#Han's Next Gen Rewrite: NNT/4KOTA

[hantheheart]

ok idea i had for my Next Gen Rewrite for Nanatsu No Taizai but i just ramble away

they're like. Youngins. No magic just yet kind of stuff. Under 10, maybe somewhere between 6 and 8 years old. And they're out with the moms and the other kids at some lil like. Forest clearing they've been to a dozen times. They break away from the rest of the group because one of them remembered there's a patch of some plant Merlin asks them for sometimes in the woods. They go down and start grabbing big handfuls when one of them gets grabbed by a buff dude they dont know. the other two get nabbed before they can start yelling and get dragged off.

Unclear if these dudes are specifically after the Next Gen kids or like. generally out kidnapping folks, as you do in medieval Europe or w/e.

BUT! They get nabbed and the dudes take off. Moms notice just a little too late that the Triple Trouble Makers are nowhere to be seen and things are a little too quiet so they call back the kids but the Triple Threat is still nowhere to be found and the moms start going around to look for them. One of them find the disturbed clearing the kids got nabbed at and panic starts settling in. Merlin calls up the dads who are in a big meeting between Kingdoms and they end the meeting there and then and Merlin teleports them. Appropriate panic between the parents as the Kiane troop are accounted for, but the obvious tracks of a wagon and horses are found outside the woods. King and Diane take their kids home with the promise they'll hurry to catch up as the rest of the parents and Merlin head out to track down the missing kids. And probably kill some people.

They're definetly gonna kill some people.

ANYWAYS the trio get dragged out to some hideaway in the middle of nowhere or w/e and the dudes dump them in tent and probably cages? idk maybe theyre tied up, i havent thought on the details, but Gwen starts absolutely FREAKING OUT she's scared to death, Tristan is trying to keep himself calm and Lance is doing his best to be the scary one so the guys will leave them alone. Like, he's over here growling like a dog with Gwen and Tris cowering behind him. and then some of the guys come over and Lance is about to straight up start biting when they grab Tristan. Tristan starts screaming, Lance starts trying to throw himself at the guys and Gwen is spiraling hard and panicking when her eyes go black.

Arthur freezes in place, looking absolutely baffled and the others stop in their tracks to see what's wrong. He says he feels Chaos magic happening ahead, but that can't be possible. The parents all freak and head the way Arthur's feeling the magic from.

The kidnappers are all running from their camp and Ban, Meliodas and Diane make sure to apprehend as many of them as they can there and then as the rest approach the camp. It's been engulfed in a hazy mess Chaos magic; a newly formed Realm like the one that formed when Arthur first absorbed Chaos all those years ago. Some of them stay outside the Realm to focus on apprehending and detaining all the bastards who fucked with their kids, while the rest head in to find the kids. Struggling to decide who stays and who goes but we'll get there.

Inside, Lance and Tristan find themselves on some weird chunk of floating rock and everything is checkboard and stuff is weird curvy and confusing but they can hear Gwen.

They can hear her screaming. It echoes all over like surround sound but they follow it. Bounding from floating platform to floating platform.

This is the part im unwell about, i NEED YALL TO SEE THE VISION

There's a big black bubble. And Gwen is in the bubble. Her hair is all wild like there's no gravity and she's clutching at her head and her eyes are pure black, her pupils are just gone. Lance and Tristan land on the bubble and start banging on it with their fists and kicking and trying trying trying to break in and get her, that's one of them, that's their best friend, a whole part of their hearts, a piece of them she's hurting she's scared she's trapped how do they HELP HER

And Lancelot slams down on the bubble's glass like surface with both fists and this insanely bright light flashes and suddenly there's a huge gaping cut through the bubble. They kick and dig and hit until the slash is big enough for them to squirm through. The screaming is louder, it's too loud to be real but they cover their ears and push off the bubble's edge. it's so much larger inside and it feels like forever, floating through this big emptiness with this horrible screaming around them, but they grab onto each other and reach.

