Actually, Before I Forget, Id Like To Talk About How The God-killer Weapons Are Used In My AU! After

Actually, before I forget, I’d like to talk about how the god-killer weapons are used in my AU! After all, they’re one of the few things that can still kill characters like Valkyrie and Mevolent. This one will be a lot shorter because there’s a lot less to say, just me giving a bit of info about where they’re at.

Valkyrie still has the fragments of the katehedral crystal inside her, so she’s basically a walking god-killer. She’s also gained a stronger control of her power since AMFoM, so she can shoot well-controlled beams and won’t accidentally obliterate her friends. This also makes her an on-sight target for many groups, since she can never be disarmed now. On another note, she cannot absorb the souls of people who were killed by god-killers, so they’re quite a source of frustration for her.

Additionally, the katehedral crystal (I think that’s how it’s spelled?) is actually pretty unhealthy for Valkyrie to have in her system, and it’s had some pretty adverse effects on her magic. Adding on to the fact that some of Valkyrie’s powers are growing weaker in AMFoM, the katehedral is basically draining them and by now it’s nearly impossible for her to access that vein of magic (although she has no problem with her god powers and can still replicate other’s magic). It was originally the Wreath gang who figured out how badly the crystal was affecting her (this being a few months prior to her turning into a god) and attempted to perform something of a surgery on her to get rid of the crystal? It didn’t work, hence why Valkyrie still shoots black lightning.

Other than that, the four god-killers are still around. Skulduggery has the sword, which makes the two of them an incredibly dangerous duo and make other groups avoid them even more. Mevolent got the short end of the stick and has the dagger, which he often uses to execute enemies or prisoners that he never wants to risk coming back. Winter has the spear, and she pretty much keeps it with her at all times. And lastly, Saracen has the bow (the Sanctuary doesn’t have a god-killer but does have Saracen).

Since god-killers are such a rare and useful commodity in this war, there was a several-year effort to try and find other dimensions that they could raid for god-killers (“they” being most or all of the local groups in this context). However, everybody eventually gave up because of how difficult it was to locate other habitable dimensions, let alone other habitable dimensions with god-killers (I’m going to note here that they do not have the knowledge of what the Darquesse society used to find Darquesse. In fact, none of them have probably questioned it).

And that should be all. Nice and short, might come in useful. I like making use of the god-killer weapons.

Do you have any OCs or OC dynamics that could be described with “Good Luck Babe”

This guy lol. His name is Jason, he's sad and he lives rent free in my mind :( /affec. He's the most likely to fumble. Also his parents are kinda homophobic soooo.

i think being part of their symphony was teth's last straw

Been having thoughts about Jenan (from phase 2) relating to toxic masculinity and how boys are treated when taken advantage of.

Because like…he was written from the very start as one of those guys you knew in high school who was super macho and a bully and who was raised by his parents to be that way, to the point where he’d be considered a failure if he couldn’t act that certain way. This becomes even more apparent when we finally meet his father, who…isn’t great and somehow seems even more of a stereotype of toxic masculinity than his son. His dad kicked all necromancers out of his country for their religion and then bragged about it afterwards, that’s how great his dad is.

Now, everyone is welcome to their own thoughts on this, but in my eyes Jenan got legitimately groomed by Abyssinia, and was made to do some really awful things while he was with her because it would “make him strong” and “make him a REAL man”, such as pushing his friends off cliffs. Yeah.

And then everyone finds out about it, and his life falls apart. His dad rejects him and views him as weak. He’s sent to a fucking prison, where he’s brutalized and mistreated before being sent back to school. It sucks so badly for him. In fact, it sucks so badly that he keeps latching on to the idea of Abyssinia and refuses to acknowledge the fact that she took advantage of him and was going to kill him.

And he hates Omen. Because Omen is the image of positive masculinity, which Jenan was taught to view as weak. Because Omen actually cared that Jenan was being mistreated and went to the prison to see if he could help, even after Jenan bullied him and tried to kill him repeatedly, and Jenan was taught to view things like that as weak. But despite Omen being weak, he still won. He still ended up on top, and to Jenan, that’s against the rules. And he thought that Omen was visiting him in prison to taunt him for being the loser because he couldn’t imagine a world where you wouldn’t go to a prison to taunt the people inside.

And so when he gets back to school, his mental health is awful. He killed his friends, was betrayed by Abyssinia, and has no family to support him now. And he takes that rage out on Omen, who still refuses to mistreat him for all that Jenan did to him, which only causes Jenan to spiral more.

And it ends with Filament, Omen, and Jenan standing in a room together, Filament holding a weapon. Jenan tells him to kill Omen but Filament is too scared, and it becomes a sort of therapy session with the two of them angrily shouting their negative feelings and emotions at each other while Omen quietly watches.

Because I don’t think that Jenan of all people was taught to be in tune with his emotions. No way. So actually yelling at Filament and threatening to kill Omen finally gave him the space to realize that yes, his life sucks and Abyssinia took advantage of and betrayed him. And that’s not necessarily his fault. But it sure isn’t Omen’s fault either, and the best Jenan can hope to do now is leave. Leave and try and make a new life for himself without the support of his dad. Because he wants to kill Omen, yes. But killing Omen won’t actually fix his issues because Omen is not the source of all his problems. And so he leaves, and Omen gets to keep his life.

And for a background character, that’s a really impressive arc to have. I think it did a good job reflecting positive versus toxic masculinity and how much the place he was raised in impacted his actions and his eventual fate. Fellas, I do not like Jenan but he is a criminally underrated character. Thank you all for coming to my TedTalk, this is the best I can do in twenty crazed minutes with my phone.

I can finish my planned analyses tonight I SWEAR and THEN I can plan + write more au stuff

Hey! Do you have a fave pallet?

Like colour palettes? Or something else?

If it is colour palettes, I’m not smart enough of an artist to use them 😔 there is an art piece I’m hoping to do with a colour palette pretty soon though