#Eldnar Ronwel

[tryingtimi]

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Too Old For My Hometown

Air by BamBam. It's a bop, but I actually sneaked in another song for this snippet. Which is more fitting lol. It's HOLO by LeeHi. Also, lmao, this one is from last year. Anyway, it's a fun lil experiment for writing a tale that another person tells to others. Enjoy!

MODERN AU | METALSEA AU | FLUFF | ANGST, CUZ A BIT SAD | WC: 1513

Avelyn was that girl to Cronyl.

They met on a chilly spring day when the sun just touched the horizon to dive under. He’s been back in Anore for two weeks, yet he was still an outsider. His job didn’t change much, in fact, it lessened. In the city, he needed many sleepless nights to keep up with work. Here, however, he could have a sleeping break at lunch if he wanted to.

It should have been peaceful.

He should have enjoyed a little bit less after having such a busy life for years.

Still, he didn’t.

For Cronyl it wasn’t appealing how friendly the neighbours were. He didn’t like that everyone could know each other by name. He did not crave the peacefulness of a quiet and seemingly happy village.

Not after a bloody divorce anyway.

And so he remained the ridiculous lone wolf he always was, never chit-chatting, never blending. Helping out wherever he could nevertheless, despite his distaste of the place.

Because he liked the village as an environment.

The quietness and simplicity might not have been what he sought — considering how he would have drowned himself in work rather than thinking about Syonehlia — but the view, well, that was decent.

So, he walked home from work on the usual pathway — sunflower fields framing both sides, the lively people still far away. The wind cooled down the early spring’s heat, so Cronyl could stroll the way he preferred to do it; briefcase and jacket draped over his shoulder, hanging from his fingers, shirt’s sleeves rolled up leisurely. He was tired, though not the satisfying kind you feel after a busy day full of accomplishments. It was more what you would call numbness, if anything.

Cronyl closed one of his eyes when the sun decided to give them a proper showdown of sunshine as a slow goodbye.

He kept his stare at the sky, nevertheless.

It was a little thing he started when he moved back, and that still gave him some kind of comfort.

Sure, it was his hobby, if you will. And the very thing that almost cost his life. (Yes, baby. I’m overexaggerating for dramatic effect.)

Cronyl could faintly hear the rattling of the old bicycle which raced down from the nearby hill every day. Yet, he only noticed how loud it became, when a moderately high-pitched squeak squeezed out of the mess of blonde locks, as she collided with him.

Avelyn gifted a bouquet of bruises and two cracked ribs to Cronyl on their first meeting.

He always says he can still smell the frowzy dandelions that spread in the nursing room. You see, Anore was so small, that they had no proper hospital, only a rural nursing building. Which seemed to be enough most of the time, and this time wasn’t an exception either.

Cronyl still needed to stay in, which definitely dragged some grumbling out of him.

She visited from the first day.

Avelyn — as it turned out — was one of the neighbours’ daughters; a local since birth. She wore the gentle smile of the anorean, farmed so diligently as his father, and cooked so deliciously as her mother. Which she showed Cronyl as well when she brought him soup as an apology.

Avelyn didn’t leave without a scratch either. A scraped knee and some aching parts of her body weren’t as important in her eyes as Cronyl’s injuries.

She didn’t say a thing when she entered the room, only looked around and when she found a chair, she pulled beside Cronyl’s bed. Her eyes searched for his, serious and determined. Then, when her gaze met his cocked eyebrow, her features turned sheepish, a lovely shade of red dancing across her cheeks. (Mhm, I saw it, I was there.)

She came the next, the one after and every day again, until Cronyl was eventually released.

He didn’t know where to put her. Cronyl was not someone used to such care from strangers. It made no sense why she kept visiting him after he made clear it was nothing. She seemed shy, yet chatted with him as if he was a close friend. Amusement was what she brought to Cronyl, something he didn’t really think he would find in here. He quite literally awaited her arrival at the end.

She asked him out the day she walked him from the building.

Rejection isn’t something that usually follows this, right? Spring blossomed on the cherry trees around them, but the doom-and-gloom wasn’t over yet. The numbness I mentioned, remember? A divorce is a tricky thing to get over if you can at all. It’s a transition from being with someone every minute to coming back to your hometown, alone. It leaves you with the feeling as if something was missing, even though everything you had was with you. Makes you numb for a time, too.

