she/her
27
December 12
Anistar City, Kalos
Bisexual
Blacksmith, bladesmith
Associate
A keen mind cuts deeper than even the sharpest sword.
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Aurelie Lefevre
An Exercise in Feudality [M]
POSTED ON Jun 27, 2022 22:32:56 GMT
[attr="class","mon"] [attr="class","monlyrics"]Just here for the turkey legs and mead [attr="class","monbody"] For someone displaying his rather attractive musculature in public with such aplomb, it seems awfully easy to make Jack blush with a compliment or two, Aurelie mused, taking another enthusiastic swig of her mead. She could feel it running through her, warming her up from within. The sensation was so relaxing and pleasant that, when she realized her mug was empty, she found herself disregarding her previous injunction against drinking too much and signaled to the vendor for a refill. She'd barely taken another sip when jack wainwright started playfully turning up his Galarian accent, which made her almost spit out her drink in a burst of laughter. She clapped a hand over her mouth before that could happen, but her single visible eye was dancing with amusement. When Jack admitted how he too wasn't a big fan of Ren-Fairs, Aurelie raised her mug to clink it against his in a gesture of solidarity. To be honest, she hadn't noticed his accent very much at first, but now that Jack had emphasized it, she couldn't help but hear it gently lacing his inflections and enunciations with a hint of elegant flair, even when he returned to speaking normally. "Cheers to that," she exclaimed wholeheartedly, taking another hearty quaff. "I'm glad to meet a fellow traveler who also finds these fairs ridiculous. At least, they're mostly harmless fun, though. And it's certainly not like I can fault you for wanting to practice your swordsmanship! Swords," said the professional bladesmith, with wide-eyed conviction in her own absolutely unbiased judgement, "are serious business. They're totally the best. They're so cool."When Jack asked about whether she'd come with her brother or by herself, Aurelie promptly took another deep draft of mead. Some part of her knew she was drinking too much too quickly, and she was probably going to fall over onto her face pretty soon, with the way the mead was going to her head. It was either that or burst into tears, though, and Jack seemed like a nice enough person that she didn't want to put him through the ordeal of suddenly comforting a crying woman in an eyepatch. "Nah, I came on my own today," she answered, once she'd gulped down the drink and wiped her lips. "My little brother hasn't stepped foot at a Ren-Fair since he was, oh, 17? Let's see, that was summer break my first year of college, so yeah, he was 17. I wouldn't be surprised if he hates them a little now, after what happened that summer."Her throat had gone dry, so she took a small sip, steadying herself against the edge of the stall. "You see, my brother's taste always ran to the strong, macho, dominant types. He'd fallen head over heels for a classic alpha male guy, and they were basically inseparable." A faint, ironic smile came and went across her face. "Every other day they'd get into these fights, though, these vicious arguments that kept turning physical, and my brother would come home with scrapes, bruises, even cuts. But he'd always wave it off, saying it was nothing."The words kept coming out, as though they had a power of their own, even though there was no reason to share this story with a total stranger. "One thing they fought over a lot was how often my brother always wanted to do date night at the local Ren-Fair. The boyfriend hated them, but my brother insisted; it was the only time he stood up for himself. One night, they came home from one of them, and the boyfriend was so angry, so enraged, he was just screaming at him nonstop. He started slapping my brother around and punching him, even though my brother begged him to stop. My parents and I rushed outside, but by then he'd thrown my brother to the ground, and my brother's arm just crumpled underneath him. The boyfriend ran off when he saw the blood and the bit of bone sticking out from my brother's arm."At her side, Aurelie's hand clenched into a fist. "I was so angry. My parents were comforting my brother and calling an ambulance, but all I saw was red. I knew where he lived, and I drove over there, thinking I would drag him back and make him pay for medical bills, something like that. But when I got there and saw the boyfriend, whistling to himself like nothing had happened, all I could think of was my brother crying and cradling his arm, all covered in blood." Her lips curled into a crooked, humorless grin as she went on, "I'd rushed off so fast that I still had my forge hammer on my belt, and I took it out and just started hitting him with it. Over and over. He begged me to stop, but I didn't, because he didn't stop when my brother asked him to."She regarded her half-empty mug. "Arceus, this is good mead. No wonder people said it used to be the drink of ancient poets and storytellers." With a shrug and a long sigh, she finished her rambling story. "So anyway, I left him there, conscious but just barely. And I told him if he ever lay a finger on my brother again, I'd kill him. Then I drove off. My brother never heard from him again."The red-haired smith went silent and solemn, staring dry-eyed into the middle distance. "So!" Aurelie said abruptly, as if there had been no awkward pause after her unexpected, unasked-for storytelling session. "What do you think of Hoenn's faires so far? 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