Old sketches from a couple years back of a Pantheon/Dragon AU I was playing with. Notes I found with it:
A prince is cursed with a disease and he’s treated as a dead man walking. The king goes so far as to have him buried alive but he escapes in his death shroud and becomes an exile waiting for inevitable death. But he gets adopted by Dark Nation (not sure if she’s a god herself or just a spirit animal here I don’t remember lol) and she’s the one who guides Rufus into becoming a god, transcending his own death. But the Stigma has grown so much by the time he becomes a god so he covers himself in a shroud and a mask—eventually worshipers come to call him the Deathless One, the god of vengeance and second chances.
Cloud(?)/Fenrir is the messenger of the gods
Aerith and the Goddess are the same—she’s the Dead God? gave her life to protect humanity and is worshiped as a life-giver even though she can no longer hear their prayers
“I have chased ghosts for so long that I no longer recognize the living.”
Jenova was the ancestress of the dragons and Sephiroth and the triplets are her descendants
Genesis and Angeal are dragonhunters, Lazard is the head of their order
pretty sure this was headed towards fem!Genesis and Sephiroth becoming Cloud’s parents? (since I apparently wanted him and his grandma to look similar: see pic below) And Cloud later being forced to kill his father’s reanimated dragon corpse?
Found more sketches of this au (and redrew them bc the og were kinda wonky):
Gen’s parents, General Skye Rhapsodos and his wife Ilmarin
SephGen in a shrine of the Goddess in Nibelheim (I wrote some of this scene and it ended up becoming a religious discussion between a devoted follower of the Goddess and a dragon in disguise that ended with Gen calling Seph a heretic not knowing he was the one to kill the Goddess lol)
Don’t mind the brain mush :) I’m tempted to actually write something for this au tho
