#burnthelios

[burncdheart]

x - @burnthelios

With her arms crossed over her chest, the young woman stared at the man with an intense glare. She did not like the thought of people like him still - or more likely again - lingering around on the way too peaceful streets of this city. Who knew if he could be a pain after all, once the further plans of the abyss order would be set into motion.

“I don't know your age. But compared to me? You clearly look old, yes.”, she scoffed and ignored the sentence of being like a recruit, as she could not even grasp the full understanding of what the man had meant by that, “So you’d spend your personal time in Mondstadt? You’re a weird one, really. This city is so boring compared to other nations.”

[frozcnlight]

the tea helios brewed is very bitter that a plan just died after touching it.

@burnthelios

"Helios-san. Just what... what is this?", she stared at the beverage in dismay. Was this supposed to become black tea? Green tea? None other kind of tea should have the ability to become too bitter - and none of them should be able to kill plants!

"I... pardon me. But what kind of plants did you put in there? And how long did you leave them in the water?".

[frozcnlight]

“I did add sugar over and over again, hoping it would become less bitter, however…”, the sheer thought of the bitterness caused a grimace on her face that spoke more than a thousand words - it was disgusting. Miran remembered how her mother - who hailed from the nation of justice - had swooned over the goods in Fontaine and how she missed the taste of coffee. However, Miran couldn’t disagree more about it and had realized from then on, her mother and her didn’t share the same taste buds.

"...it only became worse.”, she finally ended her sentence after she had just walked silently for a moment, trying to ban the taste out of her mind in some way, “But I also don’t drink my tea with sugar. The desserts are sweet enough.”.

"Have you put sugar into it? Sugar is like, tea. Alone its bitter and plain, but fontaine is known as the land of excess as well and you can put milk, sugar, and honey. Everything you can put into tea, coffee can mix it better."

"Though my taste buds suffer sometimes, I'm....not used to such richness, even as a common man. I can afford many things compared to my old home."

[dreadbornesaint]

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𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐒 / 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄: SeonHwa, Seon (if we’re friends), Hwa (only if we’re friends), resident dress up game aficionado  𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘: 8 May 𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍: Taurus / Pig 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓: small and ready to brawl  𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒: writing, reading, ball-jointed dolls, lolita fashion, drawing/painting, video games, shopping, dress up (in games and irl www), etc…  𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: wine red / bordeaux  𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊: I don't really have a favorite book, lmao 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆: 雨乙女 by Raon (from my Beryl playlist lol) 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄 / 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖: In the Mood for Love [directed by Wong Kar-wai]  𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: does referencing a book on poisons count?  𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: I draw from everything. Dreams, visions, idle conversations, music, all things serve as potential material. It is seldom quiet within, so there’s always something being drawn on and expanded upon. Even a passing thought can explode into something far more than what it started as (see: Beryl) 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐔𝐑𝐋: Strap in lads, there’s layers to this one. First, the reference to her name is the obvious one. Beryl is also a type of mineral that can also be used as a gemstone (for example, emerald is a form of beryl) which is also an overt reference to the crystal infection she has. It’s also a full sentence ‘Beryl bled’ which is both literal and figurative. Blood and the act of bleeding are also prominent motifs to her character. There’s also layers of metaphors on both parts, but I’ll refrain and spare you all…for now. >:3c 𝐅𝐔𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: the rosy maple moth is a yellow and pink moth that’s really cute!! Truly just a lil guy 

Tagged by: @maskednihilism (thank you for taggin' me!)

Tagging: @frozcnlight @burnthelios & anyone else that wishes to!

[frozcnlight]

can't think of anything so have this - Offers a piece of cake to her-

@burnthelios

A piece of cake was spotted! But the most important thing was left out, how cruel! "Helios, we have to brew tea! Quick!".

[frozcnlight]

ALCHEMY STARS GAVE ME MORE HELIOS CONTENT. HE DRINKS LIKE A LOT. GOOD FOR HIM.

// CONGRATZ! If I remember well, you were waiting and hoping really eagerly for it. So I' glad you got the content you were hoping for c:

TIME FOR HIM TO SPEND LOTS OF TIME IN TAVERNS, BECAUSE THEY GOT THE BEST DRINKS! :D

Who needs livers anyway?! Stab them with alcohol and drown them in lava, wohoo ✨

[burncdheart]

"Am I really so old looking?" he touches the white parts of his hair. "Its not as if I have back pain..."

Random ask - always welcome @burnthelios

"Compared to me you look very old indeed.", Taru told truthfully, with one eyebrow raised as she stared at the man. She did wonder if back pain really had much to do with 'being old'.

"They might come sooner than you think, old man.", the last two words were spoken louder than the rest of the sentence, a slight grin forming on her lips, "Be prepared.".

[eternalstarlights]

“No… should it mean something?”

Regulus was confused. He had lived in Greece for his whole life so he knew Greece very well.

“It sounds like you are very lost. How about we get you back to Rodorio village first and we can figure out how you can get back to Illumina.” Wherever that place was.

