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God Kin Weddings

All week on Discord, I’ve just been talking about Lucette and her God Kin wedding and trying to figure out what that actually entails. I actually had to make notes for this. Gonna put this under a read more because it gets long.

So to start off, my idea of Anor Londo fashion is that the God Kin wear these large halo crown headdresses.

Like this: 

 Women and children always wear them during events (balls, weddings, feasts, celebrations, festivals, etc.). Men can wear them too but most usually decide not to unless it’s an extremely important event. Children wear smaller, more simple versions of it.

For a wedding, the bride will wear an extremely large and extravagant versions, with gems and filigree designs all over it. Always custom made to the bride’s choices of design. These versions are always the largest and are pretty heavy. Unlike with the other versions where they would wear any hairstyle and be fine, for these, the bride’s hair must absolutely be in a braided bun, both in front and behind the crown to support the weight and prevent it from falling off when the bride moves her head.

Whether the veil is attached to it or to a secondary crown is up to the bride.

I like the idea of the wedding starting early early morning before the sun comes up. The bridesmaids would walk in carrying small handheld brazier bowls lit with a candle, metaphorically lighting the bride’s way to the altar.

Then right when the sun starts to rise, the bride comes in. The sun will be risen enough to make all the gold on the bride sparkle and glow and dazzle but still slightly dark enough that the glow of the glowing flowers can still be seen and light up the bride.

She would be walked in by her father, Artorias, who will also physically join the couple’s hands together before stepping away. Yes, he cries the entire time.

Princess Gwynevere would officiate the marriage.

Another cool idea that I like (not from me) is instead of holding flowers, the brides hold their family’s crest on a silk cape thing. When they reach altar, they give it to their husband as a show of him accepting and being welcomed into the family.

Also, note: Here, I don’t do the “wife goes into the husband’s family” thing. Instead, I base it off of rank. The lower ranked person goes into the family of the higher ranked. If it is the husband, he will give the cape of his family’s crest to her. If wife, reversed. Kinda like Game of Thrones.

So in this instance, Koray (Lucette’s husband in this verse) will be given the silk cape from Lucette. Once the ceremony is over, he will wrap himself in it and will walk out wearing it. He has to keep it on for the rest of the day, even at the reception and feast.

That’s all I got for now but when I think of more, I’ll update this.

Talk about when Lucette finally, truly saw Artorias as her dad

Oo, that’s a good one. I would say it wasn’t like a definite moment that you can point to. It was very gradual and subtle. It took almost a year, about 9-10 months of them being together, for her to start seeing Artorias as a father figure. At first, she saw him as a protector. Since that essentially was what he was to her. 

Then as they get closer Anor Londo, Lucette start unconsciously doing mannerisms and habits she would do with her bio dad with Artorias. Such as grabbing his hand when walking, asking him for stories, sleeping curled up next to him, etc.

Whenever people asked if he was her father, she would just say yes because it was too long to explain. And she would feel a tiny surge of pride whenever someone told Artorias how sweet and adorable his daughter is.

Then they arrive at Anor Londo and when Artorias introduces her to Gwyn and the entire court as his daughter without hesitation, the way it comes out so naturally, she feels a larger surge of pride. It just makes sense. Feels like 

I feel like the final part, when she actually physically calls him Papa for the first time is when they’re having a family portrait being painted and she sees it for the first time and says “I look so pretty, Papa!”. And she sees nothing wrong with it. Neither of them do. It just fits right.

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.