*whispers* i know you probably have a Lot to write and do in Real Life but if you ever feel like writing about how fili and kili arrive in the halls (esp cuz you do a mix of book and movie canon so it would be even more interesting re: their deaths) i would love that a lot and also i am apparently a masochist and i love everything you do! please feel no pressure or anything twas merely a thought

Aaksdhgflsjgalsjhfda IT IS A GREAT THOUGHT THANK YOU SO MUCH

*adds it to the list as well*

Seriously, these Appendices are gonna end up catapulting my word count somewhere over the rainbow (I am okay with that!)

And then comes the day that one of them (or both) look at Vili for approval and Vili is happy and so is Thorin bc they finally have their father and just augh. These dworfs give me feelsy feelz

SO MANY FEELS. Ohhhh gosh, absolutely yes. ❤

(I adore my version of Vili, I am not too embarrassed to say! I like to think that Fili took longer to warm up to him, but in the end was the first one to look for Vili’s approval and pride in him. Augh. AUGH)

Now I’m thinking about Nain and Daeris talking with Vili and Fris, and Dain with Thorin and Fili and Kili -trying to figure out ways to make the reconnect with their parents/son easier and less awkward. It helps a little, both in terms of suggestions and knowing that other people have faced the same problem.

Oh my god, Fris and Thrain would be the PERFECT people to talk to about this. Fris is just so emotionally intelligent and competent, and Thrain has learned (the hard way) not to be impatient. So he knows not to push people, to let things unfold at their own pace and to give people an undemanding space.

I bet Vili went to them as well, for advice… and yeah, Nain and Daeris would probably have a quiet word with them as well.

And yeah, I think Dain and Thorin and the lads would probably have a beer or two together, and Fili would tell them how it felt to realise that he looked like his father and like Frerin. How he was both happy to have Vili back, and angry that he died and left them in the first place. And Kili will tell them how hard it was to begin calling Vili ‘Dad’, and how both of them still look to Thorin for approval instead of their father. How Fili often accompanies Vili on his visits to Erebor each morning. The day Vili showed Kili how to carve runestones.  

And Thorin will take a sip of his drink to hide the emotion in his eyes (it doesn’t work) – and Dain will grumble that it’s just so hard to let them help, he’s not a Dwarfling anymore and he’s been standing on his own feet… uh, foot… for centuries, and it feels.. wrong. And Thorin will latch onto the change of topic gratefully and laugh, and tell Dain that he should be grateful he does not have Queen Hrera for a grandmother. She still treats Thorin like he is all of twenty-two years old.

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liketotessecret:

Fíli (@morvidra) and Kíli (@liketotessecret) sing Without You from Rent.

I think we’re competing to figure out who can pick the most homosexual song for us to duet.

Anyway, @determamfidd @grimminsanity, these are always for you. Fee, you’re remarkable for putting up with me randomly messaging you at three in the morning about our next duet and then telling you that I’ve already recorded it. ❤ It may not be my line, but #Ibelongwithmybrother too.

oh darling Fee and Kee, you do a stellar job of this duet! Awwwwwww, i love to love your love, my dears. *hugs* Thank you, as ever! 

Idk if you watch Steven Universe, but I totally get the vibe that Vili is really a lot like Greg Universe, you know? Really nice guy who keeps trying so hard to connect with his son he can’t fully understand/be there for… Idk, he seems really chill in the fic and also so sweet and deals with the fact that he’s not the actual father figure of his sons so well in such a respectful way <3 all of my love to Vili

I haven’t actually ever watched SU – though I have seen a LOT of it on my dash (and oh my god, Steven himself, what a little cutiepie) and I love the look of it, and the messages. Definitely something I will watch eventually!

AWWWWW GREG, he is a sweetie from all I have seen! Yeah, Vili is a lot like that. He’s very low-key, but always tries in his understanding and understated way to be there for his lads. He’s absolutely aware that, although they have learned to love him and call him ‘dad’, he wasn’t able to be that for them. Thorin was their father in all but name. 

Vili doesn’t have any animosity about that, or hold onto any poisonous jealousy for Thorin or anything. He’s a sensible Dwarf, he’s perfectly aware that spite and jealousy would just drive a wedge into everything and eventually the boys would withdraw entirely away from him – well, who wouldn’t? 

Vili looks after Thorin in his warm, humorous and low-key way as well. He worries. They’re unlikely friends. He’s incredibly grateful to Thorin, for being there when he could not, for ensuring that the lads knew what it felt like to be loved by a father-figure. His priority is not ever himself, or his own feelings. 

Vili is a Good Dad, even though he isn’t the one who filled that role in his boys’ life. 🙂