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The air was heavy with tension, already cold despite the bodies filling the room. Even Mark, under his heavy ceremonial cloak, felt the cold seeping in. He had never felt more unwelcome, more scrutinized. So many eyes on him, all sharp and observant. He stood there, hands clenching and unclenching at his sides while Kregg droned on about tactics and plans for the very uncertain future; nothing was promised now that Thragg was gone.
Mark let out a little breath, not that it did much in outer space. He glanced to his left, where Conquest stood. He hadn't said a word, hadn't even looked away from Mark. An air of uncertainty surrounded him, and Mark didn't know how to interpret his silence. Was it out of malice, just him waiting to end what they had started years ago? Mark couldn't decipher it - and maybe he didn't want to. He turned back to watching over the conference room, so many unwelcoming faces reflecting off of plain white tile.
The room stayed silent for a moment longer before Kregg glanced at you, narrowing his eyes. Mark glanced back, brow furrowing. ".. You must dismiss us." Kregg said finally, frowning slightly
"Right- right, uh-" Mark straightened up, clapping his hands. "uh- dismissed."
There was a soft, barely-there murmur of disapproval from the crowd of faces, all just as stone faced as the last. Except for Conquest. He never did hide his emotions well, not that time all those years ago when he was beating Marks face in, and not now, when he stared at him with eyes too savage for a too human face.
Their eyes stayed locked while shuffling came and passed around them. The room emptied out, leaving just the awkward silence between the two men. Everything felt too heavy, even on top of Viltrumite super strength. His ceremonial cloak weighed down his shoulders, and Conquests heavy gaze pinned him down. Nothing was said for a long moment until Conquests knees folded under him, creaking and snapping from age and injury. He fell to his knees in front of Mark, head bowed deeply.
Mark froze up, taking an instinctual step backwards. He knew Conquest was a good lapdog for Thragg, but he didn't expect the same loyalty extended to him. Conquest looked up, his scarred, mismatched eyes pleading. "Forgive me." he whispered, his good hand clutching the cold tile like it was the only thing keeping him alive. Mark didn't know what to say - if there was anything he could say. But he forced it out anyways, looking away from the old mans ruined, pleading face. ".. You are forgiven." he muttered, hands flexing at his sides.
Conquest let out a little noise that could've been a whine, dropping his head to the floor. "Thank you, Emperor..." He whispered. Mark just stared at him, face a mix of confusion and a bit of satisfaction. Not in making some old man lay at his feet, no - but he hadn't ever been given this much say when he worked at the GDA. Now, he was the emperor of an entire race. The power made him sick just as much as it pleased him.
And so, he said nothing, turning to leave the room and whatever mess Conquest had brewing inside of him.
The memory of what had happened clung to him while time passed, stuck to the back of his mind like gum on a shoe. He wasn't sure what he was supposed to think about it all, but he knew what he felt. It pleased him to have someone once so willing to bash his head in now groveling at his feet.
Conquest had never been forgiven by Thragg, not for anything. He was struck and degraded, but he had never been forgiven. And Mark had, even after Conquest had fought him under Thragg's rule, and every other monstrous thing he never deserved to be forgiven for. But this new emperor, uncertainty on his face but power in his heart, had forgiven him. Had looked him in the eye, and forgiven him...
It wasn't awkward on Conquests part, to bow too deeply whenever he saw Mark. To Mark, he felt it was over the top, a courtesy no other Viltrumite extended when it wasn't demanded. But that wasn't to say that he didn't enjoy the thrill it gave him. Having all this power at his fingertips, desperate to please him. So he did whatever any other power drunk young man would do and let him.
Whenever a mission needed doing, Conquest begged to be sent out and prove his worth. When conspirators needed punishing, he pleaded to prove his loyalty. And every time, Mark let him.
He felt a sort of sick thrill every time this monster of a man begged to do good by him, the kind that made him feel a certain way and uncovered things about himself he hadn't known before.
Mark sat on his throne, still getting used to the cold metal under him. The chill was blocked mostly blocked out from the heat pulsing through him. Conquest kneeled in front of him, head resting on his thigh. His eyes were big and pleading, and his flesh hand was wrapped tightly around Marks leg.
