Darkest Timeline AU Flashback Meme

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DARKEST TIMELINE AU FLASHBACK MEME
Did you work out something for your character's darkest timeline AU that you love so much it would be an absolute crime not to be able to write it out for real? WHAT LUCK! This meme is here for all your flashback-from-the-future needs. It's also the place to display sad single-character vignettes, letters that were never sent to dead friends, and anything else your dastardly little heart desires. Go forth and suffer.

The contents of this meme do not count for AC. For AC, you must participate in the real logs for the event, which will take place in Cloudreach 9:48, or else continue your normal non-event RP in the present (Guardian 9:43). However, you can count log threads in this meme toward your rewards points for the month.

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[rowancrowned]

[ he makes a soft noise of consideration. there's a rustle of some sort, some shift of movement. wherever he is, he's relaxing. ]

You needn't spar with him. But he is skilled enough. He will not offer criticism?

[ they're all living on top of one another, and underground too-- it would drive thranduil mad, and besides that, he will not risk those he cares about, full aware he could be a target.

his change in tone matches hers, amused: ]

Ah. Does she bite?

[elegiaque]

At length.

( not a complaint. guilfoyle is the reason she's alive today; gwenaëlle is neither stupid nor ungrateful. that she didn't die shortly after her father, between his actions and the anchor-shard in her hand, is nothing short of a small miracle.

but she hasn't wasted it. the sabine comment gets a sharp laugh - )

You'd have to ask Alistair these days. She used to.

[rowancrowned]

Listen to him, beloved, he is still alive because he knows how to think, how to fight.

[ add to the list of things unsaid: losing you would hurt me.

but it is a long list, and at alistair's name he stops working through it. the familiar pang for those he's lost hits him, and he thinks of beleth, and the quiet little hope of love and romance she'd held in her heart, and how that is gone along with so much else.

he does not forgive all the ill she's caused, but it's another thing that went poorly for her, and it did not help. ]

[elegiaque]

I'm still alive, aren't I?

( his opinion is invaluable when she's relied on him so much these past five years; when guilfoyle speaks, she listens. )

I do intend to stay that way.

( and maybe they won't always be this far apart. )

[rowancrowned]

Good, [ he says, as if that will be the end of it. she has a piece of him, now, and she must guard that if nothing else.

thranduil exhales. ]

You only need wait a little while longer.

[elegiaque]

Is that what I'm doing?

( 'waiting'. she never quite knows what to say to that, exhaling when he says it; what it is that he means by it. )

[rowancrowned]

Yes. And you are the best of women for doing it with so few complaints.

[ softer, now. he does not underestimate her strength. ]

[elegiaque]

I'm not sitting idle. I'm not waiting for anything. Best of women my--

( she bites that off. the answer in its place is not substantially tempered. )

In case you'd failed to notice, some of us are actually still working.