#Galbatorix won au

[modern-inheritance]

That Galbatorix Won AU that will not be written

I love how like 6-8 or more of yall individual people liked my Galbatorix Won AU post things while those posts also state that y'all are probably never going to see it in full.

Like it's not even fully fleshed out. It's word vomit on a drive doc that I can't really look at right now because the dissociation is real jesus fucking christ. Maybe I SHOULD ask a psychiatrist about this depth of method-writing(???).

I will say this is the gist. There are themes of self deletion, implied nasty things, and it's just not a happy thing really. No reread, we die like women with migraines.

Arya convinces Brom to flee to an unknown location before the Urubaen start. He does so. Galbatorix wins. Eragon eventually snaps in an unexpected way after Arya is broken due to being essentially forced to mercy kill Glenwing after she was subjected to let's just say Galbatorix level abuses on all levels of physical and mental planes and she, mute and carrying around her dead Battle Mate's arm, nonverbally asks Eragon to kill her to end this, as she's being used to hurt the people she loves and her continued existence is more harmful than good.

Eragon's snap is to use formless magic to essentially separate Arya, as a whole, from the magic of the Ancient Language. Don't ask me how nor the repercussions in full. But she is essentially 'dead' to magic. Galbatorix cannot use the name of names now to have hold over her and what she does and can't even scry her. She cannot cast magic, but magic cannot be casted on her either. Spells targeting her do not produce results. She is a void and dead in the eyes of the Ancient Language.

Somehow, don't ask how, Eragon gets Arya out of Uru'baen and naturally forces himself through some fun psych to believe he did indeed kill her. Everyone else believes him.

Arya wears the pieces of Glen's arm. Just wanders Alagaesia until she wanders into the Spine to die. Turns out it wasn't that, it was more mystery forces at work and/or her subconscious thinking that it would be a safe place, and she finds, SURPRISE! Brom living with the Urgals that managed to slip away even further north into the Spine. She's mute, dissociates every couple of hours to just sorta wander off, Claustrophobic/domaphobic so she never goes inside Brom's hut or urgal tents, and still can't even get herself to not bolt backwards if Brom comes within 10 feet of her. She is not the same person Brom saw last. There's bits and pieces of the Arya he knew, but she's unable to hold those pieces together longer than maybe a handful of hours at a time and still can't speak when she does. At most she can touch his hand during those moments, try and mouth words, and write things down in frantic attempts to preserve her sanity and memories of her life before. These moments get longer and longer over time, eventually until she's 'back,' but she never fully regains speech and still has much of her problems with buildings and has to be the one to initiate hugs or walk towards Brom rather than the other way around. She's never again really, truely, the same person.

Brom and Arya convert Riders signs to their own homesign and just start living. Arya frequently hallucinates Glen and 'speaks' with him through sign, spends days staring off hugging her Glenwing-mech-arm encased forearm to her chest, and has lost most of her fight. Brom takes his new mission on as taking care of her, helping her heal and find her fire again, and to once again be the last Old Guard to remember true history rather than Galbatorix's fucked up version.

There is no happy ending. Only Brom and Arya, the way MIC started.

And no, this will not be fully written. Ever. You guys may sometimes get little bits and pieces that will be labeled as such but haha I cannot take the weird fugue/dissociation this version of Arya brings over me and the absolute trauma of losing everything twice and being powerless to stop it that Brom's internal voice brings. Garzvog is cool though. I like this version of him. He's surprisingly nice.

[modern-inheritance]

I...I can't remember if it's Wardbreakers, the Galbatorix Won AU, or edits to Grip

I...I think I at least survive Wardbreakers, or at least die quickly. Let's...let's go with that one.

You get isekai'ed into the last fanfiction you WROTE

Reblog for sample size or perish

[modern-inheritance]

God damn the last week I’ve also had this ‘Galbatorix won’ MIC AU in my head and it is so. Fucking. Dark.

I won’t be posting it but I might bash out some to just release it from my brain. I don’t like it in there. It’s been consistently pushing away the other stories to take point and I can’t make it stop just muttering to myself anymore.

Maybe just making this post will send it away. I hope so. I wanna write more of Wardbreakers but it keeps being bullied by this horrible thing.

[modern-inheritance]

Probably good that the Galbatorix won AU isn’t going to be a fully written series because holy shit the dissociating mute Arya I have in my head as the way she deals with it is making ME dissociate something fierce

[thearunadragon]

And here’s my cue to chime in with a thought-out AU ending of just this.

I think that he would have won, but it would have been much more of a Pyrrhic victory than shown in canon. Eragon needed to separate Galbatorix from his Eldunarí to win. Eragon’s Eldunarí would ultimately try to hold off the king’s, leaving Eragon and Galbatorix (for the most part) pitted against one another. This would have been a massive mental battle, and if Eragon had won, it likely would have been through:

Wordless magic of some sort, though not necessarily the empathy spell he resorted to in canon.

Finding a gap in the king’s wards.

Managing to find an emotional weakness in the king’s defenses—such as the memory of Jarnünvosk may have been.

I think that he would have won through one of these things if Paolini had not taken the route that he did with Murtagh. Originally, he was going to have Murtagh and Thorn die, which would have left Eragon and Saphira mostly alone anyways

However, there is also the possibility that others could have been killed as well. Shruikan easily could have killed Saphira or Arya instead of vice versa, and Galbatorix would have willingly used Elva or the two imprisoned children against Eragon further if he had been given the opportunity, even killing them to achieve his purposes.

Now, I would also like to keep in mind that Galbatorix wanted to capture and enslave Eragon. If he had done so, or if Paolini had made Eragon lose at first (resulting in this, which would have actually been very gripping) Eragon may have ended up imprisoned and tortured for time as Nasuada was. However, I think that he would put up a lot of resistance to the king’s mind and eventually develop the fortitude to attack the king well enough to use aforementioned tactics while imprisoned.

If this had happened, we can assume Arya is (a) dead, or (b) imprisoned. Similarly with Elva and even Eragon’s elven guards, though Arya would be most likely to be kept alive due to her political significance and history. And Nasuada, whether Murtagh lived or died, would have been imprisoned and likely broken now due to Eragon’s initial loss. Galbatorix likely would have either used her as leverage against Eragon, threatening her in her well-being, safety, health, etc, or would have made Nasuada herself torture Eragon for him to break his spirit (because having someone you know as a friend torture you would cause devastating and irreversible damage, which really goes without saying.)

However, once Eragon killed Galbatorix, Nasuada would be released of his control. Many would die, be forever scarred, and have a lot of healing to do, but they would have won.

I had a lot more points and options on here, but then I realized how long I made this and cut it down. So the last I’ll say is, I really wish Paolini hadn’t made Murtagh say the name. Not because Murtagh didn’t deserve his moment of heroism—he absolutely did, I just think it would have been better done differently so that the Name of Names would be lost entirely, because, if you ask me, it is too powerful and Paolini wrote himself into a corner there.

Murtagh could have helped Arya kill Shruikan for example, or perhaps done something that would (as an example) save Saphira, which Eragon would certainly be grateful enough for to spread the word that Murtagh basically is the reason they came out alive and sane. Eragon would have been adamant to give Murtagh the good reputation he really did deserve as a human being.

There were a lot of ways this could have gone but I think that yes, in the end, Eragon would have won.

(Sorry I got so long-winded!)

Could Eragon actually defeat Galbatorix without Murtagh's help?

If Murtagh's true name had remained the same or if he hadn't remembered the Name of Names, does that mean Galbatorix would have easily defeated Eragon and the Varden?