#♧lilakh

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Stakh has him blocked

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And a realistic version bc I hold the power of god

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Having the option to either run away with Aglaya or kill her at the end of the haruspex's P1 route feels like this:

Or

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The day I stop talking about these two's doomed romance is the day god smites me

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She doesn't have a favourite healer wdym

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EVEN AT THE END, AGLAYA TRIED TO PROTECT ARTEMY ONE LAST TIME.

She tried to trick General Block into thinking she had been the most strict and troubling to the haruspex, so he wouldn't be suspicious of her giving you favouritism and always helping you.

She literally throws a wrench in everyone's plan around her, except Artemy. She actively solves problems with you, guides you towards the solution, and gives you advice.

Hell, even the way she speaks to you is far gentler and more sincere than she ever does with anyone else. You see her demonour change completely when in the presence of Capella, the ruthless facade she puts on and the cold way she adresses you.

How the mask immediately slips off the second it's just the two of you in the cathedral again.

But General Block saw right through her. Even Daniil noticed her blatant favouritism early on. She really tried to protect Artemy from her own sins until the very end, but it just wasn't enough.

If you go to the cathedral early on day 12, the executor prevents you from entering. Keep talking to him, insisting that you must go inside and meet Aglaya, and he'll tell you how the same wretched fearsome inquisitor was crying, actually crying that very night. Condescendingly dangling this slip of vulnerability over your head, taunting you for failing to be there for her. You're not allowed inside. When it comes to Aglaya, you will always be in the merciless hands of the powers that be.

God. She signs her letter to you with "yours, A."

That simple exclamation mark, coming from someone who is usually so stoic. It's genuine, authentic. She trusts you. She never asked for you to trust her back. Yet she willingly gave you her trust, you, Artemy, a stranger.

It's not even Lilich anymore. There is no last name in that letter, Aglaya full stop.

She isn't thinking of her revenge against the kains at that moment. She isn't thinking of the lilich family nor avenging her sister. She is thinking of herself, of just Aglaya.

Signed, yours.

The final letter afterwards is, too, signed with just A.

You see her struggling with her words. This is the farthest thing from a professional letter by a state inquisitor to a menkhu priest.

She wrote an almost confession letter. Almost said her feelings, almost changed her own fate. She almost followed Artemy's advice of how every action is right as long as its willed, but backed off on the last second and decided it's better to bury her own feelings and take them to the grave with her, rather than for you to live with a broken heart.

Rather than start something she knows she cannot finish, she simply won't be able to. The powers that be said so.

This is how it has to be.

Whatever you choose, she will understand.

She'll love you regardless.

A.

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okay last one before going to sleep fr this time

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Thinking about Aglaya sending Artemy letters while travelling for her inquisitor work, never mentioning any details about her work. Instead, she talks about herself and how she spends the sparce free time she's graced with, about missing him and offering to lend her aid with any difficulties he might be facing, even if she's far away.

At the end of each letter, she quotes a different poem, sending Artemy on a wild goosechase to figure out the meaning while balancing his menkhu work and raising two kids.

He knows when she's coming home to the town because she always qoutes the same poem she told him upon their first meeting in the cathedral.

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hnnfjhgmmnnnmgggggg

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They merely talked about freedom, just freedom! and love was born.

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true love is in the air

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Why does Daniil sound so happy when he finally exposes Aglaya's "lies" to Artemy? The title alone is something.

He's so dramatic, like a bitter ex happily showing you proof of why your new gf is a bad toxic person, and you should definitely break up.

Calling you "My dear Burakh" Asking you to come murder her. Oh my god, he is throwing a whole celebration, even nagging the army general to tag along there with him.

DANIIL CALM DOWN WHAT DID SHE DO TO YOU. I CAN'T. A twink loses one (1) malewife steppe man and turns into the death penalty's number one fan because of it.

He sounds so heartbroken and desperate for you to believe him. He doesn't even wait for day 12 to send this letter. He sends it immediately at 23:30 on day 11. I was farming shmoders when I received and my first instinct was to scream "NOT MY WIFE" Then continue trading my needles with children for drugs, Only then I ran out of the house in panic to the Cathedral.

Bonus: Capella rubbing salt into the wound after the Bachelor yelled to the whole town about Artemy's failing situationship.

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your honor i love them

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my new fav hobby