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[kegareki]

talk abt shisui's babysitting service plz

i spent like two hours typing a response and it’s like. story format. so i hope you enjoy!!

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it starts simply enough. when mikoto begins transitioning back to active duty, shisui takes over bringing satsuki and sasuke to their favorite park. he has the time, and he doesn't really mind babysitting, anyway. he's good with kids.

("satsuki cried when they first saw you," itachi points out when shisui says this, "and sasuke yelled at you and made you apologize."

"that was because of a misunderstanding," shisui insists. "and besides, satsuki was cuddling me within the hour. they love me now. they do. right? itachi? itachi???")

***

satsuki and sasuke mostly keep to themselves--the other uchiha kids usually stick to the nearest park to the compound, rather than this one, which is a distance away--and shisui knows that they're capable of interacting with other kids their age, and he hates that they act like it's a given not to interact with non-uchiha.

after a week and a half, shisui puts his foot down.

"you want us to make friends?" sasuke repeats, scandalized.

"you have to make at least one friend," shisui confirms. "each."

satsuki looks down and away, twisting their fingers. they're more anxious than sasuke is, and shy around strangers. shisui is hoping, though, that the passing familiarity of seeing the same kids in the same place every day will be enough for them to make an effort, anyway.

"all of you are like, four to six years old," shisui continues, waving his hand to encompass the playground. "all you have to do make friends is ask to join in on a game or something." looking down at sasuke's mulish expression and satsuki's uncomfortable frown, he sighs. "I want you to at least try, okay?"

sasuke, predictably, goes to join a clump of kids who look like they're hitting each other with sticks.

satsuki ends up approaching uzumaki naruto.

shisui's life flashes before his eyes. there will be accusations of the uchiha clan trying to take control of konoha's jinchuuriki--rumors will start again, newly aggravated--but naruto is mikoto's godson, for all that the sandaime uses loopholes and makes up new laws to prevent her from taking him in, and that means something.

when satsuki asks if naruto can have dinner at their house, shisui says yes.

when sasuke asks if kiba--who, apparently, abandoned his stick to start biting people instead--can have dinner at their house, shisui says uh. let's go check with his mom.

tsume laughs. it's a very big laugh and very loud. satsuki and sasuke and kiba all stare at her. shisui feels a lot like they're being made fun of, which is more or less the truth.

"you wanna bring my son into fugaku's house," tsume repeats delightedly. "oh, absolutely. I ain't gonna stop this for anything."

***

kiba and sasuke get into an argument during dinner over which of their older siblings is better.

satsuki points out that maybe itachi's the best brother and hana's the best sister.

"and you're the best sibling!" sasuke concludes.

kiba thinks this over, then nods agreeably, backing down from the fight that had him snarling just a minute before. "yeah, makes sense."

everything is quiet, and then:

"wait," sasuke says, alarmed, "does this mean I'm not the best brother?"

***

it's the latest ino-shika-trio next. shisui stopped paying attention for five minutes while talking to hana about itachi, and when he looks over at the kids next, they've got three more people with them and they're playing ninja tag.

or… something like that. there's someone who's running after other people, but everyone they tag also starts running at other people, until there's only one person left who's fleeing from everyone else. that person gets tackled into the ground.

"I have no idea what they're doing," shisui says.

hana shrugs. "they're kids. no one ever knows what's up with kids."

***

ino, sasuke, naruto, and kiba attempt to kill each other with sticks and fangs while satsuki, shikamaru, and chouji apparently make friends with an aburame through close inspection of bugs on the grass.

and then it's a civilian kid with pink hair.

and then it's another civilian kid who reminds shisui strangely of gai.

and then it's another civilian kid with twin buns in her hair and a fondness for projectile weapons.

(shisui takes great delight in informing itachi that he's been replaced as "the coolest shuriken user ever." itachi doesn't believe him right then, but as dinner goes on and sasuke chatters on about how cool tenten is and how she went fwish! and thwack! and made her name in a tree with shuriken, shisui can see itachi's realization that he's no longer the coolest person sasuke knows.

"sasuke," itachi cuts in smoothly, "would you like to practice with me after dinner? I can show you how to make shapes with shuriken."

