As a child, Mary was saved by someone she couldn't remember for as long as she didn't know magic existed.
AKA what if I took a wizard!Shannon AU and made it vaguely Utena? Like, this fic is so utenanthy coded that the title comes from an English translation of one of the songs from Adolescence of Utena.
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"But I don't want to forget you," Mary said to the witch who had saved her.
"You're human," Shannon said. "You can't know about magic. It won't be safe for either of us." Before Mary could protest any further, Shannon cast a sleep spell on her. It would block the memories of the past few hours as long as she had no idea that magic really existed.
After the Battle of the Bands, Mary stomped up to Shannon. "Magic exists, and you've only aged two years in the past ten."
Shannon gulped at Mary's angry expression. There was no wiping her mind to get out of this one. And they had just started to get along, months after Shannon had found Mary again by accident.
"Did you know that I still had dreams about that day? I didn't remember you, or exactly how you saved me, but I remembered being saved by someone fantastic. I've been chasing after every boy in Arcadia searching for my prince, only to find out that it's been you all along."
"Wizards don't always age as fast as humans do?" Shannon offered lamely. Mary grabbed Shannon by the lapels and pulled her into a kiss.
For the AU thing, Team Creepslayerz AU? (Steve, Eli, Aja, Krel, Shannon, and Mary team up as Creepslayerz, not much else to add :3 )
This is fantastic. Maybe one of my favorite Trollhunter ideas. Individually they are all disasters, but together they make a functioning team. That’s not a HC, them’s just the facts.
1. Each person on the team has their own speciality that makes them invaluable to the team.
a. Mary manages the team’s social media, she tracks Creeper sightings on social media, and is a master at disinformation. If there is a friendly Creeper who needs to be hid, she will make any word about them disappear. Also defacto chronicler as she live tweets encounters, always ready to pause and take a picture.
b. Shannon provides magical support. In my mind this combines with Witch!Shannon. She will whip up a spell or potion to deal with the Creeper of the moment.
c. Krel handles the tech. Providing them with better weapons, armor and sensors to better fight, track, and survive Creepers. As Shannon learns more about magic, she helps enchant the tech to make it work better.
d. Aja is the tank. She’s the strongest, and the best fighter by a long stride even in her human form, even with conventional weapons and not Serators.
e. Eli is the lore master. He studies the legends and myths and the internet. His information isn’t always the most reliable, but he always tries his best.
f. Prior to Aja joining Steve tried to act like the tough guy, but with both his girl friend and his boyfriend on the team, they both knew he was a big softy. Instead he ends up learning from Barbara Lake and becomes team medic, and team mom.
2. The team gets together when Shannon convinces her girlfriend Mary to play dungeons and dragons with Eli and the others. Until the appearance of what Eli calls a Creeper disturbs their first session. Each of the characters they picked was a predictor of the role they end up playing in the team.
3.At first only Steve knows that Krel and Aja are Akiridions. He does his best to cover for them, when their disguises wear off. They all have to play dumb when some of the “Creepers” specifically are targeting those two, as well as calling them Royals.
4. Eli is the first to discover they are not from Earth. He is also the first to figure out that Shannon’s magic tricks are actual magics, not special affects. Once everyone knows Creepslaying becomes a lot easier, because some of their heaviest hitters can go to bat without fear of losing their friends.
5. Creepslaying will often end in massive sleep overs. Whether they were researching a topic, working on some new tech, they will all end up staying the night at one of their houses. After the rest catch on about Aja and Krel they host most often, so they can transform back without fear.
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Had this idea late last night so I’m not sure how much sense it makes but:
Akiridion!Bodyguard!Douxie AU
Douxie was raised by the military and is a bit of a prodigy. Between this and the fact that he’s so close in age to the Tarron twins, he ends up being assigned guard duty to them. This started several keltons ago in an attempt to dissuade Aja from running away so much. It helped a little, but Aja still ran from the coup.
Douxie and Krel have been slowly falling in love together for years (well, more slowly on Krel’s end than on Douxie’s) but they haven’t done anything about their feelings because their love is forgiven and they’re both too loyal to the crown
When they gain their human transductions, Douxie is delighted by how much of his height he’s retained (even though he still gets a little shorter when he becomes human), as opposed to how short Aja, Krel, and Varvatos are as humans.
Douxie’s cover story is that his family are friends of the Tarrons, and that during the coup he was forced to leave them behind when he was running for his life. Uhl interprets this as “oh shit I shouldn’t have demanded that these kids each bring both of their parents; this one doesn’t even have parents anymore”
Aja: I’m afraid that Mama and Papa might not approve of my relationship with Steve. I mean, we’re so different, could we make it work when I go back to Akiridion-V?
