Riole Talae
Prince Riole Talae (a.k.a. Rio!!)
"Oh! You want me to introduce myself, kind sir? Let me think... I'm just out exploring, I suppose. I am also trying to find help for my hometown, since it is going through something awful currently, but I'm still trying to figure out how to undo something that I accidentally did. Though... I do not know if I'll actually be able to fix that accident, which might be a terrible and unrepairable and absolutely disastrous mistake on my part. Pray for my good fortune, if you believe in any deities, please!"
An easily excitable prince, Rio is out traveling to try to find help for his kingdom. He may have approximately one secret (or two or three) to keep, but don't worry about that! (Picture is a placeholder.)
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Alignment
Neutral Good!
Age
16!
Date of Birth
July 15th!
Children
Gender
Male!
Eyes
Lilac!
Hair
Some light purple shade (dyed)!
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Light Brown!
Height
5'11
Weight
Healthy! Fit! Athletic!
Oops...
It's been a little bit, hasn't it, journal? I gotta apologize for that, but I think you have to understand that things have been... kind of awful for a little bit of time now, haha...
Oh, I don't want to write sad things, because I do not want to cry again. Let's consider the positives and mention the negatives in only a few sentences because yeah... Yeah... I have to be positive. I must. It's the only thing I can really do for my brothers, in this situation.
I still desperately cling to the ridiculous thought that things will eventually be alright. Not perfect, not perfect ever again, although nothing was perfect to start with. I want to believe that once my people find a new home then it will bring about the change that my home has always needed. I want to believe that Ros and Lio and my return back to our family will bring about the change that needs to happen between all of us. I want to believe that Lio lied about Father's passing...
......
Oh, Respen is chirping at me. I'm fine, little wings. I just let my mind wander, haha. This is why I can't stray from my path, see! It's all going to work out alright! It... It has to.
Anyway, I do not want to cry again. I'm sick and tired of crying. I also am sick and tired of babysitting Lio, but I understand why I must. He's also here, watching me write, but he can't speak or really do anything since he's tied up and gagged. Poor, poor him. Except, no, not poor him. I'm quite pissed at him still. I have not forgiven him and I don't know if I ever will. How could he possibly think that sacrificing an entire town is acceptable under any circumstance? Has he abandoned our faith? Is everything falling apart and am I the one holding onto something completely stupid? I don't want to
No. No, no. No. I.... Positives. Okay.
He's giving me a weird look. Don't quirk your eyebrow at me, brother. I guess a positive is that he's okay, even though I really want to punch him in the face just like once or twice or five times. He's alive and he's here and I really missed him and I was so worried about him, so it's nice that he's safe. I just wish he'd stop saying awful things to me and Ros whenever we feed him. I wish he could be released from his bindings and I wish he'd stay with us without trying to escape. There's nowhere he can really go, is there? Unless he knows where our family is at? But I don't want him to go back to them, honestly. I want him to stay with me. I don't want to worry about losing him or oh no. Tears again. Fu
not..... that's not a...... bad word.....
Gosh gosh gosh i'm such a mess oh man......
Um. Now he's averting his eyes because I'm crying. Wonderful. Yeah, I'm a mess, but I've always been a mess, so whatever. I'm weepy and I miss everything badly but you know what
(a dark scribbled ball appears underneath the words)
There. HAH. Fine. I'm not sure what other positives there are. We're alive. The people in town are nice. The performance went well, even though I accidentally terrified Beef somehow. The sheep was not set on fire, thankfully. I have to return her soon. Maybe Ros will let me go return her if I bring someone with me. He's been really protective of me.
Which, uh, well..... I don't really mind, I don't think. I'm pretty scared of uh.... Him dying? Or getting taken away from me somehow? Aha...
Yeah. He was impaled. He was so badly injured and I saw him unable to move against that awful monster that hurt him. He's not doing okay at all. I can tell. I don't know how to help him. I'd do anything to help him, to make him feel even just a little bit better, to give him a chance to take a single breath. But I have no idea what to do. He's never been so... Like THIS, before...
