#icebound au

the whole krew ‼️

design notes under the cut:

i finished something yayyyyyy

the icebound crew as humans (or dogkin in Daisy's case)

So COMING SOON? I guess?!

Unfortunately Nikki/Queenie wasn’t there or mentioned in the conversation, while I was day dreaming on what an evil queenie would look like I had an idea.

An AU where Daisy and Queenie were on their way to see the other humans, but on their way they found a structure similar to the tower/lighthouse the party found in the wastelands. But instead of trapping them in a time loop it trapped them in an alternative world, while they’re trying to figure out what happened they wander into alternate versions of their friends.

These people look like their friends, their family, their loves but they are different people, Daisy and Queenie know these villains have to be stopped but seeing these sides to the people they’ve known and loved for so long justifiably hurts and terrifies them, leaving them wondering just how close their actual friends are to falling over the edge and straying onto the same dark path these people find themselves on and wondering if their is any redemption in these people or at the very least getting to the bottom of what happened to ensure this would never happen back home.

I dooooo think it'd be really silly (/pos) to rename Taishen with a more feminine sounding name in my goofy ahh genderbend au.

I've been tossing a bunch of shit around, and have come up with Chenyan? Which I imagine would use the irl Chinese characters 辰 and 焱, which to the best of my knowledge can be translated as morning and flame respectively. Also, apparently 辰 is also associated with the dragon of the Chinese zodiac? which I thought was fitting :3

It is really Skrimm-Centric, but that's because of the nature of the AU. However, I am not opposed to the idea of the others being soul-connected, and now thinking about it, I have a more present idea to it.

So, it does center around Skrimm, but that's because he gained his powers much later in life than the others in their respective elements, and explores the brutality of it, in a way. He runs, finds his way to swindle his coin, but as it attaches to him, it sort of, well....

At first, he starts seeing the souls of people as this drift-y/wisp-y sort of smoke. Reds and purples, sometimes blue, and he doesn't understand it. Why would the souls be red instead of blue? Does it have to do with those red eyes? The coin?

Even without the coin on him/in his grasp, he still sees the souls. Then it turns to more: He starts seeing time ticking on those blue souls, sometimes hours, sometimes seconds. These shades are starting to vary from deep and dark to light and bright. What does it mean?

Seemingly stronger around graveyards and burial sites, he avoids them like the plague, only to be horrified by just the sheer amount of considered burial sites around Avantris. His anxiety is raised, constantly scanning the world and over his shoulder, he never stays in more than one place, unless he's compelled to. Even then, he tries to fight it.

At random moments, jolting in the dark of night or freezing in the middle of the day, he feels this sort of pull to go somewhere with an unnatural calm and sense of needing or wanting to comfort. Again, stronger near those graveyards.

Stronger towards those that grieve.

He doesn't get used to it, that anxiety staying with him forever basically, but telling anyone about it would get him locked up. So he keeps it tucked away.

However, he is not the only one. He is just the way of death and despair. A comfort to a soul passing through the graveyard on the side of living.

Queenie's, Jornir's, and Barnabos' are all connected to their environments, how they were raised, and just themselves overall.

Respectfully, Queenie has a connection to the forests, beasts, hunting. She is life in the forest, the plains, and the deserts, to a degree.

Jornir has a connection to the wastes, traveling, surviving. He is the life that dwells in the harshest of places with what they can, how they can, when they can.

Barnabos has a connection to the sea, pirating, the depths. He is the life in the oceans, rivers, and lakes, no matter how deep.

And Taishen... Well, he isn't unfamiliar with the way that lives travel, seeing people come and go. He was sheltered, yes, but he is still a way of life itself. The way of people, to find joys in the little things of life, to find happiness after pain, to keep on even on the dreariest of days. Him and Skrimm are the opposite in that way.

And to say that scares Skrimm is an understatement. To suddenly find these people, all with their own connections, and yet still not be understood is.. Well, downright terrifying. Why was he roped in? What is the point of being this darkness of all this light?

He finds the answer in a way he doesn't want to. And to say he pleaded until there were no words left, screamed until his voice gave out, and used every single bit of magic he had possessed in him to the point he used more than he could carry...

He understood why. Why he was this darkness in the light. Why he was chosen.