The boys slam into Gwen, grabbing onto her and hugging tightly as they all go spinning into this void. She's squeezed between them and Tristan starts talking, rambling really, that they're here, it's going to be okay now because they're together, they're going to figure this out and they'll all go home and it'll be fine and Lancelot just squeezes them both close, he's shaking, they're just kids this is terrifying. And Gwen clings onto them, eyes shut tight. Because they have each other, this will be okay.

And the bubble vanishes in a bright light and suddenly the three of them are sitting on some floating rock, squeezing each other and teary eyed and shaking

Her eyes are still all black and she's crying as Tristan tries to talk her down from the panic but he's also freaking out and Lance just holds onto them both like he'll die if he lets go.

And then the parents all show up. They're checking for injuries, asking what happened, are they okay, did those bastards do anything to you And Tristan bawls into his parents' embrace, clingign to them and blubbering out through his tears what happened. Lancelot finally lets go, only because the parents are here and as soon as he's in his dad's arm, he starts bawling. Gwen sobs as her parents scoop her up. Arthur waves away this unstable Chaos Realm and they're standing in the trampled remains of the camp and he uses his own Chaos magic to help Gwen ease up the wild surge her emotions had caused.

The kidnappers are dragged back to Liones where they face justice from all four Kingdom's judicial systems despite the fact that all four dads and Diane would rather put them down and be done with it, their babies have been through enough, but Elizabeth knows exactly how to use the power bestowed upon her as monarch to put these bastards someplace where they'll never hurt anyone else- least of all her precious son- and make them wish she had let the others have their way

[hantheheart]

ok so this was just gonna stay "man would that be fucked up or what" idea that came to me out of nowhere, but my brain has done as it always does and latched on to it.

Why i ever think "oh I'll just leave it there" is beyond me, you think I'd learned after doing this shit for over a decade at this point.

Anyways, I was thinking about this part of my Next Gen Rewrite idea of Gwen Lance and Tris getting kidnapped and went "but what if it all went so so WRONG"

not me with an absolutely off the shits idea for this of when Gwen Tris and Lance getting kidnapped but the parents don't find them in time and some crazy people get a hold of the three of them and are like. obsessed with this idea that Arthur is a "False Chaos". And they think Gwen's the "True Incarnation of Chaos" cause she was born with Chaos magic instead of how Arthur got it so they steal the kids away to the north and try to make Gwen into this Ideal Deity of theirs and the three of them, who have not manifested any magic yet aside from Chaos from Gwen that she can't control yet, just struggle to do what these people want until their parents come but then they don't and the kids gotta play these maniacs and pretend they're going along with all this.

And then they have to pretend to be bad guys who want a war with Britannia ala Arthur in 4KOTA and its like 5 or so years after they got kidnapped and they have to keep trying to send low down messages to their parents without being obvious of "we're trying to help you catch these guys so we can come home because they're insane and we're tired and we miss you" but its so hard to do when these people are on the edge of taking out Tristan and Lancelot at any second for "not being part of the vision" and Gwen's doing everything she can to be this person she really isn't just to convince these people Tris and Lance are "part of her vision" and its exhausting and they can't drop their guard at all except for the few moments the three of them manage to hide away in the gilded-cage-of-a-room Gwen's been given.

Lance and Tris having to act liek this super uptight, rude and stuck up Knights but in reality theyre just really tired 16 year olds who want to just go wrestle in the dirt with their friends and hug their dads and be scolded for dumb kid things by their moms but their lives are constantly under threat and they're the only thing holding their friend together who's one wrong word from having a mental breakdown that could absolutely wreck the surrounding areas because she is literally the only thing keeping these lunatics from going on a murder spree, they're desperately trying to come up with reasons to convince these people to not kill every living thing they come across

[hantheheart]

more rambling cause this has me in a chokehold

The fact it started with a handful of moms and their kids. Out enjoying a nice day. Probably on a picnic.

Only for the creeping feeling of something not quite right. Followed by fear and horror upon realizing several kids have vanished without a trace.

Of spending unending hours scouring the area and finding tracks too late.

Of finding the destroyed remains of the kidnappers' hideout and not a trace but new magic in the air to find their babies.

