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centaurworld au: horse as the next evil (origins)

@snickerzanddoodlez wants an au of centaurworld where horse essentially becomes the next nowhere king (cause of that whole "we're no so different, you and i" speech that elk gives her in the finale) and says i should write it. rn i am too busy and lazy to write anything too substantial BUT here are my plot musings for what this could look like

Rider is dying in the finale. none of this goofy, wibbly-wobbly "oh haha we make it look like she's dying but she didn't!" no she's dying for realsies

this is still distressing for Horse. obviously

I'm not sure how Horse would get the Rift Key, since the Woman has it and kills the recombined Nowhere King with it

side note: am I dumb or does it not actually tell us what happened to the key and the Woman afterwards. like, does she die? is the key destroyed? does she just take the key and go back to living with the Beartaur? are she and the Beartaur roommates? are they dating? is this a friends-with-benefits/situationship sorta thing? so many questions, not enough answers

ANYWAYS

we know the Rift Key can recombine things

and it is used to combine things that weren't combined before to make minotaurs (which we see step-by-step in "The Ballad of Becky Apples" with Bayden and almost Water Baby)

side note 2: Bayden NEVER GETS TURNED BACK. when Crandy recognizes him, he (re)gains control of his body and is the dominant personality I guess? (rip to the creatures he was combined with) but like...they don't fix him. he just stays in that form. so that does seem to suggest Woman destroyed it or took it with her or hid it or something unless Bayden just chose to stay that way which I don't think makes sense BUT I DIGRESS

Horse is distraught

and Rider says it's okay (maybe even re-sings her lullaby) and she's ready to die

but Horse can't accept that

because she spent two seasons trying so hard to get back to Rider (heck we have at least two songs of Horse lamenting her fears of everything being all for naught) and what was the point if Rider dies now

so Horse gets the Rift Key

and the herd belatedly realizes what she's doing and try to stop her - especially Wammawink, I'd really wanna highlight her reaction - but they're too late

and Horse uses the key to combine herself and Rider to save Rider's life

leaving us with Rider-Horse-taur (much to Rider's horror)

so we can get some psychological horror of the two vying for control because Rider knows this is wrong and wants them to split again but Horse just can't let her go and is afraid that if they split, Rider will die, so the two are at odds within the same combined body

how exactly does this evolve to being the next Nowhere King? I'm still figuring that out, but the concept was intriguing enough to me that I wanted to write it

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