Man i just found your blog and whatever au you got going on looks so interesting i just have no idea what's going on. Do you have like a post or something explaining exactly what it is :')
I had one, but I can’t find it so I’ll just start a sorta. Starter pack/master post for all of my main Mandela Catalogue aus, and will be updating this post with any new ones I make.
This is gonna be long, so. Bear with me.
The Alternate AU
The alt au is, in its simplest terms, a swap au, basically swapping the alternate characters and the human characters. (Making the humans alternates and vice versa.)
The main plot is thus: Mark Heathcliff after the events of TMC Vol 1, comes back from the dead, furious at Cesar for leaving him to die and “causing” his death. Cesar has an encounter with Alt Mark, fleeing Mandela and living in Bythorne, joining the BPS eight years after that incident, meeting Sarah Heathcliff, and Seth Greer. (the leader of the bps and this aus version of six. Though he. May as well be an oc knowing how different they are.)
There are of course other storylines that happen in this au, involving Adam, Jonah, Thatcher, and Ruth. Here are some screenshots of basic character info:
(More info relating to the characters can be found here)
This au also has fan fictions I’ve written portraying the aus main events, and I’ll link them below in recommended reading order:
1. Prologue
2. Wellness Check
3. Winter break 1998
4. New beginnings
5. Fateful reunion
6. Reluctant Allies
Additional ones that have no specific reading order:
Intruder alert — Turning point — Remembrance - Awake
There are fan-made aus of this au you might’ve seen on my blog, that are not canon in the slightest, such as:
return AU: all turned Alts are turned back into humans
Gemini AU: characters are fused together into singular beings
Monster au: everything’s the same but the human characters are monsters. Halloween themed kinda
Additional info can be seen in the #tmc alternate au tag on my blog, or the specific character tags I’ll put on this post. There’s so much to this au that. I can’t put it all here otherwise we’d be here all day. /lh
The Mandela Prophet AU
This au, which is smaller in scale to the one above, is centered on Adam Murray, and takes place directly after the events of vol 2.
After being left behind by Jonah, Adam is approached by alternate Gabriel, and is given an offer that he’ll get all the knowledge he wants, as long as he follows Gabriel. Adam in his desperate want for the truth, accepts Gabriel’s offer, but is betrayed when they instead inflict him with a supernatural alternate parasite, that takes over his body and gives victims M. A. D.
Here is a small sorta medical sheet that kinda explains said parasite, along with the Prophets official design:
Fics:
1. Long walk home
2. Sleepless nights
3. Parasite
4: Intuition (non canon)
5: Buried Memories
6: Confrontation
Any other info on this au is found in the tag #mandela prophet
LabRats AU
The basic premise of this au is thus:
The characters of TMC are put through experiments in a scientific facility (Mandela BioTech), which is owned by Gabriel, a scientist obsessed with "perfection" and Dave Lee, a man that's reluctant, but willingly ignorant to the horrid acts happening under his watch. The main characters are mutated, given sometimes supernatural abilities. More info is in the #tmc Labrats au tag, so I recommend you start there, as this explanation is. pretty short.
Fic(s):
Prologue
Interview fics (can be read in any order):
#02: Cesar
#04: Mark
Home Sweet Home au
In this au, it takes the whole. "Cesar's house is an alternate" theory and runs with it. Mark feels. oddly attached to the House, subconsciously always wanting to stay there and. make himself comfortable. While Cesar remains unaware that his Home is alive, and that he's been living in the belly of the beast for his entire life.
This au is still in production, meaning I recommend looking through the tag #tmc Home sweet Home au to get more info. plus, here's a link to the prologue!!
-Home is where the heart is
-Barotrauma
-Encounter
-Leah Heathcliff Interview
-Arthur Heathcliff interview
-Radio silence
I'm always up for questions about my aus, so feel free to send them in if you have any! :)
