#DRB AU

[absolutelynotsanebaby]

Demon Kyojuro and Senjuro AU!

First off tho! Credit! This design was inspired by @lokh ‘s demon Kyojuro design! Which can be found here. It's extremely cool please go reblog it!!!!

Explanation of my AU is under the cut :)

Okay! so!

this AU begins after Kyojuro's survival of the Mugen Train.

He takes months to begin to get near fully healed but he'd never be healthy enough to become an active demon slayer again, much less a hashira.

Then Senjuro gets diagnosed with the same disease that killed their mother and it all spirals.

Akaza makes a startling appearance and becomes a frequent visitor.

Akaza isn't stupid, he knows he can't convince Kyojuro to become a demon willingly, convincing him to turn his dying little brother while hes vulnerable in multiple ways (physically, emotionally etc) on the other hand ? He switches tactics. It works.

They run, because Kyojuro knows the consequences of what he's done and isn't willing to face them.

Because of Kyojuro's presence Senjuro was able to retain his memories and full autonomy.

The same cannot be said for Kyojuro later, who is turned unwillingly (note: NOT by Akaza). He looses his memories and most of his speech (he can talk, its just choppy and mostly one word sentences). All he remembers is his love for his little brother and dislike of Akaza and other demons.

He becomes a sort of...demonic vigilante? He does eat, but only when he needs to and tries very hard to only attack and eat those he deems morally corrupt. When it comes to demon slayers, those he considers innocent or morally just he preforms quick, 'mercy' killings.

I'm not quite sure what his demon blood art would be yet but I'm thinking its something simple like him just setting alight and burning people (which, when slayers begin to find bodies of people who were clearly killed by a demon but burned it mystifies them. Demons aren't know to 'cook' their food). Knowing the Rengoku name means Purgatory you could say it's a form of hell-like punishment. He only burns those he considers morally corrupt.

A note about Senjuro: he refuses to eat and it worries Kyojuro to no end.

Senjuro wants to tell his brother about who they were and why whats going on is wrong but hes under strict instruction and threat from Akaza to not. (the threat being Akaza tracking down and attacking people like Tanjiro, their father, Kocho and such).

Another thing about Senjuro is that even as a demon he's weak. Well comparatively to humans he's much stronger but he's still nowhere near useful in combat. This angers both him and Akaza.

and...that's it so far! this has been a lot of rambling but i've fallen in love w this AU so i hope u can forgive me :)

There is a short playlist for this AU! You can find it here <3

[crehador]

ohabukuro still one of the songs of all time “i like a strong girl who fights good” yeah ichiro that’s just samatoki

[akukoaday]

once again legs are too short. I think I drew the heads too big? Also idk how to tag this one, I know artistic nudity is okay with tumblr and this is non-sexual and there are only four of you, so sorry to surprise cock I suppose ajsdfkljaslkdf. But anyways some HCs below the cut.

Kuko: He/he transman Gay Started HRT when he ran away to Tokyo as a teenager after his fight with his dad. He got his top surgery after the 2nd DRB. Kuko had been planning to fund it himself with the prize money. When they didn't win, it came up in conversation and Hitoya ends up paying for it. I started off imagining Kuko as someone VERY top dysphoric, but as time goes on and I'm not projecting onto Kuko as much as I used to (not because I love him less, but more of me appreciating Kuko for who he is instead) the intensity of that dysphoria can vary based on my moods and AUs I come up with. I like to imagine that no matter what Kuko would want top surgery, but depending on scenario/mood Kuko would be okay with people seeing/touching his pre-op kuubies. Kuko has no bottom dysphoria in contrast. "Canonically" Kuko is not into anal, so if he's bottoming its PiV. I really fuck with how muscular he was drawn in the first BAT/DH manga. I like to draw him a bit more broader and muscular as such. Hairy legs, pits, and crotch, has sparse hair on chest and stomach. Has nipples, navel, and VCH piercings. I'm 99% sure canon Kuko has some kind of body piercing somewhere on his body. I like to imagine he got his dick pierced in Tokyo, and he got it done in front of Ichiro to show off how cool he is. Jyushi: he/they non-binary bi/pan He's lean and toned. He canonically does muscle training, I imagine his body to be quite like Vil's from Twisted Wonderland. (Jyushi has BIG Pomefiore energy ngl). His penis is uncircumcised. Removes most of his body hair. Has no body piercings yet, but will likely get some. Being around Kuko doesn't help. (I imagine if piercings come up, Kuko always tries to talk someone into getting their dick pierced.) Hitoya: he/him non-binary bisexual with a preference for men Unlike Kuko and Jyushi, HItoya very rarely talks about his gender, and really only opens up about it after you have earned a LOT of his trust. Jakurai, Jyushi, and Kuko are the only ones who know as of right now. Hitoya is masculine for the most part, but does fancy lipstick, heels, and pearl jewelry. But again, its very rare for him to sport anything of that nature out in public these days. NB Hitoya kinda started off as a joke, in the vein of "no one in BAT is cis", but I feel vindicated by canon with Hitoya's EW 03 look. My man is VERY babygirl there. I like to imagine him as a bit broader than his canon body. Probably has a little bit of belly fat, but you can't really see it with his clothes on. Very hairy!!! His penis is circumcised. While HitoKu is my favorite Kuko ship, my favorite Hitoya ship is actually HitoJaku. I really love their dynamic. They're so dumb, and Hitoya really brings out a lot of Jakurai's cuteness I think. I can't decide if Hitoya has any piercings or not. I feel like he might have had some at one point, as he's an overgrown chuuni, but now? ehhhh. Depends on my mood.

