#diego de vil | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

thebluestbluewords · 4 months

Text

and soon it’ll be spring

testing out some character voices. Set in a vague future timeline, fandom-typical discussions of child abuse.

Carlos hasn't seen his mother in years. Hasn't spoken to her since he left the isle. There's phones, and computers, and mail service to the isle, and sometimes the reception even works now, but he hasn't reached out.

Evie sends letters to her mother sometimes. She addresses them to her old castle, encloses herbs and chocolate and eyeshadow. She doesn't read the responses that come back, but her mother sends them anyway, and Evie keeps sending her packages even though she can't bear to see whatever her mother has to say back to her.

Carlos can't even do that.

He's a bad son, probably. An ungrateful brat. Useless. Worthless. His mother could have drowned him as a baby, killed him like an unwanted puppy, and they'd all have been better off without the bother. He's been a bad son since he was born. Weak. A vulnerability.

He breathes, keeps his voice steady. "Yup. That."

Diego moves in a flurry of violent motion. He's facing away, towards the river, but Carlos still has to suppress the urge to flinch. Diego wears heavy boots, steel-toes even though he's never been in a real factory in his life, and every Isle kid's seen the damage they can do.

The rock he kicked goes flying into the river.

"Fuck." his cousin snaps. "Fuck! I remember that."

Carlos can't laugh, but there's a sort of bubbling fear that's catching in his throat, and he can let some of it out. "Hah. Yeah. Um, I sort of — I cried a lot, that summer? It was hot and awful and you wouldn't come by the house, and I wasn't allowed to be at yours, so we started looking for a better hideout that year. D'you remember when Ivy found that place by the forest—"

"—the one with the metal roof, where we got trapped by Kaa and you rigged a crossbow out of guitar strings." Diego finishes. "Fuck. I knew we found a new hideout that year, but I thought it was 'cause we got those drums for Sierra and couldn't keep them quiet down in the warehouse."

Carlos shrugs. He's always been the little one, the tag-along. Diego's gang didn't tell him anything when he was a kid, and they still don't really talk. He's magicam friends with Sierra and Ivy, but Mia won't even accept his follow request. They didn't want him then, they don't want him now, and it's not even really a sore point anymore. He's got his own pack. No teenagers really want a little kid hanging around them, especially a kid who's already showing that he's a weak point. "Might'a been. I dunno."

"Nah, it was 'cause dad didn't want you hanging around the house anymore," Diego says firmly, shaking his head. "We found a new place so you'd have somewhere to go'n hide when your mom went ballistic. You were tiny, y'know."

It's sort of a logical leap, but sort of not.

"I'm still short." Carlos points out. "You don't feel compelled to protect me now, right?"

"Hah. Hah. Very funny, nerd."

"I'm just saying—”He ducks the hand that shoots out to scrub his hair into a rat's nest. Score one for Isle kid instincts. "I'm say-ing," Carlos continues, undeterred. "That you didn't have to protect me back then. I could've taken care of myself."

"You were a kid."

"And you were what, twelve? Thirteen?"

"Older," Diego says firmly. He's still looking out towards the water. "Old enough to protect my baby cousin."

"Mom didn't kill me. I'm still here."

Diego's arms are smooth and unmarked by the round cigarette burns that cover Carlos's arms, hands, chest, belly. Anywhere he was soft, she liked to burn.

"She could've," Diego rasps out. "She almost did. I wasn't big enough to stop her."

"The spell—”

"FUCK THE SPELL." he shouts. Too loud. People are looking at them. People in Auradon love to stare and judge VKs, even when they're dressed just like anyone else in the city, but shouting was a reason to stare even back home.

Diego notices, and drops his arms down, swinging the cup in his hand back and forth like a melting pendulum of coffee and sugar. "Fuck it," he repeats, quieter. "If Auradon wanted us alive so bad, they should've put in the work themselves instead of relying on the barrier to keep bouncing us back."

Carlos lifts one shoulder in agreement. He's pretty sure that the spell does a lot more than just keep them in their bodies, what with the healing factor and the way it won't kick you back in unless you've got a body to go back to, but it's a solid enough argument if you don't go into specifics. Claudine and the religious types at Dragon Hall had a whole rant on tap about how the barrier was being used to bounce their souls out of their path to heaven, so that they'd rejoin their bodies again and keep them alive even longer, but thinking about the concept of souls makes Carlos feel an emotion that Mal calls "stabbing" and Jay calls "a working bullshit sensor." Evie calls it "a rational emotional response to religious guilt-tripping bullshit", which sounds better than stabbing, but like, the point still stands that souls aren't real and listening to Claudine's lecture about them makes Carlos feel mostly doubtful, and also sort of like he's a shitty person. Which is probably the point of religion.

