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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:26 am
 Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ As they continued walking, Danny's eyes watched her footfall, making sure to follow the path they took. When Alexander spoke up, she turned her head. "They were very... pleasant," she said, smiling, tucking some hair behind her ear. "How did they find their way here?" she asked curiously. They were obviously water creatures, and she wasn't sure how they would move from different water sources to others. Their skin looked like it worked similar to other amphibious creatures. "And I must have asked you this a hundred times by now, but how do you know about all these different... creatures? You couldn't have just stumbled upon them." After she asked, she immediately felt like she had went a little too far. She inwardly scolded herself for being so nosy, but at the same time she felt like she deserved answers. How long had she known Alexander? If she remembered correctly, she had met him late last summer. So that would make several months of them knowing each other. She didn't want to be rude, but her heart led her otherwise.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- ]
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:14 am
  ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander thought for a moment, pushing his own hair out of his face. "Well, apparently they were residing in the lake before the Naiads came around. I imagine they found the pond once they were chased off and decided to add it to their territory. I expect the two connect some way or another. Nixies rarely travel by land, as you probably saw, they aren't very coordinated and their slow progress on land leaves them vulnerable to being spotted or attacked by something that might see them as a meal. Red Caps and Anthropophagi are rather fond of feeding on them, or so I've heard. But then, neither breed is very picky when it comes to who they devour, and as I said, Nixies tend to be slower on land than humans, so..." He explained, deciding to answer her in order of her questions. Not to mention that was the easier one of the two.
"As for my knowledge of them..." He said, trying to think of the best way to explain without going into too much detail for her mind to handle. "Well, it's a rather long and arguably convoluted story, not to mention something that probably shouldn't be talked of in great detail here in the open." He began. "But...well..." He paused all together, placing one hand on his hip and running his other through his hair as he thought. He didn't want to lie to her really, but perhaps a heavily edited explanation would be best? He took a deep breath as he started walking again. "Really, I've simply been around them my entire life." He said honestly. "And that is thanks to...well, a sort of...I suppose you could call her a...family matriarch?" He said, trying to figure out the best term for Titania. He sighed. "I try very hard not to think of the woman at all, if I can help it." He said honestly, realizing this was likely going to turn into a rather heavy conversation. He looked around for a moment. "I'll better explain, but I believe it'll be much better if we wait until we are back at the shop, or at least someplace better enclosed." He said. Any time he thought of Titania out in the open, although he knew it was far from likely, he felt like her eyes were upon him.╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Noted Musician I imagine Alexander sounds similar to Oliver Wood, but with a lighter accent and a little deeper of a voice.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:08 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ After listening diligently, Danny's ears perked up when Alexander finally began discussing something that sounded fairly close to what she wanted to hear. Family matriarch? she thought, her eyes darting elsewhere at the thought. Like his mom? I mean, that's what matriarch means, for the most part, right? A motherly figure. She had thought that once Alexander finally opened up, she would feel relieved, or simply content. But this feeling in her gut was anything but. It was like it was turning downwards. The more she asked, the harder he dodged the question. He gave her enough information to at least be satisfied, but that only made her think about it more. One answer led to 3 more questions. "Okay," she answered him, and continued watching her step. If she didn't get what she was looking for at the shop, she would figure it out by herself.
After a minute of silence, the shop came into sight, and Danny picked up her pace. Her sandals weren't exactly the best footwear for trekking in the woods, but she would have to deal with it. As small rocks and leaf bits stuck under her feet, she looked up to grab the door and swing it open.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- I always thought it was so cool that he had an accent :3 And hearing that, the video solidified the idea perfectly! ]
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:24 am
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander bit his lip as the shop came into view. He was thinking about the fact he'd potentially dug himself in too deep by offering to tell her about himself and wondered how much she would actually like to know and how to best approach the story. Did he come right out and say there were things he couldn't tell her because her mind might figuratively explode if he did so? Did he say some things were too personal to go into at the moment? Both were true, though the first might actually just raise more questions or frighten the poor girl. He held the door as Danny swung it open in order to allow her to enter before himself and be enthusiastically greeted by Rasiel who was most definitely ready to be fed.
