Biotite keeps forgetting he has a left hand, and still uses his right hand 99% of the time. He’s trying to use his prosthetic more, though. Lead is going to have an aneurysm he MADE THAT FOR YOU so fucking USE IT you UNGRATEFUL BASTARD
Instead of a ponytail like Jade, Emerald’s hair is in a french braid! (except heroforge doesnt have those so i have to give him a normal braid) Also his hair is black because Corruption.
Ebony is the most dangerous person here. There is little, if any, sort of pain that he can’t tolerate. He’s hard to truly anger, but if you manage it, he’ll make damn sure you never get a chance to do it again. He’s extremely manipulative, and patient. He could spend years making sure you don’t suspect a thing while he’s orchestrating your demise. And he has, in the past. If Biotite slips up and Ebony finds out he’s been lied to this whole time? Biotite is fucked.
Ebony would adore Swad btw. Like he’d probably run off with him for a few weeks before Biotite manages to track him down and casually reminds him they had a deal. In the meantime though ebony is having the time of his life. He looooves Swad’s aura. Did I mention he’s a masochist? He’s going to die from Swad’s aura and he’s going to die happy. I have a whole essay about them actually. I spin them around very fast sometimes and have no actual content of sustenance for them besides that essay, but by god they’re spinning.
When Ebony and Void first encountered Biotite and his team, Ebony immediately decided to be a little shit. Which is his way of flirting. Biotite, however, was not having it, and when Ebony pushed his luck too far, Biotite damn near killed him.
But Biotite offered to let him live, if Ebony worked for him. Ebony, who’d seen how Biotite had been looking at Void as the latter tried to help Emerald and Chrys, said “okay, but only if you don’t hurt Void. at all. Don’t even touch him just leave him alone.”
Biotite agreed, on one condition. Ebony was very happy with the deal.
Void was appalled when he heard, but Ebony waved off his concerns, saying that it was worth it to keep Void safe. Void didn’t believe Biotite would keep his end of the bargain, but as time passed, the worst Biotite did to Void was to make sure he couldn’t help Emerald and Chrys leave the manor. And also give him smug looks like “yeah i’m getting away with this shit. What are you going to do about it?”
Since Biotite is such a bitch, and has forbidden the few people he’d want to hang out with from talking to him at all, Void’s hardly ever seen around the manor. He doesn’t see any point in hanging around if he’s going to get people in trouble, and he certainly doesn’t want to hang around Biotite. Unfortunately, this works in Biotite’s favor more than he realizes. Biotite knows Void has been trying to convince Ebony that Biotite is manipulating him, too, and if he can keep Ebony in the manor and away from Void…
Anyways, Ebony quickly turned out to be a great asset to the team. Between his shadow-traveling, talent for subterfuge, and his unquestionable power, Biotite is very glad he spared Ebony’s life. He’s also realized that Ebony is very, very desperate for attention and is quite easy to manipulate because of that.
Ebony, as mentioned previously, believes Biotite loves him (romantically), and he’ll do just about anything to keep Biotite happy. He’s still a little shit though so he’s still pestering and intentionally irritating Biotite a lot. Being Annoying and Taking Care Of You are Ebony’s two main love languages. Biotite would stab him for trying to take care of him, so instead Ebony just annoys the shit out of him.
Bornite and Ebony get to share a spot for a moment, which is funny because they’d probably kill me for it. They have been fighting since the day Ebony joined the team, and until and unless they both realize that Biotite’s lying ass is not worth fighting over they’ll be fighting until the day they die. Or just the day Bornite dies, since Ebony’s mostly immortal and will outlive her unless someone kills him first. They both want to be Biotite’s favorite minion. Biotite pretends he doesn’t want them to fight while subtly encouraging it, because their competitive bullshit is getting him good results. Ebony’s winning though because he’s useful to Biotite for other things, which Bornite isn’t and doesn’t want to be. And Ebony is so smug about it. Asshole (i say, affectionately).
Speaking of Bornite…
Biotite is very, very good at manipulating people. And an amnesiac, especially one that was stuck in a vast empty Nothing and was probably in at least a little distress, is especially easy to manipulate.
Bornite was told that they were friends. And that she was helping him with something big; that she said she’d stick with him until he gets what he’s been trying to get for ages. She believed him immediately.
