LETS GOOOOOOOOOO
The sleepy nation has finally won in the gacha game department for WHB!!!
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trader touc (toucan) from cookie run
-lily
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thank @suntails and this post in particular for the way I'm once again crying over Silver at 9am
Can we just talk for a moment about how the weight of unifying kingdoms, the weight of Lilia's renowned prestige, the weight of his own limited human abilities and the pitiful extent of his mortality— all have been present on Silver's shoulders from the very formative years of his childhood? While his peers would have been playing with toys, he's been taught General Vanrouge's Top Five Ways to Eviscerate A Man by the age of 10?
Can we talk for a moment that while Lilia fully loves and appreciates his son, his first thought when he found him apparently seemed to be that a human guardsman to their fae prince would make for such a fitting way to demonstrate the positive progression of human—fae tensions, and immediately began to train him as soon as possible in the harshest of conditions to maximize his potential? There wasn't even a thought to simply raise the child in what seems to be times of peace, to give him the opportunity for a life that Lilia himself never had the chance to experience? Instead immediately shaping Silver's path to serve without any other thought for the child's future?
And now, that service is what gives him worth? It's fairly obvious that there are still tensions within Briar Valley, the way Sebek lashes out at him for his humanity (even if it is to deflect from how he feels towards himself, not Silver) without fear for even being reprimanded by Lilia or Malleus indicates that those negative remarks aren't so uncommon. We also know that there are hardly any other youth in Briar Valley, and that Silver never went to a school or truly interacted with families outside of Lilia, Malleus, and Sebek. What frame of reference does he have that this life isn't what's suited for a child? What frame of reference to know that Lilia did indeed raise a perfect little child soldier, a human that would defy all of their prejudices to serve Malleus— to die for him.
No matter that we know that Lilia eventually realized the errors of his ways and tried to cut back on the rigorous training, no matter that we have these cute little stories about trick-or-treating in his childhood interspersed between the fact that at some point, he realized the truth that he was different from the rest of his precious, beloved family. That he would die before them, and most likely for them, and he already seems to be so at peace with that? All he wants is the chance to protect Lilia and Malleus, to perform his duty to the best of his ability because that's all he knows how to do, to swallow pains and persevere despite his limitations— he's not even an adult, and he's already locked into a thought process like this?
And in a way, isn't it fitting?
Being stolen away by a fae, having his childhood taken and shaped for the purpose of another, and even the very act of dreaming stealing his ability to participate fully in his own life— everything about Silver has been taken and used by another or cultivated to serve a higher power, no matter how much love was seemingly behind it.
But as long as he can continue his devotion, to protect his ridiculously overpowered fae family who are honestly the LAST individuals in the world that need a human's protection— what more could matter in this world?
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