Relationship: Lord Arum/Sir Damien, Lord Arum/Sir Damien/Rilla, Sir Damien/Rilla
Characters: Lord Arum, Sir Damien, Rilla
Additional Tags: Second Citadel, Lizard Kissin’ Tuesday, Enemies to Lovers, Rivals to Lovers, Duelling, Sexual Tension, (because they’re IDIOTS), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mutual Pining, mutual IDIOTS
Fic Summary: Damien won yesterday, Arum won today, and now all that’s left is to break the tie. The only issue, however, is that neither of them are willing to do so, not until they are both satisfied that they have fought fairly, and honorably, and one of them has trulywon.
Chapter Summary: Damien loses his footing, for a brief time.
Chapter Notes: aughhghgh. arum. stupid lizard.
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Another duel. Arum pins his quarry, and Damien’s heart thuds hard and sweet, his sweat a heady taste on the air when Arum flicks his tongue. Another victory.
Arum grins, all pride and gloating even as he tugs the knight back to his feet, careful only to grip his wrist where his sleeve will keep Damien’s warm skin from touching his own scales. Another duel, another victory, another chance-
Arum is greedy. Arum is foolish, perhaps. Arum still wants more.
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Another duel. Another victory. Damien bites his lip, his back pressing into the dirt, Arum’s claws against his throat. Victory tastes… strange, this time. Dubious, at best. He tries not to let on to the feeling, his voice still smug as they arrange for their next duel.
Still more. Again.
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Another duel, and Damien falls again beneath his claws and his speed, gasping and flushed and refusing to meet Arum’s eyes, and Arum-
Frowns. He is short with the knight, but Damien gives nothing away, closed off and muted as they go through their familiar verbal dance.
"It is… so beautiful, Saint Damien,“ he murmurs. He does not expect an answer, but that is no reason not to speak his heart. “So many blessings around us all, unnoticed and unappreciated. Eternal, enduring, everyday glories…”
[Image description: a digital illustration of Sir Damien, Lord Arum, and Rilla from the Second Citadel.
Damien is a thin arab man with long hair in a half updo and a short beard wearing a blue tunic.
Arum is a green four armed lizard monster wearing a purple cape and loincloth, a thigh holster holding two long daggers, and a flower crown woven between his six horns. The shoulders of his cape and several spots all over his body have mushrooms and lichen growing on them.
Rilla is a stocky black woman with a very large, poofy braid wearing an orange crop top and a yellow and orange skirt with several large leather pouches on her belt.
The three of them are walking along, with Rilla pulling Arum along by his upper left hand and Damien hanging onto his upper right. His lower arms are crossed over his chest, and he rolls his eyes at his partners as they smile in amusement. End description.)
YesArum is polyamorous yeshe is also a tsundere they exist!!!
[Image description: A full colour illustration and several sketches of Lord Arum from the Second Citadel. Arum is a humanoid lizard monster with four arms. He has rough green scales and spikes along his brow and nose. He’s wearing four knives strapped to his legs, and a purple loin cloth and cape which is covered in mushrooms and other fungi. He also has a flower crown woven through the spikes on his head.
The sketches show four scenes of Arum featuring his two lovers, Rilla and Damien. In the top right he is standing behind Rilla- a black woman with voluminous natural hair- with three of his arms around her and the last playing with her hair as she fiddles with a vial. Not looking up from her work she says, “You are such a heat leech.”
In the top left he is leaning back with two arms behind his head and the other two resting on Damien- an arabic man with long hair worn in a partial updo- who is sitting in Arums lap, looking slightly nervous.
In the bottom right Arum is hissing at Damien, who has his back turned to the audience and holds his hands up to arum saying “My Lily, please…”
In the bottom left Arum is sitting by himself with a guitar made out of a gourd. He looks confused as it emits a broken note. End description.]
I’ve had this sitting in my folders for months now… not sure I’m happy with my Lizard man design.
ID: A digital drawing of Lord Arum and Damien the Pious from Second Citadel having a picnic in a swamp.
Damien is a wiry, bearded arabic man with long hair in a half updo. He is wearing a white tunic with a yellow sasha and leggins and red and yellow striped vest.
Lord Arum is a large, four-armed, green lizard monster. He has moss, mushrooms, and lichen growing over his body and clothing. He’s wearing a purple cloak with large mushrooms on the shoulders, a purple loincloth, and has thigh holsters for knives. The top of his head is heavily covered in vegetation.
Damien is sitting cross legged in front of Arum, holding a skewer of meat and looking up at Arum adoringly. Arum is leaning on a log behind him, holding a half eaten fruit in one right hand and gesturing with the other, clearly talking to Damien. In front of them is a woven basket full of fruit, meat skewers, rolls, and other food. End ID.
I’m so glad these past two episodes have been nothing but Damien and Arum having a nice lunch with no complications or southern accents
i know the trend of redrawing this was a while ago, but i couldn’t not do it with these three
[image ID: two manga covers depicting the same scene but with different characters. the title of the first says “go for it, damien!” in blue, pink, and orange bubble writing. sir damien is standing in the centre, one hand clutched at his chest, the other at his side in a fist. he looks nervous and is blushing deeply. behind him in hearts and stars and three pictures of rilla and three of arum. they are making various happy expressions. there’s small blue text next to damiens shoulder that says “art by char awkwardfantasy”. the second is the original cover. end ID]
