#also my muse for zoya especially and inej but that was a given

[stormlit]

despite my...reservations with the show, it has reawakened my desire for grishaverse aus so a quick rundown:

molly is a kaelish healer, but she isn't fully aware of it? she's just got a good touch, she'd call it, and is excellent at healing people emotionally, but she's untrained and wouldn't think to consider herself grisha. she left the wandering isle a long time ago, working as a maid for rich ravkans (maybe even the royal family to get her known to more canons idk) to be able to send money back home, but with the war she volunteers to help healers on the battlefield, and then as the fold expands she moves to help refugees from the lost villages too.

nynaeve is from a tiny east ravkan village far from os alta that has always been protective of its grisha children, not wanting to send them far away, being unwelcome to the examiners, etc. though young, nynaeve is considered one of the leaders. however, the fold expands around the time a powerful grisha came through, and in the volcra-filled chaos, nynaeve loses track of her friends--and gains mistrust of this grisha. finding out that her friends, on the advice of this grisha, are heading to the little palace, nynaeve does the same; she gets there around the time of the attack on it, and in the wake of the devastation releases a wave of the most powerful unintentional healing/protective shield? almost? seen by anyone, let alone coming from an untrained grisha who knew she could heal, but didn't know the extent of her power. cannot stress enough how powerful this wave is. definitely ends up on alina's side and working at the spinning wheel, definitely not a fan of the little palace even though she does end up getting some training post-trilogy, definitely will tell snobby grisha what she thinks.

sadie isn't grisha. i originally wrote out a different thing but then i just had the thought of what if it's sturmhond's crew who rescues her from the terrible aftermath of the attack on her farm/murder of her husband, because that would also be an environment in which she could find reasons to live again but also be big on her revenge arc, as well as fully encouraging her ability with guns, and then working with nikolai to track down Bad Guys/traitors as a way to find reasons to live.

vex and the rest of vox machina are uhhh not little palace people at all, even though there's a fair number of grisha in their mix, but they do have the respect of a country's leadership in canon/have respected positions on the high council and why shouldn't that be ravka tbh. sometimes you need a gang of mercenaries idk what to tell you. she's suli but was raised away from that culture, along with her twin, by her awful father who is an ambassador and a terrible person, she's (probably) not grisha but is the best shot, would love nikolai's flying machines.