Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle AU.
Teens Tommy, Tubbo, Purpled, and Ranboo are supposed to spend their detention day clearing out the school’s basement-that goes south when they stumble upon a video game that’s much more than meets the eye, and are quickly dragged in over their heads.
Wilbur, Phil, and Techno are all brothers. Fundy has Alex’s role, stumbling upon the game years ago, and getting sucked in.
Phil is Tommy’s dad, however, he spends a lot of time trying to get Wilbur back on his feet after the loss of his son, to the point of Tommy often feeling neglected and unseen. Thus causing him to cause trouble in school to gain some of his father’s time.
Techno’s the teacher in charge of their detention, putting them together in hopes they’d forge a friendship.
Purpled has a disregard for authority, due to pretty much raising himself while his brother worked to keep a roof over their heads. He doesn’t see a reason to do things a certain way when he can do them much more efficiently his own way, leading him to get into arguments with his teachers quite often.
Tubbo is Tommy’s former childhood friend, the two drifting apart over time. He often gets in trouble purposely, to have an excuse not to go home to his father, Schlatt, who’s either drinking, or too busy working too acknowledge him.
And Ranboo is just a target for bullies, often getting dragged into fights and blamed for things he doesn’t do, to the point of seeing no reason trying to deny it when he’ll only get in trouble for it anyway.
When they’re dragged into Jumanji, they find themselves allied with NPCs that seem more human than not, and on a quest to complete the dangerous game in order to get home.
Tommy becomes Theseus Crafter, a young librarian with access to a ton of books and knowledge, and was in the jungle following his mentor, Ghostbur.
Ranboo becomes Ran Wastaken, the deadly assassin and younger sibling of antagonist Dream, who saw his brother’s corruption, and set off to stop him.
Tubbo becomes Tobias Halo, the youngest member of the Halo family, who are explorers and treasure hunters by trade.
Purpled becomes Hunter ‘Lavender’ Rose, blossoming botanist and cousin of underground fighter Hannah Rose.
Fundy is Ren Todd, a brilliant spy, who’s been working under Dream for years to collect info on him.
To finish the game, they’ll have to collect their various allies, free Dream from the Demon’s Mask, and return the jewel he stole to it’s rightful place in order to break the curse on the land.
I saw a Fairy Tail AU, and thought “Wow, I can make that hurt a lot,” so here’s my own version.
Celestial Mage Tubbo has been pretty much raised by Celestial Spirit Wilbur and is best friends with Celestial Spirit Tommy. The two are the closest thing to a family he has.
(The Zodiac Spirits are replaced by the Chinese Zodiac, for reasons. Wilbur is the rabbit, Tommy is the dragon, Techno the pig, Schlatt the goat, ect)
At some point, he finds himself invited to the widely known Esempi Guild, run by Guild master Dream, which has a bit of a disaster-prone reputation, but eh. He’s always been the type to give out chances. So he goes.
Anyway, what this basically amounts to is the scene where Lucy has to break Aquarius’ key to summon the Spirit King, but it’s Tubbo with Wilbur’s key, forced to sacrifice the only parental figure he’s ever known to summon Philza, the equivalent of the Spirit King, knowing he’ll never get to see him again.
Extra angst in the option of him later trying to make Tommy made enough to leave him, because he knows that the other Spirit is torn between going back and finding his brother, and staying with his best friend, and decides it’ll be an easy decision to make if Tommy hates him-it’s not like it’d be undeserved, since he just destroyed Wilbur’s key.
He be a long lad
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AU where the Bench Trio, young and having not met yet, end up in the DC Universe-Gotham, more specifically, just a bit before Jason becomes Robin, and are taken in by the eventual Gotham City Sirens.
Tubbo ends up stranded on a roof a few days after being abandoned in his box. He’s found by Selina, who ended up taking him in for a few days while trying to track down his parents. By the time she realized there was no trace of Tubbo or his parents around, she’d become far too attached to just drop him off at some orphanage, and instead, took him in as her own.
Tommy was found by Harley Queen when she stumbled across him crying in the street. With the Joker currently in Arkham, and feeling sympathetic due to her own childhood, Harley took him in. Though it was meant to be temporary, it didn’t remain that way, with him quickly growing on her.
Poison Ivy finds a young Ranboo heavily wounded in Robinson Park, after a deadly battle in Hypixel, that he had no chance to survive without the Respawn. With her soft spot for children, as well as feeling a kinship for his physical oddities, Ivy saved his life by injecting him with the same serum that created her, and took him under her wing when it became apparent he’d been accepted by the Green.
As a result of the serum, Ranboo’s white side becomes light green, and his black side gains a dark forest undertone to it.
Tubbo eagerly delves into the technology of this world as he grows older, becoming quite skilled with it.
Though Harley did her best to keep him from the Joker and shield him, Tommy still took notice of the abuse, and grew to hate the Joker, which would only grow stronger after Jason’s death, and Joker’s attempts on their lives.
The Bench Trio is drawn together by the similar energy they emit due to being from the same universe. Because of this, they quickly grow close, and the Sirens are formed much sooner.
At some point, a nineteen year old Wilbur ends up in the universe with his one-year old son, Fundy. He stumbles upon Tommy and Harley doing crime, and his little brother instantly recognizes him. Once Harley realizes this is the brother who raised her kid, she’s quick to take him under her wing as well, and help him with Fundy.
Tommy’s villain name is Jester, not sure about the others. Ranboo’s is maybe some black and white flower, and Tubbo’s is feline related, but other than that, I’m lost.
Though villain is a loose term. Sure, they steal stuff, and cause some mayhem, but they also protect those who call for them, and fiercely defend their own.
Ranboo’s got a spot in Robinson Park where they’ve messed with the climate so he can grow End plants.
Cannot believe Floyd promised his infant brother that he'd come back for him, after watching all of his other brothers leave. And then years later a brother did return to the tree and it wasn't fucking Floyd. I'd be on the goddamn news.
Looking into a parallel canon
what a kind and reliable group
I saw a bunch of comments on this hilarious animatic of that funny clip where someone tells Ranboo to give Tubbo back to Tommy about them going to war over him, and honestly, that’s just so freaking funny.
So anyway, AU where Dream dies via Sam after bringing back Tommy and Wilbur, and everyone gets therapy, and tones things down. Ranboo and Tommy use the Hotel Rivalry as a disguise for the true war-the war for Tubbo. It involves trying to out gift each other, trying to bribe Michael, and many, many daily stealings of the Tubbo when he’s hanging out with one of them. At some point, other server members get involved, as well as people not from the server, because Tubbo has many siblings and father-figures, and they might as well join in, right? They have just as much right as anyone to try and win him over, and it looks like fun.
Tubbo’s just glad that they’re all bonding…even if getting snatched at least once a week is mildly irritating.