#Shock! Guess I'm The Evil Villain Now AU

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Jay, but he isekai-ed into one of those harem villainess stories.

how dare you call me out

Jay was reading a new series on request of his mom, called "The Siege of Sapphire".

It was a good read, the Villain being in a love triangle with the Princess and the Main Character.

The Villain was a Duke that was in love with the Princess, but since the Main Character swooped in as a national hero, they were loved by the royal family and the princess had an affair. (but wahhhh they're in love and the villain was sooooo bad /s)

Jay didn't like the villain cause he was a clingy, egotistical, insecure, immature young man that never understood why the princess wanted some independence (gee who does that remind him of?)

The Villain eventually tried raising a rebellion and was killed by the main character, and his entire family were exiled or executed for being related regardless of involvement.

Jay didn't like that, a lot of the family were elderly and young that had no clue what the Villain did until he was dead.

So when one mission gave him a good bonk on the head and some building debris fell on him- he woke up as Jullian Walek, Duke of the Sapphire Kingdom.

A lot of characters seem to look or act like his friends and family at home??? So it wasn't him, these other characters are like his own back in Ninjago.

His parents are his bio, but they've been busy doing their own stuff like partying an being unfaithful.

"Jullian" was instead raised by his loving grandparent, Edward and Eveline. The first to be executed in the og story.

The princess Nala (Nya) he tries to break off the engagement with as they grow into teens cause he 1. wants to support her and 2. wants to avoid meeting the hero.

Her older brother Kane (Kai) seems to be confused by "Jullian's" refusal to marry his sister.

A young servant Zeke (Zane) is his best friend and essentially his "lady in waiting".

And the hero, Corin (Cole), comes in and somehow still ran into "Jullian" and now Corin is being hosted at the Walek Mansion instead of the Princess' castle???

Something Jay skimmed over when reading the book was that it was written by a new author that hated how normal love triangles was always two guys directing their attention to one girl.

A new approach the author wrote was to bridge the gap between the two men.

What Jay failed to remember is that Corin and the og Jullian had something going on behind the scenes, but it ended without any resolution for Corin to immediately become engaged with Princess Nala. And og Jullian was pissed that both his love interests dumped him to be together.

(The author got heavily edited/censored, so og Jullain and Corin's romance was never properly explored)

So now it's not just a plan to avoid marrying Nala (even with the better relationship they have). Now he has to avoid that and getting involved with Corin!

Somehow Zeke and Kane are starting to harbor feelings towards "Jullian" too?????

Jay wants to go home...

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Adopted brothers AU

Takes place in the modern hero society era where Child AFO and baby Yoichi were separated after their parents died. Yoichi is adopted by All Might's mom, making All Might and him brothers. Adult AFO has been desperately looking for his little brother after becoming the Symbol of Evil. Then he finds out that his worst enemy All Might is now Yoichi's beloved older brother instead of him.

Up to you if it's best to be crack or drama.

This is even better with the new backstory revealed. Although, I guess we do have to go off canon for this.

Note: Because All Might doesn't have OFA, I'm taking away AFO's powers. However, he will still be referred to as AFO because it's his villain name (and I'm lazy). Instead, he has fire breath (you can pick if this ends up DFO.)

AFO and Yoichi are five years apart, and Yoichi was only a few months old when their parents died. AFO goes to search for food, not really knowing what to do, only for someone to find about him and his brother and call CPS. They spend about two years at the orphanage, only for AFO to be adopted. The adopters didn't want Yoichi as he was sickly. One week later, the Yagi's would come by and adopt him. Meanwhile, AFO was acting like a devil child in the hopes his adopters would return him to the orphanage so he could go back with Yoichi. They did end up returning him... six months later. From there he bounced around, his child mind convinced that if he keeps going back to the orphanage, then Yoichi will have been returned to. By 11 he realizes that won't happen and runs away to look for his brother. Naturally, the documents he needs to access are classified so he has to find a way around that. While he was unsuccessful, he found other things and next thing you know he's announced as the Symbol of Evil on national TV by age 26.