No, he has been. But it wasn't this bad. It's never been this bad before. If anyone else was here then they'd be able to help him better. Kevril and Jenola always figured out how to help him with his moods. Lio used to cheer him up, but I don't... even know if he knows how... broken he is...? ?? ? is it okay for me to say that about my brother? i know it's how i describe the characters in my plays, but...... he really seems.....
oh man. i'm so tired of crying. ugh. UGH. UGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH.
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The Heroes of Tinkertown! And other things.
Well, well, well... Hello, page! Much has happened today and I am incredibly eager to see what happens in the future.
I know you remember this, journal, but my journey has lead me to the city Everska! It's quite an interesting town to explore or, at least, it's very different from my home? There's a giant chasm dividing the city and I'm convinced there's some massive creature living in the bottom of the canyon. Maybe a gigantic worm. Or a ginormous lizard.
Actually, I heard of this city before I arrived here, but Mother and Father never wanted to come this far. Too much distance from the ocean, I guess? They didn't really like to travel far even if it was still coastal, actually. Probably because they were scared of running into the "undesirable races". Their racism and ignorance and stupidity and fear controlled them. How tragic for them, truly... I'm rolling my eyes. It's not tragic. I am not a fan of my idiotic parents. You know that, though, don't you? Which is why I can never let any of my family read this! Love my family, yes, but I'm already the weird one. Er, well, the second weird one? I don't know. Family weird. Royal life sucks.
Oh well. My own actual justified fear was very real when I ran into the serial killer of Everska! That was a terrifying moment, honestly. It was not actually a person, but some sort of evil monster, which I should have maybe known. The evidence was too weird for it to be a person. Ugh, I almost became evidence, didn't I? If a group of heroes hadn't interfered I think I might have died. Respen did tell me I shouldn't go after it, but all of my siblings would try to stop it, so I also had to try. But I failed. Thankfully no one was around to laugh at me. Though Respen did give me quite a scolding after we were somewhere safe. Nagging me... Like she's the boss of me... I have to figure out how to break this connection soon. I don't want to be nagged.
Agh, she's reading over my shoulder. I mean, no, you are lovely, Respen! Your feathers are so pretty! I love your scales! Wow! No, no, no, I don't mean what I said, about breaking anything, noooo......
Anyway. The heroes who rescued me are actual real life HEROES, and I'm amazed that they happened to pass by the street at the exact same moment I was being taken away!! Fate must be guiding my steps. I know this is already true, but it has been confirmed again today! It was already confirmed on my fifteenth birthday... That I refuse to even think about. The heroes are amazing and incredible and very helpful and, uh, kind of friendly? They agreed to accompany me on a quest to kill a giant snail! (That quest was a small disaster but we all survived so it's alright!) They all are so strong and powerful and skilled... I wonder how many people they've killed? If any? I hope they've not killed any. It'd be very cool if the Heroes of Tinkertown, and my own saviors, had no blood on their hands..... But I doubt that. The world does not work that way, I know.
Artemis the elf actually seems the most likely to have murdered. Mostly because of his dark and mysterious persona. I don't know if I'd trust him if he hadn't saved me from certain death. Maybe he's shy? Or older than everyone else? He did seem slightly weary. But he had cool blades and he just seems Very Cool. Beef, the very large dragon-looking one (I think that race is... dragonborn, right?), seems to be the friendliest and the most willing to teach me things. He even taught me how to wield a glaive! He's giant but very gentle. I can absolutely imagine him taking care of a bunny and being so careful with it. Hazel the human has very strong magic, from my observations. He also offered me a sweet roll but it.... was possessed. By goo. I have no other explanation for why it looked and smelled like that. I fear what else the dude has in his pockets. I don't trust his pockets. BUT, they all are the Heroes of Tinkertown, so surely! They are good people! With strange quirks, right? And a horrible smelling sweet roll that honestly should NOT be called a sweet roll anymore.
