#divian vanrouge

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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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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’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)

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I’m imagining Sebek getting a little too close to one of his calm classmates who can somehow get him to quiet down and Lilia being like “I had to deal with Baul neck deep in denial for loving his wife and now I have to deal with his grandson being neck deep in denial?!!?!!” while simultaneously getting Baul over to NRC to show him that his beloved grandson is, in fact, just like him in most ways-

Baul didn’t know how painful it was to watch him pine and be in denial about his love for his wife when she was alive until he saw Sebek doing the same thing with his incredibly calming classmate.

Baul: Why won’t he just admit it?

Divian: *appears out of thin air* Did you just admit it?

Baul: I-

Lilia: Yeah, Baul. Answer my wife; did you or did you not just admit that you were hopelessly in love with your wife?

Baul: . . .

Baul: You’re both evil-

Divian: Lilia is one of the most decorated war veterans and was one of the most bloodthirsty generals in the history of Briar Valley, of course he’s evil!

Lilia: Dearest, you wound me-

Baul: You aren’t wrong, Divian.

Lilia: BOTH OF YOU ARE MEAN TO ME!!!

Baul, Divian & Lilia: *bickering in old war friends*

Amelia: Do they realize we’re right here?

Silver: They did this a lot when Sebek and I were children. It’s normal.

Also, Baul, Divian, and Lilia all bickering like they’re old friends is so funny to me!!!

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I’m imagining Lilia going full on overprotective gremlin hobgoblin husband mode when Divian is pregnant with their first biological child-

Yes, he was already protective of Divian, but that was because she was his wife and is so very precious to him! But now she’s even more precious because she has a baby in her belly and is even softer and more huggable and even more adorable than before! Her eating habits are adorable, too!

But that baby bump also makes Divian as fragile as glass in Lilia’s eyes and he basically doesn’t let her do anything without his supervision. He even waits outside of the bathroom just in case Divian falls or needs help with something.

Poor boy just wants to provide for his wife-

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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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You know in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End when Elizabeth and Will get married in the middle of kicking some major ass???

I’m imagining that happening with Sebek and Sparrow Jane or Silver and Amelia. Even Lilia and Divian work with a situation like that. Each relationship is so chaotic in their own way that each event, while having the same scaffolding, would have different reasons for happening and different ways of going about it.

Sebek and Sparrow Jane would’ve been stow aways on the Black Pearl, thanks to the lady herself, and eventually ask her father to marry them while in the middle of a fucking fight. Like, they’re in the middle of fighting on a family heirloom and Sparrow Jane asks her dad to marry her and her boyfriend because he’s a captain and has the authority to do so, right there smack dab in the center of the deck. And imagine Sebek coming back to his family from that endeavor and explaining how he’s now a married man because he didn’t know whether or not he’d live after that fight with Sparrow Jane. They do have a more proper wedding later, but Sparrow Jane still tells their daughter the story of their first wedding and it’s the girl’s favorite bedtime story.

Silver and Amelia would likely have just found a stroke of weird luck and found themselves in the middle of a massive fight. And, because Lilia is Lilia, he just says that they should get married in the middle of it all because even he isn’t sure whether or not they’ll live after the entire ordeal, he wants to see his son get married, and both he and Divian have the authority to marry people and have for quite some time. So, while Lilia covers her, Divian marries Silver and Amelia, who are trying to beat ass and say their vows at the same time. It just ends with Divian saying, “Okay, I now pronounce you husband and wife! Mister and Missus Vanrouge! Whatever! Silver, kiss your wife before one of you gets shot, already, I need to see it!” and Silver is just like “okay” before they just start making out for a good thirty seconds right there in the middle of everything. When it’s all over, they plan an actual wedding that Lilia officiates this time because he wanted a turn and both he and Divian tell the story of both weddings to their grandkids like it’s one of their war stories. Though, technically, it kind of is one.

And Divian and Lilia going through that themselves might’ve actually been what their wedding was like if they’d gotten married much sooner. In the middle of a war zone, Divian just asks Lilia to marry her in the chaos of it all. Being the General he was at the time, Lilia is sort of outraged but also sees that it makes sense since neither of them know if they’re going to make it out alive. So Lilia tells Peaches to officiate the wedding since she’s had the authority to do so for quite a while and the Lieutenant General does just that. Eventually, it ends in Peaches yelling “Kiss your bride and get back to trying to not die!” and that is more than enough motivation for Divian to grab Lilia by his waist, kiss him quickly on the lips, tell him that they’ll consummate back at the camp if they don’t die, and then get back to it. Lilia was stunned for a split second before he had to bludgeon an enemy over the head with a stone as they tried to sneak up on him.

