#Titus: kills an imperial defector who was sneaking clone babies into insomnia so they might live normal lives not being sacrificed

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Titus: WHAT are you!!!!!

Celor, actively sobbing: an accountant?

#Cruddy rambles #H2O au #OC shit #I love this idiot #This side plot has consumed me rn. Idk why. But it's what my brain is fixated on writing atm #Because. Titus having a secret identity getting mad at Celor for having a secret is SO funny to me #Like bro you. You are literally infiltrating the kingsglaive in order to feed info to the imperials. You are a GENERAL in the imperial army #But no get mad at the guy who does the citadel tax work because he's awkward and trips over himself all the time #Titus: kills an imperial defector who was sneaking clone babies into insomnia so they might live normal lives not being sacrificed #Also Titus: Celor you are a FREAK OF NATURE and deserve to be stabbed for your CRIMES #Celor [looking up from his paperwork]: wh- #Clarus: mmmm yeah Drautos is just on edge bc of the war and his home being taken by the imperials. Also Regis trusts him soooo #Meanwhile Drautos is getting fitted for his terrifying magitek armor and preparing to cut regis's hands off to get the ring #He also kills Celor just straight up stabs him during the fall of insomnia. Kinda like Clarus. #Celor bleeding out and watching fire consume his life's work: well. This... sucks. [fucking dies] #And to be clear Celor dying in this case is the Good Ending because I wrote out a Celor lives au but it's. Horrifying. #I should be nicer to him but the reality is his character would not run from the citadel during the attack even if I want him to #He would stay and try to help even if he's not a good fighter. That's just the kinda dude he is. So a Celor lives au means... #Well basically Drautos lets him live in order to take him back to Gralea and Verstael. Which. Uh oh. *Uh oh*. #So yeah. Option 1 is... Mercy. #Theoretically I could write an au where Cor drags him out of insomnia against his will but. Tbh I really just don't think Celor would let #That happen. Cor would literally have to either knock him out or tie him up which just. Isn't viable or reasonable. It wouldn't make sense #So yeah. He dies. #The Celor lives au is also a Drautos lives au. Which is also bad for Most of everybody including nyx. Like yeahhh Dude dies anyway but...