hi! Was wondering if you could do something pierce and rhal related, their my fav duo and I ask everyone with open requests to do something around them!! Ships or platonic is cool and fluffy or angsty stuff are awesome too!! I just really like them 🥹
A/n: ofc! I hope you enjoy! This was not a pairing I had ever heard before :0
Tw: none, maybe a bit ooc?
Pairing: Rhal x pierce
Rhal was not used to silence and peace, the Castle usually being filled with some sort of yelling and chaos.
Which is probably why he stared at the soft bed in his room like it was plotting treason.
“Why is it… fluffy?” he asked, scowling at the perfectly made mattress.
“Because Lady Bish sent the maids to redo your chambers,” Pierce said from the corner,. “Apparently, pillows aren’t your enemies.”
Rhal turned. “They’re soft. And squishy.”
“They’re supposed to be.”
He jabbed a finger into one. “It’s… weak.”
Pierce arched a brow. “It’s a pillow.”
Rhal didn’t reply. Instead, he grabbed one off the bed and gave it a little experimental squish. Then, with all the seriousness of a seasoned general, he hurled it at Pierce’s face.
It hit him with a satisfying fwomp.
Pierce blinked. “You just declared war,” he mumbled. Rhal smirked. “Finally. A worthy battle.”
Within seconds, the air was filled with flying feathers and muffled war cries. Pierce ducked behind the couch, launching a counterattack with two throw pillows. Rhal rolled across the floor, dramatic as ever, and retaliated by flinging the entire blanket like a net.
“Coward!” Rhal shouted, grinning as Pierce tripped into the rug.
“You used a trap!” Pierce yelled back, laughing so hard he couldn’t breathe.
Eventually, they collapsed in a heap on the ruined bed, gasping, feathers floating around them like Daemos snow. Rhal was grinning like a maniac, his hair tousled, feathers pierced on-top of his horn.
“You lost,” he said, smug smile on his lips
Pierce shoved a pillow under his head. “I let you win. I was going easy.”
“Liar.”
“Maybe.”
The moment settled quietly between them. Rhal looked up at the ceiling, a strange feeling settling into his chest.
the queen is DEAD from an assassin ambush, Leif's clan killed her but they got away without getting caught or traced.
Lady Grandma used to mistake Pierce for her late husband often, even calling him by his name.
Asch sees his grandfather in Pierce a bit but refuses to acknowledge it, occasionally he'll see some of his mother in ava too.
The king used to think pierce was mute for some reason and didn't like the way pierce resembled his dead father.
The king is very neglectful to his sons, But he used to pay attention to them a bit more when the queen was alive.
Theres actually a princess, but she's unknown and had ran away years ago, likely dead.
asch sees a bit of his sister in Noi.
Lady Grandma took Rhys as her pupil because she saw he had potential and intelligence, she had foreshadowed the mission and presented the concept of the idea to asch. Rhys was an automatic addition to his team.
Asch likes socky because it feels like he has some attention on him, in a childish way. The same childish attention he never got from the King.
rhal enjoys violence because his father causes destruction, it's one of the few ways he feels some sort of connection to him.
Rhal only approached pierce because he wanted to spar and beat him.
Rhal and Asch used to spar until the wars began.
the queen used to be kind to the knights and Pierce knew her in a way
The king personally suggested pierce to Rhal, not knowing they were friends and already knew eachother
Strength is seen as attractive on daemos (their literally a world of war and genocid) and Asch used to watch pierce and rhal spar and think 'this is...Not normal for close people.'
Lady bish is from a neighboring kingdom that needed an alliance with another kingdom, Rhal specifically chose her because she wore blue
Rhal is colorblind slightly to red, he wears it anyways because his father once said red is the only true color of power.
Lady grandma doesn't like what her son grew up to be.
The king was head over heels for the queen, after her death, he never stopped mourning, he became more negligent to Asch and Rhal and more violent in wars and such.
