#Theo's facial hair is horribly patchy

[offsidekineticist]

So I still have asks and stuff to answer, but a couple of asks I got made me think about a demon path AU for Theoven where he basically gives up on even trying to control his temper, and...um...well this is what came of it, and I don't think I ever want to touch that AU again. Post-game fic.

CW: suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, mental breakdown, imprisonment, torture, toxic family dynamics

There is a mansion in the Abyss filled with shadows. There is a room in this mansion guarded by shadows. There is a gnome in this room bound by shadows. And every day, the lord of the mansion stops by this room and asks the gnome a single question:

"Are you ready to behave?"

When he was first brought to this place, the gnome answered by trying to break his bonds and attack his captor. In time, when the shadows would not let him die, he answered by begging for death. Eventually he lost any hope of dying, and answered the question with tears and whimpering. Now even the tears have gone, and he answers only with silence. This is his last resistance, the last of his honor: he has failed, and he has broken, but he has broken in a way that will not give his brother what he wants.

The master of the mansion always sighs with disappointment, as one might at a petulant child, before saying:

"Well. Perhaps you will be ready tomorrow."

And every day he turns and walks away, a smirk of satisfaction on his lips, and the shadows begin their horrors anew.

#oc: theoven derenge #pathfinder wotr #knight-commander oc #pwotr pals #regill derenge #Demon path au #This is the darkest timeline #Theo has a goatee #It looks awful #Theo's facial hair is horribly patchy #Literally impossible to make anything respectable out of it #Really it just looks like he missed a few spots while shaving #But nobody in this timeline is brave enough to tell him that