i didnt draw everyone im gonna talk about here so just .trust me bro. picture it in your head !!
FIRST. ADRESSING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM!!!:
i fear some people may not like this change but??? it's MY AU and I DO what I WANT. i'm combining luna & diana to make my life easier. fusing them like steven universe basically!! her name is luna-diana. she still works at the bookshop, she just looks a lil different. her parents are southern with a lot of female relatives; they couldnt figure out which one to name her after... her full name is Luna-Diana May-Maisley-Annabelle Tinsley-Herbert. most of her coworkers and friends either call her "luna", "diana", “luana”, or "LD" (if they wanna be cool).
OH ALSO! the bookstore has a cat! she's a stray kitten that luna-diana found outside. her name is berenice dracula (sigma chose the second part of the name)
-carlos's (23) backstory is pretty much the same as well, he still looks after maria (13). he works a sort of first aid center in the mall, doing all sorts of tasks: tending to injuries, checking for any fire hazards or safety concerns, training the employees to be cpr-certified... etc. maria comes with him to work!
-junpei (22) still adopts quark (7)! however, he's struggling to be a parent when he’s barely an adult himself. alice gave him a shop in the mall where he sells all sorts of odds and ends he finds (“antiques”), and she lets little quark “work” with him.
-the whole mall loves quark. on slow days, he sometimes leaves the store to go wander around. at first, this Freaked junpei out, but he now trusts his employee neighbors to watch him. quark loves to hang out with maria & sean and get root beer floats from the ice cream shop :]
-sean (8) changed the MOST. mostly bc me and my sister think this idea was a missed opportunity!! pack up, this description is long.
a young child showed up to luna-diana's bookshop one day, wearing a mask that obscured his entire head. he asked her where the medical books were, and soon vanished beyond bookshelves for the rest of the day.
at the end of her shift, luna-diana searches the bookstore to find her cat. she quickly finds her curled up on the masked kid's lap, purring as he struggles to read through the holes in his helmet. luna-diana and the boy talk for a while, and the child introduces himself as "Left".
after asking him why he was reading medical textbooks, "Left" removes his helmet, revealing bright red burn scars covering half of his face. LD immediately takes him to carlos, and the four of them (including maria) drive him to the hospital. maria shows sean her own burn scars since he is very ashamed of his own.
-sean, in this au, is a Left clone— and an almost perfect one, at that. however, after being caught in a fire, sean was left scarred. the myrmidons then abandoned him since he no longer looked like Left.
-Sean chooses the name "Sean" from a book!
-he is later adopted by luna-diana's parents. he lives a happy life afterward, becoming friends with maria and quark. he loves to stay with luna-diana at work, reading until the sun goes down.
-i wonder what a similar blue-eyed clone thinks of this... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......