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[Legend of Sun Knight] fic: Lessons in Demeanor - Lesson One: Drink Tea
Title: Lessons in Demeanor - Lesson One: Drink Tea
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,418
Summary: If someone were to want to become better at flirting, who better to learn it from than...the next Earth Knight, who's honest and pure? What? Something doesn't add up here?
Notes: I saved this in the wrong place and thought I lost this! Cue panic. Haha, the summary has a voice of its own. More notes at the end. Set while they're still in training. This will be a short multi-parter.
- Lesson One: Drink Tea -
Drinking tea is an art, one that Georgo was proud to say he'd mastered. W-Would you like b-black tea or green tea? he'd ask. It didn't matter which they picked -- all that mattered was that he'd offered a choice of teas instead of a choice of declining his invitation to drink tea. The result? They more often than not chose one of the teas, and that meant they at least stayed in his presence long enough to finish drinking the tea.
"I'll have green tea," the busty female cleric in front of him replied.
Georgo restrained himself from visibly punching the air in celebration. He smiled bashfully, in a way that endeared him to his prey and led them to lower their guard around him. Who would ever believe the honest and timid young Earth Knight would ever mean any harm? In that sense, his reputation helped him greatly.
Like a gentleman, he pulled out a seat for the cleric, since he knew most, if not all, females liked to be pampered and treated like a lady. While he chatted with the cleric -- he'd chosen an outdoor table today, the weather working in his favor -- he felt a pair of eyes boring holes into his back. Georgo twisted around, wondering if it was that dratted Grisia who'd come to disturb him once again. All week, he'd felt someone's gaze on him, which he wouldn't have minded if the gaze had belonged to a female beauty, but he could tell this wasn't the gaze of a female admirer!
Why? Because the gaze gave him goose bumps!
He also hated being followed.
The moment he'd turned around, a shadow quickly ducked behind a pillar.
Someone was spying on him. It had to be Grisia, who seemed to have some sort of grudge against him. Grisia held the highest record of disturbing Georgo during his dates. The next Sun Knight had practically made disturbing Georgo into a hobby of his, much to Georgo's chagrin.
"Is something wrong?" asked the female cleric.
Georgo turned his attention back to the busty female in front of him. He liked it much better when cute females, instead of devilish males like Grisia, occupied his mind.
"N-No, I-I was merely too o-overwhelmed by your b-beauty and needed a m-moment for myself," he stuttered.
Like he predicted, the female cleric blushed beautifully. Georgo had yet to come across a female cleric who didn't like to be praised. He'd practiced several different ways of complimenting females, so he was never short on words, always ready to charm the ladies.
Any moment now, Georgo was sure Grisia was going to swoop in and ruin his plans. It wasn't like Grisia could openly flirt with females -- though it wasn't like Georgo could either -- but Grisia always managed to lure Georgo's prey away just by smiling and talking. Whether they were being charmed or frightened away was a different matter.
He needed to change locations as quickly as possible.
Georgo exchanged some more pleasantries with the cleric before he deemed the time ripe.
"I h-have some s-snacks that I can't finish on my o-own. W-Would you like to c-come to my r-room?" He looked at her imploringly, his smile hesitant.
At that time, just as the cleric was about to take his lure -- Georgo was sure the next word out of her rosy lips was going to be a resounding "yes!" -- he heard a loud crash from behind. Surely, he hadn't shocked Grisia that much just by inviting a female cleric to his room? He did it all the time!
Georgo turned, about to take a few verbal jabs at his "good" friend Grisia (all camouflaged under flattering words, of course) when he was greeted by a head of long, blue hair instead of a head of long, golden hair. It was still long hair that greeted him, but the color was completely wrong, and only one person had hair of that length in that color.
The person who had crashed to the floor was none other than the next Storm Knight.
What had Ceo been doing spying on him from behind a pillar?
Now that the cleric knew they weren't alone, her face turned red even though they hadn't done and weren't doing anything scandalous. All Georgo had managed to do so far was brush his hand against hers when he handed her the tea cup! Still, despite how red her face was, the color of her face did not at all rival the color of Ceo's face. His face was a flaming red, redder than ripe tomatoes crazy people liked to throw at the Judgment Knight during parades.
