The year is 286 AC. King Jaehaerys II has just passed, leaving the throne without a rightful ruler. While his three children fight for the crown, Winter creeps closer, and unimaginable darkness looms.
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Post by ARGELLA ARRYN on Jun 26, 2015 22:38:21 GMT
DIONE BARATHEON
FEMALE -- TWENTY-EIGHT -- HETEROSEXUAL -- LADY -- SINGLE
LIKESHIPS
She used to be an outgoing person, full of life, who enjoyed swordfighting and strategies and whatnot, but after her accident, when she was left with a nasty limp, everyone abandoned her. Lords and ladies wouldn't want to be seen in her presence, lest others would say they are weak for associating themselves with someone broken like her. I do believe that she is friendly, however, open to all sorts of interactions, and even though she might seem naive, she's not stupid. She has channeled all her fury into learning how to play cyvasse, how to talk and how to act like a true highborn lady and so on and so forth. Friends are rare, I believe, those who are truly sympathetic about her condition, but she wants to be friends with someone who can see past that.
HATESHIPS
Ours is the Fury and the seven gods help you if you anger Dione. While naturally a very nurturing persona, she will strike down those who cause harm to her family or her friends, by any means necessary. She is a vengeful person, often striking back at those who lash out at her or mock her for her defect: she won't be taken lightly, because even a stag with a broken leg will do anything to protect itself.
LOVESHIPS
She is so lonely. </3 She was betrothed to someone when the accident happened and she was nineteen at the time. It would be nice to see a past suitor! :3 Long live drama. Anyway, now she's longing for companionship, someone who can talk to her and be nice. She truly believes she can charm someone with her intellect, although she knows she will probably fail. Maybe someone who won't point and laugh? That'd be a realy cool dude, right? ;_; Have some pity. Come on. She's really gentle.
Post by alayne baratheon on Jun 26, 2015 23:48:41 GMT
you poor bby Q_____Q
Hi, sister o/ Meet Alayne, she's ten years younger and she's aggressive, a workaholic and she loves Dione. I do imagine that being relatives, they're going to spend so much time around each other. Add, subtract? //
Post by Daemon Baratheon on Jun 27, 2015 0:07:57 GMT
Daemon && Dione Daemon would get along far better with Dione than their sister, Myrcella. After Dione's injury changed her, she's actually become more like Daemon - capable of great fury, but adept at controlling and channeling it. Daemon would pity, love, and defend his youngest sister. Despite the ridicule she receives and the difficult prospect of marrying her off, Daemon won't give up on finding her a match, for both her sake and their family's.
hallo! they're not sisters: dione is her aunt! :3 while she has her defect and is well aware that more than often other people pity her, she wishes her family would see her for who she really is. alayne doesn't know what dione was like before everything, since she is too young, but surely dione would have tried to play cyvasse with her and stuff like that. :3 for smarties.
she would love him so much. of course, she loves all her siblings, but she really loves daemon because he really tries to find her a match and that's just admirable. ;_; i think that she never tried to tell him to stop (even though she is probably aware she might never find someone who would like to be with her because of her problem) because she secretly wishes he could succeed? add/subtract as you see fit!
Post by Daemon Baratheon on Jun 27, 2015 14:08:12 GMT
I think that's great. Big brother watching out for a sister so unlike his other. If you like, we could have a thread where they bond as siblings, with Daemon concerned for her marriage prospects both as Lord of Storm's End and as her brother. ARGELLA ARRYN
I think a rather peculiar relationship could form between these two, one that teeters the edge of friendship and romance. Marko has intense disregard for customs and the higher class, hating most of them for having to do nothing for their current positioning in life. I think that he would differ in his loathing when it comes to Dione simply because of her condition. He would pity her immensely at first, thinking of her as more common due to her drawbacks but eventually he would note that she is still a woman and he would likely try to coax her into bed through charm and such. Regardless of whether she falls prey to this or not, I think they could become fast friends.
that's cool! ever since her accident, dione's been very fond of learning knew things. if she'd ever find out he's a follower of the Lord of Light, she'd childishly ask him plenty of questions. i think that, initially, she'd actively avoid him or keep him at a distance because she doesn't want him to pity her, it's what everyone's done ever since she got her beloved limp and doesn't want that defect to define her. of course, it would all be a misunderstanding on her part, i suppose, and we could thread that out and see where it goes? :3 she's a really kawaii dork when it comes to romance, but also a rather naive and dense individual, so he might get tired of trying to get her into his bed, not to mention that she's very skeptical of getting too close to someone, since her betrothed, whom she loved very much, abandoned her when she needed him the most. ;_; but i'm up for a thread! :3 if you wish me to start one, do tell!
His religious believes/background are a bit confusing, even to himself, but he would gladly do his best to answer any and all questions that she had of him. I also don’t think he would outwardly display his pity for her, at least not with words, because he isn’t much of a talker in the first place; I think all his signaling as far as pitying goes would be evidenced by his not robbing or kidnapping her. It actually might be funny for him to like raid/rob her and then stop once he notices the limp haha. And we can see how the romance aspect works once we get because I haven’t worked out exactly how he goes about some stuff in my head. But if you wish to start a thread you are MORE than free to.
So I've got a person who would definitely not consider Dione to be anything less of a person for having her defect. Like I wrote in Alayne's plotter, he's around the castle a lot, and any Baratheons could have at some point been escorted by him to and fro somewhere (under Daemon's order or simply of his own accord). I know that Navreth would have been highly sympathetic when she had her accident, and at the time would have probably felt pretty awkward about being as fortunate as he was (physically able, freshly engaged, everything going right for him) so in my mind's eye I imagine him not entirely sure on how to even approach her right after it happened. It's also likely that she had isolationist tendencies doing a great job of making her avoid people as well at that point? So maybe they talked to each other a bit more before the accident, then a period of awkwardness ensues, and afterwards Navreth's wife dies and he becomes this silently gloomy, thoughtful thing that can't be bothered by something such as past awkwardness to actually ask her to play some cyvasse. Maybe so far they haven't spoken much past the surface but have these peculiar retreats of playing cyvasse? Let me know what you think.
she might have asked him to escort her a few times, during visits to other lords or ladies and they surely knew each other since he entered the Baratheons' service! :3 and they're the same age too! maybe they even sparred before she had her accident? also, one of them is without an eye and the other can't properly use a leg: they're more alike than they like to admit, i believe, and after her accident, she would have stayed in her room for weeks, both to recuperate and to hide herself from the world, because it seemed unfair to her. i think she would have been envious of him for a while, since he found himself a wife and had a child just a year after her accident and she was still grieving for her own losses, thus leading to her actively avoiding him or just venomously snapping at him for a while, although i think she understood what he would try to do (if he tried to approach her) and would be genuinely grateful. so she would have silently been by his side after his wife's death, because she knows that words hurt the most: she would have been a silent shoulder for him to lean on. silent support. :3 add/subtract whatever you like!
Sounds good to me! So they used to spar before, and he would have been very placating in his responses to her snappy behavior of after her accident. Hands lifted in apology and leaving her alone was probably what happened most of the time. Also, I forgot to include - wife and a daughter died, so yeah, he would have been very affected. But he still has a 8 year old son he's overprotective of. It's impossible for him to be oblivious, so he'd be grateful for Dione's support even if his way of coping has pretty much gone into keeping himself more than busy with various tasks. I think we'll figure out more in threads and am going to throw one at you as soon as possible! : D
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