#divian vanrouge

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Lilia: *dramatic sigh*

Silver: Father, are you alright?

Lilia: No, son! For I am in great distress!

Silver: *suspicious* Why are you in such distress? You were fine thirty seconds ago.

Lilia: Your mother has been lost at sea! I do not know how long it shall be before I’m able to hold my lovely wife in my arms once more!

Silver: . . .

Silver: *turns to the kitchen* Mother, why is Father saying you’re lost at sea when you’re less than thirty seconds away?

Divian: I told him that if he sets foot in this kitchen that I’ll be sleeping in a different bed.

Lilia: Your mother wishes to torture me by leaving me all alone in the cold desolate silence of our bedroom all on my own!

Divian: Stop being such a drama bat!

Lilia: My love wishes to leave me alone for all eternity!

Lilia: *dramatic fake crying*

Silver: *mumbling* Dramatic old geezer-

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Okay, I might continue this later, but I’ve been inspired by the shirts and now I’m doing my TWST AU Diasomnia Crew (plus girlfriends & boyfriends) with those shirts because Amelia brought up amusement parks and somehow Lilia and Divian managed to swing it and get Queen Maleficia’s permission to take her grandbabies to an amusement park, so long as it was completely rented out just for them for a day because not so secretly soft and overprotective dragon grandma go brrrrr-

Lilia - “Dad” shirt, complete with a visor, sunglasses, a parasol, and a fan because he’s a #dramaqueen of a bat dad and we love him

Divian - “Mom” shirt, complete with Mary Poppins tote bag with anything they could possibly need and no one knows where she got the deer jerky from-

Malleus - “Oldest Bro” shirt, complete with his club wear hairstyle courtesy of Lilia

Elshaba - “Oldest Bro’s GF” shirt, complete with a cute black sun hat and a black ankle length sundress underneath said shirt because no one is going to see her bare legs in public-

Mealodie - “Big (AND ONLY) Sis” shirt, complete with Rapunzel style braid courtesy of Silver and Lucienne provided little clips to make it cuter

Lucienne - “Big Sis’s BF” shirt, complete with cute braided bun courtesy of Silver and Mealodie

Silver - “Older Bro” shirt, complete with one of those big Squishmallows that Lilia won him at one of those carnival games

Amelia - “Older Bro’s GF” shirt, complete with a Maleficent horn headband to match her beasties

Sebek - “Lil’ Bro” shirt, complete with another Maleficent horn headband since Amelia knew he’d ask for one

Sparrow Jane - “Lil’ Bro’s GF” shirt, complete with a pirate captain’s hat over her usual red bandana because it was a hot ass day

(They went to the TWST version of Worlds of Fun, btw-)

I can totally imagine little Silver winding up dragging the entire Diasomnia family to an amusement park. Also having to spend some time making sure nothing gets destroyed.

Little Silver grabbed the frumpiest "family" shirts he could find and assigned them based on (perceived) age. (This is based on the matching family shirts I saw all the time when visiting the parks in Orlando.) They're probably some garish shade of Diasomnia-adjacent green.

Sebek was told to keep his hair down because he looked too stuffy in his usual style. Not appropriate for a fun day out.

Lilia trying to fly out of the ride will definitely be an all-day occurrence.

The little siblings of the group basically died after the coaster. Big Silver was totally fine.

Little Silver isn't a fan of thrill rides, despite what he said, but he'll ride everything to be with his friends.

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TWST SMAU - S1 EP2: Burst Eardrums & Even More Lore

A/N: Ace is getting the craziest lore drops these days and is getting kind of tired of random, unexplained lore-

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I strongly believe that this is Divian, Malleus, and Mealodie whenever they spot something shiny, especially if any of them are in a “no thoughts head empty” kind of mood-

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Imagine Silver being at the stage when he doesn’t want to go to bed because he wants to know how the story Lilia is telling him ends-

Silver is just clinging onto Divian, sleepy and pouting and going “Mama, I wanna hear how Papa’s story ends…he has to tell me more…” while trying his best to stay awake. And Lilia also wants to finish telling Silver the story because he was also just as invested in telling it as Silver was invested in listening to it.

