au inspired by @h0urglcss 's professional greifers killjoy au and taking a little bit of ideas from undertale as well
-G3R4RD was a human who fought with mechs for BLI/nd
-rose up the ranks to become a top fighter and a fan favorite entertainer for the citizens of battery city, which also made him a good distraction from corruption
-their body was crushed and destroyed in the mv fight, but they couldn't afford to lose their star distractor
-get together a team that rebuilds them into a robot that can pass as human, original gerard was always a little rebellious, and they decided they couldn't risk it and wanted full control of this new machine, only for it to have the outward appearance of gerard
-a "rebel" (frank) in the programming team inserts Gerard's original soul into the machine (<- thats the undertale part)
-G3R4RD is born, living under full control of their programmers
-frank becomes their repairman, both for their mech and for them themselves
-maybe something a little more romantic than just repairs going on there ifykwim
-mikey is a star fighter in a rebel group that uses mech fights to cover their meetings
-ray is mikey's mechanic
-mikey and G3R4RD are still brothers in this au, gerard's death and replacement is what caused Mikey to become a rebel
-G3R4RD hates being a city distraction but can't do much because he's under constant surveillance
-Frank gets in contact with Ray and together they concoct a plan to get G3R4RD out, G3R4RD refuses this plan, wanting to incite rebellion from the heart of the city
that's all I have so far but I wanted to post it, defo not complete I made this on the fly while simultaneously roleplaying as G3R4RD (before I had their story worked out)
also!! quickly editing this to say if the creator of the original au wants this down just lmk and I can delete it! idrk the rules as far as posting about things like this go so I wanted to add this in lmfao
