#otp: serpinexmevolent

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"I could fix him", yeah? Well, I could accept him as he is. You don't like the murder? Grow up. The atrocities are part of him and I've decided they're funny.

Mevolent about Nefarian Serpine, probably

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Part 1

The ask box for my Mevolent ask blog, @maliciousxsaint, is still open!

Bonus (out of context) Mev:

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given the Reader/Mev fics I’ve seen, I think the latter is just me and the people I could drag into shipping hell with me tbh

love how if you like skulduggery more than just tolerating him you want him to blow your back out and if you like mevolent you want him to blow serpine's back out, why is tumblr so horny

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Nefarian: Bitches will say “you’re mine”. First of all, I’m on parole—

Nefarian: *gestures down at his house arrest ankle bracelet*

Nefarian: —I belong to the state.

Mevolent: I'm the state.

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Shippy Christmas Prompts/Headcanons

Nefarian actually likes Christmas once he learns about the modern version of it. Presents, food and alcohol? Hell yeah to that.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t convince anyone to give him presents, but Mevolent allowed him to introduce the mistletoe tradition since it isn’t inherently Christian but a cross-cultural thing and it would stop Nef’s whining plus Mev likes the idea of getting to steal a few kisses from Nef-

Nef totally placed the mistletoes strategically where he knew Mev and Baron walk by a lot.

Meanwhile twin!Vile was strategically avoiding the mistletoes.

Bonus: Imagine Nef hunting down twin!Vile using an fishing rod to dangle the mistletoes above him :3c

Nef is totally the kind of person to love roleplay in the bedroom (he gets bored easily and likes to keep things interesting) and he talked Baron into dressing up as a sexy Santa for Christmas. The only reason Baron agreed is bc of how cute Nef looked in his naughty elf costume. Baron be like ‘Forgive me, my dark Lords, for I am about to sin. A lot.’ before getting pulled to bed by Nef -<3

Nef managed to talk twin!Vile into a Krampus-and-naughty-kid roleplay, but it wasn’t as frisky as Nef had hoped it would be. Vile lead him on before leaving him tied up, gagged and locked in a basked until Mev found Nef and claimed Vile’s price as his own ;P

Bonus: Imagine Nef managing to struggle enough to tip over the basked and ends up rolling right in front of Mev’s feet who is looking at him with a raised brow and an amused smile ‘My, my, what do we have here?’. Mev throws the tied up little thing over his shoulder like a piece of meat and away they go~

ModernAU: Nef managed to drag Baron on a Christmas Market with him. All those beautiful lights, good (tho expensive) food and hot drinks; even Baron has to admit it was an enjoyable experience despite that dreadful Christmas music playing in the background. Yet the best thing about the experience was how happy Nef looked. It is a rare sight to see Nef genuinely happy and it made Baron fall in love him him all over again, even if Nef did get a little tipsy from all that mulled wine.

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China: Do you know what Mevolent's current army size is? It's not in my database.

Leibniz!Nefarian: I know he has a thing for my eyes.

China: That's not what I asked??

Leibniz!Nefarian: It's the information I have.

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No matter how many times I think about it, Mevolent sitting there and ignoring Skulduggery's disruption as though he wasn't even in the room for hours straight without even a hint of acknowledging him never stops being funny

I'd imagine Mevolent is quite used to substanceless blabbering if what we've seen of the Leibniz upper class is anything to go by. He has learned to tune it out now that he no longer has his Nef to cheer him up and make fun about them behind their backs.

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[during sex]

Nefarian: I want you to hurt me~

Mevolent: Nye is a better scientist than you.

Nefarian: Wait-

Mevolent: Not a big fan of the new haircut.

Nefarian: Stop!

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Bonus Christmas Prompt

Imagine Leibniz!Mevolent chasing Leibniz!Serpine through a festively decorated city while "All I want for Christmas is you" is playing in the background.

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I imagine Serpine sneaking into Mevolent's office and hugging him from behind while he works. And seeing that he doesn't get his attention, he will find a way to sit on his lap. If he still doesn't get his attention, he'll just stand there with his head and hand on Mevolent's chest. When Mevolent is in a bad mood he will end up on the ground, of course

Bold of you to assume getting abused since childhood hasn't taught Nefarian to read the mood of the room instantly- If Mevolent is in a bad mood Nefarian is going to be nowhere to be found unless his duties as a general force him to face Mev.

