I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the Jade Winglet Dragonets of Destiny au, so it’s time to yap.
So, I’d have it so the JW are all born on the brightest night (Moon, Winter, Kinkajou, Peril, Qibli, Turtle (sorry Carnelian and Umber (though I guess Umber’s still born on the brightest night))) and all get picked as eggs by the Talons of Peace; same as the canon DoD. The og DoD are still born on the brightest night too, just living their lives as they would have without prophecy stuff.
So which circumstances would allow the JW to be picked for the prophecy?
I think in this au Secretkeeper decided last minute not to hide Moon’s egg and brought it back to the NightWing island. Morrowseer would be LEAPING to have his dragonet be in a prophecy, so as soon as it’s revealed Moon’s egg’ll hatch on the brightest night, he is taking that thing to the Talons and you BET your arse he is not asking his wife before selling their only child to be raised by a group of dragonet-hating weirdo’s. I think Moon’s powers are so central to her character that I’d have her hatch before they reach the caves, so GIVE IT UP FOR THRICE-MOONBORN MOON EVERYBODY. even more things for her and Darkstalker to bond over, I’m sure that’s what everyone wanted.
For Turtle, it would be pretty easy to get Webs to snatch him. In this au, he’d be in the same hatching as Tsunami, so they’d be in the same hatchery, and it’s never said what colour Turtle’s egg was, so I’m just assuming it was as blue as Tsunami’s was and Webs just took his instead.
Dune decided against stealing Sunny’s egg, because he might be fully commited to helping the prophecy come true, but Thorn was also one of his best friends for years and he saw how much she loved her egg. Cobra would sell any of her children for a single corn chip and already did so in canon, so let’s just have Qibli be sold a bit earlier: when he was still in the egg. Easy.
Peril is a bit more difficult, especially since I didn’t really know what to do with Sky, so I just tried to keep it as close to canon as possible: Kestrel was one of Scarlet’s most loyal subjects, so Scarlet’d probably be a tad loose-lipped around her about her plans, this is how Kestrel finds out that all the eggs due to hatch on the brightest night will be killed. She doesn’t want this to happen to her egg, so she goes into hiding with it. She ends up being found just after Peril and Sky are hatched and she’s given the order to kill one of them, and Sky isn’t seen again (same as canon). Then when Kestrel flees, she’s able to brace herself properly and holds onto Peril long enough to get away, so her burns would be worse than in canon. The Talons are on high alert in the Sky Queendom just after the killing of the SkyWing dragonets, so they find Kestrel pretty quickly and when they find out that Peril was hatched on the brightest night, they employ her as a guardian to her daughter and the other prophecy dragonets and offer medical attention in return, that Kestrel desperately needs after holding Peril for so long while fleeing.
Now we have reached a problem: Winter and Kinkajou.
Kinkajou could be picked up the same way Glory was in canon, but Winter complicates things, so I think the best solution would be to change the prophecy to include every tribe (I know it’s out of character for Morrowseer to put aside his dragon racism for even a single second, but let’s say he was sick and thus not in his normal mind when making the prophecy with Battlewinner).
Kinkajou would be picked the same as Glory in canon, no issue, and with Winter written in the prophecy, he wouldn’t be too difficult either. I think Hvitur snatched his egg from the IceWing palace and someone else went to get the SkyWing egg (and failed). I am so tempted to let Hvitur live in this au, but I want to keep things as close to canon as possible for the beginning (besides swapping the prophecy dragonets), so he still has to die. I’d say he got caught in a battle before he got to the cave and died later of his injuries, so he can tell the other guardians where he got Winter’s egg so the dragonets can find his family later. Sorry Hvitur :(((
Asha and the MudWing egg never returned to the cave, so we are MISSING OUR WINGS OF EARTH
I love swap au’s. The DoD were chaotic enough as it is, now they include two royals, one of which is an animus; a firescales; a thrice moonborn NightWing; Kinkajou and Qibli. All the queendoms will crumble the second these children are released into the world.
I’ve got some more ideas for this au and I might change some stuff I mentioned here, so stay tuned!!
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I tried thinking of a way for the prophecy to stay the same and still get Winter and Kinkajou in the story for SO LONG. Kinkajou is easy: same as Glory in canon, since they were missing a SkyWing for a day or so (before they got Peril) and they don’t have a MudWing, but Winter is IMPOSSIBLE. I couldn’t think of any solution besides this:
