#i'm so sorry for writing more for lurien than the other two too

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No masterpost yet, So can you give me a rundown on the usurper au? No offense, But it looks like one of those average "PK suffers, Radi gets happy ending (or at least, victory) thrown at her without earning it" aus.

And I know that sounds weirdly specific, but it is way more common than you think.

The latter two bits of the ask feel unnecessarily mean, but I'm just going to assume you didn't mean any harm

And it is sort of like that? But it mostly focuses on Hollow and their feelings while Radiance takes more of a backseat role, a metaphorical devil on their shoulder

A short rundown of the main AU is basically; Hollow is sealed as normal, and throughout a few years Radiance's been manipulating them intending to make them turn on their father. She dug and dug at their psyche until she unburied their deep-seated resentment and hurt and brought it to the surface. They eventually break and agree to make a deal with her, to take revenge on their father, they break out of their shared prison and storm the palace, dispatching the five great knights before chasing down their father, who refuses to fight back once he realises they're not being controlled by the Radiance. They use him as bait to get their mother too, and while they originally intended to kill them they find themself unable to and simply poison them with void to keep them weak and throw them in an improvised cell. They exile the knights and make a show of stripping Lurien of his Watcher title, and are crowned shortly after. After a week they take pity on their parents and secretly get them out and lead them to the howling cliffs, telling them to get out and never return, which is merciful in their eyes since Radiance very much would just prefer them dead. The two exiled monarchs eventually meet up with the knights and Ze'mer's lover who left with them, and the 8 of them travel together for a while, but after everything that happened the knights lost some of the loyalty and respect they had for the two monarchs and the two's relationship hasn't been the same since, so eventually PK decides to split off and just settles down somewhere alone. WL eventually leaves the group as well, choosing to root herself down somewhere while the knights move on. Meanwhile, Hollow has to deal with trying to repair the very shaky relations between Hallownest and the other tribes after they overtook the kingdom, navigating this complicated political web with their only ally being ready to stab them in the back if it ever becomes convenient. They eventually establish themself as a good ruler and manage to gain some support, making up with Monomon, somewhat with Lurien and even developing a parental bond with Herrah. At one point, years later, they decide to seek out the old knights as they came to regret their rash decision to exile them, and in the process, they stumble onto PK who seems apologetic and helps them track them down. I've also been toying around with the idea of PK taking in Ghost and raising them, in his mind trying to make up for his mistakes, and also Hollow creating a construct/child to help them get rid of Radiance for good, in a way repeating history and deluding themself into thinking it's fine because they still treat her like a child (though they eventually snap out of it and just name her their daughter, and nothing else. No more training to kill god). Still working on stuff that happens later.

Sorry if it's not very comprehensible, I got hit with sudden fatigue when writing this.

#thylacines can talk #asks #usurper au

[datastate]

▼ ☠️ for cloth, quirrel, and lurien!!!!

▼ - childhood headcanon

☠ - angry/violent headcanon

CLOTH:

▼: i hc that she grew up around/in a Huge Tree. just cicada things bhvmds

but!!! on a real note, i do like the hc cloth was in a very tight-knit community. like, she thought of most people there as her family and was generally endeared by them too. when she was younger, she wasn’t really one to initiate conversations, but once you got her going she really loved talking (or even infodumping if they were close to her) abt whatever current hyperfix she’s found! it was usually wrt folk tales, knitting, and she also found weapon forms Neat (even if she never ended up using it w her own fighting style; this is how she got into talking w nola too!!! they shared that interest)

☠ : i feel like, when pushed to anger, cloth ends up closing off. she knows, rationally, it’d be better to talk things out as soon as possible rather than just bottling it up and ignoring it, but she’s also Terrified abt what she’ll say if she gets caught up in it, that she’ll worsen the situation. it’s really the other one who has to acknowledge her anger and let her know, “hey, it’s okay to tell me why you’re angry. i’ll listen and we’ll work it out from there.” and she’ll still be reluctant but. it’s the best you’re gonna get.

