open | If this is an accident then where's the hurt?

[inagutterson]

WHO: Yngvi, open
WHAT: A night of regret or Yngvi has attempted to cope and has a night off from that, it goes about as well as expected
WHEN: 22nd/23rd Bloomingtide (evening through small hours)
WHERE: Kirkwall; Hanged Man, various points in the streets, ends up in the Gallows (will possibly detour if you desire)
NOTES: Yngvi's been MIA until pretty much now, perhaps glimpsed in the company of other dwarves but definitely not around Inquisition turf. So. He resurfaces. In grand fashion.  Warnings; heavy drinking, drug use (shrooms), language. Yngvi and growing up carta but for real.

The Hanged Man
Joking, well 'joking' aside, family is family and thus family are entitled to sizeable portions of your life and your person as they see fit to carve off for themselves, or so it goes in Kirkwall and the Carta, or how it goes in the part of the Kirkwall Carta Yngvi's been part of all his life until Asher Hardie plucked him and Gunnar from it and took off with them.

Figured that if he did wade back in, there'd be Asher. But no. Just an Inquisition that tosses them at red lyrium and the Gallows and--

And family that welcome him with the sort of open arms Yngvi was expecting. Swallowing him whole into Darktown but after the Gallows it's almost pleasant. Familiar at least. Things don't change. Same damp and iron tang catching in the back of his throat, same hacking coughs, the shadows that watch you same as the ones where he is right now. The Hanged Man with that aroma of piss and vomit should help clear the worst of it. Maybe. Missed a few things and the hair of the dog turned into something else at the announcement. Everything feels like his eyes got swapped in a trade he wants to take back but he can't he can't he can't and do he laughs into his pint about Dalish and Orzammar then laughs again.

Undercity crawl
Eventually The Hanged Man gets a bit too close to nostalgic. He's off. Stuffing something in his face that certainly isn't on their menu but fuck it, it's his. Ain't got much what is so why not? Either you're coming with him out of a misguided sense of responsibility, wanting to see where​ this mess goes or you're the unfortunate soul a drunk dwarf has staggered right into.

Gallows chaser
All good things come to an end and part of Yngvi knows he does have a place to rest his head. Mess that he is.

Hi Gallows he's back did you miss him? He's maybe missing some clothes but that's neither here nor there now is it? Ignore his call to his lady that's not for your peasant ears.

Comments

[provenforce]

The concept of family being a bad thing is a little bit foreign to someone like Rey. She would give up anything to know who her family was, to feel like she truly belonged somewhere. Even if Maz Kanata had said her family would never return for her, she still wanted to know them. Know if they were still alive, or if the reason they'd never returned was because they were dead on some distant star.

The way Yngvi speaks though, makes it clear enough to her that not everyone feels this way.

"You didn't have to come here," she starts, slowly, shaking her head a little. "You could have said no, couldn't you?"

[inagutterson]

Family hurts in the end; him and Gunnar have the Carta, Nasir's got a twin he lost to the Crows and found again, apostates raising babies gives you Amalia, Melisende won't talk about bits of alienage life, Liadan nearly cracked under the loss of hers to the Chantry explosion and resulting chaos then there was Asher's whole mess. So. Yngvi would swerve it really. Only he learned all his tricks from them.

Turns out that he's not as good when he's playing with the same hand as everyone else.

"No. Asher," it's his voice that cracks on that name like it's been doing lately and he screws his face up. "Asher signed us on when he came. Then Asher died but we still wanted to honour the contract for him and the rest of us so I said I'd stay in Skyhold. Only we weren't staying in Skyhold but Melisende said you said you'd stay and Inquisition said 'we need dwarves' and here I am. Here. All the teeth and the bones."