Blazblue Epsilon AU Expanded edition Part 1
A couple years ago, I made a sort of AU where an older Saya Terumi from the Bloodedge Experience novels reincarnates into the body of the 5th Prime Field Device and becomes a mother to the main siblings.
Super paraphrasing here, check out the original post.
Well, recently, I tried expanding on that idea to see how it would work out.
An older Saya Terumi, after the events of Bloodedge Experience, where she is likely being dragged off to some lab for her to be experimented on.
I will admit I have not read BE so my knowledge is on little lore tidbits I have read.
We have been told that Saya Terumi was the basis for the Fifth Boundary Interface Prime Field Device, so this may be what was happening.
Likely upon events that have not been shown to us between BE's ending and her death, maybe she matures or has some epiphany upon death.
Then, while her soul is in the Boundary, she gains the same knowledge that Nine did when she was thrown in by Terumi. She learns about the Origin, the Looping world, etc. Including the ones at the center of it: Ragna, Jin, and Saya, who are the "children" of the 5th PFD, who is a copy of her. Thus making them sort of related.
I am not sure about the details of why this happens other than "fanfic F**k You" but Saya Terumi incarnates into the body of the 5th PFD in the lab where the siblings were.
Some things I have debated about are:
Would she have her Soul Eater Drive with her? It is a parasitic Drive so one assumes it moves on to multiple hosts, especially if Clavis was hunting it down. Plus I headcanon that the Soul Eater Drive was taken off of Saya T. in order to make it part of the Azure Grimoire, hence why Ragna now has it.
If she DOES have Soul Eater, somehow, I originally had the idea of her going all horror/slasher movie villain on the guys at the lab, as she is no longer burdened by her original frail body, and using their souls to forge herself into a full Murakumo Unit. I mean, Soul Eater was used to create an Embryo which can become either a person or a while world, a Nox Nyctores Core shouldn't be too different. Although maybe it would be too much and someone would be on the case of her needing a Cauldron, or something similar, to forge a Nox.
Regardless of what happens, the scientists in the lab die, and Saya Terumi goes to the room where the siblings are kept and frees them, and they escape together.
She knows they can't wait for Jubei or go to the Church, as that is where Terumi will attack and then split the family in a few years, so they are on the run. But, without the Church's protective wards, they are also out in the open. Terumi has NOL Intelligence at his beck and call, there is the Ikaruga Civil War happening around this time, Jubei is still around, and Rachel is still the Onlooker who sees everything. Plus, we have Valkenhayn, who is one of the few protagonists who knows of Saya Terumi from her previous life, or at least the version of her from the main Possibility.
Plus, we have Takamagahara overseeing everything, and trying to reach a specific outcome and keep canon going.
All of these forces conspire against Saya Terumi, who I refer to as Epsilon as to not gt her confused with Ragna's sister.
Epsilon wouldn't immediately be "mother of the year" though. Maybe she still has some of her flaws and darker traits from her original incarnation that she needs to work on. Maybe she is more motivated by Clan Family Pride and also hatred for Yuuki Terumi/Takahaya Susano'o for taking and besmirching her family name. Then along the way she learns the genuinely care for the siblings. Plus, she is a single mother of three, likely traumatized, kids, in a time period she is not familiar with, and can't trust anyone.
Yes,m she has Boundary deeper plot knowledge, but doesn't really have much power to act on it.
Leaving this as a Part 1, just for the sake of keeping it brief and not super long. I have ideas beyond this which I may post some time later.
Happy late Birthday Ragna
