actually when bobby said “I can’t tell you how to feel about the job, only you can know that” he wasn’t talking to buck or eddie. he was talking to athena because she’s thinking about quitting her job
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Okay, one more ask before I leave you alone for a while. 😅 What do you mean "Liskarm/Cosium war"? My memory can be pretty bad, and I'm not sure if I remember you taking about that before. How do they start a war? Who starts it? Hmm. It's probably got something to do with Liskarm's crystals I'm thinking.
feel free to keep the questions coming XD i don't mind rambling ✨
I never really went in-depth with it, I think! I know I've only mentioned it a few times, with the biggest one being on this art.
But yeah, Liskarm and Cosium go to war. And you're correct about it being the crystals ✨ Our good old emotionally unwell King of Cosium, Mortesen "the Conqueror" Lastname decides to invade the smaller kingdom of Liskarm to seize their magic-absorbing crystals.
Liskarm ofc, won't go down without a fight. Despite having a much smaller army, their magic-absorbing equipment/weaponry and home turf advantage worked pretty alright against Cosium's magic-reliant forces. Not enough to defeat them, but enough to stop them from advancing further.
Ben and Enyxia ofc both join the battlefield. Ben is captured by Coizard forces with the intent of using him as a hostage to get Enyxia (who functions as a co-ruler with Ben despite her lower rank formal title) to have Liskarm's forces surrender. Fortunately, Regina decides to betray her homeland sneak behind enemy lines and rescue Benonic with so little confidence that it loops back to being successful. They get back to Liskarm castle, Ben gets back to work protecting his home.
Meanwhile, on the Cosium side of things, Mortesen is upset that the invasion is not going as smoothly as he wanted but believes that Liskarm will run out of resources sooner or later. Unfortunately, his son and heir to the throne, Prince Taiyou, does not agree with his father's plans.
Little refresher about Taiyou as he's actually pretty important to a lot of the plot: After Mortesen and Athena's violent "break up", Mortesen remarried to another royal named Medea, whom he has Taiyou with. Making him Kaze's half-brother too.
Taiyou acts as a foil both to FS and canon Kaze. Whereas canon Kaze avoided his responsibilities as future king, Taiyou is eager to embrace it--too eager, as Mortesen soon finds out. Taiyou is THE pure-hearted, sunshine, shounen protagonist of Fateswap. He doesn't want to be a good king by following tradition, but by actually improving the lives of his citizens. A leader, not a ruler.
...Which, isn't great for Mort. Since Taiyou feels compassion for everyone, even the enemy. During the war, Taiyou did NOT want Mortesen to destroy the lives of innocent Liskarmians for the sake of their kingdom. So he quite literally takes himself hostage until Mortesen promises to withdraw their forces.
And FS Mort is still a fatherly man. So that, in combination with Liskarm holding up unexpectedly well, plus some serious extra interference from the pirate fleet FS Kaze is a part of, makes Mort finally decide to call off the invasion. (But not without some heavy, heavy consequences for Prince Taiyou)
So! Liskarm's safe, meanwhile Kaze got to cause some carnage against Mortesen. Cosium Royal Family though? about to go through some very dramatic stuff which pushes Mortesen closer into Tragic-but-Deserved-It Villain territory.
Oh and, after this entire debacle is Episode "Hearts", which is when Enyxia and Kaze get her and Athena's missing hearts back. Feat. more Taiyou appearances.
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Athena Kouris x @babycracker’s Tanner Drake
Art by the perfectly amazing @s-ewell I am seriously in love, thank you so much!
This piece is directly from my “Shotgun” fic. Words cannot express how happy I am with it!
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