The Easily Amused

A world where humans have no innate magic but our pets do.

Cat magic is pretty raw and they mainly use it for getting into places they're not supposed to. They can be trained if you're patient, and will sometimes do favours for their owners out if the blue, but only if they want to.

Dogs have been bred for specific magic over the centuries and each breed can do certain things. Showing off your magic is an essential part of a dog show.

Horses come in horse, pegasus, and unicorn, each with their own magical talents.

Fuck knows what birds can do, I don't trust birds.

For an obvious example... dalmatians have been bred for fire magic. A properly trained dalmatian will run into a burning building and all the fires around it will go out. Caution is necessary, of course, because they can also do the opposite. Their favourite toys are often a bit blackened, and puppies must be kept in fireproof surroundings, with extinguishers in easy reach.

The Pekingese' magic is camouflage - they can change colour to match whatever they touch, whether a blanket, a mossy rock, or even a reflective mirror. This ability originally enabled them to hide in a robe, so their owners could take them into places where dogs were technically not permitted. The classic image of a pekingese is of it sitting outside a building, appearing to be part of the stonework... until it reveals itself to growl at an intruder.

Portuguese water dogs are canine silkies - in deep enough water they transform into curly-haired seals, and when they climb back out and shake off, they turn back into dogs.

sparklecryptid

OH SHIT MY HAND SLIPPED.

ahem.

sometimes your dog brings you home a fae husband and thats ok

(warning for discussion of old dogs and the potential of their death but no one dies.)

Socks is a good dog. He’s bright and happy and alerts me to the mailman who has taken to not knocking on my door and instead waits until Socks gives a bark that would sound more at home coming out of a bigger dog than my Papillon mix and when I open the door the mailman always smiles at me like he knows something I don’t as he hands me my package.

I try not to question the Canada Post workers, they always seem to know more than they should. The mailman is nice, but I don’t trust the way he eyes me as though he’s waiting for something to happen. He had asked about Socks once, wondering what my dog is mixed with because while Socks has those lovely ears Papillon’s are known for he is also big. Bigger than he should be.

The mailman seems convinced that Socks is a Sheltie and I don’t know enough either way but all the vets I’ve taken him to agree. They also warn me that Shelties tend to be gateway dogs, leading their herd through portals to take them where they need to be. I have never seen Socks open a portal, but I know that the attraction magic from his Papillon side is strong. I always seem to stumble upon something that I need when I need it, and I always make sure to give Socks extra snuggles and treats after that.

tifacaelum

Is ffxv a dead fandom?

I don't think FFXV is dead. Rather it's a niche fandom that you have to find. Fans are still creating fanfics, art and even video edits. It's not popular like it used to be but that happens with all video games, especially with FFs.

groovytimetravelflower

Lets get this person some people to follow. I know you guys are out there still making or rebloging content.

vampatics

WERE ARE STILL HEEEREEEE

nyardynn

You rang?

risingoflights

i'm here and i'll never leave but i think the characters i'm creating for are too niche for most people in the niche fandom lol

#ffxv

I've been recently reminded about my ffxv/sg1 crossover and my idea for why exactly Leviathan Looks Like That.

without further ado.

Leviathan looks like an overgrown snake-thingy because technically she is! in that she is an ascended Goa'uld. but she's not one of the System Lords or anything like that. nope.

alright, let's backtrack a bit.

stargate lore has it that Ra was the one who found Earth and humans, and the first one to take a human as a host. afterwards, most of his fellows took humans as hosts. this decision was influenced by several factors such as the humans being easier to heal and modify genetically, that some of them could interface with Alteran technology and, critically, because the symbionts could completely dominate the host.

unlike their original host species, meaning the unas.

now, when we see the Goa'uld original homeworld in that one episode, it looks like unas and symbiotes both still live there. but they were blasted back to the Stone Age.

so what I think happened in canon and what definitely happened in my fic idea is that not everyone wanted humans are hosts. some symbiotes didn't want hosts like that and some unas weren't keen on sharing either. so there was a civil war, so to speak, with Ra and his faction emerging victorious.

Leviathan was one of those symbiotes who stayed with her una host and fought against Ra. when it became clear that her side would lose, she basically sabotaged what shit she could, grabbed what human slaves she managed to smuggle out then packed all of them onto a barely-working ha'tak and flew off in a random direction.

they landed on Eos.

the ha'tak had to be scrapped. both because they needed materials to construct more a permanent settlement there and frankly because it was unsalvageable at that point. they knew where the gate was - it was very obvious to the scanners - and deliberately settled on the other side of the planet from it. if anyone ever came through, they would not be noticed for many years.

eventually, the people there realised that there are beings living on this world that... aren't quite physical. but definitely there. and the humans interacted with then sometimes (with mixed results) and tried to learn more about them. and maybe some humans started to worship some of the beings too. the ones who were more benign, more inclined to help, even if only out of curiosity.

(maybe some of the humans tried to fuck the weird beings)

and that's how several religions were born. after millennia all of that would coalesce, with bigger or smaller difficulties, into the worship of the Hexatheon.

but that's for later.

beforehand, Leviathan's host would grow sick and die during the long travel through the space. she would leave her dying friend's body and, refusing to take another host from among the humans, she would be sealed inside a canopic jar to wait out the remainder of the journey. once the humans find Eos, one of them would take that jar, carry it to the sea and let Leviathan out so she might spend the remainder of her days exploring the waters of this place that shall be their new home.

but Eos is a place where the Veil is see-through at times.

the humans knew who broke their chains and led them to a safe refuge when they were dispossessed. the humans told the stories of those events, to themselves and then to their children and to their children's children. some of those children started praying to Leviathan, to the Serpent, raising shrines and temples and statues in Her name.

