RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
03-16-2022, 12:52 PM
>Adler: In a complete role reversal of what happened last time, you must hold and comfort Vernier as she did for you while she begins to tearfully spill her surprisingly dark and tragic backstory to you.
>Vernier: Your very first failure was when you were unable to help your mother when she went into premature labor with your brother while your father was out working. She was frail and sickly at the time, she didn't survive. Your last words to her was a promise that you'd look after your father and brother. Not that the promise amounted to much, you failed your mother's dying wish and let her down. Even though he never raised his hand or voice against you or your brother, your father drank himself to death over his grief. You pleaded with him for years to stop, but it did nothing. After bouncing around different jobs for a time after, you got a well paying job as a secretary to Duke Rolf Tornmier. You had hoped the extra money would give you and your brother a better life, but you were so wrapped up in your new position you failed to notice that your brother had fallen in with a bad crowd. One day your brother's "friends" decided to involve him in an attempted robbery of a nobleman. It went completely south and they left your brother behind to take the fall for them. Your brother was arrested and sentenced to hang. You begged the Duke to pardon him, but to no avail. Your brother's last words were him screaming about how sorry he was. Every time you try to help anyone you either fail horribly or make things even worse than they started. Your best friend married her abusive boyfriend, despite your pleading, last you saw her she was a miserable shell of her former self. You once even tried volunteering at an orphanage only for some lunatic beaver woman to burn it down. The list goes on and on, and now this. Maybe you should just stop trying. Your deluge of tears renders you into an inconsolable wreck.
>Adler: The urgency you feel allows you to push your star-struck puppy-love aside and think clearly. As you try to console and calm Vernier down, you use elf mind on her to see what's going through her head. The whirlwind of emotions going through her head let's you know her feelings are genuine.
(>I don't remember if Vernier's brother was ever given a name, if he hasn't It's entirely up to tegerioreo what it should be.)
>Vernier: Your very first failure was when you were unable to help your mother when she went into premature labor with your brother while your father was out working. She was frail and sickly at the time, she didn't survive. Your last words to her was a promise that you'd look after your father and brother. Not that the promise amounted to much, you failed your mother's dying wish and let her down. Even though he never raised his hand or voice against you or your brother, your father drank himself to death over his grief. You pleaded with him for years to stop, but it did nothing. After bouncing around different jobs for a time after, you got a well paying job as a secretary to Duke Rolf Tornmier. You had hoped the extra money would give you and your brother a better life, but you were so wrapped up in your new position you failed to notice that your brother had fallen in with a bad crowd. One day your brother's "friends" decided to involve him in an attempted robbery of a nobleman. It went completely south and they left your brother behind to take the fall for them. Your brother was arrested and sentenced to hang. You begged the Duke to pardon him, but to no avail. Your brother's last words were him screaming about how sorry he was. Every time you try to help anyone you either fail horribly or make things even worse than they started. Your best friend married her abusive boyfriend, despite your pleading, last you saw her she was a miserable shell of her former self. You once even tried volunteering at an orphanage only for some lunatic beaver woman to burn it down. The list goes on and on, and now this. Maybe you should just stop trying. Your deluge of tears renders you into an inconsolable wreck.
>Adler: The urgency you feel allows you to push your star-struck puppy-love aside and think clearly. As you try to console and calm Vernier down, you use elf mind on her to see what's going through her head. The whirlwind of emotions going through her head let's you know her feelings are genuine.
(03-11-2022, 01:54 AM)Tai-1 Wrote: »>Burnside: Catches a crafty look from Vernier. Could she be lying? Should you warn Adler?>Burnside: Your warped and unseelie mind prevents you from understanding someone who genuinely offers help while expecting nothing in return. Despite that Vernier is too busy choking on her own tears and snot to give crafty looks of any kind, your jealous mind decides that she is only trying to manipulate him, like something you would do. You quietly decide that whatever realtionship they have forming, you will break it apart. One way or another...
(>I don't remember if Vernier's brother was ever given a name, if he hasn't It's entirely up to tegerioreo what it should be.)