#except cyrillo will make you nervous bc you /know/ that he always knows more than you want him to

[fatelcved]

i mentioned this in the tags of a post before, but ciaran is definitely the kind of person who acts dumber/more ignorant than he really is. i mean he is?? young and kinda dumb sometimes asdf but he notices and understands more than he lets on when it comes to dynamics between people, how people portray themselves vs. how they really are, etc. he's just learned to pretend that he doesn't from his time at social events held at the manor. it's typically better that people don't know that you know... what you know asdfg

he tries to play the dumb card on kaiya and cyrillo sometimes and it never works :' ) they know good and well that he knows that the duchess is having an affair with the lord of some obscure land and that he just nearly exposed her to make her squirm for saying something catty to kaiya. he's in trouble ( but not that much bc cyrillo approves actually )!!