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When Angus appears in the Astral Plane, he finds himself in front of the Raven Queen and Istus. He looks at them and they look back at him, not saying a word. The two gods had obviously been waiting for him, so what was he supposed to say now?
“I… I figured it out. I just… Why did you abandon me?”
The Raven Queen takes on a form that is smaller, but still hard to grasp. Gently she puts a hand or something close to it on Angus’s cheek.
‘Angus, we didn’t abandon you… You were stolen from us. By the time we’d found you it was too late. You were mortal and we had no way of changing you back. Nothing like this had ever happened before. Gods are made when they are needed, not born from the union of two older gods.’
“But… Why didn’t you tell me? Or give me a sign? I knew I didn’t belong to that family. I was so different from them. I didn’t even look like them.”
‘They were the nearest human family that could keep you safe. When you disappeared from there we were so scared.’
‘Imagine our surprise though when Taako brought you here to keep you safe. Our baby boy was safe and would stay safe with us while a great Hunger tried to tear everything apart.’
“You could have told me then! Why didn’t you?”
Angus backs away from his parents, his mothers. The two of them look at each other and then back at Angus.
‘Only Pan knew what we had done, bringing you into this world. We still don’t know how to tell the others. How do we explain that we brought a new god into this world only to lose him and now he’s mortal?’
“Then Pan knew… That’s why he looked at me like that… So what are you going to do? Let me be mortal and eventually die? Why the tests if that’s the case?”
‘I wanted to see what kind of person you were becoming Angus. You weren’t supposed to know about those extra powers but you are a very smart boy. You figured them out right away.’
“You were protecting me.”
‘Yes. I didn’t want you to come to us too soon.’
“So why now? Why tell me that I’d met you but not just come out and say it? That hurt! I cried and I wasn’t sure I wanted to know anymore!”
‘She was keeping a promise to me. I was worried that if you knew you would try and abuse those powers. I’m sorry.’
Angus sits down and pulls his knees to his chest. He giggles a bit and rubs his eyes.
‘Angus?’
“Three dads, two moms, two aunts, and three uncles. My family is so weird.”
‘Does that mean you accept us as your parents?’
“You’re not my only parents, but yes.”
‘We would not dare to take away what you have with your fathers.’
“So… Does that mean I can be a god again?”
‘Not yet. We’ve decided we want you to grow up as a mortal. Once you turn eighteen then you decide what comes next.’
Angus nods and gets up, hugging his newfound parents.
“I’ll make sure to think it over a lot. It’s an important decision after all. Now I should get back.”
‘Yes you should.’
Angus disappears and the two gods look at each other knowingly. They knew Angus had already made his decision.
‘Our son is something else.’
‘I believe he gets that from you.’
Angus appears in front of his family, the bigger portion of it. Immediately he hugs Taako and reaches for his other dad’s, happily being squished between the three of them.
“So did you figure it out pumpkin?”
“Yeah, Istus and the Raven Queen are my mom’s.”
There’s a pause as everyone looks at Angus and then Taako holds Angus tighter.
“Well none of us can really talk about how weird that is. Krav you’ve become the most normal out of all of us here. That’s honestly amazing.”
“So I can do the same stuff you can, but I can also do fate stuff. At least for now. I don’t know what my powers will be when I get older.”
“So you are going to be a god when you’re older? Natch, I get to raise a future god.”
Angus giggles and squeezes Taako a bit. Taako smiles and kisses his head.
“Alright, so major question. Why were you in the woods when I found you?”
“Well I got taken from my mom’s and they left me with a human family. I figured out they weren’t my parents and so I left to go find my real parents.”
“Makes sense. So you found them after all.”
“I found you too dad.”
“Alright, let’s not get too sappy here kid.”
Magnus snorts and puts his head on Taako’s shoulder.
“Don’t listen to him Ango, he loves it.”
“Hey! Don’t be lying to my boy like that!”
“Last I checked he’s our boy and I’m telling the truth.”
“No you’re not!”
“Oh really. Hey Merle!”
Taako quickly hands Angus over to Kravitz and turns to cover Magnus’s mouth. The two of them wrestle a bit before Taako cheats and casts levitate to get away from the human. Angus watches with a smile. This was what a family was supposed to be. He holds onto Kravitz happily and sneakily casts Dispel Magic. Magnus grins as he catches Taako and the wrestling begins again. Kravitz chuckles and goes over to the door, opening it.
“Alright you two, take the wrestling outside. No need to wreck the house.”
“Mags just needs to tell me he knows when to keep his mouth shut and we can stop!”
Angus creates a rift under them that leads outside. Once they’re outside he shuts it and then looks at Kravitz.
“Well that’s one way to do it Angus.”
Angus giggles and gently squirms down to go outside and watch his dad’s. This was his family.