#♡. ariel.ic ⁄ ⁄ a well earned respite .

[astrummorte-m]

"When's'a last time anybody made you feel like a queen? Genuinely. Iffin the answer's takin' you longer than a minute to answer, I have a reservation in 30 minutes, if yer available an' willing."

// @maljefe surprise

[stellarhistoria]

@morbidomen . ceres & ariel / starter call.

"When they demand your attention, demand compensation."

[astrummorte-m]

"A little bit of spice, huh?" an amused curl of a grin settles onto the woman's features as she recognized the attempts of hiding that she did herself once upon a time. living around the others for so long, you develop a... well, rid yourself of a filter. "What do you say to me treating you for a nice night on the town? If you don't like it, we can never talk again, if y'want."

@astrummorte asked: [ ariel ] “ I may be depressed, but at least I’m not basic. ” // unhinged comedic relief

" basic is so boring. life needs a bit of spice, needs to keep you on your toes! unfortunately, it seems that life has decided that depression is that spice that will keep you on your toes. " still, even if one did have depression, it wasn't going to stop them from living life the way they wanted to. sometimes it's going to get people down, but she believed it could be overcome.

[stellarhistoria]

@zodiac--muses. / from here. / ariel & gwen.

"Yeah. Gawains don't run from a fight." ariel knew little about history, at least not by choice. she knew more about the infinite possibilities that laid ahead than it was ever close to looking back to a history that had only haunted and harmed. "But what does Gwen do when faced with something she can't fight, something that won't run, something that wants to take everything from her again?" her smile is half warm and half knowing. "What one are you fighting: the battle or the war?"

[stellarhistoria]

"Oh. My. God. Being pain free is so nice."

"I didn't even have to use Viv's drugs this time. I'm going to go kiss my husband now, thanks, have a nice day."

[stellarhistoria]

my dnd game is wack y'all / / @wclking-fire. vash & ariel; scattered across the sands au

"I've already said this once, and you'll only hear it one more time." there would be no doubt embellishments this time around because she hates telling the same EXACT story twice ( same truths, different accessories ).

even so, she rolls her eyes and looks over to her son happily ignoring the two of them, as if they were the least threatening people that could possibly exist, while also shrinking away from seemingly a docile looking woman trying to offer a drink. only to get a glare from momma and the woman backs away from her son, from justin.

"I'm sure you've already heard of my family and I in rumors, in whispers, across this desert environment, with barely an oasis to be seen from." she chortles at the memory of some of the rumors that have cropped up as a result of her happy go lucky family finding themselves in rather terrible situations. "If you haven't, then you've been quite on the run, but for your sake, I'll go over this ONLY this last time."

she takes a breath and settles into her seat as justin clambers onto her lap. "There is no doubt in my mind that you have heard of the Demon of the East. A vicious being with claws and pointed ears and eyes that glow in the dark, a constant looming storm overhead in multiple cities that the "Demon" shows up in. That would be the second youngest, my sibling. They're easily frightened when they don't have their weapons, or if they don't have their girlfriend around. Even worse if they don't recognize anybody at all."

justin leans against her chest while playing with one of his toys that twists and 'breaks' before putting itself back together, like its made of magic of some kind. "And certainly, you've heard of the doctor who is rumored to be able to heal with burns, to heal with things that make you see the night during the day. Surely, you've heard tales of how he has endless water but no one can prove it. Surely, surely, you must have heard of how he has never failed to cure someone of illness that isn't permanent." she scoffs; "That's the middle brother, heart of gold and the best resting bitch face I've ever seen."

but she pauses for a moment, gauging his reaction. pausing to let him have that sink in before continuing on. "The ones I'm sure you haven't heard much of, are my two eldest brothers. One apparently is a ghost that wanders a deserted city, trying to breathe life into a place beleaguered by something far older and more powerful than himself. I don't remember the name of the city, but it has some weird stigma to it."

"The other you probably have barely heard anything of, is a man who would fight for justice and harmony in the name of revenge. He's got a bad habit of finding out everything about places he goes and people he talks to dead last, and it tends to kick him in the ass when it happens. I'm sure there was one thing you might have heard, as I've heard it all the way out here: he was the one who has been rising the conglomerate ranks and trying to measure off water supply to those in need. Yeah. That's my idiot brother."