"S'not really bouncing," he says quietly, keeping his voice low and face turned down. People stare less if they're not obviously talking to each other, because Auradon has different standards for communication and watching VKs shout-talk directly at each other makes people stare. "It's not like we ever really die."

Diego levels a flat look at him.

"Okay, yeah, they should've put more work into keeping us alive," Carlos agrees, because it's true. Auradon locked them up and threw away the key, and didn't even bother to check on their island of villains once they'd settled down from the initial bloodshed and power scrambles. "But the scientific basis for being bounced back into our bodies by the spell just isn't there. If they're using the barrier to trap our souls or whatever in an impenetrable bubble, then how're new souls getting in for the kids born on the Isle? If it's a true closed system it doesn't make sense. And I know--" He sucks in a breath before Diego can get a word in edgewise, because he knows. The souls aren't the point. The magic isn't even the point. "It doesn't matter how they're keeping us there so long as there's still kids starving and being killed on that rock. I know. But I can't push the wheels of government any faster, because I'm not the fucking king, or a representative, or anything. I'm a testimony at best,and it's not like being born on the Isle gives me the power to do anything about it."

Diego snorts. "Wow, you can't fix twenty years of systematic disenfranchisement on your own? Call the presses, my genius cousin can't fix something in five years that took twenty to break in the first place."

The guilt that lives in the place where other people keep their feelings swirls up in Carlos's chest again. "I could've tried."

"In between what, surviving high school? Petitioning the king to listen to us? 'Cause it seems like we're a lot further than we'd've been without your crew's work."

"I built a machine to break the barrier," Carlos tells the river. "Back home. Before we left. It nearly worked."

Diego kicks another rock into the river. "I know."

Carlos feels his heart stutter-stop. "You—what?"

"I know," Diego repeats. "You built shit all the time. You'd talk about it in your sleep. I stopped by that treehouse of yours one time, and you had the whole thing torn apart. You were talking to your crew about it. I listened for a while."

"When?"

The cold bottom of his cousin's coffee cup bonks into Carlos's skull. "Before you left, genius. I dunno. You didn't have it working yet."

"I thought I was being sneaky about that."

"You were. I'm just sneakier. If you'd been reverse engineering the whole barrier, you'd've built it better right?"

"I would've given us the dignity of dying, if that's what you're asking."

"Yeah." Diego says quietly, and then. "Fuck. That's morbid."

Carlos shrugs. Maybe thinking about better ways to die makes them morbid, but it's still comforting to think that if he'd been the one to engineer their prison, that he'd've been able to give them the mercy of actually dying. "We're villains. It's our speciality. We're supposed to be all about death, and murder, and stuff."

Diego laughs. They laugh the same way, the two of them. More of a bark than a real laugh. There's probably some irony there, if they wanted to go digging for it. "Didn't you hear, little cousin? We're supposed to be good now. No more murder. We're reformed villains, no more claws and fangs."

They're reformed, but Diego still calls at 3am sometimes, just to make sure that he's still breathing.

"Damn, guess I'll have to return the axe I bought," Carlos drawls, hefting his cup up like it's a weapon. "And the rat poison, and the chains for the dungeon..."

"Kinky."

#my fic #descendants #descendants fic #I don’t know if this makes sense anymore without the layers of Being Insane About My Own AU #but!!!#they’re talking about a specific family event that happened when they were like. Eleven and fourteenish.#carlos de vil #diego de vil #cinderellaverse

55 notes · View notes

lsleofthelost · 5 months

Text

descendants tweets [29/?] Diego de Vil edition

#descendants #descendants tweets #drug mention #diego de vil #that last tweets was DEFINITELY rtd by all the vks lmao #if you’re not caught up on my more for him. he’s a guitarist in a band called the bad apples. that’s the link in his bio #he’s kind of a jerk but in a rough around the edges way. he really loves Carlos #he’s like a couple years older than the main gang. same as Xinyi

64 notes · View notes

idontliketomatoesleavemealone · 6 months

Text

Hunter, rubbing his temples: I’m not proud of what I am about to say, but someone get me a cigarette

Diego: Hunter, none of us smoke.

Hunter: Cut the shit, Diego, I'm not an idiot. I know that one in five people smoke.

Hunter: points at Ivy one! points at Carlotta two! points at Diego three! points at Carlos four! points at himself five!

Hunter: Now, I am going to close my eyes, and when I open them, there better be a cigarette between these two fingers.

Ivy: puts a cigarette in Hunter's hand

Hunter: thank you…light?

De Vil cousins: all simultaneously pull out lighters

#To be fair they weren‘t using the lighters to smoke #disney descendants #Hunter de Vil #Diego de Vil #Ivy de Vil #Carlos de Vil

62 notes · View notes

tiredflowercrown · 1 month

Note

Currently slightly obsessed with your characterisation of Diego de Vil, do you have anything to share?

I do!

Part of the reason Diego is so brutal and has such showmanship of it is because if everyone focuses on him, then no one is paying attention to Hunter

He fell in love with Harriet the moment he met her. Someone had tried to kill CJ and she killed them instead. It was the day he devoted his life to her

He hates the feeling of blood on him. He often dissociates in the aftermath of his work due to this

He's afraid to get too close to Anthony. He doesn't want to taint him more than he already is

If he was ever to chose between his family and his partners, he isn't sure who he would chose

Him and Sammy get along surprisingly well considering Diego has a tendency to rile up Harriet. (It's cause he also has a calming effect on her)

At least once a month until Carlos went to Auradon, Diego would ask Carlos to move out of Hell Hall. Carlos didn't have to go to the docks with him or Ivy, he could go stay with Hunter, but staying at Hell Hall was going to kill him. And Carlos's death would've broken Diego

The closest Diego came to death was due to Cruella. He was 11 and it took a 5 hour emergency surgery to stabilize him

#disney descendants #sals isle lore #descendants #diego de vil #harriet hook #carlos de vil #anthony tremaine #ivy de vil #hunter de vil

23 notes · View notes

panthera-tigris-venenata · 2 months

Text

Ivy’s deathwish in Dead Beauty AU. The chapter needs to continue, but, yeah. Posting what I’ve got now.

Ivy sits still (too still) with her head laid on top of Claudine’s and the smoke curls around them.

She doesn’t breathe it in, not for several long seconds, not until her lungs decide to cooperate again; then she breathes it in, coughing immediately after. How embarrassing this is, Ivy de Vil choking on smoke.

„You okay?“ Claudine has the damn audacity to pull away and ask that. Are you okay? Did the Hell freeze over? Did mould jeans actually go back into fashion again?

„Obviously,“ Ivy says, turning her nose up and drawing Claudine close again, before her muscles inevitably lock up, „Never been better.“

„Just checking, you know, with all the alcohol and poison,“ Claudine breathes more smoke into the air and Ivy would love to answer, she really would–

Would she though?

When she can move again, she just slowly stretches out her hand and fingers, watching the light dance on her red nails: She’s got a new manicure, got it done just yesterday. It’s flawless now, bringing her comfort. She decides she’s fine now, can push herself for a bit more time before she gets the antidote. Even if she isn’t actually sure how much strychnine she has had, how much time it was since, what with Harry Hook being such a distraction–

It’s his turn now, and she hopes he will come up with something fun.

She also feels like she should tell her youngest cousin what’s going on – right after she yells at him for coming back, and for coming back and not telling her immediately, not necessarily in that order, and, yeah. For that, he can wait a bit.

If he wanted to know, he should have just come to see her.

Ivy steals Claudine’s cigarette to drag a breath from it while her body isn’t being a joy-killing bitch, and here, fuck that–

Claudine has to forcibly take the lit cigarette from her locked up fingers, lest the hot embers fall down her cleavage, and oh no what a shame would that be–

„I wasn’t done with that yet,“ Ivy complains as soon as she can move again, ignoring the way Claudine lifts her eyebrow at her, the way her lips curl.

„Weren’t done with that, I’m sure–“

„Hey,“ Diego, that poor excuse of a cousin, so very rudely interrupts them, „What’s up?“

Ivy is unsure whom she should try to kill with her glare first, as Claudine answers that oh, yeah, don’t worry, she’s just, y’know, actively dying, and all that.

Ivy will have you know she has it completely and utterly under control, thank you very much.

„Harry Hook was there,“ she tells him, „We played Russian Roulette.“

„Of fucking course it was a Hook–“ he mutters, as if he didn’t sleep with the Beauty’s Captain any chance he gets, fucking hypocrite, and, „Did you win or lose?“

Ivy turns her nose up: „Yes,“ she informs him.

„Stupid bitch.“

She tries to show him the middle finger, but just manages to lock herself in a spasm again, damn it–

„Claudine, go get her the antidote – Auntie’s sleeping pills, she’s keeping them in her bedside table, second drawer,“ he commands, as if he had any fucking right to order around her Claudine–

„Fuck you, Diego,“ she spits out as soon as she can, „Fuck you.“ Then she turns to Claudine, quickly getting her tone under control, speaking sweeter and angling herself just so: „Could you go get it, sweetheart? She moved it to the first drawer.“ It is probably getting just a bit too late, she supposes.

„…Fine,“ sighs out Claudine, „For you.“ She gets up and extinguishes the cigarette on an ashtray and Ivy mourns the loss almost immediately. She chooses to glare at Diego, what with his annoying insistence on not dying and stuff.

Claudine walks round Diego, who leans on the doorframe with his hands crossed, and as soon as she’s out of earshot, he asks: „Really? Hook? And Frollo – why are you still so hung up on her, anyway?“

Ivy chooses to not-hear the second answer, and instead spits out: „Oh, so this is how it is?! When you sleep with a Hook, it’s okay, but if I do it, I’m suicidal and danger to myself?!“

„Yes! Ivy, they are dangerous, and fuck, look at yourself–“

She manages to throw the glass at him before she spasms again – he dodges, that fucker, and comes help her into a safer position. Gods, sometimes she really hates him.

„Look at yourself too,“ she says when she can breathe again, ignoring the way her hands can’t seem to stop shaking, and the way Diego takes them into his, „Your throat is still bruised, and how long was it? A week?“

„Two.“

„You looked like she tried to rip out your throat with her teeth.“

He smirks, that bastard; „Pretty sure she did try that, yeah–“

And that’s how Claudine finds them, laughing because there is nothing else to do, because they are just two lost cases anyway, because the de Vils have reached Hell and yet they keep on sinking.

And yet, Ivy lets Claudine force–feed her the pill.

#disney descendants #claudine frollo #ivy de vil #diego de vil #dead beauty au #poisoning #substance abuse

23 notes · View notes

gabineteolvidado · 5 months

Note

Hey, sorry to bother you with yet aother request but my friend suggested that I should get you to redraw this drawing I made of the de Vil family.

Thank you for taking the time to read my request and If you do draw it, think it.

Again sorry for bothering you.

Here is the drawing:

Here is some reference pictures:

(Animated pictures).

(Here is the young fancasts versions).

You don't have to draw the animals if it's inconvenient for you if you do draw this.

Well...

i made two versions

This one, where I tried to imitate what you did (but only with an animal)

And this variant where I played with genetics

The End.

#disney villains #disney descendants #cruella de vil #carlos de vil #diego de vil #hunter de vil #ivy de vil #digital art #artists on tumblr

46 notes · View notes

cleverqueencommander · 3 months

Text

Diego de Vil and Claudine Frollo

#descendants #diego de vil #claudine frollo #descendants fanart #sketch

32 notes · View notes

hexenwrites · 1 year

Text

Mal: Carlos is a perfect cinnamon scone who’s never done anything wrong in his entire life! Diego: Never done anything wrong?! He's set a city block on FIRE!

#mal #diego de vil #carlos de vil #disney descendants #isle of the lost #isle of the lost incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #best friends #best friend life #cousins #diego doesn't understand what happened.#mal is falling in love.#pre marlos #marlos #hexenwrites

87 notes · View notes

hannahhook7744 · 5 months

Text

The Bad Apples!;

Band Poster I made based off of this and this.

Pictures I made.

Diego de Vil musician outfit board.

Album Cover:

The Bad Apple Songs (so far):

We're The Brunos.

You're Dead (To Me).

Don't Talk About The Dead Kids.

(Don't Talk About) The Isle Kids.

Wilted Petals.

Don’t Get Shot.

Rough House Rumble.

Where Are You, Peter Pan?

Who Made You King?

Where’s My Happy Ending?

Fuck Your Fairytale!

Bruised The Apple, Made It Rot.

What Did I Ever Do (To You?).

Wild Childs.

Bad Kids.

The Real Lost Kids.

Isle Life.

Santa Hates Isle Kids.

Afraid Of A Little Bad Luck.

LOl, Go to Hell.

Devil Child.

Bad, Bad Apples.

Monsters.

Cruella de Vil.

Kill the Beast.

Narcissus.

For All of You to See.

Whatever Happened to the Heroes.

(This Is Our) Swan Song.

Want You (Dead).

Under The Gloom.

Not Gonna Follow (Your Rules).

Never Gonna Be (Royalty).

Finders Keepers.

