Light AU HCs
Basically an AU about Shawn with weird powers. These aren’t really HCs, but they were too random to make a ‘story’ out of, plus I think it worked better like this
He had a dream when he was 5 about being caught in the middle of a riot and shouting for his mum and Travis, despite knowing full well he’s never going to see either of them again, and someone grabs him and picks him up but he just keeps going up until he gets to the sky but then gets struck by lightning, which is one of his biggest fears, even though it’s a clear sunny day with no rain clouds or traces of a storm
He wakes up and doesn’t really understand the dream but it scared him so he slept in Travis’ room but he doesn’t really think about it again until he’s 12 and living with Margret, his dad and Jaime
He basically gets a mark on his skin that looks like a birthmark but it’s white every time he looses his temper and it’s only visible when he’s in what I’m calling his “lightning form”
He doesn’t realise he has these powers until he starts talking in his sleep which happened at this time and he cracks his neck turning the wrong way in bed and it hurt so he wakes up and he’s somehow paler with white glowing blotches all over him, white hair and his eyes have gone from royal blue to icy blue
He screamed but he threw his head back and cracked his neck again doing it, turning him back into his normal self with brown hair, dark blue eyes and clear skin, save for a few freckles
Margret comes running in with Trevor, obviously concerned but Trevor looks pissed off and she asks him over and over again what happened and he never tells her
Trevor obviously couldn’t give less of a fuck, but he’s the only one in the house that understands what Shawn says in his sleep and he won’t tell anyone what he hears, but whatever it is obviously scares him, which is weird because Trevor was never really scared of much, so to be scared of his own son obviously pissed him off and his feelings towards Shawn just got more bitter and therefore their relationship became more abusive
Unlike in the main verse, as Jaime grows up Trevor continues to target Shawn to the point were he’s the perfect dad towards Jaime and he finds it hard to hate him
It’s also a lot harder to hate him when Shawn and JJ don’t really see eachother as brothers. They have nothing against eachother, but they’re practically strangers and nowhere near as close as they are in the main verse
Shawn’s also a lot younger, and he’s only 3 years older than Jaime but the age gap is enough to make them distant but not enough for Shawn to take on the fartherly role he did in the main verse until Jaime grew up
When Shawn turns 16 he saves up every penny he gets to move to America, whether or not the others want to come is entirely up to them, but his dads not fucking welcome
Naturally Margret and Trevor say no, Shawn corrects him and says you weren’t fucking invited, but neither of them try to stop him
Margret is obviously very sad to see him go because she practically raised him, but she supports his choices fully
Well, supports his choices until Jaime wants to go with Shawn
She told Jaime not a chance in heaven or earth was he moving to America at 13, but boy is Jaime stubborn
Margret refuses to leave Jaime or Trevor though, so she says “if you’re going, we’re both coming with you” and Jaime likes Trevor so he’s like “yeah that’s fi—“ but Shawn’s like “he gets on the same boat as me and I’m throwin’ him overboard.”
So eventually it ends up as Jaime going with Shawn for a few months and if he enjoys it he can come back when he’s 16 permanently
Of course, this isn’t what happened because Jaime just didn’t go back
Things are a lot different in America. Think Columbia in BioShock, because Shawn then finds out that his weird little dreams when he was 3 and 12 weren’t dreams, they’re what’s called a ‘Lighter’, and a very select few people get them, but these people end up being crazy successful and rich by using they’re powers to bring new revolutionary inventions that have the potential to change the course of history its self, but every single one of these powers is unique and far beyond science and religion
America wanted to keep these things a secret and as the first few ‘Lights’ happened to be born in America they’re normally born in America now. But of course Shawn has to be the odd one out and ends up Irish.
There are currently 3 Lights in America and 1 in japan, but these things are barely heard of in other countries
The ones in America have powers that can create giant groups of holes wherever needed, bringing inanimate objects to life as king as they look human and raising chunks of ground at the persons will
The one in Japan has the ability to fly, which may be cliche, but it brought fantastic improvements to air travel
Obviously there are a few others across the globe, but you have to actually be able to gain the powers and then discover them, which is a lot easier said than done. Shawn only known about his powers because he happened to click his neck in the wrong way, which now means that he can activate and deactivate his powers at will by cracking his neck
A Light’s powers are based off extreme irrational fears; the one who can create groups of holes has trypophobia, the fear of tightly packed hole, the one who can bring humanoid inanimate objects to life has pediophobia, the fear of dolls and the one can raise the ground has taphophobia, the fear of being buried alive and the one in Japan is scared of hights
Shawn has astraphobia, the fear of being struck by lightning
These powers never fade and the Light using them doesn’t run out of energy from using them
When Shawn got to America he was fascinated by Lights and the way they shaped the country. 2 of the 3 were women, which made women’s lives a lot easier
The only problem was the fact that the one who could bring inanimate objects to life wasn’t one of the women
He happened to be Joey Drew
The AU still follows historical events and the Irish were still discriminated, and Shawn knew this, but he figured he’d get by with luck and a British brother
With the time alone and the small house they lived in, Shawn and Jaime eventually became as close as they are in the main verse
Shawn met joey when he was waking past the studio and Joey came out the back, and the 2 collided in the ally behind the studio
Joey landed with his right hand to brace himself, his pinky and his thumb coming into brief contact, which activated his powers, and Shawn landed on his shoulder, moved his other arm to hold it and try and suppress the pain and moved his head away from it, cracking his neck and lighting up the whole damn alleyway
Joey tried to get back to his feet without damaging his now porcelain skin, before clicking his fingers and turning back into his normal self, only now his eyes were wide with somehting between panic and shock and his jaw dropped
Shawn just kind of stared at him like “this was your fucking fault”
It was raining, so naturally Shawn was soaked, but Joey sort of figured out Shawn was a Light when thunder erupted in the distance and Shawn jumped far too hard
Joey was now stood, holding a gloved hand out towards this glowing kid in a back ally, offering him a place to stop in the studio until the storm calmed down
They talked, and of course Shawn already knew about Joey, but Joey was curious as to why Shawn didn’t use powers considering the disadvantage he was already at with being an Irishman in 30’s America, and Shawn’s only excuse was crippling social anxiety
Ha bitch you thought Joey was the bad guy but nope because Shawn works happily as the lead animator until Joey convinces Henry to come back and becomes assistant lead animator and gayness happens with Wally obviously and the fucking ink machine never happened
Still, things weren’t perfect and there was still a war that Jaime felt a dire need to be a part of
Fast forward and Jaime was now happily married to Angelica in a large house in Manhattan and Shawn lives with Wally barely 10 minutes away
Marvin decides to be Marvin and drag them out of their time, only for them to explain that they really wanted to go back and Marvin having the memory of a 2 hour encounter with two random strangers from the 30’s
And then Travis shows up
He’s jealous. He’s jealous of the fact that his scrawny little brother can make a name for himself in a world that hates him. He’s jealous of the fact that Shawn not only made lives for the irish 10 times easier but also managed to snatch up gay rights in the process. He’s jealous of the fact that Shawn can prove he has powers but they have no really function he knows of outside of making him light up like a fucking glow stick and yet here he was, abandoned by his parents at such a young age and barely making enough money to get by
And then, as he lights the gas cooker, he catches his hand on the flame
But it doesn’t hurt
And he can now manipulate that fire however he wants
Ironic for a guy with a deathly fear of fire, huh