Eventually, Lilia convinces Divian to let Silver cuddle with her while they lay down in bed and that way Silver is in bed but can also listen to the rest of the story. Everyone wins.

Though, neither Silver or Divian hear the rest of the story because they both conk out three minutes after Lilia begins to continue telling his story. And the old fae can’t help but smile as he watches over his sleeping wife and son. He wasn’t too tired, he’d likely go to bed in a few hours, and he would gladly spend those few hours watching over two of his favorite people and think about how fucking lucky he is.

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Divian: *holding baby Silver after Lilia brought him home* Oh, isn’t he the cutest little thing! After over a hundred years I’ve forgotten how adorable infants could be.

Lilia: I’ve named him Silver. I think it’s a fitting name.

Divian: And you’re right about that, Lili. He’s like a little beam of moonlight.

Divian: *turns to Malleus and Mealodie, who are visiting* What do you two think about him?

Malleus: It’s so ugly I almost pity it…

Mealodie: He isn’t a mirror, Brother.

Malleus: YOU’D INSULT YOUR OWN BROTHER!?!?

Mealodie: YOU JUST INSULTED AN INFANT!!!

Malleus & Mealodie: *bickering in introverted dragon siblings*

Baby Silver: *laughing*

Divian: These next few years are sure to be fun! Don’t you think so, dearest?

Lilia: If it means more of these moments? Yes, it does seem like we’ll be having a lot of fun.

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I have an image in my head of the court of Briar Valley being dumb and accidentally spreading a rumor that General Vanrouge was courting his right hand, Lieutenant General of the Right, and Princess Meleanor’s most trusted handmaiden—Peaches.

Meleanor is obviously the first to hear of it, but she enjoys screwing with Lilia and occasionally Peaches, so she keeps her mouth shut. She’ll occasionally listen to a few of the nobles gossiping about it and act shocked or maybe even spice up the rumor herself if she’s feeling especially bored. The mischief of the Princess truly knows no bounds.

If it’s around the time Divian showed up, she’ll be very surprised and actually believe it for a moment before she remembers how Peaches and Lilia actually act around one another. Divian was so close to having a panic attack and hysterically sobbing that her mind blocks it out like a PTSD flashback and she goes on her way. Basically, she instantly forgets about it and doesn’t tell Lilia or Peaches about any of it because her mind treated it like blocking out trauma or something of the sort.

And Baul finds gossip exhausting. Why would he engage in such useless drivel when he could be training or accompanying Lilia or Meleanor on something important? What if he’s needed elsewhere? He can’t let anything get in the way of his duty as a knight! So, Baul doesn’t even know about the rumor.

Eventaully, at some sort of party that required both of them to attend, someone comes up to Peaches and Lilia as they’re having polite conversation and asks when they’re going to be getting married. Lilia is frozen and Peaches chokes on her wine because they hadn’t even done the acceptance of a small gift to start the courting process!

Since when were they ENGAGED?!?!!?!

Lilia is furiously demanding to know what demented fool started this preposterous rumor while Peaches is trying to not gag at the thought of seeing any part of Lilia that was usually covered outside of treating injuries. They had a sibling-like relationship, so the thought of being intimately close was nauseating for both of them.

The entire party is just them dissolving these completely untrue rumors and basically saying they’d rather off themselves than lay a finger on each other in any way aside from tending to battle wounds and making sure that they don’t bleed out.

Baul is shocked because this is the first he’s hearing this, Divian is shocked for a split second before she remembers that she knew this already, and Meleanor is having the time of her life with Levan in the corner and watching the chaos unfold.

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Divian: Yeah, well, I fucked your dad-

Silver: . . .

Silver: You’re his wife…wouldn’t it be normal for you two to do that?

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Divian: Malleus, please-

Malleus: NO! NEVER! THE SEVEN RINGS OF HELL WILL HAVE TO FREEZE OVER BEFORE I FOLD!

Lilia: Malleus, you have to socialize at one point.

Malleus: I SOCIALIZE!

Divian: Talking to gargoyles, having small talk with us, Silver, and Sebek, and only holding conversations with Mealodie doesn’t count, dear.

Malleus: YES IT DOES!

Lilia: Meleanor, why did you have to give birth to a diehard introvert???

