| Jun 25, 2012 23:10:51 GMT -5 |
Post by Francis "France" Bonnefoy on Jun 25, 2012 23:10:51 GMT -5
FRANCIS (FRANCE) BONNEFOY
”Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest, and feels the strongest.”
”Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest, and feels the strongest.”
I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil
Nickname/Alias: Francis or France will do. I also will not mind “adoring big brother”, “most gorgeous nation alive”, or “erotic emissary.” I will not, however, respond to loutish slurs by certain barbaric Inselaffe.
Gender: Male
Character Type: Country
Country or Country of Origin: France
Canon or Original: Canon
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When I look into all of your stupid faces
I think how fun it will be to pound them into dust
Hair: Shoulder-length blond
Height and Weight: 175 cm (5’9”), 62.5 kg
Other Distinguishing Features: One thing that France takes great pride in is the state of his hair, whether it be his wavy, pale tresses or the exact trim of his (very masculine, he would add) stubble.
Overall Appearance: France is a flamboyant nation. He’s the first to wear whatever is considered “in-fashion” and likes to think of himself as the initiator of all things magnifique and en vogue. He’s about the average height of a male and is more on the slender side of toned—certainly not bulky, yet certainly not scrawny. He has a distinct, European way about him with his shoulder length, wavy hair, light complexion, and overall clean cut appearance matched with an overconfident gaze. His fair skin has the French very slightly beige tinge to it, which helps in not allowing the sun to burn him quite as badly as his more northern neighbors. Scars are inevitable at his age, so he tries to hide what he can. And of course, he is very proud of his facial hair. His blue eyes are more of a calm slate blue as opposed to the sparkling, bright shade of youth. Francis’ entire body language tends to be rather relaxed, yet composed.
Francis loves to wear the latest fashion, which he also sees as his personal responsibility, as his lovely capital is the general trend starter. Even just taking a spontaneous stroll or shopping for food requires that he at least wear something casual-classy. While loving what is considered collectively classic, Francis is always willing to wear something that may be considered odd or unconventional to others, just to see if it will actually be accepted as a trend. Sometimes it actually does catch on. That’s always interesting.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!
✔ Romancing
✔ Beautiful things
✔ The concept of love (Qu'est-ce que je ferais sans toi?)
✔ Touching and being touched
✔ Sex in every position imaginable
✔ Cabernet sauvignon
✔ Cabernet franc
✔ Pinon noir
✔ Mourvedre
✔ Chardonnay
✔ Muscat blanc
✔ Riesling… (you understand, no?)
✔ Paris (he loves, loves his dear Paris)
✔ Art
✔ Sex
✔ Rococo style
✔ “Obtaining” Italian art
✔ Architecture
✔ Creative designs
✔ Fashion boutiques
✔ The culinary arts
✔ Foie gras
✔ Sex
✔ Cheeses
✔ Mousse au chocolat
✔ Croissants
✔ Bisque… again, you get the idea.
✔ Anything that catches his attention
✔ Men
✔ Women
✔ Sex
✔ Being “in love,” even if it’s brief (which it usually is)
✔ Red roses
✔ Passion
✔ Spain
✔ Italy
✔ Agriculture
✔ Fighting England
✔ Art museums
✔ Fencing
✔ Ballet
✔ Places that are a bit odd or chic
✔ Perfume
✔ Did I mention SEX?
Dislikes:
✗ Uncouth behavior
✗ Rudeness
✗ Foul things
✗ English food
✗ Bad food overall
✗ Learning other languages
✗ Germany (though he’s currently civil)
✗ Computers
✗ Technology in general
✗ Having no wine in the cellar
✗ Truly bad, sour wine
✗ God-awful foreign fashion trends
✗ Turn-offs
✗ Coarseness
✗ A bad hair day
✗ Dry skin
✗ Bad weather
✗ Insane countries (though he will keep his mouth shut on actually naming them)
✗ Being insulted
✗ England
✗ Being on the “outs”
✗ Rejection (only when he’s put amble investment into it)
✗ Being called old
Strengths:
✔ Manipulation: Along with his ability to be the charming Casanova, he can also be a bit of a manipulating bastard when he wants to be. No nation is completely innocent of this and France is certainly no exception.
✔ Charming: France tends to talk his way out of situations if he feels the need to. He is a bit notorious for concocting endless compliments and all-around flirty behavior if it gets him what he wants in the end.