Of spending endless sleepless nights trying to find them, of sending out countless Knights and search parties out to every corner of Britannia and pulling up nothing for years

And then one day, absolute lunatics start showing up, raiding their towns and claiming to be doing things in the name of "The True Chaos" but theyre not Camelot, they're hardly even mages, let alone Knights of any caliber

And then they're parading around with these ornately dressed Knights and some person they call "The True Chaos" and it's got everyone on edge and suddenly it's them, it's them "it's our babies" but they're leading this hell they're ordering these crazy bastards around

And the Sins take up arms for the first time in over a decade and they have to fight their own kids, part of their family and it's heartbreaking. Because they're so cold*and cruel but there's still baby fat on their cheeks, they wear the little trinkets you gave them all those years ago

But the moment King is in front of them, he breaks into tears and drags the whole group to retreat

"They're suffering" He wails, clinging to Diane. "They're scared and hurting and they want to come home!"

And it hurts

"we failed our kids, we didn't protect them, they waited on us and we couldn't do enough"

And I still had the gall to go "and what if it wasn't just Gwen Lance and Tris? What if it was Nasiens too? What if it was more of them?"

ok so this was just gonna stay "man would that be fucked up or what" idea that came to me out of nowhere, but my brain has done as it always does and latched on to it.

Why i ever think "oh I'll just leave it there" is beyond me, you think I'd learned after doing this shit for over a decade at this point.

Anyways, I was thinking about this part of my Next Gen Rewrite idea of Gwen Lance and Tris getting kidnapped and went "but what if it all went so so WRONG"

not me with an absolutely off the shits idea for this of when Gwen Tris and Lance getting kidnapped but the parents don't find them in time and some crazy people get a hold of the three of them and are like. obsessed with this idea that Arthur is a "False Chaos". And they think Gwen's the "True Incarnation of Chaos" cause she was born with Chaos magic instead of how Arthur got it so they steal the kids away to the north and try to make Gwen into this Ideal Deity of theirs and the three of them, who have not manifested any magic yet aside from Chaos from Gwen that she can't control yet, just struggle to do what these people want until their parents come but then they don't and the kids gotta play these maniacs and pretend they're going along with all this.

And then they have to pretend to be bad guys who want a war with Britannia ala Arthur in 4KOTA and its like 5 or so years after they got kidnapped and they have to keep trying to send low down messages to their parents without being obvious of "we're trying to help you catch these guys so we can come home because they're insane and we're tired and we miss you" but its so hard to do when these people are on the edge of taking out Tristan and Lancelot at any second for "not being part of the vision" and Gwen's doing everything she can to be this person she really isn't just to convince these people Tris and Lance are "part of her vision" and its exhausting and they can't drop their guard at all except for the few moments the three of them manage to hide away in the gilded-cage-of-a-room Gwen's been given.

Lance and Tris having to act liek this super uptight, rude and stuck up Knights but in reality theyre just really tired 16 year olds who want to just go wrestle in the dirt with their friends and hug their dads and be scolded for dumb kid things by their moms but their lives are constantly under threat and they're the only thing holding their friend together who's one wrong word from having a mental breakdown that could absolutely wreck the surrounding areas because she is literally the only thing keeping these lunatics from going on a murder spree, they're desperately trying to come up with reasons to convince these people to not kill every living thing they come across

[hantheheart]

more cause my sweet perfect next Gen slice of Life au has become tainted by this evil and my brain is holding on like a dog with something its not supposed to have in its mouth

what if other next gen kids got nabbed too

what if Nasiens got nabbed too and he's as wrapped in this as the Triple threat are

Imagine how much that'd fuck up Kiane to lose their oldest kid a second time (because I like Myrtle too much to not let that happen and instead just let the Fairy who fucked around get found out)

He's forced to make poisons for the fanatics but Lancelot is deathly protective of him so most leave Nasiens alone.

