and I'm haunted

[fightingale]

WHO: Hercules & Leliana & Ruby & whoever would like a thread with them 8Db
WHAT: a catch all for February-March;
WHEN: the next monthish :|b
WHERE: Skyhold, Emprise, maybe somewhere else.
NOTES:
1. individual starters in el commentos
2. specific themes and warnings will be dropped into subject lines as necessary.
3. if you are threading with Leliana it would be amazing if you could reply to this post re: information she could know about your character.
4. if we have discussed doing a thread but there isn't a starter here, feel free to just barge in and set one up! otherwise prod me and I can add it asap, I have a to-do list but I am also scatterbrained ;u;
5. I'm not doing open prompts this time for Leliana, but if you would like a thread with Leliana, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me! I am just trying to do custom things because she is in a particular state of mind, at present.
6. I am sorry there are so many notes







apparently I am being pretentious this month

Comments

FOR VARRIC TETHRAS.

[eviscerates]

Ruby's window shopping, as well as you can window shop when you're looking at a collection of supply carts that don't have any windows. 'Cart browsing' just isn't as catchy, and when you spent thirty years window shopping, sometimes it's hard to go back to doing everything the ye olde fantasy land way.

What she's looking for is a decent bow. She was able to make something incredibly basic for the sake of getting them to Skyhold and scrambling together some food and keeping them safe without her needing to let the Wolf out, but making bows had never been her specialty. She was better at firing them and assembling arrows, when she needed to. Bows? Not so much, and why spend hours upon hours trying to master the art when she could just buy one?

None of them are really leaving her that inspired, is the problem. Even if she's not been an archer for some thirty odd years, she still remembers what it should feel like, what she preferred, and nothing's doing it for her. Not that big a drama when she needs to save up more coin anyway, she just... feels restless. A glance along the row of carts to someone else makes her brow quirk a little, intrigued, and she moves along in long strides, head canted to the side when she greets him. "Hi."

And a little wave, because she's Ruby, in all her red leather gloves and red brocade cloak and general forest peasant princess glory. "I just wanted to say that looks like an amazing crossbow. I'm more of a bow girl, myself, but I'm pretty sure my Granny would kill a man to get hold of something like that."

[hugeinorlais]

Varric was looking for paper. For all that these merchants wrote him and complained, you'd think their carts would be overflowing with the stuff, but nope, not a scrap to be found and the current "shopkeep" (if one could be called a shopkeep when they neither had a shop nor kept anything) was being about as Orlesian as anyone could dream of being. That was to say, he was being an obstinate, uppity jerk and refused to consider selling Varric any of his personal stash of paper.

He was about a breath away from throwing up his arms and stalking away from the haphazard assortment of carts when, all of a sudden, he was in the presence of tall, dark, and crimson. Her head was tilted off angle but humans occasionally did that when talking to dwarves; you got used to it.

"What can I say? Bianca's always been popular with the ladies--little old ladies included." Varric shrugged and, on reflex, shot Ruby one of his most dashing, roguish smiles. "Varric Tethras, at your service. You looking for a bow, or just picking up a gift for your Grandmother?"

Skyhold was an odd location to shop for gifts, but the Frostbacks weren't exactly overflowing with better options.

[eviscerates]

"Bianca, huh?" Well, if that's not delightful she doesn't know what is. "Very distinguished. I can see why anyone'd be charmed by her. " She can play along with the ridiculousness of the conversation. Ruby does well at that kind of thing, in fact.

"Varric Tethras, it is very nice to meet you. I'm Ruby Lucas, but... most people just call me Red." Ah, and the question draws an amused little sigh. "I was trying to find a couple of bows that weren't terrible enough to pass for something I could make blindfolded, buuuut I'm coming up empty, so far. I mean, I'm sure Granny would love a souvenir..." Ruby trails off, brow furrowed. "I don't think I'm going to find any snow globes for her collection here, though, and she's scary enough with just the regular crossbow, frankly."

And she grins, slightly apologetic, realising that some of her ramble probably doesn't help him much. "Sorry, maybe a Rifter thing. Snow globes are basically these little... scenes, I guess, in a glass dome and you shake them and it looks like there's a flurry of snow? Kind of a signature tourist trap thing. A little Skyhold one could be pretty cute, though."

She's talking too much. She does that, sometimes.