Divian: Malleus, I have a proposition for you.

Malleus: I can guarantee any attempt is futile, but state your proposition.

Divian: If you go out and make a friend, I’ll order some of your favorite ice cream for you.

Malleus: *teleports out of his room* Really?!

Divian: Yes, Malleus, I will really get you your ice cream.

Lilia: *calls into Malleus’s room* And we’ll get you some ice cream, too, Mealodie! All you have to do is make a friend with your brother!

Mealodie: *teleports out of the hiding closet* Okay!

And that’s how Malleus and Mealodie made friends with Amelia-

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Lilia “I shamelessly worship the ground my wife walks on because she’s perfect and the love of my life and I will fight anyone who flirts with her on SIGHT” Vanrouge-

And Divian “My husband is the pinical of a perfect man and if anyone says otherwise I will end their fucking bloodline” Vanrouge-

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“This is ridiculous! I refuse to accept such obvious lies!”

“Well, it’s happening, isn’t it? Kind of hard to refuse the truth when you can see it for yourself.”

General Vanrouge clicked his tongue as he looked away from the present form of Divian who sat across from him. Due to some sort of magic incident, the Right General and the Shapeshifter had gone forward several centuries in time, where things were very different. New technology, times weren’t riddled with war and were in fact peaceful, Malleus and Mealodie had taken about four hundred years to hatch due to eventually fatal injuries that left Meleanor bedridden for centuries, Peaches had disappeared, and Baul apparently, or rather miraculously, had three half-human grandchildren.

But, what was most unbelievable to the General was how his “present self” acted and what he’d done in terms of parenting. The current Lilia was silly and eccentric, though clearly much wiser than his General counterpart thanks to his age and travels across the world. He’d also ended up marrying Divian Eva, now Divian Vanrouge, about a century ago. That shocked General Vanrouge, but it was much easier to accept than the other thing his present counterpart had done. Not only did he help raise the Prince and Princess of Briar Valley, but he’d found and raised the orphaned son of the Knight of Dawn, who had been sleeping for about four hundred years prior to being found in the remains of Meleanor’s castle.

General Vanrouge absolutely loathed the idea of being a parent, so the thought of eventually adopting and raising a child, a human one no less, almost made him sick to his stomach. He wanted to deny it, and he was going to deny it.

Until Silver “Vanrouge” actually showed up.

“Mother,” Silver politely said, almost startling both his foster mother and the General with how unintentionally quiet he was.

But Divian quickly got over her shock and smiled warmly at the boy, “Yes, my baby? Do you need something?”

“I wanted to ask where Father was,” Silver replied, General Vanrouge fighting back the urge to gag when the word “father” left the boy’s mouth. “I needed to talk to him about something, but I can’t fine him anywhere.”

“I would look in his room, seeing as he said he’d go there to talk with my past counterpart while the General and I would stay here,” Divian answered.

“Did Father start something again?” Silver asked.

“Yes, I’m afraid he did,” Divian sighed with a tired laugh. “But you know him, dear! He does love his daily dose of drama!”

“Drama is pointless drivel,” General Vanrouge sighed exasperatedly, remembering his interaction with his present counterpart before the Divian sitting across from him had decided that they should be separated so as to protect the very fabric of history. “I can’t believe that I’d ever enjoy watching something so meaningless, especially at that old of an age.”

“Well, time and experiences change people, don’t they?” Silver offered absentmindedly. “I remember I’d been so upset that Father and Mother weren’t my parents by blood that I ran away into the forest as a child and fell asleep before they found me. And now that doesn’t bother me since it’s the fact that they raised me is what makes them my parents and not the fact that they’re not my blood.”

General Vanrouge blinked before mumbling, “I suppose that is true.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, I rambled,” Silver apologized once he realized what he’d done. “Thank you, Mother, I’ll be going to Father’s room now.”

“Have a lovely conversation with your father!” Divian smiled, waving as Silver turned to leave. “I love you, Silver.”

“I love you, too, Mother,” Silver replied as he left giving his mother a glance and a wave before he disappeared into the depths of Diasomnia Dorm in search of his father.

“That’s quite the…insightful young man,” General Vanrouge murmured.

