#that way we have a reason for putting her in the chasm during perilous trail so that she can meet ushi :)

[journey-to-the-attic]

adeptus ik who is part ox spirit (maybe geo vision for the earth ox?) - upon meeting belphie he feels this strange Magic Bovine Solidarity™ towards her. he is very (tsuntsun) upset at it and huffs in the corner like "lucifer must have done this on purpose so i couldn't harm the human, this is CHEATING"

AW THAT'S SO CUTE

in this au belphie tries so hard to keep up his human-disliking thing (though now that i think about it, adepti aren't human are they?? maybe ik would only be half adeptus then), but the instinctive Magic Bovine Solidarity™ just will not let him and in the end he just gives in. he goes from 'i hate that i'm befriending this child without my permission' to 'i am adopting this child and i don't need permission to do so'

and then ik gets him out of the attic and communicating properly with his brothers without any collateral damage!! no angst in this au!!!!!! finally ik gets a break

you know that study that revealed cows actually do form dedicated friendships and gets stressed when they're separated?? belphie and ox adeptus ik end up being the very best of friends like that <33

#i thought of ushi at first since y'know geo cow #and i reckon ox adeptus ik would be best friends with him if they met #but since you can't really connect them by origin maybe she'd be related to menogias (geo yaksha) somehow...... #that way we have a reason for putting her in the chasm during perilous trail so that she can meet ushi :) #or actually for the adeptus thing #maybe ik remains full adeptus and to the demons adepti and humans are interchangeable #in like a magic way?? #basically demons have like a magic sense that reacts differently to beings #so they can tell the differences between demons/angels/humans/etc. #and the magic sense just registers adepti as humans #which is how diavolo's rng human summoning spell ends up summoning an adeptus #and belphie just assumes ik is human (since maybe she wears a hat or something that covers her horns?? she'd have ox horns obviously) #until he's told/realises otherwise but by that point he's already become best friends with ik so it doesn't matter much #answering asks #anon asks #jtta aus #genshin impact