Got No Mom And Dad.

Don’t Choke.

The Crown.

For Real This Time.

Daddy (Mommy) Didn’t Love Me.

Poison Me Slowly.

A Warning To The Prophet.

It's A Brave New World.

Call Me Never.

Acid Trip.

Black And White.

We Will Fight To The Death!

I Hate You.

Smelling Flowers From Bellow.

Ain’t I A Rotter.

Saint Cyriacus (written to honor her brother of the same name).

God Help the Outcasts!

A Warning To The People.

Hellfire!

I Miss You.

Father, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Not A Perfect Man, But A Good One (written by Claudine to honor her brother, Cesare).

Love is Love (Written to honor her brother, Cornel).

Bad Reputation.

Bow Before Me.

Respect Thy Name.

Veni, vidi, vici.

Alea iacta est.

Carpe diem.

Et tu, Brute?

If curious about any of the songs, lmk and I'll try to write a snippet of them. Thanks @panthera-tigris-venenata for the help coming up with the titles.

Also I headcanon that they do several different generes (Rock, Metal, Pop, Jazz, Blues, etc). Oh and that they have a band tattoo.

#descendants #disney descendants #melissa de la cruz #disney #descendants au #wicked world #disney descendants au #diego de vil #the bad apples #fake bands #claudine frollo #harriet hook #rick ratcliffe #clay clayton #ginny gothel #mad maddy #fan art #fan edits #etc

25 notes · View notes

dragoneyes618 · 5 months

Text

Petition to make things like "De Vil Shenanigans" and "Tremaine Drama" official tags on AO3. Oh, and "Hook Chaos," of course.

#descendants #disney descendants #the isle of the lost #carlos de vil #diego de vil #ivy de vil #hunter de vil #de vil family #de vil cousins #anthony tremaine #dizzy tremaine #harriet hook #harry hook #cj hook

59 notes · View notes

randomestfandoms · 10 months

Text

Descendants Fan Cast

I’m not recasting anyone from canon, just live action casting for Wicked World & Isle Of The Lost characters! If I’ve forgotten anyone, or if there’s any interest in parent-casting, lmk because I had a lot of fun doing this! Special shoutout to @humaudrey for helping me decide between a couple of options!

Feel free to use any of these ideas if they help you! I’d appreciate credit but it’s not really necessary, but if you do use them please tag me or send me a link so that I can see what other people come up with!

I have my own collection of descendants characters ( part 1 / part 2 ) so some of my castings were based around my own collection of descendants kids (not reusing faces I used for mine & wanting them to work as siblings to some I’ve made) but without further ado, here we go!

Anthony Tremaine; son of Anastasia Tremaine ( Ross Butler )

CJ Hook; daughter of Captain Hook ( Madison Iseman )

Clay Clayton; son of Clayton ( Froy Gutierrez )

Diego De Vil; nephew to Cruella De Vil ( Justice Smith )

Freddie Facilier; daughter of Dr Facilier ( Letitia Wright )

Gaston “Trois” Legume the Third; son of Gaston ( Rudy Pankow )

Gaston Legume Junior; son of Gaston ( Joe Keery )

Ginny Gothel; daughter of Mother Gothel ( Alexa Demie )

Hadie; son of Hades ( Asher Angel )

Harold "Harry" Badun; son of Horace ( Aria Shahghasemi )

Harriet Hook; daughter of Captain Hook ( Samara Weaving )

Jade; niece to Jafar ( Fivel Stewart )

Jason "Jace" Badun; son of Jasper ( Diego Tinoco )

Jordan; daughter of the Genie ( Maitreyi Ramakrishnan )

Mad Maddy; granddaughter of Mad Madame Mim ( Peyton List )

Rick Ratcliffe; son of Governor Ratcliffe ( Noah Schnapp )

Ruby Fitzherbert; daughter of Rapunzel & Flynn Rider / Eugene Fitzherbert ( Sydney Sweeney )

Yzla; daughter of Yzma ( Isabella Gomez )

Zevon; son of Yzma ( Alberto Rosende )

40 notes · View notes

tiredflowercrown · 2 months

Text

Descendants College AU

Or, like a general, they grew up in Auradon au.

