lafayette cocoon uwu
oooh my
It'd have the prettiest silken colors
wkward
"mon general, i must - how do you say - you see, my people - well, this stage in my life, it can be --"
very. Bonus, while he's in the cocoon he can still help out telepathically just not. Move much.
HAHAAH OH VERY
gdi now I want to play that one out
that is dressing up.
"out with it, sir."
"well, i am still a...a child, sir. in order to become an adult, i must make a pupate."
"like an insect."
lafayette: [makes offended face]
definitely dressing up. Also watching Burb's chin hit the floor is worth it.
lmao
poor brb
burb
EXACTLY
also yeeah
Lafayette has a complicated relationship with being compared to insects
"what will you look like when you come out?"
especially killer wasps. He really objects BECAUSE HE DOES NOT ATTACK HIS OWN SPECIES TYVM
"well, like this, sir. unless you would like me to appear differently?"
lmao
and yeeep
his glamour doesn't have to change
right!
i feel like
if you go to near the cocoon
ou get like this weird.. like... sense of lafayette. like the surges of his emotions like tides, glimpses of his life.
yep
it'd probably be very disorienting for most people
yeah
buut Washingdad can likely deal with it, especially since he has more context than most.
but it's like of like... peculiarly comforting for washington?
it's like laying in the ocean.
-deadcats- THESE TWO
one day he is sitting next to it reading correspondance and he just drifts off and has this wild dream about fighting by lafayette's side in soem crazy fae battle
BAW
ok
dump yr thoughts here
bed time fr me
I need to head out to work but will do from phone. SLEEP WELL!
oh yessssssss
Hi Bethany, welcome to more Fae Lafayette things. I love the Fae Lafayette things.
mee too
also making d'aawww noises at the screen
They are appropriate noises.
I'll add that cocoon is not the most fun time and especially bad for Lafayette, since he's been so active, and Washingdad's presence helps calm him down a lot.
there a hamilton in my head that is just TOO CURIOUS about cocoon
It's shiny and colorful! And silky! But you don't want to poke it.
but he wants to just touch it
maybe stroke it
definitely talk to it
Acceptable. If he tells a really good story, Lafayette might even remember it, after
being an accomplished wizard of his own training and also lafayette's friend i don't think the mental cocoon echoes would be too bad for ham either.
i think it would feei weird to the touch though. like jello. a little blobby.
Possibly. Lafayette has tended to avoid touching them before.
Ham sort of weirdly pets it
oh you said silky up there. so it's ery early. silky it is!
The two are not mutually exclusive
"this is lafayette?" "he said so."
...baw.
I have this picture of Ham reading to the cocoon now
Weeeelp so cute. They both make being still and helpless so much more bearable.
do you think he's conscious in the cocoon? i always imagined him being like, not really completely there. like he has a sense? like he can sense hamilton. and the story. and washington.
but not like, completely there.
Not completely awake, I don't think, but not anywhere else.
sounsd good.
He still doesn't like it.
But they make it better.
no one likes puberty, Lafayette.
Ba-dum-tcshhh
when lafayette is closed to finished maturing he can sort of communicate in thoughts and emotions
like he can send out bursts, not real words or sentences, but concepts
-nooods-
and then when he's about to come out, it's a massive KEEP. OUT.
for a while washingotn is kind of like "here's this idea, do you like it?" and he can get like a yes feeling or a no feeling
but then like he walks over and like he gets like this KEEP AWAY vibe and he's v confused
basically coming out, even if he has his glamour on, isn't pretty
(and also it's half-instinct, because vulnerable.)
i don't think he can come out with the glamour on
which, yeah, even if. Probably not.
Though Lafayette will probably try because he's never stopped at impossible things, ever.
that.. probably goes badly. rumblings of magic and flashes of medals and cloth and skin.
YEP.
But at least nobody gets hurt? And most of his limbs and mandibles are not visible?
(And by nobody I mean nobody but him.)
but there are wings and claws and shiny chitin, and it's kind of all slick and gooey.
omg! what if!
what if he's managed to properly glamour himself and but he's like standing in the mess that is the inside of the cocoon and then like he throws up this shining image of him eating at a table delicately
it's clearly an illusion, shining like a mirage. washington takes a step closer and lafayette is like "this meal is not for you, sir," becuase he's totally eating his cocoon.
... yep
But I mean, just getting OUT of the thing is exhausting. Keep up the glamour, even TRYING to, will probably make him pass out
ham gets too curious and casts a spell of seeing and he's pretty revolted by the whole situation.
Alexander, there are REASONS why he keeps the fucking illusion up
when has alex ever listened to reasons.
He's pretty good with reasons! So long as he understands they are reasons and not just random rules.
"what did you see, ham?" "i'm merely glad i haven't had lunch yet, sir."
Very worried Lafayette apologizing in three languages.
washington is like "it's fine, dear. hamilton is merely ... doing things he does."
"Is it? What if he never wants to work with me again? That will be a problem."
"he has never struck me as the type to resign," washington replies, dryly.
although after that lafayette needs a nap.
( L O L except Hamilton did resign, historically...)
oh yes. Like, lots of hours of nap.
(you got it 
)
)
(I've been reading.)
(when rochambeau finds out this story, he's like "when i pupated, my brother-fae struck my coocoon with one of his frost spells by accident and i could do nothing but cast frosts for months aftewards.")
sanoteu lmfao
Well at least giants didn't get to Lafayette's cocoon?
what if they almost did!
I mean I'm pretty sure that Lafayette made sure that only a small number of very trustworthy people knew it was Lafayette in tere
there*
so the giants wouldn't KNOW to attack to get it / kill it
well, it's obviously an item of value.
but if there was a random attack and they got close...
the men who were forced to heave it into a cart were not happy and had nightmares about it.
... baw
He was fine. It was fine.
but!
it all turned out okay.
after a good nap he is ready to continue his service.
And even more brilliantly than before. His magic is stronger.
and the regular ways the giants used to get at him no longer have any affect
They smell really bad to him now, though.
yes.
"there are some roast beef up on that hill, sir."
"how can you tell?"
"perhaps it is only a cart of horse droppings mixed with necessary pits in august, and all placed within a medical tent after a battle."
lmao
so precise.
"so bad?" "more now that i am matured, sir."
oh yeah. His sense of smell is a problem now. He'll live. But it is.
he can conjure much better food now though.
previously all the food he could conjure, really no matter what looked like, tasted pretty ashy and awful.
aww