Lucio And Nadia Didn't Sign The Divorce
Personally, it's really hard for me to picture Nadia and Lucio ever being in love, but for this one we'll make them in love because it makes this AU less uncomfortable
Lucio becomes count earlier in his life and the plague strikes Vesuvia earlier. And womp womp!!! Nadia ends up bearing a child into the plague era of Vesuvia. It's terrifying and Nadia is confronted with her need for control when she can't control this situation, no way to keep her child completely safe. Lucio is suddenly confronted with really, deeply, caring for something enough to make him doubt his selfish actions.
Sure, he loves Nadia, but he was still always a bit arrogant and cocksure. But now? Holy shit. He's got a /kid/. (More on the kid later)
The time line is a bit fuzzy in my head but basically instead of magic fire with sick Lucio, around that time both lucio and the kid fall ill. Lucio's horrified. He begs and pleads and threatens to no avail, with him outliving his child (personal headcanon - children under 10 tended to not last as long, seeing as their immune systems were even kess equipped to deal with the illness). So eventually he goes back to our wormy pestilence man and asks what he has to do. Mr. Worm says the plague will stop following him once he's got lucio's mother's heart. So Lucio pulls some fuckery and ding dong! Morga is dead in exchange for The end of the plague. This, however, does not bring back his daughter.
So Lucio continues to make deals, and things continue to be morally questionable as Nadia attempts to seek out less fucked up resurection methods, til eventually lucio manages to bring the kid back. The child is mostly fine, except now with a pretty strong magical intuition and the inability ti distinguish the voices and figures of the dead from those of the living. Leads to some awkward moments.
And that's the back story!!! Things get less fucky, then more murdery, but let's continue.
The oldest, the one who died, is a girl. She ends up named Lydia, after a character from one of Nadia's favorite stories. She doesn't admit this to Lucio.
Lydia tends to be more reserved, and though she doesn't say it often, she looks up to her mother. Lydia has interests in magic, the sciences, and generally the veil between. She occasionally has nightmares of goatish creatures and terrible landscapes. They almost always start the same, with a doctor she swears shes never met before and yet is the same in every dream. She isn't very expressive with her face, but when she smirks she's a carbon copy of Lucio.
She's not really that interested in romance, and tends to make people who don't know her well creeped out.
About two years later comes a boy, no red eyes and no impending doom on the city. His name is Samuel. Hes a bit insecure, constantly worried he can't live up to his parents as a younger kid, which eventually turns into him not wanting to pursue anything near leadership or politics. He enjoys most sports, and tends to be a bit naive. By age 14 he by far sneaks out of the palace the most. His older sister covers for him, having come up with an ongoing story of Samuel 'feeding the alleycats' because Lydia likes to make fun of Samuels friends. Totally not because she's jealous. Preposterous.
By age 17 Samuel has a secret boyfriend, who Lydia nicknames alleycat to carry on the tradition. Samuel knows neither Nadia nor Lucio would react badly, but Sam kind of enjoys the drama of sneaking around.
Sam ends up a bit taller than lucio, which infuriates Lucio to no end. Sam looks more similar to his aunt's, a wide easy going grin, bright orange hair contrasting his skin, wide eyes. He's charming, and quite cute, in a dweeby way.
Four years after Samuel is yet another daughter, Lilith. She's absolutely the baby, consistently in her own spacey world. She has a heavy enjoyment of fiction, and tends to enjoy cheesy dramatic romance that ends in death the most. She's definitely not suited for politics. She can sometimes get overwhelmed when things are too loud, so she usually spends masquerades with at least one family member with her at all times.
Lucio babys her so much. So, so much. She's the first to admit the terrible things he's done (shes the one who read of them first) but she still loves him despite it.
Sam and Lydia are pretty protective of her, in their own ways. Lydia is a pretty morally gray person and willing to do quite a bit if she thinks someone's 'earned' it. Sam just tends to try and physically intimidate.
They've been to Prakra before, when Lydia was 17, Sam 15, and Lilith 11. It was a new experience for them, not constantly worrying if they'll be swarmed by people. They could just go around and as long as they didn't throw money around they were unnoticed. They chose to spend the entire time dicking around in markets, eating bread and pointing out species of birds they had never seen. Sam gets dragged into a brief romance and his sisters refuse to not mock him for it.
It is an unspoken rule that it's the three of them against the world. They all love their parents, but there's political allies, and all the fucked up stuff dads done, so they've just accepted that they have eachothers backs until the end. This includes Samuel disposing of an unknown body without a word, only hoping Lydia had good reasons.
Anyways yeah!!! Tell me what you think of them! I'm proud of them but in case you want a
Nadia and Lucio commit some sins with magic and have some kids
Lydia - goth icon, secretly lonely, was dead but isn't now, low-key wants to bone valdemar
Sam - gay icon, over protective, is all brains until confronted with cute boys, isn't cut out for politics
Lilith - soft girl, baby of the family, loves dark fantasy, easily distracted
If you want more in depth of what they look like I'd be happy to give more detailed descriptions!!!!!!!!!!!! :D and if you draw them i will cry tears of happiness
