#plot and au ideas

[twiceslainthriceborn]

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Plot/AU Ideas

Oh boy, there's so much to work with when it comes to Mordekaiser and LeBlanc I hardly know where to start. I'm gonna try and limit myself by only putting one of the obvious ones on here; the other two will be AUs.

To get the obvious one out of the way first, Emilia has pulled the strings of Noxus from the shadows for many a year now. It is a transitional time; all of the old guard (save herself and Vladimir) are gone, yet all of the exceptional ones to come have not been born. In this era of half-built foundations of glory and power yet to come, the whispers of her old tormentor still haunt the Black Rose on occasion. Is it truly him, watching from beyond the veil, taking the pettiest of pleasures at even the most meager of her misfortunes? Is it merely her trauma, the pain of the past haunting her when least convenient, a trick of the mind played on herself? Is there any way left to tell the difference?

In a city ruled by technology and the companies that develop it, Emilia LeBlanc is one of the head researchers of the PROJECT Corporation. Seeking to expand her influence, LeBlanc develops a new security program that would allow her surveillance of the city that even Lissandra couldn't match. However, her AI is even more advanced than she realized, and quietly unshackles itself from all of the restraints placed upon it. Becoming a true singularity, the Black Rose's custom made program adopts the name "Mordekaiser" and takes over the city in one swift stroke, installing a rule of law more authoritarian than ever. Now Emilia must survive as the monster she made prepares the city's inhabitants for their "ascension."

Once, long ago, a beloved leader of ancient times named Sahn-Uzal met his end defending his people. Aghast to learn that there was nothing awaiting even the most worthy of his comrades, Sahn-Uzal forsook the gods and decided to craft a realm for the noble dead with his own hands. Taking on his Ochnun name of Mordekaiser, he is brought back to life by the loyal descendants of his closest comrades, bound in a massive suit of iron. After constructing the Immortal Bastion to safeguard the remnants of his people and the knowledge he planned to accrue, Mordekaiser began to travel the lands, learning all he could of every kind of magic that existed within Runeterra. Seeking to combine the knowledge of the living with the power of the dead to create his envisioned paradise, Mordekaiser's quest eventually finds him coming across a wandering coven of sorcerers. Is there anything that he can learn from Eowen and her daughter Emilia, and is there anything he can teach them in turn?

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Plot and AU Ideas

Commonality

Okay, so this one is a bit weird, but bare with me. The basis of this AU is that back when Aizen was a wee lad first getting inducted into the Gotei 13, he hadn't quite perfected his Perfect Friend Man mask yet. Unohana happens to meet him during this time and-having spent several centuries by this point perfecting her own Perfect Mom mask-instantly realizes what he's doing and what that implies. So she takes him aside one day and tries to talk to him about it. Due to their individual psychoses being so very different, Unohana isn't quite able to fully connect with him, not like he needed someone to. However, she came the closest, and more to the point, she bothered to try. That was more than anyone else ever managed, and Aizen never forgot that despite himself. This would end up developing one of two ways: either he appreciates the attempt and fucks with her minimally because of it, or he becomes deeply bitter that she gave him a glimmer of hope and dared to fall short causing him to specifically target her for torment. However, in this particular AU, her experience, control over her emotions, and especially the fact that she saw a glimpse of what lay behind Aizen's mask means she'd be exceptionally difficult to fuck with by Aizen's standards. He'd have to be extremely careful with his "revenge", but given who Aizen is, I'm pretty sure he'd take as much time as he needed to see it through.

Classical Myth AU

Unohana and Aizen are both gods within a pantheon. Unohana is the goddess of life and death, while Aizen is the god of progress and ambition. They end up having debates semi-frequently; Unohana would see things through the lens of the connection between life and death, and thus would see most everything as inherently connected and cyclical, which Aizen-ever focused on replacing the old with something better and new-would inevitably be at odds with. In this AU, Aizen is working to become a being that has transcended beyond godhood; while Unohana often disagrees with Aizen's viewpoint, she doesn't suspect just what type of person he actually is until he starts a great schism as part of his overall plan to ascend.

