#exotic fails to account for the fact that a day only has 24 hours and most of that is used to function and exist

[exoticdox]

happy the day before Halloween, here's some stupid hnk pfps

there's like 3 more. would've liked to make more but by the last one, I realized I wasn't gonna reach my goal of like 20 pfps and sorta. kinda. started not doing very ok

I'm alright but maybe I should get a planner or smth. aa, if only it weren't nearly the end of the year...

happy Halloween :3

[mutantsrisingrpg]

Congratulations, BECKY! You’ve been accepted as PALLENE with a FC change to FIVEL STEWART.

Becky, you delivered a character as rich as the honeyed smiles you described Anastasia as having with a complexity as deep as the darkness you implied lurks behind it. It was difficult to choose between the apps for Anastasia, but ultimately I couldn’t get your visions for her out of my head. She’s youthful and you see it in the way she wants to be adored and the way she uses her powers and I can’t even describe how excited I am to see the sort of havoc that only she can wreak on this city.

Welcome to Mutants Rising! Please read the checklist and submit your account within 24 hours.

Out of Character Information:

NAME/ALIAS: Becky

PRONOUNS: she/her

AGE: 23

TIMEZONE & ACTIVITY LEVEL: GMT, online daily

TRIGGERS: None

In Character Information:

DESIRED ROLE: Anastasia Ahn ( Pallene )

GENDER/PRONOUNS: cisfemale, she/her

DETAILS & ANALYSIS: This is where you show us who the character is to you! The format of this doesn’t matter, whether it’s in bullet points or in para form, and can be as long as you’d like it to be. Feel free to get creative!

Anastasia got chewed up and spat out as a teenager but instead of healing she found herself with powers, which– what sixteen year old doesn’t want to find out that she has the ability to change the emotions of those around her?

She’s pretty for the sake of covering up the bad things that she knows exist inside her: jealousy and revenge. It kind of reminds me of that scene from Jennifer’s Body where Jennifer is trying to smooth foundation over her face in an attempt to cover up the fact that she’s a blood sucking vampire.

I guess it plays off of the idea that monsters hide in plain sight

And it’s not that she’s evil – she’s just incredibly sensitive and knows how to hold a grudge. She wants better and she wants more and she consumes to fill the gap inside her that she doesn’t otherwise know what to do with

She’s an amalgamation of every twenty-something year old that looks back on her mistakes and decides that other people were the problem. It’s far easier to blame everyone else than herself, after all.

She wants to remain lovely and she wants to be seen as someone to aspire to be like and she wants to be satisfied and she wants to feel full and, above all, she wants to be adored.

Also inspired by this quote from Florence +The Machine’s artistic director: “It’s about the power the darkness of longing can give you when you embrace your inner beast alone…. Women who bond themselves together like this, and rise up together like this, are usually accused of being witches, so I wanted to explore that. I also wanted to create an abstraction of Florence as if every woman was a small piece of glass that had shattered inside her. Now they join her outside her body and fight with her, love with her, go to war with her.”

BIO:

The wannabe beauty queen. The sickeningly stereotypical airhead cheerleader. The girl with a post-divorce-rich mum who loves spending her time in exotic locations and comes and goes, but mostly goes, and the apologetic don’t-forget-I-love-you-even-though-I-screwed-my-receptionist dad that gives her gifts to make up for the dance recitals and birthday parties he missed when she was a child. Shallow popularity is worn like the diamante-studded tiara she got for her sweet-sixteen, glistening brightly to dazzle and distract from below-average grades.

Her teachers tell her she needs to try harder. Scorned students that she’s ostracized flock like vultures to her grades on results day, picking at the sun-bleached bones of a carcass that spells out the word FAIL. But try as she might to study, headaches plague her. Unable to concentrate in class, her parents, respectively, pay for doctors to assess her, to figure out the cause of the sharp-shooting pain that sometimes ends in nosebleeds. Red stains the pale pink silk of her dress on prom night. Carrie’s anger isn’t lost on her – in hindsight it’s ironic, really.