It’s just a fun scenario to me!!!

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Meet Divian Vanrouge, maiden name Eva! She’s a 1,200 year old shapeshifter with no memory of any kind of parents or siblings of her own and she’s Lilia’s wife of nearly one hundred years!

First, a little bit about shapeshifters before we get into Divian herself!!! Shapeshifters are an elusive species that are biologically distant cousins of the fae in Twisted-Wonderland and share a few attributes with them, like pointed ears, though smaller than fae ears, long lifespans, and incredible magic ability.

But, shapeshifters do tend to live for much longer than fae, especially if they have no partner or mate of their own because shapeshifters tend to mate for life, though cheating and/or finding a different partner are both unlikely to happen yet entirely possible to occur. Shapeshifters can preform a ritual that binds their life to their mate’s, dictating that they will live so long as their mate lives and will die once their mate dies. This ritual also applies to the life of the partner if they are not of the same species.

Though shapeshifters can shift to look like other people, they most commonly shift into animal forms and their true forms are tied to a specific species of animal that they form a spiritual bond with at birth, some examples being sheep or bears. Because of this spiritual bond, their natural and animal forms will always retain an aspect of their spirit animal.

Now, onto Divian! Divian is incredibly friendly and takes on a very motherly role for most people she meets. Given that she helped raise Malleus, Mealodie, and Silver, Divian often finds herself slipping into her maternal mindset often and she will give students candy or speak to them in a parental way, much like Lilia finds himself doing. And she is usually the one to cook and bake while Lilia cleans, given that the former General is a god-awful cook.

Having lived over a thousand years, Divian finds that insecurities are hard to come by and she’s quite confident in herself and wants to see those she cares about be confident as well. She’s also very emotionally supportive and good at comforting people, often times baking or cooking for someone to help them feel better as they rant to her since food is one of her love languages and a small way for her to show that she cares.

Divian is also quite a good singer, given that her spirit animal is a bird. Though, she has made birds explode with how beautifully she sings. She also has large wings that are fluffy and warm, but she prefers to keep them hidden these days because it’s easier to get around in a school and they’re a nice thing to keep hidden so she can get out of things in a pinch.

She will also freak out and cry if Mealodie, Malleus, Silver, or Sebek go anywhere without telling her or Lilia or if Lilia doesn’t know where they went. Divian is maternal by nature and needs to know where her babies are to feel content. If she asks people where they are and they tell her, she’ll be okay. But if Lilia or anyone doesn’t know where they are, Divian will be on the edge of hyperventilation and hysterical sobs while Lilia tries to calm her down while he himself is also freaking out-

Divian will also not be afraid of any physical altercation if anything is said about her husband or adopted children. Much like Lilia, she is not afraid of asking someone to hold her earrings while she beats the shit out of someone if they said something about her babies or man. Think kickass southern mama bear who both endears and scares everyone around her. That’s Divian’s parenting in a nutshell.

Though she’s often a fretting mother hen crossed with a bloodthirsty mama bear, Divian is very friendly and loving to those she cares about.

Also, Divian loves to dance as she believes it’s what free people with free souls do.

She actually didn’t dance for hundreds of years after Lilia died in his first life. And when Divian met Lilia in his second life as General Vanrouge, she still refused to dance because she believed he’d be better off without her dancing with him because the last time she loved him, he was murdered the night before their wedding by a disapproving villager who believed Divian was a demon and that he was going to hell for being a demon’s lover. But now Divian dances with Lilia as often as she can because she knows that their love can be free after hundreds of years of loneliness and waiting and pining.

Divian actually has a portrait of her with Lilia from his first life as a magicless human before they were to be married. After his death, Divian couldn’t bear to part with it since she wanted to remember her love’s face, so she’s been preserving it with magic for centuries and would sometimes spend days looking at it and talking to it during those years when she was living all by herself in the forest.