QUIRREL:

▼: he grew up in the crossroads!!! his family was. fairly small due to Issues. his parents were pretty supportive of what he wanted to do (which was: stop dealing w excessive pain both from physical training as a guard/warrior and then. chronic pain. fuck chronic pain), tho i will say they were those types that get really nervous that their kid/s will begin to distance themselves if they stray too far from home. it was an understandable fear here tho, because quirrel easily gets caught up in his own projects and the archive Encourages this, so his visits became rarer and, transparent as he is, they don’t. Feel like they’re talking w him anymore. they’re proud! but like. they’re left with only an image of a kid that doesn’t match up w who quirrel’s become.

☠ : hmm it depends, really?

(for hallownest) - he prefers to take it calmly, so if he senses he’s getting “too emotional” abt this sort of stuff, he’ll probably step away temporarily and let the person he’s upset with that he just needs a break, gathering his thoughts, and figuring out what point he means to get across so he doesn’t start adding unnecessary stuff. 

(for post-hallownest) - i feel that, with people he’s unfamiliar with (which is Most People, you don’t really get attached. you have pieces of them, but you aren’t attached), he’ll have a “speak your issues now or forever hold your silence" because he doesn’t plan on staying around them all that long. he’ll snap at them for whatever they’ve done if he deems it an issue worthy enough to be brought to light. however, if he’s friends / acquaintances with them, he knows he’s got to maintain this, he’ll default to how he was while in hallownest.

LURIEN:

▼: oh this is fun. so Basically i fucking destroyed canon because i’m an Idiot and now i’m too stubborn to change it to make more sense.

lurien grew up around the area that was once the white lady’s Area and, ever since she deserted her attempt at building a community to rule, became a sort of ‘wasteland’. most people either delved further into what was to become hallownest or left the area altogether, but some occasionally feel the call to return here. lurien’s born In this area of the failed kingdom, the place is already dealing with the whateverthefuck tpk did when he transferred from the wyrm form to his ‘bug’ form. most buildings have since been destroyed, but lurien’s family (there r a Lot of people.) helped rebuild a few to have places to live. things were going good! he would’ve been perfectly fine w/o hallownest but ah... he was too close to the radiance’s influence. this isn’t necessarily ‘childhood’ anymore but. his family caught the beta infection and lurien, in his attempt to go off and kill the ‘source’ (he thought it was the rulers of hallownest, wl sees the descendant of her mistake and is like :v: and sends him off to see tpk) before he was affected too, tpk went to see what the fuck this was, long story short lurien ended up as the only survivor.

but hey at least he got a new, stronger mask w tpk’s blessing that now prevents the radiance from being able to access his mind. if he had a childhood no he did not <3 it’s all been hallownest <3 ignore your flashbacks <3 self-care <3

☠ : lurien’s generally not one to voice his anger (usually it’s frustration)? if he’s annoyed he’ll be like “hey, stop” (like if he’s talking to soul master bvhsdgm) and if you don’t listen he’ll straight-up just walk away bc he’s too tired to deal w this. one of the only ways to really get him to BE angry is thru genuinely triggering him, which monomon has. accidentally done, prodding too much in an attempt to find his past even tho he doesn’t want to and doesn’t need to. the facts r: he’s in hallownest now, his family is absent, he’s here for this kingdom. nothing else matters, and as much as he loves her, he hates that she tries to find more. he’s not a walking artifact from a rule long gone. all he wants is to preserve the only ‘home’ he’s got left, the only thing left he knows he has.

when he gets angry he. gets impulsive. he keeps his ‘formal tone’ which throws people off, but that’s because that’s the only way he learned to speak hallownest’s language! the only people who really understood him before he began to speak the trade language was wl (who didn’t acknowledge it) and tpk (who only knew of it through wl). he tends to think things he doesn’t really believe (like in one of my recent fics, where he mentions something along the lines of hating monomon. he doesn’t! he loves her a lot. but in these moments he clings to emotions.) and tends to say things without regard for how they will take it or how either will need to deal with it later. sometimes he’ll end up being able to force himself to walk away rather than just snapping at them, but he usually doesn’t have that sort of control, not until the worst of it is through.

#i hope this made sense i did this while multitasking school F #but tysm for the ask :] #i'm so sorry for writing more for lurien than the other two too #he. unfortunately. lives in my head rent free #and i feel like whenever i talk abt him i Need to provide the context #long post #ask #solidarity squad #some-deadpeep #hk posting