#Glitch get a ask and dont make into a hour long ramble challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[love-aholic]

(since you were asking for au ideas)

Medieval AUs are fun! Especially when it's the opposite genre of the source.

I also had a impulsive idea that might be funny to you? AU where you're a sentient ai in some kind of hardware or weapon that Shrike scavenges? You could maybe add in something about being a computer bug...cause you know. I like that idea of a digital partner and I feel like Shrike is a kind of guy who would be interesting in that scenario. (also sorry I haven't seen Monkey Wrench yet so I'm actually not sure if it'd work in universe :P)

Yeah I could respond to this like a normal person or I could be insane and make a two paged comic

Loser should've listened to Andy's traumadump

Anyway I feel like for the sentient AI thing, Phito would originally be meant to help out with bounties but seeing as the og owner kicked the bucket he was naturally aggressive towards Shrike (he likely didn't purposefully scare Andy since he actually knew her beforehand)

It would take a while before AI Phi would have a similar personality to the og Phito. B.eebs doesn't trust him as much seeing as he can infect his translator and his arm. But he doesn't have a choice since he quickly took over almost all technology in the Bucket the second he got there. Luckily neither of them give him a reason to do anything malicious, plus he mostly sticks to Shrike via his bracelet

Now most of his time is spent being a smart house and trying to stop Shrike from being so impulsive (he never listens, he literally just turns him off)

As for the medieval AU

I have thought about a medieval AU before and I have two ideas!

1. Phito is a bounty hunter/assassin until he's one day assigned by his boss to take down the Prince and secure the mysterious crystal! Initially Phito is really confused because "The prince hasn't done anything bad? He's just dumb." (He only goes after people if he has a good reason to) But after some convincing threats , Phito attempts to take Shrike down and fails and over time his boss gets more pissed

But on his final attempt, Shrike was sneaking out to meet his friend from the Baraak house (B.eebs) and accidentally met up with Phito, who was totally not trying to kill him. They end up talking, and Phito learns more about his life alongside the mentions of his friends, how much he just wanted to explore the world and have a more exciting life. Then there was a moment of "...well shit, I can't follow through with this." That's when Phito decides to quit being a hunter and runs away, which ROYALLY pisses off his boss

So now he's a wanted runaway, but also very slowly forming a friendship with Shrike alongside he has to hide the fact he tried to murder him multiple times

Idea 2. Shrike and B.eebs are aspiring knights, problem, they're not the best at it... So now a now demoted and extremely depressed Phito is forced into the crew to teach them how it's done! Newsflash, he hates it. A fight that's difficult to the two are easy to him, he's irritated whenever they ask him a question that they should've "obviously known", even if it's not a common fact. Anyway long story short, he doesn't like them, neither one likes him

It's not until Phito is forced into a situation where he physically can't do anything by himself so he has to reluctantly ask the two for help and he realized "Oh...these two aren't actually as bad as I thought." It took a while but he did eventually apologize for his behavior and he started to take the time to actually train them (yknow, the thing he was supposed to do FROM THE START)

Once again it would take a while, but he would eventually warm up and start cracking some smiles