Meanwhile, both Yoichi and Toshinori are quirkless, but have each other and their loving parents. Yoichi was adopted when he was 2-and-a-half and has some vague memories of the orphanage. It helps that his parents never hid his adoption from him, not that they could have. While Toshinori looks like the male version of his mom, his dad is super average looking, so average height, brown hair, brown eyes. Anyway, the Yagis are well off, not rich, but they don't have to starve just to pay Yoichi's medical bills. Basically, Yoichi had a happy childhood, and while he was unable to keep up with the physical training necessary for heroism, he cheered his brother on. And while AM couldn't be Number 1 here, his amazing case record and wonderful personality still makes him very popular. So popular, that despite the fact he's not even in the Top 10, he's crowned as the Symbol of Compassion, as he doesn't just fight villains like most heroes, but truly cares for the civilians around him.

All Might's family is interviewed shortly after, and AFO, watching for any potential weakness to use against his enemy, almost has a stroke when he sees a white-haired, green-eyed man introduced as Yoichi Yagi. The more he sees Yoichi go on about "Toshi-Nii" the angrier he gets. Nothing else goes through his mind except "Mine" as he jumps in his reinforced villain car and speeds through several buildings to the news building.

Now you see, while one would think he's weak with just fire breath, he didn't earn his SoE title for nothing. He learned how to hack, how to import illegal weapons, and how to be charismatic to gain followers. All Might's battles with him tend to be more about wits than punching. However, he's so shocked at seeing his long-lost baby brother again, he doesn't think, just blows fire everywhere and shouts (and All Might's not even there). So, Yoichi jumps in. Naturally AFO grabs him and runs, seeing as how his car is in ruins. No consideration about the building he just set on fire or anything, so they end up getting trapped underneath a falling beam and AFO passes out.

All Might arrives along with some other heroes and emergency services to rescue the people. AM ends up finding his brother and... some guy. You see, AFO was so covered in soot, his hair turned black, making him unrecognizable. Anyway, concern for his brother gives him super human strength for a moment and he lifts the beam off of them, carrying them to safety.

Now here's the twist. The moment Yoichi saw AFO, all his memories came rushing back and he was prepared to try and convince him to come back to the good side, but he didn't have to. AFO lost his memories after the incident, so Yoichi did the only thing he could. He made up a fake story about how AFO lost his memories after being in a building fire and that they were both adopted and All Might was his older brother as he was born a day earlier than AFO. And AFO accepts it, because some part of his brain knows that this person is trustworthy and safe.

Bonus: Yoichi knows how to stay calm in tense situations, not because his adoptive brother is a hero, but because he works in customer service.

This was a fun one. I was originally thinking drama, but I like this better.

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What happens to Lady Penelope (Pixal) after Jay saves her?

Lady Penelope was a minor character who only showed up for a few chapters as an advocate against the mass killing of gem beasts. When she was silently married to the aristocrat, she essentially disappeared without a passing mention. Pretty much, hubby has been poisoning his wives over time to take them out and keep their money, but Penelope caught him in the act of poisoning her drink, and he resorted to murdering her.

Jay never liked that in the original story, so intervening with her death and saving Penelope made him happy. The downside to saving her was that now she has to go through a messy divorce that will result in her dowry being lost to her husband.

She now hides in the sanctuary of Walek Mansion and Jay is hellbent on protecting her from his parent's demand to return her to her crappy husband. The others have joined in too and- what's this? A possible extended romance blooming between her, Zeke, and Kane? A healthy love triangle???

But with her alive, a whole new plot line was opened up that Jay never suspected.

Ask yourself, what would happen if a human were to ever have their bones exposed to gem beast bones, the very gems their structures is made of? What are the benefits and drawbacks to a human gaining magical powers through forced bone grafting...?

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OG Zeke in the novel: *Shot out of the air because Corin feared he was going to reveal his and Nala's hiding spot when in reality Zeke was trying to get back to OG Jullian and plead with him to stop, thus his death triggering Jullian to go batshit crazy.*

Jay reading the novel: Wow, it's as if killing the last person capable of keeping the villain at bay was a bad idea.

Cole reading over Jay's shoulder: He thought Ezekiel was a spy!

Jay: Zeke was pleading for them to talk!

Cole: Jullian was attacking the capitol at that point!

Jay: He only killed his parents!

Cole: To take over the throne!

Jay: Kane is already king!

Zane: Those two are oddly critical of that book.

