#Hellish love pentagon au

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IM NOT CREATING ANOTHER CRACK AU IM NOT CREATING ANOTHER CRACK AU IM JOT CREATING ANOTHER CRACK AU

anywayyyyyyyyys (this got stupid long djdgzgrfhdbdt)

putting krk in the worst love pentagon imaginable with Esmera, Dez, goruu, and Leo.

this all starts when goruu and crew hitch a ride with the scavs in order to get back to dez, except they no longer know where he last was so they opt to go to where they know lady Esmera is still stationed at with all the others who didn’t leave on dez’s war world. As they’re entering esmera’s territory, they make a quick pit stop near the border for one reason or another and esmera’s forces get alerted to the intruders (scavengers) and start bee lining it towards both crews.

Before anyone knows what the hell is happening they’re being ambushed by the guards. Goruu tries to say something but his words are lost in the chaos so he just has to get his guys to try and stop esmera’s guys before they cause any actual harm to the scavs. Queue deathcobraa coming in out of left field to take krk out. Spoiler, he fails as krk puts up one hell of a fight against him simply out of concern for his guys. In the midst of the skirmish nobody realizes that Esmera has come down from her fortress to see what all the alarms are going off for and sees krk and deathcobraa just absolutely beating the shit out of each other lmao. There’s a brief moment where they split apart and she notices how krk instantly stands defensively in front of one of goruus guys who got tossed around in the confusion. Before anyone can charge again she makes her presence known and everything stops as she approaches them.

she holds herself high and powerful so she’s kind of really intimidating as she looms over all parties present and it is with dawning realization that krk realizes who she is and that he just absolutely wrecked one of her guys shit and she was probably about to kill his ass. But. She’s not doing anything. Just staring him down.

after a few tense seconds she finally turns to goruu and asks what he’s doing there instead of being with dez and he explains that they got separated and that the scavs helped them get to her instead and they’ve been very hospitable to them the whole time. He adds a lot of niceties to ensure that the scavs (specifiacally krk) don’t get thrown in the brig or killed. After a couple more tense seconds Esmera decides that she if her guards are willing to brush off this fight she is willing to overlook any and all harm done and will welcome the scavs into her fortress so that they may rest and replenish their energy until they’re ready to move on in their travels or if they decide to stay indefinitely. deathcobraa and his guys are willing to forgive this skirmish so the scavs and Dino force are welcomed into the fortress

before he even really gets a chance to settle, krks summoned to the throne room as Esmera is requesting an audience with him. Once he gets there she tells him that she knows of fulcster and that her ex got him in serious trouble that resulted in him being put on the list, though she’s not sure why. Before krk can panic and start making excuses for him she says that she’s willing to negotiate with said ex to get his name cleared and so that the weight of whatever crimes he committed will be lifted from all of them so they can go on with peace of mind. Krk breathes a sigh of relief and thanks her for her generosity and before he can ask if she needs anything in return she waves him off and lets him get back to settling in with his crew.

the scavs settle in and Esmera sends off her message. As they settle in krk decides to spend some more time with goruu who, he discovers, is actually a chill guy to hang out with once they’re not desperately trying to get somewhere safe. They hit it off well enough and tend to spend a lot of time together when they’re not busy wrangling their respective crews or when krk isn’t being summoned by lady Esmera, who seems to have taken and odd liking to him and summons him at random simply to chat or to play some sort of strategic game. He’s fine with this. She’s knowledgeable about many battles and is very wise so conversations and games are always fun.

it’s around week two of the scavs living in the fortress that dez’s war world makes and appearance over the planet. Before fulcster has a chance to freak out krk reminds him that Esmera has granted him safety and he doubts she’ll go back on that. Despite this fulcster still goes off to hide as dez comes down from his ship to confront Esmera about this traitor. (If he’s being honest though he does not know who the hell she’s talking about but this is more of a how dare type thing. He sentenced that guy to death for SOME reason damnit)

Esmera doesn’t budge on her decision and further insists that on that planet (that dez abandoned) her word is law and if she says these guys are forgiven for whatever crime then they are forgiven. End of story.

