I was born into the light Under wide and open skies He had forgotten how quickly his compass took him from one place to another.
Noah Olson the sentinel of the north |
[se] we can't go on together
Hotaru |
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the Forsaken
Hunter ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'2 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Halo Level: 10 - Strg: 51 - Dext: 51 - Endr: 53 - Luck: 49 - Int: 1 EIRA - Mythical - Griffin (Venom) VI’ADORE - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
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Masseuse ✓ / Headmistress
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12-13-2023, 01:12 AM
Hotaru
Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings With most of her goodbyes settled, the task of boxing up belongings and transporting them has kept the Valkyrie busy in recent days. Though she had coordinated employing Talyson to take the majority ahead of time, the desire to linger had remained - leaving her with a bare-bones house and a thousand memories to revisit before her final day. In the mess of all I have thrown away It must be auspicious, or some other form of divine fate, for her final days in Halo to coincide with the return of her prodigal son. It's entirely happenstance that she is in the Citadel when the news starts spreading, pulling her attention and hastening her feet away from whatever chore she may have been completing, now utterly forgotten. Nimbly sliding through the hustle and bustle, Hotaru's swallow clicks in her throat as she lays eyes on Noah. It feels like it has been years somehow no matter how short the days. She just barely manages to refrain from running for him, though her pace is still hurried as she crosses the cobblestone, reaching for him with a smile half-joy and half-desperation. "Noah," she murmurs, pulling him into her embrace without a single care for the others waving and calling their greetings to the same man. Hungry now, I am gathering new seeds to throw wide the Forsaken
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12-13-2023, 01:32 AM
the Valkyrie
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12-17-2023, 06:50 AM
Hotaru
Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings Hotaru muffles her laugh into her arm wrapped around his neck as he pulls her straight off her feet in a whirl of jubilation, squeezing tightly in return. He smells just as she remembers, and his body is warm and solid in her grasp, reassuring all her senses at once of his wholeness. In the mess of all I have thrown away He remains close even as he sets her down, which is a relief as her own hands stay poised on his shoulders, fingers slightly curled into his clothing as if preparing to tug him back by them should he try and disappear again. Joy fades at the edges at his question, the duffel bag across her body a heavy reminder of all he has missed and all she has to inform him of - but at least she can answer honestly as to how she is faring. "Better than I have been in years," she admits, smile unburdened and a glow beneath her skin that had been absent since even before the war. Glancing down at the kite he'd ended up with - now a little crumpled and in need of repairs - Hotaru hums and quickly concocts a way to sneak him off away from the crowd. "I can make one for myself and we can catch up while we fly those?" There's so much she wants to ask, even more that she wants to share, but she wants Noah to herself for a moment while she does. Hungry now, I am gathering new seeds to throw wide the Forsaken
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12-18-2023, 02:37 PM
the Valkyrie
Masseuse ✓ / Headmistress
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12-26-2023, 07:59 PM
Hotaru
Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings His praise makes her preen as all praise does, but she waves a hand slightly all the same, laughing slightly. “Nothing magical just yet, but soon I hope.” Dominion over earth and stone has yet to show in her repertoire, but it won’t stop her from construction more mundane items in the meantime.In the mess of all I have thrown away Hearing about the twins is almost enough to soothe the desire to see them, something she has slowly become more comfortable with, especially as the two grow a little older - obtaining defining features and personalities that will make it harder to see them as anyone but themselves. “I’m glad they’re thriving,” she murmurs with a warm smile, though she spares a moment of sorrow for the fact that she may never see them grace the Academy halls - at least not as Headmistress. Wrinkling her nose playfully at his teasing, that thread of sorrow plucks itself once more in her heart, dampening her cheer. “Sunjata and I have been seeing one another again.” It feels so very juvenile to call it that, but it’s the best descriptor she has for people who won’t