Mar 13, 2023
Some random rvb AUs I came up with that I decided to draw.
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Some random rvb AUs I came up with that I decided to draw.
hahahaha rvb cat go brrr....... so what if i havent finished the design pages for anyone but church that is literally not my problem
top, left to right: tucker attacking temple (technically not non-canon but meant to be interpreted in the context of the evocation au), caboose consoling tucker as they grieve church (unspecified time period. they're always sad over it so it doesn't have to be recent--based on length of caboose's cheek fluff, it's implied to be much later), caboose looking at washington expectantly (with the context of s11 in mind)
middle, left to right: carolina outbursting at tucker in a disappointed rage over killing temple (evocation au), epsilon/church (the pose was just fun to draw lol. lyrics from dark red), donut (with the context of s16-17 in mind)
bottom, left to right: sarge (just sarging. vaguely thought of s8 when he does the codeword bit but not explicitly what i drew), dylan and sister (very specifically the scene from s15 in mind), flowers and vic (from s14), grimmons, and autism creature caboose
yippee
Whoopsie, More Wash centric AUs, now with OCs for extra flavour.
What if he wasn’t court-martialed until the very end of the war so he never joined PFl, and instead of David, Agent Washington was some douche named George who either legit died on the cliff with Meta, or never recovered from Epsilon.
And, David kills some people in self defence, like has to shoot his direct superior in the head very publicly to stop them from ordering his entire platoon to their very avoidable deaths, or during his slap-on-the-wrist free-with-court-martial two months prison time he kills some guys in the showers because they were trying to kill/harm him, so he ends up with *serious* prison time.
Like ends up on the Tartarus, serious. And naturally he makes friends with the other inmates near his cell, including someone who probably shouldn’t be there because she’s technically still a teenager and her crimes were more white collar than murder even if they were very very serious. (Hacked ONI for the lulz, they’re trying to scare her into compliance/working for them.)
Think Emily Grey but with a more limited area of hyper-focused intelligence and higher anxiety/obvious autism.
Meanwhile with the Reds and Blues, Alpha Church managed to basically eat Sigma, O’Malley and Gary, because he didn’t have anyone to Emp them out in a last stand and Meta got their hands on him so it was eat or be eaten.
And he reconnects with Epsilon who basically treats it like a backstory update and goes on being Epsilon Church (Caboose is stoked, double best friend!)
(All Churches get their therapy moment and Tex gets to decide on her own personhood, going off to self examine for a bit and meeting up with Carolina, they get to talk out their issues and decide to kill Director. Tex gets to have her “I exist now, no matter how I was made I have experiences of my own and I am my own person, not your dead wife.” moment, and Carolina gets her, “you died when mum did, and I can’t, I won’t keep chasing your ghost.” moment.)
And the Reds and Blues get to keep the rest of the AIs by virtue of not mentioning they have them to others. They all still end up on Chorus.
In the Tartarus, David figures out what Felix is planning, and even though he has no interest in working for or with him, he still grabs the bars and warns his nearby inmates what’s probably about to happen. (It’s way too easy for David to think “if I was a sack of shit what would I do?”)
By cosmic coincidence, David ends up with the old Freelancer armour belonging to KIA Agent (George) Washington. (Price recognises David and mentions later that he’d actually been on the list for the project.)
David gets to be in charge of his own little strike team, not that anyone on it is particularly interested in working for team Felix.
“Do you think the locals will let us swap sides?” Asks one of David’s men.
But David shakes his head, “not after Felix and Locus pulled their multiyear double agent crap.”
“… is it Locus or Locust?”
“What?”
“The big scary one, is it Locus or Locust?”
“Locus?” Now David is questioning what he’s been hearing, because it could easily be eith- “Wait, where’s the kid?!”
The team is one short, the hacker teen who shouldn’t have been there is missing. She should be back up on the ship, but David didn’t like the idea of leaving her unsupervised. For her safety sure, but also the safety of others.
“Spread out, find her. Don’t engage with anyone unless you have to, finding the kid is priority.”
David finds her with a soldier in… Teal? Aqua? Cyan? Blue, it’s a shade of blue.
The kid is trying to poke at a small hologram next to the soldier and David makes it just in time to stop the kid from taking a knife to the anything.
“Hey now, let’s all just calm down and everyone respect everyone else’s personal space, okay? No putting fingers or knives in others, okay?”
“Well that’s definitely not Washington in there,” the soldier says, “that guy was a grade A asshole who would love to see knives in people.”
“You can call me D.C. Sorry about the kid, she gets excited about techy stuff. So, from what Counsellor Price said, you must be Agent Carolina?”
“That’s right,” Carolina confirms like she’d like nothing more than to stick her knife in David.
“… has he always been that much of a creepy asshole?” David asks, then notices the kid’s reflection in Carolina’s visor, fidgeting with her helmet. The kid stims by chewing on things, normally her braids, David knows. “Kid, I need you to keep your helmet on for me, okay? It keeps your head nice and safe.”
*someone gets headshot in the background*
“…er, safer.” David corrects.
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And through the power of being him, David and his team get to join team good guy. the folks on Chorus.
And all is well with the world. Until the kid and dr Grey meet and everyone has to deal with the “oh god there’s two of them” perfectly reasonable fear response.