After some huffing and puffing Dez finally relents but they’re going to stay there for a while in order to get a few more supplies before they head back off into space. So. Dez bares witness first hand to Esmera summoning krk to the throne room so they can play their game. He’s kinda standing off to the side so he can’t really hear what they’re talking about, but he sees the way she looks at him as he talks. When krk leaves he follows at a safe distance and watches as he hangs out with goruu (who has decided to stay in the fortress with Esmera). He seems to look at krk in a much similar fashion and he can’t help starting to put some pieces together. Then something clicks.

seeing as he’s still upset by their argument and by the fact that one of his combiner teams has joined Esmeral, he decides to be a spiteful little bastard. And what better way to go about that than by seducing the same weird little guy faster than your ex and your former combiner captain. How hard can it be?

turns out it’s actually really hard. Krk is oblivious to all his courting attempts and is not reciprocating at ALL. It’s actually really frustrating. Krk seems to humor him for his wasted time. He’s a little abrasive at first towards him but is friendly enough after their 3rd or 4th encounter. It’s one day that dez catches him alone in the lounge and asks him to play a game that he starts to get why Esmeral and goruu are drawn towards him. When he leaves after that meeting he finds himself even more frustrated than before because now he HAS to win. Unfortunately he rambles about this to Leo of all people and now he wants in on this game too just to mess with dez.

imagine krks surprise when he’s leaving his personal quarters one day and finds Leo standing outside in, what he assumes is supposed to be, a suave pose. He’s even more surprised when Leo starts behaving in much the same way as dez did when he first started interacting with him. He’s very confused. And also running a little late for his hangout with goruu due to Leo distracting him.

when he meets up with goruu he explains what happened which goruu just tells him to brush off but krk can’t help but feel that goruu is withholding something from him. But if goruu doesn’t seem to be too bothered by it he supposes he can ignore this behavior for now. He can probably ask Esmera next time she requests his company.

unbeknownst to krk, goruu goes to Esmera after their hangout and informs her of what’s happening with dez and Leo. She’s quiet for a moment but he can feel her field seething as the information properly sets in. After a moment she asks what goruu’s intents with krk are as she figures they are much the same. He’s tentative to answer, but goruu confirms he’s wanting to court krk as well but figured that Esmera had already started and didn’t want to impose. They’re both quiet for a moment before Esmera suggests that she would be willing to share krks attention with him if the two of them join their efforts to gets krk before either dez or Leo because she assumes that they are not working towards the same goal. She is correct in this assumption. Goruu agrees to her terms.

krk is wildly overwhelmed a few days later by all the sudden attention. It’s not bad he supposes, the worst is honestly Leo, but he’d like to have some time to himself. He’s not had much time to spend with his crew due to this but he still checks in with them time to time. It is when he finally has a moment of reprieve that he has a moment to sit down with crank. The pilot asks him why he’s been so busy and krk informs him of everything that’s been going on. Crank is quiet for a little too long so krk turns to look at him and sees the equally most frustrated yet dead pan expression he has ever seen on him before. The silence continues for a while longer before crank is signing very heavily before he very slowly and very patiently explains to krk that he’s been getting flirted with this whole time.

krk immediately denies it. Then he starts thinking on it. Then the horrifying realization sets in that oh GOD he has been getting flirted with this whole time. Those were courting rituals from dez and Leo. He assumes the hangouts with goruu and Esmeral can be interpreted as dates. He has a headache all of the sudden. Crankcase leaves him to wallow in his confusion induced headache.

the next time he’s hanging out with goruu and Esmera calls for him goruu asks if he can tag along. He’s a little confused but doesn’t see the harm in it. Goruu is quiet and reading off to the side as he and Esmera play their game and talk. It’s a rather long game so near the middle he puts away his data pad and rests his head on the back of krks shoulder to take a small nap. It catches krk off guard a little but it’s not too distracting so he lets it be. This is the most relaxed he’s been since this whole ordeal stared. Goruu’s sleepy vents and esmera’s light tapping on the data pad as she thinks of her next move start making him zone out. He’s pulled back to reality with a startled blink as esmera’s hand tilts his head up so she coul look at him proper.

these two aren’t so bad.

this escaped me a bit I’m cutting this off here.