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charlottedabookworm replied to your post “Alright, so this is not what’s going to happen in the actual fic…”
Okay /wow/. i love this! Just, the Regis and Clarus relationship and the way that they get each other, Nyx asking Thalassa for help and her /helping/ and the way that Nyx is the only one of the 4 who seems to have any idea what’s going on. The scene with Ardyn broke my heart. And the adoption? I loved it
@charlottedabookworm
Thank you!
Ramuh made certain that Galahd remembered its roots. When the rest of the world forgot the Dawn Mother and her siblings, Galahd remembered. When the rest of the world forgot Ardyn Lucis Caelum, the Sage, the First King, Galahd remembered. It was a bit of a culture shock when the Galahdians arrived in Insomina and most of what they know is the Draconian and the Prophecy. It’s a bit strange because black and gold are Etro’s colors, the royal coeurl image that is repeated over and over through out the Citadel is Etro’s symbol. Yet no one seems to know her.
It takes them a while to realize that, for the rest of the world, the Cosmology is the truth.
Nyx has read the Cosmology. He was not impressed. Only some of it matches the stories he was raised on. The Sage isn’t mentioned once in any other way then as the Accursed. The Crystal is considered nothing more than a divine gift rather than Eos’s stolen Heart. So much of the focus is on the Astral War, on Bahamut’s Prophecy and his gifts. Everything else - Bahamut’s mistakes, the resulting schism - isn’t touched upon.
But Ramuh walks through his children’s dreams and the seaborne tell Leviathan’s stories. So Nyx knows in a way Regis and Clarus and Luna do not. He’s actually met Leviathan before, his grandmother was one of her children. He trusts her, knows how she works more than the others.
Regis is actually in for a bit of a surprise because Leviathan is actually very fair. She will hold a grudge for forever and a day against someone who harms what hers, but she won’t so much as glance at their child. Somnus killed Ardyn, her Chosen, and she hates him for that with everything she is. And he knew that, so he warned his children away from her, and they warned their children, and so on. She could care less about them. They have never wronged her, so they have nothing to fear from her.
Thalassa has absolutely no problems adopting the heck out of Regis and Clarus. She wraps them up in her coils, smug as you please, and dares Bahamut to try and take them. I have this image of Ardyn coming to visit at one point while Regis and Clarus are there and he is just. So done.
Also have this idea of Thalassa strolling into Maagho with both of them some time post fall and Weskham absolutely flips out on them. His very eccentric, semi-regular customer with the King of Lucis? Regis aren’t you dead? And if you’re dead, shouldn’t Clarus be dead? What is happening???
@angelrider13
I am working on a longer response to your au of an au post (you have sparked. SO MANY ideas; it’s AWESOME) but I just wanted to drop by and add my two cents to this post.
Honestly, I just. Poor Wes. I have the mental image of Thalassa showing up for dinner one evening with two men she introduces as her brothers - one is an older individual, with a beard and a walking stick, and the other appears to be a bald, dark-skinned man around her own age. They talk quietly together in a foreign language for most of the evening, complement Wes’ meals and choice of wines, and leave a generous tip when they head out.
…the older brother leaves a single, perfect stick of shimmering fulgurite. The bald one leaves an ingot of gold-encrusted ruby. Thalassa, in turn, leaves a small stack of glimmering seaglass in her wake.
@hamelin-born
*whispers* Yeeeessss. This is perfect. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this.
No, but I’ve already established that Thalassa shapeshifts and Shiva has a human form in canon that Ardyn implies she’s used before. So obviously all the Astrals do.
Just so you know, you said this and all I saw in my mind was Thalassa rocking up to Wes with Gandalf and Lincoln from the 100 (aka Ricky Whittle) in tow. So they are now officially what Ramuh and Titan look like in human form. Because reasons.
@angelrider13
RL is a bit busy at the moment, so I haven’t had the time I would like to type responses to all the wonderful, wonderful things floating around tumblr at the moment. It should be up shortly, I hope.
Wes probably found the siblings - somewhat odd (especially in the random/valuable objects they tend to leave in their wake) and he must admit that he was ferociously curious about this glimpse into the life of one of his most enigmatic customers.
Ramuh liked the steak. Titan was just happy to eat again after being stuck beneath a meteor for several thousand years.
I see the Astrals as having human forms, even if some of them use them more often then others. Even so, unless the Astral in question is making a deliberate effort - there’s always something just. A bit strange, that registers with humans on at least a subconcious level. (Shiva got around that by pretending to be a Messenger, who are themselves something Other then human). They are - it’s like wearing a suit, I suppose, one that fits less then perfectly - there’s just. Something slightly off.
@hamelin-born
Thalassa would be able to fit in perfectly if she chose too, I think. She remembers being human. Remembers what that feels like, what that means. She remembers what she looked like in her life before. She remembers dying once. She knows what it is to be mortal.
