#alviero juukulius

[suffarustuffaru]

im back on my reinhard/julius agenda but hear me out okay.

au where they become friends much sooner. childhood friends au.

julius’s whole world shakes when he goes to the knighting ceremony for children of noble knighting houses and he sees reinhard there—reinhard, whos powerful and Amazing and intimidating and it makes julius realize that hes far behind reinhard. it makes julius realize that he has to work harder to reach reinhards level of skill and power. but hes all starry-eyed, and he manages to catch reinhard after the ceremony and starts excitedly talking reinhards head off because reinhard is just so—awe inspiring—and ten-year-old julius at this point has way less filter and impulse control so why shouldnt he try and get close with reinhard of all people?

meanwhile reinhard is even more depressed after recently being 1. officially knighted and 2. officially given the “van” title and 3. his dad is gradually getting worse and he feels like its his fault, but julius is the first person around his age that actually shows interest in befriending him, so reinhard is just awkwardly going along with it because he doesnt want to chase julius away. hes super SUPER eager to finally have a friend. thats what they are right?? hopefully?? and reinhard is desperately holding onto this because yeah, julius likely wont like him anymore real soon, but itll be good while it lasts right?? he doesnt even mind that julius keeps asking questions about knighthood and training, because everyone does that anyway, so reinhard offers to help train julius and BAM they are now gonna meet regularly 👍

joshua meanwhile is Suffering even more than he already was because not only did julius develop an infatuation with reinhard, joshua also—like in canon yeah—faints during the knighting ceremony because FUCK I CANT LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH JULIUS IF HES GONNA BECOME FIXATED ON REINHARD AND LEAVE ME BEHIND AND ALSO I HATE REINHARD AND JULIUS FOR BEING SO PERFECT, and then joshuas worst nightmare becomes true because reinhard notices this and offers to help joshua and julius home, and julius accepts of course, and joshua wakes up to reinhard and julius being buddy buddy and then reinhard starts visiting the juukulius mansion regularly so joshua is absolutely SEETHING. SEETHING.

anyway reinhards regular visits go great 👍 all he has to do is walk (Travel At Extremely Extremely Fast Speeds) to julius’s house and back 👍👍 and it doesnt take much time for julius to get out his favorite books and info dump excitedly to reinhard because reinhard of course will listen to all of this and feel all warm inside because 1. oh are we friends now? 🥺 and 2. aw julius is so passionate about this 🥰 but then it takes a turn because of course julius has his hero worship with REID ASTREA. theres a tappei qna that confirms that reinhard Knows what reid was like, and if reinhard knows that at this point, he just sits there awkwardly while julius goes on and on about how cool and awesome reid was.

reinhard then has to decide whether to break the news to julius or not, but given how in canon julius didnt know what reid was like until he actually met reid, reinhard probably didnt tell him if reinhard knew at that point. so little eight year old reinhard sits there and goes “aha yeah… reid… what an interesting person…” which then turns the subject to reinhards family, which then leads into some talk about julius’s family too—but while julius is more likely to open up a tiny bit, reinhard is more like “my father is a good person who tries his best 🙂” and julius is like “i hear that hes. kind of not. but ill take your word for it i guess haha i mean IVE never met the guy” (he recognizes reinhard getting Upset about this subject) and reinhard is like “my father is a good person yes 🙂”

meanwhile alviero juukulius is very aware of all those nasty rumors about heinkel astrea and the astreas in general and alviero is Very Aware about his nephew/adopted son’s budding friendship with reinhard, who now regularly shows up to the mansion via Speed Walking, but alviero is like. well reinhard is a very well meaning child, i just hope no drama comes out of this haha.

