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I have an idea.
It’s an Empires AU based on the version of the song The Dark-Eyed Sailor from The Dragon Prince by Atillion (link and lyrics below cut).
After the fall of Empires, the ocean’s collapse is slowly causing Jimmy and Lizzie to lose their souls, since they’re so attached to the water. They lose all memory of being Seablings and now all they want is power and control over what’s left of the ocean. Its fall has also torn them of almost all their powers, meaning that neither of them can breathe underwater anymore.
So they fight.
Even from the start, the battle is hopeless. Lizzie is infinitely more powerful than Jimmy and they both know that she will win.
Yet Jimmy still fights.
Lizzie ruthlessly attacks him, weakening him to the point where he can barely swim, yet he still fights, because only he should rule the ocean.
There are several points at which Jimmy almost drowns, but his need for power pushes him forward. He’s able to do a fair amount of damage to Lizzie, but it was never enough.
After hours of draws, Lizzie is able to hold him under the water with her trident. His last words when he is still above the surface are, “The sea shall bow to me!”
Jimmy, the codfather, brother of the ocean queen, has drowned.
Lizzie wins, as they both knew she always would.
But there is nothing more to rule, for her empire has fallen.
Woe to the man, the dark-eyed sailor
Ship's adrift and the sea's his jailor
Drag him down,
Down, down, down
Down in the wicked depths below
Lost at sea, the sailor cried
I will not drown, and I will not die
The ocean's rule I dare defy
The sea shall bow to me!
Woe to the man, the dark-eyed sailor
Ship's adrift and the sea's his jailor
Drag him down,
Down, down, down
Down in the wicked depths below
The fog pressed in, the ice did freeze
The sails caught nary a whisper'd breeze
But to his pride the sailor seized
The sea shall bow to me!
Woe to the man, the dark-eyed sailor
Ship's adrift and the sea's his jailor
Drag him down,
Down, down, down
Down in the wicked depths below
The ship it sank, its hull full tore
The sailor he could swim no more
But even as he drowned, he swore
The sea shall bow to me!
Woe to the man, the dark-eyed sailor
Ship's adrift and the sea's his jailor
Drag him down,
Down, down, down
Down to the depths
Drown in the depths
Drown in the wicked depths below