Au where Phil is a single working father of 2 and Kristin is the highest ranked villain in the city. Maybe Phil has some kind of healing power and in classic 'collecting strays' fashion he finds her injured and heals her up.
Wil and Techno are out that night so he's not too scared and he just lets her sleep on his couch until she recovers a little. She's ofc very scary when she actually becomes concious but is ultimately thankful and decides she owes a favour to this totally not cute dude who saved her.
Maybe some pining where she keeps bringing him things under the guise of 'fufilling her debt' and then eventually meets twinduo.
Theyre ofc very very protective of Phil but they're also kinda picking up on the pining starting to begin so they just remain cautious. At some point Kristin and Phil have a moment together and he decides that he wants to actually pursue her.
Honestly I think this AU would just be 80% fluff and only 20% dark. Kristin probably goes out and does crime with twinsduo, watching as her possible stepsons grow into prominent villains while she keeps them nice and safe.
Bonding with your fucked up possible stepsons by helping them steal and murder is very normal and shockingly effective when you're already a villain doing the same shit.
I'm thinking Phil is also vaguely aware of this as he'd have some link to heroes maybe but Phil corrupting himself for his family is one of the best tropes of all times and I've decided that happens now.
Also eventually Tommy comes into play where hes maybe some up and coming hero apprentice shadowing Phil to learn a bit more and (obviously) he ends up getting yoinked.
At night he's fighting a villainous trio and by day he's hanging out with retired(?) hero Phil and his cool as fuck family.
Might add more to this later I can probably shake some more brainrot out of this AU
Brains been a little obsessed with Phil just being a pathological liar. He entirely fakes it until he makes it. For some reason none of the gods punish him for it. Maybe because he’s the last of his species or something. It’s not like it matters.
Thinking really specifically about him just… lying about Wil being his kid. That’s not his baby. He’s not seen that man in his life. Wil just got the mailing address wrong in all the letters and now Phil’s like ‘guess this is my kid now. He certainly seems to think so.’
I just really like the idea of Phil doing a big reveal that the guy he just fucking came out of nowhere and killed was Wilbur. And that this is his son. Meanwhile Techno just staring at him because despite being immortal besties, he really can never tell with him.
There’s really just a solid fucking chance that Phil forgot to tell him about having a kid. Or he’s lying to him again. Either way he’s gonna be there for him but jeeze the elytrian makes it hard sometimes.
Tags: Dark SBI, dark Phil, dark Techno, royalty au, memory loss, implied character death, he doesnt die though, skrunkly Techno, Wilbur is in here just a heads up, just the character though, fuck the real guy, this is full of brainrot, you get the vibes as you read, its like 1K minimum I think
AU where Techno is a prince who gets kidnapped by political rivals.
Obviously, they know theyre gonna get caught. All they can do is cause as much damage as possible to the family before theyre caught and inevitably killed.
So they wipe the princes memory and toss him out on the streets. The blood prince, famous for his violence and cruelty, reduced to a confused wreck with no idea of who or where he is.
Anyway so they're caught and die with the knowledge of wherever they dumped Techno so the entire nation is just on a massive search party.
Tech is presumed dead because there is literally 0 universe where he wouldnt immediately make himself known to his family and that just makes Phil even darker when it comes to keeping his last remaining kid safe.
(I'm thinking Tommy so there can be some dark clingy Tommy action later on)
I think Wil eventually bumps into Tech and is confused on why theres just some random guy on his own in his bakery with like no clue how to do anything.
So he takes him in.
Not really intentionally at first but he gives him a place to stay because he's lonely and he'd feel bad if anything happened to Techno but they get along really well and become attached.
Obviously that means stuff has to go wrong but before that I'm thinking there are a few moments where Techno vaguely remembers stuff from who he was and just doesn't know what to do with it.
Maybe Wilbur braids his hair a certain way and it feels so familiar and somewhere in his mind he just knows that someone did this for him before.
Meanwhile Phils in the castle all sad because he misses braiding Technos hair every morning.
But maybe he also sees some kids playing and being mischevious and he feels so fond but has no clue why. The kids push each other around and mimic sword fights and he thinks he can remember knowing a kid who did the exact same but never being able to really grasp it.
He just misses people who he doesn't know and cant describe and he gets very skrunkly about it because clearly no ones been looking for him so obviously they didn't care about him as much as he did them.
But he gets very close with Wilbur and maybe Wil leaves to go off and get something so Techno mans the bakery while he's gone.
Thats when Niki comes in. Maybe Ranboo dragged her in or something because they've heard nothing but good review but either way they walk into some random bakery and just see the fucking crown prince working as the casheir.
The same crown prince that has been presumed dead for months and has had an entire funeral thrown for him already.
Techno is obviously very confused when they start asking him where he's been and what he's doing there but doesnt exactly get a say in anything as he's dragged out the shop and put on the first carriage back to the palace.
There's obviously a reunion that only makes Phil even darker because his baby doesn't fucking recognise him and barely lets him touch him so he's torn between playing nice and letting Tech come to him and just crushing his son in his arms and never letting him go.
He finds an odd in between where he tries so hard to be patient like a spider in a web but he misses his sonboy and occasionally slips up real bad which freaks Techno out.
