I Am Losing To My Demons And Am Now Talking About The University In Battlescape!

I am losing to my demons and am now talking about the university in Battlescape! 😀

I have no idea if it will matter to any of you, but I’m also going to discuss Skulduggery’s relationship with his siblings.

I already mentioned this in my post about the premise of this AU, but the university in Battlescape was created by a bunch of scientists who didn’t want to engage in traditional warfare and now exists as a place very separate from the rest of the world.

It is a physical place, but it is very hard to get to because it moves about, similarly to Coldheart prison. In fact, it was designed to act like Coldheart prison because Coldheart was famously so difficult to find and then break in to.

At first, it was just a group of scientists who designed somewhere to live, but it quickly branched out into a fully functional university that is now famous around the planet for being a place of legitimate prosperity. Families regularly send their children to try and live there so that the kids can live safer lives, and so the university (and it’s reputation) are always growing.

This university is magic-science based, and so those who founded it have made it double as a group of scientists-for-hire who will help anyone who pays them or offers them protection/resources. It’s a great way for the students to test their knowledge and abilities and it’s made it so that other conflicting groups don’t want harm to come to the university, making it even safer. It does, however, mean that some sacrifice of morality is necessary in order to thrive the way that it does.

China has been invited to live at the university but turned down the invitation because she didn’t like the idea, the people, or the thought of having to share her knowledge with an extensive amount of people (especially now that her magic charm is functional again). Nye isn’t there either because it hates working with other people and is cooped up in a lab with Abyssinia and Omen on a different continent. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some very intelligent people at the university.

For example, Destrier is there and has continued some of his experiments regarding temporal manipulation, although those ones are generally banned from the public and only some of his top students are allowed to know about it. He still has his nervous demeanour and so rarely goes outside the university to negotiate or make deals with other groups.

Confelicity, Skulduggery’s sister, is also there. She’s a lot more confident and so does a lot more of the negotiating, which puts her on the field with her older brother a lot more. She doesn’t like him on account of the whole Vile thing (and the generally heinous stuff he does nowadays) but has actually befriended Valkyrie, and the two of them interact sometimes. In fact, most of Skulduggery’s siblings now dislike him and prefer Valkyrie, with an exception being Uther (because he hates them both). Valkyrie has realized that there isn’t much she can do to get them on speaking terms with one another. Confelicity does a lot around biological warfare and magic-based fauna (she would go INSANE if she found out about the dragon in Valkyrie’s basement. Val hasn’t told her because Confelicity would pull the most airheaded scholar move possible and try to go and study it).

The Engineer is also present at the university, but it doesn’t do much research and is instead more of a mascot that people can occasionally ask difficult questions to. Like a calculator combined with a puppy, basically. The students love having conversations with it.

A lot of work also gets put into forming protections against the Faceless Ones, because those things are completely inhuman and so are one of the only groups willing to actually harm the university. That said though, they are probably one of the most well-off groups in this AU. Writing their little science-y shenanigans would be fun.

Was thinking about Mykell and how they would talk about the Kingdom and I realized that AM’s speech about how much it hates humans would fit really, unnervingly well with it.

Let’s fuckin go

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May we draw every day.

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