Happy late birthday!
My apologies but I have been holding myself back and I just need to ask:
What would Demon Hunters look like as a flight, with Illidan being their Aspect? 👀👀👀👀
Thank you!! <3 <3 <3
Ooooh hmmmmm. In my head I see them as originally a fel-tainted offset of green dragons, coming together to call themselves The Green Flame, or the Flight of the Green Flame. (I imagine Flight of the Fel’d could work too, but warlocks and Man'ari come to mind too so idk) However this flight is not made solely of green dragons ofc, any dragon who can make the required sacrifices and survive are welcomed within. You can identify these dragons from their empty eye sockets overflowing with fel, sawed off horns replaced by more demonic typically front-facing horns, glowing fel markings etched into their scales, and wings torn and shredded. Some have mutated limbs and tails, multiple distorted wings, the worst of them may be mistaken as corrupted by old gods with just how grotesque they’ve become.
While Wardens tails make up their glave when curled, Illidari cut off the tips of their tails to replace with actual warglaves. Some of the more mutated dragons develop multiple tails, which are also then fixed with blades, and make them especially dangerous to face in close combat. Replacing their old horns and tails are just one big step in turning away from the dragon you once were, you won’t find an illidari dragon who hasn’t done both.
Illidan was a green dragon, born with gold eyes and great expectations placed upon him he did not achieve. After turning away from the Emerald Dream and it’s protection he looked to the magics of the blue flight, and then, of course, to fel itself. We all know how this ends.
(im still workshopping Illidan’s original non-corrupted form, but i figured i’d doodle something to show the changes. I picture him looking more like his brother, sans antlers)
hey you wanna hear another fanfic idea (based on an old doodle) i’ll probably never write ok here it goes-
(What if, in her dying breath, Onyxia split Anduin into two, and nothing Varian tries is putting his son back together.)
Varian was able to fuse back together, but to his surprise, he found two boys where one once was. In her final moment, to further soe chaos and seek revenge, Onyxia channelged her power into the boy. And despite their attempts, they cannot get the boys back to one. (They try and use shalamayne, but really they can’t fully recreate Varian’s rejoining, for it would threaten the boys’ health and saftey. They spend the next year trying to locate any magic users who could help, but unwilling to risk their lives, there isnt much they can do. They must be raised as twins.)
Ann and Dulin are identical as young kids, and seem very happy with eachother, and it almost seems like they are better off now that Anduin isn’t really an only child. But then, as they enter their teens, a distinction between the two forms, and it slowly becomes clear that they are halves of a single soul. And their flaws are ever stronger for it. That they arn’t balanced.
(-Little moments as the boys grow up, playing together, learning together, etc.
-Varian hoping at least one picks up the sword, but so far both boys are awful. He struggles, but is reminded they are the same person, of course if one cant do something the other cant either.
-they both shared an interest in light, and learned fast bouncing practice off eachother. Both learn under Velen.)
Ann and Dulin are priests, but Ann is more rebellious and runs away more, and is more open to voicing his opinion, even at the wrong times. Dulin is much more clinging to rules and professionalism, and is quiet and more hiding of his voice, preferring to listen. They bicker more, disagree, and it slowly reminds Varian of his struggle as he and Lo’gosh could not come to agreements despite being one person. And he fears that as they age, Ann and Dulin will further be torn apart.
It does happen, when Ann and Dulin get into an argument, and Dulin uses shadow.
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MoP is Ann and Dulion getting shipwrecked. Despite his interests in Pandaria Dulin wants to go home as soon as the Alliance finds them, but Ann refuses too, and so Dulin follows along. Ann is the one to confront Garrosh, and Dulin is the one to get him help.
After the Bell scene.
Ann nearly died, and while Dulin didn’t get hurt, it seems he’s fallen ill too. He’s fine, up until he faints infront of everyone. Confused, someone reminds Varian, “They are not complete people. They are halves of a single individual, and that brings with it consequences. They were never meant to grow up apart, their souls are joined and that greatly effects their mind and bodies. I suspect if Ann had died, Dulin would’ve passed away soon after. If you lose one, you lose them both.”
“When you were two, one half was a spineless noble easily charmed by wealth and beauty. The other half was an angry warrior, hot headed and unwilling to listen to opposition. Apart, you were two deeply flawed people who could not agree on anything, and you came close to killing yourself, until one made a sacrifice for the other. It was only because you shared a son did you come to terms with one another.” “I believe having the boys raised together is partly the reason they still get along, but they are very different from one another, and their lives would be better if they were joined again.”
Wrathion believes he knows how to rejoin the twins, and Dulin seeks that help, even behind Ann’s back. (It does not work).
(war crimes scene where Anduin holds his AU self as he dies, only in this fic it is Ann and Dulin watching an au version of Anduin die, seeing what they would look and act like if they were one person, as they should be. This event deeply effects them, acting as a constant reminder that their fractured existance is wrong)
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-Because of their bickering, it’s decided one will take the throne and the other remains prince. Dulin takes the throne, which is actually one of the only things the two agree on, for Ann dislikes the restrictions the title of King would place upon him. Ann still does work for Dulin, represents him in meetings he cant go too, etc, especially durring war, but still runs off sometimes.
-Dulin is taken by Sylvanas to the Shadowlands, and it is Ann who demands to go to find his twin. He felt the moment Dulin crossed into the veil, He feels the moment his twin is corrupted, and feels his soul aching. If Dulin dies so will Ann, and Ann can feel his brother’s soul weaken by the day.
-JAILER RAID SCENE but Ann runs into the black smoke, Sylvanas cannot stop him in time- Ann embraces his brother, and a rush of energy envelopes the area. Sylvanas believes it to be the bomb, but as the smoke clears and they live, a single man is left in the middle-
Ann and Dulin fused back together.
the end.
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Epliogue:
Anduin, newly rejoined into one person, disappears for several years in order to ‘find himself’, soul searching or whatever. Now that he is one person, who is he really? Who does he want to be? How does he cope with his past truamas was one person, when half of him experienced things differently?
Epilogue explores how Anduin honestly still feels like two people in one body, that being fully one in heart and mind may be truely impossible, but as time passes, years go by, it seems that healing truely may be possible.
