#caedis responds

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where there's love, there's pain? is that what your blog name means? (my latin is very rusty 😅) (also, sorry if you've already addressed it 😔)

Exactly right ! Sorry. Totally forgot that my blog has an inbox lmao

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I’m just gonna say it, I want to fuck your version of Krueger. It would not be good for my mental or physical well being but o godt the Austrian cock

Don’t we all.

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Oh please please please I would LOVE to see those 2015 Maus and Julius drabbles. I’d even be OK with just descriptions of their shenanigans, if you want to keep those in the vault just in case. I love thinking about cod men and especially König in more mundane civilian situations.

Also yessss I am SO excited to hear about their initial impressions on each other. I want to reassure you that even though you kind of left out the initial stage of “I am going to kill that pretty little sniper lady”, their connection was still really believable. I think you pulled it off by making it clear that even though they have their own sort of camaraderie, neither of them can be completely sure the other won’t kill them until the moment Julius catches Maus falling out of the tree. Just chef’s kiss. And I’m a sucker for a “these two freaks are SO IN LOVE” dynamic with König. I eagerly await Maus letting her freak flag fly.

And can I be honest with you? I kind of consider Julius his own person. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I keep calling him by name and not König 😅. He’s still König but he’s also separate from other interpretations of him, you get me? I’m ridiculously invested in him, like—I would also get a Kaiserin. If you ever feel like a weirdo for wanting a replica of a knife that only exists in your oc’s lore, just remember there’s at least one other person who is equally into it 😂

ps. You don’t have to publish this publicly, just wanted to gush a little more 😅 If you ever want to bounce ideas off someone, my DMs are open

Oh my goodness! This was such a treat to come back to after my first day back to my college classes! I may publish them at some point with a very specific distinction between the two, because as you said, it is much more of a civilian affair (including a fake date, dancing at a bonfire, and cutesy stuff like that!) and Mouse is a fully fleshed out OC, with a name, backstory, and specific physical descriptions. I want Cat/Mouse/Den to remain accessible to people who like canon x reader content! More Below

I think the best way to describe Mouse and König in C/M/D vs in the other is to not call them Mouse and König at all, but as their names- Julius and Lucretia. As you mention, Julius and König are essentially two separate men, if not physically then certainly functionally. In those drabbles it's a big deal when he tells Mouse to call him by his first name because he does not like mixing his personal life with his military persona. It takes a lot of vulnerability for him to accept that he doesn't just want to be König to his insertions partner Mouse (she specializes in clandestine insertions and sniping, she's a little architecture nerd!) but he wants to be Julius with Lucretia; which involves the mortifying fear of rejection once she knows what a monster he can be on the field. And for her part, she is equally vulnerable with him as he learns parts of her backstory and why no one, except him, gets to call her by her first name (can you tell I have a complicated relationship with my first name?) What makes Cat/Mouse/Den so fun for me to write is that it's the exact opposite setup. The two meet as König and Mouse on opposite sides of the war, constantly forced apart by fate and circumstance (despite an innate desire to crash into each other.) In the other story (no working title,) the two meet as Leuitennant Jehnnings and Oberleuitennant Doss, forced to work together for a common goal (despite König's assistance he not get attached and Mouse's insistence she makes a friend out of him goddamnit!) In one, a man fears what will come when his admired learns he's a monster, and in the other, a monster is beside himself when his admired turns him back into a man. The stories are fundamentally opposite but the result is the same: they are lowkey stupid about each other because König craves unwavering acceptance from someone who he deems as capable as he is and Mouse craves a ferocious type of loyalty that may just eat her alive due to a life of duty and uncertainty. König is all consumed by the sudden and foreign desire to serve instead of being lonesome or served himself, and Mouse is all consumed by the unusual and fatalistic attraction she has to be seen and sought after (she is a quiet sniper after all, no one looks for her, except him.) Like I said on his HC page, König is basically an OC of mine at this point. Sure I was lured in by a massive, sexy, crazy, murder man, but I am not interested in sexuality without emotional weight (in my own writing, at least...) so he morphed into something more human(ish?) and more workable to me. My König is different than almost everyone's, and as long as some readers enjoy it and I don't put anyone else down, I think that that's a great thing! Personally, I prefer to ask formats because it gives me less anxiety about responding right away (which is very helpful considering how stacked this semester is for me.) I hope this answer was to your satisfaction, friend! (And don't you worry, that flag of hers, it fucking flies alright...) Cura ut veleas~ Caedis!