#《 not like Viv is exactly legitimate but she obeys Damion and has more respect for him than Dedrick does 》

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Re: My previous post—

Kathleen would have to die for the "Vivian is Raised by Damion for some God-forsaken Reason AU" to happen. There's no way in hell Kathleen would willingly allow her daughter to fall into Damion's custody unless he was literally the only other person alive and she was about to die (even if it's probably more merciful to let Vivian die with her).

Once Kathleen is dead, Patrick injects some of Theo's DNA into Viv and changes her last name to "Daskalakis" because he believes that's the closest thing he'd get to starting a family with Theo (which would be true in this AU because, surprise, Patrick is dying too!).

Because Patrick died and he injected just enough DNA for her to show up as biologically related to Damion, Viv gets tossed off to him as her closest living relative. She goes to Damion and not Theo because...Damion still works for Weissdorn and he'd be on the Triumvirate's radar more than Theo, who defected and is living in poverty (plus, the last thing Theo needs is another kid after he just had Dedrick).

It's bold of me to assume Damion would even keep Vivian considering he only had Theo to carry on the family name. Not only is Viv a girl (meaning she's not carrying on jack-shit in this Patriarchal Society), I feel like he'd HAVE to know that there's no way for Viv to be a legitimate Daskalakis. Unless he's so protective of his bloodline that he'd prefer to raise his bastard granddaughter than to throw his own blood in an orphanage, this is where the AU would end and nothing would be accomplished besides making Ebony and Theo more miserable I guess.

...but that's not really fun, so I'm going to go into "This will almost certainly never happen but I'll play in the theoretical sandbox because I want to" territory.

I'm not sure how Damion would even raise a girl. Part of me feels like he's too sexist to consider Viv a successor and would marry her off to whoever so she isn't his problem anymore, but I also know he doesn't really bother with the arranged marriage stuff and he'd have no motivation to marry off Viv besides getting rid of her (especially since he's going to have to pay a dowry in order to secure a deal). As cute as it'd be to see Viv thaw Damion's cold heart...that's never happening. If his own son couldn't melt his frozen shell, I doubt some random baby that's supposedly related to him would do anything. I'm just going to put huge question marks here because I don't know enough about Damion to really know what the dynamic would be like (ie. is Damion okay with hitting girls? ...like I could probably see him hitting Penelope because she's a complete menace, but would he be violent towards a girl otherwise?).

I guess I could roughly guesstimate how Viv would turn out if she was raised by Damion?

Viv would definitely have some of Damion's homophobia internalized in her...honestly, her orientation would make this AU interesting considering that it's closer to Damion's than Theo's is. Being demiromantic/demisexual, Viv only develops feelings for people who she gets close to or trusts. If the way Damion raised Theo is any indication...Viv is highly unlikely to trust anyone and would functionally be aro/ace like Damion. Maybe Damion wouldn't feel so alone? ...or maybe because he doesn't have the words to describe his orientation, he'd just assume Viv is Superior like him for not concerning herself with frivolous things like courtship. I highly doubt Viv would even have the opportunity to meet Zanna because something tells me Damion wouldn't want his child to interact with her for...many reasons.

Viv was already someone who would throw herself into her studies to distract herself from the void in her life and this would be amplified by 100 here. It'd be interesting if there's a parallel with AU!Viv working hard to be Damion's successor like MainVerse!Viv had studied to be Patrick's successor, but again, idk how keen Damion would be on passing on his legacy to a female. Maybe I'm being presumptuous and Damion is too distanced from society to be sexist, but at the same time, his whole character is centered around fitting the role he was given and it's very difficult not to know why people aim for having sons instead of daughters. I don't think Damion is petty enough to raise Viv to be a better successor than Theo just to rub it in his face but, again, maybe I'm wrong.

What I do know is that since Damion is her only parental figure in this AU (since it doesn't seem like any of Damion's staff acted as parental figures to Theo, if Damion has staff), Viv would strive to gain Damion's approval. If this means she sends all of her classmates into the infirmary because she pours all of her energy into dueling, that's just what she'll do. I don't think she'd be attached to Damion considering his parenting style doesn't seem to allow for that, but she would be loyal to him. She plans on taking care of Damion when/if he gets too old to take care of himself because she Owes it to him for raising her into the resilient woman she is. Idk if she'd be 100% Girl Damion™, but she'd be pretty damn close.

#{behind the magic} | ooc #headcanons #au #to be tagged #《 behold—the most farfetched au I've ever created! and I've created a lot of AUs 》 #《 the strange thing is that I could see Viv feeling more self-assured with Damion as a father figure than Patrick?? 》 #《 like Viv definitely isn't happy and I feel like her life would be objectively shittier than it'd be in Main Verse 》 #《 but Damion doesn't bother with sentimentality or pretending to be a loving father‚ so he doesn't send mixed signals like Patrick does 》 #《 Damion's expectations for Viv would be easier to achieve than Patrick's 》 #《 ...and Damion wouldn't favor Dedrick despite not meeting his standards by the virtue of being Theo's son 》 #《 like I already know Damion doesn't like Dedrick because he's a one night stand bby 》 #《 not like Viv is exactly legitimate but she obeys Damion and has more respect for him than Dedrick does 》 #《 it also helps that she doesn't have to deal with a divorce or her father being preoccupied with a magic school crush 》 #《 it's a stable and predictable shittiness 》 #《 and Viv takes things less personally because her only parental figure isn't outwardly emotional 》 #《 I guess Damion enables the unhealthy aspects of Viv in a way? 》 #《 damn it why did i conjure this up asdfghjkl 》