[hobbies:] “No,” Virmad says with a slight grimace, “there’s not much room on the ship for hobbies. But I keep some poetry with me, and a few other books — physical books, I mean. I write some poetry of my own, too, although it’s nothing special, I know. I don’t suppose you’re familiar with the work of Kel Zem Rao?”
[investigation:] “It did seem to be,” Virmad says with a wry smile. “I wonder who will take care of it now.”
[Nirai hobbies:] “Slime mold? Nirai are truly something else. I’ve never really spent much time with them, at least outside of...work contexts,” Virmad says. “Do they...are they fast? I’m struggling to imagine ‘slime mold racing’ as a spectator sport. I’m sorry to say I’ve never even come close to a dueling ring, although I don’t mind watching now and again. There’s a kind of elegance to it, when the duelist is good enough, that lets me almost see the appeal — it’s the same kind of precision that always strikes me in Zem Rao’s poetry.”
He lets that thought go for the moment. “I’ve never been able to get into dramas the way so many people seem to; I always seem to get distracted. But maybe I’ve just never had someone to explain the appeal...”
[we're going to assume for my convenience that Zem Rao predates this period of heptarchate history. I'm happy to make up details about his work as necessary — making up literary traditions is my jam. as a starting point I would say ZR's poetry is probably very gay and also unusually formally innovative for a Kel, especially in this early period, + Virmad is attempting to use that as a way to gauge Teo's interest. which retroactively makes his earlier thought — finding a Kel to discuss ZR's poetry with — a slightly overwrought bit of innuendo, lol.
anyway, yes, Virmad is absolutely fishing for an invitation to Heptarchate Netflix + Chill.]
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Re: it's a date!
Date: 2017-11-04 01:28 am (UTC)[investigation:] “It did seem to be,” Virmad says with a wry smile. “I wonder who will take care of it now.”
[Nirai hobbies:] “Slime mold? Nirai are truly something else. I’ve never really spent much time with them, at least outside of...work contexts,” Virmad says. “Do they...are they fast? I’m struggling to imagine ‘slime mold racing’ as a spectator sport. I’m sorry to say I’ve never even come close to a dueling ring, although I don’t mind watching now and again. There’s a kind of elegance to it, when the duelist is good enough, that lets me almost see the appeal — it’s the same kind of precision that always strikes me in Zem Rao’s poetry.”
He lets that thought go for the moment. “I’ve never been able to get into dramas the way so many people seem to; I always seem to get distracted. But maybe I’ve just never had someone to explain the appeal...”
[we're going to assume for my convenience that Zem Rao predates this period of heptarchate history. I'm happy to make up details about his work as necessary — making up literary traditions is my jam. as a starting point I would say ZR's poetry is probably very gay and also unusually formally innovative for a Kel, especially in this early period, + Virmad is attempting to use that as a way to gauge Teo's interest. which retroactively makes his earlier thought — finding a Kel to discuss ZR's poetry with — a slightly overwrought bit of innuendo, lol.
anyway, yes, Virmad is absolutely fishing for an invitation to Heptarchate Netflix + Chill.]