Tell us about Villain Five, I'm curious!
Okay, here goes!
First of all, despite this being a “villain” Five AU, Five isn’t some sort of psychopath who enjoys violence and bloodshed in this AU because I really feel that’s out of his character?
In this AU, Five’s biggest motivation is still and always will be his family. He loves them, he wants to protect them at all costs. What differs from canon is his impulse control/judgement.
Due to the Commission’s alterations, Five can no longer accurately gauge a person’s threat level. If anyone threatens his family, they need to go. Immediately. Unlike canon, where Five allied himself with enemies to avoid a larger threat, this Five will destroy anything that harms his siblings with merciless brutality until the target is eliminated. It made him an excellent assassin, provided he was controlled, but when he returned to the future the issue didn’t correct itself.
This is why Five impulsively decided to target Reginald. The second he saw the man who had mistreated, brainwashed, and manipulated his entire family (just like the Commission had done to him), Five decided that he was too great a risk to allow. It wasn’t a revenge thing- at least, not most of it. It was simply the decision to eliminate a threat.
The rest of the AU’s plot follows Five attempting to protect his family while not losing them in the process. When they find out what he did, and what he’s become, it’s rough. Luther’s anger is so sudden and terrifying that Five decides he’s the next to go, and the two fight, with several serious consequences- giving the Commission the perfect opportunity to come retrieve their “experiment”.
