#re:zero au

[quillium]

Spy x Family but make it Re:Zero AU (essentially: every time Loid is killed, he “returns by death” to a certain save point)

Loid is the one who has return by death and he can’t talk to anyone about it but Anya can read his mind so it’s nbd

Can you imagine going through the most traumatizing things and dying and returning to the past being immortal in the worst way and unable to speak to anyone about this ability BUT the 4 year old you fake-adopted knows because she’s secretly a mind reader. Yeah. Yeah.

Loid doesn’t know it was her but he’s been killed by Yor a lot

Loid forgets the groceries once and that was the first time he tried to intentionally trigger return by death. It didn’t work but he died from food poisoning so. All’s well that ends well?

The goal of return by death isn’t actually to help him on missions or anything, although it could maybe be useful there if he weren’t so competent. More often it works to help him become a better dad

Loid, thinking to himself: Okay, I have returned to Anya’s tantrum seven times and tried seven different methods. She clearly responds better to a gentle manner and--

Anya, who is listening to her dad analyze seven loops involving her as a subject, is so baffled and caught off-guard that she just. Stops throwing her tantrum. Loid still has no idea how that happened.

Loid being at MASSIVE risk of falling to paranoia and depression but Anya and Yor are there to comfort and take care of him

Loid: Is anything I do any use? It all resets. I keep trying but can I truly attain perfection each time? Why am I doing this? I must try to be perfect. I--

Anya, having no clue what Loid is thinking: Daddy you’re kind of stinky but I love you

Loid, having a Massive Epiphany that trying his best is more than enough and he can’t get trapped in the cage of perfectionism: >:O

Anya, at some point: I want cake! Loid, who’s on his third loop: Okay, so the cake store is downtown where the bomb is... the bomb is set to go in an hour, I can evacuate everyone downtown in that time to prevent casualties but I still haven’t found the place yet due to time constraints and prioritizing lives... should I sacrifice people to find it instead? Is that even moral? But I will reset.... Anya, reading her dad’s mind and Mega Spooked: Never mind, I actually want to go home....

[jazzaiko]

Rewind (3k words)

Pairing: Baekhyun/Chen Rating: Mature Tags: Anime AU (Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World), isekai, major character death, time loop

archiveofourown.org/works/22602016

[leftsei]

swap emilia's hell week at the mansion

concept @magicxdice

[j2x3e]

Catboy knights and one human

[toon-topaz]

Here comes the boyyyyyy~

Vampire IF Subaru, the unfortunate nerd who got teleported to another world full of his favorite undead creatures.

Some tidbits about him:

He grew up loving any and all vampire media, be it books, games, anime, movies etc. He's watched just about every vampire anime under the sun, but his guilty pleasure favorite is Vampire Knight, he just loves a gothic romance.

He's a lot more of a soft nerd than a sporty nerd this time, he went out in his favorite comfy hoodie the night he got isekai'd.

Natsumi Schwartz is his vampire sona and self-insert into many of his favorite stories. He's got a whole vamp goth cosplay of her hidden away in his closet. He doesn't know his parents know about it, but they're cool with it anyway, they think it's nice that their son has a hobby.

In Lugunica, he appears even more fragile than in canon, he doesn't have the increased resilience and regeneration of vampires, not to mention how he's basically chronically undernourished because human food is extremely hard to come by in a world where everyone can only drink blood. Everyone at the mansion basically had to scramble to find him a suitable food source, once Beatrice found the books to explain what the hell humans eat.

His fragility is emblematic of gothic horror protagonists, and he's gotten a newfound sympathy for those perpetually fainting Victorian ladies. It's absolutely not doing his self esteem any favors though.

It's crucial he hides his real species from anyone who isn't part of the mansion staff, if the wrong person found out he's the only human (Al is also human but he's had a lot more practice hiding it) they could very well start hunting him for sport, or worse. He wears fake fangs in public.

Elsa found out. Pretty much immediately. The loops in arc 1 consisted of at least one death by her fangs.

The duel with Julius goes even worse. Julius was in fact holding back, but he was holding back an appropriate amount for a fellow vampire, not quite enough for a barely adult human boy. Subaru gets sent flying, and Julius is extremely concerned by how breakable he is. It doesn't help that healing takes twice as long because Subaru doesn't possess vampiric regeneration.

