#dark aus

[fictionalnormalcy]

A line that Hiccup says himself that really could be taken far more sinisterly:

“Once you’ve earned his loyalty, there is nothing a dragon won’t do for you.”

If we place him in an AU where he does go dark side, this line fits seamlessly.

[shedoesntevengohier]

help, I want to give Vincent Benitez The Worst Superpower.

lots of situations where he could have used it

he comes to the conclave and he notices that the answer to whether he could offer to anyone is not no

oh oh wait oh god when he’s the pope…

[fansplaining]

Episode 206: Bad Fans Revisited

Woobies, poor little meow meows, anti-heroes, and problematic faves: in Episode 206, “Bad Fans Revisited,” Flourish and Elizabeth use a listener voicemail on getting invested in morally dubious fictional characters to revisit a perennial hot topic in fandom. Specifics discussed include the heightened language of performative tags, blurred lines between fiction and reality, what a dark AU can offer that a dark original story might not, and yes, Lestat de Lioncourt. Plus: Flourish lets you know how you, too, can become a Certified Villain Fucker (there’s a test!). 

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[ericcartmanmustdiearchived]

Okay the romance aside if anyone if you or anyone else is famailar with heathers

I think Heidi could work for a Veronica ish person and Scott as JD killing everyone while Heidi thought maybe they get a bit of fun revenge but he just takes it way too far.. .

@heiditurner

[disregardcanon]

i never read a lot of b*lldip because at the time i was pretty thoroughly against it and only ventured out if the premise really interested me. but there was one that was like, the PERECT setup for a revolutionaries mabifica fic. if anyone happens to have a link to it when i’m describing it, i’d appreciate you sending it my way. 

so, the premise was basically was that something something weirdmaggedon when they were older something something dipper made a demon marriage pact to keep his family safe. and different members of the family were varying levels of on board, but mabel was so against it that she was effectively a prisoner. and dipper felt really guilty but also felt like he’d made the best decision because it kept her “safe”.

which is a big nah because no one is “safe” around bill. you’re just alive and worthy of some level of toy status instead of being dead. dipper’s pretty far from “safe”, but at this point he has enough investment in convincing himself that he and his family are that he’s not about to turn back. 

which is a pretty great conflict, right? at least it’s one of my favorites, and given the pines twins propensity for making each other’s choices for each other on occasion (but eventually giving in when they decide that what they did hurt them) it seems plausible if dipper really convinced himself that the decision he made was in her best interest he’d have dug his heels in and tried to make it work. 

pacifica was a revolutionary leader and i’m pretty sure we saw her execution in the palace. it was cool but disappointing on that front 

here we get into my changes! i’ve had an au in my brain going for all these years where mabel breaks her out and then they take bill down. 

there’s a lot of conflict with the rebellion about whether or not they can trust mabel because Proximity to Bill TM and she’s like. look. see. i still love my brother but if given the chance, i would rip both of bill cipher’s human form eyeballs out of his head and then force him to change back into a triangle so that i could rip out THAT eyeball too. and they’re oh okay SO mabel pines is legit, probably. 

they fall in love as mabel helps her gather more support and more people willing to stand against bill, and then are able to form a plan to bring him down. 

and then they get to the end of the glorious revolution and the demon’s bound in stone and the castle’s been stormed, and there’s a big conflict about which other members of the pines family should be treated how. “stanLEY pines is probably alright, right? that guy never liked the demon” 

“wasn’t ford involved with bill at some point?” “but bill turned him into a statue for a bit so i don’t think that he was in on this” 

“..... what about, uh... what about dipper?” there’s a lot of voices calling for blood because people want to see someone suffer and dipper was. uh. let’s just say he wasn’t exactly a revolutionary. definitely not actively fighting the good fight or anything. 

a lot of people want to see dipper dead, but mabel is not going to let that happen. paz, frankly, is not entirely sure that he doesn’t deserve to just die for having been compliant in bill’s schemes for so long and keeping mabel and the rest of the family locked up for so long, but she’s also not going to cost mabel the chance to reconcile with her twin. 

so she reluctantly vouches for him on the basis of that one time when they were kids. and her word is good enough to get them to leave him alone. it doesn’t make everything alright because like, oooooffff there’s a lot to deal with there and mabel and dipper will probably be going to some joint therapy but. that particular part of the nightmare is over. 

at least, assuming that bill cipher stays bound. no one shake that statue’s hand. no one make a deal, please. for the love of all that is good. keep your hand DOWN 

[lytefoot]

I think you discussed this at one point, but what do you think would drive each of the trio to the dark side ?