This is why, Cronyl did not go out with Avelyn.

He’d always been a strong-headed nitwit, and it wasn’t Anore, his hometown that would make him change. Or so he thought. Standing beside the awkwardly smiling Avelyn, he only seemed to think that they weren’t teenagers anymore to start off like that. As if he was way too old for this little friendly town, where life was as simple as falling in love.

“Oh god, don’t look at me like that. I’d rather you just be angry than do the whole disappointed face,” was what he said to my reaction to the confession. As if being angry at him would have changed anything. Just like I said, strong-headed nitwit.

Life had so much more stored for them, though. Bumping to each other every corner even if they didn’t try to meet, living beside one another, never escaping the parents’ favours from Cronyl to come to them and help out. You’d think it was embarrassing for them.

And oh how wrong you would have been then.

Despite everything, Avelyn never treated Cronyl differently than before. She brought him lunch whenever he helped out on the fields, joked about their frequent accidental meetings, and kept being shy about how much she loved her kindergarten job. She asked and listened like no one in this little community. Cronyl, in return, grew a meadow of respect for her in his chest. Never too close, never too approachable, they became friends. His first friend, since he moved back.

The lengthening peach days of spring didn’t seem to go by as fast when they met. His walk home was accompanied by the quiet rattling of the bicycle as she joined to the daily routine. Cronyl still didn’t enjoy the lessened work and the all-time happy people. But, his numbness began to falter.

It took a year for him to realise that she must have been the cause of it.

A year, which after Avelyn seemed to leave work way too early. His routine turned to peeking inside the kindergarten after leaving his tiny, flat-roofed workplace, so he could notice it before everything. Smiling at his worry when he mentioned the change, Avelyn told him she’d tell him only when his numbness faded away completely. Because even then, Cronyl clearly lived a life among the greying clouds, sheltered from the bursting yellow fields.

Most moments come to us unnoticed. Good or bad, happy or sad, the most memorable parts of our lives can build up without us being aware of it. Inch by inch, it piles, until we stop and look at it. But we can only see the result.

That was exactly how Cronyl felt when after another half a year, he faced two things.

Firstly, Avelyn called in sick more times than she went to meet with the children. They met more and more along the way to the nursing building. She slowed, however much she smiled. Their time didn’t thin away, yet it was clear to him that she forced herself sometimes. He might have been dense, but he wasn’t stupid. His time was waning by the minute.

Secondly, Cronyl couldn’t remember how it felt to be numb anymore.

It surprised him so deeply, that he left work way, way too early. Even though I only heard about this from others, he actually went grocery shopping right after that. Some said he was more in a rush than a summer rain on a peaceful night.

Cronyl couldn’t hide his soft heaving when he just caught Avelyn leaving the nursing building. They almost bumped into each other, like they did so many times in the early morning market. Soup in his hand, a bicycle bell in the other, he stood before her, silent. The scent of dandelions danced them around, Avelyn’s bright face open with a question Cronyl answered the moment after.

And that, my darlings, is how your dad met your mother.

#Project Metalsea #Cronyl Eldenwere #Avelyn Dione #Syonehlia Dione #Eldnar Ronwel #yep uncle Eldnar tells the tale to Cronyl and Avelyn's kids #idk how it turned out but i like th beginning lol #and it was a fun exercise to find Eldnar's voice too #Modern AU

[tryingtimi]

Picrew OC Portraits

Thank you for the tags @bloodlessheirbyjacques and @writingonesdreams! After Jacques helped me out how picrew works, I totally lost myself in creating these guys so ugh. I’ll def post more things made in picrews, because I did a lot already.

Anyway, I’ll post the Metalsea cast for now because I can’t include all of it here lol. (My love also suggested me to tag you @writingonesdreams anyway because you might like them, so :D)

From left to right: Darmon Strotagor, Syonehlia Dione, Avelyn Dione

From left to right: Izohr, Drehana (hey, love ;)), Eldnar Ronwel.

For Eldnar I used a different picrew to catch his vibe more accurately. Also, our main boy, Cronyl Eldenwer gets two portaits, because he usually wears an eye patch, but I wanted one where his hidden eye is visible too, so, heh, yeah.

And Bra’aka is missing again because there’s no picrew where I can make him with his lion-dragon features sigh.

