#blades kade

[nefertiti-fooling-fellow]

This line right here from Blades 1 gets me everytime:

THEY SHOULDVE LET KADE JOIN US ON THE BLADES2 QUEST. THAT IS MY BRO RIGHT THERE.

[mahariel-theirin]

Blades Modern AU headcanons

Part 1: Mal | Part 2: Raine | Part 3: Mal | Part 4: Kade | Part 5: Imtura | Part 6: Tyril | Part 7: Nia | Part 8: Aerin & Darien

Kade Nightbloom

Just over 5′10″, but because he’s lanky, he looks taller.

Plays guitar, piano, violin, harp. Plays madolin the best, and it’s his fave.

Has gorgeous hands. Long, delicate fingers.

Smooth tenor

Has bouncy, airy laugh

Used to straight iron his hair in 6th grade because some kid made fun of him still looking like a girl. 

Raine verbally ripped the kid apart, though Kade didn’t let his natural curls out until high school.

Older by two years, but because of being sickly as a child he is doted on by Raine. Kade likes being cared for, but worries he doesn’t reciprocate enough (he absolutely does).

Has a huge crush on the student who always hangs out at the library at lunch time. He and Raine later find out her name is Nia.

Doesn’t remember his childhood before Raine, so he doesn’t know his surname. 

Took on ‘Nightbloom’ after Raine learned about her family.

On his last year of his BFA degree, major in creative writing.

Runs a blog where he posts his short stories and original songs. 

Posts song covers on his YT account, which is his most popular platform.

Great in prose and poetry, but prefers prose.

Used to write and film skits that Raine and other kids at Riverbend act in. They’re all posted on his YT. 

His playlist is a mess of all genre in several eras.

May or may not have a Raleigh Carrera poster on his bedroom wall.

Smooth and suave in writing romantic lines, flustered and unsure when it comes to talking to people he fancies.

Misses flip phones

Will go out to 7/11 at 3 am in board shorts, tank top, and flip-flops with socks.

Used to have sleep paralysis for days after they started living in Riverbend estate.

Goal is to become a published fiction author. Backup plan is opening a bookshop that doubles as an open mic club. It’s going to be called “Bards & Noble.” 📙 & 👑 (can you guess why?) (thanks @blightarts​ for the pun!) 

To be continued. Next is Imtura.

[tyril-simp]

KADE

[what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil]

GOT MY BIG BROTHER BACK BOIS !

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

'If the "Kade is the Watcher, aka the person who's been writing the lore tablets and because time is different in the shadow realm he's now old" is true. The only thing I want to happen is Kade making a joke about how he's now the older brother.'

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[mypegasifly]

Wow, we're near the end of the incredible journey that began with MC and Kade in Riverbend and, now, look where we are.

We've had some exciting adventures throughout Morella, action, and touching moments! I hope Blades gets a sequel. It'll be hard saying goodbye to all these characters that I got attached to and brought me laughs and gave me the feels.

This chapter was incredible and the whole part of the characters not wanting to part ways, damn, just give us a sequel, Pixelberry!

And that plot twist, oof, did not see that comin'. I can't wait for the final battle with the Shadow Court!! :D

[lilyoffandoms]

Blades Drabble - Rollarcoaster Confident 

Day twenty-four of the @choicesmarchchallenge​ (Host: @lovealexhunt).

I like Kade’s confidence in himself. I imagine him to be on the smaller side of things so he makes up for that in grand tales, and bravado. I don’t see him as the cautious one between the two siblings.

Do I continue to create more lore and backstory for everyone and everything related to this book? You bet your ass I do. 

The air hung stiflingly still around them in an oppressive and harsh haze that lingered from the fires still smoldering on the scorched Plains of Thelorian which surrounded the bastion of Cragheart. A leather-gloved hand, stained with blood and sweat, was raised to the brow of our heroine. Looking out onto those desolate fields now running red with blood, and clogged with the bodies of both kin, ally, and enemy, thick with the stench of smoke and death that evil brought with it. She took a deep breath in a vain attempt to fill her air with much needed oxygen. She danced lightly from foot to foot to keep the adrenaline pumping throughout her body. The last thing she needed at the eleventh hour was tire and fade. With her ungloved hand, she wiped sweat, tears, dirt, and blood from her face. Her grin was wide and hopeful as she turned to her king and they listened to the dark and sinister horn, sounding over the field, calling the enemy back to their master. A shadow passed over the land and a feeling of dread rose in our heroes' hearts. Their worst fear, the one fear that had haunted them since this war had first begun centuries ago at Valen, had been realized. They pulled together in one final embrace.

“So it is true, they found a way to bridge our worlds,” Xaius said above the whispered questions of the troops, what now?

”We will do what we came to do." She spoke with conviction as she turned to answer the troops.

Her armor stained with the blood of those she had slain by her own hand and those that had been slain beside her. Their soldiers, their kin, their friends, this remnant of the alliance of human, orc, and elves was all that now stood between the light and the darkness.

"Today we stand on the precipice of evil. Will you stand with me one finally time? Will you stand on the side of good and defend the defenseless. Will you stare down evil once more and be the light that shines in darkness? Some of you will say that we cannot win and many of you have said that we would not from the very start but you came nonetheless. You were willing to sacrifice your life for something greater. And so I ask you to set aside those nagging doubts one finally time and show the dark just what light is capable of. Will you stand?" her final shout rose above the stillness around them.

A roar rose from the ranks and a banging of steel echoed across the void between light and darkness.

“You know that we cannot defeat them. Not now," he spoke over the din of weapons and cries behind them.

She turned to grin, something between a sad resignation at having failed to completely banish the darkness and joyful contentment knowing they had done all they could to stave off the inevitable.

