#rykard is a snake to nobody's surprise

[dragon-communion]

I'm really full of spite and I'm tired and I want to write Miquella attempting to romance Godwyn pre-Shattering.

Can you IMAGINE.

Godwyn, probably as tall as two or three of Miquella, hanging out in one of the gardens with his datemate Fortissax and talking quietly.

Malenia, offering to suddenly attack Fortissax to leave Miquella an opening.

Miquella talking her down while genuinely stressing and pacing because he doesn't just want to Mind Whammy Godwyn he wants to woo him but nobody's ever explained wooing to the eternally young twin and the epic poems are full of stuff like slaughtering a monster for your love or beating wicked riddles or something. Maybe he could give him flowers???

I'm loving the idea of Miquella getting so stressed that flowers bloom spontaneously at his feet. He gets a little teary-eyed and random servants and guards nearly teleport to him to give him every comfort, but that's not what he WANTS he wants to just Talk To Godwyn the way men do and he's just completely doomed.

There's whispers in the court of marrying Godwyn off to Ranni for political reasons and Miquella stays up late into the night editing and re-editing letters to see what Ranni actually thinks and if he can get away with destroying the potential suit. They've been having somewhat-friendly pen pal debates over the applications of glintstone and amber for years, surely he can do something about this. (She refuses to meet Miquella in person.)

Miquella refusing to wear shoes in Castle Sol, iciest duchy in the land, so Godwyn carries him places.

Both Miquella and Malenia have weird flower/butterfly dysphoria that they handle with varying degrees of effectiveness. Namely Miquella shoves it down so hard it starts to become another person- he's already dealing with the age dysphoria, he doesn't need more. But the one time Miquella and Godwyn talk about it, or talk around it, Godwyn mentions that he wishes he had scales. Trina fronts immediately, pleased and surprised and entirely nonverbal, before passing out right there on Godwyn's shoulder. He's kind of confused about why Miquella turned bright purple but uh. Cuddles work.

One time out of sheer desperation Miquella writes to Volcano Manor because Rykard and Tanith are the only people he knows in an actual romance. Rykard laughs so hard he starts coughing and Tanith tries very hard not to do the same thing. She tells him to dress the part if he wants to woo a man, sends him a bottle of perfume and the best of luck. Sometimes if Rykard thinks about it he starts laughing again, even in snake form.

[lichdragon-fortissax]

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