#also edit ignore my egregious handwriting it doesn't even matter what it says lol

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Vbros "worst timeline" au thingy.... Ignore this if you're worried about major spoilers. I just need a place to talk about this and gather my thoughts before I finish drawing it + without the restraints of the twitter word limit

Okay so the basic gist of this is "what if dean + the triad never found hank in ritbotbh and he became a villain instead of going home w them". I think they were still looking for him (obviously) but they didn't get there in time for before his fainting spell after bobbi told him she wasn't his mom. And he just snaps after that basically he's alone and there's nothing for him anywhere so he goes off on his own. He slowly makes his way back to nyc for a bit just arching random people as an unregistered villain/vigilante and when he gets back he starts to hench for the monarch (through gary's advice). After a good few years of henching he registers as an actual villain and here we are now.

This is like almost 10 years post-ritbotbh btw.Hank and dean are both almost 30

Hank:

his costume is based off one of the monarch's prototype costumes (the one with the butterfly wings mask) and his little bat costume in venture libre. Of course it had to be bat related bc batman... he's called "the bat" bc he calls himself that sometimes anyways but obviously he can't be Batman

His dissociation and depersonalization is Really Really Bad.it's so much worse than it ever is in ritbotbh.he has an extremely poor sense of self and horrible grasp on reality

Dr mrs the monarch helped make and design his costume with him :-) hank and her + gary (obviously) and the monarch are all still close even though hank doesn't hench for the monarch anymore. Gary and hank just get along interests wise, him and dr mrs' personalities bounce off eachother well, and that also goes for him and the monarch but they also bond over the clone stuff and just. Obviously the monarch is still arching dr venture in this*, and I feel like especially after no one came and found him (hank) in ritbotbh he holds a lot of resentment for his family. Plus the childhood trauma. Anyways all this to say they bond over hating rusty

He's still not a super violent person just bc I don't think it's in his nature to be but he's much more aggressive than he would be in a normal-er timeline for a combination of reasons... like i said the resentment for everyone esp his family building up over time, being around other aggressive people (villains) all the time and having to exaggerate that aspect for his own villain persona, and the depersonalization certainly doesn't help

Also he has the mullet again. Out of laziness to cut his hair more than anything but I think he's trying to mirror gary a bit (who IN MY MIND has one)

*actually idk about this cuz he would be pushing 60 but a boy can dream

Dean -

Works a desk job at a super science facility. he never actually studied it so he didn't want to be in a lab or anything but he didn't know what else to do, and it was the only thing familiar to him bc he was still also finding himself during ritbotbh and losing hank definitely halted that so he went back to the only thing he knew

Still extremely guilty and miserable over hank's disappearance/presumed death for sure

Male pattern baldness got to him. He looks a little bit like college rusty

He also has horrible dissociation/depersonalizaiton post-ritbotbh. Again it was bad before but not this bad. He's on autopilot pretty much all the time and barely processes basic day to day stuff anymore. He mostly avoids people too outside of neccesary interactions like at his workplace

Idk what else to say he's just really depressed 😓😓 he's guilty over his brother's "death" he works a shitty job in a field he doesn't like and thats piled onto his already existing unaddressed trauma and mental illness he's just a sad guy

I think hank and dean meet again just by chance bc hank is assigned to arch someone who works at the same lab dean does. And hank does this huge dramatic break in thing and dean is just There and idk

+ my insane person ramblings about it from twitter 👇👇