more zevwyll propaganda:
Wyll is the Blade of Frontiers and of course will help anyone he can. he grew up in a city surrounded by stories of essentially fairytales that were real, heroes and villains, his own father is a hero who now leads a city guard, Wyll must absolutely love to think about the Flaming Fist as heroes and protectors.
Zevlor is a commander of the Hellriders, another infamous group of city guard who are known to have actually gone into Hell to fight devils alongside an angel (Zariel). While this event was before Zevlor's time, it is the factor in their infamy and many people in Elturel grow up being Horse People(tm) because they want to get an upper hand in trying to join the riders. He is an older man in position of power over the very kind of fairytale hero knights Wyll grew up with.
Zevlor passes no judgements to anyone, or at the least is very smooth about not making his judgements known. He is very pragmatic and straight forward as an experienced commanding officer and as a Paladin, even without an oath, he takes on the tieflings as his charges to aid them with a deep sense of community - who else will help them if not their own kind?
Wyll goes out of his way to help the tieflings. I also HC that he had likely hoped to find his father among them, since Ulder was sent to Elturel and thus descended into Avernus with the purpose of Baldur's Gate being left to defend itself.
I LOVE the idea that Wyll, exile of Baldur's Gate, is helping the tiefling exiles from Elturel. From one exile to another. Unwanted by the people they thought would care the most.
They are both deeply earnest and have strong resolve over helping others to the point of self-sacrifice and martyr complex.
Wyll being good at helping children, he was so gentle with Umi and the other kids and even wants his own someday.
Zevlor was specifically worried about the children in the attack, which is a fair concern for anyone, and while we can sit here all day about the ifs and buts of removed or changed content, I want to point out he used to be a school teacher before he was changed to a Hellrider. I like to imagine his retirement from soldiering begin one he can have his own school in Baldur's Gate, especially for the disparaged or underprivileged. If they have children together they would have the sweetest, caring, protective fathers.
Wyll is basically a prince of Baldur's Gate. please imagine a Prince x Knight dynamic between them. Fiercely loyal. A devil-touched prince with a "devilkin" at his side for the haters.
Zevlor being a much older man and closer to Wyll's father's age would probably make Ulder even more mad. <3
Finding calm, solace, and comfort in each other after having to bear the burdens of their exile, putting aside themselves for the sake of others, sacrificing so much to save and help people, and with each other they can finally just Be.
Being enthralled!
Wyll tricked by Mizora to give up his own soul as a teenager to save another child, being forced to make a horrible decision that rended his exile, and again by Mizora to nearly kill an innocent tiefling - Karlach - and upon refusing to harm an innocent he was punished, forced to undergo painful transformation, the utter humiliation and the extreme lack of of autonomy and trauma to his becoming a fiend. He would rather undergo mutilation and harm and punishment than hurt the innocent.
Zevlor is a tiefling. But he’s an old tiefling. He didn’t undergo the transformation but it was barely a generation before him, his own parents probably, that thousands or more were forced undergo change at Asmodeus’ hand in dnd lore. The book about the event is by his bedroll. He was forced to break his Hellrider oath of serving Elturel when Elturel exiled him and it thus broke his paladin oath. A part of him was lost, hollowed out. And he was tricked by the Absolute, believing the one thing that could make him whole was within his grasp, that if he succumbed to being its thrall then his people could be spared.
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§ - what can i say i love men who are disasters + its amusing to me KJNDSF
you have no idea what you’ve just done . you’ve given william permission to take jamie on outings that he’ll tell everyone BUT jamie are dates. they’re gonna range from extravagant to plain strange. candlelit dinners at a table that very suspiciously says happy engagement (william assures him he didn’t call ahead to arrange this because obviously they’re not engaged, they’re not even dating. this only makes him seem more suspicious). fencing with real swords. running around on the ocean in one of those little plastic hamster balls. literally hiring aeroplanes to trail signs with elaborate love poems through the sky above the school where jamie works. he’s going to drag him to his diner and talk about the insides of robots to him. just remember this is your fault
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the two of them are fractured souls -- similar in ways that may not be obvious to the untrained eye . mary , like her namesake , has survived the ones she loved . therese , cecelia , bonnie , lux . . . all of them , gone . and now she lives on time both borrowed and unwanted . quentin holds that same aching grief within . mary senses it , finds comfort in the silence of being around someone else in this limbo : they both should be dead .
@quensmith ― " i think maybe a part of me died that day too . "
her ghostly stare seems to finally come into focus then . . . she notices him / a face amongst the fog . " i get it . " it's the first time she's used her voice all day , so it comes out as hoarse & brings cause to clear her throat . she shifts uncomfortably then , finally lifting her gaze to him . " i think . . . i think i'm dead , too . "
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text transcript - alistair: "oh, i get it. this is the part where we're shocked to discover how you've never had a friend your entire life"
aka: naoise has no idea that sibling dynamics could be so fucking annoying. is this how he and fergus always sounded to their parents? food for thought. also food for coinn, the mabari is hungry.
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