Actually Talking About The AU (wow, I Know) By Rambling About How Anton Shudder Ended Up On A Team With

Actually talking about the AU (wow, I know) by rambling about how Anton Shudder ended up on a team with the necroking and a godlike Valkyrie, because he really isn’t on their level of gleefully deranged. I am so biased towards him it’s not even funny.

Anton came back when the rib-bone wand exploded and sent out a burst of magic power, hitting various people differently. Anton, given as to how he’d been dead for so long, was extremely disoriented and saw a lot of chaos going on around him. He instinctively latched on to Valkyrie because he trusted her to not lead him into any stupid situations and she actually still seemed normal at this point.

Valkyrie was really happy to have Anton back and tried loosely explaining the situation to him as they went along fighting people (specifically Winter’s terrorist group). After the fight was over, Valkyrie argued with Ghastly over what should happen to Skulduggery (the compromise being that Skulduggery can be in Ireland for the time being but cannot go in or near Roarhaven) and the three of them decided that staying around Valkyrie’s house for the time being would probably be a good idea, and so they do that so Skulduggery has somewhere to hide and Anton can catch up with what happened since his death.

Now at this point, Valkyrie seemed normal to everyone, including to herself (think of when she turned into a Faceless One god). It took a few days for her to realize anything was wrong with her, and then she had to figure out how to trigger her transformation and what to do afterwards. She and Skulduggery (who’s now using parts of the shadow armour) also started acting more and more violent and unhinged over the next few days, but neither of them really noticed it.

Anton noticed it though, and he had conflicting feelings about it. Because on one hand, he disapproved of the meaningless violence. But on another hand, he loved them both a lot (he and Valkyrie eventually view each other as siblings) and he was also going through an interesting transformation at the time: losing his ability to summon his gist and instead basically being able to turn into a shadowy demon creature for short bursts at a time.

And then the Faceless Ones got out thanks to Malice. And while they were weaker than before, it meant that the mortals now knew about magic and things started going downhill fast. And Valkyrie jumped to the opportunity and went out to go pick fights with the Faceless Ones, while Skulduggery grabbed the other necromancers in order to do the same thing. And since Anton had nowhere else to go, he just…kept on following Valkyrie. Throughout everything. When other people started following her, when they settled down in Dublin, when he killed Mia, the list goes on.

And now it’s been years, and he can’t imagine anywhere he would ever be able to go away from Valkyrie. He’s unhappy, yes, but he doesn’t hate her. Really, he’s learned to shut out a lot of his emotions so that they don’t keep on bothering him. We’ll see how long it takes for him to finally lose it, I suppose.

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Been thinking about the SoW AU, because I wasn’t initially going to have Nefarian present but now I’m thinking it would be cool to have him there.

Like, I’m imagining what happens is he’s around and does stuff, but gets horribly injured in a fight at some point and has to spend a portion of the AU half-dead in a shelter somewhere. Injured as in missing limbs, plural. And Tanith, Dexter, and Saracen would have to keep him from dying (and would have a huge debate about whether or not they should put in the effort to save him). Skulduggery can still cut off his hand out of paranoia when they meet back up with him because Skulduggery lost the controlling stone.

But most importantly, he’d also lose his eye in a fight too, and Valkyrie wouldn’t know enough about the construction of eyes to properly fix it when they get back so he’d just…have an eyepatch. That would be pretty cool, I think.

As a slightly more lighthearted part of Battlescape of the Gods, I wanna talk about Omen, Abyssinia, and Nye being roommates. Because I find it funny. Found familying the most bizarre trio ever but it fits in my head.

So BASICALLY what happened was Abyssinia spent her life kind of wandering around and not doing much after she got brought back by Cadaver, because really, what was she going to do? And her misadventures eventually got her teleported to America, where she continued doing nothing with her life. The USA also so happened to be the place Omen was currently living in, although in slightly different places.

But then the Faceless Ones get out, and things start going down. It’s not as apocalyptic as UtE, but the damage that a bunch of scared people will do to each other is incredible. Omen ended up wandering around and trying to stay alive whilst Abyssinia had gained access to a gun and was making full use of it. They met pretty randomly because Abyssinia attacked some guys who so happened to be attacking Omen, and then Omen basically started following her around because she was bigger, scarier, and didn’t pay mind to Omen following her.

So the two of them wandered around for a bit, and eventually stumbled across the entrance to Professor Nye’s lab. It wasn’t particularly happy to see other people, but it did acknowledge the use of having someone who can absorb power to make herself stronger and a Signum Linguist on its team, and so agreed to let them stay so long as they didn’t interfere with its experiments.

And that is what they’ve been doing ever since. They aren’t allowed to leave the lab super often because it’s dangerous, but Abyssinia goes out to gather supplies and pick fights with random people while Omen sometimes goes out to draw art on walls, usually art that encourages people to keep going with life. It’s very much enrichment for them, because there isn’t really a whole lot to do in the lab. Nye has gotten slightly more comfortable with them over the years, but there are still parts of the lab that they’re banned from entering and…really, it’s a lab. People were not made to live there.

In the meantime, they’ve been trying to find ways to entertain themselves. Abyssinia sometimes finds art supplies to give to Omen and Omen has been trying his best to catch Abyssinia up with everything that’s been going on since her death (because she never really got an update. She’s just been chilling with no idea what’s going on around her). He once found a board game and tried to teach her to play it, and it turns out that she’s very competitive. And Nye absolutely refused to play because it thought that the activity was childish.

There’s more stuff as well, but this is basically what they’ve been up to these past few years. Pretty relaxed vibe going on there. I am DEBATING giving Nye a kid (Crenga reproduce asexually Because I Said So™️) but who knows if I’ll actually go through with it.

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