#they are both guys. Darenya is a trans guy

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are all these really sweet/tender pieces of Radinta and Darenya from before whatever causes them to become exes/enemies/nemesis? and why the clash 🥺 Darenya just wants a healing sword right.. Radinta be a sweet bf and helpp him 👉👈

Some of them are from before they had a falling out, and the others are from after ;)

Darenya was a stillbirth. He would be the only child of Abintan who is biological, so his mother, Saranggi took Darenya from his burial cot when he was only a few minutes in the world. She ran across the forest, to the holy tree of which she was named after, the Saranggita, where mothers would go take their stillborn and lift them towards the Saranggita, and beg for them back. The saranggita drips divine sap, where it would anoint the brows of the children, and call them back. Not all come back. That night, only Darenya came back, and it was said that the cries from him resounded across the forest.

Children who came back from the call of the tree are called Amsara children, and they usually only live up to their late twenties to early thirties, so Darenya wants to cling to life as much as possible, fight for what he thinks is right. He is from a small village of indigenous folk, but he grew up well-educated and cherished by his father and siblings, and never wanted for anything. Darenya was also a gifted child, born with this type of magic called Kaharnan- magic where one's breathing has a physical force to it. Imagine mustering enough power in your lungs to whistle/ blow out enough force to navigate an ancient stone ship weighing tons and tons out of a small planet's atmosphere. The most powerful Karharnan can wipe out a city in a single breath.

Radinta, on the other hand, grew up in a sundering called Sasaban, an occupied land where "the sky is ablaze and never blue, and the oceans and rivers are poisoned", as a child his family and older brothers were never kind to him, being the youngest son in a family of six other sons and one sister, no father and one very irate and agitated mother. Radinta was sold into slavery as payment of taxes to the wealthier folk of Sasaban, who in turn passed over Radinta to the occupiers of Sasaban. And Radinta was paid over to the Sanjata as "tithing".. which confused the Sanjata, who had no concept of slavery. Radinta was eight. The Sanjata were kind to Radinta, as they were a communal folk, Radinta was free to become a child of the village, but he grew very close to Narakan, Darenya's older sister, and eventually he befriended Darenya and Humadsan too.

Darenya always had a bit of a crush on Radinta, he's very handsome, with very black hair and a beautiful nose, and well-formed lips, and he was Very Tall. Radinta liked Renya back, but his demeanor is so "serious" (really, just awkward) that Renya could never tell if Dinta liked him back. Dinta is just one of those people who genuinely do not Know that they're very very attractive, so when people are flustered around him or stumble, his reaction is just to be concerned and CONFUSION ?? ? ? ¿¿¿¿ causing Narakan and the Kalimbahin to roll their eyes because Dinta is just HOPELESS.

Radinta and Darenya both believe in similar things, they want Sasaban to be free, and they both want the sanjata left alone, and they both want freedom for their people, but since Darenya is ~dying~ his manner of approaching these desires is more direct, unstable, more passionate, while Radinta clings to the safety and stability in life he found in his adulthood, and he does find his way to a relationship with Renya, which he treasures, because he had always wanted a family, and he vowed he would never be like his parents. There are some plot points that happen I can't say yet, but Darenya goes into very deep trouble with the rajah, and he has only one shot left in life only because Dinta managed to calm down the Rajah. By the time he's 24, he would be pregnant (Darenya is a trans guy) and excited to be a parent, while Dinta is just sick with worry. Darenya, being Darenya cannot get out of trouble, and some enormous secret is revealed to Darenya, and the secret revealed that Dinta had betrayed him in a terrible way, which I can't say because it would spoil too much of the story.. let's just say that betrayal is related to a very certain sword. Anyway, Darenya is pissed, hormonal, so he goes to the docks and destroys a dragon ship. Dragonships are, literally, fossilized dragons. Each dragon ship finds a captain to bond with, and not anyone can just captain a dragon ship. Karharnan is one of the strictest magics in the world, and much self discipline is required to tame a dragon ship :'l it is incredibly taboo for a captain of Karharnan to be violent, and when Darenya blows out a breath hard, it shatters the dragonship and frees the spirit of the dragon trapped inside, causing it to go on a rampage. From the distance of the city port, when the dragon was losing its shit, Renya saw Radinta walking towards him, his expression blank, but his eyes totally heartbroken and disappointed.

The Rajah was pissed, naturally. And no matter how much Dinta and Narakan begged, the Rajah sentenced Renya to death :/

They tied Darenya to the only surviving part of the dragon ship they salvaged, which was its mast. Tied him in such a way so that his body was forced into a kneeling position, and they cut his hair. (In Visayan cultures, cutting one's hair was the highest form of punishment)

Tied to the mast, Darenya, 7 months pregnant, was forced to crawl, on his knees, from the city of Ivory, up beyond its hills, beyond its rivers, to the highest peak, where the mechanical God, Harilunan dwelled, said to protect the God king, who, in this case, would be the Rajah. Darenya would make this pilgrimage to beg for forgiveness.

Darenya crawled for days, and by the time he had made it to Harilunan, he had miscarried. The last of his strength he used to curse the Rajah and all the rulers of Hidlawonen, "and all who are faithful to them" and he died.

But! The story of the lord of gentle swords is "the tale of an undead prince whose story should have ended on the day he was executed" so..! ;)

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