Her ability manifests slowly. Slow enough that she doesn’t realise it at first. Bizarre happenings that could be circumstances begin to add up until there’s no mistaking that something strange is at play. Unrequited love turns to adoration from the boy who lives next door who has never so much as even expressed that he knows her name until now. Previously unsympathetic teachers look at her with pity and decide to raise her grade as she tugs at their heartstrings.

It isn’t until she uses her newfound gift to make her parents fall in love with one another again that she realises she’s different. She’s special. The world was her dolls house and she was free to dictate the emotions of the pretty plastic people inside. Everyone could be happy. Everyone would love her.

Everyone, and everything, would fall apart.

Like a love spell from a fairytale, her unpracticed manipulations soon wear thin and revert to that which was once before. A sugar-sweet kiss turns rotten, confusion sweeping across her lover’s face as he attempts to figure out why her tongue was just in his mouth. Teachers frown when they re-read her essays, blaming her for somehow altering her grade. Her parents wake up and begin yelling all over again, echoes of her childhood biting at her heels like jaw-snapping hounds.

Left staring at the ruins of her life, Anastasia runs. She vows not to use her powers again, terrified of herself and a lack of control over them. A period of homelessness and a string of low-paid jobs are what leads her to wind up at Cornerstore Convenience, searching for a shift or two that she can pick up to try and make rent at her new entirely unloveable basement apartment. Turned away by the cashier, in desperation she uses her curse ( no longer a gift, no longer anything but trouble ) to persuade them to reconsider.

Her first shift, as it happens, is less of a trial-run and more of an assessment. A wide-eyed teenager whose world has already been turned upside down, she watches the universe rearrange itself once more. Truth unravels as she’s introduced to Derek, and then to Angela, and then – once words like mutants and power and family swim through her skull – to Damien.

Six years later and her gift turned curse turned ability is no longer the chemical taste of terror in the back of her mouth. Anastasia has regained her confidence in using her emotional manipulation, allowing it to curl around her mind like a feline whose affection is hard won but worthwhile. Still striving to be picture perfect, something dark lurks behind her practiced honeyed smiles and there’s a hint of danger to the way her fingertips dance over the cheekbones of anyone who dares to get too close.

EXPANDED CONNECTIONS:

CHANCE MATTHEWS: Ever a perfectionist, Anastasia had seen Chance as her Prince Charming. She’d played the game of love with devotion and care, being there for him when he needed advice, offering solace and warmth and affection. They had been happy, she thought. Had she not been pretty enough? Sweet enough? Pure enough? His increasing distance stings like a slap, leaving her to sulk bitterly in his wake.

SHAE KNOX: Of all the people to lurk amongst the shadows of The House, Anastasia never would have expected to find herself staring into the familiar brown eyes of an old friend. Squeals of joy while running barefoot across the lawn; sleepovers spent eating too much chocolate; teary goodbyes when Anastasia’s dad sold her childhood home. Surrounded by strangers, Shae was a beacon in the dark. A lighthouse of protection. They continue to be a comfort, even now, especially now, standing tall through the various storms that continue to howl through Anastasia’s life. She owes them a lot and will stand with them through thick and thin.

ISAAC CASTILLA: Boys like him are dangerous enough without abilities. A sky-high ego and a switchblade smirk, he’s the mirror-image of the troublemakers at school who would kiss and tell, smudging the lipgloss of girls whose hearts hadn’t known better. Anastasia’s not above tricking a teenager into feeding her information – she’ll play dirty with a mouth full of sweet lies in the hope she can prove to Damien – and, in extension, his son – just how much of an asset she is.

