#the one person hoarding all the brain cells in the entire kingdom of Vere apparently...

[treeprince]

every now and then i remember jord asking damen, someone who is supposed to be a lowly soldier sent as punishment to a foreign kingdoms court as a pet (and then not even a pet, a fucking slave), if he can read and write, and this absolute muscle beast of a man responds with "Of course."

then immediately remembers he's supposed to be in-fucking-cognito mere seconds after the fact

but jord, dear sweet, fucked-the-one-other-rich-kid-at-this-party jord, doesn't even let that news hit him, he is just so relieved that there is someone with the goddamn intelligence to handle this emergency that he lets the weirdness of damen, who can already speak another language and yet that's never brought attention to him amongst the other guards, suddenly being capable of reading and writing, slide right off his back and doesn't stop to think about how even akielos' higher infantry wouldn't be this fucking educated without being upper class like....

my god, damen mr. bean'd himself through so much of CP and PG bc nobody else used a single critical thinking skill but they definitely all believed he was fucking their Prince despite every evidence to the contrary (until he was)

#captive prince #damen #there's just something about damen when he's not in his King of Akielos costume that makes the whole universe pull a clark kent on his ass #and the only one who saw thru his shit immediately was Laurent #the one person hoarding all the brain cells in the entire kingdom of Vere apparently... #peak comedy