Roin's Fantastic Fantasies!

[Roin]

Aside from sounding like a porno magazine, this thread is basically going to be where I post logs/journals for my characters. As is... uh... well, it'll fill whenever. For now, simply leaving this post here to ensure I can drop something on it once the time comes.

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Stories and Links to the Post*
Story 1: Legix vs Cormad: A Scarring Experience!

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(* = for when the thread grows to more than just a few posts)

[Roin]

Story 1: Legix vs Cormad: A Scarring Experience!

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A good, many years ago...

The cold, chilly winds of the North Blue swept over the land... to be specific, the island of Lyneel. A cloud-front had brought rain, which in turn became snow in the early months of fall for the North Blue Island... but with it, it also brought hardships for the people of the land. It wasn't quite winter, but the rare snowfall was heavy as expected, making trips to and from workplaces and schools difficult... and that's how this tale begins!

"Not bad, little bro! You're almost tall enough to get a few girls to look your way!" "Oi oi, shut up you fatheaded finger-cook! I'm tall enough for me to help the Master with his work!"

Two brothers walked through the snow, one roughly between five and six feet tall, his sturdy frame and wild, dark hair clashing hard with the native "look" of a frail North Blue-born. However, his apron was visible under his coat, the young cook raising a brow at the roughly five or so foot tall younger brother. The two were different, mainly in the truth that the older held the walk of a chef and shielded his hands and the fact that the younger brother carried a large tool box in his arms with a belt around his waist. Their work was drastically different. One was more precise and careful preparation of food while the other served a master to work on ships. However, the younger's toolbox wasn't so much full on tools... but rather a new food.

"Is that toolbox even clean enough to hold those horrible things, Legix? I mean, squash can bruise easy if it has a softer shell. Not to mention this temperature in a box like that might give it some sort of frozen-" "Oi oi oi! Shut up! I want to bring a bunch for lunch and Mom let me! You're just jealous!"

The elder of the duo made a face, simply grumbling and looking ahead. The duo always walked together thanks to their mother not trusting Legix to go on his own quite yet... not to mention Cormad's restaurant was only just down the wharf from the old shipwright's shop. Even still, it was painfully clear that the brothers shared a very... normal rivalry expected of brothers. However, Cormad had reason to be jealous of his younger brother. Their mother didn't pack Cormad lunches since his work generally let him eat scraps and ingredients that weren't going to be used from a bruise or something small...

"All I'm sayin' is that you're a blockhead! You should take care of food more if you want to eat it!"

Taking off ahead, Cormad dashed off as Legix was left a bit stunned at being left behind. Crying after his brother for a moment, the younger brother panicked and took off in an attempt to follow him... however, as Cormad rounded a corner and vanished, Legix's footing gave in the snowy streets. As the toolbox slipped his grip, the boy fell forward after it in a desperate attempt to get it... and simply landed on the ground before it as it slammed and opened, the various squash rolling out and into the snow and dirty street. Cormad didn't come back, on his way to his workplace as the younger brother crawled, sniffling and eventually welling up rather large, frosty tears at the sight of his meal ruined. Out of all the siblings, only Legix had enjoyed them enough to want them as snacks... and now all of his for the day were dirty.

Quietly moving to begin gathering the bruised and dirtied squashes, Legix sniffed and pulled the food close, as if he could undo the bit of damage and wash away the dirt's stain. A hand on his shoulder stopped the youth, the tall figure of his master drawing his attention upward as Yorick put on a small smile. Quietly lowering, the old shipwright reached and helped gather the remaining squash, Legix finally sitting up in the snow to sniff and look at his meal... all until Yorick quietly returned and put the rest into the toolbox at his feet.

"You needn't cry, Apprentice... it's only food." "Oi oi... but Master Yorick, Cormad-" "Enough of that. Casting blame will only cause unnecessary fighting. A good shipwright keeps his head cooooool~."