Eos is a place where the Veil is see-through.

Leviathan does not die as all symbiotes without a sarcophagus eventually do.

Leviathan grows older and grows bigger and grows stronger.

Leviathan grows into something that isn't as mortal as she used to be.

tagging @hamelin-born @charlottedabookworm @ertrunkenerwassergeist and @cactusprisms in case any of you is still interested in this

OH THAT’S SICK AS HELL

@cactusprisms

I know, right!

It's going to break so many fucking brains in SGC once somebody sees the artwork of Leviathan in all Her serpentine glory!

Fun fact! While Leviathan of course has a boatload of epithets and titles She accumulated over some seven millennia (give or that a few centuries), the absolutely oldest ones found in records are Breaker of Chains, Defender of the Dispossessed and the Serpent in the Shadows.

And in those ancient carvings She was sometimes depicted as a normal-sized serpent wrapped around and biting a hawk.

@hamelin-born @aniseandspearmint @ertrunkenerwassergeist

Sick as hell. And has a lot of little implications, as well as massive implications. The ocean incarnate, freedom itself, is the only goa’uld to actually achieve what the tyrants of her species claim. I think that’s narratively beautiful.

Anubis is a weak-ass bitch who needed to trick Oma Desala into helping him ascend and even the he only managed to get stuck halfway there.

Meanwhile, Leviathan just achieved a practical divinity through Her own awesome and the faith of the people She helped.

I wonder... what implications are you seeing here?

hm, implications for the goa’uld as a species, implications for Eos, is the prophecy a thing here? Is this leviathan mad as hell at Bahamut and humanity in general or is she doing her own thing? Is the starscourge a thing? Just lots of bits and pieces and changes that have the potential to happen here, especially because there’s five other non-goa’uld gods here as well.

also sgc doesn’t have to worry about this goa’uld trying to take one as a host. For one she doesn’t want to. Also she is Far Too Big.

did scales grow on her as she grew bigger? From what i remember of stargate, the goa’uld were really soft skinned and fragile.

Prophecy used to be a thing. In that it was given right after the Fall of Solheim and was supposed to happen in Ardyn's lifetime. Only for Somnus and Bahamut to do their thing.

Bahamut and Shiva tried to give the Prophecy 2.0 out but Leviathan and Ramuh pretty much ignored them. Ramuh quietly, Leviathan not even bothering with pretending. And then butterflies happened and let's just say that by modern era, the Prophecy definitely isn't going to happen the way that Draconian wants.

Leviathan is pissed off at Bahamut for a whole lot of things. Lemme see, there's the Prophecy, the killing of Her worshippers and priesthood, the general killing of Her humans (she brought them here, they're all Hers!), the killing of Her Blessed, the (almost) murder of Her Champion, the fact this idiot thinks he's Her boss.... The list goes on.

Leviathan is not so much homicidal as preferring to do her own thing and not liking when idiots bother her for petty stuff. And it's almost always idiots with petty stuff who try to summon her. She can be surprisingly kind and courteous when she wants to be.

Her reputation in Lucis and Tenebrae is connected to her beef with Somnus and Gilgamesh and Bahamut. But she honestly doesn't care about people there. Nobody is going to be sinking boats, don't worry.

The Star Scourge is a thing.

It is also a thing that has been studied by people other than Besithia, so there have been honest attempts at developing a cure. There's even been some progress in treating the later stages, though that varies.

I think that as Leviathan became an Ascended, she became somewhat malleable, in her looks especially. So she started looking more like sea serpents native to Eos. Of course, those snakes are like two or three meters long but. *points at Leviathan* A Giant Snake (TM) is always in style!

@cactusprisms @aniseandspearmint @ertrunkenerwassergeist @hamelin-born

love the concept of Leviathan looking at Bahamut and going, “you’re not the boss of me??”

also, add that to the list of things to horrify sg-1 and sgc, the Sickness That Turns People and Animals Into Monsters.

also love the concept of Leviathan seeing humanity on Eos as Hers, she stole them fair and square. Though they’re less hers in the, “i am the god of these things and they shall do my bidding,” and more in the stealing captive ferrets from incredibly abusive owners and stuffing them under your arms, running away, and building them a proper enclosure that lets the ferrets be ferrets. You might not have gotten all of them but these ones, they are yours and you love them. Even if they are chaotic little bastards who annoy the fuck out of you sometimes.

Did the other astrals ascend from mortal beings, or are they like, nexuses of power and concept that became sapient at some point?

i think the Tok’Ra might shit themselves tbh. Holy shit it’s an old Goa’uld from before Ra, she’s still here and sane and also incredibly powerful.

i can freely imagine Leviathan looking at the current landscape of system lord politics and earth, and practically daring them to try something. Go ahead. Do it. Give it your best shot. Earth got away from you, and My little bastards can teleport sometimes, and She has backup.

Speaking of, what’s the magic situation like on this version of Eos? Is it still confined to bloodlines, or is it more widespread?