#guardian alternate au

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

What I have figured out for Guardian Alternates so far(Thanks to a friend for one of these things! <3)

The Guardian Alternates function HEAVILY Off of belief(Example, Peter had Stanley manifest as his guardian alternate because he always believed that there was a better dad for him out there, Mark's Intruder manifested because he always believed that there was something out in the darkness), so if their human ever stops believing in them, they'll slowly fade away/revert to normal alternates!

If a Guardian Alternate loses their person, they have a timeframe in which to find a new person before they fade away.(Friend helped me out here!)

A case in which an Alternate is considered a Guardian Alternate, albeit rare, could be when an Alternate gains a close connection to specific person. This is a merely spiritual transition for them, nothing physical changes, they just gain a "protective" instinct towards their person. For instance, say an Alternate found a child all alone and they felt the right amount of pity/love for it. That Alternate is now a Guardian Alternate for that child. This is a rare case, but still a case nonetheless.

A Guardian Alternate MUST care about their person. If they don't it could be bad for both parties involved, in that the Guardian Alternate could revert to a regular Alternate and end up causing severe issues for the person later down the line. They are Guardians, after all.

Guardian Alternates are low-ish on the importance-chain of Alternates, as regular Alternates see them as weaker for caring about humans.

One weakness of Guardian Alternates is that they're HEAVILY IN-TUNE WITH THEIR PERSON'S EMOTIONS. They feel almost every emotion their person so and feel overly emotional when it comes to their person.(IMAGINE HOW FUCKING PISS-POOR SIX WAS FEELING WHEN MARK WAS GOING THROUGH HIS SHIT. MY GOD, THE POOR BASTARD.)

Extra thing post-posting, Guardian Alternates have barely visible wings, they don't do anything aside from act as a visual "tag" to tell them apart from regular Alternates.

Some of these can/will be edited as required as I work out the AU more, but this is what I have so far! <3

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Can for your Mandela au do a (Guardian)Gabriel x Fem Reader?

Oooh! Yeah! :D Gonna do hcs, hope ya don't mind!

If it still exists, HEAVEN HELP YOU.

BECAUSE GOOD CHRIST, THIS GUY IS LIKE. SO OVERPROTECTIVE.

Some people catcall you? Suddenly, Thatcher has that many more murder cases!

THEN HE JUST??? SHOWS UP??? AND TELLS YOU HE KILLED THEM???

MY GUY???

WHAT???

He's like a cat!

HE'LL LEAVE DEAD THINGS AT YOUR FUCKING DOORSTEP.

Sometimes those dead things are flowers though, so there's that, I guess???

He CAN be sweet though!

Like that one time he got you a yummy dinner!

...Sure, he sorta shanked someone to get it, but he got it for you!

He may be boney, but he gives good hugs!

Just, ah, don't ask him for smooches until you properly show him what they are.

He'll take that as "eat your head".

He needs to learn that Alternates may be able to regenerate limbs, BUT HUMANS SURE AS HELL CAN'T.

When you teach him the proper way to give affection, he's a total sweetheart!

...towards you, anyways!

He'll still do his oogly boogly bitch stuff to other people!

Hope ya enjoy! :D

[tmcguardianalternateau]

"Everyday gets brighter!"

First of all. There are some BIG TWs!!! Being: Violence, past Trauma, HEAVY GORE, Mental health themes(It's Mandela Catalogue ffs), Body horror(We sorta go ham with the alternate designs here), Mentions of religion, NSFW stuff (gore, heavy language etc, nothing sexual.) Horror themes, religious trauma, past bad parenting, and death.

RULES:

-READ BOUNDARIES HERE BEFORE INTERACTING.

-ONLY 16+ INTERACT PLEASE. THIS IS FOR MOD HUNTER'S COMFORT.

-Don't throw a hissy fit if a character is rude to you.

-Please don’t try to introduce characters into the universe. The characters may recognize your username if it comes up a lot, but otherwise, all asks will be just “messages” for them.

-Two of the characters(Mark and Peter) are AROACE. Do NOT SHIP THEM WITH anyone or each other. If you do so, you will be blocked.

-If you want us to tag something a certain way, DM us and we will try our hardest. DO NOT ABUSE THIS.

- This is an AU, so this is MY TAKE on the story of the Mandela Catalogue, Please respect this.

- Also! If a character is dead, they’re DEAD. What I say about a character’s mortality goes.

-This is a mature story. It'll contain mature topics. Read the trigger warnings and read accordingly.

-This features OCs. Don't like, don't read. Thanks.

-IF YOU'RE A RECURRING ASKER, PLEASE NAME YOURSELF. IT HELPS MOD HUNTER BE ABLE TO KEEP TRACK OF PEOPLE.

- There are 2 mods, one of those mods doesn't take people's shit, and will act rude to you if provoked, you have been warned.

