Man of Dishonour
Title: Man of Dishonour
Fandom: Fate: The Winx Saga
Characters: Sky. Mentions of Andreas, Beatrix, Silva.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers all through S1
Summary: Sky questions everything he knew once he finds out Andreas has been alive all along.
He’s grown up all his life with this same bullshit narrative; his father, Andreas the hero, Saul Silva’s best friend, killed in battle, and he’d never had any reason to question it. The guy’s held up as a shining example to all Sky’s friends, to every new class that comes through the school, every time they have a fighting lesson, and Sky had always felt proud of him every time it came up. Now Sky is starting to understand that the stories about his past that he thought he knew had no truth to them whatsoever, and he’s starting to doubt everything, even about himself.
This man who’s just turned up alive after all these years, who had been party to Rosalind’s destruction of Aster Dell, which Sky is only just finding out about now, bears no resemblance to the man he has put on a pedestal, hero worshipped the memory of all these years. Far from the honourable death in the stories he’d been told, Andreas is a man of dishonour, a liar, a killer, a coward.
Sky wonders whether Andreas ever thinks of Aster Dell, ever hears the screams of the people in the night, ever imagines their blood is still on his hands. He would, if it was him. But the impression he’s formed of Andreas in the few days since he’s known the truth about him suggests that Andreas feels no guilt at all, should he ever think of it, which he likely doesn’t.
And he wonders whether Andreas had ever thought of him, wondered about him, during that time he was faking his death, raising Beatrix as his own. He suspects not; it seems to him that Andreas had had a choice, he could have come back for Sky and raised him himself, he could have turned his back on Rosalind and walked away, yet Andreas had put his own ambitions first before his son.
Sky’s never liked Beatrix, even as he’s listened to Bloom talking about how she was the only one who ever gave her any answers, or Riven going on about how attractive she was. There was something about her that he could never trust, and now he understands why. Sky wonders briefly what his life would have been like if he had been raised by Andreas instead of by Silva, but he also knows he’ll never ask Beatrix about her childhood with him. Bloom may have trusted Beatrix for answers, but Sky knows he’ll never ask her about her childhood with Andreas, doesn’t think he could trust any answer she would give him even if he did. But it’s more than just that; he doesn’t want to hear about how Andreas was able to raise her when he could so easily turn his back on Sky, forget he ever had a son.
And he wonders what kind of person he would have become in a world where he had been raised by Andreas rather than by Silva, whether he would have turned out just the same as his father, or as manipulative as Beatrix. Given the choice, he’d rather be the Sky he is today as a result of Silva’s upbringing, yet he can’t help but wonder if the Sky he could have been would have been a man of dishonour as Andreas is.
Fandom: Fate: The Winx Saga
Characters: Sky. Mentions of Andreas, Beatrix, Silva.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers all through S1
Summary: Sky questions everything he knew once he finds out Andreas has been alive all along.
He’s grown up all his life with this same bullshit narrative; his father, Andreas the hero, Saul Silva’s best friend, killed in battle, and he’d never had any reason to question it. The guy’s held up as a shining example to all Sky’s friends, to every new class that comes through the school, every time they have a fighting lesson, and Sky had always felt proud of him every time it came up. Now Sky is starting to understand that the stories about his past that he thought he knew had no truth to them whatsoever, and he’s starting to doubt everything, even about himself.
This man who’s just turned up alive after all these years, who had been party to Rosalind’s destruction of Aster Dell, which Sky is only just finding out about now, bears no resemblance to the man he has put on a pedestal, hero worshipped the memory of all these years. Far from the honourable death in the stories he’d been told, Andreas is a man of dishonour, a liar, a killer, a coward.
Sky wonders whether Andreas ever thinks of Aster Dell, ever hears the screams of the people in the night, ever imagines their blood is still on his hands. He would, if it was him. But the impression he’s formed of Andreas in the few days since he’s known the truth about him suggests that Andreas feels no guilt at all, should he ever think of it, which he likely doesn’t.
And he wonders whether Andreas had ever thought of him, wondered about him, during that time he was faking his death, raising Beatrix as his own. He suspects not; it seems to him that Andreas had had a choice, he could have come back for Sky and raised him himself, he could have turned his back on Rosalind and walked away, yet Andreas had put his own ambitions first before his son.
Sky’s never liked Beatrix, even as he’s listened to Bloom talking about how she was the only one who ever gave her any answers, or Riven going on about how attractive she was. There was something about her that he could never trust, and now he understands why. Sky wonders briefly what his life would have been like if he had been raised by Andreas instead of by Silva, but he also knows he’ll never ask Beatrix about her childhood with him. Bloom may have trusted Beatrix for answers, but Sky knows he’ll never ask her about her childhood with Andreas, doesn’t think he could trust any answer she would give him even if he did. But it’s more than just that; he doesn’t want to hear about how Andreas was able to raise her when he could so easily turn his back on Sky, forget he ever had a son.
And he wonders what kind of person he would have become in a world where he had been raised by Andreas rather than by Silva, whether he would have turned out just the same as his father, or as manipulative as Beatrix. Given the choice, he’d rather be the Sky he is today as a result of Silva’s upbringing, yet he can’t help but wonder if the Sky he could have been would have been a man of dishonour as Andreas is.