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[Voice message]

[perfectteatime]

[ BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP ]

Hello Dimitri.

To celebrate your new inbox, I am sending you this message to let you know how much I love you. I can't express it in words but I hope these help;

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They are all of byleth standing around various places with "I love you" written in various ways. With rocks, in the sand on the beach, sticks in the forest, colorful leaves, flowers etc. ]

[blaiddydblood]

[ While he can't say this is what he expected to come of beginning his 'inbox,' as they'd called it, he isn't about to complain either. ]

They do. Of course, they do. It seems I'll have to find just as grand a way to proclaim my love for you as well.

[perfectteatime]

No need for any grand gestures. Just do as you do. Kiss me in the morning when we wake, and again at night before we sleep.

[blaiddydblood]

That's easy enough, I suppose. But I'll have to be grandiose sometimes lest things become mundane, don't you think?

[perfectteatime]

I certainly won't decline. But there is a grace in the day to day with you. The moments when I wake up and see your sleepy face in the morning- that is when I can feel the joy most intensely.

[blaiddydblood]

[ Ah, he's...suddenly grateful for the fact that this is video so Byleth can't see his (very) red face. ]

I can only say the same, truthfully. The quiet moments here that I get to spend with you, no matter what we may be doing, have been some of the most joyous of my life.

[perfectteatime]

It still makes me want to shout my elation when you say things like that. I never thought I'd ever get to hear you speak such sweet words for me. Dimitri, I adore you completely.

You make me happy.

[blaiddydblood]

And you make me happier than I ever thought I could be or still worry I deserve to be. Truly, I...

I don't know what I'd do without you, Byleth.

[perfectteatime]

It's really amazing to hear that. Ah, I had such a terrible crush on you back then, sometimes I still am astonished that this is real and I get to hold you hand, touch your face, kiss you, love you, and be loved in return.

[blaiddydblood]

It's still so hard to wrap my head around you having a crush on me back then... [ He was so awkward and stiff and still learning how to be a king-in-waiting but also make friends around his age outside of the nobility. ]

But this is as real as anything, I promise.

[perfectteatime]

It was hard for me to identify what was happening back then, anyways. Just knew I felt different around you.

[blaiddydblood]

Well, I suppose I was likely no better... if not a fair more obvious in hindsight. [ He does reflect back on it often, if he's being honest. Just how upfront and earnest he was about how he felt without realizing the true meaning behind it all until much, much later. ]

🍰 it's a birthmitri birthday! 🍰

[fatefulprince]

( on the morning of his birthday in the lodge, Dimitri will undoubtedly have been showered with praise and love from his partners. waiting for the king in the kitchen is a beautifully wrapped hamper containing a plushie of a chonky round lion boi, a birthday card featuring flowers from the lakehouse garden - and finally, the showstopper gift.

Corrin requested something very special for Dimitri from the peacekeeper. as a throwback to their drunken misadventure a while back, it's ... well, something he'll have to solve a riddle to find! there is a hamper filled with wheels of many flavours of cheese, and on a piece of card reads the following: )

Happy birthday, Dimitri!
On your special day, you'll receive a gift: Me!
So, what do you say?

I will be your friend, if you would so please.
And in exchange I will give you the finest of cheese.
Or milk for your tea, whatever you dream,
Whether cake, or brownies, or tasty ice cream.

My guarantee to you, is whatever you eat,
Will taste hearty, bold, savoury or sweet.
I hope you enjoy this present to you.
Now come outside, Dimitri! I'm dying to meet you!

( and when Dimitri steps outside, he'll see .... a cow!!!! she has a big ribbon and bell wrapped around her neck!! the amenities for caring for her like brushes and such can be found in a bucket by the gate. Corrin will have explained in Dimitri's birthday card that she is a special cow, who produces dairy that Dimitri can taste very intensely and wonderfully, since he knows that the king struggles with his sense of taste. he now has access to dairy any time he wants, and a cute pet cow to snuggle on top of that!

