#cassimir malconaire

[forgotteneithne]

the mysteriously missing sword of malconaire

just going ahead and putting those comments in their own post (and secretly hoping someone who is better than naming swords than me will think up a good name for lord m's sword!) (and i also just like alliteration ;)

phabblebabbles @forgottenarthur @forgottenbrigit ope sorry now i'm off on another tangent because thinking 1) did lord m have an ancestral sword and 2) did he take it to battle and 3) DOES CASSIMIR HAVE IT NOW or 4) did cillian hide it somewhere after the battle of malconaire?!

lizzydobbs @phabblebabbles @forgottenarthur omg!!! you know lord m has an ancestral sword that he took to battle and died with and honestly I can see it going either way??? ooohh maybe cassimir has it (or thinks he does) but cillian has since taken it from him and cassimir won't notice that it is missing until he goes to use it and it's not there

forgottenarthur @lizzydobbs @phabblebabbles THE ANCESTRAL MALCONAIRE BLADE STOPPP IM SOBBING (i looove swords you guys i love them 'an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age,' as obi-wan says etc <3) but also!! im honestly thinking now that cillian probs ~did take lord m's sword when he died and he probs (secretly) presented it to eithne as the one true heiress of malconaire and IM CREY picturing that ngl but yeah whether cassimir discovered it afterwards? idk?

forgottenarthur @lizzydobbs 'or thinks he does!!!' oooooh omg maybe cillian also had a forgery made by the local blacksmith (im sure he'd be friends w that person and perhaps they kept the secret or whatever? and/or cillian told the smith that the forgery was for eithne to remember her dad by if he didn't trust the smith to keep the secret hahaha) for cassimir and valentina to 'find' on the battlefield bc im sure the sword is an important symbol of the possessor's right to rule etc

so for SURE cillian found that sword considering he was w/ lord m when he died! i love that he wanted to give it to eithne <3 guessing when they all got back to malconaire valentina was like -yoink!- that's a sword for the heir, my precious son, as you can see by this very legitimate and not at all fake signature on this document!

BUT ALSO love the idea that cillian has since -yoinked!- that sword right back and has it hidden somewhere! (i'm sure aoife would try to hide it under the floor boards if she could!) i cant imagine cassimir drags it out much? (i'm sure he has his own swords he prefers-- plus it was with the man he had a complex relationship when said man died?!)

#ooc #cillian frost #valentina malconaire #cassimir malconaire #eithne malconaire #brigit malconaire #aoife malconaire #roisin malconaire

[forgottenroisin]

OOC | Malconaires (OG & Step)

hi, guys! here's smth absolutely no one asked for! heehee so, since we've been talking heraldry (my fav subject! alksjdfklsjdf) i wondered if anyone had any thoughts on the malconaires' heraldic devices etc? both re: the og malconaires AND valentina's formerly-royal birth fam?

i know that kate the great had mentioned asp that she envisions eithne in cool colors and esp greens? in heraldry, green is emblematic of hope, joy, and loyalty in love all of which feels v them to me! honestly, i also associate them w green a lot, too, bc they give lotsa plant and nature symbolism for me <3 but im open to any/everything!! i just thought that might be a place to start talking abt it if we're interested heehee

for valentina's fam...i tend to associate both val and cassimir w black just bc i think they both dress that way a lot hahaha (in heraldry that stands for constancy or grief which alsjdfkjsf but anyway) but yeah obv this is also just a jumping-off point for chatting abt it there're endless possibilities!

yknow what...imma put a list here of colors and their heraldic meanings for us:

TINCTURES

or (yellow/gold): generosity and elevation of the mind

argent (white/silver): peace and sincerity

gules (red): warrior or martyr; military strength and magnanimity

azure (blue): truth and loyalty

vert (green): hope, joy, and loyalty in love

sable (black): constancy or grief

pupure (purple): royal majesty, sovereignty, and justice

tawny/tenné (orange/brown): worthy ambition

sanguine/murray (maroon): patience in battle, and yet victorious

furs (ermines, erminois, vair, counter vair, pean, potentnt counter potent): dignity