Lance would be so protective of all the other kidnapped kids, assuming all responsibility for their protection, shouldering all the weight of keeping them together to the point he's on such a thin wire he snaps easy. Seeing the other kids trying to do the same makes him mad but there's not much he can do

Nasiens at least doesn't have to go out to fight, he often just wears a cloak and hides out at Gwen’s side like some creepy advisor but really he's just worried and trying to stick close to someone.

What if they kidnapped Gawain too because "she's related to Arthur, she might have Chaos" or something equally stupid. These people just went around snatching up random kids in hopes of finding their "True Vessel of Chaos" so I have a reason to let Percy Platoon be part of this.

That'd be fucked up

Gwen, as "The True Chaos", having to make up bullshit excuses for everytime the guy who dragged them all into this wants to murder someone for "being a traitor" or some other bs reason he wants to execute someone, especially one of the kidnapped kids. She's scared out of her wits that one day they'll stop listening to her and she'll either get executed herself or have to watch one of her friends get killed in front of her. She can hardly sleep at night so Tristan and Lancelot just take shifts through the night sleeping beside her so they can also watch out for the nightmares they all get and try and keep it from waking them so at least some of them get a decent amount of sleep.

The whole group are supposed to be split into different sleeping quarters and bunkers but Lancelot and Tristan manage to sneak them all into one place every night so they can all watch each other's backs

I'm still trying to envision how all the actual fighting gets kicked off and how the parents even actually find out about the kids being part of the whole thing, but my thought is one of the couples gets brought before "The True Chaos" and Gwen has to act all cruel and haughty like she does want this and that's how the Sins and Co. find out and before they get attacked, she warps them away.

Gwen having just the worst breakdowns every time she's alone or with just Lancelot or Tristan. she's holding in so much anger and fear and regret in knowing that these people are holding her friends hostage and one wrong move could get them all killed, why can't she be as strong as her dad, he would have taken all these guys down and been home already, why is she nothing like him when she needs to be and they hold her through these awful meltdowns where she can't do anything but cry and try to muffle the outraged screams she makes

ok so this was just gonna stay "man would that be fucked up or what" idea that came to me out of nowhere, but my brain has done as it always does and latched on to it.

Why i ever think "oh I'll just leave it there" is beyond me, you think I'd learned after doing this shit for over a decade at this point.

Anyways, I was thinking about this part of my Next Gen Rewrite idea of Gwen Lance and Tris getting kidnapped and went "but what if it all went so so WRONG"

not me with an absolutely off the shits idea for this of when Gwen Tris and Lance getting kidnapped but the parents don't find them in time and some crazy people get a hold of the three of them and are like. obsessed with this idea that Arthur is a "False Chaos". And they think Gwen's the "True Incarnation of Chaos" cause she was born with Chaos magic instead of how Arthur got it so they steal the kids away to the north and try to make Gwen into this Ideal Deity of theirs and the three of them, who have not manifested any magic yet aside from Chaos from Gwen that she can't control yet, just struggle to do what these people want until their parents come but then they don't and the kids gotta play these maniacs and pretend they're going along with all this.

And then they have to pretend to be bad guys who want a war with Britannia ala Arthur in 4KOTA and its like 5 or so years after they got kidnapped and they have to keep trying to send low down messages to their parents without being obvious of "we're trying to help you catch these guys so we can come home because they're insane and we're tired and we miss you" but its so hard to do when these people are on the edge of taking out Tristan and Lancelot at any second for "not being part of the vision" and Gwen's doing everything she can to be this person she really isn't just to convince these people Tris and Lance are "part of her vision" and its exhausting and they can't drop their guard at all except for the few moments the three of them manage to hide away in the gilded-cage-of-a-room Gwen's been given.