Corrin will be excited to see his reaction, oh yes he will! )

replies almost a month later, haha what even is time

[blaiddydblood]

[ It has been... quite overwhelming, he admits, the amount of attention he's received thus far. He had spent so long wishing he could be older. Now that he was, well, it felt strange to celebrate his life considering how little he'd yet to accomplish as king. Of course, everyone is quick to put him in his place about how ridiculous that is and Corrin is no exception.

He enjoys the lion, the card, and especially the cheese. He's actually eating a piece already - mm, fun texture good - as he reads the next bit left for him. A riddle, is it? What could be waiting for him outsi- ]

Cow. [ That's it, that's all he says at first. He looks back to the house and then to the cow again and then back and then to the cow and then beelines for the creature. Despite his large size and usually intimidating presence, she seems perfectly at ease with him.

She's perfect.

Corrin will get a selfie of Dimitri at some point with flowers in his hair and a crown upon the cow's neck. ]

Thank you, Corrin!
Her name is Bó.
° )
I will take very good care of her.

[wanderingsword]

Boar. I have a question.

Write back when you want. Or don't.

[blaiddydblood]

[ He answers almost immediately once his DTF notifies him of Felix's correspondence. ]

Hello, Felix.

I'm available to answer your question at any time that you would like.

[wanderingsword]

Nevermind. Forget I said anything.

[blaiddydblood]

Wait, no-

[ Status: Crushed. Was he too eager? He was probably too eager. ]

Felix, please, I want to hear what you would ask of me.

[wanderingsword]

Fine.

[...]

[...]

You look
different
from how I remember you

[blaiddydblood]

[ Oh, he... Well, that answers quite a few questions of Dimitri's own. Doesn't it?

The 'Tempest King' they'd called him in that timeline, he's aware. Strong and ferocious as one; a monster masquerading as a man rather than letting the world see the true beast he was. ]

The Dimitri you knew had both eyes, I presume? He also was more closely aligned with the church and Rhea during the war.

I am not that Dimitri but I do know of him.

[wanderingsword]

Yeah.

He died. On the Tailtean plains. Rhea probably sent him out there to die, so no one could stand in her way as she set Fhridad on fucking fire to protect herself.

[Another lengthy pause, as if asking pains him.]

What happened to you?

cw: gore, self-harm

[blaiddydblood]

[ Ah, he didn't know... those gruesome details. It doesn't surprise him though after what he learned about Rhea here. ]

Me? Ah, well... After Byleth disappeared, I was summoned back to Fhirdiad. Once there, I discovered that my uncle had been murdered shortly after my arrival and it was me who was the main suspect. I was accused of regicide and meant to hang.

Dedue saved me. I escaped, but... Suffered horrible physical wounds as well as damage to my psyche. [ This is where it's a little difficult to talk about. ] I saw my parents, Dedue, and all the others who had died to protect me. To see them no more, I took... drastic measures to rid myself of the hallucinations.

I only came to my senses after the fact. For the next five years, I lived in secret in the woods and slums of Faerghus. Then, one day, Byleth found me and we joined forces again to take down Edelgard.

[wanderingsword]

[His mouth twists like he wants to say something, but he listens to what Dimitri says.]

Byleth sided with Edelgard, where I'm from.

She tried to talk to you. You didn't listen. She killed you. I wasn't there.

[blaiddydblood]

[ Dimitri does appreciate that. He will let Felix have his piece, of course, but wants to make sure he's explaining things as clearly as possible. ]

Ah, the professor who taught the Black Eagles... I've never met one though I do know of that version existing. There was a female Byleth here for a time but she had led the Golden Deer. [ There have been many a number of them here, now gone, and Edelgard was actually among them. ]

Either way, that sounds like what I was led to believe transpired. A bit ironic though that in my recollection of events, I tried to extend my hand to Edelgard only for her to refuse.

I suppose our convictions were too strong, in the end, to allow for co-existence.

[wanderingsword]

You could have, if you'd just--

[The frustrated outburst cuts itself off just as abruptly as it comes from him.]

...You're different, from the Dimitri I knew.

You have. Less of a mask. I've seen it, watching you.