Read your fic and I want more facts about that au since it’s said that Julien is still king and now I’m curious!
Thanks! Yes, he's still a king in my human au! I think I considered giving him a more realistic job but I have to write so many ridiculous things for them as it is, I decided to make everything the same as much as possible. I figured they must be this remote little rural community who seem so unnecessary and unimportant to the larger world that they've been left to their own devices. The Fossa are a gang of bandits who raid the town and make it a dangerous place to visit or leave, plus they're separated from other civilization by miles of difficult wilderness.
I see the kingdom with a lot of dirt roads and small colorful buildings surrounded by wild plant life. The closer you get to downtown, the more paved and stately it becomes (in an old-fashioned way). The only computers are at the library. I gave them a Town Hall because that's how they use the plane as lemurs. KJ has a big ~office~ there (Clover has one too), though he's more likely to sign royal decrees out about town using a pen he had to borrow and Maurice's back 🙂↕️
As far as king goes, it's not very prestigious by our standards. like I didn't describe his house or car in the fic, but it's basically his house in the show, it's not a fabulous mansion. And I picture him driving this sedan that looks like it was manufactured in the nineties. It's not a fancy car by itself, it's just indulgent bc he lives in a town where most people don't drive. Clover walked everywhere before him. And for her, his car is more about the pleasure of the company.
So like how lemurs are on the bottom of their local food chain and nobody cares or takes them very seriously, in my human au they are very much small fish, even KJ, whose title as king is not something people would respect very much in the city. The outsiders who participate in it, like the Ambassador and Marianne, just enjoy the exploitation, while a normal person would wash up from the ocean and think oh ok, these people can't help me because everyone out here has lost their minds. But to Julien, his town is the treasure of the island and he just wants to help it.
