January 2022 Event Overflow

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JANUARY 2022 EVENT OVERFLOW

OVERFLOW POST for the JANUARY 2022 EVENT

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Oh. ( Peter frowns softly; he might not understand how all of this works, but he does feel sorry for the guy for not being able to do what he'd wanted. That really sucks. He remembers Luna mentioning something about people in her world who can't do magic, how they're kind of... outcasts. He doesn't know if that's how it is for Melius, but it sounds really... lonely.

Not to mention that he's the only one with dragon blood? Peter looks back up, visibly taken aback by that. This poor guy....?? He wants to ask more about it— what about his family? Is he considered an anomaly in his world or... did he possibly outlive others like himself? Peter doesn't want to push into the poor guy's personal life, so it's asked carefully, gently: )

Have you ever... known anyone else like you? With dragon blood?

( Then there's a little smile. )

Oh— so there's like this holiday, back in my world, called Halloween? Where people dress up as scary stuff and go around collecting candy. It's kind of dumb if you think about it, but it's mostly for little kids. I was never too into it, though. Mostly just took my little sister around.

[fusrodaaaah]

[He shakes his head. Vehemently. No, there are no others. Just the dragons themselves - and, with one exception, they were all bad news. He'd heard the emperors had dragon blood, but that line ended with Uriel Septim, a long time ago.]

Just... just dragons. I don't... know how that works. [He has no idea how he's related to dragons. Or if there was some weird magical ritual to do it.] M-my parents were Imperial - humans. And um. I'm... adopted.

[So anything about his biological parents is a big mystery. One he'd never felt any need to look into.]

Oh... Oh that doesn't sound bad. At all. [Kids getting sweets for putting on costumes? That sounds like a good holiday, as far as he's concerned!] Why did you not like it?

[possessum]

( Adopted, ahhh. Peter offers a soft little nod of understanding, quietly thoughtful. He can't help imagining what that must've been like... being raised by humans, when you're not the same species. And being the only one like yourself... )

Did you like it? Where you came from. ( Maybe it's a weird question, but... he doesn't like where he came from, and he's met lots of other people here who don't, either. People who would rather stay here than ever go back home. What a strange thought.

Speaking of not liking one's home— he gives another little smile but this one kind of doubles as a wince, and runs his hand back through his hair, a nervous habit. )

It wasn't too bad in itself, but... my parents were kind of hard to get along with. Well, my mom. She'd like.. guilt-trip me into doing stuff, you know? She'd send me to do stuff she didn't want to.

( He didn't mind taking Charlie around, but there was always that quiet little awareness that his parents made him be her parent, in a way. And he was too young. Resentments grew and spread quietly. )