#sigewrio

[fallenangelflonne]

i'm copying and pasting this from a comment i made under sigewinne's drip marketing because i think tumblr needs to hear it, too:

sigewinne is a grown woman and wriothesley treats her as such.

sigewinne is the head nurse of a prison, meaning she more than likely has a medical degree or some other high-level certification.

sigewinne only looks the way she does because she's a member of a fantasy race based around sea bunnies, and most, if not all other members of that race you encounter throughout fontaine are homeowners, such as mamere and the other residents of merusea village, and/or have full-time jobs, such as the aquabus operators, front-desk workers, and even police officers, meaning they're all adults and are widely regarded as such by the people of fontaine.

sigewinne is not a child just because she's short and has exaggerated moe proportions. she's 500+ years old.

wriothesley is not sigewinne's surrogate dad; he's her coworker. sigewinne does not need a father figure, much less one she's known since HE was a teenager. please stop infantilizing her.

[miliemhtml8]

I rly love them and I’m not ashamed :p

[feroluce]

Melusine hands make it difficult to write, which is why they all use stickers to mark their items. Despite having human-like hands and fingers, Sigewinne is still very much a Melusine, and she participates in this culture. She puts stickers all over Wriothesley and his gauntlets because that is hers.

Wriothesley doesn't learn this until after he and Sigewinne are together, but he's doing the mental math and he's pretty sure she was stickering him even before they started dating. He tries to bring it up subtly, like oh, so I overheard- or someone mentioned to me the other day that- because. Surely there must be some other meaning behind the stickers, other than just declaring ownership of belongings. Surely that doesn't count for people? You wouldn't mark a person as your property. Right?

And Wriothesley has his back to Sigewinne as he says this. But he turns to face her, and she's smiling at him just as sweet as ever, but her eyes are just a little different, in a way that has nothing to do with appearance. Looking in them feels the same as the first time Wriothesley descended into the depths and then looked out at the bottom of the sea. All the breadth and oppressive weight of an entire ocean, and miles and miles of unfathomable dark and all the things that hide within it.

Sigewinne smiles and tells him no, he understood it correctly. The stickers are how they mark belongings. There is no other interpretation and no deeper meaning. Sigewinne has staked her claim. Wriothesley is hers.

[feroluce]

Love how Hoyo left Wriothesley's origins a mystery (Schrödinger's Fontainian, as @/hydrachea put it), and love even more how Wriothesley's voice line for this is to joke about finding out by diving into Primordial Seawater just to see what would happen snzkxjndm but. I feel like that's such a delightful setup for suspense, too, which is my fave ♡

Just love imagining Sigewinne, unconscious and sunk at the bottom of so much Primordial Seawater where no one can get to her. And she's a Mélusine; she won't drown, because she was made able to live underwater. But that doesn't mean that Primordial Seawater isn't dangerous, even to her. It slowly begins to eat away at her.

And stuck up on the surface, Wriothesley paces, and paces, and paces, asking for the sixth time where the hell is Neuvilette, or even Lady Furina, how much longer til they get here, what if they don't have that long?

Clorinde quizzes everyone present, but it's no use: everyone there is of Fontaine. It's not a matter of no one wanting to save Sigewinne, it's that they literally can't. They would all dissolve the second they were submerged, long before they could dive deep enough to grab her. The only one that they aren't sure is Fontainian or not is-

Clorinde looks back, and Wriothesley is standing close enough to tip into the sea, right at the edge.

"Wriothesley, don't."

He's staring down into the water. He doesn't turn to look at her.

"Wriothesley, don't-!!"

And Wriothesley dives.

[feroluce]

The inmates of The Fortress of Meropide sometimes have stupid conversations and play dumb little games, like "what's the best thing you've ever stolen and gotten away with." Getting their duke in on it is a wild card, because Wriothesley gives a different answer every time, and no one can tell when he's kidding or not. One time he answered "the position of warden" and well. That one's definitely true. So maybe he's not lying. Either way the inmates love listening to him, since they all adore Wriothesley so much. ♡

Sigewinne on the other hand is banned from playing anymore because her answer is always "the duke's virginity" and like. How do you compete with that. You don't. It's an automatic win HSKJZMXKSNSMDKD

[feroluce]

I'm brainrotting over the thing we see in Mamere's world quests, where each Mélusine has a "token" aka a small object that serves as their "proof of life" and is probably their single most important possession ever, because like. There's not really any human equivalent. So Wriothesley wouldn't really understand how/what/why Sigewinne considers this thing as almost as valuable as her own life, he just knows that it's important to her.

So I think if something were to happen, like Meropide springing a leak somewhere near Sigewinne's quarters, it'd cause a lot of distress for her. Everyone gets evacuated, because no, it's not pure Primordial Seawater like from the sluice gate, but y'know, it's still rushing water and still dangerous. A lot of inmates get banged up in the panic of evacuating and the flood, and as badly as Sigewinne wants to leave and go back for her token, she can't ignore it when her patients are hurt. So she swallows it down and blocks it out and tries to just get to work and desperately hope she can find it in the wreckage later.

They do a headcount and everybody but their duke is accounted for; someone remarks they saw him running towards the source of the water. Sigewinne is equal parts relieved and worried, because if anyone could at least temporarily stop the leak it would be Wriothesley, but also he gets reckless sometimes, so she really hopes he's careful about it.

It takes a while, but some of the inmates start yelling over by the rails, and when Sigewinne tells them to move over, she sees that Wriothesley is trudging his way back up to them from the lower level. The inmates are all so proud and excitable! That's their duke!! Wriothesley looks up and sees them all hanging over the rails, and from here Sigewinne can see that he's completely soaked. Wriothesley's skin is all irritated red and fever-flushed from the diluted Primordial Seawater, and he's littered with bruises and scrapes from the current battering him against the walls and the floors and the pipes and all kinds of debris.

Wriothesley looks up, but he doesn't say anything at first, he just scans his eyes back and forth over the crowd. Until finally, he locks eyes with Sigewinne, and raises his arm up.

And in his hand is the bag that Sigewinne keeps her token in.

And the inmates, not realizing what he's holding, take his raised arm as a victorious fist in the air and they all cheer haha. But Wriothesley doesn't look anywhere else, doesn't smile for anyone but Sigewinne. ♡

[feroluce]

Inmate: So I know now that you're fully Mélusine, even though you look like that. But are there any half-human, half-Mélusines, then?

Sigewinne: No...not yet, anyway! But I'm working on it! ☆

Inmate: Ah, I see.

Inmate: Wait, what?

(And somewhere in the depths of Meropide, Wriothesley gets a sudden chill down his spine sksjkdkd)

[feroluce]

Inmate #1: I used to always keep a bat by my bed.

Inmate #2: I used to sleep with a gun under my pillow.

Inmate #3: I used to sleep with a knife.

Sigewinne: Hah! The three of you are so cute.

Inmate #1: Oh yeah? What do you sleep with?

Sigewinne: The Duke.