#Douglas Leo Giselle what have you done

[hauntingyourbookshelves]

Absolutely not crying over Marcus rn

[toastybugguy]

Dude tell us ab the LR Descendants AU that sounds so fun I would like to hear the infodump

DUDE. Dude.

okay so this is a jumbled mess bc honestly this just started as an excuse to make silly little animatics in my head to my silly little songs LOLZ. BUT. I’m an idea man at heart. So here’s just a bunch of loosely connected ideas (that you can probably poke a ton of holes in). Just do what I did and take whatever you like and RUN W IT

- The VKs are Marcus and Skylar because Marcus is obvi and Skylar being evil was fun…. and also!! I think they should b friends!!!!

- Was pondering making Oliver and Bree the other VKs to fill out the cast and so I can unite my power couples and let them all be evil together. There is no real conclusion 2 this pondering bc I couldn’t decide which version I liked more AUWGh

- All the big baddies are on the Isle, so Douglas, Krane, Mr. Terror, Annihilator, Giselle, etc etc you get the gist

- Donald snuck the rats off the Isle where Douglas had created them before it descended into chaos and was closed off, and they now go to Auradon Prep where they continue to pretend to be average students

- People in Auradon know about bionics, but only the context of the Isle, so the general association is bionics = bad

- Leo takes the place of Ben, he helps keep their secret under wraps and coaches them on how to blend in

- Davenport constantly prepares them for the worst case scenario, telling them they have to keep their secret at all costs

- Bree tries her hardest to pretend she IS a normal student, hoping one day she’ll just forget that she isn’t. She never asked for this in the first place. She hates that she has to feel different at all.

- Adam doesn’t understand why it has to be a secret. He’s pretty sure if they told the truth and explained it to people, they could help others see that they’re not so bad. Chase is always telling him it’s “not that simple.”

- Because Chase is high strung. Really, truly, high strung. He doesn’t want to know what would happen to him or his family if everyone found out they’re like the people on the Isle. He doesn’t want to mess up whatever’s going on with Kaz by revealing he’s a freak and has been lying this whole time. He also doesn’t know when he also started resenting the “different” part of himself.

- Kaz and Oliver are their friends and have seen them doing weird unexplainable things before, but Leo lies and says it’s because they actually have superpowers

- Great, another thing to lie about!

- At least we get that Leo + Kaz + Oliver friendship that we all needed

- Attempts to integrate and rehabilitate the Isle and Auradon begin with bringing in VKs to Auradon Prep

- Idk what the balance between the Descendants universe and the LRMMEF universe is here so the wand is either the same or it’s the Arcturion or some weird mix of both. Anyway it’s The Plot Thing.

- Rats have REALLY got to hide their secret now bc tensions are high and they don’t want to be associated w the VKs

- Oliver and Kaz are truthfully on the fence about the ordeal because they used to know Skylar before things went bad. They want to believe she’s not beyond help but they also know the things she’s done since the Isle was closed off, and they aren’t sure just how far gone she is.

- Conflict is v family centric w other interpersonal conflicts mixed in

- The rats have to choose between risking the safety of Auradon or risking being potentially hated and ostracized by their friends and peers in their attempts to appeal to Marcus and Skylar

there’s??? too much and yet too little to say abt this bc again. Really Great Idea Man, less good Execution Man. and still I’m not sure which version of the VKs I like more bc it would sort of make sense for Oliver to be a VK since his mother is on the Isle and I like the idea of Skylar meeting Bree and being like “hey. fuck all your inhibitions. everyone sucks so why not just go be evil.”

but THERE IT IS!!! PLS add on or build off this or tweak it or whatever you’d like!! It’s been bouncing around in my brain and I watched Descendants 2 last night so yes we r thinking. Also, I wrote most of this in my notes app at like 1am while sick as balls so this probably makes even less sense than expected. Just know this is how my brain looks on paper.

bonus stuff I’m tossing in (mostly just to talk about the soundtrack teehee):

- Pretty sure this whole thing started because I thought Did I Mention was so flamebrain coded. I’m still right about that btw.

- If Only is also very much Chase inner struggle moment

- One way that I get to still have the 4 VKs for Ways To Be Wicked is that I pull the same trick they did in Descendants 2 and the whole number is all a daydream in Marcus and Skylar’s heads. Camera pans out and they’re both just like “sigh… wish they were evil and gay for us… oh well, time to go make them worse.” This is me eating my cake and eating it too.

- I don’t know WHEN or HOW Chillin’ Like A Villain would ever be plot relevant but it made me think of Skylar and Marcus talking to Oliver (the crisis that would be for my poor boy. someone help his sappy ass). Anyways it’s just a good song listen to it RN.

- okay yes I know that technically it’s a song from Z-O-M-B-I-E-S but LET ME HAVE THIS bc if you skip like the first 20 seconds of context in Someday - Ballad… it’s very marliver 2 me. Imagine they get their shit more figured out off screen and just get to be cute n stuff except Marcus still has to lie about not being evil ouuGhuhhggggh. It would b funny.

