#''erebus your aunt is really hot''

[brutal-nemesis]

E&T Atonement AU-How Far You’ve Fallen

Oh boy it’s teatime

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Ingredients: noncon touching (unsexy)

What he’d expected when he’d been dragged into an empty room and had his wrists chained to the ground in front of him, he wasn’t sure. For a few minutes he simply knelt there alone, left to wonder if it was going to be pain, humiliation, or some twisted combination of the two. He looked up as Neteri entered, but when he saw who was with her, he turned away as if he had been struck, arms pulling vainly against the short chain anchoring them to the floor. Why was she here he didn’t want her to see him like this and how was she even-

“So, this is what’s become of you, huh?” He refused to look at her even as she crouched in front of him, fighting to keep his tears from spilling out.

“What are you doing here?” he whispered.

“Oh come on, is that how you greet me now? Gone for a month and you’ve already lost all your manners…” Hesitantly, his gaze slid over to meet hers, though he still kept his face turned away.

“H-hello...Aunt Almira.” She gave him an amused smile.

“Hello, little nephew.” Her hand cupped his cheek, gently turning his face towards her. “Hmm, you don’t look as much like Elisenda anymore with your hair short like this. Regardless, I am happy to see that you survived. I’d hoped you would when I helped the Empire invade-”

“You what?” he gasped. Almira sighed.

“I did it to reduce casualties. There was no way we could ever hope to defeat an army like Xerna’s, and I didn’t want to sacrifice our men needlessly.”

“T-that’s why it all happened so fast that’s why they knew-”

“It was my way of helping. Trust me, this was for the best.” She gently thumbed away the tears that had started silently falling from his eyes. “My sister was always too soft on you, and I can’t imagine things would have gone well once you ascended the throne. But now, Berké can have a real future as part of the Empire, and you’re somewhere where you can’t do any damage with a nice owner who will take good care of you. Drottkia knows you couldn’t do it yourself.” Almira let go of him and stood, looking down with a hint of disdain. “You were never fit to be king.”

“I know.” The words come out automatically, before he even realizes what he’s saying. But that’s the truth, isn’t it? 

It is.

This is how everything is supposed to be.

He’s right where he belongs.

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#i wrote something #erebus & terror #atonement au #erebus #neteri #noncon touching #betrayal cw #whump #royalty whump #lmao yeah one of the reasons he's so upset about his hair is he doesn't look like his mom anymore :) #neteri is literally just having gay panic in the corner the whole time #almira is strong military lady #if this were normal circumstances neteri would be like #''erebus your aunt is really hot'' #and erebus would just be ''neteri if you hook up with my AUNT i will kill you'' #and if it turned into something more and then suddenly neteri is also erebus's aunt #god that would be fucking hilarious. just out here experimenting on my nephew! #see i dont make *all* of my crack content canon because this 100% will not be #i already know who neteri's wife is and it's not almira 😔 but the aunt au can be a thing on the side #also: is almira based heavily on general amaya from tdp? fucking maybe #general amaya is like actually a good aunt tho we stan her #if you know who that is no you dont (actually no come talk to me i love tdp be my friend) #if you dont know who that is and you like women look her up and you can thank me later #it's canon that almira sorta betrayed the kingdom but i dont think erebus ever actually findsout #she really thought it was the best course of action to keep her men from dying in what she figured would be a pointless struggle #and she's always thought erebus was too soft to be a good ruler #she didn't necessarily *want* him to get fucking tortured though but no way is she setting him free #and oh look at that he's broken now #which means we're almost done here