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“we already had our Royal Marriage consummated!”

y’know this meme had to happen between these two at some point afterwards 

alternative reaction:

A little tribute to my fave Akielon gang 🥰

I want to thank @linecrosser​ for being so lovely and letting me take some inspiration from your own Damen and Nikandros’ design. Check out linecrosser’s marvellous artwork here!

My little head canon is that the Akielon Royalty, the upper class and military generals all have their hairs styled in some form of a side shave/ undercut. I though it’d be cool that when we first meet Damen, he’d just got his hair almost completely shaved by Adrastus before being shipped off to Vere, in a half-attempt to keep his identity hidden.

As his hair grew longer with time, it would make sense for it to be trimmed and styled the Veretian way.

I also wanted to highlight a line from the book that mentions the Veretian hairstyle, basically implying that there are different trends for both Akielos and Vere:

‘Damen was wearing Veretian clothes…..Even his hair had been cut in the Veretian style.

He saw the man see all of that first, and then he saw the man see him.’

This scene never fails to give me chills. For Nikandros, seeing Damen again but styled so vastly different to his usual appearance must’ve added to the surreality of the moment.

Damen, distressed: I can't find Laurent!