#Galen Ruunaser

[red-velvet-0w0]

as promised, Ruunasibs angst because they are everything to me

@comicaurora

lyrics are from Mama by MCR

[falst-suggestions]

if you have ancient lineage why are you short

Erin’s the prince of fucking Asera and his dad’s money is older than Caliban and he’s 5’6 riddle me that you bitch

[themoonstonechronicler]

The last few updates of aurora have prompted everyone to theorize about Erin's Secret Backstory that Red won't tell us, so here are some of my horribly researched, very serious theories!

-He was adopted. Galen searched until he found a baby Elemental Magus, took him to the soulshaper monks, and they made baby erin look like he was Galen's kid.

-he killed someone. i don't know who, maybe a sibling, but it was probably when he was young and didn't have a whole lot of control over his powers. He badly injured them, and then Galen took them both to the soulshaper monks, who tried to help the injured one but failed, and put erin's sealing tattoos on. i have no evidence for this, which is a running theme in this post

[the-mountain-flower]

It just clicked in my head that Erin is so hubristic because he holds himself to such high standards. He feels like he has to be the best or else he feels like he failed, and that's why he's so hard on himself for seemingly not being powerful enough to protect those he cares about.

[the-mountain-flower]

In my defense, I don't think that what I mentioned is the only reason for the tattoos, and that there's probably more to it, though in hindsight I didn't communicate that very well. There's definitely something more he hasn't admitted yet, specifically indicated by his and Tess's narrative hints.

I don't really subscribe to the theory that he fully became the Elemental Magus via soulshaping, though I think there is merit to the idea. Specifically that he was in need of more help than he's letting on. But it's heavily indicated that magical links can't be created where there were none, so if they can be opened or smn like that, it's because they were still there in the first place.

I'm less inclined to theorize that way for Erin now though, because of his high-capacity links. While he's almost certainly not telling the whole story, I really don't think he's lying. It also doesn't appear obvious that his tattoos are sealing ones, since no one else in the Floof Squad seemed to be aware that they were for sealing, so if he wanted to keep it a secret I think he would have passed it off as for some other form of magic usage, or as used for smn other than corruption risk (tho Red said a while back that sealing tattoos are rarely used so it's not certain people would even recognize it as such at a glace). In both cases, it's probably because the tattoos are a lot more intricate that what we see on Tarren, so their purpose isn't obvious to other mages (IIRC they were only ever theorized to be sealing tattoos until today's reveal).

There's also a possibility that it's not something most people would be ashamed of (especially since disability isn't nearly as looked down upon in Aurora as it is in the real world ❤️), but that Erin has personal reasons to keep it a secret (such as a traumatic event in correlation to it).

Jumping off the previous ask, if Erin has a connection to EVERY element, does that mean he just has a low-grade headache like all the time? 'Cause if so that would explain a lot.

What an interesting possible reason to contribute to him having all of his links permanently sealed

[reflection-s-of-stars]

👀 i'd love to hear about tha aurora modern au!

[ID in alt text]

@anthonynotgreen @djpuppy @falst @jewishdainix and anyone else who wanted to hear about my modern AU: here it is! All image descriptions will be in alt text :)

Name: Kendal Fairblade

He/him, probably a cis dude but who knows for sure, aroace

18, college freshman (first year of college)

Architecture major

Roommates with Alinua

Erin’s study buddy

Childhood friends with Dainix

Prized possession is his dad’s old car, which is bright blue and in horrible shape. Designated driver of the squad

Absolute god at arcade games (skee-ball etc.)

Blue eyed stare™️

The only member of the squad with (diagnosed) autism

Name: Alinua Parra

She/they/it, agender girl, ace lesbian

19, college freshman

Biology major (specializing in botany)

Roommates with Kendal

Erin’s study buddy

Falst’s former foster sister

Has so many plants and somehow finds time to keep all of them alive. Would kill for them probably

Bees love her also. Particularly her hair

The nicest person you’ll ever meet. She’s full of rage also

Claims she has her shit together but will see a butch and go weak in the knees

Name: Erin Ruunaser

He/him, transmasc, bi + aro

19, college sophomore (second year of college)

Pre-med, physics minor

Study buddies with Kendal and Alinua

Tess’s adoptive younger brother

His dad, Galen, owns the university he goes to. This is a fact that does not make him friends easily

Thinks he’s better than coffee drinkers but is addicted to chai

Usually dresses like he’s on his way to an interview, with the exception of finals week, during which he wears exclusively a Les Mis sweatshirt

Always sick but never misses class

Name: Falst. Falst what? Just Falst, thanks.

