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darkwingphoenix · 2 months ago

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Spoilers for my @loominggaia AU: Of Kids and World War

Warning: MASSIVE Spoilers for my AU series. Also, like the LG spoilers, there's a lot more going on under the hood (Smaller plot points, subplots, and so on)

About the same time as later parts of Amber's Childhood, the titular bitchular of the series, Project Starblast, happens, wiping Damijana off the map and killing a lot of Zareenites. Iriana Liatt of Dirty Animal fame, Skylie and Saraia are in Driza trying to sway the population to the Naturalist's side, and were funded by the Naturalists for that, Iriana for whatever reason

Project Starblast took out a lot of Driza and Viersen, so all 3 were under threat of death, and Skylie and Saraia managed to get a lot of people out with King and Rook, and Skylie got Iriana while Rook rushed past her.

After evacuating, the people of Driza and Viersen were told to get back to work by their employment or the government. Many were pissed and started protesting heavily. Meanwhile Iriana started feeling weird: She felt her music was weird, experienced nausea when seeing art or hearing music from elsewhere, and other stuff. Saraia and Skylie pieced together she somehow gained a soul and connected it to Project Starblast.

Eventually, the people of Driza and Viersen were told that if they were upset, they could leave Zareen, and as Skylie, Saraia and Iriana, along with Darshaan (Who hauled ass over on Queen, the monster Saraia made for him as a Chess Egg mount, when he heard of Project Starblast), started the journey to Damijana Sea (The water-filled crater of where Damijana got atomized for the most part), the disgruntled Zareenites followed right along.

After about 3 weeks, the exodus came to the crater, and found countless other monsters there as well, and even Overlord Morgause of Unseelie Court was there.

After finding out what happened from Damijani survivors and those who came from Slegelse to investigate, the group, excluding the Unseelie vanguard, decided to team up to rebuild, while avoiding the mistakes of before.

After like a year and a half, Skylie takes a break to meet up with her family in Uekoro for Amber's 2nd birthday, finding out Maui has gained a soul as well, and the World Athenaeum is saying the disaster must have had so much magical energy Gaia was temporarily overloaded and needed to let off the magic in the form of souls for monsters, and it's unknown whether the next monster generation would or not.

In addition, in various parts of the world, sightings of new species showed up: They called themselves kolari, fatui, marinal, fodiens, meshnokai, kitsune, yuki onna, tengu, oni, jorogumo, uruk-hai, woodcrafters, fareel, kulipari, baileif, and several more:

A new species of commoner, the Na-Vi from Avatar (Not the one with a kid with a blue arrow tattoo)

A new species of fae, the bangboo (From ZZZ)

A new species of gaian, the kobolds (Lizard people, essentially legged gorgons that are also able to hold their breath for a long enough time they join Aquarian groups around the world)

An additional youkai, the kappa

Another eviolan, the naiyul (An Aquarian that's essentially a stingray centaur)(Below is a female, although they have breasts like sirene)

And an extra meru species, the zilla (Basically a pterosaur like below)

These species all showed up all over the world in various numbers (Including a highly aquatic subgroup of Na'Vi, similar to feral satyrs, that becomes highly associated with Aquarians), but most prominently near Damiscend as it's growing. The naiyul spawn in the water nearby.

Eventually, wild plants start growing around Damiscend, making the Zareenites, who've never seen them before, surprised and realize how bad Zareen is, making a long-lasting anti-industrialization rhetoric in Ascendance.

Meanwhile in Evangeline, Cobalt ascends the throne and marries Sai, while maintaining a secret three-way mutual love triangle with Sai and Justinia. The Knights of Favonius slowly gain reputation and numbers in Evangeline, and after Saraia attacks, wiping out the royal guard with help from Darshaan and Trip, and Skylie shows up and shocks her whole family, replace the royal guard at Cobalt's request. Saraia also finds out, telepathically, Cobalt is trying to end slavery, slowly at first.