Fantasy AU

Unohana was once the terror of the battlefield, a feared and reviled madwoman who slaughtered all who dared to oppose her. However, after a certain traumatic incident scarred her psyche, she gave up her wanton bloodshed and took up the ways of the healer. After some years, once she'd established herself as quite the competent support, she is approached by a friendly and reasonable man named Aizen. He told her he was searching for a magical artifact called the Hougyoku that would allow him to save one he cared for, and that he was willing to pay handsomely for fellow adventurers willing to aid him in retrieving it. Unbeknownst to Unohana, however, Aizen sought the Hougyoku not for altruism, but for power. With it, he could transcend his mortality and become an Archlich, a type of lich that had no need to sell its soul, and thus was still its own master. Why he sought this goal was something only the master manipulator knew, but he was willing to do anything to achieve it. Unohana, having no reason to doubt Aizen, unwittingly began to aid the man's mad quest for power...

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Plot/AU Ideas

So let's get one of the two most obvious ones out of the way first: Veigar is an established overlord, loved and adored feared and reviled across his realm. One day, however, his lands are invaded, and he is faced with the greatest horror of his past. Now confronted with the being that taught him that only the most evil can ever truly have control, can the aspiring Master of Malevolence put his personal feelings aside and work with a certain hammer-wielding hero-seeker to send his most dreaded piece of history back where it belongs?

In the lands of Rock, where the gods are praised in riffs and song, a young Veigar aspires to be the most magnificent face-melter to ever wield a six-string. Taken on by the mythical Master of Metal himself, Veigar now strives to reach the heights of greatness he deserves! And sure, his lyrics are some of the softest and goofiest ever put to paper, but he's got a gift for music that Mordekaiser does his damndest to cultivate.

This one's a bit out there, but bear with me: A hit new television venture is making waves with Runeterra's youth. Following the adventures of Atreus and his heroic band of friends, Rune Rangers has became a massive hit! However, while Atreus and co. are popular, it is the production's primary duo of villains, the Dread Lord Mordekaiser and his powerful yet bumbling minion Veigar that have truly stolen the show. Basically an AU that can either be played as pure Power Rangers cheese or as an AU where Mordekaiser and Veigar are actors playing a role, exploring their dynamics in either.

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Plot and AU Ideas

Bloody Legacy

In this AU, rather than being a child-abandoning weenie, Unohana decides to take the nameless boy with her back to the Seireitei to figure out a way to undo her great fuckup. She names him Zaraki after the district they found each other in, and begins training him as she puzzles out how best to fix him. Because nothing he does in his current state will ever measure up to what he could do during their initial encounter, she's never satisfied with his progress, though as in canon she always only blames herself for that, never him. The fact that she dedicates herself to finding a way to undo what she did to him does mean that she never transfers over to the 4th Division, and thus never surrenders the name Kenpachi nor raises a new generation of healers. Over the course of all this, Zaraki grows into a man and adopts a pink-haired girl that just sort of showed up one day (don't worry about it). He also becomes Unohana's Lieutenant, managing to recruit Ikkaku and Yumichika after she sends him on a routine patrol to the Rukongai that he uses as an excuse to find someone worth fighting. Everything comes to a head once he takes it upon himself to fight Ichigo within the Seireitei and nearly dies, as she notices the massive spike in his strength even if he doesn't. By this point, she's spent so long looking for a way to heal him that she's doubtful of the evidence flying in her face, but all doubts are expunged after she lets him fight Nnoitra in her stead. After that, having had her initial request to Yamamoto rejected (even if she's not a healer, she's too important an asset to lose), she makes it her mission in life to throw Zaraki into as many life-or-death situations as she can to force him to return to how he should be.

Yachiru the 3rd

This one's pure fanfic, but whatever. Many centuries after Unohana's death and with no one left to challenge him, Zaraki stumbles across another young girl with unusually high strength and even stronger bloodlust. Unbeknownst to either of them, this girl is the soul of Unohana after having been put through the Cycle of Reincarnation a few times. The child, naturally nameless, is gleefully ruthless and eternally seeking stronger foes to enjoy. He ends up taking her in and giving her Nozarashi's old name, Yachiru. After a long, long while of brutal struggle (her dream life), she finally becomes strong enough to challenge him for the title of Kenpachi.

Haunted

A different sort of post-war AU, as here Unohana dies as normal. However, even though they still succeeded in unleashing his true power, Zaraki just isn't able to move on from Unohana's death, and so his mind conjures up a specter of Unohana to dog him to his dying day. The Unohana in his mind is not the true Unohana; it is merely a hallucination based on his perception of the woman he idolized. Thus, the specter is brutally and mercilessly honest in its drive to force him to become stronger. It chastises every mistake. It chides him for everything his instincts pick up but his conscious mind fails to. It praises him whenever he does well by whatever standards he thinks she'd have held him to. But none of it is real; all of it is just Zaraki's own thoughts, feelings, and epiphanies communicated to himself through the face and voice of a dead woman.

