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They're so cute I can't evennnnn-

@serendipitys-dragon I finished :3 🩷

Reference I used under the cut <3

„Hate that I made you love me”

„Hate that I made you love me”

This is my last commission for this year’s Elriel Month and I personally think it is a very special one! I love a good modern Elriel AU and I love how cute this one is! Our grumpy bat boy likes to pretend he doesn’t want his photo taken, but he’ll happily allow it when his Elain is the photographer. 💙🩷

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🎨 Art by @aurithemoon

✨ Commissioned by me for @elriel-month

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🎨 by @amaati

💜 commissioned by @lovelyfawnxx

.𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒛 𝒽𝒶𝒹ℯ𝓈

First, we properly meet Dante and we get to know him. From his tragic backstory of a bastard boy no one wanted, not even his first love, who he became magical for. What did he do? Shut down emotionally and build a fake identity who was much cooler and far more beloved than his real self ever was.

And then we have Tella and her equally large fear to love. Because she felt cursed and unwanted after being supposedly abandoned by her own mother, and being raised by a father who only loved himself. So she convinces herself love is for the poor stupid people who are willing to give their hearts to others (knowing they can be broken).

Dante wasn’t meant to fall for Tella. But he did. He let her past the mask of Legend and allowed her to truly know him, and himself to harbor feelings for her. By the end there he doesn’t care about getting the cards and the powers within them. He wants her love, and is even willing to make death pacts with powerful strangers to ensure she’s safe.

And Tella, who refused to fall even for the stories she was told of this fantastic magician, finds herself unable to match the image of the villain she made up in her mind with that of the guy she fell for. And she embraces him, and embraces that love, no longer being afraid of having her heart broken.

And then it all falls apart.

Because while Tella is not willing to give Dante up, she is still the little girl that wants her mother back. And so the love she just embraced within herself is used to sacrifice herself, and get trapped in one of the cards to save her mother.

Dante of course can’t deal with that. So he saves Tella and starts the apocalypse, but this is the second time loving so deeply had devastating results. So he shuts down again. Snaps the mask of Legend back into place and leaves Tella on those stairs because he is fucking terrified of being hurt again by someone he loves so deeply. And so fulfilling Tella’s own fear of having her own heart broken.