DIFFERENCES/MARKS OF CADENCY (often used to delineate cadet branches so this probs allies to valentina and her brood but pls note that these symbols do not ~always indicate these things mostly only do so when used in conjuction w another charge -- for example if we take, say, house lannister from asoiaf, a lion w a crescent [usually placed almost like an asterisk or a period] would indicate that person is either themselves the second son or descended from a second son from house lannister -- tho the way grrm tends to handle this is the other way of doing it which is switching colors and things like that similar to what we did w house varmont so!! lots of possibilities but here's another way to do it if we want)

label: eldest son

crescent: second son

mullet: third son

marlet: fourth son

annulet: fifth son

fleur-de-lis: sixth son

rose: seventh son

cross moline: eighth son

double quatrefoil: ninth son

imma add a pic of these for reference since the meaning of these is somewhat obscure for a number of them (and it even shows how to do branches ~within cadet houses which could also be valuable for valentina and her kids alksjdfkjsdf):

i also have a v extensive list of charges and their meanings but its sooooo long i think id have to publish that as its own document hahaha or else i can just list possibilities if we choose a category (ex: birds, trees), if you like!

#ooc #valentina malconaire #cassimir malconaire #sonya malconaire #eithne malconaire #brigit malconaire #aoife malconaire #about

[forgottenvalentina]

ok so, based on lizzy's idea of black w snakes, and paired w the fact that valentina's only v distantly related to royalty, this is a mockup i did for valentina's og crest! i went w sable/argent/vert/tawny as the primary color scheme (and am only just now putting together that i think i was really channeling house slytherin but whtever i stand by that we all know valentina'd be a slytherin lsdkfjklsdfkljsdf ANYWAY!! im thinking that the ram/serpent motif is the og royal one but the moline cross and crescent showcase that valentina is descended from the eighth son of a prince who was, himself, descended from the second son of a king soooo yeah, not exactly next in line till roderick decided to change all of that ;DDDD

Serpent: Wisdom, knowledge, defiance; fertility and renewal; medicine

Ram: Authority & leadership; strength, perseverence

Goat: Political ability, diplomat/diplomacy, practical wisdom; persistence and strength

Sable (black): Constancy or grief

Vert (green): Hope, joy, and loyalty in love

Argent (silver/white): Peace & sincerity

Tawny or Tenné (orange/brown): Worthy ambition

Crown: Heaven; victory, sovereignty, empire; success

Crescent: One who has been honored by the sovereign; hope/ hope of greater glory; service in holy war/House of the second son

Cross/Moline Cross: Service in holy war; faith/House of the eighth son (or, as used in conjunction with the crescent, house of an eighth son from the line of a second son)

Ermine or Fur: Dignity

ANYWAYYYY, when she got married that got adapted, and since she was of royal blood, her kids get to wear the crests of both their parents, perhaps smth...like...this...?

literally just used the first vaguely nautical sigil (since its the riverbend) w the default colors as an example to represent what their dad's sigil might've been, but yeah since their mom, being of royal blood, technically outranks their dad, they would have been permitted to slice their arms to use the sinister (no, really, that's just the word for 'left' in latin -- romans had weird supersticions abt the left and that's why sinister means what it means to us but, anyway, its what the mother's side is called when you get to use that and, obv, it therefore appears on the left -- as assigned from the pov of the person carrying the shield which pov i forgot when i initially made this which is why the words are backwards bc i flipped it since they later changed which side is sinister and which is dexter [right/paternal] lkasdjflkjsdflkj)

so yeah!! that's a mock up and i wondered what you thought? i def think the dad's side needs some work (im actually thinking, personally, that a portcullis could be cool esp bc its symbolic meaning is 'protection in an emergency' and that's precisely what valentina failed to give them aklsjdfkldsjfsdf annnd its what cassimir is sort of promising to eithne so yeah idk thought it had ~meaning but yeah anywayyy alksjdflkjsdf)

anyway!! smth along these lines would've been the family sigil that valentina and her kids would've been entitled to wear from the day of her marriage, so yeah! when valentina married lord m, the stepkids might've either quartered their arms (dad/val/mal/val probs), or they perhaps might've just left it as the above? once they were adopted (or 'adopted' ;D), the stepkids would've been entitlted to wear the malconaire arms. after her marriage, valentina probs took to using a val/malconaire split herself, but whatever her kids wanted to do would be their own call once they're formally entitled to use any arms they want etc. they could also potentially rest a crown over whatever their dad's sigil was to mark that they, themselves, are of royal blood, and valentina would defff encourage this and even more so after the rest of the royal line is wiped out laksjdfkljdsf

