#fenn luxure
WIP sketch of Fenn and MC from Court of Darkness. Hoping to have time to transfer to marker paper, ink, and color it. :)
Pencil sketch by @cherieofthedragonsart
Prompt: “Stop moving and let me Braid your hair”
Fandom: Court of Darkness
Type of One-shot: Fluff (hurt/comfort?)
Pairing: Fenn x MC
Warnings: homesickness, anxiety
WC:
Written by: @chaosangel767
Asked for by: Anon
I growl in frustration in the night, anger and despair flowing through me. Even with all these extra lessons I still can’t grasp my magic.
“I’m never going home” I kneel in the grass of the courtyard, the large moon mocking me from above.
Why can’t I use magic? Why is it so hard? The frustration overwhelms me and I feel tears prick my eyes and I clench my fists in the cool grass.
“Treasure?” The alluring voice breaks through my thoughts and I look up to see Fenn standing before me looking worried. “What are you doing down there?” He peers at me with his amethyst eyes and I shake my head, looking down.
“Go away Fenn” I don’t have the energy to deal with anyone right now, I just want to be alone.
“That’s not very nice" Fenn doesn’t listen to me and kneels down, pulling me into his arms and bringing me over to a bench. He sits on the bench and wraps me up on his cloak, nestling me into his side. I try to shrug away, but Fen holds me tight.
“Talk to me” Fenn holds me tight in his arms and I shake my head, tears still falling from my cheeks. I don’t want to appear weak, everyone already looks down on me for not being able to use Magic. Fenn rests my head against his chest and I feel his warmth and his heartbeat, it sets a comforting rhythm in my mind.
“Treasure, please talk to me. These tears don’t suit you. Let me help” Fenn tries again, but something in me snaps, my frustration overflows.
“This isn’t something that I can just smile through Fenn, this isn’t something you can fix! I can’t use magic! No matter how long I try or what I do, I can’t use magic!” My voice breaks as I lose control, my body trembling against his. I see shock flood his features as he stares down at me.
“I can’t do this. I know magic makes sense to you, because you were raised in a world full of it. I can’t grasp how to use it, magic doesn’t exist in my home. This is all so new to me, but until I do I’m stuck here. I just want to go home. I just want to see my world again” I finally lean into Fenn and the tears don’t stop, I can’t handle the pressure that everyone places on me anymore. Fenn holds me close, staying silent while I vent and let my emotions out. He is just a warm body I can tremble against. It isn’t until I am done venting against him that he starts rubbing my back soothingly.
“Oh Treasure, this has been building for forever, hasn’t it.” His voice is achingly gentle and I relax against his chest. I bury my face and Fenn just holds me as I cry. I wrap my arms around his waist and keep my head against his chest, clenching his clothes in my fist. His body is so warm, I feel so safe, finally letting down my guard.
Fenn keeps me close, rubbing my back and arms soothingly until he stops and tugs me away from him.
“Treasure, turn around” he prompts me and he turns me around, keeping his cape around me. I trudge against him a little, but his hand in my hair stops me.
“Stop moving and let me braid your hair.” Fenn’s voice is firm as he sits behind me, taking my hair down and running his fingers through it. I look up at the large moon, tears falling down my face as I feel Fenn comb through my locks.
The silence is oddly soothing as I feel Fenn’s warmth surround me. Slowly I start to calm down, and I relax against Fenn, needing to feel more warmth from his body.
“Treasure,” his voice is like a warm honey flowing over me and I move my head.
“Treasure, tell me about your home.” Fenn continues to braid my hair, elegantly weaving a white lace ribbon through. I take a deep breath and start to tell him about Earth.
I tell him all sorts of things as he braids my hair, feeling a bittersweet sadness fill my heart. I miss home so much, but talking about it and feeling Fenn’s warmth calms me down. Fenn finishes the braid but continues to listen until I tire myself out.
“Worry not Treasure, I promise to make sure you return home.” He promises me and I look at him trying to smile. I feel so much better, though I am exhausted. The weight has been lifted off my shoulders a little and the overwhelming homesickness is now just a bitter pit in my stomach.
“Thanks Fenn,” I manage a small smile and he nods, offering a hand and walks me back to the dorm, making sure I get back to my room safe.
I feel like the CoD writers gave each of these characters a tragic backstory. Are there any characters in CoD who don’t have a tragic backstory?
The MC’s parents are dead. We learned this in the prologue.
I’m going to list off the characters and the tragic backstories so if you’re new to CoD/haven’t read a consort path yet and don’t want spoilers then stop here. If you’re new and love spoilers then click keep reading.
So…um… My brain thought of way too much for a comment. >_>; I am a wordy pain in the butt. I tried to send this as a message, but didn’t see a way to do that. I hope it’s okay for me to reblog this.