EXTRA:

I’d make a playlist but it would just be the entirety of Marina and the Diamonds’ Electra Heart album

I sort of see her as a mixture of Lavender Brown from Harry Potter, Elaine from The Love Witch,  and Tinker Bell from Peter Pan

Couldn’t resist a pinterest board

ANYTHING ELSE: FC change to Fivel Stewart or Natasha Liu Bordizzo if possible! ( no preference )

[loptgangandi]

Dragon Age AU: The truth is what sets them free

Details

Name: loki Age: 32 (9:41 dragon, inquisition); 35 (9:44 dragon, trespasser) Gender: fluid, presents primarily as male, AFAB Sexuality: pansexual Race: elf-blooded Class: mage (blood / shapeshifter) Favored schools: winter / inferno Clan: iteliseth -> alaslin'dahl Country: ferelden Biological mother: farbauti (deceased) Biological father: keeper laufey (deceased) Adoptive mother: frigga borson (deceased) Adoptive father: teyrn odin borson Brother: ser thor borson, templar S/O: keeper sul'em'abelas alaslin'dahl -> dirthamen/dream (verse dependent) Children: zafian/safain, fenris, joral (sons); ras'vilem (daughter). lethanavir (dirthamen/loki verse) FC: My male Lavellan

Timeline

9:9 Dragon: Birth

9:21 Dragon: Loki is imprisoned in the Circle of Magi

9:23 Dragon: Thor joins the Templar Order, hoping to protect his mage brother

9:24 Dragon: Loki becomes pregnant by the Templar Svadilfar

9:25 Dragon: Loki’s first son is born. The boy has two extra pairs of legs and arms, and is given to the Chantry as per Circle custom. Unbeknownst to Loki, Odin wins a fight with the Chantry for custody of the child, and names him Zafain.

9:25 Dragon: Thor’s request to finish his training at the Circle Tower is granted. He and Loki are reunited.

9:29 Dragon: Thor is transferred away from the Circle Tower due to his and Loki’s deepening personal connection. Loki’s abusers, emboldened by the brother’s absence, redouble their assault.

9:29 Dragon: Loki undergoes his Harrowing. It is successful, but it is the last chance he may have to escape the tower. He smashes a window, and jumps. He miraculously survives the fall, which should have killed him, and washes up on the bank of Lake Calenhad.

9:30 Dragon: The Blight begins. The Grey Warden is recruited, King Cailan is killed, and the Hawke family flees Lothering.

9:30 Dragon: Loki destroys half of Clan Iteliseth in a bid to win his father’s approval. When this fails, Loki flees into the Frostbacks. He is apprehended by Templars, and the ensuing scuffle leaves them dead and Loki wounded. He is picked up by Clan Alaslin’dahl, and taken in as the clan’s general schoolmaster and the Keeper’s Second.

9:33 Dragon: Loki and Sul’em’abelas, keeper of Alaslin’dahl, are married.

9:34 Dragon: Son Fenris is born

9:35 Dragon: Son Joral is born

9:36 Dragon: Daughter Ras’vilem is born

9:39 Dragon: Alaslin’dahl is attacked, and Loki’s children are kidnapped. Loki is dragged back to his father and imprisoned. He is also reunited with his eldest child, Zafain.

9:39 Dragon: Loki’s mother is killed in an attack by Tal-Vashoth. He and his brother seek vengeance. Loki fakes his death so that Thor will leave him alone and he can pursue his children in peace.

9:40 Dragon: Loki returns to Ferelden and deposes his father, thinking he can use the Teyrnir’s resources to find his children. Odin vanishes into obscurity.

9:41 Dragon: The Conclave is disrupted and a rift opens up in the sky above Haven. In the absence of clear leadership, an Inquisition is declared, with the Herald of Andraste at its head.

