@waffless4life here goes! I hope you like it^^ Thank you for requesting these two, I love writing for them!
❤ Poly relationship with Hubert and Jeritza HCs
Even though Hubert and Jeritza may look like a perfect match from the outside, they wouldn't have gotten together if you hadn't been involved as well.
Neither of them was even thinking of love or relationships when you all met. Furthering Edelgard's goals was the one thing on Hubert's mind, and as for Jeritza, well, he was dealing with his own stuff.
You were close with Hubert first, and it was him who swayed you to stay when the war broke out.
You didn't stay out of devotion to Lady Edelgard or out of committment to the cause. You stayed because you feared the toll something like this could take on Hubert.
He never knew how to feel about that. Being the one who's being protected was a new feeling for him.
But as long as it didn't interfere with his duties, he returned the favor and watched over you just as faithfully as well.
Jeritza came into the picture a little later. Often, like others in the army, you both got a kick out of making some snide comments about him and his open thirst for blood.
But quickly enough you started feeling bad for him, and asked Hubert to join you in trying to get him to socialise a bit. The guy was clearly going through some heavy stuff, right?
At first, Hubert wasn't too into the idea. He wasn't too sociable either, and he liked to spend his free time alone with you.
But he couldn't really say no to you when you were so excited for something, so he agreed to give it a try.
Truth be told, Hubert was a little intimidated by Jeritza. He knew that Jeritza was handsome and dashing in all the ways he was not.
He felt bad for it, but he found himself hoping that Jeritza's personality would be bad enough to counter his looks.
When he got to know him, though, he realised he wasn't so bad. They even started hanging out together whenever you were away on missions, playing board games and the like.
Jeritza asked Hubert once if it did not scare him to be alone with him. Hubert laughed and replied that it would take much more than that to make him feel scared.
This put Jeritza at ease from there on. If there was one person in the entire army that looked more frightening than him, it was Hubert. That sort of evened out the stakes.
There was one time where far too long went by without news of your battallion's fate, and Hubert was barely holding himself together. The only person he thought of seeking comfort with was Jeritza.
He was convinced at this point that he loved you just as much as he did. If someone could understand what he was feeling, it was him.
Jeritza admitted to it as soon as Hubert first asked, but reassured him that he had no intentions of getting in between the two of you.
Hubert found it surprisingly easy to admit in return that it was very likely to be your wish that he did, in fact, get in between the two of you.
Jeritza asked how he felt about it, and he wasn't sure how to reply.
Hubert's only experience so far had been with you, and neither of you were especially forward, so he was surprised to see Jeritza follow up on the question by leaning forward in his seat and brushing his fingers lightly against Hubert's cheek.
It seemed like these things came naturally to the other man, which made Hubert feel at a distadvantage. He wanted to reciprocate, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. Whatever he did, it was sure to be clumsy, he thought. Grotesque, even. Once again, despite his issues, Jeritza was everything he was not.
So he just stood up and left, and did not speak to Jeritza again until after you came back.
Truly, with these two, you had to do everything yourself. But it was worth the effort.
It did put Hubert a little more at ease to learn later on that Jeritza despised his own looks, the ones that he had been so jealous of.
It did not put him more at ease to hear Jeritza describe his facial features as "interesting" with an honest voice and a straight face. But he figured there had to be something in there he did like, to keep him coming back to kiss it so often.
And the same could be said of how he felt about you. Honestly, the three of you were in a similar situation. You could not understand how you had come to be loved by two other people that you thought the world and heaven of.
But it was unquestionable, in every word and gesture that you shared, that said love was there.












