#oc: gared

[pineappical]

yknow what. gar sona + a minecraft model

[wrongcreature]

[kilaem]

plays barbie doll with my artificer during her adult life

[comradeacerbus]

Another Sneak Peak at my Upcoming Animatic Posted on Ko-Fi!

There are a bunch of other images, including ones that are colored, as well as a progress report, posted exclusively on my "Fren Tier" over on Ko-Fi. If you wanna see them and more WIP peeks, be sure to head there and subscribe for me. Every little penny helps a bunch ;u;

[williampaladin]

Another drawing I did on @magma_com , Sandt the wizard elf, and his demon friend Gare. 

[she-whatshername]

I have absolutely no business writing any more headcanons but I need a Garrick Love interest who has a strength signet

Like can lift crossbolts like it’s nothing

Can move furniture around with ease

Like people are in her way and she can just lift them up and move them to the side lolol

She could overhead lift Garrick, in fact she’s done it before

He didn’t believe she could actually do it and when she did he was like “😳…🤤”

The man is smitten

He literally calls her a goddess

And what about Imogen you ask?

Great question

She’s fucking enamored too

Like OC is her girl crush

OC just openly flirts with her and Imogen is all pink in the face.

Garrick makes an offhand comment like “if you two went at it I wouldn’t mind” and OC is like, “I think I might.”

Another 😳🤤 Garrick moment

Imogen is totally down

They’re a throuple let’s just call it what it is

Garrick is sometimes third wheel “oh, you’re still here Gare?” “Go hang out with Xaden or something, we’re having a talk!”

Garrick is like “I boss people around all day and then get bossed around by these two at night”

And he loves every minute of it

I’ve convinced myself this needs to be written

[garricks4thwingqueen]

My Little One (I'll Do Anything For You) Garrick Tavis X OC

This is an idea that I'm grabbing from one of my dreams. Garrick girls well be feed well from me. He has a chock hold on my heart.

Synopsis: It was never easy being Amber Melgren the daughter of none other than the General Melgren himself. Amber was about to start her first year at Basgiath War College and she knew this wasn't going to be an easy thing to do with her last name and having to eventually face her ex who she hadn't seen since he started last year. Her ex was also her father's ideal match for Amber. Amber was used to these high standards from her father but started to feel more rebellious as she got older especially after losing her family member, she had the most love from at the age of 13, (which was her mother.) One of her father's strictest rules given to Amber before she had to start her first year had reminded her what he told her several years ago which was to not fall in love with any of those rebellion children.

Fic is still in the works!

Trigger Warnings: Mentions of parent death, swearing, hinted at smut.

Word Count: 917

Part 1:

I stood alone in the training room flicking dagger after dagger at the target on the wall. I kept missing everyone of my targets even though I knew I could hit it spot on, after all I spent my whole life training to be a dragon rider, I mean what else are you expected to do when your general Melgren’s daughter? It was now September and my ex had barely said a word to me since I started my first year at Basgiath this past July. Dain had started  a year ahead of me. We were dating for almost a year before he started, however he broke up with me the night before he had to cross the parapet. He's been breathing down Violet's neck and his avoiding me honestly didn't even bother me until he spoke up in sparring when my squad leader volunteered to spare me when my assigned partner ended up being sick. Garrick knew what I was capable of, Dain apparently not so much. I didn't even notice the door to the training room open until I felt a hand on my waist and one on my wrist. “A little more flick of the wrist and then you’ll have your target.” Garrick Tavis breathed softly behind me, flicking my wrist forward. I turned once the knife hit dead center “Blasting off steam cadet? I don't think I'd want to be the face of whoever you were envisioning.” Garrick chuckled. “Dain.” I replied well aware both of Garrick's hands now rested on my waist and neither of us had made any move to step away from each other. “Dain?” Garrick questioned with a raised eyebrow. “Long story.” I sighed. “I've got time.” Garrick said motioning to the bench. “We used to date it basically approached a year almost to date the night before he started here then he called it quits the same night. Not to mention that earlier was even the first time this year that he even looked in my direction. Pretending like he still cares, even though he's basically been shoved up Violet's ass since we started this year. I felt Garrick’s calloused hand reach up and cup my face. “You deserve better then him anyways.” He said his finger was now softly rubbing my cheek. “Gare.” I sighed quietly before our lips slightly brushed each other, before it became deeper & more intimate as Garrick now pulled me on his lap. “Amber”  he breathed as we stopped for air. “That was.” I started to say. “Incredible.” Garrick said softly. “Yeah.” I said with a heavy sigh, knowing how wrong this was. “My Father would flip if he ever found out about us.” I said with a quiet voice burying my face into his shoulder. “That's a risk I'm willing to take.” I started to trace his rebellion Relic that ran down the length of his arm; which was given to him and all the other rebellion children by my father's dragon Codah; when their parents committed acts of treason against Navarre. “Gare if anything ever happened to you because of me or because of my father.” I said quietly, “Look at me.” He whispered, lifting my chin up. “You're different from your father; me giving you extra training and spending extra time with you wasn't just for sparring purposes; our flirtatious banty moments were real and I think we both know I can hold my own.” He said with a smirk on his face. “Gare it's more complicated than that.” “Try me princess.” He said softly. I sighed “You really are stubborn aren't you Tavis?” “Give it all to me.” He said. Sighing and resting my head against Garrick's shoulder “It all changed after my mom died. He was never hard on training me at all as she lightened him, I was 13 when she passed due to her dragon being injured. Up until then I actually hoped I was going to end up in infantry. Training started slow and then he got stationed with Colonel Aetos and had me and Dain training almost constantly. After the rebellion surprisingly he lit up a bit, not without giving me a warning to never fall in love with any of those parents' children.

A few years passed and then he was delighted when my boyfriend who was going into the infantry and I split and then Dain and I started seeing each other. So freaking delighted he has our wedding basically planned and as far as I know he still thinks we are an item unless someone else has told him otherwise. Honestly Dain and I were both too chicken shit to mention it and he was starting here anyway so not like it mattered. I'm pretty sure he has the hots for Violet and that's why he did it and waited so he wouldn't have to deal with my father.” I paused and added “He's not one to take a beating lightly when he's upset. Upset and angered even worse.” “Dain’s a dick and I'm willing to risk it.” he said, pulling me in for another kiss. “Will take this as it goes. It's better if no one knows right away anyway, you get lash enough for your last name and then if anyone finds out you’re with me and hurts you because they think you're trying to sleep your way to safety.” He sighed, “I couldn't deal with you getting hurt because of me either, so wet for me.” He chuckled.

[changelingsandothernonsense]

Trauma ask game for any OC of your choosing: 2, 6, and 17!

This one's going to be a long and detailed one due to the first question XD. I appologise. 2. Any interesting scars? This one's going to involve some art since Josh is covered in them. It'll make the post longer so just a warning. Also one of his scars requires a self harm warning. I've left that one until last. I've also just placed REDACTED for plot points I haven't published on Ao3 yet.

Starting with ya boi's face. There's a few iterations of face scars for him as time passes. Starting with pre-Corprus-

He has two, one that cuts through his left eyebrow (cuts from his eyelid to just below his hairline). He got this due to a skull fracture at age nineteen. Essentially REDACTED happened and he had an unexpected reaction, which led to REDACTED slamming his head into a mahogany desk because he ruined the REDACTED and that shit is worth more than him! He was eventually sold to REDACTED who ran a Camonna Tong affiliated syndicate in Cyrodiil. Or as he writes in his journals-

"Teldryn Ensirhaddon-Sero is worth precisely 700 drakes. A good price - for a kid, or so I am told."

