Talking About AU Temper Because I Love Him And He Deserves Better! Spoilers For UtE Under Cut!

Talking about AU Temper because I love him and he deserves better! Spoilers for UtE under cut!

This AU still follows the canon in the way that Temper ended up being consumed by his gist, having that gist be edited by Nuncle, and then running off. Kierre decides to spend her time following him around for several years because she doesn’t really have anyone else to go to except her siblings and is too intimidated by the world to actually go out and make a life for herself (as a result of having to live completely hidden from the public because of her siblings).

When the world ends, Temper and Kierre, are forced to spend more time closer to Roarhaven because it’s safer for them and there are more people for Temper to fight. However, he is eventually captured by Dexter and Tanith, who convince China to try and use sigils to transform him back into a human (Kierre agrees to this but keeps careful watch over the whole thing).

And it works! Temper is back to his human form, with no real noticeable differences to before (although I’ve decided his teeth are a bit pointier than a normal human’s). The real kicker is that he doesn’t have his gist anymore though, although he still has Hansel and Gretel. But Hansel and Gretel aren’t actually effective for all the situations he needs, so he needs to figure out how he’s going to deal with this.

And what China offers to do is carve more sigils into his body that will offer him magical offence. And so he ends up agreeing, and so now he has energy claws he can summon from the tips of each of his fingers and I reckon he can also summon little shields from his forearms. After that whole ordeal was over, he and Kierre agreed to settle down in Roarhaven to try and start a life for themselves.

Temper actually does remember what it was like to be controlled by his gist, although it feels in his memory like how Vile feels to Skulduggery. He doesn’t like the memories and goes out of his way to avoid talking about it.

Nowadays, Temper works at the Sanctuary and is actually quite high ranking. His job is to keep infighting and discrimination going on in the city to a minimum (because of culture clashing sorcerers and mortals) as well as generally helping run things. He and Tanith aren’t officially Elders, but they basically fill the roles as Ghastly’s supporting Elders and some people jokingly call him an Elder.

Temper was also the reason that Kierre ended up joining with Dexter and company. She originally didn’t want to do it when Dexter offered the job to her, but Temper encouraged her to join so she’d have friends outside the cult she grew up in and so that she would be less reliant on him.

And one last thing, Temper isn’t actually very worried about Valkyrie. He thinks what happened to her was unfortunate (and currently has some very conflicting feelings about Skulduggery), but he doesn’t actually view her as a threat to Roarhaven on account of the effort she has put into protecting it. Ghastly, on the other hand, worries constantly that Valkyrie will one day get annoyed at the Sanctuary and decide to destroy Roarhaven, even if there is no indication of that happening.

In short, both Temper and Kierre are doing pretty well despite the circumstances, these two are a lot less angsty than many of the other characters in this AU.

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battlescape of the gods au skulduggery pleasant i am once again skulduggeryposting i love them your honor someone escaping a cult being helped by another person who once had to escape the same cult? peak I would have so much fun writing these two