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Back home, I'm a noble, the son of a Margrave, but for most of my life I've been a knight and a soldier. I'm mostly just looking for a good time and people who are open-minded enough to enjoy it with me, maybe try out some new things. There's a lot here I've never gotten to experience and I'm interested in changing that.
Outside of that, I'm a connoisseur of fine food and fine teas. I enjoy cooking, gardening, horseback riding, chess, and discussing a wide variety of topics, whether it's art, fiction, theoretical ideals, or more esoteric topics.
Enjoying myself to the fullest here. Making conections and meeting new people. Experiencing all this place has to offer and finding those interested in exploring it with me.
Varied and many. I had a robust interest in pursuing pleasures of all sorts back home and I hope to keep expanding that knowledge and skillset here.
I enjoy books on a variety of topics, but I've never seen a movie. Plays and operas are far more common in my world and a comparible form of entertainment. I like a wide variety of dishes and have a fondness for trying new dishes from distant places. I have a fondness for spices and rich flavors.
I'm very adaptable and tend to adjust to whoever I'm with, making this a very broad category, since I have a varied taste in companions as well, depending on my mood. I find people interesting and like as many varieties here as I do in my favorite dishes.
both, depends on the atmosphere
.02 CLOWNS OR MIMES
neither
.03 SHOWER OR BATH
yes
.04 PIRATES OR NINJAS
what does this even mean??? and what's a nija?
.05 TITS OR ASS
yes
.06 COFFEE OR TEA
tea, although coffee is interesting, i will have to try more of it
.07 SPICY OR SWEET
spicy
.08 SUMMER OR WINTER
both have their fine qualities
.09 LEATHER OR LACE
depends on who's wearing it. some people are just very much one or the other.
10. ROUGH SEX OR GENTLE SEX
yes
Campaigner: ENFP-A
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[ He chuckles as he sinks down across from Sizhui, making himself comfortable. ]
It’s a black tea, though, with a bit of a nutty flavor. Don’t actually know if it was a favorite of Seiros or someone just decided to make it popular by naming it after her, but either way, it’s pretty good.
We have mint teas back home - quite a few, actually. I don’t think I’ve ever tried Jasmine tea before, though. I know of the flowers - we had some in the greenhouse in the Academy, I think, but they’re not native to Fodlan, either. Brigid, maybe? [ He scratches his head, trying to remember if Dedue or Ashe or Annie had ever said. ]
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Either way, it does sound delicious! We'll have to see if there's a way to get our hands on some so I can try it with you. [if sylvain would like to, that is.]
It's a bit of a comfort tea for me, as my father would give it to me when I wasn't feeling well. Most Jasmine teas are made with a green tea base and the flowers are added, so if you've had a green tea, you're already halfway to trying Jasmine! [a beat to take a sip of his tea while he considers, his fingertips lightly tapping against the cup.] Well, if there's ever a time where you get plants from your home, perhaps we could cultivate them together?
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As it is, he just nods slightly, wondering if Sizhui’s bumped into some of the others here from home. ] There’s a couple of us here from Fodlan, at least that I’ve found so far. Lorenz, and Hubert and Edelgard, though we come from different places within it, of course. So far I’m the only one from Faerghus.
[ Leaning forward, he braces his forearms atop his knees and offers the other man a faint crooked smile, enjoying the story behind the tea. No wonder he was fond of it. ] I have had green teas before, so I think I can imagine it, at least. Maybe we’ll be able to find Jasmine here in the gardens. I know I’ve spotted quite a few plants that I recognized while wandering through. Although far more that I didn’t.
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it is convenient that some of them are here, though. that would make it easy to brush off and agree that yes, he has met them here, even if he'd be lying and that's not something he would do.] I see, [he says simply, glancing down at his cup, lips rolling together. no, not yet. he'll give it just a minute to let their conversation push a little further before he decides to drop all this information on sylvain.
instead, he flashes a smile in return, thumbs across the rim of his cup then,] Perhaps we will! I recognized a few plants as well myself, so it wouldn't be surprising to find others, or to see them add new things. If they don't, I wonder if we would be allowed to grow things...
