[Wild Roses] Sun Queen era

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: pirate's son; prince
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses (Sun Queen); Ulysse, Arianhrod
Prompt: 21C "redemption"
Word Count: 2024
Notes: after Phoebe offers bait, years before Ulysse and Fintain find common ground (much to Arianhrod's '...'). Really, around the timeframe of the spark an expression of complete aplomb.

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Comments

[illian]

The Wish portion of my brain finds all this fascinating. I keep absently reminding him that breaching the inter-universal walls means he gets to clean up the resulting mess. (Which totally doesn't stop him from clambering all over the rules of magic like a monkey.)

He found her lazing in one of the smaller studies off the library, not by calling her name but by tracing the echoes of her presence--another new trick, and one that he hadn't been taught--

Is this a common ability or if he mentions this are a bunch of them going to blink rapidly a few times as they refactor things?

Her majesty had really nice mugs

*absently smacks Wells upside the head*
No, you do not get to comment on Her Majesty's 'mugs'.

Just said "Please?", as neutrally as he could.

She mock-scowled up at him. "If you tip me into the water I reserve the right to light your Winter-kissed boat on fire."

Hee! Aw, baby brudder! He all but pulled out the puppy dog eyes, didn't he?

[taennyn]

*laaaaughing* Glad to see I'm doing something right?

:D Nicely spotted. As it happens, while--given the prompting that it's possible--just about any mage could track someone, Ulysse happens to be really, really good at it. This actually comes up during the wars. >.>

Well, he could always try it to her face. *solemn*

Actually, no; while he thought about it, he decided against trying it. (Which is probably why it worked: she feels justified in ignoring Puppy Eyes.)

[illian]

You do lots of things right, just so you know.

I now have "You ain't nothing but a hound dawg!" playing in my head.

I'm not entirely sure about Wells' survival instinct and judging by the way Attwater is miming "NO!" at me over his head, I don't think I'll let that particular experiment run through.

Zen Puppy Eyes. :D

[taennyn]

Thanks. :)

*snorf*

.... Bwahahaha. Oh, dear. How often does he need to be excluded from conversations with various practitioners and not-technically-humans?

*snerk* Indeed.

[taennyn]

:) It's interesting sketching them when Ulysse's very young and Arianhrod hasn't had her heart broken yet. It's a rather sweet period.

[billradish]

wearing clothes that fit him much too well in colours he wasn't used to

What colours? And what shades is he accustomed to?

It still might as well be, only instead of a boom heading for his head it was his sibling.

Love this line.

The pencil was actually embedded point first in the wood of the door framing, he saw.

Bwah. *cough* Ahem. <3

"Voila, attack thesaurus?" she offered, and he blinked down at her.

*cackles!* <3

"Breathe, Ulysse," she commanded, mouth quirking up into a conspiratorial smile. "My baby brother threw a fireball at me more than one morning. You're not even in the running yet."

Ulysse, this is a hint! Learn quickly, before any more kids show up. *solemn*

He found her lazing in one of the smaller studies off the library, not by calling her name but by tracing the echoes of her presence--another new trick, and one that he hadn't been taught

I'm will Illian on the curiosity, here.

"Mm?" she replied around the rim of a mug of tea. Unless he missed his guess she'd borrowed the cup from her mother, and

[illian]

I'm will Illian on the curiosity, here.

'Fiat Illian!'?

[taennyn]

I think he's used to older stuff that wasn't made to his measure, given his background. So newly made rather bright colours with lots of embroidery is dot inducing.

It took me a while to find the right sailing metaphor, but oh, it worked nicely once I did. :)

Ulysse, this is a hint! Learn quickly, before any more kids show up. *solemn*

*SNERK* Actually, they got lucky. The next kids to show up were Donel and Ruadhan; I suspect it wasn't until Ulysse started having kids of his own (or interacting with various noble and/or royal offspring) that he started running into the fireball Problem. Or, in certain cases, the localised hurricane difficulty. >.>

I'm with Illian on the curiosity, here.

:) In a sense it's noticing a different use for a wheel, but in another sense, Ulysse's ability to follow people by the trail of their magic is actually one of the arcs in the wars. Other people can do it--but he's really good at it.

And yes, Ulysse, she really is very, very fond of you.

She really is. :) It's neat to see it

[taennyn]

:)

Yup. Rather more than once, apparently. (It's possible Hazel's sister Sascha got her desire to set things on fire from her technically-human side, not the dragon. O.o;)

Mattieu and Pierre didn't live to the Trickwood Unification, let alone the main wars era, so they haven't gotten a lot of screentime, as yet. =\ (4th and 1st of Aifiric's many, many children, respectively.)

[taennyn]

:D They usually can't manage an actual fireball at that age. Sparks, maybe. Grumpy (or possibly mad gleeful) sparks.

[taennyn]

I'll tweak it, if I come back and do more in this period; it's tricky to strike the right balance.

I'll add that to the list; given how old Fintain would've been, the political implications probably went right over his head, but Arianhrod was sure old enough for it.