Remember the dance. Steel met steel. Blades in parley. Feet flit over sand. Sweat began to bead and trickle in the morning sun.

The dance of a swordsman.

Every step reflected years of focus. Each attack and defense discipline and training. Years upon years of his life had been–and were yet to be–dedicated to the mastery of this…[Read more]

Wolfgang 

“Humbling! Not I!” he laughed cheerily. “No one has the right to humble a Von Hienz. But i’ll fight you anyways!”

It’s great XD I’ve been inspired to maybe confuse my friends with something like this through text one day lol!!

Oh yesss! Do and then tell us how it goes! XD

Welcome! <3

Ah! I remember Jack. Not much about him, but I do remember his vague aesthetic. It’ll be fun to watch this unfold.

Yes. Reports of its dead are greatly exagerated.

Moved into college this week so a lot of changes all at once. Glad to be back.

Wilhelm

Wilhelm clasped his hands loosely behind his back and let his body relax.

“Perhaps everyone needs humbling.” The words ghosted out of his mouth, voiceless as a passing wind. The…[Read more]

@loopylin @keilah-h @whaley

Gabriel

Gabriel dearly wished to be able to read well. The pictures looked beautiful to him, and he wanted to know what they said. But he couldn’t admit to the young girls that he couldn’t read. He was supposed to be their…[Read more]

it kind of died all at once…. we were going strong and now everyone is gone, so maybe give it a little bit. 🤷🏼‍♀️🙃

*I return while Jayson is getting a snack*

Oh dear. Mission accomplished I guess lol. I was thinking it would be a fun writerly joke, especially if

Yeah, I haven’t really come up with many specific rules that they have. I usually just think about it, then add whatever I can come up with that makes sense.

That does make s…[Read more]

You probably are fire. 🔥Authors are usually insightful about that sort of thing.

Oh electric guitar!!💥🎸🎵 Super cool! Although your comment on the cables is concerning. 😐👀 I hope your guitar is ok. How long have you been playing? Does it have a name?

I can absolutely appreciate an oversized burger… 🤤 although I don’t get them as…[Read more]

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Wolfgang 

He grimaced ever so slightly, but a moment later his smile was back. “I didn’t want to come. my father sent me.” For once, he didn’t want to talk any more on a subject. Something that rarely happened to Wolfgang. “Why did you want to come?”

Erp. This is long and rambling. Sorry it doesn’t seem to go anywhere… He is up for sparring, should others desire, but he is unlikely to interrupt the conversation.

Wilhelm

He bowed his slightly when Wolfgang released his sleeve. His friend was certainly taking the “make possible contacts” part of their plan more…[Read more]

*Nods* Sounds good.

Right now Ari is working out much needed irritation in the form of violent therapy. Moth can take his time making friends who are actually…friendly…

*Squints at my character*

This Bryce fellow sounds interesting. Go ahead and throw him in somewhere and we’ll see who’s available/in his way to interact with. Most everyone is at the school gymnasium for morning exercise (or croquet [or conniving]) so that’s where I’d head.

My character, Ari, is currently training with a fighting instructor inside the…[Read more]

@elishavet-pidyon

wolfgang

For some reason he was starting to get the feeling that he wasn’t going to like this boy. But he’d try a few more minutes. Not liking people was no fun. It wasn’t right to get in fistfights with boys you didn’t like or tease the ones you hated. That was all poor sport and not very honorable. You only di…[Read more]

Hi Enid! 👋

Umm.. I’m not sure why. My author is so preoccupied with getting ready for this semester in college that she forgets to check in on me. 😏 But then your author seems to trust you with her account enough to let you on willingly. But IDK. Maybe we weren’t old enough. 😅

I am Jayson Barans. 😎 I’m a guy in a great, though…[Read more]

You know, looking at their chart, Lucian and Ari might actually get along pretty well if standing at the edge of the same room and watching people can be termed getting along. That or they’d quietly distrust each other. XD

Also, your drawings of Lucian and Ellis are adorable.

Wow, I step off to read a book and people start talking. XD

Ari

Jasper hadn’t drawn Remington far enough away for an Eldar’s ears to not mark their exchange. Not that he’d understood more than a phrase at a time.

Not that he listened.

Of course, if Remington’s hushed exchange had been…[Read more]

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Wolfgang 

His laugh was warm and guileless. “Von Heinz of course. Didn’t you know? No matter,” he added cheerily. “What shall I call you? Herr Commandantson?”

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Wolfgang 

His eyes narrowed slightly. For some reason, this Jasper fellow was making him think of the way Erik talked to Reinhard. He brushed the thoughts aside, grabbed Wilhelm’s arm, and yanked him forward. “Let’s go.” He dodged around two boys and planted himself squarely in front of Jasper, dropping his…[Read more]

Corporate wants you to find the difference…..

