#maleficent 2

When Maleficent was announced, on the way in to meet Philip's parents, she flared her wings behind Diaval and used one to pull him along At Her Side, keeping him close. Socially this also places him as her equal but yk what does she know of courtly manners, she's just doing it to keep hold of her emotional support raven.

Diaval x reader

Warnings: none

Summary: You give him a shiny rock :3

Word Count: 900 (this is more of a blurb)

A/N: There's a criminal lack of diaval fanfics from the 2014 Maleficent movie, and I'm officially here to fill that gap in the market...for the like 5 diaval x reader tag frequenters. This was a part of the last request I got, and I can't just turn down a request for my bird boy <3 ALSO, reader is written as gender neutral! ENJOY

Predating Diaval:

Whether you’re a human or a dark fae like Maleficent, you both officially met after the events of the second movie. With you as a dark fae moving into the moors, or you as a curious human wanting to explore the moors to see what Queen Aurora’s home kingdom was like.

I say ‘officially’ met above because the first time you saw Diaval was in passing, and that was when he was running around in his human form like a chicken with its head cut off during the chaotic wedding in the last movie. 

The first time Diaval saw you was when Maleficent sent him to scout a possible threat on the border of the moors. Someone has just crossed into its borders. That person was you.

You’d continue to explore a bit more and more every day, and Diaval, in his raven form, would be there every time to keep an eye out and to report back to Maleficent to make sure you weren’t up to any funny business.

Eventually, you caught onto the Raven that would watch and follow you every time into walked around the outskirts moors. You’d start to bring it food in order to befriend it. 

This act of kindness would not go unnoticed by Diaval, and he began to grow fond feelings for you. He even had Maleficent not transform him one time so that he could greet you face to face and give you a proper tour of the moors.

He was indeed caught off guard when you recognized him as the ‘funny looking guy dressed in all black’ that was running around on Queen Aurora and King Philip’s wedding day.

He felt a bit offended when you called him a ‘funny looking guy’, a blow to his ego, but eventually, he told you that he was the raven that was following you around in the moors.

You didn’t believe him at first, but after he showed you his feathers that grew on his head mixed with his black ebony hair and explained how he came to have a human body, you believed him. Anything was possible in the moors.

After that, you began to walk around the moors more often. And each time it was less about admiring the beautiful scenery, and more about admiring the beautiful raven bird man who lived there.

Diaval, who became whipped for you, starts to find himself spending more and more time in his human form, and when he's not, expect a cawing raven in your ear.

He eventually confesses his feelings for you when he invites you over for a picnic in the meadows of the moors.

Dating Diaval:

So fun fact! Ravens mate for life, so expect Diaval to become a very loving a devoted partner.

This also means that you should expect him to follow you around in raven form. Especially when you're not in the moors, he’s gotta keep an eye on you

He likes to give you his feathers so you have something of his to carry when he's not with you. 

You like to turn them into jewelry or sew them into your clothing. :) 

There's been multiple occasions when, in bird form, he’ll land on your head and pluck some out some of his feathers and tuck them into your hair to match the ones growing out of his head when he's human.

Because he’s originally a raven, kissing on the lips is a new thing for him. He knows what it is, and he's kissed the back of your hand when the two of you met face to face properly, but he's never kissed anyone on the lips before.

Mainly because for the majority of his life, he’s had a beak, but he’s happy that he got to experience his first kiss on the lips with you.

PDA is a bit similar, lots of firsts with a human body. He’s discovered that he loves to hug and cuddle, whether it be big or little spoon, and he also enjoys having the warmth of your hand in his. 

If he's not perched in raven form on your shoulder, then his chin his perched on your shoulder in human form. 

By the time you're dating, you’ve already met Maleficent a few times, but because you and Diaval are things now…expect him to string you along for his and Maleficent’s antics more often.

Maleficent needs Diaval to send a message for her to Aurora in the human kingdom? You’re tagging along. IN FACT, he’s convinced Maleficent to turn him into a horse and have you be the message bearer. So hop on, you’re going for a ride yee haw. 

Also, if you religiously wear black too, then what a sight that is. A group of three people walking around the moors, dressed head to toe in black.

If you're someone who likes to dance, then expect Diaval to learn just for you so that the two of you can dance together at the balls that Queen Aurora and King Philip hold at the castle and occasionally in the moors.

Would Diaval have a weakness to iron? Diaval isn't a fey creature, he was born a raven. But he has been affected and directly exposed to magic for over 20+ years, so would that have a long term effect on him?

Maybe its like he's been slowly contaminated/changed by Maleficent's magic overtime, the more he transforms, the more his body grows used to the transformations and the magic associated with it. He becomes used to it on a deeply physical level. And with that change, he essentially develops something akin to a allergy to iron.

I don't think we ever see him touch iron long term in either movies? And he never came into direct contact with the iron dust/powder in the second film. (Im going off of pure memory with this claim.) Sure the guards who are covered in iron armor hold him down at one point, but other fey in the movie either were able to tank a few iron contact moments, or depending on the size, only had a 'small' reaction. (Borra holding the iron bolt, Conall surviving for a good while after being shot, Some Dark Fey flying through the edges of iron dust clouds in the 2nd movie when the fey next to them got hit.) (Adrenaline could also explain why some reactions differ, excluding direct contact with the iron dust.)