#id like to think She’s pretty taller then average which isn’t ‘helped’ by the fact that he’s Short

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do u take hc asks for aus? bc if so id love to hear some ab the fe14 superhero AU from an ask a while back? i feel like the potential is amazing? i have no idea ab powers but im imagining the nohrian royal kids as the children of a bigshot CEO/supervillain (a la Norman Osborn) and the other retainers are bodyguards maybe? mainly tho i love? hijinks potential. the flirting, one of them gets hurt in battle and the closest place for them to lick their wounds is their respective royal's apartment

For anyone curious, this a reference to this ask.

I also have no idea about powers (something that makes Selena invulnerable, maybe? something to do with her determined personality for sure) but we’ll ignore that for now and focus on the juicy parts of this ask instead: the royals as children of bigshot CEO/supervillain Garon and the Trio as their bodyguards.

Let’s take the canon approach here and assume Garon wasn’t always terrible. But he definitely is now, and the kids (even though only Elise is really that young still) have to follow his orders to the T or at least not get caught defying them. Maybe Garon uses his minions and robots or whatever to do his crimes for him, rarely going out into the field himself, but he’s still evil. 

The kids definitely don’t follow his orders 100%. They have to for a lot of it, but they cut corners where they can. They’re not assholes. At least, not all the time, and not for no reason. Having a supervillain for a dad kind of sucks.

Pretending not to notice that your bodyguard is also sabotaging your dad’s plans all the time is also hard.

When you want something done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself. Beruka and Selena are reliable, but sometimes Camilla has to do things on her own. She can throw her weight around, both physically and with the family name. 

I don’t know how, but somehow, someway, Selena ends up holding Camilla bridal style in the middle of a fight. 

I’ve always imagined as Camilla as pretty broad shouldered and well built, and while I imagine Selena taller than either of the boys and taller than average for sure, I don’t normally imagine her with as much visible muscle as Camilla either. I’m sure that Camilla ends up holding Selena plenty of times later, both out of necessity and because she just likes holding people she’s close to. But this time it’s the other way around, Camilla in Selena’s arms, and Camilla is pleased.

She’s been reluctantly impressed before, of course, but this time she’s willingly impressed, and that’s probably in large part due to the fact Camilla knows it’s Selena holding her and not some random (if admittedly cute) stranger.

Sure, the mask is covering up most of Selena’s face, but Camilla can identify adorable a mile away. Those pigtails are pretty unmistakable too.

“Oh,” Camilla purrs, wrapping her arms around her hero’s neck. “Aren’t you a strong one?”

Selena coughs, and when she speaks, her voice is just a bit deeper than usual. A poor disguise. “You, uh, should get out of here. Civilian.”

Camilla giggles and likes the way she feels Selena tense. It’s fun to tease, but a firefight’s not the best time to talk identity. She’ll let this superhero thing be. For now. 

In normal everyday clothes and identity, Laslow tells a story of how he was flirting with the absolute cutest girl last night, right outside that little coffee place, you know the one, and Xander doesn’t care at all but he doesn’t tell Laslow to stop because he’s too distracted with thinking about how Laslow was absolutely not at a coffee shop last night. He couldn’t have been, because that was the same time there was an attack downtown and that masked hero, the flirty one, was there. Xander knows because he was there too, and he swore the masked hero actually winked at him when he ran by. A bold move.

He wonders if Laslow would be so bold if Xander admitted he knew the truth.

He doesn’t. He lets Laslow’s chatter wash over him while he does some paperwork and consider what needs to be done in order to fudge the information that Laslow is the one preventing Garon from blowing up the town dam some more. 

And if Laslow leans over Xander’s desk while he talks, so close Xander can feel the heat from him as he writes, Xander doesn’t say anything.

Leo almost immediately figures out what’s up. As soon as the media gets a proper shot of the heroes, that is. The first few times Odin shows up on the news in his secret identity, Leo’s maybe as clueless as everyone else and more than a little frustrated that he doesn’t know who these people or what their plans are, even if they sometimes help. That weird trio gets in the way too, you know. 

But as soon as there’s a semi-clear voice clip or snapshot of the side of Odin’s face or something (even with the mask)? You can bet Leo spends that afternoon mentally screaming over how bold or stupid Odin must be to be running around as a hero literally right under Leo and his father’s nose. Like??? It’s so obvious??? Especially with that way he talks, holy shit. He could at least try to be subtle. The next time Leo sees Odin he just. Stares until Odin gets all fidgety and asks if Leo wants the cookies Elise is making or not. 

“No,” Leo says flatly. Niles is snickering somewhere in the background, and Leo wants to bang his head on a desk. “I’m fine.”

The moment Odin is gone, Leo brushes his bangs out of his face and sighs. At least Odin is attempting to be discreet. And it’s a trump card if he ever really needs the help going behind his father’s back, or any other reason.

(Later, Niles takes every opportunity he can to make as many innuendos about a certain masked hero when he pops up on their news feed, which is total routine by now. What isn’t routine is that Leo knows that masked hero is Odin, you jackass, that’s why Odin always goes red when Niles brings it up, why didn’t Niles say anything sooner–)