#yrliet post

[primarchslut]

Jealous event aside, what is your ranking of most to least jealous companions?

most?

marazhai, by a long shot. ↓

i was actually just writing about this when i got your ask (funny how that works, hm?) but specifically in a parallel to hannibal lecter/marazhai.

both of them are monsters, yes, indescribably monsters, but they are monsters that covet. they pick their favorite toys, preen them, delicately dress (literally, in the case of hannibal) and coo over them, and have a deranged reaction if said toy is taken from them, or attempted to be taken.

this is not to say the rt is only a toy, they can absolutely bite back, but drukhari pride is going to have marazhai often, until perhaps he begins to view you as an equal on the sub route, viewing the rt as something he can covetously play with.

Marazhai's eyes go wide in disbelief. "What?" He freezes, clearly confused. "No. No, you cannot… you cannot… abandon me! We are bound by the ties of possession, [NAME]! It may have once been a game, but after all you have been through in my charge… after the branding…" Marazhai's voice is shaking with anger — and unconcealed fear.

he even gets pissed at Kharael for even fucking looking at the rt, lol

Kharael's gaze lingers on you, or more specifically, on the brand on your neck. Suddenly he snorts. "Did you get bored away from home, Marazhai? You found yourself a toy?" + Marazhai regards you with a look of smouldering hunger and replies to Kharael with contempt. "The mon-keigh is my property, Kharael. Be careful when you are looking at them, I may misinterpret your intentions."

kibellah is also a good contender, for she also covets the rt and had this brainwashed into her. even her jealousy banter is pretty brutal:

but, i place her a bit below marazhai because kibellah has also been raised to respect your decisions, meanwhile marazhai freaks the fuck out (seen above) if you try and break up with him.

medium jealousy

i think heinrix, internally, can get a bit jealous but he comes at it with ice cold facts/a factual assessment of the situation (except for, hilariously, when it comes to a mar/rt/hein jealousy situation)

where marazhai and kibellah would be snapping at/threatening someone verbally if they flirted with the rt, i can only see heinrix looming behind them and staring at the offender with his cold, dead fish eyes. and the temperature seems to be dropping a few degrees around him, or the wine/drink he's holding is boiling over/freezing over.

his warmth for you even plummets if you cheat on him + he takes a lot of the breakups really hard:

"It has come to my attention, Lord Captain, that you have formed a particularly close relationship with another member of the retinue." Heinrix's voice is devoid of even a hint of its former warmth. "I wish you well in this new association. Now let us discuss other matters.

Heinrix stiffens, his face strained to the point that his cheekbones threaten to slice through his skin. "Understood, Lord Captain. Your will is absolute. Good night, [NAME]." The Interrogator brusquely bows and makes his way to the door without looking back.

sol, hm, hm... i haven't analyzed sol a lot but he's quite... professional, with his relationships.

"Rogue Trader. I will be straight with you: I know your personal affections have changed." His expression is as impervious as a wall of ceramite. "Seeing as everything is already decided, let us return to a strictly professional relationship, as it should have been from the start."

i think he does truly care for the rt, deeply!, but he struggles to be jealous because, technically, he's with the rt for a mission. does he even have permission to be jealous over a fake relationship? decidedly not, i would surmise.

least?

yrliet, hilariously. i'm mostly taking this from her mini-break up dialogue (which is separate from the jealous event)

"Elantach." Yrliet leans over you slightly and takes a long — an unusually long — look into your eyes. She nods slowly. And draws back. "I see you have decided to bind your fate to another soul. I… understand your choice. It is natural. And I accept it." Folding her arms, she straightens. "Did you wish to discuss something else?

but also in that, well, yrliet is pretty mature about the whole romance. far more than heinrixs i'm going to kill myself before admitting my feelings, cassias nervous and unsure of awkward doe prance through the romance, kibellahs strange and off-putting obsession, and solomornes conflicted, but earnest feelings.

jae can also be pretty lax, but not if she's been true/fully romanced. before the true ending, she's a very easy come, easy go. sort of character. she's very casual and fun about relationships + sex as a whole, her whole romance has a comedic undertone.

