#Rip Castor

[the-revival-of-dionysus-sorta]

PJO/HOO Hot Take -

So I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion about who’s the best godly parent, specifically father, in PJO. Most people either say Hades, Poseidon, or Apollo and imo those are all incorrect, here’s why -

1. HADES - straight up, while he payed child support (shocking), he also…

- told his only living child (Nico) that he wished he’d died instead of his sister

- has manipulated him many times, stole his and Bianca’s memories (ethics on this can be debated)

- basically did exactly what Hermes did to Luke and May but with Hazel and Marie

2. POSEIDON - didn’t even pay child support smh

- only began a relationship with Percy after he was singled out by Zeus ( + didn’t defend him in the slightest)

- only continued said relationship because of necessity

- left Sally and Percy without any defences making them turn to a literal abuser for help

- generally just a deadbeat dad, also what about his other kids? Last PJO book he admits he has like 13 demigod kids and we just..never see them? (Uncle Rick probs forgot but I’m still blaming Poseidon for continuity or smth)

3. APOLLO - while he does care about his children he also…

- wasn’t there for the funerals of any of his kids

- had never even spoken to most of his kids despite having visited camp on multiple occasions

- straight up only started fathering after being turned mortal and he wasn’t even good at it (of course people grow, I’m not hating on Apollo/Lester as a character just as a father)

Rather, the best dad in the series has been there since day 1 - Dionysus. Here’s why imo -

- Has been present in both his sons lives since birth, as well as having essentially joint-custody of them

- literally just the whole thing about Castors funeral after the titan war

- genuinely cared about them and claimed all his children without being asked (those were the only 2 he had)

- as well as making sure they were safe and cared for (aside from the war but shit happens)

- understands the issues that come with being a demigod/parenting a demigod because he was one himself

- there’s more but I have a hand cramp rn so yea

[ashthenerdtheythem]

Dionysus

Dionysus had so much trauma. He was gaslight about his gender for the start of his life, Hera drove his parents past the brink of sanity, he's lost so many kids and he's seen as "the drunk" He is the most human of the gods, maybe because he started off as a human. He played an active role in rasing his kids, he directly disobeyed Zeus' orders after the battle of the Labrynth because his son, his baby had just been murdered, and he had 1 child left and Zeus be fucked, he was going to make sure that he's okay. He has been traumatised so much and he didn't know how to deal with it so he makes sure that this generation deals with it safely, he makes sure that Nico eats, because he is a child that needs to grow and it is so important for his health, and he makes sure that it doesn't fall to Will, because even though he pretends that he's okay, Will is far from it, and Dionysus helps him without pushing it, he takes some of the weight of off his shoulders, he sits him down for talks when he's overwhelmed by everything with the infirmary, and his dad and the new campers, because he gives a fuck. He may be brash and a bit of a dick, but he isn't going to let another child be traumatised the way that he was, and he's going to try his hardest to keep these kids stable, he might not get your name right (because he has to *try* to distance himself or he will fall apart because he can't watch another child he cares about die) but he will talk you through a panic attack, give you a drink and he will make sure that nobody pressures you to act like a human again until you feel ready.

[mydarlingdearestdead]

Why haven't we seen any children of Dionysus as mcs yet?

Like a kid who can drive people to insanity with sheer force of will.

Threatre kids.

[seagrays]

stargazing

[drewpicturesani]

and finally... one of the most absurd things I've ever drawn. And it delights me.

theoretically this was an @artfight attack for my friend @no-fun-at-a-party, but the entire rest of my lancer party got bonus cameos from their pilots in the place of the cherubs, plus a few NPCs too.

with love:

The Creation of K1N.

[hhhhh click for better quality]

[desenvoutee]

Le temps que le castor comprenne cela, et la France sera déjà morte depuis longtemps.

[tsams-and-co-memes]

Hello! Since you have your theory of Frank being Pisces I kinda just learned about a technically not zodiac sign called Cetus that for some reason reminds me of Lunar. But then again I don't know much about zodiac signs in general and with zero evidence think the the astral body that feeds the wither storm is Ophiuchus but I thought I might as well mention this and see if you see any similarities^^

Oooo. I know nothing about Cetus, but now I might have to go do some reading on that

As far as Ophiuchus being the one feeding the witherstorm goes,, I think it was mentioned at some point by Castor that the witherstorm was like someone's pet, but I forget who he was talking about. My memory is awful so I could be imagining it, I have no idea

[lian-fang-zun]

Jason/Castor (FGO) drabble/snippet

"I made tea!" Jason announced, sauntering into the room.

