#theolas

Set of characters from my Eseth Project thing~ Leston, Erin, Eesa, Zea, Pimoth, Venton, and Theolas

"The house?" Theodosia quirked an eyebrow at her husband or, rather, soon to be ex-husband.

"Mine. You can have the one in Florence." Nikolas looked over the rim of his reading glasses and met Theo’s gaze for a fraction of a second before returning to the packet of legal documents in his hands.

"And Nice?"

"Also mine. Unless you’d trade the penthouse in New York?"

"Hmm," Theo mused and manicured fingernails clicked against glass. "No, I’m rather fond of Broadway and Fashion Week."

"Then it’s settled."

Niko gathered the other sheets and neatly tapped them against the table. It took a moment for the edges to line up, and a moment was all she needed to tell.

"I’ve missed you too, Niko."

Niko looked up, stunned, but then it was gone again, replaced by a staunch expression of indifference. “You wanted the divorce, Theo.”

"Perhaps," she answered, voice light and noncommittal, and then there was nothing, and she wondered how so many years of marriage could end in silence.

He wasn’t the same. He wouldn’t answer her goading anymore. He’d walk away, and she’d let him.

His footsteps faded out until she was convinced he was gone, but then there were lips on her neck and fingers in her hair and a low, needy voice that said, “I’ll find him and kill him.”

A laugh in return as she leaned back in her chair and met fierce, jealous eyes, as she laced fingers around his neck and brought their lips close enough together to kiss.

(fake dating) this is going to sound like how to lose a guy in ten days, and that’s because that’s where i drew the inspiration and sure it should probably be in the crossover portion but i’m going to cheat u3u anyways, niko and theo are undergraduates; niko’s bro is a graduate student studying to get his MBA. niko has cycled through a shit ton of girlfriends and has never stayed with any for very long. he gets too bored too quickly. after a round of finals, niko and the count go to a bar for drinks. the count doesn’t like bars; the girls there really don’t fit his taste y’know, but he humors niko. the count stops niko from picking up another random girl and, instead, spots theo from one of his classes and dares niko to go out with her for more than a month. niko accepts his challenge. but first, he has to convince theo to go out with him in the first place which is a chore. after about a month of back-and-forth, though, it’s obvious these two are head-over-heels for one another. that’s when the count let’s slip about their little bet, and theo dumps niko for his older brother without explanation. cue niko and the count (who is browbeat into helping because this is all your fucking fault in the first place) running around trying to sabotage niko’s brother while theo laughs at them from the sidelines. 

(bodyswap) niko and theo each find out exactly what the other means to them by talking to each others’ courtiers/ladies-in-waiting/acquaintances.

(dark!fic) niko and the count get discovered because the crown prince is not successfully killed, the king and queen are loath to do so but they put niko and the count to death, niko and theo’s romance ends before it has much a chance to flourish.

(secret kinks) angry make up sex.

(their first kiss) as you said, if it didn’t happen in the closet, then another scenario is that they go hunting one day, and somehow in the confusion they end up straying from the party and getting lost. ensue bickering before the tension breaks, and they end up making out against a tree. 

(meeting the parents) right, so, i’m sure theodosia’s parents preferred the crown prince to niko. prior to niko stealing theo and having his bro killed, i don’t think theo’s parents would’ve really met niko; they probably met the royal family collectively most of the time, and in those cases niko pales in comparison to his older brother, the golden child. niko just always had a more disagreeable air about him. if theo’s parents ever disagreed with their engagement, i think niko would’ve confronted them about it and done his best to make them like him. so, for the most part, i think they had an okay relationship. not great, but okay. i mean, theo did end up becoming the queen even if the original golden child king-to-be and fiancé was killed died and niko is an awful philanderer. but aside from that what do her parents have to complain about amirite.

(moving in together) in modern au, their very first house together, before the twins, is a penthouse. they bought the furniture and did all the decorations together. even after the twins and after they move and kinda start going separate ways in business and start frequenting hotel rooms, niko and theo always meet at their penthouse on their anniversary.

(crossover) harry potterverse where both theo and niko are pureblood slytherins. much like medieval, theo is engaged to marry the next head of the household, niko’s brother. niko has the count murder his brother, and both become death eaters. 

playground romance. the kind where niko runs after theo and tries to pull out her hair. OH WAIT I THOUGHT THIS WAS MODERN CHILDHOOD HEADCANON HHAHAH OK NEVERMIND. don’t ask me for more that’s all i had on modern childhood headcanon. 

ok ok ok ok awesome so working off modern!ariandne since those two intersect, i always saw modern!theolas as just this awesome modern power couple y’know. both super intelligent, powerful business people in their own right, and they work mostly in europe, away from the kids who they just supply with a house and credit cards. and they don’t see each other much because of their respective business endeavors which enables both of them their extramarital affairs but

i just imagine that every so often niko texts theo to meet him in paris and

they just spend a few nights together away from everything because niko misses theo a lot, all the time and

he makes up for it by being a workaholic and womanizer

and then they sometimes go back to the states on business and visit their kids for like a day

and family stuff ensues where niko gets super pissed off at rian because of all the shit he does and his lukewarm-awful grades and rian gets super pissed off because he fucking hates surprise visits by his parents and 

niko can be all like “ariadne u should tutor rian ur pretty smart aren’t you huh” 

AND THEY CAN ALL BE A SUPER DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY FOR LIKE 2 DAYS

before theolas jets back to europe but

"Did you hear what I said?" he asked stubbornly with a tinge of rancor this time. 

"Yes," she replied shortly, "And it's ridiculous." 

For a moment, it seemed she might elaborate, but no. She pursed her lips, and he was left to admire the delicacy with which her spindly fingers handled the threads, the intricacy of the designs she wove. It was almost criminal how she could manage to do such things in addition to all the things he could do. (It nearly made him wonder whether he was at a disadvantage as a man.)

"It's not," he insisted, almost defensively, as he swung his legs over the edge of the bed and straightened to his kingly nature. (Or as kingly as he could manage at his age.)

She ignored him; her pace continued unfazed. 

"Don't be sentimental," she said matter-of-factly and stopped again, but this time he caught the slight depression her teeth made on her lip, the slight shift of her weight and unsettled flick of her wrist, and he seized on it. 

"There's no one better for me than you; we're intellectual equals."

"The King would never allow it." 

He barely opened his mouth halfway to answer when she added testily, "Enough people already think I'm your whore; I don't need to propagate the image."

The notion amused him, and he would've pressed if the downward slope of her brow wasn't such a blatant warning not to. 

"You're being sentimental," she warned again, this time with the slightest, temporary lift of her gaze, "And we both know you can't afford sentimentality if you've any grand designs for political power, hm." 

He rolled his eyes; she snapped and knotted the thread she was working, and he vaguely wondered what those hands could do to him if she wanted. 

Silence crept back into the room, and it wasn't so much uncomfortable as it was obvious that he was throwing a bit of an internal fit at being dodged and outwitted. 

He leaned back into the bed with his hands behind his head and the slightest whisper of a resigned sigh. 

"So," he stressed clearly and calmly, "You'd rather have my brother, hm? Which I suppose isn't much a surprise; he is the heir." 

"Jealousy is unbecoming of you," she snapped, obviously agitated now as she swept out of her seat and turned away. 

"And uncalled for and unjustified; as you said, I'm your intellectual equal, nothing more and nothing less." 

"I didn't permit you to le—"

"And," she interrupted firmly, throwing a long glance over her delicately exposed shoulder, "I attend to you out of my own short altruism; beyond that, I've no obligation to you, so I suggest you hold your tongue."