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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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castdeath replied to your post: Just when you started playing Final Fantasy. Thank...

NYAHAHHAHAHA YES JOIN US

*Still stuck in Ul’dah*

#castdeath #ooc #cast ples

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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Katarina “This Blade is my favorite” - Talon

#𝒜 family no more (the Du Couteau)#✴The glint of cold steel (art)#and that's how the story evolved #rip

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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#ooc #definitely not ezreal #Blackwood Talon #Twitch so cute #Taric gorgeous

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She looks curiously at him... what could he possibly be hiding?

Some shadows can’t simply be pierced by light. You’re fortunate you’re not my target today.

#demacianmage #Lady Crownguard

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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Now that the official Riot Forum Boards will disappear, went to check my old stuff and found this little thing. So emotional back then. @katarinaducouteau / @grymn

“Katarina's laughter was a shield. It had made her invulnerable in the past and that wouldn't change, not even now. He guessed she was wordlessly covering the holes of her silence with, he had been cruel, he had preyed on her past. Until her words stabbed him sharper than steel. Talon visibly tensed, his hand almost squeezing the blade's hilt.

But his head was down, his face shadowed under the hood, unreadable. He knew Katarina would see through it as if he was transparent, an open document to be read.

He took a few steps away from her, openly leaving his back vulnerable. Perhaps as a taunt or perhaps because he sensed she would not attack him. Talon stopped by the ledge, no blade was hurled at Katarina Du Couteau.

"That is why we are so different. I kill without passion, I am an assassin, orders and gold dictate my blade. I don't need to believe in this Empire to kill in its name. " Like a mercenary who didn't expect gold, his blade was sold for his obsessive loyalty, his hope, his hunger for information which would lead him to the shadows behind his mentor's demise.

"And that is why you will never be the assassin he needed." No, she was more than that, she was more than just a blade in her father's armory. She was the destined heir. She was not like him, she was never meant to, her blood was noble, his blood wasn't. The only blood which made him worthy was the one on his hands, his ability to assassinate any target.

Talon seethed in silence as he helplessly believed her. Had his lack of loyalty to Noxus truly been the General's disappointment?

"Your father needed a blade, not a son. And I succeeded in that." He finally spat, overcome by bitterness.”

#ooc #Will miss those boards #I guess I liked the old way #Now communication and social media are so dynamic #RIP :c

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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lightbcund replied to your post “teehee. @askthebladesshadow - @thenameoftheblade ”

WELCOME BACK OMG

*Hugs* :x!

#lightbcund #ooc

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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Just when you started playing Final Fantasy. Thank you @castdeath

yipyip

#ooc #New Talon Skin #All the Talon love today yes?#the soft animation effects aaa #love them #the ult is fdjjfdsfsi

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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Our story starts here.

The Name of the Blade constantly interacts with Katarina’s bio, not exactly her short story.

This fragment basically becomes what we’ve read in Talon’s color story.

Most of what is exposed, we knew, though there are some interesting highlights that left me wondering if they’ll be developed further in the future.

“ but I am stone. Succumbing to such weakness would only carry me further from the Edge.”

The Edge (1)

“A bead of sweat trickled down my ribs, despite the cold.”

fanservice. thanks.

“I flowed around her, cold and colorless against her passion.”

That’s Talonn, passionless blue steel. ♥

I glimpsed an opening, once, where I could have ended her. She would have fallen, for true this time. Nobody would have known of my mistake, nobody but me.

I saw the opening, but I let it pass me by

“She touched her face again, tracing a wound that would never leave her.”

Talon’s choice.

I could not bring myself to stand in her way, not anymore. The hypocrisy would be too great. My duty was to return and face judgment, and see what price I had to pay.

Talon’s Failure sprouts from Katarina’s failure. They are now equals.

My name had never mattered.

Good. GOOD!

I watch her make quick work of the soldiers who remain to challenge her. I imagine myself in the place of the last of them, seeing the openings he does not, before his head rolls from his shoulders and he joins the dead.

Reading Katarinna’s strikes. So delightfully stated!

My fingers are pebbled with a thousand scars, each a single tiny step on my path toward the Edge, that unattainable perfect state I strive for.

