Cruelty and the Beast

Sir Galahad /  Grayson from The Order : 1886, though the blog itself is based solely on an AU written by me.  Humorous that I go from bat to wolf. ;)https://exiled-knight.tumblr.com/

For some reason, the rest of my response was cut off but I am not sure when I will return, but I do plan on it...someday.

Then this was just me fooling around with the original photo.  Gives me a Movie cover/poster feel .  At least it does to me.  xD xD xD

Judging by the above photo whether it be a tumblr repeat or a variety of different people.  I’d say people really want to know what he was like as a pup( kid ). ;DI have two major headcanons for this.  They can either correspond with one another in timelines, or vary off on their own.  Dettlaff was pretty much an orphan as a pup. I’m leaving the mystery of his family either being killed off by rivals that detached from the codex and later was exterminated by a sect of law between the Tribes and the Masquerade.These vampires were rogues that developed a sense of cannibalism among their own kind.  In his liter, he had three sisters and four older brothers.  Being a litter of eight pups in total. He was the runt of them all. So without going into too much detail of that headcanon in particular, my second one is he was brutally scarred as a pup. Additionally the cause of his tattered wings we see in Blood and Wine as well.  Scars from an early age don’t in particularly heal the way they should from a vampires regeneration gene. They can leave the vampire deformed.Which brings me to his next defect and quite impractical to most predatory types.  His teeth.  It is within my headcanon that he was born with several birth defects if not due to his dangerously small stature within his early stages of life.  Which levels the reason why he bears no fur in his winged form like the majority if not all the other true higher male vampires do.  His growth had been stunted within a multitude of aspects traditionally crucial for a male higher vampire. He was raised by lesser breeds of his kin.  Which makes him more in tune with his primitive side, also vibrant through expression by body language more so back then than he is now.  Possibly his only form of speaking during those days. I imagine he lived a life outside of human sanctuaries if not the true root of why he prefers to do so even when holding shelter among the city.So in short, he was a very feral child. It wouldn’t be until what we would consider their teens - that he would be more vocal and learn languages. I imagine this is also where he first meets others like him, other than the lesser kin that is. Reserved around them and their display of human influence.  If not more reticent than he is today. 

I appreciate this so much!  Like I have been feeling extremely down here lately and to be completely truthful, it has been affecting my writing. Or simply making the urge nonexistent. I imagine every writer gets this way in intervals.  Still doesn’t mean it is any less frustratingly drowning and a shitty fight to keep afloat.  I often feel like I lag too much or don’t respond fast enough like I , myself would want. That it is through my slow activity that people loose interest.

Exactly how Syanna describes he had to be if I were completely honest. Human conception often swings past him. It is within the human label that love is restricted.  Which ultimately had put Rhenawedd in predicaments that she had to explain rather than fling herself into it had  he been a human male. She was his guide toward human passion.Essentially what probably influenced his characteristics during Blood and Wine. So he was very naive if not identically toward the way he is with their deceit and prejudice. Their first meeting, or even the ritual toward mating was probably very undomesticated. Wild and untamed as she had put it to Geralt. He often speaks through body language, words are often expressed if only the interpretation of his suggestive is lost on the potential mate. The beginning stages of their relationship , I’d imagine was beyond awkward for both of them if not more so for the vampire.He is a pack oriented creature and the alpha of his pack at that.  Asserting dominance on a female to breed would be instinctual. Yet allowing her to dominate without the proper tidings - to put it bluntly, irregular force and violent overtures ( since I hold Bruxae doing this toward mating at times.  Especially if they fancy alpha female status among the ranks.) Would be so out of place for him. Yet she often was the one dominating him in the bedroom. If not out of command rather than respect. I think he would have just taken it more as leadership traits and not for actually what it was - leashing him and rewarding him with affection after cruel acts of seclusion.