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Thinking about Astoria MC biting her LIs <3

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MC and Alex being reincarnated soulmates who find each other across every era—only for one to lose the other in some way or form.

MC and Alex getting together in Alex's route, and bit by bit they start getting fragments of their past memories, flashes of different lives.

MC being the first to fully remember just before she's brought to Olympus for Hera's awakening, and hoping her next reincarnation meets Alex again.

Alex standing against Zeus to save MC, stubborn and desperate, wanting to finally have at least one life together with her, tired of losing her over and over again.

MC using her memories of all her and Alex's various lives, of meeting them and loving them in every era, to fight back against Hera's awakening—fight back against fate itself that keeps tearing them apart.

Alex and MC winning and finally—finally, finally, finally—getting to live their lives together, no longer being torn apart by gods or monsters or the world itself.

MC and Alex being soulmates who find each and fall in love no matter what <3

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Medusa and Alex aren't allowed to leave the house until MC has left her teeth marks in them. Just to remind the world they are hers :) Likewise, Medusa and Alex return the bites to remind her she is theirs, and not even Zeus can change that.

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Was thinking about an Alex and MC in the Coffee Network AU, and how Alex feels guilty about being forced to reject MC's application by the powers up high and not fighting harder for her. So they try to distance themselves from her, but she's having none of it because she knows it wasn't them and she forgives them, and says it straight to their face when she corners them one day before they could leave for work. So Alex throws themselves into supporting her shop, ordering only from her shop, tipping her workers way more than any normal tip On MC's side, she's feels guilty about keeping them in the dark about why she actually opened up a coffee shop so close to H.E.R.A. They have top access, but she doesn't use them. She can't. They're too...they're Alex. So she just asks them basic information about how their day is going as she serves them, and every time they order for a delivery she sends somebody else because she doesn't want to be left alone in their office with all that tempting information at her finger tips. She can't do it to them—she can't—so she makes sure their baked treats are fresh and their coffee hot, and she saves the best for them.

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Some more Coffee Network AU

—MC hangs a photo of MCMama behind the counter as a tribute. Hades always sits in a corner far away from it.

—The snake shaped pastries MC made specially for Hydra are strictly for Hydra. Nobody else is allowed to have them, he will fight everybody for them. She makes them for him. They're his.

—Overtime MC starts naming the usual drinks her li's have. She names Medusa's after one of her favourite books.

—MC writes her findings for in a special journal she keeps tucked away in her room, and even has it written in code for extra measure.

—MC has a special drink-and-pastry combo made in honour of her mother.

—Chimera loves drawing on the Specials Board (MC lets him). He makes little funny doodles. It becomes a regular thing. The customers like it.

—MC gets access to H.E.R.A by doing personal deliveries. She pretends to get lost and when caught uses childhood memories to reminisce about things that used to be there or how she and Josh used to wander around after slipping out from under their mother's nose. A majority of people soften after that and sometimes sneak her around to certain rooms she "remembers", and share lots of information with her —There are a few pieces of artwork on the shop walls. Very beautiful. Alex swears they look familiar, like they've seen the technique before somewhere. They spot the initials in the corner of one painting—an S.W. It isn't until they come across one of their mother's favourite portraits that they remember and realise those painting belong to their father—one Silas Ward who left them years ago.

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Adding some more I thought of for the Coffee Network AU. LI-focused:

—Chimera starts working at the shop a few weeks after it's opened. The scent of coffee and baking and the radio being on keeps him calm. He's a mixture of server and security. He helps throw out the ones who don't follow the rules. He loves doing latte art, and makes interesting creations, and often hands MC the cutest ones just to see her smile.

—After a while, MC makes a reading corner for Medusa (and others, but mainly Medusa). Medusa is touched. She even has her own chair! She finds the best books to fill the shelves, and often gives the very best to MC if she shows an interest in one, and would spend her entire break talking to MC about it and loves watching MC getting into a book.

—Hades visits the shop as much as he can between his various duties. He often sits in a corner, nursing a cup, and watches her as she goes between tables, chatting and laughing with her customers as she serves them, getting their drinks right every time. She comes over during the lulls in customers to check on him, and often gives him a freebie that she tells him to keep to himself, giving him a wink and playful smile. He promises her every time.

—Alex tries to spend as much time as they can at the shop while on a break. They feel guilty for MC not getting into H.E.R.A. They wanted to accept her application, but the order from up high rejected her. They thought MC would blame them, but when they first entered, she gave them such a warm smile it left them breathless and eased them. She always saves the freshest baked good for them in the mornings.

—Hydra crashes in the backroom sometimes. It happened when he had a case that went a bit wrong, and MC hid him in her shop while she dealt with his pursuers. She makes the best coffee that keeps him awake enough to do his work, and added a sofa in the back for him to have a sleep on. He sometimes works part-time. She once made him a pastry shaped like a snake as a joke. He now wants it every time he comes in.

—Astraeus keeps breaking in to eat the left overs. It hurts being out of Tartarus, but the coffee and food is worth it. He's the only one who knows MC's secret. He fully supports her. Wants to help her when he can because, really. In fact, he encourages her to be more wrathful, to use every agent and demigod and god that comes into her shop. She stubbornly refuses to use Alex and May and even Hades and Aphrodite. He hopes she finds the truth soon because the thought of watching her storm into Olympus, ready to tear down the people who hid her mother's murder from her and Josh for so long, and finally bring the murderer to light is sexy.

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Thinking more about this AU and decided to do some headcanons/plot stuff.

—Before MC tried to join H.E.R.A she got a file in the mail that held evidence that her mother's death wasn't an accident. While it didn't say who did it, it was enough to prove her mother's death was covered up and she and Josh were lied to.

When she tried to join to look further into it, she was rejected. Using the money her mother left for her (Josh's half was used for his restaurant), she opened a coffee shop near H.E.R.A.

—The coffee shop is neutral ground. Monsters, agents, demigods, and gods are welcomed—and will be thrown out if they start a fight. Everybody knows by now not to push MC on this rule. Not at all helped when she's backed-up by Agent Cyprin (or her other LIs, or even Hades and Aphrodite). Just shut-up and drink your coffee.

—MC does her own baked treats. She gets up early to make them fresh for the early morning/late night crowds.

—Everybody knows not to talk to Agent Cyprin unless they're spotted drinking coffee in MC's shop or has a take-out cup with her logo. And a take-out bag of some baked treat. Seriously, don't every try.

—Tempted to call this the Coffee Network AU because MC is networking while running a coffee shop...the agents just don't know she's networking to get into H.E.R.A and go exploring without getting caught.

—Alex doesn't know what MC is really doing. MC feels guilty about it, so she doesn't ask them any questions about H.E.R.A outside the basics of how work is going.

—MC has everybody's coffee orders memorised (or, at least, her LI's orders). She still doesn't know they've fallen for her.

—Astraeus keeps breaking in at night to eat any leftovers. MC has given up chasing him out. She lets him do it now so she doesn't end-up wasting any food.

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Thinking of an AU where MC gets rejected from joining H.E.R.A and opens up a coffee shop instead (like the one in Coffee Talk), and it's a hit with the agents and monsters, and more than once she has had to put her foot down whenever a fight almost breaks out between the two groups because her place is neutral and anybody causing trouble will be banned immediately.

Then it turns out she started the shop as a way to secretly get information from the agents and also slip into H.E.R.A (with deliveries) to find out what really happened to her mother after somebody sent her a file containing evidence that it wasn't an accident.