"tenten's showing us tomorrow," sasuke says dismissively.

shisui tries to disguise his laugh as a cough.

satsuki pipes up, then, with a look of pity toward itachi. "but if nii-san shows you now, you can show off tomorrow, right?"

"that's right," shisui agrees. "just imagine tenten's face when you progress so much faster than kiba."

sasuke straightens immediately at that. "he's going down," he hisses. "nii-san, you have to show me how to do it. I need to rub it in kiba's face that he's a loser.")

***

and then, somehow, at some point, they stop meeting at the park and start meeting at the uchiha compound.

the guard at the gate gets a list of the kids that are part of sasuke and satsuki's retenue.

"huh," they say, amused. "this is the best networking the clan's had in years."

"right?" shisui says. "I know I told them that making friends when they're four is easy, but I wasn't expecting it to be like this."

***

"itachi," shisui says, without taking his eyes off the thirteen children that he's supposed to be looking after, "if you leave me alone with these kids, I'm never going to forgive you."

"oh, no," itachi says blandly. "whatever shall I do."

"itachi!" naruto yells. "you cannot escape your fate!"

that's a new line. it has to come from one of the hyuugas they've picked up.

"return to your family at once!" lee agrees with the kind of intensity that makes shisui worry about the kind of mayhem he may inflict in pursuit of whatever goal he may have at the moment. "otherwise, you may lose that which you can never recover!"

"and what would that be?" itachi asks with vague interest.

"your dignity," satsuki replies.

shisui snorts before he can stop himself.

"… why would I lose that?" itachi asks, this time with vague dread.

"because," satsuki says, with the grand assurance of a queen, "if you don't stay, we're going to chase you around konoha and use you as target practice. and if you disappear, we're going to ask around for you, and all of konoha will know that there are thirteen children trying to find you who want to beat you up with sticks."

shisui slaps a hand against his mouth. the mental imagery that evokes is glorious.

itachi stays still for a long moment, his eyes locked with satsuki's, before, finally, his shoulders sag in defeat. "I will give in," he says, "on one condition."

naruto eyes him suspiciously. "what's that?"

"I want my siblings to meet me halfway."

shikamaru's eyes narrow, and he shakes his head at naruto, but sasuke and satsuki are family. naruto shrugs back.

sasuke, satsuki, and itachi meet in the middle of the training field… and then itachi picks them up like sacks of flour and deadpans, "I have returned to my family. you can do nothing to me now."

the kids wail in protest.

shisui says, "no, no, please don't--" but, nope, there they go, running after itachi and still shouting for sasuke and satsuki to be released.

shisui drags his hands down his face and groans.

then he jogs to catch up so that he can make sure none of them get kidnapped or something.

***

(a little over half a decade later, shisui is looking at three suna shinobi and the hopeful faces of his kids.

"let them stay for one night," satsuki pleads.

"satsuki," shisui says slowly, "these are the kazekage's children. that's suna's jinchuuriki."

"he could be our jinchuuriki," satsuki says, "if you let them stay with you."

even sasuke is doing his best puppy eyes.

shisui curses his soft heart. "you're telling your mother."

the kids cheer as quietly as they can.)

[kegareki]

tbh i'm always curious about the kaguya causes the apocalypse au, but rarely have concrete questions to ask. so um, what are sakura and obito's abilites like? how powerful are they, both as a team and individually? sakura canonically had healing and super strength, which are great, but I'm also a fan of aus where she branches out and learns other things, so i gotta ask. does she learn genjutsu from obito? also they survived a WHILE in the apocalypse, right, presumably they got even better (1/3)

and learned new stuff from each other? and/or from other survivors in their group? what are their go-to weapons? how does their power level now compare to people in the past? (2/3)

(3/3) ALSO! they travel to other dimensions using kamui, right. where does the kamui spit them out when they go a new dimension? somewhere randomly? (if so, how many times have they ended up dumped in a swamp, or in the middle of nowhere?) some fixed place every time? wherever obito wants? where? and can they choose when they arrive in a new dimension, or are they also just randomly spit out whenever and good luck figuring out in what time and place they are?

