#asdia

[arimesi]

kiss kiss fall in love [recorder sounds]

[sweetalnazar]

  Hugs + Kisses! <3 <3

Based off this art prompt. It’s my first time drawing the Arcana cast, & I’m not that good at drawing profiles/kissing (or lips tbh)

But this was a great challenge!! And I love seeing more of my ships <3 <3

Bonus:

[cedarmoons]

Pairing of your choice: Royal AU & Fake Dating/ Courtship?

more asra/nadia from the arcana i will singlehandedly build this ship from scratch if i must

Asra is the only child of Vesuvia’s Count before Lucio takes over. However, he has no interest in ruling anything, and instead wants to travel the world and learn magic. Mazelinka, Vesuvia’s court mage, teaches him everything she knows - and once that is done, Asra quietly leaves a note for his father and goes out to explore the world.

While he is out traveling, the Count dies, and in absence of its missing heir Lucio assumes the throne. This AU assumes that Lucio is a competent ruler, or at least has a competent council. He’s still basically Joffrey tho. Lucio slowly expands Vesuvia’s borders to take control of other nearby city-states, and his council ensures that Vesuvia, as a crucial port city, makes lots of money that Lucio spends on himself rather than his people - thus, Lucio becomes a powerful, rich, and influential (if terrifying) ruler.

While this is happening, Asra takes up with the Prakran court and strikes up a friendship with Nadia of Prakra. He stays with the Prakran court learning magic from its court mage, Ziah. Lucio hears of the Prakran princess Nadia, and, thinking his ego/prestige would be maximized by successfully wooing and marrying a princess of the mighty Prakran Empire, sets out to win her hand in marriage.

Nadia does not want to marry him at all. However, Lucio is a powerful figure in southern politics, and his collection of city states have enough manpower to seriously threaten Prakra (at least for a little bit), so Nadia’s parents cannot kick him out no matter how much they want to. As a result, Asra decides to also fake court Nadia so that she doesn’t have to put up with Lucio’s presence any longer than necessary, because, well, if she chooses Asra to wed because she is happier with him than Lucio, it’s not like Nadia’s parents can dismiss that.

Cue the battle of charm and wills, and Lucio getting more and more frustrated that his lavish gifts (a lion pelt! a solid gold bust of himself! a thirty-page epic poem with 3 lines about her and the rest about himself!) aren’t winning Nadia’s heart as Asra with his stupid gifts of lavender and blooming tea somehow are. How does he do it?!

For Asra and Nadia, it starts out as all fun and games, but soon… oops, there are some real feelings in there, of a romantique nature! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Bonus: Asra either reveals himself as or is discovered to be the old Count’s heir, and Lucio challenges him to a duel and loses, so Asra and Nadia become the Count and Countess of Vesuvia. Nadia is left to guide Vesuvia into a golden age as she wanted, and Asra travels the world just as often - but always comes home to his beautiful wife.

Bonus bonus: Ziah joins them (but not the courting; thus, Secret Relationship Trope!) for an OT3. :)

send me two aus + a pairing and i’ll talk about how i’d write a fic!

[arimesi]

love them so much;;

[arimesi]

asra on nadia’s lap while she gently plays with his hair......... nadia resting her chin on asra’s shoulder.........

dont tuch me im emotinal

[arimesi]

‘why is asra taller than nadi??’ he standing on a stool so he can give her a kiss on the nose!!

[cedarmoons]

war au, fake married, couple of your choice

going with asra/nadia with this from the arcana; the apprentice is very happy with julian. contains light spoilers from book xi, the most recent update!

Consul Valerius is not successful in his attempted coup of Nadia Satrinava, in Vesuvia. However, while not a prince, he is of equally important rank in his home country, which is much more powerful than Vesuvia is, and much closer to Vesuvia than Prakra. When he is put under house arrest and the Court plans his execution for treason, his home country declares war on Vesuvia to save the Consul’s life. 

Nadia sends letters, but it is in vain; the Court goes ahead with the Consul’s execution despite Nadia’s attempts to save his life, in blatant disobedience that exposes the weakness in Vesuvia. Now, the Consul’s home country both wishes revenge for the Consul’s death and wishes to annex Vesuvia, as it is close to the country’s borders and was once prosperous from trade before the plague. The Satrinava sisters write to Prakra, which joins this war to defend its youngest Princess.

Nadia seeks direct diplomacy with the Consul’s country, and receives an invitation to visit the courts herself, “to settle this matter personally, along with your spouse if he so desires.” (The country still thinks Lucio’s alive, I guess, which is another reason they think Vesuvia is easy pickings.) This is obviously a trap, but the enemy’s armies will arrive long before Prakra’s and either sack or siege the city, to disastrous consequence; thus, direct diplomacy is Vesuvia’s last hope for survival. 

However, knowing this is a trap, Nadia’s inner circle - her sisters, the apprentice, and Asra - insist on someone accompanying her, so that she will not go alone in the lion’s den. Asra volunteers, and eventually they decide that Asra will pose as Nadia’s spouse. Reluctantly, Nadia leaves Vesuvia in the hands of her sisters and the apprentice, and sets out with Asra to attempt to save her city before it is too late.

Together they must navigate the perils of a hostile foreign court to save the city they both consider home, all while reclaiming their former closeness and slowly developing romantique feelings for each other. At some point, they are betrayed by the court and locked together in their suite, Nadia is panicking because Vesuvia is under attack at this very instant, and Asra is crucial to helping her through it. That would probably be their first kiss, tbh.

Asra manages to get them out of their lavish prison before the Consul’s relatives execute them (either as revenge or as a way to demoralize Prakra, or both) and gets them both back to Vesuvia. Cue one or two roadtrip chapters, and then they arrive just after Prakra’s army, which under Nahara’s leadership had soundly routed the enemy forces. Nadia reassumes the title of Countess of Vesuvia, gets rid of the devil-worshipping court, and ushers the city into a golden age with Asra at her side. :)

bonus: asra escapes their house arrest first to scout out escape routes, comes back for nadia by climbing up her balcony a la her book ix scene (but in the dead of night and way more tense BUT NO LESS ROMANTIQUE)

send me two aus + a pairing and i’ll talk about how i’d write a fic!