Krel and Douxie, trying not to look at each other: Wow. I wouldn’t know what that’s like at all, having a forbidden romance with someone outside your caste.
Aja knew that Krel and Douxie were really close but she didn’t realize that they were in love until after they went to Earth. She was a little jealous of their closeness when they were younger since her brother had a close friend who wasn’t her and she wasn’t that close to anyone other than Krel.
Steve: So, are Douxie and Krel dating or...?
Aja: Do not let Varvatos and Zadra here you ask that, and the answer is sort of. They’re in love with each other, but they can’t actually be together, and they think they’re being subtle as they flirt when they’re really just being infuriating.
Varvatos and Zadra eventually realize that Douxie and Krel have feelings for each other and (somewhat-sympathetically) try to lecture Douxie about how, as a non-royal, he is forbidden by the laws of Akiridion-V from ever having a romantic relationship with the King-in-Waiting... and that those laws are ones that, even when Krel finally becomes King as opposed to King-in-Wating, he and Aja alone would not have the power to change that. (They do not give this lecture to Steve since they don’t think his relationship with Aja will last long.)
Douxie and Krel go to the Deep together, and they have their first kiss after Krel breaks them both out of their fears by defeating Morando.
The two of them stay on Earth, realizing that Aja can take care of Akiridion-V and they can finally have the life they want together if they stay here. However, they need to go to Hex Tech to see if there’s any parts they can use to fix Ricky’s decapitation problem. Right as they finally get to the help desk, Zoe cuts in line in front of them to demand that Shannon provide shelter to herself, her master, her familiar, and the remaining Guardians of Arcadia.
“Are you sure about this?” Shannon asked. Her eyes glowed slightly from behind her glasses. “I know astral projection can be pretty tough.”
It was the only way to find Jim and Toby anyone could think of, so Claire nodded. She put a false smile on her face. “Don’t worry, this isn’t my first rodeo when it comes to out of body experiences.”
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I just drew Witch!Shannon in the first outfit I ever drew her in again and... Wow. I feel like my art has come really far in the past few months...
I've went through a lot of different shading techniques, styles etc, and I just want to give a big thank you to everyone on here and on Sketch for their feedback and encouragement this far. It really helped me to grow not only as an artist, but as a person. Y'all are amazing! 💖
Here’s the story I promised! I’m going to write more on this soon. It’s such a fun idea.
Eli muttered angrily to himself as he walked down the street. He wanted to hang out with some of his friends today but they were all busy. Steve was on a date with his girlfriend Aja. Krel was working a "special project" and couldn't be disturbed. Eli knew he was working on repairing his ship but had to pretend he didn't know. Steve's threat was clear enough on that.
"Listen Pepper buddy," Steve's voice echoed in his mind. "I really like this girl. And Aja and her brother have already been through so much. If you expose them, or even let them know you know, I swear I will end our friendship. I'll go back to being the total buttsnack I was before."
Eli was angry Steve would pick a girl over him. So he hadn't really gone out of his way to talk to Steve in a few weeks. He was so angry, walking with his head down that he walked right into Shannon Longhannon, knocking both of their glasses flying.
They both crouched down desperately patting the ground for their glasses. Eli found a pair and jammed them on his face. Shannon's prescription was very different from his own. The lenses seemed to make everything way more blobby.
"Those are mine Eli!" Shannon's voice sounded scared. The lenses flashed pink for a second then they were snatched off his face. He felt his own glasses get pressed into his hands, he recognized the tape around the middle. Once both had their own glasses back in position Eli smiled at Shannon.
"How bad are your eyes Shannon? I didn't think there was anyone more blind in this school than me!"
"They're pretty bad." She said, but she didn't smile. That was followed by an awkward pause. He was never good with people, but he felt he had a special connection with everyone who had been a part of the Reckless Club.
"Do you want to hang out tonight? We could play some video games?"
She looked at him for another second her eyes narrowed, but then she nodded and smiled.
"That sounds like fun."
"Great come by my house tonight!"
Eli was a little nervous for some reason as he waited for Shannon to arrive to his house. He felt like the girl had avoided him, but he was sure their interests overlapped. A sudden knock on the door made him jump out of his chair. He ran to open the door. Shannon smiled at him again as the door opened. She opened her mouth to speak but Eli cut her off.
"I'm so glad you were able to make it. I realized I never told you how to get to my house! I didn't have your number so I couldn't text you. And we aren't friends on Facespace and I couldn't find your name on there either."
"Oh I'm not on Facespace, my parents don't believe in social media."