The second one cuts across his upper nose bridge and ends around his left cheek. This is a result of a failed escape attempt whilst he was being moved from the Imperial City Prison to a carriage destined for the Gold Coast. He was hit in the face with the pommel of a sword and the impact broke his nose. It then got infected in the 8 weeks and repeated reopening of the wound from subsequent beatings whilst he was chained to the floor of a ship.

Next is face scars post-Corprus.

More or less the same, but we add a third scar to his left cheekbone the cuts into his hairline. This is the result of the successful excision of a small tumor.

Post Kogoruhn-

He's broken his nose for a second time and should have his second nose scar that runs in the opposite direction of the first. This is a new application of one that is already present in his Dragon Crisis design, I just hadn't figured out how he got it. Decided with this piece. Next is post Morrowind main quest.

He adds a series of mourning scars to his cheeks to commemorate his late husband. This also involves shaving his head as a part of the ritual, hence the shorter hair (this is circa Tribunal which is a good year after).

Here he is right before the Oblivion Crisis.

And after, where he re cuts the scaring. Dragon Crisis and post Red Year.

A few more added, mostly a diamond shaped mourning scar near the outer corner of his eye and a notch taken out of his ear from when he was thrown in Windhelm's dungeon. Though he's been pretty lucky with not getting more scars, that all ends with- Post Dragon-Crisis

Josh gets attacked by a REDACTED and gets his face ripped open. The scars actually stretch right across his torso, but face wise it effects his right side. The mauling lost him half of his right ear and part of his left. It also effects the muscles in his mouth, namely that half of it is paralysed. He's more self conscious of that than anything else. Alright, body scaring time! Pre Corprus

Mostly it's down to a few shiv slashes from his time in prison. He's got one along his right side that's from a REDACTED who tried to REDACTED, leaving him bleeding out behind a tobacco drying shed. He's got one on his upper thigh from trying to scale a fence.

Thems Corprus.

This is where most of his scarring comes from and I've added to the design since August.

The scaring covers most of his body, with the start point being his left forearm. The first tumor grew from the point where he was grabbed by Dagoth Gares. The scars are the result of the extensive and horrific attempts made by Divayth Fyr and his daughters to prevent the tumors from regrowing. This resulted in the repeated removal and cauterisation of the tumors as they grew back. Josh's Corprus scars stretch from his left arm, a warped and gnarled hand print. This scar isn't connected to the rest on his body but it is one of the worst. The main scar stretches over most of the right half of his body. Starting from his chest, it travels up, along his shoulder and up his neck before curving around his back and along his left shoulder. The large burn on his chest is the worst of it. The removal of a particularly large mass from his chest resulted in the almost complete removal of his right pectoral muscle and the birth of a lot of lame "one nipple" jokes on his behalf. He has a significant weakness on this side as a result of that muscle being removed.

That scar travels down his torso before spreading out along his thigh in another large scar, though this is mostly a surface burn. The scar reaches his toes and the deformity in his foot resulted in the removal of his first and second toes as well as part of the ball of his foot. He wears a prosthesis that he designed himself to help himself walk. Without it he can't balance and requires a crutch.

Like the scar on his cheek, he has a few smaller excision scars. One on his right hand, and another on his elbow.

The scar is technically dead tissue and oozes a strange substance (congealed blood) if cut. Part of the ordeal involved him lost in a dream sequence where he technically accepted Dagoth Ur's offer. He has two identical brandings on his palms as a result.

He has a few scars just from what he does for a living. Almost as soon as he got off the boat in Seyda Neen he found himself getting stabbed. He's got a slash through his left shoulder, two on his belly, and one large stab wound that saw him almost bleed out. There's an arrow puncture on his left flank from that time he got swindled.

Teldryn, when facing Dagoth Ur, managed to get crushed under the hand of Akulakhan as it fell into the lava beneath Red Mountain.

Corprus did something to his body. It was stronger, technically, but he didn't heal well. He left that battle with his pelvis broken in a few places as well as fractures in both femurs. When it became readily apparent that he wasn't going to die from the injury pretty much anyone on Vvardenfell who knew the healing arts tried their hand at mending the bones.