"Then there's me: the Living Shadow. Rumors have it that I disappear into people's shadows, haunting and hunting them should they ever step out of line or become too much of a problem to the people around them. I've been used as quite a cheesy boogeyman of sorts. I can't help but feel jaded to it all, it's actually quite cute... and my brother in the big city tells me that he's doing well enough, if being occasionally targeted ─ which is nothing new for us."

she clears her throat slightly and looks down at her son, who is reaching for the canteen she always keeps full of water. she easily hands it to him over herself, though she's worn from talking so much, and quirks a brow at the blond man before them both. "So, you got all that down somewhere, blondie? I'm not repeating it again, even if my kid doesn't think you're all that much of a threat to either of us right now."

[stellarhistoria]

"Mmm ~" a noncommittal hum curls past the young woman's lips as she considers the words. "Importance is self relevant, and many people try to make their relevance overshadow your own. You don't let people do that to you, do you? Color me... curious."

" i .. don't think that my time is worth enough to demand payment. " even if some people could be disrespectful. but, ceres had grown a thicker skin over the years. " it would be one thing if it were my job. but i'm not an important enough person to make demands. "

[astrummorte-m]

ariel, loni asks you to dance- y/n?

"Naturally. I'd be truly insane to not accept something like that from you. 'sides, if I declined, my husband would never let me down for it. Where we goin', bèl?"

[astrummorte-m]

to aryin: you're just a washed up veteran with dreams of a glorious end, a has-been with no future. don't force other people to care about you when all you're planning on doing is dying.

"Hey. Want to know a fun fact?"

she pulls back on the slide of her dad's first gift to her, gun arming.

"I don't have the same reservations as my brothers."

[astrummorte-m]

"Daddy ain't raise no bitch ♥"

[stellarhistoria]

ariel was never one to be truly serious, even when facing down a terrible threat. so few had seen her drop such a facade, and even now, she grins a crooked HIGHWIND GRIN. after all, she is one. though the papers read lancealot, she is a HIGHWIND by nature & blood. ( & highwinds have a terrible tendency, you know - they tend to hide their love behind brutality. )

"Maybe." she half heartedly concurs, or at least allows to be said to a degree. "Sometimes a loss is just a loss. No grand statement, no old adage, nothing here or nothing there. Sometimes you lose. And all it does is leave you empty." she'd know. she's lost a lot these past several years. "If you had to, if you knew you had to, is there a fight that you'd like to lose, even if... even if it meant you got hurt?"

There's a soft smile at that. Gwen humming softly in agreeance. Gawains don't run. Something her father had told her when she was quite young, something she believed in with her whole being. You don't run, you stand between what's trying to hurt people and you say 'You will go no further'.

"An immovable force meets an unstoppable object?" She jokes lightly, before taking another sip of her tea. It was a fair question. One that she had already sort of answered once before. When she'd stood between Frenchie and her friends, stopping him from hurting anyone she cared about ever again. There's a soft sigh, "Or the old adage of 'sometime you have to lose a battle to win the war'? In either case, hm... Sometimes, just making sure everyone gets to safety is as much a victory as winning a fight, isn't it?"

[astrummorte-m]

from here. @inhumann

"I can explain the possibly non human thing." she chuckles softly, the edges of her eyes crinkling upwards in amusement and joy. "If you want that explanation, at least." it wasn't a pleasant explanation, but alas, she'd offer it freely and let loni decide on her own if it counted as non human.

[astrummorte-m]

ASK ANSWERED: INHUMANN.

@inhumann asked: 7 for the icon starter / ariel & har

"Ya keep doin' that, and you'll end up dead." her nose scrunches up slightly for a moment before sighing, crossing her arms over her chest. "You know, there's better ways to handle something like that, and it's not through usin' magic. A good gauze and bandage would have been jus' as fine."

[astrummorte-m]

ariel elaine alligan tags

[stellarhistoria]

it's not that simple. / at ariel.

REIGN STARTER SENTENCES. / ACCEPTING.

"Nothin' is ever as simple as it sounds or looks. That doesn't mean, under any circumstances, that you should lay down and take it. C'mon, woman, where's the spite of Lilith in ya?"

@duskichor

[stellarhistoria]

annoyed mom silence.