#alloace character

HRGGGGG IM NORMAL ABOUT THESE TWO I SWEAR—

The two have a sort of “secret third option” to describe the relationship. Every interaction is from the basis of mutually assured destruction. Since both know the other is an absolute fraud when it comes to what they say they are. (Priest being Lightsent and having a connection with a “god”, and Autumn having lost a wing from a demon attacking and him fighting it off) Autumn absolutely fucking hates Priest for how he’s ruined so many lives.

However.

Both of them lied their asses off to climb and pull themselves into a higher class of living. Both have also been treated like shit by most of their race in the lives they had before they came up with the lies. Autumn gets the want to get revenge on their whole race for how they treated you. Difference is? Autumn doesn’t think he deserves it, while Priest very much thinks he does.

Autumn learned a LOT about Priest (mans a fucking YAPPER about himself) because he was Priests personal guard whenever Priest was weakened from using magic. Which put him in the position to kill priest several, SEVERAL times. An opportunity he never took up. Though he did fantasize and came extremely close to it after Flame was tortured by Flint.

Autumn saw a side of Priest no one else did: The vulnerable side of Priest. The HONEST side of Priest. Because who would believe Autumn? And even if they did believe Autumn, Priest made sure to tighten the metaphorical leash he had on Autumn (reminded Autumn of their M.A.D.) to remind Autumn to never EVER let any info on him slip out.

Autumn meanwhile was never honest. Till he was. Till he found himself actually missing the Understanding of how he was treated by society. The Understanding of what it was like to always be living a life of lies. To never be able to be honest or else your life will fall apart.

….Funny. He found that understanding with Spice years down the line in SASS. Doesn’t get that in REVO, he just gets further trapped in a web of his own weaving.

As for why i decicded to draw him as a knight?

Autumn just really gives off knight vibes in REVO. Maybe it’s the fact that he had the sheer will to gouge a chunk of his back out in Early Years. I dont know. He just really gives off “will and strength of a Knight” he’s got the attitude of one. “Will sacrifice everything for the safety of his family” type shit is Knight mentality.

And ifdk how to describe the dynamic between Priest and Autumn. (Without going on a six paragraph essay rant at least) Villian and his blackmailed henchman??? Enemies to secret third option??? Corrupt King and his fool of a knight??? These fuckers would never kiss. Hell no.

(Well, maybe under heavily specific circumstances…)

Priest does think Autumn is unattractive and ugly, and Autumn thinks touch from Priest is absolutely vile. But there’s something ??? Something inexplicable that you can’t describe but is there. Very Porcilavian of a relationship between them. It’s definitely not a sexual relationship, or really a romantic relationship, i would say platonic, but platonic doesn’t feel right to describe it either? There’s hate in the relationship and constant political “games of chess”, but at the end of the day there’s ironically an aspect of trust in the other. A trust that if one were to destroy the other, they’d get dragged down with you.

Legitimately cannot convey this shit, the words are simply not in our vocabulary if the words exist at all. Send help (genuinely, what do they come across as)

Priest has NPD, and that results in an interesting view towards Autumn. Autumn isn’t his equal, but very close to being his equal (due to them living very similar upbringings in the sense that they were treated like shit for things they couldn’t control.) And because of that, Priest genuinely hates the fact that Autumn doesn’t think highly of himself. Because then by proxy, that means Priest isn’t viewed highly. So he makes comments that raise Autumns self confidence in backhanded ways. Tends to use WE statements (associating Autumn with him) and “people like us” statements when monologuing to Autumn about why he deserves everything and the respect and adoration of everyone. Tries to get Autumn to be selfish and do something to make himself satisfied for once.

He does regularly violate Autumns bodily autonomy though. Do NOT take their whatever the heck this is as a Good Relationship at all.

If I had to sum up Autumns feelings towards Priest in one song, it’d be Brutus.

“What motivates me now, hatred? or is it love?”

“My name is Brutus and my name means heavy—“

“So with a heavy heart I’ll drive this dagger into the heart of my enemy”

“Please know that my actions are not motivated only by envy!”

“I too have a destiny, this death will be art.”

“The people will speak of this day from near and far!”

“This event will be history! And I’ll be great too!”