#i was gonna write stuff about hunter but it just got wayyy too long next time ;)

[perpetual-bad-guy-shipper]

I like your ortet au!! What else have you gotten down for it so far?

hey thanks for showing interest, this thing's all I've been thinking about for a week so i hope you like reading ;)

so this au is about Belos and how he tried to assuage decades (perhaps centuries) of soul crushing loneliness and isolation by creating an artificial child of his own. against all odds, and in none of the ways he thought, this plan actually works out. through a long, arduous process he will be transformed from an unflappable badass monarch to the most Tired yet weirdly fulfilled parent between the Human or Demon realms...who still projects the image of unflappable badass monarch

here is our star, read about him + some plot under the cut

some facts about ortet!belos

he murdered his entire family a long time ago when in cursed form and remembers every moment of it. he has terrible nightmares about it. (ortet!belos is the ultimate Bad but Sad Boy, only the Bad heavily outweighs the Sad). he refuses to speak of it and can barely even think about it.

he hate hate hates wild magic and blames it for everything that's happened to him. Hunter is not allowed to practice it under any circumstance, he's allowed to read about it only because that way he'll know what to avoid.

the only thing he hates more than wild magic is himself  

regarding himself and his curse, he's in a perpetual cycle of disgust and jaded resignation

if he feels one (1) Emotion he'll want to lie down for the rest of the day. (too bad for him he's gonna feel a lot more than one (1) over the course of this story). downright allergic to (read: absolutely terrified of) emotional intimacy, probably why he calls himself Hunter’s uncle rather than father. 

magic-speaking he is an absolute jack of all trades powerhouse, physically speaking he is a garbage fire. his curse has left him in extremely poor health, further exacerbated by the fact that he refuses to sleep and consume anything except Palismen Essence (ie. no food or liquids). because of this lack of a diet, he is emaciated and has a pallor more like a corpse than a living person. the only healthy part of him is his hair, which has been going strong for 100 or so years now

because of his palismen eating habits he’s developed the ability to telepathically speak to all palismen (like the bat queen but he’s totally unnatural) he refuses to acknowledge this ((this is a surprise tool that will help us later))

on the surface he appears patient and calculating but he has a crazy impulsive streak underneath it all (man literally made himself a nephew to raise knowing he has no idea how to even talk to children)

he seems stoic and cold but the truth is he purposefully keeps a straight face to lessen the pain the decay on his face causes (a side effect of his curse). he actually feels very strongly but hides it (bottles it up) like a professional

his sense of humour is acerbic, bone dry and sarcastic as hell. after acclimatizing to being more gentle around Hunter he unearthed a more playful, teasing side

he doesn't like wearing his mask and hood because he has to squish all that hair under and it gets stuffy as hell but he doesn't like being perceived (unless it’s by Hunter) even more.

he is actually 9 feet tall (unlike canon where he lost like 4 feet unmasked what) though he sometimes utilizes some simple shrinking spells to bring himself down to a more manageable 7.5 feet. side effect of being able to turn into a giant monster.      

important Plot points (we’ll build on these later) 

Hunter searching high and low for a permanent cure for his uncle, putting himself in extreme danger in the process (cue desperate, emotional monster-man rescue)

Boiling Isles danger in general (including their strangely casual attitude towards killing children) and other reasons Belos won’t let Hunter go outside

Belos learning to separate ruling despotically from everyday parenting

Hunter suffering some existential angst over the fact that he’s a clone and not a ‘real’ person + Belos and him dealing with that together

Despite Belos’ warnings about wild magic, Hunter is going to get Little Rascal and Belos is going to find out.