#Malleus Lilia and Meleanor don't deserve all this

[adreamingrevenant]

[ventique18]

Baul: "Her Majesty's already pouring out so much more magic than is normally required. Lady Maleficia is already old. Any more than this will be detrimental to her health."

We were right... Maleficia really is desperately trying to hatch Malleus but the egg isn't responding to her...

Baul: "The Kingdom of Thorns-- No, the Valley of Thorns is still in a state of turmoil. There are still ongoing tensions with neighboring countries."

"The fate of this country rests on Her Majesty's shoulders, so she mustn't be the only one to look after the egg."

"Sir Vanrouge, he who is called the Dragon's dagger, please lend us your power."

Lilia hesitates. Lend them his power? What can he even do? He's a useless man who couldn't even fulfill his duties, let alone be deserving of a moniker such as "The Dragon's Dagger". He's just a filthy, dirty bat.

Baul: "No matter what anyone says, Her Majesty and I believe in you."

Baul goes on to say that there is something only Lilia can do, and that's to freely travel to different places and find something, anything that would hatch a dragon's egg. Lilia asks if there's an official warrant that would permit him to cross over human borders, but Baul says there's not... "officially". Lilia laughs loudly and questions amusedly what the hell they're trying to make him do, then follows up with a "What's in it for me?" Baul says there's nothing really in it for him, but... does Lilia remember the last time they saw Meleanor? That he, who's loved Meleanor and Levan all their lives, will definitely come to love the child born between them.

Lilia: "Really... Every single one of them love giving me headaches."

Lilia: "... If you really return to the stars before hatching, when I eventually go there too, your parents are going to yell at me."

Lilia: "So, don't you ever give up... Malleus."

OMG HE RESPONDED TO LILIA OMG OMG CAN YOU SEE HIS SILHOUETTE? HE'S A BABY DRAGON FSAOIJDASKDKLA OMG!!!

[madamvanrouge]

Lilia Vanrouge X Reader

✿Briar's Secret [Part 3]✿

Note: Angst, fluff?, Meleanor's little sister!reader, chief strategist!reader, mentions of death in war, human-fae war era.

Contains my twst oc Midnight.

"What's taking her so long?!" Lilia paced about the clearing they'd relocated to with a scowl. That damn princess! If only she'd allowed Lilia to stay by her side! [Y/N] was a total pain in the ass, that was for sure. But Lilia couldn't help but worry about her. She'd been the most annoying brat in his life since she was born, but she was precious to him. To him, she was- no. It couldn't be love. He could never love. Especially not an obnoxious brat like her. Not possible. 

"Oh, just admit you are enamoured with her. I know you have been kissing your pillow while thinking of her." Meleanor rolled her eyes. Malleus' egg rested in her arms.

Lilia spun around, anger flashing across his face as he tried desperately to veil the obvious embarrassment on his face. "HAVE NOT!" He snapped, turning his head away from Meleanor. These damn Draconian princesses and their attitudes. It was a miracle Lilia had survived his childhood with them constantly attached at his hip. How'd Meleanor learn he did with that with his pillow anyways? Goddamn it. 

"Oh, how obvious you are, Lilia. My poor sister does deserve to know of your awfully sappy romantic feelings for her. You ought to court her as a proper man would." Meleanor shrugged. 

"I don't want to court that stupid excuse of a chief strategist." Lilia scowled, yet the blush on his face only betrayed his true feelings. Even the usually clueless Baul had always known of the General's feelings towards [Y/N]. 

"Footsteps, sire!" Baul alarmed, his sharp and loud voice immediately bringing them into stances that showed an exhibition of well trained defense. Lilia prayed with all his heart that it was [Y/N]. That she'd come back safe. For Meleanor. For him.

Midnight's figure materialized in the clearing. Lilia's heart soared, a happy smile adorning his face as he waited for the familiar face of the second princess to pop out from behind the assassin. 

Except Midnight was alone. 

Alone. 

No [Y/N]. 

Lilia's blood ran cold, his fingers twitching slightly as he felt a creeping dread invade his senses and possess his body. He convulsed slightly in shock as he felt a low tremble in his legs. 

He stormed over to Midnight, before Meleanor or Baul could say or do anything. Fury had overtaken the General, rage fueled his mind as he crossed his arms over his chest, his expression and voice cold enough to make the temperature drop. Even Midnight shuddered slightly at the sight. "Where the hell is [Y/N]?" Lilia questioned, each word laced with an icy undertone. 

Midnight remained quiet, his eyes trained on the ground. Lilia grabbed Midnight's collar, his crimson eyes filled with rage and obvious hatred. "WHERE THE HELL IS SHE?! ANSWER ME!" The damn human assassin kept staring at the ground. Meleanor herself was angry, just a single moment away from hurling a thunderbolt at Midnight. Lilia already knew from Midnight's silence, what had happened. It was something Lilia did himself quite often when he went to visit his dead comrades' families. He despised this silence. 

"She asked me to tell Princess Meleanor that she loves her. That she loves Sir Baul and the staff. And that-" Midnight paused as he finally looked into Lilia's eyes. "-the 'idiot Lilia' should hurry up and marry her. That she loves him." 

