#pulse au

[4threset]

more idlings from my villain Robert AU..... He has the presence of a haunted abandoned city. Am I making sense. Is this thing on? Does anyone see the vision? This man is haunted.

[mybraincellbelongstomanmech]

/Not ManMech related

Came across @4threset's Villain Robert Au, It's so freaking cool and awesome that I really really wanted to draw him

So I did

Tho Uhm... checking back on their account to make sure i wouldn't tag the wrong person, I just realized I might've interpreted his scars wrong.. whoops... my bad folks 🧍

Sorry about that 😔, Maybe I'll redraw the correct version laterr (if I have the time and energy)

[lunar-wandering]

AU where Wukong and Macaque are both streamers (vtubers) who end up with a frenemies/rivals dynamic whilst having NO IDEA who the other actually is.

like they still have All That going on in real life but they do not realize the other is the person they were playing Overcooked with last week-

[thatonegreyghost]

I bring more goodies!!!

Chapter 2 of Novum Petram is up!! Thank you!!

[stil-lindigo]

hey there stranger.

[4threset]

more stuff from my Robert Villain AU......

(I didn't expect so many people to like my villain AU but hello!!! Idk how long this hyperfixation will last, but for the time being, welcome to my cardboard box!! Feel free to pick it up and shake it with me in it!!!)

And if you have any questions or prompts for Pulse(Villain Robert) i welcome them because my brain is tiny and filled with woodland creatures.

[4threset]

How about Chase? Does Pulse get along with him?

Since Pulse follows canon up until he blows up only three years into being Mechaman, to Chase, Robert ducks him after his dad is murdered and then suddenly dies only three years into being Mechaman. So he's operated under the assumption that Robert has been dead for years.

Suddenly SDN and Blazer comes to him saying that there's a chance that this phantom villain could potentially be Robert. He helps Blazer and SDN track Pulse and when they finally haul him in, ooooguughh its ROUGH. This version of Robert is antagonistic, snarky, all teeth and fangs when he speaks, deflects questions and bids for familiarity with more subterfuge and false mirth.

Their relationship at SDN starts painfully strained because this is not the kid that Chase remembers and Robert fights tooth and nail to not be that kid.

(i want to eventually write snippets of my Pulse AU to ao3, when my brain is not sludge ragh)

[4threset]

i love your pulse au! out of curiosity, had the z-team heard of robert/pulse before he started working at sdn? does he have some sort of wider notoriety outside of shroud's/the red rings circles? do any of those rumors affect how the rest of z-team view robert when he first joins? im so curious about robert's relationship(s) with the rest of the z-team

The only people who knows that he used to be Mechaman are of course Chase and Blazer, so keeping that aspect of him is still a secret. But beyond that, the general reputation that Pulse has amongst villains and heroes alike is that he's an anonymous advanced hacker that's more akin to a ghost. If he can get someone else to do something for him, or have something done remotely then he will. No one knew what he looked like or if he was even a singular person until his capture, so thats when his identity as some guy 'Robert' becomes known to the Z-Team. Most of his time working as a dispatcher has the Z-Team heckling him in similar fashion because of this so their treatment of him doesn't change much until he gains their trust and he in turn learns to actually rely on others.

Pulse as a villain/vigilante does invoke some measure of unease amongst the Red Ring since he specifically goes out of his way to target them and Shroud.