#sage swap

[thottyimagines]

Still thinking about Naruto in the year of our lord 2024 so I was wondering what your take would be on a Sannin swap, meaning team seven has different mentally unstable mentors from canon so they can be traumatized/educated in new and exciting ways <3

I've written a few about the potential dynamics between Naruto/Orochimaru, Sasuke/Tsunade, and Sakura/Jiraiya, but let me tell you about the different iteration that really and truly is my favorite:

Sakura/Orochimaru

Mad scientist, came-from-nothing ninja with insane chakra control reporting for duty.

Orochimaru takes one look at this pink-haired freak with a puddle of chakra who thinks she can stand side-by-side with the kyuubi and the last of one of the great dojutsu and says, would you like to live deliciously?

And Sakura says, of course I would.

It is not enough for her to succeed, others must fail. And Orochimaru loves and appreciates this about her.

Sakura runs away from Konoha with the promise of having a mentor who will teach her, who will focus on her, who will believe that she's more than her pitiful background and more than her overwhelming teammates.

She is, at first, foisted onto Kabuto. She frightens Kabuto.

When she gets good enough to replace Kabuto, which happens in a very alarming two years (max), Kabuto suddenly gets to live with the ever-present threat of becoming an experiment.

Orochimaru adores her and encourages her to steal any and all clan techniques and kekkei genkai that she can. Why should she be barred from knowledge if she yearns for it?

Sakura is the most learned woman in the elemental nations. She has figured out Orochimaru's Body Problem. She's replicated the Strength of a Hundred seal Tsunade uses. They are a plague unto Konohagakure.

She's gene splicing like nobody's business.

The only people who care that Sakura up and left are Naruto, Kakashi, a bit of Sasuke, and Ino. Except for...well, no one has that manic desire to bring her back, the way Naruto did when Sasuke went missing nin. They kind of view her as a failed experiment, though Ino misses her and thinks of her a lot.

Sasuke/Jiraiya

Such a miserable duo, but they kind of like it.

Jiraiya is strong enough to keep Sasuke safe, and he keeps the kid out of Konoha, which he really needed.

Sasuke takes to everything quickly and antagonistically. Jiraiya hates having such a talented student - he is, perhaps, even more talented than Minato - who is so desperately antisocial.

You know that one post that's like, someone who's objectively attractive but has negative rizz? That's Sasuke, and Jiraiya despairs on the regular, because this student of his should, in theory, take over this position as horny spy master with the way he effortlessly draws in beautiful women who can act as informants. Sadly, due to his personality, no one would ever believe that Sasuke is just charming these (knowledgable) women into bed with him.

Sasuke takes to sealing, and Jiraiya is petrified that he's going to come up with something to, like, replenish his clan at an alarming rate.

Sasuke gets rid of his brother with some sort of homemade seal that traps him in a Matryoshka doll or something. He didn't technically commit fratricide, but Itachi is suffering in that thing.

He comes back to the village looking way better than he did when he left. Jiraiya takes that as his main point of pride.

Naruto/Tsunade

Naruto, should he learn chakra control, is the ideal healer in that he has more chakra than should fit in a human body, even an Uzumaki.

It's the chakra control that is Tsunade's true challenge in teaching. And, good god, is it a challenge. Sasuke is already murdering his brother by the time Naruto can reliably aid in a minor surgery.

But once he finally learns it, Naruto is improving in leaps and bounds, as is his way.

He completes a Strength of a Hundred seal six months after he finally learns chakra control. Sakura has had hers for two years, and he does not know or care.

Naruto is saving people at unprecedented rates. Honestly, Tsunade struggles to justify making him a combat medic, because he's doing so much good in the hospital just staying at the village.

Naruto is Naruto, though, so Tsunade teaches him to brawl using her style.

He winds up on the most dangerous missions, due to the fact that he has a natural healing ability with his Kyuubi, and is now the most talented healer Konoha has (who insists on getting out there).

Honestly, I could see him winding up in ANBU, given those skills and traits.

His true hardship, after mastering chakra control, is realizing that his talk-no-jutsu isn't going to work all the time and that he can't derail missions to attempt it.

