#possessed hobw

[cocoaletta]

“you have done terrible things… did you think that i wouldn’t know? did you think that i would allow it?”

#fable 3 #hobw fable 3 #the crawler #fable iii #obsessed with the idea of like #possessed hobw #the crawler never leaves #or parts of it at least #i love the second half of fable 3 it’s so good #hobw reveal also #kinda happy with how i drew her idk #art

[nightingaletrash]

Curious about Walter and Lorna so Mentor for the HOBW ask :3

Yay, thank you!!!!! <3

Well for starters, Walter is quite literally Lorna’s father, and given that he was charged by Aya to train and prepare her to become a Hero, they’ve always had a very close relationship. He’s always looked out for her and as she’s grown, his faith in her has only grown. She really is his pride and joy, and there’s no one else in the world whose opinion matters to her more. As much as she’s her mother’s daughter, she’s a daddy’s girl first and foremost and she was always striving to make him proud.

So when she’s making these promises, working her hardest to make this revolution work, helping people and gaining their trust, he’s bursting with pride. She’s really going to change things and finish what her mother set out to do: to make Albion a great country for everyone and not just a select few.

In exchange, Lorna is pretty dependent on Walter. He’s the one with the connections, the plan. He has a lifetime of experience outside of the castle, as a normal person and as a soldier who knows how to navigate a war and build an army. And he’s her father. She knows she can count on him. When she has moments of feeling overwhelmed by the upheaval her life is going through, Walter helps her to find her perspective, and reassures her that she can do this. She’s her mother’s daughter, a Hero, and a good person. It will be hard to be a good ruler as well, but he’ll be there to help, no matter what.

Then they go to Aurora, and the dynamic changes.

Lorna has seen Walter’s dislike of caves and dark spaces before, it’s no surprise to her that he dislikes the cave in Aurora, but she’s never seen him panic and lose his head. It’s unnerving to see him in such a state, so she does for him what he’s always done for her - she keeps her cool, keeps him moving, and does her best to never waver. As things get worse and the shadows come to life, she finally decides to fight primarily with magic instead of her prefered sword and pistol for two reasons:

1. Fire is most effective. It’s light, it’s warmth, it’s everything the Darkness isn’t, and it keeps them safe. So long as they have fire, they’ll be okay.

2. It helps to reassure Walter. Magic is something he’s always associated with Aya, from the moment they first met all those years ago, and Lorna believes that using it will bring up those memories and fight off those fears.

It’s her love for her father that encourages her to finally embrace that part of herself in full and enables her to attempt spell weaving for the first time, combining fireball and force push to keep the Darkness at bay.

When he’s taken and blinded however, Lorna becomes the one who needs to protect, guide and reassure Walter. The dynamic is turned on its head completely and they find themselves in the other’s role. And Lorna is determined to make sure that she succeeds in getting him to safety... so naturally she tried to carry him, even as her own body and mind were reeling from what they had just gone through. It crushed her when she failed and was forced to leave him behind.

After her coronation, Walter largely approved of many of her decisions, as she went out of her way to keep her promises and restore Albion, all while finding alternative means to amassing the money needed to commission the army. He truly believed that if anyone could fight off the Darkness, it was her. But he was always plagued by fear that he hadn’t done enough to prepare her, that if she failed it was somehow his fault. He found himself constantly worrying about Lorna, but always masked it well enough that she never noticed anything was amiss.

So when the Crawler possessed him, it was the hardest fight she’d ever faced, because she was so unwilling to strike him. She didn’t want to fight Walter, and the Crawler knew that. Walter had to fight against the Crawler’s influence to get through and yell at her to fight back, to echo the instructions he’d given her back in the training room. To not think of him as Walter, but to strike back and fight. And it broke her heart to do it.

Walter’s death haunts her for a very long time, and she blames herself for not seeing his struggle against the Darkness. It’s the one death she never gets over, the one wound that never heals no matter how much time passes. In that first year, she wonders if she’s the Queen her mother would have wanted her to be. Now she wonders if she’s the Queen that Walter wanted her to be.

#annoyed-galaxy #fable 3 #hobw #lorna #walter beck #haha me crying over them again? it's more likely than you think :)