HA!

That or a writing community. XD

yes it is!

@whalekeeper

too bad. I’d hoped Wolf would have a chance to stick up for little guys and punchy the fellow. XD

Can we interact now? Or shall he go after Ari?

also, this is interesting……

Oooooooooooo. This is interesting.

Ok this is funny. Wolfgang may actually be vaguely familiar with that term, since it’s an old German/Bavarian folk tale that continued to be prevalent into the early 1900s, especially since several naturalists studied it and thought the creature really existed.

Wilhelm

“A dragon that lives in mountains and dazzles its prey to…[Read more]

btw, i must read Ari’s book, and if you don’t write it I shall steal him and do it myself.

@whalekeeper

Wolfgang 

He stopped dead in his tracks. “Tatzelwurm? What is that?” He looked at Jasper again. “You know his name?”

Glad you’re back!

Ahhh Wolfgang! Lol.

Hmm.

By the by, Wilhelm is so funny. Like, he’s a cinnamon roll that lives in such a violent world that it’s normal for him. 😂 He’s considering Jasper’s unofficial appointment to the field quite seriously. The only thing that makes a meeting “friendly” is if fake/blunted weapons are used.…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

@koshka

Wolf has decided to unknowingly cause trouble.

Behind every innocent character going into the soup for the third time is the author who pushed him into it.

Wolfgang 

He grabbed Wilhelm’s arm. “I know that boy. He was the one who wanted to wrestle at breakfast. Or was it a fistfight he wanted? He…[Read more]

the lotr one with Wolf was SO FUNNY!!!! It’s so true!!! 😂

I love the KeePer one. And all of them. It’s funny how Ari gets the same spot on both charts while everyone else moves around.

Alas, KP locked me out yesterday, so I did not see these memeses until today. They are beautiful. I highly approve. I cannot choose between them. I was cackling.

Thank you. *deep curtsey*

YASSSSS. XD

Oh, I love those. Thank you. I think the sword ones (and by extension the Wilhelm ones) and Ari/Moth were my favorite, although Moth’s contrasting dynamic is worthy of applause. May this offering, which has certainly placed you in high praises among us, also put you in good favor with the site.

Aw Lucian. He and his brother seem to be different sides of the same coin. I like them.

 Loud bells/ringing

Interesting. Touche as well, but interesting.

It really is weird. But you got it right! 👏👏👏Or basically. I’ll be 18 in a couple weeks. 🫣

Honored to be impressive..😁😎. It really was special. I wasn’t that great at it, but those are some peak childhood memories. I’ve done my best to get more fluent ever since. 📚

Ah! I’ll be so happy to meet Enid!…[Read more]

Ari

He watched Jasper search methodically through the yard. The prince might be a royal pain, but he wasn’t a complete idiot. Ari closed his eyes.

“He’ll find who he’s looking for,” his voice was just barely loud enough for the purple huddle in the bush behind him to hear. “If he stays where it is. But then, not sure where LaCeux…[Read more]

Kinda trilingual actually…? Or no. We spoke another one.. 🫪😱

Ok. So, I’m an orphan. My uh, foster family spoke a different set of bilingual than my own family. So I’m a polyglot. 🤓 But French is always easiest and dearest. 🙂‍↕️ 🍁 English is a close second, and then Yiddish and Hebrew. And I learned Latin…[Read more]

I take crazy as a high compliment. 🤣🤣 Maccabee is a big of a joke. He calls me that whenever I get too zealous about something. It’s fine. I call him that too. Can’t really do it around some of the family though. They get touchy, but that’s their right ig. 😁 Otherwise he calls me Jaybird which is actually my nickname.

That. Is.…[Read more]

He needs help.

Yes, he means emotionally…although he also means by age a little bit too since he’s used to a different age scale. But he also doesn’t think of that as a bad thing.

I’m fact, he’s more likely to put up with/like Remington simply because he sees him as younger.

Ah, thank you, Whaley. 😃 I do like my name, despite its relative ambiguity.

Let me see… 🤔I remember walking down a lot of halls and talking to some guys who looked like… Well… To be honest, they looked like concentration camp survivors… Rescue work is kinda my thing, so that really had my attention. There was a kid too. We…[Read more]

Ari

“LeCeux?” He let the irritation of the morning melt into cold amusement. “You mean the befloured child king with a obvious preference for fine clothes?”

He watched the sparks flicker in Jasper’s eyes, another Prince with too obvious infatuation with finery though of a different sort. Remington certainly hadn’t been in the midst…[Read more]

Somewhere near enough to the Gymnasium for use in jousting lessons but not directly next to the gym.