#h'rath

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More Ga’Hoole art!!!

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HumanAU-comics-songfic based on the Legends of Hoole arc

By First Aid Kit - Wolf

✨Part 1

It was difficult to cram almost all the main characters into the text, but I managed💪

and I still love humanizations, yesss

(just in case, I signed everyone in tags)

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The funniest part about Arrin trying and failing to marry Siv is the fact that he wanted to do that only because she could deflect spells, and he thought she'll defend him from hagsfiends if he married her. "Lady Siv, pls pick me up I'm scared"😂

Also, I personally thought the "hagsfiends have no gizzards and therefore can't tell right from wrong" bit was a lie, both because we had six books of pure ones churning out the "we have those finely tuned organs, and that means we're the superior species" propaganda before this, and because we first hear it from Grank, who doesn't have the best record of telling right from wrong either. (His first meeting with Theo becomes very harsh in hindsight when you re-read it as an adult; like, I know he is supposed to be grieving H'rath and some of his knights, but he still acts like an ass towards Theo)

Didn't he also want to marry Strix Emerilla as well? Lmao you right, this guy really is the embodiment of "vaguely female figure, pick me up I'm scared"

Yeah, the gizzard thing always rubbed me the wrong way, because what would an organ know about right or wrong? I think it's just the owls telling themselves that so they can claim they're superior over other creatures. Which is ironic, in many senses. The owls do do many questionable things...

[arthurian-owls]

And the part two of the TMA crossover, because the first ask got so massive:

Kreeth is on her way to get avatarised, but The Eye, The Flesh and The Stranger can't decide who gets to keep her (the Eye eventually wins). Also marked by The End because of all the dead things and people she handles and will gladly feed anyone to the fears(even the ones she isn't aligned with). She also would write it down in details, she's a scientist, after all.

Lutta is Stranger-aligned, but she's very reluctant when it comes to feeding people to the fears. She would've been pretty content living off Strix Strumajen's confusion if she wasn't so eager to prove herself to Kreeth.

Speaking of Strix Strumajen: she's pretty bloodthirsty. Marked by The Slaughter and probably unknowingly fed a few people to it. Also touched by The Web, like everyone else in Hoole's court (because of exposure to the Ember)

Ygryk worked her way into marked by The Hunt. Pleek isn't, but he is along for the ride. Both are marked by The Slaughter.

Siv is marked by the Hunt and touched by the Desolation, but otherwise fairly fear-resistant (remember Joshua Gillespie from the second episode? Yeah, she's like that).

I was tempted to say that H'rath was similar to Siv in that regard, but then I remembered that Grank described him as "obsessed with ice weapons from the moment he hatched"; not sure how accurate this was, but I'll mark this down as H'rath being touched and later marked by The Slaughter. (And his scimitar became a manifestation, that's why it stayed intact for all 3 books and hadn't melted in Beyond the Beyond)

Theo is marked by The Slaughter and The Stranger, but in a very complicated way: apart from him actually fighting people, he set the things up to erase the hagsfiend culture. Not sure if what happened by his design counts as feeding people to The Stranger, but I think it comes pretty damn close.

Coryn is marked by The End and The Extinction(the very late-game fear in TMA; basically "the humanity(and possibly everything else on the planet) is done for, and it is our fault"): his Hamlet-esque melancholic attitude lends itself well to both, and since he was raised by the pure ones, Extinction fits a little better(imagine running from your small hometown knowing that all people there are out to get you and also want everyone who isn't them dead. Really makes one think about people dooming themselves). Also touched by The Hunt, The Slaughter and The Lonely.

Striga is a mess. I've recently re-read about half of "River of Wind" for the lols, and everyone is just dunking on him, its ridiculous. (Not entirely undeserved dunking, mind you, but mostly for the wrong reasons). Marked by The Slaughter(his dreams/nightmares of his past life), The Flesh(in its body dysmorphia aspect. He's got so many complexes to work through, and he starts plucking his own feathers out in the next book), marked and later avatarised by The Desolation... he's got a lot on his plate.