And now I’m gonna end here before I spill all of Divian and Lilia’s story because it’s honestly one of my favorite ships I’ve ever made a story for! So enjoy her in all of her glory!!!

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I’m imagining Amelia introducing Silver to her grandma, Peaches, as her boyfriend and Peaches freezing because Silver looks…familiar.

It takes a minute, but eventually it clicks and Peaches realizes Silver looks almost identical to the Knight of Dawn. The same knight who tried to kill her at some point.

The same knight who fatally injured and caused the death of Princess Meleanor. The death of the only one that just let her just exist in peace.

Peaches’s shock only grows when Lilia and Divian come into the room apologizing for being late and Silver introduces them as his adoptive parents.

The startled woman had to excuse herself with Divian and Divian explained how silver was indeed the son of the Knight of Dawn and that Lilia had found him in the bramble covered remains of Meleanor’s castle. And Peaches couldn’t really believe much of what Divian was saying. Lilia, the famous General Lilia fucking Vanrouge, the one who claimed he’s kill all humans and hated their kind with a burning passion, took in and raised the abandoned son of the very human who killed one of his oldest friends and orphaned her children?

And that child was now dating her granddaughter?

Divian had to stop Peaches from going insane and possibly killing Silver at the moment the latter realized this-

And though it took a while, Peaches was eventually calmed enough for Divian to explain how many things and how times had changed in Twisted-Wonderland after she disappeared. Though there was some tension and prejudice, things between humans and fae had grown peaceful, Night Raven College was a school where all races, humans, fae, beastmen, and even merfolk could attend and learn magic peacefully, and their old friends had relaxed and changed over the years with no more war against humans to fight. Divian explained how Baul had calmed down and now had a daughter and half human grandchildren, Malleus and Mealodie had grown beautifully and seemed to be more and more like Meleanor with each passing day, Lilia and herself had calmed down and she’d been thinking about possibly having legitimate children with Lilia when the time was right, and how Amelia had helped so many people more than anyone could imagine.

When Divian was done, she’d asked Peaches if she’d give Silver a chance, mentioning how he was a good boy and such a sweet gentleman despite being a bit airheaded at times and having chronic drowsiness.

After thinking it through, Peaches did agree to give Silver a chance, but he’d only get one. And then the following scene played out:

“Oh, you’re back!” Lilia smiled as Divian and Peaches sat down, Peaches in an arm chair facing the couch Amelia and Silver sat on and Divian in Lilia’s lap. “I was starting to think you both snuck out and we’d never hear from you again! After all, you were quite good at sneaking out with Meleanor, Peaches.”

“Well you angrily yelling and chasing after us was hilarious,” Peaches explained with a smile. “You barely even caught us most times, too.”

“Because you two cheated, of course!” Lilia retorted playfully. “I’m glad that Amelia wasn’t raised to be a cheater like you. At least your son has some decency.”

“You’re only able to catch me because I’m only a quarter fae!” Amelia pouted. “And I’m not athletic, either.”

Silver yawned, waking up from his impromptu sleep spell at the sound of his girlfriend’s voice. “It’s impressive how you can’t run to save your life but can beat Sebek ten times in a sparring session and still be ready for more,” the sleepy boy murmured.

“Well, that’s actually fun,” Amelia replied.

“She is your granddaughter,” Divian said to Peaches, who grinned mischievously.

“You can’t blame me for having some fun with Baul, can you?” she asked coyly.

“If I remember correctly, you two once had a disagreement get so out of hand you whacked him over the head with your crossbow,” Lilia deadpanned, momentarily slipping back into his old habit of treating Peaches like a small child.

“How long was he knocked out for?” Amelia asked, nudging Silver who was about to doze off again.

Peaches hummed, “About a day or two. I was really riled up, so I swung at him as hard as I could at the time. If I did it now, he’d probably be out for a week.”

“Jesus Christ, Grandma,” Amelia murmured.

“What can I say? This old woman is tough,” Peaches smiled before she turned to look at Silver. “Now, I’d like to ask you some questions, young man.”

“Yes, Mrs. Yuu?” Silver asked, straightening up and giving the older woman his full attention.

“Are you determined to make my granddaughter as happy as you can?” Peaches asked, the whites of her eyes going black with ink as she continued to speak to the silver haired boy. “And are you prepared for the consequences you shall face if you are to ever break her heart outside of dying for her?”

