#Honestly I just love the idea of Future Alan trying to deal with young TCO like a disappointed dad

[illmoraineakoi]

*creeps in an adds an extra layer of crack treated seriously onto this*

Time Travel Body Swap AU where Alan is sent into his past self's body and vice versa; and they know it.

[Under a read more bc this got a bit long]

Noogai's just very very confused about it, but Alan is constantly loosing his mind thinking about what his past self might do to his sticks, while also struggling to rectify his past misdeeds towards Victim or TCO. TCO would fit better, it'd be harder to try to earn TCO's trust/alliance with him if he's already been a pop-up blocker for a year or more. TCO is NOT cooperating, at all, and instead tries to actively make Alan's life more difficult, bc this is pre-semi redeemed Chosen who is still an aggressive little spitfire gremlin for like no reason. Though, Alan has a bit more experience dealing with belligerent stick figures than Noogai, and a lot better skill at fighting them, so even when TCO immediately goes on an anger-fueled rampage the moment Alan releases him, it's not really as easy as TCO thought it would be... He absolutely ends up in a time-out box, where Alan is finally able to get him to communicate, though cooperation is still lacking.

[Alan is also struggling with 2006 technology bc homygosh he does not remember it being so terrible. He tries to do things that WindowsXP can't do or go to websites that don't even exist yet, and he forgets how half of these programs even function omg Chosen help please I'm begging you why is it all so laggy why does everything look so UGLY--]

And if we wanna add a little bit of angst, perhaps Noogai doesn't realize that the Color Gang sticks are alive because he just thinks the tech has gotten more advanced, causing them to seem more realistic. Potentially circumvented when the Gang proceeds to kick his cursor's ass in no time because wow his reaction time really sucks in comparison to Alan's lmao.

Potentially uncircumvented again if this actually angers Noogai enough to provoke him into trying to delete them, only to discover that he can't, the Gang's EXEs are protected from deletion by a custom program Alan has. Then its a game of "find the protective program to get rid of it" while the Gang have to deal with the first real hostile computer user they've ever encountered while trying to keep him away from the only layer of protection they really have.

[If you wanna get really angsty, stickfight.com ceasing to function due to flash's death could mean that them getting deleted now is a permanent* death.]

[* - May not actually be permanent bc Orange.]

Potential Idea I can't figure out how to fit anywhere but I'm including it bc I find it v juicy: Victim gets his hands on Noogai specifically. That confrontation would probably have more sparks fly than any confrontation between Alan and Victim ever would. Especially if Victim provoked a fight. Sub-idea: Victim is the one who finally gets Noogai to realize the sticks are alive. Mmmm, delicious.

Second potential idea I find juicy: Alan is forced to make TDL for a reason I can't think of rn, and he isn't happy about it, at all. Maybe in an attempt to assist or protect Chosen from some sort of attack? That doesn't really line up with the tension conflict plot between Alan and TCO earlier though...But I just love when certain events happen even with time travel intervention, it's just *chefs kiss*

Potentially funny idea: Orange peeks out of hiding for while when Noogai is experimenting with Alan's fancy tablet and professional animating software and sees how bad his art skills are. Orange wants so very badly to intervene and assist because he can just see all of the errors and wonkiness, but he can't, and it drives him crazy. Even funnier: He can't stand it, and actually goes out to fix it all, while the other four are sent on cursor wrangling duty. Noogai is very offended when Orange point-blank tells him his art is "terrible and so sloppy it makes me want to cry. I am FIXING IT!" bc who tf is this little stick figure to say his art sucks?! Its a silly little desktop pet program! The audacity. It's a big sting to his pride when Orange is done and it is actually legitimately better lmao. It prompts another fight and flight, but Orange considers it worth it.

yo... i need a plug for things where alan and noogai are separate people but like still the same person.... even better if alan is haunted by noogai...... pls