Twilight is also touched by The Slaughter - both in its straightforward and metaphorical aspect (Slaughter also manifests in music, especially agressive, like rock or war songs), but luckily for everyone, he's disinterested in being a full-on avatar. Twilight actually whipping everyone around into murderous rage with his songs would be terrifying.

Oh my god,,, imagine Twilight pulling a move like that band that made everyone die (my memory SUCKS but ykwim),,, that would be INTENSE.

I dig the idea of Theo accidentally (or purposely, if the ends justified the means) feeding folks to The Stranger. absolutely 10/10, much to ponder upon here indeed!!!

[curious-sootball]

Some more GoG x TMA headcanons (Part 6/?)

Not strictly GoG×TMA, but I think it would've been kind of funny if Penryck ended up as Lutta's odd uncle. Not strictly because he's associated with her parents, but because he sounds like someone who would be Kreeth's customer.

Tangentially related to point 1: irl crows live in family groups and/or bands made of young crows who left their nests but hadn't started a family of their own yet (as far as I'm aware); my headcanon is that hagsfiends have very similar social organisation and most of Penryck's immediate blood family was killed during the very end of king H'rathmore's reign(because king H'rathmore was an asshole)

And que Lutta saying years later when Penryck is visitong Kreeth for whatever reason "hey, uncle 'Ryk, can I have your clan last name? As my own???" And him responding along the lines of "Why on earth would you want that, kid?!"

"Well, I can't claim my dad's family name because they disowned him, my mom disowned me, and auntie Kreeth said "oh fuck no" when I asked her. So you're the only one left."

Penryck needs some time to process that. (Yes, he is touched to the depths of his soul, but he'd rather die than admit it then and there) And maybe yell at Kreeth for good measure because he somehow ended up second most reliable figure in Lutta's life and he Did Not Sign Up for this. Kreeth is supposed to look after her own experiments, dammit!

He does let Lutta use his family name after that, though.

Lutta and Emerilla both would've loved "Black Sheep Daughter" ("I am my mother's savage daughter' filk lyrics by Piper CJ), but for different reasons. (Yes, the "She birthed a witch when she wanted a lady, she prayed for a child who'll walk with the lord; but I watch the stars and I live by the planets. I cut her dream short with the edge of my sword" bit is playing on repeat in my brain, why do you ask?)

Lutta and Emerilla working together against the king H'rath's court. I want to see those conservative owls blow a whole factiry worth of gaskets.

Way later, Hoole ends up brokering an uneasy peace with hagsfiend clans because he (somewhat accidentally) ended up marrying into de-facto stongest clan. Penryck is Not Impressed™️ with his new in-laws and neither is Kreeth.

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Started thinking of my umber hulk monk, H'rath again & got Such an Urge to draw her a whole bunch; my sweet gorl🥺

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The Coming of the End

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/39jYfGG

by BluestarandInk

A king falls to Hagsmire's darkest beings. - A queen flees the ones that covet her unhatched egg. - The first collier dives into the fury of an erupting volcano.

 Meanwhile, the guardian and the fiend get drunk on bingle juice and discuss the End.

Words: 405, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Guardians of Ga'Hoole - Kathryn Lasky, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Multi

Characters: Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens), Beelzebub (Good Omens), King H'rath (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Queen Siv (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Prince Hoole | King Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Lord Arrin (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Penryck 'Sklardrog' | Sky Dragon (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Yrgryk (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Pleek (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Kreeth (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Lutta (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Ullryck (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), An Assortment of Gadfeathers (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Fengo (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Queen Siv/King H'rath, Aziraphale & Hoole, Aziraphale & Hoole & Crowley, Queen Siv & King H'rath & Grank, Beezlebub & Kreeth, Crowley & Lutta, Queen Siv/Grank (One-Sided), Hoole/Lutta (One-Sided), Ygryk/Pleek

Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Aziraphale and Crowley Get Drunk (Again), Crowley diguises himself as a gadfeather, Bingle Juice, Bangle Juice, Grogg Trees, Other characters mentioned - Freeform, The Ice Palace (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), The Northen Kingdoms (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), The Southern Kingdoms (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale gets mistaken for Hoole, The Glauxian Brother's Retreat (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale is a Glauxian Brother

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/39jYfGG

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The Coming of the End

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/39jYfGG

by BluestarandInk

A king falls to Hagsmire's darkest beings. - A queen flees the ones that covet her unhatched egg. - The first collier dives into the fury of an erupting volcano.

