DEVOTION

          ❝It baffles me that you’d even come to me in the first place, Silas.❞

One would presume in the way he presents himself that the butler is hardly one for casual conversations, much less provocation of discussions regarding matters beyond his realm of control; war is monitored by those who hold power, leaders who march their soldiers through the SULFURIC pits of TARTARUS itself–he is but one of many tools to reach a certain end. He holds no place in questioning the motives of those superior nor does he care to question it. Callous mien bears little sympathy for his interlocutor’s affairs, resisting the urge to scoff at how one could possibly survive war, much less withstand the conquistador mindset of Nohr as a whole. He continues his dialogue without missing a beat, stature stalwart as a mountain.

          ❝I’ve been trained to fight & defend Lady Kamui with my life. If you’re too scared of getting a little blood on your clothes then you might as well leave & never show your face here again.❞

War is not a playground for the faint of heart: it is a beast that ENDURES the test of time, feeding its insatiable hunger with corpses of man, woman, & child alike; it is indiscriminate, irreconcilable, & the only way to quell the tempest is to become a beast. Hesitation only provides the opposition room to STRIKE & thinking about how many liters of blood the body holds, or how deafening broken bones sound when shattered against steel edges will only lead to one’s own demise.

It was always the hard way with Joker. Sure, it was nice to be able to talk to someone who never bothered to sugarcoat their words, as everyone else seemed to do. Joker never hesitated to say what was on his mind without filter, and sometimes those were the kinds of things that Silas needed to hear. No matter how much he tried to convince himself as such, however, he couldn’t deny that Joker would more often than not strike a cord with him. 

❛ I-- What are you trying to say? ❜ his eyes turned to daggers at the other.  ❛ If you’re questioning my loyalty to Lady Kamui, you’re pointing fingers at the wrong person. I swore the day that I had been exiled and those by her side like yourself purged me from her memory that I would see her again. If you think blood on my hands would deter me from serving her then you’re dead wrong, my friend. I’ve laid my life down for too many years to give up on her now, and I--more than anyone--would be willing to give the rest of it for her. ❜

exilivm ;

           ❛ SILAS ! ! you’re just the man                i wanted to see on this fine,               monday afternoon ! have you                gotten this week’s agenda from                master kamui yet ? joker told me                that him and i have a list of errands                for wednesday. ❜ 

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                    amazonite: what kind of situations call for my muse to be dishonest                   bloodstone: how my muse sees themself as part of the world at large

UN. In the Birthright storyline,in which Silas abandons hisposition as a soldier for Nohr in favor of joining up with Kamui with the Hoshido,he would have a rather hardtime explaining to Sophie what exactly he did.He would just let her assumethat he’s always been a Hoshidian soldier until he’squestioned about it for onereason or another.

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                              moss agate: if my muse has a high or low opinion of themself

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                                               fluorite: what my muse’s room looks like

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                                             lapis lazuli: where ‘home’ is to my muse                                                 pyrite: a physical health headcanon                                            celestite: how my muse deals with anxiety                           biotite: the biggest problems my muse is currently dealing with

UN. With Kamui Honestly though, it’snot so much of a question of where heconsiders to be his home as much as it is where his loyalties lie.( which I suppose explains why he is initially sided with Nohr, that beingtheir whole thing with Kamui and all )He’s more than willing to abandon Nohrfor the Hoshido if Kamui requests that he do so, as ultimately his loyalty iswith Kamui and no one else.

DEUX. Being a renowned knight ofNohr comes with rigorous sessions ofphysical training. While he’s obviouslynot quite as strong as Effie, who is justmonstrous, he’s more or less in topphysical condition and would still beable to go long distances without hishorse.

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                                                  charoite: who my muse looks up to                                            coral: how my muse views the natural world                        ulexite: how empathetic/sympathetic/compassionate my muse is

UN. When he was young, Silas usedto read about the exploits of knights such as Sain of Cailin and looked upto such knights as heroes. They werenever the heroes of their stories, yetthey were always there when they were needed most, and that’s the kindof person Silas wanted to grow up to be. 

DEUX. While he tries to be the optimistof the group at all times, Silas is fullyaware of just how much of a messed up,unfair place the world really is.The conflict that Kamui gets dragged intoagainst their will being a particularexample of terrible things happeningto someone simply out of circumstance.

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                                       apatite: a headcanon about my muse’s intuition

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                               mica: what my muse views as their worst personality trait

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                                                          ruby: a happiness headcanon

DESPITE WHATEVER BONDS they had shared in the past, their relationship was to be nothing more than that of MISTRESS and RETAINER, professional at best. At least, that was what the official records would mark down. No matter her own doubt as to who the cavalier was in their fated meeting, years after their first, Silas would forever be etched upon her mind as her BEST FRIEND.

GIVEN SUCH, HIS own formalities only drew a giggle from her seated self, focus buried into the magical tome she securely held. ❛ You could start by calling me just by my name, Silas. At least when we’re in private, you can do away with titles like those. ❜

THE QUESTION OF his is not ignored, rather, a moment passes as she flips the ancient tome, the face of its pages now lain against the desk. A single bare finger rises, coming to the middle of her bottom lip in thought, tapping soft skin twice before her gaze flicks over to her comrade. Whilst Joker was available to take care of more domestic duties, what good would a warrior do her in the home?

❛ I… ACTUALLY DO have a request, yes. It may require the rest of your day’s time, if that’s all right. ❜

After all this time it was a bit disheartening to find out that he’d been all but purged from the young woman’s memories. She seemed to have a faint idea of their relationship hidden in the back of her mind, and he had decided upon becoming her knight that he would do whatever he could to try and rebuild what the two of them had once had. 

He feels heat rushing to his face as his rather nervous way of speaking causes her to a giggle, a sound that he’s not at all unused to even all of this time after he’d last heard her do so, ❛ My Lady, I don’t believe that’s right of me to do... but if you insist on doing so, then I have no choice but to follow your orders... Kamui, ❜he addressed her as he’d been told to do, trying to hide the smile that spreads across his features upon doing so.