[But, because he's Nikos, and dogged to the last--]
Beauty and wealth are not your only ambitions. And if you give me another flippant adjective because you think yourself witty, I'll glue your hair to your ears.
( A MUCH PUT UPON SIGH, and perhaps he knows the expression of "I want to make an obnoxious comment but I'm holding back" that she just levelled at the crystal. )
I want to protect those dear to me, and I want to be someone with the power to make the world better. I want mages not to be made monsters, and I want to... do more good than harm.
( And, by the way, ) If you or Kostos come near my hair with glue or tree sap or anything ever again I'll take your hands.
[Unseen, to himself, safe from Marisol: Nikos smiles. He loves his cousin. He doesn't say it to her, and will not say it to her, trusts instead that she knows it of him.
This is why. She's capricious, in her way, imperious and passionate about matters both trivial and inconsequential--but passionate about the right things, too. Scratch her pretty surface and there is steel beneath. Gold-plated, but true, and he trusts that more than anything.
Which means that he avoids responding to that part for the moment, lest he appear too full of feeling.]
If Kostos comes near your hair, why do my hands pay the price? Can't you tell us apart?
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Date: 2018-12-05 04:27 am (UTC)[But, because he's Nikos, and dogged to the last--]
Beauty and wealth are not your only ambitions. And if you give me another flippant adjective because you think yourself witty, I'll glue your hair to your ears.
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Date: 2018-12-08 09:22 am (UTC)I want to protect those dear to me, and I want to be someone with the power to make the world better. I want mages not to be made monsters, and I want to... do more good than harm.
( And, by the way, ) If you or Kostos come near my hair with glue or tree sap or anything ever again I'll take your hands.
( THAT IS A VERY TRAUMATISING MEMORY )
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Date: 2018-12-12 09:03 pm (UTC)This is why. She's capricious, in her way, imperious and passionate about matters both trivial and inconsequential--but passionate about the right things, too. Scratch her pretty surface and there is steel beneath. Gold-plated, but true, and he trusts that more than anything.
Which means that he avoids responding to that part for the moment, lest he appear too full of feeling.]
If Kostos comes near your hair, why do my hands pay the price? Can't you tell us apart?