#skekparents

[fangirlingpuggle]

I also had this cute little idea like on one of Rian's visits he brings Deet and Brea a (live) fizzgig and Deet's like "*GASP*! ...What's that?" and Brea says, "It's a fizzgig!!!" and they're like super excited over it while the dads are just watching. Ok is like 'My girl is so smart :)' So's just 'cutecutecute' and Mal is like '...It's a common animal???' and Deet names it Fluffy and now they have a pet fizzgig that likes biting and pulling on the Skeksis robes and they just have to live w/ it

Hi there!

Yes!!! I love this so much =)

The entire castle is given orders not to harm the Fizzgig like it has free reign of the entire castle.

It keeps chasing the guards and the Skeksis, all the Skeksis get kind of annoyed until it starts to focus on SkekSil (Apparently the mmmmm does not sound good to a Fizzgig)

SkekVar then starts training it to getting it to attack properly.

SkekSil just walking down a hallway as SkekVar just puts the Fizzgig down ‘Fluffy kill!’ and the Fizzgig just starts chasing the Chamberlain..

[twinklecrystle]

Skekparent AU but it's different skekparent AUs mixed together

So, Princess Brea is friends with the Scroll-Keeper. It all began when they met in the Vapra library when she was a childling and she snuck into his luggage to see his library at the castle (someone else came up with this, but I can't find the post :/). Aside from Brea basically breaking into the castle, the Emperor and the All-Maudra didn't really see a problem with it and so allowed her to visit the castle every once in a while just to read books and scrolls. She quickly grows on skekOk and he ends up going "yup this is my kid now."

One day, during her visit, the Hunter's horn is sounded. Of course, Brea is curious as to what it is but skekOk tells her not to worry about it and leaves her alone a bit to see what was up. Of course, Brea wanders out of the library and tries to follow him but ends up losing her way. She stumbles upon a strange, 'wild' gelfling who calls himself Rian the Hunter, and apparently he's come with skekMal the Hunter, a skeksis Brea has never heard of or met before. She's a bit unnerved by Rian, but quickly realizes that he's really just a normal, nice gelfling but with a little bit of edge. They hit it off until their respective skeksis guardians come looking for them, skekOk close to peeing himself upon being so close to skekMal.

They're not the only ones with gelfling kiddos. skekVar grew fond of a Vapra childling named Mira and has been personally training her in hopes of seeing her become captain one day. skekUng, who occasionally returns to the castle, meets strong little Mira at some point and also grows attached. Then he finds out skekVar already called dibs and they argue a little on who gets to adopt this cool little spunky Vapra girl. They end up agreeing to share and that's how Mira got two skeksis dads.

On occasions when Brea's and Rian's visits coincide, they get together with Mira and they talk about their skeksis dads and just have a good time being friends (until the Essence Incident, oops--)

Been seeing a lot of good aus in this fandom already, and the skekparents ones are my favourite. So, I wrote a little something because why not.

The dadUng and dadVar one is from here : https://fangirlingpuggle.tumblr.com/tagged/skekparents

And find that Hunter Rian goodness here : https://j0sadorf-studios.tumblr.com/tagged/Rian-and-Skekmal

[cactus-snaps]

Really loved @fangirlingpuggle ‘s skekparents au so I did my interpretation of Deet who in the au is SkekSo’s lil princess

[celticdoggo]

Gelfling skeksis au fic three

“So you felt like you were Mira for a while,” Bree asked from where she was sitting nearby notebook in hand. A sulking Rian was forcibly reclined on a bed in his childhood room. Deet had a podlings treat his wound that had turned out deeper than he thought meaning his father had banned him from hunting until it was healed. “Yes,” he answered, “it was like she was me for a little while until I shredded my thigh to ground myself.” Bree mumbled about it being fascinating as she scribbled some more in her book. Deet was the only one sympathetic as she patted his hair.

He leaned against her in response causing her to laugh. Bree eventually joined the cuddling and Rian found himself sandwhiched between them but he didn’t really care as they gently carded through his hair. Every once and a while someone would find leaves or sticks in a knot in his hair and make a comment about him never washing his hair. It was nice to sit like this. “Ri your hair is super gross,” Bree said as she and Deet has to work together to pull a matt apart as gently as possible, “when was your last bath? Tell the truth.” Rian shrugged, “I rinsed the blood off earlier.” “You rinsed,” she said and Rian could feel the eye brow raising, “you didn’t wash.”

Rian could tell where this was going and started to wiggle to slide down the bed. “Oh no you don’t,” Bree said holding him with all her weight. Deet ran to the door to call for a podlings to run a bath and grab a guard. Rian stood with Bree still hanging on and tried to book it. “Aaaaa,” Bree yelled hanging on for dear life as Rian ran down the halls. He didn’t stop until he was grabbed by the captain of the guard. A rather nice gelfling named Ordon. Rian tried to struggle as he was held in a tight headlock by Ordon as Bree picked herself up. “Thank you,” she said, “could you help us get him into the bathing room? He’s staying in the castle due to injury and he needs to not smell like a day old swamp while he does.”

