castintoflames: (✧ and I'm losing blood)
Maedhros Nelyafinwë Maitimo Fëanorian ✧ Russandol ([personal profile] castintoflames) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2017-07-14 07:57 pm

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Who: Maedhros & Open
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Huntress
When: Backdated slightly for gifts.

(Joy and grief are mingled in what he receives. Maedhros has set his focus on others either enjoying what they received or despairing over them. It's easier, isn't it?

A breath before the plunge.

He sets a portrait on a table, shakily touching each face with exceptional tenderness. There is a dark father, a fiery mother and seven sons. Maedhros himself is frozen there embracing two little brothers who share his hair color. They are undeniably twins.

Six births and he remembers all of them. The young bright faces are both beloved and shunned. He rests his chin on his arm, peering at them - making himself do so before he speaks, voice rough.)


These are my brothers...my father...and my mother.

(The clanking of a chain comes next and Maedhros lifts a pair of manacles. Heavy manacles. The sort to hold a strong Elf fast. He says nothing about them, but the fingers of his only remaining hand slide over the metal, remembering.

His last gift is nicer and he drops the manacles in favor of it. It is a crimson tunic with fine golden threading and black accents. It may or may not be the tunic he wears in the portrait.

Nicer, yes, but it causes a pang still.)


My mother made this for me. She wished for me to be a fine prince.
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-25 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Once or twice, yes, from a distance. They very much do, and his daughter also - dark haired and grey eyed. Galadriel must be annoyed they don't take more after her side!
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-25 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Even so - she shares her foremother's fate, also, for like her she chose mortality for love.
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-25 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know - but I'm sure they will. Aragorn is descended from Elros, and a tribute to that line, a good man. And she loves him, after all.
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-25 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yes - I am sure they will. Maybe... after all of this... I ... perhaps I could... go see.
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-25 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
I know. [ He leans against him ]

I will remember everything I can for you.
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-25 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
I couldn't! They'd be the children of the King and Queen! What sensible person would let a vagabond play with their children, let alone the Princes & Princesses!
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-25 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ He flushes shyly ]

I'm... surely not...
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-07-26 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ He is still flushed ]

I... how would they even know what I look like!