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griffinsmith · 3 years ago

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fiddled around with my old jackerita au a little! mostly just updated Mr Hound's involvement in the au. not sure if this really interests anyone but here it is and i also needed to write the words somewhere before i forgot lmao

Ok hi I havent written any notes for this au in over a year. Incredible how neurodivergency can allow you to experience things with vigor for a second time

So just to clarify this is for my jackerita au where jackall and margherita escape newgate together and eventually get together, its more fleshed out in these two posts here. This is not related to the jackall & hound au, and the only similarity it shares with that au is the design of mr hound that I use in it – I’m using the same redesigned hound design that you can find under this tag. Hopefully that makes enough sense. also this is all completely head canon and me being silly

Im mostly leaving the au the same, just tweaking some of the backstory of Jackall creating Hound, why he decided to kidnap the queen and use her crown’s jewels to become Hound permanently, and adding a little bit of stuff after he gets his ass thrown into jail. Im also slightly changing Jackall’s relationship to Hound in this au ok with that being said lets go

I previously mentioned that before stealing the queen, Jackall worked as the mechanical engineer for Barkingham, being specifically interested in defending the castle from outsiders, and that he proposed to the queen’s council that tapping into moon magic would allow them to transform guards into stronger versions of themselves. Jackall’s proposal got rejected, and this part is remaining the same

For the new lore, I am replacing Jackall not having the potion entirely ready when he presented his idea to the council. Instead, Jackall is done with the thing, but he hasn’t gotten a chance to try it out yet. He asks for support from the Queen’s council so he can have someone to try it out on. Because the Marleybonian society knows little to nothing about moon magic, and trying something unheard of like this is extremely frowned upon, Jackall did not get his proposal accepted.

Also for more details on that potion - Jackall engineered the potion to flip one’s magical alignment, meaning those who performed storm spells would instead be proficient in myth, and so forth. Additionally, one would have access to higher level spells than one would normally have. The potion, while focusing mostly on battling benefits, was also supposed to heighten one’s ability to physically fight and make one slightly less interested in morals and rules in order to achieve this (emphasis on * slightly *). Or at least Jackall thought as much - he did not spend as much time perfecting this ability as he did working on the other aspects of the potion. He just hoped that once he got funding, he’d be able to work any kinks out of it, but he suspected everything would be fine.

Jackall, after getting screamed at by the council, returns home saddened. He wanted to do something to defend the queen, perhaps even revolutionize how battles are fought in Marleybone! Who wouldn’t want to tap into stronger powers in duels? If he just had some funding, someone to try it out on, he could fully tap into moon magic and science and fully utilize his groundbreaking concoction that would allow users to keep a transformation in and out of fights, something no one had ever done before in the Marleybonian corner of the spiral.

After moping around for a few days, Jackall decided he no longer would wait for the council to come to their senses, and decided he would try out the potion on himself. Then, from there he could figure out how to perfect any minor flaws, and once it was finished, present it to the council again. He was sure future history books would hold him as a hero if he could get that potion to in front of the council. Surely if they saw the positive effects it could bring, they’d give him their support.

And so, at midnight one night, he took a swig of the potion, eager to see what it would do to him. Immediately after ingesting it, he noticed a wave of euphoria rushing through him, deciding that this was the part of the potion lessening his hold on morals a bit. He noted this as a success.

Upon attempting a spell, he was ecstatic to see that his magic had changed from Ice to Fire. After messing around a second or two with spellcasting, he was equally ecstatic to see he could perform higher level fire spells, outranking the normal ice spells he could usually perform. This was also noted as a success.

The potion seemed to work perfectly – his magic had changed appropriately, now a different school and stronger, and he felt more like he could win both duels and normal fights. He wrote the potion up as a great success, and would make sure to visit the Queen’s Council again in the morning to show off what it could do.

And then came a sharp pang of pain in Jackall’s chest that quickly spread through his entire body. As Jackall writhed and convulsed around on the floor for a bit, the true colors of the potion’s “losing your morals and rules” aspect shown through, and after a minute of painful transformation, Dr Jackall became Mr Hound.

