#varianandthe7kingdoms

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FINALLY FINISHED! WOOOO! Abigail’s look for the #varianandthesevenkingdoms AU (created by Kritterart) is done! (You can see more of Abby on my Instagram, Blueartistdraws.) I really like how this turned out, especially those platform boots, they were a HUGE pain to draw, but at least they make her somewhat taller! She’s still 4’11 though. Hasn’t grown since she was twelve! Anyway, the only thing that think would be different about her story in this AU would be the time she met everyone. Instead of meeting everyone at 15 years old, she meets them at 18. Anyway, here’s my own little contribution to how Abby would contribute to the story/what her relationships with the other characters would look like.

As she grew up, Abigail continued studying and experimenting with the world around her, eventually discovering a way to turn the four natural elements into weapons and gadgets, but she still has physical and mental discomfort around magic, especially her own. (See Stardust Story Highlight) She sees her own magic not as a blessing, but rather a curse. She’s still cold hearted, sassy, and a very closed off person most of the time. Abigail possesses sharp combat skills, which makes her very intimidating for someone her size. However, she has a horrid temper, which is a huge weakness for her. If you say the wrong thing at the wrong time to her, consider yourself to have just set a bomb off. On the other hand, behind those brick walls she’s built around her damaged heart, Abigail is a very insecure and fearful person, even though she never ever shows it. She doesn’t want to appear weak and vulnerable to those around her, which is also why she’s never really shows any other emotions besides anger, occasional shock, and disgust. As the story progresses, I imagine Hugo, Nuru, Yong, and Varian would indirectly contribute to bringing Abigail out of her dark, cold world that she’s learned to accept and live in for so long, leading her to become a much more happy and open person by the end. This brings me to relationships with the characters!

She and Hugo are partners from the beginning. He’s also the only person she really trusts. No, she doesn’t trust Donella, Abigail is only part of her group so Donella can use her magic for her own desires, and in return, Abigail gets shelter and protection. But if she weren’t part of the group, she would’ve never met Hugo. Abigail and Hugo are very similar in their levels of intelligence, mischievous tendencies, and logical thinking, but they’re very different to one another regarding their personality traits. While Hugo is very talkative and expressive, Abigail is introverted and barely shows any emotions. She basically has a resting bish face. So whenever they’re carrying out orders, messing with other people, or on ‘missions’, Abigail lets Hugo to the talking, which seems to feed his ego. He likes to tease her a LOT when they’re not working, usually about her height and bugs her whenever she’s working on new gadgets, criticizing her work just to piss her off, but other than that, they’re a pretty good duo. Whenever Abigail eventually speaks up in front of Varian’s group for the first time, I imagine their reactions (excluding Hugo) would be something along the lines of “she does talk?!” which might set Abby off.

I think that Nuru would be the first to connect the dots about the magic within Abigail, because the magic in Nuru’s constellations on her dress may trigger some of Abigail’s stardust to active via her freckles glowing white, indicating similar and/or linked magic of some sort. I believe this event would lead to a close friendship between Abigail and Nuru. While Hugo does know about Abigail’s magic, I believe Abigail would be more willing to talk to Nuru about it, on the condition she doesn’t tell the rest of the group (even though they’ll eventually find out through the fifth or sixth kingdom quest). Nuru would be the one to persuade Abigail to refrain from judging a book by it’s cover, therefore strengthening her willingness to trust others.

Yong and Abigail would definitely have a lot of conflict. Although Yong doesn’t mean to do any harm, I believe he’d often startle Abigail when she’s working on something and “in the zone” or mess with some of her projects and works in progress, which would lead to either a malfunction, explosion, or a rage from the brunette. Either way, she’ll probably end up chasing the twelve year old around in anger. However, throughout the story, Yong definitely grows on her, and she begins to see him as a younger sibling, and realizes there are people that she wants to protect and look out for. From observing the boy, she also becomes more optimistic.

And finally, Varian. They wouldn’t click very well at first, since first off, she and Hugo work together, and second, she’s extremely intimidating. You can probably see the lack of communication at first. However, on the group’s way to the third kingdom, Abigail ends up saving the alchemist from getting crushed by large debris from underneath a crumbling bridge by tackling him out of the way. This small event leads Varian to believe there’s more to Abigail than a cold hearted shell of a person. Throughout the story, whenever the group stops to rest or set up camp for the night, I believe Varian would try to make friendly conversation with Abigail, to which she’d either ignore or harshly turn away, that is, until one night, Varian is unable to sleep, and discovers Abigail outside her tent, in the process of recovering from a nightmare. She’s too emotional to keep up her tough girl cover, so she ends up telling Varian about her past, her magic, and why she acts the way she does. Seeing they have a lot more in common than he originally thought, Varian takes the opportunity to comfort and bond with her while the others are asleep. Abigail learns from him that sometimes, it’s okay to not be okay. To be vulnerable. To need a shoulder to cry on and a friend to hold onto. I believe this event would be the first spark of friendship between them, but that’s another story for another post.

As for Donnella...again, that’s another story for another post