#sorry dnsmks

[simpmetra]

im late but im going to try to make this post better-hopefully... (theres so much sad,,, sorry dndkal) ALSO THIS WAS MUCH LONGER THEN EXPECTED IM SO SORRY I LOVE TO OVER DETAIL

In the Prologue Nadia goes to the shop to seek advice from the apprentice, but what if you, the apprentice, seek advice from Asra, the man you broke, the man who gave everything up for you.

The term "you knock on deaths door," if you take a risky move, or a near death experience, but what if death knocks on your door? To ask a favor after they stripped everything away from you. Broke you and everyone around? Using those Honey-Coated Words. The same tone, the tone that blinds Asra with Love instead of Hatred. But when hearing those bittersweet words, He can feel the thorns prick those words. How the poison coats itself as a lie.

He cant speak, he feels those thorns jab at [what he has left of a heart, he denies he still has it as how hard you broke it], He feels the lies jab at his heart to plant the lie he believed for so long, that you'd return to him.

Asra makes direct eye contact with you, the monster you are. You finally see the damage you caused. You see all the nights he cried himself to sleep, the nights he thought so low of himself. The nights were Even Julian (who blamed himself for everything) got to see what it felt like to see someone else think so low of themself. Julian finally experienced what the apprentice had to go through to show him how to love himself. Seeing Asra like this makes his stomache turn and feel like agony. You caused this. You broke the man everyone believed you loved.

Asra notices the way you smirk, how your eyes close, Just like Lucio. The way your shoulders raise slightly. He notices every feature, every movement you make. The way your body expresses everything you done.

Your careless actions despite every warning. The warnings Muriel gave you "dont trust him, he'll give you a gift in your most desperate time, but you'll end up as us" Nadia saying how she loathed her "Husband" how they truly didn't love each other. How everyone of Vesuvia believed that thick lie of how they fell for each other. Asra saying how Lucio only cared for himself. He's above everyone. But what Asra was too afraid to speak of, is that death is above Lucio's status.

The apprentice would stand taller then Asra. As of a real royal figure would. They look down on Asra as if hes nothing. But if Asra squinted he would see the desperate look in your eyes, red as fire, with images of thousands of burnt corpses.

"May I enter?" Thats when Asra realizes. This isnt a dream. Hes talking to the one that took everything he believed. the one he loved, the one he spent nights with, the one that he slept with when he had nightmares. The one he woke up too making breakfast in the morni- The one that broke him.

He gulps (more of to calm himself and to form words) "Why?" His tone is colder then he wanted. He prepares for the worst.

"I need you to help me kill Lucio"

anyways not to be an edgelord but i really hope that if/when lucio’s route comes out it’s an absolute dumpster fire of terrible choices and irredeemable villainy. i want lucio’s route to be the bad end. you fuck the devil but you destroy everything else you love in the process.

i don’t want lucio to be redeemed or saved or changed or anything. i want the route to be “oh you want to date this trash fire? then you’re going to have to join him. you’re going to have to become just as bad as him.” 

i want the apprentice and lucio to like, concoct a way for them both to survive but like, it comes at the cost of everyone else’s lives. i want the ending of lucio’s route to be the apprentice and lucio reigning over an empire of ashes and dust. flames reflecting off the shining spires of the empty palace where they rule, just the two of them, having chosen themselves and each other over the world.

i want the apprentice to have to see nadia and asra and portia and julian and muriel’s faces when they realize they’ve been betrayed by the beloved apprentice that everyone loved. i want there to be an obvious moment of you’re the bad end. look what you’ve done.

like i don’t want lucio to be abusive or rapey or controlling the apprentice. i want this to be the route where the apprentice chooses the devil despite all the warnings and all the better options in their life, and gets to live in the hollow remains of their choices.