And thoughts about how the Remake timeline will diverge for the RufAura ship!
Contains spoilers for the opening sequence of Rebirth?
I was not expecting that our fight with Destiny at the end of Remake would actually impact Midgar. I figured it was in a pocket dimension or something smsbhdhd but uh no it actually fucked up sectors 1 and 2 in the form of an aggressive tornado if I recall correctly
So mostly what I'm rethinking here is the sort of leisurely approach Rufus has to courting Aura in my original fic, as well as wanting to highlight Aura's trauma more which is something I fell I fell down on in my original long fic.
I'm currently mulling over the idea that Rufus is going to out of the blue promote them to Director to replace the missing Hojo and manipulate them into accepting, and win their heart relatively quickly and just yoink!!! partner now. 🤔 pending future developments of course, we only got as far as about to leave Kalm in game so wksbskdjd
This approach would also help me highlight Rufus' view that he's not "in love" with Aura he just has "roles" for them and he's putting them into the roles. He is actually full in love with them after stalking them from his house arrest for years but shhhhh he doesn't wanna acknowledge that KWBSKSJSHE
So that would be a big change to the ship!!! I'm still thinking through it. But initial ideas...