Some priests from Vivec City had an idea that involved physically realigning the bones before healing him with magic. He has two long scars on either hip as a result and one along his back. It took him a long time to learn to walk again and the injury still gives him grief. He can't swing his legs outwards and therefore can't ride a mount.

By the Dragon Crisis, he's added a crushed lower leg to the mix after he has a section of a ship fall on him. He's lucky the same priestess who pioneered his first surgery lived in the same town two hundred years later. Even if she wasn't his greatest fan. After the Dragon Crisis.

The guy's been mulled by a dragon. He's kinda upset about it since it affected his face so much. Those scars do reach across his torso, though.

The ring finger scars (Self Harm Warning)

Josh has two sets of circular scars that run around the finger that he wears Moon-and-Star on. This happened at a breaking point for him where he attempted to sever Indoril Nerevar's connection to him by removing the ring. Remove the ring, remove the problem.

Unfortunately it's not quite that simple, the ring is fused to his finger via some sort of magic that no one understands. He got the brilliant idea to amputate the finger. So he got drunk in an alley behind a tavern in Kvatch, took his dagger out and got to work. Turns out his bones don't just slice off like that and ends up passing out from drink before he makes any actual progress. There was a lot of blood.

He was found by a friend, who quickly became something more before he was taken in the Siege of Kvatch.

6. Whats their greatest fear?

Answered here. Short answer, that time will claim what he's built.

17. Do they have any pets?

Josh wants a Nix-Hound, but he's never had a pet before. He thinks a Nix-Hound will make him look badass in a "guy gets a doberman" way.

His girlfriend has rabbits...he tolerates it.

[unmotivatedartistry]

COMMISSSIONS!

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more info+art refs:

If you're interested: PLEASE be detailed, send as many refs as you think is good, as well as a pose reference if you have a specific pose! Also please be patient, I am a student and a minor!! I'm busy!! But I will try my best to get your art done as soon as possible (within a week, maybe two!!). But, worry not!! I will update you with every update on the art (sketch(es) -> lineart -> color pallete choices -> flat colors -> shading -> background, extra details, etc) and you can absolutely change things at any time (well, maybe not at the shading stage. it depends.)

Also, I'M A MINOR. KEEP THAT IN MIND WITH YOUR COMMS.

I'll do any fandom art, ocs, etc. Anything that's a person? I'll do it. I'll warn you if I'm not the best with certain subjects or characteristics, so don't worry if you're not completely sure!!! Please refrain from NSFW, gare (blood is okay, just not gorey injuries or organs or stuff like that), furry or animal art in general, mecha or highly detail mechanical stuff or whatnot.

Anyways, let's get on with reference art!

some recent works of my art! (in alt text would be what they're classified as and how I would price them!)

[sleepyiswhumping]

For the OC questions - 15, 22, and 29 for whoever you want! :)

Ooh, these are excellent questions!

For Garrett -

15. If you had to choose a single object to act as a symbol for your oc, what would it be? Why?

A weighted blanket. Despite being a big, stoic, tough guy, at the end of the day, he's a huge softie and a very comforting person to be around. He's always comforting others, helping whenever he can. (And on the rare occasions he lays on top of Talbot or Alex he's very much a living weighted blanket :D)

22. How long can your oc stay focused on one task before they get bored? Do they constantly have to switch things up or do they hyperfocus? What sort of things is it the opposite for?

It depends on the task. When he's doing anything with his boyfriends or caring for someone, he's as focused as possible for as long as possible; he won't let himself get bored. However, his days and nights at work are a struggle. His job is quite boring, unfortunately, and it drives him a bit crazy at times. Fortunately, he's got plenty of white noise playlists to help him focus.

29. If your oc was in a video game, what would their idle animation be? (When the player stays still for too long, the animation that plays.)

Gare's idle animation in a video game would most likely be standing with his arms crossed, glancing around occasionally.

Thank you for the ask, Kabie!

