Manon & Fleurdelys - AZ's family >>
… welp i’m taking your headcanon that they’re both descendants of AZ + that that family has Issues and manon’s birth family was abusive to her, then
(+ implicitly, the fanon that she’s Fukuji’s granddaughter, I don’t know who came up with that one)
=> TW: MENTION/DISCUSSION OF PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL CHILD ABUSE and this ended up way too long for this meme what. cass your prompts
When Manon walks in, he is already sitting in thechair on the other side of the glass, eyelids lowered, hands linked on hiscrossed knees, noble and princely and pointedly unaffected by his situation. Atthe sound of her door closing, he sighs and opens his eyes, obviously about tolaunch into another one of his big bitter speeches, and stops short at thesight of her.
It’s a little funny, so Manon grins at him. “Didn’texpect me, huh?”
Fleurdelys-san takes a moment to compose himself. It’ssomething he does a lot, Manon noticed: unlike her, who hurries and fumbles andtries to do everything as fast as possible, as much as possible, to compensatefor what she can’t do, he takes the time to think things through so that all hedoes or says is exactly what he meant to. “I must confess,” he finally replies,gracefully. “Thank you for visiting me, Manon. How is your Harimaron doing?”
She knows what he’s doing. He probably thinks she can’ttell, but now that she’s seen his real face, she recognizes it: the jab, the dagger,the poison under the silky handkerchief, the intent to hurt under thebenevolent smile and façade of concern.
She beams. “He’s fine, thank you! He just didn’t wantto see you again, I’m sure you understand. Sorry! Oh, and Alan’s not comingeither, by the way, sorry if that’s who you were expecting.”
“A shame,” Fleurdelys-san comments, with a chuckle.
“But I really wanted to talk with you,” she adds.
“Oh?” There’s still a smile on his thin lips, and theamusement looks genuine, at least. He’s surprised, and he is listening. That’smore than she counted on.
“I wanted to thank you,” she starts, cheerfully. “Notfor Hari-san, since that was your fault, but for taking care of me. You werereally nice to me at that time.”
