asgardeventide | video // Joffrey and Viserys

[Red is Viserys]
[Orange is Joffrey]

[The only view is of a door - the door to Viserys Targaryen’s room, to be exact - cracked slightly open, with a bucket on the rim.]

Just wait for it. [He whispers, not wanting to alert Viserys to his scheme.] He’s going to throw a fit.

[“Going to”? He’s quite already there if the way the door flies open is anything to go by. It flies open, the bucket of paint falls, and a stream of gold pours down over him, covering his head and dripping down his clothes, ready to pool on the floor. There’s no screaming at this gold over his head, every ounce of air in his lungs briefly punched out of him. The way he backs up against the wall is quick and panicked, as if he’s just had a bucket of hideous, venomous insects and snakes poured all over him. It happens quickly, and if one listens well enough between the sound of him hitting the wall and the gasp for air, they might just be able to pick up on two words rushed together:

Sweet sister.

He goes still the moment he spots Joffrey, though. Remarkably still for someone who’s so prone to being restless, which might be warning to someone else, but. Well.]

You.

[Joffrey is in the middle of a laughing fit, and takes a few seconds to catch his breath.] You should have seen your face! How pathetic!

[Far too still to be trusted, and it’s a miracle Viserys manages to remain as such when that hideous (to his ears, probably the same to everyone else in Westeros) laughter rings out. Pathetic breaks every bit of patience he has and what’s more pathetic, really, than a man launching himself at a boy a full decade younger than him? For someone covered in gold paint, it seems effortless to do as much, like some scrawny football player finally getting his chance to shine by...tackling a child to the floor.]

[Joffrey yells and hits the ground with a thud, limbs flailing about in a misguided attempt to land a blow on his attacker.] Get off of me, you brute!

Brute? Me? [He is apparently really good at this—has Joffrey been suffering this all along? Limbs flail and Viserys moves to grab at his wrists, to pin him down, ready to bodily stick him to the floor if he has to. How pathetic indeed.] Your father was the brute—hold still, hold still or it will be much worse. Hold still or I'll spit in your mouth!

Don’t you dare talk about my father! [He struggles more, despite the advice he was given.] I should have brought my bow and shot you instead!

[Good advice, too, because all that struggling does is earn him a smack, and it looks like it will only get worse before—]

[Joffrey lets out another high-pitched yell, before realizing that he’s still filming this. Not wanting to let the world see his continued humiliation (this was supposed to humiliate Viserys, after all!) he shuts the feed off.]

[ooc; takes place shortly after this post. They'll both be responding separately from their own rooms; please specify in the subject line if you only want to direct the reply at one of them!]

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Good on you for that, then. You probably ought to figure out a way to roll out from under someone though, just in case something like this happens again. [And she's guessing it will. Probably frequently.]

I've gotten in a few scrapes myself, I might be able to teach you.

[But no, smallish boything, do not cry. She hesitates in saying anything else, but figures she might as well do the full on teacher/nanny thing.]

Also, what made you think pouring paint on him was a good idea?

I tried, but he had me pinned down. [In all fairness, Viserys was pretty experienced in the art of shoving people to the ground.]

He's done nothing but mock me and insult me since he's gotten here, so I got fed up with him.

Words usually go over better than childish pranks like the one you pulled. You deserve some sort of retaliation, sure, but nobody should hurt a -

[Wait.

He might be one of the kind of kids that gets offended when you call them a child. Even while they're milking the tears and crying.]

Nobody should hurt someone smaller than they are.

I'll be bigger than him someday. He's not that tall, for a grown man.

[He has to have something he can brag about, still.]

I don't think he'd bother listening to words much.

[That gets her to chuckle, and she tries to hide her smile behind her hand.]

You'd be surprised what even the smallest, most insignificant person would listen to, when there's words worth hearing being spoken. You've got to command attention with your tone, project it properly. Choose your words wisely, too.

He thinks he's the rightful king, and because of that he walks around like he can't even hear you unless you're saying something he likes.

I'm taking it you're the rightful king, then? As long as you know the truth, that's all that matters. And honestly, none of the rules or stations of where you're from come into play all that often here. If he decides to bother you again, though, let me know. I'll take care of him.

[She's incredible small and looks adorable, but she's tough, okay. She swears.]