Rereading Empire of Storms and once again notice a difference between Rowan and Lorcan regarding their paramours… When Elide is close to breaking from despair, Lorcan offers her pleasantries and comforts, the bed, a bath, a tin of salve for her leg. He talks about trying to use kindness to make her want to help him, be grateful to him.
Then there’s Rowan who sees Aelin about to snap and is like “Lol backflip bitch”
Everyone talks about what a cold hearted bastard Lorcan can be, but pre-QoS Rowan is 1000 times more of a prick lol
If I won’t be able to stand in the edge of a cliff waiting for the dawn beside my fey mate to march with our army for a war while Harry Potter Lilly’s theme song plays in the background and the cold wind blows my hair…
In lieu of reaching 700 followers, I finally wrote this down. This little image had been floating in my head ever since I finished Tower of Dawn and I’m glad I wrote it down at last. Sorry if the writing isn’t too great, it was a quick drabble.
The glimmering rays of the brazen sun streamed through the billowing curtains that concealed the windows, illuminating Josefin’s gold-bronze eyes. Yrene watched her 10 month old daughter crawl across the living room, occasionally stopping to pick up a toy or two and start playing. Chaol was holed up in the kitchen, cooking up lunch as Yrene kept an eye their child and went through some old books and scrolls on healing herbs. These days, she was too preoccupied taking care of baby Josie to get any reading and research done; the only thing she read in the past year were bedtime stories. Not that she minded, of course. She loved their little girl with everything she had.
Josie wasn’t really a part of their plan-at least not when they had her. A couple years after the war when Yrene and Chaol moved out of the Palace and into their own house nearby. During the housewarming, Yrene found out she was with child. She noticed symptoms for a few weeks beforehand but she knew for sure at the party. Needless to say she was surprised, given she thought she had been taking her tonic, but some careful reminiscing alerted her that she missed her dose a couple of times, resulting in an accidental pregnancy. Regardless, she was delighted for she believed they were ready and when she told Chaol of the news that night, her husband was ecstatic and in tears.
When she gave birth and saw the face of her little girl-tan skin, brown hair like her father’s and an eye colour that was a blend of both her parents, she burst into tears of happiness. She knew she’d never love anyone or anything more than this bundle in her arms. They decided to name her after Yrene’s mother and what she represented for them-Josefin Hope Westfall. The baby was well loved with doting parents and a King and Queen as her godparents. Dorian and Aelin didn’t even waste a single breath to say yes when they had asked and were overjoyed and honored at the prospect.
Watching her now brought all those memories back to the surface and as Yrene glanced at her daughter, she saw Josie was standing, her tiny hands placed on the golden couch for support and movement-the couch Chaol was insistent on bringing back from Antica. She had been doing this a lot recently, as was normal for a child her age but what Yrene didn’t expect was for her daughter to let go. She was about to rush towards her baby when she halted and noticed her balancing on her own and looking up at her mother with big, wide eyes and a slightly parted mouth.
And then she took a step towards her momma.
“CHAOL!” Yrene screamed for her husband. “CHAOL GET IN HERE. NOW!” she shrieked as she laughed in delight. Hearing loud footsteps, she heard Chaol rush towards her, concern masking his features. “What happened? What’s wrong? Are you okay?” he asked, worry filling his eyes and voice. “Yes”, she cried in joy, her eyes never leaving her baby. “Look! She’s walking. Chaol our baby is walking!”
At that, he turned around and looked at his precious daughter, shock and love filling his features as he also broke into a grin.
Noticing her euphoric parents, Josefin cracked a smile and took another step. And another, and as Yrene kept walking back and cooing, “Come here, darling. Come to mama. YES! Good girl”, the tiny human kept following her mother, with her father in tow.
“Yes, sweetheart. You’re doing wonderful”, Chaol called out to his daughter, encouraging her to go on.
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At long last, Josie finally trotted over to her parents and jumped to Chaol’s lap, flailing her arms around his neck and screaming “Papa!” as she burst into a fit of excited giggles. He kissed the top of her head over and over, eyes brimming with held-back tears. He felt Yrene fall to her knees beside him and hug them both, squealing in delight and smothering their daughter in kisses.
Amidst the laughter and tears, his baby’s first step took Chaol down memory lane and back to a time years before where he learned to walk again; to the day where it all began and he had kissed his wife after a long wait. Seemed like forever ago, that afternoon. And now here they were, with their own home and family and everything he could have ever wished for and more. He looked at his wife and caught her staring at him as if she was recalling the same thing. Chaol smiled at her, at the woman who had surpassed oceans and mountains and forests, who had healed him-body and soul; the woman who had the strongest will and heart and the woman who had stolen his own. He smiled wistfully at her as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and drew her close, placing a kiss on her forehead.