And, while the Knights make life in Evangeline much safer from monsters and lycanthropes, their presence, and the rise of traditional Lindism, called Reformed Lindism, and Project Starblast and the rise of Ascendance start straining life in Evangeline as people start to question the very foundation of the House of Humanity, despite the House's best efforts to wipe the aberrant thinking.

It doesn't help Skylie's random Vision gifting includes slaves and free people, making people question whether fae or gaians were that bad after all.

This is especially true with the royal family, who are now split between Cobalt, Lazuline, Saphirra and Marine and Cobalt's kids, who think the new way of thinking is best or at least condone their presence, and everyone else who are against the entire thing and wanna burn it down. The Knights of Favonius favor Cobalt overall, but never say anything.

Cobalt and his parents' relationship starts souring fast, especially after Cobalt finds out Justinia was forcibly bred by his parents, and chews them out and tells them that if they pull some dumb shit like that again, they're exiled from the Capital. At the same time, Maia, Cobalt's 14 year old daughter, and Lucius, Marine's slightly younger 16 year old twin son (The other went missing 6 years before, and was named Aether: However, he actually became an Ascendance general), realize they're a lesbian and a trans lesbian respectively, and Lucius changes her real name to Lumine, although secretly.

Eventually, shit goes to a head when Cobalt finds out Lumine was nearly executed but got saved by Paimon and Maia, revealing to him Lumine is trans and Maia is a lesbian, and supports both of them, then finds out Rodrig was behind it after forcing his son and heir Indigo, who found out by accident, using red hot rods. Then, on is way back after getting Lumine and Maia from the whole issue of Lumine's near hanging, he catches Cerulea trying to hide Justinia and a male sirene in a bush, which fails epically as she tried to hide them as Cobalt already started approaching and just stood in front of them, and figured out about Rodrig's shit after getting both him and Cerulea into the High Throne Room, along with Lumine's elfenne GF Furina (Who happened to be in the room when it all went down).

After hearing from Justinia what happened (And welcoming Jet, Justinia's old husband and Clarity and Amber's father, to the royal family, as well as Furina), he officially banished Cerulea, Indiga, and Rodrig from the Capital, personally seeing them out with several Favonius Knights, as well as Acting Grandmaster Jean and Skylie, who showed up as he was marching them into the main plaza.

However, this action sets off a chain reaction leading to the biggest war Looming Gaia has ever seen, essentially replacing the possible end for the FGG, via a multi-kingdom battle against the Cult of the Crescent in canon, with a world war. Yep, we're going that direction.

The way this goes is that Rodrig and Cerulea, along with the House of Humanity in Evangeline Capital, excluding Danus, Teal and Lazuline, get banished and wind up in Greenhearst, the largest enclave of Modern Lindism around. Here, they gather the soldiers there, as well as rallying Kelvingyard soldiers, and begin a violent rebellion.

Cobalt's answer to this is to send regular military over to Greenhearst and Kelvingyard to pacify the rebels, which only makes the rebel army grow as Modern Lindists from elsewhere in Evangeline rally in Kelvingyard, worsening the whole issue, before eventually Cobalt calls on the Knights of Favonius and eventually requests military support from Ascendance, especially after the Folkvaran Spec Ops and insurgent ex-slaves, manipulated by representatives of Cerulea and Rodrig into believing Cobalt's gonna worsen slavery in the kingdom join forces with the Modernists.

Also, Gultopp was already basically about to declare war against Cobalt due to him being insulted Cobalt was trying to make peace and invades Evangeline, and Ascendance troops wind up fighting the Folkvar navy.

The Unseelie Court, a long-standing ally to Ascendance, declares war against Gultopp and the Modernists, leading to Hethor declaring war on the Reformist Coalition to protect Folkvar, eventually leading to Zareen attempting a Reconquista to reclaim their land from Ascendance, and Mogdiri and Ascendii troops fight back to keep them from doing so, and then Lamai joins in to fight Ascendance, mostly to kill the false dragons (Various monsters, especially Skylie's monsters and saraians). Yerim-Mor joined the Reformists, as Jaq viewed Ascendance as a great ally, especially since Skylie personally led a buncha Knights of Favonius to take down the remaining Crescent Cult enclaves, since Skylie had honed her ability to rip of Crescent Masks like she did to Darshaan to be able to remove them without passing out.