Castor made a face from where he was on the couch. "I don't want tea."

Jason rolled his eyes. "I didn't make tea for you! This is my tea," he pointed out, sitting down on the other end.

“Then why are you telling me?” Castor retorted, brow twitching.

“Well…” Jason pretended to think, then smirked. “It’s a conversation starter!”

“It’s a lousy one.”

“Oh, is it? We’re talking, so…” Jason made a fingergun with his free hand. “Checkmate.”

Castor rolled his eyes.

[chbnews]

DAILY NEWS 4/30/24

Link for the Discord 🔗

Apollo cabin wins Soccer game hosted by cabin 9

Clarrise la rue sent to infirmary after accidentally punching a wall instead of Leo 💀

Quote from Clarrise “I’m gonna rip his spine out and use it as a belt if he doesn’t shut up.”

I want my spine please :(

Quiji board session in cabin 12 to try and contact Castor to stop banging on the windows at night

Thanks for reading!! - Leo Valdez 🔥

[mixxmoon]

"Hi," Castor said. "I- do you remember me?" Percy didn't answer. He just stared. Castor raised his hand to Percy's wrist. "We should move. I don't think we should-" he tried, but when he tried to stand, Percy pulled him back down. "It isn't safe-" Castor tried again but was cut off when Percy tugged him closer, hugging him as if they weren't in the middle of hell. As if Tartarus was nothing more than an inconvenience.

Castor tensed before giving in, wrapping his arms around him again as they sat there.

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THEY MAKE ME WANT TO RIP MY HAIR OUT AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY

Chapter 13

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[thatweirdocryptid]

the games I headcanon the T.S.a.M.s and L.a.E.s characters playing:

Nexus: Says it's doom eternal, but he really plays Horse life Roblox.

(Old)Moon: he enjoys older games like the original doom, but would play some Bethesda games like fallout and skyrim(including the older ones like oblivion)

Lunar: Sky: children of the light, no questions asked.

Sun: of course cult of the lamb but after the sorta cult follower incident, he played some animal crossing lately, even got his hands on the older games.

Earth: she would play Sky: Cotl with Lunar, but also enjoys playing Horse Life Roblox.

Dazzle: if they could hold the game controlers or play on tablets they would play roblox mostly always switching from game to game.

Jack: any world explorer game, or a game with violence.

Bloodmoon(r.i.p): Doom eternal, do I really have to explain?

Kc(also rip): playing half-life, just half-life.

Solar(twink): also plays horse life and he is fuckin rich in the game like gaw damn how?

Eclipse: he would hide the fact he likes Sky: cotl and says he likes the original doom.

Pollux: would play sky: cotl too.

Castor: animal crossing, and if Pollux begs him enough he would play a little bit of sky: cotl too.

Dark Sun: any dragon related games or games that allow him to have a choice.

Idk who else to put lol.

[foxcort]

What a nuisance it was, that his mind knew Beron’s opinions and judgements weren’t worth more than horse shit, but his heart took the blow as if his father had drawn his sword and drove it through his chest.

written for day 7: free day of @erisweekofficial.🧡🔥 / a look into eris' perspective following the events of his brothers' deaths in attempting to kill lucien. can be read as a sequel to the erisweek entry i wrote for erisweek#2023, wildfire. / the gorgeous floral/eris-themed dividers are made by @tsunami-of-tears | (AO3)

a/n: listing the vanserra brothers in order here because lists make my brain happy: Eris, Draco, Castor, Pollux, Hector, Damon and Lucien. draco like mads mikkelson in clash of the titans. hector like eric bana in troy.

tw: torture mention, beron being an asshole

It was early in the morning when the bodies arrived.

Broken, bloodied things carefully wrapped in rich, emerald cloth.

And despite the shouts and wails that now filled the throne room of the Forest House, Eris had awaited the inevitability of it since the moment Pollux, Castor and Damon set out to hunt Lucien across Prythian.

He had warned them. Had ordered them. Had tried to make it clear that a High Lord, no matter how young and untested, was a deadly adversary.

Their arrogance had gladly lead them to their deaths anyways.

