#wails!!!

patron saint of houses

but not of homes. only the shells of what keeps us enclosed. houses can be decorated or well-built or crumbling or haunted but only a home can truly be warm; you are the patron saint of that lack.

i know nemesis is meant to look astonishingly like nyx, but i've been thinking about what if, when nyx had nemesis she gave her some of the emperor's features because she missed the emperor so much and knew that the children she will have with the emperor will be sons. (at least in this universe. maybe the three ways the next universe will die will be daughters.) so why not create a child that looks like if she and the emperor had a daughter. (which may also explain why, of all of nyx's children, nemesis is the closest to the emperor.)

because then i remembered something that i wrote in my little alien day fic:

The Emperor’s daughters regard [Nyx] as their mother as well, so beloved is she by their mother of origin, so powerful and beautiful. Some of them have even taken on colorations similar to hers, a black-aubergine, a black-violet; starlight shatters across their exteriors, chitinous black, oil black, biomechanical black, the black of their mother’s blood. Nyx was the first to use the word ‘xenomorph’ to describe them; they liked it. Daughter, princess, xenomorph.