#fredrick: 'no. you have a meeting in forty minutes here's your phone and the forms. i'm getting lunch with chelsie.'

[words-writ-in-starlight]

im reading the heartstriker books rn, and i love how julius is like "maybe we should be nicer to each other?" literally any dragon "how dare you say that you moron. idiot" julius *continues being nice* the same dragon, 2 hours later "actually, julius is right and i will fight anyone who disagrees" its so good

I AM CONVERTING PEOPLE!!!!! VICTORY!!!!!

God, the running theme of “Julius converting his attempted murderers to Being Nice” is absolutely my favorite part of that entire series.  Chelsie Heartstriker’s entire existence is a very close second, and Ghost is a very close third.

I’m not sure if you’ve gotten to this point yet (although you probably will have by the time this gets spat out of the queue) but I need to write some Stuff about Chelsie and Xian.  Let Chelsie Be Soft!!!!  Let Chelsie Get Laid!!!!  Let Chelsie Be Nice!!!!  Chelsie’s gonna roll up to the DFZ and offer her services as a bodyguard for hire the first time she has a crisis, and Julius is going to stealth-call his brother-in-law on Marci’s phone and snitch on her to the whole entire Golden Emperor.  You KNOW that Xian decides real fast who his favorite in-law is, and it is Julius “Too Nice For You To Notice That He’s Already Taken Over The World” Heartstriker, who believes that Chelsie deserves a sabbatical lasting at least, oh, say, six hundred years.

Technically Fredrick still works as Julius’ assistant because he wore Julius down, but he’s being paid...a lot.  A lot.  And also he’s been terrorizing all his potential replacements to the point that some more progressive dragon clans have started sending their uppity young whelps to intern as the Peacemaker’s personal assistant, because they know that the Crown Prince of China the Shade of the Heartstrikers Fredrick will whip them into shape and knock their egos down a peg before he kicks them out of the DFZ.  Julius doesn’t even meet most of Fredrick’s potential replacements.  He’s been trying to hire someone to take Fredrick’s place for years--he hears about Opal turning down the job as a priest of the DFZ and literally calls her personal number to ask if she wants to work for him, totally legit, he swears to any god she wants that he’s not looking to collect mortals, he just needs someone competent who won’t be cowed by dragons or gods so that he can stop having Fredrick as his nonconsensual PA.

#dfz #dfz series #heartstriker series #julius heartstriker #fredrick heartstriker #julius tries to appeal to a higher power re: the fredrick thing (chelsie) and fails utterly #chelsie: 'julius stop trying to fire fredrick you need the help' #fredrick (not looking up): 'yeah julius i'll think you don't want me around anymore' #julius (tearing his hair out a little bit): 'I JUST WANT THE CHINESE DRAGONS TO STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT' #'YOU'D THINK I HAD YOU BOUND IN MY OFFICE IN CHAINS AND MAGIC PLEASE LET ME HIRE SOMEONE ELSE' #fredrick: 'no. you have a meeting in forty minutes here's your phone and the forms. i'm getting lunch with chelsie.' #julius (despairing): 'thank you fredrick. have a nice lunch and say hi to his majesty for me chelsie.' #GOD i love chelsie and xian so much!!!!!!! #i especially love chelsie 'just because we're talking again doesn't mean we're back together' heartstriker #vs his imperial majesty qilin 'i am going to create a magical hurricane so that i can stay in bed on vacation with the love of my life' xia #GET YOU A MAN WHO CAN DO BOTH #also listen. listen. xian is literally so thrilled with his kids once he gets over the initial shock. #fredrick can do Anything He Wants #he wants to work as an assistant in the dfz? awesome. the golden empire is building a consulate. #see also: god save you if you even look crosseyed at felicity because f clutch is absolutely goddamn ruthless #and they have diplomatic immunity #a queue we will keep and our honor someday avenge #Anonymous #asked and answered