enjoying John Reese is so embarrassing because, like, this is the man with condescension inbuilt in his tone. This is the man who walked out of a Rashomon viewing wanting to watch less movies with subtitles. This is the man once referred to the machine with he/him pronouns. He's terrible and not even in a sexy way but please, hear me out, he's literally sad.
ok i can’t say much because it is literally PAST MIDNIGHT and my mom might wake up at any second and i may never be heard from again
adrian’s tattoo is a magic sigil that allows him to cast Cool Spells; most magic-users take a paper charm with their sigil of choice on it, which allows them to switch out sigils and thus cast different types of spells, but adrian has chosen to focus on one form of magic (fire) permanently with his tattoo; as a result, he’s Really good at fire magic but can’t cast any other magic. and also he doesn’t have to carry paper charms all over the place which thank gosh bc they’re pretty annoying to handle
perdix’s home kingdom is in a mountainous forest region that’s quite cold and gets little sunlight in the winter months. thus he is a pasty blonde and prefers lots of layers
he also thus had lots of trouble adjusting to the northern kingdom’s climate/blazing sunlight/lack of layers
adrian loves perdix’s like. face. like sometimes adrian wakes up early just to look at perdix’s face while he’s asleep
perdix loves adrian’s smile (as discussed in depth in an older post) and especially his hands. he thinks they’re so elegant and pretty :’)
theirrrrrr first kiss was probably like. they snuck out at night into the depths of the northern palace’s rose garden (of course) and look around to see if anyone else is looking more than they look at each other, and then then they turn around at the same time and adrian grabs perdix’s face and they kiss for like a millisecond and then they’re like , okay, and then they run away and don’t talk for like a week
perdix has attempted fire magic before
adrian has nearly burned to death
perdix’s old kingdom once sent an envoy with a letter from his parents, and perdix ripped up the letter in the envoy’s hands and sent them away
perdix has struggled a while with frustration that his parents’ decision to marry him off to adrian allowed him to meet the love of his life; he has always tried to keep himself from thinking about them because it just drives him crazy because his present happiness is because of them and he hates them and they meant to humiliate him, but if he shows that he’s miserable then it just makes them feel better. these envoy visits often end with him feeling hateful and lonely
adrian can’t cook (except for making honeyed tea and like. arranging cookies on a plate) and perdix can only cook one dish, lamb chops. on the 5th anniversary of their marriage, perdix wanted to cook this for adrian and used the palace kitchen, and the northern kingdom chefs learned a new southern mountains dish that day :)
perdix eventually tried the chefs’ rendition of the lamb and was kinda upset because it was so much better
adrian is 5′6.5″ and perdix is 5′8″ (adrian always tacks on the extra .5 and the royal doctors do not try to correct him)
