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lilpoundcake ([personal profile] lilpoundcake) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2025-01-02 05:48 pm
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a 10?


(S)HE'S A 10, BUT...



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[personal profile] silverarmored 2025-01-03 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[A soft, weak snort escapes her. Not much humor to be found indeed, but his words do comfort her.]

I can't deny that, the scars I shall soon bear can attest to it. Thank you, Alistair. This... isn't what I thought my life would be, but I do truly want to save our world and its people. I only wonder when I'll see what other people see in me. I do what I can, yes, but I'm not some great hero in the making.

[His smile brings a small one to her own features. Despite how small it is, however, it still reaches her dark eyes.]

I can only imagine, I suppose. I dreamed about that when I was little -- how I might bring honor to my family name someday.
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[personal profile] nobroth 2025-01-04 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Now his smile turned encouraging.]

Not just your family name. They're going to make statues of you, just you watch. One in each village square.

[This was verging, he knew, on their discussion from earlier. Right now, though, he was counting himself as successful. He'd managed to turn the conversation all the way around to her. Success.]
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[personal profile] silverarmored 2025-01-04 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Statues of me? Do you think they'd be able to accurately capture my beauty? I take it very seriously, you know.

[Now Luciana manages a genuine laugh, brushing dark curls out of her face like she's getting ready to pose. Of course she realizes-- she's always been sharply observant. But she'll let him have the win, at least for now.]

I suppose I never considered that they might do that sort of thing.

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[personal profile] nobroth 2025-01-04 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's part of the basic handbook. Which I know we ran out of before we recruited you - my apologies, we'll have to go get one from Weisshaupt. But I specifically remember that the page at the very end said 'and if you save the world, you get at least five statues'.

[It didn't. And there was no such handbook. But to him, it sounded like something that would be in one - if one existed.]
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[personal profile] silverarmored 2025-01-04 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Does it now? I'll admit, not something I'd expect from legendary heroes. But who would decline statues, really? If I am to become legendary myself, I will have to be immortalized in some way or another.

[But it does make her think. Joking is nice, she just isn't sure how exactly she wants to be remembered yet. Grey Wardens who ended a Blight were revered all over, the kind of heroes you just looked up to. Could she really be such a person?]

Joking aside, maybe I'd like to be remembered in stories.
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[personal profile] nobroth 2025-01-04 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
That's going to be Leliana's purview, then. She's the storyteller between us. If you rely on me, it'll be stories about close calls in the Lothering inn and cookie-eating white-haired giants who think we don't notice when he's been playing with kittens.

[Joking aside? Sorry, this is Alistair, but beneath the teasing bits, there was honesty. Leliana was the storyteller, the singer, the one who will probably be telling the real and respectable version of this story.]

If it's told right, it'll be about your hope and determination, even when things are darkest. The rest of us will get appropriate footnotes.
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[personal profile] silverarmored 2025-01-04 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe some people would like to hear the stories about close calls and cookie-eating giants. Makes us all sound a bit more real.

[Yes, she knows he's mostly teasing. But it helps to have the lighter moments like this and to still be able to laugh. That despite the danger, the darkness-- she is still herself. Though she does know very well that Leliana will probably be the one to tell their story, too.]

More than footnotes, I hope. You may argue if you want, but I believe especially deserve far more than a footnote, Alistair. You and I survived at Ostagar, and you've stuck with me since.
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[personal profile] nobroth 2025-01-04 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The stories about Shartan were called Dissonant Verses and taken out of the Chant. When the Fifth Blight is remembered? It's gonna be you.

[He chuckled, shaking his head.]

And I am fine with that. Let me just keep right on going, right under their noses, and maybe I can just end up with my nice little cottage with a few sheep.
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