YELLING BECAUSE I JUST WOKE UP AND I JUST HAD A COMPLICATED HEADCANON
WHAT IF THE MERCENARY AU IS THE PRECURSOR TO THE FOUR PROTAGS OF THE APOCALYPSE?????????
IF YUSEI, JUDAI, AND ATEM ARE MURDER FOR HIRE, I MEAN, WOULDN'T THAT MAKE SENSE?
AND WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT YILASTER IS DOING
WHAT IF THEY WERE TESTING HUMAN REANIMATION? MAYBE THAT'S WHY YUSEI RESENTS THEM SO MUCH, BECAUSE KIRYU (and some other people that were Earthbound Immortals in the canon series) WAS A BETA TEST?
MAYBE ATEM IS THE ALPHA AND THAT'S WHAT HIS PREVIOUS TIES TO YILASTER WERE (and he never deduced or was informed that he's already died once)
Yusei becomes "Death" because of his method of assassination- it's swift, no one sees it coming.
Atem becomes "War" because while he's an excellent assassin as well, he prefers brutal, melee combat, and rarely uses pistols unless he has to. He's confrontational and possibly bloodthirsty (that's more related to his PTSD, but whatever)
Judai becomes "Plague" because maybe he winds up getting exposed to the range of a biochemical weapon that he was trying to disarm but failed
We haven't really assigned Yuma a role in this AU but we know that he's Famine in 4POTA, so who knows how that will play out
WHAT THE FUCK IS MY BRAIN DOING OMG
