this is absolutely on the list of "fic i've been thinking about for ages but may or may not ever actually get around to writing" but: academy-era felix travelling forward in time by like 20 years to discover the boar is his future husband!!

he gets there all Confused and Angery like "wait is that the BOAR". "wait is that an eye patch??" "wait wtf he is KING and everyone is fine with this???" meanwhile dimitri is being weirdly cautious and kind and awkward

bc you know. his husband's past teenage self just materialised. and dimitri is trying to be kind but he kind of forgot hot much of a shithead felix was at that age. and he's simultaneously amused in a Proper Grown Up way and heaps awkward about explaining "yo we get married fyi"

and felix kind of warned him it would happen but in a very felix way?? like "yo i thought it was a dream but u never know mini-me might turn up anyway later dear i'm off to do sword things"

young felix starts off mostly being a snippy difficult dude as is his want but then some well-meaning person is like "would you like to return to your chambers" and SPOILER alert: they are DIMITRI'S chambers. they are married. that is a thing that happens in the future

and younger felix is just... so struck and confused (and a lil bit vulnerable) as he talks with dimitri. who is so much older than felix can even fathom, but still himself. kind, wise, handsomer than felix thought he'd be and apparently, felix's HUSBAND

young felix starts polling everyone he used to know like how the fuck did this HAPPEN to me what TERRIBLE MISTAKE did i make to end up with the BOAR but meanwhile, there is a sad, vulnerable thing in his chest he can't seem to get rid of or understand

bc dimitri is so much better than young felix remembers, and apparently they build this whole life together and they have KIDS which is an absolute goddamn trip when dimitri mentions it, and when felix works up the nerve to ask dimitri how the fuck any of this HAPPENED

dimitri's all "things were complicated between us for a long time, as i am sure you can imagine. but he..." then he smiles this soft secret smile and young felix is like Gross but also ???

and as it transpires, his future self is the one. to ask dimitri. to marry HIM. cue a bit of a meltdown and a whole load of WTFFF

then actual-husband felix returns and young felix is like Wow that's what i look like when i'm older, meanwhile older felix is going on to dimitri about their DAUGHTERS like "i left the girls in gautier and rode back when i got your letter" like it's a fuckign NORMAL THING TO DO

him, felix hugo fraldarius, married man and father of two, and how tf does felix grow up to be so boring and confusing at the same time because he!!! marries!!! DIMITRI!!!

but stuff happens, future and past felix have a stern talk all like, "be good to him, you're too much of an idiot to even realise how much you love him right now you little shit, goddamn can't believe my own nonsense"

dimitri does a lot of Hovering. bc he is a grown up and he will be kind to this young man but it's WEIRD and he absolutely does NOT know how to handle his de-aged prickly future husband so he's just Nice at him which is weird for them both

young felix is more vulnerable about it than even he understands. right before he goes, he tries to ask again: why you? but what he really asks is: why me? bc dimitri comes out the other side of everything kind and patient and felix is just... this

dimitri gives him a hug. careful, gentle, more like how he'd hug one of their supposed daughters, felix thinks, but it's nice anyway. his eyes are pricking, and he presses his face into dimitri's fur-lined shoulders and breathes in his goddamn future HUSBAND

bc young felix has seen dimitri and his future self and they are Proper Married Couple and it's so weird to think that he has that when he's older, that he wants that. that it's simple and domestic and warm, and he ends up with a loving husband and kids and it feels impossible

anyway, what i'm saying is: growth

additional note: Felix is "Father" (will also accept "Dad") and Dimitri is "Papa"