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A Familiar Fondness...

Episode 3 will now be my personality for the next few days (Dad Kinger for the win !!!!!)

I had a random au idea. Some Tales of the SMP and Dream SMP members are siblings. Like Ran, Ranbob, and Ranboo are all siblings. Jackie, Ash, Zack, and Tubbo are brothers. Technoblade, Billiam, and Sheriff Thompson are brothers. Etc

I have no plot ideas expect that the ender-siblings live together and are runaways.

Oooh, this could be interesting. 

It could either be a modern-ish AU, with room to add more elements, or you could insert it into the SMP.

Modern version:

They all possibly live in the same town? Idk, maybe like a Stardew valley feel, with added mystery, for our runaways. Maybe every family’s got their own little secrets?

The Ender-sibs are definitely suspicious and secretive about being runaways, but either nobody notices because they’re the same, or they just don’t mention it, because they see no reason to. 

Maybe get adopted by Niki, or someone, that’d be cool. 

Tubbo gang would absolutely terrorize the local neighborhood, but they’d probably all be somewhat fond of Tommy. Maybe they run a small family shop, or something? 

Techno, Billiam, and Sherman would probably all have vastly different jobs with a lot of hold. What those jobs are, I dunno, but they’d be important, maybe? Or maybe just Billiam and Sherman, and Techno just hides in a cozy cottage in the woods to get away from everyone.

SMP version: 

Ender-sibs could A, royal runaways, fleeing perhaps danger or duties too heavy for their young shoulders. B, simple kids that perhaps lost their family and didn’t want to lose each other, or were targeted by hunters maybe. Either way, they end up on the SMP.

Those are just my immediate thoughts though, they could be otherwise.

Ranbob could perhaps have some special connection to the dragon, being the only one of them with a purple eye. Meanwhile, Ranboo and Ran would have maybe different abilities? Due to being descended from green-eyed Endermen. I dunno.

Jackie, Ash, Zachary, and Tubbo are, well. A chaotic combination honestly. We could have Tubbo and Jackie being twins along with Ash and Zack, or we could have Tubbo as the oldest, twins as the middle, and Jackie as the youngest(going from eras), or maybe even them all as quadruplets. 

Are they all abandoned together? if so, maybe the SBI never finds them, cause the four just decide to move on themselves. Tubbo would probably be less likely to hang out in a box if there were three others to take care of and he’s already been waiting awhile. 

They could just make a lives for themselves, either eventually meeting the SBI, or not until they reach the SMP. 

If they do still get picked up, again, very chaotic combination. 

Maybe they all split up eventually, and end up coming to the SMP later, worried for Tubbo? Cause I honestly think the events of the SMP would have been cut short real quick if they were all together. Dream never would have stood a chance.

And the Technos, honestly, that’s just funny. You have Sherman, an authority, Billiam, a billionare who’s possibly somewhat corrupt and ignores authority, and Techno, a literal anarchist. 

With them all being siblings, I like to think they’d all be a bit more mellowed at-like Billiam wouldn’t be a total jerk to the lower-class. Who would be the oldest here? How would Wilbur fit into it, if you wanna do the whole Techno and Wilbur twins thing? Would they even be part of the SBI?

Would Billiam and Sherman follow Techno’s footsteps in becoming famous? Or would they prefer to lay low? 

When they all get to the SMP, would Billiam end up getting possessed by the egg? Could offer some interesting motivation for Techno to fight it. 

Would Dream have his own siblings? I ask mainly because I think it’d be hilarious if Hubert and Billiam were just chill friends who occasionally did crime together, and then Dream and Techno were like ‘he is the only one who can match me’ sort of rivalry. If so, were would Hubert and the others stand on Dream’s actions, I wonder?

And if Ranboo was joined by his siblings, would they become close with Tubbo too? Would Robin be part of the Tubbo gang? Who else would have Tales siblings? What kind of connection would Dream have to the Ender-siblings? One with all of them? Replacing Ranboo with Ranbob?

Either version has lots of potential, and plenty of opportunity, so like. It’s cool, basically.

Do not be fooled by the alleged heterosexuality of my ship, as they are both bisexuals, and perchance, if the sun shines just right, transgender aswell.

Ben has been one of my favorite characters in the show since the first season and it pisses me off to no end how he’s treated in s4.

I really respected the show’s decision to have Umbrella!Ben sacrifice himself for Viktor because it made sense for his character to be ready to move on in that moment and to do that for his brother and his family. It was an end that did justice to his character.

But if Viktor dies at the end, and so does the whole family, then his sacrifice is for nothing. Ben saved his family at the expense of his own existence for what reason? So that they could live a couple more years and die anyway in the series finale?

