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[10.15] Happy Birthday, Alcryst ✨

Second Prince of Brodia

Because Mara Sov’s most elite tactician is never wrong.

arqa was above average for kids his age & passed a lot of his academic assessments early. he had a very rough childhood, but it did help that he had 3 adoptive older brothers supporting him along the way

before choosing the name Gavriel Nacht for himself, he went by Ritter, a name his ghost gave him right after revival. he spent decades as a warlord's advisor and strategist in exchange for his safety during the dark ages. 

–- Follow me into the endless night

Gavriel doesn't talk about his early past as a Guardian, but now spends his life trying to do as much good as he possibly can to make up for it.

“What’s wrong, Paladin? You’re not happy to see me alive?”

lights out, pull the trigger

it doesn’t excuse veler being a bad person, but clover at least understands why he is that way in the first place.

everyone's least favorite extremely tall Royal Army soldier, Veler Veis. he really loves being creepy, weird, and an overall bad person. literally almost no one likes him on Paladin Revl’s ship, but then again, he doesn’t make it easy for anyone to like him (and he actually prefers it that way).

he was a huge bully to arqa when they were kids, but they didn’t see each other for another 30 years after graduating their military training, though when they did.. well, we’ll just say arqa got his revenge & finally put veler in his place. now he willingly works directly under arqa, pretty much worshipping the ground he walks on.

(Maren belongs to my spouse @monsterclaws)

despite the circumstances of his childhood, Arqa was a pretty good kid, though he did still get in trouble quite a bit. his mentor and caretaker Acacia was extremely strict & he never got away with anything.

to make a long story short, arqa’s long-term Guardian boyfriend evandro both cheated on him and secretly used him to spy on the Reef. arqa suspected it for awhile but didn’t want to believe it. when he finally did confront him, evandro stabbed his eye out and fled. so that’s how that happened.

lovers to enemies to lovers trope? you love to see it