“The Chancellor Bows, Deeply-”

The thing about theopin is you fit so many dynamics in them and all of it will STILL end up tragic.

Rivals to lovers? They're slowly learning to respect one a other but they're relationship got cut short before it had the chance to bloom. Now Theo would find himself pausing in a conversation waiting for a quip for Lapin. Now all Theo would here is the silence where Lapin's voice used to be.

Passing ships in the night? Theo realizing that he and Lapin has so many similarities. Theo realizing he never gave Lapin a chance. Theo realizing that maybe, in a different world, in another life, maybe he could've loved Lapin. Theo mourning what never was and what could've been. Theo realizing he found the right person but at the wrong time.

Exes/Divored? Maybe they're falling in love again, maybe they're remembering why they fell in love in the first place, maybe they're still in love but are too stubborn to say it. Maybe it ended with a fight and neither of them could apologize. Maybe Theo would look at something Lapin gifted him a lifetime ago and think I loved you. I think I still do.

Secretly together? Oh BOY, where do I start? The pining but they're already married. The secrets. The longing. The hidden meaning between their banter. The "I love you but no one can know" to "I loved you and no one knew and now you're gone." The ring that Theo keeps tucked underneath his armor and it's twin laying bloodied on the floor of a church.

They are rivals. They are besties. They can't stand each other. They cannot bear to be apart. They are married. They WERE married. They fucking hate each other. They respect each other so so much. I am exceedingly normal about them I swear

My favorite relationship dynamic in fiction is a worshipper and their God. Not a literal God, but their God. The only thing in the whole world that matters to them. I will live for you, I would die for you, I would kill for you. My only moral compass is You. You can do no wrong in my eyes and I will never stray from your side. I was born to meet you and to love you. You are the only being I pray to. Your life isn’t just my passion, it’s my religion. You don’t think you’re anything special but you don’t see what I see. You don’t see that you’re the only person who’s ever made me feel this way. You don’t understand how beautiful you are to me and I will devote my entire life to making you understand and accept it.

After many years, Cloud' s physical functions began to decline, and he needed longer periods of sleep.

(I tried my best with the translation😭)

lapin & keradin for the "all gore goes" d20 zine!

poem excerpt: where it begins, erica jong 1971

i cannot believe this isn't what episode two was about

51 points of damage

mutually assured destruction

Brennan is to Sam what Emily is to Brennan. Vic is to Sam what Beardsley is to Brennan.