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Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed Fanfic Idea:

TL;DR: Lan Wangji and most other Lans regularly sneak around disguised as rogue cultivators so they can break Lan rules in secret — then the other sects find out...

Throwback to that idea I had way-back-when of a Canon Divergence AU where it turns out that the Lan Sect actually can't follow all 3,500 rules all of the time, and so in desperation they were forced to come up with the idea (excuse) of establishing a spy network where they would then be required to go undercover without the fancy headbands or the vibrant white clothes or, most importantly, the excessive rigid rules...

Left: Liu Haikuan (LXC) in 'The Long Ballad'

Right: Wang Yibo (LWJ) in 'Legend of Fei'

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(Not because they need a spy network or anything — the spy network is just an excuse. In reality, too many Lans were breaking too many rules and having to be punished all the time, and it was risking ruining their reputation.

Afterall, if even the Lans can't follow all of their rules, how can they expect the guest disciples to? Something had to change...

And so, instead of simply changing the rules or easing up on them a bit (the obvious, rational choice), they instead established a spy network where Lans under too much pressure from following so many rules would be allowed to roam free, virtually uninhibited, on the sole condition that when they returned they would bring with them some new information about what's going on in the world...)

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Only the other main sects know vaguely of the Lan Spy Network, and even then only because the Lan Sect seemed to have an endless well of information that they definitely shouldn't have and no one for the life of them can figure out how or where they're getting all this information from...

So, obviously the Lans must have some sort of spies — though, considering their well-documented inability to blend in (what with their white clothing and headbands and strict rules that must be followed at all times without exception) the other sects were under the impression that their spies were animals or something, rather like the Wen birds.

If not animals, then civilians or rogue cultivators that were employed by or indebted to the Lan.

(Under no circumstances were they expecting the Lans themselves to be the spies.)

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This AU was largely inspired by two things:

That scene in the library where Lan Wangji told Wei Wuxian to "piss off." —People don't typically slip up and just say a word or phrase that they've never even thought of or said before... More likely, LWJ has said it before, but was trying to restrain himself from doing so while in "Lan-mode".

A while ago, I watched this other historical drama that also starred Wang Yibo (LWJ's actor), except that I didn't realize at first that it was him because he looked so different... different clothes, different hairstyle, different behavior... They were both historical dramas, but he looked like two completely different people! To the point that I didn't even recognize him!

For reference, here's a side-by-side comparison of Wang Yibo in The Untamed vs Legend of Fei:

If you saw Guy-on-the-Right walking around town all smiley and smug you would NOT think, "Is that the great Hanguang Jun?! What is he wearing?!" No, you would instead think, "Wow, that rogue cultivator is pretty hot..."

I imagine they still keep their headbands on their person when in disguise, just hidden away so they're not visible... Most likely either wrapped around their wrist or their ankle and then hidden away under an arm cuff or a boot.

Little baby Lans are introduced to ~Undercover Work~ slowly, first by being brought out in pairs with an older, more experienced Lan while they're still young enough for their subdued behavior to be dismissed as just a "shy, well-behaved child" — but old enough that they won't slip up and say something they shouldn't, like, "Hi, I'm Lan Zhan."

Lan Wangji was of course first brought out by Lan Xichen, who reassured him that, "Yes, you can run if you want. Yes, you can shout and make noise. Yes, you can slouch. Yes, yes, yes..."

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Whenever someone goes undercover, the other Lans will tell Outsiders that the reason they're unreachable is because they're "in seclusion".

While Lans do actually go into seclusion at times, it's not nearly as often as the other sects are led to believe. Far more likely, they're actually running around ~undercover~ and in-disguise, while seclusion is just being used as an excuse as for why no one can see them or get into contact with them.

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Edit: Regular check-ins are of course required to keep track of everyone, much like a "Warm Body Count" in a college dorm.

Additionally, I forgot to mention this before but there are of course some rules that they are still expected to follow, namely the ones that everyone would be expected to follow — such as, for example, no murder.

No assault, no kidnapping, no destruction of public property... Just the stuff that most people would agree should never be allowed. (At least, not without good reason.)

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Edit: Not all of the Lan disciples know about this. Su She, for example, has no idea.

It's only the inner disciples who are genuinely expected to follow all the rules all the time that are given this option of running away for a bit...

(They know that if they allowed everyone in the sect to be in on it, they would never be able to keep it a secret from the Outsiders.)

