#char: iarden lindys

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Right everyone, haven't written much in a while so

Vibe check:

How we feeling?

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Ignore the fact that I haven't actually updated this chapter in months

You know how hard it is for me to keep Cooper and Iarden apart as a canon ship? I don't intend for them to be endgame but I dig the vibe rn. Toxic lesbians for the win.

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Despite not actively working on the main series, I 100% headcanon that Casper dyes his hair to look more like his step sister. His step sister who hates that he does this.

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Not writing because uni but have some more Sims (because this is what I do now, I guess)

This time some side characters! Featuring:

Casper's stepsister and Cooper's wife, Iarden Lindys

Side chick Dane Sorenson

Local bartender who *will* sell your secrets, Lainey Chancellor

And the only reporter who actually works, Tali Faber

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I'm gonna make them worse

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Casper "I'm Sorry that I was in love with your fiancé :/" Young and Iarden "I don't know what my fiancé looks like" Lindys is one hell of a pair to write about

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Playing around with parallels with these two gals right off the bat, and I kinda dig it so far.

So, there’s Cooper’s fiance:

and Cooper’s best friend/crush:

I’m not making a habit of doing every character description like this, but I kinda like these two having similar introductions.

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Behold, one again introducing these bastards but this time it’s themed

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Once again, Casper Young found himself naked under the desk of his office. The office he unfortunately shared. With his clothes likely in tatters, spread across the city center miles away from where he lay now. Curse the moon, and damn his curse, but above all damn the opening hours to the newsroom where his arse was bared to the world. His eyes opened slowly, reluctantly awakening to the very real fact that both his co-workers were likely on their way or here already. The sound of squeaking metal send a jolt down his spine, causing him to slam his head into the side of the desk as he slowly arose from his acursed slumber. Coffee beans crunched into a fine powder, the warm comforting smell filling the room. "Full moons, Cas?" asked Iarden, blessedly refusing to look in his direction. In her distraction he crawled into his chair and firmly covered himself beneath the desk. "I'd have far more clothes to stash around if you stopped stealing them." Iarden shrugged, her too-long, too wide jacket moving like a circus tent in the wind. An unnecessary part of the ordeal. If only his father hadn't the mind to marry her mother sometime during frostfall of the year before, the very same date that Iarden had once chosen for herself and her own partner for the year prior. Pouring salt in the open wound that was Cooper's untimely passing before her unseemly resurrection.

will I ever post a full chapter here? Who knows!

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The unfortunate step-siblings; Casper and Iarden.

Ton was born to nobility, now the lord of Ystwyth; a fishing village in Gaumór. At the age of fourteen he was sent to live with an uncle in Kingshill, where in rebellion he stole from the temple of Omera. He returned to the city two years later, as a student at Stykes Military Academy; and it was there that instead of focusing on his skills as a soldier, he honed his writing. He has published many short stories under his pen name Casper Young.

His father married Iarden’s mother when he was twenty two, a few months before his story starts.

Iarden is the daughter of one of the greatest weapon exporters and war profiteers. As the heiress, she was expected to not only know the ins-and-outs of not only the business, but also how to handle weaponry. She of course hated this, but despite her feelings she went along to Stykes Academy where she later met (and dated) Cooper of the Omera temple. She planned to run away together, until reality set in and she sent Cooper away. She now works part time as a reporter alongside Casper, and their mutual friend Tali, running one of the local newspapers.

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Behold some of my favourite mages; Finn and Iarden

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Casper and Iarden love acting like they’re smart but also don’t notice when Cooper is replaced by her sister who’s a lot shorter than Cooper

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With a sigh, Casper pulled out his packet of cigarettes - an engraved golden case with his surname written in a neat font. It wasn’t real gold, of course, just another front like everything in his life. It had come from his great grandfather, or so he was told, and now the golden painted box wore down to a brassy brown where it had been palmed often, its facade fading away. He carefully pulled out a thin roll of paper and tobacco - barely a real cigarette but it would have to do - and settled it between his lips. He offered the box to Iarden, who took one with far less care, lighting it with a flick of her wrist and taking a long drag. Casper rolled his eyes and lit it the usual way - with a lighter, with no magic to be seen. “Well then, Iarden, you fucked it,” he said, rolling his shoulders. “Thank you for absolutely nothing, the both of you.” Iarden puffed away without a care, her lips curling into a mischievous little grin. “Guess Tali's writing that book review after all. Which one was it again? The Atherton Complex, or By The Sea Siorr?” “It was Into The Lion’s Maw, actually - and it was a short story not a novel.”

Bully your local authors today! (Don't actually do this)

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Yes, this is the same scene where Iarden’s prepared to kill him over the slightest inconvenience.

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Book 2 Iarden: Cooper believed in the Gods, she didn't have a choice

Book 1 Cooper, after biting a God and drinking their blood: Gods aren't real and you cannot pay me to think otherwise

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Already posted Casper, so have the rest of the main trio while I wrangle this chapter