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Cade Harimann ([personal profile] onlyhymns) wrote in [community profile] faderift2015-12-13 02:35 pm

[open] where I go

WHO: Knight-Lieutenant Cade Harimann and you
WHAT: A jumpy templar is out of the dungeon and getting his bearings on Skyhold. What horrors will he face? (by horrors I mean other people)
WHEN: Early Haring
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES:If your character met him during speed dating, feel free to assume that conversation happened IC (except Nerva) and that they're already acquainted.




Finally unleashed upon his new home, and wearing his traveling leathers with the unmistakeable flaming Templar sword emblazoned on the chest, Cade made his way around Skyhold with the intention of finding a purpose for himself.

1. The battlements. Cade was unnerved by crowds and limited sightlines, so he had taken to spending a good chunk of time up in the battlements. It gave him an opportunity to watch, listen, and grow accustomed to life below, which was so very different than how he'd come to understand the world.

2. The training grounds. Although he had first been seen in his heavy Templar plate, wielding a sword, left to his own devices Cade was more likely to use the archery range. He was an exceptionally good shot, and spent hours shooting targets with the single-minded concentration of one who was trying not to think about anything at all.

3. The chapel. He could often be found alone in the small chamber just off the cloistered garden, on his knees and with his head bowed to the altar of Andraste.

4. Anywhere! Give me a place and I'll find a reason that he'd be there.

wickedchase: (it's a reckoning)

[personal profile] wickedchase 2015-12-14 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Fate folds his arms and glances over the templar, brow raised.

"What a fine, warm greeting." Not that he anticipated anything else. "Why, I came over to see how you were doing, of course. Not causing a scene lately, are we?"
wickedchase: (the sole regret)

[personal profile] wickedchase 2015-12-14 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
It's not as harsh as it could have been, but clearly it seems to be weighing on Cade somewhat. Fate looks him over, then shrugs and stands up to approach him, seemingly without fear.

"I suppose not. I don't have a frame of reference on what having a lack of lyrium is like, but if you're so aware, then no harm done." The elf offers his hand.

"Shall we let bygones be bygones? Hmm?"
keeperofmagi: (002 - dark look)

[personal profile] keeperofmagi 2015-12-14 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Is he flirting with you?" A stern female voice asked from behind him - not Knight-Commander Meredith's, perhaps, but still.

It could have been a joke, maybe, but like with everything Nerva ever said, it was absolutely impossible to tell with the deadpan way she spoke.

"I am happy to see that you have been released, Cade."
wickedchase: (NO)

[personal profile] wickedchase 2015-12-14 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
"That's the spirit, twitch," Fate says, smiling a little more warmly.

Then, he hears that familiar voice. He struggles to not frown immediately, for multiple reasons -- but one in particular he still isn't certain yet if he should confront. The mage removes his hand from Cade's and turns to look at Nerva.

"Little lady," Fate drawls. "Don't worry. He's safe from my wicked ways."
keeperofmagi: (002 - dark look)

[personal profile] keeperofmagi 2015-12-14 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think I am fairly certain no one is safe from your ways," Nerva said flatly. She had visibly bristled a well, at the nickname, which still always managed to rile her, but Cade immediately correcting him brought the rage down from white hot to a mild, if visible annoyance.

"Thank you, Cade." She glanced over him as if to check his current mental state and then nodded to herself. He was fine, for now. "Has he been behaving?"
wickedchase: (that seems unlikely)

[personal profile] wickedchase 2015-12-14 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"What resounding faith you have in me." Usually, he'd have a much more jovial tone, but with what he knows how, he almost seems a bit more stiff with Nerva. Not very typical of him.

Twisted Fate snorts at Cade, and deepens his voice to a theatrical mockery of sounding authoritative: "And you will address me as Lord Fate, human!" A roll of his eyes and he mutters, "Really. Referring to someone by their species. Just when I said bygones be bygones."

He raises a brow at both of them. "So no senses of humor or manners for templars? That it?"
keeperofmagi: (002 - dark look)

[personal profile] keeperofmagi 2015-12-14 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Twisted Fate seemed out of humour, somehow, and her frown deepened, eyes narrowing slightly as she regarded him. He was usually an ass, sure, but there was enough difference in tone that she noted it.

Was he not sleeping enough?

"Diminutive nicknames have never counted under the banner of 'manners', Twisted Fate." She says mildly, but not angrily, and isn't very inclined to argue it further. There was a slight crispness to the syllables of his name - accentuated. Making a point. She may as well have been a school marm come to drag one of them off by their ears, but not having quite decided which one she needed to drag away, yet.

She looked at Cade. "He can say what he wants, Cade. You have my thanks, but I can handle him."
wickedchase: (the sole regret)

[personal profile] wickedchase 2015-12-14 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose it was simply too much for me to hope that this little twitch was capable of being a gentleman. But then, it seems I should already lower my expectations. We're both used to that, hm?"

The tone is terse, and he certainly lacks his usual confidence and swagger when he speaks to Nerva. He isn't teasing in so much as he's irritable.

"Coddle him as you see fit. I'll relieve us both take my leave."
keeperofmagi: (002 - dark look)

[personal profile] keeperofmagi 2015-12-14 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Nerva put her hand out - putting it on Cade's shoulder with enough weight that he could feel it, but not enough that he wouldn't be able to easily pull away from it if he intended to.

It was less for Fate's benefit than for Cade's. She had seen him, in the jail. He would stew about this, and she was already wary about just how short a fuse he was likely to have. So. Peacekeeping it would have to be.

"Generally speaking if you are looking to have amicable relationships, Twisted Fate, you don't continue to antagonize them as you do so." Said the very black pot to the kettle.

"If I interrupted reparations, you have my apologies, and may I suggest that you both make another attempt."

She said it was a suggestion, but the dark tenor of her voice hinted that it really wasn't a suggestion.
wickedchase: (it's a reckoning)

[personal profile] wickedchase 2015-12-14 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hilarious words of advice from you, Nerva. I have enough of what I need to get by."

However, suffice it to say, Cade is caught in the middle of this. Though he was mildly bothered by being called elf, it's a far cry from other names he's been called -- and his irritations are with her right now, not him. Sad to say, the templar had simply been caught in the middle of it all.

"But you aren't wrong, either," Twisted Fate concedes, removing his hat. "Cade, my apologies as well. My behavior has been far less than charming, I should say."