Naruto is a better hokage for it, in the end.

[shandzii]

theyre so fun to draw lmao

[milkamel]

TruthlessSage,,, they're so underrated please look at them please plea-

[breadstickz1]

i lo❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ve cookie run,, swap au stuff mixed in too

[supd00dle]

Hello hi it’s been a while.

[carbonatedjem]

Lemme level with ya'll, I just wanted to draw a fusion of Orbot and Metal Sonic. It just kinda spiraled out of control from there. I really liked drawing this though :)

[irradiatedpathogen]

Since ive 8een thinking a8out truthlesssage l8ly

Idk which au ship i like more cuz i definetly think 8oth pv and smilk are 8etter than their swapped counterparts 8ut also truthlessage helps me challenge a relationship idea i dont often explore while shadowvanilla already fits into a trope ive liter 8een thinking a8out since i was SIX!!! so yeah their dynamic is old, 8ut does tht make it more special? Or is this new dynamic 8etter, since i personally find it more interesting. Idk.

[forgettingcrowbin]

Part 1 of a collection of instagram requests when I hurt my hand and tried to see if I could still draw :)

[fluffshi-wxffle]

At the Peak of Truth, Despair Not

[missholoska]

For everyone: What's your favorite food?

[emmasmoke8]

Let me keep talking about Sonic the Hedgehog roleswaps for a few more days, and then I’ll quit, I promise.

Today, we’re talking about an Eggman and Sonic swap. I don’t have a name for it yet. I might think of something later. As before, ask questions if you have them because I’ll take any excuse to yap

In this AU, Ivo Robotnik was abandoned in the woods. He built rudimentary robots to help him survive. In his later years, he made Belle (the Tails of this AU) Together, they found a place in Mobian society as Mr. Tinker and his daughter, Belle. They built tools and robots to help people.

Some of the people they helped includes Sage, the Knuckles of this AU. She was an AI program built by the Ancients to protect the Starfall Islands and all the tech on it. They also helped Metal Sonic, but I don’t really have a backstory for him yet. I mean, both he and Amy have mysterious/boring pasts

As for Sonic in this AU, he’s a hedgehog with incredible speed, supernatural even by Mobian standards. He also strongly believes that you shouldn’t help others for free. He philosophically stands opposed to Mr. Tinker because the inventor and his machines just help people with no strings attached. He destroys the machines for this reason

Early in his life, Sonic accidentally helped Tails unintentionally. When Tails wanted to repay the favor, Sonic let him. He didn’t think Tails would stick around so long. On the outside, they look like they have a cordial relationship, but Sonic will get violent if he thinks Tails has helped others or even Sonic himself (Sonic does not like it when people help him)

Knuckles and Amy are some of Sonic’s other associates. They exchange favors, but don’t ever think they’re friends or aren’t willing to backstab each other

I haven’t really thought about the others, BUT it could be that instead of Mr. Tinker’s cousin, Maria is his (insert however many greats) granddaughter, and she travels back in time to help deal with apocalyptic threats.

If I did that, Shadow would probably be the one that comes from the Doom Dimension where he’s the crown prince of the Doom Empire (and Eclipse could be like his Marine)

Now that leaves who replaces Team Dark. It could be Blaze and Marine, but I think that’d be better for a different roleswap line-up. We need someone who connects with Eggman. I guess we could have Nega. We could have Starline, and that one might be the most interesting. We could— and hear me out—have Stone. Just saying!

Anyway! That’s my ideas for this particular roleswap. I might expand on it more. I might talk about another one. Who knows? Let me have this

[ang3lgutze]

not gonna fuck around Art dump take it or leave it

walks away

none of these characters belong to meee trans sans... is mine though

sage ; lucidia / momma cq

swap ; underswap

fluffy guy ; someones sans oc i did for artfight this year i forogt im sorry eu...

trans sans ; mine

papercrane ; littlenoko )?)

blu sans ; blu sans on twt

[futureswap-crkau]

Sorry about the lack of updates!! I’ve been busy with other things, but I have been doodling the AU a little bit 🙏

[chloe-spade]

Beyond The Mirror

A mirror stood in front of a shadow, a cookie giggling as he enchanted it with a beautiful spell of dimension-hopping. The Cookie? A beast known as Tainted Vanilla Cookie, a healer to the public eye, a heartless jester at night. He, like his fellow beast, was imprisoned within the fae kingdom and escaped.

