Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5824038-20160117201116/@comment-5824038-20160305222153

Talyaras took another deep breath before sitting back, looking up at the sky. It was so deep, so blue, she could lose herself in it...

'Meledran,' she began, 'Was unlike any other members of my family. He was the youngest of the Lord and Lady's children, and so was never going to inherit rule of the city, but he always strutted about the place acting as if he was the rightful heir. To him it was all just a game, he didn't seriously consider himself the real heir, he just liked to pretend he was.

'When I was small, he used to sometimes take me out into the jungles, and we would explore together. You ever been to Valenwood? It's quite something. Trees everywhere larger than you could imagine, but then there are factories and mines built up around them - hell, sometimes built into them! Nature and industry, they blend together perfectly.

'He was always a mix of wildly differing aspects. There was the nobility in him, but there was the roguish side of him too, the side that joined pirate crews just to alleviate his boredom. Of course that was all before I was born, I just knew him as my Unlce Meledran, who would always encourage me to forget my noble uprbringing and run through the trees, free and giddy.

'My uncles and aunts, for the most part, got on well with him. Some of my cousins have never met him. Most of our family liked him well enough, but my grandparents were always disapproving. He was the bad apple that soiled their reputation. That's what he hated, I think, the obsession with having a clean reputation, pretending to be something you're not just so that you can fit into civilised society. His reputation wasn't clean or nice, but at least there were no lies there.'

She paused at this point and breathed in more of the jinsu. 'Not sure if that answers your question, it probably sounds just like I'm rambling.'