#killson

lmao. wait.

imagine if Maroon killer crimson and dust all had a love square...

imagine the look on their face when killer just dies to crimson and dust is like: ARE YPU CHEATING ON KILLING ME-

maroon(something new player) by @ant1quarian

(but also character study or h/c just Will realising that there are some things (the bad - spending time growing up living on the streets - and the good - magic) that he will never share with Bran or Kay and they know each other better than Will can ever know them because of it)

i meeeaaaan, hit me up with it anyway, i’m very down for post-canon Killson hcs.

and YES, i love the bittersweet angst of that. i can’t decide if Kay would be more or less likely to catch on to Will’s feelings of alienation in their little family. because Kay is intimately familiar with that feeling, and with craving personal connections in order to feel properly bonded into a group. would that experience make him more sensitive to Will feeling the same way? or would finally having connections like that with Bran, and with knowing Will primarily as a more confident (and self-sufficient, overall less needy) person blind him a bit to how Will is pulling away from them?

if the latter, how long would it take for someone to notice?

would it be Kay, finally after the third time that Will blew off an invitation to join him and Bran on something because Will doesn’t want to intrude or be a third wheel in their obviously closer relationship? would it be Bran, noticing the way Will gets quiet and weird whenever Bran tries to share magic-related things with him? would it be Merlin, asking Will why the fuck he’s pushing away the best relationships he’s ever had in his life and when his self-sabotaging tendencies made a resurgence? maybe even Arthur, calling Will out in the bluntest possible way because he knows that Will would find a way to rationalize it if he’s any more tactful about it?

someone has to get through to him about it. bang it into his head that Kay and Bran love him, even if he wasn’t a street rat and doesn’t have magic. believe it or not, that isn’t the sum total of any of their experiences.

Without Will, who would help Bran with his maths homework? who would join him in taking the piss out of Kay for liking bodice ripper romance novels? who would watch saturday morning cartoons with him? who would teach him how to count cards in poker and also the best bluffing methods for talking himself out of trouble when he gets caught counting cards in poker?

Without Will, who would keep Kay endlessly entertained by being easily flustered by public flirting? who would spar with him, no holds barred, in a way that somehow also makes him laugh? who else would always remember to get the off brand of biscuits because Kay grew up on those and thinks the expensive brand tastes like bullocks? who else would understand exactly how terrifying it is when Bran looks at him with tears in his eyes, expecting and trusting him to fix things? 

Will doesn’t have to share their pasts as long as he’s willing to share their future, and not having magic doesn’t mean that they love him less for it. Kay and Bran will never be able to share the bizarre contradictory comradery that Will and Gwaine share as snipers, or that Will and Arthur share as statisticians, or that Will and Merlin share as childhood friends. what does any of that matter when Will is theirs, huh?

please imagine Will being so confused with himself when he stops really feeling the urge to go out on the pull. he thinks maybe he’s depressed or something, despite being happier than he’s probably ever been in his life, cuz that’s the only logical explanation for why he’s not desperate to get laid like he usually is, right??

Will decides to Shake Up His Look. clearly he needs to change things up a little and that’ll get his engine revving again. facial hair, that’ll do it! the ladies will be all over him.

now imagine Kay laughing himself silly over the sad patchy scraggly-ass attempt at a beard that Will manages.

“oi, fuck off! the birds love it!!!”

Kay is wheezing too hard to even snark back at him. this has gotta be, like, after some mission that Excalibur. he’s been out of town for a few weeks, comes back to the house they share together with Bran, to find this scruffy nonsense on Will’s face. Bran had warned him about it, but seeing it in person was just TOO MUCH and he cannot handle it.

Will keeps insisting it’s to attract women, and that it does attract women, that he’s been doing great without Kay there to get in his way. but it’s all bluster and fish tales. it takes approximately 3 late night beers for it to come out that he hasn’t actually been with any women since Kay left, or for months before he left. hasn’t even tried. hasn’t wanted to.

the only reason he even thought of finding someone to bring home with him again was because he was lonely without Kay there. that’s always been the reason behind it, as Merlin could’ve attested if anyone had bothered to ask him. it’s common knowledge (to Merlin, at least) that Will has spent his adult life filling emotional voids with casual sex, and the fact that it took several months for Will to even notice that he had stopped doing it? that says a lot.

not that Will wants to acknowledge that out loud. he’s definitely not going to actually say that Kay being home has made the idea of chasing down some random bird seem like far more trouble than its worth. he will, however, grudgingly admit that the beard is itchy and he’s getting tired of it.

proposal thoughts and old married couple nagging lmaoooo

@lunarhoseok​ they’re such idiots and i love them so much

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