I had an idea for a big dumb mythology/folklore AU, though this looks more fantasy RPG because every outfit I thought of that made me think PANTHEON!! wasn’t at all functional? Pfft, who wants to go on adventures in robes? Not me. And not Stiles. He’d probably trip all over them.
The story is that Derek is essentially Fenrir. His family were all wolves that shed their pelts (faolfir /cackles) and the gods were terrified of them because they were the only things that could kill them, to death. They couldn’t kill them all because it would just invite the cycle to start again, but Kate, a goddess of passion (but not love), took it upon herself to deal with the “problem.” She seduced Derek and locked him away, and to make sure he wouldn’t escape, she took his pelt and shredded it. The rest of the Hales were killed, save for Laura (who had been away, looking for Derek) and Peter (but his pelt was destroyed in the fire). The pieces of Derek’s pelt are scattered and those who find them become the first werewolves.
And then some millenia later, some dumb trickster demigod dragged his mortal friend to go exploring some caves and they found Derek, and thinking he was just some poor dude, they let him go. He threatened convinced them to help him find the pieces of his pelt. Derek immediately regrets this decision.
Also letting Derek out may or may not have kickstarted the in-universe ragnarok. Whoops. GOOD JOB, GUYS.
I thought about this AU way too much and I now have a ridiculously large headcanon for it, and I’m probably going to draw more dumb things just so I can rant more. Sorry fkjsdhkfje
(Also the runes on Stiles are from Hávamál, in Ljóðatal, which I copied down into Younger Futhark/Medieval runes for this because I clearly hate myself)
I’ve seen the enemy, and it’s me. I’ve faced dark horrors before, things that live in the unimaginable pressures of the world beyond our own. Sometimes they masquerade as humans.
That’s what ultimately lurks inside Mr. Scratch. He’s every mean-spirited tabloid story about me, an evil caricature, a creature formed in that vague territory of misconceptions, half-truths and the dark imagination of people who “heard a story about me”. An urban legend made flesh. A serial killer.
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Have rediscovered my love for Alan Wake. I love this game so much kdshkjfds I’m doing more folklore AU drawings, but I needed to get this out of my system first.
More Big Dumb Folklore AU! I was going to draw Isaac and Boyd with Erica, but they were being difficult. And I really wanted to draw Erica and her hair, so.
Before they found pieces of Derek’s pelt, both Erica and Isaac were mortals, while Boyd was a demigod, though he lived with his mortal family. Erica’s epilepsy wasn’t understood and she was often accused of being a witch and/or that she’s been consorting with demons. Up until she found her piece of the pelt, she spent much of her time fearing for the day that someone would finally do something about the accusations.
When Derek found them and saw how his pelt had helped the each of the trio, he allowed them to keep the pieces in exchange for their loyalty.
(Because it’s an AU, Erica gets to stay in the s3 equivalent because she’s too fierce to (probably) die. I WILL MISS YOU THE MOST, LADY.)
I don’t think he’s entirely impressed with you either, dude.
Thing about finding the pieces of Derek’s pelt is that they just don’t automatically fuse back into one full pelt. You need magic for that, which Derek doesn’t have much of (if any), whereas Stiles has plenty to spare. So Stiles gets stuck sewing it back together with thread he got from Deaton, that binds the pelt back together and eventually dissolves into the fur. Stiles is not thrilled with being designated seamstress.
Not real happy with this one because the nib of my tablet pen is dying pretty hard right now and the pen pressure was all over the place, so the lines are kind of sloppy augh augh augh
there is totally a deal with the bird but I need lydia to explain it shhhh