Lilia's heart felt as if it had been stabbed with a blade, torn out and squelched into a thin strip of absolute, hollow nothingness. A nauseous feeling crept up to his throat as he fought hard to hold back his useless, pathetic tears. Guilt washed over him as if it was a thing of absolute naturality. 

"DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!" He yelled, kicking Midnight harshly in the gut, causing Midnight to wince in pain. He exhaled heavily, barely managing to keep himself standing. "Damn it-" Lilia's voice trailed off weakly. 

[Y/N] had been annoying him since childhood. She'd been the most annoying brat in his life. She'd constantly pester him to marry her when they were kids. She'd force him into stupid, pink frilly dresses, force him to play stupid pebble games and dolls with her and drag him around for hours. She'd make him annoyed till he gave in to her ridiculous demands. 

He missed her. 

All of this had to be a lie. Someone was playing a cruel joke on him. Maybe [Y/N] was playing a prank on him as usual. Maybe she'd pop out from the bushes behind Midnight and say "Gotcha, stupid Lilia!" as usual. Please. She had to be here somewhere. Lilia strained his eyes for any sign of the upbeat, sassy princess. But the forest was silent. 

She'd loved him. She'd loved Lilia. He was such an idiot to have never noticed. He thought she'd lost her feelings for him growing up. He felt useless. Pathetic. He loved her. Ah shit. It was too late, wasn't it? He had no one to blame but himself. If only he'd stopped her. If only he'd stayed by her side. If only he'd stuck with his gut feeling that something was wrong. This was all his fault. All his damn fault. Lilia grabbed his mask and put it on, to prevent anyone from seeing his tears. He was so weak.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP HER, FOOL?!" Meleanor hissed as she hurled a thunderbolt at Midnight. The assassin took it head on. 

"I cannot go against her orders. The princess only ever does what is right." Midnight replied meekly. Lilia's veins twitched in anger as he tried not to strangle the damn kid. 

"She was a person too! Even she made mistakes! And you have made the mistake of letting her sacrifice herself! You are as good a perpetrator as the rest of your kind!" Meleanor roared. 

Midnight's eyes seemed to flash with hurt. Oh well, he deserved it, in Lilia's eyes. He very well deserved the damn pain. Only that Lilia deserved it more.

Lilia walked over to Midnight and struck him repeatedly. He struck Midnight with blows till the human assassin bled. Meleanor watched on, her own anger abating as she watched Lilia deliver the rightful punishment to who they believed to be the perpetrator. Baul too, spectated helplessly as the General beat up Midnight. 

And once he was done, General Lilia Vanrouge stormed off, with Meleanor and Baul trailing after him as Midnight lay alone on the forest floor. 

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[riddlerosehearts]

OKAY SO i said yesterday that i would make a post about how anime weekend atlanta went, so... basically it was a bit of a mixed bag because while i got to see tons of cool cosplays and merch and go to some neat panels, we (as in me and my dad who was traveling with me) ended up not only having car troubles the entire weekend but also had some absolutely ridiculous problems with ordering food. just as an example, one night we ordered a pizza and it took 3 hours to arrive and we never got told there would be any kind of delay 😭 BUT i will go ahead and share my cosplays and then list off some good things that happened! i'm slightly embarrassed about posting my face on here since i've never done that before but here goes:

i was edward elric on thursday and friday at AWA and lilia vanrouge (pop music club version) on saturday and sunday! i did a bunch of thrifting and DIYing (and pulling things i already owned out of my closet for lillia lmao) for both of these and i am especially proud of that automail glove. i also went to two twisted wonderland cosplay photoshoots on both saturday and sunday which was definitely fun, and i met todd haberkorn while in my ed cosplay and got him to autograph the same fullmetal alchemist artbook that i've previously had signed by caitlin glass! i also bought a handful of silly little trinkets and i will put photos of all this other stuff under a cut so people who don't care don't have it clogging their dash too badly.

^ full group photo + some diasomnia photos of the saturday twst photoshoot. shoutout to the summer lilia who offered to princess carry malleus and the person who showed up as meleanor--two things which are both seriously impressive to me in different ways.

^ the photo i took with todd haberkorn + the artbook cover he signed. you can see where he signed his name right over ling and where, when i met caitlin last year, she signed her name right over winry. i met him once before but it was literally 10 years ago and it was great to be able to meet him again. he told me he thinks ling deserves his own FMA spinoff, and i very much agree with him.

^ some of the silly merch i bought. i also wanted to buy the official castle in the sky artbook as well as these kingdom hearts plushies so badly and still might buy them online later:

and uhhh i think that's all i feel like sharing on here?? i wish i had gotten to go to more panels but the various unexpected issues i had throughout the con kept me from having the time to go to many, although the ones i did get to see were great. there was one where a nuclear propulsion plant operator and NASA software engineer graded various sciencey anime on how good or bad their science was and did a very thorough examination of whether or not the premise of planetes--a screw hitting a spaceship, putting a hole in it, and taking out an intercontinental suborbital flight--was plausible. he concluded that it is and gave the overall series an A+ for scientific accuracy, and i've never seen this show but now i want to.

okay actually NOW that's all! if you cared enough to read this post then you deserve this bonus photo from when i got home yesterday, decided to put my ed cosplay back on and take extra photos of it, and subsequently got attacked by my cat: