#mamamand

eventually they start talking before and after sessions when armand’s head is clearer and he finds he actually really likes the alpha, regardless of whether he’s in the throes of heat. but he thinks marius is just being polite, this is his job after all, he’s literally being paid to care about armand. it’s silly of him to think they’re genuinely bonding bc obviously marius has other omega clients that he actually does fuck.

so over the coming months armand’s heat starts to mellow out and the doctor says they can start weaning armand off the alpha service and that it’s safe to go through heats alone now. this disappoints armand but he agrees and his next heat is spent alone, with only some of marius’ clothing to keep him company. marius calls to check on him afterward and his calming voice over the phone nearly brings armand to tears. he hates that he doesn’t know what marius sounds like when he cums, he hates that he’s never felt marius’ knot swell and lock inside of him.

armand’s next heat comes early and it’s even worse than it was before they started. he doesn’t know it, but it’s his body’s emergency response to the idea of losing what it’s come to think of as his alpha. so he calls marius to come take care of him, babbling and sobbing that it’s an emergency. (it hurts so bad, alpha, he feels so empty.)

let’s start in canonverse: i think this is so deliciously angsty. armand loses marius and already feels guilty for letting santino fuck him (i’m imagining their relationship started out very dubcon and now armand hates himself bc he’s come to crave santino’s touch) but now he’s pregnant by him? he’d feel HORRIBLE about it. but i’m sticking to my guns and asserting that armand will always see a baby as a blessing no matter where it comes from. it’s a light in the darkness for him, especially in the children of darkness era. obviously santino is getting off on the idea that he impregnated marius’ boy. marius wants to replace ivan and santino wants to replace marius and so on and so forth.

i’m not as confident in my santino characterization so i’m phoning a friend on this one, @aunteat how do you think canonverse santino would react to knocking up armand? i think it’d certainly shake his faith, since they’re supposed to be damned and evil creatures. how would he handle knowing he helped create an innocent life? i think it’d be a huge contributing factor to his eventual defecting from the CoD.

to keep in line with the tragedy of it all the baby would either have to be miscarried or stillborn. and eventually when armand is sent to paris he’ll think it’s bc santino is mad at him for losing their baby. sadtoad.jpeg

okay now that we’ve made ourselves sad let’s discuss an au that’s a bit more sexy! (but still kind of sad. sorry, i think tragedy goes hand in hand with santimand unfortunately)

little known fact about me is that i love medieval fantasy au’s. this one is close to my heart and my friends will certainly recognize it.

but imagine armand is the son of a king, maybe not the firstborn son so he’s allowed to go study with the church under santino, but he has to come home when it’s revealed someone got him pregnant. nobody knows it was santino. and to protect prince armand’s reputation he has to live in isolation until the baby is born.

the original idea for this au was for it be marius vs santino. marius is brought in to be armand’s private tutor bc they trust marius to be discreet about the situation. marius catches santino trying to come see armand under the guise of being a concerned citizen and that’s how he figures out santino is the baby daddy bc armand won’t rat (ha) him out.