"G-Georgo, y-you, y-you..." Ceo struggled to say, magnificently stuttering like a natural, except he wasn't supposed to be stuttering, nor was he supposed to be blushing like a fair maiden.
Georgo glanced at the cleric, wondering if she had noticed Ceo's strange, "out-of-character" behavior.
She had.
She was staring in fascination.
Oh well, it wasn't his job to help others maintain their image.
After being stuck on the word "you" for an entire minute, Ceo still hadn't pieced together a sentence (though he'd at least pulled himself off the floor), and Georgo was tired of waiting. Georgo was about to try inviting the cleric to his room again -- he doubted Ceo would be able to stop him with how flustered he already was -- when Ceo grabbed the back of his shirt.
"What are you doing?" Georgo hissed in alarm.
"I-I can't! I can't wink at her!" Ceo whispered back frantically. He was pretty much hiding behind Georgo's back now, with only the uppermost part of his head of blue hair visible to the cleric.
This was the next Storm Knight, the one who would soon be known as a "footloose charmer"?
Georgo shook his head in disbelief, unable to imagine what could ever be so daunting about flirting with females. A mere wink? Easy as cake! Stuttering was so much more difficult!
When Georgo turned his attention back to the cleric so that he could steer the conversation back on track, he found out, to his utter horror, that she was trying her hardest not to giggle, but her lips were twitching. He'd tried so hard to appear mature, yet innocent. Any moment now...
"Oh, the two of you are so cute."
She giggled.
Damn. He'd have to make do with that and go along the "cute" path. First, he needed to divert her attention from Ceo. He could still salvage the situation...
"I won't steal your Earth Knight from you anymore, young Storm Knight," the cleric murmured. "You two have fun together."
After she toppled Georgo's plans with her deadly, parting words, the cleric left.
She'd been giggling at...at...
Finally, Ceo stopped hiding behind him. He peeked out from the side. When he saw that the female cleric was nowhere in sight, he dropped his death grip on Georgo's shirt, but it was too late. Georgo's shirt was already wrinkled, and the cleric had already completely misunderstood Ceo's shyness.
"She, she...!" Georgo tried to say, his disbelief tying his tongue. Had she just implied that the two of them preferred men's company more than a female's company, that the bonds of brotherhood triumphed over the appeal of the fairer sex? What blasphemy!
Georgo took a few, deep breaths to calm himself...before he decided to screw calming himself. This was too serious a situation.
"What'd you ruin my date for?" he shouted at Ceo, finger poking Ceo in the chest. He paused, eyes widening in sudden realization. "Are you the one who's been stalking me?" he asked, voice growing louder and louder as he spoke.
"I-I just wanted to..." Ceo started, eyes downcast, hands clasped together. He looked as if his feet were the most interesting thing ever.
That was a guilty look. Georgo was sure of it, just as sure as he was sure about Grisia's true personality.
"What?" Georgo bit out. He already had Grisia to deal with. He hadn't thought he would need to look out for Ceo interrupting his dates too!
"...I just wanted to observe how you interact with females," Ceo mumbled, his voice so small that Georgo almost couldn't hear him, but he'd heard him all right. He'd heard him and thought he'd heard wrong, but he hadn't.
Georgo stared at Ceo.
He was hopeless!
"You are hopeless," he said.
Ceo hung his head down dejectedly.
-----
to be continued
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no_true_pair, Storm & Earth, tea for two
(Yeahhh, late. Will be crossposted at the end of the month).
Georgo's thinking in the beginning is borrowed from his side story. I wanted to take that part out since I feel it parallels his side story too much, but it was a good lead in given the prompt. I'm not very original. OTL
...there will be five chapters to this fic. Why yes, I have started another multi-parter, but chapters will be short? They will be short! For sure! And I am most definitely finishing this. Since the other chapters have mostly been written...just that there are 500 word and 1000 word chapters. Hm, strange lengths. :'D I thought I'd post the whole thing all at once at the end, but there are logical divisions... and my computer is on its last breath, ahhhh. I better not lose any data...
