Plot Corner with Poco #2: Grump Icarus
I went on a long car ride and @pocotippy kept me entertained by fleshing out the Kid Icarus AU with me. She’s a delight, isn’t she?
Legend: Uhhh kind of in the same vein, Froggie ( @froggiekirby10 whaaaat shoutout) suggested a Kid Icarus AU, which I’ve just been using as an angel AU but pretty much the same tbh.
Legend: And like fallen angel Danny and light, pure angel Arin falling for each other and Danny trying to corrupt him a bit, but not knowing it’d probably ruin everything Arin’s ever had/loved.
Poco: What do you mean by corrupt him
Legend: I mean, not intentionally, but Danny’s had a taste of the “wild side” so now Arin’s life is uptight and full of rules and regulations and schedules so Danny wants him to just have some fun.
Legend: But he doesn’t realize that’ll ALSO make Arin a fallen angel which Arin doesn’t want.
Poco: What happens when you become a fallen angel
Legend: The only fallen angel I’ve really heard stories about is Lucifer soooo...you can probably glean some things from that.
Legend: But like Lucifer wasn’t even super bad he just didn’t follow rules?
Poco: Exactly and he never forces anyone to do anything he just offers deals and options.
Legend: Yeah so basically Dan is like that. He’s not BAD, but he’s not pure enough to be considered an angel by whatever deity leads that shit.
Poco: Sounds coolio, but wouldn’t that just make him like a nice demon? Or like...
Legend: I’m pretty sure fallen angel is just a nice way of saying demon so yeah. Point being he USED to be an angel.
Poco: Ok just going to say now I love all things demon Danny so this AU just like skyrocketed up in awesomeness for me.
Legend: Dude I want him to look like he does in the cookies video with black angel wings.
Poco: YES!!! omg yess, now let’s see...how would him and Arin meet...
Poco: I mean, maybe Arin could be put in charge of making sure Dan doesn’t get in to much trouble or something.
Legend: I think maybe--and let me know if I’m getting too angsty--Danny maybe gets homesick and so he goes back to like check on his family and Arin catches him and is like “I have to turn you in you can’t be here.”
Legend: But Danny panics and like kidnaps Arin but NOT WITH BAD INTENTIONS he just doesn’t wanna be punished.
Legend: But you can like “smell” (or like “feel”) the darkness off a person and it starts to rub off on Arin so it’s like getting home late smelling like alcohol to the people around there.
Poco: YES!! YES YES YES! And while he’s ‘kidnapped’ Arin starts talking with Dan and he’s like hey this dude isn’t so bad so he agress to come back and visit Dan and such.
Legend: But of course that makes the whole darkness thing worse and maybe Arin finds like a black feather in his wings and it’s like “this is everything I’ve ever known I can’t lose this” so he refuses to see Dan again for a while.
Poco: And Danny just doesn’t understand because Arin was like the only angel that didn’t seem to hate him.
Legend: We have to figure out if there’s a way for them both to be happy or one of them has to give in to the other’s side.
Poco: So basically choose whether we want there to be fluffyness or more angst.
Legend: Yeah, well also, if it’s fluffy, then we have to figure out how to compromise while not changing an entire society’s point of view for our Romeo and Juliet. Because that seems like a cop-out to me.
Poco: O totally um...maybe there could be like a trial type thing. Like they have to prove themselves and prove that one isn’t just manipulating the other. Or maybe the top angel or something could be one of their old friends that they let slip away so they can both be happy.
Legend: Hmmm well Danny isn’t a super bad guy, so maybe he had to do like trustworthiness trials. I feel like Satan is fine with anything pretty much so Arin doesn’t need approval from him, but Danny needs the favor of the angels. So like he has to do like “probation” just to get visiting rights to hang out with Arin.
Poco: Ya that sounds cool, I also love the idea that Satan is like the chillest most fun dude ever.
Legend: Dude, I’m sure Dan takes Arin down there and shows him around and Satan is like “sup dudes yo, Dan is that ur bf? Nice. Anyway, I gotta go show a new person around. She had sex before marriage. I know, another one of them. She’s totally cool.”
Poco: Omg Danny and Satan have one of those bro secret handshake things.
Legend: Hahaha they totally would for sure. Arin is just flabbergasted because “um THAT’S LUCIFER” but he finds out he’s cool and he accidentally mentions something at home like his parents are cursing Satan or whatever and he’s like “maybe he’s just like misunderstood.”
Legend: And they’re just like “WE DIDN’T RAISE YOU THIS WAY WHAT ARE YOU SAYING.”
Poco: XD omg totally he would and like there’s a bunch of mean rumors about Satan and the fallen agnels but they’re just like “the angels are cool, a little stuck up but whatevs.”
Legend: Some of the fallen ones aren’t super cool but yeah, the majority is just like “yeah for some reason they didn’t like that I was gay/sexually active/didn’t go to church? But whatever some of them were pretty nice.” and Arin starts realizing that all of these “sins” are actually kind of irrelevant.
Poco: Yes, ok I am loving all of this. Also should like the angels and fallen angels have like powers?
Legend: I’m sure they have some kind of powers like flight obv. And since it’s technically Kid Icarus I’m sure Arin’s got some magic arrows/bow. Also Dan can like poof things into/out of his grasp and stuff. But like small reasonable things. And if he concentrates really hard he can poof himself places.
Poco: Ok sounds cool. The usual powers for fallen angels/demons are usually like just being super persuasive and the contract obviously but this is a Kid Icarus AU I guess...I mean neither of us know anything about Kid Icarus so that may be an issue.
Legend: Lol true but it’s a LOOSE AU. I like the persuasion thing though omg.
Poco: Ya like Dan if he really wants to can talk you into almost anything.
Legend: Arin probably doesn’t know this because I feel like he’s real sheltered. So Dan uses it just to like calm him down after the kidnapping and Arin is like “whoa I am suddenly calm.”
Poco: Ya poor lil sheltered Arin is learning all these new things.
Legend: He’s probably constantly overwhelmed by shit like “what do you mean guys can like guys that never even registered as a thing that could happen” and “are you telling me the word ‘fuck’ doesn’t actually magically rip a year off your life every time you say it what” and shit like that.
Poco: Totally...Also how much egobang we want to put in here?
Legend: Dude this is like 100% egobang already.
Poco: Sweet well then can I just suggest that the reason Arin found that black feather in his wing was because he and Dan kissed for the first time.
Legend: OH SHIT YES YOU CAN SUGGEST THAT.
Legend: But also...after that kiss...Dan finding a white feather in his wings...
Legend: By the end of this I imagine them becoming like...halflings. Like they’re wings have equal parts black and white feathers because their love is pure and sweet but their means were “tainted” by angel standards.
Poco: yes this is it. That is what is happening.
Legend: Also...*cough*demon!suzy and ross*cough*
Legend: *cough*angel!holly and barry*cough*
Poco: Huh demon!Suzy interesting. Suzy is usually an angel in most AUs I’ve seen.
Legend: Really? I mean, I’m not saying she’s evil but like...that aesthetic.
Poco: Yeah, but Arin is usually an angel and Suzy is usually either his wife or best friend int he AUs so of course she would be an angel. Plus, she is super nice.
Legend: [Taylor Swift’s Wildest Dream] Also this just came on the radio and I think it’s appropriate
Poco: This is very appropriate yes, this is Arin’s POV totally.