So near the beginning of the au I had thought it'd be neat if Lucas was part sea creature.

I also made Galarin his Mom, he also has a human mom in this au cause idk Galarin gives off Lesbian vibes to me.

So I should probably talk about what I had planned for gods in this au since I made Lucas Galarin's son. Like I mentioned in my last post I want the gods in FTO to be more like gods in actual mythology, which I can expand on more in a later post since some of my ideas for the gods have changed a bit (it will probably be in a post about my FTO rewrite/au). So gods like things that interest, amuse or they find pretty. I think it even includes living things.

What I'm trying to say is that Galarin found Lucas' human Mom pretty, especially her voice because I gave her song magic. So in this au (and I'm going to be changing her backstory and lore for my FTO rewrite, and the rewrite of this au) I had made Lucas' human mom be a sort of sacrifice from Lucas' village to appease Galarin and stop her from causing destruction. I also had Lucas' Mom and Lucas' master (Nesso) be siblings because why not. Galarin does actually like having the sacrifices she usually turns them into sea creatures/monsters or water spirits. But they kept Lucas' Mom human, and after a while she married her. I had them fall in love over time, well as close as a god can get to loving someone. So they get a house together on the beach and they have Lucas and they're happy for a while. But of course things can't ever last and I for some reason I had really liked making things angsty in this au.

So eventually some mages come to their home and try and attack Galarin but they end up killing Lucas' Mom in the process, which understandably angers Galarin and the only one who is able to stop them is Nesso who decides the only way to stop to stop her is by sealing her away inside of Lucas. For multiple reasons one; Galarin held favor in both Lucas and his Mom so she will be unlikely to hurt Lucas in the process of trying to escape her "human" prison. The second reason is that he had followed after the mob but wasn't fast enough to save his sister, so this is the only way that Nesso knows that the group of other mages will spare Lucas. Right before Galarin is sealed away though she turns what is left of Lucas' Mom into a water spirit (she isn't quite fully present as a spirit since she did die before she was turned and the process wasn't perfect since it was rushed).

So Nesso takes Lucas on as a student (I made Lucas fairly young in this au I made him a young child at this time, then in season 4 I decided to make him 20). In this au I had Nesso not tell Lucas that he is his uncle (only for this au is he his uncle), as well as make Lucas tell no one that Galarin is his other parent, so eventually Lucas forgets that they are. Nesso also made Lucas wear the gloves that he wears in the series. The gloves sort of work as a 'glamour' as well as a seal for his natural magic (I have it so that god slayers have 2 magics the magic they're born with and their gods magic). So Lucas looks human as long as he wears his gloves, he can take them off but he has sort of an internalized hate for his own magic and his true appearance.

• Another point that I hadn't added in earlier was how I want Galarin to be one of Kay's friends from during her days with the other Fox spirits. So Galarin would have known that Kay was a god but they would have left Kay to figure it out on her own. In fact I had it planned in my head that Kay would have been visiting Galarin and Lucas' Mom with the twins (Michael and Devin) when the hunters attacked, which is why she would have been away.

This is more or less about Mitch's time as Viper while in Grimshade. But I will be using this post for any other things I forgot to add to the au.

Also I guess some of this is a bit morbid so be aware.

So oh boy time to get to it.

So I'm going to be talking about some ideas that I have for characters like Kay, Nix, Devin and Michael. So starting off with this post I'll be talking about Kay. So my idea for Kay in this au is that she was raised by Fox Spirits, rather than normal foxes. For more information I think that her biological parents would have been some kind of nobility. And her family's kingdom had fought and killed a god, at least the gods physical body since I don't think that gods can truly be destroyed at least in most cases. The god that it would have been was the god of transformation magic. But since I feel like FTO gods should have more domains like other gods that you see in mythology, I think this god would be more well known as the god of Animals and the "Father/Mother of Monsters" since I believe that this god should be the one that created many of the monsters in the magic realm.

So the story goes is that one of Kay's bio parents is on the battlefield when the god is killed, and the god curses the parent. So when Kay is born she ends up being a fox spirit, which is not good so the parents send her out into the forest where her fox (spirit) family finds her.

• p.s. her actual name isn't Kay, it's just an alias she uses.