(also just realized i used a mullet instead of a moline in the second mockup, so just imagine that's a moline cross not a star on the cresent in the second one laksdjfklsdjafkljsdf this is why i really shouldn't try to do anything after a tag sale day hahaha)

anyway gonna respond to the overarching thing soon but when you set the challenge of 'like valles but not' i was like 'that sounds like fun!!' hahahaha (tho also lowkey hc'ing that they're related to the valles somehow -- we know the ~mega bad news came from house karr anyway soooo i think it works ;DDD)

#ooc #about #cassimir malconaire #sonya malconaire #fun fact lizzy our grandfather's crest was a black goat (w a red rose in his mouth) so that's ~our sinister crest and its meaning alksjflkj #do you think the goat or ram fits this fam better btw? i kept going back and forth so i featured both meanings...and that sigil could work #*for either so i told myself it was fine heehee #image

[lizzydobbs]

lfr heightlines:

gentlemen:

6'2: Cassimir Malconaire, Eoin Varmont

6'1: Alister Grey

6'0: Godfrey Calanion, Percy Reaves, Alaric Varmont, Arthur Varmont

5'11: Tristan Calanion, Cillian Frost, Aleksander Royce, Sebastian Varmont

5'10: Bartholomew Varmont, Roderick Varmont, Edmund Varmont

ladies:

5'10: Aoife Malconaire, Valentina Malconaire

5'8: Ciara Varmont, Cassandra Varmont

5'7: Aria Stafford, Amira Varmont

5'6: Sonya Malconaire, Guinevere Varmont

5'5: Eilionora Stafford, Marian Varmont

5'4: Cecily Hamlen, Brigit Malconaire, Rose Malconaire

5'2: Eithne Malconaire

~ roderick being among the shortest men is v amusing ngl / all his sons being the same height or taller is a vibe ~

#the long forgotten realm #brigit malconaire #rose malconaire #eithne malconaire #aoife malconaire #alistair grey #eoin varmont #ciara varmont #godfrey calanion #tristan calanion #cillian frost #valentina malconaire #cassimir malconaire #sonya malconaire #percy reaves #aleksander royce #eilionora stafford #aria stafford #bartholomew varmont #roderick varmont #alaric varmont #guinevere varmont #amira varmont #edmund varmont #arthur varmont #cassandra varmont

[forgottenarthur]

“ why did you come? ” (arthur x cassimir)

Arthur smiled, a grim look. "To see you." He tilted his head, eyes glittering with strange light, well aware this was not the statement Cassimir had been expecting.

Evening encroached, and Cassimir's study was darkening by the moment, the room lit by a few flickering candles that seemed to quail before the massing shadows of leafless trees from outside the lead-paned windows.

"News of your betrothal has reached me," he continued, shutting the study door behind him and, uninvited, moving towards the window.

In spring, Arthur knew, the room boasted a vantage of such green, it seemed the very emblem of House Malconaire. Now, however, covered all in a bed of white, the trees seemed skeletal, their bared arms reaching, jagged, towards the waning sun as if begging for the return of its light, and Arthur cast an incisive glance back towards Cassimir.

"This is a beautiful place, Cassimir," said Arthur, turning fully to face him. "Wonderful, warm, exceptionally kind and generous to all those who seek repose here." He paused, smiled a smile that did not reach his eyes. "Such a wonder deserves every care and attention one could possibly lavish upon it. Far more, in truth, than I suspect someone like you is capable of giving. Do we understand each other?"

Unsurprisingly, Cassimir did not look pleased, and, in truth, Arthur relished the look.

In truth, though -- Arthur knew well and good -- Eithne deserved far more than he, himself, could ever give her, as well. But he still believed he would have made a better spouse than Cassimir. At least, with him, she might have been an Empress. But it was Cassimir she had chosen and, wound him as it did not only to lose her, but to lose her to a rival he so disregarded, Arthur meant to do one last service.

"I wish to be perfectly clear, Cassimir," said Arthur, stepping closer, his voice turning to a growl. "Whoever may have won the keeping of this place, I care deeply for it still and I want you to know, I hold you personally accountable for its well being. Should anything at all I mislike befall it, it is me to whom you must answer, and I am in these matters, Cassimir of Malconaire, my father's son. I sometimes forget how to forgive. Understood?"