comprehend the complexities of her relationship with the Flood. “I…I’m actually leaving Halo to move in with him in King’s End.” Perhaps if she says it quickly, rips the bandage off, it will hurt less to admit to someone she’d once stood beside as Warden. Deimos’ disapproval she could handle (though their fighting she could not), but somehow telling Noah is just as hard even with his recent similar absence. “Evie will be taking over the Academy, and I’ll be continuing on as a student myself. Flora also recently became Queen of Torchline; we certainly tried to get her to move as well, but it wasn’t to be,” she admits with a huffed laugh, part of her glow assuredly attributed to pride in her daughter, even if the distance between them remains unfairly vast. At the time, the notion of having her family all in one place had made the decision to move all the more appealing. Still, she isn’t inclined to back out now just because Flora will be remaining in Torchline. Hungry now, I am gathering new seeds to throw wide the Forsaken
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12-26-2023, 08:20 PM
the Valkyrie
Masseuse ✓ / Headmistress
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12-26-2023, 08:34 PM
Hotaru
Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings Noah is not much of an actor, though it’s a fond, sad thought as she watches him struggle to be happy from the corner of her eye as she focuses on her kite bobbing overhead. Still, it’s a facade she doesn’t want to exist between them, no matter how difficult it may be to talk openly about it. “I understand if you don’t agree, or approve,” she remarks quietly. It will not stop her - not if even Deimos’ disapproval wouldn’t - but she can understand their reticence. “However, I owe it to myself and to Enzo to try. He asked me to live, to be happy. If I am wrong, at least I will have tried.” And part of her - a part she doesn’t let free, never shares with her loved ones - still can’t bear to walk through the Citadel, unable to stop seeing the spot where Flora teleported in with Enzo in her arms. It’s why she’d thrown herself so fully into the Academy, comforted by the way it kept the world at large away from her eyes. In the mess of all I have thrown away Flora is indeed a safe topic, as Ru could surely talk about her for hours. “Immensely,” she laughs, trying to follow his lead and lighten the mood. “I worry of course, and think she is rather young, but I can’t deny her ambition - plus, I’d be a hypocrite given how young I was when I began ruling as well.” It feels like lifetimes ago. Given how many portals she fell through before Caido, it’s not an inappropriate comparison. “She is better than me in every way, as I had hoped. If I could do it, I have full faith she can too.” Pulling on her string slightly as she smirks up at the sky, a slow bloom of protectiveness unfurls faintly through the bond he might feel from her. “And if she encounters any problems, she has quite the parental force behind her.” Ru might not be able to get there immediately in the same way channeling her father might, but not all things require immediate intervention. If her daughter ever shows a need for the slower, more insidious kind of planning that ruling might bring, Hotaru will happily provide both mind and might in the Doubletake’s service. Hungry now, I am gathering new seeds to throw wide the Forsaken
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12-26-2023, 11:57 PM
the Valkyrie
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12-27-2023, 02:13 AM
Hotaru
Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings Impressions aren't enough to glean his complaints through the bond, which Hotaru is grateful for. People seem to appreciate her fatal flaw of loyalty until it inconveniences them; given how much the Voice had given her, no matter how she distrusted the goddess, Hotaru had never been able to despise her so viscerally. Even the invasion was too cloaked in politics for her to blame an individual for it. Her loyalty is so hard to win, and yet her downfall is never being able to rescind it - even if it makes the rest hate her for it when those loyalties conflict. In the mess of all I have thrown away "And I wish it were not her," Ru responds, a quiet admission that seems aimless. Truly, though, she harbors far too much ill-will against Cordelia - partly why she has yet to see the children. Yet just as Noah will not stop her now, just as he wants her happiness above all else, so too does Hotaru resign herself to the same. Remi is a positive thought despite the souring of Ronin's existence always following behind. Though she does not blame him for retreating to the Draig, part of her will always be bitter for having stayed away for so long, for leaving Flora to her grief in the wake of Enzo's death. Perhaps that is merely because she knows the pain of losing a twin. "She can Channel him, though. Which I suspect