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Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano ([personal profile] toobitter) wrote in [community profile] halfbloodhill_logs2013-10-18 05:36 pm

Time to get branded

Who: Reyna + Romans (and anyone who wants to watch?)
What: Get another bar added to your SPQR tattoo!!!
Where: The Arena. Because that's about as Roman as it could get here.
When: October 18.

Reyna gave the message to the Romans at morning training. The next bar for the Legionnaires in their years of service to New Rome... It was, like for the Greek campers and their beads on their necklaces, a big deal for Romans.

And so this afternoon, Reyna sat in the Arena in her ceremonial toga, dogs on either side of her. It would be time for the branding ceremony soon enough, to honor the Gods, their ancestors and all those who served the Legion before them... And to earn their new bar. For those on Probatio to get theirs and to be one of the few actual Roman things left in their control. If there are Greeks or Magicians that want to witness the ceremony, Reyna will not turn them away, glad to share a part of their culture with everyone else.
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[personal profile] salvagedlight 2013-10-21 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Ven's been through enough of these things to know how important this is - and for him it's kind of a personal birthday party as well, since his birthday had been just a few days before. Being bounced around from home to home as a kid meant he didn't have much in the way of birthday celebrations, so he honestly prefers this as the marker than anything else. A party just isn't important to him - he likes knowing he's part of something bigger, that he's making a difference, that he finally found a home to belong to. Getting his sixth bar is just reaffirming that for him.]

[He's made an effort to flatten his hair for this and failed miserably; it's so thick it just sticks up everywhere like it always does. He's also wearing the only purple t-shirt he managed to save (the one he was wearing when he went on furlough in the first place) and his best pair of pants, and he's got his sword by his side as usual. He's sticking close to John, ready to corral him if need be, because he fully expects his new brother to start screaming at the branding.]