#H2o just add water AU

[hot-stuff97]

So, I have this AU idea and made a silly lil moodboard thingy for it.

[glorifiedpigeon]

Mako Island except they're french now—

I actually did think about this au a little bit! While Marinette has the ability to manipulate water into shapes and things, Alya has the power to boil water and Kagami has the power to freeze water. They're not based off the original H2O girls themselves, but I thought the powers fit their vibes pretty well.

I imagine Marinette just wants to forget about all the mermaid stuff. It's stressful! Ya girl just wants to design clothes and help her parents bake! She doesn't want to have to worry about this big mermaid secret, or like the government coming after her, or people experimenting on her! That's a lot!

Kagami loves her new tail. Screw you Mom, I'm gonna go swim in the ocean and abandon my land life, except for the parts where I wanna spend time with my land friends. Of course living underwater indefinitely is... well, there's a lot to figure out and Kagami isn't sure she's down for that. But at least swimming is an easy get away!

Alya is obsessed with the way the mer stuff works. She does a lot of experimenting with her powers, testing the limits. After the first full moon, she also does a lot of limit testing for that too, trying to see what all she can still manage to do on the night of the full moon.

The first person to find out about their tails is definitely Nino, and Marinette freaks out about it and makes him swear to silence. Nino ends up using them to get cool underwater footage for him with his underwater camera, since they can dive longer than he can. He also helps Alya experiment with her powers and keeps notes for her. He keeps suggesting they bring more friends in on the secret but Marinette keeps panicking about it and Kagami insists no one can know about her secret escape from her mom's pressure.

[charlotterenaissance]

h2o AUs: road trip - cleo's never left her hometown, but after graduating with a promising job opportunity up the coast, she decides to make the most of it. but after her car dies, not willing to give up, cleo sticks her thumb out alongside the road. she's picked up by a boy her age named lewis who's going the same way, and the two find they have more in common than they ever could've realized, and when they get to their destination, lewis finds he doesn't want to leave her

[strangerwheelerthings]

Something that sounds like a cheesy au but actually kinda has potential?? -> Stranger Things where everything is exactly the same except the Wheelers took Barb with them on vacation to Australia the summer of '83 and Nancy and Barb consequently got lost on Mako Island on the night of the full moon. Put simply, the two of them are H2O type mermaids in the middle of Indiana. I know it sounds dumb but listen, listen, the angst potential is there.

It adds dimensions to Barb being completely anti-Steve Pool Party. And Barb dying in a pool. Obviously, Nancy wouldn't have gotten into the pool, but the two of them were going to be looking for any kind of excuse to sneak away together anyway. And then we have Nancy’s reaction to her friend disappearing the day after a pool party??????? Would she even tell anyone??? Would she be more secretive because she doesn't assume it's a completely unrelated monster.

Queue Post-Barb's-Death Nancy avoiding her entire identity as a mermaid to an unhealthy degree. I bet there's some kind of pull towards the water involved. Could it make her sick?

Btw, the Upside Down has no water. Could go some interesting places with that.

On top of that, give Nancy Rikki's heat powers and dangerous reaction to the moon, a reaction that she can't just get over randomly by herself while also holding onto all that trauma. A nice sprinkling of constant anxiety because her powers are made more unpredictable from trauma.

Additional points:

- Heat powers would actually be exceptionally helpful against demo-creatures.

- Jonathan would probably be brought into the know in season 1 as Nancy explores why Will and Barb were targeted.

- Will's "body" was found in water

- The disconnected dangerous disassociated state of her first exposure to the full moon where someone else helping her gets hurt by the heat??? (That Rikki and Zane type scene would work so well. Im just saying.)

[t-bird510]

True, I agree with this post! Kudos to you!

Also! Mermaids are awesome ❤️👍

You're telling me the girls from H2O: Just Add Water were literally lost at sea and had to be found by their local nautical team (I assume something like the Australian version of the Coast Guard) and they never thought to lean into the potential trauma aspect to that?

Their community/friend group isn't even that large, surely everyone heard some kind of rumors about the incident. Mako is said to be shark infested and Zane almost died in one episode trying to break his dad's record.

When Emma quit the swim team and her family didn't know why or maybe when her family was about to go on their annual family trip to the water park (or something), why didn't she just sit them down and tell them something like "You remember when I was lost at sea? Some stuff happened and I can't really handle water anymore."

Her mom cares about her, her dad is said to be her hero, and her brother is a sweet kid. Emma could tell them something vague about how she "freaks out" when any liquid touches her or being around it makes her nervous.

She deserves to be able to vent to her mom! Even if it's not the full story, having support from your family goes a long way when your going through something.

