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Kaveh ([personal profile] empyrean_mirror) wrote2023-11-05 10:45 pm

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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kaveh no? ]

Now now, my lived experiences are not the topic of conversation here. Best not distract from the issue at hand.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Going to just breathe out a chuckle. ]

Not quite, my friend. 'Tis more of a mention that life makes unexpected twists and turns. As we do not know what the future may or may not hold, it is better to live than to wait.

[ Former best friend. So there had been a falling out... And yet the man behind Kaveh is still. With him? Kaveh is quite. Hmm. Blind. ]
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yet you still gravitate towards one another. You live together and even have went so far as to share a room though such a thing is not needed. He is someone towards which your thoughts drift, at the best of times and at the worst of times.

One's capacity to be hurt by someone is only matched by that person's importance. The question, then, is do you both wish to continue hurting or do you desire healing?
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Individuals, even those that are close, can have contrasting and conflicting views. This is not an issue, truly, if both parties can learn to respect the person and their perspective - if nothing else. It is through empathy and understanding of those perspectives that hearts are able to mend.

People say harsh words that they cannot take back, 'tis true enough. There is little use in making an attempt in doing so or pretending like they were never said at all. Best to own what was said, if only to learn from the experience and grow through it.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, so you do understand on some level. Full glad am I to hear it.

[ There is a quiet hum. Hearing that Kaveh doesn't consider himself to be brave? Well he doesn't quite know about that thus he cannot comment on Kaveh in particular. ]

Most are not. Bravery is the act of facing difficult circumstances without showing fear. It is endurance. However, courage is the ability to face those circumstances despite fear. It is finding strength through the pain.

Mayhap what is needed, then, is not bravery.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
If it were easy, then there would be no need to have "courage" at all.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
I would not go that far. In truth, I was rather content to acknowledge my own "complications." However, I had companions that would not allow the matter, or myself, to rest. Thus I, too, am still learning what it means to live without allowing those "complications" to hinder me.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ G'raha finds himself sputtering for a moment. And then when he speaks again? It really is more like the G'raha that Kaveh has encountered before.

So. Enjoy the bratty lit to his voice. ]


That would be because it is well and truly "complicated."
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ There is a sigh and a bit of silence on his end. Honestly, G'raha excels at dodging these things. But when someone puts it like THAT then that nasty thing like guilt starts to appear. ]

It isn't quite as you say. My own complications have emotional ties to them, yes, but I do mean it is a complicated affair.

After all, I am neither young nor old and yet I am both. I am G'raha Tia, but also not and yet I am still.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-24 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Trapped" is not an accurate statement. More like I created the time anomaly. Or, rather, a portion of who I am presently did.

I have a rather unique inheritance and thought that the best way to avoid being used by others was to seal myself away in a place that only I could access. Yet when the people of the star finally possessed the ability to break into this location, two hundred years had passed. The world was on the brink of collapse, another calamity having taken place shortly after I had put myself in stasis.

Thus the people of the era had a plan: to undo what had been done. The only person that could succeed in this endeavor was myself. We missed our mark by approximately a hundred years, but it gave me adequate time enough to prepare.

When my task was complete and our star saved, my life's candle was expended. Yet my companions elected to carry my soul to the version of myself that still remained in stasis. Thus two became one.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-25 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Here I gave you the condensed version of events. The full tale is far more head spinning, I assure you. There are many things that happened after as well.

[ Another chuckle and a soft smile. ]

I wasn't alone, do not worry so. The people of the Crystarium were a joy to watch over for the nine decades I was with them. They worried over me quite needlessly. I hope that they are doing well even now.
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[personal profile] afflatusexarch 2024-01-25 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Most races of my own star only live approximately eighty to a hundred and ten summers. Viera are the only ones that may live upward to two hundred and forty.

Regardless, this body is twenty and four.

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