The Beast of Ignorance, Tainted Vanilla, managed to escape, with his fellow beasts managing as well, so he went into hiding with his fellow henchmen, Corrupted Raisin Cookie and Strawberry Mecha Cookie, who stood by him despite his manipulative tension and unpredictable personality.

Today was a special day, a very special day indeed. Tainted used his magic towards the mirror, revealing an image behind it. They watched as the little clown enchanted the mirror. And the sight behind it made him laugh.

A perfect mirror image of Saint Vanilla Cookie, but he was…good? An ancient?

"Another you?" Gasped Corrupted Raisin.

"Oh, what joy! I wonder…" Tainted Vanilla chuckled. "He looks so…weak. He reminds me of that professor, Blueberry Milk..even has the same soul jam! What is your name, other me?"

"Pure Vanilla!" Cries Strawberry Cookie. "Wizard accidentally blew up the lab!"

"Oh? I'll be on my way," Pure Vanilla called out.

"Pure Vanilla?…even your name is as dull as his.."

"Ugh, can we strike already?" huffed Mecha Strawberry Cookie. "It's getting boring watching him."

"Patience," Tainted Vanilla smiled. "I want to see what's he like before things escalate."

"Boring," Mecha Strawberry pouted.

On the other side of the mirror, Pure Vanilla followed Strawberry to a nearby area where smoke and ooze surrounded the tiny corner of the boat, which made him giggle.

"Did something happen here?"

"Wizard Cookie," Gingerbread coughed.

"It was an accident," Wizard pouted. "I can't help that this ship is bouncy and unpredictable with its movements. And besides, you were a lousy partner!"

"L-lousy!?" Gingerbrave gasped. "But I was willing to help you!"

"Boys, it's alright," Pure Vanilla cooed. "Accidents happen, and we can't keep arguing whose fault it is. This place is such a mess."

"Yeah, you're right," Gingerbrave sighed. "Sorry, Wizard."

"It's fine…I'm sorry I called you lousy."

"See, now we are all friends again. Can we please clean this up? I don't think the Creme Republic would like this if they saw this mess."

Gingerbrave, Strawberry, and Wizard nodded before rushing to get some cleaning supplies.

"Children," Pure Vanilla sighed happily. "Wizard isn't the type to make this sort of mess, though. I wonder what could've happened."

Pure Vanilla chuckled again as he remembered that he was also the same at that age, so he couldn't be a hypocrite. Wizard was still a child who was inspired to be better, and Pure Vanilla admired that about him.

But his eyes couldn't help but stare at the mirror…it was making him uncomfortable. Mirrors were something he still didn't want to look at. Ever since his time in Shadow Milk's castle, he could never see mirrors the same way. It made him feel like he was always watched, no matter who it was, regardless of whether it was actually Shadow Milk or not. But Pure Vanilla should not let mere mirrors scare him as such, so he turned around and started to clean up.

As Pure Vanilla started to clean, Tainted Vanilla, Corrupted Raisin, and Mecha Strawberry watched.

"Is he afraid of the mirror?" Corrupted Raisin asked.

"He is." Tainted Vanilla remarked. "He is, like the coward I preceived him to be."

"Hm, he does remind me of Blueberry Milk," spoke Mecha Strawberry. "Wasn't he afraid of mirrors as well?"

Tainted Vanilla grinned like a cat as he walked towards the mirror, tracing his magic around it. Corrupted and Mecha knew that meant that he had a plan and was ready to hear it.

"You got something, Ol' Saint?"

"I do, sweet Mecha," Tainted spoke. "I could switch with him. We look almost identical."

"But what if people notice?" Corrupted Raisin questioned.

"And what do we do with him when we do sucessfully capture him?" Mecha continued to question.