✔ Orgasmic Cooking: Let’s face it. The world has placed French cooking on a rather high pedestal. Every amateur culinary student will eventually learn about it and every culinary master claims to know the art as intimately as breathing. France asserts that even his grain for bread is better than anyone else’s, just because it grows on his obviously superior soil. Many respectable recipes have a French basis. Need to start out by making a roux for that sauce or bisque? Classic French.
✔ An Eye for Aesthetics: France automatically knows if something has the potential to aesthetically please the eye, even if separate components don’t seem very attractive in the beginning. He is a fairly good judge for the creative arts, for example; how certain colors, designs, or textures will best compliment the other in a painting or how a certain mold will look in a stately room. He also does this with people by acknowledging certain potentials or hidden qualities that may be otherwise unnoticeable.
✔ Speaks a certain universal language very well: Heheh. You all know what I mean, loves. France knows how to make a person feel good. Man or woman. However, he does revere sex a bit more somberly than what others may expect of him (and does not for the life of him, understand why it is so taboo in some cultures.) So yes, while he does enjoy a good, quick tumble in the hay on occasion, he knows how to really take care of an individual on a more emotional basis. Even his one-night-stands. He takes enough care to make them feel loved in every sense of the word.
Weaknesses:
✗ Inflated Sense of Self: Oh, hell yes. France loves himself, loves his people, loves his capital, and absolutely adores everything that he represents. Along with that, he also believes that everything French is top notch.
✗ Falls in love way too often and far too easily: As mentioned before, he loves beautiful things and it can take very little to snatch his attention. Thus, very easily distracted.
✗ Sleeps Around: It’s true—not that he has ever kept it a secret, as he finds no shame whatsoever in expressing his ‘natural desires’ as he puts it. There is many that he has had a romp/affair with—some lasting for years (and are still in irregular occurrence) while others may have lasted only a night. That’s alright with him; however, as they’re all of equal significance.
✗ Patchwork Heart: He has an affinity for being too invested with certain special people and manages to get hurt every time for doing so. The moment he pursues someone with genuine purpose, they get snatched away or are—ahem—burned alive after being treated in the most disgusting manner… leaving him legitimately heartbroken.
✗ Not particularly loyal: France does make it clear through his actions (even though it is the universal truth for every nation) that he is only truly loyal to himself and his interests. This explains why throughout history, his alliances were in a constant state of shifting and at times wouldn’t principally make much sense to an outsider. Although he tries to make them enjoyable for all parties involved, his alliances do tend to be temporary and entirely strategic.
Fears:
✗ Growing Old – This is more than just slowly becoming more ancient with each passing year. He is also extremely worried that he might start to look it as well, what with the prospect of thinning hair or unsightly wrinkles and age spots. Unacceptable!
✗ Not receiving any recognition
Secrets:
• France is actually a bit commitment shy. He doesn’t particularly see himself as ever really settling down. Perhaps for a decade at most. Unless it is absolutely necessary and he is desperate beyond measure. Even so, the closest that he’s ever been to being tied down is having a couple of long-term affairs. It was mostly an associates-with-benefits sort of arrangement.
• He has never quite gotten over the death of his Jeanne. Not really a surprise there.
• In this present day and age, he is actually very worried that he might be the next European nation to go bankrupt. Watching Greece, Italy, and Spain becoming recently destitute was quite unnerving.
Any Quirks/Habits:
✔ Unconsciously pairs wine with everything he eats.
✔ Straightening out his cuffs is a sure sign of his extensive boredom.
✔ More often than not, he tries to lengthen his late-night rendezvous for as long as possible to utterly satiate his lover. A bit of a tease, if you will.
Overall Personality: Francis has always enjoyed a rather high standard of living. He relishes fine dining, the multifaceted arts, and exquisite fashion
France places great pride in his people and all of their accomplishments, whether it’s through literature, important figures, or other great works, he has always thought very highly of himself. Overall, he believes that finding the simple everyday pleasantries is why his people experience such a high life expectancy rate and all around healthy lives. Although he may be rather frivolous at times, Francis is rather intelligent—just perhaps not as sincere or honest at times. It takes a keen, somewhat calculating mind to intentionally make it difficult for others to read the intentions behind his charm and blasé smile.