When he brought her back to the manor, he told her that he had thought she was dead, so he, uh…donated all her stuff. Sorry. She has no reason to think this is a lie. She’s a little annoyed, but if he thought she was dead then that was a pretty reasonable thing to do. It’s not like she missed any of that stuff. Since she couldn’t remember what that ‘stuff’ could’ve been.
She and Emerald didn’t get along from the start, but even so, it didn’t take her long to pick up on what Biotite was doing to him and Chrys. When she confronts Biotite about it, he acts like he doesn’t know why she’s so concerned. Absolutely no clue. Then he gives her a sympathetic look and goes “I guess the anti-void messed with your head a lot more than I realized.”
That shuts down the conversation real fast. She’s still got this gut feeling that something is very wrong, but she’s convinced herself it’s just like. A matter of opinion. Nothing more.
Biotite sees the team, including Ebony, as nothing but tools. High-maintenance tools, especially in Ebony and Bornite’s cases, but tools nonetheless. The moment they stop being useful to him, they’re gone. Ebony is lucky that he has multiple uses. Frankly, that’s the only reason he’s the Favorite.
In the meantime Epidote is theoretically doing what she can to minimize the damage done, fix things that can be fixed, and hunt Biotite’s bitch ass down and deal with him. Will she make it? God only knows.
i still think it's funny my boy here and silver's SwaN/Dream fusion ended up with the exact same name
Emerald my boy is somehow even worse off than Jade, in terms of his mental health. It would take a lot to get him out of there, and even more to help him realize that Biotite was bad for him.
He doesn’t get hurt as much, at least, but only because he’s trying harder to follow the rules.
He’s a full corrupt, and his ‘special ability’ is charmspeak, though he’s only used it a few times before he figured out how to control it properly. Biotite doesn’t like that ability of his. Emerald doesn’t know Void very well, here, because Biotite realized that Void would try to help Emerald and Chrys get out of their shitty situation and has forbidden either of them to talk to Void at all.
Ebony had a hand in that, too, though. Ebony doesn’t like Emerald talking to Void at all.
Super friendly! Super anxious!!!!! But at least he's got Chrys :]
i'm going to drop off a few lore-important names for the mer AU
I said recently that the royalty AUs (excluding the funky magic one) ended up being nice AUs. That means, even if characters are antagonists in their source material, they're Good now. or at least cool. they're not bad guys
So.
The god of the deep ocean is Biotite. He's a cecelia, though he has a normal size form and a Big Godly Form which he rarely used. He's incredibly powerful (wow. ancient god of magic is super powerful. shock and dismay) and he generally hangs out in deeeep deep trenches anyways; which just so happens to be where the cave he's sleeping in is.
His messenger and best friend is Ebony; another cecelia. he's nowhere near as fucked up as he is in his source material. He's semi-immortal; he can theoretically be killed, but he could live forever if he doesn't take lethal damage from anyone or anything.
There are two other immortals that are related (lore-wise; not like. family) to those two; them being Emerald and Void. Emerald is kind of a minor god, though he doesn't do a whole lot. Void is semi-immortal the same way Ebony is. The two of them travel around a lot, but frequently return to check in on Ebony and Biotite.
Also, I left out a bit of lore when I was talking about how cecelias and magic came to be known as evil.
The king's consort and his bestie, who fled to the cave Biotite and Ebony retreated to, are still alive. They're not immortal, but they were told that their mates may one day be reborn, and they would like to stick around for that. to make sure they find them again. So Ebony keeps them in suspended animation. some sleeping beauty type shit. He will occasionally wake them to feed them and talk and give updates. Which is literally just whatever world news Emerald and Void have brought to him.
They are. dramatic pause. Jet and Dark. If you can guess who the consort was, you can easily figure out who the king was, too. it's. it's a much healthier relationship here. because we said so. Jet's a cecelia as well; i think some octopus that can change colors, but I don't remember. Everyone else is an unspecified Fish that's not an octopus, squid, or leviathan.
So. All of them are still around, centuries if not millennia after Biotite went dormant. Theoretically, Petruccio and Gonzalo and the gang(TM) (joke) could find them. And they very well might.
but in the meantime ebony is all alone and bored and wondering just how long it's going to take for Biotite to wake up. And he's starting to fear that he never will.
he will tho. eventually. relatively soon in-universe actually but i'm not sure if that specific event will be relevant to the DU guys yet