“Yes, Mrs. Yuu, I am,” Silver replied without missing a beat and seemingly unfazed by the black that surrounded the older woman’s orange eyes. In fact, he almost seemed expecting of it. “For all Amelia has given me, the only thing I can offer in return is my eternal devotion and all of the love I can possibly give her until I breathe my last.”

“And you’re aware that if I hear of any sort of mistreatment that I’ll hunt you down and make sure to mount you head on a plaque so you can pay for those crimes?” Peaches asked. “Because adoptive son of General Vanrouge or not, you hold in your hand one of the two post precious things to me, and you shall pay with your life if you are to smash the treasure that is my granddaughter’s heart.”

“I’d run myself through in front of you and the rest of Amelia’s family if that happened, ma’am,” Silver answered. “When I make a vow to something I fully accept the punishment to come if I am to break it. I never plan to break the promise I’ve made, but I’d accept my fate if I ever were to break it.”

Peaches hummed as she stood up and walked over to Silver, looking down at him as her eyes faintly glowed oh so ominously.

“H-Hey, Grandma! Silver! We-We get it! Please stop staring at each other!” Amelia babbled out nervously, the tension in the air basically tearing her apart.

But Peaches continued to stare at Silver, who maintained complete eye contact, for a moment before her eyes returned to normal and she smiled brightly. “Oh, you are a good boy!” Peaches smiled as she swooped down and hugged Silver tightly. “I’m so happy Divi wasn’t lying to me about that! Such a well behaved and well mannered boy like you is perfect for my Amelia!”

“Thank you, Mrs. Yuu,” Silver murmured, seemingly used to sudden bursts of affection.

“Oh, please, just call me Grandma, honey,” Peaches beamed as she moved away and held Silver’s face in her hands. “After all, I’m sure a wedding isn’t too far away!”

“GRANDMA!”

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Lilia has one of those grandpa chairs. Like one of those nice and comfy recliners that he can snuggle with Divian in, or maybe even Silver if he falls asleep in the thing-

And Divian has a grandma recliner, complete with a blanket hanging on the back. She probably barely reclines in it and just crochets or sews while Lilia blabbers on about some dumbassery shit he pulled yesterday.

They’re that picture of an old married couple sitting in their chairs and having a peaceful afternoon in their home together, waiting for their kids to come and visit for dinner with their partners. Or they’re waiting for their two girls to come back home from NRC on break from school so they can hear all about their studies and friends.

Lilia also drinks up the gossip his girls spill on him and Divian is just entertained with it overall.

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Malleus, Mealodie, and Amelia always have to have someone else holding their hand whenever they go out because they wander off.

AND THEY CAN’T HOLD EACH OTHER’S HANDS!!!

Seriously, they will all look at something, internally go “ooh, pretty!”, and then wander away to look at it and keep wandering as new things jump out to them.

Lilia and Divian have had multiple panic attacks because of them wandering off, but also find it adorable when they finally catch them and see all three of them inspecting something they thought was pretty-

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Usually, Divian falls asleep by herself and wakes up with Lilia cuddling her in various positions. Spooning, holding her to his chest, burying his face in her boobs, there really was no way Lilia hadn’t cuddled Divian before.

But some nights, even after Lilia joined Divian who’d been asleep for hours, Lilia will find himself lying awake in his wife’s arms thinking.

Thinking about his family. Thinking about his children. Thinking about Malleus and Mealodie. Thinking about the war. Thinking about Levan and Meleanor. Thinking about the handmaiden who went missing after Meleanor’s death. Thinking about how he’d lost so much. Thinking about how many loved ones he’d lost before he let himself be open. Thinking about all of the missed opportunities he’d had. Thinking about how he’d taken so many people and things for granted.

Eventually Lilia thinks about so many things, painful memories or happy ones, that it begins to hurt. He can’t help but start to cry. It isn’t loud crying, but it’s persistent and seems endless as he can’t find it in himself to stop.

At some point, his crying wakes Divian. She’s confused, sleepy, and disoriented at first, but once she registers Lilia’s crying she’s instantly cuddling him and asking what’s wrong. But, even though Lilia never answers this questions as he’s too caught up in his tears, Divian knows the answer every time. It usually goes like this:

Divian: Thinking again, baby bat?

Lilia: *nods*

Divian: You want to talk about it?

