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Jeredu's art and other fun things. Cancer, 33, they/them. Currently obsessed with FFXIV (and AUs/crossovers). Occasionally obsesses over Jade Curtiss, Chaltier, Leon Magnus, KH, and the Tales series in general.
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Have some more of this AU. This time, the Scions of Lorelei are twin Skywings, hatched from a single egg!

Asch (or "Ash") has firescales. Luke, meanwhile, is the hidden shame of the royal family. Crimson, their father, feels that the Queen was too soft. Skywing law demands that a dragonet like "Light" should have been culled, lest he pass along his lack of fire down the bloodline. Ash, too, should not have been allowed to live. But prophecy (and the pleas of their mother, sister to the Queen) won out.

Ash has been raised as a weapon of the Sky Kingdom, resentful of the role he has been forced into.

Light is a hidden, shameful secret.

And Mieu, Light's pet scavenger, accompanies him nearly everywhere. Light is not permitted to leave the cave system without an escort. Mieu is a scavenger, orphaned at a young age, and found by Light on one of these incredibly rare outings. Light begged to keep him as a pet.

Mieu, struggling to speak the dragon language, gave him a scavenger [human] name: Luke.

Over the short years of his life, Mieu has grown to understand dragon speech, and "Luke" has likewise developed an understanding of scavenger speech. It is physically difficult for each to speak the other's language due to anatomical limitations, but they get by. They often use a simplified version of the other's language, which often meshes into an evolved hybrid "gibberish" only they can truly understand.

Despite their disparate life experiences, the boys share a desire to escape the Sky kingdom. They have an understanding, and though they often don't get along, their bond is stronger than one might expect.

I'll be using the tag #au: wings of the abyss for posts within this setting!

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"You're a naughty dragonet, telling lies like that."

Me: haha what if Jade Curtiss but in Wings of Fire

An Icewing x Nightwing animus formerly of the ice kingdom, he only remains undetected (as an animus or a hybrid) because of the animus-touched glasses he created for himself that let him pass, unquestioned, as an Icewing. They also allow him to see animus-touched objects. They are also enchanted to be unbreakable and can only be removed voluntarily. They also protect his mouth and throat from heat and cold. He can breathe fire or frost, but he'd rather keep this a secret. The final enchantment layered into this single accessory is a protection from extreme ambient temperatures (hot and cold alike). That's it. No invulnerability, nothing that might give him away.

He is NOT a mind-reader, but he is so observant and skilled at reading dragons (mundanely) that he is believed to be a mind-reader. His blood is blue and will not freeze.

He lacks the typical Icewing tail spines, possessing instead a serrated spear-tip at the end of his tail.

He is only loyal to Peony, a Rainwing who is similarly disillusioned with the Rain Kingdom. (A former Queen who left voluntarily upon revealing that he identified as male. The Rainwings are progressive, but the idea of a king is still too strange)

In response to @valeriefauxnom, I'll go ahead and share my thoughts on Luke and Asch:

They are, indeed, twin Skywings hatched from a single egg. But Asch is the one who is born with firescales- raised from birth to be a weapon rather than a son. Distanced, lonely, kept on a pedestal, trained to kill, groomed for a specific purpose. He is a finely honed tool who resents the role he's been forced into and seeks to escape it (only for things to maybe go horribly wrong).

Luke has no fire. He's hidden from the public eye, said to be killed or exiled while secretly kept in hiding because his mother couldn't bear to actually murder him. The royal family knows he exists, as do the servants, but they are sworn to secrecy. Can't let the family's shame become public. Luke feels like he COULD be capable of good things. He's pampered and treated well by his mother and servants, but he's a prisoner in his own home and is desperate to DO something with himself... only to escape and realize he has absolutely no idea how to survive in the world.

Probably "Ash" and "Light," respectively. (Light -> Lux -> Luke)

Guy is a Seawing with noble/royal blood (a royal cousin, maybe, but not directly in line), in hiding. I can't decide if the canon characters and events still exist or not, or where in the timeline this takes place. It could be that he's a survivor of the royal seawing massacre.

Tear and Van are hybrid seawings/nightwings, currently living on the Isle of Night, most likely. Yulia City vibes and worldview.

Van is probably an animus. Tear and Van have genuine gifts for prophecy.

Van can dangle the promise of giving each of the twins what they want- He could dampen Asch's firescales and give him the ability to touch without harming.

He could GIVE Luke fire, or even animus magic.

"I can make you a hero. I can make you powerful. You want to save them, don't you?"
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