“I’LL KILL HIM! I’LL RIP HIM APART UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT BUT BLOODY RIBBONS!”

The screams echoed from the throne room and down the halls, drowning out the sound of Eris’ steps, unnerving even the sentries stationed outside the large ornate doors as he shoved them open and stalked past.

Every head turned in his direction as he stopped short. 

“You’ll do no such thing.” He bit out harshly, voice echoing in the large room, though his volume was nowhere near as loud as his younger brother’s.

Pollux was a sobbing, shrieking mess. Clutched back and barely held upright by two of their brothers, it was all he could do to keep the spittle from coating his every threat. And when Eris retorted, he turned his wild, grief-stricken and hate-filled eyes momentarily on him. As if in the wake of his twin’s death, he’d finally found the gall to step out of the neat line Eris had worked so hard to keep them all in.

It was bitter work. Work meant for heartless bastards with cruel faces. But it had ensured their survival in this court. In all of Prythian . . . until now.

With a growl, Pollux tore his glare from Eris, turning a pleading gaze upon their father, who sat upon his throne with a chin nestled on his fist and a displeased look on his face. “He killed one of your sons! One of your heirs! Is that not reason enough to declare war on Spring?!”

So Tamlin had cut down Castor. And Lucien . . . Lucien had killed Damon.

An ugly amalgam of guilt and anxiousness roiled in Eris’ gut. His fingers clenched into a concealed fist at his side and his jaw tensed as he resisted the urge to bathe the entire room in fire. The burning could not possibly hurt more than the ache gradually ebbing in his chest. And perhaps then the House of Autumn would finally be cleansed from its everlasting rot.

Luckily, he lacked the ability to light anything more than a candle at the moment, considering he'd spent the better part of the last two nights locked in a dungeon enduring Beron's cruelty. Although he'd healed quickly, Eris still felt the phantom pain of the bruises, cuts and near-wounds his father had inflicted. His skin chaffed. His clothes felt too-tight.

The only reprieve he'd had was when his mother snuck past the guards in the early hours of the morning, and begged him to winnow Lucien across the Spring border, to where they both knew he stood a chance.

And now two of his brothers were dead.

Heat curled over his fingers and he forced the emotion away, beckoning the impudent behavior back into his expression, his movements, his words. “You were all warned that if you stepped into Spring territory, the High Lord would see it as a threat and act accordingly.” He flicked his eyes towards his father’s, holding his gaze as he continued. “Declaring war on Spring will fix nothing.” Eris paused, raising a brow in his father’s direction even as he felt the wretchedness of his next choice of words. “Besides, father still has four other heirs to his name. Last I checked.”

Pollux shrieked an intelligible mouthful of words — curses, no doubt — and out of the corner of his eye, Eris saw him lunge in his direction. Draco and Hector, who’d had their arms loosely wrapped around Pollux as he’d sobbed and begged, hauled him back before he could get any closer.

"Would that you had died in his stead you pompous cruel bastar—"

"Take him to his rooms." Beron's voice cut through Pollux's tirade, freezing every body present into a still silence. "And station a sentry at his door. Lest we make more enemies we do not need."

It was not the threat of his younger brother’s intended violence that set him on edge, but the shift in his father’s expression. The curling of his lip. The sliver of disappointment glinting in his auburn eyes.

He waited until Draco, Hector and Pollux exited the room, not an ounce of will in them, before fixing his gaze on Eris. “It seems you have a tighter leash on your hounds.” A taunting sneer. His words drawn out and nearly spat out. “Your brothers certainly learn quicker than the beasts.” His father stood from the throne and Eris fought with his instinct to take a step back. "If you hadn't disobeyed me when I asked you to hold the filthy lesser fae, perhaps they would not have disobeyed your command to stay." His father stood closer now, only an arm's reach away. "Then I would still have seven sons."

Hundreds of years and yet he felt the heat of anxiousness deep in his gut as if he were a child. What a nuisance it was, that his mind knew Beron’s opinions and judgements weren’t worth more than horse shit, but his heart took the blow as if his father had drawn his sword and drove it through his chest.

Eris' jaw clenched, "Six."

Beron stilled.

"If you’d had your way, you'd still have six sons," Eris repeated, allowing a sliver of his reigned fury to ripple over his face. "Did my brothers learn from my disobedience, or did they learn from your brutality?"

