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@troublemakingrebel
oh Heavens, I can't lie; Father, what can I say? I will never be the same...
Are you a wolf, are you a lamb?
Do you surrender or withstand?
𝙳𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚁𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕: 𝚞𝚗𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
Beautiful Decline Series
What started as a reckless yearning of a young Saxon prince for a feral Norseman, eventually turns into a love so strong, it’s worth dying living for.
1. In the Belly of the Beast 2. Tainted 3. Dead Butterflies 4. A Key to His Disaster
now, with stunning cover arts by @nirvana-war-queen:
witcher moment
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Rating: M Warnings: none Relationships: Henry of Skalitz/Hans Capon Characters: Henry, Hans, Father Godwin and most of the Devil’s Pack mentioned one way or another Tags: Fluff & Humor, Banters, Idiots in Love, Jealous Hans (it’s Sam, it’s always Sam), Shy Henry, takes place right after Suchdol, as they return to the Devil's Den, Frottage, Kissing (lotssss of it), Secret Relationship but like everyone is painfully aware (poor Godwin, the things he has to deal with......), in this house the Devil's pack got Hansry’s backs
On the day the Siege of Suchdol has finally ended, Henry and Hans return to the Devil's Den to enjoy their moment of peace, just the two of them, with God and Devil alike watching their backs quietly.
Hans' character development in three punches:
• to get Henry
• to get himself and Henry into even more troubles than before
• to save Henry
it came to my attention that there is an alarming amount of people pulling out their hair and especially their poor bleeding hearts over the fact of Hans' arranged marriage. and while I respect and actually adore their ability to stomach broken glass and red hot nails, I also offer a completely opposite mentality as advised by a certain fellah over there:
see, him face?
the advice is as follows:
on top of that! when Hans reeeeeally doesn't want to do something, no one can force him.
"being responsible at Pirkstein? nuh, gonna go get abducted by Cumans while hunting with that blacksmith boy!"
"carrying sacks? nuh, gonna start a brawl and end up in a pillory with that blacksmith boy–"
"passageways? that my entire survival depends on? NU-UH."
look, he's already cooking:
besides! when Hans finds himself in the most desperate and hopeless neck-deep SHIT, something always happens to get him out of it (usually, it's Henry. Henry's job is to happen to Hans. yes)
camp slaughtered? Hans is not in the camp
no money, no rags? Hans steals a bow and becomes a poacher
imprisoned? Henry is working on it already
sent to the gallows? saved by von Bergow
ambushed and knocked out? Henry is there to protect him
imprisoned again?! Godwin for the rescue!
exhibit No. 1403, Hans jumping back to what he knows best right after a deadly bonk on the head:
at this point, I'm pretty sure the Great Eagles (summoned by Henry ofc) will quickly pop in to snatch him from the so much dreaded wedding
then, may I remind you whose company Hans and Henry are running in these days? do Žižka and Dry Devil look like they do weddings to forge new alliances? huh?
they do ambushes, raid Austrian borders and bring pistols to the knife fights, that's what they do! ᵃⁿᵈ ˢʰᵒᵒᵗ ᵉᵃᶜʰ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᶦⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵃᶜᵉ ʷʰᶦˡᵉ ᵈʳᵘⁿᵏ ᵇᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵃᵗ'ˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵒᶦⁿᵗ⁻
finally, the argument about some real Hans (my bad, Jan) having a wife and a son hiStORicAlLy is completely invalid, because good for him, I guess, but hey, did that real Hans also have a blacksmith boy to kiss him goodnight? did he eat a demonic carrot as a child? caught an arrow with his backside? had shit spilled on his face, and noose put around his neck? exactly.
listen, listen–
now that Henry has Hans and knows what it's like (arranged marriage and all), has learned the sword well, read every book and survived the war, he packs his stuff and rides back to Sasau
he kicks the door of the almost finished monastery open, he shoves away the new citrators like they don't weigh anything (he dealt with the previous ones the way they deserved back then), and he finds Brother Lucas somewhere in the garden to pull him up from his knees and tell him, "it's time to go", because he doesn't have to live in denial, doesn't have to abandon and forget who he is, hiding behind the not so almighty walls of a house of god that doesn't really care about things so minor
meanwhile Devil be like: "Henry. when I said I needed men, it was a one-time thing, Henry. 60+ game hours ago. look at him, he can't even fight. he's about to faint, Henry!"