But hell yes to needy Nef <33 He can't stand it when Mev doesn't pay attention to him for a too long amount of time. Unless he is punishing him it's not something Mev does on purpose, it's just that the war he's leading is keeping him busy. He never pays attention to Nef right away tho despite welcoming the distraction. After all, paper work is boring, but Nefarian is not. 

He finishes writing the sentence before mumbling a half-hearted "Nefarian, I'm busy." yet a short side-glance and an amused smile let Nef know he's allowed to stay. Comfortably seated on Mev's lap, head resting on his chest, he watches Mev work, waiting for him to put the pen aside before growing emboldened by his own impatience.

Mev would never admit it, but he loves how needy Nef is, how much Nef craves his affection, how much he needs it. He loves how desperate he gets when Mev denies it to him, and how his eyes brim with love and adoration when Mev finally has mercy on him and gives him what he wants. Sometimes he let's Nef squirm for only a short while. Sometimes he draws it out, half out of curiosity to see what Nef will do to get his attention, half because he himself is enjoying the attention he's getting from Nef <3333

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"Flawless alabaster canvas" yeah I would kinda love that too tbh

Mevolent certainly has his way with words~<3 Enough so to swoon Nefarian and apparently you too lmao

Since their relationship is meant to be an open secret he of course can't name Nef in it, so imagine him calling him his 'little incubus' instead based on the rumour about Nef from the previous post since Neffie seemed to be so very found of it :3c

Imagine in a hypothetical SP game the player would be able to find Mev's little booklet of poems hidden away somewhere in Nef’s castle/Mev's palace (depending on the point of the timeline) as a little bit of fanservice in a similar way you can find what's essentially a fanfic in form of a theatrical play of the Outsider/Corvo in the ‘Dishonored’ games (DotO more specifically).

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I wonder if Mevolent ever wrote a book of poetry and made everyone in Leibniz Ireland read it

Nah, I don't think Mevolent has much interest in writing poetry himself. He seems to enjoy the arts, but I see him more as the practical/sciencecy guy than being the emotional typ that is more or less required for creating art of any form.

Plus, he seems to be amused by his image as the big bad judging by the way he introduced himself to Val by making fun of the rumours people tell about him. Imagine while Nef was still around, Mev and Nef would compare and make fun of the rumours people would tell about the two of them.

Nef: Have you heard the rumour about me being the product of the unholy union between a witch and an incubus? Apparently that's where my 'hellish snake eyes' come from. Hmmm... I admit, I'm rather found of this one~ Mev: It's certain more flattering than the rumour about me having bat wings and breathing fire. Do they truly believe I'm the son of a dragon? Even if dragons were real, that's a biological impossibility.

But remember my old headcanon about Mev failing catastrophically at anything romantic? Imagine him writing poetry to be romantic, but instead it scares the living hell out of almost everyone who reads them since he focused on the 'flawless alabaster canvas' that is Nefarian's skin and how beautiful it looks 'painted in bruises'. Nef is flattered, Baron is concerned about the serial killer vibes those poems are giving off.

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I think you and I might be the two people most disappointed by the Mevolent/Unnamed prize fight in SoW. I would really have liked it to be written at length like the fights in KoTW, from either perspective, I don't care. I would have liked for Ravel's speculation that Mevolent would have grown more powerful in the time since his MU death to prove true and for him to shock the Unnamed with a bewildering display of sorcery far beyond anything he expected. But no. Because of course not.

Well, I would say the person that rewrote the Unnamed VS Mevolent fight scene was even more disappointed lol. Ngl I couldn't be bothered to actually read it, so no idea if it's good or not.

Yeah, it makes sense Mev would have to trick the Unnamed to even stand a chance against him while he's still young. But during the war and his rule his power should have grown enough that he should be able to almost go toe to toe with the Unnamed. Instead it seemed like Mev barely even put a scratch on him :/

You know my stance on it, since I'm a massive Mev/Nef shipper I wanted Mev and the Unnamed to properly beat the shit out of each with the Unnamed being just strong enough to slowly shift the battle to his favour until Nef steps in to save Mev's life and provide the distraction he needed to kill the Unnamed. Despite all, Nef still couldn't just stand by and watch his former lover and friend die <3

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the most attractive quality in a man is when you hurt him and he asks you to do it again but worse this time

This is Mevolent talking about Nefarian.

