#ballister shapeshifting au

[sabindark]

Sacrifice

Part 2

[stickylizardcave]

Am I going to write a oneshot about Shapeshifter!Ballister??? Perhaps.... (I am. Help me-)

[artz16]

So I’m living for Nimona. Living, loving it and especially live Nimona and Bal and Ambrosius

And then I thought of this AU/What If Scenrio:

Ballister and Nimona kidnapping Ambrosius

• So basically Ambrosius manages to sneak his way down to the dungeon without anyone catching him. This is when Ballister got arrested

• He finds his cell and talks to him, still weary on believing his best friend and love would actually kill the queen. He also feel extreeeeemely guilty upon seeing Ballister’s robotic arm and Ballister himself without it

• Ballister does his best to prove his innocence to Ambrosius and is begging him to believe he didn’t do it and was set up

• It’s a sad affair…until Nimona pops in inside the cell, spooking the both of them. She came to rescue Ballister

• Nimona: Hey Boss, sorry to intrude. Came to bust you out!

Ballister:!! H-How did you-?!

Ambrosius:!! Wha-? Bal, who’s this kid?

Nimona: Name’s Nimona. Oh! This is your nemesis, right? You want me to knock this guy out, Boss?

Ambrosius:!! What? Nemesis? Boss?

Ballister:!! No! No, I’m not her…I just met her. And no, no knocking him out. He’s not even my nemesis

Nimona:….So stabbing?

Ballister:!! NO! THAT’S EVEN WORSE!

• So then Bal is blubbering and Ambrosius is startled by this weird kid that wants to stab him

• Nimona breaks the keypad and lets Ballister out before Ambrosius could stop her and she’s just bantering him, which is annoying him and tiring Ballister as this isn’t how he wanted seeing Ambrosius again to go

• While they were squabbling, the sirens go off and guards come in to get Ballister and Nimona and Ambrosius is trying to make them stop to no avail

• Ballister and Nimona run, but then Nimona grabs Ambrosius and drags him with, making the guards believe they just took him hostage

• Ballister: Gah-! Let him go!

Nimona: C’mon, we’re villians! Taking hostages is a huge villain move!

Ballister: No, we’re not!

Ambrosius: Gah-! How strong is this kid, Bal?!

• So then Nimona shapeshifts and they escape, again taking Ambrosius with them. Ambrosius also ends up the one who gets knocked out by the debris

• Of course, Ballister now panics since, ya know, they kinda kidnapped his boyfriend who now probably has a concussion. Nimona just doesn’t get it and she’s like,”Boss, this is the guy who cut off your arm. Why do you care?” So, yeah, they kinda have to bring him with now

• Ballister, carrying the unconscious Ambrosius in his arms: This is bad, this is really bad

Nimona: Yeah…cuz you’re being a killjoy about it

Ballister:!! Wha-? Wha-? No! No! We literally kidnapped him! Now people will think I’m a murderer AND a kidnapper!

Nimona:…At least one thing true goin’ for ya!*smiles*

Ballister:*Sighs* I should’ve just stayed in jail

• So the Director, of course, uses this to malign Ballister and make him look bad as he just killed the queen, works with a monster, and now has taken the descendant of Gloreth captive

• After awhile, Ambrosius comes to in the tower with a bandaged head and Ballister sitting by him with the tacos Nimona made

• He jumps upon remembering that Nimona was all shapeshifting in front of him and was about to grab his sword…oooooonly Ballister took it and places it on the side while caring for him

• Nimona: Yeah, your sword’s over there, buddy

Ballister:…I took it off while you were out. Sorry

• Ambrosius is just trying to understand everything that happened since he went into the dungeon, but after a couple minutes and thst after there’s this shapeshifting kid right in front of him

• Ambrosius: So….Who are you?

Nimona: I’m Nimona and YOU are lucky the boss didn’t let me bite your leg while you slept

Ballister: I wouldn’t have let her. I promise

• After some time, Ambrosius collects himself and relaxes. He tells Ballister he really believes him and is all more than willing to clear his name. Though, he reluctantly agrees to work with Nimona

• So now he’s just with them and helping clear Ballister and trying his best to convince people that his bf and his shapeshifting sidekick didn’t kidnap him

There’s so much more than can be added and made just one this and I’m living for it!!