- One Kiss is also self indulgent marliver with identical setup to Descendants 3 (despite the fact that that movie was…ahem. i mean it was definitely a movie) bc I LOVE that song and HELLO the inner conflict of wondering if true love’s kiss even applies to you because you’re an android and what if there’s no way to save him, what if you’re not even capable of loving him like you think you do?? (but then Oliver wakes up, and it’s the best answer he could’ve gotten <33)

- Good Is The New Bad from Wicked World doesn’t have anything to do with anything but I’m saying right here and now that it is TOO catchy

- also Evil (from Wicked World as well) has been on my Marcus Davenport playlist since the beginning. needed to be said

[and-so-he-rambled]

You awoke an idea in me.

What if Marcus after getting crushed the first time is brought to Mighty Med by accident (a superhero sees the arm and assumes he’s intelligent life, the invisible ambulance is summoned or whatever, something)

The MM team definitely has a decision for cyber enhancement. There’s tons of heroes with mech suits, that are cyborgs or androids, or have prosthetics. This hospital has seen everything, a crushed android isn’t that weird.

Marcus is fixed, but either has mild amnesia, or lies to bide time and say he has amnesia.

Kaz and Oliver decide to take him under their wing and teach him about being human, something Marcus finds amusing and pretends to know little about. Connie/Skylar is suspicious but the boys write her off.

Marcus does love learning about this whole other world. The boys teach him all about superheroes and even introduce him to a comic line all about an android superhero. He loves villian comics, another reason Skylar is so suspicious, but the boys just pat her head and tell her to let the boy learn.

He’s treated as an equal, an individual. He still wants revenge and is jealous, but he also has gotten attached to this life. They even enroll him in school while Mighty Med is treating him. After he’s in perfect condition they convince Horace to let him have a low level position in the cybernetics devision while he ‘figures stuff out’.

He admits to isolated parts of his story. A bad father who built him and left him to die, having no personal freedom, ect.

Let’s rewrite the future. Marcus doesn’t get involved with Giselle and the story continues just without him.

The crossover? Does it still happen? I imagine that confrontation would be bad. Skylar would be vindicated because she was right. Kaz is unsure how to feel. Him and Marcus have a similar chaotic energy and he has decided he’s a little brother figure. Oliver stands by him, saying everybody can change, that having bad parents and being forced into evil doesn’t make Marcus evil.

The team is reluctant, constantly trying to trip him up (taking over the stupid Bree and Skylar fighting over Oliver plot) . Leo hates him and is convinced it’s another ploy because he remembered the gaslighting and fakery. Marcus doesn’t really try to convince them, just glares and arches his eyebrows.

At the end Marcus actually fights beside them after Oliver begs him, but wants to stay at Mighty Med. He still hates them and his father and only interfered because Oliver asked, he wanted them to get injured. He just calmly watched Chase’s dying with silent glee. (He struggles with morality still. He doesn’t necessarily want them to die, but maybe get maimed. He’s working on it.)

He completely confesses after that, and the MM team accepts him. Skylar is still hesitant but decides to give him a shot. Marcus is still chaos incarnate and likes making people suffer, but the technology testing devision is like a calling for him and every tester is terrified of him.

He enjoys torturing Alan specifically.

This is going to keep bugging me. After the Bridget disaster he can relate to Oliver on a deeper level, help him come to terms in his nervous, awkward way.

Would he join the elite force? Would Kaz and Oliver be able to stand Douglas knowing what he’s done? Aaaaah! I want the Davenkids to live eachother . (He IS a davenkid fight me!)

I'm enabling you. What are the fic ideas I'm very intrigued

DONT DO THIS TO ME IM WAILING

NO.

NO!!!!!

…….okay you get ONE. ONE!!! but you have to promise not to point and laugh.

People of the lab rats/lab rats elite force fandom…..I accidentally crack shipped Marcus and Oliver [audible gasping].

I KNOW. BUT. LISTEN. They took Oliver’s character in a really weird direction in LREF, like, all his lines are about Skylar and being a creep to Skylar and how he wishes Skylar liked him and. It!! Sucks!!! I liked Oliver so much!!! So I wanted to write like, just a wholesome fic with a davenfam + Mighty Med team reunion weekend where they celebrate Skylar and Bree officially becoming a couple while Oliver has to silently move on, yknow, as one does.

PROBLEM. THIS FIC WAS BUILT OFF A SEPARATE FIC WHERE MARCUS IS ALIVE AND REDEEMED. So SOMEHOW after realizing they would meet it just. It Just Happened. It dawned on me.

IDK JUST BASIC PREMISE Oliver is struggling to find closure because he is happy for Skylar and Bree, but also feels selfish for still having some lingering feelings (not really romantically, just that he’s liked her so much for so long that not liking her is such a big change), which he can’t really admit to anyone. But then he has his big Not Straight crisis over Marcus at the same time cause I’m a firm believer that no one here is straight.

Lots of sorting out emotions and them healing together after finding a real family (and Marcus giving Douglas a deserved cold shoulder bc things aren’t perfect with them yet). Oliver gets to vent, he gets to like someone without years of knowing them or knowing everything about them. They just both need something new in their lives, they need to come to terms with things changing, and I think they could help each other through that process while being all cute n stuff. Also I want more content of Grown Marcus he slew and we only got him for one episode.

OKAY ENOUGH I just wanted to fix Oliver’s mischaracterization and it got away from me. That’s my Ted Talk I’m running off the stage.