#queen demeter

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//jumps on the Bakugan OC bandwagon

I present you: Prince Hydron's mother!

Her name is Demeter Cygnus; she is/was King Zenoheld's first and only wife. In my fic Devil in the Garden, she escapes the Motherpalace with the help of the Neathian Castle Knights, joining the Neathian court and eventually re-marrying to Serena and Fabia's late mother. She was separated from Hydron before she was rescued. In Devil in the Garden, she has psychic powers, which Hydron inherits.

She uses the Haos attribute and her partner Bakugan is a Gundalian Bakugan named Inari, who defected from the Gundalians after learning of their plans to use child soldiers in the war with Neathia. Inari resembles a nine-tailed fox with a tail of peacock feathers.

She's a headstrong woman who loves Hydron dearly. She always defies Zenoheld in some fashion related to his treatment of Hydron, and either tries to flee with her son or is executed publicly over false charges of attempting to kill Zenoheld.

In my headcanon, Vestals are capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction. Hydron is a genetic clone of Demeter because she and Zenoheld hated each other too much to have sex. Hydron looks exactly like her, which is all the more reason for Zenoheld to hate his son : )

Her Neathian battle armor is based on Fabia and Shun's armor in Gundalian Invaders. The insignia on her cloak is the Neathian crest cut in half (the Neathian crest can be seen on Captain Elright's armor and looks like a silhouette of the Neathian queen).

Her Vestal queen attire is based on this dress:

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Oki ask game for Demeter: 7, 10, 15(excluding Zenoheld),20, 27

all hail the queen <3

7. What is their weapon of choice? Are they any good at it?

Demeter's preferred weapon is a polearm similar in design to a naginata - in an AU where she survives, she was trained by the Neathian Castle Knights so she's pretty proficient with it. In Devil in the Garden specifically, she also uses telekinesis as a weapon, having practiced almost religiously for sixteen years to hone that skill.

10. What is their first assumption if they were to wake up in a totally unfamiliar location?

"I must be dead" or "I must have been captured."

15. What triggers a strong disgust reaction in them?

Abuse of a child (for obvious reasons). In every AU where she's killed when Hydron was a child, it's because she dared to confront Zenoheld after he hit Hydron for whatever reason he thought was justified. Whether she threatened Zenoheld directly or threatened to take Hydron and leave, that was all the excuse he needed to get rid of her.

20. What was your first thought in creating them?

I wanted to give Hydron's mom a name and a presence in Devil in the Garden, because his lack of a mother figure seemed integral to his characterization and it gave me a point of contrast to compare to Dan and Shun in regards to their own mothers, respectively. Originally, Demeter was going to be dead in the story, having been executed when Hydron was a baby. But then I thought it would be more interesting if she actually survived, especially since it would give me a chance to tie Neathia and Gundalia into the worldbuilding ahead of a potential Gundalian Invaders rewrite. Also, I was inspired by @eseli to give Demeter and Hydron latent psychic powers and was struck by the image of Demeter telekinetically lifting the BT System Transmitter out of the ground, so then I had to write it.

27. List five of their recent Google searches. (lol the mental image of Demeter using google)

definition of "yeet"

how to parent your estranged child with PTSD

human courting rituals

how to bake cookies

does my child hate me

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