#aarik

[celestiall0tus]

Pride 2026: Octavia's Scrapbook Page 11

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[blue-mint-winter]

Aarik: "So now that you're rich and powerful, are you going to take me in? I could use a rich patron - they're much better than getting a job".

I can't be the only one to read it as Aarik asking Kenton to be his sugar daddy? Aarik all around seems to me like he's in unrequited love with Kenton. Kenton is of course oblivious and Aarik suffers.

It looks like Aarik rushed back after hearing about Kenton's death. He returns and says that he wept and mourned Kenton but plays it cool, says that he got over it, stays flippant in tone and faces away, hiding his expression. He mentions his disinheritance and then asks Kenton if he can stay. We don't know why exactly he was disinherited by his father other than "avoiding duty". Maybe the duty wasn't just about being a soldier. Maybe he was avoiding being forced into a marriage as well.

Later on, Aarik agrees to become the new Lord General just for Kenton's sake. He avoided this duty so desperately that he even traveled to the Darkside of the planet, but for Kenton he would do this one thing he hates the most. And he looked so dead inside even when he casted the vote for Kenton.

TLDR; Aarik could be gay and in unrequited love with Kenton.

[meandertreme-liveblogs]

OH that dude’s back! i still love him

[thewolfsmaw]

September 3rd

Virgo

A solemn hearted lover; a short sighted dreamer with claustrophobic mind, conflicted ambition, a fiery kisser and agnostic star gazer. Sorrow tongued poet. A nostalgic nightingale trying to find home.

- x

[thewolfsmaw]

How can you look in the mirror knowing you're falling in love with your brother's wife?

“I don’t. I’m spending time with her, time that was stolen from my brother by me. For a small moment I forget it all, forget how much I hate myself, and then I come home and feel like shit for everything I’m doing. I don’t need anyone to tell me how awful I am because I already know and trust me, I hate me too. Anytime I even catch a glimpse of my own reflection it makes my stomach coil and the guilt eats me alive every day. After being alone for five years- I…I don’t want to be alone anymore. I went to end it all and she found me there. I should have packed up and left the city the next day but I didn’t have it in me to do that to her again. I should have told her everything, that way, at least she would have been able to let me go.”

[ @kxret ]