#tagging as that bc its the easiest but manakete!au would be better lol

[nohriantomatoes]

hey!!! i was reading the tags on ur reblog of the dragon fates royals and i see u mentioned..... an au of sorts...... and i was just curious if that was something u would care to expand on at all 👀 of course no worries if u don’t have the energy or motivation or w/e!!!! all cool!!!!

Ooooooo I hope any of the following makes sense because it’s probably just going to be: rambling.

Basic AU: all the royals have the same extent of powers as Corrin does.

My reasoning for this is that Anankos is getting real pissy about there being no war to punish those pesky humans, so he looks to take things into his own hands. I headcanon that Anankos is actually the dawn and the dusk dragon, just in different forms, so technically all the royals have his bloodline. Cue him sneaking around this side of the world and essentially talking both Garon and Sumeragi into accepting the boon that is his ‘divine power’ or whatever, it’s just his dragon blood. In this AU, this is what makes Garon go mad and Sumeragi would have gone the same route if Garon hadn’t killed him all those years later.

Anyways, the point is that now these two are beefed up on dragon blood, but they’re already adult men. Sure they’re strong but the real plan was so that their ancestors would also have that blood, plus manakete abilities. With having so many new and strong hosts to choose from, Anankos figure this would make starting a war between nations easier. Except when Garon kills Sumeragi and abducts Corrin and Mikoto doesn’t retaliate, things get stalled out and he can’t remain topside to see the fallout.

The timeline from then on was similar to revelations route, but since the royals of both sides have stronger dragon blood they thus could transform. This is... also where I lost most of the plot. I figured the Nohrian family would be a little more battle hardy since fighting and killing manakete siblings is probably way worse than just normal fratricide but you kno. Also include the obligatory ‘Takumi gets possessed’ because I’m a sad ho.

A scene I frequently envisioned was where the royal families clash. They both don’t realize the other can transform so when it happens (probably Takumi first because he’s impulsive) all shit breaks loose and that’s how Corrin and Azura escape and the resulting battle is a draw. The whole transformation for Takumi was drawn out in my head Ghibli style, with his hair floating because of the wind before ‘poof’ dragon magic happens and suddenly Leo is defending himself from this huge serpentine dragon before his dumbass self realizes ‘oh the cats out of the bag’ and shifts himself to start fighting back