#mordekaiser

🌖Something tells me Aphelios has a (secret) collection of beautiful and different little stones, and he is quietly happy if you give him something to add to that collection — most of them are stones in shades of white and silver, with a few black ones and darker tones of blue, easily associated with the moon or the darkness of the night. It’s something so intimate that the mere fact you know about it is almost synonymous with a marriage vow, and you giving him one he didn’t yet have… In silence, Aphelios had already decided you were his person.

🌖 Likewise, expect to receive something more symbolic and discreet, even intimate: a hair ornament made of small shining stones that reflected the moonlight as if they were stardust; there has even been a small nighttime picnic; and letters. Aphelios is no Shakespeare, but his simple and direct words know exactly how to touch the right strings of your heart.

────≫ Kayn

❤️ You probably weren’t the only one who gave him a gift that day; even if all the others were anonymous, you still have every right to feel that tiny sting of jealousy — after all, you’re Kayn’s girlfriend.

But that’s not even the biggest problem, because in the first year of dating, Kayn forgot the date — he isn’t used to being in a relationship where he has to think about someone else instead of himself. So when Kayn receives your gift, it’s like a bucket of cold water is poured over him — he was completely lost.

Calm down, calm down. The worst part comes now:

In the background, you saw the gifts from his secret admirers, and when Kayn noticed the disappointment in your eyes as you realized he hadn’t even remembered, his heart sank quietly in his chest. He failed at something dozens of ordinary guys managed to get right and were out there receiving kisses and smiles from their girlfriends for doing what he didn’t.

Well, Rhaast is going to spend the next few hours laughing at Kayn while you ignore him.

💙 Kayn is awkward and desperate as he buys something for you at the last minute, and proud as he is, he doesn’t have the courage to go ask anyone for advice — so all he has left is Rhaast inside his mind to help choose a gift — and that is the worst possible company for that. In the end, he resorts to the cliché bouquet of flowers and an irritated, stammering attempt at apologizing without actually apologizing.

❤️ It was a mess that day, and Kayn made sure to never forget again so he’d never have to go through that.

From then on, Kayn usually gives you flowers or chocolates; taking you out to eat happens sometimes too, but the places are simpler and more discreet — nothing extravagant.

💙 Even if it’s classic — or cliché, depending on your point of view — Kayn won’t admit it, but he puts effort into making it specific to you: your favorite color (“Oh, it’s your favorite? What a coincidence, I hadn’t even noticed”); your favorite sweets; flowers that made him think of you or that you once mentioned you liked the scent of…

Kayn practically uses other couples as inspiration, but acts as if all the romance comes purely from himself. Rhaast, however, knows about this “romantic flaw” — and loves Valentine’s Day because of it: he gets to spend the entire day inside Kayn’s mind tormenting and ridiculing him for such a weakness.

────≫ Mordekaiser

☠️ In the afterlife realm that Mordekaiser forged, there is not exactly a passage of time, so… there is not exactly a “Valentine’s Day” there. And yet, within the whispers of your soul that echo alongside the lugubrious winds of that place, Mordekaiser senses a flicker of emotion completely dissonant from the other specters: a warm and living light. A longing, a hope.

Love.

Normally, this kind of sensitivity does not reach him, and he only tolerates existing within those halls because it emanates from you — and radiates an admirable resilience he does not find in the soul of even his highest-ranking soldier.

☠️ Besides, there are not many kinds of gifts that can be given in a spectral kingdom… Yes, Mordekaiser ignores such things until your silent appeals become too much for Mordekaiser’s instincts, which are strangely drawn to you.

☠️ Usually, what you can expect to receive are promises of what he intends to give you when he finally returns to the world of the living: to rule all realms, of the living and the dead, at his side; a vow of eternal union between the two of you as sovereigns across both sides of life.

☠️And what could you possibly give him in return? Everything that existed there was forged by him when he was last summoned into the world of the living. Besides, there was only one thing that truly interested Mordekaiser, and that was something only he himself could grant — and he had already planned everything to obtain it.

Do not worry. In truth, Mordekaiser expects nothing from you except your full and absolute loyalty. So if he feels within the resonance of your spirit that unwavering fidelity, he considers it a personal signature carved by him within your sweet soul — and I assure you, Mordekaiser values that more than anyth

────≫ Pyke

🗡️ You held out a pretty, lovely box that allowed a glimpse of the homemade chocolates nestled inside, and Pyke just stands there like: “???????”

— What is this?

Yes, my dear, you’re going to have to endure the embarrassment of explaining to your boyfriend what a Valentine’s Day gift is — that’s what happens when you fall in love with a… revenant.

🗡️ Pyke accepts it, but only because it came from you. In truth, he’s faintly uncomfortable; it feels absurdly wrong to him that someone like him should be the bearer of something so beautiful.

🗡️ When he understands that this whole idea of gift-giving is meant to be reciprocal, he brings you something he once found long ago at the bottom of the sea. At the time, he had ignored it, left it beside the wreck that now rests as part of the ocean floor. But now, with this unexpected development of being in a relationship, you find yourself holding a small locket encrusted with seaweed and marked by the passage of time.

Strangely enough, it wasn’t ugly — just rustic and antiquated — and much later you would discover it was a relic over 250 years old.

🗡️ And at the end of the day, Pyke stares at you in confusion once again as you extend another package toward him, longer this time and wrapped more discreetly.

It was a new dagger.

— It didn’t seem right to give you chocolates because, well, you know, I don’t think you eat them and… anyway. I think I got it right this time, didn’t I?

Ah, yes, my dear. Now you did.

Though Pyke receives the blade and evaluates it without any particular expression, he carries it with a care that borders on tenderness. He doesn’t use it to kill; every now and then he checks to make sure it’s still there, secured properly at his belt. And in the quiet of the night, when you are asleep but he is not, Pyke holds the blade in his hand, turning it between his fingers so it catches the moonlight slipping into the room — his eyes fixed on the metal, but his thoughts fixed on you.

────≫ Viego

👑 It’s been so long since he had to worry about “normal” situations like this… Viego forgot the date, and a slightly surprised expression crosses his face as he unwraps your gift, deeply moved by the delicacy of your gesture.

👑 There isn’t anything specific Viego would like to receive — you are everything he wants in his life (death?), and now that he has you, nothing else matters.

Even so, regardless of what you decided to give him, he thanks you with a kiss filled with deep gratitude, trying to express without words the love he usually keeps guarded within himself.

👑 He definitely gives you some kind of jewelry in return. He must still have several pieces hidden among the ruins of his former kingdom, forgotten between mist and rubble, carved and shaped in unique designs because they belonged to an era and a people that no longer exist.

He personally makes a point of placing it around your neck (if it’s a necklace), or on your finger (if it’s a ring), or around your wrist/arm if it’s a bracelet or similar adornment. And of course, Viego finishes by lifting your hand to his lips and pressing a delicate kiss there.

— Just as I imagined… Perfect for a queen.

Just don’t forget to wear the gift, okay? Viego is somewhat… temperamental.

He loves you.

But he is temperamental...

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