Lilia: *shakes head*

Divian: It’s okay. I know you think so much that it hurts, doesn’t it?

Lilia: *nods*

And the night goes on with Divian merely holding Lilia and talking softly to him. When his tears begin to dry and his silent sobs cease, Divian teases him a bit to cheer him up. She talks about how if his old General self saw him now, he’d definitely be annoyed and possibly disgusted with himself for crying like a child; a thing he grimaced at back then.

It eventually makes Lilia laugh and actually feel tired for the first time that night and remembers why he loves Divian so fucking much. So, with a soft, “I love you, Divi,” Lilia lets himself be taken over by sleep, feeling better and ready for another chaotic day in the morning.

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Divian often finds herself tucking in the Diasomnia kids most nights.

Most nights she’ll start with Sebek, who sleeps like an absolute madman. She’ll reposition him in his sleep, make sure his pillows are fluffed up enough so he’s comfortable, and she’ll add an extra blanket as she tucks him in because that dorm is fucking freezing at night.

Then Divian moves to Silver. The poor boy usually passes out at his desk, so Divian has to move aside his duvet and blankets before carrying Silver to his bed. She makes sure he’s in the correct position, that he has a good amount of pillows and blankets because Silver needs ten pillows at least in order to sleep correctly at night. Then it’s just a matter of smoothing the blankets and duvet over the sleeping boy and tucking him in with a kiss to his forehead because Silver will always be her baby boy.

Then, if she’s in her dorm, Divian visits Mealodie who’s struggling with her chronic insomnia. Divian will gently coo and coax the Princess into her bed and sing her to sleep. Once Mealodie is asleep, Divian makes sure she’s tucked in properly and gently pat her on the head before quietly leaving.

And finally, the one who is usually never in his bedroom, Divian will visit Malleus. If he’s in his room, Malleus will be fighting sleep as he tries to stay up and read one of his many books on gargoyles or he’ll be in the middle of typing a paragraph essay length message to Amelia, who is begging him over text to turn his brain off and fucking go to bed. (Malleus likes having a friend, okay???) It takes maybe half an hour before Divian is able to convince the Crown Prince to put the book down or that he can message Amelia tomorrow. Eventually, Malleus does listen and lets Divian lead him to his bed and tuck him in. And all it takes is some headpats before Malleus is out like a damn light and Divian always has to stop herself from laughing because it’s pretty cute.

And once she’s visited all of the babies, she’ll go to Lilia’s dorm so she can finally sleep. She almost never sleeps in her own dorm room because she prefers to be around Lilia as much as possible. So, once she’s in what’s basically their room, she will force Lilia to go to bed for once so she can fall asleep with kisses and cuddles from the man she loves most in the world.

Basically, I fucking love Mama Divian and she’s so freaking adorable-

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I feel like after NRC, Lilia and Divian have two children, like they’re biological-

Both girls, about three years apart, and both incredibly precious. The older one I see acting like Lilia when he was in his prime General days but will get soft around those she cares about, and the younger one is just really happy and giggly and silly like both Lilia and Divian are in the present.

They likely age like Divian did, in which they mature like a human but stop growing around twenty-five and continue to age, only very slowly since they live for a very long time. And since their mother is a Shapeshifter, they both have a spirit animal that they spiritually bonded with the at birth. The older one’s is a peregrine falcon and the younger one’s is a bamboo bat.

Both girls basically turn Lilia into a full on girl dad since he never really was one before, given that Mealodie naturally attached herself more to Divian and Malleus attached himself to Lilia. Lilia still sees Mealodie as his daughter, she’s just a lot closer to Divian, is all.

But, with the arrival of his two newest babies, Lilia is fully a girl dad since both of them are daddy’s girls, especially the younger one! The older girl drifts more towards Divian as she gets older, having a happy medium between both parents, while the younger girl is practically Lilia’s shadow and Lilia loves it!!!

And both of the little girls basically become the kryptonite to Malleus, Mealodie, Silver, and Sebek, who would all likely burn the world to the ground for those two babies.

I’d say that Lilia would be the one to name them, giving both very feminine yet old and elegant girl names. He may be youthful in appearance and soul, but he’s still an old man at his core.

Lilia and Divian are very happy raising their last two babies after NRC, peacefully living in the forest in the cottage they raised Silver in.