okay this is the craziest idea ever but just… just hear me out!!!
okay so mid season 4 and pretty much everything goes downhill. noa is barely in any episodes, jeroen is leaving, and what do we get as a replacement? fucking danny. (and sophie who i kinda like but still)
and i think we all know jeroen leaving for egypt was because sven wanted to leave the show (i think he was in the midst of a career change?) but it could honestly have been handled a lot better because him going to egypt gave me no satisfaction at all. from what i’ve heard though, gamze (noa) was not at all ready to leave the show and would have loved to keep doing that last season.
so what if, in this crazy au, in some way jeroen got the chance to switch places with noa? we all know he was fiercely protective over her and would most definitely die for her. so now the box rufus planted has a message of zeno not telling jeroen about egypt, but about some crazy potion he can drink to switch places with noa. jeroen, being the boyfriend he is, doesn’t hesitate and immediately does it. so now he’s in a coma and noa is alive! which also makes for some nice character development because she would obviously feel very guilty and the others would just be like “ahw no it’s because he loves you so much”.
idk man it probably wouldn’t work and it would also kinda defeat the whole “descendant of amneris” thing but still!!! i would have loved to see it and it would kinda fix the issue of sven wanting to leave and gamze not wanting to