She clapped him on the shoulder, "That we cannot, my love, but we can buy our realm time until someone comes that is of the true light, born to stand against this darkness."

And with that....'

“She plunged headlong into battle, bravely leading them all to their deaths until such time as the True Light is revealed among the races of Morella," the innkeeper finished the tale from memory. A bored and exasperated look on his face at having to be regaled by the bard's tale for the third night that week.

"Why must you ruin the best part?" Kade begged explanation as he lept from the tabletop to the floor. Landing lightly on his feet beside the innkeeper who stood a good foot taller and two feet wider than he.

"And why must you use my tables as a stage and my silverware as a sword?" he swiped the weapon from the young human's hand and set it to rest on the stack of dishes he had just cleared.

"Silver my ass!. If that were true, half the county would be here stealing your silverware nightly," Kade laughed.

The man's face turned red and he shoved the dishes into the arms of a serving boy before turning back to scowl at Kade. "You first and foremost, I don't doubt. It is always the way with your kind. Now, pay what you owe and be on your way," he demanded as he held a meaty hand out in Kade's face.

"Hey now! See here! What is this ‘your kind’ nonsense?" Kade's anger getting the better of him with a slap at the innkeeper's waiting hand. "I pay for ale and food, not cheap insults." He puffed up his chest and stood as tall as he could before the man who began closing the distance remaining to loom over them.

Two arms quickly catching them both and pushing them apart. With a warning glare of his narrowed golden eyes, Maiele stepped in front of Kade and took the innkeeper's hand to place the asked for coin into his palm. "Thank you for your hospitality, Hallam. An extra neis for your trouble. The meal was...,"

"Dry. And tasteless," Kade interjected, peering from tiptoes around Maiele’s shoulders with crossed arms and narrowed glower.

Maiele let out an exasperated sigh and braced himself as the innkeeper made to shove him aside to grab for the young boy who did the same, but Maiele held firm. He was taller than both by a good margin and was stronger than the two combined as was the nature of the elves. His dark skin the color of charcoal that had just begun to ash over. His eyes burned with the fire that lit the sun. His hair was the color of freshly fallen snow and he moved with graceful purpose. At nearly seven feet tall he dwarfed everyone in the village but especially these two who happened to be among the shortest.

He pulled another neis from his coin purse and flicked it to Hallam before hastily throwing his hot-tempered adopted brother over his shoulder and carrying him out the door. His long legs taking them halfway across town before he dropped Kade on his backside in the dirt beside the bakery.

“You really just giving him all our money? He insulted us, Maiele. You know he...."

Maiele held out his hand and helped Kade to his feet in one quick pull of the wrist.

"I know exactly what he meant, Kade, but his disgusting and despicable behavior does not excuse yours. We are outsiders here. Always have been and always will be but they have been kind to us. Kinder than most human villages would be to two orphans that showed up on the side of the road amongst a deserted caravan that was scheduled for arrival that night." He sighed at the young boy's glistening eyes.

"He's a giant ass of a swamp-hippo," he went on, swinging an arm over his little brother's shoulders. "And the food was rather tasteless but it is better than anything we could come up with so let's be thankful for small blessings."

Kade wiped his face free of tears with the back of his arm. "Fine, but we wait a week before we go back. Make him think his best customers are not coming back. Deal?"

Maiele let out a loud and cheerful laugh that echoed throughout the empty street. "We are hardly his best customers and I think nothing would please Hallam more than for us to not frequent his establishment for an entire week."

“By gods you're right. We go back tomorrow! That will teach him."

"First we have to get more coin," he jiggled his now empty coin purse for emphasis. "But as soon as we do, we will go back there, I promise."

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March Challenge Drabble Masterlist:

Day one (Blades), day two (Ethan x mc), day three (Tyril), day four (Thomas Hunt x mc), day five (Tyril x mc), day six (Logan x mc), day seven (Tyril x Mal x mc), day eight (Blades), day nine (Tyril x mc), day ten (Blades), day eleven (Prince Aerin), day twelve (Olivia), day fourteen (Tyril x mc), day sixteen (Tyril & Nia), day seventeen (Riya & mc), day eighteen (Grant x mc), day nineteen (Tyril x mc), day twenty (Tyril x mc), day twenty-one (Tyril x mc), day twenty-eight (Cal x mc x Vera)

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Permanent Tags: @simplymissjulia​​​

Blades Tags: @lovealexhunt

[itsbrindleybinch]

Kade's a sweetie 😂

[mahariel-theirin]

Kade, Nia, Shadow realm

Kade finding Nia, escaping together

Mc going into the the fade shadow realm, meets shadow versions of crew, meets up with Kade and Nia

Only one (or two) can return. Mc stays

[lilyoffandoms]

Blades Drabble - Sensibility

Day one of the @choicesmarchchallenge (Host: @lovealexhunt)

Never the sensible one between them, Kade had been the one to take risks, push boundaries, and live life. He thrived on being around others and adventure - even if the most adventure they ever had was through the stories he told.

Maiele was the sensible of the two. Maiele was older. Maiele knew better. Or at least he was old enough to remember how they had ended up alone, together, on the side of the road, crouched beneath an overturned wagon, among the bodies that had littered the roadway. He knew better than to tempt the gods of light or shadow again.

It wasn’t until the girl, the young priestess, had come racing into the square seeking help from anyone that would listen. The idea of treasure, and adventure, and rescuing travelers appealed to him. Life had become mundane and the look in Kade’s eyes at the idea of coin for food made Maiele throw caution to the wind.

Now look where they were. Maiele off on the adventure he had promised Kade while his brother was trapped in the world of shadow. The longer he spent there, and the more Maiele saw of how easily stronger creatures than Kade come under it’s power, the more he worried. The shard had removed his brother from his life but would it take him completely?