what do you mean there are only 4 sejanus/billy taupe fics????
sejanus would fall for that sweet talking rebel so fast… would billy taupe treat him right? maybe, maybe not. I hope so.
wouldn’t it be so funny if I paralleled lucy gray’s relationship timeline with anna saffron (first love), billy taupe (hasty, grief-fueled rebound), and coriolanus (genuinely trying to move on) to billy taupe’s relationship with johnie violet (anna saffron’s brother/BT’s first love) to lucy gray (hasty, grief-fueled rebound) to sejanus (genuinely trying to move on)?
here’s what I’m thinking: billy taupe and lucy gray were never really in love, though they both wanted to be. they were just trying to shut out the grief instead of confronting it (because they’d already lost so much already), knew the other was feeling what they felt (lucy gray grieving anna saffron as a lover, while billy taupe grieving her as a sister and feeling like he let johnie violet down by not protecting her), and sought comfort in each other. when it wasn’t enough… billy taupe sought out another. lucy gray, meanwhile, retreated inward. lucy gray only confronts her grief after her games—but before coriolanus comes to 12. maybe sejanus helps billy taupe confront his?