"Well, my children, you can simply keep him here, or maybe just to torture him, let him pretend to be me!" Tainted Vanilla beamed. "It wouldn't be that horrible, now would it?"

"No, great saint, it's a perfect plan," Corrupted Raisin spoke.

"I'm glad you agree, my sweet children," Tainted Vanilla grinned, looking back at the mirror and Pure Vanilla. "Wait for my signal, my children. We should wait until he lets his guard down, and then we can strike."

"Finally!" Mecha cheered.

Tainted Vanilla watched how Pure Vanilla turned his back against the mirror.

"Dear me, that was a hassle," chuckled Pure Vanilla, looking back at the mess. "Best to check on the children. They are taking an awfully long time with those supplies."

As Pure Vanilla walked away, he heard something behind him. he froze, not knowing if he wanted to turn around to look, but he only hoped it was a clink of a glass.

Before he could register what was going on, he was suddenly grabbed by two unknown individuals and pulled towards the mirror. He couldn't scream as one hand covered his mouth. But as he looked, he felt the mirror turn fluid as they entered it.

To add to the horrifying scene, he felt his face getting lifted by a face….his face. The person in front of him was him?! But that was impossible, but the doppelganger was living proof of it all, and he waved in horror as the doppelganger transformed into a perfect replica of Pure Vanilla despite the lack of light in his eyes.

"H-hey…!!" Pure Vanilla gasped.

"Oh? So you do yell?" Hummed the doppelganger. "Pure Vanilla…"

"Who are you?"

"Hm, well, only for you," The doppelganger grinned. "I am Tainted Vanilla Cookie, a pleasure to meet the person I'm bound to replace."

"Hold him down Raisin! He's pretty strong!" Mecha pointed out.

"I only have one arm, pipsqueak!"

"Replace!?" Pure Vanilla repeated.

"Yes, it seems to me that I have one if not many worlds to corrupt under my palm," Tainted Vanilla whispered, getting close to Pure Vanilla. "I just knew you would get in the way of my plans. You are me, after all, and I can't wait to watch your face as your world crumbles down."

Pure Vanilla tried to struggle, but it was too late. Tainted Vanilla walked through the mirror, and despite his struggles, he couldn't escape the clutches of the minions; they looked down at him as he fainted, suddenly too weak to move.

🪞

Blueberry Milk had a bad feeling. He shouldn't have one on such a peaceful day in his kingdom, but he did. Blueberry Milk groaned as he floated high up to the highest shelf, putting books away.

"Blueberry! Blueberry!" Green Apple Cookie panicked. "Something happened to the sky!"

"What do you mean, my pupil?" Blueberry Milk pondered, now worried.

He landed down on the railing, opened the doors to the outside, and gasped as he noticed a black starry rift with a golden eye glaring down upon it. Blueberry Milk felt a chill down his spine as he knew what that golden eye meant, and he did not like it one bit.

"What is Tainted Vanilla doing?"

(quick credit to @kodaswrld for the divider!)

[sweet-talking-sleepwalker]

Roleswap au designs blarghh

Im not adding the old versions here because im not up to embarrasing myself on two platforms

[sonic-takeover]

Eggman, dude, can I give you something to release my bestie? I can get you anything. I’m willing to bribe you and give you anything so he is released. koko-blueturtle has Stone held hostage, maybe me and Koko could work together to get you something- anything. Please, free my bro Tails, he ain’t do nothing wrong.

I swear they must have welded this damn door!! *Eggman, Orbot, Cubot, and several badniks are trying to push open the door held shut by Silver. One last big push, though, and it opens. Inside is... Nothing? Tails is gone, and none of his friends are there either. Eggman clenches his fists* No.. no no no!! Where are those blasted hedgehogs??

*He goes to his screens to look for them* Ah! Perfect. Excellent work, Sage.

*Sage appears behind him, her head down* ...it is my duty.

Of course it is. Now, help me get my Agent Stone out of imprisonment by that turtle.

I... Have analyzed all possible routes. I found one.

Perfect! We'll take the eggmobile.

I- .... Yes father... *She doesn't mention her guilt or the fact that Metal and Amy are on their way to help the boys. It's the least she can do*