What Jackall had hoped to achieve with his concoction was something that would temporarily allow the user to mostly forget about the consequences of hurting someone, while still understanding not to go absolutely hog wild and really hurt people in duels and physical fights. What Jackall ended up achieving was creating an uncaring and self-indulgent alter ego for whomever was foolish enough to drink it. Not to mention, said alter ego now had powerful spells and enough adrenaline in their system to take out an entire clock tower’s worth of thugs. Jackall had accidentally created a monster, but he wouldn’t find that out yet – Hound was still in charge for a few hours.

The potion was also not supposed to change appearances, but for Jackall, the potion turned his gray fur blue, and said fur and hair became rougher, pointier even. Hound, a being concerned only with himself, decided to wreck the shit out of the clothes he had just spawned into and gleefully ran amok along the streets of Marylebone wearing only a tattered overcoat and pants.

The potion’s effects only lasted for a few hours (which is already longer than the 30 minutes or so that Jackall intended it to last for – good work Jackall really knew what you were doing with this potion), but that was more than enough time for Hound to terrorize a few guards at Barkingham and some poor random citizens just trying to get somewhere.

When the potion did wear off, Jackall was dazed but … he was also a little thrilled. A normal person would probably be horrified that they just werewolf transformed into some horrible version of themselves that they had no control over, but Jackall felt refreshed. He’s spent so long stuck under the thumb of Barkingham, not getting to do what he wants – why not indulge every now and then and play into his vices? And so he continues, with Jackall downing a few swigs of the potion every few days and allowing himself to become Hound to do whatever he wants.

Quick note here – while I’ve taken some inspiration from both the Jek/yll Hy/de musical from the 90’s and the original book from the late 19th century, im going to be stepping away from how they portray Hyde slowly becoming like . actually violent and . killing people . Because game for children! and this Hound is not a 1 for 1 recreation of h/yde in this au so he doesn’t kill people. He does probably run people over with cars though don’t worry about it!

Jackall spends about a month transforming into Hound on and off before deciding he’s tired of being himself, and he wants to permanently become Hound. So far, Hound hasn’t done anything really bad yet (Hound steals from people and attacks people in and out of battles but he hasn’t *really* hurt anyone yet. It’s fine it’s fine) so Jackall thinks it would be fine if he was Hound 100% of the time. A great plan.

In this state of excitement, and also wanting to stick it the Queen’s Council who denied him funding on the project, Jackall decides he’s going to get the jewels off of the Queen’s crown by kidnapping her and further use those jewels to perfect his alchemical solution and become Hound forever. He'll be able to indulge in whatever he wants and no one will be able to stop him - It’s the perfect plan. Jackall still works in Barkingham and sees the staff literally every day and they’re wondering why he’s been acting a little weird lately and yet he still thinks it’s the perfect plan.

And from there, the au remains mostly the same. Jackall breaks into Barkingham the same way I wrote that he did a year ago, and gets sent to Newgate and escapes with margherita and they become the owners of the shopping district jewel shop, all the same as before. However, there are a couple of minor added details.

Jackall stops taking swigs of his potion once he’s in jail. He can’t drink it anymore since its not on him, and he can’t make it anymore there. At first, he misses the freedom that Hound gave him, but as time goes on, he realizes how unsustainable and dangerous that behavior and Hound was, and he no longer misses being Hound. He finally realizes he had created a monster, and he resolves to never again transform into him.

Hound, on the other hand, did not get this memo. Hound frequently appears in Jackall’s nightmares, starting to show up in them about a week into Jackall’s jail stay. Jackall brushes the visits off, but they slowly become more and more vivid, with Hound seemingly threatening taking him over involuntarily. Hound clearly misses the freedom - the embodiment of Jackall's selfish and evil traits does not want to be caged any longer, and this terrifies Jackall. Jackall fears for what could happen if he does manage to take over again - Since Hound has had his urges repressed for so long, surely he would do something really bad if he gets his way again.

The nightmares cease for a bit when Jackall and Margarita break out of Newgate and adjust to their new lives in Wizard city. Jackall never once mentions the nightmares to Margherita, and hopes they’ve stopped for good. But like clockwork, once Jackall’s gotten accustomed to everything, Hound begins frequenting his dreams again, just as strong as before. So far, Jackall’s been able to rouse himself from his nightmares when they start to get dire, but there have been a few instances where he swears he sees Hound’s shadow on the wall when he awakens, even if only for a second.