I enjoyed the new take they did with Sparrow!Ben as a version of Ben who grew up without the mess and love of the Umbrellas and how much that changed things because it was a compelling concept—which had no pay off in s4.

Why did the show bother establishing Sparrow!Ben as an asshole that was also desperate to belong and be liked, as the guy who whined about not being invited to Luther’s bachelor party and asked Klaus why the other Ben was so much better?

Why did we go through all this story arc if he ends up exactly the same in s4? Ben is still pushing everyone away, still considering himself to have no family and no friends, still thinking of himself as a bad person.

I thought we’d get to see Sparrow!Ben clash with the others in order to show them he’s not their Ben. And it would have been so freaking satisfying to watch the siblings accept and understand he’s his own person and decide they want Sparrow!Ben in the family anyway. That would be an emotional conflict I’d care about, not the bullshit insta-love the writers pulled with Jennifer.

What was the point of Sparrow!Ben this season? He was used to being a soldier, but seemed desperate for a family last season—a family he immediately rejected when it was offered to him in s4.

He died a horrible death and had no control over his own body at the end. He didn’t even become a stupid flower in the new timeline. He just ceased to exist—all alone.

With no family or ties. No hero death. Why did the audience spend 2 seasons getting to know this new version of a well liked character if the show did absolutely nothing to take the story to any decent conclusion?

Both Umbrella and Sparrow Ben are just erased from the narrative because the show didn’t even bother including them in their stupid collective death ending. 4 seasons of Ben’s death haunting the narrative and the Hargreeves for this?

I’m ranting like a deranged madman but that’s my main takeaway. What a waste :/

An AU in which Pomni escaped from the circus and began to lead a wild life with crocodiles.

Brotherhood AU

better run, and fast

btw, this is more of a test/training of a weird walkcycle okioki

here the sketches

you're laughing. The umbrella academy's final season destroyed every character's personal growth and semi-healed traumas, left huge plot-holes, completely abandoned some of it's most beloved side characters that were crucial in previous seasons and you're laugh-oh. You're crying. My bad. Go ahead. Let it out. Understandable.

What about a httyd au? Phil is the chief and Tommy is the youngest kid who’s tired of being looked down on compared to his dad and famous brothers who are all legendary dragon slayers, so he tries to capture a dragon himself and ends up with the equal parts friendly and terrifying night fury!Tubbo. Cue friendship! (Bonus if Tubbo can temporarily shapeshift into human form when his bond with Tommy is strong enough.)

How to Train Your Dragon au...

God what if he and Tubbo fight side by side. Holy shit that would be cool. Tubbo shapeshifting back and forth between a human and dragon. Oh god.

Also Techno, we can have him have Carl, the Dragon he has adopted shortly after Tommy made friends with Tubbo.

Hmmmm but we got to figure out the shapeshifting thing part out. Maybe Tubbo is like one of those enchanted dragons or something? Like he definitely won’t let Tommy “capture him”. Maybe he just wanted friends and Tommy was so bad at capturing that he accidentally made friends with this human who is about his age.

Anyways, found family is pog and I like to think that Quackity, Schlatt, are shapeshifter and oh god there is so many god damn possibilities with this au. 

Sally the Salmon being a Dragon Shapeshifter and Wilbur not knowing...

Fundy being one of those Dragon shapeshifters and finding out when he was young and freaking out about it because his dad is a dragon slayer... 

I want Syndicate minors, so uh.

AU where Philza’s a good dad, and he’s like…yeah, I’m not leaving you guys alone after this, so he adopts all the minors and they decide to eventually roll with it. When Tommy’s exiled, Phil gives him Techno’s coordinates, and Tommy runs there purposely after he realizes what Dream was up to, and Tubbo is soon sent to join them by Phil, who realized the stress put on his shoulder, and that he was pretty much miserable, said ‘fuck that’, and sent him off to be hidden by Techno and reunite with Tommy, making Quackity president instead.

He eventually meets Ranboo, Drista, and Purpled shortly after, and also sends them there, though they don’t stay there originally, despite coming to see it as a safe spot. Doomsday still happens, but Techno and Phil talk it out with the kids, and while they agree it may be better for everyone to get a fresh start, they make them sneak out all the original history books and stuff, and give everyone a day’s warning to get their important items out before they blow it up. 

The Syndicate is eventually formed, though it’s more chill than before, and they pretty much just want to make sure nothing turns out like L’manberg, with the secret agenda of taking down Dream, as well as trying to figure out how to revive Wilbur, who currently haunts and aids them as Ghostbur, with his probably-not-sheep, Friend.

Like, Ranboo, the minors all have names from one of the rivers of the underworld. 

Purpled is Styx, Tommy is Phlegethon, Drista is Cocytus and Tubbo is Acheron. Might also add Sam and Puffy to it too, I’m not sure.