these are really good questions!!! i apparently wrote 1100 words in response, so: under the cut!

sakura and obito did survive a while in the apocalypse, yeah. people survived in groups–konoha especially espouses teamwork–and people took positions well-suited for them, at first, like they have been trained to do. hyuuga, inuzuka, aburame, yamanaka, and sensors were good at keeping track of people and directing the groups to safe spaces and such, for example. but people die, and at some point you stop being able to replace them

so people learn to cover those positions in any way they can. enhancing their senses with chakra; trying to recreate barrier seals that you’ve only seen and never studied; etc. people share information about what they remember. people go off and come back with clan scrolls, because there’s no point in hoarding clan information if that information will help keep them alive.

obito and sakura learn together, and what they teach other is–incidental, at first? sakura is healing someone, and she nabs a passing obito into helping her. obito can heal himself just fine, thanks to hashirama’s DNA, but–well. he has deep chakra reserves, as well as the ability to absorb and transfer chakra, so he might as well learn how to heal other people, because at some point they’re going to run short of medics, and it’s better for everyone if most people have even rudimentary medical skills

obito… okay i’m going to be entirely honest here: obito is fucking HORRIFIED at how sakura was treated as a genin. obito’s already complicated relationship with kakashi is complicated even further because he cannot BELIEVE that kakashi didn’t teach her SHIT, didn’t CULTIVATE her OBVIOUS TALENTS, didn’t direct her to anyone who WOULD. kakashi failed sakura, and obito is pissed off on her behalf, because that shouldn’t have happened!!!! obito offers sakura his knowledge Readily and Gladly because she should never, ever feel useless again. she should never, ever be given less than what he or anyone else can offer.

it had been noted in canon that sakura would have been adept at genjutsu, and he gives her techniques. they have to be adapted some, because genjutsu with a sharingan is formed differently than genjutsu without a sharingan, but sakura figures it out. she’s quick and eager to learn! and she’s GOOD at genjutsu! she learns how to conceal people and things; she learns how to subtly redirect a person’s attention so that their eyes skip over something without truly seeing it; she learns how to muddle a person’s sense of balance, of temperature, of pain.

and obito teaches her some ninjutsu, because that’s ANOTHER area where she was failed! why the FUCK did kakashi skimp out on even THIS?!!

sakura has water and earth release, so obito basically goes: okay, cool, here’s some mist techniques. here’s a few iwa techniques that i saw when i was 12 and that i picked up from deidara. you’re going to be so badass, i’m so proud of you.

sakura especially becomes more well-rounded than she was previously, and honestly kind of terrifying because she’s ENJOYING being versatile which means making use of her new techniques, but obito’s pretty happy with his end of the deal, too. his self-healing is passive rather than active, so learning how to use medical techniques and gaining medical knowledge is Actually Helpful because, hey, now he knows what the fuck is going on and now he can actually heal other people. AND now he knows how to do stuff like making blood clots! while that may not help much against kaguya, he’s not going to NOT appreciate new and interesting ways of killing people!

in terms of power, it’s hard to tell when your opponent is a Literal God, but by the time everyone else is dead and they abandon this world, they’re kind of stupidly powerful. like 12-year-old sasuke would eye them warily and challenge them to a fight in a hotel hallway because he can Tell they’re powerful, maybe more powerful than even Bane Of His Life Itachi, and he needs to see how he matches up against them. like–they don’t really escape because they’re dying; they escape because there’s nothing left for them, and staying would just mean dying meaninglessly.

weapons like shuriken, kunai, and senbon had become, increasingly, a scarcity, because making more becomes difficult and then impossible. they picked over past battlefields for weapons that they’ve thrown. not a lot of people had Many Throwing Weapons after a point

but when obito and sakura hang out in kamui, it’s not like THEY’RE going to lose weapons now, so obito pulls out some from his Long-Discarded Weapons Stash and they sort of idly brush up on their bukijutsu. is sakura likely to ever have need of a gunbei? no, but obito’s going to show her how to use it, anyway.