Essentially, only Matuzu and the Seelie Court remain neutral, as even the Aquarian Alliance joins in, fighting everyone who's polluting their territory with bodies and ship stuff, and mostly because Sovereign, officially going loopy from brain cancer, wants to fight everyone while they're fighting each other.

Here's the sides of the war simplified:

Reformists: Evangeline Kingdom (Under Cobalt), Knights of Favonius, Ascendance, Unseelie Court, Mogdir, Yerim-Mor

Modernists: Evangeline Modern Lindism Rebellion, Folkvar, Ex-Slave Insurgents, Etios

Zareenite Reconquista (Technically a smaller military conflict, but officially considered part of the World War)

Aquatic Alliance Retaliation (Fighting everyone)

Lamai Crusade (Fighting Ascendance to kill off monsters)

This war takes like 16 years to fully end.

The Aquarian Alliance drops off first as Sovereign literally dies from his gut exploding from so much gas, and Champ signs peace with everyone just to let the Alliance rest after 8 years of just getting slaughtered, as leviathans controlled by magic are immune to the leviathan repellant spell, making swarms of koholasaurs kill millions of soldiers

Zareen falls off a season later, having gained zero ground and in fact having had its borders shrunken by Ascendii armies.

Lamai winds up way outta its weight class and gets hammered by an Ascendii splinter group sent to counter them, making the Lamai give up after having been beaten right back to their shores and surrender only a year after the AA and Zareen surrender

Mogdir signs peace with everyone at the same time Zareen surrendered, as they only wanted to protect their friend of Ascendance (OJ, with Winnie being his power behind the throne/Top advisor, is a good friend of Skylie's after Ascendance healed most of Evik)

The Modernists were eventually crushed as Gultopp and Hethor, the two people who were literally the only thing keeping the Modernist army alive via supplies, both died from being killed in battle age-related shit respectively, and Blomi basically immediately signed peace about a year before the war ended. This left Etios totally unable to fully supply the Modernists, and the army was completely crushed.

Indiga had died right before the war happened, and Cerulea was killed by Skylie in the aftermath of the largest battle of the Gaia World War, the Battle of Marduk Hill, where Gultopp also died. Skylie was also Gultopp's killer, having attempted to take her out again in a blind rage fueled by the amount of times Skylie came back during the war

It became a joke to the Reformists where Skylie would accidentally get killed in battle by Gultopp and have the Reformists lose that battle only to fight him again in another battle and get a Reformist victory. On the more serious side, scholars at the World Athenaeum studying the war knew how much the Modernists were surviving on Etiosi and Folkvaran supplies, and suspected only when Gultopp and Hethor died would the war end.

A month after that prediction, Gultopp finally fell to Skylie's sword, age, injuries, and Skylie's battlefield knowledge having finally proven too much for him to handle.

Keatto had zero ability to actually manage a war, and basically had every single male survivor of Hethor's line go to battle, where they all got killed in a Keatto-led attempt to take down Skylie was revenge. However, unlike the Gultopp/Skylie duels, which Skylie had purposely humored, she was no longer interested in dueling for the rest of the war, especially since she also knew the Modernists were being hard carried by Folkvar and Etios, so she was focused on ending the war now that half of the supplies were gone.

Upon Keatto's death, Hethor's dynasty totally fell apart, and Etios fell into a decade-long period of strife, leading to Thetos being revealed as being Hethor's illegitimate son by Murata, although Thetos had zero interest in Folkvar or Etios due to the GWW, and after finding out he was Hethor's kid he immediately packed his bags and fucked off to Ascendance, and Murata encouraged this, knowing he didn't need the stress of a High Ruler to have a good and full life.

