they aren’t monsters. they won’t do this terrible thing.
@maskedsin // a memory of wind prompt meme.
❛ like you thought the loyalists, before they bled you dry? ❜corvo attano, famed un - killer of the empress – the title itself was enough to bore & tempt your pitiful heart into provoking him to plunge his dulled teeth unto the vague rot of your angel killing flesh, if only to end you, if only to entertain the passing of time. un - killer. it bugs your thirsty hands. when you had first met, you wanted him with wild eyes that raged carnivorous & thirsty & all powering, someone dunwall’s cowardly gods were rumoured to surrender their all encompassing gut to, slit their sons for. killing them if only for vain mercy, in which he killed them in an engorged, silent whim for almost nothing, if only for fun, if only for his own blood lusted sin.
you wanted the infamous lord protector to be hungry. someone interesting. someone ravenous. instead, the outsider spits & corrodes your dinner, his shit - eating smirk wide & close to your ear : instead corvo is loving, instead he is thoughtful, instead he is above all things you wish you did not cease to be. instead, corvo sits proud & commanding in the throne room, a role you know he loathes to want, without even an attempt at the curse. instead he sits there in front of wyman’s being, & his words bleed right.
if only you did not love his daughter, his empress, his child. if only you did not love her & her goofy smile & how she loved it when you & your cruel fingers trickled up her rib cage & were kind, how you loved her with all of your pitiful being, you would have had him murdered ( however, you know this as you swig your morley cherry wine, the taste bitter on your tongue : the bastard would have found a way to survive every rat you throw at him. you know this, the outsider lulled one night when he forced you to visit him & gawk at his reign, and it angers you so.)
instead of imagining his head on a stick, instead of imagining ripping his heart out, you cross your legs over each other. nose crunches at his words & you swirl your own wine, annoyed. and slightly displeased.
❛ do tell that to our beloved emily when their rusted morley blades pierce the tender flesh of her rib cage. i’m sure she would appreciate the joke as the life bleeds out of her. ❜ he wants a better story. who wouldn’t?
wyman signs in, if anything, obvious annoyance & stifled desperation, as if they were speaking to a child : this holier - than - thou facade, it boils their blood silly. ❛ if we associated murder with being the embodiment of a monster, a subject of ruthlessism, then wouldn’t we, nobles, be convicted serial killers? should i have our empress beheaded as the worst of us all? we who chooses who lives and who dies, where our military occupies and what region our crops feed? blood is blood. if these conspirators make a move … ❜ wyman hesitates, breath heavy in chest.
lord protector. head of the league of protectors. organisations that exists outside themselves. wyman coos, if only to flaunt they exist outside his controlling order . . . that is a lie. as much as you loathe to admit it, as much you’d rather bleed your own heart dry than say these words, you know why you really oppose him: you love her too much to risk it. you know this game. you know of the virgin blood spilt and the hearts burnt. you were apart of this years old scheme , this scheme fueled on gods’ carcasses to kill her, to free morley of her reign and then you met her and regretted it all. ❛ monsters or no. these are my people. i have it handled. rest well, lord protector. ❜