Oh, Yu Wo plurked about how she plans on writing 1-2 volumes of LSK side stories, YEESSSSSS. She asked if people had any ideas they wanted to see in the side story collection. Cannot wait, eeee. She says there'll probably be an overarching plot, plus some stand-alone side stories.
And off-topic from LSK and fanfic, but I've decided on a name for my NaNoWriMo novel! It shall be named Lhordata, which is the name of the fishing village this novel will be set in. The plot has yet to make itself known to me though. :'D
Next Part
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,418
Summary: If someone were to want to become better at flirting, who better to learn it from than...the next Earth Knight, who's honest and pure? What? Something doesn't add up here?
Notes: I saved this in the wrong place and thought I lost this! Cue panic. Haha, the summary has a voice of its own. More notes at the end. Set while they're still in training. This will be a short multi-parter.
Drinking tea is an art, one that Georgo was proud to say he'd mastered. W-Would you like b-black tea or green tea? he'd ask. It didn't matter which they picked -- all that mattered was that he'd offered a choice of teas instead of a choice of declining his invitation to drink tea. The result? They more often than not chose one of the teas, and that meant they at least stayed in his presence long enough to finish drinking the tea.
"I'll have green tea," the busty female cleric in front of him replied.
Georgo restrained himself from visibly punching the air in celebration. He smiled bashfully, in a way that endeared him to his prey and led them to lower their guard around him. Who would ever believe the honest and timid young Earth Knight would ever mean any harm? In that sense, his reputation helped him greatly.
Like a gentleman, he pulled out a seat for the cleric, since he knew most, if not all, females liked to be pampered and treated like a lady. While he chatted with the cleric -- he'd chosen an outdoor table today, the weather working in his favor -- he felt a pair of eyes boring holes into his back. Georgo twisted around, wondering if it was that dratted Grisia who'd come to disturb him once again. All week, he'd felt someone's gaze on him, which he wouldn't have minded if the gaze had belonged to a female beauty, but he could tell this wasn't the gaze of a female admirer!
Why? Because the gaze gave him goose bumps!
He also hated being followed.
The moment he'd turned around, a shadow quickly ducked behind a pillar.
Someone was spying on him. It had to be Grisia, who seemed to have some sort of grudge against him. Grisia held the highest record of disturbing Georgo during his dates. The next Sun Knight had practically made disturbing Georgo into a hobby of his, much to Georgo's chagrin.
"Is something wrong?" asked the female cleric.
Georgo turned his attention back to the busty female in front of him. He liked it much better when cute females, instead of devilish males like Grisia, occupied his mind.
"N-No, I-I was merely too o-overwhelmed by your b-beauty and needed a m-moment for myself," he stuttered.
Like he predicted, the female cleric blushed beautifully. Georgo had yet to come across a female cleric who didn't like to be praised. He'd practiced several different ways of complimenting females, so he was never short on words, always ready to charm the ladies.
Any moment now, Georgo was sure Grisia was going to swoop in and ruin his plans. It wasn't like Grisia could openly flirt with females -- though it wasn't like Georgo could either -- but Grisia always managed to lure Georgo's prey away just by smiling and talking. Whether they were being charmed or frightened away was a different matter.
He needed to change locations as quickly as possible.
Georgo exchanged some more pleasantries with the cleric before he deemed the time ripe.
"I h-have some s-snacks that I can't finish on my o-own. W-Would you like to c-come to my r-room?" He looked at her imploringly, his smile hesitant.
At that time, just as the cleric was about to take his lure -- Georgo was sure the next word out of her rosy lips was going to be a resounding "yes!" -- he heard a loud crash from behind. Surely, he hadn't shocked Grisia that much just by inviting a female cleric to his room? He did it all the time!
Georgo turned, about to take a few verbal jabs at his "good" friend Grisia (all camouflaged under flattering words, of course) when he was greeted by a head of long, blue hair instead of a head of long, golden hair. It was still long hair that greeted him, but the color was completely wrong, and only one person had hair of that length in that color.
The person who had crashed to the floor was none other than the next Storm Knight.
What had Ceo been doing spying on him from behind a pillar?
