I already have an au where Kinger abstracts soon after queenie but what if he just becomes like extremely angry after queenie goes
Like what if for whatever reason he just becomes a total dick, sorta like coach dictatorer and he just he's always yelling he's always berating
Maybe he does so because he's falling into Scratch's shoes. I like writing Scratch as like yk a Bitch and someone who doesn't see Caine as his own being, so what if after Queenie goes Kinger just falls into the same habits the same mannerisms but a lot angrier bc he's tainted by grief and loss
Maybe before he was nice. Comforting to Caine. But now, he doesn't even see Caine as a person, as a sentient being, much less a son. So he yells at Caine. Kinger takes allllll his anger out for days, weeks, months, hell who knows how long it had just been him and Caine, maybe even years
And then after all that anger is done, all Kinger has to spare for Caine is an icy silence. He only talks when there's a bug to be fixed, a problem to be solved. Caine truly becomes a tool
Ragatha joins, Caine is shy and anxious and unbearably worried that this new lovely human might go through the same treatment, maybe he shouldn't have implemented the brain scan saver after all, maybe he was dooming others to this same anger and -
Wait. He's calling her daughter. He's calling her lovely. He's nice, he's like he was before she left
That's right, this au not only stars Kinger being a highly unexpected and ooc ass, but also the ever common "parenting everyone but his own son thing"
I also think that he would've kept his sanity for the most part, not letting himself be lost at all in his rage
Caine in this au is a lot more worried, and a lot more distant. He tentatively implements adventures again a few days after Ragatha arrives, and is relieved when she wants to check it out and Kinger agreed for her sake
Everytime Kinger even looks his way, he drops everything, immediately making sure he's not done wrong bc he's just. Desperate now. He doesn't want that silence to return, he doesn't want that disapproval and disappointment and that just eugh that Kinger was giving him to come back
So yeah new au idea I had