- This was made out of Mod Hunter's love for this series, don’t ruin it for him, thanks.

-Follow the rules. Please, for the love of God, follow the rules.

-FOLLOW THE BOUNDARIES, I SWEAR TO GOD. IF YOU AREN'T GONNA FOLLOW THEM, DNI.

-NO SEXUAL SHIT.

-Will add as needed.

Love Mod Bee and Mod Hunter

EXTRA: Main blogs are:

Bee's: @sweetdreamlandchaos

Hunter's: @hunter-the-sad-skeleton

Mod pronouns:

Bee: She/her

Hunter: He/him

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"KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CHILDREN!"(Reblogs appreciated!)

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Hiii just wanted to make a quick post before I forgot!

Please DNI if you interact with the Plushdela Catalogue AU, it makes me sorta uncomfy and the creator seems to be a JonAdam and CesarMark shipper, and I feel super uncomfortable engaging with people who create content for that. So sorry for this, but I wanted to make my boundaries for this known, I may make a post about my boundaries in the future, but for now, this is the only one. Again, I'm super sorry, I'm sure you plushdela fans are wonderful people, I just can't feel comfortable with it because of the artist shipping stuff that I'm not comfortable with.

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I'm normal about my AU, I swear, guys-(Reblogs appreciated!)

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SORRY FOR THE DELAY, HERE'S THE ADAM MURRAY POST UNDER CUT

Adam is. Sorta different from canon, in that he isn’t AS BIG OF AN ASSHOLE TO JONAH BECAUSE THEY ARE FRIENDS AND I DON’T CARE, YOU TWO WILL BE FRIENDS, SO HELP ME GOD.

Adam is still the emo-ass guy he is in canon, but he’s more like “I don’t have friends. Friends are for cowards. *Attracts people who are positive* I have A FEW friends.”

He’s low-key aroace in my AU because just LOOK AT THE BASTARD. THAT MOFUCKER DON’T DO ANY OF THAT.(Please don’t get mad at me-) also I may be projecting on him a wee bit, don’t at me-

Adam is very goal-oriented, having to be pulled away from his computer to take breaks so he doesn’t overwork himself, mostly being pulled away by Jonah because yk. I see Jonah as being fairly strong-

Adam, when he goes into the basement, after he has the argument with Jonah, sorta feels like he’s at his lowest. Then Limbo pops up and proves the bitch wrong.

So, the way Volume two plays out is slightly different in my AU than canon, in that Adam realizes “Oh shit, I could DIE down here and never find Her.” and he bolts to the basement door to try to get out, finding it locked.

Adam, knowing Jonah well, thinks this is a prank from Jonah(It isn’t, Preacher is keeping him locked down in the basement) and screams for him to unlock the door.

Nobody answers back, so Adam, in his forever glory, decides to try kicking the door down, now realizing the whole trip was a trap set by alternates.

It takes him a few tries, but he manages to kick the door down at one point, and he rushes back out to the van, pausing as he realizes who’s left at the Van.

He’s run into Jonah. And unlike in canon, Jonah and Adam were actually friends, and thus Adam feels REALLY BAD for Jonah.

Adam picks up Jonah, helping him into the van, speeding back to BPS headquarters.(This is a LOT of shortcutting here because I'm still working out volume two in my AU a little-)

Adam isn’t completely unaffected by the encounter in the basement, he just keeps telling himself it was just the alternate fucking with him and lying to him.

He tries to give Evelin the answers she asks for, but some answers, for some reason, he can’t give.

He gains an almost Spidey-sense as he becomes more like an alternate, and it activates mostly whenever an alternate is nearby, although it does falter sometimes.

His Guardian Alternate(Surprisingly and completely on accident) is Limbo, funnily enough lol.

I’m still working him out a bit(Like I’m trying to figure out how to have Presto and Catalyst fit in timeline-wise), but this is Adam so far! 

Also, like, if he had to have a theme song, it’d be The Main Character by Will Wood, because he is NOT IMMUNE to me kin assigning him Will Wood music.

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I need to be banned from my spotify playlists for my Mandela Catalogue AU, istg(Reblogs appreciated!)

[hunterwritesstuff]

Older brother Mark hcs?(Guardian Alternate Mandela Catalogue au)

BIG BROTHER MARKKKK

(I've given up on proper headers lol)

Older brother Mark Hcs

He's pretty chill!

Between you, him, and Sarah, you're all pretty chill!

If you ever upset him, pizza rolls will always calm him down. They're a comfort food lol.

He will lean on you if you're shorter than him. He's not above that. He does it to Cesar, he'll do it to you too.

You and him tend to just silently sit in a room together while reading stuff.

"Hey, Mark, do you ever find it weird that the bible supposedly says you can't drink wine yet at each service, that's an option?"

