#plot call;

-my main HCs both here and on @floweringeclipse‘s info is that Dea died in M.E. 746 [see timeline here]. The four main points of that info are:

-Niflheim attacks Galahd.

- Ardyn contacts Drautos (lowkey plotting something regarding this with thekingsshield atm but pay no mind to this rn).

- Gladio starts working for Noctis. He befriends Noctis after Iris’ incident.

-Iris is 5 y/o, Gladio is 13 y/o.

-Dea, being a resident of Galahd and having left her family there, traveled back to her hometown after hearing rumours of a potential Niff raid on Galahd. Knowing the Lucian Councilmen did not care enough about her homeland, Dea had to leave and see for herself if she can rally a small troop of hunters to help fight back an invasion if it WERE to happen. And it did, but she didn’t expect it to be of massive scale.

-She got caught in the war. The main HC of her death is that she was outnumbered by MT soldiers and was gunned down. The Lucian Council had no way of finding out how she died, nor could they find her body, so she was pronounced dead weeks later and they simply speculated that she must’ve fallen into the sea during her boat ride to Galahd.

-In the Dea Lives AU she received grievous injuries and several concussions while she fought MTs alongside hunters, and while she may have been knocked down, she merely passed out. The hunters she was with managed to drag her to safety and evacuate the island, bringing her to the Lucian mainland with them to rendezvous at a Hunter HQ in Leide.

-I know it’s such an overdone trope but amnesia is a thing sldkgjsf. With no form of ID or even official hunter tags, the hunters-- and Dea herself-- had no idea who she was, had no clue that she’d been living in The Crown City for the past two decades and that she had a family and served under the Lucian Royals. All the hazy memories Dea had were of her childhood in Galahd; she could also only speak Galahdi with very little Lucian common tongue at that point. Everyone just assumed she was another Galahdan hunter who fought for her homeland.

-For the next decade, she lived her life as a poor but skilled hunter, hopping from outpost to outpost with a small group who took her in as one of their own. She didn’t quite have the motivation or reason to search for her missing memories because all she had was of her home island, now torn by war.

-Maybe during the Chocobro’s roadtrip, someone other than Gladio and Iris ends up running into Dea. Maybe she even gives them a request for an errand. Years have been unkind to her-- physically, mentally-- so if she knew Noct or Ignis when they were younger, they wouldn’t fully recognize her now. But maybe the way she speaks common tongue with a strong Galahdan accent sorta reminds them of the way Iris or Gladio speak when they shift between common tongue and Galahdi words. Just a coincidence, though, right?

-Or someone becoming close to Dea, or growing fond of her during hunts bc she’s such a sweet old, momly lady, and the muse introduces her to their group of friends which include Gladio or Iris, and the two Amicitia kids practically have heart attacks then and there while their supposedly-dead mother doesn’t even recognize them (^:

hyejin is 18 and heart2heart’s future leader (and current 360 trainee)

she was adopted at birth and hasn’t met/doesn’t know either of her birth parents

her “real” parents were a little older and decided they wanted to adopt a baby

she trained at 3 different companies from 13 to 16ish, one of them being spotlight

they each had different reasons they cut her (first for her dance skills, then for her public speaking skills, then she dropped out of spotlight after being told her voice would never work in an idol group)

she was on season 4 of the next star as a last resort after being dropped/leaving training 3 different times

her first public appearance was dressed as harley quinn, which is what gave her the stage name/nickname she currently has

she finished 3rd overall and was super heartbroken over it

there were a handful of offers from smaller/newer companies that she didn’t take because she knew that she probably wouldn’t debut if she joined any of them

and she eventually signed with 360 a little over a year ago

some plots i’d love would be people she trained with at spotlight (circa 2014), people who were fans of hers while she was competing, and friends who help her with her training!!