Day two of Sky Factory Week Solar Queen Gavin, Creater of Gubs.
Eternal Eclipse, chapter 11 of 11
Fandom: ragehappy Ship: Jerevinwood, past Freewood Words: 5.6k Tags: Sky Factory 3 Gods AU, (temporary) character death, blood sacrifice, magic rituals, amnesia, jealousy, relationship drama, religious imagery, cults
Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign!
OR it is time for one final confrontation. Long may they live!
Read here on Ao3 or Patreon. The rest of the story is available there for early access, as well as outtakes and Behind the Scenes stuff. You can also vote on potential sequel(s), if you’re interested!
A/N: The final chapter! Thank you for everyone who joined me on this ride, who reblogged, tagged, messaged and encouraged me <3 You all rock!
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But there were others still who were not content under the Dark God’s rule. They did not follow the Blood Mage’s example for they had lost too much to sacrifice more, nor did they surrender with the God of Growth for they were too stubborn to give up their ways. They did not find refuge with the Phoenix, goddess of Chaos and Change for they were looking for stability, yet they could not find refuge with the Knight of Fae either for they were not warriors but simple farmers, elders and children.
Thus they turned to the God of Farms and Animals, who was Father to the Solar Queen. And to Him they prayed through the endless nights that settled across the lands like a veil of darkness.
And the God of Farms and Animals heard their plea.
“Fear not, my children, for I have not forgotten who has taken my daughter away from us,” said the God of Farms and Animals.
Solar queen Gavin? Yeah why not!!
Eternal Eclipse, 10 out of 11
Fandom: ragehappy Ship: Jerevinwood, past Freewood Words: 3.8k Tags: Sky Factory 3 Gods AU, (temporary) character death, blood sacrifice, magic rituals, amnesia, jealousy, relationship drama, religious imagery, cults
Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign!
OR Gavin has but a moment to work through his feelings before everything goes to shit.
Read here on Ao3 or Patreon. The rest of the story is available there for early access, as well as outtakes and (soon) Behind the Scenes stuff. Updates will happen once a week every Thursday!
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The day darkness embraced the world, the worshippers of the Dark God rejoiced, for they could feel the change in the air and they knew that they had won.
But there were those who did not pray to the Dark God, and in those days they were many: these people were very, very afraid of what should have been a happy occasion to all. They prayed to the other gods, who were inferior to the Dark God in all aspects, and thus they prayed to them for help.
Thus they prayed to the Blood Mage, who is closest to the Dark God in might. And the Blood Mage told them:
“Fear not, my children, for it is I who facilitated the Dark God’s ascension.”
And the Blood Mage said: “I am the Right Hand of the Dark God, who rules these realms.”
Reassured, the Blood Mage’s followers rejoiced, for they too realized what a happy occasion this was. And so they burnt the incense and prayed to both, the Dark God and his right hand, the Blood Mage, from thereon.
But not all were convinced by His words, and still they feared.
Eternal Eclipse, 9 out of 11
Fandom: ragehappy Ship: Jerevinwood, past Freewood Words: 4.6k Tags: Sky Factory 3 Gods AU, (temporary) character death, blood sacrifice, magic rituals, amnesia, jealousy, relationship drama, religious imagery, cults
Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign!
OR Ryan has a heart to heart with the two most important people in his world.
Read here on Ao3 or Patreon. The rest of the story is available there for early access, as well as outtakes and (soon) Behind the Scenes stuff. Updates will happen once a week every Thursday!
A/N: Only two more chapters to go! Thank you to everyone who reblogged and encouraged me to continue writing this story <3
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Once upon a time, there was a small sapling who dreamed big.
The small sapling watched the sun rise and fall day by day, and it stretched it’s little sprigs, but it was never tall enough to touch the sun. Every day it would grow just a little closer, and every day it dreamed of what it must feel like to touch that golden beauty.
“Oh, how wonderful it must be,” said the little sapling wistfully, “if only I could touch the sun.”
So the small sapling went to its elder siblings and asked if they could lift it up so it may be a little closer to touching the eternal warmth of the sun. And its elder siblings humoured it for a while, before shooing it off.
So the small sapling went to its younger siblings and suggested a game, to see if they could all stack atop one another. Seven of them managed to stand on each other’s shoulders before they toppled, and still the small sapling couldn’t reach the sun.
Wallowing in its sadness, the small sapling went to hide in the woods, where it ran into the God of All Things That Grow.
