can we get some headcanons with Lucien an his mom?🥺 like during his childhood and they’re reunion an their close relationship after they see each other again after so long? i jus love Lucien so much an these things make me so happy😊
-LoA constantly felt the gentle warmth of the sun on her skin while she was pregnant with Lucien. She had always known in her heart who had fathered her last baby, but the literal sunshine radiating from within her gave her a bittersweet confirmation.
-LoA cried her heart out when she first held her son. He was perfect in every way, but she also knew that she would have to raise her baby alone and that his real father, the man she loved with her whole heart, would never even know that her sweet little boy was also his.
-Lucien is the first child that LoA got to raise without interference from courtiers and relatives. When Eris was a boy, Beron lashed out at LoA and removed her from making decisions about his upbringing because he thought she was making Eris “soft”. With Lucien, she had to keep him away from Beron and his brothers as much as possible, so LoA was able to spend much more time raising him.
-When Lucien was three, Eris caught him glowing. He was attached to his little brother, although he would rather die than admit to having feelings. So when he had to tell his mother that it was time to do what they had to in order to hide his heritage, he held and cried with her while the magic went to work to conceal Lucien’s identity.
-Lucien was the happiest little kid in the world. He was always smiling and exploring and spending time with his mom. He asked a million questions, so many that his tutors got exasperated with him and his mother had to gently remind him to stop and listen instead of letting that clever mind of his lead him into chaos.
-Beron didn’t pay any attention to Lucien until he was fifteen years old. And then the horror started and it never stopped.
-After Jesminda’s murder and Lucien’s exile, LoA felt like the part of her that had been full of hope and secret joy simply died. There was no happiness, no matter how small, left to fight for. So she stopped trying. It was only the love she bore for her other children, especially Eris, that kept her alive, albeit in perpetual mourning for her lost boy.
-Despite the danger, Eris would occasionally relay messages between his mother and Lucien. They were subtle signs of love, like a reminder to stay warm in the cooler months (LoA to Lucien) or an offhand remark to LoA about a passage from a favorite book meant to remind her of how much the hero loved his mother, no matter how far away she was.
-Helion has a moment where he thinks there will never be a chance of getting past Lucien’s anger and resentment once they both learn the truth. But it’s Helion’s comments about how much Lucien is like his mother that start to bring the wall down. Lucien quietly asks Helion to tell him about his mother, what she was like when she was young, and it’s this that begins the slow and sometimes painful process of bonding between father and son.
-Their reunion doesn’t leave a dry eye in the house. Lucien gives zero fucks, is absolutely okay with crying in front of an entire court as he finally gets to hug the one person who always gave him the love that he needed without condition, and who paid the price in so many ways to keep him safe and happy.
-Lucien stuck to LoA like glue during her early days back in Day and was very surly and suspicious towards Helion, questioning his intentions and just being generally overprotective of his mom. It’s Eris who finally snatched his brother away for a fun weekend of “bonding” in Autumn and who exasperatedly told him to stop being such an annoying little weirdo. Helion is secretly grateful but will never ever tell Eris that.
-The Sunshine Family plus Murderous Stepson of Doom lived happily ever after.
