@mari-mary here and welcome to my Gachiakuta AU side-blog!
This alternative universe is a "seinen-esque" reinterpretation of the story (everyone is 5 years older than in canon). There's also some lore expansion I created; some original, and others based on headcanons/theories.
But to be fair, this is more like an adaptation of Gachiakuta to the JRPG genre of games. So we'll have stuff related to game mechanics and the likes of it as well.
I DO NOT recommend people under 18 read this AU's full story!
All the subjects and themes will be talked about with much more depth and weight than in canon.
If I may need to explain something involving manga spoilers, the post will be tagged with "gachiakuta manga spoilers"!
Have in mind that characters may act differently and will have different relationships than they do/would in canon due to them being more mature + lore expansion + different events.
Side note: This AU has lore/plot inspirations from Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, God of War 4, Final Fantasy XVI, and Arcane.
You can read the full story on Ao3 here: [LINK]
QUICK FAQ:
-Any ships?
So far, the only two romantic ships are: RudoxRiyo and EnjinxGris.
As for platonic love relationships, we'll have, so far: RudoxZanka (brotherly relation) and RiyoxAmo (sisterly relation).
-Can I do fanart/fic/memes?
Of course! I would love to see it! Just not NSFW(like porn or explicit gore, for example) and of course don’t forget to credit it.
-Can I use a concept(s) from this AU for my fic? (ex.: Genesis Factor)
Sure! But as always, give credit, I had a lot of work to develop them. Plus, if you need help in applying these concepts, contact me, I will be glad to help!
-Can I do a video from your comics or arts in my videos? (ex.: adding voice acting, panels “slide show”, AMVs, etc)
Yes, BUT notify me when you start to work on it. In this case I ask to give credit somewhere in the video and link(s) to the original arts in the description.
-Can I translate your fic and/or comics?
Yes, but let’s talk about first, discuss details like where/how to post, etc.
-Can I edit/trace over/repost/feed to AI your arts?
NOPE. But I give a pass to reposting (WITH CREDIT + LINK TO OG POST) only for socials where I don't have an account! My other socials are: mari_maryenne@Instagram and Mari_Mary@Bluesky
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
CONTENT WARNING!! This chapter contains subjects that can be very trigering for some people! Read at your own discretion! (Read the aditional tags to know what you can expect)
A/N: I'll NOT take any responsabilities for broken hearts.
Next OC! Hans is rather special to me (among his wife and child) because he's the protagonist of my original universe (which I haven't shared online yet), so, this is basically his Gachiakuta version. Although, his backstory here is based on the story of his Guild Wars 2 version.
Yes, his jinki's weapon form is based on DMC5 Nero's Red Queen, with a mix of Monster Hunter's greatsword.
I initially thought in post all my OCs profiles together, but that was taking ages... so let's use them as a countdown to the upcoming chapter instead!
If you have read chapter 2 already, you already had a glimpse of Levi! He's the leader of Team Pyro; a team made up of only mine and @wikimb OCs) He's based on my Guild Wars 2 Daredevil/Deadeye character, that's why his jinki is a rifle.
He's the first of four fully my introduced OCs in the next chapter.
Someone made this on twitter, so I decided to reshare it here but all credits for the image goes to @/gokanijiku on X
Here's a weekly reminder for everyone in the Gachiakuta fandom, across all kinds of platforms. Kindly DO NOT USE OR INCLUDE the following on your gachiOC artwork:
Official GACHIAKUTA logo / title
"Written/Illustrated by Kei Urana and graffiti art by Hideyoshi Andou" or a similar phrasing
The graffiti backgrounds made by Hideyoshi Andou-sensei
And most importantly, do not use the official hashtags #Gachiakuta / #GachiArt / #GachiakutaFanart / #GachiFanart if your work includes your OCs in them—even if they're side by side with an official character! (The OCs are not official so you don't want to get someone confused and mistake them for canon or official characters.)
Please respect the creators' boundaries. They are neither restricting nor disapproving anybody to create OCs, rather they do not want any confusion of what's official and not within the community—especially for those who do not know about the series or have yet to pick it up.
INSTEAD, fanartists may go ahead and design your own, original:
GachiOC backgrounds or volume covers
GachiOC title logo
Watermark to indicate that this is an OC art
For hashtags, kindly use #GachiakutaOC or #GachiOC so the community can distinguish between OC fanwork and official work. (Once again, please understand that OCs are not official characters so you don't want to cause confusion to someone out there who might think they're canon to the series.)
Lastly, if you can, consider deleting or removing your previous work that involves the unauthorized use of the official volume cover template designs.
Take note also that this does not apply to X/Twitter only, but across all platforms too, because Urana-sensei does not want all fan works of Gachi OCs to be mistaken as official. Please kindly understand and respect that. Thank you 🤍
Reuploading this post as the previous 4 ref sheets needed to get their logo updated. Besides the post deserved to be updated to include 2 more refs which describe Prime Forms of the twins.
Prime Forms are specific to @gachiau-genesis which you can read about there.
Twins are a part of Team Pyro, which is also unique to this AU, and it has a few more OCs there (made by @mari-mary who made this AU)! You may meet them in the future.
Michael is the "normal" and a bit reserved one (not exactly because he doesn't like people) while Alex is clearly a troublemaker, and it's what people are quite used to.
Sorry for the lack of content recently! I have been hella busy at work and I'm also working on commissions afterward 🥲 but after I finish these commissions I'll be back to draw the OCs profiles for the next chapter!
In the lights of recent events, I decided to change my AU's title to respect Urana's request for fanartists to not use the official logo in their stuff.
Here I go again with these two! I made a more detailed description of the twins, who are one of the OCs appearing in @gachiau-genesis's who are a part of Team Pyro from said Gachiakuta AU.
