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AU where Pearl has a flower shop business with the Mounders and she meets the cute lead singer from this new band that showed up in town.

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What if instead of curing Gem with a splash potion, Katherine cured Gem with a kiss?

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@orinberry Watch me do the Elmo meme again until my laptop battery dies. So this all started around a month ago when I was cramming and making plans for mcyt yuri week. Needless to say I already have my list of characters to swap (somehow I'll figure out how I can make Jimmy the King of Pixandria while Lizzy's the Queen of Mazelea and still be siblings) and I've made that KathGem fanart as well. (You'd want to look into that fanart since there's a few hcs there.)

However, with Scott and fWhip there's still a lot for me to workshop on since I'm not done with both povs and I'm the type to be obsessed with worldbuilding.

So far this is what I got:

Important to note that how I want to handle this swap au is that they have their "core personality" but they have to react and be affected by their environment like how I discussed Pearl on this post (and by extension Sausage in the tags).

Elven fWhip, much like his OG counterpart, wasn't meant to be heir of Rivendell due to their uncle not liking him but ended up as heir anyways after Gem got shipped off to the Overgrown.

Scott meanwhile is a human who was raised as the only heir of the Grimlands and his father's gunpowder industry. He's still suppose to be Aeor's champion, having Alinar as his past life.

You could imagine the kind of crisis the both would have finding that out, with fWhip learning that his boyfriend is his god's chosen one.

I could imagine a lot of teasing coming from fWhip eventually though. Like he'd joke about Scott being destined to be his hero or something.

Scott would've asked so many questions to fWhip all because of his predicament. He's the count of the Grimland's, he wasn't meant to be an elven chosen one. He's not even an elf.

As for the WRA, Scott's approach is in-line with most of his allies of trying to have better PR and generally trying to do what's best for his people. Pearl wants a better look for Mythland, Wizard Katherine wants to avoid war, idk about Sausage I'm still trying to figure him out but we'll see.

But, Scott would be the type to mess with people a lot in this AU. Being the Count he doesn't mind playing into the intimidation of his empire, but he can be really nice.

fWhip on the other hand, his reign is heavily focused on developing much of Rivendell's infrastructure and connections to other empires.

He's forced to keep out of any conflict by the council for the sake of Rivendell's image. Even Gem scolds him to not drag Rivendell to any unwarranted conflict.

He's still the type of guy to jump from one interest to another, and at one point his interest swung to redstone and gunpowder and what other nation does it better than the Grimlands?

Scott was the first one to try flirting with fWhip, although very casual, and wasn't expecting fWhip to flirt back. Elves have a reputation in the Grimlands to be a bit stuck up.

Either way this led to a lot of talking between the two of them and Scott was lucky that fWhip was a very unconventional elf who didn't mind dating mortals like him.

They became lovers in secret without any of their councils knowing.

fWhip thought that Gem would've scolded him for going after a mortal, nobility or not. But after confessing that to her, it only led to him learning that his sister have eyes for a certain Head Wizard.

Rivendell and the Grimlands were generally in good relations centuries after Gilded Helianthia's independence (read here for reference, ignore any inaccuracies). But one day fWhip signed in joining the WRA. This outraged some people in the elven council due to the Alliance's reputation throughout history. But fWhip assured everybody that the mortals ruling these nations are to be trusted.

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Monster Falls but it's roseblings make more sense than actual monster falls I'm sorry.

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Merman fWhip would've first met Jimmy when he was travelling down stream the first time. He was still young and found the open sea to be a trilling new place. Jimmy found him intimidating and scary. fWhip just waltz in to the open waters very strong.

I could imagine that Gem was travelling with him during their first time. She was following along the river as she was migrating with a herd of centaurs but they eventually had to separate when the herd was already moving away from the the river.

They met Sausage when Saus was building a cabin by the river that the twins grew up in. They were scared at first but they somehow ended up as friends.

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Mythland Pearl

Aight, see I decided not to have Mythland Pearl be plainly Red Pearl/5am Pearl obviously.