The scent of the witch is now alongside an inherent fragrance his human blood gives off. Only vampires with stronger noses can smell it, but his bleeding makes it stronger, confusing a great many vampire because "where is that really sweet smell coming from?" He's lucky most people don't know what humans even are or what they smell like, but it does give him away more than once.

[marggri]

Emilio

[artbyfinnbrown]

I’m just saying… Highly traumatized people, stuck in time loops, who are extremely devoted to one specific girl who helped them in their original timeline, whose problems are largely the result of witches?

I’ve connected the dots (I didn’t connect shit several people have already made this connection-) I’VE CONNECTED THEM.

[suffarustuffaru]

Hi so i found this post about a reinsuba soulmate au? but I can't remember the name of it I don't remember the person who posted it I've search everywhere for but can't find it I only remember some of it I think it was a soulmates has the others scars there was also a were reinhard is desperately searching for his soulmate because they were fine just a awhile ago and suddenly they just started getting the scars and doesn't know it's Subaru because of return by death I think The scars are in gold on the other soulmate? I think I saw your name somewhere it's fine if you don't know but if you do know please let me know.

OH i absolutely know which post youre talking about!! it was an idea on the fanfic thread a few months ago, and i do sometimes go on rezero reddit so i contributed to some of the ideas in this thread here.

yeah so for everyone else who doesn't know - the fanfic/AU idea was basically that soulmate pairs get each others scars (physical OR psychological) in gold on their skin. think of it like kintsugi art, where you repair broken pottery by filling in the breaks with gold -

like this basically!! (meaning subaru might notice the similarities between the whole soulmate system and kintsugi itself yes)

yeah so to summarize all the ideas me and a few other people had in that thread, basically reinhard and subaru are soulmates (this can be platonic or romantic or however youd like to see it). reinhard takes on ALL of subarus physical and psychological scars so reinhard's basically Covered in them. meanwhile because reinhard doesnt physically scar, subaru only gets psychological ones - a collar mark around his neck to symbolize the collar of submission (a collar the kingdom puts on reinhard to suppress his powers; reinhard isnt allowed to leave the country without this collar on), and later in arc 5, subaru also gets a giant slash mark across his chest (to symbolize reinhard's death in arc 5). subaru's physical scars are self-explannatory - the psychological ones though include markings around the lips (for the rbd taboo :(( ) and a handprint on his chest right over his heart (because. satella/witch of envy).

meanwhile reinhard is guilt stricken because oh god my soulmate is SUFFERING and i cant even save them :(( i cant even find them!!! but at least i can take on all the burden of their scars for them ahahah i deserve this. and then reinhard looks over at subaru and goes hm. a collar mark. reminds me of the collar of submission :(((( but i cant possibly be subaru's soulmate!!! slavery is unfortunately commonplace in this world, subaru, perhaps you should go look in kararagi? :<<< so then reinhard ends up going on a wild goose chase for a soulmate that was LITERALLY right in front of him. subaru either doesnt notice the growing scars on reinhard until later (because they dont see each other very often) orrrr subaru is sweating buckets because he of course cant explain ALL of those scars so hes like haha im gonna keep quiet until i figure out how to break the news.

but then reinhard dies in front of subaru in arc 5 and then subaru watches as not only does reinhard come back to life, a new golden slash mark appears across subaru's torso that perfectly matches the wound reinhard just died from.....

yeah anyway!!! im quite fond of soulmate aus actually and this idea is particularly fun yes :o both in concept and aesthetically. ive always rotated a bunch of different rezero soulmate aus in my head and this idea is pretty cool i think!!

[childaintit]

Subaru only sent it to Otto and Garfiel

[bubbledcoffee]

Would you guys hate me if i posted chisha/vincent cats on main

[raechannau]

uhhhhhh

[8namesample8]

Bruh. Imagine you're chilling drawing and right as you're about to finish you notice that for some reason there's a fking perfect vertical line erased from every goddamn layer except the background across the whole piece and you have no idea when this happened so now you have to somehow fill it in manually on a new layer. Happened to me today. Anyway I can't be the only one who thinks he'd look so cute with an uneven fuckass bob. His hair wouldn't be dripping with shit and blood anymore so that's a good thing.