the mechanics of kamui in this ‘verse are like–

the sort of “neutral ground” is the space that obito is used to, the grey landscape of blocks where everything he puts inside of kamui shows up. in order to access anywhere else, kamui needs a set of parameters, conscious or subconscious.

in the beginning, the only parameters are the conscious “not our world” and the subconscious “please be empty,” so the destinations were random and without people. an empty forest; an abandoned cabin; a peopleless island.

obito isn’t USED to making use of this aspect of kamui, so at first, aiming for particular places and times would be difficult. he’d overshoot or undershoot, or get there at the right time but not the right place. but he’d get more precise about it and learn what sorts of parameters work best with what he has in mind (ex. events can come quicker or be delayed or happen somewhere else, depending on the circumstances! some events are sort of fixed in time and place–october 10 in konoha for the kyuubi attack, for example–whereas others shift–like who kumo takes to make a jinchuuriki). if he isn’t clear on a specific variable, what comes out will be random–like if sakura was like “i miss hashirama trees. can we go check that out” and obito’s parameters were just 'hashirama trees around konoha’, they could drop ANYWHERE in that particular forest and at any time where those trees exist

obito and sakura kind of–tend toward peaceful times and places, at first. they gather themselves up and put themselves back together as much as they can. they’re tired.

but then one day sakura makes a comment, like i wish i’d known you sooner, and obito thinks: but you could.

not this sakura, of course, but another one. a different one.

they find an obito crushed under rock, still alive, and obito can use his mangekyo to take him into kamui, and sakura can heal him from there–at least enough to keep him from dying, at least enough to take him to konoha.

being able to help–that goes a long way, after such a long period of helplessness and hopelessness, and when they think about it, there are so many things that they could help prevent, so many lives they can save with the information that they have now.

so they basically become S-class dimension-hopping superheroes just because

[kegareki]

Idk if you’ve already answered this, but will Satsuki be a ninja, and if so, what skills would they focus on?

yes satsuki will be a shinobi! knowing that the world is going to go to hell several times over by the time they become an adult, it’d be very hard to justify to themselves not learning how to fight and survive. they have the resources at hand to do things, and they can’t not use them.

also learning how to use chakra would be so fucking cool??? the whole uchiha coming-of-age breathing FIRE thing is SO FUCKING COOL.

satsuki and naruto both learn sealing (from mikoto, who in this ‘verse was kushina’s sealing apprentice; iruka, who directs them to the resources that he had used when he was learning; and genma and kakashi, who are bullied by shisui into offering at least a few tips), though their fields of focus are different--satsuki is more into barriers & storage (more interested in defensive usages & everyday things), whereas naruto is ALL UP in trapping and incendiary devices (VERY interested in using it as diversions and pranks)

as Shisui’s Favorite (TM), satsuki learns how to be Speedy. they’re a LOT more interested in evading attacks than, like, going hand-to-hand. sasuke, who is the exact opposite, gets really annoyed during their spars because he ends up chasing them around trying to get a hit in

i think that satsuki’s jutsu focus would be on genjutsu. like: quite fucking frankly making illusions is SO FUCKING COOL? it’s so versatile! there are so many senses that you can besiege! so many parts of the brain to target! and, uh, i’m psychotic with persecutory delusions, so i know how terrifying things that you Know Aren’t True BUT WHAT IF THEY ARE are. and forming LAYERS of genjutsu sounds SO COOL??? first layer, sure, shuck that off--but now you’re in another genjutsu, and so on and so forth. can someone take themselves out of the genjutsu as fast as you’re putting them up, or are they going to be slow or unobservant enough to let at least one sink in and do its work?

genjutsu is SO FUCKING COOL you guys

other than genjutsu they’d know some ninjutsu because, um, again, breathing fire is so fucking cool. satsuki and sasuke would pester itachi and shisui for Cool Ninjutsus that they’ve picked up, but i think satsuki would be more willing to experiment with lower-level jutsus to see how many ways they can use it than sasuke would. like--mundane things like “can i change the temperature of the fire?? the shape??” and combat things like starting off with ninjutsu but exaggerating the effects with genjutsu.