9:41 Dragon: Loki travels to Haven and joins the Inquisition

9:41 Dragon: Loki is reunited with daughter Ras’vilem in Skyhold

Backstory

Childhood

Loki was born in 9:9 Dragon to a human Fereldan named Farbauti and the Keeper of the Dalish Clan Iteliseth, Laufey. Farbauti died in childbirth, and the same day a few agitated hunters, upset by the death of the clan’s beloved adoptee (in spite of the baby’s survival), got into a skirmish with a few trespassing humans, which ended in bloodshed. In retaliation, the Teyrn of the territory – newly-formed, and the Teyrn newly-appointed – eliminated the clan in a bid to establish his power and authority.

Odin Borson slaughtered a good chunk of the clan –  save for the Keeper, the baby, and those who surrendered. He kidnapped the infant Loki, less than 24 hours old, and told his wife that the child had been abandoned in the woods. Frigga Borson, an apostate with a gift for hiding her curse, raised the infant elf-blood alongside her own son, and concealed his emerging magical talent from those who would take him from her.

Loki grew up a quiet, withdrawn, bookish child – loved by his mother, but largely ignored by his father, whose approval he constantly sought. Deep down, he knew that he could never win it – his father valued strength of arm and valorous deeds, and only allowed Frigga to help Loki cultivate and conceal his gifts because he knew that losing the boy would devastate her.

Loki, acutely aware of this, grew to resent his elder brother, a golden child beloved by all and an ideal to which he knew he could never live up. Both children were, of course, trained in the art of war by their father, who had gained his position and title through martial prowess. Thor favored his father’s weapons of choice – swords, axes, and warhammers – but the keen and sickly Loki preferred weapons that would let him kill quickly and without risk that he would be hit: a rogue’s weapons. Daggers, bows, and the occasional shortsword. From one of the servants in the house, he learned the art of utlizing poisons – that she knew this art in the first place didn’t really worry him.

The Circle

In 9:21 Dragon, when Loki was 12 years old, Odin – fearing that the adopted child would lay claim to some of the lands and titles which were Thor’s rightful inheritance – Odin turned him in to the Chantry as a mage. He was taken to Kinloch Hold. A free spirit in many ways – and a person who had grown up respected nobility with the freedom to do whatever he pleased – Loki chafed under the yoke of imprisonment, constant supervision, and chronic Templar abuse. A young boy with a pretty face and oddly exotic features, he was often the target of such abuse – emotional, physical, and worse.

Still, he recognized his position: he had an entire world and history’s worth of knowledge at his fingertips, and a mind like a weapon. He read almost constantly, devouring the Circle library piece by piece, honing his intellect with books on magic, on history, on Dwarves, Elves, and Qunari. He retreated into his studies after each abuse with renewed vigor, determined to find something that would help free him and get vengeance simultaneously.

He did manage to have vengeance on a few of the worst offenders – young mages were often assigned various chores and duties, and Loki especially relished the days when he was tasked with working in the kitchen. He had become a proficient alchemist and potioneer, and he had found that certain reagents would cause illness or even death when mixed with high quantities of lyrium.

Sometimes – not always, for he didn’t wish to establish a pattern – he would mix these reagents into food meant for the Templars, whose lyrium-laced blood would react poorly. Once, he even managed to kill – simply by adding a slightly higher quantity to wine he was certain was going to a Templar who had sexually abused him. Nobody suspected the pale, willowy, bookish little teen who was ill and feverish more often than not (and who lied with stunning skill when questioned). Eventually, they put it down to bad wine and bad luck.

The Firstborn

When Loki was 15 years old, in 9:24 Dragon, he caught a careless young Templar named Svadilfar – who had a tendency to pay excessive attention to the younger mages – trying to take advantage of a child who could not have been more than 13. Loki seduced him away from the little boy, but it naturally came at a cost – the Templar had not been prepared for a more mature victim, and in his eagerness, failed to take the necessary precautions to prevent the sort of tangible consequences that could bring the Chantry down upon him.

Somehow, the First Enchanter managed to protect the pregnant teenage mage from being silenced in his sleep. He even sent word to Loki’s father to make sure that someone outside of the Circle knew about this – so that if something were to happen to the baby after its birth, there was the chance that someone would be held accountable.