This essentially made Etios too busy to fight the war, and eventually a centaur named Mangulos ascended the High Throne and signed peace, 4 years after the war had ended, and while it was added to the history books, everyone and their pet knows the war didn't end with Etios signing peace, it ended when the Modernists were finally crushed

Many people unofficially call the war over when Keatto and Hethor's sons and younger husbands died to Skylie's banner guard, having never even touched Skylie, save for Keatto who got a fatal case of Celestial-Blade-to-the-heart-itis

This holds a grain of truth, for the last year of the GWW was ridiculously one-sided: Almost every battle was an overwhelming win for the Reformists

Results

The results of the Gaia World War are as follows:

Evangeline Kingdom: Seriously fucked up from the war, where 75% of battles took place. Recovers in 10 years thanks to aid from Ascendance, Unseelie Court and Yerim-Mor, and reparations paid by Zareen, Etios, Folkvar and Lamai, as well as diplomatic aid from the Aquarian Alliance. Modern Lindism slowly dies off, the last truly Modern Lindist dying in Greenhearst in the fall of 6269 (Nice)

Ascendance: Its power made it a full Great Kingdom

Zareen: Serious loss in power, dependent on all other Great Kingdoms for everything except its own manufactured goods, much of which are exported for gold to buy imports. Slowly declines and loses Great Kingdom status in 6069, although still an independent kingdom, albeit a wealthy one from all of the industrial exports

Lamai: Massive population loss due to the war

Matuzu: Even richer than before the war, as they were giving everyone and their horses mercenaries. High King Rustafi decided to remain neutral specifically to reap the benefits of selling mercenary contracts to the entire planet

Mogdir: Loss in population normal for a war, but like 2 battles happened in Mogdir territory, both small skirmishes against Zareen

Yerim-Mor: Finally able to recover from the brink total collapse due to being the primary industrial supplier of the Reformists. Jaq eventually signs the Nymph Pact as Matuzu signs peace with Yerim-Mor and Yerim-Mor itself heals from the Gold River War due to a new vacuum of Crescent Cultists and an influx of wealth from the GWW

Etios: Struggling from a dynastic conflict, although fine once the war ends and a new High Ruler goes on the throne

Folkvar: Seeing an economic boom due to the war with Evangeline ending with Blomi and Cobalt, and the military of Folkvar sees massive budget cuts, all of that going to aiding the disabled, especially as Blomi discovers Sygbarne's existence halfway through the war (After the AA and Zareen tap out)

Unseelie Court: Morgause becomes a divine halfway through the war after being killed with Skylie, and immediately becomes a lot more involved with politics, mostly with Ascendance tho. The Kingdom as a whole becomes a lot better due to monsters feeling love and such and basically taking notes from Ascendance

Seelie Court: Literally nothing changes in the Seelie Court, beyond a larger intolerance of outsiders. Titania is still a crazy beans addict They really said

Burmek: Same as Seelie Court, too busy fighting nymphs and roleplaying Mad Max to GAF

Azizaland: Becomes even wealthier due to great trade deals between Yerim-Mor and Evangeline, although like 95% of that just gets dumped into making everyone's life there better or gets put into commissioned art outside of the kingdom

During the war, Reformist soldiers who distinguished themselves in battle all got Visions from Skylie herself

Evangeline, now under Cobalt and mostly following Reformed Lindism, fairly rapidly abolishes slavery, instead purchasing monsters made for farming from Ascendance to do the work, and LGBT rights come a few years after the war ends (Specifically a season before Etios signs peace). Lumine and Furina actually have their wedding on the same day as the LGBT marriage laws go up in celebration, followed by JustSaibalt doing so in a grand ass wedding a month later, Cobalt reinstating Justinia and Jet's marriage as well

TLDR: Cobalt accidentally starts a world war and wins, making Gaia a way better place for everyone.

Also, Cobalt and Skylie are definitely the main characters here

#looming gaia #spoiler alert

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