Okay Regarding Your Late Redemption Au: So I Know Hunter Did Not Take A Trip Into Belos Mind. So What

OH WOWIE, THIS WAS SO FUN TO READ

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IN SO MUCH THOUGHT HOLY

Yup you pretty much got it all correct! For dual students who have other tracks , the first track determines your sigil

If you switch from one track to only one track like Willow then you get that sigil. So Willow got a plant sigil even if she was originally in abominations because it’s just one track.

BUT

If you switch to two tracks or more, then the original first one is selected even if you dropped it :) like the healing track. Even though it was dropped. Bard and beast-keeping are unfortunately two separate tracks so the original, healing is chosen. So you got it!

I absolutely adore seeing an outsider perspective of this. It really weighs the heartbreak of the situation and just how many people are effected outside of the main characters. The fact that Adults who’ve been in the covens for so long can’t understand that pain of a sigil after multi-tracking is so upsetting ahhhh!

I love this sooo muchh!!!

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Me destroying canon relationships dynamics

More rough sketches part of my late redemption Hunter Au (canon divergent)

Hunter was able to take lead in forcing sigils upon the students and succeeded, now the day of unity stakes are higher. Luckily he isn’t like Adrian and at least provided them the matching sigils to their track…the multi-track students are given sigils based on the original chosen classes on record.

Now they will be affected by the draining spell, Hunter is convinced he did something for the greater good and is proud. This will cause so much conflict in the future.

Connected to this and this

Calling this AU late redemption Au for now and works will be tagged as such

"Hunter is talking to his friends and realizes Belos never said “I love you” to him but to the mask."

ooffff this makes me think how the golden guard mask is the only time belos is truly able to control hunter, the only time belos feels he is most like the idolized "caleb" he made in his head.

hunter is obedient, silent, and unwaveringly loyal in the mask. but as hunter, he is scarred, pursues wild magic and a constant reminder of how different he is from "caleb"

belos is only able to "love" the mask because that is what is closest to what he really wants with hunter: a blindly faithful witch hunter, just like how it was back in gravesfield.

Pretty much. Hunter was never loved, at most he was simply idealized because in the end he was a decent tool no different than the artificial staff he once wielded.

Now I’m imagining a free churro type of episode with Hunter and him giving a crappy eulogy…that actually makes a really good fanfic idea

I know it should be coffee beans or something but I thought this would be funny.

If Shadow was to move in with the Wachowskis, I feel like he’d be a little menace

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you plan on adding dialogue

I don’t, I’m bad at coming up with dialogue lol. I just drew them talking.

AU where the coven heads actually get along…sort of.

They’re all still awful people but they realize they get more out of working together rather than against. They don’t quite like each other but theirs no bad blood. They all hang out and be lil bitches together.

They even let Hunter hang out with them due to the fact that he’s so good at acting like an adult (as sad as that is), a ‘bratty’ one but he does know a lot.

Rather then just brushing Hunter off as some brat like in canon, they see the potential in him and think ‘yeah we can make this kid into an absolute beast’

It’s mainly to have him do their dirty or difficult work for them but they also grow fond of him.

Idk I just want to give Hunter a dysfunctional family out of the Coven heads

Extra:

Hettie teaches Hunter anatomy so he knows where to hit his enemies and healing spells to heal himself and scouts he works with.

Darius teaches Hunter how to sew like in canon but sooner and teaches him all sorts of abomination magic like the translocation.

Vitimir teaches him all sorts of potions and how to incorporate them in fighting. He also teaches Hunter potion tolerance and how to resist certain ones and mithridatism

Adrian teaches him some illusions and even acting skills so Hunter becomes a better liar.

Eberwolf brings him out to catch and train with beasts. They bring him all sorts of bugs and little critters. Hunter often goes on retrieval missions to bring Eber stuff for the beasts he keeps.

Terra let’s him hang out at the garden and green house and teaches him all sorts of Botany and plant magic. She likes info dumping on him.

The previous Bard and Riane teach him Bard magic. Hunter summons his own violin.

Orsan teaches oracle magic to him but mainly likes to teach Hunter mind games

Mason teaches Hunter construction magic and how to use to use it to fight and fix damage done after a fight.

Lilith though jealous and annoyed, still recommends him all sorts of book and in good moments they info dump on each other

A lot of theses skills I think Hunter would have in canon like the anatomy and potion thing but he had to learn those on his own. In this Au the Coven heads are actually bothered to teach him.

Due to these changes Hunter is more comfortable with doing all sorts of combo magic like how we see Lilith does in the shows. He also carries a belt of potions with him. Certain stuff in the show goes different as well since he does form a bond sooner with Darius and Adrian.

The coven heads aren’t aware he doesn’t have a bile sac they just think he has a weak one. They help him learn how to translate their spells into his staff spells.

They all still can be cruel to Hunter like Adrain’s and Darius cruel jabs at him or Terra giving him plants that can harm him (like tea that makes him hallucinate ). They still do some back stabbing but overall they are less worse then in canon.

Though any signs abuse from Belos they chalk up to being from missions or reckless.

I think this gives them some fun depth. Like yeah they are all messed up but they are messed up together.

(Sorry if any grammar issues )

TOH except Hunter is a lunatic

He has rabies

He’s feral. This is my crack AU

somebody alert the masses he has a gun!!!!!!!!

Huntlow

A family picture

Hunter at Hexside! He’s about 17-18 in this and is a senior in this.

Explanation,

He takes advanced potions due to it being his first choice in ASIAS and I think it would be most familiar to him as it doesn’t require powers to do.

He also does advanced construction since alot of the magic we see him use when he was the golden guard besides teleportation was manipulating the ground around him and summoning objects (the sword in separate tides)

He does Bard because it’s a fun and new form of magic he can learn

Beast-Keeping as alongside palismen he picks up an affinity for animals from Camilla and Gwendolyn.

Abominations minor since he found them interesting from Darius and Amity.

He also dabbles in other forms of magic, illusions, plants, healing, even some oracle, but not enough to justify getting a class.