lionheartedman (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lionheartedman) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
faderift2016-07-08 04:01 pm
lionheartedman) wrote in faderift2016-07-08 04:01 pm
Cullen's July catch-all
WHO: Cullen, Puppy, and you
WHAT: working, bathing, walking, playing, traveling, politicing (ugh), wandering around Orlais feeling out of place
WHEN: spanning the month 1-15 in Skyhold, 16-20 traveling, 21-31 in Orlais
WHERE: various locations - the hot springs, Cullen's office, and walking the battlements and courtyards in Skyhold - the Inquisition foothold and anywhere someone convinces him to show his face in Orlais
NOTES: Since this log covers two very different locations, and because there are travel times associated with getting to and from these places, please make sure you tell me what day you want your thread on as well as where.
If none of the options provided work for you, you are free to come up with something on your own. I'm also willing to make custom starters, if asked. Just let me know.
Threadjacking is fine, negative CR is fine. Basically everything is fine.
HOT SPRINGS (Skyhold)
evening
Cullen tends to go bathing at odd hours. It's half practicality and half availability. In the middle of the night, scouts and messengers have stopped arriving, and he doesn't feel as guilty about taking time for himself. He's also less likely to run into anyone else, which is good for him for two reasons now. First, because it is nice to have a little slice of time with no expectations to rise to. Second, now that puppy is in his life, everywhere he goes he has (as Adelaide predicted) a little blue shadow. It seems a kindness to not expose bathers to the insistent demands of a young mabari wanting stimulation. It's also easier to bathe the dog with no one else around, and if Cullen is in the water, Puppy wants in the water.
Setting all that logical and responsible reasoning aside, he finds it easier to sleep after a hot bath. He's not sure why, but the days he doesn't have time to get down to the hot springs, the days his hygiene routine consists of a basin of hot water and a rag (though Puppy still goes splashing when Cullen is finished), there is no relaxation to accompany the fatigue when it settles in.
So it's the twilight hours that find him soaking his old bones, flicking water at Puppy as he runs eagerly around the edge of the pool, venturing into the shallows to bite at little bubbles and let Cullen rub soap into his short fur. The mabari has learned to be quiet, to keep from drawing attention, or disturbing the peace of anyone trying to sleep. That doesn't in any way lessen his desire for play. He paddles around in the warm water, chasing bars of soap and scrubbing stones and leaping from rock to rock playing a game of tag with the reflections cast and anyone who might break the stillness to join them.
daylight hours
Just because Cullen only bathes at night, that doesn't mean Puppy feels so confined. If his master will not pay attention to him, if he is too busy and Puppy feels unneeded, he's not above visiting the hot springs on his own. During the day, it's far noisier, and he doesn't feel the need to keep quiet. He'll find people, during the day, and people mean a chance to make a friend. He'll still chase the soap, and might eat it if it's natural and unscented.
OFFICE (Skyhold and Orlais both)
There are preparations to be seen to. He doesn't leave Skyhold often, and never for any extended length of time. Of course, just because he doesn't do it, doesn't mean he won't have to. Leliana is still ill, can't travel. He feels that Josephine if more than enough on her own in that city. She knows how to play their games, and Cullen does not. Even if he could learn, he would not want to.
Wherever he goes, there he is, and the paperwork follows. It always follows. He doesn't even get the rare pleasure of a bare desktop on his first day in Orlais. It's waiting for him, already piled high. He expects to be hunched over his work long into the night, and he also expects to be interrupted regularly. Life as usual.
TRAINING (Skyhold and Orlais both)
Just because it's a different sort of fight they're heading into, that doesn't mean his troops can shirk their training. Just because he will be away from a portion of them for a time, doesn't mean they get to slack. He will appoint someone he feels comfortable with to act in his stead while he is gone, keeping his troops in top shape, improving them as quickly and fully as possible. Those who travel to Orlais will not have an easier time of it. They are a representation of the Inquisition in a land that would rather not have them turn up and spoil the party. They will have to be themselves, but better. Through it all, daily training is a part of life now. When numbers are so small, they must be clever and skilled.
TRAVELING TO ORLAIS
The traveling is honestly not that bad. He's used to it. It's far nicer with Puppy, he must say. On horseback, the mabari marches along beside him. At times the little dog is puffed up with importance and the recognition that his person is the head person, and so he must be a hound worthy of such an important position. At other times, small distractions catch his attention and he is every inch the young puppy enamored with the entire world and eager to learn about it. When he gets tired, Cullen brings him up onto his horse, letting him curl in the crook of his arm and the tucked and secured cloth of his cape and chase nugs in his sleep.
