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discordiansamba · 1 month ago

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there's also this time travel idea I've been rotating since this morning in which a Rin from a failed timeline is sent back to the past by Mephisto... and then, upon arrival, is promptly put in charge of raising his infant self + Yukio... also by Mephisto.

(the man saw his chance to do something really funny and took it.)

some assorted thoughts about this one, in no particular order:

upon arrival, Mephisto instructs older!rin to pick a new alias- no, you can't pick Rinka. that would stand out too much. so in all of his cringy sixteen year old glory, Rin names himself Noctis on the spot, bc it sounds cool as hell and he definitely won't regret it when he gets older.

(he absolutely does)

yukio: dada.

noctis: huh!? no! i'm your nii-san, yukio! i'm way too young to be a father!

(noctis struggles valiantly, but he is fighting a losing battle. or: rin's teen dad arc.)

older!rin is the white haired version of himself, to further differentiate himself from younger!rin. of course, this does not stop the two of them from having an uncanny resemblance, so any time the twins introduce him as their foster father, people just look between Noctis and Rin and are like. doubt.png.

Shiro is still roped into becoming the Paladin by Mephisto. as far as he knows, Yuri's twins are being raised by some other unfortunate soul. imagine his shock when a few years in, he comes across a pair of familiar children at a local park under the care of someone who looks equally as familiar.

for a brief moment, Shiro mistakes him for Satan- but it can't be. Satan would never make that kind of expression. but was there another Azazel clone running around other than him? there's no way this guy isn't one, right? that resemblance is uncanny.

(older!rin's cover story is that he's a misfit Azazel clone who got a little too much demon in him, and was thus raised away from Section 13.)

and then he finds out that the guy is only nineteen. Shiro does the math. Mephisto put a sixteen year old boy in charge of taking care of children- which, well. fuck. okay. he's definitely intervening.

(or: becoming friends with his father is a little awkward at first, but Noctis comes to enjoy it, eventually.)

Mephisto gives Noctis a new demon sword and puts him to work right away as an exorcist. no using your own flames, though! we can't let people know there's two of you running around!

Noctis goes and picks up Kuro like, first thing. sorry old man, but he's stealing your familiar. he's really open about being an exorcist to the twins, since he knows he sucks at lying- and the less of it he has to do, the better.

he understands why his old man did it, but he doesn't want yukio to become an exorcist. instead he tries to introduce him to friendly demons like kuro and the greenmen, so he knows they're not all scary- and does not realize he himself is doing like, half of the heavy lifting there.

(rin and yukio both know their foster father is a first generation nephilim. yukio suspects that noctis really is their father, but just refuses to admit it for some reason. is it because he doesn't want them to know they're nephilim too? rin's strength makes it pretty obvious...)

this, ironically, leads to the outcome where both of the twins tell him that they want to join the exorcism cram school in high school. noctis' brain just does a record scratch. hwuah? huh? unexpected outcome????

the older his younger self gets, the more noctis begins to understand why shiro didn't tell him the truth until he couldn't hide it any longer in the original timeline. plus. you know. he has the additional wrinkle of being rin from the future, which is just SO awkward.

noctis gets into fierce arguments with mephisto about changing the past. he wants to prevent things like what happened to shiemi, or the lab in inari, but mephisto counters with the hard to argue fact that if they do prevent those things from happening, the timeline could very quickly spiral out of control. the future could get worse than the one you came from.

mephisto: but since you enjoy being a father so much, why don't you raise kamiki-san's younger sister?

noctis: hwuha!?

(additional child acquired)

mephisto also ropes noctis into teaching at cram school as a swordsmanship instructor, just in time for a familiar batch of cram school students to enroll...

noctis: wow... they're all so young...

noctis: wait. FUCK.

(despite that, he doesn't look a day over 25 even though he's actually 31. it gets on shiro's nerves constantly. you don't have any right to complain about getting old! you don't even get back pain!)

mephisto: I'm surprised you are not trying to prevent me from recruiting shima as a spy.

noctis: nah, that's like enrichment for him.

(noctis watching rin and shiemi interact like. i am going to be the world's most embarrassing father about this.)

(or: older!rin's journey from "don't call me dad" to "fuck it. i'm their father now")

#and yes. the name noctis *is* a deliberate reference to the prototype oneshot #blue exorcist #i think shiro does pick up unconsciously on the fact that noctis somewhat resembles yuri #but he's a.) way too old to be her child. and b.) rin is RIGHT there #noctis: hey. uh. you guys have a new sister now. this is tsukiko.#rin & yukio when they meet izumo later: huh. she looks strangely familiar #(noctis breaks out into a cold sweat)#noctis au

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lovekabaneri · 1 month ago

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OR! What about a Goro from a failed timeline arriving at Tokyo?

You know Goro, the other Azazel clone Shiro knew that ended up being possessed by Satan. So, what if he comes from a failed timeline where at some point after Satan manifests, he breaks out of the Vatican with Yuri in tow. The exorcists there try to capture them but somehow they end up separating Satan from Goro's body?

They were trying to seal Satan but ended up just causing the Blue Night to happen much earlier because Goro's body ended up jumping to an alternate timeline.

So, this barely functional clone that's clearly gone crazy from all the drugs, ends up alone on the streets of Tokyo many years into the future in another timeline.

He becomes this weird homeless man that Rin ends up meeting as a kid and goes.

"You know what, mister? You look just like my old man! Just younger."

Imagine Goro being chill and half-remembering Yuri from when he was possessed, he somehow ends up revealing who Rin's mother was? Also, it would be real fun to imagine Rin hanging with the crazy homeless man that 'talks to invisible things' and has a crayfish in his pocket.

It becomes even funnier if the two actually bond somewhat and Rin uses Goro as a 'fake dad' because he skips school and needs adult supervision to go places, since he's still 8 or so? At some point, Rin steals one or two of Shiro's paladin robes (in pieces, not at once) and just gives Goro 1000 yen to put it on and pretend to be his dad.

"Come on, mister! It would be more convincing if you put this on! You'd look just like my old man and the old lady downtown won't suspect a thing with her bad eyesight!" - Rin.

"Naaah! No! Nooo-no-no!" - Goro whining and throwing a tantrum while muttering stuff. Guy's still wonky from the brain damage.

"I'll give you this money and cook you some ramen if you do it." - Rin slipping a 1000 yen bill out of his pocket.

"Ohkaay~ Ramen for me an' Nini!" - Goro cheers and his pet crayfish is also happy (the thing might be either a really smart crustacean or some sort of sea demon).

It becomes even funnier a few years later when Goro also starts to look older, that some exorcists mistake him for Shiro while he's out acting as fake dad for Rin. And even better when the demon they were chasing tries eating Goro and the guy just pummels the demon effortlessly. He's been homeless, able to see demon since forever and has a few of Shiro's exorcist supplies still in his pockets, so the two exorcist are amazed.

"Wow! The paladin really is as great as they say!" - exorcist 1.

"Yeah! Look how effortlessly he took out that demon!" - exorcist 2.

Then what if when the whole thing with Satan and Rin happens years later, because of his previous possession by Satan, Goro goes there to see what was happening. He sees Rin looking like a demon and with blue flames, Shiro bleeding (maybe dead, maybe alive) and the church a mess and he...

Tries to beat the 'Mean voice' out of Rin with a stick. Poor boy takes quite a while to convince him he's not actually Satan. After that... well, he either gets discovered and put under watch by the order as a 'rogue clone' OR Mephisto does a double take and decides it would be absolutely hilarious to see how long the Order would take to figure out that he put Goro in the comatose Shiro's clothes and just plopped him in the school to 'recover after facing Satan'?