Some other things about fox spirits in my au is that when they're born they look fairly human just with slit pupils, slightly pointed ears, larger canines, and a smaller tail. They are born with normal human hair colors, and their eyes are either red or yellow. Also for some reason I based them off of korean Fox spirits, so they have a fox pearl that they have in the back of their throat, in my au I make this their soul. I also make it the place where their mana is stored, I have it so that they can breath out puffs of mana at people then they can breath the mana back in and steal mana from other people (this is to replace the actual way Kumihos steal the life from humans, I don't know I just didn't want them French kissing to do it). They are born with either colorful hair streaks or hair ends. The color depends on what color their soul is (no it doesn't really mean anything I just think souls should be colorful). The color corresponds to markings they will develop when they get older, as well as their pearl and mana puffs. When they reach 100 years old I make them "fully mature" and they fully develop their fox features. Their hair turns white (not including the colorful parts like the streaks or ends), their sclera turns black, their tail gets larger, their nails turn black, and they get the first of their markings. Over time they get more tails (1 every 100 years until 900), more markings the back travels up their limbs from their nails, as well as their legs becoming more digitigrade-like (standing on their toes, like an actual fox).

So getting back to talking about Kay, well in my au she wasn't really kicked out it was more that she was told it was time for her to go out and try and blend in with humans, try and make a life for herself. So she does, and it goes well until the village she's staying in finds out she has magic, so she ends up being run out. She goes on like this for a while until she decides to live away from humans and sets up her den in a cave (she's around 200-300). So when she is around 300-400 she finds an injured Devil and takes him back to her den to heal him up, cause it's not like she doesn't like company it's just that she's usually not welcome where she tries to find it.

So for the Devil you might have guessed who it is but it's Nix. In my au when he was in the war with Allumos I had him not be a devil yet just a demon. So in my au demons can get the rank of devil by either being granted it by the demon king, or taking the title from another devil. To take the title they have to kill them. Which means that Devils will consistently be attacked by other demons. So why is Nix hurt well he just got the Devil title and he got ambushed by another demon trying to take it he defeated them but he was injured.

So I made Kay and Nix be friends. I just think it adds another layer of her inviting him to the guild, her being able to recognize him but him being unable to do the same since she's transformed.

So this is good for Kay, she made a friend she's less lonely and it gives her more confidence to try and find other friends for herself. So she eventually finds a group of nomadic Fox Spirits who tend to travel on the ocean and have artificial floating islands (in the ocean not sky islands). They also have good relations with the merfolk as well as other aquatic monsters and creatures.

But eventually she falls in love with another one of the fox spirits and she goes on to marry them. She even has twins with her spouse and she is finally so very happy. But, it wasn't meant to last. Since in this au many monsters or monstrosities are hunted down and killed either as trophies or misplaced anger and fear. So hunters come to their settlement killing many other fox spirits and even other sea creatures who try and help. So how is Kay supposed to feel when she comes back from visiting a friend with her twins to see the first place she was truly accepted and the people she had come to love and care for massacred, well she is quite reasonable in what she does she hunts down and kills every single last hunter she finds that was attacking her home. There is almost no one left alive by the time she is done, only those who were able to hide away when the initial attacks happened.

Warning: for talks about depression and suicidal ideation coming up you can skip this part for now and come back when I say it's safe

Monstrosity/Aurelius au PT.4

So I left off last time with Mitch(Viper) joining the wandering coins, in order to have better resources to search for Mario. Well it's time to talk about what was going on with Mario in that time.

So Mario, a mentally and physically 15(?) year old ends up left with Earthus then, Earthus just leaves while he was asleep. So Mario is just left alone with no one it turn to, to ask for help. So while Mario knows how to act around other people he doesn't understand humans, or capitalism (using money to buy things) really, since I think it would be neat if the dragon slayers used more of a barter system, or would just give what they have as extras to others in their clan, and they would get back things in return (not immediately after but eventually). Mario also doesn't know how to speak English, so this ends up causing some problems for him later.

So Mario wanders around for a while eventually making it to a human town, but people won't help him. Which for him is weird usually whenever dragon slayers see children, or younger dragon slayers their needs are immediately tended to since dragons and dragon slayers really love children and hold them in a high regard.

So Mario who is hungry (yes I am making it so that dragon slayers need to eat both their magic element and actually food) ends up stealing some food. This his start in criminal activity. Mostly just stealing in order to provide for himself, and even possibly other street kids he runs into. I think what makes him turn to a dark guild is that one of the other street kids dies on his watch, and he sees it as a way to survive, and possibly help other street kids. I think he'd be around 18-19 (mentally and physically) when he joins the dark guild.