She could pass for human easily if she wanted to.
Most of the time though, she doesn’t. It’s fun for her, to see the humans try to figure out what it is about her that’s different. Weskham happens to be her latest victim in that regard, but he’s taken things rather well.
Leviathan: It’s because he’s spent time around a Lucis Cealum. Ardyn’s always been a bit of a handful; I’m sure Regis is the same if any of the things I’ve heard are even half true.
Titan: *deadpan stare*
Ramuh: …you have absolutely no room to talk.
@angelrider13
That honestly makes me wonder about circumstances/reactions to the revelation that Leviathan was once human. I think - it’s not exactly a secret, but it’s not something she tends to share with others. The other Astrals may or may not know - Ramuh and Titan would probably blink at the news, shrug, and treat her the same as they always have. Bahamut and Shiva, on the other hand, would probably freak the fuck out.
Ardyn’s the most likely person to actually know. If only because he’s literally the person Thalassa feels the closest to in all of existence.
(And no, I don’t have a clue who she’s talking to here! Regis, maybe, or possibly Ardyn.)
“When Etro World-Mother shaped us from ether, from dust and memories and dreams, she sculpted each Astral according to what was needed. A stone, to stand sentinel. A storm, to herd the lightning. A blade-master, to conquer war. A fire, to light the hearts and minds of humanity. A coldness, to drive ambition.”
“Tell me, my own.” Leviathan coiled slowly on herself, scales shimmering with the self-same iridescence as mother-of-pearl. “What is the sea? All things come from the sea. All things return to the sea. Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron; here is hunger, love, ambition, healing. What kind of guardian would Etro shape for humanity from the restless, unconquered depths?”
“What kind of creature could encompass the oceans in all their terrible majesty? One ever-changing, old and young, always hungry, always yearning - and yet loving with a heart wide enough to encompass the world?”
A paradox. Always changing, always moving, always hungry, always giving, the sea was fickle and steadfast in turns, with its sheer changeability the sole constant. What kind of creature - and then the breath caught in his throat as he stared at the Tidemother.
“Human.” It was a stunned whisper as the great serpent bent her head in silent acknowledgement. “You’re human.”
“No” Leviathan corrected, a terrible patience echoing in her voice. “What was mortal of Thalassa, the first of the Drowned, died; what was immortal was - transfigured. I am Leviathan. I am one of Six. I am the sea, and I will not be chained.”
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charlottedabookworm replied to your post “Alright, so this is not what’s going to happen in the actual fic…”
Okay /wow/. i love this! Just, the Regis and Clarus relationship and the way that they get each other, Nyx asking Thalassa for help and her /helping/ and the way that Nyx is the only one of the 4 who seems to have any idea what’s going on. The scene with Ardyn broke my heart. And the adoption? I loved it
@charlottedabookworm
Thank you!
Ramuh made certain that Galahd remembered its roots. When the rest of the world forgot the Dawn Mother and her siblings, Galahd remembered. When the rest of the world forgot Ardyn Lucis Caelum, the Sage, the First King, Galahd remembered. It was a bit of a culture shock when the Galahdians arrived in Insomina and most of what they know is the Draconian and the Prophecy. It’s a bit strange because black and gold are Etro’s colors, the royal coeurl image that is repeated over and over through out the Citadel is Etro’s symbol. Yet no one seems to know her.
It takes them a while to realize that, for the rest of the world, the Cosmology is the truth.
Nyx has read the Cosmology. He was not impressed. Only some of it matches the stories he was raised on. The Sage isn’t mentioned once in any other way then as the Accursed. The Crystal is considered nothing more than a divine gift rather than Eos’s stolen Heart. So much of the focus is on the Astral War, on Bahamut’s Prophecy and his gifts. Everything else - Bahamut’s mistakes, the resulting schism - isn’t touched upon.
But Ramuh walks through his children’s dreams and the seaborne tell Leviathan’s stories. So Nyx knows in a way Regis and Clarus and Luna do not. He’s actually met Leviathan before, his grandmother was one of her children. He trusts her, knows how she works more than the others.
Regis is actually in for a bit of a surprise because Leviathan is actually very fair. She will hold a grudge for forever and a day against someone who harms what hers, but she won’t so much as glance at their child. Somnus killed Ardyn, her Chosen, and she hates him for that with everything she is. And he knew that, so he warned his children away from her, and they warned their children, and so on. She could care less about them. They have never wronged her, so they have nothing to fear from her.
Thalassa has absolutely no problems adopting the heck out of Regis and Clarus. She wraps them up in her coils, smug as you please, and dares Bahamut to try and take them. I have this image of Ardyn coming to visit at one point while Regis and Clarus are there and he is just. So done.
