#Shiny & Shrimp Color AUs my beloved

[cocomere]

One of my favorite Daz lines is from a wild tangent I went on with a friend (Juice, aka Chime from the askblog) in which an emperor Tommy variant accidentally befriends Daz and Raine. He does this via being the exact amount of sus and nice to create a situation in which Daz feels that it's safest to confess what his deal is. He's not sure how long it will take for him and Raine to get tracked down by the T3-- the pair of them just kinda Appeared in emperor Tommy's world and have to just Deal With That.

Emperor Tommy gets a nickname of Pav (part of the name for the emperor butterfly!) and is quasi "adopted" by the Council. He also gives them titles and land, leading to a scenario in which fucking Daz is a landed duke, Day is another duke, and Lee has a special title because (as a mod training to become an admin) he's essentially the heir to Sanctuary.

There's actually a lot of really fun things that stemmed from it-- Aster + Raine + Theo's hobbies, incredibly heartfelt gifts, the Was-Taken sons and also Day taking exactly zero shit from anyone, etc.

But this makes me cackle.

Daz: that's what makes this so fun! I'm either your mind eating itself or a nightmarish blend of Tommy and you, and you're not sure which is worse!

Daz gets the local Dream thrown in prison (a normal one, not the Vault) in part because he fucking gaslights him into thinking Daz is a hallucination.

Daz does not let up on this, even after getting him thrown in prison. Daz wants to grind this man's mind beyond dust and into atoms.

It's a very silly crossover AU, and then we one-upped the silliness with the one I affectionately call Shrimp Color Kaleidoscope. It's a more normal royalty AU, and then Dream is there as the leader of a group of mercenaries. He's chill, and also has a sixth sense for danger/vibes that's caused by the equivalent of having no spiritual firewall.

I love him dearly, because he's smart enough to go "ooh something feels weird over this way" when he randomly appears in Pav's world (alongside the prince!Tommy from his world, who he's like 'oh that's a brother' about) but not smart enough to follow it up with "maybe I shouldn't go snooping around a bunch of scary people!"

And thus he accidentally discovers the Council, but it's fine because he actually thinks Lee is adorable and should ABSOLUTELY be protected.

...and also that Daz is scary. Like, he thinks Daz is awesome, but definitely not someone to cross under ANY circumstances.

The name is a joke because that Dream gets The Vibes(tm) of stuff from the universe, or shrimp colors/emotions. The downside to that is that in the event of anything along the lines of the Egg, he has ZERO defense. Spiritual firewall is there for a reason.