So been stewing on what to do for the whole July incident in Dormant seeds. On one hand, I'm not quite settled on how we get to leveling a whole city and two uh, what do to with Knives. As I'm vaguely following the tristamp lore, this has been a little hard to sort out.
Honestly? I have this idea that the Eye of Michael who is still, very much a cult obsessed with plants and the twins, cause the incident and blame it on the twins. They lure them there via kidnapped plants (and the gun ho guns) and attempt to take control of them to some.
Conrad, whos leading the cult wants the twins abilities to try and force replicate how Independent plants are made. While Elendria, whos basically a christ figure for the cult, wants to see just what other independent plants are like since her only knowledge on them is herself, the various stories about the twins and the whispers of the plants they do have around.
Big twist? Tesla's remains are brought into this. Shes still "alive" (as alive as being hooked up to a crazy live support and still im multiple jars can be). She's hooked up to Knives to puppet his body some so they can get the cube out of Vash.
The twins are ultimately rescued by Meryl and Legato who manage to get them out of the tank and shut things down... kind of. Knives and Vash through this whole situation are forced into their angel/plant forms. Knives, having Tesla kinda in his head going out of control and Vash trying to stop him. This all leading up to Vash's angel arm being activated above July.
The horror of Vash begging Knives to stop while Knives struggles to reel himself in. Ultimately being blasted point blank with the angel arm, while Tesla uses his body to try and claw for the cube.
July is destroyed in the end, Legato and Meryl got saved by Wolfwood before they could be caught in the blast. Vash is MIA and Knives? He's believed to be dead. Elendira and Conrad got what they wanted, proof for the hivemind, proof of just what Vash and Knives COULD do, and a real showing of how the cult was 'right' about things, giving them more power and a wider spread as eye of Michael goes fully public as a group wanting to help after the damage done during the July incident.
This is gonna come bite then in the ass after the time skip when try try to bring Knives back. (We're doing the 'he comes back wrong' trope but thats for a different post). But this also might just get scrapped and replaces with a different idea.
And of course, we get to introduce a concept I've been stewing on which is Tesla and her part in the story. We're giving our girl an active role! Kinda. She died scared and angry at humans, but being kept alive to some degree allowed her some control over the hivemind. Just enough she can be used like a weapon by Conrad/The Eye of Michael. If anything, she's more just scared, unaware of whats really going on and trying to keeo herself safe.
Of course, this is all like really vague ideas and hypotheticals. Im not ACTUALLY set on how July takes place outside of yk, the time skip having to take place. I might have a version where both the twins live or smthn. If anyone has ideas or things they wanna add please feel free to do so 🙏 I always love hearing other people's takes.
Also! If you wanna write anything for the Dormant seeds au, feel free to do so, just tag me so I can see it :3c.
Dormant seeds Master post here as always <3