Alongside with the fear of getting found out for the ex-convict he is, Jackall now has to worry for his alter ego growing stronger and gaining control permanently. It’s not like hiding from the cops is already stressful enough - no, now he has to worry that he’ll involuntarily become an impulsive and careless version of himself who could easily draw attention to his hiding spot on top of all that.

Ok that’s it bada bing bada boom I hope that was cohesive enough thank you for reading if you did!!!! Jackall you idiot you wanted to be hound forever and once you came to your senses you dont anymore. make up your mind boy

#'ill make this short' i said to myself before writing over 1700 words #jackerita au #dr jackall #margherita vizzini #mr hound #it is extremely obvious to me that i am creating all this backstory for a character who shows up in one optional sidequest thats less than #than 40 minutes long. the situation is not lost on me hleppp #w101 #sawyer writes words #sawyer rambles

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griffinsmith · 3 years ago

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hi I’m always on my bullshit and I missed my normal silly ass au where margherita and jackall break out of Newgate and escape together and eventually get together and it’s also pride month so . Here we are

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#need 2 develop that au more and further the plot . someday #also I think I’ll just be so silly and funny and draw hound as my redesigned version even when refering to the other au because who cares a #*and I think maybe I’ll try to encorporate more elements of the source material jackall and hound are based on into that other au too? and #it’s just easier if it’s the other more ‘conscious’ and aware hound. if that makes any sense help me #anyway when I look up jackall for references I see my pride month edits from last year on Google hopefully these won’t show up like that #dr jackall #mr hound #margherita vizzini #w101 #sawyuh art #jackerita au #** pride edits not pride month edits I lose my brain cells whenever I write tags #jackal x margherita

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griffinsmith · 3 years ago

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another jackerita au post ?? but from margherita's perspective this time ... i have been ignoring her for too long margherita babey im sorry

its been like a year and a half since I came up with this stupid au and ive never once made a written post that’s mostly about margherita’s role in the jackerita au. That is criminal and im fixing that now sorry girlboss. Also she deserves a bigger role in the plot in general so !!! heres whatever this is

For just some backstory on her: Margherita has literally 4 lines of dialogue so there is not much to go off of for her help me. She says she is a master of the opera nova school of Valencia so Ive always headcanoned that she, just like she says, works at said opera nova school. She has quite the set of pipes and is an incredible opera singer, along with being an expert duelist. Margherita is quite proficient in the art of the sword (again, just like how she says in the battle with her) and when she’s not teaching her students how to sing, she’s teaching them how to duel

One of Margherita’s cheats states that she’s studied in Crab Alley, so I’m going to take that and run with it. Margherita not only studied there, but she also spent some time traveling the spiral before settling in Crab Alley as her place to study music (essentially she took a gap year). This traveling happened right after she finished her primary schooling (with crab alley being where she spent the majority of her secondary schooling) and while she toured the spiral, she visited Marleybone, and guess who she ran into there.

Margherita and Jackall first ran into each other in their late teens/very early twenties (think 19 or 20. Wow just like my age fr), bumping into each other in the Ironworks. Jackall was looking for some scrap metal for an automaton he was creating, as he was just starting his secondary schooling to become a mechanical engineer, and Margherita was just plain lost while trying to sightsee. The two got along swimmingly, bonding over their aspirations that others had frowned upon: Jackall was hoping to land a job at Barkingham Palace as their head of defense, and Margherita wanted to become the most famous opera singer Valencia had ever known. Once their conversation had ended, they promised to keep in touch after some time spent together.

And keep in touch they did, writing letters often, and Jackall frequently making his way across the spiral to see Margherita’s opera performances and Margherita visiting him in Marleybone every so often. Both were extremely supportive of each other’s achievements in their careers.

About ten years pass between the two of them meeting and the events of Barkingham Palace. Margherita has a well-established teaching spot in the Opera Nova school of Valencia, loved by her students and fellow faculty members, and can duel the pants off of anyone she fights. She enjoys reveling in her stories of her time at Opera Nova to Jackall when they visit each other.