Very odd, but what else did I expect from my journey? To find my brother, actually, but I haven't seen him or Roly-Poly anywhere I've gone to yet. I think I'll stay in Everska for another week or so to make sure he's not here, then I'll move on. Maybe I should put up a flier that I'm looking for him? No, I can't do that. Not when my home is burning and my people are at war with something we can't fight against. I wish I could find Marros. I miss him. I want to talk with him about our home. I know he ran away, but he'd surely come back if he found out that our home was in a dire situation, right? Right. I must find him and tell him. Then we can go home together and help our people together! Good plan. Very flawless.
I'll go look for him and this time I will NOT encounter any evil creatures!! :) If I do I'll just use my new fancy snail shell staff on them, hehe!
FREE FALLING
OH
MY
GOSH????????????????????
WE FELL OUT OF THE SKY BUT LIVED SOMEHOW. AMAZING. INCREDIBLE. I AM TRULY SURROUNDED BY HEROES. THEY SAVED MY LIFE. I AM SO HONORED AND FLUSTERED AND I MUST FIND A WAY TO REPAY THEM SOMEHOW. aHHHH anyway, yes, Respen, I KNOW. I'm freaking out!! Go somewhere else winged friend I'll talk with you later. No not to..... Okay, fine, go to my brother.
Okay, she's gone under the covers now. Gosh, gosh, gosh, oh GOSH I can't believe that I literally fell out of the sky and survived. Not a lot of people can say that, you know!! And guess!!! Who!! Was!!!! THERE!!!!!!!!
Marros!!!!! :DD I've found him! In Everska!! He's right there, across the room, sitting on the bed that I legit SLEPT IN just last night I'm so dumb how did I not notice that he slept there. Idiot, me. Oh, but I suspected he was here, I did, but I'm so happy that I found him!! He's like.... brooding over in the corner of the room writing in his own journal, probably because he's not had a fun time since he left home, which I literally knew he wouldn't but why would he listen to me haha....ha. Roly-Poly is resting in front of my bed though, because he loves me more hehe. He was so worried about me and why I was here, in Everska, and what is that flying around you what, wait you were IN THE TRAM that crashed on the museum??? Rio........ But it's okay because we're reunited!! After months!! I've found him! I missed him but he's here and he's grumpy and I can literally feel the stress radiating off of him but it's okay because we're finally together and everything will work out fine.
Or I will keep telling myself that forever and ever, because I can't imagine things not actually working out fine. Because then that'd mean..... Bad things happening to my people and my family and my home that I adore even though it's so flawed. And that? I cannot allow to happen. I think Ros has allowed his thoughts to be consumed by negativity. I must make him smile. We'll be fine. We will be. Even if our home gets burned to the ground, our people are tough and we will survive. It might actually be good for Laralissi to move somewhere else and start over, so we can finally get our heads on straight and realize our idiotic thinking is more hurtful than helpful. But that might be something like wishful thinking. I am forever the optimistic. I will be the optimist for Ros. I will make him smile.
Ooh, he's done writing in his journal. He's staring at me. He looks very conflicted. Pained. I wonder what he's seen on his journey, all of the struggles that he's endured since he left behind the sheltered life we both lived. Maybe he's actually looking at me like that because I actually could have died today, just like I could have died a few days ago. Oops. I should be more careful, I think. He doesn't need to know that, right? He'll just be worried and I know he's already worried and trying to figure out how to get me home. I am not going home unless he comes back with me. Oh no, gosh, Goddess, please prepare me, for I must inform him about the horrible news of our home being attacked. I don't want to be the barer of bad news :(
I'll just talk to him and give him hugs and reassurances and cheer him up. He definitely needs it. My goal is to make him laugh and I will not rest until he does. Maybe I can regale him with our glorious triumph over the gigantic snail? Or I could tell him something else from my solo adventuring. My journey has not been as harsh as his must have been.
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