satsuki is a Preferably Long-Ranged Fighter, basically--they really really prefer to have distance btwn themselves and their target and for, uh, their opponent to Not See Them At All. because although having chakra is cool and fun, actually fighting people who want to kill you is Uhh Very Much NOT Fun. the high-adrenaline OH SHIT OH FUCK OH FUCK THEYRE COMING AT ME WITH POINTY OBJECT OH SHIT is something that they would very much prefer to keep to a minimum

because of that, in their genin team in straight-up fights their teammates are more attention-grabbing to allow for satsuki to blend into the background to do their thing (one of their teammates is an inuzuka, who like most of their clan is very good at being attention-grabbing and front-line. i am STILL not sure about the other one. maybe a hyuuga??)

it’s... highly likely that their team’s purpose would be sabotage or capture

[kegareki]

You said “OC likes to pet soft fur,” and my mind immediately went to Sesshomaru’s huge floofy thing. I have to ask... how did that encounter go? They probably didn’t actually try to approach him, but were they noticeably distracted by the fluff? Did they later speculate at length about how soft it must be to Inuyasha?

(okay, disclaimer, i’m going to start calling si/oc kagome “kagami” to distinguish them from canon kagome!)

the first encounter with sesshomaru in canon genuinely goes like:

sesshomaru hires a mu-onna to fly across the sky in a chariot wearing the guise of inuyasha’s dead mother.

a large yokai comes out of nowhere to crush the chariot in its claws.

sesshomaru, emerging from the fog onto the yokai’s arm: jaken, we’ll talk first and kill later.

inuyasha: ?!??! sesshomaru?!

sesshomaru talks shit for a few minutes about how fitting it is to find inuyasha, a hanyou, in the company of a vile creature like a human, and finishes it with, “you have brought disgrace onto our family.” and then he has the audacity to be like: “anyway i wanted to know where our dad’s tomb is.”

when inuyasha is like i don’t know? why would i know??? can you stop using my dead mom’s face to freak me out because that’s a fucking dick move???, sesshomaru is like “but inuyasha, that is your mother! i brought her all the way back from the dead for you!”

SIKE. that’s a mu-onna and she half-absorbs inuyasha’s body into her own just to parse through his memories to see where their dad’s tomb is

sesshomaru rips out a black pearl from inuyasha’s eye and opens up a portal with it. the portal leads to the tomb. which houses a Giant Dog Skeleton and Many, Smaller Skeletons and inuyasha’s version of excalibur, stuck into the Many, Smaller Skeletons and unable to be pulled out except by the worthy

or, in this case, by a human, because tetsusaiga was created to protect inuyasha’s human mother

sesshomaru tries to kill inuyasha. inuyasha tries to kill sesshomaru. sesshomaru tries to kill kagome. inuyasha tries harder to kill sesshomaru. sesshomaru turns into a huge dog. inuyasha promises to protect kagome and subsequently unlocks tetsusaiga’s Special Power and turns it into a giant dog fang. sesshomaru escapes with his physical body and pride wounded

so on one hand: this is an encounter fraught with danger and menace. on the other hand, his mokomoko-sama is so long and fluffy? how are you supposed to ignore it????

(i literally thought it was his tail. but it ISN’T? IT’S DETACHABLE? HE CAN TAKE IT OFF???)

during sesshomaru’s initial “what’s up, i’m an asshole” tirade, kagami stares very hard at the fur. half of their thoughts are wow what a fucking asshole but the other half is i want to shove my face into that fur. so. badly.

later, in the Giant Dog Skeleton Tomb:

myoga, the flea demon: draw out the sword, inuyasha! it must be that sesshomaru couldn’t do it!

sesshomaru, incredulously: are you suggesting that inuyasha can?

myoga: of course! the fact that the tomb was entrusted to inuyasha is proof enough!

inuyasha: i’m not interested in some worn-out old sword!!!

kagami, clambering over wood and bone: INUYASHA WAIT WAIT WAIT

inuyasha: WHAT?!!

kagami: MAKE A BET WITH SESSHOMARU THAT IF YOU CAN PULL OUT THE SWORD HE HAS TO GIVE ME HIS FLUFFY THING

inuyasha: are you fucking serious right now

kagami: PLEASE!!!!!!!!