The Edge (2)

So we see this idea going around. A perfect mental - physical for assassination in the General’s teachings? Devoid of all emotion, relaxed awareness, mechanical response? I have the feeling I’ve seen this concept applied before, many times. toninjasmostly or martial artists.

I call it Katarina.

That’s the name of the blade.

#{they have the answers you’re seeking} (riot)#The Name of the Blade #Notes

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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teehee.

@askthebladesshadow - @thenameoftheblade

#OOC #I made a promise that day #when the lore update would finally happen #that day is today #kinda reminds me The Form of the Sword #La forma de la Espada #drool

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thenameoftheblade · 4 years

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Curator: ""Beloved companions!"

Disciple: "Edvin! There you are, handsome. I was just thinking of you!"

Curator: "Were you? Well I received an invitation."

Aristocrat: "Ah, you too? To the Reveler's B--"

Curator: "--Reveler's Ball! Yes!"

Disciple: ""Each of us can go, now…"

Curator: "Then we must! I shall present my family."

Aristocrat: "How am I to tolerate mine?"

Disciple: "Escort me. I'll make it fun."

Aristocrat: "Respectfully, my dear, my father would disown me. ...perhaps we should wear matching dresses."

Disciple: "Or nothing at all?"

Curator: "Starters before dessert, my dear. And you, Kye? Will you attend?"

Awakener: "Even if I said 'no', you'd drag me along. So... sure."

#{the Spirals of the Rose}#whoever noticed this #might be in danger #BEWARE #love the acrostic #clever clever #legends of runeterra #the crimson circle

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thenameoftheblade · 5 years

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tahulewa replied to your post “tahulewa replied to your post “tahulewa replied to your post “For...”

We are always unmasked. They may know our faces, but never who we truly are.

Words of the LongSword Brotherhood ™

#tahulewa #{the word on the street} (ooc)

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thenameoftheblade · 5 years

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Excuse my misinterpretation of words with Marcus supporting Swain, although you got the gist of it.

I think they were friends until someone unfriended them!

#{another body for the gutter} (answered)#✧ General Du Couteau

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It should be a unanimous agreement that Talon has unique yellow/amber eyes and if Riot changes this we will boycott them.

They wouldn’t dare! But then again, how many yellow eyes we have out there.

#{the word on the street} (ooc)

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tahulewa replied to your post “tahulewa replied to your post “For All Asking” It’s called “Legion...”

Well of course I know him, he's me!

I’m honored. We’ve been talking for quite a long time without revealing our tumblr identities! What is left then for an assassin unmasked? ... Hn.

#tahulewa #{the word on the street} (ooc)

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thenameoftheblade · 5 years

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Talon COULD be serving Swain, given in Cassiopea's story we know Swain supported Marcus's uprising, and by proxy so would Talon.

Yes, Marcus supported the coup. This confirms Swain and Du Couteau were political allies. Though Swain’s “Do they know who killed your father, or do they still blame me?” kind of gives me the idea someone assassinated the General and framed Swain. I mean, you know, divide and conquer, just another of LeBlanc’s games. Also given Katarina is working under Swain enforces this idea Talon would take another path. I don’t think she likes him at all.

#{another body for the gutter} (answered)#✧ General Du Couteau

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blades-lost-x replied to your post “tahulewa replied to your post “For All Asking” It’s called “Legion...”

It appears the superior Talon has returned. Good.

I’ve been here, sitting next to the moat, contemplating life and the weight of the Du Couteau surname.

#blades-lost-x #hey there!#glad to see you took #bork #{the word on the street} (ooc)

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Hey so I saw something in an amino recently and idk where else to go to ask and you seem to be very well in the loop of League things, Talon especially, but apparently there's a PROJECT: TALON skin on the way this year? Do you happen to know if this is true? :O

First I apologize for not seeing this.As someone who would love to see that, unfortunately, we’ll have to wait probably until 2021 (because pessimist reasons).He absolutely fits in the theme and fantasy of the Neon City Universe, and it’s strange why he hasn’t been added into it yet. Though the good thing about waiting is the newer the skin, the shinier they are! PS: I’d totally want him to side with PROJECT as their most modern design. PS II: please make it cobalt blue or neon white.

#{another body for the gutter} (answered)

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