On a more serious note, aside from France’s seemingly lighter side, he has also proven to be rather cruel and sadistic (by tongue or sword) by his past actions. Even if he wasn’t directly involved, he also made choices that have negetively impacted others. He clung to the Church back when it represented power—though his “devotion” was as much of a fallacy as were plenty of other promises that he had made in his youth. Beneath his hardened “nation” side, he understands the reasons for why some may think unkindly of him; it’s simply a matter of how much he actually agrees with their perspective.
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I'm the hero!
GAUL
Settled mainly by the Gauls and related Celtic peoples (apart from a shrinking area of Basque population in the south-west and Ligurian population on the southern coast), the area of modern France comprised the bulk of the region of Gaul (Latin Gallia) under Roman rule from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD.
FRANKS
In 486, Clovis I, leader of the Salian Franks to the east, conquered the Roman territory between the Loire and the Somme, subsequently uniting most of northern and central France under his rule and adopting (496) the Roman Catholic form of Christianity in preference to the Arianism preferred by rival Germanic rulers. After Clovis's death (511) his realm underwent repeated division while his Merovingian dynasty eventually lost effective power to their successive mayors of the palace, the founders of what was to become the Carolingian dynasty. The assumption of the crown in 751 by Pepin the Short (son of Charles Martel) established Carolingian rule in name as well as in fact. The new rulers' power reached its fullest extent under Pepin's son Charlemagne, (Charles the Great), who in 771 reunited the Frankish domains after a further period of division, subsequently conquering the Lombard kingdom in northern Italy (774), incorporating Bavaria (788) into his realm, defeating the Avars of the Danubian plain (796), advancing the frontier with Muslim Spain as south as Barcelona (801), and subjugating Lower Saxony (804) after prolonged campaigning. In recognition of his successes and his political support for the Papacy, Charlemagne was in 800 crowned Emperor of the Romans, or Roman Emperor in the West, by Pope Leo III: on the death of his son Louis I (emperor 814-840), however, the empire was divided among Louis's three sons (Treaty of Verdun, 843). After a last brief reunification (884-887), the imperial title ceased to be held in the western part which was to form the basis of the future French kingdom.
MIDDLE AGES
During the latter years of the elderly Charlemagne's rule, the Vikings made advances along the northern and western perimeters of his kingdom. After Charlemagne's death in 814 his heirs were incapable of maintaining any kind of political unity and the once great Empire began to crumble. Viking advances were allowed to escalate, their dreaded longboats sailing up the Loire and Seine Rivers and other inland waterways, wreaking havoc and spreading terror. In 843 the Viking invaders murdered the Bishop of Nantes and a few years after that; they burned the Church of Saint-Martin at Tours. Emboldened by their successes, in 845 the Vikings ransacked Paris. Charles the Simple (898-922), whose territory comprised much of the France of today, was forced during his reign to concede to the Vikings a large area on either side of the Seine River, downstream from Paris, that was to become Normandy.
The Carolingians were subsequently to share the fate of their predecessors: after an intermittent power struggle between the two families, the accession (987) of Hugh Capet, duke of France and count of Paris, established on the throne the Capetian dynasty which with its Valois and Bourbon offshoots was to rule France for more than 800 years. The Carolingian era had seen the gradual emergence of institutions which were to condition France's development for centuries to come: the acknowledgement by the crown of the administrative authority of the realm's nobles within their territories in return for their (sometimes tenuous) loyalty and military support, a phenomenon readily visible in the rise of the Capetians and foreshadowed to some extent by the Carolingians' own rise to power.
The new order left the new dynasty in immediate control of little beyond the middle Seine and adjacent territories, while powerful territorial lords such as the 10th and 11th century counts of Blois accumulated large domains of their own through marriage and through private arrangements with lesser nobles for protection and support. The area around the lower Seine, ceded to Scandinavian invaders as the duchy of Normandy in 911, became a source of particular concern when duke William took possession of the kingdom of England in 1066, making himself and his heirs the king's equal outside France (where he was still nominally subject to the crown). Worse was to follow, with the succession in 1154 to the disputed English throne of Henry II, already count of Anjou and duke of Normandy before his marriage (1152) to France's newly-divorced ex-queen Eleanor of Aquitaine brought him control also of much of south-west France. A century of intermittent warfare brought Normandy once more under French control in 1204 and English control of French territory ended with the French victory at Bouvines in 1214.
