✨ EPITHET ERASED | ACTOR AU: EPITHET EXPOSED ?!?!?1!✨
An Epithet Erased AU, except the characters are actually cast members, and this is them a few years after their last recording together!!!!! yeah!! arent they the silliest… ( this is batch one of the redesigns but feel free to ask me about the otehe characters. also send me asks about them pls pls PLS )
Trixie Roughclaws and Phoenica Fleecetes, finishing off the Neo Trio!
Trixie Roughclaw (Red Violet Aligned)
Being a member of the Roughclaw tribe was a formative experience for Trixie, who was taught all sorts of fighting skills by her clan. Her real skills came into play under her own study, though.
By mixing up random stuff she found, she happened upon a knack for potion crafting. Usually these are things like 'potion of go away' (as much rancid rotten ooze she could find mixed with lady bug blood) or 'potion of healing' (Which is just soup her cousin made), but she has some skill with alchemy otherwise too!
Her true knack, however, is her first sight (ability to see things that are actually there, unlike most people who just see what they want to), giving her the ability to speak to ghosts. These two slotted her well into the traditions of witchcraft, and the hat looks nice, so she went with it.
Phoenica Fleecetes (Green Blue Aligned)
Her family originates from the islands of Elyias, and the City State of Caprinica therein. Her family history is filled with legendary heroes who were destined to strike down an evil nameless god from the First Age, and each daughter has been trained to awaken such powers as they have to face this evil for when it rearrises!
Feenie, thus far, has only shown powers such as 'Really good at math' and 'Gives really good hugs'. Through seeking to speak with her ancestors, she found Trixie and Molly, her bestest friends in the whole world.
The only real power she has is the massive amounts of money her family has made off of her ancestry's penchant for slaying monsters and claiming massive rewards from the gods, though she's not one to flaunt wealth!
(Obligatory Chroma Explanation - Chroma is a substance and force in my setting which allows for supernatural things and extraordinary powers, anything from a magical spell to a heroic physics defying shield block. This force is split up into 6 colors each with their own suite of capabilities)
Hi there! I'm reaching out because I run a group called Expanding Hyrule. Your work, Eternal Empire, has gotten enough reviews in for a feature in our Story Spotlights project. I have some drafts for the post I'm happy to share for you, we mostly just want to make sure we're directing people to the right place so that the spotlight connects folks with you. Currently we have this blog and your AO3 linked, but would be happy to update with any additional edits you might have. If you'd like to see the drafts, let me know where's best to share them (if you'd like them in your ask box, let me know, I just didn't want to throw pics in an ask before I'd said hello). Otherwise, we have the post scheduled for Feb 19th and it'll go out with the information you have shared for the work already (profiles already listed, synopsis and warnings as included on AO3, etc).
Oh, wow, that’s such amazing news! That sounds great, I’d love to see the drafts in my ask box.
Eep! So excited! I’m going to have to add another chapter or two to Eternal Empire before that spotlight drops in February!
Epithet Erased AU idea (based off the Prison of Plastic info about Molly’s family)
AU where Martin died in the house fire instead of Calliope, but Molly is still no better off than in canon.
Instead of Calliope dying and Molly having to take up all the chores because Martin can’t take anything seriously and pretends his problems don’t exist, this Molly has the complete opposite problem.
When Martin’s gone, Calliope becomes an anxious wreck without the one person that can balance her. She becomes paranoid about her daughters’ health and safety. She’s paranoid about things that don’t matter (like the fact that she thinks if she doesn’t wear fake glasses during business meetings she won’t be taken seriously) so why wouldn’t she be paranoid about the things that do? A lot of what she cared about was completely destroyed in a freak accident, and there’s no promise it can’t happen again.
She begins to plan her kids’ future with meticulous detail and when one thing seems out of place, she has a complete breakdown. They’re possibly a bit better off due to Calliope being good at businessing, but that amount of stress and expectations cannot be okay for anyone nearby, much less a child.
Molly probably becomes an overly-cheery fake optimist (because telling herself it’s all okay is Totally a good replacement for being actually calm when her mom freaks out over minor inconveniences) and represses every problem and negative emotion she feels so far down they’re practically in the Mariana Trench.
It’s hard to even imagine an Epithet Erased where this Molly is the protagonist, because the contrivances that would have to be made to create a scenario where Calliope loses Molly at the museum (or at least is not a chaperone and is not able to find Molly after she doesn’t come home from school on time) are a lot less plausible. However, I believe it could work.
(Idea from @ramblings-from-the-ether 's AU poll right here. They chose to make a Prohibition AU, but they let others use the discarded concepts & expand on them.)
Link to the CYOA here. (Fair warning, on Imgur & rather long.) Now that the credits are out of the way...
This AU takes place in an alternate industrial revolution upset by every supernatural force at once because they weren’t invited to New Year’s celebrations. As a result, organizations church-sponsored, state-sponsored & private formed to combat the darkness.
Now that the basic concepts have been established, the ideas:
-Anyone in their 20s or below are born after the New Year's Bloodletting (the worldwide havoc mentioned above), so that excludes the Neo Trio, Gio, Sylvie & Stink for named characters.
-This is Everyone Adopts Molly (EAM) adjacent, so Molly gets all the support she needs. Lorelai's fine, just newly apprenticed in the Roughhouse Witch Coven/Clan to gain some much-needed character development & lessons in how to use her magic responsibly (Gio managed to convince them to take her in when he recognized she was born with magic, there not being many other options for her in Sweet Jazz City).
-Bliss Ocean are good guys here! Well, mostly. They do mean well & their Fiend-Hunting skills are genuinely good, but until recently they did not get along with the authorities very well. It's a step-up from the terrorists of Canon.
-Rick is a half-Sidhe (this setting's Fae) here. Not a Changeling, a true Human-Sidhe hybrid. Perhaps the only one of his kind, he's still trying to unlearn the promise-&-contract-based morality they have. Naven taking him under his wing has helped immensely.
(Ideas & suggestions are appreciated. Thanks again to @ramblings-from-the-ether for getting this ball rolling. Credit to @epitheterasedgen for popularizing "Everyone Adopts Molly" in the EE fandom.)
Edit: I forgot to tag for spoilers. Sorry for everyone who has been spoiled.