Either way, I’m tagging some lovely people to do this if they want to: @jess-p-edits, @approximately20blorbos, @aschlindartroom (I’ll tag you later for the IQRUS team legend), @aalinaaaaaa, @friendlyneighborhood-writer, @the-void-writes.

#yeah my ‘elves’ has facial hair #also yes Darmon’s other eye has a different colour #it’s supposed to be crystal anyway #these things are too much fun #writing community #OC portraits #Metalsea characters #Project Metalsea #Darmon Strotagor #Avelyn Dione #Cronyl Eldenwer #Eldnar Ronwel #Izohr #Syonehlia Dione #Drehana #Metalsea picrew

[tryingtimi]

Happy Blorbo Blursday Timi! Which of your characters have the weirdest hobbies?

Hey, Laurie, sweetest! 🧡 Thank you for the question! You got me with this one tho heh. I'm not sure whether these are weird or not so, you decide hehe. Depends on which culture they came from, I guess. Anyway, I'll list all of them and I'll also go with the Metalsea cast.

Cronyl and his "rubik's cube"

Cronyl has, for example, a hobby – or sometimes a coping mechanism, that contains a metal "rubik's cube" basically. Its similar to a rubik's cube in mechanics, not appearance; there are no different colours on it. Either way, Cronyl has that cube in his bag all the time, because that was the tool which helped him to learn how the Metalsea works. From the outside, the cube looks completely plain metal, even though, it's still strange because its' surface always waves just a tiny bit. When you look at it with Cronyl's eyes however, you'll see the inside of the cube that's basically built from little metal pieces that search for their pairs (think of puzzles). So, Cronyl's hobby is messing with this cube, while he also started to occupy himself with it when he's frustrated.

Bra'aka and his animal grooming

There's nothing more peaceful and stress-easing for him, then a good ol' grooming. He usually loves to be around animals and take care of them. His not much of a trainer, though.

Darmon and his glass jewelry collection

He collects glass pieces. Various kinds, from translucent through coloured to patterned. His favorite is the wavy patterned kind. When he collected enough, he’ll work on piecing them together and making jewelry from it. It’s something that he rarely does, but never stops completely. His parents had a jewelry shop back in the day when he was young and still among his people, and this is the only thing that he did not forget from that time. (tagging @bloodlessheirbyjacques because Darmon)

Avelyn and her scattered book pages

She lives in a monostery that has an enormous, ancient library with countless books. So it's not rare to find page pieces on the ground, ripped out or accidentally teared from the very old books. Never whole pages, though. And Avelyn loves to collect these pieces. There are a lot of kind of books in the library, even poems and fictions too (even though those are hidden, but she could find some) She's really into the mystery of what the whole page and the book could have contained which the pieces were ripped out from. Sometimes, she tries to piece the various ones together to have something new created. But she mostly just enjoys the intrigue of those half sentences or pharagraps.

Nareethi and her trinkets

She's endlessly curious, so she loves new things very much. That's why she also loves trading.She needs some new things to have in her bag all the time. She's not a hoarded though, because she only keeps the trinkets with her so long as they are new and interesting to her. She study them, messes with them, until she completely understands them or just thoroughly knows them. Then she trades them to someone. But not for money though. Only for other new things.

Syonehlia and her martial art training

She's a noble, so she shouldn't have learn these things, but she still does it in secret. She loves the rush of a fighting session and the fact she can defend herself and others if she masters this skill.

Drehana and her braiding

She used to braid the animal's mane she tamed for her employees (the royal family). She accustomed to do it and soon realized she loves to do it. She's that kind of a person who masters whatever things she dabbled in. Which means, she learned to do very complex braids, so the local children usually goes to her to have a hair they can show off. Bra'aka and Eldnar will love her skills and will be down to request some braiding from her in the very moment they learn this info about her.

Eldnar and his earring collection

He's a fan of earrings and piercings. He likes to collect at least one kind from every place he went to. He'll love Darmon's jewelries too and would love to bully him into making him a specific one. But Darmon will gift him one anyway, so there's no need for bullying.

