#borderlands 3 au

[jayswing103-blog]

I just thought of something really cool. What if, instead of finding Typhon DeLeon on Nekrotafeyo, we found Angel's mother instead?

Imagine this: Angel's mother was a researcher who was studying eridians and siren powers alongside her husband and daughter, but during one outing something happens that causes Angel's powers to go out of control. Angel, unable to control her ability, accidentally teleports her mother to the homeworld of Eridians. Everyone presumes she's dead and thus the events of BL1 & 2 are formed.

Imagine that the first thing she asks, before anything else, is if they could help her see her family again. Imagine the pain she would feel once you have to tell her that both her husband and daughter are dead, murdered at the hands of the previous vault hunters.

Imagine.

[ryzselo]

My take on how Athena and Janey should look post-Borderlands3! Gonna use that for my timeskip AUs. I miss them so much.

[citrine-elephant]

in case of emergency, break glass

...or, uh.... maybe we should look at leon's files, first....

(the many directional scars -> when he was protecting ada from simmons)

[moth-bitez]

Did some doodles of Tim and Angel for a little AU where Angel lives and Tim adopts her because I love them and they both deserve better

I know it’s not super original and this has been done before, but I wanted to do my own version :]] Anyways it’s just for fun not anything serious!

[raven-cl]

BOO rhack wip 🥸

[krotiation]

i decided i absolutely had to make a love triangle AU because let's be real, rhys' pov in tales is pretty damn close to that (i'm delusional)

SO INTRODUCING whatever this mess is, i have no idea what to actually call it

[phanztombzz]

Redrew this screenshot with my au design yippie

[snowballeclipse]

Yes, the world screams "Kiss Me, Son Of God"

[vakenart]

Rhys relax 😭 ain’t no one is going to take him away from you!

[snappedsky]

Borderlands: Skies the Ultimate Treasure Hunter

Skies drops in on Rhys to tell him about her good day, while he's having a bad day.

--

New Tales From the Borderlands Part 1

The Sky Rider drifts lazily through space towards no destination. In its pilot chair, Skies is lounging, her feet up on the console as she scrolls mindlessly through the ECHOnet.

She stops when she sees a new article from Forge’s- one with her name on it.

“Skies the Ultimate Treasure Hunter: The Most Successful Independent Agent in the Galaxy?”

A grin spreads across her face and she spins around in her seat, kicking her feet and giggling madly.

“I have go to show this to Rhys,” she declares and puts the coordinates to Promethea into her auto-navigator. The Sky Rider immediately blasts off through hyper space.

It slows to a stop outside of Promethea’s orbit. Not far away is Atlas’ spaceship headquarters. Skies parks her ship and uses her ECHO device to fast travel straight to Rhys’ office.

“Rhysie!” she sings, sliding across the floor from the fast travel station. “You gotta check out this article! It is the funniest thing-.”

“Skies!” Rhys barks, “how many times have I told you to call before you come bursting in?”

Skies stops and finally notices someone else in the room.

She’s a woman, neatly dressed with brown skin and brown hair tied up into a bun. She’s holding some kind of little gun-looking device and has a very guilty look on her face.

“Oops, sorry,” Skies says, “I should’ve guessed you’d be busy.”

“Wait, aren’t you Skies the Ultimate Treasure Hunter?” the woman asks.

“That’s me,” she replies, beaming proudly. “And you are?”

“Dr. Anuradha Dhar,” she says, “I work in Research and Development.”

“For now,” Rhys grunts, and she withers.

“I’ll just wait outside until you’re all done in here,” Skies says, “try not to get fired, Dr. Dhar.”

“Skies!” Rhys snaps.

“I’m going, I’m going,” she says and quickly trots out the door.

[sadist69]

(¬_¬ ) Katagawa in this au partially plays the role of Rutabaga Rabitowitz

[ryzselo]

Colored sketch test

[gaymars97]

Holy shit i just remembered i never introduced tumblr to Betrayal au im gonna change that

So basically, in betrayal au, Maya doesn’t meet the raiders till much later. Before that happens, she also experiences way more betrayal trauma, assassination/murder attempts and overall discrimination than in canon. In fact, pretty much all she lived from interactions with other people ended up being negative, or at best, neutral, either on the short or long run.

So naturally, instead of being open to form new relationships, she starts to distance herself from others. (Cauz yk. Who would want to try to socialize again after over 27 years of perpetual negativity from people? You try keeping your cool after that) By the time she finally meets the raiders, things are different than in canon…

That was the short version. Long version is under the cut

(I shall post a part 2 on bl3 BAU cauz theres a few important things to say about her and if i cram it in here the post will just be. Interminable.)

When she gets on Pandora, instead of directly joining the raiders, Maya is instead approached by a different group of so called « vault hunters » who offer her to work together to open the vault.

As time passes and she gets to know her teammates, even though the betrayal from the order of the impending storm still deeply affects her emotionally, she learns to trust and care for those new friends.