but maybe then Henry helps Lucas make it to Kuttenberg, study with a scribe and then get into the Prague University with all that grochen sitting in Henry's pockets
to those unfamiliar with the main story of KCD1:
at some point, Henry has to infiltrate a monastery and become a monk (temporarily, even though he does receive a new name, Brother Gregor) in order to find a certain man
during his very secretive investigation, Henry has to avoid getting caught and put away in a cell by the citrators, a good for nothing bunch of guards that indulge in all those things at nights the monks are forbidden to do (drinking and dice); one of them is hinted to be very interested in the fresh arrivals of lads, the rest you can assume yourself
among the brothers, there is a shy young man named Lucas who doesn't talk much, doesn't want to get involved in anything and simply wishes to be invisible to the world. at some point, before Henry's arrival, he found out about the citrators' nightly activities, and since then they're making his life harder than it already is. on top of that, Henry can find out that Lucas likes men and was sent to the monastery after coming out to his parents that wanted to put him through an arranged marriage
so, knowing all that, not only Henry can ask Lucas about his past and show sympathy ("you are the way you are; you should be true to yourself"), but he can report the citrators to the head of the monastery – or simply kill them quietly
listen, listen–
now that Henry has Hans and knows what it's like (arranged marriage and all), has learned the sword well, read every book and survived the war, he packs his stuff and rides back to Sasau
he kicks the door of the almost finished monastery open, he shoves away the new citrators like they don't weigh anything (he dealt with the previous ones the way they deserved back then), and he finds Brother Lucas somewhere in the garden to pull him up from his knees and tell him, "it's time to go", because he doesn't have to live in denial, doesn't have to abandon and forget who he is, hiding behind the not so almighty walls of a house of god that doesn't really care about things so minor
meanwhile Devil be like: "Henry. when I said I needed men, it was a one-time thing, Henry. 60+ game hours ago. look at him, he can't even fight. he's about to faint, Henry!"
but maybe then Henry helps Lucas make it to Kuttenberg, study with a scribe and then get into the Prague University with all that grochen sitting in Henry's pockets
tell me Warhorse didn't plan Hans & Henry to become a thing from the very start. tell me they didn't pull it off simply due to budget limits and the general uncertainty about reception of their highly niche game. tell me Luke and Tom didn't read the script and go: "hey, are these two...?" and Vávra didn't look them in the eye and say: "yeah, but you have to be silent as a grave about it for the next XXX years until I find you again." tell me they weren't supposed to become something big and bright and beautiful, and that Warhorse didn't know any of it back then, and didn't put the second bed into Hans' room just a few dozen meters away from Henry's actual, official place for sleep, for any specific reason whatsoever. tell me the devil isn't in the details, and it wasn't a carefully crafted foreshadowing under a disguise of a silly dudebros joke, when the Amorous Adventures DLC turned out to be so easy to botch, and in the end Henry was given the ugliest love letter imaginable written by Capon' stupid ass.
tell me I'm not imagining things, because when I look at KCD2 and turn back to glance at KCD1 once again, the voice in my head, to quote a certain vampire from another game that was crafted with just as much love, insists: "it was right there."
love loving this @charlie-rulerofhell
#kingdom come deliverance #alright listen #we'll never know whether or not it was considered from the beginning unless vavra or any other dev says it plainly #but i still don't see why you'd have to insist on their love story being only fan service or an afterthought? #especially with vavra who is first and foremost an irrogant prick holding his CReaTIvE FreEDoM very up high #and him saying on twitter in response to accusations about the gayTM only being added later to cater to other's demands #that this was exactly the story he wanted to tell from the start #now yes he could also mean it as in a story that has the option to romance whomever you like but even then at least that was intentional #and henry and hans weren't shipped because 'two hot bros' (well that too perhaps idk can only speak for myself and the people i know) #they just made sense. there were so many hints in kcd1 - flirty dialogues (from both of them) and journal entries ('he ordered me to strip #and bathe with him .. probably just doesn't want to drink alone') or how luke dale once put it when talking about their relationship: #they're literally riding off into the sunset together #it just makes sense. when the first talk about a gay romance in kcd2 came up i talked to a friend about how if it's not hans they'd have a #big problem to solve because hans would sure get pretty jealous #like sure it could well be that the devs just didn't have a clue what a gem they created there and only found out once they saw the game in #its entirety and read people's reactions to it (as an author myself i can attest it happens all the time) #but i'd still refrain from calling it merely fanservice because that makes it sound as if they wrote it in just to please the audience whil #giving no fuck about the story they set before and that's just .. not it. in fact henry's and hans's romance gets even richer when you play #both games and consider all of the events of kcd1 as well. again it just adds up so perfectly whether intentional from the start or not #and as a final afterthought before riding out back to bohemia myself before going to work later (sigh) #henry's and hans's romance is optional yes but hans's feelings aren't. just as rosa's or katherine's aren't. #you could argue about when these feelings first came up for him but this potential crush of his still casts every interaction with him in a #certain light. again did they consider it back then in kcd1? who knows. lbr it simply wasn't necessary for the plot then so it might have #as well been briefly talked about and then quickly swept off the table as it just didn't matter. but it matters now. #it's a an important and significant love story that just works with what they had written before and that means so much to us gay #medieval-loving gamer kids who have to fight for our existential rights daily both in the gaming community and in society as a whole #and to now have a game that is all about 'historical accuracy' telling the world: this kind of love exists and it always existed #not just for fetishisation but simply for love against all odds. with a character that is not just henry's romance option but also his #best friend a character that exists outside of this relationship with his own wishes and desires and fears and motvations ... #maybe they didn't know what they created right away but fuck did they pop off with this one
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