Day 2163: While wandering around trying to find the break in a sprinkler system, Tango is overwhelmed by an awful stench, and finds an incredibly gruesome sight just outside the walls of Ren's "kingdom." What could have killed so many zombies? There seems to be several layers.
Oop.
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My sticker sheet for Wastelands 2023, a collaborative eco art zine set in a post-apocalyptic future.
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Apocalypse au events maybe results in Ingo and Emmets relationship being strained for a bit?
Like Emmet being unwillingly terrified of Ingo as a result of the trauma. Plus Ingo dealing with his own trauma, etc.
distance
- things are definitely tense right now
- ingo is doubting his decisions; the guilt is weighing down on him
- emmet feels betrayed and angry, but most of all, he feels scared
- despite that, he doesn’t hate ingo.
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Based on @somerandomdudelmao’s apocalypse au, you know, the one that has broken us rise fans multiple times?
(Btw cass your au has broken me holy Shit it’s so good- I’m so glad we finally have some comfort for all the hurt-)
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Joyce staying at the cabin with Hopper and El to keep them safe bc no one in Hawkins knows they’re alive. Will, Jonathan and Argyle staying at the Wheeler's bc they have more room and presumably aren't in danger like the others.
OH WAIT there's a witch hunt for the Hellfire club, which means all the boys are in danger from the townspeople. OH WAIT the boy who came back to life has returned from the West, the same boy whose assumed death jumpstarted this small town's curse in the first place! The same boy who apparently everyone and their fathers knew was gay...
THE END IS NEAR! THE GAYS ARE RESPONSIBLE!
+ Time jump early somewhere in between.
Now picture how that would look in an 8 episode story format, leading up to a final battle lasting about 2+ hrs, and that's loosely how s5 is gonna go down.
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So, having brought up the headcanon that Durge is sustained by Jergal's essence rather than Bhaal's in the "redemption" ending, there are two options.
The first is that since Bhaal's divine essence is technically a loan from Jergal, Jergal has simply taken it back - it's still the essence of death/murder, but not tied to Bhaal's will. Bhaal can no longer force Durge to act to his will. Jergal can but he tends to be more subtle and doesn't pull his puppets' strings until he "needs to". So in this scenatio Durge is as they ever were, but with apparent free reign of themselves.
The other possibility is that Bhaal fully removed himself from Durge and it was replaced by Jergal's divine essence as God of Fatalism [+orderly death/order in death, proper burial, guardian of tombs, and protection of the names of the dead]. Considering the soul is tied to Bhaal's essence... is this the same soul? The body is still of Bhaal's flesh, it contains his essence still, but it may turn out that this is actually a brand new divine soul shaping itself to the memories...
Regardless of whichever scenario this is, Durge is tied to Jergal rather than Bhaal. Whereas Bhaalspawn are dragged off to Gehenna to join Bhaal, it's most likely that Durge is tied to the Grey Wastes or the Fugue Plane and upon death will disintegrate and possibly reform there.
What are the side effects? Do they stay the same as the regular murderous faire, or are we looking at new ones that come from carrying around a portion of the god of fatalism, causing Durge to manifest his traits?
Has the urge to slay been replaced by a distressing propensity for dead, creepy calm?
Does Durge have an innate connection to the Negative Energy plane now?
Predicting the deaths and afterlives of people you make eye contact with? Can they catch glimpses of a person's life and deeds as a kind of casting divine judgement upon the soul thing?
Bhaalspawn life draining effects wouldn't change much, even though Durge doesn't display any in game.
Do they creep out the living and cause fatigue with their very presence?
I hope they still say weird shit, but instead of the usual murder-murder-murder it's announcing dark fates upon people in the flattest, most indifferent voice ever. Like "thy wheel of fate turns ever to the dark" while there's a party going on about you. - like this: "[Jergal's] tone was deceptively bland and his demeanor excessively formal, even if his words portended horrors unimaginable."
...Ironically Durge is still the vessel of a god obsessed with the end of the world; Jergal just happens to be cataloguing it as it happens, accepting it at its own pace, rather than actively painting the world red. And he expects no grandkids, which is a massive plus.
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