Call Me Out Post, 2023

[showtoon]

Pick a character from any section of my muselist you'd like to thread with, and leave a comment here "calling them out" by letting me know what you'd like to play with them. If you have no ideas but want to play certain cr, we can work something out in the comments!

Also, please let me know through a dm or over plurk if you start a thread here, as I will not get a notification for any top-levels!

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[goopidea]

That makes both of us. Help with what?

[glamorphous]

So help me titan, if you gloat about this, I will make all of your dreadful abomatons spell out 'Alador is a hack' on your front lawn but

do teenagers require a set bedtime? I cannot remember.

[goopidea]

Why?

I mean, my kids do have a curfew, although for the longest time that was only needed for Edric and Emira. They were also sometimes sent to bed if they were seen up very late. But all of that was never my idea.

Is this about the former Golden Guard?

[He seems like a good kid, this is a positive development he's been vaguely aware of... But Titan help Alador if he can remember the boy's name right now.]

[glamorphous]

His name is Hunter.

[It's important, Darius thinks, that the child is referred to by his name; any name; anything but the twisted rank Belos had put on him when he was far too young to be thinking of such matters. Not that his name was completely free from Belos's influence either, but still, on the whole, a slightly less tainted thing.

Probably.

Truly, sometimes Darius wonders what he had been thinking when he had, slightly impulsively, invited the boy into his home. It hadn't necessarily been his intention walking into the room. It's just... he had been standing there far too alone.]

You may have noticed that despite my best efforts, he still looks as haggard as your reflection. He needs more sleep. But I don't know how much is enough.

[goopidea]

[Rude but also, why is he helping to begin with? Hunter - like all of Amity's friends - deserves a happy remainder of childhood, with a good upbringing. Alador just wonders how desperate anyone, even if they weren't Darius, would have to be to ask him for advice on parenting?]

You know, stress makes it hard to sleep. Especially for teenagers who are used to overworking themselves. I know that for Mittens

[Wait no, Amity probably wouldn't want him to share personal stories, huh? Absolutely fair and understandable, really-- See, why ask him for help being a dad?]

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say Hunter might benefit from dealing with some of those things than having a set bedtime, although it couldn't hurt to try both, I think.

[glamorphous]

[Unfortunately, Darius' cycle of parent friends is very small. As it turns out, years spent getting to the top of the old coven system hadn't resulted in him being surrounded by many (any) family people.

Well, there were the Owl Lady and Raine, but frankly, Darius already has to deal with their constant, unsubtle flirting throughout the work day and short of Belos actually returning, he's not interrupting them after hours. Some might think he is being polite, but actually, he just doesn't want the headache.]

He has a horrible habit of insisting he is fine even when he clearly is not. I'm not sure how to get through to him and make him understand that he needn't earn his right to exist anymore.

[goopidea]

I'm afraid I don't know how to get through to a child on that front, either.

[Amity has made (and continues to make, thankfully) improvements in the whole "self-worth" department, but Alador wouldn't say he's play a part in that yet. There were others who did. Not to mention that Alador can only assume Emira and Edric handled all the pressure because they always had one another. The thing is... That shouldn't be left up to the other children.]

I hate to say it, but I was not really raising my kids until recently. Someone else took the reigns there for most of their lives, thus far.

[It's as much a reference to the positive influence of Luz and the rest as it is the closest he wants to bring up Odalia, on the negative side of things.]

I don't know if I know any better than you in this area... So you can at least take some comfort in my saying that.

[He doesn't want to start things up, bring the bitterness between them to the forefront, but he types that almost as a defense mechanism, or at least, a reaction to having other old wounds picked out however unintentionally.]

[glamorphous]

Despite that, they still talk to you. So there must have been something to your efforts.

[It's blunt and not entirely nice, but also, perhaps, a compliment of sorts. And if Alador chooses to read it in that manner, Darius supposes he wouldn't be entirely against the interpretation. Alador clearly hadn't been a great parent (or abomination specialist or person) during his marriage to Odalia, but he hadn't been the worst.]

[goopidea]

[There is a long delay ahead of the next response...]

I have a lot to learn, and I'm putting in that effort now. Whatever I learn that might help you, I'll share.

[...And a longer one still before the one after.]

It would mean a lot to me if you could do the same.

[glamorphous]

[The delay is long enough that Darius has already dismissed his scroll, and gone to make some tea for himself. He isn't even certain if it is a response to what he said; Alador may have just wandered off, brain occupied by one thing or another. He'd always been like that.

So Darius' response is also a bit long in the coming because he absolutely categorically refuses to rush the slow process of preparing and slowly steeping his tea. He's not some savage.]

For what its worth, sewing lessons seem to help. Any sort of shared interest, I suspect. Perhaps ask your youngest about wolves. From what Hunter has told me, they seem to be the best thing about the Human realm.

[goopidea]

Oh I thought maybe you left.

Shared interests, though... Thank you. I know it's helped me connect to Amity already. It's been so long since I gave enough thought to anything but work, but now that I'm not doing anything Blight Industries, I can work on that.