The boy looked up to the smiling man, finally sniffing before giving a solemn nod, stuffing the rest of his squash into the box before closing it. Once the two were standing, Legix once more craddling the toolbox in his arms, they walked the last ten feet to the building. Master Yorick had always kept Legix from steering too far from the right path... but the youth couldn't help but blame his brother. Cormad had scared him and caused him to drop it... it just had to be his fault!

An hour of work into the day, the snow had lifted a bit by the time the Master and Apprentice took their break. Yorick quietly moved to rest on his large chair within the work-dock. The small sloop he'd worked on with Legix was rather nice... but it had a long way to go before the shipwright was finished. As for the apprentice, he simply sat on the ground beside Yorick, a frown on his face as he opened the toolbox to gaze at his food once more. Quietly taking one out, the boy rolled it over in his hand to examine it... before lowering it with a sigh. Immediately, the old man turned his gaze to the youth before making a frown.

"You aren't hungry? You should crack that open and eat while we're taking a brief break! One of these days I might take your sighing and lollygagging as a sign to make you work harder and with less breaks!"

Legix looked up to his master as if he was crazy, but finally blushed before looking to the food once more. It was a blush of embarrassment. Sighing so loudly to draw his master's ire hadn't been intended... but Legix finally cracked it open with a quick stab from his carving knife. Wiggling it side-to-side momentarily, the blade finally split the meal... to reveal a perfectly fine inside. In awe, Yorick let out a booming laugh while moving a hand to the boy's scruffy head.

"Joyhoyhoyhoyhoyhoyhoyhoy! Oi oi, see boy? That's why we grow those things! In a winter place like this where accidents are prone, the thick shells of any squash will protect it from most forms of damage! And it'll be clean as day inside that sucker, I assure you!"

Smiling up at his master, the youth joined in the laughter, meanwhile stuffing his face rather rudely with the squash. The master and apprentice were more than just an aspiring shipwright and his teacher... they were practically family after the youth's few years of helping him out! After stuffing his face full and his belly even more so, the bursting lad and elder jumped back to work, the youth's energy restored and his delicious snack even drawing a better focus to his work!

Later in the day...

The snow has stopped by the end of the work day, the snow on the ground in good force. It was without the snow that Lyneel's beauty shone through, the glistening fields of white and patches of visible grass and winter plants that the small town could be so nice. Legix quietly packed his toolbox with a big grin, having ate his fill of squash through the day. His master was in the back, talking to a client that had come rather late to make a request of his own. It was normal for the two to be apart, since Cormad often came to pick the youth up... but this time would be different as the elder brother arrived and entered the backroom, his eyes dark. The older brother was in bad spirits, his hands wrapped in bandages. Today had been the first time the master chef allowed him to use a knife... and it had resulted in him cutting his hand quite a bit. Blood in the food had left the teacher yelling at the youth... and had even got him fired. It was the third place he had been kicked out of for a simply mistake and this time... his brother was in his sights.

Legix turned with a big smile on his face, despite his angered, slow-approaching brother. "Oi Oi, I got to eat all my squash today Cormad! Master Yorick taught me why we even grow them! Isn't that-" Legix was cut off as Cormad threw a punch at the smiling brother, sending Legix stumbling backward as his toolbox dropped with a loud crash. Cormad visibly shook as the younger of the duo slammed into a scaffold beside the very same ship he had helped work on most of the day. Tears in his eyes, and a bruise already forming on his cheek, the young boy let out a yell before rushing at Cormad with arms extended. The fact he had been punched... it was a sign that Cormad was going to kill him, after their mother's teachings.

The older sibling dodged right as Legix came rushing in, Cormad quickly delivering a rising knee into the young Shipwright's gut. The attack landed so hard that spittle flew from Legix's opening mouth, right before a follow-up shove from Cormad finally brought the older sibling to yell. "You damn idiot! You can't rush at someone like some pathetic loser!" Legix was sent rolling back the way he had come... but this time, the younger brother crashed into the scaffolding, rather than simply bumping into it. The structure buckled, Cormad immediately looking up in confusion while his brother remained still. In a flash, the high-placed structure snapped one of its supports... and the remaining planks came falling down. Cormad immediately panicked, turning his gaze to his still, younger brother. Legix wasn't moving... which meant they could crush him. Turning the anger to protect rather than harm, the brother quickly grabbed the toolbox from the ground and rushed to Legix, all while raising the box as a shield. The planks crashed into the box, Cormad wincing with each pang of wood. His knees buckled, the brother falling only mid-way through the storm of planks. Collapsing, Cormad angled his fall... to protect his brother from as much of the wood as possible.

