seaboard: (βŒœπ™²πšŠπš—'𝚝 πš•πšŽπš 𝚒𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚘⌟)
π•˜π•šπ•π•šπ•’ 𝕀π•₯. 𝕝𝕠𝕖 | α΄…α΄€α΄œΙ’Κœα΄›α΄‡Κ€-κœ±α΄‡α΄€ ([personal profile] seaboard) wrote in [community profile] deernet2022-05-10 10:54 am

video [ un: daughter-sea ]

[ The woman that appears is a - level expression, a little happy or sad that plays on her features. Level, most especially, as she clears her throat. Her veil tied around her head to tame her curls back, her shift and vest tying herself up neatly.

Peeking out from her veil is her lamp friend, and drifting around her in a circle is a soft finned creature, her Omen. Delicately colored in reds and blues as it swims in the air.
]

I find myself remiss, in how to make an introduction...

... I am Second-Child, Gilia St. Loe, Daughter-Sea, She Who Sings the Ocean to Prosperity, Who Echoes With the Ceaseless Voice.

[ That out of the way. ]

I am new to this place, this... city. I do not have much in the way of the coin, but I am skilled in other forms. I can sew, weave, till a field, clean, cast a line, or a net, gut a fish, help tend animals, both with birthing and killing, cook many types of meals...

But if you have need of anything repaired or cooked... please, if there is something I can do for resources in return, only let me know, and I shall be your glad servant.
manipulative: curly + human. (pic#13844587)

[personal profile] manipulative 2022-05-17 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's all right.

[ better than all right. for someone who has spent over five centuries running and never quite settling roots, deerington and the trench have treated her well. she sometimes thinks she has a very kind view of it in comparison to everyone else. ]

It's… [ she pauses for a moment. vulnerability is still not her strong suit. but what does she have to lose if she tells the truth? ] My opinion might differ from a lot of other people's, but I like it here. It's annoying at times, but it's become home. [ she shrugs; she adds genuinely but playfully: ] And it has nice shoes.
manipulative: curly + human. (pic#13819881)

[personal profile] manipulative 2022-05-18 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
It is what you make of it.

[ she can only shrug. it's the best advice a wise old very jaded person like katherine can give. ]

I've travelled to a lot of places in my life. Nothing becomes home or palatable unless you make it. I refused to make a home, no matter where I was. If anyone's going to give you advice on how to exist here, only listen to those who tell you to trust your gut.
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[personal profile] manipulative 2022-05-23 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Are people giving you the usual spiel of how awful this place is?

[ despite being tempted to roll her eyes, katherine only looks bemused. what you get is what you give... or something like that. she hardly listens to the things people say when they're trying to teach her some boring lesson. ]
manipulative: curly + human. (pic#13844587)

[personal profile] manipulative 2022-05-24 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ she cocks a brow, curious. ]

Not what's best for you?
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[personal profile] manipulative 2022-05-26 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't blame you if you missed your home. It sounds like you have a nice thing going on there.

[ katherine doesn't, hence her happiness to be here. she also has a nice shoe collection that's big than the one she has at home. ]

It's not uncommon to feel that way. A lot of people do.
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[personal profile] manipulative 2022-06-13 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's not the sea she yearns for, but mortality. life hadn't been simple as a mere human girl, but it had felt less unattainable. katherine's learned over the last five hundred years how to try and recapture the essence of what she's lost. ]

Why can't you still be that?
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[personal profile] manipulative 2022-06-13 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
You don't think you can feel those things as you are?