why is there not a lotrstuck au of somekind?
like all the references with dave are a nice base of setup. the name strider: aragorn went by that name too, the broken sword shtick and it being reforged by typheus: narsil that was broken in the battle against sauron and then it was reforged by the elves for aragorn, dave saying constantly he’s not a hero even tho he does some damn heroic shit: aragorn always trying to be in the shadows and out of the spot of main attention but he grows into a great leader….
there may be other similarities but I can’t think of any right now
and I can also see somehow giving the role of a mix of aragorn and faramir for dave
like Bro could be denethor, the shitty parental figure, dirk could be boromir, the badass older brother who daddy prefers and then the youngest kid as dave who gets treated like shit
after years of abuse ‘n’ stuff dave gets fed up and just straight up leaves casa strider and goes to the high elves in rivendell that I guess could be the trolls in some forest called alternia
and just to make it davekat he would meet karkat there. how? just like how aragorn and arwen first met only in their own version. so instead of singing some lame romantic song about a human meeting an elf lady while wandering through the forest dave raps some sick fires and while he’s at it he sees some fine looking troll reading a trashy romance novel in the middle of the forest
but not to make karkat sit home like a doofus like fucking arwen did we’re just gonna blend a bit of legolas into the mix in a way how aragorn and legolas were best buds so are karkat and dave, making it a romance that ascends quadrants with these two. and karkat can get in on all the fighting action
idk how races would work, like all elves are trolls and we wipe out the hobbits and just make all the humans in human form even if they’d get a hobbit or any other race’s role
for other characters:
-caliborn/lord english obviously takes the role of sauron
-the condence can be saruman
-so I guess that makes the orcs and other monsters the imps and all the other in game enemies
-john can be frodo, he has a hobbit enough personality and he stashed that fucking ring in canon anyway for a while, at least he can make frodo not so useless
-rose (or roxy) is gandalf
-if we wanna involve even more wizards than roxy can be radagast only cooler
-either calliope, jade or kanaya would be galadriel, the point is it gotta be a space player
-dirk is boromir as I mentioned and if he dies than instead of the iconic arrows in the body death we get our dirkapitation
-as before bro is denethor and wether its burning to death or a sword in the chest he deserves to die
-umm hussie is iluvatar, the god of the lotr lore
fuck if I know who or what the other characters would be, flippin aranea could be gollam all I care, there are just too many