[cephei-ea]

Masterlist

Genres:

F= fluff

A= angst

N= nsfw

S= smut

C= comfort

H= hurt

Categories:

ima= imagine

one= oneshot

fic= fic (multiple chapters)

drb= drabble

au= alternate universe

hc= headcannons

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JUJUTSU KAISEN

Geto Suguru

Memento (fic - a, c)

ATTACK ON TITAN

Levi Ackerman

Reflection (one - a, h)

FINAL FANTASY VII

Cloud Strife

Fluff Alphabet (hc/drb - f)

Interlinked (drb - a, h)

TALE OF THE NINE TAILED

Lee Rang 

Green Juice (one - a, h/c, f)

MOB PSYCHO 100

Shigeo Kageyama (Mob)

Disbelief  (ima - a)

GENSHIN IMPACT

Diluc Ragnvindr (DNH)

Hydro Abyss Mage (ima - a)

Multi

Multi (individual) - Reaction To Your Pregnancy (fic/hc - f, a)

Multi (individual) - Argument Pt1 (hc/drb - a)

Multi (individual) - Argument Pt2 (drb - a, h/c)

UNORDINARY

Arlo (Asslo)

Chores (one -  a, c)

Pattern (one - a, c)

I LOVE YOO

Dieter Becker-Wulff

Summit (drb - f, h/c)

[cad-iksodas-tsenre]

PuschKarlMann

BRD Puscht Krank

Alles verreckt

alles krank Tiere krank Pflanzen krank Menschn krank

und die BRD rackt weiter Industrie Industrie Industrie

eirtsudnI eirtsudnI eirtsudnI retiew tkcar drB eid dnu ,knark nhcsnem knark neznalfP knark ereiT knark sella tkcerrev sellA

Industrie-Produkte rausschmeißn aus Chemnitz

Chemnitz

[aktionfsa-blog-blog]

Strafverschärfung Paragraf 184b StGB ging voll daneben

Vorwärts, rückwärts, seitwärts ...

Das EU-Überwachungsprojekt Chatkontrolle kommt nicht aus den Schlagzeilen. Erst vor 2 Tagen mussten wir berichten, dass Europol bei noch mehr möglichen Straftaten die Überwachung der Inhalte unserer Kommunikation will.

Diesmal nun 2 Gegenstimmen:

So hat der ehemalige Richter am Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) Christopher Vajda ein Gutachten zur Chatkontrolle-Verordnung erstellt. In dem 38-seitigen Gutachten (PDF), das der Piraten-Abgeordnete Patrick Breyer auf seiner Webseite veröffentlicht hat, kommt Vajda, wie netzpolitik.org berichtet, zu folgender Einschätzung: Zusammenfassend komme ich zu dem Schluss, dass die in der Verordnung vorgesehene Anordnung zur Detektion von Daten wahrscheinlich gegen die Artikel 7 und 8 der Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union („die Charta“) verstößt.

Die zweite Gegenstimme kommt von Justizminister Buschmann, der die Strafrechtsverschärfung für die „Verbreitung, Erwerb und Besitz kinderpornographischer Inhalte“ (§184b StGB) rückgängig machen möchte. Jurist:innen hatten die Verschärfung bereits bei der Reform von 2021 im damaligen Gesetzgebungsprozess kritisiert.

