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( identifiers: luke castellan | ophiotaurus | αλεπού (the fox) | george and martha through luke castellan || LOCKET + COMPASS )

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jan 9th.

[marred]

[ for a guy who is kind of prone to being a great communicator, the first thing he wants to send back is uh, what? fortunately for him, george voices it in the background and is locket doesn't pick it up. ]

I'm running comms for Solais, so I'll add it to my shit to do for this month. Don't worry about it.

[ but speaking of worry, this is, as far as he knows, a complete one-eighty on the whole pro-seelie thing. isn't she eager for quests? almost akin to how he had been before ladon had struck him down, she always seemed a little too bubbly, like she was some athena kid wanting to kiss mr d's ass for some facts about something incredibly boring. ]

What the hell happened?

jan 9th.

[sangilak]

[ luke's got it in one: korra's always been eager to prove herself, leaping at any chance to strike out into the wilderness and do what she will in order to build up a good reputation and earn herself a solid standing in the world. now her attitude toward the courts is cold, distant, like a child running away from home.

but unlike before, there's no hope tinged in her eyes. ]

You weren't there? [ the snort she gives isn't picked up by her locket, but the bitterness bleeds through the text. there's a tiny voice inside her head that's telling her she should be above this, but since most of the court was assembled there and saw the whole thing, it's only a matter of time before word gets back to her friends. ] The Queen ripped out Mako's bending. She took away Rizhao's voice. She left him without his extended lifespan. He has nothing anymore.

jan 9th.

[marred]

Bailed. Got better shit to do than be Big Brother.

[ like try and sell his cows. ]

[ and all luke thinks of is halcyon green's chant of for apollo! before he had died. clutched in the intangible arms of a father who had betrayed him, he had died with his name the last he had ever breathed, proud to have been his son, despite his cruel hand toward him. he's quiet for a moment as he thinks of hal, of how he had tried to save a girl using his gifts and had been punished for interfering with fate. had he been destined to die after he had tried to quietly warn luke of his own? while he had been quick to paint the monarchs with the same brush as the gods, he'd found that they had listened to a boy who spoke conversationally to them, when the gods refused to wince at the high-pitch of his own screams to earn a slip of their attention. ]

[ luke's a lover of stories; he knows it can't be as simple as solais having a bad day and wishing to see mako walk a mile in some really bad converse shoes as a plain, boring human. it's a joke apollo may pull, even his dad — but there's no cows involved in this one. ]

What the hell did he do?

jan 9th.

[sangilak]

[ something about that question starts a fire in korra's chest; it burns, makes her angry. ]

Mako didn't do anything. [ but she forces herself not to continue to snap, burdened by guilt as she is. ] I asked what the Seelie's goals were and the Queen didn't like that. She was going to punish me but Mako, he

[ the text cuts off there because korra hates, hates, having to continually run over these details. even though she wants the story clear, even though she wants people to know, she's still mad at mako for even considering such an idiotic course of action. ]

She punished him instead.

jan 9th.

[marred]

[ considering he'd been the one to question ridire, taking to him as if he was zeus with the argument for no already formed in his big, golden head, he'd deserved the tone and even the assumptions he'd welcomed to almost tear a relationship that hadn't been properly built yet. if he were to approach zeus, the man with the big, humming bolt of electricity, if he hadn't been shot down the moment he entered the throne room, the man would do what solais had done to mako for his tone and his insolence. it's why he had always feared going to the gods without kronos at his back. anger only feeds more anger, breeding it when all he had wanted was some understanding. though, he'll never come to understand why the gods had chosen to treat their own children like shit. ]

You asked a question and she didn't like that? Doesn't sound like Solais.

[ but he has a feeling he knows why she reacted the way she did. every monarch is a little sensitive when they're put on trial. but instead of being athena levels of sensitive, even aphrodite levels where she merely plays with the demigods and makes them fall in love with cyclopses instead of someone remotely human, it seems solais had done what zeus had done to thalia. it's betrayal, even if he's getting a snippier part of a tale he had never asked for in the first place — betrayal had never sat kindly with him, but now it only fractures him. ]

Did she give you an answer before the big fat hero dove in to save the day? If she didn't —

She and I are going to have a problem. Got a bit of a thing with Big Guys not answering the Little Guys' queries.

[ it beats being turned into a tree, though. zeus continues to be the biggest pile of cyclops dung, even in a world where he holds very little power. ]