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One of my favorite headcanons for The Untamed is the idea that the real reason the Impure/Unclean Realm in Qinghe is such an impressively impenetrable fortress is because despite only Nie Mingjue being the ~official~ sect leader, he and Nie Huaisang secretly run the sect together...

(Well, it's a secret to outsiders — all of the Nie disciples of course already know.)

They each play to their own strengths (because they have very different strengths) and then collaborate when it comes to the more difficult or more important matters...

And with the two of them working together in unison, the Nie sect is virtually undefeatable.

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Another Wen Kexing-centric Crossover AU set in the CQL universe that blatantly takes advantage of the fact that his name is *Wen* Kexing:

In this version, Wen Yan, courtesy name Kexing, is the oldest sibling of Wens Qing and Ning.

When he's very young, Wen Yan tags along on a routine trip with his parents (him being the only sibling old enough to be allowed to come along) only to never return...

His parents wind up getting murdered on the trip — courtesy of Wen Ruohan — and this is where things start to really diverge...

In one version, it's the Ghosts that kill his parents and so he winds up being raised in the Ghost Valley (much like in canon) only to eventually return many years later to get his revenge on Wen Ruohan...

In the other version, it's Wen Ruohan himself who takes Wen Yan in and raises him (much like he canonically does with Wens Qing and Ning) until he, once again, eventually gets his revenge on Wen Ruohan.

(Perhaps Wen Ruohan takes in Wen Qing and Wen Ning as well in this version, but distracted as he is by Wen Kexing he doesn't pay them much mind and so they mostly get left alone...)

Either way, Wen Kexing spends the majority of his life pretty unknown to most of the cultivation world, right up until he is finally strong enough to get his revenge on (i.e. kill) parent-murderer Wen Ruohan.

(NMJ: "I'll never trust a Wen! Wen Ruohan killed my father!" // WKX: "Oh, same hat." // NMJ: "What.")

It is at this point that Wen Kexing —

— who has since also killed Wen Xu, Wen Chao, and possibly also Wen Zhuliu (maybe Wen Zhuliu was the one who killed their parents on Wen Ruohan's orders?) —

— is then made the new leader of the Wen sect.

I also think it would just be really funny if this all happened during the indoctrination.

Think about it! Suddenly everything gets really suspiciously quiet for a few days and they're all mostly left alone, right up until one morning when they're all summoned and they're waiting for a while and Wen Chao isn't showing —

— and then finally some dude with a fan struts down the steps and introduces himself as the new Wen sect leader, tells them that Wen Ruohan and his sons are all dead and also, by the way, you're all free to go home now, so sorry about the whole indoctrination thing... 😬 Does anyone need medical care? We'd hate for you to succumb to your injuries on the way home... 🥺

Like. Can you imagine?

(Having this happen during the indoctrination would also conveniently mean that most everyone is still alive — except for the old Lan sect head, but we don't really care about him...)

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jiang cheng-centric fic prompt:

jiang cheng, absolutely convinced that wei wuxian would make a far better sect leader than he ever could, comes to the conclusion that it would be far better for everyone involved if he were to just disappear...

whether that means he runs away, or he tries something far angstier than that, is up to you...

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Blind Jiang Cheng AU:

What if Jiang Cheng went blind sometime during the 13/16 years, but he was able to hide it from the other sect leaders because Zidian was capable of working similarly to Xiao Xingchen's sword by sensing resentful energy so he could still fight.

And so with the help of his loyal disciples — who covered for him and backed him up whenever he encountered something he couldn't get out of, cover up, or explain away — he was able to keep the other sect leaders none the wiser — for a whopping 13/16 years.

Zidian is also a large part of the reason why Jiang Cheng tends to go after demonic cultivators personally — because Zidian's ability to sense resentful energy makes him exceptionally good at tracking them down no matter how hard they may try to hide...

