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Ferris: you're trying to make me look like an idiot!

Halt: I can assure you I'm not trying very hard

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The more I'm writing about Ferris in the Iron Song, the more I like the wet rat he is (as someone called him recently and now I cannot unsee it hahah), so here go some incorrect quotes from a modern AU where the O'Carricks trio never went through the betrayal arc and Ferris is the chaotic diva of the family

Ferris, sighs: Can I borrow your jacket?

Halt:

Halt:

Halt, squints: ...why?

Ferris: I need to pass as straight today because my boyfriend's family doesn't know yet and we want to make a big reveal on his fuckshit of an aunt's birthday party so until then I need to be his 'super duper straight pal' and I don't know anyone who dresses more boringly or straighter than you

Halt:

Halt: I am literally married to a man

Ferris: I know, right? Such a shame to all queer people you are, in your cargo pants and jacket that screams "gay people scare me"

Halt:

Halt:

Halt: How the fuck am I supposed to help someone so rude??

Ferris:

Ferris: By lending me your jacket, duh

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Conal, said boyfriend of Ferris (and an OC from the Iron Song fic): And tell me again, sweetheart, why the fuck did you go to a court dressed like...

Ferris: Careful.

Conal: ...

Conal: A very artistic person who likes to make people choke on their drink and look away from them?

Ferris: Good enough

Ferris: We were meeting our father today, to get the last thing over the case of custody of Caitlyn

Ferris: And I didn't want him to notice that Halt transitioned, so I decided if he sees me first and dies out of heartattack he will never get the time to hate crime my brother

Conal:

Conal: Noble

Ferris: Aw thank you

Conal: Did it work?

Ferris: 50/50

Ferris: He had a heart attack all right but as far as I know, they saved him in the hospital

Conal:

Conal: Oh

Ferris: Have you seen my red latex dress lately?

Conal: In my wardrobe. again

Conal:

Conal: Why

Ferris:

Ferris: I need to pay a visit on a hospital

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Siobhan, Caitlyn’s bff: ...

Siobhan: Why is your brother crying

Caitlyn, not looking up from her phone: Which one?

Siobhan: Ferris

Caitlyn: He is afraid of guns

Siobhan:

Siobhan: Then why the fuck is he on a shooting competition

Caitlyn: He tries to be supportive of Halt's special interest and he refuses to wear camo and is more afraid of helicopters, so all that's left are guns

Siobhan:

Siobhan: ...

Siobhan: I think he's trying to hide under the table

Caitlyn: Again?

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Halt, coming out as trans to his siblings:

Caitlyn: Awww, I'm so proud of you!

Halt:

Ferris:

Ferris: One question

Halt:

Halt: yes?

Ferris: Can I get your clothes? You had that one super cool dress on your prom

Halt:

Halt: ...

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Caitlyn, annoyed: Which one of you gremlins stole my mascara again??

Halt:

Ferris:

Halt: Really?

Ferris:

Ferris, who walked in on Cralt having a 'imma do your make up' date, and got threaten with some very bad things done to him if he ever tells anyone:

Ferris:

Ferris: That's unfair

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Halt: Sooo... I want you to meet my partner...

Ferris:

Caitlyn:

Halt: This is Crowley, he-

Ferris: OH THANK THE FUCK

Ferris, tears in his eyes: He's not straight, omfg, yes, we saved him!

Caitlyn:

Caitlyn:

Ferris:

Ferris: Please go find a girlfriend, Cait, don't let me down

Ferris: The O'Carrick bloodline dies with us!

Halt:

Caitlyn:

Halt:

Caitlyn: I have a son

Ferris: HE CAN STILL BE GAY

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whilst a gun would probably fix crowley it would make halt 100% worse

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I made some gay shit for pride. Take some queer men

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HC: When Halt returned from Hibernia after Kings of Clonmel he brought home some hair wraps from his home region as a birthday present for Crowley. Crowley loves them and proudly wears them to formal events like banquets, diplomatic meetings and such.

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let's say this is a celebration between Crowley Angst Day and the beginning of the pride month. As is of the cannon, Crowley is 7 years older than Halt. And in medieval times, lives were much more fragile, life spans shorter. — Halt doesn’t look like much at first. skinny, half-feral, beard already coming in despite being barely into adulthood. Crowley teases him from the start, and Halt bites back every time. It's immediate, electric, dangerous. They're on missions together and they’re bickering like an old married couple after a week. Neither of them is thinking about the far future. Why would they? They’ve got blades on their hips, arrows at the ready, and the certainty that they might not make it until tomorrow.

Crowley becomes commandant at 27. Too young, too burdened. Halt never says it, but he sees how the role chews at him. And even in their earlier years, before the burden, Crowley was always up before dawn, reading dispatches, writing reports, worrying about everything. It was natural for him to take this role, despite how much weight it was for one man.

Halt started going grey before he hit 30, which was ironic because Crowley, despite the years separating them, still had all his damn hair and it hadn’t gone even a bit silver yet. Halt grumbled about it but honestly? it suited him.

“You looked forty when you were twenty,” Crowley would tease him. But then Crowley starts aging for real, and it wasn't so funny anymore.

Crowley turns 45, and for the first time, he needs help up from the ground after sparring. It’s subtle, blink and you’d miss it. Halt didn’t. Crowley started to age hard and fast after 50. The job wore him down. Constant travel, constant conflict, constant stress. His mind remained as sharp as ever but his body started failing him, slowly, creeping in. His joints hated the cold, he got tired faster. Halt noticed him rubbing his knees after a longer travel. The jokes completely stopped by then. They only serve now as a cruel reminder. They were no longer funny. Not when Halt began to feel the time speed up. The years slipping like sand between his fingers. It was watching the person you loved age faster than you. It was knowing the ending long before you were ready to see it, and you were helpless to stop it. The years passed and Halt was still strong. Still deadly. The grey in his beard might've been white now, sure, but his hands were steady, his aim as flawless as ever.