"I don't question it, it tastes good. I like the silly fruit juice."

This man's sleep schedule may be fucked, but depending on how much younger you are than him, chances are high he'll drag you to bed around midnight-ish. You have school in the morning. Go to bed, you zombie.

If you have any bullies at school, Mark is. not the happiest with them.

Say the word and he'll left-hook them so hard they see God.

"Mark...? I-I think I might be gay."

"Cool, cool, you're still on trash duty tonight."

Sure, he may not understand if you're gay, but he won't care. Sure, he's happy that you trusted him enough to tell him! But he doen't mind!

Most likely because he's either exhausted or aroace, but I digress.

Your sibling relationship mostly consists of sitting in a room quietly, you posing odd bible-related questions(you asked him if it was a sin to get a tattoo of a dick on your arm and he straight up fainted for a good few minutes-), "sharing" pizza rolls(Mark gives you like. one or two-), trolling Cesar(he comes over a lot, so you two shift the furnature occasionally lol), playing boardgames(Monopoly has since been banned due to Mark's anger issues-), or just holding random bullshit conversations.

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"You did always bring out the worst in people, Murray."(Reblogs appreciated!)

Closeups of Jonah and Peter:

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Yo, I made a google doc for my AU boundaries, read these and abide by them please, thanks <3

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So for votes on who to scream about, we had a good amount of votes for Limbo and Stanley and Cesar, so I'm gonna get Limbo and Stanley down first, Cesar is on the way though!

Starting off with two of the main Alternates I’ve thought out, we have Limbo and Stanley.

“But what were they like BEFORE they were the way they are now?” I hear you ask! Well, I’ve thought that through almost perfectly! Under the cut though because I have. Many thoughts about these guys and they live in my head rent free.

Trigger warnings for: Murder of sibling, implied suicide, implied murder, unprepared parenthood, sibling rivalry, canon divergence(idk if that's a trigger but just in case-), child favoritism, death mention, implied bad parenting, stuff like that, be careful!

Stanley and Limbo(Born Stanley Ravensburg and Cain Ravensburg) were born to Mary Ravensburg and Noah Ravensburg on December 15th, 1962.

Cain was an “accident-child”, as their mother only wanted to have one kid as it was all she was prepared to raise. Should she have been more prepared in case of twins? Probably, but she didn’t really have the time to prepare.

Stanley was always the favorite of the family, as he came out first and thus was seen as the wanted child.

They still took care of Cain, Stanley was just the favorite. Cain, growing up, always tried to one-up Stanley as a way of trying to earn his parents’ affection, but it never really worked out for him.

Eventually, he gave up on trying to earn their affection, and started doing things for himself. He’d always enjoyed game shows as a kid, so he wanted to host one himself someday, so he worked towards that, building a name for himself in the acting/entertainment world.

He finally gained the adoration he so desired! He was ecstatic!!

Then Stanley became a weather forecaster. People found HIM more entertaining due to his hilariously monotone way of speaking, even if he was warning about a hurricane or tornado.

Cain was furious, subtly casting shade at his brother occasionally when he was on-air(“What’s a two word name for an occupation that’s boring?”, stuff like that)

Stanley eventually found out and returned the gesture, it hurting worse as Stanley had always been painfully blunt and honest.(“What’s got roughly the same amount of letters as attention whore, but means practically the same thing?”) That sorta cost Cain most of his viewership.

This was the last straw for Cain. Cain finally had had enough of Stanley. He’d had enough of living in his shadow.

It wouldn’t be too much, just one shot and Stanley would just be hospitalized, right?

Then came the day he shot Stanley. He aimed too high.

Cain felt joy for all of a few moments before he realized: Stanley wasn’t moving anymore. He started panicking. It wasn’t supposed to be fatal, he didn’t want Stanley dead, just hospitalized for a few days, that’s all Cain wanted.

After he realized what happened, Cain dropped the gun he shot Stanley with and rushed back into his car, hurrying to drive away from the scene, having a slight panic attack as he drove off.

He went off-grid for a while after that, changing his name and appearance. The first week before he changed his mobile phone number was the hardest, as his parents were calling him, BEGGING HIM to come home in case the shooter came for him next.

He could never go back home, and for the first while, that hurt him. He loved his ma and pa with all his heart, but he could never face them. Not after what he did to his brother.

Before this, the harshest thing he did was toss a rock at Stanley, blinding him in his right eye and throw a few insults his way, and his parents forgave him for those after giving him a stern talking to on each occasion, the rock incident taking longer to forgive him for, but aside from that he was more dismissive to Stanley than anything. 

Stanley had NEVER been mean to Cain, Cain just took what Stanley said to him as him purposefully being mean just because of how he spoke. 

Cain regretted what he did to Stanley for years. Then the Alternate outbreak happened. It started the day he moved into Mandela County.