[goldenheart-week]

Goldenheart Week 2024 Prompts

Each day has four prompt options to choose from: a "Goldenheart" prompt, a "Blackloin" prompt, an AU, and a quote from the movie or comic. There are also five alternative prompts if you are not inspired by any of the options for a given day.

All kinds of fanworks are welcome: digital art, traditional art, 100 word drabbles, ficlets, longer fics, poems, embroidery, cosplay, music, gif sets, vids, etc.

Day 1/June 27: Firsts (meeting, kiss, "I love you," etc) | Memory | Commoner Ballister AU (Ballister doesn't become a knight)

“You always remember things as better than they were.” / “And YOU always remember them as WORSE.”

Day 2/June 28: Forgiveness | Apologies | Prince Ballister AU (Queen Valerin makes Ballister her heir instead of a knight)

“Ballister, wait — if I don't make it out, I need to tell you—" / "We can't do this now. Just...just promise me you won't get yourself killed."

Day 3/June 29: Pride | Weakness | Magical Creature AU (Mermaids, Vampires, Werewolves, Shapeshifters, etc)

“They’re going to love you. Like I do."

Day 4/June 30: Friends | Jealousy | Gay Dads AU

“She’s not just a creature. She’s my friend. Someone I love is going to try and kill her. And she’s going to kill him."

Day 5/July 1: Disability | Regret | Modern AU

“I wish — we could just go back. I wish things could be how they were."

Day 6/July 2: Trust | Scars | Everything is Fine/Science Mom AU

“Then you never knew me at all."

Day 7/July 3: Healing | Pain | Role Swap AU

"Why can't you just leave me alone?" / "Because I love you!"

Alt Prompts: Beyond the Wall | “I love you” | Family | AU

“Arm-chopping is not a love language!”

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[mvjerbs]

I can't take it anymore.

I have nimona aus in my head that are just making me shake in place because I have to hold back the urge to scream and run around. I need to share them, might draw them soon if I can.

I'll start with Shapeshifter!Ballister au:

same events happened but with Ballister being the shape shifter.

despite being the monster that everyone feared, Ballister still believed that he can change the mindset of people by becoming a knight and protecting them. So he snuck in and, through the power and kindness of the queen(bless her), he was given a chance to become a knight.

he plans to reveal his true self once he accomplishes a big goal which is to save people from a great danger and gain their trust.

during the knighting of knights when the queen got killed, Ballister escaped by shapeshifting which made the people panic because "aaaa the monster is here and he is a part of the knights!". (Am torn if I should let him lose his arm or not)

ballister hides away in a tower that he accidentally stumbles upon.

the tower turns out to be nimona's hideout (she's human here).

nimona is an outcast orphan and infamous troublemaker that ambrosius had to constantly catch, but despite that, both are close to one another.

ambrosius is aware of her problems and is trying to help her out. So he's pretty soft for her.

she found him and recognized him as the shapeshifter in the news. she immediately asked him to shapeshift cause she thinks it's cool.

upon hearing what happened, nimona helps Ballister in proving his innocence.

skip to the part where he and nimona argue, Ballister tries to push her away because nimona almost died and that he starts to accept that he really is a monster who is bound to bring destruction and despair wherever he goes.

nimona tries to argue back but the institute found the hideout, Ballister escapes to the wishing well.

consumed in his grief, he transforms into a monster and enters the kingdom. Instead of walking to the statue to kill himself like what nimona did in the movie, he stays in one place instead and let's the institute kill him.

ambrosius notices how Ballister just stayed in one place and did not attack at all. It made him reconsider because it's literally the love of his life, they spend years together and there was not a single moment where Ballister had harmed him at all.

he ordered the knights to stand down but was ignored as they shoot Ballister, who in turn cried in pain. It made ambrosius's heart ache. He begged them to stand down

ballister stands up and shows his weak point so the knights can kill him. Ambrosius yells out.

but before they can shoot Ballister and kill him, nimona rushes in to stop everything. She talks him out of killing himself and ballister turns back into a human again.

both hugged and cried in each other's arms, meanwhile ambrosius looks at them from a far. He wants to hug Ballister and apologize for everything that he had done to him but opted to stay at a distance because he doesn't want to disturb them.

ballister looks up though and he can tell that ambrosius really wants to apologize and make things right. Nimona notices this tension and goes to ambrosius to nudge him towards ballister.

he approached ballister before stopping in a few inches to leave some space between him and Ballister. He apologized to Ballister about everything. Ballister accepted the apology with a hug and kiss.

it was happy for moment when suddenly they all heard a loud noise and see that the cannon was being turned towards the kingdom by the director herself because everyone doesn't wanna hurt Ballister anymore.

panic sets in and ambrosius tells everyone to evacuate in hopes that they might make it in time.

