Altered Tundra

Let's Gush!

There are a lot of people who come and go from RPs and the guild. Some of them stick around long enough to make an impression so you can maintain off-site contact with them and some don't. This isn't uncommon in forum communities such as The Guild and the like. But once in a blue moon, people come into your life that could be by pure accident that really does make an impression. It could be either they answered an interest check you set up, or you two joined an RP together. Maybe they messaged you at one point to compliment your writing style or just to say hello. Truthfully, it could be all of these things, none, or some little bit of each.

@Dirty Pretty Lies is such a person. She has been with me as both one of my most-common writing partners for the majority of the past 3 years, but also one of my best friends (I've got 4 of them in case you were wondering). And I can say so much about this incredible woman that would likely bring her to tears, so I'll just leave it at this. She is a brilliant writer with a soul that matches her talents. You feel or say what you want about her, but I know her to be one of the best people I know. It's fair to say that I love this woman with all my heart. Our stories that we've written, whether short-lived or not, have been among my favorites.

Here's to many more memories being created!

<3

Iquenos: In Nomine Domini

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• The Eoldysseus - Ifrise Forest, Sovereignty of Dryadalis •

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Names? Now that was something Zestasia had no problem sharing. It made sense, too. If they were going to fight alongside each other, or at least plan for certain battles that required them to rely the person beside them, it would make a lot of sense to be on a first-name basis. Zestasia definitely wasn't against the idea. He thought about how he should state his name. Was he just going to casually state his first name? Or should he build towards it? Say a few things about himself and let them venture a guess just as to what his name could be? He could certainly do all of those things, but was that too much work? At this point, they weren't inclined to have the patience with him. If Pagonia was here, he could sweet-talk them while the younger Calore brother hoped and prayed they would come around to forgiving him for the error of judgment he showed today.

Shrugging, Zestasia opted for the road with least resistance. "You can call me Zestasia, but if that's too long, Zes would work just as well." He offered them a smile. He recalled his master, Anatoli, said smiles light up a room and let people know you mean them no harm. It also was a nice way to show off his pearly whites. One-hundred-percent all Zestasia Calore! No false teeth present.

Shuffle your music player and post the first 10 songs

_{Bridge of Death — Manowar — Hail to England
Breathe — Scary Kids Scaring Kids — Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Guide Me — Eyeshine — Sonosis
Valley Forge — Iced Earth — Glorious Burden
(One of Those) Crazy Girls — Paramore — Paramore
No One Gets Left Behind — Five Finger Death Punch — War is the Answer
Disappear — Bullet For My Valentine — Scream! Aim! Fire!
Julian (I'd Give My Heart) — Within Temptation — The Silent Force
This War is Mine (Clown Remix) — Escape the Fate — This War Is Ours (Deluxe Edition)
Still Searching — Senses Fail — Still Searching}

Palm Beach Royals: Senior Year

<Snipped quote by Altered Tundra>

No one said anything about love. I just tolerate you more than most. ^.^

@HaleyTheRandom

Sounds like love to me~

𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘋𝘶𝘴𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘋𝘢𝘸𝘯 | 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐 // 𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂

“Way to go, Kai. Because of that big mouth of yours, you’ve alienated yourself from the one person who was going to help you find Aira.”

As usual, Kai managed to screw things up. Unlike in the past, Kai could always take a few hours to think about where he went wrong, then later apologized. He did it when he, Aira, and their friends would head to the main section of Twilight Town and do battle with Hayner’s crew and Seifer’s gang of delinquents. They’d get into scuffles and, when Kai would run his big mouth, he’d screw things up - especially when it came to their friend, Exie. They usually clashed and Kai had the tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, which resulted in both boys saying things they didn’t mean. As bad as it was, they had Aira to be the mediator. She always saw the good in everyone and immediately, they would apologize.

It was in moments like these that Kai really missed Aira. She was his conscious. In a lot of ways, she prevented him from actually opening his yapper when it should just stay shut.

“Man, you really screwed up, didn’t you?”

Kai looked around, seeing who said that. After a moment, he saw some man in front of him - a tall man, at that - wearing a black cloak. “Huh?”

“The conversation you had with that girl. You really shouldn’t have said all of those things. And comparing her to that old friend of yours? Talk about oof.” The man, who sounded like a man, at least, let out a low whistle.

Looking at this hooded figure, Kai couldn’t shake it, but there was definitely something about this guy that the blond teen found familiar. The way he spoke and the way it seemed he was so laid-back had given Kai vibes of someone he used to know a long time ago.

Shrugging, Kai tried to ignore the guy by walking forward -but it was obvious the hooded figure wasn’t going to give up that easily. “I mean, you know you were in the wrong, right?”

“Don’t you have someone else to harass?”

“No one here screwed up as much as you did. Plus, I’ve been watching you, Kai.”

And now he had the teen’s attention. “I don’t remember giving you my name,” Kai said, turning around to face him, but the hooded figure was gone. “Wait where did you--”

He was now behind Kai. “You didn’t.”

Kai turned around again and he was goneagain.

“But I do know you, Kai. Just like I know you’re a Keyblade wielder.”

“How did you--”

“Like I said, I’ve been watching you for a while. Now!” The man was now beside Kai. “Go find Cielle. Apologize to her and make amends.”

“How? I don’t have a horse.”

“Don’t you though?” The man laughed, snapping his glove-covered fingers. Almost as soon as he did, a white horse with green and purple lines of its fur dyed, the man would only look on as Kai’s reaction would be shifted from despair to wonder.

Kai didn’t know what to say to this - well, that wasn’t true. He had one thing on his mind that he just had to ask. “How did you do that?”

“It’s magic,” the man stated simply.

It was in that moment that Kai’s smile was reduced into an expression that read ‘really dude? Really?’ That was the same thing that Cielle had said to him when he asked her how she was able to change their clothes. And just like he was then, Kai didn’t appreciate the lack of specifics used. Just once he’d like a detailed explanation about how exactly people did this little thing called magic - preferably, in great detail and small words.

“Well, thank you!” Kai gave the hooded man a nod and a smile, mounting the horse.

“Be seeing you, kid!”

As soon as Kai was going to look back at him, he was gone. He didn’t know who that man was or why he was willing to help him out, but he didn’t have time to worry about some stranger. Kai knew what he had to do. He knew he had to set off into the frozen wilderness of this land, find Cielle (wherever she might be), and apologize to her.

“Yah!” Kai kicked the horse on the sides of the body. And as it neighed, they were off into the cold, with Kai’s resolve to make things right with CIelle being the one thing guiding him.

Iquenos: In Nomine Domini

@Inkarnate And that's exactly why Laz likes him! Not knowing Zestasia is the key to liking him.

Iquenos: In Nomine Domini

<Snipped quote by Altered Tundra>

poor lad about to become the rp's comedic relief punching bag

big bro pagonia better come over quick before his little bro gets discarded by the rest of the cast

@Jay Kalton

Lord knows Zes isn't capable of convincing them to give him a second chance.

Iquenos: In Nomine Domini

As it should be.

@Inkarnate

Wha--hey! That's not fair! It's not his fault he's stupid.

Iquenos: In Nomine Domini

I don't know enough about it to adequately gauge him. Also, she thought sourly, I don't know how much I would trust him in a fight.

@Lemons

I see the Zestasia dislike is strong.

Palm Beach Royals: Senior Year

<Snipped quote by Altered Tundra>

You're so mean.

@HaleyTheRandom

You know you love me. :3