Okay, so the mlp au is just living in my brain now and I have basically nobody to talk to about it, so I hope it doesnt offend u that I'm dropping this in here.
I was brainstorming RM, bcs I know I don't want him to be natural-born alicorn, and I came up with this:
RM is a magic prodigy. Insane magic levels. Blew people away, got into a respectable magic school, absolutely drove his parents up the wall as a kid. He has a deep scholarly understanding of how magic works.
So his cutie mark must be magic, right? Nope. It doesnβt come. He's the oldest blank flank in the school.
But, at the age he should get a cutiemark, his magic starts going haywire. It had always been hard to control bc there was so much of it but it gets progressivley worse. Spells dont cooperate. He goes to a specialist for advice. He starts hating magic.
At the end of the year he's doing a magical assessment, with royalty present, heck, maybe baby JK was there, idk, and a spell backfires. The magic completely misbehaves and shatters his horn. To contain it the royalty present has to give him wings or he would like bleed out magic and die or like blow up the school, idk the intricacies of magic.
RM gets expelled now that his horn has offed itself. His wings behave about as well as his magic, and his balance has always been to pot, so flying doesn't come naturally. He fails spectacularly at it a few times and has an argument with his parents when he finally thinks to try rap, which he's been fascinated with for years.
RM is good at poetry, and he's brilliant with rap. He auditions for BigHit and gets in. Still no cutie mark. Its not until he works with Yoongi, pours his soul into writing out lyrics, learns to dance, and starts teaching J-Hope to rap that his cutiemark flares into existence: a book with a compass rose, a microphone and a quill crossed on the cover.
I can't make up my mind between the quill, the book/scroll, the mic, and the compass. The scroll and quill you used looks awesome but then the compass idea came out of left field for me and now I can't decide.
Mostly, I just wanted to tell you my silly ideas from brainstorming for the au... π
Please talk to me about it! RM's backstory is so INTERESTING!!! Making him someone who chased the wrong destiny for so long before his magic went haywire is so good. I wonder if that's the reason his magic started acting up? Like his magic core or something realized he was on the wrong path (since I think cutie marks are fate thing) so it tried to make him pivot. But as we know RM doesn't let hardship or other people's opinions stop him so he pushes on until this almost spiritual/psychological battle spirals out of control.
Also I get the cutie mark uncertainty π
It took me a few hours to decide each one since cutie marks can be either very to the point or extremely abstract. Most ended up very clearly music related except for Jungkook. I gave him a golden Tiger lily, (don't know if that translates though) because his Tiger lily tattoo and because it symbolizes things like wealth, prosperity and strength in a few cultures.
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