Avandias/Relationships

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Relationships

## Love Interest

Kyrill

What has happened here, Avandias you utter fool.
Between her impulsive nature and her youthful nature, Avandias found himself under the impression that she was still in her teens, and assigned himself a protective role over her. Sweet how much he cared, but less sweet with how he felt the need to lecture her on the consequences of her actions, blindly piling on guilt and hurt and unintentionally rebuffing all her romantic gestures. Despite this miscommunication, he still deemed her the most important person to him, and at her request, promised to try not to worry so much while she was away. And try he did, but upon arriving in Imroth to find her after six months of no word, it was abundantly clear he had missed her horribly, though he failed to properly communicate it. All of this came to a head in Oriflamme when they confronted one another, he in anger in being tricked into a place unsafe for him, and her in frustration that he wasn't reacting to her advances - and then in humiliation when it came out that he'd thought her to be sixteen.
Avandias was able to reflect on that mistake while imprisoned in Jaraska's palace, and though he couldn't quite put a name to the feelings he had for her, he did recognize that it was indeed some kind of love, and the joy that filled him when she appeared in the dome with a promise to save him was unmatched. He'll never explicitly say aloud what he felt right then, when he expected death and received redemption instead, but it was at that moment he was forced to confront his own emotions and acknowledge they existed. And hours later, when she was gone, came the pain to just as high degree as the happiness. In an instant he reverted back to the kind of man he'd been before his exile, a rash and reckless man, ready to throw his own life away for a chance to bring her back, so driven he had to be physically restrained from stupidly rushing after her and losing any chance of success. In his despair he pushed away his friends despite their recent sacrifices to save his own sorry skin and very nearly made enemies of them, fueled only by his desire to make some kind of amends, and by his own self-hatred for all the hurt he caused her. He lost hope that she'd choose to return to them if ever given the chance, but at the very least, he had to let her know that she *had* meant the world to him, and how much he regretted not telling her that.
When finally, *finally* they got her back home, Avandias did his best to make it known to her how much he cared, and how much he wanted to ease the pain of the damage done to her since her childhood. He never forgave himself for his past mistakes, no matter how many times she told him to, and now and then he would slip and let his desire to fix, to save her, get in the way of the friendship he was trying to build with her. But she always reminded him, and he always came back. While his nightmares grew to include her own demise once he learned of her withering as queen, they always abated if he woke and found her near. Seeing her happy enough to glow with all the colors of the rainbow was the most beautiful sight he'd ever witnessed, while simultaneously deeply sad that she rarely felt such joy. Day by day his feelings for her grew, as did his fear for her life. Witnessing what he thought was her death on the riverside docks in the West was Anthias all over again but a hundred times worse, pain that failed to lessen even when he saw her alive again, beyond his reach. Pain that remained even once the puppeteer was dead and Ingred imprisoned, the end of her life looming over them with no cure. Pain that *worsened* when she admitted to him the secret she'd kept all this time, of how she'd seen him years before he even knew she existed.

## Relatives

Dunirias

Neri

Dunaetha

Thael

Anthias

So it was no different when Metsis Lekapos, speaking with Avandias' voice and wearing his body, called the boy from his bed and was met with eager innocence. But only a dagger was waiting when he ran to meet his uncle.

Veraith

## Friends

Sharik

Feyrith

## Allies

Enjin

Eponine

Genovieve

Iglas

Malakhai

Maria

Cherry

Tamatu

## Neutral

Aster

Azariah

Elias

Fang

Imaine

Iosefka

Lorian

Masa

Vergil

## Enemies

Angelou

Ingred