I didn't actually have much planned for what he does when in the dark guild, but I do think he does continue to help street kids, I also want him to have a snake tattoo. I also had him go by a pseudonym based off his dragon name, it'd be quartz. Mario would be part of the criminal underworld for a while so he'd have a lot of connections, he may have even been a part of a few different dark guilds. So eventually he does get betrayed by his old dark guild and ends up getting captured and going to prison. At this time I just assumed that it would be some prison in a town near Atlantide, rather than the protectors' prison. So Mario's in prison and is high strung by what has happened, (let's also say that he's wearing magic suppressing cuffs) he's getting into fights, getting more aggressive.

This is where Mitch(Viper) comes back in. So Mitch while in the wandering coins, does a quest where he ends up turning someone in to the prison, the same one that Mario is in. Because dragon slayers can smell one another, Mitch goes over and ties to talk to Mario, tries to tell him that he'll get him out of prison and pay his bail money but Mario who is very stressed, and still feels abandoned by Mitch and Earthus, yells as him to leave, and to stay away from him. So Mitch ends up being led out of the prison in shock that Mario (in this au his son) hates him.

So that ends up being the catalyst for Mitch to switch guilds. If his son doesn't want him around well, he'll give him his space but he won't leave, not really. So he makes himself a new identity and joins Grimshade.

But back to Mario briefly since I'll cover more of what Mitch does in the next part. Mario continues to be agitated and upset, and ends up attacking other inmates to the point of, him being out in solitary confinement. He ends up being in solitary confinement for a while, and since younger me thought it was cool he goes feral. I had decided to use his magic and mental instability brought on my a myriade of things but especially the solitary confinement as the reason for him going feral. Biting and clawing at the guards and anyone who tries getting into his cell.

Now it's time for another Warning for descriptions of graphic injuries, you can skip past my descriptions and come back when it says it's safe

This is mostly a catch all for some other small things I have in the au including stuff in and after season 5.

I want Phoenix slayers to reincarnate but usually not member their previous lives. One of the street kids that Mario knew was Kit's past life.

I mo's actually really old(compared to a normal human) I made him in his 70s.

Yamitsu is a fox spirit who's magic is messed up and just absordes any magic around him especially by touch them by normal fox spirit means. He gets 2 tails.

Sabrina has a small tail, since she's only half fox spirit.

I don't exactly know if I want Patrick O'Connor to remember that he's Aurelius or not, I'm going with yes though because of Allumos.

Sibling reunion with Allumos, Patrick O'Connor and Flurry.

Mitch knew Phil when he was in the Wandering Coins, Phil's the old man that stays with La Carnival. It would be funny if he addresses 'Viper' as Mitch or 'Doctor' and talks about being in the Wandering Coins, and Mitch does that too, he just goes along with it cause like, yeah he knew Phil, doesn't know how he recognized him in his disguise but oh well. I just imagine it confuses anyone not in the know. (If anyone doesn't know he calls the members of La Carnival by his old guild mates names)

So I imagine that eventually Mario and Mitch make up, and Mitch has to tell him that he adopted Devin and Michael. Like it's an emotional event and everything because he stayed behind and tried to look out for him. Maybe it gets out that he was the one to recommend that Mario is put into Divinus Magia.

• Damn I just realized they're the three Ms

Mitch goes on and emotionally adopts the other dragons slayers, not Mori though he doesn't want to be adopted. And also not Seek because he doesn't know if Colin and Seek like each other romantically or not. He still does fight Bryan, and Blake btw no going easy on them that's not fair, the children need to win their fights fair and square.

Kayper happens because yay, then Kay and Mitch have to tell each other that their not human, which is fun because Mitch is the first person that Kay has tolled that to. She also has to admit that Devin and Michael are her children, which will cause some drama. But is also funny cause then he tells Kay that he adopted them both, and Kay's just glad they had a good parent.

Once post season 5, Kay could talk to Jakey about it after he has all the stuff with his family sorted, and she can be emotional support for him being the new guild leader. But also it would be kinda funny cause she's kinda like the step-mom to Jakey's ex.

Also Kay tells Lucas she was friends with his Moms. Cue Kay and Galarin having a girl night

Davis has to deal with many new siblings, and the little dragon siblings can be friends with Mario's half brother Teras.

Also I think Bryan should teach Damien to be a fire dragon slayer, just because I think it would be cool.

Now it's time to talk about some of the au aspects that I made as a sort of fix-it.

Idea one I had is that when Devil slayers die they respawn in the demon world (it's the nether) as demons. So yay Revin can continue on, also step dad Devin.

Another thing I did is that Ritchie and Flurry get to have revenge on Aberham for hurting their son. Ps he gets eaten by the demons.

Also Patrick O'Connor uses it as a chance to help both of his siblings revenge with flurry and getting Allumos back. He'll get his own body later, maybe with the help of Devin and Kay.