“Thank you, Yrene Towers.” he whispered. She raised her head from where it was resting on the crook of his neck and looked up, confusion lining her gaze. “For what?” she asked. Chaol placed his hand on the side of her face, tracing his thumb along her cheekbone and brought it to his own, kissing her lovingly. He broke the kiss to look into those eyes which at first glance made him think of sunshine-the eyes he’d never get tired of getting lost into. “For everything.”
#thanksvember 30! I really really love this fic. @runesandfaes did such a great job in so few words to show a really sweet moment between Chaol, Yrene and their daughter learning to walk. I love the parallel back to when Chaol was learning to walk and the cameo of the golden couch. So sweet.
Manon: is a goth icon, but is frequently mistaken with an e-girl, because of that she hates the trend, but loves all the attention that Hot Topic is receiving;
Elide: Soft girl before it was cool, is been here since day one;
Lysandra: VSCO girl, laughs with ksksksksks in real life, not only in social media, but is actually really into environmental stuff;
Nesryn: controversial VSCO girl, owns a metal straw but knows how to hunt;
Aelin: hot blonde girl™, has been mistaken with L#ren Gr£y several times;
Yrene: doesn’t do tiktok since the time some teenagers made of her video dacing with her friends in their uniforms;
Lorcan: never used tiktok in his whole life, and refuses to, but, if you look for it, there is a vine of him and the Cadre wasted, he was a meme for a while;
Aedion: never got over tiktok cringe phase, but at least, he has good transitions;
Chaol: just like Yrene, gave up tiktok long time ago, because of the same reason;
Dorian: Gamer Boy, has LEDs in his room, usually does some videos making fun of Aedion;
Rowan: doesn’t has a tiktok, but is frequently seen in the background of Aelin’s videos;
Fenrys: king of transition, some his videos has gone viral.
ToG characters in a modern AU, but it’s quarantine!
Dorian: did someone said reading as a copying mechanism?
Manon: she misses being out so much, she wants to feel free, but she knows she can’t. So just like a certain priceling once told her, if she wants to feel the wind on her face, she just got to stand in front of her window
Chaol: he is still working, once he is a cop, those ar weird times, and he got to admit, he thought he would never have to arrest people because of a brunch
Yrene: also a essential worker, she’s a doctor after all, she hopes that after all this chaos, she’ll live in a world with less antivax idiots
Aelin: she’s enjoying all this free time to do things that she likes! Such as reading, playing music, Rowan
Rowan: thanks to his wife, his too tired to go crazy
Aedion: he is THIS close to going apeshit
Lysandra: even closer to going apeshit
Evangeline: enjoying herself seeing both of her paternal figures going crazy
Nesryn: DID SOMEONE SAY BAKING AS A COPYING MECHANISM?
Sartaq: DID SOMEONE SAY EATING EVERYTHING YOUR PARTNER BAKES AS A COPYING MECHANISM?
Elide: became a DIY queen, really
Lorcan: a mess in DIY, someone please help him
Fenrys: he developed like, 3 new hobbies, someone please get him some attention
Dorian: I bet you can´t from a sentence without using the letter “a”.
Chaol: you thought you did something there did’t you? Well sorry to burst your bubble, but numerous sentences could be constructed without employing he first letter of the english lexicon.
ToG characters as things that my friends have said this year
Dorian: if I don’t kill myself by the end of the week it will be a miracle
Aelin: if I don’t kill anyone by the end of the week it will be a miracle
Aedion: bro, at this point, I’m just existing
Lysandra: everything is gay, even when you’re kissing someone of the opposite gender, you’re also indirectly kissing someone of the same gender as yours
Chaol: every one in this room, including myself has a chaotic alignment
Yrene: at this point, not dying is my goal
Elide, to Manon: my boyfriend and I broke up!
Manon to Elide: isn’t this like, the fourth time this month?
Rowan: idk bro, at this point, whatever comes is worth
Lorcan: I would say that you are being a little hoe
Fenrys: Love? No thanks, I’m gonna watch anime
Gavriel: sometimes I wish I could go back in time and kick my younger self in the balls
Nesryn: the reason I always look so tired is because I’m dead inside
So, I just reached the mark of one hundred followers, and I’m very thankful and very happy, so, let me know if you guys want anything of special, like, idk, prompts suggestions, or ask the characters from TOG, or even ask me! Anyway, I’m really happy, so thank very much for following, and let me know what you want ( please don’t let this floop)
