Elita-One/Blackarachnia/Jinx AU
"YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE OFFLINE" AU
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
For those who don't know, i kind of have a small fanfic on AO3 😅. It's a crossover between "Arcane" and "Transformers Animated".
It's basically about Jinx reincarnating into Elita-One after the events of the second season of Arcane.
I've been thinking about this AU for a long time.
The thing about Jinx is that she doesn't hate what she is now but the fact that she was left alone, how everyone that ever got involved with her died, how she couldn't properly be someone.
So mixing her with a tragic character like TFA Elita-One/Blackarachnia? yeah that would be a rollercoaster of emotions!
Her being in the Autobot Academy might give her the chance to explore and have a solid support on her talents, i've been thinking of making Wheeljack her mentor and share a father-daughter relationship...but might also cause her conflicts with other bots due to her recklessness, maybe even being accused of having "Decepticon coding" on her.
I personally don't see Wheeljack as a completely "good" character, the Animated variant of Wheeljack apparently worked in the Omega Projects and in the creation of the jettwins so...that tends to leave him in a grey area. He's more like someone who did what he needed to do so the Autobots could win the war.
Her relationship with Optimus and Sentinel would resemble that of siblings and i have totally discarded the idea of shipping her with Optimus, we barely have a reason for Optimus and Blackarachnia to be together on the Animated series so i don't really feel like doing this on this AU.
Archa Seven?...Yeah that will hurt. I truly believe that she would not hate her organic half and would not try to "cure herself" or anything like that but she would probably develop anger and complicated emotions towards Sentinel and Optimus due to them abandoning her. Remember her whole reunion arc with Vi during the first season of Arcane? ...yeah, pretty similar to that.
I don't see her joining the Decepticons but she wouldn't go back to the Autobots either...i think she would probably make herself a neutral who would act on her own interests.
I have planned for her to somehow find her way to Earth and be a constant vigilante of Optimus' team once she realizes they are on the same planet. Would REALLY want to interact with him and try to reconnect but her feelings and her perception of him abandoning her back then would really cloud her mind.
Now writing Sentinel and Optimus might be...complicated. This is due to me not really wanting to make Sentinel a villain but i have to recognize that he is an asshole, might as well give a redemption arc to this boy. Optimus? yeah the guilt would eat him alive just like in the TFA series, the main difference might be that he would try his hardest to have Blackarachnia/Jinx on his side...but she would probably try to stay away from him due to not wanting to hurt him anymore.
If we follow the TFA Canon events ...i would like her to still find Wasp but not to experiment on him, maybe she offers him a shelter? maybe they become friends? ...maybe she starts seeing Isha on Wasp and becomes maternal towards him?
And the Dinobots? she might adopt them as well.
This whole AU is just an excuse to fix the emotional damage that both Arcane and TFA have done to me 😭.