 Meanwhile, the guardian and the fiend get drunk on bingle juice and discuss the End.

Words: 405, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Guardians of Ga'Hoole - Kathryn Lasky, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Multi

Characters: Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens), Beelzebub (Good Omens), King H'rath (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Queen Siv (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Prince Hoole | King Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Lord Arrin (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Penryck 'Sklardrog' | Sky Dragon (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Yrgryk (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Pleek (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Kreeth (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Lutta (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Ullryck (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), An Assortment of Gadfeathers (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Fengo (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Queen Siv/King H'rath, Aziraphale & Hoole, Aziraphale & Hoole & Crowley, Queen Siv & King H'rath & Grank, Beezlebub & Kreeth, Crowley & Lutta, Queen Siv/Grank (One-Sided), Hoole/Lutta (One-Sided), Ygryk/Pleek

Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Aziraphale and Crowley Get Drunk (Again), Crowley diguises himself as a gadfeather, Bingle Juice, Bangle Juice, Grogg Trees, Other characters mentioned - Freeform, The Ice Palace (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), The Northen Kingdoms (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), The Southern Kingdoms (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale gets mistaken for Hoole, The Glauxian Brother's Retreat (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale is a Glauxian Brother

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/39jYfGG

[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

The Coming of the End

by BluestarandInk

A king falls to Hagsmire's darkest beings. - A queen flees the ones that covet her unhatched egg. - The first collier dives into the fury of an erupting volcano.

 Meanwhile, the guardian and the fiend get drunk on bingle juice and discuss the End.

Words: 405, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: Guardians of Ga'Hoole - Kathryn Lasky, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Multi

Characters: Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens), Beelzebub (Good Omens), King H'rath (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Queen Siv (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Prince Hoole | King Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Lord Arrin (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Penryck 'Sklardrog' | Sky Dragon (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Yrgryk (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Pleek (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Kreeth (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Lutta (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Ullryck (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), An Assortment of Gadfeathers (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Fengo (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Queen Siv/King H'rath, Aziraphale & Hoole, Aziraphale & Hoole & Crowley, Queen Siv & King H'rath & Grank, Beezlebub & Kreeth, Crowley & Lutta, Queen Siv/Grank (One-Sided), Hoole/Lutta (One-Sided), Ygryk/Pleek

Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Aziraphale and Crowley Get Drunk (Again), Crowley diguises himself as a gadfeather, Bingle Juice, Bangle Juice, Grogg Trees, Other characters mentioned - Freeform, The Ice Palace (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), The Northen Kingdoms (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), The Southern Kingdoms (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale gets mistaken for Hoole, The Glauxian Brother's Retreat (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), Aziraphale is a Glauxian Brother

source http://archiveofourown.org/works/21994102

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Okay, so, the hagsfiend headcanons >:D

First, I am a simple person: I see dragons, I have to at least check out the idea, so when Lasky introduced Penryck "the Sky Dragon" and then did so little with him, I was very disappointed and made up a few headcanons about him:

- in the First Collier it is mentioned that Arryn had a son; my headcanon is that Penryck met Arryn's son first and he, in turn, convinced Arryn to hire Penryck (because I doubt Arryn would've considered hiring hagsfiends all on his own, he would've tried to get an owl warlord on his side instead)