In der Folge dieser Gesetzesverschärfung sind unzählige Verfahren gegen Minderjährige (etwa 40% der Fälle) entstanden, die sich einvernehmlich gegenseitig Bilder von sich zugeschickt haben. Im Falle von Chatgruppen können sogar alle Mitglieder der Gruppe belangt werden, was den Ermittlungsbehörden einen riesigen Arbeitsaufwand beschert. Die Staatsanwaltschaft muss nach dem Gesetz sogar eine Lehrerin anklagen, die bei einer 13-jährigen Schülerin ein Video vorfand und dies zur Information an die Mutter der Schülerin schickte. Netzpolitik.org nennt weitere ähnliche Beispiele.

JuristInnen, der Deutsche Anwaltverein (DAV) und der Deutsche Richterbund (DRB) begrüßen die geplante Reform der Reform.

Wir fragen uns, warum kommen fachlich inkompetente MinisterInnen immer wieder - meist nur weil sie bereitwillig Stammtischparolen und der Hetze in den Medien folgen - mit Gesetzen durch, die von den Gutachtern bereits im Gesetzgebungsprozess als untauglich und schädlich angesehen werden?

Beispiele bei denen es sich lohnt auf unseren Seiten danach zu suchen wären Zensursula und die Netzsperren, die Vorratsdatenspeicherung, die BKA Novelle zum Lauschangriff auf Wohnungen, die Speicherung von Flugreisedaten, stationäre Grenzkontrollen statt Freizügigkeit im Schengenraum, die geplante Chatkontrolle, ...

Mehr dazu bei https://netzpolitik.org/2023/rechtsgutachten-chatkontrolle-unvereinbar-mit-grundrechte-charta/ und https://netzpolitik.org/2023/reform-der-reform-buschmann-will-strafverschaerfung-bei-kinderpornografie-rueckgaengig-machen/ und unsere Artikel zur EU Chatkontrolle https://aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/cgi-bin/searchartl.pl?suche=Chat&sel=meta

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[kimheecheon]

4 going on 5 years of this game and miss arisu only have two (2) leads ever. absolutely zero (0) second leads. outrageous. upcoming winter play better have him lead or else

[imsoluvly-ursoluvly]

“Have you ever done this before?” He asked with a little cocky smirk.

Without giving you time to reply, he continued. “It doesn’t matter anyways. Not like you’re going to remember anyone other than me after I’m done with you.”

Jungkook’s hands finally reached your chest, hiking your shirt up, just under your chin and took his sweet time to just look at you, your skin, how soft and smooth under his fingers, a pretty collar bone, dusty pink nipples. All so tempting.

You could feel a flush running down from your cheeks and down your neck, even covering your chest, just because of how intense his gaze was.

“Pretty...” Was the only thing he murmured, before leaning in once again and letting his lips hover over the thin skin of your neck.

Parts: | 1 | — | 2 |

[crestmade]

bro i am tired of seeing people initialize nb people.....

[absolutelynotsanebaby]

Basically

I need to make a chart of like—the relationships between some of the characters in my DRB AU

[crehador]

i VERY MUCH LOVE the nui!verse drabbles and i know its just a silly au thing but i was wondering if you have like any stories on how samatoki and ichiro met the nuis ?? the thought of the nuis already reconciling and getting their shit together long before samatoki and ichiro did and maybe even trying to be their matchmakers makes me giggle -🪱

oh busted ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡ i have in all honesty thought very little about how the nuis came into being, how icsm got them, why they're sentient... i am just a huge fan of little fancomics where they're alive (especially ones where samatoki and ichiro run into each other during bachibachi era and get caught having the other's nui poking out of their shirt or pocket lol)

but now that i am thinking about it...

i think i like the idea of nui!verse being basically canon but the drb guys have like idol status, with loads of merch being made of them, so they have claw machines with nuis in them in their world too

samatoki walking past one of those machines one day just totally on a whim decides to give it a shot and totally isn't aiming for ichinui or anything nope not at all... and of course gets an ichinui (after like 100 tries) who for some reason comes to life in his presence (the MAGIC of TRUE LOVE or something like... samatoki gives it a little forehead kiss that brings it to life)

and meanwhile in ikebukuro ichiro has done the exact same thing but with a samanui

then they are just inseparable like ichinui goes everywhere with samatoki and samanui goes everywhere with ichiro, so inevitably the nuis meet (like icsm have brought them to block party or 2nd drb or something and the nuis are in their bags backstage but squirm out and run into each other and naturally fall in love at first sight)

so then of course operation PARENT TRAP begins and the nuis become the tiniest most adorable and most effective matchmakers ever (*￣▽￣)b

(but the idea of the nuis having lived their own lives in parallel to icsm is an adorable thought too, especially if they manage to reconcile long before actual icsm lmaooo)

[amazetmarchived]

always had a quirk izuku aus < quirkless izuku becomes a hero aus

[needlxd-a-blog]

You had known that whichever choice you made, you would ultimately end up hurting someone. It was then a question of who you thought yourself capable of hurting. At least, you had thought so. But then you finally learned the truth about your mother. And in that moment, your choice was made. Taking your winged brother by the hand, you agreed to step into your new life, leaving everything you had ever known behind in favor of something new.

