#compromised au

[kaioshin-sama]

In the end, Zamasu shies from uttering the question on the tip of his tongue, but what he does manage to say, or doesn’t, is enough. The words, bitten off, hang heavy in the air between them like the cloying thickness of an Earth summer.

Shin looks at him as though recognizing him fully for the first time in weeks.

“--Is that what you’ve been thinking all this time?” he says at last. (It is, he realizes almost immediately as the question leaves him. He knows it is.) On a whim he turns, drawing with gentle insistence upon Zamasu’s arm until they face each other more fully, whether he likes it or not. He looks past the long, loose fall of Zamasu’s hair; finds and meets those grey eyes.

Don’t you know it’s him that I’ll never forgive? Don’t you know that yet?

“All this time, since you returned here with me? That I’m angry with you?”

[ @zamcsu ]

[kaioshin-sama]

“DONT”

[ ‘Pin My Muse’ meme / Send “DONT” to pin my muse against the wall to prevent them from LEAVING]

He snaps a look into Zamasu’s face, muscle bunching on impulse beneath his fingers. For an instant the tension holds and teeters upon some unseen edge, the air drawing briefly, uneasily close in the sterile space of Zamasu’s quarters. It doesn’t hurt though, that clutch; and while he can’t quite bring himself to relax, Shin stays. Uncoils. Breathes. Precisely where Zamasu has anchored him.

(What he wants, he finds, is to draw Zamasu fiercely in and simply hold him again. As they used to do before. As they haven’t done since Zamasu left, with Black.)

At length, he lifts his own hands – first one, then both – and takes Zamasu’s arms in a gentle, but bracing grip. His thumbs find the pulse in the hollow of each elbow.

I’m here. You found your way back in the end, didn’t you? Of course I’m still here.

“–Do you want me to stay?”

[kaioshin-sama]

What is the compromised AU, if it's okay to ask?

((Naturally!

The Compromised AU is basically a “what if?” scenario in which, following Majin Buu’s slaying of the Kais, Shin has a ‘turn’ in personality from the canon, and develops into a more active, aggressive little god as a result. He thinks, essentially, that if he and his fellows had simply acted, and not allowed Bibidi and Buu to rampage and destroy for so long without challenge, then not only would countless lives throughout the universe not have been so needlessly lost, but also the Kais themselves and their idyllic way of life would have been preserved. Races, civilizations, entire planets were lost to Buu, while the Kais, the benevolent overseers, did nothing until the monster came for them as well; and to what end?

So, following that calamity, Shin comes to reject the non-interventionist ideals that he had been raised and trained to emulate, and instead becomes something of a ‘serial meddler’ in his universe’s affairs, who is not above doing some occasional questionable things (or otherwise engineering the doing of those things, by others) for the sake of what he perceives to be the vastly greater good. In sum, he cares magnificently for the safety of those dwelling within his universe, and conducts himself according to his wish to do what he believes is most beneficial to the greatest number; but at the same time he has come to believe that, as the saying goes, if one wants to make an omelette, one has to be willing to break some eggs. Hence, ‘compromised AU’.))