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I don’t see why not. They don’t seem all that inclined to keep us from indulging in whatever we want. Granted, I think they intend that to be more aimed for their game, but that’s not to say we can’t have hobbies outside of sex all day every day. No one could maintain that anyway.
I bet if you just started showing up and doing it for fun, no one would say anything. Acting like you’re right where you’re supposed to be and know exactly what you’re doing might get you some odd looks, but I bet no one thinks to tell you you can’t. Or if you do, it’s probably better to ask for forgiveness than permission in this place anyway…
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Gosh, I sure hope they don't expect that from us! Even if I wanted to, with a high enough drive and nearly no refractory period, I don't think I could keep up every day and all day. [he snickers, sneaking another quick drink of his tea afterward before continuing,] I don't want to say it would get monotonous but... [well, that's the word that comes to mind when considering it.]
No, they probably wouldn't. In fact, I'd imagine some of the people might like the help, given how large this garden is. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission, though, you say... [sizhui lets that remark trail off, an enthusiastic grin overtaking his expression as he removes the coffee from where it sits, moves to stand, sets the cup aside then he steps down onto the little grassy patch around the gazebo they're seated in. after kneeling, he reaches with his free hand and presses it palm down, a soft blueish-green glow emanating from beneath it, and once he lifts his hand, a pretty daisy sprouts from the spot of dirt he'd just touched.]
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[ He's chuckling as he takes a sip of his own tea, expression brightening at the familiar flavor of bergamot on his tongue. It's pretty good, too. This place continues to impress with their attention to detail and quality.
But he watches quietly, savoring his drink, while Sizhui gets up and steps down to the grass to crouch there a moment. When there's a faint glow of magic, he straightens up, leaning forward to watch with sudden curiosity. And then there's a vibrant red flower sprouting upwards, not one he recognizes but it's pretty. And that had definitely been a type of magic he'd never seen before, which just makes him all the more intrigued. ]
That's... is that something you could always do?
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any other time, he'd leave the flower to grow and flourish on its own, to maybe spread across the grass with more flora, though he plucks this one from its spot, taps the remaining tiny bit of stalk with his littlest finger to let another, smaller daisy take its place, then he shifts upright and moves back over to where sylvain is. he sits back down, still smiling as he offers the other man the flower, his head shaking.]
No, it's an ability I gained on another world, alongside some other... transformative powers.
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Wait. You’ve been to different universes before this place took you?
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Which, ah, brings me back to what we were talking about before: Fodlan. I know of it because I met some people from there back on one of these worlds. A man named Dimitri and another named Byleth.
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He opens his mouth a moment before closing it again, trying to think up a response to that. ]
You... you've met Dimitri and the Professor? How... is that even possible?
[ Was that where the Professor had been all that time she was missing? But Dimitri, he'd been imprisoned, hadn't he? And he'd never mentioned anything about another world...
Granted, he hadn't been the most sharing person since they'd all been reunited, unless it had to do with bloodthirsty vengeance. ]
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it makes him feel a little sheepish, somewhat embarrassed that he'd mentioned anything at all, and he ducks his head, shoulders pressing against his ears as he twirls the pretty red daisy between his thumb and forefinger.]
Wild things can happen when you world-hop, [is the only response he can manage. how else does he explain it, really? he imagines he's met a lot of folks that others around here know, too, but. will he ever be confident enough to tell anyone else? (maybe.)
funnily(?) enough, the dimitri he knew was quite calm and collected, at least until they broke into a haunted-ass mansion to murder monsters and save anyone trapped inside.]