Cleo can't do the dishes and her sister is suspicious about how she cleans her fish tank. As someone with an annoying younger sibling and used to be an annoying younger sibling, her sister still cares deeply about her. Her dad is very protective of her, it's mostly about boys, but I'm sure that extends to most aspects of her life too.

I'm sure they would be understanding if Cleo said something about water being overwhelming now after the incident on Zane's boat. This also could give her dad a more "valid" reason to be so protective about boys (not saying he had no reason, dads will be dads)

That one episode where they were all convinced Cleo was getting married to Zane, that would be crazy from their perspective. To be a protective father seeing your daughter go through something after some snobby rich kid pushed her out to sea, then finding out the same snobby rich kid is convincing her to sneak out and see him in private.

She could say the same thing at work, People see her as the odd one out wearing gloves or something. Then they find out she has a crippling fear of water, but loves the ocean enough to try to over come it.

I just checked the wiki about Rikki's dad, he sounds like a dick, but she could still say she has problems with water. I've always felt like Rikki would be unofficially adopted by the other parents (mostly Emma's parent, just cuz I've seen them interact more).

If they all just said they had trauma (which I wouldn't even consider a lie, cuz I would consider that traumatic) they could have avoided so many conflicts and be able to talk with their family about their struggles.

The episode where it was raining when they were about to leave for school and they pretended to be really sick. Just ask Emma's mom to call in and say their gunna be a little late because of the rain and wait it out. Bam! Excused absence from a caring mom!

(This is admittedly mostly about Emma and her family, cuz they seem very close)

If something happens and she needs to hide away to dry off, she can text her mom that she needs a moment. Like someone spills a drink on her at a some kind of function, like a neighborhood barbecue or a gathering at the JuiceNet Cafe, she goes to hide in the bathroom and lets her mom know.

Just being able to be slightly honest and get support about the changes in their life could lift the weight of the world off their shoulders.

I'm trying to re-watch the show and everything would have been so much easier for them if they could just be a little more honest.

[foolishlovers]

anything can be a good omens au if you’re unhinged enough

[carouselunique]

Rarity actually has a decent friendly relationship with Ditzy due to frequent deliveries to her shop and helped her with giving her hoof-me-downs of baby Sweetie Belle for baby Dinky - so the two are quite friendly and I could have drawn that��

… She also is down bad for Sea Swirl and I chose to draw that instead!

Sea Swirl is studying to be a doctor, she is close to having a whole doctorate in marine biology and yet she has line cook rizz. So she will flirt with Rarity when passing through Ponyville and Rarity melts like a marshmallow.

[gh0stbeeee]

First chapter of my silly death note and h2o just add water crossover, please r&r u3u it would make me very happy

[veronicalolsies]

(rikki is gay)

[motherearthlovesus]

i only sleep so i can dream of being a mermaid

[cleo-serotonin]

hear me out, since emma had to give up swimming she decided to take up ice skating ! i feel like it suits her super well, it takes a lot of discipline and grace (classic emma traits) and it could have actually given her development. instead the show shoves *sh d*ve down our throats <\3 also if the ice was uneven/melty she’d just slyly freeze it. she’s a super athletic person she would definitely need something to fill the void and this way she could stay active and sweat wouldn’t be a problem

[hot-stuff97]

Did I giggle like a child while working on my Demon x Angel AU fic? Possibly. These two are just so precious. I love them.

[glorifiedpigeon]

Anybody remember Charlotte? I think Lila's like that but like... worse. Anyway! Here she is!

[charlotterenaissance]

h2o AUs - summer camp

charlotte has been going to camp every summer for years. her first year as a member of the staff, she meets transfer counselor rikki, who quickly makes an impression on the young artist. the pair become inseparable as the spend their days together. the problem is, what are they going to do when summer ends?

[corviiids]

anyway ive completely lost track of my wips im not just refusing to list them to be coy i fully don't know what or where they are anymore. some of them have surely rolled under the fridge

[murdockhawkeye]

yk i kinda wish miss chatham was in the later seasons still. like imagine if we got an episode of them visiting the retirement home

i can see it now. they lose miss chatham somehow while in there, and then end up on their own side adventures

lewis is acting like he's found his people and he's invited to the next bingo meet by a gladys. or multiple gladys's. while on the opposite end of the spectrum, rikki gets into a fight/rivalry with some old lady

and cleo and emma end up being wrangled into helping one of the seniors, only for emma to end up transforming into a mermaid and for the senior that they were helping, to see it

and then because for whatever reason this came to mind, it turns out said senior is julia's ex karl, who apparently lives at the same retirement home as miss chatham

he almost gets his camera out for old times sake, because he hasn't changed much since they were teenagers, but then miss chatham gets her tennis racket out

suffice to say. they end up walking out with pocketful of old people candy and also a bunch more lore/info from miss chatham. idk