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    29 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    A long introspection of Aragorn on what it means to be raised in Imladris while traveling, living and leading within the world of men.

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    He understands himself through slivers of Otherness and One-of-Us. To be King is to be othered. So, too, is to not be King. A failure of seed and effort of a mother to provide hope for her people. She who devoted her entire being to that cause. I gave hope, I reserved none for myself she said as she died.

    Aragorn was gentle with her, he held her hand, he said he loved her and would always remember her and that he would do his duty as she wanted him to. Later, years and years later, to someone who knows what it is to hold heavy burdens Aragorn asked, How can that be said to a son who did not ask for such sacrifice to be made on his behalf?

    And Bilbo replied, I don’t think she meant it like that. In my experience, the dying are sometimes speaking to those already dead rather than the living in front of them. Tell me, Aragorn, do you look much like your father?

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    26 Jan 2026

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    In battle, a Kremnoan was expected to dominate by force of strength and will, to leave no survivors in service of Nikador’s insatiable hunger. It isn’t that there is no word for romance in the Kremnoan language—it is that the word for to love is the same as the one for to fight for.

    Explaining this to Phainon, in far fewer words, produces…interesting results.

    after some conversation and a little negotiation, Phainon and Mydei decide to try something new.

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    19 Jan 2026

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    "Mydei!" Phainon yelps as he flips himself back upright, except it comes out as “Awoo!” instead.

    This is humiliating. Mydei is the absolute last person he’d ever want to see him in this weak little body. Phainon skitters backwards, trying to stay out of reach even as Mydei approaches the table.

    “Hey, watch—” Mydei grabs at him.

    “Awoo?!” SPLASH!

    Phainon is underwater. He flails his limbs, trying to figure out how to swim with this unfamiliar body. Something tightens around his rib cage, and he thrashes harder.

    As Phainon is lifted from the water, he gasps for breath and starts coughing up the liquid he got in his throat, all while kicking his little legs trying to get some kind of foothold. He finds himself pressed against something solid and warm.

    “Shh, shh. It’s okay. Don’t be scared.” Wait, who’s saying that? Mydei? Surely Mydei can’t speak with such a gentle voice… or, even if he could, he wouldn’t in this situation. And what happened to “scared” not existing in the Kremnoan language?!

    Phainon gets turned into a chimera. It leads him to learning more about Mydei.

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    24 Dec 2025

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    Mydei pins him down with firm hands and says, low and urgent, “Listen—the people think you can bear a child.”

    Phainon blinks at him. Mydei waits for him to sputter, to laugh. To refute him and call the very notion ridiculous, and launch into an hours-long exposition on the sheer absurdity of such a statement.

    His husband does none of that.

    (In the wake of Era Nova, peace settles—but gossip does not. Especially when it involves divine conception and the Deliverer of Amphoreus.)

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    22 Dec 2025