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ausgebrannt) wrote2023-07-07 08:57 pm
ausgebrannt) wrote2023-07-07 08:57 pm
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Caleb Widogast.
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[No not really, but if other scholars can massage the statistics so can he! Elias nods, encouraged.]
Because I was just- well, we were just thinking, springtime’s auspicious for a wedding. No, sorry, other people are hoping for one in general, springtime’s lucky where I come from. My wife I had planned for a spring wedding too, if I remember correctly.
[fnejcnfndjffjfjd that was a big fumble but he thinks he saved it. Gods, why did he agree to this, why didn't Essek get Blake to do this or something.]
I mean- you don't have to, in fact if you think it's not the time that's alright. I'll go… tell the well-wishers to knock it off. [He's also assuming these “other people who want a wedding” exist? But judging from the attention Essek’s network post got, one would reasonably assume people ship it. It's basically a courtesy to clue Caleb in. ] But it's of my opinion that he surely won't be as busy here as he will be when you return home. If there's ever a place for one to consider what their desires would look like if feasibility were no issue, wouldn't it be here?
Call it a thought experiment, if you will.
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[Oh. Oh wait. Hang on what now. Is that where this is going? Caleb is going to be staring, a bit wide-eyed, pale skin turning several shades redder.]
There are... well-wishers?
[No wait that is not the point here. Caleb lifts a hand as if he can erase that question. Because way more important is the idea of marriage to Essek and not just the general idea of matrimony as an abstract concept?
He is just going to look down at the book currently open under his hand because now he's feeling oddly shy. But he'll answer honestly.]
I would marry Essek Thelyss in the spring. Or summer. Or five minutes from now in the line for the book return, if that is what he wished.
[He hesitates.] But I am not sure I deserve something quite so precious. And he is an elf, and I am only human. [...Caleb Widogast refuses to believe he deserves good things, news at 11.]
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[Elias, expression calm, slides his gaze automatically away from Caleb’s face and to the books on the table when he hears the other man floundering. He's gone through this Awkward Relationship Questions rodeo, so it's not so terrifying to him as it had been the first time. Well, it helps to be on the outside too.]
Well… we are a fairly tight-knit group here, and a strong mutual affection is something no one would not root for, as it were.
If, one …well, from what I've heard Essek say- I mean, from how he speaks of you- I get the sense he wants… it? Or at least he wouldn't mind. I can't speak on what you ‘deserve’, but I think… making your partner happy can't be a shameful thing.
[He doesn't show it, but all cylinders are firing in his brain right now as he multitasks talking deeply about love and also OH, ESSEK DEFINITELY WOULD WISH TO MARRY YOU, MY FRIEND. BUT HOW DO I TELL YOU? HOW DO I TELL YOU WITHOUT TELLING YOU!?!]
-why don't I ask him for you? Then you'll know for sure.
[Elias pulls his Oracle device out. Both to “ask” Essek, and because he's fighting a losing battle against the impulse to report back to the drow now. Technically, they could get married today at the book return! That's what Caleb said!]
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[And Caleb has found that and more. He's confident that he and Essek are on a similar course on the road they are walking back in Exandria too, but they found each other so fully here. He's grateful for that.
He peeks back up at Elias then, surprised by with a pathetically smitten and hopeful little look on his face. He's down so bad, Elias. And he's never been good at hiding his emotions, despite his best attempts.]
Do you think so?
[That's a hell of a thought. Caleb will sit with that one for a while and oh no apparently he won't because--]
Ah what? No that's... you can't just ask him that so plainly. He'll have questions. And I... I would want to do this right. He deserves that much. I am sure there are customs and traditions among the Kryn around matrimony, though I do not know what they are.
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[Elias looks back at Caleb earnestly. He supports being down bad! He understands the feeling. And as a fellow wizard who is down bad for another
“this was going to be a villain before you friendshipped them so hard” characterintellectual, he wants Caleb to succeed.Wait no he's here to help Essek- oh gods this is confusing.]
Okay. You'll broach the topic with him, then? What's the plan? [Elias palms the phone, and finally takes a seat next to Caleb so he can drop his voice co-conspiratorially.] To be honest, I haven't heard him talk about his cultural traditions like he wants to replicate them here, but we shouldn't guess at this kind of thing.
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But right the plan. Oh god the plan. He considers for a moment, mind racing a bit.]
I... yes. I will. Should the plan be subtlety? A casual inquiry about what marriage and wedding looks like within the Dynasty? Or should I be more plain about the reason for my curiosity?
[Oh god Elias help him. He's spent these past years believing himself an irredeemable monster, he has not considered things like love and marriage they were not on his vision board.]
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Both have their positives to me... you know Essek better, you should decide what feels best. As long as you have a plan and know what you're doing going into that conversation.
Maybe come up with some ideas too in case he asks you right back what you want. [He takes out a notebook and pen. The wizard’s best emotional crutch.] Stuff like, do you want a big or small wedding or even no ceremony? Do you want formal dress? Or generally, if he asks “what kind of wedding would you want” what would you say?