"That make sense, my mom didn't want me to have one for the longest time. But how did you find my house?"
Shannon's eyes grew wide for a second. Then she put a smile on her face and tapped the side of her nose. "I have my ways."
"Oh really? I guess your crimes as student body treasurer didn't stop at embezzlement."
Her smile dropped for a fraction of a second, but then she put a finger to her lips and said, "I'll never tell."
It wasn't long before the two were deep into a game. Apparently Shannon knew all the lore for the Gunrobot series of games. She even knew more than Eli did. As they played they laughed and told jokes. Eli wanted to talk about how the city was adapting to trolls living among them, but everytime he tried it seemed to make her uncomfortable. So he let it go.
As he laughed at another of her jokes he asked her, "Why haven't we done this before? We get along so well!"
Shannon looked at him very seriously, "Because you're Eli Pepperjack.”
He could only look at her baffled for a few seconds, before she returned to the game. The two of them were mostly silent after that. Only talking when the game itself demanded it. Eli was confused, did she not like him? He knew he didn’t have a lot of friends and wasn’t very popular, but he would have assumed that neither was Shannon. Plus she was uncomfortable talking about Trolls in Arcadia, was she biased against Trolls?
To make the night even more uncomfortable she seemed really distracted. Shannon would keep texting on her phone during cutscenes and load times. And she kept looking at his wall for some reason. She even paused the game to look at the wall a few times. Eli could see her eyes were tracking something moving, be he couldn’t tell what she was looking at.
He was about to ask her, when she suddenly stood up staring at the wall. She hadn’t even paused the game, so her character was immediately killed. Eli’s was killed right after that.
“Shannon, what are-?”
“Do you have Toby’s number?” She interrupted.
“Uh, yeah.” Eli was already pulling out his phone. Shannon pulled out her own phone and left the room heading downstairs.
“We’re going to need his help! Call him, tell him we have a Troll problem!” She looked out Eli’s backdoor. If there was going to be Trolls, he was glad his mom was away.
Eli called Toby’s phone. He quickly told him to come over there might be a troll in trouble. Shannon was on the phone as well.
“Hey Babe, I’m about to have a problem...Yeah. Keep an ear out. Thanks, love you.” Then she hung up, and addressed Eli, “Is Toby on his way?”
“Yeah I heard him activate his hammer. He should only be a few minutes away. What is this about? What’s going on Shannon?”
“A few minutes might not be fast enough.” Shannon ignored his questions.
Eli was so tired with her being rude to him. He pushed past her to go into his backyard. He was a Creepslayer, he had helped Jim and his friends. He had dealt with trolls before. He brushed off her hand that tried to hold him back. The wind was whipping around his backyard, over his fence he could see a large shape crouched.
“Eli come back! If we stay inside it might not be able to kill us before Toby gets here!”
“Not all trolls are killers Shannon. I’ve spent a lot of time around creepers.”
“This isn’t one of those kind of trolls!”
He ignored her. She was just being biased. So many people feared creepers for no reason. This one was probably just lost and wanted shelter. He walked closer to the fence, the troll’s shape could barely be seen in the scant light coming from his house.
“Eli! That’s a stalkling!”
That name meant nothing to Eli. He turned to tell her to stay back if she was so afraid, but a sudden movement brought his attention back to the creeper. It had jumped over the fence, spreading massive wings. He stepped back in fear as the stalkling screeched then tried to bite him.
A pink glowing sigil stopped the monster in the air. Shannon stepped forward her eyes glowing. “By the Witches of Avalon I forbid you or your kind entry here!”
More shining sigils appeared in the air creating a barrier around the house. The stalkling tried to charge her, but she waved her hand and it was tossed back over the fence, outside Eli’s yard. They could only watch as the stalkling laboriously rose into the air, flapping its wings heavily.
“Hey Stonehead! Up here!” An orange flaming light drew the stalkling’s attention, right before Toby’s flaming hammer smashed down on it, turning it to stone and shattering the evil troll. Eli fell back surprised.
“Thank goodness you got here in time Toby! That thing was about to eat us!” Shannon called. Eli looked around, all the sigils had vanished as suddenly as they appeared. Out of the woods came Aaarrrgghh, Toby’s massive troll friend. “There might be more! Can you go make sure there aren’t?”
“Of course! Come one Wingman!” Toby took off into the air with his hammer while Aaarrrgghh charged into the woods.
Eli turned to face Shannon. “Are there any more in the woods?”
Her eyes shone with a pink light. “No there is nothing else in the woods.”
Then she took a step back and vanished from Eli’s yard.