- Penryck is actually better at diplomacy than Arryn, and he was trying to recruit some of Arryn's generals during the second half of The coming of Hoole; that's one of the reasons there are rumours about them going separate ways at the beginning of To be a King (also, his POV in the Coming of Hoole is him mentally rolling eyes at both Arryn's racist shit and his incompetence as a strategist, and I wish there was more of villainous flashbacks because trying to reverse engineer Sklardrog's personality off one pov and a handful of lines is painful)

- A bit more speculative one: Penryck crossed paths with Theo's father and uncle(possibly killed or ordered to kill the latter). Theo asks Grank if he's sure that Penryck killed the high king ‐ why specifically him and not any other warlord? Either Sklardrog's reputation is that scary or Theo had a personal reason to fear him. (This bit never came up again in the books, though, so it stays a speculation)

- Hoole's first time using firesight was a big missed opportunity. Imagine if he saw hagsfiends just living their lives and started doubting what Grank had told him?

- A rather sad one: I thought a lot about Ygreek and Pleek. A lot. (Mostly ranging between "Who hurt you, Grank?" and "Who hurt you, Kathryn?") Because the more I thought about it, the more it felt(at least the translation) like a part of Ygreek's desire to have a child comes from wanting to fit a "proper family" mold; we don't get a similar in-depth introspection about kids from Pleek's point of view, but since Grank picks him out instantly when he looks into the Ember, I headcanon that Pleek comes from a noble family (probably not as rich as Arryn, Siv or Grank himself), and he probably heard plenty of that "your purpose is to have an heir and pass on the family name one day" nonsense before he met Ygreek. So they both have their share of internalised issues about having kids.

(Oof, that got wordy)

I LOVE DRAGONS. I agree, I wish Penryck's character had been explored more. He does seem to be better at diplomacy from his short conversation with Lord Arrin. Lord Arrin's character pretty much boils down to "I want the throne" and "I want a wife," so it makes sense that Penryck was pulling all the strings behind the scenes. In terms of appearance I'd like to think Penryck had claws on his wings, perhaps scaled talons and very long ear-tufts to the point where they looked like horns.

I just think it's funny that owls are convinced hagsfiends are evil when all the hagsfiends in the legends books were hired by owl lords to overthrow King H'rath. The hagsfiends were definitely taking advantage of the situation there, but it's strange that they're considered more villainous than the owl lords who 1) have a gizzard so they know right from wrong, and 2) still chose to do wrong.

I believe it was confirmed that Pleek was a noble lord, which makes me respect his character more because like you pointed out, he probably faced a ton of pressure from his family to have an heir, and also backlash for falling in love with the enemy. When the war starts he would most likely have lost all his noble titles for consorting with a hagsfiend. He gave up so much for Ygryk, and it feels like a further punishment that they can't have a normal family together. Ygryk would probably also feel a lot of guilt for causing her mate to be cut off and shunned by his kind. Pleek and Ygryk may have been horrible parents to Lutta, but they also didn't have the best situation.

[curious-sootball]

One of many, many weird things in the Legends that annoyed me a lot: the arc cannot decide who is supposed to be its main antagonist.

Think about it: we have Lord Arrin and Penryck as main antagonists for the first and second book (The first collier and The coming of Hoole); they kick most of the arc's plot into action (Hoole wouldn't have ended up in Grank's care if H'rath and Siv were alive and not forced into hiding) and are set up as a more or less believable threat; but they pretty much dissolve into nothing at the beginning of "To be a King" – it is mentioned that they had one too many arguments and went their separate ways, but we get little to no details about it. Those two were the greatest threat the protagonists had to face, or at least framed as such for two books! Nah, they can just fade into background, no need to worry about them.

To be fair, Kreeth gets actively mentioned in "The coming of Hoole" and even shows up in person; she ends up as the final boss main antagonist of the "To be a King", and boi, she had some legitimately scary takeover schemes (she is said to be a very powerful spellcaster, and she planned to get her claws onto the most powerful magical item in the setting by forcing Lutta to impersonate Emerilla, a girl from a noble owl family, and either steal the Ember or become Hoole's queen and steal the ember slightly later.)

