#they’d never maliciously hurt one another they’re just siblings and sometimes siblings are physically abusive /j

[antiquepearlss]

It’s funny because I fully imagine Eugene to be a bit protective of Varian. He’s still reckless, and he and Varian get into their fair share of chaos, but he freaks out if Varian accidentally hurts himself (and then laughs obv) and is always the first to tend to any lab accident-or -otherwise-related wounds. If someone even looks at Varian the wrong way he’s got his hand on his little brothers shoulder and sending them a death glare. If you maliciously prank Varian your social life is ruined. And heaven forbid you even lay a hand on the boy lest you want the entire royal guard after you, with a special visit from the Captain himself. You hurt Varian, you perish.

But you can’t convince me these two don’t absolutely destroy eachother in impromptu wrestling matches on a regular basis. These two are pulling hair, kicking shins, and elbowing stomachs in the castle halls because Varian called Eugene’s goatee tacky. And they just, hit eachother regularly. Eugene will sass Varian and get a bruising hit to the shoulder in turn. Varian will insult Eugene’s intelligence and get put in a chokehold. Eugene has a scar on his hand from where Varian bit him after Eugene noogied him too hard. Rapunzel walked into Eugene pinning Varian onto the ground by laying on him gravity is increasing on me style and he didn’t get up for twenty minutes. Eugene regularly puts Varian in air-jail. Varian stomps on his feet with steel toed boots.

Visiting nobles are very concerned.