Ballister knows other wise. He's made up his mind and plans to save the people by sacrificing himself.

he hugs nimona and kisses ambrosius before sprinting away. Both nimona and ambrosius realizes what he is trying to do but were to late to stop him.

Ballister turns into a phoenix and destroys the cannon before it could hit the kingdom.

nimona and ambrosius hoped and prayed that Ballister would come back, but as the lights starts to fade nimona hugged ambrosius who, in turn, hugs her back. Both mourning over what happened.

time skip, nimona gets adopted by ambrosius and everyone sees Ballister as a hero and honored him.

nimona goes back to the lair where she first met Ballister. She goes inside looking around her, reminiscing of the things they did together there.

she smiled as she picked up one of the characters in the board game they played before.

she held the piece close, then-

"hey kid."

"HOLY SH-"

she called ambrosius afterwards and they all hugged each other.

That's all I have. Might change or add some stuff in the future, but for now have this. Feel free to make fanfics of this.

Actually please make a fanfic of this, I am bad at writing.

Next au is prince Ballister.

[a-shoebox-named-meap]

aight. have some nimona canon divergence AU fic ideas because i’m no writer but i AM going insane

as a huge fan of canon divergence AUs where One Small Decision Changes Everything™ i can’t stop thinking about little bits and pieces from the nimona movie like:

what if the squire had shown ambrosius the video (ohh a fic like this would be Delicious) (mm ambrosius x squire tag team) (ballister’s two biggest fans) (this might be one of my favorite ideas so far) (lots of potential here i feel like)

now there have been a lot of people asking “let’s feel some ANGST what if real ambrosius had walked into the director’s office before nimona” but i will take that and raise you: what if ambrosius had walked in while nimona was doing her thing in the director’s office. perhaps around the time when the director stabbed fake!ambrosius. please consider. may the chaos ensue

ballister had noticed his sword-laser-cannon powering up and moved it away from the queen but it hit something else! or someOne else! (or it killed the queen anyway but still hit somebody else in the process) (oh gods what if it took off his own arm) (or even ambrosius’s—) (can you imagine the kinda twist that would occur if he took off ambrosius’s arm by accident and ballister not resting until he found out who the real culprit is skdjdjdjdjddj) (oh but wait let me make this WORSE what if he hit ambrosius instead of the queen ((don’t worry ambrosius is wearing armor, he doesn’t die he’s just,,, gravely injured?)) and ballister, even if he still gets framed for it, will stop at nothing to find out who did this to ambrosius) (now incorporate nimona into that storyline and hoohoohoo) (i’m rubbing my hands together like a maniacal fruit fly right now)

what if they had uploaded the squire’s video when they got it huh. what then. back it up to the cloud. or just TEXT it to ambrosius you Fool. you absolute Buffoon. (but perhaps this seemingly obvious course of action results in some unexpectedly dire consequences oh no—)

“ooh… nemesis.” “nemesis?” at which point nimona and ballister get stuck in the closet, nimona reveals her shapeshifting abilities, and oh, screw it, if ballister’s situation with his arm-chopping nemesis is really so cOmPLiCAteD then maybe since they’re breaking out of jail anyway they might as well kidnap ambrosius while they’re at it. aka the au where nimona breaks ballister out of jail and she takes ambrosius with them. (i am FEASTING on the possibilities of this one)

let’s take todd’s suspicion and blame directed towards ambrosius (“why didn’t you tell us ballister was working with whales?”) and dial that up to 100. slowly, though, not too fast, it’s gotta build momentum. let’s breed some mistrust in ambrosius. let’s see people refusing to let ambrosius lead the manhunt for ballister on account of their close relationship. let’s see people turn their backs on him thinking he was a conspirator. let’s see ambrosius losing the public’s favor. let’s see ambrosius starting to feel some doubt when he’s alone in his room — let’s see ambrosius wondering what if people are actually as wrong about ballister as he knows they are about ambrosius himself. (what if everybody hates ambrosius too—)

