headcanon: the “Gemini!Verse” Underground
I’ve been meaning to make this hc about the Underground in the Gemini!verse AU. Meaning, the more benevolent version of the Underground that the twins co-rule.
They do a few things. Whereas Almas’ Underground in the main verse works to unite all crime organizations together and Elmas’ Underground in the mirror verse helps slaves in corrupt Canterlot, this one is more of a vigilante-type organization.
The twins unite other people working outside the government to fix problems. They also deal with other criminals on a level that Celestia’s government cannot do. Because their activity is illegal too and they use illegal means to reach their ends, they have more wiggle room to take care of business.
But to fund what they do they have to resort to crime as well. Such as smuggling currency and immigrants and being hired to deal with heinous criminals on their own level.
They also try to maintain peace between the demonic sub-culture and the regular world. This isn’t always easy and it sometimes leads to them having to usurp power in some places and place one of their own leaders in their place. For example, the vampire Octavia was put in charge of the Canterlot vampire society after Elmas and Almas removed a more vicious and pony-hating vampire.
Much like Almas holds a hierarchy on the immoral crime organizations of Canterlot in the mainverse, the twins in this verse create balance between other sub-cultures sects, organizations, societies and guilds. So some criminals are aligned with them but most are not the kind of scum that Almas works with in the mainverse. They also fight to dismantle the more dangerous black markets.
Morally, they’re in between the dark, amoral Underground that Almas runs in the mainverse and the virtuous and idealistic one that Elmas runs in the mirrorverse.