#i feel like there's some kind of kronos thread to be made out of barbatos and diavolo's side of the story

[journey-to-the-attic]

oo i like it!! in terms of early communication (also some other things i ended up thinking of), here are my thoughts

we've already got a bit of a starting point in that ik is already the sort of person whose emotions are incredibly (and unintentionally) readable to just about anyone, and it'd be the same for the dragons even when they've only just met her. she's just so obvious about it - which would incline them to be less vicious on first encounter, they just feel bad for this tiny shaky human who's trying to put on a brave face despite how clearly terrified she is

i believe in sam's original ask (it feels so long ago now....) mammon and ik have a hiccup+toothless moment on first meeting, so in my head they sorta 'imprint' on each other and can communicate with each other fairly effectively. ik's been hiding out in the woods for a day or so when they meet, and they work together to scavenge berries or something before going their separate ways

then mammon re-encounters her a few days later, by which point ik's just sort of barely hanging on, and he decides "okay you're coming home with me" and the rest is history

so i think in the beginning it'd be a lot of ik and the other brothers misinterpreting each other while mammon attempts to bridge the gap. belphie tries to ask ik if she's hungry by opening his jaw real wide (in a sort of yawn) and she, naturally, thinks he's about to bite her head off

conversely once ik gets a bit braver, she responds to their growl-communication by going 'graugh!!!" and making claws with her hands, and the first time she does it, it makes them jump straight back like those videos of cats being surprised by cucumbers

but it's a lot of just making noises at each other, pointing at things, watching each other very carefully for reaction, and they get good at reading each other's emotions very quickly - though ik has a harder time of it, because the others don't have the same 'literally radiates whatever powerful emotion they're feeling' quirk as she does haha

so an example might be - (allow me to write this as if it's a script, just for fun)

big sea serpent levi: rrr.

ik: huh?

[levi wiggles his head about, then looks straight off to the left.]

ik: is there something there?

levi: hss. grrrgr. [wiggles more intensely and looks off again]

ik: ...you want me to go over there?

[levi tilts his head to the side.]

ik: [points to self, then to the direction levi was gesturing in] like that?

[levi brightens. then he wiggles again. the motion is wave-like...]

ik: oh! water? we're going to get water? [makes same wiggle motion with arms]

levi: rrrr! [translation: yeah!]

between this and the 'can understand each other just by looks' phase, i can definitely see satan in particular getting smart enough to doing things like scratching pictures into rock to get the message across. i like to think ik has her own little language with each dragon by the end of it all - certain noises and motions unique to each one

as for their names... i'm going back to that idea where ik is the one who gives them their human-language names, but also sort of combining them with a translation? basically, the brothers tell her what their name means in dragon-language, and she gives them a human-language equivalent

for example with lucifer, he would communicate that in dragon-language, his name means 'sun', and ik would go "hmm... the morningstar.... so you're lucifer!". and lucifer goes mrr :) because he likes it

and a side note: potentially, barbatos could once again be perpetuating the cycle despite his good intentions when it comes to solomon and asmo. he lacks ik's human empathy and general ability to form connections - partially because of his time powers alienating him from the experience, partially because he's not human despite having lived as one for so long, and partially just because of his personality

so he's tried to encourage solomon and asmo's bond, hoping it'd help break the cycle, but he always tries to push at the wrong time - when one or both parties are still bitter, and one inevitably lashes out, and then the whole thing just snowballs into chaos (the fact that ik's bond with the dragon brothers never puts things into perspective for either solomon or asmo in these cycles also exacerbates this effect)

After becoming overly fixated on Dragon!AU, I ended up creating brothers in Flight Rising's (free dragon browser game) generator.

What do you think? :Dc

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Lucifer

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Mammon

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Leviathan

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Satan

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Asmodeus

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Beelzebub

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Belphegor

OH YEAH THESE RULE!!! i love how you managed to get belphie's hair even on his dragon form - his cow patterns and the peacock patterns on lucifer are nice touches too!

you nailed them all, this is brilliant!!

(mammon would get ik to pick bangles and such from his treasure hoard to decorate those spines on his neck with)