Finally made ref sheets for this au so I figure now is as good a time as any to make an official introduction post for it.
Keep in mind that I'm still working on ironing out all the details so some things may be subject to change. However, I do have the major story beats decided so it's all the stuff in between that I'm not certain of. (Also PV'S designs are subject to change I'm not certain I'll be sticking with these)
Au overview and some more art below the cut because I ended up yapping for so long
With that out of the way, here's the gist of this au:
When Truthless recluse shatters his soul jam in the spire of deceit, he gets sent back in time (as like a fluke side effect of awakening ig) where he is found by the Fount of knowledge. Pure Vanilla is weary of Fount at first because he's not entirely convinced that this isn't just Shadow Milk trying to fuck with him again but he does genuinely want to be friends with shadow milk so he decides to just go along with this. He does realize fairly quickly that this isn't a trick, he's actually stuck in the past.
Fount is absolutely fascinated by PV, he's never had any genuine connections with anybody before and PV is pretty much the first person ever to see him as an actual person and not just something to be used and then discarded. He is also extremely curious about why PV has a second copy of his soul jam (PV quickly after realizing he's not in his time starts hiding his soul jam but he couldn't exactly hide it from Fount, at this point in time it isn't visibility cracked yet, that happens later on.)
Long story short they become besties (could be read as romantic or platonic), horribly codependent relationship on both ends. they don't have anyone but each other and they are each other's whole world.
It would absolutely tear PV apart if Fount was to, for example, start to corrupt and for there to be absolutely nothing he could do about it. Or if, and I'm just throwing this out there, he was to be locked up in, oh I don't know, a tree for thousands of years. And expanding on that, let's just say, hypothetically, that Fount assumes PV is mortal (technically correct) and that Its been thousands of years, he's probably died of old age by now (not correct). That would probably fuck him up soooo bad. Especially since he's locked in this hypothetical tree and literally all he can do is sit with his own thoughts.
Hahaha, good thing that's purely hypothetical. Because if that wasn't hypothetical then PV might, in an attempt to spare himself from his suffering, shatter his soul jam (again) and completely lose all of his memories (again). But that'll never happen because that was all purely hypothetical and actually this au is all sunshine and rainbows with absolutely no angst.
I've got sosososososo many ideas about this au that I haven't even touched on in this brief overview and am genuinely considering turning this into a fic. However I've literally never written anything before and this concept I think would be incredibly difficult to pull off convincingly. Also, shadow milk/fount of knowledge is physically disabled here. You can pretty much assume that that's the case with any of my depictions of him even if it's not obvious just by looking, but I figured it should still say that.
Please please please please please send me questions about this au I'm hopelessly hyperfixated on it and I have absolutely nobody to talk about it with or bounce ideas off of and that's tragic. Also I haven't figured out a name for this yet so please give me suggestions so I can tag everything accordingly and have all of it in one place.
As a treat for hearing my rambling out, here's a collection of my favorite of the art I've made for this au thus far (I would have included all of it but stupid Tumblr image limitations):
Edit: there is now a fic for this AU currently in the works!
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I know I already posted dragon Mônica before but I wanted to line up the new dragons alongside her.
Apart from that, I made a divergent AU where everyone is now a dragon living in a realm mostly inhabited by dragons.
(Inspired and based on the mobile dragon games like Dragonvale and DragonCity.)
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after battling his counterpart, Burning Spice remained within the Spicelands, trying to regain his strength and status as the great destroyer. However, after a few years of leaving his own lands in ruin it begins to really sink in what he has become, part of the same cycle he hoped to avoid. So, following the words of someone he no longer remembers, he goes to Golden Cheese for guidance. Golden Cheese, having seen the same look of regret and pain in Mystic Flour's eyes almost a year prior, and under the guise that Burning Spice is merely "bored" as he told her, she sends him to Hollyberry.
at first Hollyberry hesitated to help Burning Spice, however she knew the Beasts were capable of change as she'd seen it herself in Eternal Sugar, so she allowed him in as her guest.
after a few weeks, fighting off a dragon, and generally socializing with the people as if they were his own, Burning Spice redeems himself enough to return to a more "fitting" form. damn did he miss having more than two limbs, it makes so many tasks so much easier. also no he did not cut his hair, its just tied up now.
he has a habit of placing his hand over his soul jam and spacing out, so far not even Hollyberry can figure out why.
