A Light in the Dark Hours
[Coran]
Ardyn
Master Fighter (250)
Master Hunter (240)
Knight
Bloodletter
6 Years
Male
1110
BrienaSkysong
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His paws tread softly on the den floor as he made his way to his brother’s side, settling down beside him. For the moment he was silent, forepaws crossed at the wrists as he mulled over everything.
Finally, his lips parted and he turned his eyes to Coran, offering softly, “If you need to talk, I’m here, brother.”
And listen he would do, however much his littermate and only blood brother might talk. If it would help him process what he’d gone through, and find peace, Ardyn would take in every word.
Many might say it wasn’t masculine to be emotionally open, but Ardyn felt there was a certain strength in being able to voice your fears and feelings and being able to cry, instead of hiding behind a wall of stone-facedness. He’d done his own crying a fair bit lately. He’d probably be doing plenty more.
Far from merely being the duty of the eldest sibling, he wanted to be there for his siblings in their darkest moments.
Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think |
Ardyn at first glance is as black as can be imagined with a raven sheen.
Closer inspection proves that he shimmers in fire tones in every hair on his hide right down to his lashes.
More obviously, he glows like a bed of coals and flames with every movement and brush of fur. His tail is usually wagging, so blazes like a torch.
His adult teeth are in and his saber canines have grown to their full length (see profile). His mane and tail hair have grown to full length, as well as being lightweight and easily buffeted by breezes.
A look at his front paws will give the impression of hands, with his dew claw dropped low and lengthened into a functioning thumb, and his toes elongated into fingers. He has retractable, solid black cat-like claws on every paw.
Ardyn has developed a glowing mast of intricate markings in fire and ice colors over his face, symmetrical over the last seasons of Year 17 (see profile for details). During hunts or raids/sieges, he will smudge them out with black soot to cover the glow, otherwise, they are bright enough to note at first direct glance at his face. Not all his artwork currently portrays the mask markings.
He is also often bedecked in beads, small bells, feathers in blues, ribbons and braids thanks to the Ooze Event of Halloween 2021, and the Coathanger item that he got. The accessories generally are seen most in his mane and tail hair. He removes the brighter items and bells for hunts or battle.