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alicehattera03 · 3 years

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lp Athy casts a love spell on Ijekiel to make him fall in love with her. After all she saw Jennette bewitching the Emperor and everyone else, so it is only fair if she does the same right? Little did she know, that Ijekiel already loved her, and the spell only made his feelings worse, which isn't what she expected. (yandere Kiel or yandere Athy? Pick your poison)

*stares* oh my...because this is such a good au I will...pick this one..and then rest for a time...I hope I do it justice...cause..lemme say there's a good twist. (but listen y'all if I didn't like it I would have left it alone like the dozens more in my ask box hmph)

Athanasia stepped onto the floor of the widest room in the Ruby Palace. Bare feet chilling at the touch of the tiles, the cold water splashing being the only sound in the empty room as she spread her hands over the center of the drawn marks.

She held a worn out book in her hands, something she had found after digging through the piles of things left behind by the slaughtered concubines that once lived where she did now. The bloodstained pages only told of what was to come, but she didn't pay it any heed as a chant fell from her lips.

The words felt foreign on her tongue as she continued, the moonlight streaming through the battered curtains as Athanasia finally ended the spell with the name of the person she longed for. "Ijekiel Alpheus."

The room thrummed with power as she coughed up blood, not moving to wipe it off her lips as the drops made the water she was standing in a light shade of pink that quickly dissipated.

Exhausted from the amount of power that was leeched from her weak body, she lowered herself into the water and watched as it slowly seeped into the book once more. She laughed quietly. "So it is done."

She dragged herself up, holding onto the walls as she made her way back to her room, hoping, wishing, praying for a miracle to come from what she had just done.

In another room, far from the palace, Ijekiel Alpheus sits at his desk, his pen scratching against the fine paper as he drew waves of hair, wide eyes and downturned lips. He loved the second princess- how could anyone compare to her loveliness?

The way she was never approached during balls, she might think it was because the Emperor didn't love her but it was because no one could pluck up the courage to speak with someone of her countenance. He would keep it that way. Now if only he could secure an engagement with her highness instead of Jennette.

His father was in his way a lot these days, but he did used to admire the man...he brings his thumb away from his mouth, noting the blood that was brought to the surface of his skin, and he dragged it across the paper, dying the lips red. The shade suited her.

His eyes narrow slightly, lifting the paper up and pressed it against his lips, breathing in the smell of ink and wondering if she would smell of flowers like the one on her dress in his dreams.

Would she like it if he kept her with him forever? Locked away from the rest of the world, unable to leave his side for the rest of their mortal lives? And if she didn't? What then?

Ijekiel's smile dimmed, and his eyes, now dark, flicked towards the window as he imagined her highness, the one of fairy-blood, Athanasia- she who would look just as lovely wrapped tight in ribbons that would bind her to him- rendering her flightless- as she did in the light blue dress that matched her eyes.

What of jewel strands in her hair and around her neck, that with a tug of just a bit of his strength, he could see her teary eyes and hands that would reach out for him to plead for him to stop as blood dripped onto the carefully chosen gems?

But was it as much of an obsession as it was for Athanasia who had her chin resting on her hands as she tucked herself beneath the sheets, imagining Ijekiel who would gaze only at her, would whisper loving phrases into her ears and would embrace her and only her as others looked on enviously?

Athanasia who wanted to keep Ijekiel out of the spotlight, to tell people that he was busy, but in all truth, he would be blindfolded within her chambers, and she would return to leave red marks over the skin she could see and had bared for only her eyes to wander over.

Was it just so that these two held the love in common of which they shared thoughts of their lover in their arms, loving only them and looking at and thinking of no one else?

For if they did, heavens forbid- they wouldn't hesitate to keep them shackled in a lavish room to which only they themselves had the key to open. Ah, come now, press your lips against your beloved's and sing for their hearts to wholly accept you, for this love will last forever and ever and ever.

