#lightkeepers

nightingale's song 🪶 illuga is . surprisingly hard to draw.. but i'm so happy i got him in 10 pulls!! his dedication to the lightkeepers and nod krai is very touching 🥹 and his voice is so soothing

insta | twt | ko-fi (planning to open comms again soon. stay tuned!)

process under the cut!

Seriously it’s been 500 years but everyone is just doing their own thing

The closest thing they got is the light keepers who made up of volunteers, people choice to join the “you are going to die while fighting demons” organization and they the closest nod krai has got to stability

The source of tech comes from some random 5 year old and her robot who is also a ancient dragon spirit from natlan.

There’s the group of religious deer people who worship the 3rd harbinger who apparently is a moon god. And there’s also said leader having a regulus crisis.

You can pay someone to dox anyone, doesn’t matter if their civilization is literally dead if the money is good enough she can make it happen

There’s a bunch of other random governments getting involved. Who are all coming for the moon, which is actually just some random girl.

Don’t forget the bunch of witches from the “witches against barbatos” group who do everything now but go against barbatos who also have decided that they want to get involved

I don't believe i read a au where she's been placed in angsty au where everyone, particularly Flins, turns their backs on her.

Well, you haven't read one because I don't have an angsty idea like this for Female Illuga!MC...

And to be honest, I have no idea how this au would go if Female Illuga!MC was the hated MC.

I just can't see the Lightkeepers, much less Flins, hating her.

...Though, I can think of an idea or two.

One route could be when Female Illuga!MC was saved as a child and adopted by Nikita, things started out fine... at first.

But things started going horribly wrong when she was brought back to Piramida, and even more so when she joined the Lightkeeper ranks.

Whispers start spreading that she was curse. A cursed child that brought death and ruin wherever she went...

And this affects her deeply, along with how the people around her syarted treating her over the coming years.

Nikita, her adopted father, while loving at first in the beginning when he adopted her, slowly became distant and cold over time... she once heard him drunkenly admit to some comrades how he regretted saving that 'cursed girl'-

That was the same night she became an official Ligthkeeper. She ended up crying in her cramp little home for the rest that horrible night...

And then there was Flins.

She tried to befriend the Fae like her canon male counterpart did, but... those smiles, his words... always so cold, filled with disguised annoyance, disgust. Elegant insults tied together with pretty words

"Run along, little curse. I have no need for your help. Nor does anyone, for that matter."

And then she's left alone. Alone. ALONE. ALONE-

It was during this breakdown that a hoard of Wild Hunt snuck up on her.

She was alone... she didn't fight.

She wanted to go home. She didn't want to be in this game anymore...

But death didn't grant her freedom... she only wakes back up again. Hurt. Fire everywhere... and strangely smaller.

She was a child again. She was back in her old village, the same one that was destroyed by the Wild Hunt one stormy night... and the same, ruined village where she would be 'saved' by Nikita.

This time, she didn't make a sound. She covered her mouth, huddled in a dark corner, blood dripping from the wound on her neck, but she doesn't make a peep as lightkeepers came looking for survivors.

This time no 'cursed child' will be picked up, the 'cursed child' would rather rot alone than go back to that miserable place where no one saw her for herself and treated her like she nothing...

Eventually, Female Illuga!MC comes out her hiding spot when the last of the Lightkeepers left, leaving the now abandoned village in complete silence.

Once she knew the coast was clear, Female Illuga!MC limps out and limps the opposite way the Lightkeepers went. She didn't care where she was going, she just needed to get far, far away from the Ratnikis-

But she could only get so far. She was once again a child. An injured, tired child at that... but surprisingly, she was picked up by some concerned folks.

Concerned folks from Hiisi Island. The Frostmoon Scions. One of them happened to be a youngish looking Lauma who immediately started fretting over Female Illuga!MC's bloody form.

The moment she asked if the child was ok, Female Illuga!MC lost it. She started crying, wailing even. When was it the last time someone, anyone really, asked if she was ok?

She barely noticed being bundled up in a blanket, nor being picked up and taken somewhere.

She was just so tired...

...In the end, she was taken in by the Frostmoon Scions. Adopted by Lauma, becoming her new 'little sister'.

Female Illuga!MC was terrified. What if what happened before, happens again?! She didn't want to be called a curse again!

But despite her fears... it doesn't happen. Slowly, but surely, Female Illuga!MC settled into her new life on Hiisi Island with the Frostmoon scions.

She wasn't seen as a curse. She was just... her. Just Female Illuga!MC. Quiet, shy, and gentle Female Illuga!MC. A simple scion of Hiisi island... and Female Illuga!MC loved it.

Years eventually go by, and once again, it was time for canon.

In this case, Female Illuga!MC was actually in the know with Lauma about Columbina's location and even stopped by to keep the Moon Goddess company.

It was almost surreal that in this timeline, she had the chance to be friends with the sleepy goddess. It was nice.

What was not so nice was that she happened to check on Columbina during the moment where she summoned the Traveler to her hiding spot... along with the Harbinger Sandrone... and Flins.