CLOSED ♔ knighting ceremony

[eldritchweaver]

WHO || Wynn, Faye, Nessa,  Hasmed, Gold, Lila, Andie, Felicity, Emma, Diana, Tia, Alainn, Zero, Zatanna,  various other unnamed members of the Dragon's Fire [closed]
WHAT || Faye's full Knighting ceremony; induction into the Dragon's Fire
WHERE || Knight's Headquarters, the Great Hall
WHEN || December 30th, 2013 evening [Super backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

Unlike the grandiose nature of the squiring ceremony each Knight undergoes upon their initial entrance into the Knighthood, the graduation to Full Knight status takes place in a much more intimate affair, between the Knight, their mentor, invited friends, and the members of the sect to which they will be inducted. There's no pompous music, no stolid rank and file, no elaborate march.

Faye's invitees are given seats of honor at the front of the ranks of the Dragon's Fire members  and Nessa, Wynn, and Hasmed wait up at the front of the room for Faye to approach them, but the attitude of the ceremony is much more relaxed, full of smiles and light conversation on all sides from the other sect members.

Wynn finally gets things rolling, by saying in his loud listen-to-me voice: "Approach and kneel, Sir Faye Chamberlain."

Comments

[reallywicked]

[Taking the drink, Lila might recognize that bracelet she's wearing. lesbians She smirks.]

And here I was hoping for matching earrings. Glad you could make it.

[bittersweeter]

Don't get your hopes up. [ but she totally pulls out a little box with a pair of earrings from her dress. spending money is how she shows affection. the bracelet was a present and a barb -- since faye needed a bracelet to replace the one lila won in their bet. the earrings are just a present. ] I already bought it, so this doesn't count.

[reallywicked]

[Opening the box, Faye has a victorious sort of smile. Nailed it. But instead of rubbing in that she got it exactly right, she just makes quick work of replacing the earrings she has on for the new ones.]

Uh huh. So what do you think? Do I look knightly enough?

[bittersweeter]

Very. [ but she's shaking her head with a smirk, so. IN ANY CASE, she leans forward and kisses faye on the cheek. ] Congrats, loser.

[reallywicked]

[At the gesture, Faye smiles. She actually smiles- not smirking for once.]

Thanks. Now we just need to get Eric to get his head out of his ass and we'll really be in business.

[bittersweeter]

Physically impossible. [ she shrugs, waving a hand like whatever. she's over it. ] Hey, you're gonna get a squire now! [ haaaaaaa! ]

[reallywicked]

[That has... never dawned on her until now.] Oh my god- you're right.

[bittersweeter]

[ pat pat, this is why lila is around. to think about the important shit. ] Bet you those earrings that they give you someone twice as bitchy as you for payback.

[reallywicked]

I think I've learned better than to bet my jewelry against you.

[bittersweeter]

There is hope for you yet. [ no look, that actually makes lila pretty proud of herself because she's a dork. ] So what are you going to do with your newfound knighthood?

[reallywicked]

I think the first order of business is to get drunk. After that, I'll probably see if there's more to the dragons fire wing than meets the eye. Never know with Wynn. There might be some secret passageway or something.

[bittersweeter]

Probably to Hasmed's lair. [ why she dislikes him is a mystery to me. ] Did I tell you Eric thinks he'd want me for the Dragon's Fire? Ew.

[reallywicked]

Hey! [She actually looks a little miffed at the snub.] What the hell is wrong with that?

[bittersweeter]

Uh, I'm not magic. [ duh faye. ]

[reallywicked]

Right. [She gives her the most condescending look.] You just have powers that no one else does. To make people do whatever you want.

[bittersweeter]

Yeah, except other people have it. And it's called science, baby, that's why they can test for it. It's a chemical in my brain.

[reallywicked]

So what if they find out what I can do is just like that. Just because they found the reason for it doesn't make it any less powerful. Magic's just another word for it. I didn't learn how to catch someone on fire any more than you learned how to put them to sleep and make them walk into traffic. It's just in us. So why do you think it's so different?

[Someone is taking this personally. Oops.]

[bittersweeter]

Uh, wasn't Gold teaching you? [ which isn't the point and she does realize that there isn't much of a difference between their gifts, she just clings to that one thing from home. it's not magic.

because cassel called it magic. ]

[reallywicked]

He was teaching me how to use it. But I could do it without him. Hell, maybe I could do it before I got here and just forgot how. [thats actually exactly it.]

But there's nothing wrong with magic.

[bittersweeter]

I never said there was. But there is something wrong with curse work. [ yay blowback! ] I would be mentally deficient to join a sect based off the one strength that is going to, literally, drive me insane somewhere down the line. That a why I said ew, Faye, because the idea of it is stupid, and stupidity is gross.

[reallywicked]

[Faye would like if Lila joined her sect. It would give her more excuse to hang out with people she actually enjoyed. But there's a lot she doesn't get about Lila's power. Partially because she doesn't ask and partially because she doesn't know if Lila even wants to talk about it.]

So where DO you want to go?

[bittersweeter]

Dragon's Tongue, duh.

[reallywicked]

Don't they kiss a lot of ass? [She would have no patience for that tbh]

[bittersweeter]

Diplomacy is not about kissing ass, Chamberlain. Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell in such a way as they ask directions.

[ yeah, she didn't make that gem up, that would be the lovely winston churchill. ]

[reallywicked]

[No one is very surprised that faye doesn't recognize the quote.]

Uh huh. And the fact that you have a failsafe way to make sure they listen doesn't hurt.