Who was to say how they ended up like this? After weeks of Conquest acting like a lap dog, he finally was one. He did his tasks well and aimed to please his Emperor... it was only right to reward him. And if the brute wanted touch so badly, he would get it. It was just a reward for Conquest - not in any way something Mark enjoyed... Not when hot breath fanned across his thighs, or when Conquest whispered of him like he was a deity... Maybe... maybe it was... Maybe this could be mutually beneficial... Like a king and his loyal knight, desperate to please...
Just got a new knight! I sure hope his unwavering loyalty, mindless devotion, and tendency to kneel before me to kiss the palm of my hand before he commits atrocities in my name doesn't awaken anything in me.
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I just want my OTP to derrive meaning from each other in a way that would be incredibly unhealthy and codependent if two people did that in real life but is profoundly poetic and romantic within the context of a fictional piece of media in consuming.
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You ship mark x conquest, What's wrong mark x cecil? /gen
Introductory ages. Mark met Cecil when he was a kid. Cecil has been working with Nolan for well over 20 years and probably met Mark when he was a kid. Cecil is more like his uncle to me and like thinking of the dynamics of Nolan and Cecil, he probably kind of is. Probably saw Mark on holidays and saw Debbie carrying him around with a pacifier and a plushie. Having seen him grow up kinda makes me uncomfortable like itās groomy like a bit pseudo-incestuous like why are you pursuing him. you saw him grow up. And Cecil being among the people mark cares about deeply (the way we see on the latest season) like kind of settles that down in my mind that Mark has to know Cecil for a very long time.
Markcil shippers piss me off bc they just focus on ohhh muh age gap yaoi. Brother. The Grooming. The Grooming.
Markās and Conquestās relationship is like totally different. I have said too much about them lately so Iāll just keep it short: Mark is the first to see Conquest with something that isnāt fear or disgust after ages, Conquest confesses his deepest feelings to Mark just when he thinks Markās about to die, Conquest a FREAK, Mark would be finding a long term partner and discovering heās kind of a freak himself, Mark could genuinely teach him what being a person is like, and most importantly, Conquestās devotion would do Things to Mark. I just know. There are little situations like theirs. Paraphrasing one of my mutuals, the closest thing in the real world would be to find out the two guys who beat each other nearly to death in a parking lot are soon getting married.
If anybody wanna ask me about markquest Iād beā¦flattered n excited..n stuffā¦ā¦kicks a rock
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no I get it, I arrived with the markquest art, so.. I was just confused thank you for explaining
and if you want to share some headcanons about them I am sat and listening
YES YES YES YES THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
Okay so, fair notice, I have headcanons for young markquest and post canon/old markquest respectively
I donāt even know exactly where to start, I now realize that rather than headcanons I think I just think more of a bunch of interactions ^_^; if theyāre OOC just know itās my gay brain talking
This is a collection of stuff I think of about Mark "a hug is okay" Grayson and Conquest "I need reassurance that I am more than a weapon and can be much more, but I'm scared I'll be seen as anything else for once."
This is a LONG post, so Iām putting this under a āread moreā.
Young markquest first!!
I am not used to using dividers but I feel this is hard to understand w/o them
Before we start, I want to give a shout out to @mrmillipede for getting me into this pair and giving me so many ideasāitās not very fresh so I canāt properly credit who said what, but THANK YOU!!
