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Dancing with Wriothesley

Calling out to all inmates willing to help!!

The annual Halloween party at Fortress Meropide is coming soon! His Grace is extremely busy with preparations, how will he even find the time to prepare a costume for himself or his loved ones?!

Help the Duke! Give him Halloween costume ideas!!

come up with an idea for a costume for Wriothesley, Neuvillette, Sigewinne - any one of them, two of them, or all three

describe your idea to me and I'll draw it! Or, well, I will try!

please keep in mind that if it's too weird and/or I can't understand what you're talking about, I may be unable to draw it 🙏

my asks are open (anon as well, if you're shy), or you can leave a comment under this post

it's ok to reblog for the people in the back, make sure that everyone at the Fortress knows! All hands on board!

(just look at his puppy face, you know you want to help him; also you may even earn yourself some Credit Coupons if he really likes it)

theyre fine probably

bonus:

clorinde and wriothesley's concept designs just for fun

Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

post irminsul scara is so funny. you dont understand. he's commited atrocities. he has a semi-justified god complex. he has tried to destroy at least two nations. he knows the deep secrets of the universe. he is currently in college and doing his thesis. he unironically goes by hat guy. his main hobby is writing research papers and arguing with political science majors. he is technically on parole.

this came to me in a fever dream and i couldn't stop thinking about it till i made it

it’s always “poor little meow meow” or “evil bastard” or “I could make him worse” what about men who are normal 🙄what about men who pay taxes and are well adjusted individuals and not at all insane

Wriothesley's lore and his relationship to Neuvillette and justice is so interesting to me because let's be real: the justice system failed him. He was brought up in a foster home where he was intended to be sold in the black market. And when he ran away, why was his solution to return and kill them? Why not inform the police? One can argue he was afraid but usually you'd try every other option before resorting to murder, yes?

And when he succeeds in killing them. He's sentenced to prison, where he is forced to spend the rest of his teen years (so, a child), and the start of his adulthood. And when his sentence is over, he doesn't even leave but take over the title of warden. He literally takes over the title of warden the day his sentence is over. That is severely fucked, like so severely fucked.

So it makes me wonder where was Neuvillette and Furina in all of this? Furina left the room in the middle of Wriothesley's trial for unspecified reasons (Wriothesley interpreted it as she found his case uninteresting, though headcanons say otherwise) and despite everyone in the room finding Wriothesley innocent, Neuvillette still finds him guilty. And you can't argue that it's cause Wriothesley wanted to be found guilty, like objectively let's look at this: he was a victim of abuse killing his abusers in self-defense. Is Neuvillette that obtuse?

I wanna know what Wriothesley thought of Neuvillette in that moment. I really feel like it needs to be addressed that Neuvillette failed Wriothesley and others like him. He is the second highest authority in Fontaine, yet the only thing he could do for Wriothesley when he was homeless as a child was allow a melusine to offer him soup? That's it? Did knowing that there's starving, homeless kids on the street spark no other interest? No implications of Fontaine's society and their quality of life?

I refuse to believe that Neuvillette let the melusine give him soup because it was Wriothesley, because that would mean he was aware of his background and did nothing. He did nothing until it was too late and Wriothesley had to take matters into his own hands. I personally see it as, he lets melusines offer help to those in need, which isn't better, but is better than him actively knowing that Wriothesley was homeless, starving, and running away from an abusive home and did nothing but allowed him one meal one night. Nevermind any other nights Wriothesley could've been starving. Nevermind what he had to endure on the streets as a child, scouring for money and safety. He couldn't offer him anywhere to stay or a job or something that can better Wriothesley's quality of life in the longterm -- he is the Iudex. He has the power to do so.

I still think that Neuvillette cares. But I also think he's extremely ignorant. And I don't fault Wriothesley for believing that Neuvillette wasn't concerned about him -- I think he has every right to think so cause Neuvillette failed him when he needed him most and has not shown him a reason to think otherwise. Every instance of Neuvillette's care is never directly shown to Wriothesley but to everyone else around him.

Anyways, I just find it really sad to think about, and I think Wriothesley deserved better for his own story and I wish the narrative didn't gloss over it like "oh but Neuvillette does care" because does he? Emotionally, maybe, but did Neuvillette make any real positive difference to Wriothesley's life?

…So that's why I think the headcanon that Neuvillette personally made the soup that the melusine gave to Wriothesley isn't as sweet as you think it is.