[2af-afterdark]

just now playing what in hell is bad and browsing the tag at the same time and i saw your post about her pronouns are he him. i completely agree with you that its probably very garing to most people but as a genderfluid any pronouns type of guy this game rules. its such a bizzarre problem because whenever games give you a pronoun choice they just autofill every gender marker, but the way the game switches multiple times in one sentence almost makes me feel like they only tagged half the gender markers to autofill? or the more deranged option, which is that the script was just written like this? unhinged.

See, I am non-binary, but in the way I think most other people would say genderfluid (gender is fun, isn't it?) so the pronouns don't bother me in a personal way. I generally prefer certain pronouns at different times (sometimes I'll have a she day, then a them week, then a he night, so on and so on). But my masc identifying friends and my OC find it... uncomfortable to have the game constantly switching to she/her when they specifically chose he/him. I would love if the game was way more inclusive and the fluid pronouns were an active choice people made rather than a quirk of them missing parts of the script that needed to be changed.

Glad it's working for you though. I'm sure it's nice to have a game show some genderfluid love, even if by accident (and I am convinced it's an accident).

That post was also partially because the male mc options are... not amab. MC is afab coded (the sex scenes make refrence to afab markers), which is great for the afab players regardless of gender identity, but for the amab players... not so much. It's a complicated feeling that I don't know if I'm explaining well?? Sorry.

[pineappical]

weird dog

[darkyuffie-blog]

(OC POV, when Jason comes to interrogate Corroded Coffin at Gareth's Hell Fire's Cleric Tessa comes to his rescue in a rage of fiery hair and flying fists.) Tessa was lied out on the grass of her lawn listening to Corroded Coffin's practice. They still kept it up even with Eds missing. She huffed and spoke to herself. "I can't heal our party if half of it is missing and scattered searching for our fearless leader!" She heard the music stop abruptly and heard Gareth's voice carry to her yard. "You guy's are a bit early, shows not till next week." She could tell whoever he was speaking with wasn't someone he was fond of. An outsider come to cause trouble. She looked up seeing Jason and his goons...and Lucas the betrayer behind them. She got up as Lucas spoke to Gareth. "We are just looking for Eddie man..." She saw the anger in Gare's eyes causing her own to start to boil up. "Well ya got eyes dont'cha? He isn't here." She saw Jason nod and ball up his fist sending her sprinting across her yard to get to him. Jason's fist made contact with Gareth's face sending him hitting the ground while the other boys held back Jeff and Grant. She shoved through Lucus who was trying to stop her. "YOU MIGHT BE A TRAITOR SINCLAIR BUT I AM THIS PARTIES CLERIC AND I AM NOT LOSING ANY MORE PARTY MEMBERS, NOT TODAY!" She shouted as she threw Lucus to the cement of the drive way leaping over him and sending her fist straight into the side of Jason's jaw causing him to lose his footing falling to the ground. The other two lackies in shock gave Jeff and Grant the time to get away from them. Jason had his hands up trying to stave off Tess's attack but she was unrelenting in her assault. Gareth looked on in awe of her as she landed a knee to his gut and another ring clad finger sent flying to his nose breaking it with a pop that made Gareth cringe as he crawled over to her his lip bleeding from Jason's connected punch from earlier. He pulled Tess into his arms running a hand through her fiery hair to sooth her. "Babe...Tess!" she was still trying to get out of his arms to get to Jason who was trying to crawl off as fast as he could away from her. So he instead decided to speak in character with her knowing it always calmed her down. "My lady cleric, Tessara of the light of Eldath, Goddess of peace, calm yourself, we have won this fight thanks to you..." He said softly to her bringing her down from her rage as her brown eyes met his blue ones. A crack from Jeff hitting one of the other boys was heard and the jocks were sent running away. She grinned as she looked on. "I can't save the whole party... but I saved you Gareth the Great." He smiled and kissed her cheek gently. "That you did my lady cleric. Our party would be lost today without you." "JUST KISS OUR CLERIC ALREADY EMERSON!" Jeff called out with Grant laughing beside him. "Maybe her lips can heal that cut Jason left on yours!" Grant teased. Tess and Gareth's eyes met again and he cupped her cheeks in his hands pulling her in closely, their lips meeting in a deep kiss that sent butterflies through them both. "My lady Tessara, Cleric of the Goddess Eldath, light of Hell Fire. Would you do me the honors of being my girlfriend?" His cheeks flushed as did her own. "Gareth the Great, I would be honored to have you at my side...even to the ends of our world as we know it. May we fight and die hand in hand and go together to meet Eldath in the light at the end." She said kissing Gareth again as Grant and Jeff cheered them on in the background. A fleeting moment of happiness at the face of what was soon to be, Hellfire's biggest battle yet. (thanks for reading! I hope you guys liked it!)