"Watch your tongue, boy. Or I'll have you sent back to the dungeons."

"Then take me back, but spare me the hypocritical lecture. It's already torture enough."

He waited for a blow. A flash of fire. More screams and threats and pain. But silence stretched on until Beron's face settled back into his well-worn look of distaste. "See to your mother." And with one final sweep of his hateful gaze, his father strode from the room.

Eris felt the cold sweep into his bones, as if all his fire followed Beron out the door.

He found her in the infirmary, standing over Castor's body, the emerald cloth pulled back from his face to expose his bloodless skin and closed lids. His mother's hand was settled against the side of his face, unmoving as she stared blankly down at him. Behind her on a separate bed laid Damon, his face also uncovered, as if she'd just finished gazing at him in disbelief and had moved onto the next. 

Eris wondered if she saw them the way he did. If, now that they were quiet and still and unmoving, she saw them as sleeping children, their faces smoothed from the mannerisms of their father, their hearts bled dry of its rot.

At the sound of his approach, her head snapped up and he stopped abruptly, his gaze flitting from Castor and Damon, to his mother. His heart thundered in his chest, his stomach dropped and twisted, even as a numbness began to take hold. 

The Lady of Autumn's eyes were as red-ringed as Pollux's had been, but her hand slipped from Castor's face and Eris noted it was not grief that was prevalent in her eyes, but hope. 

For a moment, they simply stared at one another, their eyes glassy and their breaths held as an unspoken conversation flew between them.

Finally, when his throat had unconstricted itself and he was sure they were alone, Eris whispered in a hoarse voice, "He's alive." 

And then crossed the space between them before his mother fell to her knees. Her trembling hands clutched at his arms and he held her upright in his embrace, the sensation a foreign one. He couldn't remember the last time he'd held his mother or she had held him.

He took her affection with the hunger of a child. And it made him feel less alone.

Because as soon as he’d realized that Lucien was not amongst his dead brothers, he, too, had felt relief.

a/n: happy erisweek and thank you for giving this a read!

[pomegranateboba]

Making your summoners and the artw cast fight to the death

The summoners/sorcerers/OCs I have collected/kidnapped, whether voluntary or not:

Nicole (@pomegranateboba)

Kaitlyn (@kaitlyn-pink)

Atlas (@cuddlybelphie)

Luminous (@mochalumii)

Yuuko (@sspicat)

Amber (@amber-of-tharaval)

Renee (@f14loveisyou)

Elaine, Mumu (@mumuscae)

Lilith (@sleepytwilight)

Benate (@bittersweetcanary)

Ilona (@u3-ha)

Ruby (@marisssa1248)

Astraea (@polluxverse)

Vanessa (@bluem00n007)

Konami, Dipper (@tophatmaker)

Rin (@707sluvrr)

Hayden (@mazuriri)

Gliese (@gemlighter)

Yona (@llyuvvia)

Aspen (@nomx33)

Stellaluna (@athysblog)

Oh yeah, for all the OCs/characters with gender neutral pronouns, THE WEBSITE ONLY HAS MALE OR FEMALE😭 so i defaulted them all to male I APOLOGISE FOR MISGENDERING THEM I DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE 😭😭😭

Alright here we go kids :)

NOT SCHEDAR DYING FIRST LMAOOOOO

Rip Konami and Ilona (we don't talk about Schedar)

Arcky??? My boy got possessed he would never.

Benate who died to Arcky 😔

Spica singing cheerful songs with Kaitlyn and Lumi is so funny to me

JAHJKAHSKHAKSJGA ELAINE KILLED ME NOOO

RIGEL KILLING SIRIUS AKJHADHKGAJH MY BOY WAS DONE WITH HIM LMAOOO (kinda wish I was the one who killed him 😔 oh well)

VEGA GETTING STRANGLED

SPICA KILLING RIGEL (to avenge Sirius ayo- 👀)

THUBAN CASTOR AMBER LUMI WTF NOOOOOOOOOOOO (less emphasis on thuban im sorry)

POLLUX STABBING SPICA TO AVENGE HIS FALLEN CLAN LEADER THIS IS SO INTERESTING STOP

Lmao Poll and Arcky

Same Poll, same.

Arcky killing Stellaluna and Yuuko?? He's possessed again guys.