As he locked the door to the shop behind him, Alexander quickly excused himself to change into clean clothes, leaving Rasiel to sit on the counter, his whiskers bristled forward in agitation at his dinner being withheld. Alexander changed into a simple white shirt and trousers before coming back into the front room, bringing Rasiel's promised chicken along with him. As the fox began to chomp down the raw meat, Alexander sat at the counter and sighed. "Alright, this..." He ran his hand through his hair. "Might make things...more confusing than they already are." He said honestly.╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Noted Musician 3nodding Also, I wish therey was a freaking polyvore for guys!!!
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:31 am
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Danny stepped inside and made her way to the front room, assuming Alexander was following her. When she made it and turned to face him, he wasn't there, and she huffed out a breath of air before setting herself down on one of the many plush chairs around the room. She fiddled with her thumbs for a minute before Alexander came back, freshly dressed. At the sight of him, Danny got up and met him at the counter. She listened to him with creased eyebrows before replying.
"Just help me understand," she told him, a hand on the counter. "Please."
If her voice wasn't a dead give away already, her amber eyes pleaded with him. She felt a little bad for giving him so much grief on the subject, but the feeling vanished after she thought of all the times he had dodged her own questions. She wanted to understand, and if needed, she was willing to help. "I mean, are you in trouble? Is that why you can't tell me? I want to help," she said, her other hand moving to rest on his.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND, I hate not being able to do it for all my guy characters neutral AND OMG is he finally gonna spill? :3 Or is he gonna chicken out again? (Honestly I'm okay if he chickens out again, it'll add more drama, lol.) ]
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:03 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander flipped his hand over to hold hers. "It's nothing quite so drastic. At least, not anymore." He said, flashing her a small smile. "But, before I begin, I must apologize. There are parts of my story that, for your own safety, I cannot tell you. I would like to, oh, I would like to, but I can't." He said, making sure she understood. "This doesn't mean these are things you won't eventually know, the truth is we are connected in a deeper way than you might realize, but it is highly likely that you will not learn these things from me." He said. He sat back, biting his lip. Surely what he'd just said was somewhat disheartening. "However, if I were you and I found myself stuck...I would not be above going to consult Evanna." He added finally. He gave her time to ask any questions she could possibly have before beginning.╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:37 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Her dark eyes followed his own as he spoke, and her brows creased as he told her that he could only tell her so much. When he finished, she sighed and looked away. She thought about what course of action she should take. She had half expected him to dodge her question, but he had plainly laid out what she could do to find her answers. It still urked her that he couldn't straight up tell her, but she really couldn't force him to tell her anything. Her shoulders fell a little and she looked back at him.
"I just thought..." she started slowly, "... we were... farther... than this, ya know?"