Darkness enveloped the brothers... but a single cry cut through their limited visibility. Legix was crying, the younger of the brothers having been hit by one of the planks. As Master Yorick and his client arrived moments later, they found Cormad rising from the planks with a fearful look at his brother. Blood covered the youth's face, his right eyelid scratched lightly to show just how close he had been to losing his eye. Yorick was in a panic as he dropped to the side of the young apprentice, barking commands for Cormad to run and get the doctor ready while he got Legix there. The older brother was stunned from fear for a moment before getting shoved and sent off. The client, a giant of a man, lowered beside Yorick with a frown on his face. The reddish-brown hair of the man in the corner of his eye made Cormad hesitate, looking back for only a moment before running out. The reason he had stopped? The man had a familiar mark he swore he had seen before...

As Yorick and Legix arrived at the doctor only a mere minute after Cormad, the young Morre crying loudly with a shirt held to the right side of his face. Yorick was quiet as the doctors took the youth to the back, Cormad shamefully looking down. Many minutes passed... but finally Cormad looked up with a frown.

"Mister Yorick... that man who helped you with my brother... who was he and where did he go?" "... That man was my son. Hopefully you never have to know him."

The answer made Cormad frown. Yorick was old... but the man had a son that old? Some people aged slowly from ancient ancestry of Giants... that would certainly make sense why Yorick was rather sturdy for his size and age... but how old was his son if that was the case? Before he could ask more, however, the doctor arrived with bloodied gloves and a frown on his face.

"Master Yorick, my nurses have sedated him and I was able to finally stop the bleeding... but I have to ask, does Sharah know about the mark on his chest?"

The Master frowned, quickly moving close to whisper with the doctor. With only a nod, the doctor vanished once more. Cormad made a face at why the two would keep a secret, but finally looked to Yorick to find the Master staring him down. "Oi oi, listen closely, Cormad... your brother will forget why you fought, so you can repair your relationship to at least rivalry... but Legix must not know that we know of the mark... understood?" The young man was confused, but finally looked down before giving a nod. Whatever secret there was... he'd rather not get blamed by his brother for causing this. For all the roughness of his day, he'd likely given his brother a terrible trauma...

The night went by, Sharah eventually arriving with Izlanda on her back, the youngest of the siblings watching curiously as she sat beside Cormad. The oldest sibling was looking at the floor, grim as ever, and didn't say a word. They were all waiting to hear that Legix was fine... but when they finally got news, it was a different sort entirely. Rolled out in a wheelchair, the boy was huffy with a large "patch" over the right side of his face.

"Oi oi, I'm hungry! The nurses said I could go home and take my patch off in a few days!"

Sharah immediately got up, rushing over to Legix before smiling to her son. With a hand to his head, she ushered him forward, even letting Izlanda down so the young sister could walk with her brother. As the two took the lead, Sharah turned her gaze to Cormad silently before sighing and moving to help her son up from the chair, forcing his head to gaze up at her.

"Don't be such a baby... what happened to your hands today?"

Blinking at his mother, the oldest of the children finally put on a face as if to fight back tears. Hugging his mother, Cormad walked silently with her, the duo catching up to the younger pair. They were heading home with the ordeal past them... but Cormad looked back to the building to spot Yorick at the doorway... and the massive man in the shadow of the doorway, a small smile on his face. How long had that man been standing outside in the cold... had it been since Yorick arrived with Legix?

[Roin]

Story 2: Briseur's Great Revolution! Finding A Dream In a New World!

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