#ancel/berenger

[coffeedrgn87]

New CaPri Drabble: To The Moors

Uhm, so I wrote something totally unplanned.

Title: To The Moors Pairing: Ancel/Berenger Rating: T Word Count: 1.9K Add. Tags: Established Relationship, Post-Book 3: Kings Rising (Captive Prince), Travel, Secrets, Adventure, Fluff Excerpt: Ancel couldn’t find the fitting words for a suitable retort, so instead of more protesting, he remained quiet. “You’re mad, Berenger.” Berenger guffawed. “And here I thought you enjoy excitement.” Ancel nodded. “Excitement, yes, finding myself on King Laurent’s assassination list, not so much.”

Read the full drabble on AO3.

#captive prince #coffeedragon writes #ancel #berenger #ancel/berenger #ancel captive prince #berenger captive prince #drabble

[capriccfest]

[New CaPri Fic] Consummation Fest Contribution - Week 4

Thrilling News! Fresh content for all you CaPri aficionados!

Title: Transforming Tradition

Pairing: Berenger/Ancel

Creator: Flightinflame

Rating: M

Word Count: 9.5K

Warning/Tags: Marriage, Married sex, Ancel POV, Implied/referenced child abuse, canon typical warnings, true love, post canon. Warnings for mentions of past CSA, fear of dub-con - boundaries are respected, but the person they affect really does not expect them to be. Also Ancel is narrating and foul mouthed

Prompt #: 14

Summary: Ancel is happy with his life as Berenger's pet. It's Berenger who wants them to be married, while at the same time refusing to carry out the necessary ceremonies. Luckily for him, Ancel is devoted and stubborn enough to look for a solution.

🌟 Read the whole fic on AO3 here. 🌟

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#capri #capri cc fest #consummation ceremony fest #capri fest #captive prince #captive prince fest #capri cc fest 2023 #consummation ceremony fest 2023 #ancel #berenger #ancel/berenger #ancel x berenger

[read-in-the-night]

Capri Kinktober Day 31: Pony Party

Title: I Want To Know Your Love Prompts: Scar Worship | Pony Play | Tickling Ship: Damen x Laurent (with a side of Nikandros x Auguste and Ancel x Berenger) Summary: Laurent has been pining over his fellow student and group project partner Damen ever since his first year at university. He knows his pining is fruitless seeing as Damen is a very popular top. One evening, he and his brother go to a horsemarket. A place where those who wish to bottom, the mares, are placed naked and blindfolded into a room and those who wish to top, the stallions, can walk around and mount whomever they want. Among the mares Laurent finds Damen, naked and blindfolded, waiting to get mounted. Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51294268

Thank you @captiveprincekinktober for organizing this!

#captive prince #fanfiction #capri #capri kinktober 2023 #captive prince kinktober 2023 #fic #kinktober 2023 #damen x laurent #damen/laurent #lamen #nikgus #nikandros x auguste #nikandros/auguste #ancel/berenger #ancel x berenger #brancel

[seasonsofcapri]

Capriprompt Fill

Title: Languages of Love

Creator: fightinflame (AO3)

Ship: Damen/Laurent, Aimeric/Jord, Berenger/Ancel, Torveld/Erasmus, Lazar/Pallas

Summary: Five different ways of showing love:

Physical Touch - Aimeric/Jord

Gifts - Berenger/Ancel

Acts of Service - Torveld/Erasmus

Words of Affirmation - Lazar/Pallas

Quality Time - Laurent/Damen

Read it here on Ao3!

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#captive prince #capriprompt #capriprompt: love language #captive prince fic #damen/laurent #ancel/berenger #aimeric/jord #torveld/erasmus #lazar/pallas #lamen #berencel #pallazar

[oh23]

the more i think about it the more i love berenger. him and ancel are such a perfectly volatile pair. like lamen?? theyre perfect. they FIT so well.

Ancel and berenge???? dear lord. its like sodium and water. so fucking intense. u have a proud fuckboytoy and a strict disciplined man who /believes/ ancel s a smart handsome young man who can do more than this. and u have ancel's frustration and u have berenger steady faith. and its so.

fire x wood.

constant flame, desire, violent, leaping and then steady, brown, dull, unbending unyielding. but wood always catches fire.

#ancel #berenger #capri #captive prince #rambling

[tschulijulesjulie]

this is still to this day one of the most iconic interactions ive ever read

#yes im reading pet after Capri before PG because i want to compare Ancels descriptions to Damens bias #tschulis capri reread: pet #captive prince pet #captive prince #ancel #berenger #ancel x berenger

[merrivia]

I’ve finally read Pet and am kicking myself I didn’t read it sooner!