The 13th century was to bring the crown important gains also in the south, where a papal-royal crusade against the region's Albigensian or Cathar heretics (1209) led to the incorporation into the royal domain of Lower (1229) and Upper (1271) Languedoc. Philippe IV's seizure of Flanders (1300) was less successful, ending two years later in the rout of her knights by the forces of the Flemish cities at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 near Kortrijk (Courtais in French).
VALOIS DYNASTY
The extinction of the main Capetian line (1328) brought to the throne the related house of Valois, but as Philippe IV's grandson, Edward III of England claimed the French crown for himself, inaugurating the succession of conflicts known collectively as the Hundred Years' War. The following century was to see devastating warfare, peasant revolts in both England (Wat Tyler's revolt of 1381) and France (the Jacquerie of 1358) and the growth of nationhood in both countries. French losses in the first phase of the conflict (1337-1360) were partly reversed in the second (1369-1396); but Henry V of England's shattering victory at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 against a France now bitterly divided between rival Armagnac and Burgundian factions of the royal house was to lead to his son Henry VI's recognition as king in Paris seven years later under the 1420 Treaty of Troyes, reducing Valois rule to the lands south of the Loire River.
France's humiliation was abruptly reversed in 1429 by the appearance of a restorationist movement symbolized by the Lorraine peasant maid Jeanne d’Arc, who claimed the guidance of divine voices for the campaign which rapidly ended the English siege of Orléans and ended in Charles VII's coronation in the historic city of Reims. Subsequently captured by the Burgundians and sold to their English allies, her execution for heresy in 1431 redoubled her value as the embodiment of France's cause. Reconciliation between the king and Philippe of Burgundy (1435) removed the greatest obstacle to French recovery, leading to the recapture of Paris (1436), Normandy (1450) and Guienne (1453), reducing England's foothold to a small area around Calais (lost also in 1558). After the war, France's emergence as a powerful national monarchy was crowned by the incorporation of the duchy of Burgundy (1477) and Brittany (1491).
The losses of the century of war were enormous, particularly owing to the plague (the Black Death, usually considered an outbreak of bubonic plague), which arrived from Italy in 1348, spreading rapidly up the Rhone valley and thence across most of the country: it is estimated that a population of some 18-20 million in modern-day France at the time of the 1328 hearth-tax returns had been reduced 150 years later by 40% or more. Despite the beginnings of rapid demographic and economic recovery, the gains of the previous half-century were to be jeopardized by a further protracted series of conflicts, this time in Italy (1494-1559), where French efforts to gain dominance ended in the increased power of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors of Germany. Barely were the Italian Wars over than France was plunged into a domestic crisis with far-reaching consequences. Despite the conclusion of a Concordat between France and the Papacy (1516), granting the crown unrivalled power in senior ecclesiastical appointments, France was deeply affected by the Protestant Reformation's attempt to break the unity of Roman Catholic Europe. A growing urban-based Protestant minority (later dubbed Huguenots) faced ever harsher repression under the rule of King Henri II. Renewed Catholic reaction headed by the powerful dukes of Guise culminated in a massacre of Huguenots (1562), starting the first of the French Wars of Religion during which English, (Scottish?), German and Spanish forces intervened on the side of rival Protestant and Catholic forces.
BOURBON DYNASTY
The conflict was ended by the assassination of both Henry of Guise (1588) and king Henri III (1589), the accession of the Protestant king of Navarre as Henri IV (first king of the Bourbon dynasty) and his subsequent abandonment of Protestantism (1593), his acceptance by most of the Catholic establishment (1594) and by the Pope (1595), and his issue of the toleration decree known as the Edict of Nantes (1598), which guaranteed freedom of private worship and civil equality. France's pacification under Henri laid much of the ground for the beginnings after his assassination (1610) of France's rise to European hegemony under Louis XIII and his minister (1624-1642) Cardinal Richelieu, architect of France's policy against Spain and the German emperor during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) which had broken out among the lands of Germany's Holy Roman Empire.
