After months of putting this off, I'm finally posting stuff for Spectral Dreams :D
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Introducing the mascot, Magonyan! The Yo-Kai version of Magolor.
He's a C-rank Fire Attribute Yo-Kai freed by Nate from the Crank-a-kai. His inspiriting causes lying when you don't mean to. His Skill is Resistance which reduces effects from enemy inspirits. His Soultimate is Bombs of Fury, which is basically just a fire attribute Paws of Fury.
There's gonna be a MASSIVE lore dump under the cut if you wanna read.
Over 200 years ago, he died being mauled by a dog, thus losing his limbs. After that, he discovered that no one could see him and thought he could do whatever he wanted without consequences. He snuck into a village altar and stole the crown of a tyrant, the Overlord's Crown. He put it on and fused with it, creating a powerful Yo-Kai named Overnyan.
Magonyan thought it was the coolest thing ever, wanting to test his new form's power. But little did he know, the crown he fused with was taken over by a Wicked Yo-Kai. It took over his body and wreaked havoc on the village. But before it could cause any more destruction, a little pink Legendary Yo-Kai stopped him, and he was sealed away in the Crank-a-kai.
While sealed away, he felt all alone. No one to talk to, alone with his thoughts in a tiny cramped capsule. A decade later, he heard a voice, a new Yo-Kai had been sealed away in a capsule just like he was. The voice was rambling on and on about his old master, a shogun who died in a war. Magonyan listened intently to him, even chiming in to make a conversation. They built a close friendship over the years they were trapped despite never seeing each other's faces. Until one day, Magonyan's friend was freed from the Crank-a-kai, leaving him alone once again.
It didn't take long for him to be next, however. He was freed by an average-looking human boy, Nate. Magonyan noticed how much attention Jibanyan got and decided to make a costume of him, even pretending to be him at one point. It was then he discovered his love for making costumes and made a lot of different cosplays of other cat Yo-Kai.
(Unrelated to lore but I imagine if he were in a game, you could customize which costume he wears when befriending different cat Yo-Kai.)
They wound up finding the Overlord's Crown once more but Magonyan only fuses with it if it's a dire situation, he does not want to be taken over by the Wicked again.
Soon, the stuff with Dame Dedtime happened, and Wicked Yo-Kai were taking over Old Springdale and the humans and Yo-Kai in it. In the final fight, Magonyan fused with the crown and dealt the final blow to Dame Demona. Because of this, Kin and Gin sent him back in time to try and change his fate in an attempt to "revive" Dame Dedtime, similar to what they did with Jibanyan and Whisper. He refused, choosing to die again and return to his friends. Reliving his death was scary, but worth being able to be in an afterlife with friends.
After a while, something happened and he ended up losing control as Overnyan again. This caught the attention of Lord Enma and for the sake of Springdale, he sealed him away in the Infinite Inferno. Magonyan ended up fighting the big bosses inside in order to get out, making friends with those wrongly in there along the way who also wanted out. In the end, instead of Wobblewok, he had to fight the Wicked Yo-Kai who had broken free from the crown. When things looked bad, Magonyan picked up the crown and fused with it once more, finally having it under his control. He picked up a sword that had mysteriously appeared on the ground, one that bore a striking resemblance to the Enma Blade, and used it to defeat the Wicked that caused all of this.
(I imagine the fight would be similar to the Yo-Kaiju fight in YKW3 with controlling every action)
After the fight, he's approached by none other than Lord Enma himself. He explains that he sent Magonyan to the Infinite Inferno because he thought he was abusing the power of the crown but knows now that it was the Wicked's doing all along. After he properly apologizes for the misunderstanding, he agrees to let Magonyan out of the Infinite Inferno with the Overlord's Crown and the sword he gave him under the promise that he would use their power responsibly. Magonyan agrees without hesitation and he is let out.
After escaping, he notices that Nate is nowhere to be found in Springdale, his family isn't even in their house. Where could he have gone? And what's Magonyan supposed to do now?
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Salvation
Most of the leftover Dream Alliance content actually comes from its 'AU of an AU'-- while the premise of DreamAll is that Magolor leaves the Jambastion cult, in this alternate-alternate universe (which I nicknamed Bad!DreamAll~) Magolor stays, and eventually joins his father in his murderous rituals. Unsurprisingly, this takes a devastating toll on his mental health, and he quickly devolves into a living weapon.
At the heart of this story is Magolor's relationship with Princess Sectonia, a valiant swords-mage who joined the Dream Alliance after her fiancé was killed during Void's emergence. Basically, she's the first person he meets who can actually keep up with him in a 1-on-1 fight, so he immediately goes from wanting to kill her to wanting desperately for her to kill him, as he believes she's the only one who can.
Unfortunately for him, Tony has a terminal case of protagonist-brain and believes she can 'save' Magolor, given enough time. ^^; So she refuses to back down when he challenges her, but she also refuses to ever deal the killing blow.
Eventually the two end up locked in this twisted dynamic where he's constantly stalking and attacking her, hoping that if he's cruel enough and hurts her enough, she'll finally decide not to let him live. Meanwhile, she's determined to show him mercy even at the cost of her own life, and even with the rest of the Dream Alliance pleading with her to see reason.
...It was a fun concept~. ^^ Before GONE, this was probably the darkest AU I ever wrote, particularly Bad!Magolor's tragic backstory and self-loathing mindset, which inspired this picture.
I do believe that these versions of Magolor and Sectonia like each other a lot, in their own weird ways. For Tony, I think her unresolved grief over her boyfriend's death manifested into a self-destructive hero complex/rebound crush. :9
For Mags, I think he sees Tony as a sort of holy figure, simultaneously the perfect unblemished victim for him to destroy, and the perfect avenging angel to grant him the death he craves. But she won't do it for him until he earns it...until he lays out all the darkness in his soul for her to see, until he offers up enough pain and bloodshed to satisfy her judgment, until he proves that the need for him to be removed from the world outweighs the well-deserved punishment of his continued existence.
...Despite all that, he still understands what it's like to be loved, and he can't help but feel flattered that she actually wants to befriend him (his conclusion is that she's delusional, but still). Between the melodrama and deathmatches, they tend to have very cute conversations~.
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