Jackall, on the other hand, has gone from just as enthusiastic as she over his job to being bummed out. His passion for inventing mechanical creations to better defend the palace seems to have been dampened by his fellow Barkingham staff members who prefer traditional guards to the palace rather than his automatons. For as long as Margherita can remember, Jackall has always been enamored with the concept of bettering oneself and the things around oneself, and it appears as though he hasn’t gotten to dip his toes into this concept in a while. The spark she once saw in his eyes diminishes a little bit more every time she visits him.

Margherita doesn’t quite get losing your passion for something. Until the Opera Nova school starts rearranging its budget. Teachers stop getting pay raises, student size shrinks, facilities aren’t updated. When Margherita and her fellow teachers try to get those in charge to do something, they respond that they’re already doing all they can to keep the school above water. Margherita is heartbroken that the students she’s loved teaching and watching grow into real opera performers begin to lose their love for their study, and can’t help but feel like she herself is losing her love for it, too.

Margherita relays all this information to Jackall during one of her visits to Marleybone. During this visit, for once, it seems like their demeanors have switched. Margherita cannot remember the last time she’s seen Jackall this energized, full of life. It’s like he’s 5 years younger, the look in his eyes gives away that he’s bounding with a new passion for everything. Margherita cannot quite place why.

That is, until he tells her that he’s come up with something incredible. He describes to her a new concoction he’s made for himself – one that makes him stronger and pumps the adrenaline through his system like nothing else. He’s finally reignited his passion for life again, he tells her, but he adds that he cannot keep his creation’s effects going for very long. But even still, he’s able to do things he never could do without it.

Jackall is purposefully very vague with his descriptions of what his potion does. He sells the creation off as something that energizes and makes you stronger, like what the potion was supposed to do, but he never once mentions that the damn thing makes him turn into a more selfish aggressive version of himself - That’s tucked quietly under the rug. As I mentioned in this post, Jackall is so tired of working at Barkingham and not getting to do what he wants that he’s willing to permanently turn himself into a more grotesque version of himself if it means that he can get what he wants (nevermind that this would mean that he would be hound forever and would never go back to being anything more than an unshowered impulsive violent mirror version of himself. Jackall come on why didn’t you think this through). The point is, Margherita never learned about Hound before the heist.

Margherita is happy that Jackall found something that excites him, but she wonders why he’s telling her this. Why does he want to turn into a different version of himself full time? She likes him how he is. But she does soon get her answer.

Jackall proposes to her that she and he go on a heist together: Steal the Queen’s jewels. It’ll be a grand adventure for them, some bonding! Margherita can use her superior dueling skills to best the dreary guards at the palace while Jackall takes the jewels to perfect his alchemical solution and become his ‘best self’ forevermore.

Margherita’s not super on board with the idea (stealing the queen’s jewels? When did jackall get that idea?). She’s participated in her own fair share of duels in back alleys, and she’s even stolen some gold before when she was in a pinch, but both of those experiences were far in the past. She’s a respected faculty member for one of the most famous schools in Valencia, she cannot just go galivanting around and get her face slapped onto a wanted poster.

Or so she thinks at first. After turning Jackall’s proposal down, she thinks that’ll be the end of that. Until Jackall lets slip that he’d let her keep the jewels after perfecting his chemical solution. The jewels that adorn the Queen’s crown would fetch quite a pretty penny on the black markets of Valencia, wouldn’t they? And that money could be used as a charitable donation to Margherita’s beloved Opera Nova school, Jackall adds. As soon as the heist is complete and Jackall’s become his better self, he promises he’ll let Margherita take the stolen gems and do whatever she wants with them.

The proposition now seems much more interesting to Margherita. Using the hefty sum the stolen stones would get her, Margherita could breathe new life into the school she loves so much. The crumbling fixtures in classrooms could be restored, higher paychecks would be written for teachers, and new students would practically flood the gates to get in! And hey, why not go on a heist adventure with her closest friend? She trusts him a whole lot, and she knows he trusts her back. After a quick moment of reconsideration, Margherita accepts Jackall’s plan. She’s in.