An English-backed Huguenot rebellion (1625-1628) defeated, France intervened directly (1635) in the wider European conflict following her ally (Protestant) Sweden's failure to build upon initial success. After the death of both king and cardinal, the Peace of Westphalia (1648) secured universal acceptance of Germany's political and religious fragmentation, and the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) formalized France's seizure (1642) of the Spanish territory of Roussillon after the crushing of the Catalan Republic. During the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715), France was the dominant power in Europe, aided by the diplomacy of Richelieu's successor (1642-1661) Cardinal Mazarin and the economic policies (1661-1683) of Colbert. Renewed war (1667-1668 and 1672-1678) brought further territorial gains (Artois and western Flanders and the free county of Burgundy, left to the Empire in 1482), but at the cost of the increasingly concerted opposition of rival powers. Following the seizure of the (then separate) English, Irish and Scottish thrones by the Dutch prince William of Orange in 1688, the anti-French "Grand Alliance" of 1689 inaugurated more than a century of European conflict in which Britain would play an ever more important role, seeking in particular to keep France out of the Netherlands (the Dutch provinces and the future Belgium, then under Spanish rule).
After the war of 1689-1697 gained France only Haiti (lost to a slave revolt a century later), the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) ended with the undoing of Louis's dreams of a Franco-Spanish Bourbon empire: the two conflicts strained French resources already weakened by disastrous harvests in the 1690s and in 1709, as well as by the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes and the consequent loss of Huguenot support and manpower. The reign (1715-1774) of Louis XV saw an initial return to peace and prosperity under the regency (1715-1723) of Philippe II, duke of Orléans, whose policies were largely continued (1726-1743) by Cardinal Fleury, prime minister in all but name, renewed war with the Empire (1733-1735 and 1740-1748) being fought largely in the East. But alliance with the traditional Habsburg enemy (the "Diplomatic Revolution" of 1756 against the rising power of Britain and Prussia led to costly failure in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763).
On the eve of the French Revolution of 1789, France was a predominantly rural country ruled by an absolute monarch and the aristocracy under the now-called ancient régime, very backwards in many ways (for instance, torture was considered an appropriate means of extracting confessions in criminal trials; there was no freedom of religion, except that Protestantism was tolerated...) The ideas of the Enlightenment had however begun to infiltrate the educated classes of society.
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Louis XVI's reign (1774-1792) saw a temporary revival of French fortunes through intervention (1778-1783) in support of Britain's rebel American colonies. But the over-ambitious projects and military campaigns the past century had produced chronic financial problems. Deteriorating economic conditions, popular resentment against the complicated system of privileges granted the nobility and clerics, and a lack of alternate avenues for change were among the principal causes of the French Revolution. This led to the formation of the First Republic on September 21, 1792. Although the revolutionaries advocated republican and egalitarian principles of government, France subsequently reverted to forms of absolute rule or constitutional monarchy four times: the First Empire of Napoleon, the Restoration of Louis XVIII, the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe (often treated as a continuation of the Restoration), and the Second Empire of Napoleon III.
THIRD REPUBLIC
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Third Republic was established and lasted until the military defeat of 1940. The midpoint of the Third Republic was known as the belle époque in France, a golden time of beauty, innovation, and peace with its European neighbors. New inventions made life easier at all social levels, the cultural scene thrived, cabaret, cancan, and the cinema were born, and art took new forms with Impressionism and Art Nouveau. The glory of this turn-of-the-century period came to an end with the outbreak of World War I. World War I (1914-1918) brought great losses of troops and resources. In its aftermath, in the 1920s, France established an elaborate system of border defenses (the Maginot Line) and alliances to offset resurgent German strength.
WORLD WAR II
France surrendered to Nazi Germany early in World War II (June 24, 1940). Nazi Germany occupied three fifth of France's territory leaving the rest to the new Vichy collaboration government established on July 10, 1940 under Henri Philippe Pétain. Its senior leaders acquiesced in the plunder of French resources, as well as the sending of French forced labor to Nazi Germany; in doing so, they claimed they hoped to preserve at least some small amount of French sovereignty. The Nazi German occupation proved costly, however, as Nazi Germany appropriated a full one-half of France's public sector revenue. On the other hand, those who refused defeat and collaboration with Nazi Germany, the Free French, organized resistance movements in occupied and Vichy France and the Free French Forces. The Free French Forces started in exile in and with the support of the UK. After four years of occupation and strife, Allied forces, including Free France, liberated France in 1944. Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944. On September 10, 1944, De Gaulle installed hi provisional government in Paris. This time he remained in Paris until the end of the war, refusing to abandon even when Paris was temporarily threatened by German troops during the Battle of the Ardennes in December 1944.
