AU Idea 1: Ship Home Route
Still burdened by the question of what happened to their family members and their former lives, and no longer wishing to take active part in the war, for or against Futurum, the Special Defense Unit force-reactivate the escape pod home, taking the Baby Jar with them.
Whether or not they clash against the ruling government of the Tokyo Residential Complex, and whether or not they can find their families, the students learn one crucial fact: this shiny, peaceful world wasn't built for them. Invaders and exploration missions are replaced by tight chairs and errant glances. V'ehxness and her commanders give way to subways too clustered and meals too unsatisfying. They're safe, but they have little else to propel them now. Except, perhaps, their loneliness and their appetites.
Potential Kinks and Themes: Humiliation, Embarrassment, Mundanity, Listlessness, Aimless Feeding, Stuckage, Clothing Malfunction, NEET Slob, Accidental Squashing
AU Idea 2: Planet's Gift Route
After an exploration that sends the entire team out to take hold of an enemy base, the team find themselves deep underground in an area of geothermal activity; activity known as the Fount of God, where hemoanima was said to originate from. When the steams and gasses blast the entire team, what they expect to be their untimely end instead washes them in untold power; the full effects of which they can barely comprehend, for now.
Now avatars of the strongest powers imaginable, V'ehxness and the other commanders, the TRC, the G'ie, nothing poses any threat. The only things left to fear are them; their enhancing magic, their heightened libidos, and their waistlines that seem to grow entirely on their own, no eating required. The world is their playground. May everyone else on Futurum hope they don't play rough.
Potential Kinks and Themes: Freedom, Omnipotence, High Magic, Limitless Weight Gain, Macro, Immobility, Mass Squashing, Clothing Entrapment, and Vore
AU Idea 3: Paragon of Nurture Route
Eva's brainwashing is gone, right? Not entirely. Flashes, interrupting and intermingling with her thoughts. Memories she wish she could forget. Memories she wishes she had that she can never get back. It's enough to drive even her own adoptive daughter away, once Eva's obsession turns into an interesting type of vengeance, and one the sharp priestess wants no part in.
If the Special Defense Unit were put under Eva's care, without their weapons, without their agency, perhaps all those issues could be put to rest. Those old, pre-programmed memories would be sated. Her desire for a family would be fulfilled. And such humans could never bring harm to her sister or the people of this planet if they're too fat to pick up a fork.
Potential Kinks and Themes: Lactation, Unwilling Weight Gain, Care, Control, Strength Drain, Manipulative Feedism, Heavy Weight Gain, Immobility
AU Idea 4: Waistline Warfare Route
In some time, the far-away leader of the Sovereign Army, V'ehxness, has come to the obvious conclusion. The Special Defense cannot be stopped or slowed down with her troops anymore. Their attacks are too strong and too fast, they shrug off any damage, and even those that die simply come back in little time at all. There is no war of attrition to be won by making them spill blood.
Then, if making them spill blood cannot work... what about making them gain fat? Their Revive-o-Matic can cure many things, but not an extra few pants sizes. Soon, invader bioweapons designed not to maim, or crush, but instead to feed are deployed. Shooting gobs of heavy-calorie syrup, jumping into the resistant mouths of their enemies, and firing appetite-increasing darts into their magic-enhanced bloodstreams. It's a slow, seemingly harmless form of sabotage, but soon the fat-swaddled team won't be able to stop the Supreme Commander, if all goes well.
Potential Kinks and Themes: Unwilling Weight Gain, Dread, Strength Drain, Heavy Weight Gain, Immobility, Slob, Unwilling Pred Vore
AU Idea 5 (Technically 1, since I've already alluded to it beforehand): Vore Route
At first, it hits the Special Defense Unit slowly. Meals don't satisfy them like they used to, their stomachs growl on a little too long, and they drool a tiny bit when certain ideas come up. Then, they look in the larders, and see a strange, green-tinted syrup amidst the ingredients the Ration-o-Matic uses to make food from every day. After that, they realize the fire extinguishers are missing. They're trapped inside. And they're all growing hungrier by the day.
With a little research from Yugamu, it's discovered that syrup was a particular kind of honey made by a particular kind of bee, flush with strange endocrine-altering toxins. The imbiber grows an association with the scent of others of their own species and food, and a tendency to sweat out with hunger in their presence. They grow a little more appetizing, and find their friends a little more appetizing in turn. An uncontrollable desire that twists at their own wants. Someone ending up in their friends gullet becomes inevitable; the only question is who first.
Potential Kinks and Themes: Distrust, Dread, Killing Game, Squashing, Sweat, Vore