And Crowley? Crowley was tired. When Crowley turned 60, Halt brought him a bottle of something sharp and expensive, and they sat by the fire in silence for hours. That uncharacteristical, unsettling silence from Crowly. They didn’t toast. They didn’t make speeches. Just at one point, Crowley said, almost offhand, “Never thought I’d get this far.”

Halt didn’t answer. He just reached over, poured them both another glass. —

It wasn’t fair.

After everything. The wars, the battles, the betrayals, the years of danger, it doesn't happen with a sword, not a fight, not even a fall. It happened quietly.

Crowley, in bed, blanket pulled up. eyes open. a faint smile on his face. Like he just remembered something funny and was about to tell Halt.

He just... stopped breathing. Gone. Just like that. The man Halt had loved for over forty years - forty, they’d marked that milestone just last year, sitting beside a fire, when for one brief moment Halt had dared to whisper, “I’m glad we made it.” The man he’d fought beside, lived for, bled for, let himself need, was gone. And all Halt could think was: he didn’t say goodbye. There was no hand squeeze, no final word, no look. Suddenly they ran out of time. Halt sat beside him for hours, didn’t touch the body. Just stared at him, because part of him, some stubborn, foolish, childish part, was still waiting.

Waiting for Crowley to blink, to twitch, to laugh and say, “I got you, didn’t I?”

But he didn't. He never would again.

Halt just sat there for hours. Hands still. heart pounding in his ears like war drums.

And the only thing, the only damn thought he had left in his mind was:

You’re alone now.

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@artsysurvivor HELLO BIRTHDAY GUFT FOR YOU !!!!

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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Will: Crowley how do i get the best revenge on my enemies?

Crowley: the best revenge is letting go and living your life to the fullest :)

Will: ...

Will: Halt how do i--

Halt: brick.

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sooo is this the safe space and time for my genderqueer/gender non-conforming Crowley headcanons?

I've seen some trans Halt content here and there, and now I'm curious: do we have any opinions on trans Crowley? Maybe even t4t cralt?

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sooo is this the safe space and time for my genderqueer/gender non-conforming Crowley headcanons?

I've seen some trans Halt content here and there, and now I'm curious: do we have any opinions on trans Crowley? Maybe even t4t cralt?

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I was bored in school so I made this list:

Things I like about Halt O'Carrick

He can do cool things like shoot a bow and use knives and kill people

He's autistic

Bi

Short king

Trans

Irish

He's a metaphorical smoker and alcoholic

Best dad

Best husband

Probably cries at 3 in the morning

Most likely emotional over tiny things

Secret sweetie

Can be calm but also super unhinged at the same time

Baby <3

Would listen to Queen

Has an idiot best friend who he legally has to obey

Doesn't listen to the people he legally has to obey (his idiot best friend and the king)

Law breaker

"creative documentation"

Probably scared of snakes or has a random phobia like that

Hold grudges over small things I imagine

Hates being wrong

He can scare people by existing

Coffee addict

Kinda insane

My headcanons are canon and I love them

Puts honey in his coffee like a quirky sweetie

I'll add more when I add more

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[ID: three hands holding each other's wrists, each labelled as "aspecs", "trans people", and "autistics", with the center where they all connect reading "people acting like headcanoning a character with your same identity is an insult to the character". End ID.]

thanks @gordonzola-ramen for the ID

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okay so you still only have one argument about making your story only about gay people

You're going to lose it when we reach the moment where this very gay story includes openly trans people as well.

Also not only gay, there are also lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals, those labeling themselves as queer, and again, scary trans people.

I have no clue where did you get the idea that I, openly queer person, am writing straight love stories, given I only have two "straight" stories posted, both of them about Haltine with both of them being asexual, so it’s still queer.

I don’t write here anything but queer stories.

You may want to stop reading "the Iron Song", if you have a problem with them being gay.

I assure you, it only gets more queer 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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I read the new chapter of your fiction and I just have to ask, did you really had to make not only Ferris but also your knight OC Lughaidh gay? Really? Can’t write a single straight character? In a middle-ages reality?

Hello,

Well, Lughaidh came out as gay in chapter 35, meaning 12 chapters ago, and yes, he absolutely has to be gay, because as a queer author writing a queer story, I will write queer characters.

I have this strange feeling like I already explained this a while ago.

Secondly, I honestly don't think I ever read anything potraying Ferris as straight. Some people even see him as queer-coded in canon. It may have something to do with the fact that he was a middle aged king who never married and his heir was his literal nephew, while his style of being, clothing and hairstyle was ridiculed by the conventionally masculine characters.

Anyway, even if he were straight in canon, he is gay in my story, which is a fanfic (and again, I feel like I covered that topic already).

There are straight characters in "the Iron Song", but the story is mostly focused on the ones that are queer. Because, again, I am writing this story and I am tired of getting queer representation as "that one gay friend among the cis-straight people", so here we get a few straight people among gay majority of the main characters, while the topic of homophobia is still very important and has a great impact on most of them.

Even Lughaidh, who you now realise is gay, literally had a scene where he talked about his backstory, being sent to become a child soldier because of his father’s homophobia.

I'm not sure what to tell you, yes, they are gay, yes, there will be more queer people in the plot. And the whole story is literally tagged "Nobody Here Is Straight".

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I need to see shit of Halt and Horace taking care of each other.

Or really just any content with those two. I love their relationship and their dynamic so much my two boys.

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Been rereading The Kings of Clonmel lately and I'm pretty sure that's what sums up Halt and Ferris' relationship