#Yes im counting narilamb because of reasons

[genolover]

IM BACK AND FEED LETS DO THIS

So narinder works on the ritual, shows it to his siblings and they're like, dude, this is literally fucking with the laws of nature. And he's like, ah yes, because being the Gods of War and Chaos is so natural. And they're like, what about her? *points to Forneus* Listen, trial and error are a part of the process.

So anyways, misunderstandings happen and nari is sealed away. So sad. Many years later, two babies pop up and for 2 seconds nari is like, oh sick I love kids. Then he realizes that kids really should not be here. Now he's got 2 children to raise and while he's done this before, last time he wasn't chained to one spot, had a whole cult to rely on, and had resources. Do you know how awkward it is to ask a vessel to bring you breast milk in the afterlife? 0/10 time.

Anywhozles he raises those kids the best he can. Reba would be proud. Then the lamb comes. Kills the bishops, kills nari : (, nari gets indoctrinated : ). He spends time healing from his wounds and kinda putters around the cult. Everyone is weary of him because, ya know, toww. Those who join later find him to be the weird hermit guy.

One day the lamb brings in an orphan. They're a busy cult leader/God so they tell the girl to wait while they get someone to watch over her. While they're gone, narinder waltzes up, asks if anyone is gonna take this, then doesn't wait for an answer. What's he gonna do, leave a girl oozing grief from her pores by herself? No thank you. She's like, you gonna kill me? He's like, I can but we gotta do some stuff before I do if that's alright. They go to make effigies of her parents to bury in narinders garden for closure and be sad together for a while. Meanwhile the lamb is freaking out because the kid they just rescued is missing and no one knows where she went. They start to think she just ran away. Imagine their surprise when they see her during a sermon a week later next to the local antisocial goth cat.

They find nari later and are like, hey where did you get her? Nari's like, grew her in the garden. Lamb goes, nah I'm pretty sure I brought her into the cult.

Well if you knew the answer then why did you ask? Loathsome beast.

This interaction clears up nothing for the lamb. Asking the girl directly brings the same thing (he found me growing out of the cabbage patch). They (as in everyone) finds out he's weirdly good with kids. They also found out the reason no one can find him for duties or chores is because he hasn't been home, he's been at another older woman's house. She volunteered to baby sit 2 children as she used to have some grandchildren of her own before she... found her way to the lamb. Word got around and she ended up with like 7. Some infants, some toddlers, too many for a single woman. Narinder heard the crying one day and was like, nope, we're not doing that. Came right in and started helping. He's literally been babysitting for, like, a year and no one noticed. Lamb should really work on the cult's situational awareness. No this doesn't count for them. Shut up.

When aym and baal come back they do the thing again (stork delivered me to him. Like a package. But better.) They kinda just look at her before baal gets happy.

Yay a sister!

And aym is upsetty spaghetti.

I knew you loved baal more.

You wanted a brother to replace baal, baal wanted a sister to add to the family. You are not the same.

Falsehoods!! Baal was going to replace me too!

Perhaps but I was subtle about it.

Oh crap, you all do that. I thought it was a creepy hermit thing.

Moving on from those dumb ramblings, eventually narinder becomes the cult's secondary babysitter. A lot of them are cautious of him but the kids love mister nari. By the time the narilamb is trying to kick off, the lambs biggest ops are not the newly revived bishops (we care not what you do with our treasonous brother, cur) but the gaggle of children who have varying opinions on whither or not the lamb, who they know fully well is their God, is worthy of their mister nari. Is narinder aware of these debates? He is too busy trying to figure out if this random child sleeping in his bed is supposed to be here or if he's gonna be accused of kidnapping again. Op, too late, the child is tucked in and various snacks are being prepared for when the child is awake enough to convey their dietary needs.

It took me several hours to type this up as the need to pace is all consuming. Feel free to ignore me.

Listen. I was over thinking at work again about narilamb. So many fanfics have narinder unsettled by/intimidated by/uninterested in having children and, like, great. Good soup. Will read the trope all day. But. I just always go "didn't he literally raise aym and baal?" Like he did that in a place not meant to support living creatures. And, like, he made the resurrection ritual for a reason.

I'm just saying I would 100% make a fic where he's still in his cult and it's made up of warriors and those tired and weary of life. Not many young ones, ya know. So when 2 devoted followers are like, "hey, we know this is a death cult, but can we have a kid?" He's like, "ye, sure, idgaf."

Then he sees the egg and he's like, wtf is this? Are we gonna eat it? There's a baby in there????? Are you sure? And he doesn't remember his original family and shamura and kallamar were older than him when they found him and heket was like him, young but relatively self-sufficient, and leshy was a baby when they found him but he also had a crown so he was weird. In other words, he is completely baffled by how babies work. What do you mean she can't eat this yet? How will she grow strong? Well leshy ate everything when we got him.

Then he grows unexpectedly attached to his kids. When the parents eventually die, he's unbothered. That happens. Whatevs. Then the first child dies of old age and he's like, oh. Oh no. Do not like that. And then he starts thinking that, ya know, he's learned a lot about how the other crown bearers worked and duality and such from shamura. Things are prone to change. If he's the God of Death then why can't he reverse it?

First successful resurrection doesn't go as planned. Yes, Forneus is back, but he definitely did something wrong with her lifespan.

I have to go because I've been working on this on and off since the end of lunch break and I need to go home now. Will be back with more overthinking.