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what if instead of shunning demonic cultivation, the jiang sect embraced it?

afterall, in the wake of the massacre of lotus pier they'll need all the help they can get to get back on their feet and win this war, even with their vastly diminished numbers.

and while wei wuxian might have suffered severely from using demonic cultivation — that was without a golden core.

perhaps, with the support of a strong golden core combined with the iconic jiang clarity bells, as well as regular check-ins and cleansing sessions to purge their excess demonic energy — not to mention the guidance of wei wuxian, the grandmaster of demonic cultivation himself, the jiang sect would be the leading experts in demonic cultivation throughout the entire cultivation world.

other sects and rogue cultivators might try to attempt it, but compared to the jiang sect their attempts would be pathetic and amateur at best and more than likely end up with the cultivator in question either dead or mad.

this would also have the bonus effect of the jiang sect not having to rely solely on wei wuxian — if the entire jiang sect were capable of demonic cultivation, not just wei wuxian, then they would undoubtedly be considered a significantly formidable sect despite their recent near annihilation — far different than their social/political position in canon.

and, with this higher standing, they (jiang cheng) would be far better equipped to protect wei wuxian against the other sects.

and who knows? maybe when wei wuxian discovers the wens he might be more willing to trust jiang cheng to help him with them now that he knows that jiang cheng has not just accepted but fully embraced his decision to practice demonic cultivation.

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MDZS AU: Gusu Lan are Secretly Vampires

I was thinking about how if an entire sect was secretly plagued with vampirism, it would be easier to hide the weirder symptoms because they would be dismissed as a sect-wide tradition or as part of that sect's culture, and as such wouldn't be questioned.

Made fun of, maybe — but questioned? No, that would be incredibly rude.

Originally, I wasn't thinking about any sect in particular, but when I tried to think of which sect I could best see being secretly forced to follow the Rules of Vampirism, the answer became obvious — rules.

What sect already follows a ton of seemingly pointless rules? What sect do others often complain about how completely rigid they are in their insistence on always following said rules, without any exceptions?

What sect would people not even blink at twice if they insisted on never entering a person's home until they've been invited in? What sect could easily get away with refusing to ever eat garlic? Or outlawing mirrors?

-> Gusu Lan.

Please, join me in considering an AU where the Lan sect is full of vampires, and Qinghe Nie isn't the only martial sect secretly plagued by something the other clans would consider "evil".

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Star Trek AU (inspired by the popular headcanon about Vulcan hands and their "sensitivity") where Bones accidentally ends up becoming Spock's reluctant knight-in-shining-armor by virtue of being the only person on the entire Enterprise who actually knows enough about Vulcan anatomy to know precisely why touching a Vulcan's hands is considered such a taboo —

— because as much as Bones detests the hobgoblin he's not going to just stand there and watch as people attempt to (unknowingly) molest the idiot...

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This idea was intended to be Gen but if you're interested in romance I can see two ways this can play out — one with Bones/Spock (Spones) and one with Kirk/Spock (Spirk).

Click the "Keep reading" to know more.

For the Spones AU I can see Spock slowly falling for Bones as he repeatedly defends/protects Spock, even though Spock knows for a fact that Bones doesn't like him. The fact that Bones is willing to do all this for someone he doesn't even like, maybe even hates... Spock slowly starts acting more amicable and appreciative towards Bones, which —

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1. Spones

— like two voice-mimicking dolls repeating a phrase back and forth as the words get more and more distorted —

— Spock's newfound amicable-ness towards Bones leads to Bones becoming more amicable in turn, and the more they learn to tolerate each other, the more time they spend together (often after Bones has just saved Spock from some asshole by claiming to need him for something and then dragging him off), the closer they find themselves becoming...

Spock probably falls in love first in response to Bones' reluctant knight-in-shining-armor routine, while for Bones he falls slower, as he gradually finds himself becoming more and more fond of Spock now that they're no longer at each other's throats all the time, and are thus finally able to have a real conversation — or many conversations — leading to the realization that the other isn't so bad afterall...

2. Spirk

If you're fond of misunderstandings and jealousy, then you're probably gonna love the idea I had for the Spirk AU:

Basically, Spock and Bones' sudden closeness/amicable-ness, combined with the way Bones keeps jumping to Spock's defense and randomly dragging him off to who-knows-where, leads to the rest of the crew becoming convinced that the two of them are in a (secret) relationship.

And at first Kirk can't figure out why them being together bothers him so much — shouldn't he be happy for them? Shouldn't he be relieved to see his two best friends getting along? But it's not until he finally identifies his feelings as jealousy that he suddenly becomes aware of the crush that he's been unknowingly harboring for Spock.

Once he realizes that, he starts forcing himself to pull away from Spock — he forces himself to stop all the casual touches and unintentional flirting he hadn't even realized he'd been doing until then — now that Spock and Bones are "dating" he doesn't want to accidentally get in between them or somehow damage their relationship.

