the cousland/dragon age origins series that exists in my head would be stylistically and tonally very similar to the green knight i will not elaborate further
what if i make elethea a warlock in her bg3 verse....
imperious chin tilts yet higher, lips suggesting the barest hint of a smile. for once it is he caught in her web, he the mouse trapped between her paws. honey - gold head tips ever so slightly to one side, brazenly surveying him where he sits, holding him in judgment. a few steps are daringly taken into the chamber — a chamber she should certainly not be in, considering the risk to her reputation. "i've come to determine your intent," a pause, a dip at the knees in an almost - curtsy. "my prince."
i saw how you looked at me in the throne room. and how often.
he sits, she stands. 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬’ 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 between them cannot assuage a cloying sense of being cornered. 𝚊𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚍’𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍 of sinew, every inch of skin, 𝖎𝖘 𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖑𝖑. only ocean-dark wine still dances in a goblet once lolling like a drunkard’s head, around and around... 𝐚 𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 to his chambers like it owns them, and if he moves, she’ll get him. the thought is enough to 𝖆𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 with. he blinks. ❛❛ so? ❜❜ lowers his cup. ❛❛ you’ve come to defend 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚟𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚎? ❜❜
"Lucrezia was undoubtedly the darling of the family; both Cesare and his father adored her, Rodrigo it was said ‘superlatively’. All her contemporaries agreed in describing her as singularly attractive, with a grace and joyousness that charmed everyone who met her." — Cesare Borgia: His Life and Times, Sarah Bradford (1976)
@thiedas, alistair & elethea. * “did you do something different with your hair?”
reflexively, her spine straightens — a hand going to the aforementioned new hairstyle binding back her golden curls. her self - consciousness possessed no ounce of insecurity; only an acute awareness of his attention. with it comes a small smile, head tipping. "do you like it?" adopting her offhand, flirtatious tone, she angles herself more fully towards him. he would blush, surely, or clear his throat in that nervous manner he had. that's what she was after, anyway. "it seemed the most practical choice, short of chopping it off," because she would sooner die than be inelegant; it had taken rising with the sun to begin the process of braiding her hair & pinning it up. a darkspawn had gotten hold of her loose braid on the road from lothering as they journeyed toward redcliffe & it had proven most distressing. not to mention inconvenient. "though it seems rather plain..."
change pronouns, tenses and other details as deemed necessary. & please specify muse when sending to a mumu. slightly edited wording for roleplaying purposes.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
None of us can choose where we shall love...
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passersby only see a wisp of smoke
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
I raised you so high that every other on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with my lusts.
The human body is the best work of art.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.
What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
Yes, Elethea was trained to fight from an early age (I imagine her martial training started when she was about 12-13) but it was always the graceful, noble type of fighting. It involved a lot of proper forms, precision, and whatnot. But the fighting Elethea actually winds up doing during the Blight is ugly and violent. It is closer to berserker/barbarian style fighting, she screams and growls, making dirty moves, and biting when she has to. And she loves it, she loves the power it gives her, especially in a time when she has been made to feel utterly powerless, with every choice taken from her. She loves killing, and that's the problem.
Katie McGrath as Elsa in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)