“My name is Regulus, I am the Leo gold saint of Athena. What is your name?”

"..."

Its clear that whatever was said, unsettled Helios. The young captain had been confused since the start but was hiding it well. But after a few words, it unsettled him to hear many unfamiliar words coming out of the other mouth. After all he wakes up expecting something familiar to be out there.

"Do...the words Illumina not mean anything? surely I'm not that out of the region for it to be that."

[frozcnlight]

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Tagging: @diverse-hearts-ocs, @smol-sirens-garden, @petitexmagician, @burnthelios and whoever wants to do it! c:

Super Power Test

[sanguinesorcery]

With the help from the two guards who followed her in, Ildra is in her element.

Box numbers are read aloud, the related crates located and brought to her. They are cracked open and she digs cautiously through the contents to check that they match what is written on the shipping rosters in her hands. With that step complete, the box is moved on for the Imperial's scrutiny and the process is repeated.

Fariah arrives two boxes in to the process, pulling out items and objects from their packing to carefully inspect them before putting them back in and moving on to the next box. So far, it seems ... safe. Standard fare for gifts, an expression of wealth, an expression of power. Gifts are rarely simply gifts, after all. Between royalty of any caliber, a gift is essentially showing off.

See how well I'm doing, and now I share it with you...

One of the boxes makes Ildra pause in her recital of articles. A box of young seedlings in shallow dirt. Enough to start and transport, certainly, not enough to keep growing if left. Fariah's lips curl upward questioningly. Certainly, the new Queen knows much of her native agriculture would not survive as well here, as much as she knows the exotic produce exported from the Three and Ten would never take in so dry and temperate a climate as the mainland. It is what would make trade essential between the two nations.

But perhaps, if there was a way to engineer them...

The Empress' mind is made up when another box is opened and stunts her Regent in her tracks. A heavy crate, finely packed, with slabs of stone that had the telltale marbling signs of...

"...Ildra, send for the agriculturalists and the geologists' corps immediately." she demands. "I want to see all of this analyzed here before it even leaves the hold."

A show of wealth and power indeed...

Although, it is also worrying. It seems out of character for Hyrule, once so stingy about their land. She understands why they were; it was hard to ignore the presence of a militaristic nation so close to home. Even if they have been on strained good terms, the Hyrulian crown of the past has almost always been paranoid old men and women who would sooner die than let a foreign power station itself nearest their capital hub. It is something she had come to expect. The tactician in her applauded them then for thinking that far, even if she knows it wasn't because they were strategically-minded.

Ildra leaves in a hurry to perform the task commanded of her and that leaves Fariah in the hold with her two guardsmen and the foreigner captain. She listens, ears snapping back toward him to hear him over the idling drone of the engine before she turns to level that gilded gaze in his eyes.

"Yes. We are regimental. Sidhe are always such, soldiery or not, because if we do not have a purpose given to us as a whole, we find our own purpose. It is finding our own purpose that made the first Ariad so needed. He was ferocious, unpredictable, and bloodthirsty. But in instating himself as the first ruler under which all clans rallied, he gave them a purpose and a discipline. It is something we continue to use to keep us in check.

"...I cannot say I have heard of Illumina. No nation comes to mind, at any rate. It must be far out of even our influence."

He joins her entourage, after all outside of the big worry of what hyrule is becoming. Of what action had spurned the queen into such drastic reorganization of everything, of the killings happening... it felt good to be far from that, if only for a few weeks before he must return. the queen search, knowledge seeking ways for anything new. Anything powerful from what she can gleam into his head was also dangerous.

He hated, being in Hyrule now. it felt too similar to his old home. He wanted those lazy days where the king had been sloppy, but kind. Old, but almost like a father figure to his men. After all the kingdom was rich in everything, but now with Queen Zelda in charge it was more ruthless. If you did not lean towards its advancement, you die. And many people have died.

It is only after a while , a small while , while men and women sailors unload everything. the riches were intense, rich beyond belief. Precious metal and stones, everything this nation had been asking for - from what he understood- was unloaded.

There was the mining rights, but that the ambassador job, not his to present. No doubt such a action would make further allies of this island nation.

"Forgive me for stating the obvious, but your army is very militarized. It reminds me of my old home before Hyrule. Have you...ever heard of a nation called Illumina by chance?"

It was a reach.

[frozcnhearts]

Aether looked at his clean sword and while it might looked like he didn't understand - he did very well. Though free of dirt, he himself could still see the blood of monsters and humans alike on his blade. It was nothing compared to his true sword, that still lingered somewhere in this world. Sleeping and awaiting for his owner to retrieve it again.

“He was on the way.”, Aether remembered, “I do not to refuse those, who are in need of help. Even if they belong to the Fatui.”.

"If you want results, sometimes rudeness makes things easier. I know you have the blood of many troublemakers on your blade as proof."

in any case, he shakes his head. his expression softening as he leans on his cane a bit. Looking more like someone who can be friends with. this is the traveller, no doubt.

It helps that the traveller no matter many regions he goes to, never changes his outfit.

