I felt like round frames fit better for a little kid. And that it'd be cute af if Kertze was once a tiny, runty little thing, smaller than an infestor demon elver.
I came up with the absolute *worst* but kinda cute dialogue for if these two had actually met as kids (to go along with the picture):
K: "You're pretty ugly, aren't you?"
R, smugly: "My mom says everyone's pretty in their own way."
K, gets a concerned frown: "β¦"
R, also frowns: "*What?*"
K, scrunching up his face: "And you *believed* her?"
R, closed mouth frown: "Uh, yeah, duh, of course. It's not like she'd lie. She's my *mom*."
K, completely not buying it: "Okay, *suuuure*β¦ Well, I'm Kertzalide, but everyone just calls me Kertze. Want to have lunch with me?"
R, after they sit down: "So, how many people have told you *you're* pretty, Fuzzface?"
K, big grin: "A whole lot of people, Fishbrain!"
R, laughing: "Oh, yeah? Name one!"
K: "Pffft! Easy! My mom!"
R, big evil toothy grin: "β¦"
R: "And you *believed* her?"
K, blinks: "Hey! No fair! You can't do that!"
K: "I know exactly what you're doing, stop it! Those were my words, I said 'em first!"
R, singsong: "And I threw 'em baa-aack!"
R: "So, both our moms think we're pretty."
R: "And they're both wrong."
R: "'Cause you'd be real ugly in Envy with all that fur wet."
K: "And you wouldn't get *any* work in Lust." (Too young to actually know what work in Lust typically is.)
R: "Good. 'Cause I don't wanna work *there* anyway."
K: "Where do you want to work then?"
R, grinning hugely: "I'm an infestor demon, I'm going to go to the *human realm!* And I'm going to be the strongest infestor demon there ever was! I'm going to learn *all* the spells and max 'em out!"
K, very intrigued: "The human realm? What are you going to do up there?"
R: "I'm going to read their minds to find all their baddest thoughts and what they're scared of, then I'm going to make them watch 'em over and over and over again. They'll be so tasty when I'm done!"
K, beaming and bouncing: "I'm going to light *ALL THE CANDLES!*"
R, incredulous eyebrow raise: "You're going to light candles?"
K: "And be the very best candlemaker in all of Lust! In all of *Hell!* My sister and me are going to get the business when we're done being kids."
R, smiling: "Well, then maybe I'll buy a candle from you."
K, absolutely tickled: "I'll make you a very special one! Just like you want!"
And, of course, Kertze didn't mean to be mean; I just think that, growing up in Lust, he'd have noticed the value on looks even if he doesn't know why. And Rolamdo definitely doesn't fit the standard set by succubi. And kids are blunt.
And, of course, Rolando has been around a different standard, where efficiency in water is favoured and fur is just not going to cut it.
