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First he is being compelled to comply to Scott’s commands, now we are making him go crazy by overwriting his senses. What’s next?

(I’m so tempted to talk more abt my OC and his elder + their coven to contribute to this au)

i meannnn i was thinking of a potential follow up to the scene i wrote where Cleo offers the obvious solution to the problem; Abolish lets her turn him.

But then if we add on the 'fledglings are mind warped to be loyal to their sires no matter what' idea that @jackdaw-sprite pitched, he's essentially forced to choose his loyalty.

Can he fight the thrall long enough to make sure Scott is killed? Or does he hand his loyalty over to Cleo? And would that even help, because Cleo is tied to Pyro who is tied to Scott so isn't it just handing himself over to Scott still, just in a more convoluted way?

Then add on the next layer of the cure. The only way to be fully free of any of the thrall or loyalty to a sire is if he gets turned and then cured, but the sire has to die. He'd be condemning Cleo, for the sake of his own freedom. Maybe that's worth it, though?

Every path is too risky. It's not even a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. He's a danger to the town if they do nothing, but anything they do is just as likely to increase the danger as it is to mitigate it.

What if as a thrall you quite literally can’t even comprehend the IDEA of killing your.. thraller? The person whose blood u ate

Legs: If you won't let Cleo turn you, then we have to figure out how to kill Scott.

Abolish: *eyes go completely blank, does not respond*

it has been one hell of a month. let's end it on a high note, and carry our pride with us every day we live ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

It literally kills me. The fact that the people of this town meant more to Louis, and he wouldn't have let himself kill them, even for protection reasons . The fact that he thought he deserved to die because he took human blood -> became the same as the "bad" vampires. The fact that, in the end, Owen wasn't the center of his world or anything, when Louis definitely quickly became everything to Owen. The fact that Louis couldn't predict the death of the townspeople at Owen's hands and, during their meeting in the afterlife, dared to look at Owen with disappointment, with pity -> doesn't see his own fault for what happened. Like, yeah. Owen broke free from the leash. But Louis was the one who willingly let him go, and not knowing how Owen would behave doesn't absolve him of responsibility for the fledgeling, imo.

@cerisepiquante @morunderscore @aetheroze @stormsincoming

Owain arrived to the kingdom of Bannerfall on literally some random day in the middle of the war. It’s hard to keep your arrival on the down low when the kingdom needs all the help it can get and also you’re constantly in massive golden armour but! He sure tried! I imagine he probably just saw some fighting, visited blue kingdom first and heard they were the ‘originals,’ and walked right into the throne room to pledge allegiance. Current monarch was like ‘=͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇) um ok’

Seeing him around the kingdom was a bit of a double take at first, but he does so much that eventually as people kept coming and going people just started to expect it, especially with all his routine. We know nobody really knew anything about Owain, but I like to think he was a lot closer to the knights before the big battle that cut them down again the first time.

Owain's helmet is also a pretty big point of speculation early on, because he has like 7 locks on his doors and windows for whenever he takes it off. Most people are too polite to speculate though, because the general consensus is that it's either related to his oath or some sort of other religious thing. I feel like Blue Kingdom would be more religious on average than red, seeing as they have temples, and so that would probably be an acceptable explanation for most civilians.

Nom didn't see much of him outside of whatever work Owain happened to be doing at the time, and I was a little uncomfortable around him as he was with most other blue kingdom knights. Owain and Graecie got along well enough, in the way that Graecie does, and she was one of the first to notice Owain's odd habits surrounding food, routine, and general penance. As for other knights idk I think he and Cleo would get along fine, and I like my head cannon that Mohweelive and Oeca were a blue knight and rogue pair Owain was decently fond of (cough I miss my outsiders).

Also apparently he meets Mae like 16 times before bannerfall and doesn’t remember a single one of those times. oops. As for others we know he and Sausage didn't like each other and I think it's because Sausage would meow at him loudly across the battlefield. True and canon.

Also canon, Owain was there for at least one (I think it was just the one but I’ve forgotten) big battle before the one that kickstarted the events of Bannerfall, and in it he saw many of the people he met be killed. Afterwards, I imagine he started focusing more on his duties and stopped trying to connect with the other knights, out of fear of losing more brothers.

He is, at the start of Bannerfall, very awkward!!! He didn't know how to handle the whole kingdom suddenly knowing him and his name and what he's like. It's not obvious in the moment, but later when they're all friends Owain will look back on those moments and laugh like 'oh yea I was sooo nervous' and everyone will look at him and go. really???

Speaking of end of Bannerfall, Owain eventually grows comfortable enough to take off his helmet around others in his kingdom. It starts because many of them received scars while fighting Sausage, and during one of their girls nights (Owain is invited to girls night bc he is the girl's knight) Mae admits that she's a bit self conscious of them. Owain assures her that they're nothing to be ashamed of and, as a result, reveals his face to them not too long afterwards. The only teasing comments he gets are about how he's actually got very cute large brown eyes.

He also holds a lot of regret for the little time he had on good terms with Nom. In a perfect world, he pulled Nom away before his death and got some closure, and maybe even showed him his face. It's not a perfect world though, and Nom meant much more to Owain than Owain meant to Nom, so it's only a wish Owain never got to fulfill.

Owain and Kitty spend most of their time after Bannerfall helping the kingdoms figure out a truce and eventually remerge, while also planning out their knight academy. It stands in between the two kingdoms, so no side of their new kingdom has more access than the other. It's their big project to go along with the alliance, and many of the halls are decorated by memorabilia from it the war.

Like, their eyes didn't start working double time to pull from light that isnt there, with perfectly normal human eyes- They just gained echolocation.

They can purr? Well I think it's plausible they can make sounds at decibels not even dogs can hear, little squeaks and chirps that catch their pointed ears and map out the environment to their brain.

I'm rewatching 4c vod of Bannerfall and I can't help but think about his return to Moonlit Swamp

so what if events of vsmp were happening during golden era of goldsmith's coven?

Things we know about him (lmk if you have more crumbs and I'll add them to the list)

Villain/apathetic character (more evil than v!Scott apparently)

"The kind of guy to push others out of the way when passing them on the street"

Massive god complex

Songs that fit him: Thunderbringer, Devil In Disguise, Ruthlessness, Vox Populi, Feed The Machine (plus some more I didn't catch)

He'll have a different skin/outfit each day