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[Skyl4rk]

Yankee - Ow...ow...ow....*clutches my chest*  


Edit: ToP 

Daggus enjoying some Amaranthine sausage.

Modifié par Skyl4rk, 01 décembre 2010 - 02:17 .

[Reika]

Wow Sky, I'm not sure what to say to that one.

[Ryzaki]

I remade my CE PC and she ended up with red hair she went from:

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To:

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I'm not sure which one looks better...they are pretty similar.

Modifié par Ryzaki, 01 décembre 2010 - 02:28 .

[RagingCyclone]

Um...Sky...that's pretty scary there. Even Marion just watching that going on is...um...yeah.

[Skyl4rk]

Yeah I think it's one of those pics where it leaves the viewers speechless.  I didn't even know I had it.

Edit:
The red hair looks great on her, Ryazaki.

Modifié par Skyl4rk, 01 décembre 2010 - 02:31 .

[RagingCyclone]

Ryzaki, gotta like the red hair. But I may be biased.

<----I mean, you can see why.

Modifié par RagingCyclone, 01 décembre 2010 - 02:37 .

[Ryzaki]

Skyl4rk wrote...
The red hair looks great on her, Ryazaki.

Thanks! I thought it made her stand out a little more than the black hair look.

RagingCyclone wrote...

Ryzaki, gotta like the red hair. But I may be biased. ../../../images/forum/emoticons/tongue.png

<----I mean, you can see why.../../../images/forum/emoticons/grin.png

Totally but red hair is where it's at. 

[Sarah1281]

You know, everyone says they love redheads but I never see any of it IRL.



Then again, I can be completely oblivious at times...

[Giggles_Manically]

You dont see a lot of redheads in Canada really.

[inclemency]

Red hair rocks

Mine is more red-gold, but get it done brighter red, and yes, it is noticeable.

Modifié par inclemency, 01 décembre 2010 - 02:53 .

[Sarah1281]

It certainly helps people remember you.

[Skyl4rk]

I've seen and known a few.

[Ryzaki]

I knew one red head and she was awesome.



She was also really, really, tiny and energetic.

[Tigress M]

@Sky - Ouch! What a way to die.

@Ryzaki - I like the redhead, but like RC, I'm partial.



And here's Aubrianna, so happy to have gotten a decap that she's dancin' a jig.

[Sarah1281]

It's really weird. I have red hair (or ridiculously bright orange, really) and yet that's exactly why I can never romance Leliana. Red hair is just a huge turn-off for me.

[RagingCyclone]

I have 2 in my family, 4 friends, and dated 3 women who are/were all redheads. And my goatee used to be reddish, until the gray started to take over. lol

[Sarah1281]

So since ff.net currently hates me, I decided to do my 'For Duty and Honor' prompt. Also...damn, it just occured to me how young Alistair was when he was sent away. My youngest brother is eleven and I can't even imagine sending him off like that.


Teagan had thought it was a little odd when his brother had sent a messenger to Rainesfere with a note remarking on how they hadn’t seen each other in a few weeks and inviting Teagan to come to Redcliffe whenever he had the time…preferably leaving that very day. Still, Teagan couldn’t see any reason not to do as Eamon asked as that usually made his life easier and so he had gone directly to the Arling.
 
Eamon had greeted him warmly, fed him lunch, and then disappeared into his study with Alistair. Twenty minutes later, his brother explained that Isolde was pregnant and so since he refused to tell her that Alistair was Maric’s she was convinced he was Eamon’s and wanted him sent away to protect her future child. Eamon ‘felt it was for the best’ that the boy be sent to the Chantry. Alistair had disagreed and ran out of the castle. Suddenly, the reason for Eamon’s sudden feelings of brotherly-ness made a lot more sense.
 
Teagan had always gotten along well with Alistair and had offered to just take the boy with him back to Rainesfere but apparently even that wasn’t good enough to quiet Isolde’s paranoia (Maker, he wanted to like his sister-in-law but every time he saw how she treated Alistair it just became so difficult) and since Eamon was Alistair’s guardian, there was nothing he could do. Nothing except try to make Alistair feel better about it.
 
He found Alistair halfway to the village, poking angrily at the ground with a stick and completely covered in mud.
 
“Hi, Bann Teagan,” Alistair greeted him glumly. He had always insisted on calling him that no matter how many times Teagan had requested otherwise and he suspected Eamon’s influence as familiarity with Teagan would imply familiarity with Eamon which would help fuel those bastard rumors that Eamon was so desperately afraid of. Teagan was sure that his brother had tried his best but…Why, exactly, had Maric thought that Rowan’s brother was the best person to leave to raise his bastard son? And if it had to be one of them, why not him? He may have only been seventeen compared to Eamon’s twenty-four but he also wouldn’t have given a damn about the rumors. “What are you doing here?”
 
“Looking for you,” Teagan replied simply.”Or did you mean at Redcliffe in general? My brother invited me.”
 
“Yeah, he wants you here,” Alistair said, a little bitterly. “Not like me. He never wanted me. Did you know that he’s going to give me away?”
 
“I had heard, yes,” Teagan confirmed delicately. “You’re going to be a templar.”
 
“I don’t want to be a stupid templar,” Alistair said with a scowl, jabbing furiously with his stick a few times.
 
Teagan eyed his clean outfit mournfully before settling down in the mud next to Alistair. “I know you don’t and I bet that Eamon doesn’t really want to send you either.”
 
Alistair looked skeptically up at him. “Then why would he? He’s an Arl, for Maker’s sake! No one can make him do anything.”
 
Teagan sighed. He didn’t even agree with his brother’s decision and now he was being called upon to defend it to someone who was being hurt by it. “Alistair…sometimes people – especially grown-ups – have to do things that they don’t want to do. Do you know why?”
 
Alistair shook his head firmly.
 
“Honor and duty,” Teagan said solemnly. “Do you know what those mean?”
 
“I hear the knights talking about honor sometimes,” Alistair offered, a little sheepishly. “But no, not really.”
 
“Your duty is something that you probably don’t want to do but is required of you for whatever reason,” Teagan explained. “For instance…I don’t like politics but I am a bann and so it is my duty to attend the Landsmeet every year to deal with problems our country has and to help the king make important decisions.”
 
“And honor?” Alistair pressed.
 
Teagan frowned, not entirely sure how to explain that concept. “Honor has a lot of different meanings,” he said finally. “It can mean glory and recognition, it can mean a good reputation, it can mean a privilege, it can mean that you’re a credit to whatever it is you’re doing, it can mean that there’s a lot of respect involved…A lot of things that are honorable aren’t always pleasant. It’s a great honor to be chosen to be a bann, for instance, but it’s also a lot of work. I have to get involved with politics far more than I’d like and have all sorts of duties to the people that live in my Bannorn. Do you know why I’m telling you this?”
 
Alistair fidgeted a little but said nothing.
 
“Do you?” Teagan repeated gently.
 
“I guess so,” Alistair said reluctantly. “You’re talking about me being a templar.”
 
Teagan nodded encouragingly but remained quiet.
 
“You’re saying that once I get to the Chantry, even though I don’t want to be a templar I’ll have a duty to learn how to be one so that I can try to protect people from evil blood mages and…whatever else templars do,” Alistair said slowly. “And that even though I might not like it, not everyone can be a templar and my job will be important so it’s an honor for me to get to be one. Is that right?”
 
Teagan nodded again, relieved that Alistair had understood. “Honor and duty don’t just apply to my being a bann and you being a templar, you know. Everyone has to deal with it in some way, all the time. Your duty can even be small things like making sure be polite to the servants and to not treat them cruelly because you think you can get away with it.”
 
“Honor and duty, huh?” Alistair asked, looking thoughtful. “Those sound like important things. Maybe…maybe I can go to the Chantry for them. Better than because no one wants me, anyway.”
 
Teagan’s heart went out to his almost-nephew. “Oh, Alistair…”
 
“But I’m still don’t want to talk to the Arl,” Alistair said, crossing his arms and looking like he dared Teagan to disagree.
 
“That’s alright,” Teagan said instead. “I really don’t feel like doing that either.”
 
Duty and honor…were there no two words more bitter?

[Reika]

@Sarah - Very nicely done. Poor Alistair. And FF.net is down for me also.


Because FF.net is down, I present my own filler.

"For Duty and Honor"


Alistair,


There were some complications in Highever which will cause a delay in my return to Ostagar. Fortunately, I have the recruit I was hoping for, even if the circumstances were far less than ideal. I trust all is well with you, the other Wardens as well as the other recruits. I’ll send word when we’re closer to Ostagar.


Duncan


“Complications, huh? That’s Duncan-speak for ****storm,” commented the wiry man of average height and features. “That was the term he used when he conscripted you. There were some minor complications with the Chantry.”


Alistair sighed and rubbed his forehead as he set the letter down, “Minor.” He shook his head, “I didn’t think even Duncan would call a furious Grand Cleric as ‘minor’, Kendrick.”


Kendrick snickered, “Yeah, well, that’s Duncan for you. The master of the understatement. So how are the recruits doing?”


The only answer was a groan.


Kendrick looked at the younger man curiously.


Alistair scrubbed his face, “What is there to say? Jory seems to know what he’s doing with a sword, but its all glory this or honor that. He doesn’t seem to get what the duties of being a Grey Warden are.” He hesitated, “Truthfully, I don’t think he really has the guts for our line of work.”


A thoughtful nod, “And Daveth?”


“For a street rat, he’s got a better sense of duty than the knight. I just wish I could get through to him to stop going after every female that walks into his line of sight. He keeps up his antics, he’s going to tarnish the reputation that you all have worked hard to restore.”


The older Warden eyed Alistair as the former Chantry boy flushed out of embarrassment of the subject matter and annoyance, “You turn such a fetching shade of red when you’re even hinting at sex.”


If anything Alistair turned even brighter, “Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up. You try dealing with that, that, argh. I don’t know what to call him. He’s like a tomcat that thinks all the females are in heat or something.”


Kendrick fell over laughing.


Over a week passed before they heard again from Duncan. During that time Alistair had the joy of trying to get through to Jory that Wardens weren’t the heroes he thought they were without giving away any secrets. And he almost gave up in despair at trying to get Daveth to behave in a civilized manner. All the rogue did was sneer and give some variation of “Stop being a Chantry Sister.”


Daveth finally caused Alistair to lose it on him in the middle of camp after the Warden tried addressing the recruit about the latest complaints. The pickpocket was sufficiently impressed by Alistair’s tirade that he actually behaved himself.


When the expected word from Duncan came, Alistair had to read the note multiple times to make sure he was reading it correctly, before he deliberately put down the cheese he was eating to clutch his head in his hands. Never seeing the young man leave any type of cheese uneaten, Kendrick was about to go find a healer when Alistair shoved the letter to him.


After reading it, Kendrick frowned at the young warrior, “I don’t see what the problem is.”


“He recruited a woman. With the way things have gone, we’re going to get some sort of fluff brained bit of a girl who’ll shriek every time she breaks a nail.”


“Come now, she can’t be that bad.”

“Duncan recruited Jory didn’t he?”


“Ah, well, you do have me there lad. Wonder if she’s a looker.”


“Oh Maker. Kendrick, you’re as bad as Daveth.”


Kendrick chortled evilly, “Oh, I’m worse. I’m going to send you to go let the king know when to expect Duncan.”


“Argh! You’re a bastard, you know that, right?”


“Hey, after Duncan, you’re King Cailan’s favorite Warden for some reason.”


Alistair wasn’t sure about favorite, but he knew why Cailan tolerated him and wasn’t about to enlighten the other Warden. Before doing the dubious honor of notifying his half-brother of Duncan’s arrival, Alistair decided to fortify himself with more cheese.


Kendrick still had a contemplative expression and Alistair looked at him curiously, causing the other man to shrug, “Marlana is a pretty name, but doesn’t sound Ferelden. Since Highever is a port city, I wonder if she comes from somewhere else and that’s the complication?”


It was Alistair’s turn to shrug, “I don’t know, but with our luck, she’ll be death on two legs but not a thought between her ears. Anyway, I best let the King know when to expect Duncan.”


“Yeah, considering how he’s been bugging me for news, I’m sure he’ll be giving Duncan a royal greeting when he arrives with that ‘fluff brained girl’.”


Finishing off his cheese, Alistair went off to fulfill his duty of notifying the king of the news. He wondered at what the king knew that he didn’t when Cailan got an unusually thoughtful look on his face at the combination of the name of the new recruit and where Duncan had gotten her. And hoped she wouldn’t be too much trouble.

[Axekix]

Sarah1281 wrote...

It's really weird. I have red hair (or ridiculously bright orange, really) and yet that's exactly why I can never romance Leliana. Red hair is just a huge turn-off for me.

Your first and last love is self-love.

[Reika]

Wow, I haven't seen that in ages, Axe.

[RagingCyclone]

Sarah, very nice. I like the touch of the boy covered in mud part connecting to when you reach Redcliffe in the game.

[Sarah1281]

@Reika: He's REALLY going to be in for surprise when he first meets her, huh? Poor Alistair, trying to make Daveth behave when Duncan's gone for weeks on end. I love that he's such a master of the understatement.

[Axekix]

Reika wrote...

Wow, I haven't seen that in ages, Axe.

Really? NBC still plays them sometimes!

Modifié par Axekix, 01 décembre 2010 - 03:22 .

[Reika]

@Sarah, Oh yes. That should be an interesting one to write up.

@Axe - Oh, well, I don't watch a lot of tv.

Edit: And another for RDT.

It's a gusher!

Modifié par Reika, 01 décembre 2010 - 03:30 .

[Tigress M]

@Sarah - Thank you for giving us a glimpse into Teagan. I truly believe he would have acted just as you have depicted. And I was very pleased to see my wish granted when I started reading, that being the "covered in mud" scene. Wonderful!

@Reika - I have never considered Alistair's thoughts about the newest recruit, prior to their meeting. That was very refreshing! And, I especially loved the bit about Cailan's thoughtful look -- it's clear HE knew about Byrce's youngest and obviously found her... interesting.