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Shadow's older sibling.

Ok I promise, not all my Bakugan OCs will be siblings to the Vexos. It's just, the story is focused on the Vestals so me and my friend kinda have to expand their families.

If you have any questions about them you can drop them in the askbox

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realizing i am essentially a god presiding over my creations. and i choose to put them in chaotic situations. anyways heres me picking one up

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Sometimes a pretty cat is an asshole, sometimes an ugly cat is an asshole. This sentence may or may not be applicable to some or all gentlemen above.

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reminiscing.

alt vers

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you used to be able to play games on cartoonnetwork.com . . . now every company's website wants to give you spyware and spread corporate propaganda but I REMEMBER when you could play a BEN 10 adventure game in-browser without so much as giving away your e-mail. people's heads should be on pikes for this

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Allowed myself to do something I havent done in years: screenshot redraw from one of my favorite shows.

I haven't watched Bakugan in years but Battle Brawlers was incredibly important to me when it premiered. I dont wanna infodump on an art post but understand that I have history with this franchise.

Original under cut

Unsure which episode this is from but I know its from the later seasons because of the location (which im not spoiling cuz I want to show it to my friends inevitably)

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Love those ads for fake puzzle games where the puzzle is blatantly unsolvable

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... okay I kinda want to talk about one of my Miraculous AUs but it's not my main one™️. It isn't one of the bakugan crossover ones either-

But hear me out... Guardian/Ladybug!Luka AU [I'll think of a better name for this later]

Context: Shit happens, Marinette's identity as Ladybug is compromised. She needs to do something quickly before Hawkmoth could target her or her loved ones. She quickly mentions what she's gotta do and the consequences before she does, so she goes to Luka, talks with him and mentions that time is short, mentions about the kwamis, the guardian duties and that once she renounces her role as a guardian, she'll lose her memories. He accepts- and welp- things are changed since then.

Marinette doesn't remember the events of the show, she has vague memories (like her liking Adrien, but can't really tell why, and it takes a while for her to reopen to him). Considering her memory loss, her friends try to help her. Lila sees this as an opportunity, and gets buddy buddy with Mari, to the point the roles kinda reverse (the class knows Lila is lying, but Marinette doesn't, though justifiable so because girl lost her memories).

Hawk Moth kinda tries to target her at first. Stops once he realizes she chose a new guardian and lost her memories. Targets her again once she starts helping the heroes and it seems Chat is getting attached to her. Stops when Adrien lashes at him (in civilian form) when he tries to deny him to see her, only to hear him shout that he loves her.

... you know I kinda realized I forgot to mention the ladybug in the room... Luka- and well-

Atm I don't have a name or design for his ladybug alter ego, but I'll try to cook something. Chat on the other hand... would basically go through the five stages of grief. He's sad that his lady can no longer be Ladybug. At one point he even tries to cataclysm the new ladybug. Eventually, he accepts this and he tries to be better so that he won't lose another bug friend.

I can imagine Luka as a new ladybug trying to be more open with Chat. Like, both know that Marinette kept secrets to protect him, so they aren't really mad about it. However, with Chat being more serious in fights, I can imagine these two being more of a duo that need one another.

Meanwhile- tbf I still need to research these characters (I most likely won't watch the show, so I'll have the power of shitty wikis and tvtropes to help me, alongside a friend maybe, and even the fandom?), but considering I hear that Luka can 'hear' the inner songs of people, I wonder how he'd choose the other holders.

Also considering that he has a sister... I wonder how long until she finds out the kwamis in the house.

... okay more bits on Marinette plot on this AU (as well as some other miscellaneous stuff).

I can at first people would bug her about being Ladybug, but poor girl doesn't remember. Alya links her the Ladyblog, and she has a kind of bitter-sweet moment, seeing how many good deeds she did as a hero, but sad she can't remember and can't be said hero anymore.

Chat still visits her on the balcony. Marinette ends up forming a celebrity crush on him.

Meanwhile, things are kinda rough with Adrien, as she kinda remembers he was friends with Chloe, but she can't shake off this feeling that she likes him. This is kind of the reason she decides to give him a chance.

Chloe may be getting a redemption in this. Thinking if she'll get another miraculous in this.

Chat may also try to convince Luka to give him a miraculous to give to Marinette.

Chat may also reveal his identity to Marinette.

Both Adrien and Luka will be in the final fight against Monarch because heck it- I think it will be funny for Adrien to learn the identity of the new ladybug this way... also learn about his father OOPS-

Joke thought about Luka trying to give Alix the snake miraculous (because he senses she may be good with time-related powers) only for her to reveal that technically she's already a perma hero aka the bunny hero. [totally not because I'm biased towards my fav]

Honestly just tempted to have the three (Marinette, Adrien and Luka) end in a relationship- mainly because I do want Mari and Adrien be endgame in this AU but ngl I also find funny the idea of Chat falling in love with the new ladybug hero too.

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So- since I'm kinda getting back into Miraculous- I kinda expected that either Marinette or Adrien would be my "fav" of the franchise (as in, a character I latch onto so much I end up with more versions of the same character)

... turns out I was wrong... oops, all Alix/Bunnyx-

Designs aren't final but in short

Young Bunnyx from my potential main AU for this franchise [atm it's called "unlikely friendship"]

Brawler/Vestal!Alix [from my bakugan crossover AU]

Cat"bun"!Bunnyx

And in the back... a solo Bunnyx that kinda lost the timelines she was watching over and it's kinda in the Burrow and tries to offer help with watching over timelines and is a bit too eager to "fix" timelines that stray too much from the original.

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So @howihateallthis-s made me watch Bakugan with him…………

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Bakugan AUs Masterpost (3rd try)

Soooo- I want to redo my master post... again. This is mainly for Bakugan AUs. Some overlap may happen if the AU is a crossover.

Catverse

Everyone is a cat... sort of- technically started back in FNF days but the most content I did for this is bakugan related.

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Bakugan: Swapverse

A (kind of) swap AU. The main 6 switch places with themselves. Later on swaps can get a bit... funky-

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Bakugan: Trial by Fire

Mira gets cursed by the 6 legendary soldiers :'D pain and shenanigans ensue

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Bakugan: Alignment Shift

Good guys are bad, bad guys are good.... sort of, it's not all black and white.

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Bakugan: Butterfly Effect

How could one detail change the story?

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Unity AU

Wait this isn't even bakugan by this point?

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Trying to figure out how to draw Mira, did some doodles at school today.

Plus some cat!Mira sketches because- because

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Gotta love it when that happens past me

Hey mobile game devs! If I watch a ad for a reward you can't yeet me in an "ad break" once I'm done- that's just rude >:(

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The temptation to start yapping about the Miraculous Ladybug AUs I've been cooking in my head for the last few days but I also realize I haven't talked about some old bakugan AUs and now I kinda want to do that too...

But also I realize my old bakugan posts are kinda scattered through my blog and I haven't updated masterlists in a while... oops-

I may work on getting those sorted- but also- maybe expect a long post either today or tomorrow.

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sends you straight to the Doom Dimension. dummy.