#blorbo blursday #Project Metalsea #Darmon Strotagor #Cronyl Eldenwer #Avelyn Dione #Syonehlia Dione #Eldnar Ronwel #Nareethi #Drehana #Bra'aka

[tryingtimi]

Wait wait wait, Metalsea has LOADS OF BROMANCE? Where where where? What characters? Pls tell me more 🙏 @writingonesdreams

I'm SO happy you're this excited about it!!! ♡

The main bromance will be going between Darmon and Cronyl, since they are kind of the mainest main characters too, but they won't know each other until the first quarter of the story, so :D. They also won't start on very good terms, but that's just how they start most friendship/relationship. They're gonna be mostly frenemies until the last quarter of the story. However, what brings them together is that they have the same issues, emotional and mental hardships, therefore they're the only ones from the group who can truly understand what's the other one is going through. They'll also push each other forward in a way that Cronyl is basically Darmon's moral ideal, while Darmon is Cronyl's social ideal. They're the kind of friends whom sit beside each other when one of them is feeling down and stay in slience through the whole time.

The another important bromance will be between Cronyl and Bra'aka. They have a bit of an age difference, because Cronyl is a kind of 22-23 years old diradlin, but Bra'aka is at least a ten years older draar, which is not confirmed tho since the draar age a little differently. Either way, they're gonna stumble upon each other after a turning event in the beginning and will team up, even though they're gonna have a lot of differences (who doesn't have that with Cronyl lmao). Their personality is on of them. Cronyl is a very closed off person because of his heavy past and the fact that he wants to stay alone, while Bra'aka is more goofy and open, who always needs people around him. Both of them having a bad experience with the driadlin gonna make them bond over this, and then the fact that they both want to end the pointless racism and rivalry between their nations. They're gonna bicker verbally a lot and the only reason they don't fight is because Cronyl has issues with that. Despite their goals aligning their friendship definitely involves friendly rivalry and brutal honesty. These appeal them the best in each other. Finally someone isn't afraid of them, nor judging them. Bra'aka will help Cronyl to open up to him and in general to others, so he's gonna be basically the reason why Cronyl and his love interest get together. (Bra'aka is also gonna be veeery close with Cronyl's love interest first, they're best friends too lol.)

There also some side bromance between Darmon and a driadlin named Eldnar. Eldnar is a very easy-going personality, who was captured by Darmon, so when Darmon frees him and the others who inprisoned, Eldnar is the first one to start talking to him. Eldnar is one of the reason why Darmon start to think about differently of the new folk. And Darmon is one of those rare people who Eldnar can't make emembarrased with his direct and cheeky comments. His basically the joker character, but I plan to give him some more depth than that. Darmon also can make him upset with some comments on the driadlin at the beginning, so he also help Darmon to get himself together and pay attention to what he says, how his thinking and attitude still wanders back to the time when he was with the villain. So, esentially, Eldnar helps Darmon to adjust himself into their society, while Eldnar will get some self-esteen boost from Darmon, because he will be the first one who noticed that the driadlin has this issue.

Then, what comes into my mind too is a not necessarily bromance, but a future-son-and-father-in-law-mance (?) between Darmon and Litan. Litan is Darmon's love interst's dad, who he meets in the prison, when both of them gets captured. It's a fun little dynamic, because they are having a little different world view, but at this point of the story, they both want to learn how to act and understand the people around them properly. They also gonna talk about Syonehlia, who's the love interest and the daughter too, but they will never say the name of her, so they're gonna have no clue it's the same person. Nevertheless, they will still convince the other one about something important towards their relationship with Syon.

I think this is it yet, but more can form as I go forward with the story. Darmon and Eldnar is a little half-baked yet, but this is kind of the base idea of their friendship.

Thank you for your question and interest, dear!! ❤️🥺

#Project Metalsea #Metalsea bromances #writing community #writeblr #Cronyl Eldenwere #Darmon Strotagor #Eldnar Ronwel #Litan Dione #writingonesdreams #i also really love the sisters from Metalsea #and the friendships between some of the female characters #but they need work too

[tryingtimi]

Artflow AI Generated OC Portraits

Thank you for the tag @bloodlessheirbyjacques! ❤️

It took me a whole lot of time to get these and they still barely match with their image in my head, but oh well. We work with what we have. The vibes are kinda right at least.

Metalsea cast by the way (without Bra'aka because I'm just not brave enough to try to describe him to this AI):

[From left to right: Izohr | Troghrun | Darmon Strotagor ]

[From left to right: Eldnar Ronwel | Cronyl Eldenwer | Syonehlia Dione | Avelyn Dione ]

Eldnar supposed to have pointy ears too lmao, but the generator did not wanted to give me one usable photo with that. Also, the eyes are totally different colors than these too, BUT WHATEVER.