Ben and Audrey are both Poli-Sci majors

Ben is a public relations minor while Audrey is an economics minor

Mal is an art major with a specialization in mixed media painting

Carlos is a computer science major

Jay is on a Tourney scholarship while being a business major

Harriet is an enginering major, who's on the verge of dropping out to get a 2nd or 3rd job

Ginny is a pre-med major

Anthony is a marketing major, using his knowledge to support his dad's shop

Diego is a fashion major who runs the school radio and constantly promotes his music

Ben meets Mal when as she is vandalizing the poli-sci building with her art

Maddy is using her knowledge as a bio-chem student to help in her cousins drug ring (willingly is debatable)

#disney descendants #ben descendants #audrey rose #ginny gothel #anthony tremaine #harriet hook #descendants #mal descendants #jay descendants #carlos de vil #diego de vil #mad maddy #college au

40 notes · View notes

panthera-tigris-venenata · 8 months

Note

For your silly Descendants prompts, how about Diego drops Beezlebub (Carlos' cat) on his head at family day after the barrier is taken down while he is talking to a baffled Radcliffe family and Dude?

...I might have taken slight creative liberations with this prompt. I’ve decided that this would do a decent continuation for this prompt, so. But! Diego is here! And Belzebub too!

Also. I don’t have any favourites. How dare you even suggest that. (The author laughs nervously and hides these entire story behind their back.)

Anyway, de Vil cousins being drama queens! Enjoy!

„Hey! Hold that cat of yours!“

„Shut up–“

„Give me back my fucking necklace, it’s a family heirloom–“

„You stole it from our Aunt just last week!“

„An heirloom, duh. Now give it back!“

„The fucking seven times damned cat is in my bloody face!“

As Carlos hears the voices of his cousins and the other new arrivals from the Isle, he winces: He cannot help but question his life choices slightly.

Only slightly though. It does seem like they brought his cat back.

He looks around: The band (shocked into silence), the decorations (highly flammable), the young king (still smiling).

The limo, now still, the driver just about to open the doors.

Carlos smiles too, and if anyone was looking at him, they might have described the smile as manic.

Alas, no one is paying attention to him. But that’s fine. His cousins are just making a spectacle of themselves, as usual.

Carlos grins wider.

Diego steps out of the limousine first; he scowls at the light (or possibly just at the go-to pastel fashion of Auradon), and then exclaims: „Look – they have a band here!“

Mal pouts, and while Ben comforts her (he has the spirit, okay?), Carlos snickers. He missed his cousins, okay?

„Fuck your bands, Diego,“ says Ivy, pushing him aside, „It’s so fucking bright in here, it’s hurting my eyes.“ She goes silent for a moment, then gestures vaguely to Mal and Ben.

„That is hurting my eyes too. Does anyone have sunglasses?“

And why, yes, she is definitely talking about Mal’s frilly soft pink below-the-knee dress.

Jay nudges his ribs and whispers: „See you soon, man; cover for me,“ for, you see, Jade has perused Ivy’s chaos to sneak out of the focus, and the Agrabah cousins don‘t need an audience for their reunion.

Carlos flashes Jay a quick gesture for „I’ve got your back,“ and refocuses back on the limo.

Then Hunter, who helps out little Dizzy; Evie squeaks and almost runs over to greet her friend and hug her, her mother’s etiquette lessons notwithstanding.

Behind Jade, scowling Claudine Frollo exited the car, and damn it, her eyes–

Carlos is sure they weren’t that cold last time he saw her.

Dizzy brightly waves at Evie and rummages through her bedazzled purse; after a moment, she pulls out sunglasses (also bedazzled) and offers them to sneering Ivy. Ivy accepts them with a dramatic sigh.

Fine, and Diego’s elbow to her ribs, along with whispered „play nice–“

Ben clears his throat.

This does nothing to shut up Ivy, who had now started arguing with Claudine about a topic Carlos is truthfully afraid to understand.

Ben clears his throat again.

Unsurprisingly, they do not stop talking. Au contraire, Dizzy is now talking too – more like attempting to talk Hunter's ears off, but whatever. Hunter signed up for this by standing in her hearing range.

„Ben. Just talk. They'll shut up eventually,“ Carlos tells the king. He doesn't add „hopefully“ even though he really wants to.

„Yeah. Just talk louder than them. Stab them if they get too annoying.“ Mal glares at Ivy and Claudine a normal and non-concerning amount.

„Establish dominance,“ Evie pipes up, smiling sweetly.

„I- Okay. I'll do that,“ agrees Ben reluctantly and then raises his voice: „Greetings! Allow me to welcome you in Auradon, and in Auradon Prep–“

He steps closer to the group of newcomers.

„I'm King Ben, and you already know my companions.“

Another round of excited waving, some raised middle fingers (affectionate), and some glaring from Claudine Frollo.