I’ve measured out the short stories like I’m nibbling on chocolate, Charlie Bucket style, and I was leaving this till last partly because of that, and partly because I didn’t feel that interested in Ancel (sorry Ancel, I take it back).

It’s fascinating reading about events that occur in Captive Prince but not from Damen’s POV. The idea that everyone has complexities under the surface, and that things aren't always as they seem, is only understood by Damen negatively in the first half of Captive Prince I think. Veretians are untrustworthy and slippery and Machiavellian. And that's not, not true! The Veretian court IS a pit of vipers. But people are also still human, and it's that extra step of understanding the humanity underneath even these acidic, performative snakes which is interesting. Ancel is sharp and smart (and really needs to be taught how to read forthwith). Berenger is morally admirable, and isn't actually sleeping with him. Vannes cares about Berenger in her own small way. Laurent emits a great deal of power and is "instantly commanding" to others (but not to Damen, which must have really infuriated him).

Here’s some more snippets of my thoughts in general:

Waxing is canon! So interesting. Why does no grown man ever shave in the books also? Why isn't attending, also shaving? I think we'll just have to accept that as Pacat's choice. Maybe the only blade she wanted between them was the ghost of swords from a long ago fight/swords in the present?

Isagoras the writer/poet- any connection to Isagoras the historical figure who was embroiled in a power play in terms of Athenian politics and democracy? Who Aristotle called ‘friend of tyrants’? Obviously he’s not meant to be that figure but is it a sort of irony and foreshadowing for the political choices Berenger has to make?

And Akielon writing/poetry is popular among men with status? Interesting. You wonder if Laurent approved a poem waxing lyrical about Ios, or really anything that suggested the Akielons aren't barbarians.

I feel as if Damen would know this poem, and read it to Laurent as part of courting him 🥺

Interesting to see a first impression of Laurent from the viewpoint of someone not instantly obsessed with him- severe and harsh, but no mention of his beauty till later.

I mean this nicely but Damen really has no idea how naturally arrogant and superior he comes across as in this situation, does he? I mean, it’s completely understandable if you think of Akielon society, and how he’s been raised and treated; in fact it would be implausible any other way based on his character traits too. He’s just so bad at pretending to be a slave even as his life is at risk if they find out he’s a prince 😂 oh Damen /pets his curls/. And oh, a *lion* you say....

Just really bad at acting servile, it's so funny. Love him.

Speaking of Lamen, it is a little unsettling how quickly Damen starts to fall for Laurent in Captive Prince and how Laurent truly does hate him, yet…is clearly on some molecular level, attracted to him, I think? It’s just a really heartbreaking and stressful dynamic. His "complete attention" on him...let's face it, if Damen had looked like Govart, Laurent wouldn't be fixated in the same way (I mean this nicely).

Oh my baby Laurent. You know this isn’t right. Are you reenacting a past trauma? Making him suffer what you suffered? Even if you aren’t, your flaw is letting your hatred and anger blind you to your morals. (Lucky a man is going to fall in love with you who is pretty much always on your side even when you don’t always deserve it…). Damen will help you be more honourable /pats blond head/

"Locked” is an apt word isn’t it, considering all that ties them together (and not to mention the gold cuffs and collar…) and oof, Laurent's sexual domination in this scene is quite apparent.

and…

I mean, we all know this is sex by proxy and so does Ancel, who just met Laurent and Damen!

And lastly, I am team Berenger. He's a Good Man and would probably get on pretty well with Torveld and Nikandros, the other dark haired, loyal and responsible men in the trilogy.

Nice to see someone see commoners as people all year round (not simply when their villages are being massacred and their humanity is thrown into stark relief by it)!

#captive prince #pet #ancel #berenger #damen #laurent #lamen

[hamliet]

"Pet": Pretty Woman, But Gay

So I read the Captive Prince series way back in like, 2016, and read the first few short stories and never read the fourth one because I wasn't a fan of the character it would focus on. And then through a weird set of circumstances I found myself reading this short story this past week, and it might be one of my favorite short stories ever.

I'm posting under a cut because the series is very adult, and the short story and series itself contain triggering content.

Ancel is definitely a favorite character of all time now, which is impressive especially since I hated him. But that's kind of what CS Pacat does well--she writes unlikable characters who are indeed truly flawed and not just soft babies inside, and then makes you like them by showing their development without completely changing who they are as characters. It was the main strength of the original Captive Prince trilogy, after all--Laurent's development still remains one of my favorite character arcs of all time.