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[ Nope. Sorry. None of this makes any sense. You might have broken his brain a little. ]
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Somewhere else. A place called ‘Amani’, where people were taken from their homeworlds and put into a simulation. [pause, a moment for him to consider, then he asks,] Has anyone told you what that means? [just in case, that way he isn't leaving sylvain floundering for an answer about that, too.]
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Something like a test run? A mock battle, or just a scenario?
[ That was as close a description he could come up with, unsure if that's what Sizhui meant. ]
So... you're telling me Dimitri and Byleth were also taken to this... simulation? On another world? How long ago was this?
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A test run or just a scenario could work; the scenario being, for example, a world that isn't real. It's made up and inside your head, but you're living it like you would exist in this aforementioned world. Like you're test-running it. [does... that make sense? not exactly, but he can work with it for now.]
Yes, they were there, alongside others from different worlds. [a moment's hesitation as he considers, the flower lowers again and his expression creases faintly.] I coexisted with them in Amani for a year and a half.
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[ Yup. You broke him again. He’s trying to do math in his head, ]
I don’t understand. They were both missing for a time, but…
[ Five years, in fact, give or take. But he feels like that’s something one of them would have mentioned. ]
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause you distress. [or so it seems? maybe he shouldn't have mentioned anything at all or he simply could've kept it to himself if he knew it was going to cause . . . this.]
Missing, though? From your homeworld, you mean?
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He waves off the distressed comment with a gesture of his hand, however, because that’s not quite right. ]
Confusion, more like it. And yeah, they were both missing for a span of time at the beginning of the war back home. Technically, everyone thought they were dead, but that turned out to be untrue, fortunately. But it seems odd that they never mentioned something like… that.
[ Maybe they thought no one would believe them? Which, okay most people thought Dimitri insane already and the Professor had always been a bit eccentric, but… ]
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despite the way his shoulders relax, sizhui bows his head in understanding.] Confused is at least slightly better than distressed. [normally, he'd add a laugh at the end of that, but listening to sylvain talk about war, one where dimitri and byleth were actually both missing for some time . . . ] To tell you the truth, I'm still trying to figure out how it works, but... I think time stops when you're taken from your world? And then it restarts once you've returned. [there's really no other way to explain why he's been gone this long and hasn't seen anyone he knows for a whole year-and-a-half until arriving at the resort.
it does, however, make sense that people would think them crazy if they started talking about world-hopping; sizhui feels it most times when he describes it, but people seem to take it in stride (even if sylvain was confused).]
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Do you think that holds true for here, too?
[ His brow furrows with a frown as he considers that option, because if that were still true here, that meant he’d still have to go back to…
Shit. He didn’t want to think about that. ]
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If we're lucky, time won't have changed at all from the moment we were taken from. [unless, of course, that's the opposite of what sylvain wants and he will hope for that instead— once he's given confirmation, at least.
for now, sizhui considers sylvain's expression, breathes a sigh then turns and offers him the daisy with a small smile.] Perhaps we should talk about something else for a little bit?
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Neither option is a good one, in his opinion, which is why he’s been trying not to think about it too much.
So he latches onto that out with a relieved smile, reaching out to take the flower with a soft huff of laughter. ] Yeah, that’s probably a better idea. And our drinks are likely getting cold. Should we return to them?
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however, he doesn't apologize again, surprisingly. he nods in agreement toward the other man's suggestion, lets the flower be taken then idly gestures with the same hand.]
You're right, we should, we wouldn't want them to need to be reheated. [another moment's hesitation and he adds,] And we still need to try the coffee! [he's definitely still excited for that, too.]
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Honestly, the less he has to think about home while here the better, he thinks.
So he just claps a hand on Sizhui’s shoulder and guides him back to the little pavilion and their waiting drinks. ]
Come on, let’s give it a try before it gets cold. I think some people prefer it that way, from what I’ve heard, but I think they brew it differently, as well. They seem to do that with tea here, too.
[ he sounds a little baffled by that. Why would anyone want to drink tea gone cold? ]
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