this one is not nearly as straightforward a canon divergence but ponder this: the director noticed the squire was there in the locker room (?) that day and swapped out the swords after the squire had left. or maybe she swapped it out before the squire was ever there. the squire never knew the director had been there. there was no video evidence. now what? up to you >:)

ok hear me out. the squire is a #1 ballister fan right. the squire is probably very careful with the swords and armor he handles. the squire is probably intimately familiar with the swords and other various weaponry and armaments of the institution. the squire is probably very familiar with ballister’s in particular. when ballister first picked up his swapped-out sword he noticed something was off about it, but what if — WHAT IF — the squire had noticed something was off about it first. now of course there’s Possibility #1 where he sees the director swap the sword, and then he checks out the sword and feels that something is wrong with it etc etc (or maybe he mistakes the sword change for an equipment upgrade) BUT now let’s combine this with the previous bullet point for Possibility #2 where the squire DIDN’T see the director swap the sword but he DID notice something was off about the sword before ballister did and actually investigated it. would he discover the hidden weapon, or not? if he did would he bring it to ballister’s attention? ambrosius’s? the director’s? what if he caught the hidden weapon but didn’t mention it and then the queen died and the squire was left fully believing ballister killed the queen (ballister knows mechanics, you’ve seen his arm, it’s plausible he built the weapon into his sword himself) and then ballister and nimona kidnapped him and interrogated him and ballister and the squire were left spiderman meme-ing each other like *points* “i thought YOU were behind all this!” and now the squire is an unwilling sidekick dragged into this by nimona and ballister to figure out who the real culprit is and there’s ACTION and ADVENTURE and COMEDY and it’s absolutely metal—

the squire really feels like a lynchpin in this story is all i’m sayin

if you can’t tell i’m also a fan of happy endings. in my brain most of these canon divergences result in a similar happy ending as the movie. except maybe faster (not always). which i enjoy because i’m sappy and silly anyway thank you and goodnight

[ratsofarsonunite]

Nimona - little mermaid au?

(@riririkinzi inspired 😈🫡)

y’all are going to probably be disappointed but…i don’t think I’ve watched the whole The little mermaid movie? Neither of them. 🥲 but i liked the idea so…head-canons/lore time?? (I included long hair ambro just bc. 😔 that might be how he looks in my au- 🤔)

I’m to lazy to write down everything:

Ballister is most likely seen as a ‘monster’ for being non-human…or sort of human?

Bal eventually gets his arm chopped/blown off when some people were trying to kill him, claiming him to be a ‘monster’

Nimona is a shark most of the time, but she/they can shape-shift, mostly to be able to be on land, shapeshifting into her human form.

Ballister collects random things. (I think Ariel does that in the movie? Aytism.) HELP IT WON’T LET ME CLICK SPACE TO TYPE ANY MORE LORE. 😭

[stickynotelovers-art]

Nimona and ROTTMNT crossover.

I want to say first that if you haven't seen @/hatekawa's Rottmnt Nimona AU, please go take a look. It is wonderful!

[Warning for ROTTMNT movie and Nimona spoilers]

It would be absolute chaos! I'm imagining it would be post-movie ROTTMNT, don't know why but that's just what came to mind. I think for Nimona it would be some point between Ballister and Nimona meeting and shortly after them exposing the Director.

Mikey and Nimona would be immediate friends I think.

Raph and Nimona would get along well, but I think the shapeshifting would be a little shocking at first for him. The rest of the turtles would go banana's over it and want her to transform into them while Raph just kind of screams internally.

I'm also thinking post-movie Raph would connect with Nimona a lot. It would have a pinch of angst because this would be Raph who's trying to feel like himself again after the Krang. Nimona reassuring Raph that he's still himself no matter what would just be so good. ;-;

And then there's Donnie who would just be invading Ballister's personal space constantly, not only to mess with his robot arm, but also he wants to steal Ballister's armor for his own aesthetic. Ballister's just trying not to freak out at there now being human-sized turtle people appearing out of nowhere.

