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[moonfurthetemmie]

Since I’m on my lunch break and I desperately need to talk about the horror version, but I think context is needed first, I’m going to talk some about the Theater Kid AU.

For almost all of the JMV/DINTIS AUs, everyone gets an actual new name. For the Theater Kid AU, however, their names are technically the same and they get nicknames for Crossovers. Like we did with Horror DreamSwap.

Having said that, a lot of them have been using pseudonyms in public in the present, non-crossover timeline.

Also there’s technically only a Theater Kid JMV. While we’ve assigned them a DINTIS to pair up with, it’s…just normal DINTIS. Because normal Jet would adore Lear and Puck’s antics and it’d be really funny to see normal Dark deal with not one, not two, but three drama kings. Plus Things are different enough here that Jet and Dark’s interactions with everyone would be very different.

The biggest and most important change in this AU is Lear and Puck, both in terms of individual personalities and their relationship with each other. Pretty much everyone else has retained their normal personalities, but the two theater nerds’ influence is changing a lot of things.

Nicknames:

Obsidian: Lear

Koroit: Elphaba

Zircon: Mars

Silver: Dolus

Paraiba: Bugs

Jasper: Remy

Mercury: Jekyll

Zuli: Icarus

Jade: Puck

Jet: Nyx

Dark: Erebus

Sources and inspiration for the nicknames:

Lear: The titular character of King Lear, a play written by William Shakespeare.

Puck: A trickster fairy from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, also written by Shakespeare.

Elphaba: My research yielded many different results when searching for the proper name of The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, but Elphaba specifically comes from the musical Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.

Mars: The roman god of war.

Dolus: The greek god of trickery and guile.

Bugs: Bugs Bunny, from the Looney Toons cartoons.

Remy: The blue rat from Pixar’s Ratatouille.

Jekyll: The doctor and one of the titular characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This version of Mercury was given this nickname by the others, and he finds it funny.

Icarus: Greek mythology; son of a master inventor who made himself and Icarus a pair of wax and feather wings to escape the Labyrinth. Icarus flew too close to the sun, the wax melted, and he fell to his death.

Nyx: Greek goddess of the night. A very old one, within the mythological universe.

Erebus: Greek god of darkness. Like Nyx, very very old.

Dolus, Bugs, Lear, Puck, Mars, and Elphaba already have their nicknames prior to MV Crossovers. These names are directly related to what role they play on the team.

[moonfurthetemmie]

I made the Horror version of Lear before bed last night, it 1. There’s some things I may want to change and 2. I really want to have H!Puck there too. Since they’re pretty much going to be inseparable.

Like. Aside from jealousy issues that (I’m pretty sure?) have been mentioned previously, if you try to forcefully separate them they freak. No jealousy there! Just panic

They’re a bonded pair like shelter dogs <33 except for the eldritch madness and homicidal tendencies anyway

So their story so far is, essentially, that it started out just like the normal Theater Kid AU, but after a few visits, the traveling theater brought with them a pair of cursed rings. One of their senior members found them and has never, even for a moment, taken them off.

This is more or less fine until the show. When that actor steps on stage, it doesn’t take long for everyone to realize they’re behaving oddly. And then they hold their hands up, showing off the rings, and everyone goes ape shit. Everyone wants the rings.

H!Puck and H!Lear also want the rings, but their sense of self-preservation was much stronger. They run and hide, until the yelling and screaming stops. When they come out of hiding, they find that they’re the only ones left. In the entire village.

But the rings call to them, too. They pick their way through the carnage and take them.

They’re probably about 12 and 17 when this happens? Roughly? H!Lear’s going to be way extra fucked up. This event is probably part of the reason they don’t do well being separated; there were probably a couple of moments where someone got really close to where they were hiding and they thought they were going to die. H!Puck’s worse about it because he remembers that night, and remembers the terrified twelve year old shaking next to him.

[moonfurthetemmie]

Some silly tidbits and trivia for the theater kid AU before I go back to work:

- Due to Lear’s slightly less malevolent nature in the theater kid AU, there's a fair number of people who'll tell/ask him to do shit on social media. none of them expect him to see it or anything

He's got a few hundred throwaway accounts just to respond to that stuff because he loves interacting with his audience.

the first fifty times scare the shit out of people but it gets to the point where he can actually have a conversation with people

They're still very afraid and are being kind of placating but he's surprisingly friendly?

it weirds people the fuck out

Eventually one person is like 'yo where do you live' and he sees the notif right away but takes like half an hour to respond because he's just cackling

He also shows Puck

Internet safety aside, he is very aware of his position why they HELL would he give that info

he replies with 'you're mom's house <33' and people lose their SHIT

there's a lot of posts that are like 'look don't take this the wrong way, he's still horrible and needs to be dealt with, but that was an objectively funny answer' and others who are like 'that was so basic of him eugh' and Lear is just watching everything unfold with a grin

he didn't think it was going to get that big a reaction but he is not complaining

