[Open] I don't think you're ready for this jelly

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Alistair and Anders and YOU
WHAT: Alistair tightropes. In a dress. While singing.
WHEN: Kingsway 21st
WHERE: Camp Shady Fucker
NOTES: There will probably be some awful sap because this is Nate's birthday, you've been warned. Otherwise, no warnings anticipated.

It's not publicized, but word has a habit of getting out.

Zevran has publicized matters, and now it's time for some morale boosting. There's a low tightrope stretched between two trees with a great many chairs, stumps, and logs set up as seating options. Today is the day for someone to earn himself new boots, shirts, and a shield, and it promises to be a show.

Come on up, pull up a seat, and enjoy the entertainment.

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[ombranera]

"You ought to grow your hair out enough to have them, mm? Long like your mother's- or mine. You've the face for it. Would he not look quite dashing with long hair?" Zevran reaches out to ruffle Kieran's, charmed as always. Perhaps the boy would be a dashing figure indeed upon a Wyvern. Perhaps he might get roped into seeing such a thing done.

And so long as no one is injured, he wouldn't tell a soul. Otherwise- it's Alistair's fault. Entirely.

"Mmm. I look forward to the day he decides to argue. That is when I intend to turn him upon Alistair in full and allow him to endure what it is like to deal with him as a contrary little shit." Turnabout is fair play after all. Doubly so when the fair play is meant to gently tease his family. "Ah, of course not. I must have been mistaken- but should you ever have a moment- the offer remains open."

[arcaneadvisor]

"I would take longer in the bath." No. No he is putting his foot down because he must be wrangled into the bath as it is, he can't imagine anything much worse than taking longer in the bath, as long as his mother must take when she takes down her hair at night to brush it out so it falls over her shoulders.

It takes long enough to get twigs and burs and mud out as is thanks Uncle Zevran. He will suffer baths for the sake of wyverns but not long hair. Instead he'll whisper to Lucci that baths are horrible. Don't let the adults lie. Terrible. A hundred and one things that are thrice the fun could be done instead of scrubbing yourself in a bath then having to come out into the cold though it's better than some places because he remembers cold rivers, and apologies, and how his mother warmed his clothes by the fire. That was always nice but still, not worth a bath.

"Speaking of, have you taught him any Antivan of late? I cannot think where else he might have learnt a word such as inamorata. You know his mind better than I; he composes a verse, you make such an offer. Tell me--" And she waits because Kieran...doesn't exactly know because Morrigan doesn't have a name for it and he's ten, so he doesn't really need to know every detail of her life, "Why such interest?"

Look some things don't change, Morrigan really doesn't get this part or how she's supposed to react. This isn't even touching that Josephine knows too, courtesy of Leliana.

[ombranera]

"Baths are not so terrible. Lucci loves bath time." If only for the splashing involved. When he is older those whispered words might go to heart, that mud and sticks are the only way to be clean. Zevran has tried to impress upon his child that cleanliness is enjoyable but- it shall not always be so. He is reluctantly resigned to this, because children are children and learn to enjoy messes.

"Perhaps. He does listen on occasion." And Zevran does hold a fair interest- not keen, not voyeuristic- simply...caring. Congratulating. "Because you are friends to me, if not family. And this is what one does with families- or so I have been told. They take interest, they tease, they promise grave retribution should it be required in the defense of one or the other. I will say that Leliana being Leliana would be a fine challenge- but should a need arise? I would see retribution done. And she would never see me coming."

[arcaneadvisor]

Why do you say these terrible things, this is why Alistair is his favourite uncle. Clearly he must sway Lucci to his way of thinking with all due haste! Only there's a 'paw' in Kieran's face and he looks so startled by it (he shouldn't, he's clearly Alistair's given how much time he spends with various dogs around Skyhold) that he doesn't say any of that.

"Do not teach him Antivan love poetry, his...attempt at verse was painful enough." By the way have you ever heard it recited by drunk Orlesians because that's actually hysterical, and corsets aren't really designed to hold in laughter, she almost ruptured something so of course she made sure the floor was iced so they slid halfway down the hall for their troubles. "How you tempt me, yet only one of us hides so neatly amongst her ravens." A smile softens that, allowing him to pry there if he will because yes the implication is very clear as to what Morrigan does if she's bored and wants to check in on Leliana unseen. Family is still so raw. So strange. But all their talks, that she even apologised?

Perhaps he is right.

"You do recall what my mother thought of family, at least the menfolk. Though were there any that might need the same as you offer, spiders can do much the same as my mother in a bed." Be so kind as to not point out the strain for a moment, the way her mouth pinches at the corners not at the talk of her mother but because it's Morrigan, because generally if there is hurt and she is involved, she has usually been the one doing the hurting. (What a pair she and Leliana make.)