#midamar

Kallamar x Midas is kind of popular right? I mean, for a Kallamar ship. And Kallamar is the only character Midas has ever been shipped with more than once apparently lmao

I've seen one person writing this idea where Midas, though having been romantically involved with Kallamar, betrayed him, and I dig it.

I personally like to write them as divorced (unofficially, there was no Divorce Ritual performed unless you count robbing your god husband on the way out as a Divorce Ritual). In all my fic and art ideas that involve either Kallamar or Midas, them being ex-husbands has always been a background detail to me.

While the bitterness they hold for each other depends on the story I'm writing, a few details always remained true: They did genuinely loved each other. Even Midas's cold, black, greedy little heart had love for him. If things were different they could've been very happy together.

How ever, no matter how much love there was, what kind of compromises could be made, they were just fundamentally incompatible. You know how it's suggested that Kallamar is canonically polyamorous? You know how jealous spouses in the game have the thought "I don't want to share!" (or maybe it was "I don't like sharing", something like that)

Can you imagine a creature like Midas ever wanting to 'share'?

I mean the wording I'm using is a joke, but the conflict itself isn't. Polyamoury is integral to Kallamar's identity. Whether he has multiple spouses at the moment or not, he needs the freedom to express it in order to be happy. Midas, meanwhile, will always hate being in a polycule, and will always hate his metamours for being part of it.

He joined not expecting to care of course. Either because his original intention was to use Kallamar for his riches and status anyway, or because he just thought he could ignore it. Either way, it wasn't like he was going to tell his new god husband that there was going to be a problem.

But the more his feelings for Kallamar grew, so did his resentment for the others. And in some cases of writing, his resentment towards Kallamar himself for 'making' him feel this way.

Midas would pretend that he could be friends with his metamours when Kallamar was around, but in truth he was distant to them at best. At best. Even Kallamar would notice that Midas could hardly stay in the same room as the others, but being the type who liked to bury his head in the sand, would wave it off as just 'shyness'.

The spouses, generally, were more aware of the problem (and their level of contention for Midas would vary between them) but they had decided to let things run their course rather than try to force Kallamar to see the truth. Be it because of Kallamar's status or his personality, it wasn't seen as worth it, and surely, one way or another, things will come to a head.

And it did. With a final act of spite for his heartbreak, Midas would steal what he could and run off.

Hey, he'd steal from the God of Death, who's to say he wouldn't be reckless enough to steal from a bishop? And in his mind, why shouldn't he get to break Kallamar's heart right back?

Well, probably because the other bishops would want to fucking kill him, but that's another wall of text. Really I do have thoughts about their reaction to this whole thing but another time mmmaybe.

Still, even Midas would know he Fucked Up, and he'd go into hiding in his cave until the bishops were slain, where upon he'd finally start leaving to treasure hunt again.

That detail being because I thought it was interesting how we, the player, wouldn't see him out on crusades until post-game, and he'd mention that it "had been an age" since he left his cave. I'm not saying the Epic Divorce Arc is canon, but it's a fun detail to incorporate into fanfic stuff.

At present, Midas's level of regret for how things went would depend on the story, whether he still blamed Kallamar for everything or not.