#bregelian

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ok for the character ask game, you already know I have Meneldir on the brain today, sooooo.... thoughts? 👀 (also if OCs are fair game, I would Love to hear more about Est :unlessranger:)

:D i'm always down to ramble about est lol

hm. meneldir's gonna go under a cut tho on account of before the spoilers i think

est:

one aspect about them i love: she is friend shaped <3 she is also allergic to chill most of the time

one aspect i wish more people understood about them: hmm. i don't really know honestly? the one thing i've really ever run into like that is 'oh, is she in love?' which. i can look at what i wrote for her and go 'yeah alright, that's a perfectly reasonable way to read that, but no, she's not In Love' but even that's like. i get it? it's perfectly rational? idk

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character: she used to hang out with the lake-spirit of the long lake. she decided she really liked zhelruka food in the grey mountains. she's aroace & in a qpr. she really hates having her hair long (Feels Bad on the back of her neck) despite the prevailing elf attitudes around long hair in a lot of places. she spent a few centuries just kinda wandering; she was up and down the northern anduin a lot, and may have ended up farther east at some point too (i don't know all the details here yet). she is fully willing to use runecraft for stupid things despite how seriously people take it, and this has in fact been encouraged in her by a few people (talagan, but lowkey, and also probably gandalf 'aren't fireworks awesome?' the grey)

one character i love seeing them interact with: oh hm. it's very funny every time she talks to viznak, bc he'll just say things and she just goes '......sure! why not.' she makes a genuine effort to have Cook Opinions on his various swamp brews. she thinks the entire situation is very weird, but on a scale from ???? to Actively Trying To Kill Us, she's pretty much fine with it

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: you'd think i'd have more control over this one, considering she's my character, but! it's grimbold. she felt bad about how the aftermath of troubled dreams went, and after awhile she could look at her talk with him and go 'oh! yeah so he was doing as bad as i was after all that', and she always meant to talk to him about it, especially once everyone else was getting mad on her behalf over it, but it just never ended up happening. she still feels bad about that

also i wish she would tell me a little more about her relationship with her father, but she emphatically Does Not Want To

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: oh i guess i already had some of these. oh well. post-black book (and gundabad/return to carn dum? idk, i don't know when i'm gonna cut off her doing the epics), she starts doing some Actual Combat Training, bc she never really did any of that, and her primary weapon of Zap Them can only take her so far, especially when she's supposed to be on stealth missions lmao. anyway, she learns some dagger things from faeron. she does a little bit of archery with radanir, but it never really ends up being her Thing

meneldir:

one aspect about them i love: he wants! to help! he really really does! enough that he's willing to go back to people he has no reason to expect a warm welcome from!

one aspect i wish more people understood about them: hmmm... in world or out of world lol.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character: well! tossdir is still just. permanently attached lol. i think meneldir has picked up way more trivia about the history of cardolan from narndir than he admits. he likes spicy food but doesn't have a super high spice tolerance. i also think he would be a fan of barbecue (there is absolutely no reason for this one lol)

one character i love seeing them interact with: Meneldir squints at Bregoleth. 'Sometimes Elves have trouble marking the passage of the years. I mean no offence.' i think he and bregoleth should hang out more

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: narndir!!

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: there are some half-formed thoughts about who might have been in that house he was supposed to watch, and if halbarad might have been related to them and/or meneldir, and just how much of his insistence on trusting this rando adventurer and barely even looking at meneldir was personal vs just the result of having one of his worst weeks ever so far. i haven't worked all my thoughts on it out yet, but there is. soup

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oc-tober 2021, day 10: wish with @oc-growth-and-development

it’s bregelian! not one of my pcs (or ocs that sprouted directly related to pcs) but i like her so.

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Bregelian runs her thumb over the chipped rim of the old coin and kneels at the edge of the water, on the northern edge of the island and far from anyone who might be looking for her. Whatever had once been stamped on its face is long since worn away. Does it date from the days of Arthedain? Arnor? Númenor? Astiul may have told her, rambling aimlessly while nervous hands rearranged shards of old masonry he had already sorted and catalogued. If he did, she had not heard it, lost in her own worries until Orchalwë had come to sit with them with a handful of old coins he had fished out of one of the broken reflecting pools in the city.

“People used to throw coins into the water on clear nights,” he had said. “And make wishes on them. The Blue Lady would gather the ones that made it to the lake, and grant the wishes she found worthy.” Most of the coins he had gathered were in the leaky wooden box, but he had chosen one for Astiul and one for Bregelian and pressed them firmly into their hands.

“I know isn’t night,” Bregelian says to the gentle waves of the lake. “But I will be leading my patrol back east this morning. I don’t…” I don’t know if you grant wishes, or if you ever have. I don’t know if you still hear us, or heed us if you do. 

I don’t know if you are real. Calenglad says he has met you, and Lothrandir has always believed, but I have never found it so easy. She tries, though.

“I do not know if you have any power there, in Angmar, but if you do, please, watch out for my brother?” She presses the coin to her lips. Braigiar had believed in their mission, in Captain Golodir, and she had never gainsaid him even when she listened to the old stories and shuddered. “It has been nearly a year, and no word at all has come back. We had hoped the latest messenger from Esteldín would have news, but still nothing. People have begun calling them the Lost Company, but I don’t think they are.” She takes a deep, shuddering breath. “Astiul’s older brother went, too. I know he is afraid Reniolind will try to go after Linchar, as soon as his training is done.” Neither of them would want that for their youngest brother. She looks at the sun. Her patrol will be looking for her soon.

“It isn’t much for a wish, I suppose, but it is all I have.” She tosses the coin into the lake and watches the ripples spread. He won’t even know I was made a captain. She sighs and stands, ignoring the mud soaking her trousers at the knee and goes to gather her company.

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@poet-tree-lines ​ said “who’s siblings who’s siblings”

naturally i forgot half of them as soon as i tried to list them, so this is not an exhaustive collection. however!

astiul is reniolind’s older brother. they have a third brother, the oldest, who went to angmar and isn’t coming back (ren wasn’t even set to be a ranger yet when he left)

celairen (not related to celairant!) is lothrandir’s younger cousin. has been thinking about following him to forochel

langlas and techeron are brothers

braigiar, his older sister bregelian, and thoriel (not technically related but close to them) have beef with the steadfast sisters; no one really knows what it’s about

lorniel is an only child But she always had a little crowd of best friends when she was young, corunir and lunathron the closest of them

corunir has a twin sister! her name is coruneth [i’m straying out of actual lotro characters by now but whatever]; she has a daughter named serniel, who was about twelve when the angmar crew left. they also have a younger brother, mistanir. corunir is the only one of the three of them to have become a ranger, though coruneth may have been best suited to it temperamentally

golodir had an older brother, but they were estranged even before angmar

elegys, golodir’s wife, was calenglad’s niece

andreg and amlan are cousins; their mothers are sisters. it’s a large part of why they’re often stationed near each other

that’s all i got atm; probably have more notes scattered around tho

'this guy doesn't have any real backstory so I'm gonna make some up' really just means 'i'm giving them siblings now' huh