When they stop to make camp, Puppy makes that time more tolerable, too. He is friendly with everyone in their group, doling out affection and encouragement around the fire, playing fetch and begging belly rubs, but always coming back to Cullen. It's not easy to sleep under the best of circumstances, and even worse on the road.
GENERAL ORLAIS
This is Cullen. He is in Orlais. He hates Orlais. Come make it better/worse for him. Or just watch him wander around hating his life. Your call.
PUPPY (this one works pretty much anywhere, and does not include Cullen)
A young mabari puppy appears! He has decided that the next slice of his life is going to include you. Deal with it.
Solace timeline
WHAT: working, bathing, walking, playing, traveling, politicing (ugh), wandering around Orlais feeling out of place
WHEN: spanning the month 1-15 in Skyhold, 16-20 traveling, 21-31 in Orlais
WHERE: various locations - the hot springs, Cullen's office, and walking the battlements and courtyards in Skyhold - the Inquisition foothold and anywhere someone convinces him to show his face in Orlais
NOTES: Since this log covers two very different locations, and because there are travel times associated with getting to and from these places, please make sure you tell me what day you want your thread on as well as where.
If none of the options provided work for you, you are free to come up with something on your own. I'm also willing to make custom starters, if asked. Just let me know.
Threadjacking is fine, negative CR is fine. Basically everything is fine.
HOT SPRINGS (Skyhold)
evening
Cullen tends to go bathing at odd hours. It's half practicality and half availability. In the middle of the night, scouts and messengers have stopped arriving, and he doesn't feel as guilty about taking time for himself. He's also less likely to run into anyone else, which is good for him for two reasons now. First, because it is nice to have a little slice of time with no expectations to rise to. Second, now that puppy is in his life, everywhere he goes he has (as Adelaide predicted) a little blue shadow. It seems a kindness to not expose bathers to the insistent demands of a young mabari wanting stimulation. It's also easier to bathe the dog with no one else around, and if Cullen is in the water, Puppy wants in the water.
Setting all that logical and responsible reasoning aside, he finds it easier to sleep after a hot bath. He's not sure why, but the days he doesn't have time to get down to the hot springs, the days his hygiene routine consists of a basin of hot water and a rag (though Puppy still goes splashing when Cullen is finished), there is no relaxation to accompany the fatigue when it settles in.
So it's the twilight hours that find him soaking his old bones, flicking water at Puppy as he runs eagerly around the edge of the pool, venturing into the shallows to bite at little bubbles and let Cullen rub soap into his short fur. The mabari has learned to be quiet, to keep from drawing attention, or disturbing the peace of anyone trying to sleep. That doesn't in any way lessen his desire for play. He paddles around in the warm water, chasing bars of soap and scrubbing stones and leaping from rock to rock playing a game of tag with the reflections cast and anyone who might break the stillness to join them.
daylight hours
Just because Cullen only bathes at night, that doesn't mean Puppy feels so confined. If his master will not pay attention to him, if he is too busy and Puppy feels unneeded, he's not above visiting the hot springs on his own. During the day, it's far noisier, and he doesn't feel the need to keep quiet. He'll find people, during the day, and people mean a chance to make a friend. He'll still chase the soap, and might eat it if it's natural and unscented.
OFFICE (Skyhold and Orlais both)
There are preparations to be seen to. He doesn't leave Skyhold often, and never for any extended length of time. Of course, just because he doesn't do it, doesn't mean he won't have to. Leliana is still ill, can't travel. He feels that Josephine if more than enough on her own in that city. She knows how to play their games, and Cullen does not. Even if he could learn, he would not want to.
Wherever he goes, there he is, and the paperwork follows. It always follows. He doesn't even get the rare pleasure of a bare desktop on his first day in Orlais. It's waiting for him, already piled high. He expects to be hunched over his work long into the night, and he also expects to be interrupted regularly. Life as usual.
TRAINING (Skyhold and Orlais both)
Just because it's a different sort of fight they're heading into, that doesn't mean his troops can shirk their training. Just because he will be away from a portion of them for a time, doesn't mean they get to slack. He will appoint someone he feels comfortable with to act in his stead while he is gone, keeping his troops in top shape, improving them as quickly and fully as possible. Those who travel to Orlais will not have an easier time of it. They are a representation of the Inquisition in a land that would rather not have them turn up and spoil the party. They will have to be themselves, but better. Through it all, daily training is a part of life now. When numbers are so small, they must be clever and skilled.
