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serge battour. ([personal profile] affectueux) wrote in [community profile] prismatica2020-03-06 02:16 am

( video, un: lavieenrose )

[ maybe it’s insanity. more likely, it’s the combination of the sanguis cycle and his upcoming birthday making him restless and impulsive. he can usually tamp down those urges when things are normal, but he also can’t recall a moment when things have ever been normal in lunatia.

maybe that’s a contributing factor, too. either way, here’s a video of serge—like the cycles before, he’s got little bear features. paws included, even if his hands are off-screen. ]


Er, bonjour. My name is Serge… I’ve cleaned many of your tables at Salon de Marie. [ it gets harder when he’s a bear, but that’s neither here nor there. ] My birthday will be coming up soon, and I—it—

[ he frowns, searching for the words. he should have planned this better, but again. the haste. ]

In my world, I’m set to inherit my family’s estate on my 18th birthday. I’ll be expected to get married and carry on the family name, as I’m the only child of my late father. [ he realizes something, and holds up a hand in brief fluster. ] I’m not saying this to brag! It’s relevant, I promise. I bring it up because there’s—a person. Someone I love. Someone I can neither marry nor produce a child with.

…this is quite heavy, isn’t it? I’ll try to get to the point. When your heart is in conflict with both duty and the expectations of society, what are you supposed to do? What can you do?

Merci, everyone. For your attention.
mucked: (☂ if heaven and hell decide)

[personal profile] mucked 2020-03-06 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ marriage, she knows, is a truly sacred and beautiful vow. for some. for the jarvises, certainly. and she likes to think it must have been for her parents, too. for peggy...

well, at nineteen she broke off her engagement at the first whiff of something else. it wasn't another person (not yet, at any rate) but it troubled her long-suffering mother all the same. ]


If it feels as if no one else will ever do, Serge—[ she picks up his name from his introduction and wields it tactically now ]—then it's likely that no one ever will. Tradition only takes us so far. And duty—well, sometimes duty looks different than we expect.

[ once upon a time she might have thought that to be dutiful she needed to be a fashionable london wife to a boring whitehall officer. but duty comes in many shapes and flavours—and hers has grown, shifted, changed with the years. ]

...Do you get along with your family?

[ will they support you no matter your choice? ]
mucked: (☂ and i'll throw you the rope)

[personal profile] mucked 2020-03-06 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she understands. she doesn't say so—it hardly seems fair to steal a man's grief for herself—but she understands. she wants to believe that her brother would have (eventually) approved of her career path. certainly, he hadn't approved of the stuffed shirt she'd otherwise been about to marry... ]

Can they hurt you? Your chances? [ wait, no, that's not the most important question. ] Would they hurt the person you love?

[ she asks for his stakes. his gambling cards. his skin in the game. his initial post asked a very big question—and while she's not certain it can be answered, she knows it won't be answered without these painful bits of intel revealed. ]
Edited 2020-03-06 14:57 (UTC)
mucked: (☂ from all signs of mad mankind)

[personal profile] mucked 2020-03-06 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she watches the moment unravel. all the while, her expression hardly flickers—and while it isn’t cold, it’s not exactly warm either. rather, she’s focused. she remains attentive, without editorializing.

except, except, except a slight softening in her shoulders. something in her posture gives way to sympathy. notably, she does not bat so much as an eyelash when his use of pronouns offers a glimpse (a hint!) of where a piece of the conflict might begin. ]


It sounds awfully complex [ there’s something more to learn here, she thinks, but… ] Is this a problem here, on the planet, or back home in your world?
mucked: (☂ oats in the water)

[personal profile] mucked 2020-03-06 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she knows a little of what that’s like—wanting, with every fibre of your being, to protect someone so dear to you. some might think steve rogers didn’t need protecting; peggy knows better. ]

I’m sorry. [ not for his troubles, exactly, but because he’s separated from someone he cares for so deeply. she knows a little of what that’s like, too. ] I do find that in times of crisis we mistakenly belief we only have the two options. In this case, yours might be either to keep him safe or to rejoin your family.

[ she pauses. ]

Mightn’t there be a third option?

[ something less romantic, maybe. something less satisfying. she doesn’t dare to know what it might be—he knows his life better than she, a stranger, ever could. ]
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[personal profile] noenvy 2020-03-06 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes!

[And he can't help but grin widely. You can tell there is a lot of love there.]

There were a lot of hardships, but, somehow we got a happy ending.

It took many years, over a decade, so, perhaps you can find one eventually as well.
baitless: bringing a hand up to his face thoughtfully. (chai... just means tea...)

[personal profile] baitless 2020-03-06 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you discussed this with your partner? I think it is also important for you to know how they feel about the matter, as well. Love is rarely simple and uncomplicated even when conditions are as close to perfection as they can be, but communication does help make things easier.
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[personal profile] disasdeer 2020-03-06 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Then do that. Do what you want. There's nothing wrong with that. [ He can't do anything about his own situation, and he's more bound to duty as a person than maybe he'd like to be. ] People treat it as being selfish, and maybe it is a little bit. But who cares?
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[personal profile] noenvy 2020-03-07 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure, there are lots of moments I am fond of. Perhaps when we were young and first got to know each other. I had to copy his sects rules because I was misbehaving. His uncle didn't trust me so he set him as my keeper. I spent a month teasing him every day. He had the best reactions! He got so mad easily, it was great! Once I switched his book with pornography and he got so upset he drew his sword on me and destroyed the book!

But, I think more than anything, it's the times he stood by me. Supported me silently. Let me know that I wasn't alone.
arrowroot: (➷ Vɪɴᴇ Sᴜʀɢᴇ)

[personal profile] arrowroot 2020-03-07 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh no...

Ana tries very hard to pretend like she isn't entirely a Den Mother at this point in her life but really, she is, and the way he's talking just makes her want to hug him.

She's not there to do so, though, so all she can offer is some stern words.]


That is not how you should react to failure. Everyone fails at some point. You don't just stop moving forward. You pick yourself back up and try again. Try a different path. Reevaluate your options.

There's nothing to envy about me, but there's plenty you could learn.
teaserving: (NO GOLD EXPERIENCE)

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[personal profile] teaserving 2020-03-07 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
society fucking sucks
do what you want
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[personal profile] teaserving 2020-03-07 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
look i never said it was easy
but honestly what did society ever do for you
sure you had a luxurious life but if the expectation is that you cant just be with who you want romantically then what's the fucking point
teaserving: (so I'm making a call-out post)

[personal profile] teaserving 2020-03-07 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
money helps
i get it
i've been in a pretty rough spot myself without anything to give or use

so tell me this
thinking of going your separate ways
how much does that break your heart?
teaserving: (on my twitter.com)

[personal profile] teaserving 2020-03-07 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
then i think you have your answer
do you really want to live the rest of your live in agony because you didnt take a chance to be happy with him?

trust me on this
life is too damned short.
choose love. you two can figure out how to get by it's not impossible
it'll be hard but so would be leaving him behind

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