#i’m very proud of this backstory i won’t lie
Because I haven’t posted in a while here’s Ranboo’s backstory for the Bet on the Crown AU! There were a few asks for this, but they were more Tubbo oriented, so I’ll answer those with Tubbo’s backstory!
Tw: a LOT of religious talk
Ranboo is a prince of Enderia, as I said, but Enderia hadn’t really had royalty for a while before Ranboo. They used to have 2 different queens, but when Endermans began to seperate, the Queens were given less and less power until their thrones became meaningless (the queens are not specified characters and don’t have a role to play, they just exist because I didn’t know what Enderia’s royal system would have been like before Ranboo).
The separation came when the Gods showed themselves to the Endermen centuries ago, and the Endermen began to worship them. Everyone worshipped all the Gods at one point, but began to seperate when they realized how different each God’s core ideals were. And how could they worship all of the Gods when the Gods couldn’t agree on what to preach to them? So the Endermen split up, dividing themselves to go and worship the God who’s teachings they agreed with the most. The Gods then color-coordinated the Endermen so they would all know who was a friend and who was a foe.
Enderia is now mostly religion based, and Endermans vary in color depending on who they worship. The lighter color Endermen worship the Gods of life and death (HD ((they don’t know he’s dead)) and Kristin) and the darker Endermen worship the Gods of destruction and construction (XD and Callahan).
The lighter colored Endermen, mostly white with a slight purple-ish hue, were more family oriented and emotionally driven. They were more creative and valued individuality, since the Gods they worshipped were more benevolent and valued these things as well.
The darker colored Endermen, a dark, desaturated purple hue, were more business and success driven. Though they did care for each other, they were far less emotional. They didn’t gain emotional attachment, and tended to think of things in a more straight forward, blunt way, as did their Gods.
Endermen are born a bright light purple, and they get their colors at 10 years old. By 10 years, an endermen child will usually have their ideals decided, and know what’s important to them. Usually an Enderman will be the same color as it’s parents, since their parents usually instill their ideals and teach them to worship their Gods, but it’s not entirely unheard of for an Enderman child to be a different color. And it’s not that there can’t be creative darker endermen or more stoic lighter endermen, it’s fully about what’s most important to them and who they worship, since the Gods grant them their colors.
Until Ranboo. Ranboo was born unable to remember things long term, and because of this, he never really knew what he wanted. He had friends who would tell him the benevolence of their Gods, and he’d want to be with them. But he’d have other friends who told him the power of their Gods, and he’d want to be with them, too. The only problem was that he could never remember who he wanted to worship long term.
For the first time in centuries, there was an Endermen praying to every God, not picking a favorite, and not taking a side. So when the time came for him to be given his color, he hadn’t decided who he wanted to be. And shockingly to other Endermen, he didn’t plan on deciding. He liked the way he was, as shy and frazzled as he could be, and decided that picking a side and losing his friends because of that wasn’t worth it.
On his 10th birthday, he woke up split colored.
There had never been an Enderman like that. Word of Ranboo’s strange abnormality quickly made spread across the kingdom, and he suddenly found himself getting more attention than he ever had. Some people were concerned, and others tried to drag him into their religion and away from his neutrality. Some looked at him with fear, some with utter disgust. His favorite, though, was when some looked to him with genuine curiosity about his beliefs, and he was always more than happy to tell them.
Ranboo took the opportunity to teach others. By the time he was 15, he had become a public figure for teamwork and love, despite another’s beliefs. He was confident, but kind, serious and yet lighthearted when he wanted to be. No one had seen someone like him in a long time.
Enderia began a trial period of intermingling with the other colors and, to Ranboo’s delight, they found that they had more in common then they had thought for so long. And as more and more people decided that Enderia should no longer be split apart, they needed a new way to govern themselves.
For years it had been that each Enderman followed the laws of their God, but if all Endermen were to come back together, they couldn’t all just follow completely different laws, lest the kingdom be completely anarchist. They needed a new set of laws, one that would allow each Endermen to worship whoever as they please, but put them all on the same level as far as what to do and what not to do came.
Ranboo was asked to draft these laws, and did a damn good job of it. In fact, when it came time to decide who should lead their kingdom and enforce these laws, Ranboo was called upon once again.
Even though he was still a child, he was the one everyone rightfully accredited Enderia’s growth to, and they only thought it right that he take on the crown. They all trusted him, since the beliefs they were now trying to enforce had been his from the beginning. So at 16, Ranboo was crowned prince, and he proved that their trust in him was not unfounded.
After Ranboo’s coronation, Enderia prospered more than it had in centuries, making new jobs, finding new trade partners, and all around became just a happier place. And the prosper only increased after Ranboo wed another prince, making it once again clear to the kingdom that he didn’t plan to follow any of their societal normality’s by marrying a different species, a fae named Tubbo. In fact, Tubbo was the first non-Endermen to come into Enderia in a long time. His citizens didn’t mind too much, the kingdom was just ecstatic to see their beloved prince so happy. Tubbo brought more fun and excitement into Ranboo’s life than he’d ever known, making him feel like the child he so often forgot he was for the first time since he got his colors. And that period of happiness and prosper is when Tommy meets Ranboo and his husband.