Now that the cleric knew they weren't alone, her face turned red even though they hadn't done and weren't doing anything scandalous. All Georgo had managed to do so far was brush his hand against hers when he handed her the tea cup! Still, despite how red her face was, the color of her face did not at all rival the color of Ceo's face. His face was a flaming red, redder than ripe tomatoes crazy people liked to throw at the Judgment Knight during parades.
"G-Georgo, y-you, y-you..." Ceo struggled to say, magnificently stuttering like a natural, except he wasn't supposed to be stuttering, nor was he supposed to be blushing like a fair maiden.
Georgo glanced at the cleric, wondering if she had noticed Ceo's strange, "out-of-character" behavior.
She had.
She was staring in fascination.
Oh well, it wasn't his job to help others maintain their image.
After being stuck on the word "you" for an entire minute, Ceo still hadn't pieced together a sentence (though he'd at least pulled himself off the floor), and Georgo was tired of waiting. Georgo was about to try inviting the cleric to his room again -- he doubted Ceo would be able to stop him with how flustered he already was -- when Ceo grabbed the back of his shirt.
"What are you doing?" Georgo hissed in alarm.
"I-I can't! I can't wink at her!" Ceo whispered back frantically. He was pretty much hiding behind Georgo's back now, with only the uppermost part of his head of blue hair visible to the cleric.
This was the next Storm Knight, the one who would soon be known as a "footloose charmer"?
Georgo shook his head in disbelief, unable to imagine what could ever be so daunting about flirting with females. A mere wink? Easy as cake! Stuttering was so much more difficult!
When Georgo turned his attention back to the cleric so that he could steer the conversation back on track, he found out, to his utter horror, that she was trying her hardest not to giggle, but her lips were twitching. He'd tried so hard to appear mature, yet innocent. Any moment now...
"Oh, the two of you are so cute."
She giggled.
Damn. He'd have to make do with that and go along the "cute" path. First, he needed to divert her attention from Ceo. He could still salvage the situation...
"I won't steal your Earth Knight from you anymore, young Storm Knight," the cleric murmured. "You two have fun together."
After she toppled Georgo's plans with her deadly, parting words, the cleric left.
She'd been giggling at...at...
Finally, Ceo stopped hiding behind him. He peeked out from the side. When he saw that the female cleric was nowhere in sight, he dropped his death grip on Georgo's shirt, but it was too late. Georgo's shirt was already wrinkled, and the cleric had already completely misunderstood Ceo's shyness.
"She, she...!" Georgo tried to say, his disbelief tying his tongue. Had she just implied that the two of them preferred men's company more than a female's company, that the bonds of brotherhood triumphed over the appeal of the fairer sex? What blasphemy!
Georgo took a few, deep breaths to calm himself...before he decided to screw calming himself. This was too serious a situation.
"What'd you ruin my date for?" he shouted at Ceo, finger poking Ceo in the chest. He paused, eyes widening in sudden realization. "Are you the one who's been stalking me?" he asked, voice growing louder and louder as he spoke.
"I-I just wanted to..." Ceo started, eyes downcast, hands clasped together. He looked as if his feet were the most interesting thing ever.
That was a guilty look. Georgo was sure of it, just as sure as he was sure about Grisia's true personality.
"What?" Georgo bit out. He already had Grisia to deal with. He hadn't thought he would need to look out for Ceo interrupting his dates too!
"...I just wanted to observe how you interact with females," Ceo mumbled, his voice so small that Georgo almost couldn't hear him, but he'd heard him all right. He'd heard him and thought he'd heard wrong, but he hadn't.
Georgo stared at Ceo.
He was hopeless!
"You are hopeless," he said.
Ceo hung his head down dejectedly.
-----
to be continued
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no_true_pair, Storm & Earth, tea for two (Yeahhh, late. Will be crossposted at the end of the month).
