#I used Eliza from skullgirls as ref

[justn0t]

I’ll clean this up one day maybe

[badly-drawn-cerebella]

Good End(ish) AU

LONG POST WARNING!

(cant find the readmore option thingy on mobile im v sorry)

Mm so like my ideal ending for skullgirls goes like this:

Filia sets out to stop the skullgirl/ make a wish, meets up with Squigly then Painwheel - they all team up to go stop Marie but run into Eliza

Eliza is still being blackmailed and has Cerebella accompanying her and when they eventually run into the trio Cere turns on Eliza bc oh shit thats Vitale’s niece/my cousin

they still get obliterated by Eliza so they retreat and head to the cathedral

Meanwhile, Peacock and Big Band’s story remains the same except Valentine reaches Marie first and manages to remove the skullheart and contain it in the thingymabob and brought it back to Lab0, BUT Brain Drain is still a dick so he turns Valentine into a weird skullgirl cyborg i assume¿ (i’m pretty much basing this off her unused ending)

So Peacock and Big Band retrieve Maries body and bring it back to Lab 8, uhhh bcoz the skullhearts still kinda intact Squigly, Marie, and Dr Avian are still kickin’ but u know the latter two are zombies

Mmm i’d say Avian made a backup body? And now he’s really back and kickin’ so he goes ahead and somehow revives Marie (she’s got a back again, her vacuum weapon thing is attached to it) -oof when squigly and the other eventually show up at Lab 8 Dr. Avian does some woo hoo science and makes sure squigly stays awake when they defeat Mega Skullgirl Robot Valentine - Painwheel is v hesitant to go to Lab 8 but Big Band does his Dad Thing™️ and reassures her

MeanMeanwhile Parasouls stays relatively the same except Ms Fortune escapes Eliza but runs into Umbrella trying to get to the Skullgirl (is that right i dont remember) and Umbrella tells Nadia something abt the skullheart doesnt real right, so Ms Fortune’s like goddammit no more Fishbone gang, time to take this child back to Innsmouth and figure out what to do - Minettes gone, Irvin’s here, but now this trio sets off to go look for Parasoul in exchange that she help them find the missing dagonian girls

Oh yeah Parasoul reaches the Grand Cathedral but sees Beowulf + Annie beating the shit out of Double so she joins in and kicks some nun buns - maybe in this AU Double takes some Cirque de Cartes members/ Minette (double probably was like here money and exposure if u give us some fighters 👀 and they agree bc like, money) [honestly i dont remember beo’s story mode that well so oops correct me if im wrongo]

In the end, Eliza and Mega Robot Valentine Skullgirl are kinda staying quiet for now so the older members of Lab 8 are figuring out how to stop them both while Filia, Painwheel, Squigly, and Marie go to school as usual but hey they’re all living in Lab 8 (poor Carol is afraid to return home in this AU). Cerebella’s got a change of heart and marries lives with Feng in the countryside (ref to unused ending)

Extras!

Why does Cerebella become a goody two shoes? Mmm i’d say from all these people at Lab 8 are telling her the Medici are kinda assholes (Big Band, Filia, Marie, Painwheel, others that im forgetting; they’re all hey look they did this to me/them so u gotta like stop buddy) But she goes back and has to deal with the dagonian women kidnapping and decides im sick of ur shit Vitale and sides with Ms Fortune when she says what she said to the skullgirl about Minette and all her new friends being family etc. But since Black Dhalia is allegedly OP im gonna say Peacock and Marie come to kick Medici ass because they rly dont like em. They fuck up the mafia, probaly turn the casino into an orphanage, and then Cerebella proposes to Feng goes to live peacefully with Feng in the country (not too far from the city tho, closer to Lab 8 so she can visit Filia)

Filia’s Backstory in my AU: she becomes quick friends with Carol because she doesnt realize shes like Lorenzo’s granddaughter while everyone’s either afraid of her or suck up to her, and quite frankly she deciedes its better to be alone then deal with that. She’s still nice tho, but very assertive, almost blunt i guess :0 When the Medici kidnap Carol (i think?) she does try to stop them but does nothing after being reminded that her parents wouldn’t approve of her hanging around someone so “low class” Filia feels guilty and all, meets Samson, he promises her that with his strength they can get Carol back, and then the rest is the same ;0 (because the story implies that Filia had something to do with the creation of Painwheel, thats how i thought it would’ve went)