So really, I don't know why I was shocked at what she did with Ancel. Especially because the whole reason I hated Ancel was the same incident that made me dislike Laurent: a scene in which Laurent uses Ancel to sexually assaults Damen. And I still do think that particular scene is the biggest flaw in the series, because it's kind of glossed over in a lot of ways. Admittedly, that's still the biggest flaw of "Pet" as a story, too: that the story frames Ancel's low moral point as what he does to Erasmus, which is portrayed as an escalation of what he does to Damen, when I'd argue it's the opposite.

Yet, seeing things from Ancel's perspective--how desperate he is to matter, how he genuinely has only ever been used and so doesn't understand why other slaves wouldn't even try to perform and enjoy the meager scraps of joy they get in life--changed my perspective on him. Not on the incident, but on him.

Ancel's a brilliantly written unreliable narrator, too. As confident and vain as he seems, he's all too aware that he doesn't matter in the court. As much as he hates Damen and Erasmus for the former's refusal and the latter's inability to play the role, it's really self-hatred projected onto them. We see bits and pieces of this seeping through in his conversations with Berenger, such as him telling Berenger in a moment of delight:

"I'd even sleep with you. I might even enjoy it for once." He stopped. "High praise," Berenger said dryly.

Ancel doesn't enjoy a lot of his life. But he'd never admit it, because he lacks control over pretty much every aspect of his life and so seeks to keep control over his thoughts by lying to himself. And yet, paradoxically, he's still one of the few people at court who is usually honest with others.

All of this is why Berenger is such a great love interest for Ancel. Berenger prizes honesty, but also freedom. He buys Ancel but refuses to sleep with him because he knows Ancel doesn't really want to, no matter what sweet nothings Ancel whispers in his ear. He respects Ancel's autonomy in ways no one else ever has, and he sees him as a person first and foremost.

Normally stoic "good guys" aren't super interesting as love interests for me. I like angsty tortured souls, Byronic bastards. But Berenger works perfectly in the story, and is no less interesting as a character than Ancel. To be fair, part of this is because everyone in Vere is insane and debauched and there needs to be one normal one there, and that's Berenger. Yet there's intrigue, too: why Berenger bid so highly to buy Ancel in the first place is never directly stated, but what he does say is that Ancel:

You took on every councilor in that room and won.

It wasn't the physical performance, but Ancel himself, his psychological performance. It serves as a metaphor for the overarching plot of the Captive Prince series, wherein the lowly and those who have everything against them end up taking on far more powerful individuals and systems and winning.

Which makes the last line of the story all the more fitting:

But if he wins?

Ancel may not be a pure-hearted individual, but all along he's showing Berenger that it is possible for those who have less to win, and to be loved and give love. He gives Berenger hope for the future, for the coming coup. And as we all know, Laurent does win, and I can only presume Ancel and Berenger live happily ever after.

My second complaint about the series is that the ending is too abrupt even if the ending line is perfect because that's my complaint about the trilogy too.

#captive prince #berencel #ancel #berenger #cs pacat #hamliet reviews #captive prince meta #captive prince pet

[captiveprincekinktober]

Captive Prince Kinktober 2023 Masterlist

Our 31 days of deliciously debauched prompts are over, and the epic outpouring of creativity has been beyond amazing!

🤍 Congratulations to every writer who took part, whether you were inspired by one prompt or created for each and every day of October—thank you for sharing your work with us! 🤍

From microfics to grand scale fics, and from achingly tender to scorchingly hot, the fics people have created and shared are incredible—and there’s so many ships—talk about a talented fandom!

Here’s the link to the Ao3 collection, there’s some brilliant fics there that weren’t shared on Tumblr so make sure you check them out!

If you haven’t already dipped your toe in then have a scroll through the blog to see the pieces shared here to tumblr, or dive in to Ao3...it’s the weekend...what better than to luxuriate in reading some lush Captive Prince fic?

Stats:

73 *edit: 83 works shared to the Captive Prince Kintober Ao3 collection!

9 Ships

1 Gen

2 Threesomes

Longest word count: 10, 463

Shortest word count: 50

If you still want to create a piece for the challenge then keep on tagging @captiveprincekinktober and sharing to the collection, it will be left open, and we’ll keep reblogging here! The prompts are here!

To all the readers and rebloggers who have supported the writers and artists taking part, a huge thank you! 🤍

See you next October 🤍😉

#captive prince #capri #capri fest #captiveprincekinktober #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #auguste of vere #ancel x berenger #capri fic #cp

[quotesthatiliked]

Here's a little Snippet from one of my favorite scenes in the Captive Prince Universe-

‘You must hate me.’

‘Hate you?’ said Berenger. ‘Why would I hate you? You’ve always been honest with me. You never tried to hide what you were.’