Problem is, this wasn't a "greater scope antagonist taking out the initial one" situation, like with st. Aegolius and the pure ones (who infiltrated the place from the inside and massacred basically everyone later in the books to take over the resources and living space in the books); the only connection between the antagonists of the first two books and Kreeth is Ygryk and her husband. Instead of "greater scope threat taking out the initial one" we get a "one threat more or less gradually replaces the other". Changing focus from one antagonist to another is not inherently bad, but doing this without any meaningful resolution to the previous antagonist's arc is infuriating. They weren't some random marauders stirring up trouble, they killed the high king! The guy established as a very big deal in-universe, you know? Plus, they had plans to conquer the rest of Northern kingdoms, (and probably could pull that off) but this apparently doesn't matter because we have another person who also wants to take over the world, but with a slightly different flavour! Bruh.

Plus, there is a writing descision that I really don't like about this arc: every hagsfiend with some screentime is portrayed as a scheming, power-hungry, unrepentantly evil creature. Disturbing real-world parallels aside, did Lasky expect her readers to swallow a storybook villain without any questions after nine books of comparatively complex antagonists? Our very first proper antagonistic character in the books is aunt Finny – manipulative caretaker with a taste for owl eggs and chicks. "Har har har, I want to take over and rule the world, and literally do next to nothing outside this" is an undeniable downgrade :/

[curious-sootball]

Bonus to my rant about Grank and the Legends in general:(CW: mentions and discussion of domestic abuse and alcoholism)

This freaking scene. It kind of flown over my head when I was younger, but during my recent re-read (which I paralleled with skimming the GoG wiki) it occured to me: Theo is a domestic abuse survivor. (His father was a solider in H'rath's army and wanted his kids to follow in his footsteps; spoilers, it did not work out at all), and he tried joining the Glauxian brothers and got rejected there right before he stumbled into Grank's hideout (I have a strong suspicion that Kathryn came up with Theo's family backstory a tad later, while she was writing the 10th and 11th books; otherwise this bit feels very, very weird). And he was greeted with an absolutely unwarranted dickery from Grank and doesn't even get an apology later (yes, Grank is still a dick towards him way later, when Theo is skilled enough to forge battle claws), and his response is this. F u c k i n g yikes, this kid deserved better. (To be fair, he calls Grank out on being racist and a hypocrite – old douche tried to lie that no one taught him how to handle fire. Fengo would like to have a word with you about that, Grank).

I cannot stress this enough, but Theo also builds his points like a legal defense – very clear, very little room for ambiguity, he literally means what he says. "Can we get on with the rules?". And he thanks Grank once he puts everything out clearly. Let's be honest, Grank did not deserve this guy as an apprentice.

This poor kid uses logic as defence. (This may or may not be a result of an inconsistent writing).

I admit, i thought that Theo was kinda sassy when I first read the book, and he positively is, but: Grank absolutely deserved to be dragged during that scene.(plus, looking back, I was going through a lot of stuff I wasn't aware of when I was a kid).

The fact that Theo was forced to leave his younger brother back in an abusive household is its own kind of messed up.

I actually felt bad for his mother when I got her full backstory on my first reading through; this stuff is disturbingly grounded for an arc that features an "always chaotic evil" species and an owl version of king Arthur/messiah figure as a prominent character.

Tldr: young Theo is a precious brave kid who deserves the world and 👏 Grank 👏 is 👏 a 👏 dick👏.

[curious-sootball]

An astonishingly dumb moment from lord Arrin that gets surprisingly little writing attention in the books:

For context, Arrin was the one who organised the attack in the Firth of Fangs in the first place, because he decided to dethrone H'rath and chopping up his loyal knights (the ice harvesters) was the first step.

First, that idiot either put his son among the attacking owls and hagsfiends himself or his son volunteered to be there; second, his son got killed by one of the survivors of an attack that Arrin staged; and third, Arrin is pissed at king H'rath for that.

I'm not sure why, but this is so goddamn funny to me.