Even so, Loki spent the better part of a year in isolation, at his own request. He spoke to no one. He did not leave his room. Loki had thus far managed to hide his more self-loathing predilections, so few precautions were taken to keep him or the unborn baby safe.

He was allowed access to books and parchment and ink and quills, even reagents and ingredients to occupy him during his self-imposed imprisonment. And he experimented, trying to induce early labor, kill the fetus, abort this thing before it could reach a stage where it might qualify as an actual person. He failed. The child was born… wrong. Disfigured. A beautiful boy, but for the fact that it had two extra arms and two extra legs. Not unheard-of, but exceedingly rare.

The Templars raged. The Chantry railed. And Odin – who had known of the child’s existence before its birth – had already sent for it to be transferred to him. What could they do? He was a Teyrn who wished to hold his grandson. The Templar that fathered the baby said nothing, for to do so would be to reveal himself the perpetrator of the crime and take ownership and responsibility for this monstrous child. So the child went to Odin, and Odin took pity on the infant (as per usual) and raised him in secret, hidden from the world, a hideous, malformed thing in the eyes of all who encountered him, abhorrent to the Maker – and yet, still family, after a fashion. And useful.

And Loki believed that his child was dead, and thought it a mercy that he wouldn’t need to live in this world Andraste should have let burn centuries ago.

Suicide and Escape

When Thor was 14 years old, his brother was wrenched from him by the Chantry, and sent to live in a Circle where Thor could not protect him. The young heir, to his father’s dismay, rejected his titles and inheritance (those same titles and inheritance that had prompted Odin to send his adopted son away in the first place), and joined the Templar Order. He asked to be stationed at the Circle Tower so that he could protect his mage brother, a plea so impassioned that the Chantry granted it.

When he was 18 years old and Loki was 16, in 9:25 Dragon, they were reunited, and Loki found that the instances of abuse began to wane. But it came at a cost. From his brother, Loki learned the truth about his heritage – that he was an Elf (and Dalish at that), and the story behind his kidnapping. Loki’s dislike for Elves tripled, and his desire to leave the Circle and prove to his father that he was worthy of love and respect was rekindled.

In 9:29 Dragon, a year before the beginning of the Blight, Thor was transferred to a different Circle for telling Loki the truth and causing possible upset. This, of course, only made things worse; in Thor’s absence, Loki’s abusers became emboldened once more, and – now with the knowledge that he was an Elf – it increased to unbearable levels.

It was at this time that he underwent his Harrowing. He toyed with the idea of accepting possession and letting himself be killed by the Templars, but decided that if he was going to die, it was going to be outside the walls of his prison. His Harrowing was successful, and he emerged unattached... and in that moment of relief and dropped guard, bolted for the nearest window, snatching a Templar’s sword as he went. He used the sword to shatter the glass, and threw himself into the void before anyone could react.

The Templars searched for his body for days, to no avail. He had bled heavily from the cuts the glass left, and his magical essence had been dispersed into the water. Nobody could have survived that fall, of course – so eventually they gave up the search, assuming that his broken corpse had simply taken on water and sunk rapidly into the lake. They did a cursory scan of the northern shores for footprints – but finding nothing out of the ordinary, they put the search to rest.

Even Loki, when he found himself on the bank of the river flowing out of Lake Calenhad into the sea, bones healed and lungs free of water, was baffled by his survival. What came next, however, almost made him wish for the relative safety of the Circle. He doesn’t speak of what happened then. Not even to those closest to him. Only… he often wakes in the middle of the night, crying out in pain and fear. He speaks of demons, and of Darkspawn, and that is all.