[pirozhosik]

My Baldur's Gare OC

[grumpycurbur]

Ok, i grew up with Spongebob as a kid, let's say i was into spongebob then like i'm into Care Bears now (for context).

So i'm noticing 'today years old' that Pearl has what looks like a heart-shaped nose like The Care Bears. (i know she has a blowhole for a nose like normal whales, and that it's part of Pearl's lips)

Wanted to point that out, not to mention that this is a good frame as well.

I'll admit, i haven't seen or heard of a Care Bear Cousin OC that's a whale (If one exists, i'd love to see it). Someone should make one if it hasn't been done already.

Did i forget to mention that the 'Cuddle E. Hugs' episode of "modern" spongebob has what i can only describe as "care bear undertones/(possible) overtones"??? (just watch it for yourself, you'll know what i mean...)

*EDIT: Forgot to mention, Spongebob in many episodes has referred to Gary (his pet snail) as "Gare Bear"...

There's ALOT of hidden Care Bear references in Spongebob WAITING to be discovered.

[garricks4thwingqueen]

Always Yours Part 1

Always Yours

Liam Mairi × OC Raelynn’s Riorson

    Xaden Riorson x Younger Sibling OC: Rosia Riorson

 Synopsis: Raelynn Riorson is Xaden Riorson's younger sibling. After the siblings' parents rebellion falls they are put into a foster home together with Liam Mairi. Liam and Rae are very much not strangers, more so friends with benefits. Now they are foster siblings with benefits 🤭.  It has been two years since Xaden and Garrick have started Basgiath and it's quickly approaching Rae's and Liam's turn to cross the parapet. Follow Liam’s and Rae's journey as they navigate their early 20’s and start to attend Basgiath War College. 

Trigger warnings for chapter one: swearing, some smut and smut intended scenes, not heavily implied but anxiety is brewing as they start their first year.

Word Count: 1,157

   Chapter 1/part 1

Raelynn’s POV

“Liam,” I sighed, resting my head on my foster brother's shoulder while he carved away making a tiny wooden heart to give to his biological sister Sloane. Unlike Liam I was actually going to get to see my brother Xaden that I haven't seen in two years. Well, that is if we make it across the parapet. “Yeah, my Rae?” He asked, setting his carving down and pulling me closer to his side and rubbing small reassuring circles on my back. Our relationship was not your average to say the least. Growing up next door in Aretia we were always best friends, as we got older we became friends with benefits not wanting to make that full comment to each other. Even though I know that we both felt a tang of jealousy when I was dating Garrick Tavis, who has always been best friends with my older brother and Liam was dating a girl that we had met when we moved from Aretia to Trivainne. Even though neither of those relationships lasted no longer than a meager 3 or 4 months. I was 16 and Garrick was 19, so as soon as Xaden eventually found out he flipped out on his best friend. As for Liam and Madelynn I think she grew jealous of mine and Liam’s relationship towards each other.

