Here Is My Contribution For The Fate: The Winx Saga Holiday Exchange. Happy Secret Santa, @faithfire

Here is my contribution for the Fate: the Winx Saga holiday exchange. Happy Secret Santa, @faithfire !

One of my prompts was: Saul or Ben acting more like parents less as teachers

Now I know, strictly speaking Silva is still being a teacher here. But it’s Sky’s birthday, okay, and the one thing the kid wished for more than anything was his first sword lesson. It’s gonna be a happy memory for both of them.

Because dioramas are notoriously hard to photograph, I made a digital version too

and as a bonus pic:  🌱 little Terra Harvey, bringing home yet another stray

Someone introducing Saul and Andreas to each other

Saul: we've already met

Andreas: He's my husband

Saul: Ex-husband

Andreas: You never filed the paperwork, Darling, and it's till death do us part

Saul: I thought you were dead

Andreas: If you've remarried I'm going to kill them

I'm just going to say this. It makes me absolutely nuts thinking about Andreas's last act being pure fucking love and sacrifice. this man has gone fully dark side, spent 16 years away from Saul, stewing over his betrayal and the way Saul 'killed' him. but when push finally comes to shove... he sacrifices his own life to save Saul, the man who killed him. That's literally it, there's no other explanation for what he does.

He could have told Sky to run, to get out, thus saving Sky and killing Saul - and it would have been poetic! Heartbreaking! but the expected full-circle of their relationship! But he doesn't, he tells Sky to kill him so that his puppeted body can't kill Saul, because it's Saul who would have died in the next few seconds with a single slice. Because when everything else is stripped away, that's what's left: he can't kill Saul.

And then you fucking think about what this would do to Saul... knowing that the man he loved and killed had loved him enough, even after all that time, to sacrifice his own life to save Saul's. Like how the hell do you ever get past that?

How do you go on trying to be the good guy after that? When the man you thought of as a shitty, mass-murdering, child-abandoning asshole - but you still love despite yourself, despite everything - gives you this awful, terrible last gift of love and self-sacrifice with his final breaths. and you can't ever tell him that you... that you -

you can't ever tell him any of it, because he's gone.

Chained

@septemberrie was so kind and reminded me that I never posted this drawing on here!

Have some whump Saul in prison my darlings.

Hey, looks like your shadowban has been lifted!

Hey Astrid! I did a url switcheroo, so my old blog is still shadowbanned but I have my old url here. But thanks for checking in and making me aware of the ban in the first place ❤️ If it wasn't for you guys I'd be blissfully posting into the void.

oh nooo Saul stop breaking my heart stop it

He brought him toys! he hadn't been able to work out letting go of him! fuck!!

also i feel so vindicated in my fic about Saul and baby Sky in the aftermath of Aster Dell (written before reading this) so here (SHAMELESS PLUG): waiting on that morning sun

sobbing biting crying etc

Nobody could be as proud of Sky as Saul was 🥺🥺 (ALTHOUGH YOU NEED TO GODDAMN TELL HIM HOW PROUD YOU ARE, SAUL. HE'S NOT A MIND READER YOU BONEHEAD)

TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA

And he goes to watch little Sky sleeping to comfort himself 😭 someone get this man a goddamn hug

I actually started crying at this part.

his love for Sky is so huge and so is his hatred for himself :(