#aob: demigod edition

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ok so I was reading a pjo fic when I suddenly came across this:

And so I decided Mestionora does the same and then had the idea... what if Rozemyne was Ferdinand's and Mestionora's daughter?

Mestionora: *Casually strolls upto Ferdinand on his graduation day* Aubs+students+royalty: *Kneels* Ferdinand: *Confused af* Mestionora: remember that theisis you wrote for your magical tools final? *shows newborn rozemyne* that impressed me very much

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It's finally done~! @insert-clever-username-1133

I hope you like it!

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More stuff about the Demigod au

So the Demigods go to their own school that is called Divine academy (thanks @insert-clever-username-1133 for the idea!) and it takes up hald of the Sov while the Royal academy takes up the other half as shown bellow:

the map shows the duchy dorms and the Godly dorms in their duchy/godly colour, how do the godly dorms work? Say for example your parent is Angriff, God of war, since he's a subordinate of Lidenschaft, the demigod will go to the Leidenschaft/blue dorm. The Red dorm on the outer edge is Geduldh's dorm and that's where all the student's who's parents who aren't subordinates of the supreme couple or the Eternal five (well, four in this case) such as childen of apprentice gods or even Chaocipher.

The schools are connected at the large circle where the garden of beginings are (and a long corridor) where Nobles could get their schtappes and demigods could go talk to Erwaermen to get news from their godly parents, bet the tree gets lonely, so now he gets to talk to a bunch of students~ Aren't I so nice? :)

There are 2 aus I'm imagine:

Nobles fogot demigods exist and due to magic and the hall that connects the two sides of the schools get sealed up, only the connection to the garden of beginings remain but nobles and demigods dont go through the other's eist, also Nobles can't see pass the blue line cuz there's this heavy fog but the Demigods could see just fine

Demigods and Nobles co-exist and know of eachothers existance, and while plenty of nobles look down on the demigods for their commoner background, lines of communication are still open between the two groups and there's no heavy fog stopping the nobles from seeing the demigod side or any wall from stopping them from mingling

For the sake of this post, let's go with the second option where demigods are remembered.

The Leidenschaft and Dunkelfelger's dorms are very close so they have ditter atleast thrice a week (Where Leidenschaft dorm wins almost every single ditter).

The Cuococalura kids (and kids of Cuococalura's apprentices) all get together to make breakfast, lunch and dinner for all the Godly dorms.

Kunstzeal and Vulcanift (plus apprentice) kids are in charge of the decorations

and those whose parents are responcable for harvest and hunting and blooms and stuff grow the food or hunt feybeasts for the meals.

Demigod-nobles, who's mortal parents are nobles are expected to finish their studies as fast as possible and then spend atleast 2 days a week on the demigod side of the RA/DA.

Also, while plenty of nobles look down on the demigods for their commoner origins, plenty more nobles order their children to make demigod connects or to even marry a demigod because of their high mana capacity and high attributes and bits of their godly powers shine through in the next generation.

E.g. A Drewanchel archnoble or archduke candidate might be told to woo a child of Mestionora or those of Dunkelfelger might try their luck with someone from the Leidenschaft dorm or a child of Leidenschaft even.

Imagine Rozemyne, who isn't a demigod but people think she's a demigod anyways cuz of her uncanny resemblence to Mestionora and her love for books ends up in the DA: Rozemyne: I don't think I should be here... I'm in the wrong place.. Student: Nonsense! You're at the right place! Rozemyne: I'm really not- Student: hushes her shhh... It's ok... It can be very hard being away from your parents firstie... Would you like to read the book from our library? Rozemyne: Remembering how sylvester said she can't go to the library until everyone passes Nevermind! I'm in the right place! I'd love to read!

Also, fun little snippit between a Dunkelfelger Archnoble and their Child of Angriff Fiance:

DA: What should we do for our wedding? CAF: Well we must have a celebratory ditter to celebrate our engagement DA: Ofcourse Dear CAF: And our pre-marriage because it's commoner custom to celebrate becoming married by having a bachelor party with our friends and what better party than a ditter? DA: Couldn't have said it better! CAF: Then we shall have an after marriage ditter where all the guest will participate DA: Lovely idea~! Shall we have a honeymoon ditter? CAF: But ofcourse! But first, we must have a pre-honeymoon ditter so we could come to a decision on where to spend our honeymoon! DA: Swooning marry me already! CAF: Not before our engagement celebration ditter or our pre-marriage ditter!

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So... How does the Temple work in Demiverse?

using this blog to plan for my Demiverse meets cannon fic

Before I go any futher, special thanks to @aubdrewanchel for helping me with the Temple layout!

Below is the blueprints of the Temple in the Demiverse:

Ground Floor:

1st floor: (White Robed Rooms)

2nd Floor: (Blue Robed Rooms)

3rd Floor: (Grey Robed Rooms)

Temple Hierarchy:

Head Priest (Demigod)

High Priest (Demigod)

White Robed (Demigods)

Blue Robed (Nobles/people with Mana)

Grey Robed (Commoners/people without Mana)

What does the Temple do?

The Temple does many things such as:

The Head and High Priests keep the Duchy Foundation underneath the Temple safe, not that they'll be thanked for that seeing the the Aubs and their heirs forgot their is a route to the Foundation via the Temple-

Dedication Ritual to fill all the Duchy's chalices

Make sure every Geibedom recives their fair share of Chalices

Collects taxes and transfers those taxes to the Aub's castle

Hunt down extremely violent feybeast throughout the Duchy to keep the commoners safe

Philanthropic work such as running hospitals and schools

Hold up! You said the Temple hunts down Feybeasts? How do they do that?

The Temple funds it, White Robed are allowed to become 'Adventurers', in groups of three - five, these Adventurers are sent out to various Geibedoms where they patrol the countryside to make sure dangerous feybeast stay out of cities/towns/villages (they don't kill feybeast willy-nilly, overhunting could lead to huge ecological impacts).

Adventurers are important, not only do they provide security to the countryside due to a certain recent civil war - many Knights Orders have decreased in size so it's difficult for the Nobles to keep order in the Duchy - but they also help the Demigods because to release mana in a safe and healthy way Demigods need to participate in their parents domains, making this a good outlet for - e.g, children of Leidenschaft.

How is the Temple funding all of this?!

The Temple gets to keep 20% of the taxes they collect, rest goes to the Aub, but 20% is still a huge amount of money. They also get plenty of donations as well.

Why do the Grey Robed have a school within their floor?

Can't have stupid workers can we know? If the Grey Robed cant read then how could they possibly understand what their superiors would want? If their Blue/White Robed wasn't present to give them orders, were they supposed to just sit around and no nothing?!

So ya, they get an education, learning how to read and write and do basic maths, some even learn poetry or music to entertain the White/Blue Robed or even act as teachers if they're skilled enough.

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One thing I forgot to add is that the Cathedral contains All the Gods, not just the supreme couple and the Eternal Five, I'm talking them, their subordinates, their Subordinates' subordinates, Chaosciper, Mestionora and Erwaermen.

Imagine your a little Commoner/Noble, going to be baptised, you're shit nervous and you walk into this big hall and there's these large ivory white statues as tall as 12 feet and 299 of them, all staring down at you as you enter the temple for the first time....

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Guys~!

Got a new developing au I'd like to share with all of you.

Consider this: Demigods in Yurgenschmidt

So since the Gods are real, they're pretty bored in heaven doing work 24/7 so sometimes they would come downstairs to have a bit of 'fun' by hooking up with mortals leading to the existance of demigods.

During the Ancient times Demigods (and their mortal parents) would be reveared by the nobility of Yurgenschmidt (and commoners) due to them being divine-adjacent but as Yurgenschmidt became less and less religious that stopped happening and those demigods at the royal academy would get eye-rolled at cuz them passing all their subjects on the first day? Must be because their mommy or daddy is a God who gave them a power boost, not because of their own intellegance or anything.

So the demigod population at the RA slowly decreased and decreased until there were none left and the knowledge of Demigods existing decreased and deacreased until no noble remembered what demigods were or that they exist.

in modern times, most (if not all) the Demigods are born from God/Commoner mortal unions and is kept a secret from the Nobility that there's a thriving demigod population in each Duchy. The commoners know that there are Gods and that they exist because it's quite common to hear a very wealthy man/woman visiting the commoners neighbours or an Aunts or brothers, lavishing them with gifts and when the aunt becomes pregnant the rich man/woman leaves and 9 months later the baby is born with super powers, or incase of a guy, the rich man/woman leaves and then 9 months later there's a knock at the door, no one's outside except for a sleeping baby who looks like a mix between the commoner and the rich man/woman.

So, How do the demigods drain themselves of excess mana? They do so by partaking in their parents domains. Child of Unheilschneide? They make sure the water supply is kept pure from illness causing stuff and poisionous chemicals that may seep into the water. Children of Bluanfah and Efflorelume? Ensure good harvests, ofcourse, not everyone has such easy ways to partake in their parents domains and not build up an excess of mana in their systems. Since there'no wars, children of Angriff have to make due by protecting feilds from dangerous feybeasts or take down trombes. Children of Beischmacht might become expert seamstresses when it comes to making bed sheets or carving beds or know which herbs coul make one fertile or barren. It's how they differ from the devouring, the demigods have only 1 (very strong) attribute and enough mana to rival a zent or archduke candidate and don't need feystones to remove excess mana from themselves unlike the Nobility or the devouring.

So why do I think all the demigods would be from commoner parents? Simple. The Gods think Nobles are boring. Here me out: no hand-holding before marriage for Nobles while commoners are ok with kisses before engagement, with how stringent Nobles are about propriety, it's gonna be hard for God's to meet up with any Noble lovers they might want to take cuz if you don't have a proper introduction to said Nobles in Noble society, your probably gonna definatly get executed depending on how low status you are (and the Gods most definatlypretend to be low status Nobles cu everyone knows everyone in the high status nobles), also it must feel super weird when Nobles use their names as euphemisms, like, schuzaria be getting turned off because this mortal keeps referring to her private parts as 'geduldhs chalice', also Nobles are followed everywhere by their retainers, kinda hard to wisk their lovers away to a secluded spot.

I'm thinking the Demigods have their own school? Maybe? Do you guys think that's a good idea?

Also How do you guys think Rozemyne and Ferdinand would react to Demigods existing?

Feel free to add any of your headcannons in the comments or reblogs, I would love to hear what others think of this au.

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Had a bit of crisis of faith and decided to put all my aob works in an unrevealed collection for a few hours and now pulled them out of the unrevealed collections causing ao3 to think I've published new fics for some reason so if anyone's subscribed to me and got notifications from ao3 about me writing 13 new fics.... ya sorry about that :(

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Before I get started, special thanks to @olyollyoxenfree for beta-ing this!

“These are Roshogollas.” Detlinde explained as she pointed to the white sweets made of cheese, drenched in a sweet syrup mixture, “And these are Gollap Jamuns.” Detlinde pointed to the sweets that looked like a Roshogolla, but with a dark brown exterior. Both of the sweets were perfectly round and small enough to pop into her mouth in one bite, which she did to poison test them, after graduation, she did not plan to join the Nobility but had dreams of going to a good fashion collage on Earth once she had graduated the Royal Academy, however, that did not mean she forgot how the Nobility acted, so to make her guests comfortable, she poison tested to show the sweets were not poisoned.

She couldn’t help but let out a smile as she ate, once Auntie heard she was going to have a tea party with a Rozemyne from another world as well as other archduke candidates (for some odd reason, Ferdinand was not Rozemyne’s blood-related Father in the other universe) Auntie wasted no time and sent her and Sentisia across the street to buy Roshogollas and Gollap Jamuns, they were their universe’s Rozemyne’s favourite sweets after all (atleast, that was what Sentisia told her) so it was only logical to assume this other Rozemyne would like these sweets to (according to Sentisia, again).

Detlinde watched as Rozemyne and the other Archduke candidates ate the sweets, “The Roshogollas have an… Interesting taste to them.” Rozemyne said.

Her best friend looked confused when Rozemyne said that, Sentisia was always good at reading people, “What do you mean by that?” She enquired. Detlinde was also confused, she took one of each sweet once more and ate them slowly.

They didn’t taste weird, or bad, the sweets didn’t taste expired at all, so what gives? Were they not supposed to share the same taste buds as their this-world selves?

“Apologies.” Rozemyne said, “I sometimes find Ahrensbach cuisine to be a bit too sweet for my taste.”

"It is a shame that a shortage of sugar from your diet renders your palate unable to appreciate such delectable sweets. I, on the other hand, would enjoy being served this dish as dessert daily," the other version of Detlinde snipped, which the demigoddess ignored, opting to focus on her own thoughts.

This… Wasn’t Ahrensbach cuisine though? 

“This isn’t Ahrensbach cuisine.” Sentisia said, echoing her thoughts. “Nor is this part of the main course, this is a dessert.”

“Well…” Rozemyne said all flustered, which was a first because their universe’s Rozemyne never got flustered, “The food here is quite interesting…”

“I found the sweets to be very tasty.” Mia, daughter of Efflorelume and Leader of Flutrane’s Dorm said.

“I have not tasted anything quite like this before.” Adolphine from the other world said. “It is quite enjoyable, I can see why it is a popular dish in your world, it is soft and spongy with the right amount of sweetness to the dish.” 

Detlinde did not like the way Rozemyne said ‘interesting’, however, she did not have time to ponder on what that meant as Rozemyne’s retainers brought out sweets as well, in her confused state of mind, Detlinde almost forgot the reason they called this tea party: An exchange of otherworldly cuisine. Where all the Archduke candidates from the other world tasted some food from their world while the Dorm leaders and their vice-leaders tasted some of the other world’s food.

Such a shame their world archduke candidates weren’t able to join, however it was spring so they had duchy work to do, while demigods did come to the DA off-season, not much work was done and they all treated this time and place like an after-school hangout zone.

They were served cake, along with two jams, one called ‘rutreb jam’ and the other called ‘rumtopf’, Detlinde ignored Rozemyne’s remarks on how ‘noblewoman prefer rutreb jam and noblemen preferred rumtopf’, she could make her own decisions thanks. She liked the rumtopf better, mostly because she just ate four sweets and was starting to crave something a little less sweet. Other than that, the cake was average, though she found it lacking something which was made up for it by the addition of rumtopf but still…

Vanilla… Detlinde realised the cake was lacking vanilla which caused it to taste a little off. “The cake is… Good.” Detlinde said, unable to find any other words to describe what she just experienced, it wasn’t amazing, it wasn’t spectacular, it wasn’t whatever long description of adjectives those food animes could come up with to describe a single dish was, it was simply… Good.

Coming out of her thoughts, she noticed the conversation had changed, the other Rozemyne was talking about commerce, trade for her recipes. Detlinde frowned and looked over to Sentisia who had pasted a smile upon her face, the other Rozemyne wanted to sell her recipes to their world, she made the recipes sound like they were given by the Gods, the way she talked… As if her cuisine was the best.

Detlinde looked at the half eaten Roshogolla and Gollap Jamun on Rozemyne’s plate, not even half eaten, probably one fourth of a whole, quite shocking to see with how small the sweets were.

This girl couldn't even be bothered to finish them. They tasted that bad. Detlinde balled her hands into fists under the table at the thought of her best friend's thoughtfulness being taken for granted. Sentisa had gone out of her way to bring sweets from her dear sister's favourite Indian sweets shop on Earth. All so this Rozemyne-someone she wasn't even related to-could enjoy the same sweets, and yet...

“Perhaps at the Archduke Conference-”

“An excellent suggestion.” Detlinde smiled, “However, I do believe selling retrub jam, rumtopf and pound cake recipes would not be a… Feasible trade during the coming Archduke Conference.” Detlinde felt nothing when she saw the growing shock on other Rozemyne and higher-ranked archduke candidates faces (her other self on the other hand, had a hard time wiping a grin off her face which she opted to hid with a hand fan) all the while the present demigods were nodding along to what she said.

“May I enquire as to why?” Other Rozemyne asked.

“Not only is the dish simple, but we have similar recipes back home.” Detlinde said, “It would be a waste of gold to trade this recipe.” It was true, they had many kinds of jams in their Yurgenschmidt, jams were essential during the winter months.

“There are plenty of other dishes that can be traded at the Archduke Conference.” Rozemyne stated, sure she could find a dish Detlinde would like, Detlinde wasn’t so sure, she liked spicy foods, savoury foods, sweet foods, not bland pound cakes served with a side of jam with ‘new innovation’ written on a sticky-note attached to the dish, she liked to feel something when eating food, something that didn’t make her go ‘this is just a rehash of [insert another food here]’, something authentic, something unique to that particular region.

She felt that particular taste when eating food from the other Duchies, millenia upon millenia of love and labour going into each dish. With Ehrenfest however? It was giving ‘trying to be trendy’. Something Detlinde couldn’t help but despise, they came here to appreciate each region’s unique culinary diversity, not… This…

“Very well.” Detlinde said, “While I am excited to see what Ehrenfest can come up with that will tickle our tastebuds, I do believe the objective of today’s tea party is to not only see which foods from the other world we enjoy.” She said, gesturing to her and the other demigods, “But which dishes you enjoyed as well, enough for trade.”

Detlinde gestured to the almost-empty piles of dishes in front of them, “Which ones did you enjoy, Lady Rozemyne?”

For some reason, Rozemyne was silent.

“Indeed.” Sentisia said, “I’m quite intrigued to know how your taste buds differ from your counterpart’s - my sister’s taste buds.”

“I enjoyed the dishes served today.” Rozemyne said.

“Yes but which ones?” Detlinde pressed, “I understand you may not remember the dish’s name, after all, there were so many delectable dishes today, perhaps you could point to the dish on the table?”

“Detlinde, perhaps you forget yourself.”

“Ah!” Detlinde acted shocked as she daintily covered her mouth with the tips of her fingers, feigning catching her blunder, “I do apologise, Lady Eglantine and Lady Rozemyne. Perhaps it was too forward of me to ask for Rozemyne to point to the dish, surely a Noble of sufficient education would have memorised the names of the dishes presented in today’s tea party.” 

Most of the Nobles agreed with her, a Noble not being able to remember a few dozen new dishes in a single bell? How absurd, if they couldn’t remember a few simple dishes then how would they remember large amounts of information daily to be able to rule a Duchy then? Or help their spouse rule a Duchy?

“I do believe she did not like any of the dishes us demigods have shared today.” Henry, son of Seheweit and vice leader of the Leidenschaft dorm said, “Infact, I dare say that she did not enjoy any of the dishes today, except for one.”

“I wonder which dish that could be.” Detlinde mused aloud, shooting a pointed glance at the pound cake with jams. 

“I believe all the dishes are lovely!” Rozemyne squeaked, searching for the words to help her get out of the pickle, “It is simply I’m not used to eating such-”

“How curious.” Detlinde said, cutting off the girl’s escape. “You say you enjoy yourself, Rozemyne, yet you cannot name a single dish you enjoyed in this tea party other than your own. Could the son of the God of Foresight truly be mistaken in his assessment? 

The other Rozemyne let out a series of stammers. Pathetic. This Rozemyne did not possess even one-fourth of the capabilities nor eloquence as their own Rozemyne, and Detlinde watched in morbid amusement as the lesser counterpart realised she had basically called the Gods' wisdom into question.

"This tea party was meant to bridge our two worlds; to sample foods one otherwise would not have the chance to try. It would seem, however, that our cuisine was the furthest thing on your mind. Rather than personal insight, the conversation moved only to talks of trade."

Detlinde seethed quietly and stared into the smaller girl's wide, golden eyes. 

"Otherworldly information in exchange for a few meagre coins. In turn, you spread it with your influence so far and wide across Yurgenschmidt that everyone would be addicted to your recipes and they would reject millennia upon millennia of cooking tradition in favour of your cookbooks. They can make food using regional ingredients, but only make food with regional ingredients as dictated. Who would dare question the wisdom of the Saint of Ehrenfest? Anything else would be behind the times - inferior and an affront." Detlinde could feel her hair swirling in spiral patterns in response to her rising anger. 

Detlinde didn’t realise it, but somewhere in her angry rant, she had gotten up and walked towards the other Rozemyne and was now staring her down.

"Why take the time to appreciate the current cooking styles, understand the regional and supply differences which resulted in each dish's creation, and gradually build upon the ideas of predecessors? Why bother when superior methods are readily available to save the slow and ignorant masses?"

Detlinde crouched as she leaned in to whisper into Rozemyne's ear. "You know what that mentality of yours is giving? It's giving cultural dismissal." With that, she stood up straight and walked out of the tea party room.  Not willing to put up with that farce a second longer.

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“Anada should have played offensive.” Tulli said, “She's being wasted by being put on defence.”

 

“I heard she doesn't like to play offence.” Rozemyne said, “Said it would make the game boring, which is true. All she needs is to make one portal, place the end of the portal behind the defending knights and have a one-shot chance at killing their beast.”

 

“That is true.” Rozemyne commented, she watched the match, while Charlie and Anada were busy with the Dunkelfelger knights, on the other side of the field a fight broke out as the Nobles tried to stop the Demigods from coming any closer to their treasure, her sister - Sentisia - was trying to slip past the knights using a Verbergens’ shroud to kill the Hundertteilung.

 

How exciting! Rozemyne did not know where to look! She made a quick glance towards the other side of the field and noticed one of the knights holding a small stone in a slingshot and aiming it towards the Ternisbefallen’s mouth… Was their plan to lodge a stone into the feybeast and hope it choked itself to death? No if that were the case then the stone would have been much bigger…

 

“A feystone…” Toby muttered as he adjusted his magical glasses, “They are going to feed it to the feybeast, causing the feybeast to increase in size and strength,”

 

“Charlie and Anada may lose control of the feybeast forcing them to subdue it before anyone gets hurt.” Rozemyne nodded to herself, “Leading to the Noble’s victory, quite the interesting play here.”

 

“That’s quite stupid of them.” Tulli frowned, “Didn’t they try that trick last year? We won of course because the Nobles feybeast was killed mere seconds before our team was forced to kill our own but still…”

 

“No one expects the same trick twice.” Toby said, “Especially in Ditter where each team’s strategy is expected to change and evolve overtime. The Nobles must believe the Demigod team would not be expecting them to use this trick again and thus be doomed to fail.”

 

Unfortunately for the Nobles, both Anada and Charlie noticed the feystone and both used their magics to stop the feybeast from eating the feystone, Charlie used his time magic to turn back time on the feystone, causing the feystone to rewind backwards towards the Nobles while Anada was in the process of opening a portal to a far away location so the Nobles would not be able to access the feystone anymore, Rozemyne approved of Anada’s plan and from the looks of it, so did Charlie who was rapidly catching on what Anada was trying to do and forwarded time on the feystone to travel back in its original direction, through the portal and out of the Nobles reach.

 

However, Charlie sped up time on the feystone faster than he should have and the time-mana charged feystone rapidly collided with the still-forming portal causing a sudden explosion. Rozemyne quickly shielded her eyes, despite her quick reaction, the bright light could be seen through her eyelids and seemingly burned her retinas. Once the light had dissipated, a large portal had opened, large enough for a Ternisbefallen to comfortably enter through it.

 

Incidentally, the Demigod team’s treasure, a Ternisbefallen, was nowhere to be seen.