Not pictured, but still causing trouble, is Leo running around like a maniac at the Institute and just creating all types of mischief for Ambrosius and the other knights.

Mikey: Hey, does anyone know where Leo is?

*Explosions in the distance and smoke coming from the Institute building. Ballister suddenly getting a million texts and phone calls from Ambrosius about a rampaging lizard thing causing havoc by teleporting all over the place while screaming about doing it for the shits and giggles*

Donnie: ... I have an idea.

[ashfault]

"Don't be afraid kid, I won't hurt you.. "

Ballister said as he reaches out his hand. A child with long red hair looks at him with hesitation. She slowly reaches her hand out and Ballister caught her in his hand. As he flys up a bit, with a soothing voice , he says to her, " You won't be alone anymore, kid, I'll take care of you. No matter if you are a shapeshifter, I'm sure the fairies will accept you for who you are, ". Nimona smiles, happy to find someone who accepts her for who she is and be able to take care of her with care, just as she longed for a 1000 years before..

(Some Fairy AU backstory on how Nimona was adopted by Ballister! My uh writing skill isn't the best but I tried! 🥲)

[wizisbored]

first go at some clear references for blood red. fully going for vibes over historical accuracy here

some notes:

ballister has cut his right sleeve short and pinned it up since he doesnt have a prosthetic in this au

he still has his holster on his right hip with the handle pointing back which i imagine would be very awkward to grab with the left hand but hes yet to go through with relearning to shoot left and one handed

in both the comic and the film the red of ballisters cloak (only the lining in the film) matches the shade of something in nimonas design, so i gave him the red back panel here. couldnt find a shade i liked for both of them but its still a nod to that

nimona could still have pink hair, given shes shapeshifting it rather than dying it, but its just the vibes yknow. could probably push it to be a redder shade of ginger tho.

likewise, she could ditch all the dirt and bloodstains between shifts, but she doesnt see the need to. whos blood is that? dont worry about it :)

shes got a slightly oversized 'mens' collared shirt on under her bodice. i put it in quotes because its something she shifted on so its not like it was manufactured with men in mind, but its a traditionally mens shape/cut

shes got a holster but no gun. thats where she keeps her collection of bullets shes been shot with

her horse form is taken pretty much directly from the film but colourshifted to be more of an unusually red chestnut than pink

like in the film she has the same eyes in every form, so she still has round pupils in horse form

her brand is shifted rather than being an actual burn scar

the halter and reins are just a bit of rope that ballister tied around her head when he thought she was just a regular horse, and after she reveals herself are just used to keep up appearances as a sort of real horse disguise

eventually nimona steals a saddle for herself. in human form she carries it around despite the fact that it should be way too heavy for her to be doing that casually

[sabindark]

Ballister shapeshifting Au

Ballister : Nimona -!

Nimona : Hey boss ! how's it flying there ? Good ?

Ballister :Nimona! Don't you dare hunt me for fun !

Nimona : hehehe 😈

[stickylizardcave]

Shapeshifter!Ballister oneshot is at 3k words and going great guys :')

[riririkinzi]

THE SILVER PROMISE AND THE GOLDEN BETRAYAL

An au in which Nimona and Ballister have more help and Ambrosius pulls his head out of his ass sooner.

THANK YOU AGAIN @mavka12 FOR THE HELP!!!!

And if you wanna hear the Gloreth version HERE

- Same stuff happens in the Gloreth version but when the wall was fully built, and people stopped going over, not even a knight, everyone rejoiced that the genocide is over.

- But Nimona still kept the sanctuary and army, cause they need to be prepared for any calamity.

- She send out the shapeshifters to spy on the kingdom and institute without being known for any updates.

- When she heard the news on Bal during the knight Ceremony, Nimona knew she Bal would be the perfect candidate as her right hand man for the job cause he's  knew the institute inside out.

- Nimona knew the only way to convince Bal is by recruiting him herself, so like they encountered the same way in canon but when the destruction happened, instead of taking him back to the lair, she took him to the sanctuary beyond the wall.

-  When Bal woke up, he was suprised by the unfamilar surrounding, and was greeted by the heelers and Nimona, then the asking happens like in the movie but with him wondering where he's in.

- Nimona explained that he's in the sanctuary of the Silver society, in the woods and most importantly beyond the wall.