anyway one day little ten year old julius with his Reduced filter and impulse control (tappei has said that younger julius was a Bit of a troublemaker) goes “reinhard you should sleep over at my house please 🥺 and maybe we should sneak out of my house past curfew and go on an adventure or something lol” and reinhard is like going ??? because of course breaking rules almost never occurs to him and the idea of breaking one makes him anxious. but julius is like “cmooon please 🥺🥺 itll be fun 🥺🥺 we’ll be out and back here so fast, no ones gonna know, itll just be us 🥺🥺” and reinhard of course 1. cant say no and 2. julius would be very happy if he agreed, so he goes along with it. they go have fun they have some kind of adventure and for a moment reinhard forgets all about all the Various Pressures he is under <3

and then they go back to julius’s house and alviero is waiting there casually like “snuck out again julius? *insert exasperated sigh*” and reinhard FREEZES UP hes like “oh sir ahah its not julius’s fault. it was all my idea actually. all mine. i dragged him along with me. you should punish me instead. im really really sorry i broke the rules sir” because he’s afraid julius will REALLY get in trouble. and julius and alviero stare at reinhard like he grew another head because “jesus christ its not that deep, youre not in That much trouble. im just gonna like ground julius for a bit, its not like im gonna. kill him. or anything.” and also “JESUS CHRIST YOU ARE NOT OKAY??”

anyway yeah reinhard is a very welcome visitor to the juukulius mansion (unless youre joshua) but every time he goes home, carol and grimm help make sure reinhard’s visits arent noticed. but. well. one day heinkel will notice. its inevitable, especially when eventually reinhard and julius will officially join the knights together. and heinkel will probably give this nasty little laugh and go “well. have fun while that lasts.”

and it doesnt last.

[ladybugbirdie42]

Joshua Juukulius's Careful Encyclopedia Tanpenshuu Changes/Additions

There were quite a few changes both big and small made to the Tanpenshuu version, so it was pretty interesting to read through it. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or energy to go through all of them, but here are some additions/changes to the Juukulius bros flashback that were interesting to me for some reason or another.

"You inherited that strong will from your father. As expected, you're very similar to him." Hearing Julius's words, his father looked off into the distance for just a moment. Julius was taken aback by his nostalgic gaze.

This was an added bit to the scene where Julius and his uncle/adoptive father are practicing with wooden swords. I liked getting a little more about Klein and Alviero.

The greeting between Julius and Joshua at the end of this scene was changed to be a lot more awkward lol (I think bc this scene was moved to be earlier in the story?)

"Um... Good morning, Joshua. Um, did you sleep well this morning?" Joshua knew this was the best attempt he could make to compromise since they had only recently become brothers. So Joshua clutched the front of his pajamas and forced a smile. "Yes, good morning. You've been working hard since the morning, Brother." He said with a fake smile, hoping that his greeting didn't come across as sarcastic.

We got to hear about how Julius's divine protection was discovered:

"You have sword training with Father and various other studies, right? Plus, you have my hero study group, and recently..." "Oh, you mean the protection? That's right. That surprised me too." Julius laughed off his "Divine Protection of Spirit Attraction" as if it was nothing to him. Julius only realized he had a divine protection about a month ago--one day, after the brothers had been talking until dark, Joshua screamed when they were walking through the garden and he noticed an unusual number of faint glows following them; it was discovered that they were countless micro-spirits. "I always had a vague feeling that someone was always by my side, but I never knew it was a spirit. Thanks to that, I never felt lonely."

Julius is so casual about it lol. He's just like "haha yeah that's crazy".

I like to think that Julius only ended up finding out bc Joshua was there. Like if it was just Julius I imagine he'd just be like "Wow! Pretty lights! Anyway" considering he's been somewhat aware of something following him for awhile and never bothered to figure out what's going on.

One other interesting added detail is that the infamous appa tree was planted to celebrate Joshua's birth. Pretty sure that wasn't in the original. Kinda rude thing to add, Tappei lol.

Anyways, there's a bunch of other stuff, but I'll leave it at that for now at least. This is one of my favorite side stories, and it was definitely worth it to read through the tanpenshuu version bc of all the changes and additions. Just wanted to share some of the new stuff since I figured probably not a lot of people have read the new version.

[glowinthedark1775]

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Ever think about how it must feel to be Alviero? To not remember either of the children you raised

[suffarustuffaru]

WAIT ITS JULIUS’S BIRTHDAY I WANT TO POST SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE anyway have this comic i did last week i really need to color it