a gift for @0rchidm4ntis based off their selkie!silver au that they told me about over discord! we have both become thoroughly enraptured by the tragedy of this au and as such, i had to write something for it TvT
“How are you feeling today, dear?” Lilia asks quietly, pressing his hand against Silver’s forehead. The boy is a little warmer than usual — not quite to the extent of a drastic fever yet, but bordering slightly on it. Perched on the edge of Silver’s soft bed, he reaches out to smooth locks of hair out of his son’s eyes as they flutter open, gazing at him blearily.
Silver’s lips press together as his face scrunches up, thinking through his words before he says, “‘m alright, Father—”
“Nonsense,” Lilia interrupts briskly, narrowing his eyes at Silver; that was not the answer he wanted to hear, his son downplaying his status for the sake of reassuring him, as he is wont to do. “You’re warmer than usual. If I allow you to head to school in this condition, you’ll surely fall properly ill!”
There is a pause, during which Lilia reaches out to adjust Silver’s pillows, rising from the bed to tuck him properly under his blankets. Eventually, he hears, “I just… wish I did not fall sick so often.”
And oh, Lilia’s heart twists at that, a pang of guilt burrowing its way into his chest, wedging itself between his veins. Bile rises at the back of his throat, a foul taste that he swallows down.
He knows why Silver is sick, why he is always sick. As the years pass by and Silver grows older, he has gone from a spirited and vibrant child, so full of energy, laughing and running about daily, to something… weaker. More prone to illness, his skin taking on a pallid hue. And to make matters worse, he was now prone to bouts of accidental napping, slipping in and out of sleep without noticing, dozing off at the strangest and worst of times.
Lilia knows the cause, even as the doctors don’t and Silver doesn’t. The answer to it lies in the bottom of a chest tucked below his bed, hidden behind dozens of boxes and containers that he has never quite gotten around to properly sorting. A soft coat of fluffy fur, dried after over a decade away from the sea, tinged in shades of grey and white, speckles dotting the darker patches of fur.
A seal’s coat. A selkie’s coat.
(A memory flashes to mind, unbidden, etched in the depths of his psyche: He is younger, sitting on the coarse sand of the beach, a sea of stars twinkling above as the waves lap at the shoreline. In his arms is but a baby, wrapped up in a coat far too big for his body, blinking open those big eyes to gaze up at him with nothing but pure adoration in those auroral pupils.
Lilia knew, at that point, that a part of him would be loath to ever let this strange, mystical child go.)
“But you cannot help it,” Lilia finally says, coming back to himself. He leans over, running a hand through Silver’s hair, stroking his head affectionately, feeling his dear boy lean into his touch. “I keep telling you to rest well and take it easy, lest you overstrain yourself and fall ill again. You must learn to be patient with yourself, Silver — otherwise how are you going to get better?”
“I know,” Silver mumbles, thoroughly dejected. The guilt stabs at Lilia again, but he smothers it, stifles it, shoves it down. A small smile graces his son’s face as their eyes meet. “Thank you for taking care of me, Father,” Silver says, a reverence to his words.
Lilia smiles back, stomach churning with a regret he buries under the weight of his love.
“Anything for my most darling son.”
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Well, I was thinking on full-Wolf Werewolf, but your Wolfman-type idea is even better!
Also, here's other stuff I thought about this AU:
- Nemona is... well, a Lycanroc, no beating around the bush (I mean, the energy, the vibe, and your Werewolf-Nemona sketches were something of an inspiration, lol)
- Penny is an Eevolution, in particular Glaceon (due to the thinking "Hey, the reason why there isn't a Glaceon in the team is easy... actually there is, it just looks human during the day!"
- Arven... he is a tough one to decide, ngl. Maybe a dog-like Mon, maybe a Skwovet due to the hair resembling the fur of one... heck, even Mira/Koraidon are perfect examples!
Oooo these are super cool!!! Werewolf AUs always open so many possibilities especially when it’s the whole cast. Were u thinking everyone was born this way— a side effect of living in Paldea / an AU where this is normal, or was this a unique and recent development? Were the Tera crystals or Time Machine at all involved?
Do the werewolves (calling them that bc it’s easier to type) have control over their transformation? Do they retain their human mind when they transform?
Also I love these choices :)
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In Brecaea...
Chercia's shoes are discarded once more, though this time she holds them by the straps herself as the water comes rushing in through the streets of Vasir. She dances barefoot along cobblestones, cheering the Meriet queen and reveling in the blue light of the tidal moons.
"...woah...the moons look so different off the Aegis...
And unbeknownst to Chercia, meters deep into a crowd, her aunt and beloved cousin revere the same ceremony. They notice a strange girl dancing barefooted in the streets, something about strangely familiar, but it's a thought that escapes then entirely as the rest of the festival continues...
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"Why make babies when people can adopt? Mamagoldo said there are always orphans who need homes like he did." The girl was confused about why babies were so important. "Mamagoldo told me a while ago when Grandpa Sage was teasing him about his beau. Papa, what's a beau?" ~ Renata
♕┊ Aspros averted his eyes for just a little bit as he figured out how to answer his little daughter. When he found the words, he patiently said, "There are orphans, yes. Kind people can adopt, yes. But a lot of men are obsessed with 'passing down their name'. They all want a blood-related son. It's a weird obsession society has."
He wasn't one to talk, honestly. After all, he has his children--his by blood.
At the girl's question, Aspros' face instantly shifted.
♕┊ He suddenly felt warm. But he didn't know if his daughter noticed anything. Instead, the father turned his face and coughed into his hand.
"A beau... It's like... A man who is a lover... Wait, since when was Mamagoldo courting? Since when did... Did you ask Sage about it, Renata?! Who does Mamagoldo visit often?"
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Saw @solarrush ‘s pearl Sun and Moon (Adorable af designs btw I would die for them quq) and it got me n my bab pondering on a hypothetical steven universe au for fuNS
SO i made em a Moonstone and Sunstone~
RAMBLE ON DESIGN NOTES N SHIT UNDER THE CUT
We’ve only seen a sunstone as a fusion (which we dunno if the singular gems that are sunstones look the same but i want the flame heaD)
and we’ve seen a corrupted moonstone in the show on Mask Island and they did draw uncorrupted versions of her that never made it into the actual shoW so i based Moondrop’s outfit off of the concept art from that quq
Also they got the mask island/Moonstone but split in half and each of em gets one~ They probably hide several pets from mask island cuz i love those silly mask fiSH
Lore wise I’m still pondering a bit for them but I like to think they were made to entertain other gems at ball and put together lil plays together. Sundrop can radiate an aura of energy and happiness (Similar to blue diamonds ‘make everyone around me cry a fuck ton’ power lol) well Moondrop can sooth gems and make them go to sleep if he wants~ (Maybe they can channel their aura’s into lil balls like their candies? thatmightbefun)
They’re extremely close with each other and likely got themselves into a lotta trouble for fusing and possibly got shattered as punishment before being repaired at the start of era 3.
I do got some ideas for the other animatronics as gems so if I’m feeling up to it I might draw the others >u>
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