Apostasy

Word soon reached Thor of his brother’s suicide. Grief-stricken, and unable to believe that his brother was truly dead, Thor begged to return to Kinloch to search for his brother’s body and give him a proper funeral. His Knight Commander took pity on him and gave him dispensation to search for Loki by whatever means necessary. As soon as Thor touched Loki’s phylactery – phial now archived among the rest of those who had passed – he felt it. The pull of magic, leading him away from the tower toward where his brother’s body lay. Except… it pulled him even further. Beyond the lake, even beyond Redcliffe. West, towards the Frostback Mountains and their father’s Teyrnir.

With a several-week head start, Loki had gone searching for the Iteliseth Clan – what remained, at least – believing that if he brought the head of his birth father to his adopted father, he would prove himself Odin’s true son. Like Odin before him, Loki left few survivors. He single-handedly slaughtered most of the clan’s hunters, and it was only when Laufey surrendered and was slain that Loki was satisfied to leave the rest alive. He brought the head of Laufey back to Odin, who simply told him to go home. Back to the Circle.

Children of Apostasy

Hunted, haunted, and pursued, Loki fled west, into the Frostback Mountains, believing that such a wild and inhospitable place might offer some protection from the forces following him. From his brother and the Templars, but also perhaps from the demons seeking him. It didn’t, and an encounter with a group of Templars (minus his brother) left them dead and Loki wounded.

To his dismay, he was found by the Alaslin'dahl Clan, Dalish elves with a particularly vicious, vengeful bent. The smell of blood on him didn’t seem to deter them – and in fact, his apostasy, hostility toward the Chantry, considerable martial and magical skill, and education in a diverse range of subjects made him a great asset.

He was given a choice: join or die. They offered protection and community, and in return he would teach them to read and write, and lend his magic in whatever capacity was required of him. The Keeper, Sul'em'abelas, soon took a liking to the keen-minded and ruthless elf-blooded mage, and in 9:33 Dragon they were married.

Around the same time, Loki was given the vallaslin of Dirthamen. But while he never would go so far as to call it worship, he felt a deeper kinship with the Dread Wolf – the patron god of the Alaslin'dahl Clan.

He sired three children with Sul'em'abelas over the next three years: sons Fenris and Joral, and daughter Ras'Vilem (or Ras for short). For a time, there was peace – as much as the Alaslin'dahl Clan would allow, at least, and for several years Loki lived with his family in the forest, and was almost allowed to forget that he was a wanted man.

Death and the Tower

In 9:39 Dragon, when he was 30 years old, Loki had gone off with several companions to do reconnaissance on alleged troop movement nearby. He and his companions returned to screaming, smoke, and the clamor of battle. They managed to drive off the attacking Templars, but not without heavy casualties. Sul'em'abelas survived, along with Loki and a few hunters, all heavily-wounded. Some children had fled into the woods, and also managed to survive. Loki’s children were not among them, yet their bodies were nowhere to be found. The Keeper’s First also seemed to have vanished without a trace.

Loki and Sul'em'abelas, half-dead from their wounds, began to pursue the Templars, but were quickly detained by the living hunters. What did they plan to do when they caught up? Did they – two dying Dalish mages – really think they could take on the Templars? They didn’t seem to care, but the hunters managed to overpower them and bring them back to camp.

The Keeper’s First of a nearby clan was sought, and by the time Loki and Sul'em were well enough to go hunting, it was already too late. The trail had gone cold, and the children were lost. Grief-stricken, Loki left his clan and beloved wife, promising to return once he found their children.

It was all too convenient, and Loki suspected that the Templars were not, in fact, rogue, but were acting under orders. Once outside the protection of is clan (who had traveled to the Brecilian Forest), Thor and his companions apprehended him, and dragged him back to their father’s hall – where Loki had, in fact, intended to go in the first place. He learned that Odin had indeed been behind the attack, and Odin told him that the children had been executed for apostasy, and that the only reason why Loki would not be was because his mother wouldn’t allow it. Therefore, he would not be returned to the Templars, because they would likely execute him immediately; he would instead, at Frigga’s request, be kept alive in the keep’s dungeon for the rest of his miserable life.