It was still fun tho!! :')

No pressure tagging, just saying hi and how are you lovelies? ❤️ I love seeing OC's tho hehe.

@jess-p-edits, @approximately20blorbos, @friendlyneighborhood-writer, @aalinaaaaaa, @aschlindartroom, @cherrybombfangirlwrites

#lmao i forgot to add tags #ai generated oc portrait #artflow #Project Metalsea #Projest Metalsea cast #Darmon Strotagor #Troghrun #Izohr #Eldnar Ronwel #Cronyl Eldenwer #Syonehlia Dione #Avelyn Dione

[tryingtimi]

OC Superlatives Tag Game

Thank you for the tag @jess-p-edits! ❤️❤️ I'll make this for Metalsea because it got a bigger cast.

Most arrogant: Prince-Later-King Urien. I guess this is the perfect spot for royalties. He has a lot of issues which results in him being someone that speaks very highly about himself and has an urge to tell anyone how important he is. While he isn't that much, really.

Most humble: Avelyn for sure. She is a very insecure personality, even though she is the brain and the biggest support of the group. She's very educated, and an actually talented magic user, but she has flaws as everyone else. And growing up in an environment where being flawed or mistaken could have been basically a crime, she do needs to working on her standards towards herself. She also gets surprised when someone compliments her or tells her she did a good job, because she just never thinks about her stuff like that.

Most charming: Eldnar or Nareethi, but for really different reasons. Eldnar is intentionally tries to be charming, taking advantage of his look and easy-going personality. Nareethi however is just naturally a very lovely soul that can be charming for a lot of people.

Most aggressive: I would say Syonehlia, but not really in a physical way. (Even tho, she can be merciless if it's about fighting the enemy.) She's very forward with her words and if she needs to convince someone she won't hold herself back. She's also pretty good at aggressive politics.

Least talkative: Definitely Cronyl. He's a very private person, since he won't give his trust easily. He's cautious and tries to be thoughtful and usually succeeds on this one. People around him learn to stay quite when he has something to say.

Most relatable: It certainly depends on the person who reads it, but for me personally, Avelyn is the one. I also very much hope so I can make her the most relatable character. Because she's the one that chooses a path early in her life that seemes the best choice since her parents and her environment told her it suits her, but she's not sure she fits in. As much as the other character's has a similar "finding their place in the world" story and arc, she's the one that really needs this to find peace within herself. And I think she's the one that will really guide us through the "growing up and finding our places in the world as an adult" phase.

Least relatable: Bra'aka or Darmon. Since Bra'aka is draar (a monster looking person with a very different cultural background) then I think he's already someone who people can't relate that much, while Darmon is just basically an immortal character who lived some thousand years. They're both have very different approaches on morals and interactions than we have.

Most ambitious: I would say Cronyl. He may be a ball of emotional trauma, but he will do anything to change the world for the better. And he already does that from the start.

Most easy-going: Eldnar, as I've mentioned earlier. He is a fun side character who likes to make the others around him feel comfortable. Jokes and stuff may hide a little more however.

Most high-strung: Nareethi for sure. She's an emotional roller coaster in one person. If something goes down, she may start to even shake a little bit, but that doesn't mean she will freeze. She still can and will participate in solving problems.

Most pretentious: Prince-Later-King Urien, absolutely. He's very sure about what he's doing, even though everyone is againts it. With a good reason.

Most cheerful: Nareethi. She's just a ball of sunshine most of the time and is very optimistic. She's also the most talkative person of the group, so she's always talking about something nonsense, that can cheer up someone.

Most patient: In a world where everyone always fighting and running towards the wall head first, Avelyn is literally a savior sometimes. She grows into such an understanding person who can prevent disasters time to time.

Most diligent: Oh, a lot of them. Avelyn, Cronyl, Darmon, Bra'aka.

This was so much fun!!

Tagging: @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @aschlindartroom, @cherrybombfangirlwrites, @friendlyneighborhood-writer, @approximately20blorbos

#OC Superlatives #it's 34 or 37 °C here all week and my mind a mush #so i'm pretty sure i've wrote something that isn't right #but whatever really #fun is fun #Avelyn Dione #Cronyl Eldenwer #Darmon Strotagor #Syonehlia Dione #Urien Eval #Bra'aka #Nareethi #Eldnar Ronwel #Metalsea cast #Project Metalsea