Thinking about an AU where there is no Death Note Light literally just develops the ability to causes heart attacks through knowing someone's name and face and having enough active malice towards them that their heart just explodes. Thinking about how he'd be in denial about it for longer. Thinking about how he'd go even more insane with his God Complex. Thinking about Ryuk just being the first person to find out about it because he watched Light glare super hard at Shibamaru Takuo right before the guy collapsed convulsing on the ground and died. Thinking about Ryuk IMMEDIATELY tagging along for the fun of it and shoving his way into being Light's best friend within fifteen minutes of this discovery. Thinking about Light killing people on accident because his powers are now emotion-based. Thinking about Light blasting rage music through his headphones so he can kill multiple people at once. Thinking about L feeling his heart stutter in his chest so often around Light that he's convinced he has feelings for him but it's really just Light's power knocking at his ribcage because he only has half of L's name. Thinking about—
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OK BUT
Orion Pax Arc AU Time!
Orion is a Smart Cookie. He was all for destroying the government before he became Optimus Prime and worked in the biggest information/knowledge hub on Cybertron. He was raised by the Scribe Prime ok
He's intelligent and can make choices on his own and he's with the 'cons for less than a day and he will absolutely be like "this is sus as FUCK"
so
he just
fucking leaves
there's an AMNESIAC ARCHIVIST loose ON EARTH.
DOES HE EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH???? DOES HE KNOW WHAT HE TRANSFORMS INTO TO????
oh my god Cybertron doesn't have a sun ORION PAX SEEING A SUNRISE FOR THE FIRST TIME
i feel like i should make a separate blog for writing about these AUs whatchy'all think
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Thinking about how Hunter is so empathetic and kind and, what if he didn't land in Arachnian lands when he fell into the Inner World? What if Corona wasn't the first person he met?
What if this kind boy, who just wants to help people, was found by the Invectids first?
Hunter lands in or near the Invectid lands and is found by some troops who, having no idea what do with this human catch him and take him back to Mantid (Hunter just goes along with it b/c, not like he can fight).
At first they naturally think that he's a spy, but after a lot of questioning it soon becomes very clear that no this little human is not a spy, in fact he knows basically nothing about the Invectids, the war, the Inner World. In fact he swears he's from the Outer World. Obviously they don't believe him at first but between Mantid and Aqune they manage to confirm that he, in fact, telling the truth.
And oh, oh this is so perfect for Mantid. Hunter is a clean slate and such a bleeding heart.
And like, if a Hunter Steele who had been fighting the Invectids could be swayed be hearing the Invectid's plight and Mantid's lies, then imagine what that would do to a Hunter fresh into the Inner World?
So that's what he does, he allows Hunter to wander the Invectid lands, tho not without Aqune as an escort, and he feeds him his twisted version of the truth; that the Oracle Sun took her light away, how the Invectids have lived in darkness and just want the sun back. And like, it's not like he's (completely) lying, Hunter can see that the land is shrouded darkness and that they're suffering. And the longer he spends there, among the Invectids, among the civilians, the more sympathetic he grows towards them (even if some of them, like Buguese do not like him). He wants to help them, they deserve the sunlight as well after all.
Mantid is smart though, he keeps Hunter close to him, because Hunter is also sharp and he knows that if he lets him loose to early he could lose this valuable pawn. So he just, keeps filling his head with half truths, and Aqune and Hunter's own eyes being able to back up what he says only further convinces Hunter.
Ofc Hunter asks a lot of questions, like, have they tried just asking the humans? Or explaining their plight? Surely if they knew how bad it was they would help?
And naturally, Mantid has all the right answers. Of course they've tried asking, but humans have never liked Invectids so they refuse to share, they chase them away. They're so cruel to them, they don't care what happens to them. That's why they have to resort to stealing from them, even though they don't like it.
Hunter is smart though and does begin to think that something is off about all this, and that maybe the Oracle didn't willingly take her light away, but something or someone drove her away. He doesn't necessarily think it's Mantid (yet). He does bring this up to Aqune once, tho Buguese, who's always close by, takes this a slight against Mantid and how dare he speak of Mantid like that. Even though Hunter never mentioned Mantid and wasn't even thinking about him. Like dang Buguese what does that say about what YOU think of him?? He's not happy to have this pointed out and drops the subject fast haha.