“Hm?” Divian hummed before realizing what the General had said. “Oh, yes, Silver can be quite insightful! Though he can be a little slow, he’s a very good boy and such a lovely child. I’m so happy Lili found him in those bramble covered walls. Silver got his freedom and we got a sweet little baby to raise.”

“I was the one who found him?” General Vanrouge asked, earning a nod from Divian.

“Yes, you did fine him,” she confirmed. “You freed him from his sleeping spell as well. Though he’s physically seventeen, he must be over four hundred with how long he was asleep. How strange to think that so much sleep feels like a moment for the one who slumbers.”

General Vanrouge hummed, “I suppose. Though sleep is agonizing to most.”

“It’s only agonizing to most of the people that you’re used to, though,” Divian reminded. “You may not need very much sleep, but you still need it and others need more sleep than you. Humans spend on average a third of their lives sleeping in the world of dreams, you know.”

“Exactly why being human is pointless for the most part,” General Vanrouge stated. “A fleeting existence, a weak body and mind, and a third of life is wasted on sleep. They’re doomed from the very start.”

“But that’s what makes them beautiful,” Divian murmured. “Everything is more amazing to them because each day could be their last. And the fantasy they can have in their minds makes it all even more wondrous. The human mind truly is a marvel.”

“So what you’re saying is that humans need fantasy to make life bearable?” General Vanrouge asked with a scoff.

Divian sighed patiently, “No, dear. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape, so to speak.”

“With little ideas like that so-called ‘tooth fairy’ and whatnot?” Lilia asked.

“Yes,” Divian nodded. “As practice, you have to start out learning to belive those little lies.”

“So that we can believe the big ones,” General Vanrouge murmured.

“Yes,” Divian replied. “Justice, mercy, duty; that sort of thing.”

The General’s brows furrowed as a slight pout made its way onto his face as he thought for a moment, eventually looking to Divian once more, “They’re not the same at all.”

“You think so, dearest?” Divian asked playfully, earning a halfhearted glare from the now pink cheeked General. “I think you’ll find that, with age, you finally realize that they’re all one and the same.”

“Really?” General Vanrouge asked suspiciously.

“Yes, General,” Divian replied. “It becomes especially apparent once you have children to raise. You have to teach them those things and prepare them to make those decisions before they fly the nest for good.”

“I hate children,” Lilia mumbled, earning a laugh from the Shapeshifter. “And what is so amusing?”

“Oh, oh my! You never change, do you, Lili?” Divian laughed out, trying to compose yourself. “Forever in denial about how you truly feel about the things you love more than life!”

“I don’t deny anything,” the General stated, clearly getting frustrated. “I speak the truth.”

“Oh, yes, of course!” Divian replied with a teasing and playful sarcasm. “And I haven’t been married for about a century. I haven’t raised a Prince, a Princess, or a foundling human child, either!”

“You’re a migraine personified,” General Vanrouge grumbled, pinching the bridge of his nose.

Divian smiled, “I love you, too, baby bat!”

And after planting a surprise kiss on the General’s cheek, Divian got up and began to bustle about the Diasomnia kitchen. She was babbling about teaching the General what actual food was, but he wasn’t paying attention. His form was too rigid and his face was too red to focus on anything other than that moment of sweet affection.

Maybe he was letting his flustered mind cloud his judgement, but the thought of this future being what awaited him after the war was becoming a most pleasant and welcome fate, indeed.

“Divi, my birdie! Let me help you!” Lilia smiled as he hung upside down from a shelf next to Divian.

“Vanrouge, if you even touch a spice in this kitchen, we’ll be having bat soup for dinner,” Divian replied.

Lilia pouted, “You’re being boring! I’m an excellent cook, I’ll have you know!”

And as silly bickering filled the space, the General began to rethink his previous thought. He wasn’t looking forward to how silly he’d end up acting. But a happy marriage Divian was definitely a welcome fate.

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Divian crying because Lilia is always just out of reach. This is before they got married, of course, but I imagine her being tortured in a way after Lilia’s murder in his first life.

