One of my earlier embroidery animations, this was my second one. I made sure that the designs were very simple, since I wanted this to be fairly long. The tangled thread is just purposefully messed up French knots.
Actual evidence that Ashura manipulated this child from the
start and restricted his powers for his own personal goals.
Hey remember when I was talking about Ashura swooping in and
repeating all of Evil Wolverine’s patterns? Being a powerful sorcerer who only
wants to use Fai for his powers to his own personal ends and manipulating his
emotions to get him to do exactly what he wants? Yeah! That but again and
louder the second time. He’s even doing EXACTLY what Evil Wolverine did and
giving Fai an instruction before immediately erasing his memory of it. It’s the
same deal, and Fai has been used by every single authority figure in his life.
The only difference is that Ashura went through the charade
of pretending he cared for Fai while he did it, and that messed with Fai enough
for it to go completely unnoticed all his life.
Also there was the brainwashing. That too.
It’s not yet made entirely clear why Ashura wants Fai to
kill him but don’t for a single second think it’s some sort of noble purpose. In RG Veda Ashura was willing to die to screw up things for the entire world
around him and I’m sure this will be no different.
After all, if he had any concern for Fai at all he wouldn’t
be brainwashing him into having to murder his father figure and leaving him
(somehow) even more emotionally scarred than he already is.
So, yeah. Ashura is trash garbage and I’m very happy to be
right.
One of the things that breaks my heart most about I just liked him, and Laurent’s soft bewilderment over the whole fucked up mess, is that it really makes it clear how his isolation is a function of the Regent’s abuse.
He has been so careful about never opening his heart, to never give his uncle anything to use against him. And even the interactions we see with Nicaise are so careful— he maintains this cool distance, keeps his sharpness, especially around other people. And Nicaise, meanwhile, acts the same; does so well at hiding whatever affinity he feels with Laurent. They’ve both learned how dangerous it is to let the Regent see what they care about.
Whatever affection Laurent felt for Nicaise was kept so close to his heart, and he thought it muted and distant enough of a thing to escape notice. And yet his uncle still managed to find it and take that little, simple spark of happiness away. The Regent created a world where just to like something was to put it in danger. I think it gives us just a glimpse into how carefully he must have isolated Laurent and poisoned every little thing that made him feel content or safe.
An enduring question throughout Captive Prince: WHAT IS IT ABOUT BLONDES, DAMEN? WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A THING FOR THEM??
Here, have some srs headcanon to go with this very dignified comic:
At his core, Damen doesn’t seem at all like the kind of person who would have exacting sexual demands. What he is about: liking almost everyone, being game for anything, wanting his partners to enjoy themselves. So I suspect that Damen started out with quite broad tastes, but the eagerness of the court to satisfy and realize his wishes forced him to develop more specific preferences. When pressed, he probably realized that while he was attracted to a wide variety of people, he was especially drawn to the rare, novel, and peculiar.
And in Akielos, who fits that description? Blondes.
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HYPNOSIS.
THERE WE GO.
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