Day 22: Paint -> Creative Arts AU

i have a couple of modern aus which are more or less all slice of life aus, and this one's just the trope of artist/artist so i don't need to explain much. main difference beyond that is that night is just not goopy LMFAO

i do wanna add that dream is also featured here because. its coldsunset poly (im dating both of em) for all the aus, its just a highlight on me and night bc of the prompt theme (note: my interpretation of dream is she's transfem and uses any pronouns fyi)

Day 23: Foolish -> Swapped!Medieval AU

now the medieval smoothie au has Much More Lore this time, especially since we've revamped it recently. it's gotten to the point of au-ception. because we're insane. in fact, this isn't the only swap au we have (i coined it as the Scales Swapped Timeline) and i might even draw the other swap (Royal Swap TL) if the opportunity arrives :]

the gist of this is that night swaps with dream! me and gillan (the fairy in the art) still work in dream's kingdom, its just that there's an excess of positivity instead of negativity. this leaves her kingdom oversaturated in positivity that they can't even process loss or any sort of negative emotions- and night can't be close to her because he starts to physically hurt (possibly even start dying) from the positivity, which forces him out the kingdom.

his crown is one of the few things he has that came from what is now dream's own kingdom (it doesn't fit him well, but he can't bare parting with it). i'm the one of the first to seek him out to try and improve kingdom relations in hopes of recovering the balance.

there's a lot to unpack there.

Day 24: Royalty -> Original Medieval AU

WE ARE SO BACK and i am enjoying this revamp to the fullest rn !!! we r embracing this fully by attempting to ocify the extended smoothie poly by humanizing designs and adding a bit more fantasy elements into the world. that's why most of these have human and skeleton variants btw (this will be a theme in my art)

the apple twins? dragon hybrids now. me and gillan? shapeshifter and fairy respectively. oh, and the lil' tiefling kid that present time night was reminded of when seeing his past self? that's the adopted kid in the new lore post-truce hehe. i didn't write it properly but "the person" that young passive says is meant to be "the person we love"

i would like to blame gillan for pushing the thought of a child into the au i am now very much attached to the child (their name won't be revealed yet tho). they're a young knight in training that just stuck to me and never left and now they got a whole ass family. w development

it's never not interesting to explore night's character with the au, i just love the dynamic we have despite the complicated history.

will i elaborate on this? that's a very good question. maybe ask me and i'll provide crumbs anyway! here's last year's stuff

i love them. dearly. i love them so much my husband and wife fr

if you care: selfship names r moonbeam (me/night), sunbeam (me/dream), and coldsunset (both) (no incest). shoutout to zu azurem for the names ily oomf

i had to add that for both our sakes tbh. watch that not work for some people 🙄 but!! moving on!! have a chart of our insanity polycule LMFAO + moments before disaster struck

if you were wondering, yes: smoothie is our poly name w dream bc we wanted to keep it similar but seperate to drinkberry HA (me and night r called moonbeam instead of nightberry too hehe<3)

Day 25: Lost -> Ohana Timeline + Royal Swap!Medieval AU

first things first: Ohana! self explanatory name, "Ohana means family, and family means nobody is left behind or forgotten."

in the original timeline, both me and night were seperated from our siblings. this timeline fixes that, but the change is that neither me or gillan was brought to the kingdom, we just stayed as townsfolk while night keeps his role of king (he rules alongside dream). this au is practically the best timeline in the medieval lore bc of how little angst there is

Royal Swap, however, is the opposite. i did mention it previously but never explained what kind of swap this is, and to quote the lore doc, "the dragon twins are now townsfolk (that are later brought into the palace), while the two orphaned brothers [Rei and Gillan] are royals."

Rei/Blue (me) <=> Nightmare Gillan/Mal (@gillanfryingpan) <=> Dream

the difference between me and night as kings is that he adapted to the role. i didn't. "old mad king," as i fell from grace, spiraling into madness (similar to night falling for his curse) and fleeing the kingdom. i don't rebuild a kingdom, i become a haunting- or a pathfinder in the dark forests if people dare to come close. most of the time, no one knows where i am (cryptid) (feral creechur vibes) (i think bro compared me to muriel from arcana)

speaking abt him, gillan is forced to be king now and theres a lot more tension between us hahahjdihsgyb i love angst (sobs in the corner)

anyway, night might be a royal advisor here while dream is a ranger, not sure rn

Day 26: Veiled -> Vampire and Werewolves AU

the contrast between how much lore this and medieval au is crazy bc guess what? i got nothin LMAO

all i can tell you is that night and dream are still close and share a coven, and they keep werewolves (me and the murder trio, also nicknamed as cerberus). i can also say that if there's any other skeles, crayon bros (geno, error, fresh) are vampires, while plum/lust and reaper/mortem are witches of some kind. and that's all i got