He/him but don’t ask about his gender, gay

18, works at a mechanic shop

Former foster siblings with Alinua

Other than her nobody knows anything about him

Exclusively wears jeans that are way too big on him

Has a stray cat that hangs around him. It does not have a name but it always gets fed somehow

Will growl at you. It absolutely doesn’t mean he doesn’t like you

Thinks redheads are hot

Name: Tess Ruunaser

She/her, butch lesbian

21, “professional wanderer and student of life” (unemployed)

Erin’s adoptive big sister

Ran away from home at sixteen and hasn’t seen her adoptive family since then (she and Erin do text though)

Girl magnet but can’t keep a relationship to save her life

Has lived in eight countries and will make it your problem. “This is pretty good, but in Greece…”

A match for Kendal at skee-ball. Their confrontations are epic

“Knows a guy” for everything

Name: Dainix Cruces

He/him, trans man, gay

19, taking a gap year and planning to go to culinary school

Childhood friends with Kendal

Has the best hair in the squad (it’s a ginger thing 😌)

Has a different story every time you ask about his eye

Best cook in the squad but everything he makes has So Much Goddamn Paprika

Literally has anything you could possibly need in his pockets

Thinks short people are hot

That’s the gang! LMK if you have questions about backstories, other characters, ETC

[narnianvalkyrieofberk]

New year, new me! ... Or at least continuing to try and build a me I like progressively more and more. Today's step? Starting to kill the part of me that fears being cringe by posting my @comicaurora self insert OCs even tho they're super self indulgent and occasionally lore-breaking (sometime because I misread/misremembered something from the lore page; sometimes because I use them in RPs and I like watching Erin lose his shit over something that makes no sense to him :P )

One of my earlier ones. Metalcaste because y'know. Wanting to be a cool metal lady like Tess. Ended up making an AU of the og version because the og version leaves Zuurith immediately after being released from prison and ended up being @nogenderonlyvoid's self insert's bodyguard. I wrote a ficlet that involved Icarus turning down Shrike's offer to take them to breakfast their first full day outside of prison, but Icarus turned her down and left Zuurith all together instead. Of course eventually I started wondering what if she took Shrike up on her offer and that's when the second version happened.

Can you tell I have a thing for wind-fire-lightning as a tri-element combo? :P

Oh hey, this one cursed out Caliban to his face. And for once we didn't do a wind-fire-lighting combo! Progress! Expanding to new horizons! :P

This one was a wind mage until I remembered that younger races don't do elemental magic. So she ended up obsessed with lacrima instead. Frequently mistaken for a freshman his entire time at the academy. Great way for me to vent my frustrations over how people responded to my baby face in college! May or may not have a starmetal dagger in their boot.

I keep doing AUs of this one. OG version was "adopted" alongside Tess and had to hide her full-leopard form because Galen was scared of it. Then did a version where The Ruunasers only knew about the leopard form and kept her as a pet until Falst enters the mix. And more recent AU has been "Snowspot" running away from the Ruunasers shortly before Tess sparks and running into Falst and chilling with him. Ruunaser twins (Erin and @nogenderonlyvoid's oc) don't find Falst's shifter buddy is Snowspot until Petrichor

Ah yes, nothing makes a possessed elemental magus trust you more than slapping a sealing cuff and ropes on him while he's passed out from fending off a primordial void dragon! In the Junior Champion's defense, they were badly injured from the battle and wanted to make sure the Void Dragon couldn't run away with his vessel while she trying to clean and bandage her wounds. Wrote a ficlet for this one that takes place shortly after he loses his status and his arm. Got to project my obsession with looking at the moon at night.

Narni Chaosbringer who I definitely did not forget to add until after initially posting :P ^^"" God of "everything fun" or "everything chaotic and destructive" depending on if you ask them or Zuurith :P Has one (1) emissary who is also an elemental magus because I reeeaaaally wanted to fuck with Erin.

[quark-art]

@comicaurora sorry for the tag but theres a part 3 now because people were talking about a galen reaction

[dirtymac]

@quark-art @comicaurora

and here’s all of ‘em together (art by quark)

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

It's an interesting idea. The idea of kid Erin running into a thunderstorm trying to help his sister is sweet and heart wrenching all at once. This is the kid Tess has described as fragile and prone to passing out. A storm rolls overhead and he feels the passive magic to see if there's another will on it. Maybe that's where he learned the "rookie mistake" that poorly channeling lightning magic can paralyze. If there's a storm god moving past, then the two stay inside. If not, then maybe they sneak out of the house, with Erin hoping that the sky might choose his sister.

Likely, Galen and other folks of the Ruunaser household weren't exactly thrilled with the tiny elemental magus running right into a lightning storm. My brain has started thinking of the various shenanigans Erin might have to pull to get out of the house during a thunderstorm.

Galen, exhausted, disheveled, wearing a bathrobe: Erin this is the fifth time in the past two weeks please come back inside

Erin, tiny small child, who just got outside the house: You can't make me do anything! [this is referencing that one vine]

do you guys ever think about the fact that when Erin entered The Storm for the first time he entered it from the lightning side because it was the element he felt most comfortable around after being raised with Tess?

do you think when he saw the lightning he thought of her?