She spends the next few centuries catching glimpses of Lilia. She sees a man who looks like him, or sees him with another woman and a child in a market, even being haunted by his memory in her dreams (I’m imagining something similar to that scene of Blitzø’s hallucinations of his mother in the Helluva Boss episode GHOSTFUCKERS) because she wasn’t able to protect him or keep him by her side the night he was murdered—the night they were supposed to run away and be married by dawn. Divian sees glimpses of Lilia, reminders of what she could’ve had if she’d just asked sooner or maybe if she’d went to go and try to find him sooner.

But the true heartache is when Divian meets General Vanrouge, Lilia’s second life as a fae. His life was now much longer, only being about 300 when they met again. While Divian was thrilled to finally see the love of her life again, she could feel that he was likely in love with someone else. So, she simply decided to try and coexist with Lilia, eventually becoming a soldier in Briar Valley’s Right Army.

I see her eventually trying to tell Lilia how she actually feels and explain herself, but she eventually walks in on something unnoticed and misinterprets the situation and just leaves. She should’ve known better—she’d already lost him, and he’s always be just out of her reach. Always a love she’d lost, never to be found again. Gone for the rest of her life.

It isn’t until they start to take care of Malleus and Mealodie after Meleanor’s death that Lilia actually realizes he loves Divian and he ends up telling her so about thirty years after they’re entrusted with the Prince and Princess.

But even when Lilia starts to try to subtly show how he feels, Divian denies it all and thinks he’s just trying to find companionship on a slightly deeper level. It takes Lilia finding her crying in front of the portrait she’s kept for nearly a thousand years about how he’s always just out of her reach and asking what she’d done to deserve such torture for everything to come out into the open.

It’s that night that Divian explains herself, who she actually is and how she’d known Lilia very well when they’d first met. Lilia listens and tries his best to comfort her. He then asks if Divian would like to try a relationship, telling her that they’d go slowly and that he would never be farther than a single mumble of his name away.

And thus began the soft beginnings of what evolved into the sappy old married couple who will likely die in each other’s arms after going for a nap they’d never wake up from that they became-

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The Proposal

How Lilia Asked Divian to Marry Him

Lilia: In fact, I’ve been meaning to ask you something.

Divian: Alright.

Divian: *playfully* As long as it’s not “Will you marry me?” or anything!

Lilia: I… *nervously pulls out a ring box*

Divian: *eyes widening* Oh, Great Thorn Fairy…it IS “Will you marry me?” isn’t it?!

Lilia: *slightly sassy yet disappointed* Well, I’m not going to say it now, you’ve spoiled the moment…

Divian: Is it “Will you marry me?” Lilia???

Lilia: Divian, the moment’s gone. Let-Let’s just go back to our quarters-

Divian: N-No! No…No-no, n-no! Wait. WAIT! *moving back towards the door to the courtyard*

Lilia: Divian…

Divian: *opening the door* Start again!

Lilia: …no, I-

Divian: *going back out to the courtyard* Start again!!

Lilia: No! No! I’m not going to just-

Divian: *entering the hall again, persistent* We’ve just- stepped back inside…

Divian: *walking back towards Lilia* And…And you say “I’ve got a question to ask you” like before-

Divian: *stops in front of Lilia, looking intently at the ground* BUT-But this time, I don’t say anything! I’m…I’m completely silent, not a word is coming out of my mouth!

Lilia: . . .

Divian: *inhales softly* And then…

Divian: *looking back up to make eye contact with Lilia* …you say…?

Lilia: *looks at the ring box in his hand*

Lilia: . . .

Lilia: *gets on one knee and opens the ring box to reveal a ring to Divian* Divian Eva, will you marry me?

Divian: *crying from happiness* Yes. Yes. Yes!

Divian: *tackles Lilia* YES!

Lilia: Oof!

Divian: YES! *kiss* YES! *kiss* YES! *kiss* YES, LILI, I WILL MARRY YOU! *kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss*

Lilia: Okay, okay! I understand, Divian!

Divian: I’m sorry, I just…I can’t tell you how many centuries I’ve waited to hear that…

Lilia: …what?

Divian: *lays her head on Lilia’s chest* Mmm, I’ll tell you all about it later, Lili. For now, I want cuddles!

Lilia: Alright, Divian.