sesshomaru, annoyed: of course a human would covet something not their own. what would i gain from such an exchange?

inuyasha: what would i be gaining from it? i don’t want a shitty sword!

myoga: inuyasha that was left to you by your father!!!

inuyasha: So???

myoga: ?!?!?! why wouldn’t you want it?!!?!

kagami: the shitty sword has the power to make itself not-shitty! and you’d gain sesshomaru’s humiliation at being denied something that he thinks is his birthright! and you’d gain MY ENDURING ADORATION FOR WINNING ME THE FLUFFY THING

inuyasha: *makes a face* keep your adoration. i just want sesshomaru’s humiliation.

the more i type this the more i’m like “i want SO BADLY for this to work out” but ultimately i doubt that inuyasha has anything that sesshomaru would deem equivalent to his mokomoko-sama, so this encounter ends with it still in his grasp

inuyasha turns to kagami and goes “why the fuck did you want his fur so badly.”

kagami looks back at him and is like “it’s. so. fluffy. and soft-looking. i want to bury myself in it.”

and that is the moment that inuyasha registers fully that he is going to have so much trouble keeping kagami alive

[kegareki]

Hello, sorry if this has already been answered somewhere, but I’m on mobile browser and might not be able to see everything. I was wondering how to find more of your satsuverse. Is it on ffnet or ao3 or somewhere else or still in progress...? (I’ve only read the Shisui’s babysitting service part, but it’s amazing, and I love it.)

it’s still in progress!!! im still working out how to write it but i love talking about it and it helps me learn what i’m doing with it. it’s an adventure for me as much as it is for you guys. i was literally asked “what’s their relationship with naruto?” a few days ago and i had no idea but now i’m like “satsuki and naruto would be such chaotic friends. konoha falls to its KNEES”

thank you to everyone whos enjoying my aus... i love all of you..........

[kegareki]

Ah fuck turns out stanning Shouto is contagious? I spent like .5 seconds on your blog and now I’m too far gone

*salutes all the pics i rbed* i’ve done my duty

[kegareki]

Not a question but your aus are just so incredibly interesting and so beautiful

thank you so much!!!!!!! <3 this is honestly the most creative ive been in Years. i got out of a rly bad situation and now i can actually? make things that make me feel good and happy? and i’m Living For It. and i’m really glad that other people are enjoying my aus too!!!! thank you all so much!!!!

[kegareki]

pls talk more abt ur gremlin dany i love them??? is there anywhere i can find more

thank you so much for being interested in my gremlin daenerys <3 as far as i know, everything i’ve posted about them so far is under the tag #fire and blood verse; i write in fragments, so i haven’t actually cobbled together a coherent narrative that i can Post As A Fic lmao... One Day I Will Manage This

but i am ALWAYS willing to talk about my ocs! here is a rambly dump of info about daenerys under the cut!

- as a general rule, daenerys has little interest in ruling anything. unfortunately, as a targaryen, people are always going to expect them to be as ambitious and power-hungry as their predecessors. their main concerns in life are towards their dragons and the impending winter. once this winter has ended--and, hopefully, every unnatural season with it, if their vague, uncertain supposition of what happened in the show holds true--they’re planning on retiring to slaver’s bay permanently or essosi sheeplands where their dragons can hunt and roam freely.

... literally the best thing about being in asoiaf is the dragons, okay, they can be forgiven for mostly just being interested in their dragons

- the only title that they really care for is “dragonlord” because, to their mind, dragonlord is the only title that they can freely claim without having to Rule Anything. like. they have dragons. they’re a dragonlord. that’s all there is to it

- my Targaryen Lore is that those of dragonlord heritage have a predisposition for warging with dragons due to long and close association together. daenerys communicates with their dragons via a combination of words and thought-images and thinks that that’s a totally normal thing to do, but nope, that’s because they’ve got dragonlord blood.

you don’t need to be of dragonlord lineage to ride a dragon--the only requirement for riding a dragon is the dragon letting you--but communication is more limited unless you can warg. it is rare, historically, to ride a dragon without a dragonlord or even a warging lineage to speak of, for a variety of different reasons, but it has happened.

