The next members of House Silva's next generation are the children of Solid and his wife Holly Whitmore (who I will describe alongside the children).
Their children are Eirlys and Ferro.
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Holly Whitmore
Solid's wife via an arranged marriage that became a romance.
Her name comes from the holly plant.
Age (at the beginning of the series): 20 (she's two years older than Solid)
Birthday: June 29
Magic Attribute: Snow.
Appearance: pure white hair like freshly fallen snow. It's quite long, reaching past her hips, but she normally keeps it all tucked up in a bun. Her eyes are indigo colored (curse you picrew limitations).
Personality: Holly is quiet and a bit closed off but cordial first and foremost. She's very slow to anger as well; she can be upset but it takes a while for her negativity to build to a point where she can't hold it back. She's polite, mostly for appearance's sake as taught to her by her family, but she genuinely respects kind people, those who instinctively smile at others. She hides her own warmth as her family called it "weakness" in the cutthroat world of nobles and politics. Her kindness mainly shows in the way she's willing to let people have any many second chances as they need to improve. People are always changing after all. She encourages people to try and to be honest with their efforts.
She agreed to marry Solid to get away from her family who openly saw her as a pawn for their own political gain. (Yes she was giving them what they wanted but at least she’d be living in House Silva and not House Whitmore.)
At first, Holly and Solid were awkward. Holly only really spent time with Solid when necessary (like a formal gala as his partner). And when Solid opened his mouth and said dumb things, Holly walked away. Solid, meanwhile, was pretty ambivalent to Holly. He thought she was just like the rest of her family, marrying him for status alone.
Solid eventually confronted Holly about her avoiding him and she told him “Neither of us actually want this marriage so let’s spare ourselves and minimize our contact.” It became clear that Holly wasn’t a gold digger but it was also clear she lacked interest in her future husband. A very annoyed Solid talked to his siblings about it and they all agreed that he had to try and make the marriage worthwhile. Cue Solid making very clumsy attempts to court Holly. He is smart and gets her flowers as his first gift as she’s very often in the garden (with Nozel and Helia). Solid messed up more often then not but the attempts in and of themselves warmed Holly’s heart. Solid found himself falling for Holly as she took a chance and opened up to him, showing a hidden warmth she hid because of her cold upbringing.
The marriage ended up being a happy one.
She likes flowers, particularly hollies (her namesake) and snowdrop flowers. She gets along with Helia as a result of this.
Eirlys Silva
Her name is Welsh for the snowdrop flower. Holly picked out the name since the snowdrop is her favorite flower.
Age: 13
Birthday: June 29
Magic Attribute: Snow.
Appearance: Silver hair like her father which she styles into pigtails and ties with ribbons. Her eyes are indigo like her mother's (again, limitations of picrew).
Personality: Eirlys is a quiet girl and peaceful girl, like Holly, but a little more willing to socialize. Although by "socialize," Eirlys usually means reading a book or working through a puzzle book while sitting with other people. Eirlys knows how to converse but she just likes the presence of people around her. She has trouble standing out compared to her cousins. Skylar's intelligence, Fleur's strength, Filomina's cuteness, etc. Her cousins all stand out in some way. Even Ferro is known for his boldness. However she is at least considered the pinnacle of a noble lady with how well-mannered she is. What she thinks of that judgement of her… She would nod and say "I'm glad people think well of me," making all her cousins look at each others and thinking "is she shading us?" She's got a "go with the flow" sort of attitude which, unfortunately, makes her passive at times. She does have likes (she has her own personal library and has completed so many activity books) but she has yet to have something truly light a fire under her.
Despite how chaotic they are, Eirlys gets along with everyone in House Silva (aunts, uncles, and cousins). Her favorite cousin is Aimee though with Elana as a very close second.
Eirlys doesn't have any interest in being a Magic Knight. She becomes an author instead with her primary genre being mystery novels with a dabble of historical fiction.
Ferro Silva
His name is Latin for "iron." Solid gave him the name because he wanted his son to be as strong and resilient as the metal. It's also to honor Acier's metal-based magic.
