IC INBOX - PHANRIFT

[founderinglight]

one for sorrow, two for mirth
three for marriage, four for birth
five for the truth and six for lying
seven for sickness, eight for dying
nine for silver, ten for gold
eleven for a secret that shall never be told
twelve for the moon, thirteen for the sky
fourteen for the accursed unable to die
and fifteen for my heart's last desire
a new day's dawn, reborn in fire



Izunia Lucis Caelum
Keystone Station Room #11
Network @elevencrows

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[motherfucking_ghost]

Oh, I'm super familiar with places that get eternal sunshine, and I'm not talking about Florida. Poor Florida. I just didn't know that--this is a common phenomenon? On planets? Places that just don't see light? What the fuck.

[burninglight]

...I feel like I want to point out the irony of you questioning that, but I'm also aware context rather matters in this case.

[founderinglight]

Any planet with an axial tilt.

[Pause.]

That is, any planet that spins any way other than straight up and down relative to its orbit.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, I know what that means. Tilted axis.

[burninglight]

Either way, it doesn't seem all that strange. Is there something odd about it to you?

[founderinglight]

I've learned to make no assumptions.

[Some people can always be stupider and his brother married one.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

You know the entire time I was in the gulch the sun never set? So, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, sure, I get that. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem all the time? Bizarre. When not, y'know, caused by supernatural magical malarial forces. Is this really the point we're gonna get hung up on right now?

[burninglight]

What do you mean it never-

[god what the fuck.]

...you know what, never mind, you're right and this is all silly.

[founderinglight]

...Hypothetically possible in a tidally locked polar region... There'd be a matching spot on the opposite side that never saw sunlight at all.

[Where Ardyn gives up, Izunia sees an interesting thought experiment, and hums to himself as he puts a few more lines on his sketch.

...The woman in it is another Lucis Caelum if the cheekbones are any indication.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, and daylight savings was only three minutes. But you're right, it's silly. Not...the word I would've specifically used for it, but silly, and it's only gonna get worse from there.

[burninglight]

Wh-

...No, no, I'm not going to ask.

[founderinglight]

...That is at least top ten stupidest things I've ever heard.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Welcome to Blood Gulch, motherfuckers, can we change the topic from how stupid where I was...was, or what.

[burninglight]

Yes, dear, anything you like.

[Ardyn laughed softly, an arm comfortably around Church's waist.]

...Which one are you drawing now?

[founderinglight]

Judica.

['Which one is that' well she's got the outline of a Really Big Shield braced over her far arm now, which do you think.

Also, shoulders, which apparently the queen had no fear of showing off considering the off-shoulder gown Izunia's drawing her in. Even the raiment hangs low and wide to show them off, looking more like a shawl than a cape.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Who wha? Oh. Is that another relative? The Just, cuz, big shield of said person?

[burninglight]

Mm, that'd be her.

[Beat.]

I'm starting to think Lucian names may not be a wellspring of creativity.

[founderinglight]

Especially the later generations - she's, XCIII I believe? Not that many centuries before Regis, anyway.

[She also has a jawline that could cut a man open.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Still better than Tenmyouji.

[burninglight]

Says you.

[he loves his stupid name]

At least my given name wasn't Mors, gods that was easily the worst case of it.

[founderinglight]

Mors being named Mors is the only viable excuse for him inflicting 'King Regis' upon his own child.

[motherfucking_ghost]

At least Regis is an Actual Name, as opposed to...that.

[burninglight]

It's a bit redundant to give to royalty, however.

[founderinglight]

That's a kind way of putting it.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, but like, I know guys named Regis! I don't know anyone named after the moors of Scotland or whatever!