- their dragons are named champion, herald, and warden. in canon, these are--in order--drogon, rhaegal, and viserion

champion, as the largest of the bunch, is the most intimidating, and he is very aware of this. when daenerys needs a thread display, he’s generally the one who steps up to the plate

all of them are more well-behaved and more well-trained than in canon, so like. don’t worry about them being chained up or hunting things down indiscriminately, lol. they’re all good boys

(like, on one hand, i get dragons becoming hard to control as they grow older. but. also. dragons have been used as mounts for CENTURIES. THEY ARE AT LEAST SEMI-DOMESTICATED. PLEASE. JUST LET ME HAVE MY DRAGONS WHO ALL LIKE TO BE SCRATCHED)

- daenerys’ fashion, when they have access to such clothing, remains largely in the sphere of: mainly loose hair with a bit pulled back from the face (and here’s another perspective) or their hair pulled into a tucked braid updo; the blue dragonscale-textured dresses that we all love; the loose, flowy fabrics; and like. trousers. i was looking for canon examples for references and then i got tired. the hair is the important part--they pretty much never do any of the more complicated braids dany does

- i made oc friends for them! at slaver’s bay, their friend group is kazzek, jhezza, and imri. kazzek and jhezza (both native to the region) had been house slaves and imri (born to those who had been from the free cities) had been in the fighting pits.

kazzek is wary of outsiders--especially those with no one to vouch for them--but fiercely loyal once his trust and respect have been earned. any slight against his friends is taken personally. (in most AUs, he is the rider for their third dragon, warden.)

jhezza is softer-spoken and conciliatory, with a warm, friendly demeanor, but that does not mean that she is naive or spineless. she chooses which battles to fight and which to let go of.

imri had not liked fighting, had not liked the way his life hung in the balance every time he stepped foot into the ring. he is tired of brutality, of inflicting it and receiving it. he will use his bulk and his scarred body to intimidate, when need be, but he is more of a gentle giant than anything.

- daenerys and jon become friends in Every World And Every AU. mostly because jon is one of my favorite asoiaf characters (dark-haired, sullen-faced with a giant wolf and a cloak???? Fuck Yeah) but also because there are . a LOT of things about jon and daenerys that interest me

like, the similarities between their lives?? the way that they have both found homes in foreign places (jon with the watch and the free folk, daenerys in slaver’s bay), the way they both carry with them living emblems of their houses (jon with ghost the direwolf, daenerys with their three dragons), the way some part of their birthright has been denied to them (jon as a bastard raised among trueborn siblings, daenerys as a targaryen whose family had been deposed), the way they both have siblings that if things had been different would have ruled (jon with robb as the future lord stark, daenerys with viserys who had always dreamed of reclaiming the iron throne), the way they look exactly as you would expect a stark and targaryen to look and still they manage to subvert expectations

and the differences between them... even just aesthetically... the dark hair of a stark vs the silver-gold of a targaryen... the heavy clothing of the north vs the light, flimsier fabrics of the south... FIRE AND ICE...

daenerys is already well-disposed toward jon, as a si/oc, and jon becomes pretty fond of them in turn

in an au i have where “canon jon goes back in time but also to the left to end up in the past but in a world with si/oc daenerys instead of canon dany,” jon has been planning this whole time for Canon Dany And Whatever The Fuck Happened There, and what he gets is... si/oc daenerys, who comes to westerosi with the title “dragonlord” and who wants nothing to do with the iron throne. he is caught very off-guard and is very suspicious but eventually accepts that apparently dany’s behavior is not as set in stone as he thought it was

i also have... a transdimensional timeloop au where every time jon and daenerys die, they end up in another world and integrate into that version of themselves. this is because i wanted to keep making aus but didn’t want to keep making new pages so i just lumped them all into this one LMAO they’re the only ones who loop and they always loop together, so they generally 1) try to actually help the realm and their families or 2) decide “yeah, this isn’t worth it” and go off into the wilderness together. sometimes they go beyond the wall, sometimes they make their way over to slaver’s bay