AU where Silver’s hair stays gold and, because it’s magical, always reverts back to its original appearance within a few days, no matter what he does to it… Silver’s hands and scalp are severely cracked and bleeding from bleaching it every day
twisted wonderland // mallesil // wc: 444 // warnings: NA // notes: i don't interpret mallesil as brothers, but if you do, this can be read platonically ok? ok
Malleus watches him sleep, often.
He can’t parse why he does this. He does not fear for Silver’s life– not in the sense that he thinks someone may burst through his window and attack him. Even if such a thing were to happen, Silver is beyond capable of handling himself, protecting himself. He could have any assailant pinned, diced, and thrown out in a matter of seconds.
So no, Malleus does not fear for Silver. Still, he watches him.
It is almost a fascination with how humans function. When Malleus sleeps, it is a mere blink before he is awake again. If he dreams– and he supposes he, of all people, must– the thoughts of it are gone mere moments after he wakes. He can’t really remember the last dream he had. Silver, on the contrary, sleeps so often and so frequently that he must have plentiful dreams, he must have an entire world, a continuity, going on in his own head. Malleus wonders, if that is the case, how Silver could parse dreams from reality. Perhaps that is why his unique magic came so easily to him– everything was like a dream, already.
When Silver had first developed his unique magic, Malleus was, to be honest, frightened. He didn’t know what was going on in his own head– he didn’t want to bare such things to Silver when he himself didn’t even know what they could be. Nothing pleasant, he has told himself, and absolutely nothing that the little human needed to know about. Maybe that was why he watched Silver– to make sure he didn’t accidentally go trotting off where he ought not to. To make sure he stayed in his own pleasant dreamland, uninterrupted by the thoughts and whims of distressing others.
The thought passes his mind frequently– if he used his own unique magic, he could keep Silver in that little dreamland forever. That’s what the back of his mind, the blot, tells him. He may have escaped last time, but this time, we can stay together. We can be together forever.
But it’s not his place, and the blot was in the wrong. He knows they will not leave him. He knows, realistically, that Silver will not trot off to any dreams he cannot return from. That’s part of what Malleus finds so admirable about him. So he does not use his unique magic– he just stays, keeping watch like a shadow, in awe of the human, of his humanly human humanesque behaviours, and he wonders. He wonders incessantly. But it’s not his to know. Not his place.
He just watches. And when Silver wakes, he’s gone as fast.
malleus noncons silver while he's sleeping because he can't resist and silver wakes up and malleus freaks out because he got caught but silver is like "aw milord can use me to relieve himself whenever he wants <3 i don't mind <33 it was actually very sweet and considerate of you to think of me" and malleus is like ...
// possessive behavior, maybe even yandere!Malleus, you can interpret as LiliSil if you want but to me this is Malleus being unreasonable lol
One trope that I absolutely love on MalleSil fanfics (and I wish it happened more often) is when, out of all people, Malleus gets jealous of Lilia. Because how couldn't he? Silver loves Lilia. Silver dedicated his life to paying him back for raising him despite everything that he knew about humans. Sure, Silver is devoted to Malleus and promised to pay him back as well, even became his knight for that sole purpose.
But Lilia comes in first place in Silver's heart. He even gives Lilia that damn acorn bracelet so Lilia can live even longer than he already has, Silver smiles at Lilia often when talking to him, that sweet smile that is reserved for his father only. Because around Malleus, Silver is polite, closed off, his knight only.
Sometimes, an unreasonable part of Malleus wishes he could shield Silver from everyone, even Lilia, no, especially Lilia. Replace whatever paternal love Silver has for his adoptive father to loving Malleus instead.
Sadly enough. That's impossible, and Malleus knows that he's being childish. Their relationship is beautiful enough that Lilia wanted to go far away so Silver wouldn't spend the rest of his fleeting life taking care of his old fae father. That's admirable. He thinks.
I have been reading MalleSil fanfiction on Pixiv lately and noticed that a lot of the japanese shippers love to explore the theme of Silver never thinking he's worth being in a serious relationship with Malleus. He simply sees himself as a plaything, a hobby, something that Malleus will eventually tire out as time goes by because Silver is a human.
I have become absolutely wrecked by this. Because it is so in character for Silver.
I use Google Translate to read the fics (as I don't understand japanese, lol), and if you have been craving for mallesil fanfiction pixiv has plenty of them (some being real books you can by, I assume you can buy online as well?) That even with the somehow not so good automatic translation I would recommend you to read.
Here is one that I love (beware for a lot of dubcon and noncon! That's present in most of the fanfics in the tag ):
Is it a human or a beast hidden in this heavy mist,
When it's two hours before midnight?
You run through the dream, lamenting to the moon,
You run, you run,
You run, you run,
But you're never coming to me.
Roll down, the Moon, oh you Devil's Wheel.
...and yet, I'm still all alone in this dream.
Yeah! Some more song associations.
MalSils' relationship is the one which brings me to these fairytale-style thoughts and images. It's only natural, but I can't comprehend how poetic they are, it's just... so damn aesthetically pleasing.
...They're not one of my main ships but one that I enjoy a lot.
Well. Due to how much I've been thinking about them lately, maybe they are one of my main ships now?