#bbpau ren

[ethosiab]

You mentioned Ren was in the pirate AU as well i think? Do show us what he looks like :) /nf

i am not immune to the treebark

Ren's a really interesting one in this AU because i know his general role as an antagonist, and as someone that Etho pissed off greatly when he was with the TIES crew which you know, comes back to bite him in the ass, but i never particularly figured out why or how all that happened. I toyed with the idea of Ren being king in both past and present but despite the idea having some merit to it, it didn't quite sit right with me (...maybe mostly because I like drawing Martyn pirate-y and couldn't get that if he was serving the crown).

Right now, I've ended up deciding a vague background for Ren. He was royalty at one point, first in line for the throne. As a prince, he had some duty to protect his citizens from pirates and criminals who ransacked the place every so often. He was kind of stupid as a young adult though, and made deals with pirates (*cough* TIES) to be able to get information that would help him deal with this threat.

It worked great for a few years but eventually Ren realized he couldn't keep up with what TIES was demanding of him in exchange for information. He also realised the whole thing was stupid and that he was stupid, and tried to cut it off. TIES had the upper hand in the situation, though, because the amount of backlash that he would recieve if the public found out he was working with pirates would be immense. TIES leaked this information, shit happened, Ren got in big trouble and trust in the crown was at an all time low. Bad stuff. Because of this, Ren faked his death and framed Etho, taking the spotlight off of his own mistakes and onto the . death of a literal prince and heir to the crown.

Suffice to say the guy blames Etho and the rest of TIES for ruining his life and will gladly get revenge. king shit right here.

[ethosiab]

Who's the boat boys pirate au villain?

Is there a villain?

Please let there be a bad guy.

In my head there is no 'villain' so much as there is the soul god, who despite not being a major 'character', is a major force that the boat boys are opposing throughout the story. They're trying to find a way to sever their contracts with the god and be free to live their own lives.

There are also side-antagonists along the way, one of which i think is going to be martyn/ren because of ethos past issues with them finally catching up to him.

[ethosiab]

A lizzie in the boat boys pirate au perhaps? :D

I was wondering if she has any role, would she also be a pirate? pirate lizzie would be cool haha

(Feel free to ignore i dont know how requests? work?)

Lizzie is actually the Ocean Queen in this AU! Smalletho aint a romantic ship for me, but Jizzie sure is so it's about the only canon romantic relationship (except for cleo and etho but theyre exes anyway lmao).

She's the only god so far in bbpau that's not just... some guy i made up, so she does make much more of a character appearance than the soul god (I have an idea for a plotline including her but we will see if I'm able to start on the comics soon or not). She and Joel are husband and wife (even though i have no idea how that legally works given Joel is a pirate and Lizzie is a goddess. It probably doesnt legally work! That's okay!), and they met when Lizzie was visiting a village he stopped in in her human form. Sometimes she used to join his crew in human form for periods of time before going back to her duties as a god.

They aren't able to see each other often, but Joel makes sure to stop by her territory and say hi, tell her of all the things he's been getting up to recently, all the adventures he's been on, and all that. She's the only person he's actually close to other than Jimmy, which is funny considering most people think Etho is the 'broody loner type' but actually up until dealing with the soul god Etho had friends. Joel.... not so much (3rd life Joel i love you and cherish you forever).

[ethosiab]

Hello hello! I have little time (and energy, i'm a little sick atm haha) to draw, but I've got bbpau on the brain so I'm thinking of introducing each character's role in the story. Which brings me to ask-

These are very arbitrary groups, but those who are grouped together have interconnected stories and I think it's easiest to introduce them together.

I'll also obviously giving a bit more info on how each of them know Etho and/or Joel as i introduce them.