<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/c2/67/fac267e61796515dce490f9ee30cf396.gif)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Brion Markov||Geoforce (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=309416.msg15029427#msg15029427)<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>As picture<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>Saturday, August 22nd 2020<br/><strong>TIME:</strong>Early in the morning<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Secret Sanctuary Training Room<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong>Working out to get rid of this energy<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Raven, Roy, Open<br/><br/><hr/>"I just pointed out that I didn't have much faith in your willpower to start with, and you take it as a compliment?" Brion easy chuckles at that. '<strong>Yes, of course. We all have tests and trails in our lives that define you. My feelings for Helena are ...well you're the empath. The fact that my willpower has been up to the task is a grand complement.</strong>" he points out. "<strong>I'm sure I'm annoying to be around when she steps into the room.</strong>" He continues to do sets as he watches fly around in defensive patterns.<br/><br/>Well, he didn't pull any punches, did he?  The sorceress felt a twinge of embarrassment as she realized she was talking to one of the people who had caused these... stirrings in the first place.  "Yes.  I'm not used to dealing with it.  On Azarath I was kept isolated from my peers, for the most part, so it's not something I've had to consider before." He listens to that and nods. It was customary for a few royals, dependent upon their culture to marry 'untouched' or 'pure' and their parents went to great lengths to make sure they were all but alone. "<strong>And you show up here with people who have raging testosterone and estrogen as they discover the people who excite them both mentally and sexually. You've literally gone through the most profound culture shock. </strong>"<br/><br/>"Things like courtship and this flirting I've seen the others do... it confuses me."  She frowned, not liking feeling like this.  "Why be so circumspect with it?  Shouldn't people be open about their desires?" He smiles at her question. "<strong>I haven't told Helena that I have feelings for her for two year--ok I told her last night...just to use myself as an example. When we met, we had both just lost our parents. We were devastated emotionally. She had no one, I still had a few people in my life who helped me through it. In the weeks we spent together I began to admire her even through her pain, she showed me who she was and I had a feeling what she would one day be. Still, it was not the appropriate time to express these feelings until she processed and dealt with her loss. Then I never found a good time really. Just because I was feeling all these things didn't mean she was.</strong>"<br/><br/>"Keeping things bottled inside yourself isn't healthy."  He sighs at that. "<strong>Perhaps not. But when you honestly care about someone you take their feeling and their current situation into consideration. The idea of courtship and flirting is to alert someone to the fact that you are attracted to them. Its a social custom that allows them to either flirt back or refuse your advances in a way that hopefully doesn't create a lot of bad and hurt feelings. Imagine someone like Lor except make him more emotional and lower his self control approaching the person they desire and bluntly stating that 'I want to have recreational sex with you' or 'you would give me fine babies, we should get on that' or any of the other blunt things that one could say to another which is basically the truth but not smoothed out by social customs." he presents a scenario. "If the person sortofZod approached wasn't into tall and muscular and was equally blunt with him saying 'I think your invulnerable penis would kill me' or 'nope, just nope, nope nope...never going to happen move on there because I don't find you attractive'--sortofZod could become highly emotional and wreck this mountain with everyone in it.</strong>"<br/><br/>"<strong>We dance around the subject in the attempt to either let people down gently because they haven't made some huge bold statement declaring their intentions and being turned down...which could lead to all kinds of us no longer being able to work together. Feelings are powerful and they don't necessarily follow any kind of logic. Their messy and complicated.</strong>"<br/><br/>"Now I'm surrounded by people giving off waves of sexual energy and I don't know what to do about it." He looks around. "<strong>This is a good start. I worked out a lot around Helena. Took a lot of cold showers too.</strong>" he says. "T<strong>he other thing you can do is actually...flirt with someone you're attracted to. If they feel the same way then well...kissing is a good start. Touch, dancing...just doing things together helps with the release of sexual energy and tension. Now personally, I'm a romantic and believe that you should actually like the person you're attracted to and they should like you. It leads to a deeper bond and a more fulfilling experience. But, there are many people who don't have the same ideas. You need to ask yourself the question of what you're looking for. Something slow and casual so you can ease into things, maybe something with a little more structure like courting and agreeing to being exclusive to each other..</strong>" he shrugs. "<strong>I'm not sure what you want. Only you'd know.</strong>"<br/><br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://66.media.tumblr.com/d0a0bc2f86e4487f57e29c0d73459b33/tumblr_pigslsmIB11r8j1j3o2_r1_250.gif)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Brion Markov||Geoforce (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=309416.msg15029427#msg15029427)<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>As picture<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>Saturday, August 22nd 2020<br/><strong>TIME:</strong>Some godawful time in the morning<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Kitchen<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong>Cooking for Helena...and probably everyone else.<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Stargirl, Open<br/><hr/><br/>"Just so long as you're aware that I'm bad enough to have burnt water trying to boil it, then sure," Brion snickers at that. "<strong>Well, you could help. There is usually all kinds of prep that you need to do. Individually its not so bad, you don't need timing to cut tomatoes or whisk eggs. You'd slowly acclimate and be able to watch me and the way I went about it certain things so there would be less pressure.</strong>"<br/><br/>"Well, she doesn't have to worry about it from me.  Not only do I frown on poaching, I'm also not interested in the male half of our species." She stuck her tongue out at him in an exaggerated fashion, throwing on a valley girl accent for good measure.  "Penis is so gross."<br/><br/>He laughs at that not even having to adjust gears in his head, this was new information about her but she could have also said I like custard. "<strong>Tell me about it. Never shower with a bunch of men after a soccer game..or any sport for that matter. They just 'boom' flash you and then you can't unsee them. It's like..turn around, look at the wall...and by God don't try to have a conversation with me while I'm ...washing myself.</strong>"<br/><br/>"A woman must always be concerned about her figure, Brion," Courtney pointed out, as if it should be obvious, though there was a grin on her face once again.  "God, if I even have one percent body fat my self esteem will just, like, plummet."  The return of the valley girl accent, with a vengeance. He snorts again. "<strong>Yeah ...well I think you're...probably ok...maybe even good.</strong>" he teases her.<br/><br/>"I can take a look at the Sanctuary's systems, see what, if anything, I can do to improve them, sure."  She shrugged.  "We'll see." He nods as he gets her a plate of things that are read. "<strong>Great, the JL have been doing things a certain way for years now. They have their well oiled machine and their patterns. As the next generation of heroes, we need to improve upon that.</strong>"<br/><br/>He listened to her explanation of Cindy and puts it into his head to login their computer files and take a look at who this woman is and also to do the same for all the other heroes here at Mount Justice. He reaches out and squeezes her shoulder after wiping his hand on his apron. "<strong>That is a horrible situation all round.</strong>" he says knowing what kind of toll that would take on him. "<strong>Promise to talk to me if you wake up with horrible dreams...or when you're feeling the weight of this upon you.</strong>" They had to be here for each other and not just in the naked/sweaty sense.