I thought it would be a good idea to keep my big AUs all in one spot, and give me an excuse to infodump about them. Feel free to share this around and ask me any questions you have!
(This will have basic information & summaries, and I'll be updating this semi-regularly with links to info posts and stuff.)
AU Name
(Fic Title(s))
Tumblr Tags
Fandom
Characters
Tropes/Topics; what makes it fun
Short Plot Summary
Links
Little Soldiers AU
#Little Soldiers AU ; #LSAU
Life Series (3rd Life)
Martyn, Ren, Etho, BigB (Renchanting); All 3rd Life Cast
Treebark, Renchanting, 3rd Life from Dogwarts' perspective, Dungeons and Dragons/Fantasy, storytelling
Renchanting is a group of travelling bards. They make a stop in the town of Fogmark, which gets threatened by the Xethan Empire. Forced to protect the village, Renchanting and the people around them are thrown onto the brink of war. It ends, as most do, in tragedy.
Character Post
Fading Light AU
(A nice day to end the world (does it even truly matter anymore?); [xx])
#Fading Light AU ; #FLAU
Collab AU with @scrambledlikeeggs
Life Series, Hermitcraft
Martyn, Ren, Grian, Last Life Cast, Cub, DocM77, Xisuma, Gem, Keralis, Zedaph
Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Treebark, Watchers/Listeners, Heist, Missions, monster hunters, corrupt government, hybrid rescue lab, Space Pirates, magic
Martyn's brother is dead, and he's left behind many more secrets than Martyn expected. Seeking out the Listeners (a revolution group against the corrupt Watchers) to learn more about this secret life Jimmy had, Martyn joins their fight for a better world.
AO3 Link (in progress)
GIGGS FNAF AU
(The Monsters Under My Bed)
#GIGGS FNAF AU
Hermitcraft, Phasmophobia, Five Nights at Freddy's
Grian, Impulse, Scar, Gem, Skizz, Animatronics
GIGGS in FNAF, isn't that cool
The GIGGS crew takes a job at a new facility. Little do they know, things are a lot creepier than they're used to. Let's hope they survive five nights.
AO3 Link (in progress)
Spooky Mansion AU
(We Sorry Wanderers in This Dark House)
#Spooky Mansion AU
Hermitcraft, I SPY: Spooky Mansion (Wii Game)
Pearl, Etho, Tango, Scar
Puzzles, mystery, spooky, Skeleton, College AU-ish, Found Family, abandoned town
PETS (Pearl, Etho, Tango, and Scar) get lost on a road trip and wander somewhere they probably should not have wandered. Now they're stuck in a creepy old house, and have to solve puzzles to escape before morning.
AO3 Link (in progress)
Salem Witch Trials AU
(Scarlet Vow; [xx])
#Salem Witch Trials AU ; #SWT AU
Hermitcraft, Life Series
Martyn, Ren, Pearl, Gem
Witches, magic, grief, devotion, Wolf!Ren
Ren is a witch, Martyn is a plant seller. When Ren is drowned by the village for magic, Martyn seeks out the fabled Scarlet Witch to bring him back.
Links
Tangled AU
#Tangled AU
Collab AU with @mickemz01
Hermitcraft, Life Series, Tangled
Joel, Lizzie, Etho, Pearl, Hermits, Some Empires Cast
Shadowbeans, Fae, Fairies, Witches, magic, canon-divergent, fantasy, it's pretty different from the source material but it's really fun
Joel is the prince of Corona, taken by Fairies at a young age. When he couldn't use his powerful sun magic, they isolated him in a tower (Pearl's tower) in the forest. Lizzie finds him while running from the castle guards, and brings Joel into the real world. Etho's also here, and he's the horse.
Links
Martyn Unreality AU
Tumblr Tags (none yet)
Life Series (Post-Limited Life)
Martyn, Life Series Cast
Timeloop, Death Games, Unreality, Insanity, world and mind gradual deterioration, loneliness
Martyn wins Limited Life, and is put in another death game. No big deal. Until he dies and respawns in another one. And another. And another. The longer the game goes on, the more glitched the world becomes, and the more it starts to look like Third Life again. After a while, he realizes there is no escape for him. Except maybe another win.
Links
Corrupt and Unraveled AU
(A Code That Screams, Owned By Terror)
#Corrupt and Unraveled AU ; #C&U AU ; #Corrupt and Unraveled
100 Hours, Hermitcraft, Life Series
Joel, Grian, Scar, assorted Lifers
Uncanny Valley, Grian comes back wrong, corrupt code, horror-y
When GriAn dies, Joel thinks that GriEn is just a bit, and that the odd way he's acting will wear off. When it doesn't, Joel panics. He brings on other people to confirm his suspicions, but they all die or leave before they can report back. It's just Joel and the uncanny husk of his friend on the server until they hit 100 Hours, and Joel is getting more sure that the only way to stop GriEn is to kill him before he kills Joel.
Links
1920s AU
(Mourning Cloak)
#1920s AU
Life Series (3rd Life)
Martyn, Ren, Etho, Grian, BigB
Historical, war, World War 1, PTSD, hurt/comfort, angst
Martyn is a scarred war veteran, and Ren is a rising Hollywood celebrity. In the atmosphere of 1920s America, they develop a relationship that isn't quite perfect, but it's enough.
AO3 Link
A Beautiful Day to End the World (Does It Even Truly Matter Anymore?)
//transmission log 01// Fading Light
The world is falling apart.
Literally and metaphorically.
Jimmy is dead, and more monsters, stronger monsters, are forming from the ever spreading skulk. Even worse now his brother was thought to have been living a double life and may have been what got him killed in the first place. Martyn was going to make them pay.
For @apollothetransboy’s @treebarktitleswap event which has been just great!! Abyss is an amazing writer so give their chapter lots of love (I have more art ready for when that’s posted tomorrow)
A nice day to end the world (does it even truly matter anymore?)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS I'M SO EXCITED FOR IT IT'S GONNA BE GREAT I PROMISE
~~
SUMMARY:
Martyn's world is falling apart. Literally and metaphorically.
Jimmy is dead, and more monsters, stronger monsters, are forming from the ever-spreading skulk. Even worse, now his brother was thought to have been living a double life that may have been what got him killed in the first place—part of an underground resistance, one hell-bent on destroying the Watchers and their motivations once and for all. And now Martyn is their newest recruit.
Time is ticking fast. The Watchers will either wipe out most of the population to finish their secret project... or in the process, destroy the world entirely.
They stole his brother from him. And Martyn was going to make them pay.
OR
The main fic of Fading Light AU, where Martyn is a monster hunter, Jimmy had more secrets than he let on, Ren is scared of his past and hiding from his present, and Grian will do anything to bring his sibling back.
OR
My third and final entry for the @treebarktitleswap, run by the amazing and wonderful @apollothetransboy, this time a collab with my good friend @scrambledlikeeggs :>
