Love & War - Chapter 10
Galfrey was a queen, a paladin, an icon for all that was righteous and just in the Crusades. Cleo was a barbarian, a tiefling, a personification of demonic chaos. By all rights and logic, the two should have been at each other’s throats- and sometimes, they were. But somehow, through war and struggle and sacrifice, they found more in each other than either could ever have expected.
“Do I look like a regular mortal to you?” The words ripped themselves from her throat and fell like thunder over the chamber. The demonic audience backed away, and even Shamira’s fire flickered; Cleo caught glimpse of the Hand starting forward, but she hissed and turned away. She couldn’t spare the thoughts to deal with him. Not now.
Tense silence followed- only to be broken by Yozz, who clapped his hands together, that shit-eating grin still on his face.
“Now that,” he said, “is what I would call a true demon.”
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Please tell me how Cleo is problematic 👀
answering @daisymeade too! thank you both!
why is Cleo problematic:
oh god how much time do you have
first of all there's the whole demon thing, we all know about that
likes to start fights for fun
terrible taste in drinks, she'll drink literally anything with alcohol in it
really needs to call her mom more often
scars up irabeth before the drezen invasion, in a scene that was painful for me to play through
around that time starts getting a lot of angry destructive intrusive thoughts but doesn't mention them to anyone because it's probably fine right
ignores multiple people telling her no something like that would not be fine it would be bad actually
isn't interested in the details of ruling beyond running the military, so just kind of lets the other councils run wild and do whatever
(and she couldn't figure out why her mother didn't want her leading their tribe)
considered sleeping with Yozz because she was bored
had such a messy situationship with Galfrey that they had the world's worst breakup when they weren't even dating
said breakup may have involved both verbally and literally attacking each other
needed a rebound so she had a drunk almost-hook-up with Wenduag
killed people for Yozz no questions asked then was surprised when that was a bad idea
made Arueshalae sad
made Woljif sad
deliberately pissed off Iomedae even when she knew she needed her help
was so demonic in the Abyss that she basically broke the Hand and he couldn't be brought back even when she found his heart
spent her whole life not doing druid stuff because the studying required was boring, then got druid powers all at once by going Legend
she's so divisive that she got called "a pathetic worm" in the comments of her own fic
when she does eventually get back on better terms with her family, she babysits her cousin's kids and lets them eat waaay too much sugar
she's a mess and i love her <3
Ask me about one of my OCs and I’ll list out why they’re problematic.
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