#this is fantastic and yeah it's prolly going to get morphed into my folklore au

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so,y'know those myths of animals taking their skins off and transforming into humans? i had a dream a few days ago that martyn was something like that

he was a fox and i dont really remember much about the dream aside from martyn showing his skin to ren and explaining it to him??

so yeah,i just wanted to share this dream somewhere and i know you like the renchanting duo so i give this to you

*takes this and holds it gently*

Ooooooh... my myth and folktale loving brain just had a fireworks explosion. (y'all I almost went for a masters in folklore okay. I still consider it some days. This stuff is my JAM)

Because -- because, okay. So like... Martyn didn't really want to work for Ren at first, right? It was kind of an arrangement of convenience plus a bit of guilt from stealing the enchantments.

But what if--what if Martyn was a sort of kitsune/selkie creature? And Ren had his skin? Either because Martyn gave it to him as a debt thing, or Ren got it somehow (for some reason I automatically think "Etho got it and gave it to Ren" but I don't know WHY I go there).

And so you have this thing that starts as nearly a hostage situation, and then it develops to trust and loyalty and--OH

When the Black Heart Altar thing happens? Instead of just being like "Okay I hit you, now you are allowed to kill me if you want to" maybe that's when Ren gives him back his skin? As a true sign of trust: "not only am I completely vulnerable to you right now, I'm also giving you your freedom back." And Martyn stays.

oooooooo Anon. Anon how does it feel to have such wonderfully genius dreams?

...oh. Maybe...

Maybe I'll make this a folklore one like my Joel fic. O.O

Anon you are a delight, thank you.