Also have this idea of Thalassa strolling into Maagho with both of them some time post fall and Weskham absolutely flips out on them. His very eccentric, semi-regular customer with the King of Lucis? Regis aren’t you dead? And if you’re dead, shouldn’t Clarus be dead? What is happening???
@angelrider13
I am working on a longer response to your au of an au post (you have sparked. SO MANY ideas; it’s AWESOME) but I just wanted to drop by and add my two cents to this post.
Honestly, I just. Poor Wes. I have the mental image of Thalassa showing up for dinner one evening with two men she introduces as her brothers - one is an older individual, with a beard and a walking stick, and the other appears to be a bald, dark-skinned man around her own age. They talk quietly together in a foreign language for most of the evening, complement Wes’ meals and choice of wines, and leave a generous tip when they head out.
…the older brother leaves a single, perfect stick of shimmering fulgurite. The bald one leaves an ingot of gold-encrusted ruby. Thalassa, in turn, leaves a small stack of glimmering seaglass in her wake.
@hamelin-born
*whispers* Yeeeessss. This is perfect. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this.
No, but I’ve already established that Thalassa shapeshifts and Shiva has a human form in canon that Ardyn implies she’s used before. So obviously all the Astrals do.
Just so you know, you said this and all I saw in my mind was Thalassa rocking up to Wes with Gandalf and Lincoln from the 100 (aka Ricky Whittle) in tow. So they are now officially what Ramuh and Titan look like in human form. Because reasons.
@angelrider13
RL is a bit busy at the moment, so I haven’t had the time I would like to type responses to all the wonderful, wonderful things floating around tumblr at the moment. It should be up shortly, I hope.
Wes probably found the siblings - somewhat odd (especially in the random/valuable objects they tend to leave in their wake) and he must admit that he was ferociously curious about this glimpse into the life of one of his most enigmatic customers.
Ramuh liked the steak. Titan was just happy to eat again after being stuck beneath a meteor for several thousand years.
I see the Astrals as having human forms, even if some of them use them more often then others. Even so, unless the Astral in question is making a deliberate effort - there’s always something just. A bit strange, that registers with humans on at least a subconcious level. (Shiva got around that by pretending to be a Messenger, who are themselves something Other then human). They are - it’s like wearing a suit, I suppose, one that fits less then perfectly - there’s just. Something slightly off.
@hamelin-born
Thalassa would be able to fit in perfectly if she chose too, I think. She remembers being human. Remembers what that feels like, what that means. She remembers what she looked like in her life before. She remembers dying once. She knows what it is to be mortal.
She could pass for human easily if she wanted to.
Most of the time though, she doesn’t. It’s fun for her, to see the humans try to figure out what it is about her that’s different. Weskham happens to be her latest victim in that regard, but he’s taken things rather well.
Leviathan: It’s because he’s spent time around a Lucis Cealum. Ardyn’s always been a bit of a handful; I’m sure Regis is the same if any of the things I’ve heard are even half true.
Titan: *deadpan stare*
Ramuh: …you have absolutely no room to talk.
@angelrider13
That honestly makes me wonder about circumstances/reactions to the revelation that Leviathan was once human. I think - it’s not exactly a secret, but it’s not something she tends to share with others. The other Astrals may or may not know - Ramuh and Titan would probably blink at the news, shrug, and treat her the same as they always have. Bahamut and Shiva, on the other hand, would probably freak the fuck out.
Ardyn’s the most likely person to actually know. If only because he’s literally the person Thalassa feels the closest to in all of existence.
(And no, I don’t have a clue who she’s talking to here! Regis, maybe, or possibly Ardyn.)
“When Etro World-Mother shaped us from ether, from dust and memories and dreams, she sculpted each Astral according to what was needed. A stone, to stand sentinel. A storm, to herd the lightning. A blade-master, to conquer war. A fire, to light the hearts and minds of humanity. A coldness, to drive ambition.”
“Tell me, my own.” Leviathan coiled slowly on herself, scales shimmering with the self-same iridescence as mother-of-pearl. “What is the sea? All things come from the sea. All things return to the sea. Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron; here is hunger, love, ambition, healing. What kind of guardian would Etro shape for humanity from the restless, unconquered depths?”
“What kind of creature could encompass the oceans in all their terrible majesty? One ever-changing, old and young, always hungry, always yearning - and yet loving with a heart wide enough to encompass the world?”
A paradox. Always changing, always moving, always hungry, always giving, the sea was fickle and steadfast in turns, with its sheer changeability the sole constant. What kind of creature - and then the breath caught in his throat as he stared at the Tidemother.
“Human.” It was a stunned whisper as the great serpent bent her head in silent acknowledgement. “You’re human.”
“No” Leviathan corrected, a terrible patience echoing in her voice. “What was mortal of Thalassa, the first of the Drowned, died; what was immortal was - transfigured. I am Leviathan. I am one of Six. I am the sea, and I will not be chained.”
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