please please please PLEASEEEE TELL US MORE ABOUT THE UNNAMED AMNESIA AU!!!!
As thanks for asking me to yap about my brain worms u get more au art ^-^
They’re reading a book about trees :)
Ok yap time: Quick Summary of The Unnamed Amnesiac au!! (someone help me name this au please T^T)
Firelocke good ending + a child >>>>
(Sometime in episode 7) Abolish comes across a book, written in some old, untranslatable language, which he “eats.” A while later, he finds a human, very confused Pyro, who has 0 memory of Oakhurst (still has their memories from anything that isn’t recent). Later, human, kid Owen is found, with no memory of anything vampire-related (including Louis sadly :(
I have so many incoherent thoughts about this au so I’m attempting to make them legible haha:
The book Abolish found contained a spell, something along the lines of, “before creation of malice, good resides” which took the nearest people to Abolish (Pyro and Owen, all somewhere in the woods) and “took them back” to when they were least likely to be/ become “evil” (the book is old and follows some religious definition of what “evil” is)
For Pyro, that was before Czeslaw’s death, not taking him back very far
For Owen, it was his childhood- turning him back to ~8 years old (also because I’m a sucker for the “antagonist is turned into a child” trope)
Abolish is the one who finds Pyro- in a clearing in the woods
Pearl, Avid and Drift are the ones to find Owen (after a truce between the castle and town is made). Owen was hiding in one of the crypts (scared as hell because he’s a lost child). When they find him, he nearly stabs one of them with a stick. Too bad he is literally a child and Pearl just -scoops- him up
The town and castle come up with a “getting out of Oakhurst and dealing with two amnesiacs” truce (after hours of arguing- some say Abolish and Legs still have a migraine to this day)
Both Pyro and Owen move in with Abolish becasue he doesn’t have an incentive to kill the both of them
“turned back” Pyro is a lot like pre-turned Pyro, yet somehow more bright and cheerful (and of course with the survival skills of a spoonful of butter)
They also instantly fell for Abolish- for a multitude of reasons- and follow him around pretty much everywhere (lost puppy style)
kid!Owen is this, quiet, antisocial kid because vsmp!Owen is a sopping wet cat and you cannot tell me that man had a social life growing up
I imagine the majority of kid!Owen’s interactions with people are him staring at them with his big brown eyes (not a thought in sight)
kid!Owen doesn't physically show his illness, but he is still sick, as he has been his whole life
CHARACTER INTERACTIONS/RELATIONSHIPS!!
Abolish takes a while to realise Pyro likes him (Owen had to tell him directly. It was so obvious the child had to point it out)
Pearl, Owen, Shelby, Drift, Pyro, Sausage, Avid, Legs, Abolish and Martyn (once he got over it all) end up as a little friendly group (they obviously don’t stick around each other all the time- the vamps still mainly live the castle and everyone is always searching for ways out of Oakhurst), as the most friendly to Owen and Pyro and least likely to kill them both
Scott is not allowed anywhere near Pyro. They got a restraining order on his ass. He is also a little disappointed his fledging is gone
Apo is constantly very angry. Understandably. She does all the tasks they’re told to but very begrudgingly. Pyro is absolutely terrified of her.
Cleo is much less upset than Apo and trying desperately to figure out how they can deal with this (but Pearl is friendly to Owen and Pyro, and she obviously can’t just kill them)
Ren is as cautious and sceptic as always, but comes a little more around to Pyro and Owen after Martyn
Pearl and Shelby tell Pyro about all their interactions he doesn’t remember (and Pyro feels a bit bad once they learn they turned her (and all the other people he turned))
Shelby plaits kid!Owen’s hair, and Pearl gave him a little wolf plush (because the wolves are migrating east this time of year if you weren’t aware)
Pyro and Owen stick around Abolish the most, which he doesn’t mind because neither of them ever get in the way of anything, and they all enjoy each other’s company (if Abolish, Pyro and Owen hung out more as a trio in canon I would’ve been so happy but this is what fanfiction is for)
Legs is very conflicted. When he met kid!Owen, he saw the man he couldn’t fix, couldn’t heal, couldn’t help, the man who carried so much hate, but he tries to take this second chance, and help this kid, try not to let him get broken again
Those are all my thoughts on this au right now… but it still consumes my thoughts… and im working on more stuff for it…
And I’ll add more to this if I have some epilogue post-Oakhurst thoughts!
