( it's its own answer. he hadn't wanted to assume which side the boy would come down on, but this is... a step, perhaps.
he studies the picture for a long time. memorizing the lines, the places where the paint dipped into shadow. godric has lived a very long time and, as needs demanded, descended into the hedonism of the renaissance age. he has known artists whose names have been remembered by history and those that time has forgotten. he remembers them all. oddly, it is one of the only things that has ever been very good at moving him. art was very important to his people, though little of theirs has survived.
this is a statement. a moment. frozen, suspended in oil and acrylic. )
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Date: 2020-01-21 02:59 am (UTC)he studies the picture for a long time. memorizing the lines, the places where the paint dipped into shadow. godric has lived a very long time and, as needs demanded, descended into the hedonism of the renaissance age. he has known artists whose names have been remembered by history and those that time has forgotten. he remembers them all. oddly, it is one of the only things that has ever been very good at moving him. art was very important to his people, though little of theirs has survived.
this is a statement. a moment. frozen, suspended in oil and acrylic. )
Is this your answer?