Something in your soul tells you that you should have known. That you should have seen this coming. Everyone leaves. Everyone is hiding something. No one can be trusted. You had been foolish to think she could be any different. She’d been too good at acting from the start. She’d fooled the heroes and the students with the ease of someone with years of acting experience under their belt. Foolish of you to assume she hadn’t been playing the same game with you and everyone else in the League. Still, it was infuriating. To know it had all been a game to her-- the comforts she’d provided to all in the League, the way she had even defended them at every turn. Had those all been lies? Empty words and actions, void of any real meaning? Or had that damned bird, that damnable traitor, corrupted her while he had infiltrated their ranks?

What a cruel child, either way. Dabi figures it’s time he taught her a lesson. That conviction, that raging funeral pyre, called louder for her demise when Compress returned, so very clearly broken and defeated by the finality of her betrayal. If even Compress hadn’t been able to persuade her to return, then perhaps only the fires of hell could absolve her of her sins.

Your encounter with Compress, the man you had always thought of as a father, had been horrible. Your current encounter with Dabi, though, is torture. Quite literally, at that. Flames lick at your skin, leaving painful blisters or searing through skin depending on how quickly you could or couldn’t manage to dodge them. And you’re suddenly reminded of why you could never hope to defeat him in any manner. He can ignite flames without apparent end, whereas your quirk is limited by the amount of iron in your body. To make matters worse, heat worsened your quirk’s abilities. Needles meant to be sharp and deadly become limp steel noodles capable on inflicting exactly zero damage. That leaves you with only the sword sheathed in your umbrella. Certainly you’re an incredibly skilled swordswoman by now, but Dabi has more experience and knows your fighting style more than anyone else. That fact is becoming more and more apparent by the moment.

Endurance is not your ally. You know that, if you want to defeat Kitiara, you have to make it quick. Despite only being around eight years younger than you, she has so much more endurance than you could hope to have. The lucky little brat-- she’d had proper training even before falsely attending UA, and the school had only served to hone her abilities. The openings you had known to be there before ( from those times spent sparring ) are few an far between. She’s quick, too, dodging your blue-hot flames left and right. But she isn’t always fast enough. There are plenty of instances where she burns, but even in that moment of weakness, she’s on guard and doesn’t give you the chance to take advantage of it.

One thing hasn’t changed, though. She’s too focused on one thing at a time for her own good. Doesn’t see the bigger picture. Doesn’t see that the burns you leave on her with your flames are strategically placed.

You’re too foolish to realize his game. Not until you’re collapsed on the ground, knees burnt too horribly to even think about moving your legs. You try to go for your blade, but he’s quicker on his feet than you are flat on your stomach. He swipes it up, and when your hand reaches out to grab hold of him to retaliate, he stabs the blade through, pinning your hand to the ground. It rips a cry of pain from you, one which dies out halfway through due to the disuse of your voice. Tears well up in your eyes, but when your other hand moves to try and free the blade from your flesh, he pins it down with the heel of his boot. Makes a show of digging it down into your hand, grinning at the sickening crunch and the way you writhe in agony. Breathing labored, you struggle to lift your head and glare at him through your tear-blurred vision. You know where this is to end. He’s always threatened you with burning you to ashes, even when you were both on the same side of the fight. Now that you aren’t, there’s nothing stopping him from finally making it a reality.

You say nothing, but the challenge is evident in your eyes.

You leave that deserted alleyway filled with smoke and blue flames by yourself. The screams of the burning girl have long since stopped, but the flames that brought them about still burn. This area is utterly abandoned, so there’s no chance her screams were heard. The smoke, though, would surely attract attention. So you figure it’s time to leave your masterpiece behind and return to the new hideout. But you don’t leave without a sort of trophy. Or rather, two trophies. They’re not for yourself, though. No, you have no use for such things. Instead, you plan to leave her old beloved parasol to Compress, figuring maybe he’d want something to remember her by. Plus, she’d lent it to him several times to serve as a makeshift cane if he lost his own for any reason. Maybe it’d give him something to remind him of better times.