“I’m scared and nervous as hell. I know Xad and Gare are in their third year when we start and Boh and Immi are in their second, so that means they’ve survived so far. But what if we don’t make it? And if we do, we are still a massive target. Especially me with my last name and my older brother.” Liam adjusted both of us so that we're now lying on the couch that was on the back porch of the place we called home for the last four years. His chin now rested on my head and my face buried into his chest, trying to hold back my tears that threatened to escape. “It’s going to be ok.” He said in his soothing tone that always brought my panic attacks down to a minimum. “We’ve got each other. We always have and always will, I promise.”  He breathed out quietly as he held on to me tighter. “I’m glad none of us will ever have to start at Basgiath alone. Xaden and Garrick had and have each other, Bodhi and Imogen, you and me and Sloane and Miah and so on until all 107 crossed.” All 107 of us. The rebellion children that we are now called, all 107 scars that my brother has bared on his back ever since he was 16. Since the moment on July 1st 627 AU he had basically saved our lives from the raft of Lilith Sorrengail and Colonel Aetos. Each scar on his back that represented all 107 of the children of the Tyrreish rebellion, a promise that we’d pledge allegiance to Navarre by joining the rider's quadrant on conscription day when each of us would turn 20, no matter what our chances were at survival during our years there. However, without my brother's plea, without his sacrifice we all would have been dead either way because of the acts of our parents. 

Liam and I sat in silence for what seemed like the rest of eternity, taking in each other's company. What might be the last of each other's company, if we don't survive the parapet. I knew that after we crossed we would both be fine. As Xaden already made it clear to find our cousin Bodhi once we hit the other side and that he would give the orders that Garrick requested for us to be under his section. Garrick. I let my mind wander for a moment as I felt a kiss being placed on the top of my head bringing me back to the present. “Raelynn,” Liam whispered. “Yeah?” I said even though I said it so quietly I’m not even sure that the words left my mouth. “After dinner why don’t you and I each write a letter to each other; that we keep in each other's rucksack, and we only read them if something happens to one of us.” “So, our goal will not be to read those letters then?” “Correct.” Liam said with his cheeky smirk on his face sitting us both up right as Sloane and her friend came out the back door. “Dinner.” Sloane said. “We’ll be in in a minute.” Liam said. “As long as we don’t have to be away from each other when we write those letters.” I said, placing a soft kiss on Liam's lips as he chuckled. “Of course not.” He said, guiding us into the dining room. 

A few hours later I walked into our shared bedroom as Liam was already sitting up in bed with quill and parchment in hand. I couldn’t help but smile taking in a toned and shirtless Liam Mairi, all 5’ 8” of his perfect body. Liam had soft blonde hair that had a slight wave to it and soft blue eyes. His features were almost a contrast to Xaden’s, Garrick’s and even Boh’s for that matter. If you had them all standing in a line, you’d say that Liam was the least rough and rigid of the bunch. Even though I knew for a fact that all four of them would cut someone's throat if they hurt me or any of the girls in our friend group. I was the shortest of the bunch just under 5’ at 4’ 11’’. One would think that I’d have similar features to my older brother and cousin, but my hair was a shade darker than that of Liam’s, with dark burgundy highlights throughout my blonde hair. Unlike my brother's onyx eyes, I had green ones. I climbed into bed grabbing the other set of writing supplies resting my head onto Liam’s shoulder. “Heyyyyy, no peeking sweets.” he chuckled, adjusting himself so that we could both write comfortably with my head resting on his bare chest as he adjusted the strap on my v cut night dress. “This better be in your rucksack tomorrow.” he whispered in my ear and gave my earlobe a small nibble. “Just write and shut up Mairi, or maybe it’ll be yours instead.” “Was that a threat, Riorson?” he chuckled as I started writing and just smirked in reply, reaching back and tugging on one of his nipples. “That’s for after we are done with these and if you don't get writing we may never be.” He chuckled, sliding his hand down my body a little too far south to be in agreement with the statement that just came out of his mouth. I just shook my head and began to write ignoring the ever so soft circular motion that his fingers were starting to move in.