#Candela Obscura SPOILERS tangentially for ts

[hauntedfalcon]

I'm imagining the rest of the circle's role in this as them still being candela-associated (if not a circle in their own right), and I'm imagining nathaniel and auntie bee getting very invested in trying to get them The Fuck Out the moment sean comes to bee and tells her they've got marion (and also by extension him but when has sean ever valued his own life even a little bit). oh! perhaps the train heist is when the other two find out - they wind up trying to steal the androphage and run into sean tasked with protecting it, who explains the situation then and there because he Knows Them and he hopes to fuck they'd find some way to help, for marion's sake if not his.

I can't imagine eons would let marion leave for the sake of a mission - sean can be sent out because he's very good at violence and they know he won't leave marion behind, so he'll always come back; if they let them both leave, they'd definitely try to run. but also they'd probably want to test the premonitions thing, which usually requires marion to be close to active danger, so, hmm... maybe having the two of them help guard the train is a test run, and dr jean is sent along to watch and also to make sure they don't try any shit? it's not like they could survive jumping off a moving train, so eons would at least Know Where They Are no matter what. the gears... they're a-turnin'...

I am WAILING. the gears are turning and all three of my feelings are stuck between them!!!

hey. hey at some point does EONS decide that as a reward for loyalty and making sure they didn't lose the androphage, they're just going to shuffle around some paperwork and get Margaret Mary Finnerty out of Grayslate. does that maybe come with a crisp deed to the tenement house falling into Sean's hands one day. they've got money to burn don't they! so now his Ma is out, she's back home, he comes in after assignments and finds Auntie Bee at the kitchen table giving him tight smiles with hurt in her eyes, and Ma doesn't know anything and he means to keep it that way, but over time he comes home less and less to avoid the questions, to avoid her happiness and her pride in him. does he start sleeping on Jean's sofa, or does he find an unused closet at Galvanica :)

#Candela Obscura for ts #Candela Obscura SPOILERS tangentially for ts #delicious. finally some good fucking AU #clearly I lied about not being able to daydream about this!!

[hauntedfalcon]

(MORE candela dark materials stuff)

draven kingsley's daemon is (was) an argentine black and white tegu. the aesthetics of it are too perfect otherwise. also: What Happens To Daemons Exposed To Bleed... the shapeshifting creatures impersonate people, and surely to do that successfully in this setting they would need to mimic daemons - or maybe the lack of one would be a sign that someone's been replaced?

also. auntie bee and her daemon The Most Stubborn And Judgemental Goat To Ever Exist. this goat has caught sean and marion getting into trouble as children So Many Times and has Never Even Once cut them any slack about it. they can't reminisce about their childhoods for two minutes without The Goat going "hey remember when you got yourself concussed because you did some stupid shit and then Did Not Learn Your Lesson?" it 100% also pretends to just be regular goat sometimes, in much the same way that bee plays up her "just a frail old lady nothing to see here" thing when she's Up To Mischief. everyone is a little bit terrified of this very powerful goat.

also... the implication that, potentially, jinnah's dad was the one to sever jean and marion's daemons? because there was something Wrong with their daemons maybe?? (that maybe their daemons "died" but they themselves didn't, and they were stuck bound to this corpse that wouldn't fade away until it had to be severed from them like a rotten limb??) or that it happened somehow without anyone actively doing it - marion waking up from sleepwalking at the age of seven, suddenly unable to find his daemon anywhere?? (he wanted to be normal so bad, would that manifest as attempts to hide that he doesn't have a daemon? feeding stray animals, trying to coax them close to him so that if someone were to glance over they'd assume he still had his soul? jean looking at those display cases of pinned beetles and arachnids and Feeling about it??)

for some reason I'm picturing nathaniel's dad as having a straight-up horse daemon and I can't put it out of my mind. A Full Very Big Horse that you cannot move more than like ten feet away from at any given time. you go into a room and see a well-dressed man and A Horse. and the horse is a right bastard, too. terrible company.

for sean's mum, I'm imagining a fox, and I don't know why. something something foxes are clever city-dwelling animals that hide in burrows and are hunted down by dogs??

anyway; I know Almost Nothing about his dark materials, certainly not enough to actually write anything myself, but oh boy the brainwheels are a-turnin' about how fucked up this au could potentially get

oooohoohoo my god hell yes. what if the bleed creatures manifest fake daemons as just like. a growth or a tendril forming that shape beside them. horrifying. especially horrifying in a world where everyone is used to daemons because they would gradually get the creeping sensation that no matter how realistic they seem, there’s no soul in there

have you listened to the Worlds Beyond Number children’s campaign? because Bee’s goat is giving big Taro vibes and I’m here for it

absolutely HATE the idea of seven year old kids carrying around their dying or dead daemons, you genius, that’s so devastating. Marion with a canary in his hands that keeps fluttering and turning into a yellow butterfly and back but can’t. work up the strength to fly. I believe in you, make this AU even more fucked up than that, I dare you

#Candela Obscura SPOILERS tangentially for ts #His Dark Materials for ts #but for real The Golden Compass is a great book and the plot would actually mesh so well in the Candela setting so I do recommend it!

[hauntedfalcon]

(candela his dark materials au because your post about it has Infected My Brain)

in my mind, if marion were to have a daemon, it's between a canary and a butterfly. jean absolutely has beetle or snake vibes but it would be funny if it was one of those fucked up chickens they found on that train (alas,, the soulless duo can have no little beasts, so the speculation is for naught). for nathaniel I'm thinking corvid for whatever reason. a magpie maybe, or perhaps a small falcon?? he seems to have the Vibes. alternately, a porcupine, for reasons unclear to me. sean's is absolutely a working dog. auntie bee... a weasel or ermine maybe? a goat? a seagull? (can people even have daemons as big as a goat? it seems hilariously inconvenient)

hey. HEY. what if Nathaniel's daemon is a magpie when he's using the Journalist sheet, and it changes into a falcon when he puts the pistol in his holster and becomes the Detective. :))))))))))))

I want a goat for Auntie Bee so bad, convenience be damned. it's what she deserves!! lordy. this AU is up for adoption if you want it because your ideas are extremely good, but also by ALL means keep going in my askbox <3

#Candela Obscura SPOILERS tangentially for ts #Candela Obscura His Dark Materials AU