The mask she wore, you save for Hawks. You have it sent to him in all of its singed and soot-covered glory, with nothing else. It’s a warning to the hero and all other traitors, loud and clear.

Never betray Dabi, lest you want to burn.

[cad-iksodas-tsenre]

BRD Anno 1990 bis heute immer noch

Nach der künstlichen Wende Anno 1990 bis heute immer noch hat die BRD alles hoch qualitative der DDR blockiert, zerstört bis in jeden einzelnen Menschen. Viele Menschen mussten dadurch schwerste Schäden hinnehmen. Der Westen die BRD hat sich bereichert und eigene Primitive "angebliche Qualitäten" hingestellt und verkauft reklamiert. Im Sport in der Kunst in der Industrie. Die BRD hat massiven Ausschuß und niedrigste Qualität aus den eigenen BRD Reihen gegen höchste DDR Qualität ausgetauscht. Und in Chemnitz leben die Menschen in tief gesunkener Lebensqualität mit massiven Verletzungen Unfällen Todesfällen Zerstörungen und unter massiver Betäubung durch Nahrungs-Genussmittel und Nahrungsmittel-Chemie und Haushaltchemie und Pflegechemie und mit schwersten Krüppelmachungsmethoden wie Gehhilfen Kriechstützen GehStöcken die alle Bewegung verkümmern und nicht wie falsch behauptet fördern. Außerdem durch Blödestr Medien … massive Verblödung Volksverdummung und Anlernen falscher Lebensweisen und tödlicher zerstörender Produkte und Industrie..

Auch heute im Zeisigwald , suchte ich Erholung und hörte Sirenenlärm über Sirenenlärm. Die fahren hier durch Chemnitz manchmal Stundenlang Sirenenfahrzeuge mit scharfem Blau - und Rotlicht blende Attacken und Lautstärke der Sirenen die das Ohr Schmerzen, in die Augen und Ohren wie Nadelstiche.

Das gab es zu DDR Zeiten nicht. Auch sehen die BRD Menschen zutiefst hässlicher aus, mit aggressiven Gesichtsausdruck eingegraben in die Mimik und unfröhlichen und ständig bedrohlichen Gebärden. Das nennt die BRD gelungene Umgangskultur!

hcon remmi etueh sib 0091 onnA drB -tsenrE

[boobaita]

anyways sunne made me sad so i’m going to bed

[slugtranslation-hypmic]

different media anon here, thank you so much for your answer! It really pushed me to try watching the stageplays someday in my own time... somehow... haha qq if you dont mind me asking again (sorry if theres like a limit on ask per week or something), yknow how theres rivalries between divisions? Had the DRBs not been a thing, which divisions/groups do you think would actually be pretty friendly with each other, and which ones would still be pretty tense despite the lack of hypnosis mics lmao

What a super interesting idea. I tried to consider each team's dynamic with the other team, and it got a little long, so sticking this under a cut.

First, I want to properly define how this thought experiment will work, as removing tension/the Hypmics altogether makes the plot collapse entirely and raises a few questions about how several groups got together and what certain team members are up to, if not orchestrating tension. If Rei isn’t slinking around in the background looking shady and cooking up some DRB-related shenanigans, is he really still Rei? And so on.

Therefore, I am going to stick to the letter of the question. What if there were no DRBs? The DRBs seemed to have come about because Otome had the bright idea of pitting two rap boys against each other for sport in a bloodless, more marketable version of a gladiator match, so what if she just... didn’t do that? When Ramuda called Ichijiku and went, “Yo, what up, homie G, did you know the boys are planning a revolution?” what if Otome didn’t have anything lined up and kind of had to be like, “Well, shit”? So then she sent out Ramuda to break the crew up but in a totally lame, Ramude-esque way.

You know in FP/M+ chapter 11 when Hifumi tries to guess the reason TDD broke up and guesses that someone ate someone else’s pudding? Yeah. That’s what we’re going with here. Ramuda went around, ate everyone else’s pudding, and blamed it all on someone else. (We can assume Jakurai caught him in the act or something.) The mild anger on the Ichirou-Samatoki end and the sheer “wtf, Ramuda?” factor on the Ramuda-Jakurai end was enough for TDD to take a temporary hiatus, and when all tempers cooled down, they decided to go their separate ways but remain friends.