I CAN'T FIT IT ALL BECAUSE OF THE LIMIT OF 30

I'll make a part 2

[spiralingemptyness]

continuing my uncanny ability to not be able to start a post properly, but this time with auto correct ✨turned off✨ so rip any spelling errors

why do twins, especially in media get so much shit thrown at them… and i dont mean shit as in ‘oh you guys are twins’ type of bullshit, i mean a fucking dupmpster truck load of trauma

and majority of the time, it has the same sort of coding, one was abandoned and the other lost/got stripped of their sense of self, oh and thats not mentioning the fact that each of them has no self preservation, but like sammme tho

Dmc - Vergil and Dante being forcibly separated, and then later on Dante having people leave him or people he cant save, while Vergil was tortured and stripped of his identity, memories, etc by Mundus (fuck you you skank-ass bitch) (i can rant about these two fuckheads more…. But i despise essays)

blue exorcist - Rin and Yukio, Rin sorta not really getting their adoptive father killed while having a more demonic side to him, which makes practically everyone nut trust him or afraid of him… fun. Yukio is a high achieving childhood prodegy and has also been known to be able to see demons since his childhood, which is why he started exorcism at like seven… fun

greek mythology - castor and pollux, pollux being the son of zeus and castor the son of Tyndareus, both mothered by Leda, were princes of sparda. Both saved Helen and were on the argonauts and have been told to have liked a multitude of different things.. blah blah, castor ends up dying and pollux being a demigod decides to say f u to immortality in order to stay with his brother, which created gemini

greek mythology- apollo and artemis, these two have been mainly shown to focus on the polar opposite part of being siblings, apollo being the sun and a literal man whore, while his older twin sister is the moon and has been known for choosing an oath to throw away marriage and that shit

That being said theres also toliet bound hanako kun, blood of zeus, the fucking mario brothers, even those jailers from persona 5, oh and lets not forget vash and knives from trigun, etc etc

being traumaless, ha, fuck that. Everyone wants the life spice, it adds flavor to the personality

[thelovelydoggycatmadi]

McD rewatch part 3

So meowkii is dead, why do the NPC’s trust aph with this baby 

Brendan x Aphmau fanart is happening 

Sasha 100% planning on curb-stomping levin 

THEY SAID DAMNIT 

“I’m pretty sure my village is screwed” she has NO idea

Sense when does APH had the most on the line here Garroth someone’s baby was stolen???? 

STOP ADOPTING ANIMALS JESS.

CAT PISS??? ON THE FLOOR? ON THE BED? IM RETCHING. 

CHICKEN SHAMAN MENTION 

We started a new recording session lions internet immediately died

Castor x Cadenza side series when 

Jess is so bad at building omg 

STOP GIVING JESS ANIMALS 

Jess is really bad at taking care of these animals

Murder mystery wasn’t completely worthless

LITTLE MAID MOD YAAAAH 

Unpopular opinion I really like this mod I’m not a porn addict I swear I just like cute things 

My gang is the 1 singular Chibi maid and 5 dogs 

HE KILLED LITTLE MAID

I’m inconsolable 

Absolutely devastated she’s gone meanwhile lions just sitting disappointed in his chair 

Rip Matilda I’m kinda mad the fandom doesn’t care more about her

Oh shit we see garroth without his helmet 

Hehehehe Logan x Donna. 

CASTORRRRR

Rip Laurence

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

hey, I heard you liked assassin AUs? this ask turned out long as eff, whoops.

tw: mentions of death, murder, gore, dismemberment, mutilation, poison, and probably more. General assassin stuff. (not described, just mentioned)(murder, death, and poison are mentioned throughout, but the rest is just in the first paragraph)

so: 

Everyone has heard of the Duke, he’s a terror. He kills for anyone who pays him, and he does it gruesomely. If you want hearts ripped out of chests, people ground into sausage meat, one body part sent to each of the corpse’s loved ones, you go to the Duke. I heard he lives in the forest near… I know someone who knows someone… he’s easy to find, just go north. The Duke is the kind of story older kids tell to their younger siblings. He’ll find you, he’ll rip you in half… Other, less well-known assassins have said that he won’t last long. They’ve seen killers with his style before, they get careless. They get caught. It hasn’t happened yet though, so who knows? One of those assassins is found impaled the next day, DUKE carved into his chest as a warning to the others. 

