#MMMMMMM DELICIOUS HORROR AND ANGST

[llondonfog]

so I've never watched coralline. HOWEVER. Firmly believe Malleus would agree to sew buttons in his eyes. If it was Lilia? He'd live in delulu land. Anyways.

OHHHHHHH YES!!!!

oh my god i am kicking my feet and grinning wildly anon, this is such a wretchedly perfect set up??? Lilia being the "other mother father"??? coaxing not just malleus away to spend eternity at his side, but silver and sebek as well??

fuck, now i'm just thinking about a coraline!au where lilia already has convinced malleus to sew the buttons on and has set his sights on a new child to add to his collection family— silver, trapped within the confines of a lonely, miserable life where he's raised by his arrogant and selfish uncle after the untimely death of his parents. oh, and how easy it would be to convince silver, the hours spent playing with a new father who heals the aching hole in his heart that's threatened to split him apart ever since he lost his own, a father who laughs and smiles so much more than silver's ever did. a father with the most fantastical stories and who's cooking can be forgiven because of the fact that he has put so much thought into preparing a meal for silver, an act of love that no one's done for him in a very long time :(

here, in lilia's warm arms, in this private world where no cruelty can intrude and he can play every day with the other young boy who lives here, he's safe. it doesn't bother him that the man's eyes are brilliant magenta buttons, they sparkle down at him all the same with the very affection he's been so cruelly starved of for so long. and when lilia presents him with a choice, a pair of gleaming mother of pearl buttons, would there truly be any reason for him to say no?