OBSESSED with your Mockingbird AU, take some head canons (you can discard if they don't align /gen)
Something something Cole sensing something is wrong but not knowing what because he was a ghost for a bit and is more attuned to that now (but is too distracted by the screaming earth to realize exactly what he's feeling)
Something something Jay's only context for ghosts being cursed like his best friend Cole and an angry painful possession of Lloyd via a vengeful Morro so of course he's going to freak out about Libber regardless of who it is
Something something the element of lightning revolting against Libber because it's Jay's now and wants to defend him
GRAHHH I LOVE PEOPLE COMING UP WITH HEADCANONS FOR MY AUS<3333 OGH AUGH OK OK
(This is for my Mockingbird AU)
This first one I fuck with so much. Cole just knowing that something’s wrong. There’s an unsettling familiarity to Jay, one that reminds Cole of himself (or who he was), but he can’t determine the actual cause. I’m eating that up and hitting it with the ‘canon’ hammer. Bam bam bam. It’s so good especially because that familiarity then contrasts how unfamiliar this Jay is in every other way.
The second one is absolutely true, Jay’s never exactly had a pleasant encounter with a ghost, but I will say that I’m not sure Jay is even aware he’s being possessed in this AU. His experience of possession isn’t the same as Lloyd’s where he was aware of everything that was happening - Jay is unconscious for the most part (because he and Libber are genetically similar, his body is much more happy to relinquish control to her). He struggles initially, and possibly in future circumstances, but that’s less a battle against Libber for control and more against unconsciousness, and what he probably perceives in the moment to be death. When Libber possesses him in a desperate attempt to regain life, Jay thinks that he might be dying.
The element of lightning revolting against Libber?? Canon!! I actually drew that as one of the first sketches I did of this AU but it’s the only one I didn’t post. Have it now to make up for my foolishness.
She doesn’t wield lightning as fluently as Jay does (or as she used to) while in his body, making her attacks dangerously powerful and much more indiscriminate.
Thank you so so much for this ask it was so fun GRAHHH<333