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Sorry for any typos in this mess of a plot bunny, I wrote it on my phone in bits and pieces during a bbq, which lead to another, competing bunny asking the tough and distracting questions: who is the best griller out if all the Reds and Blues and Freelancers, who shouldn’t be allowed near a grill, and who is a great bbq master but is someone everyone thinks shouldn’t be allowed near a grill? (And vice-versa)
This whole bunny thread was just a way to lead to the “keeps your head safe *bang* -er. safer” joke. Was not expecting the Tex and Carolina detour, but stuff it, ladies road-trip of murder and justice!
Hey are you interested in hearing weird AUs my brain came up with at 3 am?
Yes please, immediately anon!
Rvb au dump
- where simmons and grif are computer programmers at like ea or somewhere and they keep making buggy code and arguing about how to fix it
- where donut is just a simple farm boy living out on his farm until an alien ceashes into his corn feild???? And he's a cute alien too!!!!!
- lazer team au with either caboose, tucker, wash, kai or grif, simmons, donut and lopez
- earth military au?
- armageddon is happening and for some reason tucker and his friends haven't died yet
- zombies.... but like the og zombie lore with only bites being contagious, being able to kill them orher ways than just the head and by killing 0 all the others are cured
- bar hopping, everyone except donut and doc get progressively more drunk, but donut and doc are anti alchohol outside of wine and cheese hour
- gay au,,, haha just kidding everyone is lgbt in canon so theres no need for an au :')
self indulgent vamp!Locus showing off his Teef(TM)? yes.
red vs blue au list (any could be altered - i've finish the shisno paradox trilogy but just haven't thought about anything past s15 yet lol)
evocation au - temple recovers church before s15 and is trying to recreate biff with him. church's memory is struggling and so the conflict is increased as the events of s15 carry out and are even warped with this new added twist. it is VERY chuckerboose-centric.
doomsday au - (started as a shitpost au and is still treated like one as a result, but has had some intense lore created for it to the point that i am invested in the plot beyond jokes. characters are most out of character in this one as a result.) essentially, something goes wrong with loco's time machine in the s15 finale and when the portal opens things go horrible wrong, and some kind of explosion goes off that transports tucker and caboose to another planet with no way of getting off or contacting the guys for the foreseeable future. the planet happens to be apocalyptic as hell and caboose swore he saw church before the blast rang out ... it is chuckerboose centric ... and, due to everything being so hectic, they call it planet doomsday.
downloaded au - delta was able to make a backup of himself during the freelancer saga, so why couldn't epsilon with the right hardware? essentially, caboose was paranoid of losing church again at some point in s13 before the latter half of the season. they find an old smartphone and decide to have caboose use his engineering skills to reinforce it and also give it ability to run on solar power - then, they make a backup of church into it. come the s13 finale, they happen to have church still! only...he is hardwired into a phone and they don't know how to get him out of it without damaging him and/or losing him. chuckerboose-centric. (and so it's a slight comedic au i got from the idea of church inhabiting a phone to send texts to tucker and caboose from inside.)
firewall au - extremely underdeveloped, but stemmed from the idea of felix in s13 being too fed up with hargrove that he plans to steal epsilon to use the meta suit for himself to kill the reds and blues all for his sadistic gain. maybe even threaten hargrove while he's at it and get his reward anyway. of course, this alters a lot of the latter half of s13 around. in this au, felix lives his fall and continues to affect the plot later on. chuckerboose and lolix are the focused ships of the au.
lighthouse au - maine survives after the s8 finale and somehow, with the help of washington and the reds and blues, finds himself with the blues alongside his former freelancer friend. it is mainewash-centric (of course, chuckerboose is there, though) and spends the earlier parts of the au following maine as he recovers from everything that went on as well as him trying to be himself again. by the time we reach s10, i imagine he has a wavering self control when it comes to epsilon that is focused on, but all in all, this au has mostly good endings and maine somehow makes things 100 times better by being there. church lives. what more could you want
memory au - it's the good ending to evocation, which is also my main "church lives" au. chuckerboose-centric as a result, but the concept is that everything from their adventures settles down and the reds and blues try to readjust to living on a colonized planet (either earth or something resembling it). there are some more trials and tribulations and such in this au, but as promised, it is a good ending and by the end of it, everyone lives happy domestic lives nearby each other and they remain friends. ("memory ending" is used to describe scenes from the end of the au that are completely domestic with none of the au's ongoing plot involved.)
if any more get made i will add them :)
oh yeah random rvb au art baby
so like it's a loose but also not loose concept where essentially temple wasn't lying in s15 and he had managed to recover epsilon (considering he had been scavenging for freelancer equipment, stumbling upon some remnants of them doesn't seem too far fetched) but since he had to try and put the fragments of a fragment back together, epsilon's memories were very jumbled and skewed and forgotten considering he is supposed to be memory, and he gave that up in the s13 finale. temple still faked the message, but does in fact have church. he considered how epsilon managed to end up recreating church/being church again by remembering who he was based on stories (maybe heard of it somewhat) and had a thought:
what if he tried to gaslight epsilon into thinking they're biff? that is such a healthy coping mechanism yippee!!!
so the conflict of s15 is still going on but warped around this new conflict: getting church back before it's too late to make sure he's still church
i want to finish the shisno trilogy before i develop the au too much more but like that's the gist of it more or less
+ im pretty set on letting tucker kill temple in this au cause if he didn't deserve it before he sure does now (only assuming that temple doesn't show up in s16 or s17 but like it also depends on how much post s15 i change)
yuh