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rivain2017-08-11 05:14 pm
stumbledfromtheashes) wrote in rivain2017-08-11 05:14 pm
I could pray and trick with a double tongue, but the only fool here's me
WHO: Iona Lavellan, Loghain Mac Tir
WHERE: Skyhold? Then onto the Winter Palace
WHEN: Before, during, and after Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts?
WARNINGS: TBD
NOTES: TBD
Why does it have to be politics? Give her a dragon, or red templars, or BOTH. Andraste’s tits, give her both. They, at least, would be something familiar. Less difficult to manage. She doesn’t have the temper for politics. Or the mouth. Particularly for Orlais; given the state of human-elvhen affairs there it’s going to be an exercise in biting her tongue the entire time. And probably failing to some degree. This is going to be a disaster, Iona knows it.
But it’s necessary, so she resigns herself to dressing to impress (not that anyone will be; she's 'just an elf', after all), and does her best to ready herself for the trial to come. And it’s going to be a trial. At least she’s not alone. She has her advisors, and she has her companions. She would be lost without Josephine and Leliana and Cullen.
The fact of the matter is that she’s going to be on uneven footing the entire bloody evening. In a palace full of humans who don’t think much of her people. And maybe that’s why a thought occurs to her. A thought that she’s sure Josephine and... everyone, will disapprove of thoroughly, but she doesn’t much care. There's no way to avoid the attention, to avoid the disparaging looks and being looked down upon. She might as well choose it. Make it on her terms. At least some of it.
So she seeks out Loghain.
WHERE: Skyhold? Then onto the Winter Palace
WHEN: Before, during, and after Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts?
WARNINGS: TBD
NOTES: TBD
Why does it have to be politics? Give her a dragon, or red templars, or BOTH. Andraste’s tits, give her both. They, at least, would be something familiar. Less difficult to manage. She doesn’t have the temper for politics. Or the mouth. Particularly for Orlais; given the state of human-elvhen affairs there it’s going to be an exercise in biting her tongue the entire time. And probably failing to some degree. This is going to be a disaster, Iona knows it.
But it’s necessary, so she resigns herself to dressing to impress (not that anyone will be; she's 'just an elf', after all), and does her best to ready herself for the trial to come. And it’s going to be a trial. At least she’s not alone. She has her advisors, and she has her companions. She would be lost without Josephine and Leliana and Cullen.
The fact of the matter is that she’s going to be on uneven footing the entire bloody evening. In a palace full of humans who don’t think much of her people. And maybe that’s why a thought occurs to her. A thought that she’s sure Josephine and... everyone, will disapprove of thoroughly, but she doesn’t much care. There's no way to avoid the attention, to avoid the disparaging looks and being looked down upon. She might as well choose it. Make it on her terms. At least some of it.
So she seeks out Loghain.