @deanwax @writingamongther0ses @tate-lin and anyone else who would like to take up the mantle of the open tag!

(Sorry, this has been sitting my drafts for so long, and then in queue purgatory before it's even seen the light of day!)

I've done a couple of these for characters in Memento Mori, so figured it's time for a shift in focus to Blood Harmony.

Answering for Arnauld Beaufort, Mave's nemesis.

Are you named after anyone?

No

2. When was the last time you cried?

I haven't cried in a while. The last time would probably have been shedding a single tear over the rubble where I thought Mavis had died. A good opponent is hard to find.

3. Do you have kids?

I have over a thousand demons at my beck and call. They're hard enough to handle; I wouldn't add children to my workload. Unless you count Connor? He's not my biological son, but I look out for him nonetheless. He'd walk into traffic otherwise.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Moi? No. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, after all.

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

How short their lives are. When you live for several centuries, people come and go in the blink of an eye. Although, there are several mortals who have piqued my interest in them over the years. They leave lasting marks...mementos...

6. What’s your eye color?

Blue, like my mother's.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

I don't find movies to be particularly scary, being a demon.Happy endings are too contrived. I prefer psychological thrillers myself.

8. Any special talents?

I'm difficult to kill. Just ask Mavis; Hell knows she's tried hard enough.

9. Where were you born?

The province of Alsace in the Holy Roman Empire. Where I was born has been many countries over the years, and it's currently near Strasbourg, France.

10. What are your hobbies?

I've been many things over the centuries; a sell-sword, mercenary, politician, musician, smuggler, pirate...

I enjoy model ship making. I particularly revel in building windjammers and clippers for display in my library.

11. Have you any pets?

Would Mavis count if I compare her to a feral cat who continually tries to hunt me?

12.What sports do you play/have played?

Sword-fighting, jousting for a brief period, general marksmanship... I've tried my hand at badminton, but it's not for me. Any sport that involves a ball, apart from basketball; too undignified. I'm excellent at billiards.

13.How tall are you?

5'11" or thereabouts

13. Favorite subject in school?

I never went to school; my mother paid for private tutors for me. I enjoyed History the most. I've found, that over the centuries, it often repeats itself. Mortals often fail to learn from their mistakes, but I've lived long enough to see the patterns, know what is coming, and can then avoid the worst of the fallout. You just have to look at my portfolio to know just how good I am as a student of history.

14.Dream job?

Benevolent Dictator, which I suppose I already am, as the head of a law firm. I'd just like to expand my reach from the moral realm, in the infernal!

[myawesomemixtape]

I'll be lying awake counting all the mistakes I've made, replaying fights

I LOST A FRIEND, FINNEAS

[alicerenee]

did you look like mine? or did we look like fools tryna get away with it all?

- finneas

[tam--lin]

This song is everything my sapphic southern heart needed.

[octoberconstellation]

when I been thinking too much and it’s ruined my nights and it’s hard when it isn’t to let yourself slide and time doesn’t slow down when you kill the lights and I NEVER LEARNED TO CALL IT QUITS

[richaldis]

Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony (Official Video)

[dodinaslesavage]

Larkin Poe - Bad Spell (2022)

[new-day-new-lyric]

"So go ahead and break my heart again Leave me wonderin' why the hell I ever let you in Are you the definition of insanity ? Or am I ? Oh, it must be nice To love someone who lets you break them twice"

[poprocklyrics]

I know I'll be alright But I'm not tonight

I Lost a Friend, FINNEAS

[rockartfashion]

LARKIN POE - Splendid Show- Olympia Paris 15.10.2023

[all-of-the-good-ones-are-taken]

FINNEAS | Partners in Crime (2019)

[mrbexwrites]

Six Sentence Sunday

Tagged by @gummybugg- thank you and hello :D (I’m late- as usual!- at picking up notifications! I’m going to blame timezone differences!!)

Tagging (no pressure): @tate-lin @arowanaprincess @writingf3 @words-after-midnight @sarahlizziewrites @iced-ginger-tea @pure-solomon @arigalefantasynovels @akiwitch and anyone else who wants to join in (but tag me so I can read your awesome stuff!!)

How it works:

Writers: post (approximately) six sentences from something you’re working on. If you aren’t ready to do that, add six sentences to your WIP.

Readers: challenge yourselves to leave a six sentence comment or give a writer a six sentence prompt. (or a total of six sentences for the day)

Fans and creators alike: reblog a fandom post and add some love in the tags. Aim for 6 posts - or 6 tags. Whatever you can manage!

Enjoy this wee snippet of six(ish) lines from Blood Harmony. For context, Mavis has been told to smile more by her boss, Nell, after a run-in with some unpleasant (male) regulars. And then to make matters worse, she runs into her actual nemesis, Arnauld Beaufort .

I smiled with the rictus grin that stretched across my face. Nell couldn’t hear what I was saying, so as long as I smiled, she couldn’t complain that I hadn’t held up my side of the bargain.

“Delightful, just what I wanted to hear first thing in the morning,” Arnauld didn’t seem at all bothered by my open hostility towards him. “But, please, take a seat. Unless you want me to call over the manager?”

My lips were pulled back so tightly into the smile, that I thought the skin would split; I half expected to be able to taste blood. I looked back at Nell, who gave a single, encouraging nod, and I perched myself down on the very edge of the seat, so that neither of my legs would be trapped under the table. Beaufort folded up his newspaper, and took a delicate mouthful of scrambled eggs. 

[fawfulydoo]

guess what's getting a follow-up

[octoberconstellation]

blood harmony

blood harmony by Finneas:

favorite lyric: "did we look like lovers or partners in crime? Did you look like mine?” And “a shade of green that if he’d seen would make F. Scott Fitzgerald cry, but I won’t” and are you the definition of insanity or am I?” (it’s hard not to write out the entirety of break my heart again here) “do you want to die alone, together?”

favorite song: Partners in crime. Has been since I was like fourteen.

song that makes me cry: Die Alone? Break my heart again? Partners in crime? All of them?

song that’s a fucking bop: shelter. also let’s fall in love for the night.

least favorite song: no. (but it’s let’s fall in love for the night (1964) but usually because I just listened to the og)

[lampochkaart]

Kiibo, please, don't ask him complicated questions. He does NOT have emotional strength to think about any of this too hard right now

[hellscap3]

An Ultimate Detective hasn't been the blackened yet, so I'm sure I can do that!