#preluz

[the-enchanted-archivist]

When Belos decides to test if Reader can be trusted to keep their eyes closed for a kiss, I can see them being flustered by the act. But I can also see them being cheeky and suggesting another test, just to be sure~

He'd be cheeky back.

He'll tell you to close your eyes and then leave the room once you do, just out of your eye sight and waits to see how long it would be until you realize he's not there >XD

*when more than five minutes has passed*

"... ... ... HEY!"

*from the hallway* "Okay, you passed."

"PHILIP! That's not what I meant!"

"You said another test, you didn't say what."

"You ass!"

Then it's a mad dash through the castle with him messing with you the entire time XD

[the-enchanted-archivist]

(Preluz)

(Witches Before Wizards)

"Hey, it's rude to stare." King told Luz after crossing his arms.

"I've only seen places like this is my dreams. It's incredible." Said Luz before smilling. "And i'm the only human here?"

"Maybe you are, maybe you are not." King said while shrugging. "There are rumours that the Empress is a human."

Luz slowly turned around to look at King and said with stars in her eyes. "Empress?!" She started jumping up and down. "Oh my god, this is like The Good Witch Azura 3! Azura, in a quest to find what was stolen from her, finds herself in another realm!" Said Luz before dramatically moving her arms. "Where she is then found and taken to Queen Sapphire's castle! There she finds out that Sapphire is a human and-"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." King interrupted her. "Listen, don't get your hopes up, alright? Those are rumours. They may not even be human."

"Too late, my hopes are already getting up."

"You know, even if they're human, you're not going to get to see them or anywhere near them, right? The Emperor is extremely protective of them."

Luz's eyes only sparkled and she cupped her cheeks in awe.

"Then it has to be true! The Empress HAS to be human! Why else would he be that way!?"

"Uh, yeah, or he prefers his privacy and doesn't want to have attention drawn to his personal life," King rolled his eyes. "It's well known that he's been targeted by so-called "Wild Witches" so it would make sense that he'd keep prying eyes away from the only family he has."

Luz frowned

"... Does that mean Eda's been...?"

"What? No! Eda has better things to do than mess with the Emperor. If anyone's attacking the Emperor, it's psychopaths who have no life."

"That's true," Luz tapped her chin. "But if the Empress really is human..."

"Don't get too wrapped up in this, Luz. We still have work to do."

"Right! You're right... I'll have to worry about meeting them later!"

"Ugh..."

[the-enchanted-archivist]

Day of Unity, but Belos' SO is determined to get him to stop the draining spell so they grab the branding glove and slap a coven glyph on themselves.

This is interesting because we never see what a sigil would do to an actual human with no powers. Of course, it would affect Hunter because he was made from magic, but Luz never had a sigil.

I see a few things happening:

Either he panics because he isn't sure what the sigil would do to a human as he never experimented with himself. Part of you enjoys seeing this reaction because it solidifies that you do mean something to him and the other part hates it since you've never seen him panic before. What did you just do to yourself if he's that panicked?

He may come clean and tell you that he can't stop it and you basically tried to kill yourself for nothing. He would have to sit there and wait to see what the reaction was before bringing you to the human world.

OR

The smug bastard would just laugh and tell you it won't do anything to you. You're not magic. The spell was for those with a bile sac/made from magic. He just walks up, takes the glove from you, and removes the sigil without hesitation, making you realize that you were being backed into a figurative corner. You were running out of options.

OR OR:

If you do it in front of him, he'll raise a brow and not say a word, no matter how much you tried to get him to respond. You are now a human test subject. This is also a test to see if his judgment about you was correct.

If it doesn't work, he'll chuckle, tell you that if you wanted a souvenir from the Isles, he would have gotten you one that didn't deface your skin and for you to stop playing around. It was time to go home.

If it does end up working on you and he notices, he's going to think you're hiding something from him. Maybe it would be best if you perished with the witches he was trying to kill. That spell shouldn't work on humans, after all. He'd just stand over you with a cold glare, asking you how you could betray him by obtaining magic of your own. How dare you lie to him about being human...