(For reference, the impending storm plot twist™️ also happens earlier, so she also gets to pandora sooner)

Well surprise! Turns out this was a trap too! The « vh » team lured her into trusting them so they could get their hands on a siren, after all. Plan devised by a commander in Hyperion, fyi.

In an act of self defense, she had to kill the very people she thought she could trust. Once again, it wasn’t her who was welcomed with open arms in a family. This whole time, all they cared about were her powers.

Now, this had happened twice, and this time, she nearly died. A part of her did die that day.

Every time she trusted people, it was used against her.

And how about the strangers she had met so far, well, in her life? Either avoided her, visibly feared her or tried to kill her. At best, they just went on to live their day.

So, she started to believe that maybe she was doomed to be left behind every time she tried to follow others. To get hurt every time she showed vulnerability. To be hunted. Feared. Hated.

And can you blame her?

I mean, after all, when was the last time people genuinely cared about her?

…

Did that ever happen in the first place?

So, as Pandora just seems to keep proving her fears are justified, she learns to become distant.

After making the same mistake twice, she wasn’t going to let people deceive her again. Now she knew that if she wanted to reach her goal to learn about sirens, it wasn’t by entrusting others with her help.

At some point, the crimson raiders offer to team up. But she won’t let her guard down so easily now. She refuses. I mean, what’s stopping them to just take all the info they need from her hands once they don’t need her help anymore?

So, led by nothing but bits of info and a mysterious voice in her head (As much as she’s real hesitant to follow the advice of the so called « ai » talking to her somehow, she’s the best lead she’s got.), she leads a one woman hunt for the vault key.

But things don’t go exactly as planned (as always). The moment she’s finally close to get the thing, guess who shows up? That’s right! The crimson fucking raiders, and they want the key too!

Lilith confronts her. She gives her another chance to work together, but Maya just can’t take that kind of risk a third time. So, siren fight ensues, and things seem to be going well, until Lilith decides enough is enough and uses eridium. However, instead of killing the fellow siren, she knocks her out and gets her to sanctuary.

Held captive by the raiders (You can thank Lilith for that btw. Homegirl can’t get herself to kill a fellow siren just yet) a deal is eventually made (working with other people may be the last thing she’d do under normal circumstances, but she has no choice. They caught her.)

So against her own will, she learns to know the people she works with, thinking that after the key is acquired, she’s just get the info she needs and then fuck off. But once again. Didn’t go as planned. These guys are way more loveable than expected-

Goddamn it.

She has one hell of a crisis when she realizes that not only she’s feeling herself starting to care about those people, but that this odd feeling she has whenever she’s with the odd one who screams about meat might be romantic attraction. (And it is)

It takes time, but the raiders eventually prove to her that this time, it’s mutual. Things get better after that 💜

(She’s still more of a bastard than canon tho. All this time of the intimidating distant facade taught her how nice it feels to be a lil mean. As a treat)

Another noticeable trait is the massive scar she has on her face. It was inflicted by one of the members of the fake vh team the day of the betrayal (it still brings a load of bad memories and she hates it) I shall post how the scar looks pretty soon.

(Other note, i would like to thank @rando-lesbo210 because her Fallen Heirs au is what inspired the creation of Betrayal au)

[katagawajr]

besties (aka total annoyances)

[kitsumidori]

Soooo........ I've ended up staying up late, typing a Borderlands/Pokemon au and it was going to be something small but it ended up being a lot more long..........

Unlike the last few, this au is basically the Borderlands characters in the actual pokemon universe (no vaults, no eridian's ECT) and I've since changed a few teams because I wasn't satisfied with the previous choices.

(I've put it under the cut so it wouldn't come out long)

✨ = Shiny

♀️/♂️ = Gender

⭕ = Genderless

Main cast

PKMN Trainer Ava

Team: Stunky ♂️, Zubat ♀️, Cyndaquil ♀️, Oshawott ♂️, Rowlet ♂️, Applin ✨ ♂️

Streamer Girl Tyreen

Team: Lycanroc ♂️ (Midnight form)

Stewartisbot Claptrap

Team: Trubbish ♂️, Alolan Grimer ♂️, Kantonian Meowth ♀️, Koffing ♂️

Gym Leader's

Sasha Dillon the Hollow Point Gym Leader

Specialty: Dragon type

Team: Noibat ♀️, Fraxure ✨♀️

Gaige DiMartino the Overlook Gym Leader

Specialty: Electric type

Team: Pikachu ♀️, Magneton ⭕, Vikavolt ♂️

Wainwright Jakobs the Cursehaven Gym Leader

Specialty: Normal type

Team: Stoutland ♂️, Dundunsparce ♂️, Ursaring ♂️, Drampa ✨♂️

Mad Moxxi the New Haven Gym Leader

Specialty: Poison type

Team: Salazzle ✨♀️, Toxapex ♀️, Roserade ♀️, Arbok ♀️

Maya the Sanctuary Gym Leader and Ava's mom

Specialty: Psychic type

Team: Orbeetle ♂️, Meowstic ♀️, Espeon ♀️, Hatterene ♀️, Gardevoir ✨♂️

Vaughn Sunwalker the Backburner Gym Leader

Specialty: Ground type

Team: Kantonian Sandslash ♂️, Clodsier ♂️, Palossand ♂️, Rhyperior ♂️, Marowak ♂️