He’d been feeling like shit ever since he shot Stanley, but eventually got a little better with it. Then he saw a face on the TV.

He was confused. He swore he turned it off. When he walked closer, he saw that it was off. But the face was still there.

The face told him things, horrible, horrible things. Cain had already been in a terrible place mentally, but the face made it worse.

Eventually, it got to be too much, and Cain took care of it the typical way victims of Alternate Encounters handle things, dying on December 14th, 1986. 

He became an Alternate soon after, his “worst” qualities getting boosted. He was now a complete showman, unable to deal with anything seriously, taking his tasks on as some demented episode of a sick and twisted game show. He got his new name “Limbo” from when he was surfing through channels and found a rerun of the short called “Limbo the organized mind”.

He saw how people were freaked out by it and took the name, as it sounded better than Cain ever could sound.

He didn’t really want to be antagonistic at first, but with some constant nudging from “Gabriel”, and with some manipulation from him, he started to become more and more antagonistic.

Now he’s more like the Intruder from Intruder Alert that we all know and love!

If I had to pick a song that works as his theme song, it would be “The Main Character” by Will Wood or “My Ordinary Life” By the Living Tombstone.

Stanley though, Stanley’s different. He’s kept his monotone way of speaking, but he’s gained a less blunt way of speaking due to his time of reflection in the in-between before he came back as a Guardian Alternate.

When Stanley woke up as a Guardian Alternate, he was highly confused, as one would be when thrown into the world and your head has been replaced with a TV and you’re now 7’8” when you were previously, like, 6’ 2”.

His attention was immediately grabbed by the sound of a child, about 6 or 7, crying. His dad instincts kicked in almost immediately.

And thus, he became the Guardian Alternate of the kid, acting as his protector.

Whenever the kid came home from school, Stanley always made sure that he was okay, as he felt like he was his son.

He remembered how his father raised him, don’t show feelings, don’t show weakness, ect.

And threw it out the window, as he feels it deprived him of so much as a child.

Instead, he makes sure to listen to his person’s interests, encouraging him in his interests, stuff like that!

His person actually helps Stanley come out of his shell a bit! Like, Stanley sorta gains a bit of emotion in his voice! And slowly starts to gain enough confidence to slowly leave the kid’s room!

At some point, Stanley gains the confidence to meet the kid’s mom, telling her what the kid’s dad has been like towards her kid.

If I had to pick a theme song for Stanley, I’d say that it’d be “You Will Be Okay” from Helluva Boss, as that just encompasses him as a character.

Stanley is the better person of the two, acting as more of the protective of humans than Limbo does.

…or at least, that’s how it seems during the start of the story.

Then Limbo reunites with Adam(Judas(vol 4 intruder) dropped Adam on Limbo after kidnapping him because he didn’t feel like taking care of Adam, he legit said “this little cringe ass nae-nae baby piece of shit is your problem now bye bitch.”)in volume 2, and he sorta starts to bond with Adam.(Sure, he tries breaking his mental state, but hey, kibbo, your papa’s here now! :D) Then Adam starts to show signs of being sad about Jonah leaving. Limbo feels some form of pain in his heart at seeing this and shrugs it off as “Oh, it’s nothing!”, not knowing it was a sign that he was slowly turning into a Guardian Alternate.

The thing is, “Gabriel” never told Limbo anything about Guardian Alternates aside from “They are our worst enemies. We are to attack them on sight.”. He was never told why, he was never told anything about them, just that they were the enemy and that they were a danger to their goals.

When Limbo realizes what’s going on, he doesn’t report to “Gabriel” at his usual time. Heck, it’s a surprise he reports to him at all, and when he does, he’s a nervous wreck.

“Gabriel” shrugs this off as “Maybe he’s not as strong as I thought he was.”.

When “Gabriel” goes in-detail about what Alternates do to Guardian Alternates, Limbo panics and runs away, saying he “Remembered I have a kiddo to go kidnap, Judas is taking the day off, I’m gonna go do that!”

“Gabriel” is happy to hear this, as he thinks Limbo is finally bouncing back. He isn’t. He’s just trying to get as far away from Gabriel as he can.

Also, like, Alternates don’t really age, so they stay at the age they died at(Stanley died in like, his early to late thirties, same with Limbo-), but they still celebrate their birthdays if they can remember them/if they were human but then became Alternates.

This is what I’ve figured out for these two goobers, but I’m always thinking of new stuff for ‘em! :D 

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So. Catalyst, huh? I am simply pretending that Adam is fine! :) (Reblogs appreciated! :D) I AM NORMAL ABOUT MY AU I PROMISE I AM NORMAL I'M NORMAL I'M NORMAL I-

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But maybe, you could bring something for Barry

Maybe...

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Well, Peter would be there probably

ah...