#it's like ad Infinitum don't even count in the line-up...

[forgottencillian]

ok but legit cillian probs wouldn't have survived childhood w/o percy there to make sure he pulled through lakjsfkljsdf and honestly he's only gotten ~more reckless since becoming an adult (and specificially since surviving the battle of malconaire but more on that later)

honestly tho stressing out percy is practically cillian's raison d'etre dslkfajsdklfsdf 'i can tell how fun a stunt will be by measuring percy's stress levels. there's a direct corolation.' no, but honestly i ~do think that cillian probs underestimates just how much poor percy does for him honestly alkdjfkldjf i also feel like cillian is the sort of person to just feel like WELL NOW I GOTTA DO IT when ppl tell him smth's impossible soooo there's that too asldkjfasdjfjsdf CILLIAN PULLS THROUGH OK BUT PERCY GETS IN TROUBLE aljsdfkljsdjfsdf that reminds me of that jack sparrow line that's smth like 'youre crazy, that'll never work!' 'well that's good bc otherwise i could probably never get away w doing this' and that's cillian's luck vs percy's (also probs the fact that percy was likely covering for cillian but here we are alskjdfkljdf)

[ actual footage of the boys joining the resistance ] no but honestlyyyy cillian feels the same way like!!! t his is how he dies!!! and what a way to go!! i think he lowkey feels almost like...ashamed???? for having survived the battle of malconaire when so many others who were better and more worthy than he is in his own opinion died and like???? since the gods ~did spare him, he means to make this count, basically, which means risky shit ad infinitum basically (sorry percy aljsdfkljsfk)

NOT PERCY LOSING HIS WHOLE FAM NOOOOO honestly i just know the frosts and malconaires banded together to be there for him when they were suffering and then gone and SOBBBBBB

lkdsjfdlskjafjlfjkdf now hc'ing that , unbeknownst to him, cillian gets away w half his lord ormond shenanigans bc percy sees him at the castle and covers for him, one way or another alksjdfkljsdfjdf then when percy confronts him abt how this should've been a 1 and done 'i don't see what you're so worked up about. im clearly v good at this: nothing bad has happened yet.'

lkajsfklsjdfksdff percy doesn't ~need to confirm it bc cillian will never let him live it down based purely on speculation alksdjfklsjdfjksdf cue him making a whole host of prince jokes etc akljdfjklsdf also cue cillian's RIGHTEOUS FURY whenever arthur flirts w her, both for eithne AND percy's sakes he's like CAN YOU JUST STOP BEING THE WORST FOR EVEN ONE SINGLE MOMENT AT ALL?????? arthur: actually i can't

ok but real talk, percy is legit one of cillian's v fav ppl in the whole wide world and, while he really puts him through it, there isn't a thing in this world he ~woudln't do for percy!!!! he thinks he's the best and the worthiest of all that is good abt astaira and he deserves the whole world (and NOT to be free labor for valentina but then...all the best ppl ~are these days so he really shouldn't be surprised alkdjsfalksdjfkldf). honestly, i think cillian fully expects -- and frankly lowkey even kind of ~wants -- to die fighting for astaira, but he's determined that the staffords and the malconaires and percy and saoirse will pull through, whatever it takes (also realizing that when they were kids, cillian probs hoped that percy would one day marry saoirse bc then they could be brothers for real™ but yeah i don't think that was smth he carried into adolescence hahaha he's like 'biology doesn't make you brothers' <333)

ooc | Percy & Cillian

Cillian is legit Percy's favorite person, but honestly no one stresses him out more!!! I feel like their entire relationship is just Cillian being like LET'S DO THIS!!! And Percy is like Absolutely NOT. And then Cillian does the thing and Percy is like GDI!!!! And it's honestly 50/50 whether Cillian's plans work out for him and Percy was like yeah ok that was fun OR that it was a disaster and somehow Cillian pulls through OK but Percy gets in trouble lmao

Probably the 1 single exclusion of this was when Cillian told Percy about his brother's efforts to start a resistance!!! Percy knows that there's probably not much chance for success, but he's willing to dedicate his life to this cause!! I also think that Percy once had a large family of his own, but that they all lost their lives during the war/as a result of sickness that spread after/during and now the Malconaires and the Frosts all are he feels he has left and ... if Percy wasn't uptight and protective before, he definitely is now!!

Also, Percy was NOT on board w/ Cillian dressing up as Lord Ormond and he's not a fan that it wasn't a 1 and done type deal and every time he sees him walking around like a lord at the palace his stress levels go WAY up!!!

lowkey percy has a huge crush on aria which he's never confirmed to cillian b/c he knows cillian will never let him hear the end of it, but I kinda think that cillian suspects and teases him anyway and the only difference is that percy just ignores him and pretends it is not all true

[tenrose]

Seriously who does this? Starting earlier than the announced schedule? We are in fucking France we start LATE 😤