She struggled to find the right words. "How long have we known each other? A few months short of a year, right? I mean," she fumbled again with what she was trying to say. "I thought we could, ya know, tell each other things, even if it's a little... crazy." Her cheeks flushed a little now, and she retracted her hand from his to scratch her neck. "I mean... I, uhh," she gulped down another stutter, her voice quieting. "I really like you," she finally blurted out, quick to continue with, "I just wanna understand, and be on the same level, ya know?" ━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- whee ]
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:39 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander sighed, interlacing his fingers on the counter. "Danny, I don't think you understand. It's not a pretty story, but I would tell you absolutely everything if I could." He said, stressing the last few words for emphasis. "However, to do so would put you at great mental risk, and I won't do it." He leaned forward and placed a hand on the side of her face. "Because I really like you too. And honestly, I likely shouldn't have told you that much, but it's the truth." He said. He ran his thumb along her cheek before sitting back again. "As for being on the same level, well...I don't know how I can help with that other than telling you what I can. What happened, why I'm here rather than where I actually hail from." He said, standing. He suddenly seemed somewhat restless, as though now that they'd breached the subject, he was itching to tell her at least something about the world she'd hopefully remember. Perhaps it would jog her memory further and she would be able to puzzle things out herself sooner.╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:34 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Danielle sat back in her chair as Alexander stood. Her face was of plain confusion now, and she hated it. So, he did care, BUT he still wouldn't go into the detail she was asking for. She was becoming irritated, but she didn't want to unleash those kind of emotions around him. "Alexander, you're just helping me think of more questions!" The sound coming out of her mouth sounded almost desperate, and she bite her lip. She was getting no where, and she hated to admit it to herself, but she wouldn't get her answers here. She'd have to go somewhere else. She looked down then, finally realizing her small defeat, her feet dangling from the chair she still sat in. "You're so worried about me. What about you? You say you can't tell me, like someone will hurt you if you do. You can be worried about me, but I can't be worried about you?"
She was still struggling to find the right words. Her face fell when she still wasn't getting anywhere, and she felt her eyes begin to water, but she blinked back the tears she didn't want to shed. ━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- Ugh, it breaks my heart when they fight gonk ]
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:09 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗"You can't be worried about me because there's no outside threat. At least not concerning this particular...thing." Alexander said, becoming nearly as frustrated - more with his inability to explain himself than with Danny's probing - though by now he was rather good at holding back emotions and was instead speaking calmly. He sat at the counter once again, his head in his hands all the same, trying to think of a way to clarify what was going on. "Alright, look at it like this. There's a dam in your mind that is only letting water trickle through. If too much water comes through, it can destroy your mind. There are certain things that, if I tell you, might put very large cracks in that dam, therefore unleashing gushes of water and potentially destroying your psyche. At least that's basically how Evanna explained it and, for once, she knows more about what's going on than I do."
He sighed once more. This was turning out to be a lot more painful than he'd anticipated. He'd assumed he'd tell her a vague story of his past and she'd leave it alone, but really he wasn't surprised that she'd kept all this curiosity bottled up. He couldn't expect her to just go along with everything until she figured everything out on her own. And really, it wasn't fair of him to expect her to. He supposed he'd just chosen not to think of when this would inevitably happen. He ran his hand through his hair and met her gaze, his usually gray eyes a bright green. "Believe me, you can worry about me after you hear what I can tell you, but that issue is almost entirely unrelated to this."╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:30 am
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Still looking at her feet, Danielle set her head in one of her hands on the counter. She listened, but at this point she knew she shouldn't even argue anymore. He still wasn't making much sense to her, and she swung her feet for a second before he finished speaking. "So... you're telling me that you ARE going to tell me some stuff," she paused, making sure she was hearing him right. The last thing she wanted was for him to shoot her down again. "BUT, that's it. Nothing else?"
When she finished, she finally looked up at him, looking through the tops of her eyes. However, she jumped at the sight of his green eyes, her head snapping upright and she gasped. "Your eyes!" Her eyes widened a little, and her hand flattened against the counter, her heart picking up the pace.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- Ugh, it breaks my heart when they fight gonk ]
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:50 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander nodded. "Yes. Or rather, I'm going to tell you nearly everything about my past while strategically leaving bits that would be harmful to you out." He said. Her sudden change in demeanor startled him and he jumped as well. At her exclamation, he pulled open a drawer and removed a square mirror that was used for preparing certain plants and herbs. Ah, for the love of- his glamour had slipped! Most likely due to his current emotions and his comfort around the girl. Instead of the inconspicuous, warm grey he'd chosen to hide behind, they were now a bright, vibrant green. The color of new leaves in spring.