[woodenfawn]

Re Zero Highschool AU Concept

very new to tumblr, sorry if i mess anything up!

mey and i just talked about this and threw it together and had a lot of fun with it XD I'm at arc 6 and mey is anime-only so far, so some things may be inaccurate, and some characters are not included!

If there are things you want to suggest please do, but any spoilers should be either really vague or plot-irrelevant (like, outside of main plot developments. Side stories are fine i think!) mey's notes from our conversation, I'll put some of my individual thoughts in at the end (Thank you @tanya-degurechaff for letting me ramble about my blorbos for so long! and watching re zero!!! and everything!!!)

Click on the keep reading to see all the notes, i think???

Shitty Re:Zero Highschool AU

All the king candidates are all part of the Student Body, all running for Student Body President. That's the competition.

Emilia is an awkward transfer student. Her step-dad, Betelgeuse, had to move for work purposes. She looks a lot like the weird girl, Satella, which people isolate her for. Emilia deepest secret: watches 70s TV shows. Her clothes look vintage. She watches Antique Roadshow. When she goes to Anime Club, she finds out the anime she likes are very out of date. (Astroboy). 

Subaru is the leader of the anime club and he instantly falls in love with Emilia and invites her to join. She takes the invite. Besides anime club, he also goes to the QSA, but as a student named Natsumi Schwartz and it's 100% convincing everyone.

Julius hates Subaru guys he swears. Julius is the captain of the fencing team and hangs out with Reinhard very often. He and Reinhard go to the chess club every Wednesday after school. Julius is also a secret LARP-er and goes to Ren fairs as a cool knight. 

Reinhard is a straight-A, valedictorian, star of all of the sports team golden students. He's planned to take the Astrea Company after he graduates. Secretly, Reinhard wants to be a shoujo manga artist. He keeps his shitty Manga in a pink sketchbook at the back of his locker. He goes to the Anime Club with Subaru and that's the only time he can draw.

Otto had a lot of trouble in elementary school and barely talked, rather interested in his anthills instead of people. As he got older, he started making friends and now hangs out at the anime club. He's known as the student janitor, cleaning up after everyone else. He also lays facedown in dirt talking to bugs. He's autistic and has a special interest… in bugs/nature in general. Sensitive hearing, uses noise canceling headphones. Scalper. Theater Tech. Stage manager. 

Garfiel is a freshman who's known to cause a lot of trouble and hates school. He's actually a youtuber who makes shitty rage roblox and minecraft trolling videos in his freetime. He's quite popular with elementary school boys. Calls Subaru Captain in school, follows him around. Great at sports

Rem is a VTuber for LugunicaEN. Her Oni form is her Vtuber model. Very popular for her genuine talks, she does ASMR, gives advice to people. She's very kind. Writes fanfiction. 

Ram is just a girl 👍. Mobility aid user. 

Priscilla is a theater girl, she acts like she is the best actress. Tries for all the lead elegant female roles. She's a good actor, just a little bit annoying. 

Roswaal is the theater teacher.

Wilhelm principal 

Crusch also does Fencing Club. She's very academically intelligent, though struggles socially. A good leader.

Ferris is the TA for the nurse. Also Vtuber for LugunicaEN. Openly part of the QSA, no one realizes she's a girl somehow. Girlfriends lesbians Crusch.

Liliana is an older student who gets held back, joins theater because she's a great singer. Priscilla has a sexuality crisis and becomes a woman lover.

Anastasia is part of the student body beforehand.

Otto is friends with Subaru's mom.

The triplets are all in the DnD club. It's just the three of them. Mimi is a Berserker.

Subaru is good artist, great at sewing. 

Ferris can also draw. They draw together and talk about their girlfriends. 

Emilia CANNOT draw. Worse than Reinhard.

Puck is the cool teacher, knows everything. Wise…

Beatrice is the librarian. Looks like a student, is not. Never leaves the school, no one knows why. 

Echindna is a history/english/science etc. Teacher, teaches everything no one else teaches. How is she doing this.

Satella is a weird girl who has never really talked to anyone. Advises the anime club, no one talks to her. Has a weird shrine in the girl's bathroom. 