Age: 9
Birthday: November 18
Magic Attribute: Ice.
Appearance: Pure white hair like his mother's which is always kept short. His parents try to make sure his hair is neatly combed but he always finds a way to get it messed up. His eyes are purple, which isn't an exact match for either parent but it runs in the Silva family.
Personality: Ferro is a courageous and bold little guy. He's not easily deterred from a challenge and has a fascination with danger. Though thankfully he tends to only observe danger rather than participate in it… Tends to… Ferro is also quite honest with his thoughts, to his parents' embarrassment. Boldness + honesty means a lot of angry nobles when a little kid points out how they're definitely only being nice to his parents to get in their good graces. Ferro's strong attitude also comes across in his temper; short and explosive.
Ferro's got a rivalry complex with Naru and strongly dislikes Alfred and Jesse. He's got a great fondness for Elana who teaches him fun words to make adults mad, like "hauteur" and "impertinent." He likes saying those words to people who bother his parents. He's met Clara and would like to be friends with her but she isn't all that interested in a friendship.
Ferro would become a Silver Eagle like his father before him.
I. NEED. TO. LEARN. MORE. ABOUT. FERRO's. UNIVERSE. Like are you kidding me? Fuego and Leo pulled a coup and killed every non-vermillion??! that's, wow, that's rich!! What's the heck is wrong with /THAT/ timeline? What about Asta's story there? the elves? the devils? Fuego really killed everyone? including NOZEL? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!
OH MY GOD ANON YOU’VE MADE MY ENTIRE DAY
HONESTLY this AU is underdeveloped because of the way it came to fruition in the first place, so nothing would make me happier but to make it a collaborative fandom project but here’s everything I’ve got on it
Under a Read More because it might get lengthy
First, a disclaimer: This AU was born out of a dream. I had a dream about a plucky teenager participating in a Magic Knight’s exam that was designed more like The Hunger Games, and when I woke up, I said to myself, I gotta get in on that. So that’s why some of the details of this AU are a little fucky. Dream logic.
Now, the inciting event for this AU is twofold: First, Acier lives. SECOND, her sister, Kirsch and Mimosa’s mother, dies giving birth to Mimosa.
Sister’s death completely breaks down any bond between the Vermillions and the Silvas. It’s just. Messy. A lot of finger pointing, a lot of people not handling things well. Because while the Silvas were taught from a young age to bottle up their feelings, Vermillions tend to use their feelings as a weapon. And relations go south fast.
Acier has still been training Meoroleona. Nozel and Fuegoleon have still been rivals. But when this happens, everyone is forced to pick a side. Acier and Meoroleona don’t end their relationship on bad terms, but they do end it. Nozel and Fuegoleon’s relationship swiftly turns hostile. In hindsight, nobody is happy about the way things went down, but at this point there’s a No Man’s Land to civility that nobody is willing to cross, and nobody will cross it.
The Vermillions have the roughest time with this, but unlike the way the Silvas handled Noelle, nobody actually blames Mimosa for her mother’s death. They turn their grief into what they see as righteous fury and determine to turn this into a “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” situation. This takes different forms over the years, but what basically happens is that everyone internalizes these feelings so deeply that while they all grow stronger, they also sort of grow apart.
Fuegoleon and Meoroleona have a blowout that completely shakes House Vermillion, and when Meoroleona leaves, she vows to never come back. No one believes that she would actually stay away, what with how close Fuego and Meoro were as kids, but when she leaves, she leaves. They see her once a year TOPS, and it’s never for a happy reason.
Fuegoleon, who has let his anger completely isolate him from the rest of his family, throws himself into being the Crimson Lion King, and while he’s incredibly successful, he loses parts of himself along the way. His ambitions override his caring nature and his inclination to share his strengths with others, and he becomes cold and determined, with a methodical outlook on relationships.
Leopold doesn’t become so callous-- he wasn’t old enough to remember his aunt’s death, he just had to grow up in the aftermath of it --but he follows in his brother’s footsteps, and while he’s not as mean about the way he does it, he’s not afraid to make some harsh decisions if it means being the best.