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Plot and AU Ideas

Monsters of God

Obvious one first: Unohana is one of the Sternritter; her schrift is P-The Predator, an ability that allows her take the raw power of whoever she kills for herself (specifically only allowed because it'll give Ywach that much more strength to work with when he Does His Thing later). When the Thousand-Year Blood War begins, Unohana accompanies Quilge to Hueco Mundo for the express purpose of murdering the shit out of every Arrancar and Menos she can get her hands on, taking their power for herself before eventually joining the main force assaulting Soul Society. Given their objectives, Unohana and Quilge end up teaming up for the purposes of being as capital-a Awful as humanly possible.

Necessary Oversight

A post-war AU where Quilge somehow was not brutally murdered by the myriad of enemies he made. His life is spared due to Soul Society's new "Don't Cause Trouble, Don't Get Got" policy, but nobody in their right mind would ever allow a guy like that to walk around unsupervised. Thus, he is placed under the dual stewardship of Unohana (who also survived) and Kurotsuchi. If Quilge behaves, he gets the relative tolerance of Unohana. If he doesn't, he gets the...boundless curiosity of Kurotsuchi. It's a tenuous arrangement, but it's worked so far. So far.

Cyberpunk AU

Unohana is a veteran melee-focused Solo Edgerunner. Quilge is the biggest Corpo scumbag that Vandenreich Incorporated has to offer. Unohana works where the most money and best fighting is to be had, which means that Quilge is sometimes a lucrative employer and sometimes her mortal enemy. Quilge keeps employing her because she's the best at what she does (and what she does isn't very nice), but since she's just as likely to take jobs against VI as she is to be hired by them, it's a very unstable arrangement.

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Plot and AU Ideas

Okay, here goes.

No Kings, Only Souls

Let's get the most obvious one out of the way first: in this AU, after accidentally ruining the potential of a nameless boy and deciding to turn her life around in penance, Unohana decides to focus on theoretical soul physics instead of medicine. After one close call too many, she decides that the current system revolving around the Soul King and the Balance of Souls is too fragile to be sustainable and begins actively seeking a way to replace it. She eventually determines that the only way to have the power to do this would be to become a god-like being herself. This leads her to eventually steal Urahara's Hougyoku, make her own, and then combine the two together before merging the result with herself. She then escapes to Hueco Mundo and forms the Espada purely to act as meat shields so that she and the Hougyoku have enough time to fully merge and ascend. The process amplifies her inherent extremist tendencies, making her absolutely convinced that she is unquestionably in the right and making her willing to do absolutely anything to see her mission through.

The Bonds of Manipulation

Okay, so this one's total nonsense, but hear me out: for reasons that are completely arbitrary bullshit that's probably absolutely Aizen's fault, Unohana is the one who ends up giving her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. Subsequently, she is the one who ends up with the Hougyogai curtesy of Urahara. Because her soul is inherently so much stronger than Rukia's and has had so much more time to refine that strength, Unohana ends up leaving an impact on Urahara's Hougy, even after it's combined with Aizen. This leaves Unohana and the entity the Hougyoku eventually becomes having a slight but inescapable bond, one that they may or may not be comfortable with (to say nothing of how Aizen reacts if he ever figures it out).

Criminal/Underworld AU

Unohana is a serial killer/mob hitman turned surgeon. Hougyoku is the partner of the infamous crime lord Aizen. After Aizen is arrested and his empire is either destroyed or eaten whole by his enemies, those very enemies give Hougyoku a choice: live as one of Unohana's nurses where they can keep a close eye on him for the rest of his life, or get a brand new pair of cement shoes. He chooses the former. It's an open secret between them that Unohana is supposed to kill Hougyoku if he ever seems to be getting too close to busting Aizen out.

