#the argent skies vers tag now is being a general au tag for 3houses and 3hopes content bc of the new lore drops

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Do you have any ideas or headcanon about the relationship between Tiana and Shahid (And possibly her other step-children)?

FYI I am still hashing out my hc ideas in detail so apologies for rambling lol. FEW3H spoilers are under the cut btw.

The short answer: Tiana had relatively good relationships with the step-children. She is even in a polycule with the other partners that Arash (my name for Claude's father as seen here) married. While not SUPER close, Shahid and Tiana weren't on bad terms until Khalid disappeared.

The long answer:

I hc that Khalid's childhood assassination attempts and such were not from members within the royal family, but from Almyran noble families who were against Tiana marrying into the family without anything to her name other than...being from Fodlan. The partners Arash had already married to were initially hesitant to be friendly with her but over time, Tiana's charms (her strength, diplomacy, etc) won them over...aka she joined the royal polycule. This included Shahid’s mother.

As for Shahid...I'm more or less ignoring some of the bad writing around the Almyra stuff in GW lol. He was a son who was more talented in fighting, not tactics/politics compared to Khalid. He always was proud of his strengths and would flaunt it often. While jealous that Khalid was more adept at diplomacy/politics/tactics, he wasn’t malicious. They had a typical "petty siblings" dynamic where they sounded meaner than they actually were.

This sadly changed when Khalid disappeared without a word. Tiana was the only person who knew where her son going but did not tell anyone bc her son wanted to explore Fodlan without revealing his Almyran roots. Plus, Khalid felt his father would never let him go formally.  Hearing his favorite son being gone, Arash fell into depression. This angered Shahid, because he felt that Khalid was being ungrateful for making their father this upset without explaining a word. He also lashed out to everyone in the royal family, especially Tiana.

As a way to fill the void, Shahid also tried to impress his father by picking fights in an attempt to demonstrate his strengths. During this time, some of the Almyran nobility (and even some of his more dangerously ambitious relatives) started slowly filling Shahid's head with ideas of how he should be the next king...and then, FEW3H happens :’)

Shahid never died ok he was just injured and fell dramatically for the tiktok clout before  Nader sent him home to get rehab under the promise he will keep Khalid's whereaouts secret