I think if Conquest just wasnāt hostile or even was somehow, someway talked into joining earthās side he would start trauma dumping so much on Mark. Like genuinely out of the blue. Because Mark changed that pattern of being seen as nothing but a weapon, and for once he wasnāt seen with fear but (in the first meeting) with anger and then with something maybe like contempt. Hell, Mark could even come to enjoy the old manās company more than he thought possible. Itās like the first time Conquest ever gets to be vulnerable and not just confessing his deepest feelings to dying men. I imagine their chats would be a lot like this:
M: āOh man, I love the direction the science dog comics are taking!ā
C: āAfter the great purge, the regent did a cleansing of history. We were always this ruthless, this bloodthirsty, this angry, this lonely, even if I remembered a different past. There was no way to prove we werenāt monstersānot always, at least. Most if not all of the elders died. An entire new generation who didnāt know of a different past. I think there was a word that meant something similar to āloveā in ancient Viltrumite. I couldāve uttered it maybe a couple of times in my youth. But we donāt have a word for love anymore. They sent me planet to planet committing atrocities in their name and you canāt even say why it makes you feelā¦ābadā, because thereās no name for it. Itās āConquestā. It should make me prideful, but it doesnāt.ā
M: āā¦oā¦kayā¦?ā
Also I think Conquest would be like SO confused by human shows of affection. He would misinterpret them and make them when itās not appropriate and do them wrong like all the time. Imagine him choking ts out of Mark and Mark struggling and Conquest is like āThis is me being āaffectionateā and it means that I enjoy your presence why are you upsetā after Mark finally sets himself free he has to explain that āa hug is when you wrap yourself around someoneā means it has to be your arms and that you HAVE to be gentle. Which then leads to the next problem of not knowing which appreciation gesture is appropriate and with who. And that ends with hugging Mark weird (as in oddly tender for a friend) and maybe kissing him on national television bc he just likes the guy a lot.
Another thing!! He has a room in the GDA but itās too similar to his āhouseā (block of concrete) on viltrum so he is always trying to get into Markās room and sleep there because his bed is soft and warm and so is Mark. I love to imagine him sleeping beside Mark and the bed nearly breaks and heās sleeping on the edge since Conquestās big ass nearly takes up the whole mattress.
I have also thought of him lying down on top of Conquest and it feels so nice bc conquest is so big and his breathing feels like being gently rockedā¦ā¦.All goes to shit when he turns around on the bed and Mark falls off and the frame breaks and itās 4 in the morning. Mark gets a sommier shortly after.
They have a weird, not precisely romantic but not precisely platonic relationship and if youāre wondering, Yes, Eve knows about this but doesnāt even know how to adress it and every time thereās a weird thing w conquest sheās at the cuck window. ykno like w/ Amber on s1. Or being cucked on national television.
Ahhh just thought of Mark letting him read his comics and heās so remarkably gentle in not tearing the pagesā¦.bc theyāre fragileā¦ā¦.and it kind of reminds him of the boy beside him and he just has to be nice bc this is a part of him too, in a wayā¦..GODā¦ā¦..
Imagine conquest is convinced for a really long time earth just has an overwhelmingly large female population but assumes bc of that people balance it out by referring to āfemalesā as āmalesā which leads to the worst misunderstanding in the history of the universe. Mark having to explain men donāt necessarily have moustaches and that he is not a girl nor his friends nor most of the people he thinks are female are
āNot all, uh, males have facial hairā¦ā
āAhh, so they have been forcefully made into women for breeding purposes?ā
This dude fucked up bruh ššš
when Mark said āare you going to tell me all your deepest feelings again?ā Conquest felt genuinely betrayed and sad because he developed a little crush on the feisty little thing.
okay. Last young markquest thing. Nsfw warning tho āļø I though of them fucking in public w their first fight ngl. Like I imagine after so many centuries of fighting each other to reproduce they have a tendency to get aroused while fighting (that while bad it just kind of got engrained in their genes) and they fight so well so violent but theyāre both rock hard so they lowk just gotta take a break and fuck before coming back to the fight. Hell even fucking while fighting I donāt see why not
Old Mark x Conquest.
Heavy spoilers if you havenāt read the comic!