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How do you think Mevolent would react if Baron and Nefarian got engaged?

Badly.

[Not only is ‘Killpop’ by Slipnot an amazing song for Mev/Nef it also fits the mood of the answer to this ask perfectly.]

It’s only after Mev married Sera that Baron dares to ask Nef for his hand in marriage. After all, he took Mev marrying another as Nef being free to marry himself now, plus it was cheering him up from the heart-break that Mev choosing another over him had caused him.

They were wrong. Mev was not at all willing to let go of Nef. No matter who his spouse is, Nef is still HIS gift from his Gods, HIS precious little pet. And he’s not sharing ownership with another man and he especially isn’t about become become second to a subordinate.

So when he sees Nef proudly wearing the engagement ring on his finger they get into a fight. Nef is spiteful, still hurt by Mev’s marriage and refusing to break off his own engagement to Baron. Mev is not used to Nef talking back to him and angrily decided to punish him, growling “If yo refuse to take the ring off, then wear it forever!” before pushing him against the wall and melting the ring while it’s still on Nef’s finger.

It takes few moments of him watching Nef curl around his hand, writhing in pain on the floor, crying, before Mev let’s out a sigh, picks him up and carries him to Nye to fix him up. Nye is Mev’s go to doctor bc it shuts up about all the messed up shit he does to Nef.

As soon as Mev is gone, Nef threatens Nye to not heal his hand completely, he wants a scar to remain. Mev told him to wear the ring forever and he would in one way or another. So Nye leaves a slight discolourment of the skin so it’s healed enough to satisfy Mev and visible enough that Nef doesn’t attack him.

When Baron sees what Mev has done to Nef he is heartbroken, blaming himself for not having seen this coming. Nef on the other hand doesn’t regret a damn thing and proudly shows him his scar. He fully intents to give Baron a scar to match. They exchange short vows while Nef takes the ring off Baron hand and takes his ringer finger into his mouth, biting down hard. They relieve Nye of an ointment that prevents healing to ensure their ‘rings’ will last forever.

They unofficially got married right then and there, rebelling against Mev in the only way they can without getting kicked out of church. Ever since they have been referring to each other as their husbands in hushed tones. In public they call each other their ‘insufferable counterpart’.

Of course Mev noticed the scar on Nef’s hand, but after being told by Nye and Nef that it’s healed but the gold had permanently dyed Nef’s skin he decided not to press the subject further. After all, he was well aware he had pushed it too far this time and if he doesn’t want to loose Nef completely he has to tread lightly now.

His marriage to Sera was the first step and this little stunt the second to what would end with Nef’s coup in the Leibniz Dimension.

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I was meaning to draw a pic for this where Mev has Nef pushed against the wall with one hand covering his mouth to muffle Nef’s screaming and crying while his other hand is wrapped around Nef’s left hand, melting the engagement ring on his finger. But this ask was sent 3 years ago, so I gave up on that ever happening lol.

Here is a pic of my headcanon about Mev burning his crest into Nef’s back when he got to jealous of Baron tho.

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Weird note, but maybe Nefarian's black blood was something he was working on with Mev during the war. In the Leibniz universe, Nye perfected it, but Mev didn't want to become undead, so he used it in pool format instead of infusing himself with it. We already know from Scapegrace's capitally weird body-transfer shenanigans that you can cease being undead, because he had to switch back to his zombie body to enter the Necropolis. I'm seeing connections here

Oh, that's an old headcanon of mine actually. The Black Resurrection Pool is just another version of Nefarian's Black Blood. With the difference that I thought of it less as a war time project and more as both Nefarian's independently from each other having the same idea. Leibniz!Nef had Nye help him work out the kinks and had more time, resulting in a superior product, while Prime!Nef was alone, in a hurry and desperate, resulting in him using a flawed product on himself, essentially zombie-fying himself.

I also totally headcanon that Nef used to be the one to kill Mev during the suicide rituals and only after his betrayal Mev replaced him with the Redhoods. Imagine he still sometimes sees Nef's face mere seconds before his mind slips into the cold embrace of death.

Also, imagine this horrible scenario: Mev used the black pool on Serafina's corpse after she died despite Nef and Nye strongly advising against it. And, oh boy, did Mev regret not listening to them-