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Anti-OTP: Ilmarinen/Phedre
Ordinarily, Ilmarinen feels no need to be ostentatious with his swordplay. He wields a broadsword with tremendous competence and unflagging strength; to show off with it would simply be unsportsmanlike. Today, though, he is on the grounds of the Mansion, testing the heft of a new blade that he has forged--a bastard sword, light hand-and-a-half ( Read more... ) -
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Ilmarinen has done a woman wrong--shouted at her and refused to trust her when she had done him no harm, when she had done nothing wrong but keep a secret (and rightly, perhaps, given his reaction). So this evening, he is waiting on the bench where he first saw her, his lantern sitting on the ground beside him. His knees are drawn up, his heels ( Read more... ) -
For Wilhemina and Khardeen
Ilmarinen has stuck up a large, visible sign. It is lettered in the precise, almost-drawn script of a man who is more used to drafting than to writing, and it is horribly misspelled. The one word that isn't part of a name is in another language--and also misspelled.
VILHIMINA BENNIDIKT IA KARDIIN, the sign reads. There is an arrow pointing to ( Read more... ) -
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The day is warming; there are flowers lining the edge of the wood, bright splashes of yellow and violet against the dark earth. Ilmarinen has set snares along the rabbit trails, which he is checking carefully today. So far, he has found nothing tangled in the wires, but he is patient. He would not mind company as he walks slowly and carefully ( Read more... ) -
Open Post
*Ilmarinen has returned from Minnesota, heart heavier for finding no trace of his brother--but the lodge that he had shared with Michael has now become a fully built cottage, a fireplace carefully constructed in the center and their beds on either side of it. there are windows to let the light in, and shutters to keep the rain and wind out; there ( Read more... ) -
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*gestures for Michael to tie his horse and start helping with leaning long logs into the crooks of trees to create impromptu fencing* -
Anti-OTP: Ilmarinen/Hedda Gabler
*of late, Ilmarinen and Michael have been pillaging ingredients, cookware, and mattresses from the mansion--and today, Ilmarinen is in the library, looking for a map that he remembers having been shown so early in his time here. the map was in a book, and it shows where Minnesota is: Minnesota, the place where Mad Sweeney had said he might find ( Read more... ) -
Anti-OTP: Ilmarinen/Morgan le Fay
*Ilmarinen is sitting on a flat stone in the forest, eyes closed, his lips moving as though he is speaking to someone only a breath away--and so he is, for iron is always only a breath away from him, and today Ilmarinen is calling iron from the earth in his own language*