#louiemin au

[eldritch-muppetshow]

kind of a reimagining of my old louiemin au? wanted to update it w the New Lore

(pikmin 4 spoilers under the cut)

in this au, there’s a cave-in after the battle with the ancient sirehound. the sirehound gets away and still drops its collar, but the rescue corps + olimar are forced to leave without louie and assume he’s dead.

but (of fucking course) he’s not lmao

but with no way to return home or access breathable air for a hocotatian, he’s forced to remain a leafling. and while normally he wouldn’t care (since everyone thinks he’s dead and he can stay on pnf-404 as long as he wants), the transformation process means he’s lost his ability to communicate with bugs— aka “the reason he’s been able to tame/kill pnf-404 wildlife so easily”.

just to add insult to injury, the sirehound has no interest in being louie’s hunting dog, thinking his commands are him playing. the good news is that having it around means a lot of the larger creatures are too scared to approach his makeshift camp, so he keeps it around anyway (even if it likes to chew on his cooking equipment and occasionally steals ingredients to eat).

meanwhile, he is not vibing with moss at all. maybe it’s the fact that she learned to command pikmin and occasionally acts against his orders, maybe it’s because she seems to regard him as a pikmin instead of a leader. either way, he projects a lot of hostility onto her the rest of the time, when she’s literally just doing normal dog activities.

[eldritch-muppetshow]

pikmin 4 spoilers

well, the leafling plot point just debunked the hell out of my louiemin au and my olimin au.

i’m gonna say that the ability for hocotatians to be revived as leaflings is something that came from a recent change in pnf-404’s atmosphere (probably sth to do with the oxygen level). because both these aus take place before pikmin 4, that’s why olimar and louie become hybrids closer to pikmin 1’s bad ending instead of leaflings.

[eldritch-muppetshow]

with pikmin 4 out, i do wanna make an alternate version of my louiemin au. as a treat

[eldritch-muppetshow]

bad ending leaders (no they’re not from the same au)

[eldritch-muppetshow]

have some more abt my pikmin aus bc i like posting abt them

the louiemin au

in this au, louie’s terrible first impression on the koppaites is because he thought they were stealing and controlling his pikmin (and vice versa). he doesn’t go after their juice supply at first because he knows how to find/hunt food for himself.. but he does occasionally try sneaking some during the brief time he was aboard the s.s. drake (much to the koppaites’ annoyance, especially brittanny).

the reason for why he has a glowcap for a stem instead of the usual flower displayed by most pikmin is currently unknown. olimar’s currently looking into it.

after several months of hunting for food without cooking it (since he quickly learned that it was more convenient and the smell of food cooking would attract hungry wildlife anyway), louie went through a period where he genuinely forgot how to cook. he eventually recovered and gets super embarrassed if anyone brings it up.

louie mostly kept his mind, but he talks even less now and generally doesn’t speak more than a few short sentences at a time unless someone pushes him.

olimar still blames himself for louie’s death because even if he didn’t permanently die, he still has to live on a hostile alien planet with no real chance of coming home. people who knew him on hocotate think he’s dead (and well, they’re not wrong).

olimar and the koppaites definitely want to study louie more because hey, the guy definitely stands out as an anomaly out of everything they’ve documented (although actually publishing these studies is a different story). louie (understandably) was not receptive to the idea until he was bribed with juice.

untitled pikmin 3 au

i’m naming character d “del” for this, since i personally don’t believe he built the ss drake.

initially, the 3 captains don’t get along at all. there’s still some tension between olimar and louie from the events of pikmin 2, olimar is seriously questioning why del was chosen for this mission if he’s this unequipped for the wildlife, del’s super creeped out by louie’s tendency to try and cook everything he sees, and louie just finds del’s panicking at the wildlife super annoying. they eventually bond because it turns out that they have more in common with each other than they first thought (and because they really don’t have a choice).

finding and fixing the three koppads eventually reveals to our protagonists that the koppaites had high hopes for this mission even if they didn’t get along very well, only for things to quickly go downhill when charlie had an argument with brittany and went off with his pikmin to do things his way.. and never came back. brittany initially assumed charlie did something dumb/petty, but quickly starts worrying when it becomes clear that he’s actually missing.

meanwhile, alph was freaked out by the captain’s disappearance from the very start, and this leads to things getting pretty tense between him and brittany before she agrees that yes, something was definitely wrong. they work together to collect fruit while also trying to find charlie, but it quickly becomes clear that something’s picking off their pikmin while they’re not looking.

a few days pass of searching with no luck, and alph and brittany agree that they absolutely have to stick together. unfortunately, something requires them to split up one day, and alph’s worst fears come true when brittany’s squad of pikmin come back to their onions that night without her.

after that point, alph’s frantically trying to collect fruit and search for his crewmates at the same time, but it quickly proves to be an exhausting task. he passes out from exhaustion eventually, and that’s when the plasm wraith snatches him to join his crewmates.

when they were captive, the koppaites (ironically) bonded and got to know each other better in a “misery loves company” situation.

on a lighter note, del’s notes can best be described as “the pikmin version of what happens when you ask blathers to tell you about a bug in animal crossing” (although he’s a lot calmer about completely harmless enemies and plant life).