She Hissed When He Opened The Curtains, Being Blinded By The Bright Light And Fleeing Underneath Her

She hissed when he opened the curtains, being blinded by the bright light and fleeing underneath her blanket. It was so bright and so early! Why does she need to be up?!

Lucette squawked in dismay at being told that she will be doing training. Is he serious?! “WHAT?! Why do I need to train? I already know how to fight just fine.” Lucette knew she was whining but she didn’t really care.  When he listed that Kuai would want this and that it would help her fit in better, Lucette rolled her eyes, giving in mildly with annoyance.

“Do I really have to get up at the asscrack of dawn to train? Can’t we do this in the afternoon or midday? Wouldn’t that be more reasonable? Especially in the cold!”

Lucette lifted up the blanket and peeked out only her eyes to send a tired pleading look at her new teacher. You would assume that being a princess and thus always expected to be up early with countless lessons and training, that she would be used to it, but no. She did everything in her power to gain a few extra hours or minutes, at best. What’s the difference between doing training in the morning instead of midday, anyways?! 

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“AH! WHAT THE-”

Lucette had been enjoying a rather nice and peaceful dream of being cuddled by a group of black panthers when she was RUDELY and forcefully awakened by a loud voice yelling in her ear.

Lucette shot up in the bed, hair a tangled curly mess, clothing a wrinkled mess. All in all, she looked like someone who was startled out of sleep. Blue eyes stared in bewilderment at the man who dared to wake her up in such a manner.

“What…What is wrong with you?! Why are you shouting?!” She yelled at him, covering herself with her blanket. She was wearing a robe but was too startled to remember that.

‘Has no one taught him that its rude to walk into a woman’s room and wake her up in such a manner?’

Lucette quietly agreed. She was not properly dressed to receive visitors, especially men! “Could you not knock on the door before entering so?!”

“Good morning to you as well.”

Bi-Han laughed (completely ignoring what she had said, he was maybe just a little bit mischievous), throwing open the curtains: unlike the other regions of Earthrealm, Arctikan mornings consisted of brilliant, bright light merely minutes after the sun had risen. His little brother is probably up by now, or he got up before he even cracked his eye open, either way, Kuai Liang was dedicated to his duty. Laudable, if he wasn’t so damnably uptight about everything.

He turned to face her, hands on his hips.

Saibot’s information from yesterday was enough of a reminder of something that was on hand that he had completely forgotten about. Before they could get Lucette home, she was stuck here with them, with the Lin Kuei -

“Now,” He starts, shifting on his feet. “Since you’re going to be staying with us, you might as well start training with us as well. Kuai would want this, and it’ll help you fit in better with the rest.”

And oh is he going to have some fun with this one, Kuai always insisted on being their teacher because of his claims that he was way too harsh. Tsch, little brother always hogging the fun, but no matter now.

Lowkey kinda wanna talk about Ornstein and Lucette’s relationship and how it changed as she got older.

Lucette is being dragged on a journey and its all Artorias’ FAULT.

(Ornstein gets partial blame)

I GOT NEW BRAID BRUSHES! AND THEY’RE BRAIDS FOR BLACK HAIR!

YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?!

IT WON’T TAKE ME 500000 YEARS TO DO CORNROWS. I CAN GIVE MY GIRLS AND BOYS THE BRAIDS, TWISTS, AND DREADLOCKS THEY DESERVE!

The Lion and the Pup

Alright, let’s talk about Ornstein and Lucette. Ornstein, Captain of the Four Knights and Lucette, daughter of Artorias, the Wolf Knight. 

I have a lot of feelings about these two that I want to articulate but...haven’t quite figured out how to yet. So if this comes off ramblely, my bad.

When Lucette is first brought to Anor Londo, she was entranced and amazed by everything and at the same time, felt scared of it all. Everything and everyone was big and bright, exuding this aura of untouched brilliance.

Ornstein, in this child’s POV, is essentially the personification of that. The first time she saw him was in the throne room and she immediately was intimidated by him, more than by anyone else except Gwyn. She could tell that he was important and very serious.

Since then, Lucette has been extremely intimidated by Ornstein, almost to the point of fear. Luckily for her, that was normal for majority of other people that weren’t close with him. Especially the other children. Whenever the children are playing and run into Ornstein or even cross his path, the atmosphere of the room changes and becomes subdued. They apologize for interrupting him and leave as fast as they can. But at the same time, when he’s faraway and focused on something else, they will eagerly watch him from a distance in awe and make jokes about him.

Lucette is the same way. She will watch him from a distance and yet hide when he’s near. Except, its kinda worse for her because her dad is friends (and something closer) with the other guy. Artorias tried his best to get Lucette to not be so scared of Ornstein. Sometimes, he would bring her to watch the two spar and train. That would be the first time she saw him without his helmet. She would quietly comment (to Artorias) that he was pretty. He reminded her of a greek statue.

That’s as good as she can give. She would still hide behind Artorias’ legs or cape anytime he came to speak with him. Artorias tries to help her by telling her that Ornstein wouldn't harm her and that he actually has a soft center. Not that Lucette believed him.

Keep in mind, she was 7-8 years old.

However, as she got older and became an adult, Lucette’s fear of him lessened and faded over time. By the time she was 20, she was able to have a full conversation with him without being nervous. 

When she was getting married, she heavily encouraged her father to invite Ornstein to the wedding with him and was made sure that the two sat together. Yes, she does ship them. She was honestly mindblown when Artorias told her that they were dating but happy to see her father happy.

This post is getting really long, so I’ll end it here. I’ll talk more about the relationship from Ornstein’s side later on. When I get more of my thoughts straightened out.

Random hc that wouldn’t leave me alone: Lucette as a child is an absolute prankster. No matter what verse.

She has pranked Ornstein once by pouring melted chocolate (not boiling hot, obviously. Lukewarm)  into his helmet when it was sitting on a table unoccupied. She mostly did it because her friends had bet that she would be too scared to. Lucette has a bit of an ego.

Ornstein was NOT happy when he attempted to put on his helmet, only to end up covered in chocolate. That’s putting it nicely. He was LIVID.

Artorias found it fucking hilarious.

Yes, she got caught. Yes, she was forced to apologize to Ornstein. Yes, Ornstein made her clean and polish all of his armor for the rest of the afternoon. Under his eagle eye watch. 

Yes, he scolded her the entire time.

“Since you have so much time to waste upon foolish ventures, perhaps it would be better if your energy was directed toward a more productive pursuit besides mere entertainment at the plight of others.”

That wasn’t fun. Lucette learned her lesson though and never pranked him again.