Also I made it so that Seek doesn't die I had Mitch come back in time to save him, but he gets a lot on spine damage so he can't really walk, without either braces (back, legs and arm crutches) or a wheelchair. He's also in a coma for a while.

Michael becomes one with Kassathar and he gets his family back.

Also dear lord this family tree is insane, it feels like everyone is related through adoption.

Now we're going back to focusing on Mitch, who is now going by Viper and what goes on with him while he's in Grimshade. And of course talking about Devin and Michael.

So when Mitch joins Grimshade, Devin and Michael are in the guild and are relatively young I can't remember if I decided on a timeline of when he joins, but I remember when I first made this au I originally had him join when Devin and Michael were around 6-ish maybe, I'm not quite sure on the age. But I imagine that Mitch had been a fairly high up member in the wandering coins, and reaper would have tried to recommend him, but the purpose of the new title is a fresh start so he can watch over Mario from a far. So he'd be going into this new guild with a new identity, appearance, name and attitude. He'd play up his more angry gruff attitude, he was already hurt so it wasn't hard to imitate the attitude, he mostly channeled his younger self of when he was just found by Aurelius.

Which also means that he is starting at C rank once more until he can prove he can do better missions. So to members of Grimshade they see they pissed of guy with poison magic trying to join their guild and they think, wow this guy probably isn't even competent, he probably just want to join the mercenary guild, cause he thinks his magic will give him an advantage. So Grimshade looks at 'Viper' and don't really take him seriously, but then here he comes in and is infact competent. They probably have a high ranking member take him out to do a quest, it can be a hit on someone. They assume that he'll mess it up, and the higher rank guild memeber will have to step in and finish the job. But that's not what happens, what happens is that 'Viper' pulls out a scythe -and wow that's not cocky at all, especially since in Grimshade it's the guild leader who use scythes- he sneaks up to his target probably climbing around and actually being very stealthy, then he gets right up to his target and swings his scythe-

Also warning: for graphic descriptions of injuries and child neglect/abuse, you can skip the next part and come back when it says it's safe.

Going back to focusing on Patrick O'Connor. And those he's connected to, like the clown.

Brief recap Patrick O'Connor is the reincarnation of Allumos' brother, who is the Dragon god, and his wife is reincarnated with him too, so Rachel is his wife in both lives.

So my idea for Patrick O'Connor in this au is that he came from a village with a lot of superstitions surrounding the fae. And those suspected of being changelings would be 'sent back' to the fae realm. The idea is that they don't want the 'evil' fae in their village, so they send them back to where they come from. It's pretty common for humans to get mistaken for changelings and to be sent to the fae realm.

Changelings in my au are fae infants who are swapped with human infants. The changelings have no idea that they are actually changelings. The changelings take on the form of the human child, but over time their disguises sort of break down. They get brighter more colorful hair, their eyes get brighter, and their pupils sort of disappear, teeth and nails get slightly sharper too. But unless they purposefully remove their natural glamour they still can pass as humans.

But back to Patrick O'Connor, that's not his true name; which I will explain later. He was born into a village with superstitions, and I made him the oldest of four children. I made him have black hair and light brown eyes when he was younger. Second child his brother would have black hair and mismatch brown and blue eyes, third child another brother would have light brown/dirty blonde hair with light brown eyes, then the youngest his sister would have brown hair with blue eyes. He'd have a mom and a dad, his dad would be the town carpenter. He'd be 10 years older than his sister. He would also often look after his younger siblings when his mom is busy.

Now time for some of the story so Patrick O'Connor, is looking after his youngest sister but she is actually very sick and his family don't think she's going to make it, so he's just holding his baby sister watching her get worse and worse, until eventually he decides to go out and take a walk in the woods with her. He doesn't know why exactly, he just needed to get out. Until eventually he stumbles upon a fae, and the fae gives him an offer. Give his sickly human sister to the fae and she'll get better under the fae's care. And in return he'll get a healthy changeling as sibling, no one will be able to tell the difference, no one will be able to tell they've been switched. So he agrees, his sister will survive, and he's willing to look after a changeling in her place. He eventually grows to see her as his baby sister rather than just the changeling in her place.

This means that he's making sure that any signs that she's a fae will be covered up and he will take the blame. He's already partially doing that for his brother with mismatched eyes, since the village thinks that his brother's eyes are weird. So he's protecting his two siblings from any claims that others make of them being changelings. It's especially difficult with his sister who is showing signs of using plant magic.

