#vildras

Ras is against the duel and confused as to why it's even happening but since he's not human, he assumes it must matter for some reason and just watches on. When Vildred is nearly defeated and fatally wounded tho, Ras immediately puts a stop to it. He fends off the rival and stands in front of Vildred protectively proclaiming "I need My General. If you continue with this treason, I will end it myself."

As soon as it's over, he offers to help Vildred up only to be brushed off, much to his confusion. When he approaches a robed Vildred about it later, Vildred mumbles "Do you like him better than me?" To which Ras can't help laughing because there's no way he could like some Bara jerk more than Vildred. Vildred hugs him, but his robe was open so Ras blushes all smooshed up against his pecs thinking "(hmm note to self, if I tell vildred I like him best, I get to hug him cheek to chest 😳...)"

and he also has to hide this fact because on Orbis, their culture says "if you were born without a soulmate, you're either so valuable to the world that you have no need to mate, you're so holy/ordained that you're meant to abstain from mating, or you're so useless that Diche has forbidden you to mate"... if it's brought up, Vildred always lies and jokes that his is written somewhere private (to make people stop asking...)

Vildred is near-sighted and wore glasses when he was in school to help with his studies. He stopped wearing them after graduation for safety in battle. This further symbolizes his inability to see the the deceptions and treachery around him until it’s often too late.

Meanwhile, Ras is farsighted which makes reading a bit of a struggle until Vildred informs him that reading glassses are an option. This further symbolizes his habit of getting lost in the bigger picture when it comes to the value of life and the ends over means in war, and especially how much he relied on Vildred’s guidance. It’s also dangerous yet wonderfully ironic that sometimes Orbis disappears altogether for Ras when all he cares to see is Vildred. Because Vildred was the one thing he really saw up close in that war; the one thing that mattered to him even more than his own duty as the Demi god protector of Orbis.

Ever want to own a pink vildras apron????

i made a redbubble lol*