Shadow- Hunter does eventually get Shadow. He is a Spider Rider so he needs a spider. Since Mantid keeps him in the Invectid lands for a while it is a bit before he gets his spider. I'm leaning towards the idea of him finding Shadow wounded either near the Invectid lands or on a rare trip out with Aqune and Buguese (Buguese being stuck babysitting these humans is too funny to me). Aqune shows him how to recall a spider into his manacle and they bring Shadow back to have his wounds tended too. So basically, Hunter kinda sorta kidnapped his spider (oops). Shadow spends most of his time inside the manacle, and learning about things via Hunter. He is shocked to see another Battle Spider and rider, but it does lend credibility to what Hunter says.
Obviously this would all, ultimately, culminate in Hunter realizing that Mantid has lied to them and him and is partly responsible for the Oracle's light vanishing and having to escape him and the Invectid lands to Arachna and hopefully plead his case and convince the humans to trust him.
Which is a whole nother thing for a whole nother post i think.
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I feel weird about posting lines I'm proud of because idk I'm less about specific lines than plot and character and now I feel like they gotta be really good. So I'm treating this as moments I'm proud of. Here's one:
“Because you walked right into a burning building!” I snapped back.
“Yeah, well, I’d do it again!” Raymond replied, and he seemed to stiffen. He looked like he was going to run, but he didn’t, and suddenly I wasn’t mad at him anymore, because all I could see was him running straight into flames, him with reddened skin from the heat, him facing Zachary, ready to die.
This is a Moment for them and really vocalizes some thing going on between these two. I think I'm also proud of how these characters are coming into conflict over this moment in their past and how it defines their actions now
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Aziraphale sees Crowley standing next to his their car and he hesitates; this is his last chance, the last possible moment to change his mind about leaving.
Do you think he feels the sunshine on his hands, against his stomach, and remembers how warm Crowley had been in his arms? How warm he had felt beneath his palms even through several layers of fabric?
How for the first time in his existence his body had felt complete, like there was no longer something— someone missing?
Do you think he sees him standing in the sun, all shining fire-red and hidden golden eyes, and regrets not sliding his hand to the back of his neck, up into his hair? Do you think he regrets not taking the chance to feel it silken soft and familiar between his fingers?
Do you think he remembers all the times they enjoyed a warm, sunny day together and the way the star seems to remember that Crowley had put its siblings into the sky? Do you think he remembers rays of sunlight caressing his cheekbones and wishes it had been his fingertips instead?
'Anything you need?' the Metatron asks him, and he is still looking at Crowley with the sun on his skin.
I need you, he thinks, and even though his eyes are hidden away, he knows Crowley is looking at him.
Do you think Aziraphale remembers the kiss, remembers the love he could taste on his tongue, the six millennia of do that, please, kiss me, the slow, painful minute of do that again, please, right now?
(The realization that he won't.)
He almost stays. Almost. But the Metatron is already walking away, and he looks at Crowley again, looks past sunset conversations and sunrise breakfasts and the heart-shaped star in Crowley's chest, and feels his pain.
(Their pain.)
Do you think that's why he leaves anyway? Not just because heaven needs fixing but because all that pain, all the hurt they caused each other, can't have been for nothing?
I can't leave him— no, I don't want to leave him.
No.
No, I want to go back to him.
Do you think he takes his anger and holds onto it until it burns his palm because it is easier to be angry at Crowley, at himself, than to think about everything they just took from each other? Everything they just lost?
Everything they could have been?
Aziraphale takes the memory of sunshine on his skin (Crowley's lips on his) and locks it away in a golden cage made out of faith; faith that Crowley will be there when he comes back.
Once he does (because he will, he will, he has to), there will be sunshine and warmth and Crowley, and they will finally be able to love each other with the sun and the whole universe as their witness.
No more shadows or shades of grey. Just the two of them in the light where they belong.
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