Very few have heard of Anxiety. 

Good, Virgil thinks, as he slips ricin powder into a teabag. (He works as a castor oil salesman, he has to use the byproduct for something.) He mails the teabag to the address written on the discreet envelope he had received, and another corrupt politician is dead within the month. Technically, Virgil’s never killed anyone. It’s none of his business what his clients do with his products, after all. 

One day, Virgil is collecting the mail from the false address he uses as Anxiety, and he notices a letter. The stationery is too fancy, the handwriting would be easily identified—either this client is very stupid or they don’t care about being found out, which amounts to the same thing regardless. He carefully opens the letter.

It contains a hundred worth of marks, and instructions.

The instructions say to travel to the royal court. To get a job as a servant in the palace kitchens. To administer his product to the king and four others, whose names Virgil only vaguely recognizes. They must be important, though, for this much money.

He doesn’t usually travel, and this job seems dangerous... Clearly, more factors are at play here than a hired killer is permitted to know. But the letter promises four hundred more when the murder is done, and, well, that’s a lot of money. Virgil would be set for life. And who knows the consequences if he declines? 

He starts a mental packing list, and is on the road to the court within the week. 

(end) 

idk yet what happens next—my current idea is that Remus is also hired to kill the same people, and only the person who completes the job gets paid for it. That’s not great though… I kinda feel like one of them (probably Virgil) would just give up on the job if there was competition. It’d be pretty easy to contrive a reason for them to Not Do That—maybe if they don’t complete the job, they get killed? Virgil’s mysterious employer is already planning to kill him when the job is done, though—can’t have anyone knowing that you were (indirectly) the one to kill the previous king. Virgil isn’t fully aware of his employer’s plans, but he suspects. Virgil suspects everything. Paranoia keeps him alive. 

WAIT ACTUALLY IDEA (you are watching me brainstorm this au in real time)(ooh, how would a brainstorm work in the Mindscape? anyways)

I stopped typing for a sec and my brain wandered over to thinking about where the other sides could come into this au. (bear with me. also, this idea isn’t necessarily better than the last one. you have been warned.) 

So. Virgil’s employer (who I will call M. Evil or probably Mevil from now on) is probably killing the four people who are ahead of them for the throne, right? 

And Roman is a prince, right? 

So: Remus is Roman’s brother… c!Thomas is their dad… Logan and Janus are also ahead of Mevil for the throne (maybe one or both of them is engaged to Roman)… See where I’m going with this? (Maybe? Yes? No?)

(and Patton is the royal baker, Virgil’s boss while he works at the palace. Nobody is trying to kill him, but he might be accidentally endangered anyways)

okay, so Remus is the black sheep of the family, as he is wont to be in basically every AU I write. Being the Duke is sort of his side hobby? (Legally, he is a duke. Being a serial killer is the side hobby) He travels a lot, which is fairly normal for nobility. And wherever he goes, bloodshed follows.

There are theories among the kingdom that the Duke is following Remus, disturbingly obsessed with him. No one suspects that Remus might be the Duke, because Remus is a public figure and is ostensibly under too much scrutiny to get away with literal murder. Interestingly enough, it’s usually the crown’s political opponents who are murdered? Who knows why that could be. 

Somehow (brainstorm first, details later) Remus hears of a plot to murder himself, his twin, his father, and a few of his favourite court members. He travels back to the court to protect them, because who can defend from an assassin better than an assassin? He immediately clocks Virgil as the would-be-killer, they mutually attempt to kill each other a few times, then they fall in gay love and kill Mevil. The end. 

hmm. not the best, but probably better than my first idea. 

thoughts? 

-🐢

I fucking L O V E both ideas S O fucking much oml P L E A S E!!! I absolutely adore the cleverness of their assassin names and Ree being the most creatively gruesome towards his targets is so badass and fitting!!! Character!Thomas being the Creativitwins' dads is such an underrated concept that I L O V E and I am L O O K I N G at that Roloceit implication 👀👀👀👀👀👀 I seriously find the concept that no one suspects Ree to be a known assassin because of his title and that he'd "easily be caught" is D E L I C I O U S like he's just doing his royal duties nothing to see here he's definitely not causing murders or anything XD Also I L O V E that the beloveds are out for each other at first because Ree needs to protect himself and his people but they end up in love and killing Vee's employer instead that's just beautiful <3