Very interested to hear more about and commerce flowed like blood 👀👀👀
so! and commerce flowed like blood, or flow, he/they, is my character for a heart campaign i'm in.
mechanically, his ancestry is cervine, a humanoid deer that's custom to the setting, he's a marsh deer specifically, his class is incarnadine, and his calling is forced (by incarne). his general mission from her is to use the incarnadine move network to set up a series of shrines to her all over sancoteaux, the name of the setting.
backstory wise, he grew up in a society of nomads and moved in to sedentary society as a young adult to attend a university on a scholarship. there, he found the lifestyle shift unexpectedly stressful and turned to gambling to cope. i don't gamble at all, so i haven't specified more than that cause i don't know much about the various types. they eventually became mired in gambling debt, letting their grades slip and losing their scholarship. one day he suddenly found himself on the street with gaping holes where memories should be, and a scarred handprint over his heart. incarne had claimed his life and his memories to recoup his debts.
ever since then they've been doing her bidding, communicated to them by a cold itchy feeling in the scar and writing on the back of a coin with her image on it. i don't really want to write a whole summary of the campaign so far, so suffice it to say they've been confused and stressed and stupid and hair trigger with their gun the whole time. their primary internal motivation is seeking comfort. i feel like there's a better word for what i mean there, but it isn't really shelter or security or rest either, sort of a combination of all four. this is really familiar to how i felt when i was homeless, super struggling to have any plan more than a day or two out and nearly unable to even think of any other way of acting if something could give me even thirty seconds of immediate comfort-shelter-rest-security, even if that compromised access to future comfort-shelter-rest-security, but so stressed and tired that i regularly couldn't follow through on those options either. i've been housed for several years now and i still super struggle to consider any kind of future, although in the last year i have managed to set and work towards two goals that will take me about 2 and 5-10 years to complete, which is very exciting!
back to flow though, right now they're supposed to be working on a scheme to gain control of the secrets network in the city we've been operating in, and they've fumbled it at least three times, almost completely unable to consider a long term plan like that. plus this isn't the kind of life they led before, so they're trying to pick up this new skill of scheming on the fly with no teacher while far too stressed and confused to learn effectively. this has led to many very funny (imo) moments of other characters assuming that because they're an incarnadine they have plans on plans on schemes on schemes, while they sit there exhaustedly thinking to themself that all they have is a gun (currently broken!) and pockets full of random shit.
his most recent fumble of the scheme was that he found his way to a safehouse free of divine oversight owned by jorritt jessey, local priestess of azure and person in control of most of the secrets network in the city. he literally collapsed to the floor when the constant stress of incarne's presence left him as he entered. she wasn't super happy they were there, but after a "negotiation" where they were exhaustedly sitting on the floor the whole time and in their tired rambling absolutely blabbed their mouth about stuff they shouldn't have she ended up agreeing to give them access to it if they put her in contact with bernard tchoch-quay, the party vermissian knight, so she could buy a train ticket somewhere else. they were so consumed with the need to be able to access a place like that regularly that they completely forgot to try to bargain for control of her network after she left the city. the idea only occurred to him after a full night of sleep. so he's currently working on getting bernard to meet her and have that be part of the ticket price, and then having him give it up to flow as a finder's fee. this is the first fumble where he's realized later that he missed an opportunity to advance the scheme, so there's some progress happening! this also made him consider for the first time that he could try to get away from incarne at all. before this i was very adamant that they did not have the presence of mind to come up with that possibility themself, reflecting, again, my own experiences in an abusive and controlling religious situation that governed nearly all my memories. we're using the house rule that you can have a third beat slot for your zenith beat, and after this i added the beat "end the control your master has over you"!
he is certainly learning and trying to have plans longer than a day or two out, but i definitely want his situation to pull him back to that position a few times before he dies/gets out so i can luxuriate in bad decisions and failure and just desperately seeking thirty seconds of comfort-shelter-rest-security at not the cost of the rest of my own life
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Lambrose with one or more young kids
Hmmm…Im not sure which universe this takes place in. For me, I guess something closer with their personalities that I really liked from Book 1? But anyway, here you go.
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The candles burned into the long hours of the night, flickering occasionally from the draft of wind in the bare hallways. The house was silent with the exception of scratching sounds reminiscent of pen on paper. Two people were still awake during a late hour, working quietly side by side with the towering piles of papers in front of them.
“Ahhhh,” the woman sighed, rubbing at the back of her neck. She stretched her arms, slumping back against the hard wooden chair. Her husband glanced at her.
“Tired?” He quipped, continuing to work on the sums in front of him.
“Just stiff.” She rolled her shoulders. “How far are you?”
