Imagine there being an AU for The Lunar Chronicles where Channary is queen and Cinder/Selene grew up a “normal” royal life in Artemisia because Levana did not envy anyone for the throne. Lunars and Earthens are indifferent to each other, everyone staying on their respective planet. There is no letumosis, shells are not being treated differently than the Lunars who are capable of using glamour and there are no wolf soldiers. Let’s see how our main characters would be doing
Cinder (or rather, Selene) would be loved by the people of Luna, Channary is actually very soft to her daughter, Selene and Winter have always been friends who could rely on each other and most importantly she did not spend her entire childhood unconscious in a suspension tank and was not turned into a cyborg afterwards – but Selene and Kai would have only met briefly during political meetings when they were younger, Selene would not know how interested in mechanics she actually is, she would have never met Peony or Iko or her other friends (and like Thorne expressed it: “She wouldn’t be the cuddly cyborg” who we love so much!)
Kai would have still been adored by entire Earth but all the leadership responsibilities are not given to him since his father is managing everything while Kai is being cared for – but like mentioned above he would not be able to develop romantic feelings for Selene and eventually marries a random girl from the Eastern Commonwealth just to please publicity. Also Kai changed many things to the better throughout the series – proving what a great and careful Emperor he is while in that universe he is mostly just there so girls (and boys) from anywhere could geek over him.
Scarlet would have lived with her grand-meré for quite some years. After Michelle’s death (which probably takes place way later than in the series) Scarlet took over the farm – but she would have never met Wolf, never married anyone or got children because she never got any chance to meet Wolf.
Wolf would just be Ze’ev, a boy in the outer mining sectors of Luna. Living with his parents and Ren, no surgeries that try to reduce him to something animalish were done to him and he was not forced to get used to constant violence at such a young age – but his life would have been pretty plain and hopeless. Working in the mines is basically the only opportunity he has and obviously he does not even know his Alpha Female is somewhere on Earth.
Cress would have grown up with two loving parents in the big and bright city of Artemisia. Given the occupation of her parents she presumably would have gotten a decent job in sciences/medicine – but she would have never discovered her amazing computer skills / interest in engineering. And most importantly: Cress would have never gotten the chance to visit bunch of new places. Living on Luna, Artemisia is the only interest place to see and when you grew up there it certainly lost its spark a bit.
Thorne would probably wander from one prison to another – as soon as he is a free man there is yet another trial on another continent going on against him. Certainly Thorne would not mind his position as one of Earth’s most famous criminals; in fact he enjoys the attention – but he would have never gotten any chance to meet his friends or to fly a spaceship again. The chance of learning that life is more than having fun for a short time and then being locked away again for years.
Winter would have grown up with a caring and loving family that fully supported her choice to never use her gift. Plus she not only had Jacin as her best friend but also Selene whom she could approach with things she could not talk about with Jacin – but the Lunar sickness would eventually control over her and there is no possible way to cure it since Garan did not Lunar test probands for his chip.
Jacin would have been able to fulfill his childhood dream to become a doctor. Though working your own way up in that career is hard, Jacin loves that challenge and probably does very well because he just loves his job and longs to see Winter again – but as soon as Jacin got a job in Artemisia he learns that the Lunar sickness eventually was stronger than Winter and possibly drove her into suicide. After that Jacin cannot go on normally anymore, feeling like he failed on saving Winter.
Iko’s life would have been not positive at all. It could be very likely that her personality chip eventually got destroyed because nobody wants an Android with a glitch.
So yeah, probs to you Levana for being such a great villain and fucking everyone’s childhood up.
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