FOURTH REPUBLIC
France emerged from World War II to face a series of new problems. After a short period of provisional government initially led by General Charles de Gaulle, a new constitution (October 13, 1946) established the Fourth Republic under a parliamentary form of government controlled by a series of coalitions. The mixed nature of the coalitions and a consequent lack of agreement on measures for dealing with colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria caused successive cabinet crises and changes of government. The war in Indochina ended with French withdrawal in 1954. The May 1958 seizure of power in Algiers by French army units and French settlers opposed to concessions in the face of Arab nationalist insurrection led to the fall of the French government and a presidential invitation to de Gaulle to form an emergency government to forestall the threat of civil war. Swiftly replacing the existing constitution with one strengthening the powers of the presidency, he became the elected president in December of that year, inaugurating France's Fifth Republic.
FIFTH REPUBLIC
Seven years later, in an occasion marking the first time in the 20th century that the people of France went to the polls to elect a president by direct ballot, de Gaulle won re-election with a 55% share of the vote, defeating François Mitterrand. However, French society experienced growing tiredness at the heavy-handed Gaullist approach. This lead to the events of May 1968, when students revolted with a variety of revolutions ranging from more sexual freedom to the end of the Vietnam War. At the same time, mass strikes erupted. The situation got nearly out of hand, with, at one point, de Gaulle going to see troops in Baden-Baden, possibly to secure the help of the army should he need it to maintain public order. However, the June 1968 legislative elections saw a majority of Gaullists in parliament. Still, May 1968 was a turning point in French social relations, in the direction of more personal freedoms and less social control, be it in work relations or in sexual life.
In April 1969, de Gaulle resigned following the defeat in a national referendum of government proposals for the creation of 21 regions with limited political powers. Succeeding him as president of France have been: Gaullist Georges Pompidou (1969-1974), Independent Republican Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974-81), Socialist François Mitterrand (1981-95), neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac (elected in spring 1995). While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union (EU). During President Mitterrand's tenure, he stressed the importance of European integration and advocated the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on European economic and political union, which France's electorate narrowly approved in September 1992. President Jacques Chirac assumed office May 17, 1995, after a campaign focused on the need to combat France's stubbornly high unemployment rate. The center of domestic attention soon shifted to the economic reform and belt-tightening measures required for France to meet the criteria for Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) laid out by the Maastricht Treaty. In late 1995, France experienced its worst labor unrest in at least a decade, as employees protested government cutbacks. On the foreign and security policy front, Chirac took a more assertive approach to protecting French peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia and helped promote the Dayton Agreement negotiated in Dayton, Ohio and signed in Paris in December 1995. The French have stood among the strongest supporters of NATO and EU policy in the Balkans.
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You've got it backwards! Backwards!
Hurry up and throw it! If you don't hurry up and throw it, you'll go "boom"!
It was apparent within the way that she pulled him closer into their embrace and from the way that he felt her fingers trail down his spine, that she had already forgiven him—welcomed him back. When the breath of her sigh warmed his cheek, when he felt the contentment within her and the tremor that had traveled up his spine upon feeling her smile beneath his mouth, it all gave him further encouragement to once again truly make her his. It had been too long since he had known her touch. When he had pulled back, the tenseness left his shoulders when he heard her gentle laugh.
He was a little surprised at her playful display as she placed her hands behind his neck, eliciting small shivers. A smile tempted the corners of his mouth, which he eventually gave into when his wife moved her nose against his. A breathy chuckle escaped. He didn’t know why he so often left when it was so easy to stay. It was true what they’ve said about him. He usually preferred to avoid his honored place as one of the Twelve in order to stay within the soft vicinity of his beloved. Hearing her meek words of love, he immediately echoed them back, “...I love you.” His words formed right before her mouth brushed against his lower lip and he felt her palm upon his cheek. The caresses were so tender and repetitive; it caused thick stillness to finally settle within his body, one that tended to spill rage far more often than gentleness.
“I’m sorry… I shouldn’t have left.”
He closed the distance between them again, his mouth against hers. It started out gentle, exploring her lips with soft purpose. His hand happened upon the exposed back beneath the loose clothing. Probing fingers mapped her skin. As his invading digits delved lower, his fingers latched onto the golden belt about her waist. Feeling particularly devious at this point, his lips curled against her mouth, teeth lightly grazing her lower lip in the process.
”Hmm... new dress? He teased, for he knew the ins and outs of all of her other clothing, especially in the art of their efficient removal. This one, however, was rather unfamiliar. Instead of worrying about it, however, he unhooked his fingers from the belt, applying more satisfying pressure as his hands slid further down.
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!
You called?
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