Meanwhile, all of this is of course incredibly confusing for Spock who doesn't understand why Kirk is suddenly distancing himself from him — acting more formal and less familiar with him, avoiding touching him, dropping the casual banter and late-night chess matches —

Did he do something wrong? Why is Kirk suddenly pulling away from him?

Cue a whole host of misunderstandings between these two idiots in love that all eventually culminates in a grand reveal — perhaps someone, maybe Kirk, finally mentions Spock and Bones' supposed "relationship" in front of them, only to be met with immediate confusion and denial — which is then of course followed by a grand love confession by either Kirk or Spock, which is immediately and enthusiastically reciprocated.

THE END. :)

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You know what I love?

I love when a fic author takes a side character and turns them into a Secret Badass.

Like they'll do it in such a way that it's still somehow at least mostly canon-compliant by having said character acting behind the scenes and hiding their skills for whatever reason.

And the best parts are the reveal scenes where the other characters finally realize how much they underestimated them...

"Secretly a Badass" is seriously one of my absolute favorite tropes of all time.

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...how old do you have to be to join the marines in One Piece? I'm just thinking about how Garp supposedly wanted Ace and Luffy to become marines, and yet —

He left them alone on the island all the way up until they each set sail at seventeen.

Seventeen.

Wasn't Koby sixteen when he joined the marines?

How come Garp didn't drop by Dawn and snatch Luffy up before he turned seventeen? Especially considering he would've already known that Ace had set sail at seventeen...

The only possible explanation I can think of is that — as much as he wanted them to become marines — Garp knew that they'd never actually be happy that way...

He's all bark and no bite, basically.

(If Garp really wanted to force them to be marines he easily could've snatched them up at any time and enlisted them against their will but instead he chose to leave them unattended until they set off on their own...

— and there's no way he didn't know what they were planning, they weren't exactly being subtle about it... He knew and he chose to let it happen, and not only that — he did absolutely nothing to stop them once they had set out.

The most he did was drop in on Water 7 after Luffy had declared war on the World Government to check in on him and see how he was doing, and then half-heartedly attempt to catch him and his crew whilst actually intentionally letting them go...

I'm telling you: all bark and no bite.)

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just watched puss in boots: the last wish and noticed that puss in boots looks a lot like dracule mihawk (particularly the hat), and now i can't stop thinking about an AU where mihawk gets turned into a cat — but NOT in the stereotypical fanfic trope way where they're just a normal cat, no i'm imagining an AU where mihawk gets turned into a walking, talking cat in a little feathered hat and boots with a tiny little sword, glaring at everyone and everything

he'll probably have to swordfight with his little necklace dagger since his normal sword would be way too big for him to handle

can you imagine shanks happening upon him? he wouldn't be able to stop laughing, rolling around on the floor and kicking his legs while mihawk stands a few feet away glaring at him with his fuzzy little arms crossed

edit: i've decided that mihawk's clothes would shrink with him, much like when luffy shrinks post-third gear... (there's a precedent)

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Hey, remember when Shanks startled Buggy into accidentally eating the Bara Bara no Mi?

AU where a time-traveling Sabo does exactly that, but with the Yami Yami no Mi—

(He's trying to stop Ace from dying but in an extremely convoluted way where he tries to prevent Thatch from ever getting murdered and Blackbeard from getting anywhere near the Yami Yami no Mi by finding and stealing the Devil Fruit himself before the Whitebeards even have the chance to get anywhere near it—

—except someone startles him and he panics and tries to hide it as fast as he can and—

Well. Oops.)

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One Piece AU: Not only is Buggy's nose fake but it's actually his really pathetic attempt at a disguise.

Buggy has been a part of the Revolutionary Army since he was very small — much like Sabo and Koala — and the first time he had to come up with his own disguise, well...

Let's just say Kid Buggy thought the clown nose was a brilliant idea.

Except, whoopsie! This job unexpectedly ended up being a pretty long term thing when he got picked up (kidnapped) by Gol D. Roger himself.

There wasn't much a kid like Buggy could do against a determined Roger, and he was on the ship and out to sea before he could blink.

And so began Buggy's unintentional journey disguised as a clown-nosed pirate on-board the ship of the Future Pirate King!

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Unexpectedly, Buggy ends up getting pretty attached to the Roger Pirates, especially Roger himself and fellow apprentice Shanks.

He gets so attached in fact, that in the wake of Roger's execution he elects to not return to Baltigo.

