Chapter 4 part 6! Guys I don't think Wood appreciated being made fun of lol. (Also this is about the level of violence you can expect from this comic going forward. Canon typical with some blood 👍make sure to prioritize your mental health everyone)
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that maven corianne interaction u posted was truly insane and i have not stopped thinking about it and how much i love there dynamic
I have brainrot about young Coriane and her strangely Loner™️ uncle who is staying with her family, and her parents struggle to be in the same room as the guy, and she is not allowed to talk to him or be near him, but she is and always will be Mare Barrow's kid and that makes her a Problem™️. So she decides to invite him to play games with her when they are not home. First, she asks him to play hide and seek. He looks over the faded edge of the book he is scowling at and says, "fine, go hide." She giggles and runs away as he "counts". She uses her best hiding place, the one her dad can't find her in, and she waits and waits and waits (she hides for a good two hours) and then she comes out to see him still sitting in the exact same place and says, "You're bad at this game." And he just turns the page and says, "I found you didn't I?" He looks up from the book with a bored raised eyebrow and says, "So clearly you are bad at it." And she is fucking GOBSMACKED, her little mouth falls open in horror and she stares at him for a solid few seconds. He expects her to argue, to stomp her foot and be mad, but instead she just crosses her arms and glares at him in a very "Mare Barrow" fashion and it kinda unsettles him. He pulled an Uno Reverse (not that that exists in this universe but whatever) on her and she is like: I will not be fooled into losing my favorite game again. So she keeps finding all these games to rope him into: cards, a board game she realizes her parents have just been letting her win at after he wins four times in a row, a different card game that she makes up (she cheats and keeps changing the rules to try and beat him but he finds a way to out-craft her every time), and then finally one day she brings him an old faded wooden box and sets it on the kitchen table where he is reading in the sunlight and then climbs on the chair across from him and sitting on her knees takes the top off and flips it around to show him a chess board and the pieces in the box. He tenses and she very awkwardly starts setting the pieces up incorrectly (she's only seen Cal set it up once or twice when Julian comes over) but with absolute confidence that she is correct. She crosses her arms, stares him down, and says, "we are going to play." and he just stares at the board between them before closing his book with a snap and rising. "No." he says and walks away. He's never said no before and she is furious. She chases after him, begging him to come play with her, grabbing his hand and pleading until she is almost crying. Eventually she lets go of his hand in the hallway and just sits down and starts crying. He is frozen and that is when Cal pokes his head out and is like: what happened? And she runs to him crying and Cal just takes her in his office and closes the door. And then like 30 minutes later, Cal finds Maven and is holding a sniffling and puffy eyed Coriane who clings to his neck and hides her face there when Cal stands there in silence for a few seconds. Maven watches him struggle for a bit before raising a brow and saying, "yes?" Cal inhales deeply and then says, "get the board set up, we're going to teach her how to play." And then just goes into the kitchen where the board is still waiting. Maven hesitates, then slowly follows and eyeing them like a cornered animal as Cal gives Coriane a glass of water and calms her down a little more. He brings her over at the time as Maven readjusts the pieces and sits down with her in his lap and begins explaining the pieces, what they can do, etc. And Maven watches her purse her little lips, and laughs internally because she is literally 5 years old why the heck would she be able to play chess? And then they start playing and she is getting it (kinda sorta, she's getting it for a 5 year old), guarantee she has Cal helping her and it is mostly him playing, but she is asking all the questions and understanding his answers and she has more than glimmer (more like a shine) of a strategic brain. And then when they win she is so excited and Maven smiles at them, and then Cal smiles at him.
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why is no one talking about Neia literally MARKING Tarragona!! she carved her initial into the gate!!! it's like she put a personal hit out on the city LOL
Neia "carved" her initial in the record book when she entered the city because everyone is obligated to — and while she didn't like it (as is apparent by how she wrote her name), she wasn't about to fight a bunch of guards over it either. She had an appointment with Aurelius, after all.
I used the word carved because, if your MC has the chance to glance over the book of records, you see a big N dominating the page. It's written in such a way that you can tell the quill almost tore the paper.
She didn't actually carve her name on the stones, anon. That would be... too much, even for Neia. 😆
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imagine you're some guy and you don't really know how to fight or anything but monsters have gotten a lot worse lately and the princess is missing and the castle is floating ominously but you've heard the best swordsman around who disappeared when all the bad stuff started has returned so you think maybe there's hope and you volunteer to join the effort against the monsters and you get sent on your first assignment with just a bucket on your head for protection but then the heroic swordsman shows up to help out and he's even got The Super Powerful Evil-Killing Legendary Sword so you all charge in to battle and The Sword That Seals The Darkness breaks on some random bokoblin's head and another one knocks you out with a rock
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my red queen hyperfixation is dying out but i still want to post content sometimes, maybe make this a dual blog instead?? thinking i could sneak some poppy war content or hunger games stuff….
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