Nya: Jay thinks Jullian should've ran away with Ezekiel.

Zane: They should've. Sounds like everything could have been avoided if they left the capitol together... Or murdered Jullian's parents way sooner.

Nya: ⚆_⚆

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Another reason gems are kept within the high ranks (royal/army) is due to their magical potency. The rarer the monster, the more powerful the gem is.

The gem in Jullian's skull? An experiment done by his father to test the transfer of power of a gem to a human. It's a tiny shard compared to a full gem, but its power still is strong enough to push hair growth and other side effects that OG Jullian fully leaned into...

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"Jullian": Why does my hair grow so much?

"Jullain": ... OH RIGHT, I HAVE A GEM IN MY SKULL.

Corin: You have a- how!?

"Jullian": My dad experimented on me as a baby to test gem potency.

"Jullian": I almost forgot that tidbit from chapter 38...

Corin: Chapter?

"Jullian", sweating: My dad's alchemists were very thorough .

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What did Cole do to regain recognition as a national hero in the story? Did he do the classic knight killing a dragon (Grief-Bringer) or fighting off the tyrant(Vangelis) of a neighboring kingdom?

Yes to the Dragon thing, kinda yes to Vangelis.

Corin/Cole is an illegitimate child to Duchess Lilian, who had an affair with her lover Lucio. Corin was kept as he was the only boy born of one younger daughter.

Valentino was Lilian's actual husband who hated Corin, and at some point, bribed a royal captain to take the boy away and force him on the front lines so his daughter would be the only one valid for Lilian's inheritance. Corin lived and climbed the rank as an unrecognized Duke, and eventually he and his battalion of only 15 were faced up against a gem beast.

The name of the novel contains Sapphire, which in that universe is only exist as the collected bone matter to many magical beasts. The rich and royal connected to any army/warriors are the only ones known to have access to the gems and such jewelry that is other than carved stone/wood.

Corin slayed the in-universe Grief Bringer and opened its carcass to discover that the beast consumed other beasts to satiate its hunger. And in the dead center was one beast with a heart made of sapphire. He let the others of his battalion split up the gems for themselves and the royals, while he originally gifted the sapphire heart to Princess Nala.

With his reputation as the Grief Slayer, he was set in a new rank higher than his family and used it to force his awful stepfather out of their home.

In the new universe, it seems that Corin may be gifting the sapphire to Princess Nala. But not as a wedding proposal...

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Corin: You come around here often?

"Jullian": I... live here?

Corin: Cool cool. So is that a yes or...?

"Jullian": My room is down the hall. You've been there 5 times today.

Corin: Yes then?

"Jullian": Why are you still asking???

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@ninja-gram

He does, any isekai protag set into the villain role that doesn't want to do evil things.

2 things he changed the timing on, and 1 thing he outright stopped.

Jay set the meeting to end his engagement with Princess Nala wayyy ahead of time.

The OG Jullian didn't even initiate the meeting in the story, it was Nala, because she found out he was seeking avenues to usurps Prince Kane as the direct heir.

He pushed his parents to allow him and Zeke to leave the capitol to see Zeke's father one last time before they died.

The OG Jullian found out about Zeke's father dying and demanded the old man be brought to the Walek Mansion- but the stress of transport and the neglect from the escorts caused the man to pass. Sure, OG Jullian rightfully lost his shit yet ruthlessly had the escort executed, but he could never fully console his friend's loss.

OG Jullian's worst offense before going full villain was setting up Corin's sister, Vanessa (Vania), with a shady aristocrat that was already through 5 wives. All died under "unknown" circumstances, and Vanessa was sadly dead wife number 6 at the height of his attack against the capitol.

Jay straight up blew the whistle on the guy and "semi"-stabbed him when he was attempting to murder wife number 5, Lady Penelope (aka Pixal).

Any isekai questions?

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Jay waking up in the isekai world: ... no... no.

Zeke: Master, you're awake-

Jay: No.

Jay during breakfast: No.

Jay at sparring: No.

Jay at his studies: No.

Jay being brought to tea: No.

Jay choosing his Gala clothes: No.

Jay being changed for the evening: No.

Jay laying down in bed: No.

Zeke laying next to him: Sir, are you feeling alright.

Jay: I feel like a building fell on me.