Minerva is the school therapist, part of the health and social relationships classes. She's just so sweet… she takes care of the therapy dogs. Aggressively supportive of everyone. She's like a shaking chihuahua. Tries to act threatening, is just not. Really likes Emilia.

Felt is the youngest running for student body. She really wants two lunchtimes. That's her goal. 

Rom is the gym teacher 

Fredrica is the older sister of Garfiel, top student. She and Crusch are friends. Ready to graduate, just a girl. Trying to control her younger brother.

Henkel stands outside of Reinhard's class window shaking his head in disappointment.

Reinhard likes magical girls a lot, he just wants to help. He genuinely loves power of friendship stories. Really likes Tokyo Mew Mew and made Felt watch it. Reinhard likes to cosplay magical girls for cons and drags Felt along. 

Subaru convinces Reinhard to get Tumblr, does not know how to use it. Reinhard: "Dear Diary, I had breakfast today, two eggs and a toast." He also texts using the glitter flowers gifs with shiny text.

Al is a stage crew guy who follows Priscilla around. Otto doesn't know what to think about him. 

Otto disappears for days at a time. He is camping.

Garfiel is secretly a furry. His fursona is based on Garfield. Has commissioned Ferris.

Ferris is a furry artist. The Vtuber and Furry stuff is completely different.

Garfiel almost stopped going to school, Subaru convinced him to stay because he's been there before. Garfiel respects Subaru because of this and that's why he follows him around.

Petra is an elementary schooler who visits the highschool. On friendly terms with all the teachers. Why is this child here. 

Elsa is the science teacher, especially biology. Seems just fine at first, but has some… moments that's a bit terrifying. Everyone ignores that.

Meli is a future scientist, best friends with Elsa.

Gluttony twins are great students and hang out in the cafeteria all the time. Right below Reinhard, Crusch and Julius. Acts like delinquents.. 

Regulus is a horrible teacher. Terrible man. The kind of teacher that's like "your learning depends on how I'm feeling today", hated by everyone. 

Capella is not in the school… she. She is not in this au. Gets booted in this HS au.

Sirius is a very sweet teacher. She's the kind of teacher that's almost childish, really wants everyone to get along. She almost seems condescending, but she's genuine about it. Obsessed with Betelgeuse, every time he visits Emilia, she flirts. 

Pandora is the one who keeps Regulus in line. A faculty member. Philosophy Teacher.

Hector is a sad janitor man. Otto took over his job.

Tonchinkan are the three school delinquents, but strangely friends with Felt and therefore associated with Reinhardt (who's trying to keep them in line).

Daphne is the Lunch lady. 

Typhon is a student who's really into philosophy. Bad at it. Misquotes things often. Probably says a Lord of the Rings quote trying to be smart. Googles "how 2 be smart"

Sekhmet is a no nonsense teacher, she doesn't like being a teacher, but good at her job.

Individual notes:

We initially thought this up because we were joking about a Subaru-Reinhardt-Julius highschool fanfiction, cause honestly the way they're written in-story would fit that so well, and ended up making this whole thing...

I think the witches should all be staff/teachers of some sort, except for typhon maybe?

We set wilhelm as the principal just by vibes, but we have some ideas that would clash with the concept. maybe the dragon is the principal and nobody's seen him XD

Reinhardt's story in more detail: he's a straight A student (the kind with over 100% in all of his classes) who joined all of the sports but skipped it a lot because he was just so good at it and also he prioritized chess club. Julius is in a similar position. Subaru then invited him to the anime club (being the idiot he [she?] is) and Reinhardt accepted because "friend!!!!" he found his love for shoujo anime and now tries drawing his own. he's okay at drawing girls but awful at drawing guys. He picked up crossdressing from Ferris and Subaru and had a full identity crisis when he realized Ferris was transfem and Subaru is an egg (or closeted transfem or bigender or something). he realized he's just a cis man who likes crossdressing but he had to put his shoujo down for a little while... now he forces Felt to cosplay as a magical girl with him. She secretly has fun! Every time Heinkel shows up outside his classroom window he just... slides his sparkly pink sketchbook back into his backpack

Subaru sews the cosplay fits!

We said sirius is sweeter in this AU because i don't think anything would trigger her more extreme views in this story, and mey can't tell me if that's right or wrong cause they haven't met her yet XD i might be but i think a sweeter role fits her!