And while this may not be necessary for the letter of this prompt, let’s throw Sasara and Kuukou a bone and say that their tiffs with Samatoki and Ichirou happened in a similar fashion. Would Samatoki blow up and send Sasara’s ass packing back to Osaka (temporarily) if he thought Sasara touched his shit and Sasara, sensing an opportunity to clown on Samatoki for it, did what he does best? Absolutely! Would Ichirou and Kuukou butt heads in a he-said, she-said argument over who drank Ichirou’s last Coke? You know it. But as in TDD’s split, these arguments wouldn’t last long, and everyone would be pretty admicable before long.

Now our stage is set. Welcome... to the pudding AU. 

BB/MTC: Samatoki and Ichirou are still homies to some extent, and this means that Ichirou still looks up to him as an older brother figure. By the sort of transitive property of older brothers, Jirou and Saburou would probably likewise respect him and at the very least would play nice with the rest of MTC. Samatoki likes kids, so he’d have no issue with the younger BBs, and Riou enjoys company as well. The group would probably have a lot of fun camping and having cook-outs at Riou’s place in the woods. However, there is an issue, and it is the one person I haven’t mentioned yet. I do not think Juuto “Mature Adult” Iruma would enjoy spending his free time with a middle schooler, especially if that middle schooler is as liable to sass back as Saburou is. Thus, the cook-outs would likely devolve into a very different sort of roasting over a campfire and would end with both Juuto and Saburou in time out.

BB/FP: After Ichirou cools off in regards to the Coke and pudding incidents (which may take a while), I figure he and Ramuda would fall back into a similar dynamic that they have in canon, wherein Ichirou thinks Ramuda’s a little weird but not enough to really do anything about it. FP and BB have fairly dissimilar interests, so I don’t think they would hang out a ton. Additionally, I think Ichirou would be a bit concerned about Dice and Gentarou’s bad behaviors (gambling and lying) rubbing off on the little BBs. Still, they might all get food or something every once in a while. The TDD manga suggests that Ramuda will, when he’s not pestering Ichirou, be occasionally struck with the desire to feed him, so I could see him popping up ever so often to treat the BBs to a nice dinner in some cozy little family restaurant. FP is like the weird uncle and the weird uncle’s irresponsible friends who give baller presents at Christmas and teaches you all the cool swear words you’re too young to know.

BB/MTR: This is a dynamic that I don’t think would work super well, not because of any sort of animosity, but simply that these two groups have such big differences in maturity and interests. The Buster Bros certainly wouldn’t mind fishing or dinner/drinking parties after work, but they wouldn’t have much to contribute to the adult conversation. Likewise, I’m sure that MTR would listen politely (Hifumi maybe not so much) to conversations about anime and school, but they wouldn’t be personally invested in it. I’m sure they all think well of each other but are probably casual acquaintances at best. They might have more luck mixing in a bigger, blended group, such as in TDD.

BB/DH: Despite how surprisingly easy it is to remove the DRBs from Hypmic and replace them with pudding without losing a significant chunk of the story and its character dynamics, I do not think we can conceivably make whatever the hell is going on between the Buster Bros and Rei be about pudding. Therefore, this group does not get along. Sasara and Ichirou probably keep in touch in a vague, acquaintances way. In canon, Ichirou doesn’t really reach out to him after he splits from Samatoki (even though there’s nothing really preventing him from doing so), so I imagine something similar would happen here.

BB/BAT: Oh they would kick so much ass. You know Kuukou and Ichirou would be making monthly trips to hang out with the bestie and try to beat each other’s ass in a parking lot somewhere. Jirou and Juushi would bond over music, and if anyone tried to bully Juushi again, Jirou, Kuukou, and Ichirou would show up to whoop their asses. (Saburou’s on standby waiting with a phone ready to call their lawyer (Hitoya)). I think Saburou and Hitoya would annoy the absolute hell out of one another, so they would end up very close friends too. Somewhere, there’s a group picture of all 6 smiling and hugging, and Hitoya texts it to Jakurai with the caption, “Look at this! Five kids, you bitch. And no child support, no less. You wish. You wish you were me.”