„You must be Dizzy Tremaine,“ Ben greets the littlest girl first, „I've heard so much about you, all great things, of course. I hope you like it here.“

„Try to kiss me too and I stab you,“ warns Ivy, fully serious.

He kisses the girls knuckles as a true fairy tale prince, which leaves her squeaking; unlike his cousins, Carlos smiles at her excitement.

Unable to contain her happiness any longer, Dizzy runs off to greet Evie, and Ben turns to Ivy and Claudine.

„No stabbing in front of the cameras, Ivy–“ intones Carlos along with Diego and Hunter. You see, priorities.

„I will stab you too,“ adds Claudine with her eyes narrowed and her tone cold; she steps behind Ivy a bit.

„Yeah no don't mind her she just doesn't like human contact!“ says Dizzy brightly. She is probably quoting someone, but hey. She is right.

Though it does seem a bit hypocritical, given how tightly Claudine is clutching Ivy's arm right now. Ivy doesn't seem to mind.

Why yes, this is rather interesting.

„Okay. I'm not kissing anyone,“ says Ben, backtracking a bit, „Would shaking your hand be better?“

„Don’t even try–“ snaps Ivy instead of Claudine and briefly brushes her fingers against hers.

Ivy glares daggers at him but extends her hand; she then proceeds to nearly crush his palm. Good for her, Carlos thinks.

Ben glances towards smiling Mal and chuckles nervously before turning to Claudine, but Claudine just ducks further behind Ivy.

„WTF?“ mouths Carlos towards Diego silently; „Betting pool – later,“ gestures Diego back.

„I’m Diego,“ says Diego and puts his hand forward. Really, it looks like the young king couldn’t decide which boy is which.

„Anyway, glad to meet you, Claudine Frollo,“ says Ben, obviously doing his best to ignore the glares. He‘s doing a fairly good job: Claudine’s eyes are creepy, Carlos would say.

„And you must be Diego and Hunter de Vil,“ continues Ben, looking between the two remaining cousins.

„And I’m Hunter,“ grumbles Hunter, „Literally the only blonde de Vil in like four generations. Shouldn’t be that hard to figure out.“

„Yeah, yeah,“ dismisses Ivy, „We all know there is something wrong with you.“

Finally, Carlos steps out to greet his cousins, mentally saying goodbye to his hairdo.

Carlos tries and fails to not fall into a laughing fit.

The appalled „Excuse yourself?!“ is not really helping to be honest.

He ignores Ben quietly asking if there wasn’t supposed to be someone else too, and wait, where is Jay?

It doesn’t take long for the older two de Vil boys to trap Carlos in a bone crushing hug.

„Thanks, man,“ whispers Diego so silently that everyone could pretend he didn’t speak at all.

„Hey, wait, we’ve got your cat–“ says Hunter, as if he only just remembered, which, fair enough.

„Oh, shit, right–!“

Well finally someone remembers his cat!

Unfortunately, Ivy, that diva, (derogatory), chooses this moment to greet him properly too: She spins him around rather forcibly and hugs him for but a split second, then she holds him by his shoulders at arm length.

„Carlito! So long since we’ve seen you, and still so small! But the Auradon fashion works for you, I must say, baby cousin–“

„And still no manners, I see,“ sniffs Ivy with her nose up high before leaning back on Claudine.

Sure enough, she reaches out and ruffles his hair. That bitch.

The gesture is immediately repeated by Hunter; Diego is still busy wrestling Belzebub the cat out of the limousine.

Carlos growls at his cousins in distaste as he attempts to repair whatever damage they had done.

„And whose fault is that?“ asks Diego as he emerges out of the limo again, struggling mess of black fur and sharp claws in his arms.

„Our dear auntie’s, obviously.“

Yeah, the Cruella de Vil who had gotten bored and dumped the responsibility for etiquette lessons at her niece within an afternoon. Fortunately for everyone, Ivy didn’t stay interested much longer.

„Belzebub, how I’ve missed you,“ Carlos coos at his cat and scratches behind his ears; Belzebub purrs and calms down, to the absolute astonishment of the three older cousins.

„Whatever, Ives. Here, Carlos, your little furball of joy and murder.“ Diego seems glad to get the cat off his hands; the cat doesn’t seem too happy to be moved. It leaves Diego with a nice long good-bye scratch.

Whatever. The blood matches his vest anyway.

„Wait wait wait, you called that damned black cat Belzebub?! What is wrong with you people?!“

Carlos glares at Claudine Frollo. He didn’t think she could yell that loud.