Ordon let out a surprised snort of laughter. “No I wouldn’t mind Lady Skekbree,” he said as he followed her Rian still struggling though not being quite as formidable of an opponent without his armor and many weapons in reach. When they reached the bathhouse, Rian struggled even more. With a quick nod to him, Ordon tossed him into the bath clothes and all. Rian sputtered rising out of the water. It took all three of the gelfling and a few podlings to bathe him because of several escape attempts.

“There now your looking very fresh and clean,” Deet said patting Rian’s now fluffy hair as he sat trying to gather the remains of his dignity. He was wearing some borrowed casual clothes from a guard named Gurjin that were entirely too big on him. Rian grumbled causing the girls to laugh. Ordon smiles at the group of them as Deet began braiding his long hair back. Bree could see something in his smile as he looked at Rian. Something unbelievably sad and full of longing but she didn’t know what it was.

“If that’s all my lord and ladies,” he said bowing slightly, “I need to go back to work. One of my guards has gone missing and I need to go back to looking for her.” As he left Rian stiffened and gripped his stomach tightly. “Ri,” Bree said quietly laying a hand on him. He flinched a little. They knew why he was upset. “Come on Ri,” Deet said putting on a smile, “come help me catch fluffy. I think they have been hunting down mmmm for the past couple of hours.” Rian seemed to perk up at the idea of getting to mess with Chamberlin.

They had just had a grand time watching chamberlain attempt to fend off attacks from Fluffy the fizgig when they heard the yelling of an old woman. “What have you skeksis done?!” Rian stopped dead in his tracks. A haggard old woman with one eye stomped past them not even seeing the three of them. As Rian silently padded after her he thanked that the girls wore such soft slippers so they made no noise. He’s heard them try to sneak up on him in normal shoes and they were like elephants, though he would never tell them that even under threat of death.

She hobbled past the room for the Crystal then stopped in her tracks and backed up to stare at the crystal. “Oh my crystal my heart what has happened to you,” she said sounding so anguished Deet wanted to hug the old woman. Rian and Bree covered her as the crystal shower once again Mira’s tragic death. What they learned however horrified them. Mira would never be at rest with such a death. Her essence would be in a limbo with who ever drank it, trapping her forever. Rian felt his stomach writhe in response to that. He was trapping her. He…

Rian didn’t get anymore time to think about it as the old woman turned to see them. “Who are you three,” she said, brandishing her walking stick at them, “some more gelfling to doubt Mother Augrha?!” She stared them down with her one eye. “Mother Augrha,” Bree asked looking excited, “like the stories?” She raised the eyebrow over her good eye and began to stalk around the three of them. Rian whirled in place to constantly have her in his field of vision. She walked closer sniffing them. She reached out and touched Deet’s wing, Bree’s hair, and tried to touch Rian but pulled her hand back as he made to bite her.

“Hm,” she said sounding slightly mystified, “you look like gelfling, smell like gelfling, but you are not gelfling.” Augrha rapped a snarling Rian with her cane. “You especially,” she said, “you feral thing. Your no honorably warrior like the rest of your clan.” “We aren’t gelfling,” Bree explained, “we are skeksis. Deet is the daughter of the emperor. I am daughter of lord scrollkeeper. Rian is the son of the hunter.” Augrha laughed, “so even so corrupted they have soft spots for children.”

“What do you mean corrupted,” Deet asked confused. “Your parents,” she spoke the word as if it tasted vile on her tongue, “have committed a grave act against Thra itself, you yourselves have partaken in it.” She jabbed Rian’s stomach and he took a swipe at her forgetting they had taken his gauntlets to he cleaned. “You are not gelfling,” she said, “you are not skeksi. At this point you are so out of place I hesitate to call you part of Thra’s song even if I can no longer hear it.” Deet and Bree looked stricken at the idea that they were nothing in Thra. “That’s not true,” Rian snarled, “we are skeksi. They have raised and cared for us.”

Augrha huffed a laugh. “Did they tell you that,” she asked, “or do you know it?” Rian blinked again the strange question and the old woman hobbled off. “We are skeksi aren’t we,” Deet asked quietly. Rian was quiet before looking determined. “We can find out for sure,” he said, “pack in secret the both of you and meet me here when the three suns are all down.” The girls nodded and Rian went to plan. They would know the truth soon. Were they truly skeksi, gelfling, or had Thra abandoned them for not belonging anywhere?

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I apologize for churning out so much. I’m on vacation with nothing much to do.

