Something possessed me to draw a hc mom character for Aphelios and Alune....enjoy? Headcanon info under cut lol
Adelos was just another warrior devoted to Lunari cause, acting as patrol to look out for Solari that might attack them. She never married and got pregnant during a one-night stand (it gets lonely out there ok). No idea who the father is….mostly bc I didn't wanna design a dad
A seer took notice that the birth of her children might be during a Lunar Convergence, so she was promptly sent to the temple to be taken care by the Lunari religious leaders. She also was promoted to be a temple guardian just to keep her in the inner Lunari circle. When the twins were born, she did allow the leaders to raise them as the prophesied "children of destiny." Like most Lunari, she believed this was for the greater good of her people. Of course she still was allowed to visit them whenever she wished.
Unfortunately the Solari heard about this news, and perceived the twins as a threat. They sent assassins after to kill the fated children, but Adelos and her squad was able to intercept this…at the cost of her life. Adelos was given an honorable funeral and venerated, but her role as the mother of the twins were never disclosed to anyone outside of the Lunari religious leaders. Tragedy was too common among them, and it would merely be a distraction to the twins if they knew…
FYI, Adelos is just me adding an "A" to Delos, the island where Artemis and Apollo were born. Also in Greek it means "Invisible"…which is fitting bc she will never be remembered by her children :)
Rating: PG-13 (Creative uses for poo and language)
@luxxyb this is a more... POLISHED version of the story I shared on skype.
@beccaylaa I promised I’d start sharing oneshots from this universe! ... Right?
Amaranth walked in front of a line of trainees, her footsteps loud against the stone floor. It was the crack of dawn, and the cold winter air was seeping through cracks in the walls and chilling the unprepared to the bone. This was the second out of three lines to inspect. Amaranth tried to keep these inspections brief and just make sure they were properly dressed and all were present; she did not want the trainees to think that she was as tired as they were. She stopped in front of one trainee and looked down at them.
“Aloster. Where’s your right boot?” she asked gruffly.
He looked down, shock evident on his face. He looked back up at her.
“C-Captain, I swear, I thought—“
“That’s enough,” Amaranth interrupted. She stubbornly refused to yawn, and her features warped into a disgusted grimace because of it. “The next time you forget to put both boots on, I’m going to leave gryphon shit in the one you left behind.”
She walked away as his face blanched with fear. The trainees who surrounded him also panicked, looking down at their feet to make sure they hadn’t forgotten. Anyone who found gryphon shit in their boots were unlikely to leave them both behind a second time, assuming the boot survived being cleaned. Hardly any did.
Amaranth continued to the third line of trainees and began walking in front of them. Everyone was accounted for… except for one notable absence. She stopped in front of the last trainee and looked down at them.
“Adelos. Where’s Caius?”
Adelos looked up, blinking sleep from their baggy eyes. It took only a moment for her demand to sink in before panic erupted on their face.
“C-Captain, I thought I heard him get up—“
“Enough!” Amaranth exclaimed. She rubbed her temples and sighed heavily. “You’re not responsible for him.” She left the line and went to face the rest of the crowd. “Everyone, out to the stables to clean out your fledgling’s mew and groom them. I’ll inspect them when I get back.”
There was a flurry of stomps and curses as all of the trainees broke file and ran out of the dining hall as fast as they could. Only one other person beside Amaranth remained behind, casually sitting on top of a table.
“How long are you going to give them?” Kilain asked.
Amaranth turned to look at them, and finally gave in the temptation of yawning. Kilain wouldn’t judge, he was just as tired as she was at the moment.
“However long it takes me to wake my brother up,” she replied. She smirked. “Now get off the table and go check on the trainees. If you find any dead bodies from the stampede, feed them to the gryphons.”
“I don’t think their parents would appreciate that,” Kilain quipped. He stood on a bench and jumped off of it as Amaranth walked away.
“Oh, we’ll give them last rites and send their bones to their parents,” Amaranth called out jokingly.
Kilain’s loud laugh was the last thing she heard before shutting the door behind her and walking toward the flight of stairs leading to the males’ side of the barracks.
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Caius and Adelos’s shared room was at the end of the hallway. As soon as Amaranth ascended the last stair, she carefully removed her boots and set them aside. She barely noticed the cold stone seeping into her thick socks as she stalked down the hallway. All of the rooms she passed had their doors flung open, the beds inside hastily made in an effort to make it down to the dining hall on time.
As she approached the shared room, she grinned maliciously. The door was slightly ajar, and its well-oiled hinges did not squeak when she pushed it open. Caius was still curled up on the bed he shared with Adelos, buried under the thick blankets. He was out like a light, snoring softly and oblivious to the world.
Amaranth crept up to the bed and carefully grabbed the ends of the blankets. She made sure she had all of them before yanking them off of the bed.
Caius jerked awake.
Amaranth tossed the blankets aside and grabbed Adelos’s pillow. Before Caius could react, she began beating him with it.
“TRAINEE CAIUS! Wake up!”
She was fairly sure she heard him scream.
“You’re my older brother! Does that give you permission to slack off in my corps?” Amaranth shouted.
She punctuated her words with a smack from the pillow as Caius tumbled off of the bed to avoid it. She ran around the bed and found him trying to crawl toward the blankets.
“I didn’t hear the—“
“You didn’t hear shit because you were sleeping like a corpse!” Amaranth interrupted. She tossed the abused pillow aside. “If you don’t want to end up like one, get dressed, make your bed, and get your sleepy ass down to the stables before I throw you down the damn mountainside and shove gryphon shit in every bodily orifice!”
She turned around and stormed out of the room. She could hear Caius cursing at the top of his lungs as she put her boots on and descended the stairs, yanking on the long string of loud bells that lined the hallway out of spite. If her brother couldn’t hear them then, he’d hear them now.