Salvador the Ovejas Gym Leader

Specialty: Dark type

Team: Sableye ♀️, Mightyena ♂️, Grimmsnarl ♂️, Urshifu (Single Strike) ♂️, Krookodile ♂️

Aurelia Hammerlock the Liarsburg Gym Leader

Specialty: Ice type

Team: Weavile ♀️, Froslass ♀️, Glaceon ♀️, Frosmoth ♀️, Alolan Ninetales ♀️

Elite 4 and Champion

Mordecai

Specialty: Flying type

Team: Dodrio ♂️, Mandibuzz ♀️, Hisuian Braviary ♂️, Staraptor ♂️, Altaria ♀️, Skarmory ♀️

Brick

Specialty: Steel type

Team: Bastiodon ♂️, Lucario ♀️, Perrserker ♂️, Archaludon ♂️, Steelix ♂️, Tinkaton ♀️

Tina

Specialty: Rock type

Team: Minimor ⭕, Hisuian Arcanine ♂️, Carbink ⭕, Probopass ♀️, Alolan Golem ♀️, Tyranitar ♀️

Dr. Patricia Tannis

Specialty: Ghost type

Team: Spiritomb ♀️, Polteageist ⭕, Rotom ⭕, Golurk ⭕, Chandelure ♀️, Basculegion ♀️

Champion Lilith

Specialty: Fire type

Team: Talonflame ♀️, Blaziken ♀️, Flareon ♀️, Kantonian Ninetales ♀️, Salazzle ♀️, Charizard ✨♀️

Other Characters

Krieg, Owner of the Pokemon Daycare in Sanctuary, Maya's husband and Ava's dad

Team: Kantonian Raticate ♀️, Annihilape ♂️, Bloodmoon Ursaluna ♂️, Hydreigon ♀️, Alolan Marowak ♂️, Silvally ⭕

Timothy Lawrence, Moxxi's husband and bartender at her bar/gym

Team: Clefable ♀️, Skitty ♂️

Angel Coldwell, adopted daughter of Lilith and Gaige’s fiance

Team: Absol ♀️, Corvisquire ♀️, Maushold (Family of Four) ⭕, Galarian Rapidash ✨♂️, Alolan Raichu ♂️, Kantonian Articuno ⭕

Professor Alistair Hammerlock, Wainwright’s husband and pokemon researcher

Team: Decidueye ♂️, Crabominable ♂️, Galarian Wheezing ♂️

Janey Sprigs

Team: Lopunny ♀️, Revavroom ♀️

Athena, Pokemon ranger and Janey’s wife

Team: Armarouge ♀️, Ceruledge ♂️

Naoko Katagawa Kitagawa

Team: Galarian Darumaka ♀️, Lurantis ♂️, Bewear ♀️

Zer0

Greninja ♂️, Ninjask ♂️, Shiftry ♂️

Rhys Strongfork, Sasha's husband

Team: Porygon Z ⭕, Klink ⭕

Fiona Dillon

Team: Hounchkrow ♂️, Thievul ♀️

Ace trainer Fl4k

Houndstone ♂️, Ariados ♀️, Aipom ♂️, Magearna ⭕, Falinks ⭕, A whole bunch of Zubats

Ace trainer Amara

Incineroar ♀️, Machamp ♀️, Pyroar ♀️, Sneasler ♀️, Conkeldurr ♀️

Ace trainer Moze

Hisuian Ursaluna ✨♀️, Bewear ♂️, Pangoro ♂️, Tinkatink ♀️

Ace trainer Zane Flynt

Dragapult ♂️, Manectric ♂️, Galvantula ♀️

Antagonist (Team Hyperion)

Nisha the Sheriff of Lynchwood

Team: Banette ♀️, Kantonian Rapidash ♀️, Dusknoir ♂️

Troy Calypso

Team: Bisharp ♂️, Scizor ♀️, Obstagoon ♂️

Hansuke Katagawa (Katagawa jr)

Team: Aegislash ♂️, Unovan Darmanitan ♂️

Handsome Jack, Leader of Team Hyperion

Team: Galarian Rapidash ♀️, Alakazam ♂️, Malamar ♂️, Kantonian Persian ♂️, Hatterene ♀️, Hydreigon ✨♂️

[raven-cl]

Did I frighten you? I'm awfully sorry, I didn't mean to.