A Kane Chronicles Rewrite Fic
Not Because I disliked things I just want a novel with this plot.
The Fausts had trouble conceiving, which lead them to turning to prayer and magic. This specific combination, in a bloodline of pharaohs, meant their prayers were heard by the egyptian gods. The gods schemed amd decided to answer their prayers in a way that helped them. And so Isis was reborn as Ruby Kane.
A mere two months later, Orisis found a young couple from the first nome who were also hoping for a child. They hadn't turned to magic yet, but they were working closely with underworld magics, which allowed Orisis to slipp in and inhabit the one month old fetus. He was named Julian, and until he met Ruby in college, he doesn't remember his past life.
When the Kanes were ready for a child, having converted Iskander to their POV on sealing gods, they did a ritual to allow Horus to be reborn. Since he needed a human name, they named him Carter for Howard Carter, an idol of theirs in high school.
Sadie, 2 years later, was a suprise. She was theirs, but mortal, and new.
Carter does not have his memories, he's a normal child and both his parents enjoy parenting him, though sometimes the guilt of his first childhood hits hard. Sadie is their baby, and their love for her is more uncomplicated due to the lack of backstory.
Carter and Sadie look alot like, in features. A mix of British and Black American features, if you compared black and white pictures of them they would like African American identical twins. Carter has sepia brown skin, like sard gemstones, onyx black eyes and coffee hair. Sadie has terra cotta brown skin, a much lighter color than Carter's, caramel blonde hair and navy blue eyes. Both of them have corkscrew curls, (3C type curls) but Sadie has straightened them so constantly that hers are closer to ringlet (3b) curls.
Anyways, when Sadie is four, her mom starts having the visions. Isis is a planner, obviously she decides to free Bast as she's a benevolent goddess who can look after humans, specifically babies. So she tries to get herself a free babysitter before she and her husband can go on a pantheon freeing world saving adventure but it goes wrong and she dies.
Sadie is 6 and Carter is 9, a few months after Ruby died, when the fausts decide to sue Julian for custody.
As Ruby the human body died, Isis is back in the duat but she is free to go wherever she wants. Currently she is ruling the pantheon and the underworld. Without a host, she isn't coming back though but she still wants to be in her kids' lives. However, they still want to keep the kids away from magic, the house of life or gods. A mortal 9 year old cannot handle godly powers and teaching him magic is only a small gap from memories and magic of horus, because that is the actual way the ritual is supposedto work. Nepthys got out a few years after them and that's how she got her memories and power back, at the age of 6, but her body wasn't able to handle it bery well and her mortal self died at 12. Since the house forbid them from teaching magic to their children unless they are enrolled in a nome, Carter didn't start lessons before Isis died and learned the consequences. So no magic for either of them. Once they are teenagers, he'll start both their lessons. Anyways no telling the kane siblings about magic means they need a way for Ruby to stay in contact while dead.
As god of the dead, Orisis can take or invite mortal ba to his home so he does. At first it's every night, Sadie and Carter have a nice dream about their mom and normal family activities. It eventually lessens to 5 times a week so Isis can go check in on the trapped gods.
During a dinner at the fausts where Julian isn't invited and they focus mostly on Sadie after hearing that Carter is doing fine at school, they ask Sadie ahout her day. She starts telling them about she woke up from a dream about mom, and they get concerned, did you have a nightmare? Basically Sadie and Carter say somethings about the dreams, like how they are about mom and dad and normal family things, mom always knows they're asleep and asks about their day and dad references conversations from their dreams during the day. And the fausts are very concerned now and start the custody battle. They tell the house of life about Julian using magic on the kids and Julian admits to using dream magic and how he has a plan for their grief process using it, and while it's not exactly rare for magicians to do that, this is Julian Kane doing it so they throw in support for the fausts. The kids have zero idea, and both insist on staying with their dad so The Fausts pick the white passing girl who looks more like Ruby as their ward and concentrate on getting her. It takes a year but Julian eventually gives in when the house starts sabotaging his work as an egyptologist. Sadie and Carter veiw this as an abandonment at first but come to realise he was desperate and knew the fausts could take care of her.
The dreams continue weekly until Sadie is 10, then they decrease to monthly check ins.
6 years later, when Carter is 16 and Sadie is 13, the red pyramid starts. Same plot.
Carter starts getting Horus memories, and Sadie has dreams about her mom every night, with Ruby advising her, which turns into a voice in her head.
Carter has the same personality, just with alot more knowledge.
Zia shabbati memories transfer over to real Zia though, in a form of weekly backup so Zia has memories of Carter but not of kissing him.
Sadie and Anubis do not have crushes in the first book. Sadie can still see his face though and the New Orleans graveyard.
Sadie asks her parents for a cool goddess name and they name her Yineput.
After they start the brooklyn nome, Anubis and Bast move in as protection for The Pharaoh and the princess.
Sadie and Anubis have a crush on Walt and spend a few moments every chapter trying to flirt with him. Anubis is pretty much a omnivorous goth with a pet jackal and too much knowledge of funerary customs.
Horus was close friends with Sekmet, dated Hathor for like a year in his first teenhood, and is obsessed with weapon history, wars, aeronautics, and falcons. Like he has historical planes as models like Fredrick Chase does. Due to his close friendship with Sekmet, she decides to posess Jaz, leading to them spending moments togather.
Due to this, Carter finds out about Walt's curse before Sadie, like later half of throne of fire Sekmet just blurts it out. Jaz does still get comatosed though.
Carter and Zia have an easier time with dating, because it's just a week of missing memories, so he lets her take her out after red pyramid and by throne they are in an established ship.
Anubis and Sadie start dating in the first half of Serpent after Walt rejects both of them. Then Anubis finds out about the curse of Tut. He tells Sadie about it, and the two of them scheme the possession togather and suggest it to Walt, who doesn't take the offer and says they're all dying anyway. He's following the path of Orisis, so still has dusting powers.
He weakens alot during the adventure with the sheut but comes home alive. He falls asleep in his bed to rest before going to the first nome and almost dies but Anubis refuses to let him. The two of them have an arguement in Walt's dream that they tell Sadie about later.
When Sadie is attacked by Kwai and Jacobi, Anubis emotionally blackmails Walt into becoming his eye and saving her.
Since Jaz is the host of Sekmet, she stays awake after the spell and participates in the gight longer, eventually loses too much stamina and gets knocked out. One of the ankle biters heals her.
All of the gods get to stay in the human world if they want to, so Bast and Bes also stay.
Carter becomes Pharaoh and the book ends at his coronation party.
During Son Of Sobek, after defeating the crocodile, he and Percy realise there's a magical animal smuggling ring in the area. The area is port Washington. They spend like a week togather, exchange numbers and life stories, get matching eye of horus communication tatoos and destroy the smuggling ring while pretending to be college students that literally stumbled into illegal animal traffickers. Percy is a marine biology student and Carter is a Ornithology student. They have fake names too.