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jeweled-blue-eyes · 3 years

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Not me suddenly getting a heartbreak over Lp Athy. Idk but this happened a few hours after I realized that we are going to get an update in less than 24 hrs. And I was so full of Lp Athy thoughts. Unpopular opinion but Lp Athy and Lucas are till date the most enigmatic characters. Am I the only one who longs hopelessly to see more of her? In my interpretation, she is the skeleton in possibly every character's cupboard-their darkest secrets. The incidents in her life feel like the culmination of everyone's trauma. Claude's tragic childhood, Jennette's deepest and darkest longings and her fear of them remaining unadressed, Anastacius's insecurities about his sibling, his precarious position as heir and horrible parents, perhaps he even felt bereft of a sibling and watched Claude and Felix bond the way Lp Athy watched Ezekiel and Jennette. (Oh wait remembers the way Anas watched Claude and Penny from afar the same way Athy watched Ezekiel and Jenny or even her father and Felix). She's even the literal personification of Diana's longings that never achieved fruition (rearing a child) and to remember that Ghost Diana possibly saw the massacre of the fruits, for which she laboured so long and hard, from the time it enters the world. LP Athy is perhaps the symbol of Lillian York's darkest fears-inability to truly protect the child you cherished above all and watch as her life gets ruined by everyone, helplessly trying and failing at every step. She is Felix's darkest fears too. Him failing to carry out the justice he devoted his life to, him failing his own morals. She even suffers Aethernitas's worst fears-being condemned and belittled by those you seek acceptance/appreciation from. In a way even Lucas's worst fears might be realized in her life story- your fate being sealed by the very adult who recieved your one-sided, unreciprocated love and has till the day of your death abused/neglected it or considered you less important than the child they chose to love, despite you being the less privileged of the two.

Oh wait then there's Ezekiel. I often felt that it's not just that he loved her, rather he saw his own helplessness in her. He himself is locked in a cage which isn't of his own making, he has tried endlessly but cannot escape it. He tried to rebel against the cage of his own upbringing and stature, of his father and of loving someone who he feels no love for by loving Athy, the one his own self chose to love. But her death and the canvas of his hollow self, all decked in black, comforting jennette at the end of Lp verse symbolized his fate being sealed in the cage he so desperately wanted to seek liberation from, his own choice, his natural self being massacred. (Him hugging jennette made him look like some doll with no heart acting the way it's puppeteers want it to)

Since it has been mentioned that Lp timeline precedes Wmmap timeline, I wonder if it will ever ever be addressed.

(I am glad that unlike in the novel where Lp verse is different from Wmmap verse, the manhwa makes the storyline more coherent by making it the past and wmmap the present)

Will the manhwa ever address and do complete justice to the Lp timeline. Will we ever see that happen given the fact that only a handful of chapters are left for things to be wrapped up.

I so want to see Lp Athy/timeline being the ultimate boss battle where the characters will have to confront their darkest demons, those that have been pushed to the backburner and deal with it. Like that will make things so deep and good. (Religiously manifests Lp timeline/ Athy being the ultimate hurdle and the psychological battle within the self being the boss of all battles ever seen on the manhwa)

Wow, I didn't realize how many people LP! Athy paralleled until now.

Agreed, I don't buy it that LP! Ijekiel fell in love at first sight. It's not easy to love someone who is always melancholic. I think the first time he got close to her was because he accompanied Jeannette, or because he felt pity towards Athy (I can see him escaping the ballroom for a moment to breathe fresh air in the garden and he meets LP! Athy hiding behind a rose bush, close to tears. And he gives her a handkerchief or asks her for a dance.)

Here is why I think he could not have fallen in love at first sight: I think Ijekiel as nice as he may be, is just exhausted from having to comfort Jeannette all the time. So when he sees a girl crying it just reminds him of Jeannette. His brain shuts down and his body just follows the typical protocol of what a gentleman has to do to comfort a woman, but there isn't really much sincerity in it anymore. I had the same impression as you seeing the last panel of a Lovely Princess where Ijekiel looks like some doll when he is embracing Jeannette.

I can't help but wonder how the engagement that shackled him to Jeannette could have played a role in Ijekiel's love for Athy. You know how the things you can't have always seem more irresistable? Could Ijekiel have felt a pull towards Athy because it was impossible? Because it was forbidden?

Naturally, me being the romantic I am I want to to believe Athy was his first love. Though at the same time I remain sceptic that he learned to love her in such a short amount of time he got to know her. I suspect it was a mix of pre-love that could have blossomed into more, him being trapped by Jeannette, her symbolizing freedom/a way to rebel against his father/"revenge" against Jeannette (subconsciously or not. Judging from some quotes of the novel Ijekiel seemed to resent Jeannette somewhat), both of them being child prodigies with a dead mom and a cold father, giving everything to fullfill their fathers expectations and becoming the perfect heir, similarity attracts et cetera et cetera.

Spoon > Pluto (And I will die on this hill)

Lp Athy/timeline being the ultimate boss battle makes kinda sense, because it's the place where everything started. I hope the LP timeline will be adressed again. Fingers crossed we'll get some side stories if not.

#answered asks #anon

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