but eventually, she does come to care deeply and prize the rt, and i think she would get quite jealous after she's fully romanced.

i think cassia can get jealous, but she's mostly just dismayed. it's her first love, and she truly believed that the rt would be her one and only and she would be theirs, based off this banter:

i think she would just get upset (in a sad way) instead of jealous. or even have her lack of self-esteem kick in, for of course someone is flirting with the rt. they're amazing, and she is... a mutant. an undesirable.

non companions?

out of the non-companions, i think ulfar and pasqal are extremely jealous if they're in a relationship. pasqal is going to be whipping out swearing and cursing in binharic if someone flirts with the rt, especially in front of him + warning this "feeble-minded and unblessed layperson to remove their unwanted attention from the unit coveted by Magos Pasqal Haneumann."

ulfar is going to be growling, and later starts rubbing and trying to scent-mark the rt even more. offers to inscribe his runic name into their armor, or through sacrification (as ulfar has tattoos in a similar manner) or just begins drenching them in amulets and talismans.

[primarchslut]

r: Hi! Could you please post the dogmatic and unaligned versions of what Yrliet says to the RT near the end of her meditation romance event in act 2? The ones that would be the equivalent of

"Do you see yourself now, elantach? Just as radiant as others see you?"

"The light in your soul pierces the darkness, ready to give hope to those who need it most. Accept your light."

for iconoclast RTs and

"Elantach, you... you pine for the eternal power granted by corruption. I promised not to judge you, but it is my duty to warn you."

"The darkness has already taken root inside your soul, and it cannot be undone. But you still can accept it and seal it deep inside. Fight! And do not ever give in to it again."

for heretical RTs.

Thank you in advance and have a great rest of the weekend!

dogmatic

"The fire of faith burns bright in your soul, burning you from within. You risk losing yourself if you ever succumb to it." + "But this fire provides you with power. Accept it fully. Accept yourself — and tame the raging fire."

unaligned appears to be classified under something called "Mess"? i guess? i dunno, but it's in the script.

"Your soul resembles an untended garden where the weeds are suffocating fragile flower seedlings." + "Free yourself from your unnecessary burden, elantach. And let serenity enter your soul."

[primarchslut]

One thing I like to headcanon, primarily because I think it would be funny, is that Yrliet actually is asexual but doesn't feel like talking about it, or talking about again if she's already had to talk about it in the past to other Aeldari, so she just decides to nope out of the conversation entirely by telling the RT it's because they're different species and it will never work (though I doubt she'd be interested in humans even if she did experience that kind of attraction). Like sure someday in the future they'll broach that topic if she gets comfortable enough, but right now she's dealing with enough Mon-Keigh bullshit anyway without throwing complex discussions of sexuality into it.

right, like.

when i say i don’t think yrliet is asexual with other craftworlders, this isn’t due to a hatred of asexuality or a desire to not see it in media, or whatever bigoted opinions that i firmly do not align with, but it’s purely based off this one line:

Yrliet shrugs indifferently. "You long for that which human nature desires — for intimacy with your own kind. I can understand that."

to me, that line read as her going yes, i also desire for intimacy with my own kind, but not you. specifically. of course, intimacy doesn’t always equal sexual content either, but since that dialogue occurs after she witnesses another active love interest in your personal map, it read to me as her acknowledging and relating to the idea of being traditionally romantically involved with another of your kind, which, to me, also involves sexual content.

but you can also totally view it as her going i empathize with you, and understand it, but do not share it.

i think asexual yrliet is great, and if people find comfort in that, absolutely rock on. it’s your turn with the dolls, and you should have fun with them like how i do.

but, yes, lol, coupled with how aeldari bond romantically and sexually, in such intense ways that human emotions are essentially a puddle compared to their ocean, i can totally see yrliet going i do not have time to educate mon-keigh on the complex sexualities and bonds aeldari engage with.

she also does not have a great relationship with humans in general, especially those that broach the topic of engaging with “base passions” with her. i would also be affronted and put off.