For this, he'll flat out tell you that for your betrayal, he would not allow the spell to be interrupted then turn toward the door as if to leave. You deserved this.

[the-enchanted-archivist]

Thought about something messed up. This would probably happen in an AU like PreLuz or something where you as a human, are living in the castle and have romantic intentions with Belos but are just on the cusp of it.

You weren't doing much, just wandering around the castle when you came upon Belos being a bit intimate with what seemed to be a captain of his Coven in what looked to be a meeting room.

You didn't interrupt but immediately withdrew, feeling like you were just hit hard in the chest since he had been increasingly interested in pursuing a relationship with you and you had begun to reciprocate his affections. It didn't seem like either knew you were there and you went straight back into your room to process the whole thing. It felt like your heart had been torn out.

Over the next couple of weeks, your behavior became more reserved with the emperor but you pretended everything was fine regardless. You pulled away when he tried to touch you or moved closer to you and you made some excuse to not stay around him for very long, much less in the same room.

It was clear Belos noticed and he began to have suspicions about why you were acting this way.

One night, when he knew you had fallen asleep, he entered your mind, expecting to find that a witch had been courting you. He already planned on executing that witch once he found out their identity. Imagine his shock when he found the memory and realized it was the other way around. Your thoughts sounded dejected, wondering aloud that "he must prefer his own kind", "I should have known it was too good to be true,", and "why would he have any interest in a human?". Belos tore himself from your mind and appeared back in his study. He fell to his knees in disbelief and clutched his head.

Realizing that he was the one at fault for the change in your behavior enraged him. You had witnessed a rare moment of weakness. He couldn't even excuse it by saying he was thinking of you during it. The melancholy in your thoughts made it worse. You were withdrawing yourself from him to protect yourself and it would most likely stay that way for a while, no matter what he did to explain himself. How were you going to trust that he wouldn't do this later since he had already tried showing his interest in you?

The whole thing made him become more unhinged. He NEEDED to fix this. The captain had to die. If it weren't for them being in the wrong place at the right time, this would have never happened.

A day or two later, you receive news that the captain had been killed on a difficult mission. Belos kept his distance from you, afraid that you would believe he was trying to use you as a replacement. He had planned on going to you once enough time had passed to continue his visits. What he didn't plan on and what killed him further, was that you had sought him out to console him due to the loss. He should have been happy about it. Instead, it only made him feel worse.

[the-enchanted-archivist]

Orion's Bambi is soooooo cute!!!!

What do they think of little Mercy and Percy? I bet they would also be super cute.

Oh yeah, baby X3

Orion doesn't really know much about them so, again, I had to give them the run down and this is what they came up with:

And this (Mercy probably did something to annoy Hunter >XD):

While they don't know much about these AUs, they do have Raph on the brain so if ya wanna ask about them, Orion might do something >w> We (me and them) have already talked about Raph having an OnlyFangs account >w>

(For those who don't know, Mercy and Percy are Belos' children in the PreLuz AU Percy is a soft boy who is scared of his own shadow while his sister is unhinged and a bit psychotic. Like her father.)

[the-enchanted-archivist]

With the talk of Belos and the princesses trying to look for an Empress for their father, could you imagine if Reincarnated Reader came to this au?

I could imagine Belos accidentally slipping a bit of his Past with Beloved. Then when Reincarnated reader comes in Preluz Guardian of Hearts au, They find themselves the stepparent to a whole horde of little girls.

The moment you're shown to them, they think you're perfect.

One: You're human, just like them. In fact, you're the only other human they know about considering none of them minus Elsa knows Belos is human.

Two: You're rare so it might catch his attention in their eyes (Though Elsa might be only for it because you'd be another lost soul in the Boiling Isles. She may need some convincing that you would be a good fit for Belos. She's not all for the "love at first sight" thing. When she's convinced, she goes harder than the other girls to get you with him.)

Three: Belos brought up Beloved, which means they HAVE to have the two of you meet, thinking it was fate.

