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[reek]

Who: Theon Greyjoy
Broadcast:Video
Action: Closed action with Jaime Lannister on the Iskaulit
When: Now is good

[ First thing’s first, a few lines of text flash onto the screen: ]

Theon Greyjoy lost his teeth in a teeth-whitening accident.
Theon Greyjoy bleaches his hair.
Theon Greyjoy is neither grey nor joyful.


[ Not long after, Theon himself appears on screen, white-haired and smirking. Clearly, he hasn’t taken this to heart. At long last, he’s learned to roll with the punches—in this case, at least. There’s no real point in getting upset about this. ]

That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in months. And all of it is completely true. Oh, and to whoever it was that felt I was in need of these—

[ He holds up a box of whitening strips. He has hundreds of them now, thanks to an unneeded sponsor drop. ]

Thank you. I’m almost certain I’ll need them desperately.

[ He flashes an open-mouthed grin to show his broken teeth, just to make a point. ]




[Action for Jaime Lannister]

[ Between night terrors and phantom pains, Theon Greyjoy has had a rough few months. Those things haven’t gone away, but he’s regained his humor, finding things to jape or smirk about without forcing himself. His mind is never clear, though, and sometimes he needs to find something else to focus on. That’s where the bar on the Iskaulit comes in.

Theon drinks one of the strongest beverages the offer, tapping his remaining fingers against the top of the bar. No one usually cares to approach him, and he’s just fine with that. He’s still prone to jumpiness, growing nervous whenever someone new gets too close too quickly. ]

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[steeledskin]

I think I envy you your reaction, Theon. [ soft -- perhaps a little hurt on his behalf, which is a new kind of feeling for sansa. she's spent so long safeguarding herself that she'd forgotten what certain flashes of empathy felt like.

funny, really, that it's theon who unravels it so. ]

I could not smile and smirk in the face of even those rumours.

[goodandtrue]

[Seeing his teeth is never going to be easy. It always seems to make her recoil.]

Yours are at least kinder than some...

[onehandwonder]

[ Jaime's not normally much of a drinker, but there's only so much a man can find to do within the confines of a ship, and one of the things he's been doing entirely too much of lately is thinking.

All he wants is a bit of peace, and if he can't find it anywhere else, perhaps he can find it here.

He's already on his second whatever this thing is - he can't quite remember what the bartender called it - when he spots a familiar face. Well, somewhat familiar anyway.

Glass in hand, he slides, uninvited, onto the stool beside the young man, eyeing those fingers. ]

Greyjoy, right?

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[reek]

I've had a lot of practice.

[ He smirks once more, this time closed-mouthed. He doesn't care to break out the teeth unless he needs to prove a point. ]

Years of it, in fact. Those rumors may well be the least hurtful thing I've heard.

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[steeledskin]

I think you speak the truth -- compared to others I've seen, these are almost laughable.

[ but one of ser allen's taught her what the word 'kinky' means. so she has that going for her. ]

[reek]

[ He doesn't much like seeing them himself. Most of his smiles these days are close-mouthed, or blocked by a hand to hide the mess Ramsay made of his teeth, but they work when he needs to prove a point. ]

Aye, they are. Truly the most laughable thing I've heard in months. I should be grateful to them.

[reek]

[ Theon drinks now mainly to calm his nerves, but he never goes too far beyond what he knows he can handle. His nightmares are still plentiful, and he doesn't want to risk them growing worse.

He doesn't expect a companion, and he jumps as someone else makes their presence known. He relaxes quickly afterwards. He doesn't expect Jaime Lannister to cause him any harm. Not here, and not when he's comfortably nursing a drink himself. ]

You are right. Is that a first, Lannister?

[ He smirks into his glass, but his smile doesn't reach his eyes. ]

Have you finally come to tell me how you lost your hand?

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[reek]

I find them to be far beyond almost laughable.

[ In fact, he laughs now, this time being sure to cover his teeth. The rumors themselves aren't hurtful in the least,
but there is a part of him that wonders why anyone would believe he would do this to himself. ]

What have they said of you, if anything?

[goodandtrue]

They have at least been kind to you in that way.

[Not that they have had much kindness in other ways. His life surpassing hers in difficulty.]

It is a better impression to leave with the audience. They may give you amusing gifts.

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[steeledskin]

Nothing worth repeating. [ nothing fit to repeat. but she'd found a scrap of paper suggesting her friendship with ahsoka had been (somehow) more than friendship. the rumour had made her cheeks burn and she'd crumpled the scrap, and yet couldn't bring herself to throw it away. currently, it's stashed beneath her bunk. ]

I should have realized a long time ago how horrible such stories could be.

[onehandwonder]

[ He gives the young man a look, unamused... but then he lets it go because it's such a pitiful attempt to annoy him that it's almost sad.

He focuses instead on the second question, responding with a shrug. That wasn't what he came for, but... ]

I'll tell you how I lost my hand if you tell me how you lost your fingers.

[ Seems like a fair trade. ]