- This completely shocked Bal from everything when he met Nimona, and asked why they took him, and wondering if there's suppost to be monsters.

- Nimona snapped him out of it saying there's no monsters at all, it's just a twisted lie and that she have to explain to him soon but he needs rest first.

- Later when Bal got out of bed, Nimona showed him around and explained everything from the sanctuary, he was quite intimidated, and nervous at the magical creatures and those with non full human blood .

- The fact about monsters is just a twisted lie, and the truth of Gloreth, and why she's doing this.

- It shocked Bal so hard, realizing that everything from the Whitewall is just a twisted lie a propaganda, he can only imagine how shocked Ambro would be that his bloodline is just a lie.

- Nimona explained that not only why she recruited Bal but one of her spies was able to find proof for his innocence, and showed him the footage of the Director switching his sword with the other that started it.

- Nimona revealed to Bal the fact that the institute's jacked system, and the ignorance of Poverty, and the real vunerable

- She made him choose that he must join them to clear out his name and take down the institute, or let them live a lie for more than 1000 of years.

- Bal accepts and joins Nimona, and so when Bal settled in his new room, she gave him new clothes and stuff, and tells that he had to get a tattoo to be apart of the sanctuary unless he has skin condition.

- So when Bal got his tattoo, they strapped him tightly and lay him down something cozy so it won't cause trouble, but Bal handled this like a champ that the tattoo prep was a sucesss, it was placed at the back.

- Things were going well for the next few days until Bal started to vomit frequently, the healers confirmed that Bal is actually pregnant.

- This meant that Bal must refrain from combat battles and training or any heavylifting during the pregnancy, and luckily Nimona and the others were there to lookout for him, but Bal felt that he wishes Ambro was there.

- Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Ambro became depressed and emotionless, he felt like he could have done something, so Bal would stay with him.

- The baby's Labor was a day before the due date, and the way she was delivered is in the lake.

- After the baby is born Ballister and Nimona name him Orion and Ballister notices that his son has poliosis.

- Ballister doesn't care about that and loves his son regardless of what he looks like and Nimona has a soft spot for him.

- After the baby is born, a year and a half passed as they prepared to confront the director.

As the 2 head to the kingdom, appearing infront of the knights, Ambro and the director, exposed her with the footage.

- But the director denies it and saying their lying, the knight believed Bal while the others doesn't and Ambro's stuck in between.

- The fight like the canon happens except crispy scene.

- When Bal struck the sword to the ground around Ambro, his last words to him before he and Nimona escape are "Everything we grew up believeing is just an exaggerated lie" with a harsh cold glare.

- As he and Nimona escape with a smoke bomb. The director knew she's from beyond the wall so she sent Ambro and the knights to go beyond and find the 2.

- One of the spies  got notified on that and fled to Nimona about the news, she alert the sanctuary citizens to prepare everything for evactaution and fighters/magic users for Battle.

- Meanwhile for Ambro during the preperations, he wanders into the vault and looks through every book and scroll about the Gloreth, until he found  a small old journal, that belong to Gloreth.

- In that journal is when Gloreth wrote the truth about her and Nimona, how they used to be best friends, how her parents influenced her that she's a monster, making her go back to the shadows and regretting it every single day.

- She regretting betraying Nimona but Gloreth knew it was the only way to protect Nimona from small minded folks clouded by fear.

- Soon as she got older and was sent to knighthood, she was commanded by the royals to exterminate the mythicals beyond the wall, and that's how Nimona formed the Silver society, to protect those from Gloreth and her army.

- Ambro was stunned and shocked that he froze in thought immediently, his mind repeating in circles of the words "It's just a lie" over and over for a bit realizing Bal was right, everything in the kingdom, the will of Gloreth, the bloodline, the legacy is just a lie and a propaganda.

- He knew he had to do something, so he hid the Journal with him back to his place, as he prepare himself for the expedition, the day came, citizens wished the knights a good luck and go beyond the wall, while for the Silver society.

- Citizens evacuated way before the knights came and was left was Nimona, Bal, guards and the protecters prepared for a battle.

- As the knights arrived, before the battle began, some knights joined the protecters saying they don't want to live in a lie and are tired of everyone expecting them to follow their family's footsteps, and wants to be free and so did Ambro, which lead Todd taking the lead.