#dklsjafklfjsdjf #i also do not know what thiS is!!!!! but here we are!!!! #cassimir malconaire #drabble #ask #eithne malconaire

[forgottensaoirse]

OOC | Saoirse & Cassimir

saoirse!!! does not!!! like!!!! you!!!! tbh im not sure just how much she realistically knows abt the malconaire's og situation, but she at least saw them growing up together and probs did not make any v favorable impressions of cassimir or valentina back then, so just based on that alone she aint feeling the love, but if she ~does know that's even worse!!!!

cillian, at a resistance meeting: could we just take a detour and hit the malconaire estate just lng enough to knock off valentina and cassimir?

saoirse: cillian! how could you suggest such a thing? we can't kill them, that'd be--

cillian: i know, i know. wrong.

saoirse: --stupid. roderick would seize the estate w/o a male heir to hold it. what we should aim to do is srsly maim them so they can't do any harm and eithne runs the estate in their name.

cillian: saoirse, you're a genius

everyone else:

everyone else: ANYWAY! back to the varmont situation...

jk jk...sort of ;DDDD but yeah, saoirse isn't really pranky like her brother or anything, but she is probs extremely stern and a lil snarky w him ksldjfkjdslfjklsdf

#cassimir malconaire #ooc

[forgottencillian]

Run Boy Run | Cillian & Cassimir

The day was so far a sunny one, but Cillian's experience told him that was not to last long. The sky was changing, streaming blue bleeding into forboding grey, and -- foreseeing rain in their not-too-distant future -- Cillian began his pre-downpour chores, herding the flock towards shelter, closing the shutters the faced the wrong direction, hauling the furniture that Valentina had had scattered across the yard to impress the princess which were, in fact, priceless antique heirlooms of the House of Malconaire (those which were Valentina's family's, he let lie).

As he heaved closed a gate to keep the sheep from wandering out beneath the trees (a favorite pastime of theirs which, in general, Cillian indulged, but not when threatened with a lightning storm), he spotted a tall, dark figure stalk out into the green. Sighing, Cillian leaned heavily against the top of the fence, watching Cassimir move towards the stables as a delightful notion occurred to him -- fooled by the brilliant sunshine, did the so-called lord (Cillian refused to see him this way, despite the Varmont inheritance laws, instead viewing Eithne as mistress of the estate and Lady Malconaire in her own right) wish to go for a ride? His timing could not possibly have been better.

Grinning, Cillian clamored over the fence, moving quickly towards the stables where he leaned on the door, watching with bemusement as Cassimir strolled deeper inside and Cillian offered up a silent prayer that this was not merely some inspection, but rather a preparation to ride.

"I just brought him in," said Cillian, pushing off the wall and nodding towards Cassimir's horse. "But I think he's eaten enough, if you've need of him?"

#run boy run #comment #cassimir malconaire

[forgottenamira]

OOC | Amira & Cassimir

amira: who??

no, but as i was saying to kate [ in my post to aoife ], im not sure amira knows much abt the malconaires and, unless she knows the princes (including her son!) spend all their free time there, she probs doesn't think much abt them except that they're probs scheming just like everyone else and can't be trusted just like everyone else alksjdflkjsdf she also wouldn't give a flying fig abt all godfrey's plots and schemes to use them she just...doesn't care, doesn't see how others are feeling, doesn't give af, she just wants power. so the most useful any of them could be in her mind is as like blackmail/bargaining chips to maneuver the varmonts.

the thing she ~will notice is when sonya starts maneuvering to pull an amira and get a married man to take her as her bride and then amira will be like 'that's my move, bitch,' and start poisoning her to make sure she doesn't conceive laksdjflkjdsfjkdsf

as soon as she realizes sonya's play, tho (possibly as soon as at the ball that's currently going on? since valentina will likely push sonya at roderick there), amira will start watching ~all the malconaires v closely and sizing them all up as potential rivals and tryna see what she can and can't get from them all, and atp she's more likely to start wanting to stir the pot in their lives and paying attention to who their allies are, etc etc and that's when she'll notice the varmont boys are there a LOT. i think her goal will be to use eithne to distract and manipulate arthur, frankly, (and aoife for sebastian, but that likely won't impact cassimir much).

this will be where cassimir will come in, bc as a rival for eithne's affections, he could prove terribly useful to her in maneuvering arthur where and how she likes. the specifics will probs depend on where things are when she starts paying attention to them and how she wants to move arthur at that given moment, but i think she'll want to at turns advise and thwart cassimir re: his affections to give and remove hope from arthur, galvanize him to action or not, etc. i do think that amira is v manipulative and can pull this off pr much in her sleep hahaha bc she's gotten good at pulling arthur's strings and just...playing the game in general over the years, etc, but i do think she'll decide to take a trip to the estate as soon as things have come together, 'to sample the native delights of our fine empire,' and get herself more closely acquainted w all the various malconaires, and begin manipulating ~them immediately akjlsdfkljdfad

anyway, i def think she'll believe that she can manipulate cassimir pr easily w a few well placed compliments and tips honestly lakjskjlfsdf i think she got good at reading ppl long ago and she'll believe that all he really wants is for someone to underpin his importance and, as a queen, she's in a good position to do that, yknow? so that'll probs more or less be her play at least at first honestly hahaha

