A Revenant Dreaming of Preserved Roses

A very, very complicated one as time goes on and things develop.

It's actually difficult to try and boil it down to anything (fittingly, the seventh most difficult relationship to really define in Larks if you ask me and that's saying something).

For now as of the time of the prologue Yuu has their skepticism and natural distrust from home, but for what it's worth they do respect his authority as a host to a guest under the laws of hospitality and they're not exactly keen in setting him off or anything. They just don't want him looking too closely, especially taking Soleil aka The Knight of The Dawn into account, the fact Yuu is very intentionally keeping that fact from as many people as they can get away with for as long as possible, the death induced amnesia he has and the silly little conundrum that is having an extremely significant figure to TWST's history as a metaphysical roommate just casually being around for most of their life. But we'll get there when we get there lol.

In the meantime, Crowley has his own thing going on but we'll get more into his head and his interactions with Yuu as time goes on, at the time of the prologue he's just making sure to fulfill the bare minimum as a host with some level of duty to an unusual student. He hasn't figured out how he feels about them yet besides some uneasiness coming from the words of The Dark Mirror in the ceremony, him, Yuu (with Soleil as a plus one) and the student populace all interpreted what it said VERY differently.

Though I can't elaborate too much on that in general because of spoilers that much I'll leave out there so I'll cease my yapping, just know that for all my own criticisms towards Crowley as an educator and some of his choices as a character I do really love him as a character (heck the same can be said for all of the TWST cast) and while Yuu is harsh, they're not heartless enough to be rude towards someone who gave them a roof over their head and a meal (even with strings attached), it will be rough but it'll be at least stable given time ^^.

I will say though: for all of their gripes and general distrust, if nothing else Yuu will always say if asked that compared to their complicated circumstances back home and whoever was on the other end of Soleil's leash when he was alive and whole, Crowley really is quite generous and benevolent indeed even if the bar ain't exactly too high to clear (even if his incompetence/habit of dodging responsibilities like a champ is giving PTSD to their emotional support undead knight that neither of them even knew he could get with the amnesia at this point and they're still a bit miffed over the 'Not telling them the building was haunted and make the ghosts live in deplorable conditions' thing lol).

Technically spoilers so I'll be putting it under the cut for those who don't want to see it or anything (this is both for myself and for those who want to know a little more about the process). But consider this bonus content for those who take a peek in here on Tumblr for Like Lark Notes From The Sky in between moments of radio silence, not required reading, but a neat little thing to get the gears turning for those keeping an eye in here in between waiting ^^.

(Featuring my extremely poor screenshots from my phone, sorry y'all, formatting may also be a little odd but again, sleep deprivation and phone writing 💔)

Once again, every choice is made for a reason, and thank you so much for all of the support to Like Lark Notes From The Sky! 🌹❤️🌹

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Hello! ^^ Larks will most definitely return is all I'll say about it for now (for spoiler reasons). Oh! Thank you for the lovely recommendation, I know of The Ancient Magus Bride through the anime (though I haven't sat down to read it yet, irl cuts down both on my writing and reading time nowadays), but this is the first I've heard about Ghost & Witch! I'll definitely make sure to look them both up!