ooc: inbox/plot with me

[arcaneadvisor]

{sending crystal | notes & letters | personal visits}

Note: I work Mon-Fri and I'm basically away 11 hours a day but I do tags in gdocs and I try to do a round a night. Timezone is GMT.

ooc contact: deathwailart @ plurk | bansheesquad#0389 @ discord

Comments

[elegiaque]

( gwenaëlle has dithered on this, not been sure how to ask—uncomfortable with the uncertainty as to whether or not morrigan will agree, or be glad to have been asked, or if maybe with everything that's been happening she shouldn't bother her, and there was always the possibility it wouldn't even happen, and the point would be moot, and

she should do it in person, probably, but it's easier over crystal, and prompted by wren: )

Will you stand in for my mother at my wedding?

[arcaneadvisor]

[Silence reigns for a long moment - how often is Morrigan shocked in a way that isn't terrible lately? - until she recovers herself. A throat that cracks on the surprise, falters--

Motherhood is the edge of a knife for both of them, and she'd laugh if this didn't have the semblance of something else to be cradled as carefully as a newborn skull in the palm of the hand, supported, mindful of the soft spots.]

I have never attended a wedding, what is a mother meant to do at such an occasion?

[Which is her saying yes in a Morrigan fashion, hesitant and uncomfortable at a thing where she will be entirely out of her depth.]

[elegiaque]

( the unsteady laugh of unexpected success— )

Do you know, I have no idea?

( she's gone out of her way not to know that sort of thing for a long time, although 'long' is comparative, given her youth. )

I'd just—very much like for you to be with me.

[arcaneadvisor]

[Perhaps it ought to concern Morrigan that it's so very easy to give so much to her and yet…]

You've never attended?

[Although the idea of Gwenaëlle at a wedding? At Emeric's side? That might be what has Morrigan joining in the laughter, if not just the thought of whatever farcical affair an Orlesian ceremony is.]

Where else would I be? I do wish to see the look on Thranduil's face from the best view I might have, I imagine he is taking this all with utmost seriousness.

[elegiaque]

Maybe once or twice as a child, but I don't care for weddings, much, and I've never paid them much mind—Thranduil, of course, is all for doing the thing properly. That's the point, I suppose, look at this good rifter, doing all the right things.

( the bride in question makes a disparaging noise, but morrigan knows how much she loves him; that she wouldn't do this for anyone else, or anything less. )

[arcaneadvisor]

He has been informed then that the Chantry Mother or Sister wears the robes in such cases? It would not do to upstage her but for the look on her face. [Has she seen him in much else unless there's been fighting? Maybe but let them not have a shortage of curtains for the sake of a wedding, there has to be a simple way to shut out the monstrosity of the city at the end of the day after all.] Thranduil has such an odd idea of properly...This is a day to be gawped at for all.

[If the wedding can't be in Orlais, Orlais will come to the wedding in spirit?]

[elegiaque]

I'm staying well out of the planning, but I have banned any costume changes.

[arcaneadvisor]

Not even a candelabra element for a tragic accident with unfortunate guests?

[The Inquisition has bodies it could afford to lose you know ...]

[elegiaque]

Exceptions could be made.

[arcaneadvisor]

Have you roles in mind for others? I do prefer to know who goes into battle alongside myself.

[Because really what else is this?]

[elegiaque]

Most of all that sort of thing will be down to Thranduil, though I think I'll have someone to stand with me, and whatnot, but I was thinking that I'd like to include Kieran as well.

( have her family with her, in this trying time. )

[arcaneadvisor]

Then perhaps I might have reason to speak with him. [Not that she's been avoiding him after her mother, thanks Wren.] Kieran would be pleased, you know how deeply he adores you.

[elegiaque]

He means the world to me. You both do.

[arcaneadvisor]

If I had ever had a daughter, I would have wanted her to be as you are. The whole of you.

[Yes even the parts you might not like because she'd change nothing, she loves you.]

I never thought to have a family in such a way, I'd change none of this at all.

[elegiaque]

I'm very grateful.