#uuuuughghaga;dlkfjaskdf guys the angst is so deliciously agonizing

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So what exactly is the burnerswap AU? I've been going through everything in your tag (here and splickedy) and from what I can gather it's delightfully angsty but I'm still not quite sure what's going on?

It’s basically just me going “what if the bad guys were the new Burners, and the Burners are now bad guys?” And in theory it’s about the  new baby villains being Burners and protecting the brave  new City In The Sky that is Deluxe.  They’re all assholes, it’s great.

So theoretically they’re what it’s about, but literally every time I try to write/draw content for it, I get really sidetracked by Mike and Chuck, AS USUAL.    

ANGST HUSBANDS

The only way I could figure out to make Mike a villain was to coerce him into it, so!  Kane Co. has been using a delicate system of guilt, emotional blackmail and flat-out lying to keep both of them doing the company dirty work.  And they’re never allowed to see or talk to each other and they missed each other SO MUCH

……………..and once they get reunited they’re so so touchy-feely, just, the grossest old married ex-villains, and the new Burners HATE it 

((Red used to work with/for Mike, and has a HUGE hate-crush on him.  Duke is hugely embarrassed by “cheesy, sappy bullcrap” AKA genuine emotion.  Abraham would never admit it, but he thinks of Mike as a father-figure and does not want to think about him making out with his husband.  Jacob and Kaia are the only ones who have any chill about the whole thing, because Jacob is a nice dude who’s happy for them and Kaia thinks the whole mess is hilarious.)) 

and there’s SO much emotional suffering and separation anxiety and making out, and anyway that’s the stuff I can’t stop writing/drawing 

I don't know how much that helps, but I tried haha.  The heroes–>villains and villains–>heroes thing is the main point but the muckles is what actually happened, so………so.  Yeah.  U/////////U