Lance and Tris having to act liek this super uptight, rude and stuck up Knights but in reality theyre just really tired 16 year olds who want to just go wrestle in the dirt with their friends and hug their dads and be scolded for dumb kid things by their moms but their lives are constantly under threat and they're the only thing holding their friend together who's one wrong word from having a mental breakdown that could absolutely wreck the surrounding areas because she is literally the only thing keeping these lunatics from going on a murder spree, they're desperately trying to come up with reasons to convince these people to not kill every living thing they come across

[hantheheart]

crazy people vision of the "Next Gen Kids get Kidnapped cause Han Fucked around and found Out" AU NateWantsToBattle's "Nightmare", The teen versions of the kids all standing all stoic and cold but behind them the faded/transparent versions of them as little kids in a cage, reaching and screaming for their parents

THEY'RE JUST KIDS, THEY GOT NABBED BY SOME CRAZY PEOPLE AND WERE FORCED TO ACT LIKE VILLIANS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE BEING HELD CAPTIVE BY THESE PEOPLE AND THEY DESPERATELY JSUT WANT TO GO HOME BUT THEY HAVE TO WAIT FOR BACKUP WHEN THE SINS AND CO FIND OUT WHAT THEYRE GOING THROUGH AND IM SO INSANE PLZ

ok so this was just gonna stay "man would that be fucked up or what" idea that came to me out of nowhere, but my brain has done as it always does and latched on to it.

Why i ever think "oh I'll just leave it there" is beyond me, you think I'd learned after doing this shit for over a decade at this point.

Anyways, I was thinking about this part of my Next Gen Rewrite idea of Gwen Lance and Tris getting kidnapped and went "but what if it all went so so WRONG"

not me with an absolutely off the shits idea for this of when Gwen Tris and Lance getting kidnapped but the parents don't find them in time and some crazy people get a hold of the three of them and are like. obsessed with this idea that Arthur is a "False Chaos". And they think Gwen's the "True Incarnation of Chaos" cause she was born with Chaos magic instead of how Arthur got it so they steal the kids away to the north and try to make Gwen into this Ideal Deity of theirs and the three of them, who have not manifested any magic yet aside from Chaos from Gwen that she can't control yet, just struggle to do what these people want until their parents come but then they don't and the kids gotta play these maniacs and pretend they're going along with all this.

And then they have to pretend to be bad guys who want a war with Britannia ala Arthur in 4KOTA and its like 5 or so years after they got kidnapped and they have to keep trying to send low down messages to their parents without being obvious of "we're trying to help you catch these guys so we can come home because they're insane and we're tired and we miss you" but its so hard to do when these people are on the edge of taking out Tristan and Lancelot at any second for "not being part of the vision" and Gwen's doing everything she can to be this person she really isn't just to convince these people Tris and Lance are "part of her vision" and its exhausting and they can't drop their guard at all except for the few moments the three of them manage to hide away in the gilded-cage-of-a-room Gwen's been given.

Lance and Tris having to act liek this super uptight, rude and stuck up Knights but in reality theyre just really tired 16 year olds who want to just go wrestle in the dirt with their friends and hug their dads and be scolded for dumb kid things by their moms but their lives are constantly under threat and they're the only thing holding their friend together who's one wrong word from having a mental breakdown that could absolutely wreck the surrounding areas because she is literally the only thing keeping these lunatics from going on a murder spree, they're desperately trying to come up with reasons to convince these people to not kill every living thing they come across

[hantheheart]

more more more late night dump

Lancelot taking responsibility for all the kidnapped kids, stepping in between the "high priest" and Gwen when he's trying to pressure her into something she's clearly upset with but unsure how to fend him off, shoving himself between other "followers of Chaos" and Nasiens while trying to get some kind of poison out of him, quite literally punching the fuck out of someone harassing Tristan for "behaving like a non believer" He's on such high alert all the time that he snaps at people easy and often jumps straight to kicking the shit out of people or the very least snapping and growling. "Followers of Chaos" and even Holy Knights of the various Kingdoms tend to call him "Chaos' Mad Dog" because he fucks people up so much, despite he and the others refusing to land any killing blows. He only ever chills out when they all hide out together at night and he basically jsut goes dead and even the smallest noises outside send him back on high alert. He's like a really stressed guard dog

