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I think the beautiful thing about Hansry is that if you strip the romance back, the confessions, the kissing, the sexual desire, at their core, they are truly friends. They care about each other, actively want to spend time together, make each other laugh, will always support and protect one another. They are genuinely each other's favourite person.

#they just wanna be around each other and belong together 😭#they really do just want to be together at all times and make up titles and reasons for that #(all of Hans’s quests in kcd1)#henry of skalitz #hans capon #hansry #their romance and their friendship are inseparable #into the queue you go

setthenight0nfire

henry of skalitz

#he looks so young!#and so pretty!#henry of skalitz #kcd art #into the queue you go

myfaiiryking

Thinking about Hans and what it must've felt like to not only find someone he was genuinely attracted to on more than a surface level for the first time but ALSO to have that reciprocated AND to get to be with him for at least one night. He makes me feel crazy

#hansry #kcd2 #into the queue you go

Still in the monestary, searching for Bavor:

And Henry, darling, are you okay? I don't think he is okay.

It is intresting to me whenever Henry brings up his own death. He seems to think he is going to hell. He seems to think he might die in a ditch somewhere without a proper burial. And if he did get a proper burial, it would be some unmarked grave forgotten to time. Like, that is a favinating perspective from him and about how he sees himself and what would come of his life. How much does he even imagine a future? I mean, if Hans didn't tell him he is coming with him and would have a role in his new castle later, would Henry have envisioned a future for himself? I know he can say he wants to settle down, but nothing he says/does in the game suggests that. Quite the opposite actually.

#kcd2 #henry of skalitz #kcd liveblogging #mine #humor #sorta #mysteria ecclesiae

ssnapdragoon

#kcd2 #henry of skalitz #kcd art #into the queue you go

bucketbender

Replaying the first game to escape reality and the way Hans drags Henry into the bathhouse quest. Gosh, what a lovable fool.

Henry asks why Hans wants to go to the baths specifically. Hans replies that, well, a hot bath does a man good. So Henry retorts with a smirk that yeah, it does, which is why Hans can bath in his castle anytime he wants. So Hans has to retort to the womanizer excuse and mention how he wants to go there for Klara, some wench he never mentioned and never will again after this, so his desire to spend time with Henry looks like skirt chasing instead of a need to bond with his only friend.

Then Henry asks how long that will last. Hans replies, well, for a few days at least - relaxation, baths and mud wraps in the day and fun and wine in the evening ! So what do you say, Henry ? Will you join me ? Because everything I’ve just described won’t be half as entertaining if I can’t share it with you.

Henry then mentions his wounds. Hans says he’d rather wobble over the baths with a cane, howling in pain, to spend time with Henry rather than staying safe but bored as hell. Which actually pretty much summarizes his entire existence from this point on.

Finally, Henry accepts. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. He’s coming ! After days of boring recovery, during which his last memories were of being held by Henry as they walked back (for like a dozen hours) to Rattay together, each minute talking to keep him awake, Henry’s hands careful of his wounds, his steps steady and his warm weight lulling, finally he’s up and going to have fun and hang out with his blacksmith boy again !

And moments of fun and relaxation are so rare with Henry in both games, no wonder he mentions them any chance he gets. Even memories that SHOULDN’T be remembered fondly, like all the times he fucking almost died and had Henry save his hide. But these memories are still heartwarming and deeply precious to Hans because Henry is in them.

#he had a taste of friendship and comradery and Henry’s attention and he can't get enough #tbh reasonable. can't blame him #hansry #hans capon #next to godliness #kcd1 #into the queue you go

naranjapetrificada

Broke: assuming Hansry "must be"* doomed because of the wedding, the Hussite Wars, 1419**, etc

Woke: wondering if Hansry could be doomed because sometimes no amount of love is enough to overcome the weight of secrets or a rigid class divide

Bespoke: deciding to imagine the circumstances that could actually doom them because you think it's interesting

*"must be" is so passive. you are weak and will not survive the winter.

**Warhorse deciding to include Markvart von Aulitz despite the fact that he died IRL before the Skalitz raid even happened freed us from the shackles of actual historical death dates beyond any that we intentionally choose to devastate ourselves with

medieval-bohemia-corner

#since when has Henry let anything (up to and including allegedly objective morality) get between him and Hans#if you want to convince me a Divorce Arc 2.0 could happen over the Hussite Wars you can't just make vague gestures at Henry's conscience#if you want to convince me the wedding would destroy them then have the courage to make something external the problem#instead of projecting modern ideas about infidelity/guilt onto two dudes with canonically flexible relationships with both of those concepts#if you want to doom them then doom them *because you want to*#don't just shrug and assume they're doomed because of things that don't actually apply to them#make a conscious CHOICE to doom them simply because you WANT to via @naranjapetrificada

Copied the tags because YES. Hansry are only as doomed as you want them to be until we have another game (and even then a lot will be up to choice and where your imagination takes you probably). Like you said, we can play around with dates of historical events since Warhorse already do. But I do want to emphasis neither Hans nor Henry particularly care about cheating on women. They are both men of their time. In KCD1 Henry can cheat on Theresa and lie to her about her:

Because to this accusation (after sleeping with any women post finishing the courtship questline):

Henry's responses range between:

Admit it

2. Lie (speech)

3. Lie (charisma)

4. Admit it (Aggressive)

So, there is a good argument to be made about Henry canonically not particularly caring about being faithful to women he is with. Even Theresa. And Theresa at the end of KCD1 doesn't expect him to remain faithful to her when he is traveling away. And Hans, who completely forgot about a girl he claimed was the love of his life (Karolina) once he slept with her (or not) won't break up with Henry (who he actually cares about) over getting married to a women he didn't even chose to marry, be fr. He outright says so in KCD2, after he knows about his upcoming wedding:

Henry is not in the same category as Jitka or any other women Hans had slept with. He is his own category for Hans.

Tbh, I can see Hansry not really defining their relationship as anything specific. They don't even know how to refer to each other as friends (calling Henry Hans's page, squire, retainer, escort, protector, companion, etc), I doubt they would have the terminology for their romantic relationship. They know they love each other, but they're not going to define it in any modern terms. I can't really see them calling themselves "lovers" either because what they are is so much more than that for them that I'm not sure the term would fit in their minds yk.

Even if they have a divorce 2.0 (or any other arguments), it's because they fought over something and are angry with each other personally. Even then I'm not sure they'd last not talking to each other for much longer than a week unless one of them died, but op's tags are true. Henry's morality is very flexible, he is willing to kill/torture/maim/dig in shit/etc for Hans's sake repeatedly, and neither of them seem to care about adultery all that much (not that they would necessarily see sleeping with each other as the same as cheating on their wife with another women. Besides, they are already sinning with each other, adding adultery to the mix is just one more sin on top).

(a bit of a rant, not all of it related to what op said, but op is right. Plus I have a whole scenario in my mind of Henry helping Hynce keep his inheritance after Hans dies so another birdie won't have to go through that mess that I love. I have thought about Henry post Hans's death a lot. Because even after Hans dies, Henry would not move on. You do not just move on from that kind of devotion. But I don't really see it as being "doomed" per se, it's life)

#kcd meta #of sorts #hansry #hans capon #henry of skalitz

rowsofviolets

who likes my hcs 1. aethon died in the nebakov ambush because why would they just leave him in trosky🤬 2. theresa’s mother gave tinker to her as a puppy before she died, since tess spent most her time working at the mill and taking care of sammy tinker was her only company okay bye

#they are adorable!#babies with their pets who are also babies!#hans capon #theresa of skalitz #hc accepted #kcd art #kcd headcanon #into the queue you go

Took a pause from everything to get locked in a monastery for a bit. And When searching the tombs in the crypt for Bavor, Henry says this:

He is so cute. What a dork. Getting excited over a dead abbot sharing his name. (It was indeed abbot Heinrich's tomb)

#kcd2 #henry of skalitz #mine #humor #mysteria ecclesiae

ithinkthiswasabadidea

Henry just existing and pissing off the Monastery Brothers by sprinting laps around the fractery after brewing his daily potions for Nevlas before he can be excused, and then writing out the most egregiously WRONG Latin translations for the Librarian who has never seen a single correct copy from him the entire time

And yet he still somehow manages to be their new favourite novice :)

#canon to me #kcd headcanon #kcd1 #henry of skalitz #monastery quest #needle in a haystack #my beloved #into the queue you go

kcd-gifs

#kcd adder #janosh uher #kcd2 #gifs #into the queue you go

Thanks KCD2 for captivating NPC dialog about itching arses and rashes. Game of all time.

#kcd2 #kcd liveblogging #mine #humor

staarpiece-arts

something that never stops being funny to me is at the semine wedding if you try to talk to hans while he's outside the dueling pen he's SO huffy and just tells you to leave him alone. but the SECOND you step into the ring he's suddenly your #1 fan cheering you on. and then immediately goes back to pretending to hate your guts after

#he is mad at him but he wants to see him win #that's his man right there even if he isn’t talking to him #hans capon #kcd2 #hansry #semine wedding #into the queue you go

a-mel0n

henry: well, sir. it all started when we got ambushed-

twenty minutes later:

henry: and then they asked me to sneak into the carpenter's house at troskovitz and steal a lute-

jobst: what does this have to do with von bergo-

another twenty minutes later:

henry: and the hermit in apollonia was actually DEAD this WHOLE TIME and there was just ANOTHER guy pretending to BE the hermit n order to fulfill the original hermit's dying wish.

jobst: henry, please-

FORTY minutes later:

henry: so then it turns out that von bergow was just using us to do his dirty work the WHOLE TIME, we got captured, i killed istvan, we escaped, and now im. here.

jobst: jesus fucking christ.

#henry should've had the option to do that to tire jobst out #its a legitimate investigation methid i think #kcd2 #henry of skalitz #margrave jobst #jobst of moravia #into the queue you go