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[Sept 13] [Birth of the Firebringer] What I Want for Myself
Title: What I Want for Myself
Day/Theme: 14. me, myself, I, and the space left for you
Series:Birth of the Firebringer
Character/Pairing: Jan/Tek
Rating: G
Awareness of his destiny had brought some change to Jan. He was still as hotheaded and rebellious as ever, but now there was a new caution underneath it. He had once believed himself invulnerable and underestimated, then when he had lost faith, he had believed that it didn’t matter what happened to him. Time and close calls brought maturity.
If he was to the savior of his people, he couldn’t throw his life away on reckless pranks. If he was to finally prove himself to his mercurial father, he would have to be a war prince the surly king could be proud of.
There were wars to be averted or won. Wars against the pans, against the gryphons, against the old beliefs about the Renegades, and the Great War against the wyverns in the Hallow Hills. He was the one born under the dark moon. He was the one marked by fate with the three signs of the Firebringer. His mother’s vision of her own destiny had shown her giving birth to a legend. He was the one.
New responsibility had crowded most of his old plans out. There were new plans now, new hopes for a future that wasn’t bound in the valley. And there was Tek. She had been a biting annoyance all through his life until his Pilgrimage. Now she was still distracting, but a welcome one. Now that he knew his destiny, he didn’t have to hope for glory anymore. What he did hope for was that the part of his future that wasn’t fire and battle would be enough to be worthy of her.
With the fate of his people, and the weight a history of war to live up to, the real prize for the young prince was the healer’s too wise, too odd, too beautiful daughter.
Day/Theme: 14. me, myself, I, and the space left for you
Series:Birth of the Firebringer
Character/Pairing: Jan/Tek
Rating: G
Awareness of his destiny had brought some change to Jan. He was still as hotheaded and rebellious as ever, but now there was a new caution underneath it. He had once believed himself invulnerable and underestimated, then when he had lost faith, he had believed that it didn’t matter what happened to him. Time and close calls brought maturity.
If he was to the savior of his people, he couldn’t throw his life away on reckless pranks. If he was to finally prove himself to his mercurial father, he would have to be a war prince the surly king could be proud of.
There were wars to be averted or won. Wars against the pans, against the gryphons, against the old beliefs about the Renegades, and the Great War against the wyverns in the Hallow Hills. He was the one born under the dark moon. He was the one marked by fate with the three signs of the Firebringer. His mother’s vision of her own destiny had shown her giving birth to a legend. He was the one.
New responsibility had crowded most of his old plans out. There were new plans now, new hopes for a future that wasn’t bound in the valley. And there was Tek. She had been a biting annoyance all through his life until his Pilgrimage. Now she was still distracting, but a welcome one. Now that he knew his destiny, he didn’t have to hope for glory anymore. What he did hope for was that the part of his future that wasn’t fire and battle would be enough to be worthy of her.
With the fate of his people, and the weight a history of war to live up to, the real prize for the young prince was the healer’s too wise, too odd, too beautiful daughter.