“What are you doing here, little sapling?” asked the God of All Things That Grow. “There is too much shade for you to grow well inside these woods.”
“What do I care about growing when I will never be tall enough to touch the sun,” asked the little sapling in turn.
This was my attempt at Solar Queen Gavin
I haven’t drawn in a while
Eternal Eclipse, 7 out of 10(?)
Fandom: ragehappy Ship: Jerevinwood, past Freewood Words: 4.6k Tags: Sky Factory 3 Gods AU, (temporary) character death, blood sacrifice, magic rituals, amnesia, jealousy, relationship drama, religious imagery, cults
Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign!
OR in which everyone has to deal with the fallout post-ritual.
Read here on Ao3 or Patreon. More chapters are available there already on early access, as well as two (2) outtakes. Updates will happen once a week every Thursday!
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On the third day after the Solar Queen died, the Blood Mage gathered His most trusted among His Acolytes.
He gathered them in a secret underground hideout through which the ley lines crossed, where they performed the most secret of rites. But before they could perform the ritual He sent each of them on a quest for the most powerful of ingredients:
The first He sent to find incense that burned for a day and a night, which grew in trees far to the south, where the ocelots roamed and mosquitos stole the blood of the unwilling.
The second He tasked to prepare the candles, made from wax which soaked in the blood of those who suffered most recently for a day and a night.
The third He assigned to cleanse clay bowls, made by their own hands and taken freshly burnt from the ovens, with tears of true regret.
Two He instructed to build an altar of pure black marble, seven floors above the secret hideout through which the ley lines crossed, and to baptize it with their own sweat and blood, which henceforth ran in red lines through the marble.
Fiona Week Day 3-AU
They say there’s a new god. They say that she’s a child of one of the Old Ones, an Original. They say she journeyed to End and died too young. They say that the Old One’s grief was so great that the End returned her as a god so that she would never die again. They say that dragon who killed her granted her aspects of her own image. They say that she knows things that even the Dark One doesn’t. They say that the Solar Queen himself taught her everything he knows. They say that she holds the stars themselves and burns eternal with their light. They say she’s a Supernova. They say there’s a new god.
So for the the AU day I decided to do kind of a ydyd/Minecraft Kings/Skyfactory mash-up. So here’s Fiona, returned as god after dying to the Ender Dragon. Mostly I wanted a reason to draw Fiona as a glowy dragon with a crystal crown while surrounded with End-fire.
Some Solar Queen Gavin Doodles!
(though I was already planning on it shoutout to @micooll for the inspo for glowy drippy on the floor doodle!) (yes I read y’alls tags <3)
Catch Me Jumping on the Solar Queen Gavin Real Late ;;
not many of the pre-existing designs vibed with me so I made my own! this one is blaze inspired! when he gets stressed he cracks!
Eternal Eclipse: 5 of 10(?)
Fandom: ragehappy Ship: Jerevinwood, past Freewood Words: 4.7k Tags: Sky Factory 3 Gods AU, (temporary) character death, blood sacrifice, magic rituals, amnesia, jealousy, relationship drama, religious imagery, cults
Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign!
OR in which the Blood Moon finally rises. Let the ritual commence
A/N: No update next week, as we break for Fiona Appreciation Week! This one ends on a bit of a cliffie, so if you wanna wait until the next one’s up, I understand <3
Read here on Ao3 or on Patreon. More chapters are available there already on early access, as well as two (2) outtakes. Updates will happen once a week every Thursday!
Chapter specific warnings: This is where this story earns it’s blood and sacrifice trigger warnings! In relation to that there will be self harm tw, attempted murder tw, and attempted ritual sacrifice tw to varying degrees. It doesn’t get gory or super explicit, but please be aware and proceed with caution.
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Once upon a time there lived a simple farmer.
The simple farmer lived alone at his farm with only chickens for company. He had one of every kind: white chickens, brown chickens, blue chickens and green chickens, yellow and red, gray and black.
The simple farmer loved his chickens very much, and his chickens loved him. To prove just how much they loved him, each of the chickens would bring him gifts: feathers and eggs, certainly, but also priceless jewels and rare materials. The simple farmer lived a simple life, selling some of their gifts and keeping others.
Eternal Eclipse, 4 out of 10(?)
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Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign.
OR in which nothing is as it should be, and Jeremy has a Dark God to comfort.
