𝔸. 𝔻𝕌ℕ𝔸𝕄𝕀𝕊 Easily the most worrisome thing for Arthur about this new world is the power of emotions. He spent a great deal of his life suppressing how he felt personally in favor of making the wisest, fairest, and most logical decisions as king and while that time now is long since past, he still finds his emotions being obvious to anyone who happens to catch him having a particularly strong reaction to something a disturbing notion. He rather likes having the freedom to be able to choose himself whether or not he wants his feelings known.
As such, it was only a matter of time before he became interested in the practice of emotion magic, or what the locals call dunamis. A knight does not use magecraft, true, but the appeal of dunamis for Arthur lies more in the beginner steps than the more advanced techniques. Through it he can learn to control the environmental effects emotions can cause and that is the part Arthur is keenest on studying. His thinking is that he can stop progressing his skill in it once he’s mastered that and simply continue his knowledge on the practice so that he might be of some use to Ritsuka, should she need it.
Of course, the practical reasons for looking into dunamis aside, he's really just very curious about it.
Most mornings he can be found in the residential area, purposely bringing up specific memories of his that he's noticed stir emotions in him, that in turn cause things like flowers to bloom or persistent dust devils to kick up. Of course, his aim is usually to try making these things stop happening, but so far he's mostly only managed to minimize the effect rather than keep them from happening completely.
𝔹. 𝔾𝕀𝔾𝔸ℕ𝕋𝕀ℂ 𝔹𝔼𝔸𝕊𝕋 ℍ𝕌ℕ𝕋𝕀ℕ𝔾 The existence of the Beastmaster Hunting Guild and its postings to the task board is rather fortunate for Arthur, because it gives him an easy way to earn sylvs while doing what he already was more or less helping out with anyway. Hunting is really the best way for him to keep himself physically active, short of inviting others skilled with weapons to spar with him, but there is another reason for him throwing himself into battles besides that and the currency it makes him: the seals on Excalibur.
Already having taken down plenty of spirarea and a few stingers, Arthur has decided to have a bit of a break before tackling the... er, trash monsters in the sewers and tackling more of the giant wasps. He has a few heavy sacks with him containing spirarea wings and stinger abdomens as he heads to turn them in.
ℂ. ℂ𝔸𝕋ℂℍ 𝕆𝔽 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝔻𝔸𝕐 Normally, Arthur is in favor of any festivities that lift the spirits of the people, but he's really not sure about this one. Certainly their hearts are in the right place, though there's no evidence that the Arehtei care at all for these festivals. He himself wasn't especially interested in joining in, but it seems some of the organizers of one of the games had other things in mind.
And that's how he came to be blindfolded now while his partner throws frisbees at him. In his defense, he tried to turn the organizers down, truly. Unfortunately, there just isn't any saying 'no' to them. For a while, he tries to play fairly, but his partner throwing the frisbees isn't exactly skilled at giving directions, he soon learns, so while getting smacked in the side of the head is all very fun and entertaining -- to everyone but him, of course -- after a bit of it, he starts to consider relying on Instinct to end this ridiculous game as soon as possible.
𝔻. 𝕎𝕀𝕃𝔻ℂ𝔸ℝ𝔻 OOC ; Make up your own prompt and I'll roll with it or hmu via PM or Discord at Moonbunny#3890 to hash something out with me! o/ Also feel free to switch up tenses to your liking and I will match you in my responses.
Arthur Pendragon | Fate/Grand Order
Easily the most worrisome thing for Arthur about this new world is the power of emotions. He spent a great deal of his life suppressing how he felt personally in favor of making the wisest, fairest, and most logical decisions as king and while that time now is long since past, he still finds his emotions being obvious to anyone who happens to catch him having a particularly strong reaction to something a disturbing notion. He rather likes having the freedom to be able to choose himself whether or not he wants his feelings known.
As such, it was only a matter of time before he became interested in the practice of emotion magic, or what the locals call dunamis. A knight does not use magecraft, true, but the appeal of dunamis for Arthur lies more in the beginner steps than the more advanced techniques. Through it he can learn to control the environmental effects emotions can cause and that is the part Arthur is keenest on studying. His thinking is that he can stop progressing his skill in it once he’s mastered that and simply continue his knowledge on the practice so that he might be of some use to Ritsuka, should she need it.
Of course, the practical reasons for looking into dunamis aside, he's really just very curious about it.
Most mornings he can be found in the residential area, purposely bringing up specific memories of his that he's noticed stir emotions in him, that in turn cause things like flowers to bloom or persistent dust devils to kick up. Of course, his aim is usually to try making these things stop happening, but so far he's mostly only managed to minimize the effect rather than keep them from happening completely.
𝔹. 𝔾𝕀𝔾𝔸ℕ𝕋𝕀ℂ 𝔹𝔼𝔸𝕊𝕋 ℍ𝕌ℕ𝕋𝕀ℕ𝔾
The existence of the Beastmaster Hunting Guild and its postings to the task board is rather fortunate for Arthur, because it gives him an easy way to earn sylvs while doing what he already was more or less helping out with anyway. Hunting is really the best way for him to keep himself physically active, short of inviting others skilled with weapons to spar with him, but there is another reason for him throwing himself into battles besides that and the currency it makes him: the seals on Excalibur.
Already having taken down plenty of spirarea and a few stingers, Arthur has decided to have a bit of a break before tackling the... er, trash monsters in the sewers and tackling more of the giant wasps. He has a few heavy sacks with him containing spirarea wings and stinger abdomens as he heads to turn them in.
ℂ. ℂ𝔸𝕋ℂℍ 𝕆𝔽 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝔻𝔸𝕐
Normally, Arthur is in favor of any festivities that lift the spirits of the people, but he's really not sure about this one. Certainly their hearts are in the right place, though there's no evidence that the Arehtei care at all for these festivals. He himself wasn't especially interested in joining in, but it seems some of the organizers of one of the games had other things in mind.
And that's how he came to be blindfolded now while his partner throws frisbees at him. In his defense, he tried to turn the organizers down, truly. Unfortunately, there just isn't any saying 'no' to them. For a while, he tries to play fairly, but his partner throwing the frisbees isn't exactly skilled at giving directions, he soon learns, so while getting smacked in the side of the head is all very fun and entertaining -- to everyone but him, of course -- after a bit of it, he starts to consider relying on Instinct to end this ridiculous game as soon as possible.
𝔻. 𝕎𝕀𝕃𝔻ℂ𝔸ℝ𝔻
OOC ; Make up your own prompt and I'll roll with it or hmu via PM or Discord at Moonbunny#3890 to hash something out with me! o/ Also feel free to switch up tenses to your liking and I will match you in my responses.