she does more often than she needs to," Hotaru titters with a grin, pleased with Flora's own form of petty teenage revenge. Surprised not only by the news but by Vi's stance, Hotaru furrows her brows slightly and turns her eyes away from the kite to give Noah her full attention. "I have, though I'm surprised Vi thinks them such a threat. They're dangerous, yes, but Caido is home to plenty of dangerous plants." Is there something more to this? Something they're all missing? Or merely another case of gods disagreeing on various realms? "I will ask Frey when I see them if there's a faster way to remove them." Perhaps they all have some sort of unifying chemical or magic that could be targeted to destroy them at large? Hungry now, I am gathering new seeds to throw wide the Forsaken
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12-28-2023, 05:36 PM
the Valkyrie
Masseuse ✓ / Headmistress
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12-28-2023, 06:05 PM
Hotaru
Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings She cannot sense any coherent words, but given he only dims instead of conceals his emotions from her, it’s enough to know he just doesn’t get it. Though her actions during the war were cowardly and shameful regardless of his misguided attempts to take the blame, Hotaru’s detestment for the woman goes far deeper. Her strange envious, shrew-eyed suspicion of the Valkyrie upon their first meeting, her refusal to take time to know the important people in Noah’s life beyond Deimos - and oh, if Talyson ever thought it of Evie, it pales in comparison to the gold-digging suspicions Ru has of the One-Shot - not to mention the shameful way Cordelia never even tried to redeem her name after the war. He will feel only a raging spark of brightness as these thoughts coalesce, larger and sharper than he might have suspected, before Ru’s bond (unlike Noah’s) goes completely dark, shutting him out entirely. She looks up at her kite in the sky, heart in her throat amidst all the bile, burning away. In the mess of all I have thrown away For every person who supports her decision there are two more in opposition. Though she is chasing her happiness, she is losing so much in the process, as if any of them are free of blame or judgement from their actions leading up to the war. Ru wishes Flora could summon her, but unlike Noah’s children who cannot channel, becoming a demigod is not exactly any more attainable for the Valkyrie. “So do I,” she murmurs, though her thoughts are on that instead of on the particular case of his children. At least he has his compass still - and Flora, too. Ru can’t help but take some comfort in that. Beginning to reel in her kite, feeling closed off and ill-at-ease with her own thoughts and feelings, Hotaru offers Noah a reserved smile. “I will ask them, if they grant me an audience. Rae does not often weigh in on current affairs; perhaps now is a good time.” With so many worshippers of Vi and Safrin abound, maybe it is her duty to be a tad boring and ask such things next time she sees Frey. Hungry now, I am gathering new seeds to throw wide the Forsaken
Hunter ✓
Age: 34 | Height: 6'2 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Halo Level: 10 - Strg: 51 - Dext: 51 - Endr: 53 - Luck: 49 - Int: 1 EIRA - Mythical - Griffin (Venom) VI’ADORE - Mythical - Unicorn (Healing)
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12-28-2023, 06:14 PM
the Valkyrie
Masseuse ✓ / Headmistress
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12-28-2023, 09:37 PM
Hotaru
Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings His answer is unexpected, and she wonders which silent topic he’s referring to; his children or her desire to be able to be called upon by Flora in the same way. Expressing a desire to be a demigod isn’t exactly a common after all, so Hotaru doesn’t chance inaccuracies by replying with more than a nod. It feels stiff, formal, like how they feel right now. She hates it, but Hotaru is nothing if not prideful, defensive of her opinions and choices. In the mess of all I have thrown away It’s a blessing then that Noah is less so, and though she stiffens at first when he reaches for her, it isn’t long before she turns into him and goes boneless in his embrace. Prideful defenses easily broken by displays of affections, as they always have been. “I love you too,” she murmurs into his chest, ignoring the wobble in her tone. Her hand reaches up and curls into his jacket, chest aching. It feels unfair to have to say goodbye when he has only just returned home. “I’m only a flight away - or a teleport, I suppose,” she huffs a strained laugh, because Kings End becoming a formal region feels so meaningless in the midst of their goodbyes. If she lingers - if they both linger - at least there’s nobody around to see it. - Fin! Hungry now, I am gathering new seeds to throw wide | ||||||
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