( gervais has, in fairness, probably never shot anyone a glare in his life; his face just doesn't do that. it isn't because he's such a soft-heart he's never wanted to, only - what good would it ever have done him? what attention would it have drawn that he needed? too many variables.
too many templars.
so it's to his credit that he doesn't steel himself to clasp anders' wrist in greeting, but there was never any other way for him to react, not really. other mages have adapted, he can see, have lowered their hackles or their guards, have embraced the freedom that is still so tenuously held. he ... is only a few years shy of fifty, now, and he's been alone a long time since the dissolution of the circles. there hasn't been anyone with him for him to react to in some new and interesting way, if he ever -
he doesn't know if he'll ever walk that easily, but the only pause is the one where once upon a time he'd have said enchanter first. )
G-G-G-Gervais Vauquelin.
( something about the cheekbones, the way he holds himself. the resemblance is subtle, the less one knows any of the vauquelins, but present. )
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too many templars.
so it's to his credit that he doesn't steel himself to clasp anders' wrist in greeting, but there was never any other way for him to react, not really. other mages have adapted, he can see, have lowered their hackles or their guards, have embraced the freedom that is still so tenuously held. he ... is only a few years shy of fifty, now, and he's been alone a long time since the dissolution of the circles. there hasn't been anyone with him for him to react to in some new and interesting way, if he ever -
he doesn't know if he'll ever walk that easily, but the only pause is the one where once upon a time he'd have said enchanter first. )
G-G-G-Gervais Vauquelin.
( something about the cheekbones, the way he holds himself. the resemblance is subtle, the less one knows any of the vauquelins, but present. )