I have some art of this au here and will probably make more :)) (if i escape the curse of being busy all the damn time)
do you have anything more (art or info) to share on the evil evil love au? If that's ok?
bc | just love this au. Like the angst is just perfect. and avid reason for kissing Scott is him being just like that
Scott: he was the only one who showed me constant love and devotion. I didn't see it at first but I guess the kiss helped
avid: I did wha- oh yeah that lol
And also poor avid killed by the one who gave you the flowers
^I do actually have this art I made for this playlist, which i made a while ago! (the playlist is a bit of a mess btw- just vibes :D)
(i dont remember who said this originally but-) like they say, vampirism is like taking estrogen!! Avid was just doing things as a vamp, and Scott needed a little kiss! and your description of that is perfect- "you showed me humanity, love, helped me onto the path of redemption" vs "huh?"
I adoreee hanahaki aus, they're heartbreaking,,
au stuffs: Owen thought of their interactions as so trivial, meaningless, scaring and teasing Avid's fear of vampires, giving him flowers because they were "junk" he accidentally picked up, but it hit Avid, recently traumatised and emotionally vulnerable, to hard. Maybe Avid could be okay, maybe Owen could make him okay, but he couldn't, and Owen cared much less and very differently about him than Avid could've ever thought.
Avid in canon told nobody about his demon-sickness, so he wouldn't tell anyone about the flowers growing from his lungs in evil evil love!
And when Avid became a vampire, the flowers didn't go away, they simply slowed their growth, as Avid still had love for Owen, that Owen didn't have for him- hence why when he was killed, flowers littered his wounds
I also have some older sketchbook doodles from this au under the cut:
a lot of these are silly ahsdhkjh (click for better quality/legibility)
the doodle in the centre has Avid's reasoning to become a vampire in this au! vampires are thought as "undead," and before he realised vampirism could fully cure disease, he thought that being undead/not breathing would stop the flowers from suffocating him
I might've just missed it, but why is Owen specifically a kid in the Amnesia au? Along with that, what do you think it'd be like if Pyro was also a kid? I can imagine the town panicking even harder with not just one amnesic kid but two amnesic kids.
honestly, this au is just me having a bit of fun (as evident from the fact it keeps changing and i keep forgetting to post about it-) and it was originally just an amnesia au with Owen and Pyro staying vamps but losing their memories, which i then changed to them both being turned into kids. in that version the town would probably be in full panic mode- the cast is barely stable enough to deal with one kid let alone two
The reason only Owen is a kid is because i combined these two versions- i really like Pyro's pre-turn character and i wanted to write more of him, but i am also a huge fan of "antagonist turns into a kid" trope (as ive said in the explanation post), and like i said, im just having fun, so the logistics and lore are kinda silly
The lore reason Owen was taken back so far but, Pyro wasnt, is because of Owen's hatred for the world he lived in- he grew up an outcast and was hurt time and time again, the one person he loved taken away from him. The spell took Owen back to when he didnt have this hatred. I think it probably hit Owen as a teen that he would never be accepted (due to his sickness), and he lost his "purity" and innocence quickly
Pyro, however, still had this innocence, believing in the world and people that hated him- up until they pronounced him guilty of murder and cast him away, so the spell only took him back that far
Who is your favourite cast member from Vampires amp 👀
i'm too indecisive to choose one,,, its a four way tie between Owen, Avid, Abolish and Shelby... they were my first povs and i love them and their characters dearly