Kirsch and Mimosa decide that the best way to deal with this is to keep their heads down. Kirsch is fiercely protective of his little sister, because even though nobody is blaming Mimosa, he can’t shake the feeling that she may still have a target on her back. This makes Mimosa jumpy and clingy, never really developing the confidence to be her own person. While she can’t really nail down a particular reason for it, she’s scared of Fuegoleon and doesn’t trust Leopold. She can’t help but wonder how her cousins in House Silva are doing, but knows that all hell would break loose if she actually sought them out, so she feels constantly stuck between a rock and a hard place; the living embodiment of a schism between the royal houses.
The Silvas, on the other hand, go the other direction. Acier is still here, and she’s not letting her family rip itself apart like it did in canon. She remains the captain of the Silver Eagles and well-respected. Her kids have an even easier ride to the top with her still there to pave the way. She misses Meoroleona terribly. She knows that none of this was fair to any of them, and losing her sister AND her star pupil is a lot to work through. She keeps thinking that eventually she’ll get a letter or a surprise visit from the Undefeated Lioness, but she never does.
Nozel is genuinely heartbroken to have lost his rival and best friend, and, consequently, be left in the dust when he can’t keep up with Fuegoleon’s ambition, but he’s still got his mother and three little siblings, so they become his whole life. Without Fuegoleon’s rivalry to spur him on, he becomes good but not great, and is content to coast. He’s a mama’s boy, and as long as his mother is satisfied, he’d rather read and organize missions than go on them. On the bright side, he doesn’t deal with 90% of the stress he deals with in the canon universe. He’s actually pretty happy most of the time.
Nebra ends up being the classic middle sibling. Her magic is nothing special, but she’s a Silva, so she can go with the flow and still come out looking a little better than everyone else. While Nozel would rather spend time with books and Solid and Noelle would rather spend time with each other, she’s a drifter; she can hang with any of her siblings, or her mother, but she’s no one’s first pick. It doesn’t really bother her all that much unless she feels genuinely left out, and Mom never forgets about her, so it’s all good.
Solid and Noelle are thick as thieves, and the Silver Eagles’ superstars. They bring out the worst of each other and have a great time doing it. They’re a dynamic duo on the battle field and harbor unfathomable chaotic energy off of it. Getting sucked into their gravitational pull is dangerous, so Nebra, Nozel, and Acier tread lightly, lest they get dragged into, or end up the victim of their shenanigans. Of all combinations of Silva duos, they are by far the closest. Totally ride or die. That doesn’t mean that they don’t drive each other absolutely batshit crazy, and have some HUGE blowouts that waterlog half the castle, but that’s what siblings do. The nice thing about having each other is that neither of them end up in their siblings’ or mother’s shadows. The not nice thing about that is that they’re just. Little shits. Imagine Noelle acting the way she does in the beginning of the series, but being sincere about it. Imagine Solid acting the way he does, except he’s never checking to see if he’s got his siblings’ approval. Now imagine them patting each other on the back for acting like that. Yikes.
Then Ferro comes along. He’s the result of Solid knocking up his unnamed noble girlfriend when he’s 16-17. Acier is PISSED. All the other Silvas are scandalized. Solid is in big trouble. Acier suspends him from the Silver Eagles while she does damage control. What she eventually ends up doing is paying the girl off, and when the baby is born, she takes him into House Silva to raise him in secret. Nobody outside House Silva ever knows about him. He is House Silva’s best kept secret. This is an important detail.
The coup comes together. Fuegoleon has been working on this plan for a long time. Years. Leopold is on board, because Leopold would follow him off a cliff. But he’s also scared shitless. This is a much bigger deal than stepping on a few comrades to rise through the ranks. He slips a little. Kirsch catches wind of the plan. He gets in Leo’s and Fuego’s ear to remind them, hey, we’re Vermillions, too. So we’re cool, right?
