Okay, Well If This Is The Place To Put Our AUs Of The Second Prince Getting Closer To Penelope, Then

Okay, well if this is the place to put our AUs of the Second Prince getting closer to Penelope, then here’s mine: for whatever reason (maybe because he is still technically descended from the Golden Dragon?) the Second Prince remembers the time loops. I’d like to preface this by saying that this is less “Second Prince falling in love with Penelope” and more “they become friends but everyone else assumes they’re in a romantic relationship.”

The very first one he experienced was after Penelope died at her coming of age celebration and Callisto goes mad, killing the rest of the Imperial Family. And for all the rumors about Callisto’s brutality, all his mother’s stories about his savage ways and how unfit he is for the throne…the Second Prince doesn’t see a monster when Callisto goes to kill him.

Just a man, finally broken by grief and hopelessness.

Of course, this realization makes the Second Prince very uncomfortable, having been raised to see Callisto as a lunatic. So it’ll take a couple more loops before the Second Prince actually starts to try to look past all the rumors about his brother and see the man. Once he does, and realizes how messed up the Second Queen and Emperor’s treatment of him is, he starts trying to help Callisto in subtle ways (anonymously tipping off Callisto or one of his people about an upcoming assassination attempt, maybe taking on more work so Callisto doesn’t have to deal with so much, etc.) After Callisto meets Penelope in the garden maze, the Second Prince even starts leaving romance novels for Callisto to read since he does remember hearing about his brother’s awful attempts at courting in that first loop lol.

I’m thinking he stays for the Hunting Competition, tries to sabotage the assassination (maybe he only manages to switch out the poison for something that has a well-known antidote? I dunno) but the trial still ultimately happens. He speaks up for Penelope instead of Vinter. Afterwards, when Penelope thanks him for his help, he slips up as they talk and confirms that he remembers the time loops. Penelope is shocked that someone else remembers. They start to share their experiences with each other during Penelope’s stay at the palace (and he is horrified at just how many loops Penelope has lived through). They start planning on how to deal with Leila, but now rumors are flying about how Penelope must have broken up with the Crown Prince to be with his brother. I imagine that Cedric would probably tell Callisto when he’s still pretending to be asleep to get sympathy from Penny, and he just bolts out of that room like “NOT ON MY WATCH.”

That’s all I have for now and this got so long, I’m so sorry

Headcanon #39

[Attention! Non-standard Relationships! The Second Prince/Penelope Eckart] Σ(°ロ°)

After Callisto's return to the empire, the Queen is desperately trying to figure out how to strengthen her position in the palace and elevate her son in the eyes of the nobility. But perfect military campaigns and unquestioning execution of the emperor's orders ruin all her plans to expose the Crown Prince in an awkward light and deprive him of the status of heir.

The Queen decides to take a risky step - to lure Duke Eckart to her side. She understands perfectly well that the Duke will adhere to neutrality, ignore any provocations and take his position, regardless of either side. But this "shield" had a small flaw -the Duke's adopted daughter. There were many rumors about her, and the Crown Prince was head over heels in love with her.

The Queen ordered her son to make a Penelope fall in love. Thereby creating a reason why the Duke would be forced to go over to her side and protect his daughter from the unrequited Crown Prince, who would fall into a deep rage if he found out that the woman he fell in love with had gone to brother.

The Second Prince wants to play with Penelope's heart. He had enough favorites and ladies with whom he dated, so he was sure that a woman like Penelope would instantly melt from his charms. But here's the bad luck - she didn't care about him, his gifts and flirting.

Every time he tried to start a conversation with her and translate it from official to unofficial, Penelope easily waved him off and left.

Not only anger and petty capriciousness grew in the Prince, but also curiosity. Gradually, he begins to fall in love and change, that is, to grow up, leaving the image of a mama's son. He begins to argue with the Queen and tries to take care of Penelope, thereby coming into conflict with Callisto.

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Watching Home Alone is so funny it’s like

Kevin’s mom: *hyperventilating into a paper bag* I can’t believe I left my son home alone, he has to be so terrified, my poor baby boy all alone I need to go get him-

Kevin: *actively planning to commit war crimes*

Oh my goddess...💔

Episode 123🌙

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Callisto: You could say I’ve fallen for you *winks*

Penelope: You literally just rolled down and entire flight of stairs, how are you still alive—