sbcw2.1: prince
When Callum is thirteen, he is told he has to study philosophy.
"You're not just a prince," King Harrow—his stepdad, he supposes—says. "You'll be one of Ezran's closest advisors one day, and knowing how to think, and how to argue, and how to weigh decisions are important skills."
Callum looks up at him sceptically, because philosophy is not interesting, and no amount of debate has made it interesting so far, but Harrow only chuckles and claps his shoulder. "Your mom would have wanted you to know it," he says gently.
And because it's what his mom would have wanted, Callum does it, and he learns about truth and happiness and Justice; about people with long names and the basis of morality; about theoretical ethical dilemmas that he expects he will never have to think about beyond these lessons.
"It's not about the right answer, my prince," his tutor says. "It's about justifying the choices you make and living with the consequences that follow. That is the burden of being a prince."
Four years later, his choices are laid bare: it is one, or it is many; a single elf, or the fate of the world; love, or the loss of everything else he holds dear.
It is the cube, and the release of the most dangerous elf in the world, or it is Rayla.
Callum wishes he could say the choice is harder than it is, but what it comes down to is what he can and can't do—and he can't lose Rayla. Not again. Not ever.
It's not about the right answer, he remembers vaguely. It's about justifying the choices you make and living with the consequences that follow. That is the burden of being a prince.
Well, thinks Callum, surrendering the cube to the elf in the void. He was never very good at being a prince to begin with, and if it's about living with the consequences, then he knows in his heart the one thing he cannot live without.
If the rest of the world burns, so be it.
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I went through my dobermann and catapult tags looking for a specific piece of art but then I remembered it’s not on tumblr bc it likely would’ve gotten flagged or removed
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for everyone who also doesn‘t have THE subscription:
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8. got lazy, have a quick scribble.
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