Instead, he humbly requests that Dragon allow him to continue playing his role as Buggy the Clown.

Dragon accepts, but requests that if he's going to camp out in one of the Blues, to do so in the East not too far off Dawn Island.

Buggy accepts, unexpectedly and unknowingly causing Dragon's son to become a pirate (the only reason Shanks was in the East Blue so often was because he was visiting Buggy).

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But back to the subject of Buggy's "nose"!

There's a reason why he chose something so obvious and distracting...

You might've heard this before, but it's said that if you don't want witnesses to remember what you look like, wear something eye-catching.

It sounds counterintuitive, but if you rob a bank whilst wearing a wedding dress... All that the witness are going to remember when being interviewed is "the robber was wearing a wedding dress".

They're not going to remember what you specifically look like, they're just going to remember the most glaring aspect of your appearance.

Thus, Kid Buggy found the clown nose to be a perfect disguise — who would recognize him without it?

And to really hammer it in, Buggy ended up unintentionally developing a bit of a complex over it.

The first time someone pointed out his clown nose, correctly assuming it to be fake, Buggy panicked and got really defensive about it.

Truthfully, Buggy freaked out because he was worried about being discovered — but from the other pirate's point of view? It just seemed like Buggy had a huge complex over his nose.

And so, Buggy's stupid clown disguise ended up being a really good one...?

Because just taking off the clown nose and make-up makes Buggy literally unrecognizable — he would know, he's tried it!

People who know of Buggy the Clown — people who have seen his face — would recognize him from the back, but when he'd turn around and there'd be no clown nose or make-up they would startle and apologize, saying:

"Sorry, I mistook you for someone else!"

Somehow, unexpectedly, Buggy has wound up with the most iron-clad alibi in the entire Revolutionary Army.

There's not a single person in the world who would guess that Buggy was a part of the RA.

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BONUS:

With Buggy near constantly stationed by Dawn, Dragon would have no real reason to check-in himself — so what happens to Sabo?

Buggy happens. Buggy finds the kid instead and decides to take him in, training him to be both a Pirate and a Revolutionary with the intention of letting the kid decide for himself which path to follow when he grows up.

And so Sabo ends up with a similar role to Buggy himself, and all his other "crewmembers" — Revolutionaries undercover as Pirates.

(...you can imagine Luffy's shock when he first meets Buggy and his scarred blonde sidekick First Mate over in Orange Town...)

("S-Sabo...?!")

(Or would he not recognize him? What if Sabo mimicked Buggy's disguise? Maybe not the nose, but mixing some clown make-up with his noble shtick... What if Luffy invited him onto his crew having no idea that he was Sabo? Maybe Sabo remembers his name, maybe he doesn't, but either way he might've given Luffy an alias — as he was technically a revolutionary afterall.)

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So... Anyone else headcanon Buggy as Vivi's long lost uncle?

No? Just me? Okay...

Disclaimer: Do I actually believe this is canon? No. But do I want it to be? Yes.

My reasoning for this is fairly simple:

Blue hair.

-> Click on the "Keep reading" below for a bunch more nonsense on how I think this could actually work...

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I did my math, and King Cobra is about eleven (11) years older than Buggy — which is a pretty big age gap but we're not focusing on him — we're focusing on his wife, Titi, who Vivi is apparently the spitting image of.

Queen Titi is the one responsible for Vivi's blue hair, and thus she is the one who I'm headcanoning Buggy to be related to.

And, as it is entirely common for couples to have age gaps of a few years or so... Titi can help to close that afformentioned age gap.

Whereas King Cobra might be eleven years older than Buggy, it's not unreasonable to assume that Titi could've been five or so years younger — shortening the siblings' age gap to a measly five or six years — which is not nearly as unreasonable!

Hell, we might as well throw Franky in there as well! He's got similarly blue hair and he's only three years younger than Buggy!

I last looked up these ages like a day or two ago so here's hoping I didn't remember any wrong!

Now, how could they be related if they all grew up in such different places?

Answer: Their parents are unknowns! For all three of them!

If I'm remembering right, Franky's parents were said to have been pirates who abandoned him.

Buggy's parents are a complete unknown since, unlike Shanks, Oda hasn't told us anything about how he wound up on the Rogers' ship.

And Titi? We don't know much about her at all.

So it is entirely possible that Franky wasn't the only kid his parents abandoned...