- As the battle begans for a while the protecters won and the knights lost.

- After the battle the protecters accepted Ambro but wasn't ready trust him, so they gave him a warning that they got eyes on him if he makes a move, so half of the protecters, Nimona, Bal and Ambro return to Whitewall to finally take down the director and disband the institute.

- They fought off more knights while the  protecters stalled them so the 3 can reach the directors office.

- And when they finally did, the director readys her lazer staff to shoot right at Ambro at his shoulder luckily, and one of the shifters sucessfully grabbed it quickly before more calamity happens then another from Nimona's army grabbed the director as she's now arrested.

- When she surrendered, Nimona grabbed the her neck saying that she's started it all for her sick fantasies to keep up the legacy that's just a twisted lie all those centuries, that Gloreth never slayed monsters, she slaughtered innocent mythical creatures and exterminated them that almost lead to genocide.

- She told her that what everyone believed is just a lie, Gloreth was just a child that betrayed her friend all because she was different, that adults taught her hate and fear.

- The monster never destroyed the village at all it was all on the villagers being clouded by fear all because of a girl who can shapeshift who they think she's a monster, and that girl was Nimona.

- The director was stunned but admits that she killed the queen and framed Bal and explaining why while slandering Bal in everyway, but she didn't know that it's being recorded live for the whole kingdom to see.

- The people are shocked from the truth yet outrage at the Director that they gathered infront of the institute, shouting that she deserves to be executed, that Queen Valerin and Ballister deserves justice, and to take down the wall and the institute.

- Soon as she's executed, Ambro announced the whole kingdom the truth of Gloreth and everything happending that Nimona decided not to disband but to restart the institute, the system, history and everything in the whitewall and taken the wall down as people are finally free to travel the world if they wished.

- Soon Bal told Ambro that he was pregnant while he was gone and had a child, and was shocked, but he can meet him when it's over.

- When Ambro met the child, his heart was melted and cried a bit when he held him.

[artz16]

Another bit of thought and another AU/What if:

• So basically the squire manages to get Ballister aside while the knights went out and show him the video of the Director replacing his sword. He’s kinda scared Ballister wouldn’t believe him because of the power and respect the Director has

• Ambrosius also finds out because he sees Ballister not there and he’s like,”babe, c’mon. We gotta go” and sees the video too

• The two confront the Director during the knighting and ask her what’s the deal with replacing Ballister’s sword

• Then the sword starts to go off in the prescene of the Queen and Ballister manages to make it point up and avoid hitting her but it blasts the Jumbotron and it falls down

• Ballister pulls the Queen away but hurts his arm really bad in the process (debating on it being so bad, it needed to be amputated or not)

• So the Director is arrested for attempting to kill the Queen and blame it Ballister. This hurts everyone, especially Ballister due to the fact the Director never wanted him to be a knight and was going to make it look like he killed his mother figure

• Ambrosius is also incredibly pissed on his man’s behalf and if it weren’t for Ballister, he would’ve thrown hands with the Director for her crimes

• So everyone’s trying to collect themselves after the ordeal, especially Ballister. He’s happy he’s a knight, but the what ifs, the Director’s real thought on him, and the idea of what would happen if the Director got her way really is messing with him. Ambrosius does his best to comforts him and make him feel better. Admittedly, the whole thing has Ambrosius more protective of Ballister cuz, ya know

• Some time later, the queen decided to explore the outside of the wall to see what’s the real danger and to expand and she entrusted Ballister to lead the first mission

• He got stuck with Todd, who decided it be funny to just leave him by the end and lie to the others that he’s behind. This leaves Ballister alone to find a way back himself

• He traces back his steps to get back and while doing so, he runs into Nimona and sees her shapeshifting first hand

• He immediately gets scared and draws his sword and she in response turns into a wolf/bear to protect herself

• Seeing that he scared her, he lets down his sword and takes a calmer stance, apologizing and assuring her he won’t harm her

• She relaxes and shifts into her girl form…and immediately takes interest his Ballister’s arm

• Nimona: Woah! Sick arm, dude!

Ballister: I…Thank you?