It comes to a head 6 years later at the spring equinox when the adults of the village come together and decide if there are any changelings among them. They really only suspect children anyone 16 years old or younger. They decide that Patrick O'Connor has been too suspicious and they decide to 'send him back' to the fae realm. He doesn't know this though and so he goes out with his sister to look for some early spring flowers and she makes him a flower crown. It's right after that they take him away to prepare him to be sent to the fae realm.

Warning for mentions of injury, and cultish behavior(sort of I think it sounds kinda cultish) ahead, you can skip over the following part and come back when it says: it's safe

Continuing on from before with Mitch(Viper). Since like I said earlier that I took inspiration from some dragon fanfics off Wattpad there will be found family elements between the dragon slayers. More specifically I originally made Viper an older brother figure but it later evolved into a father figure roll for them.

It's time to introduce Mario into the Au. So in this I have Mitch be the one to find Mario in the desert(like in canon I think), in a broken carriage that was raided by bandits with his dead parents. I like to think that Mario isn't the name he was originally given, but it's what Mitch decided his human name should be.

•In this au I have the characters have human names and another name ie, dragon, demon, spirit ect.

• I also just mess with the gender identity of characters in this au, it's like yeah gender ambiguity is a dragon thing, there is no biological sex differences for them. Or the shapeshifters are more fluid with their genders, and presentation.

But back on topic, Mitch finds him, and amongst some dragons it's known that Earthus is looking for a student. So Aurelius suggest Mitch let Earthus train him. So Mario in this au grows up with Earthus as his mom, and Mitch as his dad (like I said earlier in the post it was originally older brother but he, I changed my mind). This means he grows up learning the dragon language, mage sign, and written Spanish, and English. Since Mitch can't speak human languages anymore.

I'd like to think in this au that dragon slayers are fairly common, and form their own communities with one another, these communities would be called clans. So Mario in this au would actually be properly socialized. Mario gets raised like this for a while before there are tensions building eventually turning into a civil war between dragons, that in season 5 is the war we see in Dragones.

Because of Mitch's high rank and medical knowledge, he is pulled into the conflict along with Aurelius. Dragon slayers don't necessarily fight on the side protecting humans, cause they aren't exactly humans anymore and are fighting on whatever side their dragon parents fight on, in their eyes they'll become dragons anyway why hold onto humans.

So Mitch entrusts Earthus with looking after Mario, who is both mentally and physically 14 at the time. But as we all know Earthus leaves Mario to fight in the war, Mitch doesn't know this until he sees Earthus fighting in the war. He yells at her and is very understandably upset, so they end up bitter towards one another Mitch moreso than Earthus.

Now it's time to introduce Colin into the au. So he finds the lachrima containing Zata and gets possessed by him (Colin's probably 13 at this point). Zata destroys Colin's village, and eventually he joins the dragon civil war, on the anti human side. And since I previously mentioned he took down 4 dragon slayers on his own (while getting captured) he makes a difference in the war.

The war actually ends up destroying a lot of the dragon slayer population, either by then turning into dragons by magic overuse (which isn't exactly a pretty process), or they are just outright killed. This also decimates the dragon population in the, I'm going to call it magic realm but just know that's just what I'm calling the world Atlantide is in for now.

So with the combined power of Zata and the 'false' dragon god (who at the time is a slayer), and all the other dragons and slayers on the anti human side, they eventually kill Aurelius and Rachel(Past life). With the 'false' dragon god eating him to gain his powers.

• I actually made Bri a descendant of Aurelius and Rachel so that is why she's called the dragon queen.

Mitch hearing of this storms out onto the field and actually uses his magic, despite the pain. Most of the individuals in the war forgot that he actually was train by Aurelius so he's very strong, and it's hard to get past toxic clouds, and acids. So he does quite a number on them.

This event turns him into a dragon and as a dragon he is much more powerful. This also is what pushes the anti human side of the war back to Dragones, and out of the magic world.

• Important side note Mitch does know who Zata is, and has seen him on the Battlefield

After this Mitch is angry, grieving and quite bitter and spends the next few years trying to figure out how to transform into a human, while also trying to find Mario. Eventually he does figure out how to turn into a human again around 40 years before the story starts in season 5. Mitch decides to take go and join a guild think it will be his best chance to find leads on where Mario is. The guild he joins is the wandering coins, his pseudonym in wandering coins is 'The Doctor'. The form he uses is far less scared up and instead looks like large inky patches over his right side. He still uses his long black hair here and covers the lower portion of his mouth.

I had to copy this over from my other blog cause I had started writing and saved the draft on the wrong blog 😞.