#cassimir malconaire #ooc

[forgottengodfrey]

OOC | Godfrey & Cassimir

ok so talk abt a weird mashup lajksdflkjdsf

honestly i feel like godfrey probs frankly thinks that cassimir is accidentally hilarious, and like he'd be super easy to manipulate, but alas he has absolutely nothing that godfrey could ever want hahaha honestly he's probs kinda glad that cassimir seems intent on aligning himself w either guin or arthur, bc godfrey does NOT think this dude is v capable. honestly, he probs underestimates cassimir bc godfrey has a v high opinion of his own capabilities, but yeah he's just like 'dude do you really have so little imagination that literally the v first woman you ever saw was the only one you could think of?' and just sort of wrote him off alkjsdfjkdsf (tbf to cassimir's taste tho, godfrey probs does think eithne is a lovely person [and deserves way better tbqh], but yeah he's not impressed by her would-be beau hahaha)

#cassimir malconaire #ooc

[forgottenronan]

OOC | Ronan & Cassimir

so these two are the same age!!! but have totally different trajectories, despite growing up (at least for awhile) in the same place! obv one's a servant and one's *valentina voice* 'of the blood royal' but even their choices are v different! ronan ran away to be a soldier in the fight to save astaira from roderick and cassimir literally refused to fight when the war came to his own backdoor and i honestly think that's smth for which ronan can never forgive him!!! rationally, idk if cassimir and the vasilieva retainers couldve turned the tide of the battle, but ronan's pet theory is that they could have!!! and they refused!!!! and bc of it lord m and ronan's bestie died and astaira was lost and literally every bad thing that has ever happened in his life happened!!!!!!!!!

i don't think ronan was ever cassimir's ~biggest fan (lol lbr that's def valentina) but i do think ronan wanted to give him a fighting chance and thought that if lord m trusted him, well, that was all ronan needed to know!! being the same age, he was more able to see cassimir as just a kid in a weird af situation and give him the benefit of the doubt and i think he was just like 'this all sucks man' but i think he saw an improvement in him and was like 'wow he's really trying!' and was impressed!!! but then yeah obv everything took a turn (thanks, valentina!) and ronan now hates him and hates that he himself ever gave cassimir a chance tbqh and basically views him as the worst kind of sniveling coward snake traitor kasjdfkljsdjf me: 'calm down ronan' ronan: 'NEVER!'

so yeah!! fun times w farmhands ig!! lskdjafkljsdf i do think that a big part of this is like...its easier to blame someone close at hand and fixate anger on them bc like...cassimir is someone he could conceivably get ahold of and realistically punish today if he really wanted to: he knows everyone cassimir knows, his own brother has access to his bedroom etc etc etc, but he's gonna have to try a lotttttt harder w the varmonts bc they're so powerful etc, and this is a way of sort of telling himself 'its my choice to hold off' not just 'i cant do anything im powerless' so yeah lajksdfkljdf thanks for being that for him, buddy! </3

#cassimir malconaire #ooc

[forgottenbrigit]

Unacceptable | Brigit & Valentina

"She cannot be serious. Am I supposed to wear this the entire evening?"

Brigit still wasn't sure what was so terribly wrong with the plain brown dress she had been wearing (the color hid the mud stains on the hemline well enough, in her opinion), but Valentina had made such a fuss, stating she looked "half wild" and insisted that she change.

"It's only for a few hours," Aofie said, softly, " ... and it is rather lovely color."

It wasn't hideous. Brigit supposed she ought to be thankful for that. It was one of Sonya's old gowns that was a season old, but it had hardly been worn and looked almost new, even if a tad out of style. But Brigit hated it, all the same. It was too constrictive: she felt as though she could hardly move.

"How am I supposed to ready the horses in this? And what if something happens on the road there? I don't think I could nock an arrow, let alone shoot one."

"I don't think you are supposed to do any of those things in that dress, Brigit."

