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greatwyrmgold · 2 years

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So, one bit about Damian and Anya's relationship that gets lost in the kid-shipping is that, at the moment, half of the relationship is as fake as Yor and Twilight think theirs is.

Anya doesn't really care about Damian, and thinks he's dumb; some people have interpreted this as a little girl not understanding how she feels about a boy and rationalizing them into hate, like Damian's feelings are, but there's not much textual support for it. Anya's interest in Damian begins and ends at "Papa needs to get close to Second Son's papa for world peas".

Some people have pointed out that this could be good for drama. We know Damian has been burned by at least one person faking affection for him (his dad), and it seems likely that he's either had other people fake being his friend to get close to the Desmond family or been warned about such people by his parents. Finding out that the cute ugly and stupid girl in class has only been faking interest to get close to his dad would hurt. And that's drama—especially if Damian finds out about the spy stuff after Anya starts to care about him!

But it would also be an obvious source of drama. What if, instead, Damian went along with the plan?

Yes, Damian is the son of Donovan Desmond, the most prominent pro-war politician in Ostania. But the son is not the father; in fact, the son resents the father for being so distant. Damian doesn't want what Donovan wants.

Moreover, the same mind that birthed "If I make a really cool griffin out of construction paper, my dad will praise me!" could easily come up with "If my dad's plans fail, he'll have more time to spend with his family!" Or at the very least, "If my dad's plans succeed, he'll have even less time to spend with his family..."

So if Damian somehow finds out that Anya is secretly trying to help her spy father avert a war, maybe Damian would be into that. And that would be interesting. The two of them would enter a "friendship" (to Becky's delight and Ewen & Emile's confusion), with hopes of arranging some excuse for Mr. Forger to come over to Mr. Desmond's house.

This seems like a junior version of Loid and Yor's relationship, but there are some important differences. The two most important are that Damian isn't Yor and Anya isn't Twilight. Close behind is the fact that Damian and Anya would be more or less on the same page regarding the secrecy of their relationship; both know they're in it to protect peace, they're just hiding that from everyone else. And there are smaller details, but this would be plenty for Endo to work with.

There would also be second-order effects, of course. For instance:

Anya has a chance to see what makes Damian tick—why he's an arrogant junior douchebag, why he's rude to people like her, why he gets so touchy about his family. She'd stop seeing him as an annoying brat she has to get along with For The Mission and start seeing him as a boy she might want to actually be friends with.

Damian has a chance to see Anya when she's not at school, not trying/failing to act dignified and proper around the bougie kids. This could lead to him developing more nuanced feelings for Anya, but I think it would make more sense and be funnier if he instead found Anya more annoying, his positive impression of Anya fading with her facade. (Don't flip out, Damianya shippers; it could always return later as both mature.)

I have several competing ideas for how Yuri would react to finding out Loid and his stupid daughter were going over to Donovan Desmond's house, ranging from anger to jealousy to deciding that Loid must not be as bad as he'd assumed if the National Unity Party accepts him. They all seem pretty entertaining, though.

Damian is eventually going to wonder why Anya knows about her papa's mission, but neither of them can discuss it with him. Plus, being her "friend" means spending a lot of time around her, noticing when the things she says don't quite add up. Even if Damian doesn't find out about Anya's telepathic powers alongside her dad's mission, he's going to find out eventually. Angry shippers, wouldn't it be neat if Damian was he first person to find out Anya's tragic backstory? Go write about that.

We might finally see Demetrius.

And so on.

I'm not saying this is definitely gonna happen...but it could, and it would be pretty neat!

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imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs · 2 years

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Both of your Spy x Family WIPs sound amazing~ can I get a snippet of either?

I'll see what I can do

Here's something from the Damianya age swap one

"There you are!"

Damian felt himself stiffen at the sound of her voice, but made no motion to remove his copy of Doctor Zhivago from over his eyes.

If I don't move, maybe she'll forget I'm here, he thought.

Unfortunately, God saw fit to remind Damian Desmond, Colonel of the State Security Service, that a woman's ability to detect motion and a rhinoceros's are not in the same range. Anya pulled the book from over his face.

"I've been looking everywhere for you!"

"Why?" Damian asked, rising from his place reclined on the stone bench, "And did you really search to whole hedge maze to find me? That's hardly in your job description."

Anya pouted.

"Yor and Yuri are looking for you," she said, "you're their father. And your entire family is here."

"All the more reason I can let them be for now," Damian said, "I promised them we would watch one of those superfluous Bondman movies tonight."

Anya gasped.

"You take that back! Unless 'superfluous' means 'amazing!"

Damian stared at her.

"Don't tell me you watch those," he asked, "you're a spy? Bondman is a propagandistic piece of nonsense that barely resembles the actual work of espionage.”

“Are you calling Bondman nonsense? You… you frivol!?”

Damian stared.

“What?”

“You heard me. You’re a frivol. As in a frivolous person.”

“Frivolous is derived from the Latin word ‘frivolus’. Not every word ending in ‘ous’ has a noun root.”

“Well, it should be a word. They should invent it to describe a jerk like you who doesn’t want to spend time with his kids.”

“I love my children! I spend every moment I can with them. It’s the rest of my family I have a problem with! Not that I’d expect a mercenary agent whose idea of childcare is to let them ride a half rabid horse!”

“Leave Loid out of this!”

“I loathe you.”

“If I knew what that meant, I’d loathe you too.”

“Loathe. Verb. To feel intense dislike or disgust for.”

“You can just say you hate. I bet you don’t know how to do anything without being a snobby fancy-pants about it.”

“And I bet you can’t do anything without draining it’s dignity like it’s a stuck pig!”

“Why would a pig getting stuck somewhere drain it?”

And here's a piece of From Ostania with Love

"I don’t claim to be a saint. I oversee three casinos that only pretend to be part of the Ostinian Games Commission. I own a winery that provides asylum to anyone who has the proper payment. It’s just the way I was raised, coming from nothing. Every penny counts… well, suppose I should say every pent counts."

Despite the dimness of the office lights, the weight of fifty-nine years could be seen on Emory Goodnight’s face. The droop of his mustache to the furrow of his beetle brow, he even dressed like an old man; all tweed and variations of monochromatic colors.

Goodnight was every bit the man who no-one would think twice about. Making him the perfect secret keeper.

“So, I was called in early this week to the office of the deputy treasurer of the national unity party. The man says that he needs me to hide his son for a few weeks on my winery. I ask him why. He hands me a stack of money and tells me I’ll get the same amount every week he’s there, plus expenses. I said yes.”

I hope these satisfied your curiosity

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