Tristan having to be the one to hold everyone together. Lancelot’s hands are always on his sword, Gwen is always on the edge of a breakdown, Nasiens is withdrawn and angry, so many of them are exhausted and afraid and Tristan makes himself the one for them to lean on. He holds Gwen through her breakdowns, Stops Lance from throwing himself at every single "believer" who pisses him off, makes sure everyone eats and takes care of their wounds. And he keeps believing. Their families will come for them, will save them, this plan of his and Lancelot and Gwen's to go along with this madness to rear back the Chaos of it all will work and they'll all make it out alive because he refuses to let them die. but how far is he willing to go, what sacrifices is he willing to make to make sure everyone goes home

Tristan and Lancelot, making themselves the sword and shield for all the kidnapped kids, "Chaos' Chosen Lights" the "priests" call them. Protecting the kids from the Followers of Chaos and Holy Knights. Being the ones for the others to rely on, to hide behind and fight for.

Staying at Gwen's side when she's acting as the Figurehead Deity these bastards want her to be, stalwart guards always at her side. Fending off Holy Knights and Followers, providing the gentle solace of knowing the people she trusts most are within arm's reach at any moment when the frustration and grief are so strong she wants to throw the whole plan to the wind, but there are people who need her to continue this act. Innocent people- humans, fairies, giants- being held by these people.

Acting as Gwen's solid ground and holding her together when she crumbles in the quiet of the ornate "palace" the Followers have made for her, where she screams and sobs and curses in Tristan's arms while Lancelot watches the door, when she makes a Chaos Realm inside so she can throw things and scream and destroy when the anger builds up so much she can't stop shaking even as Tristan and Lancelot hug her tightly as she sobs and shouts how she just wants to go home, wants to meet her baby brother, wants to see her mom and dad, she's tired, she's so fucking tired, why her, why did these people have to get them, why can't she be as strong as her dad, why did this have to happen to them, they're just kids

And they can't answer her, because they feel the same, but they all know that if they don't do this, the Followers of Chaos will do worse things to others, they could go after Gwen's little brothers, or other innocent kids or just start slaughtering innocent people. Terrible things are still happening but they do what they can to make sure it doesn't get worse, even if they suffer every moment for it.

ok so this was just gonna stay "man would that be fucked up or what" idea that came to me out of nowhere, but my brain has done as it always does and latched on to it.

Why i ever think "oh I'll just leave it there" is beyond me, you think I'd learned after doing this shit for over a decade at this point.

Anyways, I was thinking about this part of my Next Gen Rewrite idea of Gwen Lance and Tris getting kidnapped and went "but what if it all went so so WRONG"

not me with an absolutely off the shits idea for this of when Gwen Tris and Lance getting kidnapped but the parents don't find them in time and some crazy people get a hold of the three of them and are like. obsessed with this idea that Arthur is a "False Chaos". And they think Gwen's the "True Incarnation of Chaos" cause she was born with Chaos magic instead of how Arthur got it so they steal the kids away to the north and try to make Gwen into this Ideal Deity of theirs and the three of them, who have not manifested any magic yet aside from Chaos from Gwen that she can't control yet, just struggle to do what these people want until their parents come but then they don't and the kids gotta play these maniacs and pretend they're going along with all this.

And then they have to pretend to be bad guys who want a war with Britannia ala Arthur in 4KOTA and its like 5 or so years after they got kidnapped and they have to keep trying to send low down messages to their parents without being obvious of "we're trying to help you catch these guys so we can come home because they're insane and we're tired and we miss you" but its so hard to do when these people are on the edge of taking out Tristan and Lancelot at any second for "not being part of the vision" and Gwen's doing everything she can to be this person she really isn't just to convince these people Tris and Lance are "part of her vision" and its exhausting and they can't drop their guard at all except for the few moments the three of them manage to hide away in the gilded-cage-of-a-room Gwen's been given.

Lance and Tris having to act liek this super uptight, rude and stuck up Knights but in reality theyre just really tired 16 year olds who want to just go wrestle in the dirt with their friends and hug their dads and be scolded for dumb kid things by their moms but their lives are constantly under threat and they're the only thing holding their friend together who's one wrong word from having a mental breakdown that could absolutely wreck the surrounding areas because she is literally the only thing keeping these lunatics from going on a murder spree, they're desperately trying to come up with reasons to convince these people to not kill every living thing they come across