#ITS ABOUT CARE. ABOUT LOVE. ABOUT DISTRUST PERVADING EVERY INTERACTION BUT STILL KNOWING THAT THEY'LL BE THERE IF YOU NEED

[drewtanakagf]

okay so if i may be ill for a second here. because the calore brothers will always bring it out in me. the fact that cal tried so hard for maven and maven like to talk big but when it came to actually killing cal he couldn't. bc cal loved him so much, and even if maven couldn't even love him back in the same way because elara literally twisted love in his mind.... maven still cared. It might not have been love but whatever it was it was enough for him to still care. and if that doesn't make you go insane about brotherly bonds then i don't fucking know what.

another thing too is that maven was literally cast aside, a shadow. tiberias vi was indifferent to him at best, julian openly hated him, elara wanted to carve him into a perfect heir to get one up on coriane EVEN AFTER she killed her with her own two hands.

cal one the other hand was brought up to be perfect and placed expectation on him by not only his father but the whole court who were watching him like hawks

NEITHER of them had their own agency. it's just that cal's actually gave him a chance to gain a more positive outlook and maven's only choice was to be cynical.

when maven did try, thomas was killed and he lost his ability to love. LIKE!!??!?! TO LOVE

and cal still tried his fucking hardest to love him, despite. and even if it wasn't enough to save maven in the end, it was enough to grant cal the mercy of not killing his brother with his own hands.