Yeah, they’re cool. All they have to do is help their cousins kill everyone whose last name isn’t Vermillion. Kirsch thinks this is a pretty good deal to save him and his sister. Mimosa will later have her doubts, but we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
Meoroleona was invited, but never shows up.
We’re about at the beginning of the show when the coup begins. I don’t have a good reason that it goes off as smoothly as it does. But everyone in Houses Kira and Silva dies, except Acier and Ferro. Ferro, now two, manages to watch his entire family get bodied without getting a scratch on him, because no one anticipated him being there. Acier is only able to defend herself and him before sneaking away.
Acier and Ferro flee to the Forbidden Realm, to a little town in bumfuck nowhere, to hide. They are never discovered by the Vermillions.
Fuegoleon becomes the Clover King. As far as they can tell, the coup is 100% successful. But the thing about fire is that it’s super useful for making people really dead, but when people are dying in heaps and being burned to ash it’s kind of hard to count how many bodies you’ve got. They don’t realize that they’re one short. With no one to stand in their way, Fuegoleon crowns himself Clover King. He disbands the Silver Eagles, and within the next few years, will crown himself Wizard King. It actually becomes pretty easy after Julius nerfs himself, whoops.
Unfortunately, Fuegoleon is starting to unravel. He gained a LOT of enemies doing all this heinous shit, and he is not a beloved king. Leopold is now the head of the Crimson Lion Kings, and he’s reporting back a lot of hostility among the captains. Not that they didn’t expect that, but there’s no way to practice sleeping with one eye open. That’s not to mention that the people are scared and confused, and that doesn’t make for a peaceful kingdom.
Over the course of years, he puts greater and greater restrictions on magic. It starts as permits to use spells in public places and soon grows into a near-total ban on grimoires for anyone outside the magic knights. With absolute power, he can kick people out of the magic knights AND take their grimoires. These rules both ease and exacerbate his growing paranoia. Everyone is pissed, but effectively stripped of their power, there isn’t much they can do about it.
Meanwhile, Acier is raising her grandson as a peasant, but never forgets that they’re royals. She teaches Ferro all of their family history, even though they have to keep it a secret. That gets kind of tricky since Ferro has royal-level magic in the middle of a town of peasants, but, you know, who’s gonna call him on it?
When Ferro is ten, he get recruited by a mysterious hooded figure to train his magic in secret. 90% of his magic training happens in a location he is taken to by a spatial mage. He, along with about a dozen other kids, are trained by a small band of mages who claim to be the resistance. Their goal is simple: Train the next generation of mages to take out the king and restore order to the kingdom. Ferro thinks this is pretty cool, and the honor isn’t lost on him, but he’s mostly glad that he can learn to control his magic in a way that makes his grandmother proud.
By the time Ferro is 15, grimoire ceremonies have been almost completely outlawed, so it’s a big deal when the resistance throws their trainees a grimoire ceremony. Once they’ve received their grimoires, they begin the next leg of their journey: become magic knights.
The Magic Knights Entrance Exam has changed a LOT in the last 15 years. This exam is deadly. In many instances, the point is to kill or be killed. Magic knights are being trained as a military force first and foremost, and their most important feature must be that they take orders unblinkingly. This does not fly with Ferro. While he’s extremely qualified for the position in every other way, he’s too nice to let people die, let alone kill them. He fails the exam. However, some of the other kids he’s trained with make it in.
So he needs a new plan. Spurned on by his grandmother and his teachers through the resistance, he decides to travel the Clover Kingdom. In the midst of his travels, Acier dies. At 20 years old, he is now the last Silva.
This fact makes Ferro pretty fatalistic, and at this point he decides the only rational thing to do is to force an audience with King Fuegoleon. Surely this won’t end in disaster. Definitely won’t be his untimely end by flames.
