saw you were looking for selkie, noogai or amnesia au asks. i got some more thoughts and ideas i could share hehe. here, have this wall of text.
selkie au:
you've said that maybe the whole "stick alan renames victim" could be possible in this au right? so, victim captures everyone, uses them as hostages so alan complies and then gets renamed. now that they have all the power they need they can take revenge on alan, or so they thought. they try to change some of his code but they... can't! why? spaghetti code! they can't erase the human part of him! i did have more ideas for this but i will write that down on my own blog, but basically, immunity or partial immunity to viruses and glitches! because he wasn't originally made from code! so once again, even if victim has all the power, it was all for nothing. just like in canon.
noogai au:
i believe you've once said victim totally would pull a king move after the booth 30 incident. maybe the accident could cause victim to seek the whole name change thing? not really sure how they'd do it, but regardless idk if this was said before BUT imagine that scene of king trying to basically kill purple at the end of avm 30, but it's victim (or h4ck3r?) trying to kill orange. however they get flashbacks to noogai in the booth. maybe noogai can be unconscious after the incident, in a coma or just having a hard time recovering, but the former would mean he wouldn't be able to tell victim that he doesn't want this!
amnesia au:
after alan is finally rescued, imagine him walking around aimlessly trying to find victim, maybe even calling out for him. the cg are outside and they just start hearing a faint "victim...! victim...!" coming from the house. they go to check and alan is walking around which he SHOULDN'T be doing during his recovery, but the reason he's up is because 1. he wants to find his "friend" and 2. he thinks he needs more "treatment" (not knowing what that "treatment" was yet). imagine the first signs of him recovering are him remembering orange's name. at first it's "who are you?" and "what's your name again?", but that goes to "you're... orange, right?". eventually, he calls orange "second" unprompted (orange hasn't introduced themselves as "second" during the recovery), signaling that he remembered something on his own and orange starts crying cuz he remembered and he just goes to hug and comfort them, not knowing why. one more scenario: orange was shown to be able to sense when something's wrong, so imagine they get a nightmare about alan forgetting them BEFORE alan gets turned into a stick. they go to alan and ask if he'd ever forget them and alan ofc says "i could never forget my son". later he goes missing and when they finally find him... he doesn't know who orange is.
oh my fucking god i just had a HORRIBLY evil idea.
you know how some patients have a moment of clarity before they die? like they remember and can walk around like nothing's wrong and shit? imagine that but it happens right before nightshade goes into a coma. you COULD also bring in the spaghetti code in here too maybe... perhaps as an explanation for why his memories keep coming back even after getting erased.
reverse!selkie au (as a treat):
imagine the whole h4ck3r thing happens much much earlier, before king becomes a stick. dark and vic see how much that human affected their dad and decide to take revenge, but vic needs a name change to get powers. so, they fool human king into renaming victim to h4ck3r! out of all aus i think this one has the easiest explanation for the whole h4ck3r thing.
sorry for the yap fest, i didn't actually think this would be this long. hope you liked the ideas!
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OUGH... YEAH... i like the idea that alan's 'encrypted' code is a boon sometimes! this is very interesting— and yeah, the hostage situation is way more likely to get alan to comply! although i do think it's way more obvious that alan's not got his heart in the fight— this was never what he wanted!! he just wants his kids to be safe :(
OUGH... YEAH... I think it'd only happen if Noogai was severely injured like that, yes! although H4ck3r would have a much easier time destroying minecraft i think! you also have to keep in mind that SC is still their littlest sibling, though, so i think SC could still stop them!
however I do want you to consider: what if it was purple and gold stopping Vic instead???
YES YES YES I LOVE ALL OF THIS...... Alan slowly recovering his memories of the others oh my god... the poor sticks when he disappears again and comes back as a husk— and vic being somewhat relieved when he does end up coming out fine— less relieved when he quickly remembers who he is... thinks that one more time will do it, he'll be fixed— but then he just drops into a comatose state... hrgh
MAN... YEAH... especially if he had gold for a little bit before becoming a stick I could totally see that!!! i also was brewing the idea of H4ck3r causing stick!alan (they did have the capacity to affect alan's lights!!) and i think that could totally be the case for king here! brought into this world as punishment...