question for you! 🫶 do you have anything else you want to share about/can you talk about your viago & ghilasara headcanons? I'm so intrigued by their dynamic, especially with ghilasara not being a de riva!
thank you, Cleric, I'm very touched you got interested!!
Tbh Viago saying that "Rook would make a damn fine crow" lives in my mind rent-free. Can't believe I haven't seen much discussion of the non-crow Rook & Viago dynamic before. Like you can have all the Viago weirdness without the subordination angle! Isn't that interesting! But I digress.
The way I see their "partnership" start is when Ghilasara survives an attempt on her life the first time after she breaks up with Lucanis. Realising that just because they aren't together anymore doesn't mean she won't be a target. And this is her life now! One does not leave the crows, and maybe she isn't one, but she accidentally got too damn close!!
So after a short session of screaming and crying about the absolute state of things, she'd realise she has to talk to someone about this, and Viago is the only non-Treviso crow she knows personally. They aren't close, but there's no one else to turn to. Cue a trip to Salle and them forming a mutually beneficial relationship where she reports any assassination attempts to him, he helps her make sense of them (which house sent the assassins and what specifically are they trying to achieve at this particular time) and then uses the information for whatever personal benefits he can extract (I 💙 scheming) without alerting Lucanis and/or Teia while also trying to uphold stability inside the crows. Also, a part of the bargain is Bellara offering her services to Viago in helping mask poisons in food, as per one of Lucanis's Logbooks (she volunteered. I personally find that headcanon funny, Bellara's morals are weirdly loose enough she'd be into masterminding ways to help poison people).
Lots of other thoughts floating in my head but I wanted to keep this relatively concise skdfhjksdf hope this was interesting to read!