Rem and Ferris are in the same vtubing group. they refuse to talk about it

Emilia picked up her outdated language from old shows and anime! She joined the anime club because she was excited to talk about the old old anime she loves, and when subaru talks about waifus she just thinks "ah, like that lum girl!"

Julius has either really really good taste in anime or really really bad taste.

Subaru's just picking up friends cause he's too chaotic to follow the atmosphere, and the people he tried to become friends with just so happen to need someone like him!

Subaru WILL try to woo emilia with anime pick up lines

When Rem develops a sleeping disorder that makes her fall asleep while standing up sometimes, she becomes wheelchair buddies with Ram! Ram is determined to push herself (though she'll let Emilia do it sometimes) and Subaru helps Rem out!

Rom is a very sweet teacher. everyone is scared of him at first but they all call him grandpa at the end (teasing, but lovingly). Felt is actually his adopted granddaughter, and when she got to highschool it got a little awkward but made some very funny moments!

Ram is a very good student in some places but very bad in others. They don't know what to do with her. Sometimes she gets an A and it's clear she didn't cheat but sometimes she fails. sometimes in class she knows everything and WILL show off and sometimes she's straight up asleep. Nobody can figure out the pattern.

Otto will sometimes skip class and teachers either don't notice or just say "oh he's probably doing janitor stuff we shouldn't bother him."

can patrasche be the very aggressive therapy dog

i think i should stop here before i write a whole book

we haven't even got a fanfiction planned or anything we just talked about this for a few hours

if anyone does want to write a fanfiction that would be hilarious and send it to us please

[toon-topaz]

Another Re Zero crack AU idea

Okay so, I was talking with @birdmitosis, and we came up with a fun and silly AU idea for Re Zero

Vampire IF

Basically, it’s more or less the same except everyone in the Re Zero universe are vampires, with the exception of Subaru and Al, as they both came from Earth.

Subaru would still be a NEET otaku, except his interest lies more specifically in vampire fiction, he probably wears a slightly different outfit to match a more spooky/gothic aesthetic. Anyways.

Subaru gets taken to Lugunica, same as always, and he notices that literally everyone is a vampire of some kind, there’s stores selling vials of animal blood and raw meat, overall he looks like he dropped straight into a gothic fantasy visual novel game. And he is thrilled. Finally, he’s gonna get the vampire romance of his dreams!

Important thing to note about this world, humanity went extinct 400 years ago, all the vampires here drink animal blood. But if one were to bite into Subaru, they’d find it really hard to stop. Subaru suffers a few deaths from being bitten, namely by Elsa, after she notices he clearly isn’t a vampire.

So yeah, this vampire fanboy kid winds up in a world of vampires, even meets a beautiful vampire-elf girl, and will soon learn that vampires are not actually all that fun to be around, if you’re the only human in the world. He’s even more fragile here than in canon, surrounded by all these undead creatures with a lot more resilient bodies than him.

He’ll have to disguise himself as a vampire if he doesn’t want to die, with fake fangs he makes himself (not those shitty plastic ones, good convincing ones, obviously, he has lots of cosplay experience). Only the people in the mansion know his secret, and they have to go out of their way to find a food source he can actually eat, since blood and raw meat isn’t exactly sustainable for him.

I’ll elaborate on some details later (and feel free to ask questions), but that’s the jist of it. Poor Subaru goes from wide-eyed excitement to fearing for his life 24/7, but that’s nothing new.

[squidbulborb]

I mean one with them as trainers, What Pokemon would they have? How are they nicknamed? What is their Occupation in the au? (Trainer, Gym leader, Champion, Evil Team leader?)

That actually sounds very neat! Let's see...

I could totally see Subaru being the protagonist, he is cheerful and easy-going but still diligent and determined. Kazuma would totally be the rival then, snarky, sassy and a perfect foil to Subaru.

I can see Tanya as a gym leader, but i don't know what type she would specialize in... and Ainz totally has to be the evil team leader!

For champion I'd personally choose Seiya from Overly Cautious Hero, he is op but in the good guys side, a perfect final challenge. Naofumi can be a gym leader too, specializing in steal types and defensive pokemon

But what do you guys think? Should I create a isekai pokémon au? What pokémon would each character have?