Not to mention that Alabasta and Water 7 are fairly close to one other.

And we have no idea where Buggy is originally from, but "somewhere in the Grand Line" is a pretty safe estimate.

So. One wound up in Alabasta, another in Water 7, and the third got picked up by Gol D. Roger himself.

Water 7 has a lot of incoming and outgoing ships, right? So it's not that hard to believe that they all could've been abandoned there originally, but two wound up on outgoing ships...

Titi, the oldest, snuck aboard a ship bound to Alabasta as a stowaway.

Buggy, the middle child, got kidnapped by Roger who pointed at him and said, "Is anybody gonna take this?" And then didn't wait for an answer.

And Franky, the youngest, never left in the first place.

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Edit: OK, so I checked out Franky's backstory and here's how it apparently went:

Cutty Flam, originally born in the South Blue, was yeeted by his pirate parents at a young age — literally. Those jerks actually threw him off their ship and into the water — for some godforsaken reason.

He was then rescued by Tom the Fish-Man, legendary shipwright.

At some point Tom saw Cutty assemble a cannon out of scrap metal, and after that he decided to take him on as an apprentice.

Iceberg, Tom's other apprentice, decided to nickname him "Franky" because apparently "Cutty Flam" is too weird a name. Pot, meet kettle.

And that's all the relevant info.

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Hmm... Now what can we do with this?

Well, if his parents were just yeeting kids off the ship as they go... That makes things a lot easier, actually.

How did they end up on different islands, all split up? Easy! Their shitty parents were literally just yeeting them off the ship whenever.

First one to get yeeted got picked up by a ship returning to Alabasta, who took mercy on the innocent child and brought them home. (Maybe it was the royal family returning from the Revelry? That could explain how Cobra and Titi first met...)

The second child to get yeeted was rescued by Roger and his crew, who conveniently were already on the hunt for a playmate for their first child — Crocus and Rayleigh were very insistent that it's extremely important for a child's development for them to have friends their own age growing up...

The third child got yeeted somewhere in the vicinity of Water 7, and was saved by Tom; His story after that follows canon.

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Why were they yeeted in different locations and at different times, you ask? My answer: Consider their ages.

I don't know what kind of scumbag pirates yeet their own children to their supposed deaths, but perhaps it's the same kind who have children for nefarious reasons...

Perhaps they had some kind of use for a young child — fake hostage? bait? tax break?! — but once they reach a certain age... Suddenly, the kid's not so useful anymore.

And so they get dumped, just in time for their asshole parents to give birth to a new heir.

And rinse and repeat...

And so we got Titi, and Buggy, and Franky — all born a handful of years apart and dumped in different locations after they were no longer useful for their parents' schemes.

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INFO:

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Titi (Titi) - Age ??? - ティティ

Buggy (Bagii) - Age 37/39 - バギー

Cutty Flam (Kati Furamu) aka Franky (Furankii) - Age 34/36 - カティ・フラム aka フランキー

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Age gap between Buggy (37/39) & Nefertari Cobra (48/50): 11 years

Age gap between Buggy (37/39) & Franky (34/36): 3 years

Age gap between: Franky (34/36) & Nefertari Cobra (48/50): 14 years

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If we give Buggy & Titi the same age gap as Franky & Buggy then Titi would've been 40 pre- and 42 post-timeskip, a total of eight (8) years younger than Cobra. Not unrealistic at all!

Then again, she was their first child so it's entirely possibly they held off longer before giving in and having another child to replace her — not because they cared about her, but because they would've been reluctant to have to start all over again with raising another noisy, annoying baby, and would've preferred to keep running the scam with her, seeing as she was already trained and fairly self-sufficient.

So maybe she's a little older. A year or two perhaps? That would be one year to dilly-dally, and one year for the new kid to be born.

Let's make it a total of three extra years: two years they spent convinced they could get the scam to continue working even as she got older, and then the one year it took for them to have baby Buggy after they gave up hope.

So that makes Titi six years older than Buggy, nine years older than Franky, and five years younger than Cobra.

If she had been alive during canon events, she would've been 43 years old pre-timeskip and 46 years old post-timeskip.

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As the first and oldest, Titi was well aware of her parents intentions to replace her.

And while as a child her first priority was to survive... As she got older and eventually had her own daughter, she might've found herself wondering about her possible siblings...

What happened to them?

How many were there?

Were they still alive?

Had they been dumped and abandoned as well?

