I have an au called dollarstuck and it is horrible and i love it. If you think Mr. Warosa is bad, you will cry at Jad.e[sic].
I will reveal story stuff and character purposes IF at least one person expresses mild interest, but mostly its like.. a kind of swapstuck kind of thing? It is great, though, and extends far beyond that.
For example: In this AU John has the 'stupidity' people kept seeing jade as having very early on in the comic, but a little beyond that as well, as he is both socially and technologically inept, and with no one willing to reach out and help when he's stuck in the sand, eventually, he sinks, getting a computer virus, and physical virus, from an experimental crockercorp ad testing the abilities of manipulation through They Live style bullshittery, which leads to john, in a similar vain to eridan, falling back onto the functionings of a toxic system in a subtle way (in this case, american capitalism, not plain racism/hemoism) as Barosa (which is his real name) and full blown desperate greedster scambot as Warosa. It is.. Awesome, I think? I love my silly guy. Both sides are to show the same thing; how alienation can impact people, and the ways it can push them to harmful but packaged-as-simple-as-can-be ideologies if the necessary help isn't thrown their way.
Yes it *is* an allegory for ND people, particularly young men, and why, so often, many who were labelled as 'stupid', are pushed towards right leaning and alt right ideologies. I am happy with this and love Jad.e too and theyre all my babies. I do not have trolls yet, and I actually simply don't plan to involve them.
There is no sburb in this au, which will becoming prevalent when we get to the questionably strilondes, who no longer have any of the themes around being heroic as strong within their characters as in canon.
