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[afarcryfrommymain]

Western AU for Aphid?

Ngl it took me a minute to understand the ask buuuuttttt

-bounty hunter/vigilante Aphid because I don't think he'd be sherrifs department in anything but like, the base game (we are acab in the house ok?) Hes got a strong sense of Justice though and isn't afraid to take it into his own hands when necessary (though he tends to do things as humanely as possible, dead or alive? Bring em alive. Managed to get out of consequences for their actions? Put em down clean.)

-Hope County would probably be a town or general area that he hangs out in the most mostly camps on the outskirts but has been known to stay in the inn during winter months. Probably the only place hes good and proper friendly with the sherrifs office in mainly because the Deputys are cool people, Joey has that similar sense of Justice while Staci is just plain fun to talk with.

-Broski gets a poncho because I desperately need to put him flowy garments to show movement, its an infection of the brain. I need it, also bandana long hair that sorta thing but thats the normal for him. He gets a lil hat though, he deserves a cowboy hat. His horse is a roan Ardennais (big bulky fellas with the fluffy hooves) he got way too attached to even though its not made for running but he loves her anyway I don't have a name but yeah.

-ok on to like,, cult stuff because i just googled horses for 20 minutes, cults and other such new religious movements weren't uncommon back then so I can imagine Edens Gate moves into his little town that he's taken to hanging out in and hes not happy about it. Especially when they start kidnapping people. He asks the sherrifs department to help him take Joseph Seed in and they get fucked over in the process, similar to the base game.

-ok now we getting into Apharky (fuck thats terrible. anyway) Sharky is setting shit on fire and similar to cannon, Aphid thinks its a smoke signal for help and rushes over only for them to see this random ass pyro (who to his credit is also fighting Edens gate) and proceeds to start bringing him everywhere. Gay ass cowboys fr.

-in terms of the seed siblings (swinging wildly because i can) thank you for allowing me to have the image of Faith Seed in an old cowboy era dress i think she'd look fuckin sick and that makes me very excited for her. Side tangents about outfits aside because this universe Aphid has weird thoughts about justice I imagine that unlike in game Aphid this one feels significantly less bad about all the killing he has to do because in his head its like "they are hurting people, this is preventing future people from dying" which means that Seed sibling fights that would leave him shaken usually doesn't phase him as badly EXCEPT for Jacob.

-something about Jacob being able to force his hand into hurting an ally really fucks with his head. Wracking him with a lot of guilt, in his head if he was on the right path would he have been forced into hurting innocents? Does this make him guilty? Which is a fun mindset that is later exploited by Joseph Seed

I don't have anything else tbh these are just random stream of consciousness things because I never rly think about western au stuff for this character thanks for the ask though! This was fun!