MTC/FP: It surprises me that Chuuouku had to make a reason for Samatoki to hate Ramuda, because the grasshopper arc shows that FP manages to piss off MTC plenty just by virtue of being themselves. I do sort of think that the only reason TDD works as well as it does is because Jakurai is a buffer absorbing the worst of Ramuda’s obnoxious energy, thus stopping him from trying to speedrun becoming a Ramupancake by annoying the absolute shit out of Samatoki until Samatoki beats the absolute shit out of him. And I mean... I do get it. I love the character Samatoki to death, but if he were a real person, by god there is something about him that would make it physically impossible for me to not fuck with him. His bravado is purely a bastard magnet. (I think that’s part of why he and Juuto get along so well.) Also, Gentarou appears to be allergic to cops and would be unable to resist making Juuto’s life hell (there’s a bastard magnet on Juuto too). So I have a feeling this would devolve into an absolute shitfit for four members of this little gang while Dice and Riou are just chillin’ on the side. So long as Dice and Riou can keep chillin’, everything’s all good. To be honest, I think Dice could get along well with MTC provided he left Gentarou and Ramuda at home - hell, I think Dice could get along with virtually anyone in the cast provided he left Gentarou and Ramuda at home. He’s as chill as could be while Gen+Ramu are chill in the same way that the surface of the sun is chill.

MTC/MTR: Hmm.. a mixed bag. Riou and Jakurai would become best friends overnight, partially because they’re on eye level with one another for a change, partially because they can commiserate about war, and partially because Riou would suggest, “Would you care to come into the woods with me to cook absolute batshit ingredients, fish in mountain streams with your bare hands, and wrestle the local wildlife into submisson?” and Jakurai would be like, “Oh! :) Would I!” A match made in heaven. As for the rest, I’m not sure. I think Hifumi and Riou would actually be able to get along in an odd sort of way - they’d swap recipes, and Riou would share some of his plants in exchange for spices he can’t get in the woods - since Riou’s absolutely patient enough to handle Hifumi’s high energy. Doppo and Riou would also work. Like Dice, I think Riou’s chill enough that you can send him to virtually everyone (barring Saburou, who is fourteen - apologies to the fourteen-year-olds reading this, but someday you will understand what I mean) and expect him to come home with a new best friend. Honestly, I think this whole dynamic would actually shake out pretty nicely. They seem like they could be trusted to have a chill time drinking/eating together someday. MTR are like MTC’s square cousins, and MTC’s like MTR’s slightly sketchy friend you know from high school who’s cool but definitely runs with the wrong crowd. (I would say they’re the weed dealer if not for Juuto’s obvious hatred of the topic.) The only reason why I called this a mixed bag in the first place is because I was a bit concerned about leaving Juuto and/or Samatoki and Hifumi in a room together - see the bastard magnet comment above - but knowing that Juuto is Doppo’s acquaintance would probably mitigate that a bit. (Although, knowing that Juuto is a potential Doppal may inspire Hifumi to do something embarassing like share Doppo’s baby pictures.) So hey, why not? Friends.

MTC/DH: God, what an interesting concept. Assuming that Samatoki and Sasara make up, I think Samatoki’d treat him in a “Haha, you knucklehead :) *beats his ass*” kind of way, which is all well and good. Running from an angry Samatoki gives Sasara good exercise. So Sasara would introduce him to Dotsuhonsters like, “Hey haha this is the yakuza leader who tries to beat me up all the time :)” and Roshou would go, “GOOD for him.” Samatoki and Roshou are, of course, instant best friends. The only awkwardness is when one day Roshou and Samatoki both share some pics of themselves a few years back, and Rei doesn’t say anything, but he does lean over and give poor Sasara (who is sweating bullets) a Look. There is not anything this man does not know. (Roshou and Samatoki, of course, are fucking oblivious, god bless their dumb asses.) Introducing Riou to the crew would go well, although I think Riou would be a bit baffled at their high-speed sense of humor. Introducing Juuto would go less well - and here I would like to pause and apologize to all the Juuto fans, since I feel like I’ve been making him out to be a cantankerous bitch, but he really is canonically closed off and prickly. That’s a big part of his character and what makes Juuto opening up to MTC so special and wonderful. At any rate, none of what I said above about Juuto was meant to be insulting, and I am now going to immediately fly in the face of that and lay into him - because I am 100% certain Rei has lured Juuto into an NFT scam, catfished him online, or both. The meetup quickly devolves into a game of tag as Juuto scrambles to get Rei into handcuffs.

MTC/BAT: Like FP, I think BAT’s obnoxious energy is a bit much for Samatoki. However, I think Juuto and Hitoya could be absolutely amazing friends, as they have pretty similar approaches to how they treat the justice system and how it plays into their respective missions. They also seem to have similar-enough tastes that they’d probably hang out in their free time. Hitoya would cry with relief that Juuto actually knows how to spell “charcuterie” after three days holed up in the mountains with Kuukou. Riou and Kuukou would likely respect one another for their strong conviction to their beliefs. I could see Riou being interested in training with Kuukou. Survival rhythm, survival monk. Survival rhymes and survival funk. Get sprayed in the woods by a survival skunk.

