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The Chivalric Idol and the Knight of Beauty

[beautifulknight]

Picked out something just now for their CR:

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When the two of them first met, Argenti had already decided that he would look out for Sayaka. This is a fact that was already decided and reinforced from when he witnessed her in battle - he knew not of what she had faced, but already he could tell that there was something deeply troubling. Hard not to, when she had arrived in the state that she was, but he planned on getting to the bottom of it, or if he could not, be a pillar of unwavering strength in the face of uncertainty. Though, this easily became complicated by what happened with the murder of Fuyu, and he knew it, witnessing how she ran off at his declarations. Out of all the reactions he expected, somehow this was one of the few he hadn't anticipated - though it is only through the constant discourse being thrown at him that he realized that he became a "threat" in the eyes of some. Distrust, or support, or perhaps condemnation were options but nothing so far extreme, and with a heavy heart he felt he had failed to approach this all in a more reassuring way.

Though he hoped even so that they could remain friends, uncertainty gripped him by the next they spoke, enough so that he purposefully diverted the subject between them both after returning to Sayaka items of clothing. He had to know - if she hated him, if she no longer wished to remain friends - though, even if she felt adversely about him as a person, Argenti hadn't intended to change his original goal. He's stubborn like that, of course - even if it meant he would have to watch over her and protect his friend (or previously-known-as-friend) from a distance, if necessary. Even if it wouldn't exactly be much of a distance.

Imagine his surprise that even if Sayaka disagreed with his choice of actions that she still desired to be his friend, but not only that...she seemed comfortable still talking to him, despite the difficulty of the topic. When she made it clear how she felt in that moment, it didn't feel like obligation - neither was it when she made the offer she had. Right then, right at that instant it felt extremely important - pivotal and heart-warming enough that even though Argenti had no regrets over his actions towards Ushirono, he felt unworthy of that amount of consideration. If only because he felt he had made her uncomfortable in the first place, but Sayaka wasn't having him trying to weasel out of her looking out for him! Which was kind of a little funny but reassured him further even if that part was unusual to him - he's the person who looks out for others, after all. All things considered, it shook uncertainties where they stood easily from his heart.

Then, when Sayaka ventured into the Palace, Argenti expected her to become disillusioned when she laid her eyes upon the deepest secrets that lay in his heart - his imperfections, his sleeping darkness, his fears, his regrets, and elements of twisted distortions bared for all to see. The reflection that stood clear in the mirror of her eyes, where even the light glimpsed was painful - and there are no defenses he had for whatever he was before her. Which is exactly why he immediately told her to turn around and abandon him - after all, her belief in him as a person had surely been shattered, hadn't it? But she still persisted, she still believed in him, even if he felt unworthy of that belief, of the hope that she had in being able to pull him back out of that dark place.

Furthermore, her words shouted at him in every stage of the battle of the dark night of his soul reached his being even if he had shut it out with the efforts that made him like deaf to any such efforts in the heat of the moment. But, what surprised him most of all was the fact that when he stood in the most ugliest form of himself yet as the Omen of Evil, Sayaka dared to not only get close, and to reach out again with her heart...

She also reached out with her own hands, to touch him - and to even grant a hug to a part of him that dwarfed her by far. Despite the fact that Argenti felt that even looking at him must have disgusted everyone, that he didn't even so much as resembled the beauty that any single one of them had come to know. She dared, and she didn't so much as flinch away, Sayaka never so much as look upon him with even a trace of disgust. She only continued to show him warm affection, to believe in him who felt filled with only the horrid nature of complete and utter despair. He almost couldn't believe it himself - hence one of the reasons for his gasp of surprise - and if he could have cried in that moment, he certainly would have. Why? Because it was beyond his expectations.

Yet, it didn't all stop there.

Following the climax of Argenti's Palace, Sayaka came to confide in him something integral to her struggles - to her being...to all of that she was. Her circumstances in the idol business, which made him feel for her (parts of which he witnessed in other ways in her dreamscape that made him also wish he can double down on slapping some people upside the head. It's fine? That's totally Knightly behavior do not @ him.) But also her experiences in the murderschool where he felt deeply for her experiences, including the ugliest part of it as well - her intentions to not only kill someone, but that she went through setting up a patsy as well. This was the most shocking aspect of it all, even if he felt she didn't deserve to die, he was reeling very hard from the confession! But, surprisingly, it never crossed his mind to kill her for such a thing at all - not because he cared about her, which he certainly did. Rather, Argenti had seen the true colors of her heart - that even if Sayaka were someone who could commit such acts, she was not someone full of malice, that she was not simply the worst version of herself. She was someone with depth, with love, with hope, who tripped and fell, who cried just like anyone else, and someone who desperately wanting to walk forward. To improve, to become the best person that she could be.

He can only love the person who has carried herself so far, who still looked into the night that engulfed his heart, and ceaselessly lent herself to help him pull himself forward. Who still looked towards him as someone who could be an inspiration for her to move beyond that dark part of herself. So while he had harsh words for what she had done, he accept the darkness that laid within Sayaka but had not swallowed her, and the light of her true being.

When he ventured into her dreamscape, Argenti made sure that every action he had would continue to show his deep belief in her, and his desire to protect her, but imagine how proud he was when he saw that Sayaka's reflection showed how strong she continued to become. The strength of their bonds only continued to flourish such that by the time Fray had disappeared, the Knight felt her reaching out to him on the network as a comforting balm. But, the revelation there, that she considered him family, her brother was a shock. The feeling of familial connection was buried deep inside but he had no name for it until that moment. Once unearthed and spoken aloud, Argenti himself realized he felt the same love for her. That he considered her his sister, and it touched him because of the fact he lost his family, not recalling what the connection felt like again in so long...

All of this culminated into him being completely and totally supportive of her new foray as a Knight. That of which he is certain she will accomplish with incredible flourish and radiance befitting someone with an incredibly radiant yet beautiful sou like hers.

...Also please imagine when Sayaka called for Knightfam triangle attack I was playing this. I didn't get a chance to submit two songs for their CR but maybe now they have it as of this post-

[destage]

LUMMMMMMMMMM I'M SO EMOTIONAL READING ALL OF THISSSSSS 🥹🥹🥹

i love these two so much. i want to hold them in my hands, they are so GOOD and i love themmmmm

ALSO I AM CANONIZING THAT SONG AS THE KNIGHTFAM TRIANGLE ATTACK SONG HELL YES!!! GOD I LOVE THESE TWO, TY FOR PURSUING THIS CR WITH ME ;v;