The queen was known as the only 'kind' daemos. (Noi isn't famous enough to be known)
Today is the day we talk about it because, guess what? It was slightly canon and now I wanna talk about it. I also have a piece of digital art I made for Pierce’s new design. There’s also, a lot of angst in this au, Rhal isn’t very nice in this au, reason’s why are explained in the tags of this post. So onto the au
Pierce is very more, not nice at all in this au, along with talkative since he was occasionally Rhal's General and doing other things when not, which requires a lot of talking,
Eventually, in due time, it'll get angsty
And Pierce practically wears his hair in a ponytail all the time, though I'm talking about a different way, but he sometimes wears his hair in a braid, mostly for training. But the picture of how he wears his ponytail is down below.
The roles have changed. Pierce isn't really or technically Rhal's knight, he is by default of if the king wants Rhal to be accompanied in a meeting or on a diplomatic mission, along with sometimes a sparring partner. Pierce is actually the captain of the royal guard, sometimes switching to being Rhal's general occasionally, being the captain of the royal guard requires talking and giving commands, which is why he's even talkative in this au.
Though Rhal is not nice to him when he has to watch over him, which is where some angst comes in. Rhal tends to injure his guards and knight, this tends to happen to Pierce when he watches over him, but Pierce makes excuses for him, like how it was an accident on when he badly hurt him. Pierce is not okay in this au and would have been better off as Asch's bodyguard, but it's too late for that.
But the idea was what if Leif was meant to be Asch's Knight while Pierce was meant to be Rhal's, but turns out, in a chain of events Leif was no longer fitted to be Asch's Knight and Rhal refused to have one so Pierce became Asch's Knight instead. But the thing is, what if those events never happened?
It's only Asch, Leif, Rhys and Noi going to Earth, though by Rhal's command for Pierce to go find Asch and his guards he makes it there with the help of Lady Bish.
So Pierce eventually shows up, wearing mysterious cloak but still somehow has decided to have his hair in a ponytail because you still got to look good, even when wearing a cloak.Insert a confrontation to atone for all your sins except it. It goes practically like this:
Pierce, mysteriously appears in front of the stairs(Do they even have stairs?) wearing a cloak which hides his face and general appearance: HEY! Are you Prince Asch?!
Ava:... No?
Pierce: No?! Wait- Hold on- *He goes to check some sort of paper* -let me check the plan...*Turns towards the group* yEAH! He should be here! Where the hell is he?!
Ava: Uhhh, I don't know, maybe watching TV.
Pierce: What the fuck is that?
Ava: Uh... You watch videos on it.
Pierce: The fuck is a video?
Ava: A collection of pictures is a video-
Pierce: And wHo the fuCk are yOu?
Ava: Human Ava... sir.
Pierce: oHhh... Eh, close enough.
He tries to take Ava back Daemos cause he realizes she’s a human, and humans are needed in Daemos for magic. Though he doesn't really get that far because the others and Noi managed to restrain him before he could. Then Asch walks in and he and Pierce make eye contact for a split second before Asch says "Oh hELL no," Pierce says "Oh HELL YES,"
And also by some ungodly way, he quickly becomes friends with Noi, along with many questions on how he never met this boy but he met the other 3, and how he even got on the team.
Finally! The labour of a week long comic creation course 3 months ago and half of inktober! So, Melany gets visited by her patron now and again in dreams. Fever dreams to be exact. From having an undying patron, Melany is resistant to diseases, but she's still sick somewhat often because of her patron. I like to think that Eilistraee protects the dreams of her followers at night, so in order to circumvent this the patron makes her so sick she has to sleep during the day.
I'm pretty proud of this comic, the composition especially, though I'm still unsure about the actual dialogue, but whatever! It's done!
I forgot how slow i am with colored pencils, ngl this took forever to finish. also I’m p. sure i flubbed the character design but. I love Rhal from The Lucky Die Podcast, so here this is I guess