FP/MTR: There are two ways I can see this going, and one ends in the apocalypse, which is why I think King Records saw it vital to pry Jakurai and Ramuda apart before their respective groups mixed. On the one hand, I can see this having the same dynamic as a couple who have wildly different friend groups so you know the other dudes in a very second-hand, say “hey” when you pass on the street way. I don’t mean that in the sense that Jakurai and Ramuda would be a couple in this AU, but considering Jakurai’s willingness to forgive Ramuda for much more egregious shit, I think it’s fair to assume they’d make up after maybe four days tops for something as insignificant as “trying to break up the friend group” and “secretly being a government spy”. At any rate, assuming they each go on to build their own friend groups on their own time while still remaining close friends, I don’t think they would try to make one supergroup of pals because Jakurai and Ramuda’s one-on-one dynamic is very different than their group dynamic. Jakurai tends to... maybe babysit isn’t the right word, but mitigate, perhaps, Ramuda in group scenarios like TDD, and that wouldn’t work well with either MTR or FP. Both groups rely on them treating and being treated as equals while being able to express their true selves. Therefore, Jakurai-Doppo-Hifumi would be good friends, and Jakurai-Ramuda would be good friends, and Ramuda-Gentarou-Dice would be good friends, but there’d be no Jakurai-Doppo-Hifumi-Ramuda-Gentarou-Dice supercluster. On the other hand, if that did exist, the results would be disastrous. Yes, I think Jakurai would love this because he’d Hayami Show the hell out of Dice (Jakurai and Dice’s voice actors are very good friends), but if you allowed Dice and Doppo to meet on good terms, their mutual hatred of the systems they live in would spark a revolution overnight. As for Hifumi and Gentarou... Jesus Christ... it might be a good thing that they dislike one another in canon, because I cannot imagine a more chaotic pair of good friends. Together, they have the collective energy of those posts which show someone swerving through incoming traffic at roughly the speed of sound with the caption “Can’t help being a Gemini! <3 Live, Laugh, Love”.

FP/DH: Putting Gentarou and Sasara together is likewise a recipe for disaster. I think they’d try to one up one another, resulting in horrible casualties. I don’t think Ramuda would voluntarily want to hang out with Rei either - he doesn’t seem to be that fond of Rei in canon - so I don’t think these groups would ever naturally mix.

FP/BAT: Honestly, if left to their own devices, I think FP would try to adopt Juushi. Ramuda and Gentarou would, I think, find him very charming, even if Dice might be put off a bit by the crying. I don’t know how things would work with the rest of the crew, though. Kuukou might hold some resentment for Ramuda causing a fight between him and Ichirou, and Gentarou+Dice would be too protective of Ramuda to let this go easily. It’s probably best that these two groups don’t mix, apart from FP trying to arrange custody for Juushi on weekends.

MTR/DH: In theory, this could work pretty well, especially because Hifumi would kill to host a house party for his friends. They’re all mature enough to be able to connect well, if they ever had a reason to connect (I’m not sure what this would be, though - probably a friend of a friend recommendation via Samatoki). In practice, this would be a terrible disaster, because Sasara would goad Jakurai into drinking and then immediately regret it, if he lived to tell the tale afterwards. Still, talk about an interesting experience, huh? Oh, on that note, Jakurai and Sasara may actually get along by virtue of being into interesting people/things, although for somewhat different reasons.

MTR/BAT: Unfortunately, the Jakurai-Hitoya split is another relationship break we can’t pudding our way out of, boys. Hifumi and Juushi seem like they have the potential to connect due to their similar ways of coping with traumatic situations, but god... Poor Doppo... Imagine trying to sleep while the two of them are going, “HA HA HA HA!!!!” in the other room. Kuukou seems a bit too rough and wild to fit in with most of the group, although he and Jakurai might enjoy meditating together.

DH/BAT: Honestly? I could see it. Kuukou and Sasara have a strong dynamic back in MCD, so I could see them staying casual pals and eventually bringing the rest of their crew around to hang out. Both groups also have similar dynamics of younger, energetic dudes roughhousing while an older man looks on and gives timely advice, so I think they wouldn’t clash too much, even in terms of Kuukou and Juushi’s relative immaturity. Sasara enjoys that kind of commotion, and Roshou, while despairing about the state they leave his apartment in, enjoys encouraging kids and younger people. The one point of contention I’m foreseeing is Hitoya being alarmed by Rei’s flagrant law violating.

Super fun thing to think about! Thanks for sending this in.