Okay, so I noticed in one of your Brozone Parents posts, that you said they had been exiled. Not executed, or eaten, or passed. Exiled. Which is fun cause this means if they are therefore wandering about, and Brozone happens to run into them and recognize/be recognized, then I'm thinking we could have some very interesting angst potential. Fluff too, though, otherwise I'll have a mental breakdown.
So, just wondering how you think the boys and their parents would react in this situation. Especially since Branch would have exactly 0 memories, Floyd and Clay's are probably fuzzy, and Bruce and J.D. likely got trauma out it.
Absolutely love your posts and theories, by the way, incredible work! Answer if you feel like it, and have a wonderful day/night/afternoon/evening/morning!
YOU ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH ALL MY NONSENSE?!
I woke up to 60+ notifications from you and then found this ask, and I'm both incredibly flattered and slightly concerned for your sanity. 😂💙
And YES, in this Brozone theory: The Forbidden Love Theory, I talk about them still being alive. To be even more specific, I even have a Fanfic about it. 'The Roots of Harmony'.
✨Spoilers for my AU, 'The Roots of Harmony'✨:
In my AU Flint, eventually the father of the 'BroZone' brothers was basically told ✨ "Kindly leave and don't come back." 😭. (Not by Peppy: I changed that idea.)
And, I LOVE that you immediately went: "Okay, but what if BroZone eventually runs into them?"
Because... 👀 That is absolutely the kind of possibility that makes the word exiled interesting. Especially because you're right about the boys' memories.
Branch would have basically nothing. Floyd and Clay might have those vague little childhood memories where they remember voices, faces, feelings, maybe being held... but nothing solid enough to immediately recognize someone. Meanwhile, John Dory and Bruce are the ones who could potentially remember much more. Which means you could have the absolutely HORRIBLE situation where the parents recognize their sons before the sons recognize them. 😭
Imagine someone looking at an adult John Dory and thinking: "That's my little boy." And John is just standing there like: "Who are you?" 🤨
😭😭😭
And YES, there would absolutely have to be fluff too because otherwise I would also have a mental breakdown.
There is a problem with me answering this too specifically.
My story is centered on Flint and Lyra, and I'm still working out the exact details of how the BroZone boys ended up with Rosiepuff and, more importantly, why their parents weren't there.
And since I'm trying to keep the AU as close to canon as possible... some of those answers are tied into things I haven't revealed yet.
So if I tell you exactly how I think the reunion would happen, I might accidentally give away something I REALLY don't want to spoil. 😂
Basically: I have MANY thoughts. Some of those thoughts are probably sitting in a little evil plot box somewhere. But I cannot open the box yet. 😭
What I can say is that I think the idea of the parents being exiled is interesting precisely because it leaves the door open. They aren't necessarily gone forever. They aren't necessarily dead. They're somewhere.
And the possibility that the brothers could one day cross paths with them is... 👀 Very interesting.
So I'm going to answer your question with the most annoying author response imaginable: ✨"I can't tell you yet."✨
But PLEASE know that I am absolutely taking the idea of a BroZone/parents reunion and putting it in the giant pile of things that could emotionally destroy everyone involved.
And thank you SO much for reading all my theories!! The fact that you've apparently dug this far into my Trolls rabbit hole is genuinely really sweet. 💙
Now I need to go figure out how to make sure you don't accidentally extract spoilers from me. 😂