Where were they now?

...And could she find them?

Late at night she would have trouble sleeping, frequently thinking of the other children like her that she never got the chance to meet...

Her husband, Nefertari Cobra, would notice and ask her what was troubling her, and she would confess her regrets...

And Cobra, sweet and kind man that he is, would promise to do his very best to find her siblings for her.

And later, when she passed, he never stopped looking.

Until, one day...

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Oh, and before I forget:

You're probably thinking something along the lines of, "but there are a bunch more characters with blue hair! What about them?"

I hear you, and my response is this:

Not like this. Sure, Buggy and Vivi's hair aren't colored exactly the same — but compared to everyone else with blue hair? The only ones that get close are Franky (who I actually ended up slipping into this headcanon) and that one guy from Wano whose hair is dyed, so... He doesn't count.

(And even past the hair color, there's also the similar texture and shape that becomes extremely apparent when Buggy and Vivi have their hair styled the same way — as shown clearly in the images above...

I mean, they've got the same waves and everything! For god's sake, even their hairbands are nearly identical! Like, c'mon!)

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Jujutsu Kaisen × Hero Academia Crossover AU where the Jujutsu Sorcerer Community is actually a Vigilante Serial Killer Cult

OK, bear with me here a second—

This is a sort of universe-fusion where JJK takes place in the BNHA universe and curses are not real. I repeat, curses do not exist.

The Sorcerer community is a cult made up of people who believe that Villains with mutant quirks are Curses, while the more anthropomorphic Villains are Curse Users.

They believe that destroying (i.e. killing) Curses exorcises them, and that Curse Users deserve the same fate. They believe that doing so is their civic duty as Jujutsu Sorcerers, and they groom their children to do the same.

Their community is highly secretive (supposedly because the public would not understand or be able to handle the "truth" of curses) and their children are kept cut-off from society as they're growing up, until they're old enough to attend Jujutsu Tech and start going on "missions" of their own to "exorcise" "curses".

A fanfic based in this AU would ideally start shortly before the protagonist is meant to attend Jujutsu High, when there is a major police bust and most of the cult are finally put under arrest for their crimes (serial murder, mainly).

The adult cult members would be put under arrest, while the younger ones will be evaluated based on whether they had "exorcised" anyone yet, and for the ones who haven't — they would be relocated and rehabilitated, and placed in foster care and sent to ordinary high schools that are willing to take them in.

For example: A raid is launched on Jujutsu Tech and the compounds of the main clans — all at the same time, so that no one has the chance to warn anyone else or escape.

Eraserhead and Tsukauchi are involved in the raid on the Gojō compound specifically, and while they're putting everyone under arrest a child — about fourteen or fifteen years old — suddenly appears out of nowhere.

He has white hair and eyes like the sky and is wearing a matching yukata. He is also eerily calm considering Aizawa is currently kneeling on the back of one of his family members, who is cuffed and spitting.

When the man on the ground sees the him he orders the child to free him and "exorcise the curse users". The child blinks back, before turning to Aizawa and Tsukauchi to ask, "What are you doing?"

They (awkwardly) explain that the (adult) clan members are under arrest for serial murder, etc.

The kid asks what will happen to him. They explain that as he is an innocent child he will be placed with a foster parent, rehabilitated, and admitted to an eligible high school come fall.

The kid... smiles. Says, "OK!"

...He seems weirdly excited...?

(They don't know this yet, but little Gojō Satoru is positively ecstatic. He's gonna be free from his overbearing relatives?! He's gonna get to go to an ordinary high school and have a real high school experience with sports festivals and fairs and clubs?! He's gonna be able to do practically whatever he wants — have fun and eat sweets and goof off?! This is the best day of his life!)

(Gojō doesn't know this yet, but when Nedzu hears about him and his abilities an offer is going to be put forth for Gojō to attend UA...

If he passes the Hero Entrance Exam — which, of course he will — he will be admitted into the Hero Course as a first-year alongside Midoriya Izuku, Todoroki Shōto, and Bakugō Katsuki.)

[frankenfic]

In one universe, Sabo's ship is blown up by Celestial Dragons and his memories of the past, of his life before, are stolen from him.

In another universe, Sabo's ship gets blown up and his memories of the future, of his life after, are forcibly thrust upon him.

Sabo wakes up with burns covering nearly half his body, one cloudy eye, and knowledge of a future that he cannot allow to come to pass.