A/N: Divian explained her experience with Lilia in his first life the night of their wedding. It was a very emotional night with a lot of crying and cuddling, but it was all very worth it since Divian had finally gotten it off her chest and felt ready to start her new life with Lilia and Lilia finally got the explanation as to why Divian acted the way she did at times.

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I’m imagining General Vanrouge and his new acquaintance, Divian, going forward in time to see themselves as a happy couple who are secretly married while they attend a high school to make sure their dumbass adopted kids don’t accidentally get themselves killed-

Eventually they get mixed up and General Vanrouge starts interrogating the current Divian about what illusion he’s seeing while she’s just like, “damn, I forgot how sexy you looked in your war general armor,” leaving General Vanrouge flustered and confused.

Meanwhile, past Divian is having a nice conversation with current Lilia because she finally knows that she’ll die with the one love of her incredibly long life and that all of her pain was worth it.

But I also just really wanna see General Vanrouge and past Divian walking in on current Lilia and Divian in the middle of making out and messily taking their clothes off because they can’t keep their hands off each other. The entire room freezes until current Lilia is just like, “are you two just gonna stand there and stare or do you wanna join us?” which makes current Divian bust out laughing while she tries to scold Lilia while General Vanrouge is yelling at his future self and asking what the fuck is wrong with him while past Divian is just red as a tomato-

Just imagine the chaos-

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The “Chrissy Wake Up!” meme but it’s Malleus and Mealodie panicking as they knock on Lilia and Divian’s bedroom door and never get an answer and are about to have a full on panic attack as their adoptive parents come back from shopping-

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I’m imagining Silver growing into his weird, angsty teen boy phase that he grew out of right before NRC and Lilia’s reaction to it-

The poor war veteran was too used to a sweet and quiet little boy who was always eager to go for a walk with his father or help bake with his mother, which really was just him taking the spoon and licking the batter off when it was no longer needed. Lilia was too used to the sleepy mutterings “Papa” and “Mama” when Silver didn’t want to go to bed. He’d grown too familiar with the sweet boy who’d tell him and his mother everything that he knew and saw.

But time moves on and Silver had grown and become a teenager. He became even more quiet, actually hid things from his parents, deflected questions with vague answers, and spent most of his time either in his room or out walking in the forest along the trails. He’s also started to call Lilia and Divian “Father” and “Mother” rather than the sweet titles of “Papa” and “Mama” he’d been using his whole life.

And Lilia is freaking out.

He wants to be “Papa” again! He wants his little boy to sneak into bed with him and Divian when he gets scared of the lightning storms! He wants to come home to see that sweet little one having his mother coo at him and wipe batter off of his cheeks! He wants to nap with his sleepy boy on the floor as Divian sings the both of them to sleep!

So Lilia is just crying as Divian pats his head and rubs his back to comfort him. Was she also missing her sweet baby boy who’d light up at just a whisper of Papa coming home? Of course she was! But she’d also helped to raise children a few times in her long life, living in a few orphanages and posing as a nun in order to escape racism for being a Shapeshifter. In simple terms, she’d been around teenagers and knew that they were distant and temperamental as their bodies and minds changed with age, trying to navigate these changes while also trying to be independent and figure out things on their own.

But Lilia had never really dealt with teenagers. Well, normal teenagers. In fae years, Malleus and Mealodie were in their late teens and had a few bouts of rebellion and even snuck out a few times, unknowingly acting just like their late mother, but they were also eager to see people and any visit or invitation they were given was a welcome blessing.

Though, the Prince and Princess had both grown up isolated with only each other as a constant. They would occasionally spend days or even weeks alone outside of tutors and meals when Divian and Lilia couldn’t make a visit due to the Senate or the weather or what have you. Both were sheltered and were considered to be quite innocent due to lack of contact with the outside world.

So, while they were teens, they never went through the beginning angsty teen phase almost all children go through. For Lilia, this is a whole new rodeo and he does not like it.

He doesn’t know how to deal with a young teenager who used to be a sweet and cuddly little boy that would beg to be held just a little longer. Lilia needs his baby boy back!

Meanwhile Divian is just like “he’ll grow out of it, dearest, we just need to be patient” while Lilia is hysterically sobbing about how his baby doesn’t love or need him anymore-

(That isn’t true, but it doesn’t stop Lilia from thinking it is)