He also tries to give all the things Techno used to love. People to kill, gold, weapons etc, but none of it really works. All Techno wants is the only comfort he's had since he woke up confused and lost.
Wilbur.
Meanwhile Wilburs being angsty because he got supper attached to Tech and thinks he just wandered too far but no ones seen him so he's just really sulky and sad.
Techno really was just kinda his emotional support buddy / pseudo brother so now he's dealing with just so many abandonment issues and he's worried sick that Techno could be sick or hurt somewhere and just as confused as when he found him.
That is until the fucking emperor himself turns up at his door and demands to know what Wilbur did to his son.
Wil is terrified and genuinely has no clue what is going on but rambles like everything he knows anyway. Phils pretty unconvinced but gestures for the guards to bring in Tech and Tech practically crushes Wil in the strength of a hug.
They both just immediately break down because they were so worried and scared for each other (brothers <3) and Phil really gets to see exactly how much Technos changed.
His memory is gone, there's no real way to recover it so in a way his son did die but Phil is bitter and possessive and he won't lose him twice so he keeps him anyway.
Maybe he decides that Tech is still Tech and clearly some of his personality has stayed so there's totally a way he can just rebuild him into who he used to be, or at least as close as he can get.
He tries to drag Techno away because he's very bitter about his son (who's been basically terrified of him) hugging some stranger meanwhile he literally mourned him for months.
Techno obviously doesn't take well to almost getting dragged away and says that if he really is Phils son and he's as indulgent as he says he is then he'll let him keep Wilbur.
Everyone is shocked by this and Wil is not happy with it but Techno still has that dark streak in him despite now also being skrunkly so he cuts off any argument and basically calls Phils bluff.
Phil tries talk Tech out of things but Technos obviously super adamant about keeping his new bestie so Phil just sighs and glares at Wil like the entire way back to the castle.
Maybe he also hoards Techno away too and says that since he's indulged him once today, Tech has to pay with nest time (something he's been avoiding a tonne) and its very dark and fluffy later.
I'm not sure where the AU goes after this but its probably a lot of family bonding where Wil is slowly assimilated against his will and Techno regains some part of him that was removed when he got his mind wiped.
There's probably some very sweet moments where Phil and Techno maybe share a piano and Tech slowly remembers the tune that they first did and obviously theres lots of bonding with Tommy where he asks Techno to 'put on a show' and swordfight for him and Tech slowly regains some muscle memory on that front.
You know those vague magical fantasy games where all the NPC’s are just level 1 or something except the ones that you’re meant to learn from, recruit or fight?
What I never got was how the rich didn’t monopolise on that instantly. Like let’s be realistic. They’d hoard the levels like crazy.
They have their kids on fast track courses to be level 55 by the time they’re 18. Meanwhile poorer families? Lucky to hit level 10 by that age since they’re focusing more on skills than levelling any spell or combat prowess.
You’re a farmer from a farming family. Why would you need to be anywhere above level 7? You’re not killing things often enough for that.
The biggest boost you can get is if you manage to fend off a wolf from eating your sheep and even then it’s a risk few can take. Respawning costs tonnes of money and the closest checkpoint is 5 towns away.
Anyway consider: Wilbur being from one of these poorer families. They farm and occasionally make stuff to sell. He personally hates it but that’s what he was born into so it’s what he’ll do for the rest of his life.
To make things worse he’s at a village that’s considered cursed. Basically every few years a high level enemy spawns in the area and just massacres the place until some noble kid comes down to get a level up.
But here comes another issue. The town next to them is actually even more cursed. Cursed to the point where level farming businesses have decided to just take over the place. Meaning Wilbur’s village gets skipped over.
Meaning the high level enemies aren’t getting killed in time so only one is present at any given time. And if by some miracle a noble does see the high level enemy, sometimes it’s not high level enough for them.
Not worth the mana.
So it lives. It lives and continues to kill. I’m thinking something along the lines happens where Wil goes out to gather some shit and gets jumped by it. The best he has is a really shitty sword but by some miracle the thing was already half dead and he manages to actually kill it.
And he gains like 5 levels at once which is unheard of for someone of his village. Naturally words gets around and eventually the nobles that live closeby want to sponsor him.
He has supposedly has massive magic potential and they want a piece of that pie. Also they’re rich and bored. This family is naturally the crafts and I’m not sure where it’d go from there.
I think Wilbur would be averse to actual physical fighting but he’s also not the best at magic so they spend a lot of time experimenting until they figure out that the best class for him is a bard.
Phil’s maybe some kind of spell caster and tech is ofc some swordsman.
Part of me wants them to be young and Tommy to be a baby purely for a scene where Phil just puts liquid exp into his milk and Wilbur watches Tommy casually gain like 3 levels. As a baby. Probably more powerful than him.
Villain Wilbur that steals shit and instantly runs to top hero Phil to brag about it.
He literally does it all for attention.
He doesn’t even want the shit he takes half the time, he just wants to see Phil be impressed at how he actually managed to steal a massive statue in broad daylight.
Like how a cat will kill something and bring it to you so you can praise them.
My fav part of henchman au Wilbur is that he's genuinely like :(( why doesn't Techno like me anymore?? in the second fic I have planned.
Like bro you literally started mauling him because he called you a dick and you only stopped because your dad physically pulled you off of him. He's obviously gonna be pissed at you.
