archiveofarethusa: (Valentio Melman)
Arethusa Archive ([personal profile] archiveofarethusa) wrote2012-01-20 03:48 pm

Ambiguously Happy Stick Men in Profile

It began simply; he was in a meeting with King Wilford, who'd been making diaphanous jabs at Valentio, when Lysandro looked down and realized he'd drawn the man as a screeching harpy. He'd liked the drawing enough to paint and frame in his office.

(Wilford hadn't been amused. Lysandro thought his face was worth it.)

And he kept painting.

"What's that?" Cygnelius asked, on emergency summons from Valentio (who was bored).

"Ambiguously Humanoid Stick Men With Voyeur Dog," Valentio said, grinning.

Lysandro glared, and wondered what made vermilion.

He would never see his reign's legacy - it didn't work that way - but he could dream.