Also quick note on the whole ‘jackall calling margherita his “Lieutenant” thing��: there’s not really much to say here other than Margherita was certainly jackall’s right hand (wo)man throughout the barkingham heist since she did a lot of the string pulling with him to make it happen. Jackall calls her his lieutenant because it sounds more official than just calling her his ‘person who’s got his back’.

For two weeks, the two work together to concoct a plan to break into the palace (Margherita extends her stay in Marleybone and plans to return back to Valencia as soon as the jewels are hers). As someone who works in the palace, Jackall is able to bring any news of new developments to Margherita for them to brainstorm a way to steal the queen away while everyone in the palace is distracted. Jackall offers they use a noxious gas spewing golem he’d never gotten to use as a palace defense mechanism to render the palace’s guards defenseless, and when Margherita hears from him that an opera singer will be performing at the palace soon, she suggests they bribe said performer into allowing them to sneak in with her crew.

The plan falls into place quite nicely, with Margherita and Jackall working to secure some additional goons to help them with the heist. Margherita works on getting Catrin Cheshire bribed (from one opera singer to another) and Jackall hires Poole and Utterson as back up for the airship’s defenses. Everything looks like itll be going according to plan.

Until it doesn’t. Jackall and Margherita hadn’t accounted for Bones and Watson patrolling the scene, and a wrench gets thrown in their plans when the Young Wizard shows up. Margherita stays positioned on the rooftop the entire night as Jackall carries out the queen kidnapping, and nervously sharpens her swords as more and more cops pour into the palace. Then, when Jackalls finally loaded the Queen into the airship, the young wizard arrives and Margherita faces off with them. Filled with determination and knowing Jackall will defend her if anything goes awry, she battles her heart out.

And as we all know, the young wizard defeats her. This was already unexpected for Margherita, but the most unexpected part was Jackall turning against her. As she catches her breath after the fight, she hears him ascending the ladder to the airship, * without her *, and yelling at her that she’s disappointed him and that he sarcastically hopes she enjoys Newgate. Margherita barely has time to process what just happened when the Barkingham guard arrives on the rooftop and places her in handcuffs, but she has enough time to tell the Young Wizard to go after Jackall.

During the journey from the palace to Newgate, Margherita is seething enough to the point where if you put sand in her mouth and gave it a second, it would have turned into glass. Her life as she knew it would never be the same, and she’d never be able to go back to teaching at the Opera Nova – they would not approve of a wanted criminal who assisted in a queen kidnapping teaching students. Sure, she was mad at getting caught, but she was mostly enraged at jackall up and abandoning her. It.. hurt. This heist was supposed to be something they were doing together, and for her to leave her in the dust the second she loses one duel … it’s not sitting well with her. The decade of friendship and mutual trust the two had for each other is shattered instantly with this moment. Margherita never wants to see Jackall again.

So imagine Margherita’s surprise when Jackall gets tossed into a jail cell right next to hers. Upon seeing her, Jackall quickly blubbers out an excuse and a half assed apology. Margherita decides to ignore this and grabs Jackall’s neck through the jail bars and strangles him until the guards pull them off each other. Jackall earns a well-deserved black-eye during this skirmish and it does not leave for two weeks.

After few months into their life sentences, Jackall does give Margherita an actual apology and tells her how sorry he truly is, how he should never have let something as stupid as his chemicals get in the way of their friendship, how he doesn’t quite know what got ahold of him. He says he was so focused on achieving his best self that he let everything else fall to the wayside. He asks her if she’d be willing to break out of Newgate together, and she begrudgingly accepts, giving him a second chance. It'll take a while before she can fully trust him again, but she's willing to give it a shot, and Jackall is extremely grateful for this. Secretly, she's glad to have her friend back.

From here the au is basically the same as before from Margherita’s side. The two break out of jail, live in the shopping district, and stuff goes on from there. The only change is that Jackall is still struggling with nightmares of Hound threatening to take over, but he does not tell this to Margherita. She still thinks the potion he made gave him boosted stats and power, and nothing else. Even in Jackall’s genuine apology to her, he did not let slip that the adrenaline from becoming his alter ego clouded his best judgement and hopes that she’ll never find out about Hound, especially not in their new lives in Wizard city.

