So about Normal AU of bookworm (have you considered the name blank slate?);
This is intresting because for most of bookworm I always saw Myne and Ferdinand relationship like older brother and younger sister, so dad Ferdinand is closer to my headcanon early on than where the canon went, so this au sounds intresting to me and thus I had few thoughts:
1. How can we get paper and at least some of the trends into this au?
1. Rozemyne (or however she would be named... Maybe Irmmyne after Irmhilde the would be (step)mother of Ferdinand) being daddy's girl and wanting to do research, but Ferdinand forbiding her from using anything with mana so first she researches cooking (maybe make her become aware of orphans early and trying to help), thus her research drive after making Ferdinand smile with her food attempt drives her to borrow Grandpa Justus to do research in the lower city (meeting the lower city crew after Uncle Gunther helps Justus blend in better in lower city because noble with a smol child being so visible is a mess) about more foods where it comes from etc.
Maybe a start of lower city spy network by Justus to fuck up the Veronica faction from completely unexpected side.
But the most important thing for sake of the Duchy being paper and printing press, these two honestly I imagine that paper would happen because of Lutz and his woodworking family being poor and reusing a lot of wood scraps when not throwing it into the fire, ever courious duo of Justus and Irmmyne wanting to learn more about how furniture are made learning about glue fibers and maybe even hiden drawers and starting a long process of how into paper.
I mean just imagine a chibi version of mad scientist/witch Myne and her minion Justus cooking concotions trying to copy her dad and orphanage kids dealing with consequences of those experiments; some of them are in heaven while others wonder if starving wasn't better
Oh, hey! I didn't think my old AU before I read the five parts of the novels still was taking some interest, the whole reason I made this AU was because I first thought Myne was a child and that it would be the same setting of minor x adults, but then I realized she is not little, she is a reincarnation.
And I haven't thought more of it, because I began shipping Fermyne too after reading the novels, that was why I wanted to use Uncle Ferdinand in the upcoming AU of mine of Ferdinand rescueing Wilfried right after being born.
And your idea, aww your idea, so cute. Maybe I'll come back to it or dunno, I start an AU, then think of another and scrap it again, so I don't keep a consistent work on my AUs
So once my mind is clear, I'll think what to do.
(also sorry I didn't see this until now)
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