First of all and before we begin the next section Iād like to thank my bright mutual @smallandmiserly bc a LOT of what I think about them in their old age comes from them. On top of that some of the stuff here is copied and pasted bc itās was just too peak I needed to share
Anyway, back on topic and starting a little melancholic, Mark seriously regrets becoming an emperor at 20. He shouldāve been at the club, he shouldāve been taking care of his daughter, he shouldāve been working or studying or something instead of having the weight of the entire universe placed on his shoulders. He eventually divorces Eve because well. 500 years with someone. And on top of that Mark is probably never around when needed and they were both well aware the relationship had been deteriorating over the past 200 or maybe more years. Anyway Conquest comes into this whole business when mark is at his lowest and Conquestās loyalty is sickeningly sweet to him. Itās new. It feels fresh and he feels almost like a teenager with his first crush. He likes the attention, he likes how much Conquestās willing to sacrifice, he likes the strength and he likes the scars and rugged looks and unstable personality. Heās like āI sure hope his unwavering loyalty, mindless devotion, and tendency to kneel before me to kiss the palm of my hand before he commits acts of unspeakable violence and power in my name doesn't awaken anything in me.ā And Guess What.
Directly quoting the bright mutual, āEmperor!Mark au where Conquest is his weird guard dog/the remnants of a more violent Viltrum. He's named āthe Executionerā & is called out when big threats that can't be reasoned with are on scene. He comes back injured and Mark spends most of his visiting time fussing over him. Like this weird balance of Mark's āyou're someone i care abt deeply and want you to know i only do this because its necessary and i know you're ok with it but it still feels wrong because you're more than a killing machineā & Con's āthe pretty emperor still likes me and talks to me, oh life is a dreamš„°āā omg they piss me OFF. 10/10 when someone makes a fic about this do tell me.
They flirt in like a really weird fashion. They have very corny nicknames for each other. but the worst of all is that they joke about it really violent n gross stuff over dinner. āAh, I remember it like it was yesterday when I gutted you like a fish. I still remember your bowels twitching away from my touch.ā ā*chuckles warmly* and I also remember it like it was yesterday when I almost choked you to death.ā āCan't say, I minded that part too much *wink*ā āOh, Con, you old perv āŗļøā (credit of most of the dialogue to my awesome mutual) or alternatively imagine theyāre in a meeting with a lot of people who remember the days before Mark ruled and are like āWell, the emperor of Viltrum is pretty much Invincible, right?ā [everyone laughs āļø sensibly] and conquestās like āAlmost. Iāll get him next timeā which of course is funny but vaguely worrying to people who do remember but Mark is just like āI bet you wonāt! šāŗļøā [people laugh sensibly again] āAhahaha..but we did nearly kill each other.ā āIt did get pretty violent ^_^;ā Making people worry about each other at the coalitionnnnnn (or something of the sort not precisely the coalition bc ykno mark dismantled it just like maybe a new entity so politicians and planet leaders can communicate. itās like the Interstellar Union or something like that.)
Also mark is still ass at navigation at his big 527 years. Heās like āIām heavily educated on a lot of cultures across the galaxy and never seen before elements and chemicals as well as knowing the stars personally. I also canāt find my way from Nu-Viltrum to Thraxa.ā
Btw despite being the emperor, most if not all Viltrumites who met him before it still see him like a kid. Like they would tell him āyouāll understand when youāre olderā and he was a senior citizen in at least 7 different planets. 90 and being told he knows nothing about life ššš
One final addition from the mutual!!
On one hand: I want them to destroy eachother in ways no one can understand. See eachother how others can't/won't but their completely opposing worlds and views need them to either one dies, or both die
They fuck and its insane, bloody, and desperate. They are haunted by a need inconcievable, desperate and hungry for something neither Viltrum or Earth want to provide.
On the OTHER Hand: I think it would be cute if they were an actual couple and made the weirdness work, primarily for comedic shenanigans
Like of Conquest almost crushing Mark to death in a hug because its been so long since someone's offered him physical affection.
Or watching him sleep at night and memorizing the strange movements he makes, fighting between choking his life out and wanting to skin himself to be the blanket Mark sleeps under, just to be his constant warmth
Also!! My idea of Conquest after being rehabilitated (somehow?) is that he changes his name to Viktor, and S.A.Mās idea of him is that heās called Conrade :3 if I hear someone else call him Carl when he looks like he should have a much powerful name Iām actually gonna. Idk turn into a trout.
What it feels like to be a markquest shipper knowing the creators think if conquest was normaler heād be more like Markās uncle or grandpa moodboard