Theres A Package Of High Quality Chocolate Waiting Next To His Morning Coffee, Alongside A Small Pouch

There’s a package of high quality chocolate waiting next to his morning coffee, alongside a small pouch of ginger and chamomile tea for the nausea. Wonder who left those there?

The sight of chocolate sitting on his desk doesn't help him feel any better. At once his guts clench, immediately tasting acrid bile blooming upon his tongue but his eyes carry on roving, lingering on the steaming mug of coffee and especially on the pouch of tea. Ginger and chamomile? He'd never been much of a tea drinker but somehow it sounded soothing, delicate enough to give a try if the coffee decided to assault his stomach along with the chocolate. Tenative fingers grasp the mug's handle and he takes a well-practised gulp. To his relief, the coffee behaves as it hits his stomach, Roman enjoying the robust warmth which helps to keep the nausea at bay a little longer. Good, strong flavours, just the way he liked it, and Roman hummed as he wondered who had brought him such nice treats. Not his men, surely - they knew better than to bother him on his 'hangover' days, which meant... Of course, Elise. It had been a while since he'd last spoken to the woman but she was still thinking of him if her gifts were anything to go by. A rare feeling came over him all of a sudden - guilt, that he hadn't been in touch with the blood mage nearly as much as he should. Maybe later on when his guts have settled, he could enjoy the chocolate along with tea, and then think about sending her a message of gratitude along with a request to come visit when he was up to handle polite company.

Friendly reminder to all my lovely mutuals; anon hate is making the rounds but thanks to a recent update, anonymous messages can no longer be sent without signing in. That means an account must be active, and when the anonymous feature is abused, you can block that fucker and find out who they are at the top of your block list. ❤️

How did the model react to Roman retaliating against his parents? How did he handle that?

Circe loved it, though didn't openly show her joy when Roman fought back. The two had been having a secret relationship for years right under the noses of his parents, back when Circe was old enough to begin work as a model and Roman still a young teenager smitten with the first positive attention somebody gave him. She held Roman back from beating his parents to a bloody pulp, knowing that being convicted of murder would result in him being heavily punished by the law therefore losing Janus Comestics since his parents were still the owners of the company. It wasn't out of love or concern for Mr and Mrs. Sionis. Circe been working on wrapping Roman around her little finger for years, knowing his parents would one day replace her with a younger, fresher star once her looks began to fade. Beauty doesn't last forever and, in the world of fashion, there are always beautiful women to be found much like one would find plenty of fish in the sea. She loved the money and fame, the ease of her work in only needing to look beautiful to keep a healthy paycheck coming in. She knew it wouldn't last forever, but it could last longer perhaps, if Roman took over Janus Cosmetics and she became his partner. Circe pretended she was remorseful after the incident, that she'd end the relationship with their son once she had seen him out. Unable to bear losing their top model just yet, Mr. and Mrs. Sionis bought her lies and it was all Circe needed to enact the next stage of her plan. Roman hated his parents, she'd known for years but that night, his willingness to acquiesce to her words was the sign she needed to know he'd go to any lengths to please her and concocted a plan with him the morning after. The next night, the family home of the Sionis's burned down with his parents somehow having become trapped in the blaze. Smoke inhalation was thought to be the cause of their deaths, although their bodies had been burned too badly by the fire for pathologists to tell for certain. Circe provided Roman with an alibi and, although he had not been officially named as heir, ownership of Janus Cosmetics fell to him anyway due to being next of kin, a legal process that would be finalized by the time he was 18. Circe was very pleased with how everything had turned out, and while perhaps it happened a little sooner than she'd have liked, everything went according to plan, at least for a few more years until trouble hit Janus Cosmetics.

Roman's last memory of his parents back when they were still alive were ones of fear, the difference being that this time it was they who were the ones that were afraid and not him. Furious at having caught him sleeping with the company's top model, Mrs. Sionis went to strike Roman, only for him to snap her wrist and send her flying into a nearby bookcase where her head was cut open by a sharp wooden corner. Roman was no longer a small child they could push around without consequences; at 17, he was already far too big for even Mr. Sionis to handle and the fear they showed that night was the push their son needed to know he was ready to kill them. He still remembers the sight of fear in their eyes, how powerful it made him feel. In his opinion, it was the first time they'd ever shown him the slightest damn bit of respect and even today, in his eyes, fear is respect.

What kind of NPC are you?

Secret BBEG

You are carrying so many feelings inside of yourself that never see the light of day, huh? The adventuring party you keep running into jokes and messes around with you, but they have no idea who you really are and they haven't even bothered trying to figure it out either. There's a reason secret is in the title, and it's because there are a lot of people out there who have been underestimating or overlooking you. The important things about you anyways. The ones you wish people would understand, but it seems like they just consistently disappoint. And while you are the last person they would want to do that to, how would they even know until it was too late? You keep things so tightly under wraps after all. You're the type of person who can blend in and move around behind the scenes unnoticed, but that doesn't mean you aren't working hard. In fact, you're probably working harder than most of the people being lauded super publicly for all of their accomplishments. You're just not loud about it. One day, when you either snap or when your carefully set plans fall into place and you're able to reveal how you really feel... well, everyone is in for one hell of a ride.

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Peeking into drafts and looking into the really old ones is a trip, my writing seemed so much better and there's a bunch of half-written, unfinished stuff that'll never see the light of day until I pull my finger out and this stuff NEEDS finishing. This memory meme back when Roman was a kid? One of his earliest memories is wanting to stab Bruce Wayne, he hated him from the day they first met.