[the-enchanted-archivist]

oooooooooh! oooh! oooh! oooh!

what if belos did survive the stomping and possessed the reader and pushed the idea that the rebels were to blame for everything that happened?

even worse if its preluz reader who was married to him and they were going to talk to everyone. luz and her friends thinks they will denounce belos and tell everyone what he was doing and it gets turned around on the rebels?

OH MY GOD. I'M STEALING THIS.

That would be SO messed up! Just think of the ANGST!

I FUCKING LOVE IT!

You probably went to the site where it happened, still numb to the whole ordeal and in a sort of daze after you were told he was gone, and he somehow was able to get ahold of you like he did Hunter as a tiny bit of goop, maybe in a scrape you got on your leg or something. You don't even know he's there until you go to address the denizens.

When you opened your mouth, you felt like you lost control and what came out was not what you were planning to say. It was condemning the rebels for their actions and destroying the Day of Unity. While those around you were hearing your voice, you heard his in the back of your mind. Everything was their fault, how they mercilessly killed your loving husband, were wild witches infiltrating the covens, and released the Collector.

But once he/you address the crowd and pin the blame on the rebels, he immediately goes into hiding with you to try to regain his bearings.

Meanwhile, you're freaking the fuck out in your mindscape trying to figure out what the hell to do after seeing the crowd turn on the people who helped you get away from him.

[the-enchanted-archivist]

"Papa Papa Papa!"

Belos turned his masked face to little Mercy and little Percy's direction, as they tugged on his cloak. Smiling under the mask, he picked up the two toddlers and settled them on each of his knees.

"What is it, little ones? Did you run away from Adrian again?"

"No!" said Mercy, always the most outspoken of the twins. "We wanted to see you work!"

"I wanna see a wild witch!" Percy threw his arms put with a large grin.

Belos chuckled, scooping a child in each arm before standing.

"A wild witch? Is that all?"

"Yes!"

"I think I have some time to show you one."

Both children giggled and cheered as they and their father disappeared from the throne room, reappearing in an outdoor area where several statues stood.

"Here are several wild witches that opposed your father as he tried to make the Boiling Isles safe for little ones like you," he carefully set them down and walked forward, each child following at his heels. Mercy seemed intrigued while Percy looked initimidated and stayed closer to his father, threatening to hide in his robe.

"O-Oh..."

Mercy ran up and down the lines of statues, looking at each one.

"That's what you get for messing with the Emperor!" she pointed up to a random witch. Another chuckle caught her attention and a large hand petted her head.

"Yes, it is."

"Papa, I want to see a real live wild witch now! Right, Percy?!"

"N-No, I'm good. I saw enough..."

Belos glanced down to see his son gone but felt him under his robes.

"I think that is a bit too dangerous at the moment, my love. Besides, your mother may be wondering where you are."

Mercy pouted, her eyes going as big as saucers with crocodile tears, tugging at his heartstrings.

"Oh, now, don't do that. How about when my coven scouts bring back some wild witches to put them in covens, I'll let you watch? I just got reports that there will be some arriving tomorrow from the Conformatorium."

The girl suddenly brightened and nodded.

"Okay! Can I turn them to stone?!"

Belos let out a laugh before scooping his daughter up.

"Oh, Bambi, you know petrification hasn't been used in a very long time. I'm afraid that's one thing we can not do just for being covenless," he sighed. Mercy pouted again, but when she was close enough, she took his mask off of his face and put it on hers. He felt his robes move and, glancing down, he found his own eyes peering up at him.

"Really? What else do they have to do to be petrified?"

"Well..." Belos rolled his eyes up. "Let's just say they have to be really bad to have to have that done."

"Like attack Mama!"

"Oh, yes. That would definitely lead to this," he nodded. "And attack you."

"I don't wanna be attacked!" Percy gasped and hid back under his father's robe. Belos leaned down and scooped him up in his free arm before nuzzling him.

"I will never allow anyone to do that. I will protect you with my life, Percival," he murmured, then chuckled when Percy nuzzled back with a smile.

"O-Okay Papa..."

"Now, let's get back before we give your mother a heart attack."

"And Adrian!"

"... ... ... Not him."

This caused both children to break out in giggles as they and their father disappeared from the morbid statue garden.