- The pubic knows that Puck exists, and that he’s never far behind when Lear and the others show up, but they don’t know who he is, or even where he is most of the time. He goes by ‘Puck’ while they’re on missions, and they at least know it’s a pseudonym, but…

There’s only a handful of confirmed sightings of him. Which he and Lear think is hilarious, because they’ll comb through videos and pictures in the news and stuff to try and find Puck, and he’s in almost all of them. He just blends in very well with a crowd, which is intentional but still

- Bugs and Mars are the least likely ones to be recognized if they’re out in public without their costumes, aside from Puck whose entire face is completely unknown to the public and doesn’t have to worry about being recognized at all.

- While Nyx and Erebus are no different from normal Jet and Dark, they have different relationships with Lear and Puck.

Mainly, Erebus isn’t a huge fan of either Puck or Lear because of their bullshit, but Puck is fucking pretty and since Lear isn’t a nasty bastard Erebus isn’t as hostile towards him.

Nyx also isn’t quite as antagonistic to Lear, though he does pick on him some. Lear’s pride is much less fragile than normal Obsidian’s, so he can take a few hits, which makes Nyx less entertained by trying to piss him off. Lear also picks on him back though, which does encourage Nyx and they banter a lot. It probably won’t take them very long to start dating. Someone just finds them aggressively making out in the hall or something

Despite not being thrilled with what Puck’s doing, Erebus is a sucker for a pretty face and Puck is a huge flirt. So. he’s screwed. Fortunately for him, Puck has 0 intentions of trying to manipulate him or something. He’d actually probably be ecstatic to have a homoerotic rival trying to stop him from his evil deeds, but he’s trying to tone it down and not weird Erebus out.

Puck also is much much more perceptive of other people’s feelings, partially because of his magic empathy and partially because of. Uh. character development. I’d explain more but I genuinely can’t figure out words. Anyway he notices Nyx’s feelings for Erebus. And he realizes that Nyx is jealous of him because of Erebus. He talks to Erebus about it. Erebus is genuinely confused. He finds out about the No Communication About Relationship Status and that Nyx just assumed they were dating. Puck proceeds to go off of Nyx in front of like. Everyone. But mainly Erebus and Lear. And Lear is not stepping in because Puck looks piiiiiiiiiiiissed. He keeps going, and stops making theater references, and Nyx just sort of shrinks away from him until he's this little ball of indignant, embarrassed 'why are you DOING THIS TO ME'

Eventually, after that, Nyx and Puck become friends. Nyx isn’t a Drama Nerd kind of dramatic, but they’re still both dramatic little fuckers and once Nyx gets over being called out on his bullshit they get along great.

Lear kinda like Erebus, but it’s mostly “my best friend likes you, and you’re very close to this guy that I definitely need in my bed, so you’re probably cool. We can chill.” Erebus likes Lear less than Puck when he finds out that Lear has actually killed, kidnapped, and blackmailed people, but everyone being mainly annoyed with the kidnapping is throwing him off. Especially with Icarus. Icarus is not happy about it but there’s nothing he can do and he’s being treated pretty well, so he’s just a snarky little shit to Lear.

- IF Toasty Cinematic Universe BUT with the Theater Kid AU instead of normal JMV, it’s going to be…interesting. Firstly Dream will be given a fucking crisis-

Lear and Puck will trick him into thinking Lear wants to help him, and then Lear and his team will release Puck, Erebus, and Nyx, and lock Dream in his own cell. Lear laughs and calls him an idiot for trusting him just because he was a radiant.

Jekyll and Remy won’t have to find the Meme Squad to try and convince Nightmare to fight Lear. Because after a few weeks Lear, Puck, and Nyx are going to fake their deaths and all the JMV/DINITIS idiots are going to leave, because Lear decided he’d had his fun and Nyx didn’t really want to control an organization as big as JR, and Puck sure as hell didn’t.

Jekyll and Remy probably end up meeting the Meme Squad, Blue, Randy, Hacker, and Bobby anyways. But they’re just like ‘yeah they’re going to cause some pretty heavy damage, but unless jet’s genuinely interested in hurting Dream or controlling JR–the latter of which seems pretty unlikely, though we’ve known him for all of one day–they’ll leave on their own. Obsidian and Jade just like to cause drama.’

“,,,bro they took over a multiversal organization”

“Have you perhaps noticed that they’re completely, utterly, and absolutely batshit insane?”

Nyx probably just fucking. Moves in with Lear and Puck after that. They’re crazy and dramatic and he loves them. Erebus may or may not be upset at all of them for what they did in JR but maybe they’ll make it up to him somehow. Maybe. Puck’s probably the most likely to because he’s the only one of the three with any fucking braincells though.