Brigit exhaled, still very much frustrated but ultimately having resigned herself to her fate. She would have faked an illness to avoid this evening all together, if she wouldn't worry so much about her sisters being at this ball without her. The thought of attending a ball held by Roderick Varmont in the palace where the Staffords had ruled for centuries made her angry -- and the fact that she was supposed to pretend to enjoy herself angrier still. But she knew Cassimir would take this opportunity to lavish his attentions upon Eithne; in addition the three Varmont princes would be swarming about all three of her sisters -- and this was not to mention the other men who would come circling.

No, she had to go. But that didn't mean she was especially happy about the idea.

Brigit descended the stairs, following her sister, to meet with the rest of the family who were all gathered in the hall waiting to depart. It had been late enough, already, when Valentina forced Brigit to change (she had fused over the appearance of her own children first, before turning her attention to the other girls), and now they were sure to be late. Brigit supposed she had that to be thankful for: the later they were, the less time they would have to spend there.

She walked directly up to Valentina, "Have I met your approval, step mother?" Brigit almost wished that she would find more fault with her -- anything to delay the evening further.

#the only ooc thing i had to add was that brigit is not gonna let valentina know that she's not a fan of the varmont boys and her sisters #literally just because she would rather die than agree with her ;D #it's clear enough that they both aren't a fan of the eithne and cassimir union they cannot have more in common than that #comment #valentina malconaire #unacceptable

[forgotteneithne]

ooc || eithne & malconaire & i guess some family history?!

not even sure if this is meant to be an ooc thread with anyone or just some rambling of my thoughts that all stem out of me thinking "i need something for eithne beyond being sad and nice and pretty"? anyway, since its relating TO the malconaire estate & i'm realizing as i'm typing sort of the family history, here it is for everyone?!

i realize that i've been operating under the assumption that the Malconaire Estate is comparable to like an english country estate with tenants and farms and even a village of some sort with the family obviously still living in the manor/main house which may not be what the intention was?

but, continuing on the idea of a country estate style life for malconaire, clearly its gone a bit downhill since the war-- i don't know if the battle where lord m died took place ON (or near?) his landholdings but if that's the case then it could be some of the farmlands/tenant rentals/or even the village maybe? were damaged during the battle(s) an obviously valentina has had NO interest in spending her $$$ on estate improvements when she could buy herself nice things!!! but then obviously the estate is not bringing in much (any?!) money currently hence here we are.

anyway re: eithne & her role/relationship with the estate. since we've established she was meant to be her father's heir, she started learning how the estate operated with her father as soon as she was old enough-- probably starting doing things just like checking in on tenants, etc and then moving on to learning about managing the financial side of things and some knowledge about farming (i guess i've just decided they'd farm the lands?!) and really just instilling the idea that they are the caretakers of the land and the people who live there (which since i think we've established the malconaires are an old astairian family definitely harkens back to that idea of the ruling class caring for the citizens who care for the guardians!)

basically it was straight up engrained in eithne that she must carry on the responsibility of caring for malconaire and she was up for the challenge but now with this sus "will" naming cassimir the heir popping up and watching the whole thing get run into the ground of the past two years.. yeah its not great. i think she has some guilt regarding this but she knows that there isn't much she can DO to get control of the estate back (#thanksroderick) so she's been doing the best she can to try and keep some of it together. and while her sisters well being is very important to her and their safety in comfort is a big factor in her decision making for the future, feeling as if she needs to stay and take care of malconaire is a factor as well

if/when @forgottencassimir proposes, its definitely mostly for the good of the estate and all the people who still live there and depend on them for survival! even if the kindest richest most handsome man ever (who somehow has three extra castles for her sisters to live in!) showed up and proposed marriage to her, it would be very hard for her to abandon her family history and obligations to the estate for cassimir & valentina to take. i do think eithne will maybe have some conditions she will make with cassimir before the wedding which probably will ruffle valentina's feathers more than anything? (honestly step one: valentina moves into whatever version of the dowager house exists. step two: valentina gets a modest allowance, haha!) among she wants to re-employ any of the servants valentina has fired (honestly imagining that eithne does what she can to provide for them if they haven't found new jobs or left entirely!) and promote @forgottencillian to the state's steward (which in my mind was her father's plan that never got to happen because again #thanksroderick)

anyway, this is a bunch of rambling and i'm open to adapting anything of course especially regarding to WHAT malconaire estate actually is because this was all just in my head assumption nonsense, haha :)

#ooc #eithne malconaire #brigit malconaire #roisin malconaire #aoife malconaire #cassimir malconaire #sonya malconaire #valentina malconaire #cillian frost

[forgottenroisin]

OOC | Malconaire Names

ok so now that we've got the parents named, i went on a lil [ name meaning ] spree and looked up all our kids! and i love how these all like...fit but in an unexpected way!!

Macdara -- son of oak

Sorcha -- radiant/bright, lady/princess/noblewoman, clear/bright/famous

Eithne — kernel, grain/little fire

Brigit — exulted one

Aoife — beauty/to breathe, to live

Roisin — little rose/little famous type/kind

while im at it...imma hit up the ~vasilieva!malconaires, too!

Valentina -- strong/vigorous/healthy/fertile

Cassimir -- DESTROYER OF WORLDS lkdfjksdaljfjld...anyyyywayyyy (literally it means 'to destroy peace/the world')

Sonya -- little wisdom/little lover of knowledge

i was gonna do a lil chatting/meta abt how this fits rosie but im too laskdjflksdjfkdsf about cassimir's name!!!! valentina whatre you doing alksjdfkljsdf i know she dreamed of having a son her whole life so there's no way she didn't know what his name meant and alksdjflkjsdkfjlsdf ngl i always assumed he was named for some famous king they're like ~vaguely related to or smth like that, but still like alkjsdflkjdsjkfjkdsf OMGGGGGG OBLITERATOR OF PEACE -- its legit like naming ur kid 'ruiner' like someone put this innocent newborn she'd carried for nine months in her arms and she was like 'THIS is the only name for him' laksdjfkljdsjfjkdsf kernal/grain/little fire that's basically like naming ur kid 'hope' like....

HOPE x RUINER = NOTP for her w/ valentina truly be like 'yknow the kid in this pairing whose parents really messed them up???? EITHNE' kaljsdfkljdjslfjkdsf SCREAM

rosie's meta's gonna have to wait...god, i really shoulda put this on @forgottenvalentina -- i didn't knowwwwww until it was too late alksjdfklsdjf

#IM LOSING MY MIND OVER #cassimir malconaire #skdljfakjsldfjkldsf what was #valentina malconaire #THINKING w that one #bc i refuse to believe she didn't know laksdjflkjsdklfjjdsfjsdf #IM LOSING MY MIND #anyway #about #ooc #macdara malconaire #sorcha malconaire #eithne malconaire #brigit malconaire #aoife malconaire #sonya malconaire

[forgottenvalentina]

" how long have i been asleep? " (cassimir x valentina)

"How long have you--!"

Valentina turned stormily towards the window. She'd just prodded him awake with the end of a broom she'd snatched from Eithne in confronting her. The upstart little minx had remained firm. But Valentina was about to hear it refuted.

Whatever happened -- even if he had, indeed, caved in a moment of weakness (men were horrifically weak in such matters, after all, it could surely be forgotten, erased, perhaps in time even...forgiven) -- she would still hear it put to rights, at the very least. Yet, upon being poked awake through his bedsheets, Cassimir hadn't darted up in horror, as she'd somewhat vindictively hoped, he'd grumbled something into his pillow which had nothing whtever to do with the matter which most preoccupied her, a fact which made fury an incandescent glow upon her alabaster face, shining in the dark of his room.

With an exasperated growl, Valentina stormed to the end of the room, ripping the curtains away from the windows to allow brilliant sunshine to pour in. She watched him flinch from the light with some modicum of satisfaction. She hadn't raised him to be a fool, but now he was showing: even her beautiful boy was his father's child. She hurled the broom down upon the floor before marching back to his side.

Exhaling slowly, Valentina knew well she'd need to manage herself in order to best manage him. She strolled forward, seating herself upon his bed, a touch more serene than she'd been mere moments ago. Still, she made no bother to conceal that she was cross. A little of that would do her argument good, she had no doubt.

"A most alarming bit of scuttlebutt has reached my ears." She paused, letting her words soak in. "Is it true that you wish to throw away you entire future?" Valentina leaned forward, cradling her son's face in both her hands. "I want to give you the world. That's all I've ever wanted." Her hands dropped away, she straightened. "But there are others who wish to take everything away from you. My son, you do not know the whiles of women. You are a good person who sees the good in others, even when it is but a shadow of hope -- a callow reflection of your good in another. Nothing more. Do not be taken in."

She paused. "Though I know you could never be so foolish as to be beguiled by so obvious a counterfeit of goodness as that which your eldest stepsister flounts about," she began, coolly arching her brow. "I have nevertheless heard it said that you have promised away all your life and hopes and future to that conniving little slattern. Tell me the truth, my darling, darling boy," she added, placing her hand upon his, eyes and voice turning now to pleading. Tears prick her eyes and she was glad. Let him see what he had done to her. "Tell me this is an awful mistake. Whatever may be, we can still make all things right."

