Gaslight The Moon Au - Tumblr Posts
Uhhh AU where Moon rolls a nat 1 on stealth the first time the Rainwings get close enough to see her and she ends up adopted by them
But WAIT there’s a TWIST
Through a series of misunderstandings and gaslighting, everyone (including Moon herself) is convinced that the voices in her head are just her OWN thoughts (“yeah everyone hears a voice in their heads it’s their thoughts” “but I’ve got like. Twenty.” “Well then you must have a LOT of thoughts”)
And the visions are just products of an overactive imagination or smth (the headaches they come with are TOTALLY coincidental what are you talking about)
So of course she starts hearing from Darkstalker and he’s all hopeful but she’s just like “oh new sound for the thoughts! add it to The Collection! Soon I’ll have a whole PARTY of voice actors in here! :D”
Eventually she recognizes the history cave in THAT vision and she’s too panicked to tell the difference between imagination and reality because it’s just SO VIVID and SO SUDDEN. At least that’s what she thinks until the history cave explodes etc etc
Cue the Jade Winglet realizing “oh, she has Nightwing powers,” followed immediately by them realizing, “OH, tHrEe MoOns she doesn’t even KNOW she has Nightwing powers…”
And from there it’s just a bunch of shenanigans as everyone tries to undo multiple years of gaslighting
As for why Secretkeeper never told her after the Night and Rain kingdoms combined we’re gonna go with she just assumed Moon knew already and it was too late by the time she realized she hadn’t known at all
TLDR
Thinkin about this au again I think it’d be funny if there was just ONE (1) dragon who suspected that MAYBE Moon did have powers but nobody believes them. That dragon would probably be either Winter or Qibli and I cannot decide which one. (I came up with this addition at 3 am and for some reason the first dragon that came to my half-asleep mind was PERIL probably because she’s my other favorite but as funny as it would be I don’t think she would suspect so now that I’m awake it’s gonna be one of the Qinter and I can’t decide which so
Gaslight the Moon AU doodle page! (Human AU because dragons are hard :P) (honestly if this is gonna be legible at all it’s gotta be clicked sorry about that)
Not a HUGE fan of how the glowing eyes turned out but it’s f i n e I’ll figure that out at some point
(of course the events of the bottom right image is followed by Moon apologizing profusely for “panicking over nothing” and then everyone has to tell her “Moon the history cave ACTUALLY exploded you foresaw that” and she’s like “??? No I didn’t??? That was purely a coincidence you guys its not like I can sEe ThE fUtUrE or anything” and it takes awhile but eventually people realize “oh frick she ACTUALLY thinks she’s telling the truth”)
The idea for Moon and Turtle cowriting a story came from @aloewing and I loved it so much I had to put it in here :D