Doubtful I'll be writing Fairy Ranmaru fic again, so here's a dump of headcanons I never got around to sharing, mostly part of my worldbuilding of the fairy clans and the timeline I used for The Fairy Queen's Timekeeper. I spoil my own fic freely in this post (especially in the time theory section) so if you haven't read it yet and you're interested in a pre-canon Hojo-centric fic with a focus on worldbuilding and organizing the backstory timeline and don't want to be spoiled, feel free to give it a read first.
Note I have been out of the loop on F-Ran, if anything new even exists, since posting that fic in 2022 so I have no idea if anything here contradicts anything new.
These two clans are literally celestial fairies living in the stars. The elemental fairy clans are native to Earth.
They are a more technological civilization than the Earth fairies, and also fairly militant. Much of their time is spent in spacefaring expeditions to the rest of the universe.
They're also extremely unconcerned with Earth. They don't care at all about Earth fairies, and due to this Earth fairies generally don't even know they exist. There would definitely be an air of superiority to the way they think about Earth fairies.
Consequently, "attachment" as an energy source would be something they have in abundance. Attachment would form naturally and rise to the heavens and with access to attachment from all over Earth (and beyond? if aliens exist lol) across the millennia, it's not something they need to save as heavily as we see the fairies do in the show.
Constellations served as organizations/groupings. These are inter-clan. From my WIP I had a few of these down as follows:
Canis Fleet, which Sirius was part of, and would be split into Major and Minor divisions
Orion Fleet, which Betelgeuse was part of. I also had an OC named Rigel here
Scorpio Fleet, for my OC Lesath
Pleiades Guild, for an OC called Merope. A more research and study oriented organization. Merope, for example, was a wicked soul analyst as well as the only "expert on Earth fairy clans"
If you're wondering why I haven't mentioned Procyon at all, it's because I headcanon'd her as being a separate thing altogether from the Lux and Tenebrae Clans. Ruling over both clans would be "House Sol".
Procyon was a lesser princess of House Sol, and had the ambition but not the power base to become a queen. Together with Betelgeuse and Sirius, she came up with the plan of traveling to Earth and forming a kingdom of her own there instead, where she would be unopposed.
Procyon brought with her a fairly flippant attitude toward the use of attachment in the early years of her kingdom, which of course was only helped by Betelgeuse and Sirius's gathering truly massive amounts of it (and presumably other teams were gathering attachment at a smaller scale, too small to sustain the golden years of the kingdom).
The stars we saw falling to Earth that carried Betelgeuse, Sirius, and Procyon are essentially single person ships. They salvaged these into raw materials (both physical and magical or metaphysical) to build certain parts of the kingdom, such as Procyon's throne. This ensured they could not return to the stars—which none of the three wanted.
The fic that caused all this worldbuilding would have involved Rigel, Lesath, and Merope traveling to Earth to investigate "the largest anomalous Heaven Space ever recorded" in a sort of sci-fi horror/thriller type story (the twist would have been that it was caused by a bad end from Ranmaru choosing to join Sirius).
Basically, the fics I had planned about the Lux and Tenebrae clans would have drawn heavily from the sci-fi genre, leaning mainly toward space operas or sci-fi thriller/horror depending on the fic.
This is of course the clans we saw in the show: Aqua, Ignis, Arbor, Metallum, and Terra. Before Procyon's arrival, they had always lived with a sort of precarious balance between each other. Conflicts often did arise between them, oftentimes leading to bloodshed.
While I do not have specific details, I do think each clan would have long, long histories stretching very far back in Earth's history. As far as inter-clan relationships go, this means there would have been all sorts of alliances, treaties, betrayals, assassinations, and even wars over the many centuries.
The actual, (meta)physical islands that served as homes to each clan originally moved around a lot, but could be easily traversed with the use of heaven doors.
By the time Procyon, Betelgeuse, and Sirius arrived, things the five clans had recently entered a fairly cool peace. It was mostly to do with the natural death of Hojo's father, former chief of the Terra clan. With Hojo going through the rituals to take over as leader of the clan, the four other clans were being cautious about Terra and each other to see what sort of new dynamic would emerge from having a new leader.
I hinted at this in Timekeeper, but Procyon unified the clans by promising attachment becoming plenty and that the elements would no longer need to worry about each other if they followed her. She then gave each clan a defined role in the kingdom to ensure no one clan was that much stronger than the other (in theory).
She also unified the clans magically, ensuring the clans could not truly break off from each other and her without severing a large amount of their own magic.
This did lead to a golden age before all the clan leaders' personal problems started!
As I wrote in Timekeeper, I headcanon that Terra Clan served as spies (and well, secret police in practice). This is meant to contrast Metallum the way that Aqua and Ignis contrast each other. Where Metallum audited the other clans and themselves, rooting out corruption and civil misconduct that would affect the day-to-day operations within clan, Terra Clan served as Procyon's personal eyes and ears to root out dissent and threats to overall peace and the unification of the clans.
They were already doing this for their own purposes actually but Hojo offers the use of his spies to Procyon. He was both Timekeeper and Spymaster to Procyon.
Takara's father was killed by his (the dad's) younger brother. Takara's life is the fairy version of the Lion King.
You know that trope where characters go to a different world and spend a long time there, maybe even years, and then come back to Earth and it's only been like an hour since they left?
That's my explanation for all the wonky timeline stuff happening in Fairy Ranmaru.
In general, time moves a little faster in the fairy world than in the human world.
The major incidents that happened to the leaders of the clans happened in short succession, leading to a sharp decline in the prosperity of the kingdom and the end of the golden age. Homura's father was executed, and then not long after (a few fairy years at most), Takara's father was assassinated by his younger brother. This means Homura and Uruu were small children while Takara was a baby.
(Presumably, Jyuka would've suffered some tragedy back in Arbor around this time as well.)
But we saw flashbacks of Takara as a small child with his mother. So by the time of those flashbacks, Homura and Uruu would be roughly the age we see them in the current show, as young adults. By this point, a number of fairies have fled to the human world to live as humans.
And it's at this point that Betelgeuse and Sirius have their fight and Procyon flees deeper into heaven space, causing Hojo to stop time for all fairies and the kingdom using almost all the attachment left over to prevent any further deterioration of their society. Except for himself.
Using the watch, Hojo could unfreeze specific people or locations. This is how Takara gets to become older than the others despite starting out as the youngest in this theory: he's unfrozen by Hojo and sent to Earth, where he lives as a human and grows to the age we see in the show while the others are still frozen in time.
Because Hojo would then spend all of his time in the fairy world searching for Procyon, he also aged much faster than Takara, becoming the ojisan we know and love during the intervening years.
He is also, of course, the one who unfroze Homura, Uruu, and Jyuka, allowing the show to happen.
Anyway that's my personal explanation for the timeline of the backstory of the series and why Hojo got a scene emphasizing his receiving the watch. Most of this theory is centered on Hojo because I came up with it while writing Timekeeper, but I feel like it also serves as an adequate explanation for the other oddities in the timeline.
If you got this far, thanks for reading! After writing all this down...man, I miss Fairy Ranmaru even more lmao
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