• Bal’s just confused about this shapeshifting girl who’s just happily talking to him and who’s all by herself

• He questions her about who she is and where she comes from, but she only states her name and doesn’t give much to get from

• She does help Ballister get back to the kingdom…where Ambrosius is arguing with Todd over abandoning Ballister and would’ve punched him hard in the face if it weren’t for Ballister coming in and stopping him, which relieves Goldenloin as his man was okay after all

• Ballister was going to introduce Nimona, but she took off after he went to stop Ambrosius. So he’s just pondering about her after it and thinking about the shapeshifter girl who helped him out

• After that, he found her chilling in the tower and started visiting her often, bringing food and trying to get to know her better, which is shocking to Nimona, who comes around to enjoying Ballister’s company and feels happy to have someone who really won’t abandon her because of who she is this time

Something else that can be expanded but I thought this was a cute slice of life idea!

TL:DR: Queen never died, Bal never got framed, and he met Nimona near the outside of the wall

[afdg10]

Nimona au

Where the queen doesn’t die but goes into a coma for most of the events of the movie and when she wakes up boom: the knight she basically adopted has been public enemy number one as well as missing an arm, Gloreth’s great(x?) grandchild is having a breakdown her number two tried to destroy the kingdom there is this strange pink child that can shapeshift and is working with Ballister and is potentially gloreth’s monster and tried to off themselves with a giant statue and everything has gone to shit and Todd is still here for some reason and she has to deal with the aftermath of that whole mess.

[williamlandon]

BALLISTER VILLIAN AU????

I’ve thought about this for awhile now and I finally did it and I love it. I’ve also kinda thought of some lore and here’s what I have so far.

————————————————————————————————————————--Some Lore: Ballister was adopted by Queen Valerin when he was young and became the prince of the kingdom.

During his coronation to become king, he was framed for murdering his mother and his appointed knight, Ambrosius, cut off his arm in an instinct without any thought.

He managed to escape the city walls without anyone noticing thankfully, but where would he go? He knew nothing about the outside world, if anything it was just as dangerous as staying in the kingdom with a harsh title, if not more dangerous.

While running into the forest, he was found by a skilled archer who was also a shapeshifter. They met when Ballister stopped by a tree to catch his breath and an arrow had been fired into his left eye. After realizing what she had done, the archer curiously dragged the unconscious yet still breathing body to her hideout.

After he woke up, she interrogated him. He told her that he was recently framed for murder and was running for his life. He also told her that he was the soon-to-be king.

She realized that he could be quite useful in her plan of revenge on the kingdom, since she too had been outcasted.

She said she would let him stay and use her resources if he helped her in a plan of revenge. After all, he would need her bandages and food if he wanted to survive out here, and he didn’t want to make an enemy he knew he couldn’t defeat. So he cautiously agreed.

After getting Ballister patched up, the archer introduced herself as Nimona.

Months pass by and they have turned to a life of crime. Atleast 3 times a week they visit the kingdom to steal resources such as food, drinks, extra scrap for patching or building, valuables, info about who the real murderer of the queen is, and weaponry.

One day when out looking for extra spray paint cans for Nimona’s vandalizing gig, the fallen prince had over heard the Squire talking to himself. “I should’ve told the prince that his sword was switched by the Director. None of this would’ve happened if I was successful.”

In an instant, Ballister was enraged. The Director did it. She was to blame for his mother’s death. “Nimona, new plan. And this time, our objective is the Director.”

Later that night Ballister found his sword covered in the Director’s blood. He had done it. She was gone. And he can finally rest. Right..?

And within a few minutes, his ex-appointed knight Ambrosius had busted into the office when alerted with the Director’s cry. He couldn’t believe his eyes.

“Well if it isn’t the golden boy?”

After the Director’s death, Ballister had taken back his crown and title as king. He may have enlarged his murderous title, but he didn’t care. Not this time. Consumed by his anger and grief, Ballister became the evil king in every fairytale. The kingdom was in his bondage, there was no escape. No one to stop him.

Ambrosius fled before he was captured by the new king’s servants and before the wall was sealed off. He was alone now, and even worse, his best friend, the man he loved, was his enemy. Alone in the woods, he wondered what he should do next. If he could do anything at all.. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————

I will post more about this au bc I am honestly in love with it so far. I may also write a fic about this au too I’m sure about that yet, but if I do stay tuned! <3