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So there are a lot of holes in this AU, because it sprang up around this one character I had a wild dream about. A few mores notes:
Noelle joined the Silver Eagles, if that wasn’t obvious
The Vermillion coup takes place 1-2 years after the start of the show, and I have no explanation for how those events could fit into this timeline. They would definitely look a LOT different, that’s for sure
My notes on this end where they do because at the point where Ferro breaks into the royal castle to force this audience with the king, he actually gets thrown out of this universe and into another. So I guess for all intents and purposes, the Silva line ends for good in this universe
I know exactly where Meoroleona is and what she’s doing
I don’t know where exactly Kirsch and Mimosa are and what they’re doing when they disappear
So that’s all I’ve got! This isn’t a super duper happy AU, and definitely not flattering for everyone, but I was forced to flesh it out because I was told, very emphatically, “Evil Vermillions sexy.” I don’t disagree.
OKAY since deviantart is dead in the water, I’m going to post this here!
This is the story of what happened after the last Silva was kicked out of the Acier Lives but nobody else does timeline!
This comic is near and dear to my heart because even though the art isn’t as nice as my current stuff, it’s the first time I really davveled in representing the Silvas as complete clowns. This is Ground 0 for my shenanigans.
Although everybody looks the same as they do in canon, this is actually 15ish years post- elf invasion. Everyone looks the same because uuuuuuuh I want them to.
“I don’t think the grimoires have family insignias on them,” I hear you say. Well you know what I say to that? Please leave me alone it’s a narrative device
Hey sorry about the MASSIVE WHIPLASH in this part but it really couldn’t be helped
Stylistically this is my favorite batch of pages because I tried a whole bunch of things and they actually worked out okay. Wish I could tweak some little things but eh.
Also this is our Silvas’ first taste of the Acier Lives AU! Ferro gives a pretty condensed version of it for obvious reasons.
I really crank the silly meter all the way up to 100 on the next set of pages and I’m not sorry
Nozel doesn’t just snap his neck on the spot because he looks WAY too much like Solid in that second to last panel.
This was a really fun batch of pages to draw because Ferro seems like such an asshole until you realize how this looks from his perspective and then you’re like “Oh that’s valid”
And that’s the end for now! Because the next part is SO indulgent that I haven’t even inked it. Too embarrassing. Only for me.
Anyway, the Silvas’ argument is based on the fact that about 15 years ago, ANOTHER child appeared in the castle like this (i.e. out of nowhere) appearing to be a half Silva half Vermillion, and Nozel panicked and accused Nebra of being a whore, destroying her reputation. Nebra had nothing to do with this child.
So in the end, Ferro kind of gets a free pass because the Silvas are so confused and curious about him that they need him to stay to figure out what is going on. And then they end up loving him like a nephew. Because it’s my canon and I decide how my character fits into it :3c
hello i am. Curious. what is Ferro Silva's reaction to canon universe Fuego being a himbo thats gay for his uncle? Like. it seems he never met him in his universe but he must have Heard Things. So he finally meets him and Fuegoleon's like "hey u wanna see me boil an egg with my hand?" and Leopold is jumping off buildings at Thirty Years Old screaming "Parkour"
LMAO oh boy can you believe that I actually drew this?
Ferro has seen Fuegoleon, but he has not met him. He saw him precisely once. When Sexy Evil Fuegoleon was killing his family. After that he just heard stories, both through the news and from Acier, and it was a conflicting set of details. Acier talked about how Fuegoleon as a child was such a polite and awkward young man, who always meant well but was a little too stiff for his own good. Then everything changed when Acier's sister died and... Acier just shakes her head.
Meanwhile, in the public eye he is evil incarnate, and the entirety of the Clover Kingdom is under his boot. Ferro never really understands him as more than a terrifying mythical figure who broke his grandmother's heart and destroyed his family.
So when he meets him and Fuegoleon is like "HELLO YOUNG MAN HOW ARE YOU DOING ON THIS FINE DAY" he, uh. Panics.
But the way he panics impresses Fuegoleon very much and in his gushing about how cool Ferro is, he scares him even more.
The Silvas have to pull some maneuvers to keep my poor boy from having a nervous breakdown but they pull it off!!
I haven't actually thought about how he reacts to meeting Leopold! Leopold is much less scary in the public eye and Acier never really knew him. He's just the leader of the Crimson Lion Kings. So I'm not sure 🤔
