#nyktos

Sera: Mine just says "Sera no".

Casteel: "Did you ever win when in an argument with your wife?"

Nyktos: "My wife and I never argue"

Casteel: 👀

Thirty-six ✨💕

Just a simple piece of Sera and Nyktos

To look into the face of his granddaughter, unable to separate the love he undoubtedly has for her and the devastation of knowing that the precautions he and Sera took were still not enough. To see Poppy’s defiance, strength, bravery, and cunning—so much like her grandmother—while also seeing the looming demise of the realms, if the prophecy is to be believed. To know how deeply he and Sera love Poppy, despite the implications of her birth and ascension.

To feel Poppy’s attempt at using the gift she inherited from him while knowing that he couldn’t explain the ability, and watch it bloom, as she grew up (just as Mycella wasn’t able to do for Ash). To remember the promise he and Sera made to each other after they learned she was pregnant with the twins—having both parents alive and well to raise them, the experience they were robbed of themselves—and knowing they couldn’t make or keep a similar promise to Poppy.

There are points during Born of Blood and Ash where your heart just breaks knowing the fate of Ires, Malec, Poppy/Sotoria, and Millicent. Ash and Sera’s hope and joy for the future is so very heartbreaking knowing what happens to their children and grandchildren.