#this really turned more into a ~starter comment sort of thing ig than a true #drabble #but i wasn't sure how he'd react so obv i didnt wanna guess hahahha #but yeah she's like 'you know whose manipulative cassimir???? EITHNE' all while manipulating him and i love that for them </3 alskdjfkljd #ask #cassimir malconaire #eithne malconaire #truly channeling her inner lady catherine de burgh to the max in this interaction honestly lkajsdfkjlsdf

[forgottencassimir]

Unexpected Arrivals | Cassimir & Roderick

It was a miserable day.

The temperatures had risen, so Cassimir supposed he should be glad that they didn't have the bitter cold to deal with, but the rain beat down with unforgiving force, melting much of the snow. The roads had turned into a swampy, muddy mess that were becoming unpassable.

Cassmir was seated comfortably enough near the fire in his step-father's old study when one of his servants entered -- rather flustered -- with a captain wearing the colors of House Varmont.

"Lord Malconaire -- " A quick bow from his servant, "excuse the intrusion -- "

The Captain had little patience for this and sidestepped the servant, to make his own announcement, "His Imperial Majesty, Roderick Varmont the First of His Name, Conquerer of the Twelve Kingdoms, Defender of the Faith, and god's own Champion has bestowed upon you the honor of hosting him and his men, while his carriage is repaired. He shall arrive momentarily. He shall expect to be received in a manner that befits such a guest."

Cassimir sprung into action immediately. He had no particular love for the Varmonts, Roderick included, but he knew the very important role that he and his mother hoped the emperor would play in their plans. Cassimir knew that for Roderick to marry Sonya, he must look favorably upon their family and he was not to allow this sudden development to hinder it.

He dispatched his servant immediately -- everyone must make ready for the emperor's arrival. He knew that even his step-sisters would be needed to help in the preparations (both prior to and during his arrival), so he would need to offer some excuse as to their absences. Besides, he did not want the emperor's eye to be distracted. Sonya was beautiful in her own right, but even Cassimir had to admit that each of his step-sisters possessed a beauty of their own (except, perhaps Brigit. If she had any beauty at all, she did an excellent job of hiding it).

When Roderick and his company did arrive, there was still much work to be done, but Cassimir was pleased as to what had been accomplished in the short notice that he had received. He felt it a testament to his own leadership (but didn't give a second thought to those who had actually performed the work).

"Your Imperial Majesty," Cassimir bowed low. "It is a honor to have you grace our halls. I'm sure you and your men must be hungry. If you would care to follow me, our cooks have prepared a feast."

#comment #roderick varmont #idk what this is #unexpected arrivals

[forgottenedmund]

Unannounced Arrivals | Edmund & Eithne

It was no way for a prince to behave, but somewhere between the palace and the Malconaire estate, those lines seemed to blur. Whatever sense of decorum Edmund had, it diminished the closer he was to their home. It was one of the many appeals of their home: Edmund felt freer here, somehow, and more at peace (even if that was occasionally interrupted by the general presence of both Valentina and Cassimir).

Edmund had challenged his brother for a race — knowing full well Arthur didn’t know the shortcut Edmund had only just discovered. Perhaps this advantage known only to Edmund may count as cheating, but he was of a firm mind that it would do Arthur’s ego good to loose at something athletic to his younger brother.

It was Eithne he saw first and while his main attraction to the Malconaire estate was her younger sister, Rose, Eithne was certainly his next favorite of the sisters (it was clear Brigit loathed him and Aoife was often intimidated -- neither made for exceptional conversationalists). It was a bonus that speaking with Eithne also gave Edmund a chance to tell her any number of embarrassing stories about his brother.

Eithne was out amongst the kitchen gardens (Edmund assumed she must be there on a stroll -- he did not realize she was there surveying the inventory to determine what they might be having for supper).

"I’ve come to tell you, my brother is hot on my heels. If you wish to escape his notice, you have been warned."

He gave her a wink as he dismounted his horse. He knew that Eithne did enjoy his brother's company, regardless of what he said, and while he did get some kicks out of making Arthur seem ridiculous, there would always be a part of him that did want to see him happy -- and who better than Eithne? With all of her down-to-earth sweetness that was such a stark contrast to anything that was to be found for Arthur at court.

#comment #eithne malconaire #unannounced arrivals