Low key hosts/demons shipper here, so no judgement. :) I'm curious about what makes you ship Ava/Pedri. :) How would that relationship start? Is he still a ghost? What are they like together? What does Wrathia think/do? How freaked out is Odin by the whole thing? :D
Okay well it started as it would be cute seeing this like 6'5 or something demon boi turning into a puddle of goo for his tiny girlfriend
Like idk man, this would be in a scenario where Wraths and Ped don’t rlly love each other any more but they have a child so they stuck together to keep it safe? Like he was genuinely upset when Wraths took the potion but that wasn’t the reason he did, he took it so TiTAN wouldn’t get the pleasure of killing Ped.
This is thinking Ped managed to get five minutes to convince Odin to make a pact with him so like Odin gets his families safety and Ped gets a like fake body he can kind of synch his energy and soul into to make it his. Though once Odin figured out he wanted this body so Ped could properly woo Ava he’d immediately start freaking out and screeching in Big Brother worry TM.
Also another way it got started is when I got stuck thinking Ava, Ava is the only person he can interact with that would be agreeable to talking with him. She thinks Ped and Wraths are still a couple but don’t know they were staying together for their kid?
I was thinking Pedri does not have anyone to interact with, no one. Odin smokes to make Ped leave and he won’t admit it bc he strong af but its lonely and he wants company, wants to talk with someone who shares his shitty humour. Then What Would You Know!!!!
Here comes this 5'0 ball of rage and need for a family that has been belittled all their life, this smol ball of rage that can see!!! Him!! TALKS TO HIM!!!!!! He is SO happy!!! He is exCITE!!!!!
Pedri is giddy (tho it don’t show) that Ava talks to him because Odin is terrified of him, of what it means were TiTAN found out he was Pedri’s host, Odin does not talk to him because it means his family death and okay Peds can respect that but it does not mean he likes it. So Ava comes along filled with awe at the sight the glasses give her and sees him and thinks “holy shit this dudes big and kind of maybe in a weird way pretty what do”
She doesn’t know how to react but she can see him and Odin isn’t around, she thinks she knows why the pact hunter(?) smokes now. Ava can she him, is terrified of what he might do to her, but all she can think is how lonely it must be to go fifteen years with only one person able to see you and have him ignore you. All Ava can think is he is like me, alone and angry and bitter with want for a new life free of TiTAN’s control (because against TiTAN Odin may be he would do anything to get rid of Peds and ensure his families safety).
Ava sees this tall beast, being, man(?) and all she can do is Talk because it is lonely, its horrible being the one everyone ignores or hates or is scared of. She knows this intimately, knows how it hurts but you never let it show because that would be letting them win and that is worse than the pain. Ava babbles on about whatever she can think of and eventually she has to take the glasses off because she isn’t just crying stardust now its flooding from her eyes, Ava’s been talking for hours and seeing this morbidly beautiful creature lighten up with each passing minute and she does not want to leave him alone again.
Ava knows how it feels to be alone where everyone hates you or wants you dead, she doesn’t want it for this graceful entity of shadows and death and fear (even though he is just that; made of death and shadows and fear). But he kneels before her, and Avas in awe that anything would kneel before her, Pedri pushes her glasses up with a whispered “later, firefly” having heard Odin’s nickname and thinking it suits her so well.
Pedri is sad she has to go but her friends are looking for her and her eyes must be on fire then he sees the way her face goes red and yellow, like molten lava similar to Wrathia and yet different somehow and he cant help but to laugh happily and loudly as Ava sputters lava and ash. He laughs as this tiny being made up of rage and bitter want and so much kindness and love is embarrassed by him, him! Pedri, a demon, he is absolutely gleeful that this beautiful fiery ball of rage and love is flustered by him and it heals something he hadn’t known was cracked.
Then sometime after, when Ava’s half completed her pact she has his child his heir (something in him wants it to be theirs instead of his and Wrathia’s) and shes so gentle and loving. Sweet as anything and so beautiful even though shes only just turned 17 when she found his kid he cannot help but think Ava is incandescent with her worry and love for a child that by all rights she should hate.
Pedri is in awe (though he shall never admit it) that Ava would be so caring for this child but then he thinks of Crow and Raven and how she hadn’t hated them for treating Odin the way they do and laughs at why he would have believed anything less.
Then maybe sometimes before that sometime after Strategos Six and the chamber mess, they end up in a crowd and he can see her panicking (he is furious that his host left her alone; Odin knew she has anxiety that she is terrified of being left behind and alone) it upsets him, infuriates him. He has never been more thankful of the busyness of a market place when someone bumps into her and the glasses fall down, immediately he has his dragonflies leading her away from the place.
Pedri has to get her away from all the people and he knows this will set her confidence back but when they are secluded in an alley with no one but them and his dragonflies and the fireflies she does not seem to notice follow her. Pedri relaxes and once again he kneels in front of her (he does not realise how easy it is to do so for a long long time) he starts humming softly, a song he had heard a day ago a month a century ago and sighs in relief when she calms down.
But then Ava hugs him babbling thank yous and you didnt have to its such a stupid thing to panic over and Pedri is shocked with the realisation that maybe just maybe he is a little bit of in love with his exs host. At the same time though he can feel something loosen inside him at the acknowledgement but Pedri knows this is not the time to tell her, not when he doesn’t have a body and certainly not when Ava is recovering from an anxiety attack. He refuses to let her mix up gratitude with love, he can wait he has waited this long to even get a glimpse of a chance at love after his rule.
Maybe later, a week a month a year when Pedri has finally got his body (Odin has done his half of the pact) he can not help but shower her with attention because she had always kept the glasses on till her eyes drowned in galaxies and nebula to keep him company and he is determined to make Ava know how much it meant. Sometime when they stop at a planet to rest on the search for his child he sees her relax and melt in the sunlight in a field full of wildflowers and is struck with the how much he wants to see this sight in the moonlight with the fireflies and the moon flowers. It aches inside his chest.
Pedri will make her a crown of roses red and orange and yellow because he loves her and he wants her love in return; because Ava has been his friend she their first meeting and he wants her to know it. Pedri fashions a second crown for himself of bluebells and jonquil and snapdragons because she makes him humble and he so dearly wants his affections returned but also snapdragons because she is so deceptively weak looking but is a kind of awe filling terrifying enemy to have when she gets furious.
The others will probably freak out and be disgusted but Ava has faced that all her life because of the demon in her head everyone told her was fake and Ava refuses to let this second chance (the on her pact gave her) for love and happiness to leave her. Ava will dig her claws into the ground and snarl at anyone that wants her to abandon Pedri because he loves her and kneels down next to her like it was as easy as breathing for the demon king. Pedri loves her and has waited for the off chance she would love back and he has sat through every one of her anxiety it panic attacks even when she could not see him.
Ava absolutely will not leave him alone, not after she asked Tuls what those flowers meant, not when he never gets scared at her anger and laughs at her morbid quips or jokes. Ava refuses to let Pedri go because of them, tells them this and refuses to tell why when they ask because that was between them and she knows Odin will never speak of the glimpses he got of their budding relationship back when it was just him and her that could see Pedri.
Ava is fully willing to leave them behind and help Pedri raise his child while slowly destroying TiTAN’s forces but Pedri is willing to break it off if it means her happiness and that, that shocks the rest of the group to the core except for Tuls because Tuls remembers what his king was like when Pedri and Wrathia were still in love.
Tuls is glad that his king found love again and he is glad Wrathia will eventually be able to pass on peacefully once TiTAN’s forces are destroyed.
