inheritance act one of five: denial
arranged marriage royalty au prince!diluc x f!knight!reader
fic summary: you’re the heir apparent’s key to obtaining the throne you’ve sworn to protect since you were a child. but in barbatos’ domain, where freedom reigns, you must first answer a question: is freedom found in the ability to spread your wings and take flight on mondstadt’s winds or is freedom found in the ability to choose to remain flightless?
word count: 19.6k
warnings: alcohol, minor descriptions of wounds and violence, bleeding, pining, oblivious characters, no explicit nsfw, enemies(?) to lovers
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a/n: i’m happy it’s finally done! i’m so excited to share this with you all! i hope you like it. please post here to be on the taglist! characters may be ooc at first but they’ll grow into their rightful personalities, dw! <3
You first met Diluc when you were eight, the boy being two years older than you. It was an accidental meeting. Commoners like you weren’t supposed to be in the palace, but your father was one of the palace’s Royal Knights, assigned to protect the king and his royal family, even at the cost of his life. You were far too young to grasp the political implications of what “serving the throne” actually meant, just believing that it meant you got to run around in cool armor while slaying dragons.
At least, that’s what the colorful storybooks that littered the floor of your childhood room had told you.
DC protests have continued for 2 months nonstop against police violence and for Black Lives. Despite having a population greater than Vermont or Wyoming, DC’s statehood remains controversial among Republicans who can’t keep control of the government without multiple forms of voter suppresion.
Okay, granted, it’s been a while since I’ve seen “all trans readers like one kind of fic, and no trans readers ever like another kind of fic, so it is Transphobia when you write the Wrong Kind.”
…but it hasn’t been that long since I’ve seen someone quietly wonder if they’re a Bad Trans Person for having preferences.
So it’s never a bad time to say: different people have different needs, and it’s okay to be fulfilled by different kinds of stories!
(heck, the same person might have different needs at different points in their own life, and that’s okay too)
I’ve seen lots of japanese kny fanart imagining the 5 final selection graduates as pillars— for example, Zenitsu and Kanao would be the new thunder (雷) and flower (花) pillars respectively, and at this rate Tanjiro will probably become the sun pillar (日柱)…
…Which is all very well and good, except most people think Genya would’ve been the “喰柱” (喰 means ‘eat’) and I cannot think of ANY way to translate that other than “the Vore Pillar™️”
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