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Its bedtime and the emperor is forced by all his now children sons to be tell a bedtime story
A chorus of little voices overtook the room.
"Story! Story! Story!
"I want a story!"
"Yay! Story!"
"A different one that last time, please!"
"No story, no sleep!"
"I'm not even tired!"
"I'm sleepy..."
"Please, please, please, can we have a story?"
Leman screamed, "Ssssstttooooorrrrrrrryyy!!!"
The emperor pressed a finger to his lips and hushed the room.
"Alright, alright," he said calmly. "One story, and it's off to bed."
"Yes!" Horus pumped his fist, and Magnus quickly did little claps.
"Tales of Ursh." Lion insisted.
Perturabo side-eyed him, "we just heard that one."
"What about a story about you!" Lorgar offered, staring up at his father.
"How about one of my favorites that's new for you?" The Emperor offered.
Cheers confirmed it.
"Is it boring?" Jaghatai asked.
Mortarion shyly asked, "Is it scary?"
The Emperor took his hand and led them to the viewing room. With so many of them, it was easier to have the book displayed on a screen as they huddled around him.
"It is called 'The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents' by Terry Pratchett. A masterful writer of ancient Terra."
Magnus lit up, "Oh! I've read some things by him before! They were good!"
As the emperor sat on the couch, Fulgrim climbed up, "Is this a funny story?"
"Yes," their father assured.
"Who is Maurice?" Ferrus inquired. "Is he human?"
"He is a talking cat."
"And he educates rats?" Asked Roboute with wide eyes.
"They also talk."
Rogal frowned, "Animals don't talk."
Vulkan did his happy dance, "I'm excited!"
Angron shuffled his feet, "Will I like this story?"
The emperor nodded and pulled him into his lap. Horus sat next to his brother. Fulgrim was next to the Emperor's side. Sanguinius sat atop his shoulders to not bend his fluffy wings. Lorgar always wanted to be as close as possible and wedged himself between the emperor and the couch, resting his head on his shoulder. Konrad and Corvus were on his other side and under his arm. Lion. Leman and Angron sat at his feet. Roboute sat on his knee. The others were settled around him, cuddled up with each other. He knew Alpharius and Omegon would be under the couch by now, peering out.
The screen flickered to life with the first page of the book. An illustration was with it. Some of the boys "oohed" and "aahed" as they saw it.
He began reading, and they all sat as the story enraptured them.
has doey ever lashed out at lucas or bella?
Yes⊠though itâs never gotten physical.
While he mostly has a control on all the chunks of the boys floating around in there, on days that are particularly tiring or stressful he can lose his grip. Before Bella and Lucas this is when he would pick a corner of the room and mope in monster form (putting all focus on reigning things back in) but he is not allowed to do that anymore! You know how it feels when multiple people are talking to you or around you, feeling like you canât hear your own thoughts⊠that but it starts smothering his feelings, jerking his insides around at random. They also tend to amplify how he is already feeling, concentrating it. Things become more vivid, every feeling, thought, mental image. Itâs something he has to grit his teeth and try to ride out, using as much energy as possible to keep the turmoil inside. This is before Doey fully understands how he was made so he is not only being bombarded with these thoughts and feelings, but they all add up to something incoherent. Frequently contradicting each other, flashbacks for things he has, hasnât, has, experienced as his mind tries to stitch together a coherent story. It makes it hard to know what is actually happening in the now, to those on the outside he isnât fully there. I think Anger/Upset comes up frequently both from the stress of trying to just think, alongside the fact those are very very nuanced emotions that are built out of a lot of emotions at once that all sorta combine into yelling.
Bella and Lucas are somewhat used to Doey having energy swings (moments where he is quiet and tired and moments where he is very very enthusiastic and the such) but this is an entirely different beast. By the time either of them actually saw a proper moment(tm) they had grown fairly comfortable with him, and this was a scary awful thing. My guess is that it was probably Bella who saw it, sometime soon after Kip passed and his cork just popped. It was a lot of sobbing before he nearly smashed her with a fist. He was yelling a lot of stuff that didnât make a lot of sense to her but he almost immediately retreated to the other side of the room after the fact. I think things were hard and scary for the rest of that day, but they figured it out soon after. They really didnât have much choice but to figure it out, considering the situation. Still, took a bit for her to get a sense for them and how to deal with them (staying out of the way).
Lucas figured it out much faster, he is used to dealing with tantrums (he doesnât remember why). The longest one of these outbursts has lasted with a critter around is maybe an hour and a half. If left to ride it out at most Doey will start muttering to himself thankfully!
âBigB treated me rightâ what if I lost my mind
Maglor from the Silmarillion