I have, but I can’t find it right now.

(Usual disclaimers apply–just my take on the characters.)

Hermione would 100% go Dark for the Greater Good. She would never hurt anyone, only bad people. I can imagine a world in which we’re all in hiding from Great Leader Hermione’s thought police. What would it take to push her over? Bad things happening because stupid people are in charge. I’ve written an AU where Hermione goes to the dark side largely in response to Umbridge, and while that one is kind of jokey, I could see a more serious version of that scenario.

Harry going to the dark side is just a matter of being pushed too far. This is, after all, the boy who crucio’d the Death Eater that spit in McGonagall’s face. Dark!Harry is the Harry who just can’t care any more, the Harry screaming in Dumbledore’s office that he doesn’t want to be human. The biggest thing it takes to push Harry over the edge is taking away his people. As long as he has Ron and Hermione, has Ginny and his kids, has those connections that make being human worthwhile, he’ll be okay. (I’ve got Brand New Day from Dr. Horrible on the playlist for the fic where I’m messing with Harry’s good/evil switch.) Evil Harry would mostly run cold, I think, not letting himself feel much of anything, kidding himself that he was all coldly calculating except for flashes of temper. (Evil Ginny would run hot, and frankly they’d play off each other pretty hard. It would probably be best for the future of civilization if nobody messes with the Potter kids.)

When I was writing about this before I couldn’t figure out what would make Ron go dark, but I’ve given it a lot of thought since. The biggest thing that pushes Ron is when he feels betrayed, and insignificant, and unloved. If the Locket had had him alone, it would have had him eventually. I have a hard time coming up with a plausible scenario for the kind of betrayal that would send Ron over the edge, simply because Molly really does love him, and Harry and Hermione really do cherish him and wouldn’t hurt him. I think evil!Ron is a nihilist. Smash it ‘til it breaks, watch the world burn.

(I could also see Ron going evil as a loyal knight. Like, if Harry and Hermione set out to burn the world, Ron would probably follow them and help, because he’s loyal that way.)

Thanks for the ask!

[rhartandstuff]

(( That moment when you are feeling pretty angsty so you make a bunch of dark AUs/ Bad Ends for Runa I like em )) Dark AUs/Bad Ends -Norted! Runa [ Her Wish To See Him Was Granted-- But At A Cost. ] -Broken! Runa ["Emotionless", Runa has spent too long in the darkness. When she ran away, she never really made it anywhere and was instead trapped with the Heart of Destiny Islands. It protected her up until it's destruction, but-- at a price. Runa couldn't age during that time, and upon leaving aging is a slow process. Along with that, with the destruction of Destiny Islands, darkness has reached her heart, skewing her mind and her moral compass. ] -Saeru/Kuro!Runa [August 15th, Runa was caught in a house fire with her father. She was the only one to survive, but not after experiencing something unusual. The events replayed over and over again until a voice asked her of what she wanted. She wanted to live, for her father to live. The voice laughed. -That's A Lie- Dhe wanted to see someone again. Her brother. The voice told her that he would grant it. Sharp red eyes, almost snake like, was burned into her mind when she woke up in her hospital bed. She was given the Clearing Eyes Ability. What she didn't know was that she was being used. The snake had a mind of it's own, and when the time came, Runa started having blank spots in her memory. Up until she just wasn't her anymore. The snake and taken over her body, and he wanted to keep living. All he had to do, was find the Queen/King.. ]