A few months later, the keep was raided by a rogue band of Tal-Vashoth seeking vengeance against Odin, whose father had been responsible for a campaign against them many years prior. Frigga attempted to protect Thor’s young fiancee, and was killed in the attack; Thor enlisted Loki, a skilled tracker after his time with the Dalish, to seek vengeance upon them. He would have to return to his cell thereafter, of course – but at least they would have vengeance.

Loki agreed. Thor, Loki, and Thor’s fiancee (whose overwhelming survivor’s guilt made her presence a necessity by her own reckoning) slipped out from under the Teyrn’s nose and pursued the Tal-Vashoth into hostile territory, where they were able to ambush and kill most of them. Thor was nearly slain by the same individual who had killed their mother, and was rescued at the last minute by Loki. The victory was bittersweet, however, as the murderer used his dying moments to take vengeance on the apostate.

The trick Loki used to convince his brother that he died in his arms was one that his mother had taught him as a child to conceal his magic, adapted to make his pulse and breath appear still, and his skin and blood seem cold.

With hostile scouts bearing down, and no time to bury his brother, Thor and his fiancee swiftly departed to Kirkwall to help deal with the rebellion rumored to be brewing. Loki, wounded but alive, struck out for Kirkwall as well, determined to continue the search for his children.

After months of bad leads and dead ends, Loki returned to Ferelden to deal with his father. He entered the castle disguised as an elven servant, and cornered Odin in his bedchamber. But as he went to deal the final blow, he found that he could not; Odin had raised him, and Loki would always be his child. He wiped the old man’s memory instead, then stole a horse, and dumped Odin by the side of the road in a tiny, backwater town. He could live out his life there as a beggar, as far as Loki cared – or a servant, if he was very lucky. Death would be a more fitting punishment, but a miserable life would suffice.

For a time, Loki ruled the Teyrnir as the only legitimate heir – but he soon realized that the center could not hold. Templars were beginning to grow suspicious, as were the servants, and Loki knew that it was only a matter of time before his brother returned. He had also come no closer to finding his lost children, whom he was convinced were still alive; limiting contact with the Templars also meant limiting his chances of obtaining information from them. He would have to switch strategies if he was going to find them.

Inquisition

Rumors soon reached his ears of the newly-formed Inquisition – and how the Chantry was denouncing it. Leery of a group that seemed to be starting a holy war – but emboldened by the Chantry’s dislike – he  went to Haven to see if he could join. Perhaps, at least, they could give him some protection; if he was very lucky, perhaps they could also help him find information about his lost children.

To his surprise, Thor showed up at Haven not a week later. Having learned that his father had vanished, Thor put a few pieces of the puzzle together, but not all; he was still quite surprised to find his brother alive. Thor joined as well, for less selfish reasons; the Breach was a threat no one with a conscience could ignore, and he believed it his duty as a Templar – and as a person – to protect the world from whatever was spilling out of the rifts and do what he could to amend the entire situation. His fiancee, a brilliant scholar, historian, and astronomer in her own right, was glad to assist as well.

Thor and Loki now have an easy truce; they had always loved each other, and are healing the rift that their father had driven between them. Loki often speaks of his wife and children and the pain of that loss, and Thor goes to Loki for help when lyrium withdrawal becomes too much to cope with.

Reunion (with sinnhelmingr)

Sometime after the Inquisition relocates to Skyhold, a mysterious elven man shows up with a young girl. She is immediately recognized as Loki’s daughter, Ras’vilem. Father and daughter are tearfully reunited, and Ras starts on the long path to healing from her ordeal.