"I come to thank you for the rescue of Anton. the fatui you also helped within the mines that Liyue had sealed off. Were it not for you, I would have lost a comrade."

[burncdheart]

"Your minders? In a hotel?", Taru frowned as she followed him, realizing how lucky that guy was to even find one with free rooms. Most seemed occupied still and therefore, people who came from far away nation's seldomly had a place to stay during the night. Unless they were lucky enough to have any relatives or friends in the nation that was looked over by the anemo archon.

"I would have taken juice anyway.", the thought of the taste of alcohol alone caused her to grimace, "I care little about what you take, old man. But if you get drunk, prepare to find back to your hotel alone. I'm no babysitter."

"Its true. but I'm desperate for companionship, and my minders are off in the hotel."

His cane hit the floors quiet readily, each step making sure that he doesn't fall or make a fool of himself. After all he is currently the highest ranking fatui right now in the city, after Signora business was done the chances of a harbringer coming in were miniscule.

"If you are feeling less then inclinded, we could just stop for juice. After all nothing is stopping you from leaving now." the city fresh breeze is the only good thing about this city that he liked, everyone was too carefree with everything, that he wandered how they could have survived. especially now that their real grand master is on a expedition.

[electric-ecclectic]

"On how to make beer..."

With a thumb and forefinger grasping her chin in thought, Signe peered over her desk to glance at the right section.

"Mondstadt is typically known for its wine, mind you. But we do carry some books on the brewing process, and beer-making isn't unheard of. I think what you're looking for should be this way."

With a gesture to follow, Signe made her way towards the middle of the library, hand on a hip as she paused to pick out a section.

"Something general, I'm assuming? It's best to start with the more basic books before advancing."

"Pardon me, I was told that the library was open to all..."

His minders, fatui agents were all in the hotel, the city of freedom a bustling place of activity. Certainly its no Liyue, and sometimes he does capture his agents fooling around due to the city atmosphere. But...

At the very least, the place is certainly lively.

"Do you happen to have any books... on how to make beer?"

@electric-ecclectic

[frozcnlight]

“Huh? No, no! You aren’t a bother at all, sir… I mean Helios! You helped me, so it is my way of saying thank you.”, Miran flailed with her hands as she started to walk into the direction where the court of Fontaine was. It would be quite a way after all, only now she realized just how far she actually had ran away - and the herbs and flowers she wanted to pick for her sister were somewhere sprayed on the ground.

The blonde heaved out a voiceless sigh upon realizing that she was about to come back empty-handed, but soon turned her head back to the man.

“Fanta flavors? Oh, I’ve heard of it. Though, I never tried those.”, she admitted with a gentle smile appearing on her face, “Actually, I’ve even only tried this coffee once. But it was so bitter… I do prefer tea over everything.”.

Remarkably polite for someone who comes from that country, especially its hypo-

No no. That memory is long dead now, Helios should know, but at the very least he'll reserve his reservations for now.

"Coffee is fine, its one of fontaine best products considering how... energetic it can go. I prefer mine with ice as well."

"I'll...pay for half the bill, its the least I can do since I feel like a bother right now." Helios voice is demure, someone who is used to being in polite company and never voicing one own complain.

"Though I can show you some fanta flavors I really like. It very refreshing."

[frozcnlight]

Oh! In all the trouble she had totally forgotten to introduce herself. It was clear on her face how embarrassed she felt over this little, tiny fact. Even clapping her own hand over her mouth in shock - where were her manners after all?! As her arm fell back to her side, she lifted the long, beige skirt of her dress a tiny bit with both of her hands as she slightly curtsied by bowing her upper body slightly forward - everything in an overly polite manner.

“My pleasure, my name is Lee Miran, I’m coming from Mondstadt.”, she spoke with softest delight, before she straightened her back again in order to take a glance at Helios again.

“But I’ve been here in Fontaine since a few weeks now. So I really came to enjoy the deserts they offer here lately. They also sell this beverage that’s good to gather back energy… I guess they called it coffee? Sir, I do think it might would be exactly what you need - though, it’s taste is somewhat bitter.”.

He is not used to the sweet luxury that Fontaine affords, his memory is shoddy at best but he knows as a soldier, he's more used to harsher foods like jerkey on the streets.

"....I suppose my schedule is cleared up, now that thos eabyss mages are dead."

"I accept your offer, my name is Helios."

[frozcnlight]

"Seriously...", she heaved out a sigh, deciding that it would be no use on insisting further. If they were to get infected, it would be his own fault. She had offered help after all! Yet, she couldn't stop the mixed feelings of guilt and needing to help in any way.

"Then let me invite you to food at least, sir!", she pushed her hands onto her hips, "Fighting like this... it must make hungry, does it not? If not, then something to drink. The court of fontaine has a really nice café.".

"Alright, I'll eliminate the camp later then."

He says with confidence that said camp will be gone by morning. After all trauma and experiments aside, his new powers were something that helped him on the field. Sure he had a more sensitive nose but thats something else.

"You need not worry , I'm a ... soldier. If I get infected while on the job, that's on me."