Adrian Graye Enjoyer

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[hollebalg]

main @leomcclintock :)

[babylon5-deletingsoon]

that minor character doesn't need 5000000000 fans they only need one fan with lots of problems who can love them enough singlehandedly that it's the equivalent to the combined love of 50000000001 fans. that one fan? is me

[deadbranch]

Reblog if you're okay with receiving asks for backstory info on any/all of your fics.

If not all, specify which ones in the tags.

[stiffyck]

People need to start headcanoning characters as aromantic more often I'm so serious

[anartistwhowrites]

[hollebalg]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67886571

AND WE ARE BACK

[hollebalg]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Starting up my Emperor Hunter AU!

[hollebalg]

Tell everyone about your adrian family hc please <3

Well alright, guess cat's out of the bag on here haha!

So those in servers know I've been developing an OC for some time related to Adrian, thus creating an au around that.

So this is Aurelia "Auri" Graye Vernworth! She's born about 7 years before canon, and as Adrian's daughter she grows up largely among the Coven Heads in the castle. They essentially become family to her as they adore her very much. She's especially close to Adrian as he is to her.

She's very curious, sweet, and her own unique self! She has a real talent for creatures, and generally enjoys rolling around in the dirt searching for them. She usually only speaks in sounds and noises, she hardly forms words until she's older and in school. Even then, she simply never talks much (unlike her chatty father).

There's also Auri's deceased parent, Lymantria "Lym" (they/them) who is killed about a year after Auri is born. Adrian was present when they died, but none of the Coven Heads or Auri know what happened. Belos sure does tho.

They're based on a moth! Lym was a secret wild witch when they met Adrian, and as such this plays into events extremely (there's a whole seperate lore I made for this too haha)

Also they may be dead but they still haunt Adrian the narrative!

I love talking about my AU to flesh it out more, so don't hesitate to ask for more info!

[hollebalg]

The Head Witch of the Illusionist Coven may be incomprehensible to YOU, I get him tho

[packnpeanutbttr]

Hunter as Belos’s army commander

[thousand-winters]

It's very interesting how while in Labyrinth Runners the scouts genuinely think that Belos is worried for Hunter and would be relieved to have him back, Graye already knows that Hunter is afraid of him AND that Belos probably doesn't care that much for his well being, considering how he has no qualms in kicking him down and pretty much stepping on him (which you probably wouldn't want to do if you assumed the emperor will have your head for hurting his nephew), and he's the one who makes the Belos illusion to frighten Hunter and take advantage of that distraction.

It's unclear how much the Coven Heads knew about that relationship, but at the very least we know that Darius very much didn't know and Graye apparently does. Seems like Graye was VERY observant.

It's not just that but it almost seems like him and his scouts might have been at Hexside possibly since classes started? Enough time to have observed the students a little, because they know to use Willow to try and deceive Gus, and a bit of a baseline of how they act around each other. What caught my attention there was that the Willow illusion specifically calls him "Augustus" in that scene, which Graye wouldn't have a way to know since everybody calls him Gus now. Perhaps he dug on the student files to find out more about Gus before trying to hunt him down personally? He did have a particular investment in him because of the Looking Glass Graveyard.

All of this to say... from what we got to see of Graye in the show, it doesn't really seem like he's a particularly powerful Illusionist, at least not at the same level of expertise that the other Coven Heads have with their respective tracks.

BUT this makes me think that it was not raw power what got him his rank, it might have been him simply being clever. The kind of person who gets obsessed with the small details and as such knows how to use the information he gets from that and from snooping around to threaten or intimidate people with his illusions.

Once he's a Coven Head, he has scouts at his command, and it seems like he delegates a LOT of his work to them, which probably makes it way easier to just dedicate himself to observe and see what's useful so he can bribe and threaten people.

[percydeyolo]

adrian describes “soup” as darius loses his mind over the line 🥣

original

[bastardapologist]

I'm exhausted, here's a thing 🤗

[kitt357-deactivated20240507]

Me and like 5 other people the second we saw this man

[daughtersgallery]

tis that time of year again!

[artfulstar]

Hunter aka The Golden Guard

[lircha]

Show you an old little sketch of Adrian, which I still really like. The text on the sketch: Tsk... Boring.