“Halfway. You?”
“About the same. At this rate, we won’t finish the balance sheets tonight.”
He opened his mouth to reply when another voice interrupted.
“Mother?”
The couple peered around the stacks of papers to look at the person standing in the doorway.
“Why are you and Father awake?” The small boy approached them, rubbing at his half-open eyes.
“We’re finishing some stuff for work, honey. Did you have a nightmare again?”
“No. I woke up and now I can’t sleep.”
“Are you hungry?” His father asked him.
“No…”
“Thirsty?”
“No…”
“Need to use the toilet?”
“No…”
“Then go back to bed at once.” His father ordered. “It’s far past your bedtime.”
“Can I be tucked in again?” The boy’s gaze darted between them both. His parents exchanged a look.
“Please?’ He pouted.
“Of course, dear.” His mother piped up and his expression brightened. “Your father will tuck you in.”
The man in question glared and hissed under his breath for only his wife to hear. “What? Why me?”
“Because…” She muttered, glaring back. “It’s your turn. Don’t forget, he’s your son too.”
He was about to argue when he noticed the young boy looking at them worriedly. He shook his head in resignation, standing up. He ignored his wife’s smug smile.
“Come along then.” He grabbed a lit candlestick and took the boy’s hand in his own, leading him out of the dining room.
They walked together back to the boy’s room. His father set the candlestick down by the small bedside table. He lifted the covers of the bed and the boy crawled into it.
The man tucked the boy in, making sure that the covers were snugly cocooning his body for warmth. He turned to pick up the candlestick, ready to leave when—
“Father?”
The man paused.
“Yes, Son?”
“Could you tell me a bedtime story?”
He turned to look at the boy, his face impassive.
“Please, Father.”
“Very well.” He glanced at the supine figure. “Once, there was a little boy that woke up in the middle of the night. He went to his parents— who were very busy working on important things— and asked them to put him back to bed. The mother told the father to do it. The father did and the boy fell asleep immediately, allowing his parents to finish their very important work. The end.”
Silence.
After a moment, then…
“Father?”
“Yes?”
“You’re not very good at telling stories.”
The father glared at his son, saying nothing. His son stared back, identical eyes waiting expectantly.
After a minute had passed, the man sighed. He sat down along the edge of the bed, contemplating.
“Once upon a time,” he began in a low voice, “there was an Ifrit.”
His son sat up, attention piqued. The father continued.
“This particular Ifrit had a habit of getting into trouble often. One day, the Ifrit ran into a wealthy man and his bodyguard. The Ifrit saved the wealthy man from getting swindled by a bad guy.”
“What does ‘swindled’ mean?”
“It means being cheated or deceived. The Ifrit helped the wealthy man and in turn, the man offered the Ifrit a job to be his secretary. But little did he know…”
“Know what?”
“The Ifrit was actually a female. But she was wearing men’s clothing to look like one when she met the wealthy man.”
“Why did she do that, Father?”
“She wanted to vote like how males could. However when she went to vote, she accidentally curtsied and gave her identity away. The wealthy man saw the Ifrit being arrested by the police and protested. The police took off the Ifrit’s hat, showing her hair and revealing her true identity. The wealthy man realised that he had offered a job to a female, something that was illegal at the time. He assumed that with his ridiculous proposition, the Ifrit wouldn’t accept his offer. But…”
“The wealthy man was wrong, wasn’t he?” The boy looked up at his father from the pillows, having decided to lie down again.
“Oh yes, he was. More than he could have ever imagined. The Ifrit showed up at his office the next week and demanded for his offered position as his secretary.”
“And then?”
“The wealthy man tried to outwit the Ifrit. He told her that she could only work for him while in the same disguise he had seen her, as a male.”
“Why did he do that?” The boy’s eyebrows knitted together.
“The man didn’t think that females were as smart as males. That they weren’t strong.“
The boy frowned. “The wealthy man wouldn’t think that if he met Mother.”
“Indeed.” His father agreed, his gaze lingering on his son’s brown hair and sea-coloured eyes.
“What happened next? Did she give up?”
“Hardly.” The man snorted. “To the wealthy man’s surprise, she agreed to his terms. He had underestimated the Ifrit’s determination. So he tried other ways to make her leave on her own.”
“That’s not fair. Why didn’t he give her a chance?”
“He didn’t want to at first. The fact that he had hired her was enough to put both of their reputations in jeopardy. In addition, the wealthy man had a lot of enemies. Deep down, he didn’t want the Ifrit to be in danger, danger that he knew was inevitable as long as she worked for him.”
“So she quit?”
