#I’ll be back eventually- for now I’ve got like five Project: Eden’s Garden-related things to write

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So I've got my first ever cccc au (far from my first au in general tho lol) and I'm calling it my Summer Solstice au! And I'm very open to asking questions or giving your thoughts on how I could take it, I love getting input!

The premise is "what if Heart killed himself in the pit (around Just Apathy)?" and the resulting Issues.

In the immediate aftermath, Soul panics. Without all 3 of them, they can't merge back into Whole! Losing one of them didn't end it, so maybe if they all die? They'll merge? It's the only idea he can think of and he wants so desperately for them to be Whole, so he'll do it! But if Heart dying didn't kill them, there's no guarantee his death will kill Mind, so he has to kill Mind before he can die and try to fix things. Mind thinks that hinges way too heavily upon "maybe it'll fix things" so he's not exactly lying down and accepting it.

Soul grabs Heart's abandoned shotgun and Mind gets the heck out of dodge because a trident and shotgun are going to win against his chainsaw if it turns into a fight. From there, it becomes a matter of endurance. Soul can track Mind semi-easily, but Mind prepared better when he realized the sun wasn't setting (the moon's dead, after all). It's just the two of them wandering an ever-heating world, trying to stay alive until the other's dead.

I don't have a ton other nailed down yet but Mind does pick up a parasol during his wanderings :3

…Holy fuck. This fandom really likes to make Mind suffer, huh?

Yeah, that certainly sounds like something Soul would do. What a cool concept! (ALSO CHAINSAW MIND MENTION CHAINSAW MIND MENTION CHAINSAW MIND MENTION)

If you’re here for my thoughts on how you could take it… well, it literally just turned 6am over here and I haven’t even been up 15 minutes, so my brain still needs a little while to start working correctly.

But, I will say that I just can’t see Mind surviving long in this situation. If the world is constantly getting warmer and warmer due to never having any breaks from the sunlight, well… robots and heat don’t really tend to mix. It’s only a matter of time before he overheats- and Soul’s plan probably hinges on that. Good thing he found that parasol.

(Hell, even if he’s not a robot in this context, he’s also associated with the cold as well as the sun, and they rather famously don’t mix either. The poor boy’s gonna melt if he’s out in that for too long.)