„Betting pool – later,“ gestures Diego again. Carlos scratches behind Belzebub’s ears again – that fury’s shrieks had upset him – and decides to indeed let the matter go. For about as long as it takes to get to a more private area and get the gossip out of Diego.

„We’re literally called the devils, sweetheart,“ drawls Ivy, „Deal with it.“

…Sweetheart?

„Anyway, we’ve got letters for y’all, and we aren’t leaving until the baby king reads them.“

„Yeah maybe don’t call him Baby King to his face, Ivy?“

„Shut up. And you read.“ Ivy aggressively shoves a bunch of letters into Ben’s face.

„Letters? From whom?“ he asks.

„Why, from the Captains, of course.“

„I’m gonna go ahead and guess that you mean Uma and Harriet,“ deadpans Carlos, ignoring Mal’s intense stare that by all accounts should be able to kill.

„Obviously.“

Look, yeah, gang wars are fun and all, but must Ivy wave at Mal? And smile oh-so-sweetly?

Oh who is he kidding, of course she must. It’s Ivy.

„No murder in front of the cameras, you two,“ Carlos just sighs before turning back to Ben, who is attempting to open the envelopes with his short and manicured nails. Carlos joins his cousins and Claudine in ignoring that struggle and pretending that neither of them has a knife on them.

„Hey, wait–“ Evie comes to the rescue with scissors (Why on earth does she have scissors on her? …You know what, no. Carlos doesn’t want to know.), and Dizzy remembers that she too has several letters for the High King. From Anthony, from her Aunt, and from Uma, surprisingly: That one bluntly states that both Ivy and Claudine are a danger to themselves and should not under any circumstances be left alone. Active deathwish and lack of survival instincts and all. Neat.

Leave it to Uma to sugarcoat things.

Carlos pats Ben on the back and leaves to finally figure out what on earth is going on with Claudine Frollo, his cat in hand.

As he, Diego and Hunter walk away, leaving the king to Ivy, they wave at Jay and Jade on the roof.

#disney descendants #claudine frollo #carlos de vil #ivy de vil #diego de vil #dizzy tremaine #evie grimhilde #ben descendants #family reunions #swearing #Ivy and Claudine are in fact dating and I need you all to know that

46 notes · View notes

kanzakurawrites · 1 year

Note

Which Aks and Vks you kinda like from the descendants novels and why?

VKs:

Hadie. He's only there for like one chapter and a few lines but I guess I just love the idea of him despite it not exactly making sense. Mal having an older/younger brother is just such an interesting concept and could have been an interesting relationship to explore since it hints that he and Mal are on friendly-ish terms.

Harriet (and CJ). Pretty much for the same reason as Hadie. Even though, once again, not much of Harriet is known other than her having her own pirate crew and being Harry's elder sister. Its fun to think of the relationships between the three.

Following the theme, I also like Diego and Jade. Once again because I like the idea of Carlos having some family to turn to, and Jay being an over-protective older cousin (OR just being pure chaos when he's hanging with Jade).

As for others, I do like Maddy. Maybe not so much as a person, but as a character. I like that there's someone against Mal, and she has a good reason to be. I wish she was played more with, whether she would have her own redemption (though a continuous grudge with Mal would be cool because please Disney people can tolerate each other and be civil, but don't have to become good friends and all of that), or remaining a villain which could also be interesting and show that yes they have a choice, they aren't their parents, but that doesn't mean that every VK will choose good. She also just gives the unsettling vibes for some reason, though that could just be me.

And last, I like Ginny. I like that she was once one of Mal's "friends" and out of the few "bad" VKs in Return to the Isle, she really does seem to think about things more. Its also fun to think about the possibility that she's really Cassandra's daughter but for her safety (I can't see Cass being that popular on the Isle) its believed she's really Mother Gothel's. (Or was taken by Mother Gothel)

AKs:

Ally!! I love Ally. She is just so chaotic, the way she views the world, and the fact that she wants to be a detective. Please, someone, let this girl be a detective. She can be like the Nancy Drew of Auradon Prep. I also like that she has anxiety, and how when she's nervous she plays with words, can understand at least cats. Idk, I love Ally so much.

And... that's pretty much it for the AK's. I don't mind Jordan but I'm not that attached to her, and others are mentioned but not there much, which I feel like was a missed opportunity.

#disney descendants #descendants #isle of the lost #auradon #ginny gothel #harriet hook #cj hook #diego de vil #jade descendants #mad maddy #descendants ally #hadie descendants #tangled cassandra #my asks

26 notes · View notes