Prompt idea: RITZ au, when Dream comes to get Tommy. Dreams laughs, “Actually I have someone I want you to meet. My apprentice.” He snaps his fingers and someone wearing a suit and smiley mask almost takes off Grain’s head with an axe. The person is moving almost robotically and not making a sound. (1/2)
Grian punches them in the face, hard enough to shatter the mask. It's a person about Tommy's age, half black and white with scars that look like tear tracks running down their face, and unresponsive green eyes that somehow don't feel right. (2/2)
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That… was a kid.
Grian stumbled, pulling his sword back and moving away from the kid as he lunged forward. His eyes were green. Empty, but not quite. Off.
He quickly flew up, ignoring Dream's taunts at him for running as he moved away from the kid. The kid. Same age as Tommy. Would this have happened to him if he hadn't left?
He wasn't going to keep fighting, not when he knew it was a kid now.
He took out his communicator, quickly messaging someone before diving back down to try and distract the kid.
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<Grian> could you come give me backup? hes got a kid
Impulse blinked down at his communicator, processing the message Grian had sent to him.
Dream had a kid? The abusive god admin from Tommy's old server? And the situation was bad enough Grian needed help with it?
Impulse shook his head and put down what he was doing, strapping on his elytra.
Well, he definitely needed to help, then.
Impulse stumbled as he landed, taking in the scene around him. Grian was holding back someone half black half white, in a suit with a broken mask abandoned near them; supposedly the kid. Dream was standing nearby, looking smug.
Impulse signaled to Grian before making his way over and they switched, Grian mouthing to be careful as he went over to take care of Dream.
He stood in front of the kid, blocking as they tried to swipe at him with their axe. Their eyes were green and… lifeless, emotionless, but not quite. There was something off about them.
"Kid- can you hear me?" Impulse tried to talk to them, but the kid ignored him. "You don't have to fight me. I'm not going to hurt you."
They flinched back slightly, but still didn't respond, so Impulse continued as he blocked the kid's attacks.
"I don't want to fight you-"
Block.
"- and I don't think you want to fight me, either."
Dodge.
"So maybe we can talk, yeah? You could-"
Deflect.
"Even stay here if you want."
Dodge.
"I've heard that server of yours is-"
Block.
"Pretty dangerous. It's much safer here and-"
Block.
"You could probably make some friends! I think you deserve some peace."
The kid faltered, and Impulse took the chance to knock his axe aside and throw his sword down as well. He moved forward and grabbed the kid's hands, frowning at the burns similar to the ones tracking down their face.
"Let's stop fighting, okay? We don't have to fight."
How d'y think Ranboo's memory problems would be worked with? Who asks what his other half is (does he panic at the casual mention of experiments, not yet trusting that he's safe here)? Does he have pets? Does Jellie like him? Does Impulse have a minor mid-life crisis when he notices he's gone Dadpulse on this kid?
I have many questions but that's- more than enough I think dhfjdjhs
Okay I'm gonna speedrun these since this AU isn't fresh in my mind
I feel like Team ZIT would try to help him find some kinda memory aids. They've had to do that themselves, so they try several things to help him. Zed prolly makes him some kinda memory contraption(since Zed is making a memory machine currently in canon)
Nobody asks what his other half is. None of the Hermits are human, but they understand not saying what ur species is out front. Hell, Impulse thinks that he himself is a human(he's not ofc), so there's just kind of a mutual respect of not asking questions like that. Species is a personal thing ya know?
Yeah he prolly panics, but most the Hermits he hangs around don't tend to refer to their projects as such
I don't know if he has pets or not
Probably. Jellie protecc the tol boy.
Impulse is definitely having a mid-life crisis for the second time because he already went dadpulse when he found Tango in the Nether for the first time.
I just found out about the Team RITZ au and I really love it. Please sir, I want some more. (Oliver reference) You are amazing!!!!!
Gonna throw these asks together but on the infinite cake thing
Knowing Team ZIT, specifically Zed, they would use that for the dumbest most inefficient machine ever. If it officially gets turned into a Contraption™ I bet they'd let Ranboo name it or something. "Baby's" first Contraption.
During the testing phase of whatever this cake based contraption is, the trio gave Ranboo goggles and a lab coat just like the ones they have and I bet that lab coat was way too tiny on him and that sounds so cute.
