there's nothing to see here

Owen roll up his sleeve, “I think…since we are bonded. You should have some of my blood. At least to make it official.

Legundo stared at Owen, yes, that would make sense… He was kind enough to allow Owen to drink some of his blood why wouldn’t his beloved return the favor with him even if he’s not a vampire. With gentle hands, he took his arm, treating it as if he was carrying a delicate flower. That same awful voice return albeit a lot more quieter screaming about this still being wrong.

“Please… you can’t have already forgotten.”

“Do no Harm!”

But what if someone end up hurting Owen. What’s the point of a vow like that if it made him miserable. Beside what’s the harm of loving someone?

Legundo then bites down on Owen’s wrist. After all these years, he thought he would fear it. After taking that pitiful vow he expected to fold, to pull once the taste hit him. Instead it’s like putting on a familiar coat. With each sip the bond between them grew stronger and the ever shrinking voice screamed that this is wrong faded away into nothingness leaving only his soon to be eternal vow echoing in his mind.

Something something, their bond being fueled by violence something equivalent in exchange

aka au where v!louis is some sort of fae who materialised out of the spiritual juju slash magic of oakhurst and the forests surrounding it, he cannot be killed, only weakened. fire is one of his weaknesses, considering that much of oakhurst is forest

when the townsfolk burn him at the pyre, the dead woods is created. it takes him a long time to heal. he walks back into oakhurst at the same time as the fourteen other people do.

OR SOMETHING, idk, i'm tired and rambling

Many v!Apo portraits

wowww I actually drew them kissing (does not normally draw romantic gestures)

(also I have been giggling and kicking my feet the entire time i've been reading

This made me laugh out loud omg

I don’t think Avid and Pyro have to be much older than her, but I think it just Fits if Apo is youngest.

I think she’s like. Freshly 21.

(Actually because I’m evil I kinda like the idea that at one point Apo lied about her age to get her architecture job, and then got picked up by the military while still being underage, likely because of how good at it she was. (And maybe because the only person who’d miss her was Cherri…) Also I think the Fernsfield massacre happened on her birthday. Either her 21st and the massacre is Super Duper Recent, or on her 20th/19th and has haunted her ever since. But anyway)

Apo’s age is very important to the horror and tragedy of their story. It’s the fact that the people who treated them to worst were all significantly older than them—Scott, Cleo, even Sausage.

It’s the fact that Apo tries to take on positions of protection and responsibility usually afforded to people much much older than they are out of care for the people of the townsfolk, and tries their best (and succeeds! Apo actually did not an admirable amount considering their circumstances) and yet it’s never enough.

Not to mention, Apo being so young again adds depth to their dynamic with Scott. It’s the detached abusive patronizing paternalism of it all. As if Apo were a misbehaving child.

Honestly this is only just now occurring to me but. Despite Apo being A Whole Adult, if a very young one who’s still understandably figuring shit out, she very much gets The Bad Kid™️ treatment. Nobody believes her. Nobody hears her out. They’ve all decided she’s Ontologically Evil, even when she doesn’t have the power to do like at least half of the Horrible Evils people think her guilty of.

Also, it also adds further depth to her parallels with Legs—despite being so much younger, Apo has seen the same horrors. Legs caused a massacre. Apo lived one.

Sorry it took so long :(