@fangirlingpuggle

[polarwooly]

Do the skeklings sleep in a nest or in a big fancy bed? Or is it like a hen kind of thing with the skeklings and Skekparents?

In theory the skeklings have their own little beds. In practice they hate being left alone.

[fangirlingpuggle]

Alright so I managed to make a dark version of the dad AU’s (because my brain always turns happy AU’s into angst)

So AU where the Skeksis have like a reverse imprinting thing like SkekMal see’s Rian and is like yep my child now, and this ends up with Skeksis kidnapping baby Rian and Brea (maybe Deet)

But none of the other Skeksis argue because it’s just like oh yeah that’s their kid and they don;t count them as Gelflings anymore they’ve just those ones childlings.

And when the draining happens Rian and co find out and run of course, and while running they see everything the Skeksis lied about and also meet their parents who have had no idea what happened to them thinking they were dead (they had no idea the Skeksis took them)

When the Skesis find them it’s not threatening it’s more like parental i’m so disappointing in you moment and they completely play down the whole draining thing ‘like of course we’re draining Gelflings but your not a Gelfling your my childling now stop being ridiculous and come home’

Just the dad AU’s where the possessive and dark natures are still there and even worse than the originally.

Bonus: oh thra...just thought if the Skeksis we’re like this they wouldn't let the kids die...they’d want them immortal to so when they have essence

Oh no Just imagining SkekMal catching Rian and finding Mira’s essence and...

Yep Nope

I’m going back to the happy dad AU’s

[fangirlingpuggle]

(Unexpected pt 3) So all the other skeksis are like 'a Grottan, really?' but they don't actually say it and just force smiles when skekSo shows off his baby and then skekSa comes bursting in with her herd of childlings and is like "I HEARD YOU ADOPTED LEMME SEE." and just melts over adorable little Grottan Deethra with her big bugly round eyes and her Sifa children sing songs for the new princess and they leave gifts and skekSo's all proud and it's UGH SUPER ADORABLE??? SKEKSA IS BEST AUNT.

Yesss!!!

SkekSo getting super jealous after like a minute and trying to grab her back but SkekSa is so much taller and it’s just

“GIVE ME BACK MY CHILD I AM YOUR EMPEROR”

“OH SHE’S ADORABLE”

“GIVE HER BACK!!”

He tries ordering SkekVar or someone to get her back but they take one look at SkekSa and yeah no...no one wants to mess with SkekSa.

Also anyone tries to say anything and just getting a look like ‘I will end you before you can even finish that sentence’

Bonus: ‘...does this mean the child outranks us?’ ‘...FUCK!’

Extra Bonus: SkekSil being a bit more hesitant to mess with Deethra because if SkekSo even thinks anyone is messing with her they’re dead.

[fangirlingpuggle]

Happy addition Skekparents AU to cleanse palette from the angst of the other AU.

So after meeting SkekGra and UrGoh, Rian and co wanting their dad’s to be just as happy (because SkekGra is so happy with UrGoh and they’ve seen that level of happiness and calmness with their parents)

This ends up with them trying to set their dad’s up with their mystic counterparts.

Just SkekMal and Archer staring at a set up table/food/lighting and just face palming

Archer “I think Rian misunderstood about ‘becoming one’“

Hunter “Just stop talking”

Bonus: If it works and then in rebellion meeting there is a group of Skeksis with their Mystics all trying to not look at SkekGra and UrGoh who are just standing there smugly.

[fangirlingpuggle]

Wholesome Skekparent au idea: SkekSa is just like, that Skeksis who keeps adopting Sifa Gelfling. It’s ubsurd, because of course when she’s summoned to the Castle there’s a small gaggle of Sifa she brings with her. Would 100% be that parent/aunt who would have the wallet full of photos and be like “look at my kIDS!!”

YES!!!

Ah I love this so much SkekSa is the coolest aunt.

Just every time she shows up there are just more Gelfling’s, the castle is through of Gelfling’s anytime she visits and she has pictures of all of them.

If she ever found out one of the others had adopted one she would never let it go and just like crash in

“I HEARD YOU WERE A DAD SHOW ME MY NIECE/NEPHEW!”

[fangirlingpuggle]

How do rian and deet get together in your dadmal au

Hey!

So not sure which Dadmal AU you mean so here’s how in all of them.

