#i dont think she gets kidnapped by morgoth but shes definitely pretty messed up from growing up in eols basement

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Lomion and Idril designs for the reverse gondolin au

au-verse maeglin (lomion) is argons kid adopted by aredhel (shes the exact opposite of a helicopter parent- she'll be like 'bye son im going hunting with celegorm, if you need anything ask uncle fingon!', so really, raising lomion was more of a group effort)

this idril was a bit younger on the helcaraxe, so she was still a kid when they got kidnapped. she doesnt get the name celebrindal until much later because no silver feet until she gets to gondolin (she made herself crutches out of eols dining room chairs)

lomion is much better socialized than maeglin, having grown up somewhat normally in nevrast & gondolin. hes still a smith (mentored by rog instead of eol, and therefore much less inclined to evil sentient weaponry) and is good friends (and rivals) with celebrimbor. growing up his major male role model was celegorm (who hung around gondolin a lot despite not technically living there) instead of eol, so he still has issues but not Capital I Issues. he has a tendency to attach himself to people (possibly stemming from helcaraxe trauma?) and is very violently protective of his friends/family

#silm #silmarillion #reverse gondolin au #maeglin #lomion #idril #i havent worked out idrils character as much in this au yet #but their color palettes are basically switched #btw aredhel is the founder/queen of gondolin in the au #once he was an adult maeglin ended up ruling gondolin most of the time since aredhel spent most of her time running around the forests #also au idril is lord of the house of the mole #i dont think she gets kidnapped by morgoth but shes definitely pretty messed up from growing up in eols basement #turgon also has a ton of guilt from elenwe and argon dying on the helcaraxe #and then he couldnt get idril out of nan elmoth