Georgo's thinking in the beginning is borrowed from his side story. I wanted to take that part out since I feel it parallels his side story too much, but it was a good lead in given the prompt. I'm not very original. OTL
...there will be five chapters to this fic. Why yes, I have started another multi-parter, but chapters will be short? They will be short! For sure! And I am most definitely finishing this. Since the other chapters have mostly been written...just that there are 500 word and 1000 word chapters. Hm, strange lengths. :'D I thought I'd post the whole thing all at once at the end, but there are logical divisions... and my computer is on its last breath, ahhhh. I better not lose any data...
Oh, Yu Wo plurked about how she plans on writing 1-2 volumes of LSK side stories, YEESSSSSS. She asked if people had any ideas they wanted to see in the side story collection. Cannot wait, eeee. She says there'll probably be an overarching plot, plus some stand-alone side stories.
And off-topic from LSK and fanfic, but I've decided on a name for my NaNoWriMo novel! It shall be named Lhordata, which is the name of the fishing village this novel will be set in. The plot has yet to make itself known to me though. :'D
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MULTI-PARTER! \O/
"all that mattered was that he'd offered a choice of teas instead of a choice of declining his invitation to drink tea."
XDDD Sneaky~
"Georgo restrained himself from visibly punching the air in celebration"
Pfffthaha.
" since he knew most, if not all, females liked to be pampered and treated like a lady."
*thinks of Pink* *sneeeerk* But he wouldn't go after her anyway. XD
"All week, he'd felt someone's gaze on him,"
*Anticipation*
""N-No, I-I was merely too o-overwhelmed by your b-beauty and needed a m-moment for myself," he stuttered."
Maybe I should be taking notes if I want to be trying to write good flirting...
"Surely, he hadn't shocked Grisia that much just by inviting a female cleric to his room? He did it all the time!"
XDDDDDD! Poor Storm!
"His face was a flaming red, redder than ripe tomatoes crazy people liked to throw at the Judgment Knight during parades"
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! Poor Storm! Sounds painful.
"magnificently stuttering like a natural,"
*dies laughing*
"Oh, the two of you are so cute."
Bwahahaha! XDDD
"You two have fun together."
*DIES LAUGHING*
"Had she just implied that the two of them preferred men's company more than a female's company, that the bonds of brotherhood triumphed over the appeal of the fairer sex?"
YES SHE HAD. THIS IS AWESOME!
"Georgo took a few, deep breaths to calm himself...before he decided to screw calming himself. This was too serious a situation."
But it was also a serious situation for Storm too! XDDDD He needs to protect his eyes!
"Ceo hung his head down dejectedly."
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! :(
"...there will be five chapters to this fic."
\o/
There's actually going to be ten, isn't there?"Oh, Yu Wo plurked about how she plans on writing 1-2 volumes of LSK side stories, YEESSSSSS."
*FLAIL* YESSSSSSSSS!!
"It shall be named Lhordata, which is the name of the fishing village this novel will be set in."
\o/ woot! I...still do not have a title. XDD Um, when I reach, I seem to be heading for variants of...searching. *headdesk*
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Georgo is very cunning.
he'd do well in Slytherin*thinks of Pink* *sneeeerk* But he wouldn't go after her anyway. XD
LOL! Hm, Georgo vs Pink? But she is definitely not his type, hahahaha. And he'd be in so much danger.
Maybe I should be taking notes if I want to be trying to write good flirting...
XDDD (I doubt Ceo is actually going to learn much though... poor Ceo....)
YES SHE HAD. THIS IS AWESOME!
XDDDDDDDDDD
But it was also a serious situation for Storm too! XDDDD He needs to protect his eyes!
LOL! But Georgo didn't even think of that. XD;
\o/ There's actually going to be ten, isn't there?
Nooooo. I'm pretty sure there will only be five parts to this. XD;
I tried planning some more of my NaNo, but I am so stuck! So stuck! *flails* You seem like you'll have plenty to write come November. :3
Um, when I reach, I seem to be heading for variants of...searching. *headdesk*
Ahhhh, hm, similar themes? You just like that word? XD;
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XDDD He's already wearing green too...
"And he'd be in so much danger."
Yuuup. XD
"(I doubt Ceo is actually going to learn much though... poor Ceo....)"
By the looks of things, I'd say no... XDD;; Definitely poor Ceo!
"But Georgo didn't even think of that. XD;"
Nope. XD;
"Nooooo. I'm pretty sure there will only be five parts to this. XD;"
*laughs* (Better not tease more or else my NaNo is going to be be 200k in retaliation. X3;;)
"I tried planning some more of my NaNo, but I am so stuck! So stuck! *flails* You seem like you'll have plenty to write come November. :3"
I have 1k of plot written. o___o;; And, some stuff has happened, but it's still introducing stuff. It hasn't hit it's stride yet. *laughs weakly* On the other hand, Searching was like that, being super detailed at the start and getting vague and sweeping later.
"Ahhhh, hm, similar themes? You just like that word? XD;"
Yeah, there's similar themes. XD;; And, well, they're looking for the truth. I have a feeling I might end up going for Reach Out to the Truth or something (main battle song for Persona 4. XD;;;;;)
KuwaNeko
(Anonymous) 2011-10-18 04:54 am (UTC)(link)it's a complete mystery how Neo managed to have so many lovers... but whatever method he had, he never taught Grisia... (and non of Georgo's tactics would work for him either)
ah, god. it's really hard to write reviews when my brain is stuck in 'Ceo is sooo cute...'
hehe, certainly, Grisia wouldn't have fallen from something so small
*shakes head nearly in agony* what the hell was Ceo thinking when he decided to become the Storm Knight, he is totally hopeless, was he actually trying to become confident with women?
"You two have fun together"
'......' 囧
such a big misunderstanding, I can't but think, poor Georgo...
I'm soo about to get myself into chinese classes, at this rate... hurray for side-stories, hope she writes them from different knights' perspectives, I love that about the already existing side-stories
Re: KuwaNeko
Ahhhh, you're right, Neo had so many lovers (pfffft). He certainly didn't only love the God of Light... and he never taught Grisia how he did that...
I wonder how Ceo ended up as the Storm Knight. Maybe he just had the right abilities for it? Since he doesn't fit the image at all, and no one has blue hair anyway so it can't be because of his hair color... (maybe the Storm Knight just has to be very handsome, haha...or maybe all the other candidates weren't handsome enough...)
Oh, you know this character? 囧? I wasn't familiar with it before (am so out of touch with slang and more colloquial language) and needed someone to explain it to me. XD;
I don't read very many things in Chinese, so reading Yu Wo's stories is helping me practice my Chinese a lot! *____* I hope so too with the different perspectives!
KuwaNeko
(Anonymous) 2011-10-19 12:21 am (UTC)(link)I seriously think the teachers should do at least some character review before choosing... (*sight* three years to get Ceo to look, at pictures, without blushing...) I would probably die if I had to force train someone to act completely different from what he actually is....
I found it in one of the translations, Grisia explaining on Stone Knight, says when in training he was about to be kicked out because he didn't want to act stubborn, Neo commented on how suborn the child was, for not wanting to act stubborn, and then saw around a hundred of those faces... . also saw it in a fanart with sun making that same face (and the description had it again)
now that you mention it, it'd also be nice to hear how the rest of the teachers choose the current knight.
Re: KuwaNeko
Ceo has it hard! I'm really curious how the 37th generation chose their students. They couldn't have chosen people more different than their images for a lot of them... I wonder if the 38th generation will end up doing the same.
Oooh, yeah, I remember coming across that character when the Stone Knight was explained. I was smiling to myself at seeing that word used since I'd seen it before and actually knew what it meant this time.
KuwaNeko
(Anonymous) 2011-10-19 02:33 am (UTC)(link)hehe, I could almost bet, at the very least, the following Ice Knights will be bakers too.
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(Anonymous) 2015-11-30 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)Oh my god, in fact I've always been wondering why no one ever considered to switch Georgo and Ceo xD But oh well, Ceo is Lanbi's dear daughter after all ...
Now let's see where this is going, I hope Georgo won't bully little Ceo too much ... and maybe Grisia will make a grand entrance again ...? :D
- Moony
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I've always felt that Georgo and Ceo would do very well with their positions switched. But it'd be a lot less fun that way. XD Lanbi probably wouldn't be able to stand Georgo very well.
Hm... Georgo with blue hair...