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De Nile-Gorgon biography

This is the longest deadcanon post I've ever written, but it needed to exist for easy reference so here it is 💜

Don’t come at me with canon rebuttals to stuff in this because every single thing I have changed is stuff that doesn’t make sense, so I fixed it.

💎=De Nile stuff 🐍=Gorgon stuff 🦇=Info about neither family but still needed to understand other stuff

💎The de Niles were ruling around 1350 B.C. (exact dates on this post). Cleo’s age in the reboot is 3,357, which is what I used for that timeline since it makes the most sense. The coup happens when Cleo’s around 7 years old, they’re rushed into the panic room (Nefera taking her corpse flower with her), and tricked into using the enchanted wraps. 

💎I’m guessing Ramses didn’t know enough about the mummification process to be able to tell that kind of enchantment from a protection one, but he trusted his adviser's word, which was a mistake. They were locked in that room while Dedyet is locked in her own, and all of them go into the magical coma.

🦇I should specify now that I headcanon that the human and monster worlds are two different dimensions, but they’re linked by points of contact where you can cross over; there’s one really close to New Salem, which is how Ghouls Rule happened. This is also how stuff like Boo York exists; it’s sort of in the same universal location as New York, but just on the monster side of the coin, if that makes sense. 

🦇But it wasn’t always that way; it was a slow separation, which is why you hear so many legends and stories about monsters from ancient times, moreso than now. 

💎Ancient Egypt existed at a time before the human and monster universes were separated, and mummies always wake up on the monster side once Osiris decides their sleep is over.

🐍The classical period of Greece was around 480 BC – 323 BC so I assume that’s around when the Gorgon sisters were born. The whole terrible thing with Poseidon happens, and Athena curses Medusa to have snakes for hair and cursed eyes, along with her sisters for daring to stand up for her. All three of them start living on Petros Island by themselves, since they obviously can’t live on the mainland. 

🐍Eventually, a thousand years or so pass, and Stheno (the oldest sister) gets restless because that’s who she is. She leaves the island after winning over Medusa’s worries, and finds out that there’s monster communities now and they can have places where they won’t be killed for existing. She returns to the island after about a decade or so of traversing the monster places and avoiding the human ones (since the dimension lines were messy at this point).

🐍When she tells Medusa and Euryale about how the world has changed, Euryale is still adamant about staying on the island cause she loves her privacy, but Medusa starts having second thoughts. Stheno pretty much does nothing but travel now, but she still visits her sisters often. She also has several children, probably around 20-ish by the time Deuce is born, but that’s not for a while, not for another thousand years at least.

🐍Medusa leaves the island at some point as well after making sure that Euryale will be okay by herself. She travels, too, but she does it less for Stheno’s reasons and more to maintain her caravan routine. She takes products made for monsters, common stuff like fang sharpeners, and goes to the human dimension to sell them for jacked-up prices. She thinks humans are suckers and still continues this practice every single summer to this day, using a cloak and a mask as her gimmick.

🐍In 1993 on one of her caravan rounds, Medusa hooks up with some normie she meets in Europe because she’s immortal and bored. Neither of them care to keep a way to contact each other, and they never see each other again. Surprise, she ends up pregnant from this, and while she doesn’t know how to feel about it, she did want to have a kid someday, so she figures now is a good of a time as any. On March 5th 1994, Deuce is born.

🐍Medusa takes care of Deuce while she’s traveling for a short while, but decides she’d rather him have a place to actually call home once he gets old enough to know what that is, so she settles down in New Salem, Massachusetts after hearing good things about its community. There aren’t many gorgons in the world, and she wants her son to grow up somewhere where he won’t feel out of place like she did so often. She still does her caravan trips, but only in the summer while Deuce is out of school so he can go with her and help her.

💎Around 2001 is when the de Niles wake up, including Dedyet. Ramses and the girls are stuck in the tomb for a few years, around 2 or 3; Amanita bloomed in the latter part of that timeframe, and probably wasn’t with the de Niles for more than a few months. They slept for around 3350 years, and Amanita’s blooming cycle is probably around 2-10 years so she just kept doing trial and error until she saw that the others were awake, cause there was nothing else for her to do and no way out. 

💎Meanwhile, Dedyet discovers a tunnel to a section of the catacombs in her tomb after searching around for quite a while because she’s a curious person. She pokes around down there for a while and doesn’t even notice that she isn’t ever hungry or tired because the stuff built by the aliens is just so fascinating. She probably goes through a few portals without meaning to, and ends up in the catacombs below New Salem, which is where she gets caught in that beam of cold light. This is where she stays for about a decade, the light preserving her much like the wraps did. 

🐍Amanita abandons Ramses, Nefera and Cleo after promising to return for help from the caravan in the distance, but decides to mooch off of the caravan instead, because helping the mummies would just be a lot of trouble. This is obviously Medusa’s, and this leads to an eternal grudge since Amanita straight-up steals from her and then goes back to sleep to avoid responsibility. 

💎Eventually, Ramses would have opened the window in the ceiling to be big enough for them to climb out of, and it’s likely that they got help from a passing traveller. It’s probably 2003-ish at this point, and Cleo’s physical age is 9 or 10, since mummies stop aging when they’re asleep and start again once they wake up.

💎The de Niles are taken to the mummy circle, which is a group of all the known mummies in the world (probably about 50 or 60 of them) that meets every so often to discuss their successes. While they’re discussing different places, New Salem gets mentioned offhand, and Ramses probably decides to take it on as a challenge; he wants to prove that he can wrap the city around his thumb, which he does end up doing in a way when he becomes the head of the construction committee at one point.

💎The de Niles move to Massachusetts, and Nefera and Cleo are tutored by Mrs. Yelps. This is how Cleo’s friendship with Ghoulia started, although it was probably a bit more strained back then due to Ramses’s presence. The tutoring continued until about 2006; this is when Nefera convinces her father to let her go to public high school, where she can better “influence the people”. He lets her, and Cleo follows suit in 2009 for her own freshman year. 

💜I’ll skip over most of the stuff that happens in Cleo and Deuce’s high school years, including stuff that wasn’t shown on-screen like Cleo and Deuce beginning to date since that topic alone would double the length of this post and this is already ridiculously long.

💎But I WILL mention that 2013 is when Robecca finds Dedyet in the catacombs, and the de Niles finally have their mother back.

💎Sometime after Dedyet returns, she and Ramses get a divorce since their marriage was never one of love to begin with. Dedyet meets Mrs. Yelps at the library she works at, and they get married and run a household full of nerds and also Cleo until she moves out.