Thread:Riliane De Lucifen/@comment-31597382-20190416155718

So this shot is narrated by Lancey, and it kind of explains what happened to ruin Launcer and Britta's relationship. (I did my best, as you didn't go into a lot of detail, and I really hope this was what you had in mind). I also hope I portrayed Lancey as accurate as possible. This is a really fun trio.

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I'm a peacekeeper.

It's not exactly my idea of a good career, but hey, I appear to be somewhat good at it. I don't tell people that fighting is wrong and all that jazz that most peacekeepers do, those aren't my methods. Mymethods usually involve distraction. Or teasing and making people laugh. And I don't jump into the fray and try to make sure there's no fighting or disharmony between everyone. That's not my job, I'm not a particularly active peacekeeper.

I only keep the peace between two people. My brother, Launcer, who I adore, and my half sister, Britta. Who I also adore. Now, with my adoration and love for them in common, you would think there wouldn't be a need for me to play peacekeeper. And there wasn't, for a while.

We were close as children. Not to say we aren't close now, I'm close with Launcer, and close with Britta. I just mean that when we were children we were all close. We always were having fun and played together a lot whenever we could. My favorite games included rescue missions where we would take turns rescuing each other, one needed rescued, one played the hero, and one played the monster who was always defeated.

Another game we played was questing. These weren't like the rescue missions, but rather we went and found things we pretended were of value, like Excalibur or something like that. It was always very fun, and I always used to think that no matter what, we would remain like this, inseparable friends.

I'm an optimist as you probably can see. Launcer says I need to work on that, need to stop being so eternally the glass is half full type, that being like that is immature and I need to stop or else I'm prepping myself for disappointment. My response is always, and always will be, my sticking my tongue out in his face. (I'll probably do that even when I'm old and gray.)

Where was I? Oh yeah, we were really, really close when we were little, but time has a way of hurting things and our trio was not immune to it.

As time passed, our destinies grew nearer and nearer, and we started to talk about them more and more. Now, I have no destiny, because I'm like four seconds younger than Launcer, so he gets the Lancelot destiny I would love to have!

He doesn't appreciate his destiny, and I can tell he wants his story to turn out differently than our father's. (understandable, considering, you know, neither of us have ever meant our father.)

In order to get that done, he wants other people, especially those he's strongly tied to, whether in the story or in our real life, not to follow their destiny. Such people like that include Gwenny and you guessed it, Britta.

Now, before I continue with that, I should probably tell you some background info on my half sister. More specifically, her views on destiny. She absolutely, positively adores her destiny, and has for a while. She would like nothing more than to be the next King Arthur, wield Excalibur and everything else the legends entail she do. So, basically the complete and total opposite of my brother.

But they are strongly tied. Totally and completely tied, not only in their stories, but in their family, and their friendship. That is a recipe for disaster.

One day, Launcer realized to a full extent of what was supposed to happen with his story and Britta. He did not want to spoil their relationship forever like Lancelot had done with Arthur. More specifically, he didn't want to abandoned his sister. Fantastic huh? Just a loving brother looking out for his sweet sister in order to always be there for her.

And if he had worded it like that, I'm pretty sure their story would have turned out differently. A lot differently.

But one problem my brother has, that he is very well aware of thanks to me, he has absolutely no idea how to word the things he wants to get across, so even if it's an incredibly sweet message he wants to get across, it will more likely than not, come across as being a totally hurtful thing and him being nothing more than a stupid jerk.

Such is the case of when he told Britta, our dear sister, about his worries. I'm just going to put the conversation down exactly as it happened and why don't you all see exactly where things went wrong.

Launcer: "Britta, you know your destiny of being the next King Arthur?"

Britta: "Of course! I'm going to be the best one ever to exist!"

Launcer: "Don't follow your destiny."

Britta: "What?"

Launcer: "Just don't. It's not going to work. Just don't follow your destiny."

Britta slapped him. "It will! You're just mean!"

See where my brother went wrong?

I ran over between them and suggested the least violent game I could think of as quick I could think of it. Bingo. (Lame, I know, but both of them were in a mood and if we played rescue mission, and one was the villain and one was the hero, they would go all out, if one needed rescuing and one was the hero, they wouldn't even try. I didn't trust us to leave the castle to go on a quest, and even chess can be turned into a violent game if things went bad enough.)

Even while we were playing Bingo and calling out number combinations for everyone to try and match on their cards, the tension in the room was so thick you could cut it with Excalibur. (Or, you know, a regular butter knife if you don't happen to be a member of the royal family of Logres.)

After that, my first time playing peacekeeper which is not a fun game, especially when you play it between people who used to be good friends until destiny got in the way, when those two were together it seemed like that was all I did.

When I'm just hanging out with them one on one, all aspects of my being a peacekeeper melt away and I get to be just plain old me, get to have that semblance of normalcy with my relationship with them, as Britta has nothing against me, partially because I have no destiny that I know of, and I still tease Launcer, and he teases me.

Separate we're fine, but together, I only trust those two in the same room as each other when I;m with them, otherwise who knows what they'll do.

I'm sure there's a bright side to what happened. Like, maybe it protected my brother and sister from the danger and heartache they would have to face if they were as close as Lancelot and Arthur were in the story when Lancelot betrayed him. Maybe it's going to make Launcer a better knight and Britta a better queen.

Usually finding the bright side is super simple for me. It's kind of my thing. But not really with this. 