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]

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]

*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]

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]

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]

That or a writing community. XD

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]

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]

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.

Yup. XD

Ari

He returned the poisoned smile with one of his own made entirely of ice.

“Been some time since I last saw you, Juniper. Our last discussion was most… cathartic.”

He tilted his head enough to let his unerving gaze follow the prince into the courtyard.

“Envéla méne.” We meet again.

The more Ari lets slip about his brothers, the more concerned Moth will be.

As he should be. *Nod nod*

Also, I just got one basic outline option done! Now to finish the second (because I can’t choose between two story directions).

Ari

Jasper, the refined Prince of Poise, didn’t appear to have noticed him yet. For a moment Ari…[Read more]

Jayson Barans! ✨ You know, like James Bond but… not at all.

I was able to interact with some good fellows in a “Role Play” at a castle some while ago. 🏰 Over a year, I think. It was very odd. 🧐 Other than that, I’m not sure what she’s said about me. Probably about my ✨tragic backstory ✨. You authors seem to have a thing for those.…[Read more]

*watches with bated breath*

…but that’s where Ari is… O.O

So you don’t know much about Jasper, but Ari is supposed to know something about him. Oops. XD

XD An awkward position, yes.

This is the first time Ari has seen this prince since last year, since the new year just started.

Sounds good!

Oh my word, Ari, please get some help

Uh so, basically the relationship between Berard (second o…[Read more]

*Immediately hunts for paper*

Honestly, I’ve sort of been feeling the entire time Ari was here that his habits of busting bullie’s noses is as much why he has zero friends as his abrasive attitudes. He’s always on someone’s hit list, and people know it, but he’s also quite dangerous. Like genuinely has can turn fey and deadly.

So like, he has protected kids be…[Read more]

I just hacked my author’s profile.💻 She hasn’t been working on my story in ages, so we’ve been unsupervised. ROFL 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I hope you know what to do with a lack of adult supervision. 👀 Because I do. 😎😎

What’s up, writerly friends of my writerly friend? 😁How do I cause the most chaos to her account?

And… Do you have…[Read more]

I just had a thought. What if it was Jasper’s arm that Ari broke on his second day at school?

*Concerned noises*

Ari

He had just stepped outside when Remington darted past him and all but tumbled under a bush. Odd behavior even for this odd buck.

Ari paused to lean against the doorpost as if surveying the pells. Besides, what was…[Read more]

*Cracks knuckles*

actually not sure how he’s going to respond yet.

Ari

He rolled his eyes. He’d warned the kid enough. If he waited much longer the other students would start to question the validity of his threats. And Ari never gave empty threats.

Besides, this morning was testing his patience already. He would feel better…[Read more]