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Valentine Nicasus Maxence Mérovée Olivier de Foncé ([personal profile] degenere) wrote in [community profile] therookery2016-07-07 01:17 pm

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FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Val de Foncé (and with him, as always, is Jehan Mercier)
RECIPIENT: e v e r y o n e
WHAT: the scholars of Orlais have something to say.
WHEN: now, right now
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: aren't they charming.


Inquisition, we are confused.

[Melodious, Orlesian, flirtatious (somehow even in this most simple of sentences): these are three words one might use to describe the sound of Val's voice. It makes confused sound kind of fun, if a bit puzzling.]

My friend and I have come all this way to be an asset to you. And now we have arrived here, to your Skyhold, and we find so much to be in want. How have you all managed so far, with these conditions? I am a man used to the roughness of a camp, a life of travel. I love this life. You'll find no one loves it more than me. But a camp, that is one thing, and this? It is meant to be a city, of a sort. Yet there is no apartment for us. There is barely a work space, in your library--we have been, my friend and I. We have seen the conditions. There is barely a book there.

I am sorry for you, Inquisition.

[So sincere. A pause, in which he has pressed a hand to his chest, in a deep show of pity. And then, briskly, cheerfully:]

But we will not leave you there, in sorrow. The good news. You now have, among your numbers, me. An introduction: Valentine de Foncé, a master architect, among many other masteries, too numerous to name. If you ask sweetly, I'll tell you them all. If you ask very sweetly, I'll give demonstration. And for the Inquisition, I will offer my services, and my knowledge--and so, too, does my friend. If only so we can get a decent space in which we can do our work. And believe me: you want this. We have arrived to be your greatest blessing.

Now, tell me. With business sorted: what does anyone do for fun around here?
justice_is_blond: (Just going to interrupt now)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-07-15 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
...Healers? Grey Wardens? People with Fereldan accents who aren't Fereldan? Men? You're going to need to be far more specific.
justice_is_blond: (Tell me another one)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-07-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not affected. I was taken from home at a young age, being a mage, and learned the common tongue from Fereldans. I'm Ander. Trust me, I'd like to not sound Fereldan. I don't like dogs.
justice_is_blond: (Just a little amused)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-07-19 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
And I'll accept the help, despite how it's likely coated in glitter and smelling of altogether too much perfume.

Though I'm not clear on if you're offering to help stock the healing tents or provision the Wardens or get some more basic supplies for refugees.
justice_is_blond: (A dark joy)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-07-22 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm personally fond of baths in something called water. It certainly assists with smell, better than the Orlesian way of rolling in more cologne. Cheap or otherwise.

And maybe I'm simply very fond of refugees.

[Or perhaps it's a burden of guilt. One or the other.]
justice_is_blond: (I have some ideas~)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-07-28 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
I know what you're asking and I'm not giving you a bath.

[He knows he's not being asked for one.]

I'll assist the injured or ill with them, and they have to have more than injuries to their pride.
justice_is_blond: (A dark joy)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-07-28 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Injured or ill. I help my patients as they need; refugee status isn't really key to it.

And I bathe my lover as wanted.

[Because who doesn't want too much information? It's too tempting to resist.]
justice_is_blond: (Wouldn't that be something)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-07-29 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You could stretch his case to say he is, considering the current state of Grey Warden affairs, but I wouldn't.

And as far as the other, I'm a mage. I like reminding people that something they denied to my people is attainable now.

[Another wedge holding open the doors of freedom. The more mages get a taste of what it has to offer, the harder it will be to slam those doors shut again.]
justice_is_blond: (Stop in the name of)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-08-01 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would I bathe a dog? They'll just go roll in mud and shit and smell again in five minutes anyway. I can entirely refuse a dog.

[Except for Lady, but there are enough exceptions being spoken of here.]

And in the Circles, yes. Romance was forbidden.
justice_is_blond: (Make your choice)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-08-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You... what?

[-50 Anders Greatly Disapproves.]

Oh, yes. I'm certain that having those you care deeply for ripped from you makes romance far more delightful for the short time it lasts. The wind on your face makes the punishments you get for seeking it happy. Very happy.
justice_is_blond: ([Karl] All going wrong)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-08-01 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Much touch, such anger, wow. His voice is tight as they've hit upon a very sore spot - Karl.]

And others it has cost absolutely everything. It's not a joke, or a grand adventure. I have risked greatly, repeatedly, and nearly every time I have lost. It does not stop me. But there is nothing happy about what the Circles and Chantry have done to mages.
justice_is_blond: (But I don't understand)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-08-02 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
And some people very important to me are not and never will be.
justice_is_blond: (If you only understood)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-08-02 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't stop thinking of the dead. If they're forgotten, they're gone. Completely gone and lost for good. Keeping in mind their hopes, what they dreamed of, isn't... All right, yes, it is depressing, but it's grounding. Important.

I am sorry

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