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  1. fandom_filth on Chapter 3 Mon 24 Feb 2025 12:46AM UTC

    :3 I wish we'd seen more of Sarai and her effect on the boys, honestly.

    I'm sure most of the adults help out reassuring the elflings, but Runaan is fond of it, yes, lol.

    He couldn't! Her parents were still alive until very recently, and she's now effectively treated as an adult in their society! He was just her guardian in their absence, as Callisto has mentioned, and now - now it's hard, because she's grown up and doesn't need that anymore, but they've known since he stood in for Lain at her coming of age that he was emotionally her father.

    Runaan's backstory is explored a little more in a tumblr post I have about him ;) but yeah it'll probably get touched on later as the boys cope with their grief.
    The thing is, human loss and grief is fundamentally different from theirs. Moonshadow elves have this long history of knowing how to open a portal to the realm of death. They know exactly where their dead loved ones have gone, and that they're safe in their next phase of existence. That's why they don't fear death. Humans don't have that assurance. Runaan's saying this because from his perspective, human death is much worse, because he knows what happened to his father's spirit. These kids don't. And he doesn't know how to reassure them from that when he doesn't know what happened to Harrow's spirit either.

    Oh Andromeda's bisexual, she just wants kids and marrying someone with a dick was the easiest way to accomplish that.

    Runaan though, Runaan prefers men. A very specific type of man, at that.

    Every assassin in the Silvergrove knows there's something going on between those two, but everything about Callisto's presentation says "fuck off" to other elves, and Skor isn't much friendlier, so only Runaan really fucks with them about it.

    Yeah, I've had some . . . experiences that shaped my views of apologies, guilt, and taking responsibility, and I'm really glad this rang true, because it came from my fucking core.

    Oh, they know they're a family - they were family even before she came to live with him, he loved her parents. But he's in a difficult position here because he's also her boss, and if he acts out of the parameters he's allowed as her leader, then he's fucking up as a leader. Essentially between trying to respect her birth parents for years and then becoming her mentor and then her boss, Runaan's backed himself into a corner where putting into words his relationship with her is going to have Consequences. And he is dealing with way too many other consequences right now.

    Thank you for the awesome comment!

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