#daybreak vs scala au

[blazernot]

Smoke Break 2

[jemtokall]

Hi! Can I ask about Eph/Rep I'm super curious if you wanna ramble lol

HELLO!!

Reph is a ship that me and my boyfriend came across while rping post kh3. I'll try to keep my rambling coherent :)

There's a lot of conflict and comfort to find with these two. For example-

Memories— Ephemera was against the Dandelions losing their memories of before the war, but after seeing the pain that Player was in, he decided that it was best to erase their memories. Not all memories need to be kept. This contrasts with how I hc Repliku. Rep believes that all memories are important (even his fake ones Namine gave him), and doesn't believe that there's any reason to forget a thing. So this is a fun conversation for them to have since they're both passionate about their stance and give each other new perspective. (In me n my boyfriends au Ephemera had amnesia for a time, but Repliku argues that it's not the same as having your memories tampered with)

Dark vs Light— Repliku leans on the side of darkness, while Eph leans towards the light. And after what happened to Player in khux, Eph's distaste for darkness is stronger than ever. So when Repliku fights with darkness or encourages it, Eph is fairly unsettled (Player flashbacks.) It's another fun conversation for them :)

Explorer vs Hermit— Ephemera is a curios spirit and now that he lives in the present time, he loves exploring all the worlds! He's always out there, a new adventure a day. And the way I play Repliku is that he's not used to leaving the castle, so he stays at Hollow Bastion and rarely goes into town. A bit of agoraphobia (fear of going outside). So Ephemera will come home at the end of each day to tell Repliku a stories about the day, which eventually inspires Repliku to leave the world and see it all for himself.

World simulations— Repliku was born in Castle Oblivion, world simulation galore. He never experienced a real world until kh3, so the majority of his world experience is simulations. The same could be said for Ephemera! In Daybreak Town the worlds they visit are all simulated projections from the Book of Prophecies.

Broken Heart— Ephemera had a painful goodbye with Player, someone he was very close to. And he had to say goodbye to them forever while thinking that their feelings were never genuine. We like to hc that Eph had romantic feelings for Player. And with Repliku, his heart was literally broken by Namine when she told him to stop fighting Sora. So while canon could be totally different for Namine, we like to hc that she avoids Repliku out of guilt for her actions and thinks his feelings for her are not genuine because she planted those memories in him that made him care for her. So Repliku and Ephemera can relate to the feelings of a broken heart.

-It's not how they met in our rp, but I like to imagine that they met in the Keyblade Graveyard since they were the only two ghosts there. I wrote the first chapter on ao3

-Repliku has ptsd from white walls in C.O, so when Eph tries to introduce him to Scala it usually leads to hurt/comfort

-Speaking of, their fun mutual friend Lauriam/Marluxia :) also leads to fun conversations

-Eph and Blaine are like brothers in this au, so Blaine always acts as the protective older brother to Eph and antagonizes Repliku which is a fun side dynamic.

Ok I've rambled enough LMAO thank you for taking an interest <33 it was fun to write this all down!

[blazernot]

I won't have my nice screen tablet anymore soon, since it was not mine but my schools, but I'm trying to get used to my screen-less tablet. It awkward and theres no pen pressure but whatever.

[blazernot]

I should be finishing a math exam thats due tonight but instead I have an au idea

Daybreak Dessert vs Scala Sweets!

Daybreak Desserts is staffed by the khux cast. Its a cat (chirithy) cafe/soda shop that is known for tasty treats.

Skuld and Elrena work with the customers. Elrena has to be constantly reminded to not sass and berate the customers. Skuld is a master of up selling and conflict management. Homegirl got her crap together.

Elrena will be taking her smoke break now.

Everyone helps out but Lauriam and Strelitzia are the main food staff. Lauriam is the boss but Strel is nothing to sneeze at. Shes the reason all the desserts are so cute.

Ephemer is the manager but it's both him and Brain that keeps the place running (and Lauriam/Strel's family's money). Brain is also the reason that they have a great website/app. He's also in charge of feeding the cats.

All the cats can talk they just only talk to the staff since they're too good for the peasants.

One time while Elrena was taking a smoke break she saw a worker from Scala Sweets dump a suspiciously human shaped bag in the dumpster. They made eye contact and now she's scared. Baldr doesn't remember this ever happening.

Scala Sweets is right next to DD. SS has twice the staff but only half the people actually do work.

Vidar and Hoder are the managers. Vidar is swamped by trying to keep the place afloat, so Hoder is the one who manages the rest of the staff. Her grandfather is the owner (Odin) so she can kinda do whatever she wants

Whenever someone doesn't show up to their shift Hoder calls Baldr in.

Baldr is the Jack of all trades master of none. No he does not get paid extra due to it being a "family favor :)". He has no idea how to tell her no. He dreams of burning the place to the ground.

Hoder is seemingly friendly but actually super passive aggressive

"Working hard or hardly working? :)"

Xehanort is the new guy and does exactly what he is paid to do. No Hoder he cannot help there are 30 seconds left on his break. No Hoder he cannot stay late his shift is over. Vidar forgot that xehanort was an employee

Eraqus is a slacker that suddenly cares a lot about work because he wants to look good in front of Xehanort.

Vor really wants to climb up the latter (shes a dish washer) but she's easily distracted. Shes doing her best though so Vidar is patient with her.

Helgi never comes to work but he isn't fired since he's dating Sigrun and shes friends with Hoder.

Urd is a massive people pleaser but Vala and Hermond stand up for her when people get mean

Vala and Elrena are enemies and always try to out mean each other. They pray on each other's downfall

I have no ideas for Heimdall sorry Heimdall.

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Eraqus is really freaked out by the fact that DD was a worker that is literally identical to him in every way. Brain could not care less

"Hmm that guy is my mirror self, weird, anyway-"

Eraqus gets really worked up because, despite them being identical, everyone thinks Brain is way hotter.

Xehanort thinks one of the guys looks like his grandather but doesn't care enough to look further into it

The cats have spoken to each member of the DD staff but the staff haven't told each other since they think it's just them going crazy. Brain doesn't know if the place is haunted or just has a gas leak.

[blazernot]

Since Eraqus and Brain look Identical to each other in this I got a mental image of Eraqus getting chased by the cats thinking it was Brain and also because he has a tuna with him too 😭

Brain would silently watch from a distance

[blazernot]

One math assignment left but im thinking about how great modern aus are because I can throw the khux kids and khdr gang together and it's not weird. And they can do modern stuff. Baldr would discover the album a fever you can't sweat out a decade late and listen to it at max volume while crying, at 3am, with ads of course because there's no way he has spotify premium while Hoder is banging the door down because despite her being happy that he has interests she has work tomorrow and she's also crying because she's exhausted. Strelitiza kingdom hearts works for the enemy bakery.