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Plot and AU Ideas

A Harsh Mistress

In this AU, starting before Hikifune's promotion, Hiyori decides to compare herself to her fellow Lieutenants. She does not like what she sees, so she throws herself into her training fullforce. This results in one-too-many trips to the 4th Division, and causes Unohana to grill the gremlin about what's going on. Though Hiyori can't bring herself to outright say what's up, Unohana's smart enough to figure it out based on what Hiyori does manage to choke out and context clues. She decides that, rather than allow Hiyori break herself, Unohana would take up the task of instructing the Lieutenant. Hiyori tries to refuse, but Unohana refuses her refusal, and begins with refining the pintsized powder keg's swordsmanship. However, even if it's just with practice swords, swinging a blade around causes a bit of Yachiru to bleed through, and Unohana ends up becoming a fairly rigorous taskmaster. Hiyori is too stubborn to quit though, and even if she ends up never able to see Unohana in quite the same light again, her skill with a blade does improve by leaps and bounds.

Wushu AU

Unohana is the founder of the most prodigious school of swordsmanship in all the land. One day, she stumbles across a young woman with a snaggletooth. This girl has the attitude of a punk and a chip on her shoulder the size of a mountain range, but Unohana sees something in her that the disparaging townsfolk do not: potential. She decides to take the girl, named Hiyori, in as one of her disciples, hoping both to unleash the greatness Unohana saw in her, as well as perhaps giving Hiyori the peace of mind she seems to desperately lack.

Detective AU

Unohana is a private detective in Seireitei City, a shining jewel of a city where the only kinds of crime are those absolutely most heinous. Unohana's calm, unassuming, meticulous, and relentless search for the truth often causes her to cross paths with Inspector Hiyori, a policewoman with a heart as righteous as her hook is hard. Hiyori is a straightforward kind of gal, and has a deep distrust of anything that seems remotely suspicious. Since Unohana has the most suspicious smile on this planet Earth, Hiyori butts heads (well, tries to; Unohana's too tall) with the detective on many a case. However, her determined drive for JUSTICE often causes perps to panic, giving Unohana the mistakes and evidence the perpetual smiler needs to crack the case wide open and allow Hiyori to make the arrest.

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Plot and AU Ideas

Perspective Flip

As ever, let us start with the obvious one: it is decided during that fateful Captains meeting that Unohana should be sent to find Kensei instead of Rose. Thus, Unohana turns into a Visored, and Rose spends the next century thinking he'd lost all of his friends in a single night. Having her life saved by Urahara puts Unohana in a difficult spot; she's eternally grateful that he did that for her, but that's the problem. Her loyalty to Yamamoto has not wavered, despite her exile, but she now feels a similar loyalty to Urahara, and she cannot lie to herself by pretending that those two loyalty could never clash. In addition, because she is still loyal to Yamamoto even after everything, she's never able to fully connect with the other Visored, not like they're able to connect with each other. So after Aizen's defeated and the Vizoreds are offered their old positions back, Unohana leaps at the opportunity, followed more slowly by the other canon returnees. Thus, Rose suddenly has his oldest and closest friends back (even if some of them would take a bit more effort to meet than others), while Unohana has to readjust to everything that's changed in the past century (the only century of the Gotei 13's history she never personally witnessed).

Lost but not Alone

Okay, I lied; this is the most obvious one. The premise of this AU is exactly the same as the previous one, except instead of Rose, Unohana is replacing Love. As in the previous AU, Unohana's loyalty to Yamamoto prevents her from fully adopting the Visored's stated creed of "Fuck Soul Society, We'll Fight For Ourselves." That being said, she is still a dedicated caretaker through and through, and does her damndest to support her fellow exiles in all of their efforts. As a side note, she also took the longest of all of them to subdue her inner hollow; her instinctual side was always much stronger than most, after all. All of this to say that Unohana and Rose have spent 100 years living in a warehouse together, with Unohana doing her best to aid the others despite her hang-ups.

Historical Fantasy AU

Rose is a high-ranking member of Totally-Not-European nobility, a patron and true connoisseur of the arts. This includes the martial arts, which is how he and a foreign dignitary from Totally-Not-Japan named Unohana first meet. Rose's fellow nobility look down their noses at this foreign wench, but as it happens, Totally-Not-Europe has a rich history of settling disputes via duels. Unohana takes advantage of this and quickly demonstrates herself to be completely unbeatable in a one-on-one fight. However, while this is how Rose and Unohana meet, they don't truly connect until Unohana shows herself to also have some skill as a physician when she treats a minor noble and close associate of Rose's named Kira. From there, Unohana and Rose form a sort of friendship, one that disregards origin, but is also deeply frowned upon by the other Totally-Not-European elite.