[tommygegory]

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The following shisha pipes are available for our shisha delivery London service:

Traditional Shisha Pipes: these are traditional Egyptian shisha pipes with ornate arabesque inscriptions and a hand-painted vase. A traditional shisha pipe will come with a prepacked tobacco bowl, hygienic mouth tips, coals (natural or quick light depending on your preference) and everything else that you may require to run a shisha pipe. Our shisha tobacco range comes in many different brands and flavours such as Starbuzz, Al Fakher, Argelini, Tangiers, Nakhla, Blue Moon (Eastern Ray tobacco). If you are unsure about what flavours you would like to choose, you can leave it up to us and we will select some of the more popular flavours that have gained general acceptance by our clients. If you are feeling more daring, we can create more exotic flavours.

Traditional shisha pipe with a fruit bowl: our previous clients who regularly use our shisha hire London service find traditional shisha pipe with a fruit bowl to be a very exotic and exciting twist to their shisha experience and are always experimenting with different tobacco mixes and fruits. We usually make our fruit bowls from melons, pineapples and grapefruits because we can pack more tobacco into these fruit bowls and put more coals on top, which can be extremely difficult when customers requests a kiwi for example. Please don’t order a kiwi! When choosing what fruit bowl to go for, it is important to consider the composition of different fruits. Grapefruits are citrus based and very juicy, whereas melons are more watery and sweet. With this in mind, try to think about what tobacco combinations would work with which fruit. For instance, banana would not work very well in a grapefruit, whereas chocolate would not taste too great in a melon. What makes fruit shisha so perfect is the fact that juices from the fruit marinate the tobacco flavours to produce a mature, refined and fragrant flavour combinations, which are usually lacking in traditional shisha. Fruit shisha pipes are more expensive than traditional shisha pipes because they require more tobacco and coals to power them to produce enough smoke.

Electronic shisha pipes: we are sure that you have no doubt heard about the sudden growth of vaping over the last few years. This means that you can enjoy your shisha pipe in an entirely new form. You will either love or hate the electronic shisha pipes. We find that our clients are either devoted to traditional tobacco or electronic shisha pipes. The difference between an electronic shisha pipe and a traditional shisha pipe is that an electronic shisha pipe produces flavoured vapour that has a very distinctive taste and chemical disposition, whereas tobacco smoke is richer and more pronounced owing to the natural qualities of the tobacco leaf. Our electronic shisha heads come with tanks pre-filled with premium, high vg elequid in many exciting flavours. High vg or vegetable glycerine composition helps to ensure that an electronic shisha pipe produces large vape clouds to better emulate the shisha smoking experience. An added benefit of using electronic shisha pipes is that they can be used in public as technically and legally, vaping is not smoking as it does not involve the combustion of tobacco. Interestingly, we saw some vapers vaping their electronic cigarette mods (sub-ohming) on a tube in Canary Wharf and they were not told to desist. If your premises do not allow smoking then choosing an electronic shisha pipe delivery service in London may just save you the night. Electronic shisha pipes use eliquid which is made up of vegetable glycerine, propylene glycol, nicotine and flavours. Vg is responsible for the cloud production and pg is a flavour carrier, the actual flavourings give the actual flavour and nicotine is responsible for the classic throat kick and a nicotine rush. The actual electronic shisha head operates using the same principle as an electronic cigarette mod with the only exception that the vapour is filtered through water (or whatever else you like to have in the vase).

About Eastern Ray Shisha

We are at the vanguard of luxury shisha hire and our eclectic shisha menu never fails to impress and is re-defining the shisha experience in London and elsewhere. Champagne, wine and cocktail infused shisha, shisha made from freshly carved pineapple, melon, grapefruit, watermelon fruit bowls, contemporary electronic shisha is just the tip of the iceberg. We have in-house designers who meticulously decorate the shisha and carve the fruit bowls, shisha mixologists who prepare exotic and delicious flavours and shisha assistants who manage the shisha pipes to guarantee the best shisha experience. We only procure the highest quality shisha pipes and shisha tobacco, e-liquid and accessories directly from our partners in United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kuwait, United States and Brazil. Our brand is becoming especially popular with many celebrities and famous public figures from across the world for which we are very grateful and believe it serves as a testament to our success and hard work.