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Jullus pyr Norbanus ([personal profile] pyrrhichope) wrote in [community profile] isleofavalon2022-05-28 12:59 am

The (un?)merry month of May

đź§™ WHO: Jullus and whoever!
⚔️️ WHAT: Assorted DitL-style things + May event prompts
đź•’ WHEN: The latter half of May
🗺️ WHERE: various, see prompts
⚠️ WARNINGS: none atm

{i, closed to housemates}

[For all that Jullus is, by this point, at least used to the idea of having found himself in another world, there are still times when it feels ... odd to be living in a house full of other people. A house that might have found itself down at least one member recently, but even so it's... strange. Both for the fact that the idea of having genuine privacy is still a little novel and for the fact that the last time he'd shared a house with anyone previously it had been his own family.

(He might be reasonably certain the people he currently shares a house with aren't going to share his family's fate. But the thought is harder to shake for certain.)

Still, he makes an effort to offer a polite nod to anyone he should happen to pass by even if he is often not the most inclined to initiate conversation beyond that. And if the room he has happened to choose as his is kept military-neat, well. Surely he can't be blamed for that.]


{ii, OTA}

[Absent anything else to do - he has not yet made any significant effort to find a more permanent job, and is not entirely thrilled at the idea of taking on quests - Jullus can mostly be found training. With his gunblade more than anything. While he is well aware of the fact that he's meant to have some - and has no significant problem with magic either - he's not entirely sure what he's meant to do with it. Especially when his gunblade has been more than enough before.

And so he can be found making well-practiced swings at imagined enemies, while his familiar hops back and forth behind him.]


{iii, OTA}

[Though Jullus has no particular interest in - or familiarity with - the Fisher King and so opts to not go on the search for him, even he isn't blind to the change that takes over Camelot in the days that follow. It's not a surprise, perhaps. Even he knows that an absence of any direct authority in a region often has disastrous effects. But neither is he particularly inclined to simply sit by and watch as criminals and ne'er-do-wells suddenly make their presence known across Camelot.

A gunblade might be poor protection against curses. But he's willing to make the attempt and when he spots a shady figure coming down the street he turns to whoever happens to be nearby, hand falling to the hilt of his gunblade.]


Go. I'll hold them here.

[He will... probably manage to not inflict any serious injuries on the criminals in question. But he's certainly not above it seem like it might be the case otherwise.]
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[personal profile] dontgetintherobot 2022-05-30 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Such is life in the imperial army, isn't it? I think I've yet to hear a tale of a legion that got a happy ending.

[The infighting, the stranded legions in Bozja and Eorzea... granted he was the cause of the untimely end of the VIIth, but it was for the better. He only wished so many hadn't followed Valens so loyally.]

When my siblings and I were to be part of the weapons projects... I started trying harder to make better meals for them. Some days it was all I could do to keep their spirits up.

[He sits down across from Jullus with his own meal, taking a few of the cakes himself as well. Their secret.]
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[personal profile] dontgetintherobot 2022-05-31 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
You want to know the cruel irony of it all? I had been heading to Garlemald with an Ultima Weapon. Had I arrived… I could have potentially both ended the war as well as absorbed Anima.

[He takes a sip of hid tea. He figured he might as well talk about what happened to the VIIth Legion, and to him. It wasn’t exactly a secret that he’d died, but he’d kept the how of it quiet.

Father would… want him to be more open about it.
]

Or I could have simply made matters worse… I wasn’t exactly in the best of mindsets.
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[personal profile] dontgetintherobot 2022-05-31 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I did take out a castrum or two before I was finally taken out. I’m not sure the building would have posted too much of a problem.

[It was almost odd speaking of his rampage and the destruction he wrought so…casually? He wasn’t due if that was the right word, but it felt so far away now, almost as though it had happened to a different person, and he had just watched.]

The thralls… well, all I could offer them would be a Swift death.

[As one who was still unaware of the cure for tempering.]

I’m honestly not sure what I would have done though. I had aspirations to end the civil war, to try and fix Garlemald to truly be a place for all her people…

A bit of a vague plan looking back on it now, but I wasn’t in a place where I could think of something more detailed.