TRAVELING TO ORLAIS
The traveling is honestly not that bad. He's used to it. It's far nicer with Puppy, he must say. On horseback, the mabari marches along beside him. At times the little dog is puffed up with importance and the recognition that his person is the head person, and so he must be a hound worthy of such an important position. At other times, small distractions catch his attention and he is every inch the young puppy enamored with the entire world and eager to learn about it. When he gets tired, Cullen brings him up onto his horse, letting him curl in the crook of his arm and the tucked and secured cloth of his cape and chase nugs in his sleep.
When they stop to make camp, Puppy makes that time more tolerable, too. He is friendly with everyone in their group, doling out affection and encouragement around the fire, playing fetch and begging belly rubs, but always coming back to Cullen. It's not easy to sleep under the best of circumstances, and even worse on the road.
GENERAL ORLAIS
This is Cullen. He is in Orlais. He hates Orlais. Come make it better/worse for him. Or just watch him wander around hating his life. Your call.
PUPPY (this one works pretty much anywhere, and does not include Cullen)
A young mabari puppy appears! He has decided that the next slice of his life is going to include you. Deal with it.
Solace timeline
no subject
no subject
Oh. He should have realized that of course, and he flushed briefly in embarrassment.
"Well, I can't say I feel like I belong here, per say. I don't know that I ever will, really," he shrugged, grinning when the pup pulled the towel from his fingers and he lunged to get it back before the pup got to far. "But it's home, for the time being, and all my friends are here. So, I think in a way, I do belong here? At least for the moment."
He finally let the pup have the towel and straightened to pad over to the water and slide in.
no subject
Puppy was running around the edge of the hot springs with his towel prize, and when he looked about ready to leap into the water, Cullen raised his hand and said "no" sharply, and the little ball of fat and fur froze, almost mid step. "Leave the towel. That's not yours. It stays dry."
When Puppy obediently left it on the ledge before leaping into the water and attempting to bite at the bubbles coming up from between the rocks, Cullen turned his attention back to Kirk. "Cullen Rutherford."
no subject
"James Tiberius Kirk, but just Jim will do. Or Kirk. I've answered to both for years, see no reason to change that now," he huffed, holding out a dripping hand to Cullen - after withdrawing quickly to be out of the way of the leaping Puppy. The whole sight made him laugh, shaking his head amusedly at the little thing.
no subject
no subject
"Well, best to avoid confusion," he laughed. "Though to be fair, if you asked me to run a message, I'd probably say yes, so..." A shrug. It was the truth, at any rate. He wasn't above running messages - he did it quite often for a bit of coin around Skyhold since most of his skills back home simply weren't transferable here. The technology level wasn't up to par, and he didn't want to risk jumping them far ahead.
"Naw, it's fine. He's cute, so it's not like I can stay mad," he clicked his tongue and patted the water to get the pup's attention.
no subject
no subject
Kirk's smile widened as the pup played, shifting his head to sit half in the water, curling his fingers and flexing. The resulting force made water splash out in little squirts, aiming them at and around the pup to give him something to chase and aim his bites for.
"It's all right," he assured him. "I've always liked dogs, even though I currently live with two cats. But in my defense, they were not my idea."
no subject
He smiled at Puppy, wiggling and thrashing in the water, desperate to catch the jets of water that Kirk was streaming into the air. He saw the appeal there, was warmed by it in a way few things managed to touch him. He got dogs.
no subject
"I never said I understood them, just that I had two thrust upon me," he laughed, changing up the pattern to keep giving puppy stimulation. Maybe he would even tire him out - eventually. "Even now I am no idea what Leonard or Nikita think half the time, except that they like to be the center of attention. That is the one and only thing I am sure of."
no subject
no subject
"Yes, that's him," he chuckled, switching to thrusting gentle waves at the paddling pup. "Leonard is technically mine and Nikita is technically his, but since we're sharing the space it's a group thing at the moment."
no subject
no subject
"Oh, yeah, I made those," he laughed. "It's not always done, but I thought it would be a good idea so they don't get lost whenever we go outside of the loft. But there's leashes for everything back in my world - dogs, cats, rabbits, children."