"That is just..." He said, rubbing his eyes with the heels of his hands, though it did nothing to improve them. "Something that happens from time to time. It is an emotional response. Neither here nor there." He said as casually as he could in such a high tension situation. Rastiel was picking up on the discomfort and made his way onto the counter, pacing nervously between Danny and Alexander. Unlike Skah, who had been around since Danny's original form died, Rastiel had never known the girl before now and was therefore prepared to keep Alexander safe if he had to, despite the fact he did rather adore Danny. As Alexander noticed this behavior beyond the dots now dancing before his still-green eyes, he sighed and picked the fox up, stroking down his back and scratching behind his ears. The animal let out a pitiful whine of comfort.╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:17 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Mouth ajar slightly at the sight of his eyes, Danny tried to calm herself, also trying to make sense of what happened, her mind going so many different ways at once. "An emotional response?!" she asked, hearing the surprise in her voice, and she willed herself to quiet down. However, she was slowly getting pushed over the edge with this conversation. She watched him pick up Rasiel, but her eyes returned to his eyes just as quickly. She was on edge now, it was like he was turning into someone else, but strangely enough, she felt like she knew that someone else better. Those silver eyes she was so familiar with were gone, replaced with ones that made her feel... nostalgic? She shook her head quickly, as if to shake the weird feelings away. "I... don't know what's happening anymore. You dodge my questions, and now your eyes."
She scowled, pushing herself to just deal with what was in front of her and get the info she so desperately wanted. She flattened her hands against her legs and looked back over at Alexander. "Please, just tell me what you can." She could feel her frustration, but she couldn't just storm out. That was rude and just immature, and she was better than that. She also knew she would never treat Alexander like that, no matter how frazzled he made her.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- ]
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:59 pm
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗Alexander sighed, pacing as he stroked Rasiel's fur. "I dodged your questions for your own safety." He assured her once more. "Though, since you now know there are things I am not at liberty to discuss, I will no longer dodge whatever you may ask, but answer what I can and be straight forward about what I cannot." He said plainly. It was nothing so drastic as an undying promise, but rather he was simply stating there would be a change in how he planned for things of that nature to be handled. Speaking of nature...He glanced down at his clothing. It might help if Danny saw him in a more natural way from time to time. His hair down and wild, his clothing much looser and more captivating. One thousand years of grief had a way of changing people and he was not as wild and carefree as he had once been.
With this in mind, he carefully sat Rasiel back on the counter, much calmer now, and removed his hair from it's elastic so that it lay around his shoulders messily. He ran his hand through it, shaking it out some, and continued pacing. "The good news is what I can tell you may lead you to the answers you seek without my guidance, which is apparently the best route. You asked how I know about all these different things that are considered nonexistent by the world you were raised in. The simple answer is because I've been around them my whole life. It was natural, there was no way for me not to. You see, where I come from there are different...clans, we'll say. Some are considered good, some are considered bad, most are neutral. I was born into a more neutral clan, we didn't really care what people who grew up as you did concerned themselves with." He began, trying to keep his actual bloodline conspicuous. "Residing over all of these clans was - is - a matriarch. She has a husband, but he lives rather far away and does not meddle in these affairs. Following so far?" Alexander said, pausing to make sure he had not lost her. ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:30 pm
Daиιelle ⋯ ReιиhaяdtPlease, call me Danny. █ ▆ ▅ ▃ ▂ ▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ Finally feeling the mood calm again, Danny let herself slouch a little, her eyes still kind of staring at Alexander's green eyes. She couldn't help it, it was as if she was drawn to them, pulled to them almost. As he spoke, he let his hair down, and the feeling intensified. What is happening? she thought, also feeling her head begin to ache ever so slightly. She lifted a hand to it lightly, her eyes still on Alexander as he continued, her ears tuned in.
"Yes," she said simply in response. She rubbed a finger to her temple, trying to focus as her head tried to steer her otherwise.━━━━━━━━ × ━ × ━ × ━━━━━━━━ OUTFIT -- [ x ]
[Out. of. coffee. -- Ahhh, short postttt ]
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