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Date: 2021-01-28 10:04 am (UTC)maybe i should just stop talking about it and actually get out and start looking.
only going to work myself up if i keep going on like this you know.
mm. think it would be stupid if i found a way to work a dusk stone or two in there? between the warmer colors?
... the first pokemon i heard about here -- the first one i caught, actually, was that sword thing. honedge. i thought of felix from the get go. probably would have named it after him if, well.
if fe himself hadn't shown up. no question that it would be given to him, you know.
just seems emblematic of our new life here.
... ah, that's probably too much. anyway, for the engraving i want it to say something like...
mm.
"stick together, die together." or maybe just "together until death."
i've told you about the promise we made, right?
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Date: 2021-01-28 04:02 pm (UTC)As for the Dusk Stones, I wouldn't think you were stupid. But I don't know how well
- or how commonly - those things are worked into jewelry. And the more specific you get with the stones, the more likely you're going to need to custom-order something because you won't find anything already made that fits what you're looking for. Not that that's necessarily an obstacle, but you'll need to take that into consideration as a factor. It'll mean a longer turnaround time on actually getting a ring, too.
The main question would be whether you want him to be able to use the Dusk Stone or not. Those evolution stones just sort of crumble away to nothing after they've been used, so he can't use anything you work into his ring without sacrificing part of his design. Mind you, if you're just using it as an aesthetic element, you don't need to worry about that...
Hah. Why not just go full bore and go with "till death do us part"?
But no, what's this promise of yours?
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Date: 2021-01-28 11:32 pm (UTC)though i might get him one separate, just to be sure it doesn't happen accidentally.
honestly though i figured this would all have to be custom in the end. i don't think it would be felix if it wasnt custom
he doesnt fit into any boxes
i love that about him
but uh
yeah i guess till death do us part would be accurate but
mm. the wording is important.
we were children and i don't know if felix has ever told you this but he used to be such a scaredycat crybaby
and with miklan being miklan sometimes i wonder if he really was scared that something was going to happen to me
so we made a promise.
we would stick together until we died with one another
ive carried that promise with me a long time.
i don't ever intend on breaking it.
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Date: 2021-01-30 10:56 am (UTC)Nothing wrong with custom. That said, I do have to ask - Dusk Stones are a dark purple, right? Do you think they can be worked into a ring with red and gold - or even just red - stones without some color clashing? I do like the idea for the sentiment, but I'm trying to picture it aesthetically in my head and I'm having a hard time seeing it gel.
Maybe it'd be better to incorporate aspects of a sword design into the metal of the ring, rather than the Dusk Stone itself? Although if you wanted it to be of Zoltan specifically, you'd need to figure out which evolution of it to incorporate elements of.
I agree the wording is important. I guess those ways of wording it sound...not particularly romantic to my ears. Of course, if that's the way you two spoke of your promise together, then that changes things, but I'm not actually privy to the things you've said to each other about it...so I can't tell what wording would be the most meaningful to Felix. You may have to choose that on your own. You'd know best what would go to his heart.
It's a good promise, though. And I'm sure he holds to his half of it just as tightly as you do yours.
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Date: 2021-01-31 07:14 am (UTC)maybe i'll take a jaunt down to the ring store here in a bit and see what i can find. see if they have any suggestions for making them work together, if that's possible at all. i'm not sold on it, the evolution stones aren't nearly as important to me as the rest of the pieces are. It was just a nice thought.
i agree that it isn't particularly romantic at first pass
but that promise has gotten me through a lot
it was a reminder through all of the things miklan and my father did that i wasn't alone
and that i had a reason to keep fighting back in the academy and for all these last few years
it's not romantic by itself but i can't think of anything that embodies how much and how long felix has been there for me
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Date: 2021-02-01 06:40 am (UTC)That goes for the engraving, too. What's romantic to you and Felix is what's important, not what I think. Is there a specific way you guys have talked about that promise? Any specific wording? Then use that. Even if it won't be romantic to anyone else, it'll be romantic to the two of you - and you're the ones getting married. That's all that matters.
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Date: 2021-02-02 07:59 am (UTC)maybe i just don't want to give felix and an excuse to look even more silly than he usually does.
you've seen the sleeve of his coat, right?
i can't have the ring he's going to wear for the rest of his life clashing just like the rest of him, you know ;)
you know i know we're talking about proposing but it keeps putting it into perspective when you say we're getting married
it feels real.
i'm gonna get married
happily
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Date: 2021-02-02 08:35 pm (UTC)And you are. It's going to be wonderful. I hope that only becomes clearer and makes you even happier the more time passes, and the more you think about it.