We’ll see how well that works out . anyway that’s it that’s way too many words oh my god

#margherita and jackall are essentially friends to enemies to friends to lovers . love wins #if you read this tysm i know its a big amount of words but every note i get on my writing posts warms my heart i appreciate it a ton #sawyer writes words #margherita vizzini #dr jackall #jackerita au #sawyer rambles

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griffinsmith · 4 years ago

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Today on: I make another hasty post based on barkingham palace that is incomprehensible

#I made this in about 15 minutes tops youre welcome #my art #barkingham posting #dr jackall #margherita vizzini #w101 #jackerita au

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griffinsmith · 4 years ago

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Get you a man who will call you more than just free salsa

#best couple in the shopping district obviously #w101 #again I have no idea what to call this ship but #I’ll just go with #jackall x margherita #I am open to suggestions preferably a ship name that just crams their names together since that’s short n stupid #my art #dr jackall #margherita vizzini #also yes I know Maggie isn’t the best nickname for someone named margherita but I’m using it anyway #jackerita au

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griffinsmith · 4 years ago

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Whew boy i typed up about 1400 words for my au about Dr Jackall and Margherita Vizzini escaping and post-escaping Newgate prison. Its a bit of a mess but here it is lol

Oh boy this is going to be a disaster. Au takes place directly after the events of the barkingham palace dungeon, i put it in bulletpoints to make it a little easier on the eyes

I didnt proofread this im sorry in advance

- So obviously you don’t just hypnotize the royal guard, destroy royal property, and kidnap the queen without suffering consequences. In canon, Dr Jackall urges the player to let him “suffer his own dark path”, but that’s not happening. As soon as the royal airship was brought back to barkingham palace, about a dozen guards grabbed Dr Jackall out of it and threw him right into Newgate to serve out about a dozen life sentences.

- All of the accomplices that Dr Jackall hired to help him execute his plan with also got slapped into Newgate (save for chief whip since he wasn’t hired into it), and Jackall got stuck in the same cell as Margherita Vizzini. You know, his “most trusted lieutenant” and (in my hc) his closest friend, who is also a very powerful dueler, and the person that Jackall personally banished to Newgate after she failed to stop the young wizard on the palace rooftops. Jackall thought that she’d understand him throwing her under the bus to save his own hide, wouldn’t she have done the same if their roles were reversed?

- The answer to that question was apparently “no”, as after he gave a half-assed apology, she wailed on him until Newgate guards had to pull them apart. Jackall had a black eye for two weeks.

- Time passes, about three months. Jackalls pretty fed up with the prison life; who knew that getting tossed into the most notorious and miserable prison this side of the spiral would be so awful and dull? He needed to get out. Of course, Newgate isn’t about to allow its inhabitants to just waltz around with wands, potions, or anything even remotely helpful to escaping…buuuut they couldn’t take away a persons magic, just their method of channeling it. However, this didn’t apply to certain species who could channel music through a specific limb, like unicorns….like Margherita. Instead she just had a magic-casting-disrupting device locked around her horn, but with a bit of elbow grease from someone who perhaps didn’t have hooves for hands, it could be fiddled off.

- Following another, slightly better, more sincere apology, Jackall and Margherita somewhat repair their broken friendship, and agreed to break out of Newgate together, deciding to leave Marleybone after their escape. Margherita figured that Jackall wouldn’t leave her in the dust again, he seemed to be remorseful enough after three months of her giving him the silent treatment. She did give Jackall another good kick to the gut for good measure before fully agreeing to escaping, though.

- Soon enough, Jackall had managed to crack open the device around Marghertia’s horn, and after one quiet teleportation spell Margherita performed, the two disappeared to her home in Chelsea Court. As the two quickly changed out of their prison garb, police sirens shattered the silence, and they both knew that their disappearance from Newgate had been noticed.

- Jackall impulsively snatched a wand off of a table and teleported over to his own home, hoping to grab a few vital things before he abandoned his old cushy life forever. Unfortunately, his home, if it could be called that, was simply a broom closet room turned lab smack dab in Barkingham Palace. And of course, there happened to be royal guards standing in it, evidently cleaning the room out. Upon the abrupt arrival of the man who used to work with them, they stood slack jawed as he quickly shoved some clothes and one spiral key into his arms and skedaddled. Now did not only most of Marleybone know that a fugitive or two was on the loose, but the entire royal guard would be after them. Fantastic.

- Somehow, both Margherita and Jackall managed to reach Wolfminster Abbey without getting recaptured, and seconds before royal guards poured into the church after them, they jammed their one and only spiral key into the spiral door and hopped to another world.

- Jackall was unsure of which world the spiral key led to; it had been years since he’d used it last. He was hoping it would lead to Mooshu, or Dragonspyre, or even Avalon, just somewhere that wouldn’t be infested with Marleybonian expeditioners. As luck would have it, the two fugitives wound up in a land without too many Marleybonians: Wizard City. The city where thousands of eyes would be upon them, the city that acts as a sort of hub for many spiral travelers, the city where they would surely be recognized by somebody and sent straight back from whence they came. …Great.

- Jackall and Margherita practically launched themselves out of Bartley and high-tailed it out of Ravenwood, positive the royal guards would be right behind them. Running into the Commons, the Marleybone outlaws barreled over many a young wizard before diving into the shopping center tunnel.

- Every shop was closed for the night except for one which still had light coming out of it. Desperate to get away from the royal guards that were almost certainly searching for them in the Commons by now, Jackall and Margherita banged on the door. The badger who opened said door took one look at the disheveled unicorn and jackal in front of her and murmured about not getting paid enough to deal with this before grabbing a suitcase next to the door and tossing keys into Margherita’s hands. Before the two could say anything, the badger stepped out of the shop and walked away, remarking something along the lines of “you two can take care of this place, I’ve had it up to here with wizards and people like you constantly bothering me” before she teleported away.

- Jackall and Marghertia didn’t bother question what the hell had just happened, having eyes only for the new shelter they could hide in. They quickly doused the lights and ducked beneath the windows when royal guards came running past. The next morning, after they had seen guards leaving, they poked their noses around the shop that they were now evidently in possession of…the jewel shop..

- The two only realized the nature of the shop moments before young wizards began entering the store, wanting to exchange jewels and asking questions about where the old owner of the store was. Jackall and Margherita handled the new store responsibilities as well as they could, and managed to not arise suspicion throughout the day, but by the end their nerves were fried.

- Their new situation was less than ideal, but hey, it wasn’t prison. Now they just needed to teach themselves how to find ores, create jewels, and infuse them with magic, all while managing a shop. No wonder the badger gave up the store so quickly.

- Surprisingly, Jackall isn’t all that bad at finding ores in the caves past Olde Towne and infusing jewels with magic, and Margherita makes a pretty good crafter and business woman. The fake identities they’ve been using haven’t arisen any suspicion yet, and they’ve even got some new outfits from the Bazar to blend in more. After a few months, they start experimenting with jewels that bring more powerful bonuses to the wizard that equips them, like higher mana and health boosts, and even start stocking jewels for pets. Margherita and Jackall are … actually enjoying their new lives? The haven’t seen any guards from Marleybone in Wizard City in a good while, so the threat of them being hauled back is dying off. Everything is good.

- Until Sherlock Bones and Watson walk through the shop’s door. Jackall and Margherita freak out, reasonably so, sure that theyre about to get handcuffed and brought back to Newgate. But…they aren’t recognized. Watson gives a good hard stare at them, as if hes hazily seen them before, but all the two detectives want is to check out the new jewels that had been so well spoken of throughout the spiral. Dimwitted Sherlock is nothing but polite and nonhostile to the two disguised still-very-much-fugitives, and is charmed enough by their humble shop that he asks if theyd like to have tea with him sometime the following week.

- After the two detectives leave, Jackall and Margherita are..dumbfounded. The duo that helped bring them down didn’t come close to recognizing them, and one even wants to spend more time with them? This cant be happening. Something has to be wrong here. Or...maybe there isnt?

Aaaand I think ill leave it there for now. Im exhausted and have been writing for about 2 hours, plus I don’t want to give it all away right now. Theres still a good enough bit I haven’t written about yet, and ill post about it soon enough (probably). If you read all this, thank you so much for reading through my rambling mess.

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