‘A whore,’ said Ancel. Berenger didn’t argue. Berenger didn’t say anything at all, just looked back at him. Ancel lifted his chin. ‘So what if I am? I’m not ashamed of it. I’m good at it. I can make menwant me.’ His voice felt raw. ‘It just doesn’t work on you.’

He thought, in the silence that followed, that it didn’t matter. Tomorrow he would have a new patron. He would go to his room, where he would pack his things, the clothes, the paint, the gifts, and Berenger would be just one more owner, one more man from his past, one more name on a list. There was a hard pressure in his chest that he had to ignore. He would turn and walk away from it, he would move on to the next man, and the next.

‘It works on me,’ said Berenger. The words, in Berenger’s honest voice, at first didn’t make sense. Ancel didn’t understand it, it was too close to his own hopes. The look in Berenger’s eyes was like the tone in his voice, painfully honest. Ancel’s heart was beating wildly. ‘You’ve never—’

‘You never wanted me to.’

`Is that what you think?’ said Ancel.

‘Yes,’ said Berenger, steadily.

-C.S Pacat,Pet(A Captive Prince Short Story)

#contain spoiler #captive prince #c.s. pacat #short story #pet #ancel and Berenger #quotes #.mine🍀 #bookblr #book quotes #books & libraries #damen x laurent

[merrymorningofmay]

another make!! (this is a pin lol)

“pet” by cs pacat is one of the most romance stories ever and you BET they got married at some point so here’s my take on varenne’s new, embarrassing coat of arms 😔

ft a torch for ancel, a bear for berenger (Because), a Boring Flower from the Boring Poem, and some mandatory feudal loyalty stars

best thing about crafting is you get to make merch for niche pairings/characters who normally wouldn’t be getting merch, ehehehehe

#*lures people in with miniatures then proceeds to post completely unrelated stuff* whoops #mari makes #felt pins #captive prince #berenger #ancel #berencel #cs pacat #she liked this on twitter ohoho

[mklinaaa]

ancel as a character is how collab between lady gaga and ayesha erotica would sound

#rereading pet and thats my only thought #captive prince #cs pacat #ancel #ancel x berenger #im also giggling at everything in pet this extra is too hilarious

[read-in-the-night]

Capri Kinktober Day 15: Somnophilia

Title: I'm Still Dreaming When I Wake Up Next To You Prompts: Somnophilia | Shower/Bath Sex | Pain Play/Painslut Ship: Berenger x Ancel Summary: None of Berenger's dreams can compete with the reality of waking up in the same bed as Ancel. Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50863252

Thank you @captiveprincekinktober for organizing this!

#captive prince #fanfiction #capri #capri kinktober 2023 #captive prince kinktober 2023 #fic #kinktober 2023 #ancel x berenger #ancel/berenger #brancel

[seasonsofcapri]

Capriprompt Fill

Title: 'Til it's True

Creator: fightinflame (AO3)

Ship: Ancel/Berenger

Summary: Ancel isn't sure what to make of the sudden snowfall. But he has a new dressing gown, and perhaps winter this year won't be bad. He wants to make the most of it, even if that means leaving the comfort of the fireside to go out into the grounds with Berenger.

Read it here on Ao3!

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#captive prince #capriprompt #capriprompt: frost #captive prince fanfic #ancel/berenger #berencel

[oh23]

I SHIP ANCEL AND BERENGER SO HARD???????/GOD??????????

BERENGER KNOWING ANCEL SO WELL, BUT NOT IMPOSING HIS CONCLUSION ON ANCEL. KNOWING ANCEL DISLIKED IT AND COULD BE SOMEONE MORE... BUT NOT FORCING IT ON ANCEL, ACCEPTING THAT ITS ANCEL'S CHOICE. maybe he knew that ancel deep down also knew, and he just.

ohmygod ykwim???? i just love this dynamic.

ancel thinking hes only good as a pet, knowing hes good as a pet, good at pleasing, berenger knowing ancel dislikes it but is good at it and its his choice to stay the way he is, so berenger doesnt force ancel to be someone else, to be "better" , just waiting and watching.

I JUST IDK I LOVE THEM??

"do you want me." FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK

"dont give me up" DEAD. DEAD AND DECAYED. GIRL

#capri #captive prince #ancel #berenger #SHIP #SO HARD

[always-tired-plshelp]

Ancel: When I was young, I left a trail of broken hearts like a rockstar. I'm not proud of it.

Berenger: You're kind of proud of it. You work it into a lot of conversations.

#captive prince #incorrect captive prince quotes #ancel x berenger