“Not exactly. One thing the wealthy man hadn’t counted on was just how stubborn the Ifrit was. She refused to leave, saying that she wanted to earn money for her independence. She stayed— even through the deadliest of times, times that most males would have fled from. With her courage, she eventually earned the wealthy man’s respect. He stopped doubting her abilities once she proved to be more than capable.”
The young boy’s eyes had widened to saucers in awe.
“She stayed with the wealthy man during his expeditions, whether it was sneaking aboard a ship to France or trekking through a war zone in the South American jungles. Over time, the wealthy man fell in love with the Ifrit. But he didn’t want to acknowledge it.”
“Why not?”
“Like the Ifrit, the wealthy man was also quite stubborn. He had been through a lot, betrayed by people he had been very close to. As a result, he had to survive on his own for many years. He learnt the value of money the hard way, through back-breaking work. Because of that, he didn’t trust people. He had become a cold, stingy person. He didn’t want to admit having feelings for her, even to himself. He was in denial for a long while.”
“So did they not end up together?” The boy mumbled, drowsiness beginning to set in.
“No. With time, they couldn’t hide their feelings. Somehow along the way, they grew closer and closer. Until they finally admitted their feelings for each other. But even then it wasn’t easy.”
“Why?” The boy’s eyelids fluttered.
“The wealthy man and the Ifrit had clashing principles. As a result, they always argued. But after a while, they both grew tired of arguing and decided to meet in the middle. Eventually, they both married and started a family. They soon found that the new lifestyle had its own challenges.” He looked down at the boy, whose steady breathing indicated he had fallen asleep. “But that’s a story for another day.”
The man’s hand reached out and gently brushed away the wavy chestnut locks from his son’s forehead. He stood up, taking the candlestick.
“Good night.” He started to head for the doorway when—
“Father?”
He stopped, turning to face the boy squinting at him through barely opened eyes.
“Yes, Son?”
“What’s an Ifrit?”
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I tried a new writing style for this one. A shorter, third person perspective read without any character names. But I think it was obvious enough who the characters were. I’ve read numerous fanfics of lambrose with their future children, each having different names. For this oneshot, I’ve left the decision of naming up to you, Reader, for their child—in this case, their son.
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hot chocolate at midnight | myg
summary: “can I come over it’s cold”
genre: crack (pls don’t take it seriously lol I didn’t even delete my own commentary pls don’t think I write like this)
a/n: An unfinished draft I wrote at 3 am which shows what happens to my writing when I’m tired maybe one day I’ll finish? Eh unlikely. I just wanted to share bc it’s sitting sadly in my drafts
Oh man just realized I have another Yoongi draft and it’s LONG oof I really gave up does anyone wanna see it? lol
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“Hello?” You press the cool glass of your phone against your cheek, as you glance at the glowing alarm clock. The numbers tell you it’s way too early to be receiving a phone call. You throw your duvet aside, feeling the sweltering heat coming from your heater. “Do you know what time it is?”
“Can I come over?” Yoongi’s chattering voice came through the receiver. “I’m freezing.”
You remembered him whining earlier that day that his parents had shut off their heater to save money and that they’d have to tough it out in suffocating layers of sweaters for the winter. While he tried to stay at your house for as long as possible to stay warm, he’d always have to return home for the night.
“Can you climb through the window?” you whisper, padding along the carpet to reach your window. His house is conveniently next door to yours and both your rooms are on the first floor. His light is on and you can see him sitting up in his bed, minty hair sticking out in disarray. He’s been your neighbor for years and to say you didn’t develop a tiny crush on the boy next door would be a lie. It was like a Taylor Swift music video where you were writing on whiteboards and going to homecoming together lmao what?
You unlatch the window and pull up the glass. There’s no screen blocking his entrance because you took that out years ago when you realized sneaking out to go to parties was going to be an ordinary occurrence for you. You just hope your pesky younger brother, Jungkook, never finds out about it because he would definitely snitch on you for just about anything.
Yoongi jumps out of his parallel window and crosses the dewy grass to your house, bare feet sinking into the damp Earth. He can’t wait to get out of the cold and be enveloped by the warmth of your home underneath a fuzzy blanket like a bean and cheese burrito instead oh bitch im hungry.
“Thank you,” he sighs, clambering through your window and practically falling against your carpet to rest his weary eyes. “I was going to freeze to death over there.”
“I guess you owe me for saving your ass.”
He lets out a grunt, reaching his hand up to feel around your bed for a blanket. The floor is just too comfortable to leave.
“Hey YOU BITCH DONT TAKE MY BLANKETS UGH IM SO TIRED”
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a/n: I’m sorry if I wasted your time 💞
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