Guy’s situation is likely worse that that. It’s implied in his route that his mother was murdered; Guy uses ancient magic to ask his stepmother if she killed her. Can you imagine what it would be like living from a young age thinking your current stepmother killed your mother? Also, in the Enchanted and Entwined story event, they made it seem like the royal family had a huge target on its back. Like, literally anybody would do anything to get themselves in power. I imagine it would be hard to trust most people if everyone and their brother kept trying to kill you. In that same story event, Roc tries to have MC murdered when he thinks Guy likes her. His reasoning is basically, “If you don’t like things or people, no one can hurt you.” He may have been still hurting from Min’s death and trying to prevent Guy from that fate by killing MC before things got serious.
Lynt’s situation seems like it would be worse for Hanneh. He didn’t seem to care if he married her or not, but I’m sure she had an opinion. I don’t think she would’ve been crazy about the idea of marrying someone that was luke warm towards her. Lynt needs an heir, so they’d have to make at least one baby. It would really suck to have to have sex with someone that didn’t seem to care about her very much, and then give birth to a child that he might not care about either. The saddest thing that could’ve happened to Lynt was his grandfather dying. This might be an English only thing, but Lynt only ever talks about his grandfather in the past tense. To compare, he talks about his parents in the present tense, and they are both very much alive. In his route, he tells MC his grandfather was the relative he was closest to. He also carries around a children’s book his grandfather gave him. When he returns home, he seems sad when he realizes he left it behind at the academy. It’s hard to tell though if losing his grandfather hurt him like everything I said would imply because the game keeps going out of its way to remind us that Lynt never cared about anything before MC came along. (Lynt is my favorite, but this is something that drives me absolutely bonkers. The game paints him as an eccentric but also as someone who doesn’t have a single fuck to give. And I just…Hear me out…You can have weird thoughts or no thoughts, but you can’t simultaneously have both. It’s impossible to be like Ayame from Fruits Basket and Mytho from Princess Tutu at the same time.)
Fenn’s situation might also be worse if you overthink it the way I have and take Fenn at face value (even though he’s an unreliable narrator). When he and Eva met, he was young enough to need a babysitter and she was old enough to be the babysitter. He said he loved her but she didn’t reciprocate until after she married his father. The game doesn’t tell us how old he was when that happened, but his flashback text boxes in his Ch. 21 perspective say “young Fenn.” It sounds to me like he was conditioned when he was very young and then abused when he was an older child or young teen. His father doesn’t seem very fond of him, and Louis could easily execute one of his children and still have plenty to take over as king after he dies, especially if they’ve committed a heinous crime. Fenn is the only one of his siblings capable of the king’s craft, but in his route, Guy and Roy make it sound as though Kieran may be set to inherit the throne anyway. In the perspective, “young Fenn" asks his father why Eva alone will be punished, and I have to wonder if it was because “young Fenn” was too young to consent and therefore seen as a victim instead of a co-conspirator. Louis also blames Fenn in this moment saying it wouldn’t have happened if Fenn had kept a leash on his desires. (I volunteered for a few years with an organization that helped survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. I was a hotline operator, but before I was allowed near the phone, I was required to complete a 60 hour training. I never fielded a call where it happened, but I know that parents blaming children for their assault isn’t uncommon. I also know Fenn is supposed to be the avatar of lust, but people who are sexually assaulted or raped may act promiscuously as a way to feel like they’ve gotten power over their bodies back and control over their lives.)
I think Toa’s mom’s still alive. In Fenn’s path in the Would Be Weddings story event, Toa tells MC he’s going home for a ceremony for his parent’s wedding anniversary. Toa doesn’t seem to think it’s important, so I doubt they’d bother with it if his mother was dead. She did seem pretty absent as a parent though. In his path in the Kisses of Devilish Delight story event, he tells MC when his sisters ditched him in the garden and he finally found his way out, his mother commended him on suffering in silence. Um. No. Listen, it’s important for a future ruler to learn how to let stuff go, but it’s equally important for him to learn when to tell someone to fuck off. I get the feeling he flies off the handle at Guy so easily because he never learned how to pick his battles. His sisters also never learned what boundaries are or how to respect them.
Roy and Rio’s seem spot on. Although, I might add that Rio might be the only prince who has siblings back home that he misses.
I have seen some spoilers for Grayson’s book 2 that make me think his uncle’s still alive, but seeing him lose control to a magical object was probably also traumatizing.
Court of Darkness: The Spray Bottle
Random CoD inspired list based off my cats. Currently, I am trying to train them to not jump on counters by spraying them with a water bottle to try and stop bad habits. That made me think…if the MC were to do the same thing with the CoD consorts, what bad/annoying behavior would the MC spray them for and what would the reactions be?
I can’t stop laughing. XD
All the consorts minus Fenn and Roy:
Fenn:
Roy:
