#maia can come along if she can stomach the spiritual stoat

[bleaksqueak]

If Elias were a Reaper like his bro, I'd imagine him also having big creature familiars. Or something akin to them.

How else would things be different? Who knows. Not I.

Maia would have a time. Likely a bad time.

Elias choosing to have a large familiar or two (or three, or four...) like Prof. Gaillot's dogs isn't at all out of the question, though his choice in them might end up somewhat unorthodox (and questionably legal). The fun thing about the What-If of Elias as a Reaper is that, regardless of his choice to turn down the path that would have set him to become one, he will manifest the same as any Reaper all the same. So, like Audric's flame aura and other Reapers' manifest auras, Elias would have an aura all his own! He's attuned now, but like all Veil attuned magi, he won't manifest (aura and physical) until undergoing the same uncap trials that all veil attuned magi must undergo (and all non-veil attuned magi who seek to become Eidolons, raising their magical capacity). As for what else would be different, though, despite how his aura would manifest and how his manifestation would find him-- it seems easy to say he, at least as things stand now, would be very belligerent. So very much the opposite of his brother. I've a hard time imagining him showing up to training... or work. He's got some Feelings on the whole deal, for certain. He would at the very least look very striking dressed in the Reaper uniforms... the same can be said for Maia! Her fears might not be quite so disabling if she didn't feel so utterly powerless in this world, so maybe it's a good thing her attunement ceremony back when they suspected she might be a little more Veil Inclined came back with a whopping load of Nothing. Besides, she's convinced if that had ended up being the case, she'd be saddled with some weird, useless aura, like mostly harmless shoujo bubbles. or ethereal ragweed. She'll be safe so long as the horrors of the world have seasonal allergies! But she'll also be allergic to herself, which, really, is about how she would expect it to go.