Normal Dadmal (where Rian is adopted but all the others are raised by Gelflings like canon) - Angry tag along Hunter and then later his dad join the party, Deet is just her normal ball of sunshine curious self and little hunter Rian is like ‘what?’ and is very confused by her but very protective...it’s a lot like a beauty and the beast style thing I think (SkekMal also get’s super protective of her when he meets her but gives awful advice kill her enemies for her give their skulls to her how about necklace out of their teeth? UrVa gives slightly better advice but skill not great)

SkekParents (with DadSo) aka Dark AU - So in this AU Deet is like the Princess they’ve known each other most of their lives but Deet is kept separate as very overprotective Skekdad, case and point she’s not allowed outside. Rian and her always have a friendship but as they grow older (and especially once they’re on the run, but even before that Rian would bring back flowers and plants for Deet after hunting trips (which are the only one she’s ever seen) as well as stories about animals (the ones they didn't murder). This is just clueless little princess and overprotective best friend/bodyguard slowly realizing each of their feelings (the figure it out when the 2 of them finally dreamfast with each other and have an ‘oh’ moment)

Skekparents (with dad GraGoh) aka the less dark AU- So in this Deet is raised by SkekGra and UrGoh and is just this extra ball of light and joy and completely catches Rian off guard from the first time they meet, he’s initially a little suspicious especially when he finds out she was raised by the heretic but slowly warms up and then becomes super protective, it takes him longer to figure out what he feels for her (probably SkekGra and UrGoh give him a push in the right direction) again I think it would be when they dreamfast and fully realize feelings. (SkeGra helped though he knows what to say to make edgy murder child realize his feelings...he was once that edgy murder child himself)

Hope this was ok Anon and covered the dadmal you meant, thank you for the ask =)

[fangirlingpuggle]

You think after meeting the their skekdad's(or everyone's) mystics counterpart Brea, Rian and Deet would be like "Ur_ would let me do this" "Ur_ can do this why cant you? You're literally their other half?" "Ur_ is more cooled to hang out with than you"

HA!!!

I love this so much!!!

“UrVa would let me do this”

“So”

“Sooo are you not as brave as him?”

‘....this is a trap’

[fangirlingpuggle]

(Pt1) If I may add a bit to The Dark Skekdad AU (let's just call it that it's kinda funny) I've been imagining that baby Deet was captured by the Arathim but was saved by a Gelfling who brought her to Stone-in-the-Wood or somewhere and for whatever reason skekSo's there with skekVar (maybe skekOk has Brea at this time and the emperor decided he wanted a baby too and came looking for one to steal-- I mean, adopt) and saw baby Grottan Deet and just fell in love and was like "MY KID NOW let's go."

Hey!!

Yes please add away =)

This is brilliant I’m just imagining SkekSo just looking at this tiny Gelfling and is like “Mine” “wha” “MINE”

[fangirlingpuggle]

BRUH SKEKSO AND DEET!! i’m just like, Imagining how that even went down like no one dares to speek badly of Skekso’s Childling but there totally are whispers of like “a grotten? Really? He chose a grotten?” But they don’t see what Skekso does, hoe Deet’s not only kind, but brave and thoughtful and for some reason he just feels better after talking to her, even if she asks so many odd questions and doesn’t understand that he’s basically the king of Thra.

HA!YES!

I’m so glad other people like this idea to =)

Yeah that’s what amused me about it just like the Skeksis all staring at this tiny little smiling thing and wanting to say something but then SkekSo is right there glaring and they just slowly close their mouths and walk away because nope I don't feel like dying.

Just evil maniacal speeches having the effect lessen with tiny ball of sunshine standing off to the side.

[fangirlingpuggle]

Brea flying for the first time : "oh yeah they can do that." Deet flying for the first time : "oh yeah my child can fly. and fall. and die. oh no deethraAAAAAAAAA." (Imagine little Deethra flying around and the Skeksis are just freaking out "IF SHE FALLS THE EMPEROR IS GOING TO KILL US QUICK GET HER DOWN" "AHHHH SHE'S ON MY FAAAACE")

That is 100% how it happened.

Brea ended up getting stuck on a shelf but SkekOk just calmly helped her get down and then they read books on flying creatures to figure out how wings work.

Deet caused all the Skeksis to have a collective heart attack (their mystics thought they were dying)

It ended in SkekSo attempting to baby proof the ceiling.

[fangirlingpuggle]

I think everything is worse if the skekis honestly loved their kids, and that they were one happy family before they crossed that line. Which makes their “real parents” so hard to accept because they HAD parents, these peoples are strangers to them

Oof yep your right Anon that’s so much worse.

That would be so much worse, like SkekOk turns up at the Tithing with Brea introduces her as his daughter and she’s happy and smiling and...the All-Maudra can;t say or do anything because these are the lords of the crystal and Brea looks at her with no recognition whatsoever.

Or Ordon seeing Rian and SkekMal in the castle and he can't say anything, but he knows that his son...but he’s also not.

Just yeah that’s worse.

[fangirlingpuggle]

Rian decked out in skulls and armor and the blood of enemies as his war paint / Ordon: Baby. Baby boy. / Gurjin and Kylan: (terrified)

HA!!!

YES!