Now, I love me my swap AUs ever since I discovered Reverse Falls back in the mid-2010s. But, this is Empires s1 so a part of me really wants to be very particular about some of my decisions for this.

So for the swap au I'm trying to have it that they have their typical personality, but it's also them being shaped and affected by their surroundings.

For example:

OG e!Pearl DOES NOT like the blood sheep. But in this AU her family, her house (House of Moon), has been devout followers of the blood sheep.

So, originally my thought was she was not too fond of her family's religion. She wants to make some changes to Mythland. Especially in my world building where Mythland as an empire has quite the reputation and the blood sheep wasn't helping. But then I remembered her reaction during the first time Xornot revealed himself after the End battle.

See the blood sheep lore has two different accounts. One was that it's actually one of Mythland's historical tyrants that was turned into a sheep by a guild of mages. Which I would take as more of a folk legend.

The other one, I find far more interesting and is located within the church, which I'm taking as practically their gospel.

The blood sheep to Mythland Pearl is a wounded soul (technically spirit) . The sheep were animals that no longer felt importance after the Mythlanders focused on other animals as their nation grew.

So Pearl here doesn't really heavily worship them nor fear them, but desires to heal their ache (A little reference to OG e!Pearl wanting to cure Xornot). She grew up with the story of the blood sheep feeling rage against humanity for forgetting about them.

There's still a lot to consider regarding this though. I do want it that Xornot was still trying to tempt her to the dark side.

In my hcs/worldbuilding, to Mythland you're not allowed to show weakness. Fear and power is what rules the populous. The people fear the blood sheep. Their rulers secure their power through might. They are an empire worth fearing. Very different from Helianthia. These are the philosophies and histories that OG e!Sausage grew up with and this would be the same stuff Myth!Pearl would grow up with as well.

She's compassionate, she's ready for a fight (big or small, even if it meant war), but she hates the idea of being seen as weak. Helianthian Pearl is compassionate, ready for a fight, and she's not bothered showing the she stumbled.

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elven/fae roseblings in my swap au is consuming my mind

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Honestly, the partial reason why I'm so invested in Salmon lore in Empires is for a dsmp crossover. And no, it's not what you think. Dsmp lore is not meant to override Empires lore. (Similarly to me crossing it with Hermitcraft, s6 and s7 lore is not meant to override Empires lore. I refuse.)

It's really just Wilbur, whose an Elf from Rivendell, meeting Sally who's a resident from the Grimlands. They got married and had Fundy.

I could have fun here and make it that Sally's family is related to fWhip's, where the Dy family has been working with them in the gunpowder industry for generations. Meanwhile the Sootcrafts are Elven nobility (idk insert arctic empire reference maybe). I could have fun with that.

Fundy spent some of his childhood in Rivendell but studied in the Grimland's most prestigious redstone academy. He still has a lot of miscommunication issues with his dad and grandfather. I think that stays.

He's classmates with Tubbo who's actually his adopted uncle. The both of them don't really like mentioning it since, well they're classmates.

Tubbo's heritage came from the Crystal Cliffs and the Sootcrafts don't really doubt that, but Tubbo felt at home in Rivendell.

He felt even more at home however when he started studying in the Grimlands.

Also random thing. Yeah, uhh. Iskall's one of their professors in the academy. Yeah, idk how else to put that here.

After so many failed business ventures with Mumbo, he decided to go back to teaching. Lucky he was still able to snag a job in the Redstone Tech Academy.

S1E25, fWhip's pov: I find out that mechs are canon in empires

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fWhip as a merman while Gem's a deer centaur. No hunters in this AU cause I hate that kind of content.

Pearl's a werewolf like Wendy

Seablings could stay as they are which are also some form of merfolk

Joel's just an ogre but he could also be a Gorgon like Pacifica

Joey's a Harpy

Idk what Sausage is. Maybe he's the only human. He's besties with the rest of the WRA still.

Monster Falls but it's roseblings make more sense than actual monster falls I'm sorry.