Read here on Ao3 or on Patreon. More chapters are available there already on early access, as well as two (2) outtakes. Updates will happen once a week every Thursday!
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That seemed wrong. Gavin raised his hand and caught the teacher’s attention.
‘Why would he trick her, though? The Dark God’s the most powerful of the pantheon, innhe?’
All eyes turned to him, and Gavin shrank in his seat under the pitying and disdainful looks of students a decade younger than him. The teacher’s mouth was pressed into a thin line as she eyed him.
‘Perhaps a different parable will help you understand,’ she said, her voice low and sibilant. ‘Listen well.’
Once all deities in the pantheon were equal in faith and power. Though they each feuded with others, they agreed to work together to create the world. It was a precarious balance, and only the knowledge of the others’ wrath stayed their hands as they fought their battles in subtlety.
Above all, the Dark God hated the Solar Queen, for she limited his power with her light. The Blood Mage knew this, and knew of the Dark God’s ambitions. One night as the other gods slept, he approached the Dark God and offered him a knife.
“This is the Godkiller,” he said as the Dark God inspected the blade.
“Nothing may kill a god,” refuted the Dark God, eyeing the blade warily.
Eternal Eclipse, 3 out of 10(?)
Fandom: ragehappy Ships: Freewood (Gavin/Ryan), Jerevinwood (Jeremy/Gavin/Ryan) Words: 4.5k Tags: Sky Factory 3 Gods AU, (temporary) character death, blood sacrifice, magic rituals, amnesia, jealousy, relationship drama, religious imagery, cults
Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign.
OR in which Gavin is plagued by omens and dreams, and the Hunter situation comes to a head
Read here on Ao3 or on Patreon. More chapters are available there already on early access, as well as two (2) outtakes. Updates will happen once a week every Thursday!
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“Come,” said the Dark God, voice smooth like smoke. “I have a cure for you, Solar Queen.”
And the Solar Queen said nothing, for she had been ill ever since the Dark God had sapped the sun of all its energy.
“It will help,” promised the Dark God. “Come, and I will show you the cure.”
And the Solar Queen followed in all her pale splendor because at heart she was a fearful being. Her golden carriage lay broken and the seven steeds had turned gray and heavy like the clouds, and each wheel once made of one solid colour of the rainbow had darkened with rot.
The Dark God led the Queen to the Blood Mage’s altar, which ran black with old blood. It was a site of dark magic and death, not of healing.
“This is a site of dark magic and death, not of healing,” said the Solar Queen. She was miffed since the Dark God had lied to her.
“Certainly, it would appear so,” the Dark God allowed, a secretive smile on his lips. “But it is also the place where your pain will vanish forever more. Look!”
And he waved a hand at the altar, and as the Queen bowed over it to see what the Dark God tried to show her, he stabbed her with a knife.
Eternal Eclipse, 1 of 10(?)
Fandom: ragehappy Ships: Freewood (Gavin/Ryan), Jerevinwood (Jeremy/Gavin/Ryan) Words: 4.6k Tags: Sky Factory 3 Gods AU, (temporary) character death, blood sacrifice, magic rituals, amnesia, jealousy, relationship drama, religious imagery, cults
Summary: The Solar Queen is dead, long may the Dark God reign.
OR Gavin wishes he could just belong, unaware of the dangers around him
Read here on Ao3 or on Patreon. More chapters are available there already on early access, updates will happen once a week every Thursday! [Prologue]
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Long ago when little fires lit up the sky at night and the sun chased away the darkness each morning, the world existed in a precarious balance. For eons, humanity lived under the divine struggle as night and day fought for dominance. But then came the day where the Dark God tricked the Solar Queen. Three times he tricked her, stealing a piece of her light each time.
“Come,” said the Dark God, voice smooth like honey. “I have a gift for you, Solar Queen.”
And the Solar Queen followed in all her golden splendor because at heart she was a prideful being. Her golden carriage was drawn by seven steeds white and fluffy like clouds, and each wheel was made of one solid colour of the rainbow. You see, for the rainbow was the banner of light that trailed behind the Solar Queen during her travels.
Solar Queen Gavin, has to be one of my all time favourite Gavs!
I took heavy inspiration from @pubert-adams Solar Queen Gavin drawing, for my design.
Some Skyfac Freewood I did for Patreon back in February!!
DO NOT TAG WITH FULL NAMES.
Epic III from Hadestown but its about skyfactory dark god ryan and solar god gavin