Darkstalker using quibli and the animus magic to make quibli look like turtle, thinking he can convince winter that he brought turtle back from the dead and winter is just looking at ghost turtle like "does he really think I'd buy that" (Darkstalker doesn't think winter cares for turtle, hes trying to do a reverse psychology thing of being like "no, we actually don't need you winter, we have reanimated turtle, and he's sooo much better than you...don't you want to prove me wrong?")
Also I think Peril would not believe that ghost turtle is real, she'd think she was hallucinating or dreaming
Ghost turtle watching his brothers give him a funeral (Coral forgot she sent him to Jade academy and doesn't even know there needs to be a funeral) and aganozing over whether they would have given him a funeral if he hadn't enchanted them to forgive him
On the Peril killing a brother that looks like turtle thing I think that the brother should have been named by Turtle (because in the books turtle says that the brothers started naming each other)
I love your au!!!!
I love the concept of fake turtle trickery!!
I actually have ideas for a plot where winter doesn't realize ghost turtle is real for a long time, if turtle ends up spending a lot of time with peril I may give the plotline to her instead.
IM ACTUALLY THROWING UP THE FUNERAL THING IS *POETRY* YOU'RE A GENIUS. I do have a ghost turtle in the sea kingdom plotline I'm working on! I'm not sure even Darkstalker would kill someone so much younger than turtle tho, so maybe it was the brother that named turtle? Idk but I do love the idea of turtle having a small connection with the brother peril has to kill, something that doesn't matter day to day, they aren't even that close, but it's still something very sentimental to them.
And tysm! ❤️