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Have some Aeldwin & Kahedin thoughts because my brain won't stop thinking about them:

Aeldwin is decidedly not a morning person, but his profession often requires him to be up and about at odd hours unfortunately. Kahedin rises with the sun (his husband cannot for the life of him figure out where he finds his energy so early in the day) and struggles to remain awake once it sets.

Kahedin is not very approachable, but secretly is such a sweetheart; he was the type to wear his heart on his sleeve until the war forced him to hide it.

(Alinar is bold af when pushing his luck around Aeldwin alone, but so apprehensive when starting shit around Kahedin because, unlike Aeldwin, Kahedin does not need to maintain a professional relation with him and thus is not obligated to remain cordial.)

Kahedin is better at expressing his feelings and is comfortable with being emotionally vulnerable (around certain people). Aeldwin, on the other hand, has a tendency to bottle everything up and keep it to himself as to not burden anyone else.

He will often bury himself in his work in order to avoid having to deal with his feelings in any capacity.

Due to the demand and inherent stress of his speciality (healing), Aeldwin's appearance has aged beyond his years; his face is marked by a few premature lines and his hair is flecked with grays (which is very not normal for an aetherian his age). He is unbothered by it, but his husband was rather alarmed by the discovery of his first gray hairs.

Aeldwin suffers from migraines whenever he overextends his abilities. Kahedin has tried many times to persuade him into taking something to relieve the pain, and most days he refuses because it still leaves him unable to concentrate but with the added side effect of being drowsy instead of in pain (which Kahedin would argue is a marked improvement).

Aeldwin is really just concerned with how taking something will inhibit his healing magic (which Kahedin would argue he should be resting from using anyway, since that is exactly what earned him a migraine to begin with).

Aeldwin normally receives his prophetic visions as dreams, and usually Kahedin is able to soothe the worst of them without him ever waking.

In his later years, however, they become much more frequent and disorienting, and even begin lapsing into the hours when he is awake. Kahedin's attempts to lull his aura back into a restful state during the night are increasingly less and less successful so Aeldwin's visions wind up rousing him more often than not, though he is not always fully aware of and responsive to his surroundings right away.

Despite the circumstances surrounding this decision, he was willing to go through with it without a fight under the guise that only his claim and titles would be affected, nothing more. Once his betrothal to Vietna gets put into question, however, Radan becomes irate and storms out. Taliesin is quick to pursue him, to try and smooth things out with his brother, but his horrid attempt leads to a falling out.

Although I initially wrote this scene out as a private exchange, I've come to realize that realistically they'd both have their guards trailing alongside them (Rhistel, Lian, etc.), which gives them all the more reason to keep this altercation as coded as possible; Rhistel and Lian are the only ones who know the true meaning behind it all.

It makes it all the more wild that Taliesin would throw out that "and look how far you've fallen without your wings" comment. That thinly veiled threat of knowing Radan's little secret, and having the power to out him publicly if he so wanted. He may have finally found his spine enough to start pushing back, but he's pushing the wrong person.

And Taliesin realizes this a bit too late. He knows by Radan's posture that he fucked up. But instead of reacting in the heat of the moment for once, Radan takes a deep breath and leaves it there, accepting that this fight isn't worth the risk.

It never made sense to me for Radan to come to this realization on his own.

But then it hit me.

Rhistel is there.

He and Vietna have always been Radan's voices of reason; without them around to keep him in check and out of trouble, there's no telling what his anger would allow him to do.

During their initial encounter, Silas manipulates Markus into freeing him from his restraints. He doesn't think much of it at the time since, in his mind, it must have merely been a minor inconvenience for Markus. He didn't force him to do anything he wasn't already doing plus he was allowed to leave physically unscathed, and so he was left better off than Silas ever was.

But it was no small thing to Markus. The act was an invasion of his mind that still removed his autonomy regardless of the fact that Silas didn't subject him to violence. This single moment is the sole reason why Markus even has his signature glasses and insists on wearing them for every interaction they have after; the one-way lenses were specifically designed to deter Silas alone as they prevent him from obtaining eye contact, one of the things he crucially needs (at the present) in order to manipulate someone with his powers.

Throwback Thursday

Have some Charles and Peter thoughts, because I’m still thinking about them and have no one to share these with.

Peter goes to bed late but gets up early despite not being a morning person. He often stayed up late as a kid because it was the only alone time he could find.

Charles sleeps until noon most days.

Charles is always cold, Peter is always warm.

Charles has issues with temperature regulation in general, which isn't usually a problem most of the year, but the winter months can be hard on him as his body reacts horribly to the cold. Peter is happy to be his personal space heater.

Personal space is non-existent to Peter when they're in bed together. He absolutely loves to cuddle and will have his hands on Charles any chance he gets, and Charles doesn't mind for the most part; on flare up days, he prefers some distance.

Charles is the type of person that can't leave things half done, it's all or nothing. This often combats with his chronic pain.

He's also a bit of a perfectionist.

Peter often comments on his lovely penmanship, but sometimes his hands shake so much that he can't write as well as he'd like to, and it really bothers him. Charles once threw a pen across the room out of frustration.

Charles is slightly insecure about his double mastectomy scar only because he thought it would be two separate ones, but they met in the middle to form one long scar. Peter adores it.

Peter will apologize for anything and everything. It's a habit he developed as a child (no thanks to his brother). If he thinks someone is even the slightest bit upset, especially with him, it'll just come out of him on impulse.

Charles has told him plenty of times he doesn't need to keep doing it, that he's done nothing to even warrant an apology, to which Peter will accidentally respond with "sorry" all over again.

It took Charles time to adjust to going from his overbearing parents who wouldn't let him do much of anything because of his condition to being with Peter who lets him do whatever makes him feel happy.

Charles was used to hiding certain things from his parents because they would never approve, and this behavior extended to Peter (for a time) because he thought Peter might react similarly.

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