#can you tell I was figuring this out as I was writing it???? jdjfjsjjcjsjf

[artofapeach]

How do you think the characters of termina would be different if they were born in fear&hunger 1 times

(I’m specifically asking about paavrin)

I TOOK PHYSICS AND THAT WAS EASIER THAN THIS WHAT THE FUCK

No but for real, like, so much of Pav and Karin especially is like—they’re a product of their time?? Like, I hope I’m not sounding like I’m playing favorites, but besides August, they’re very much characters made especially because of the events in Funger Senior, so it’s hard for me to imagine them DURING Funger Senior!

I’ll still try though!!

Pav feels so redundant, because like, in Termina, he’s basically a mix of Ragnvaldr and Darce. Joined the Bremen army and worked under Kaiser’s command, but instead of it being for love, it’s to exact revenge. And like, that’s his WHOLE CHARACTER. That was his LIFE GOAL (which is why when he fails, he becomes so utterly defeated and thinks there’s nothing left for him anymore but this isn’t about that, I’ll save that essay for another time)

So to put him in Funger Senior…he’d need a similar event to really feel like Pav, ya know? But again, that’s just end up very similar to Darce and Ragnvaldr, where it works centuries later as “ah, another run of the cycle”, but not really during the same time period, ya know???

Although, hmmmmmmm…what if Pav actually tricks Darce into thinking he cares as deeply for Le’garde as she does (no homo) (well maybe a little bit) and they go into the dungeons together?? But when they find Le’garde and Pav kills him, the utter betrayal Darce would feel—especially since this would have been a knight she knew rather than a random hunter she met in a dungeon—hmmmmmmmm…

Karin though! She’s even HARDER!

What is there even for a journalist to do in the medieval times??? (this is most definitely an invitation for any nerds to teach me on any medieval journalism please, that’d be cool 👁️)

My first thought though was, maybe she’s like a spy?I also don’t know at all what a medieval spies are like, but I’m sure they existed dinakdkskjfje

Also, if I remember my Funger lore properly (which it’s very likely that I don’t, my memory is shit, and I’m on my phone so I’m not about to flip to the wiki fifty times djsjjcjsjjd), Le’garde was NOT well liked by the main government and wealthy families. But he was well liked by people who felt like the world was unjust? And Karin, like, is SUCH an advocate for human rights—I get the feeling that she also would have fallen into Le’garde’s team, maybe genuinely believing in him at first—again, similar to Darce (let’s be real, there’s a lot of D’arce’s in the world).

But Karin’s real perceptive—I get the feeling she would have clocked Le’garde falling into the occult early and realize something is up and wrong. And rather than having that blinding trust, she starts to gather information—maybe start a third party separate from Le’garde and the main government to ACTUALLY do some good.

OOH WAIT OKAY okay okay, so, what if Karin clocks Le’garde’s occultism and starts to look into him, and then she and Pav clocks each other’s distrust of Le’garde and they work TOGETHER????? It’s completely different from Termina and there’d be no enemies to lovers 😔 but I feel like, personally, that’s would be the most fitting way for them to meet and work together (and eventually fall in love, of course).

And we all know Karin would ALSO go in the dungeons of Fear and Hunger, because there’s no way she’s not getting involved. Just D’arce and her band of lovers that are plotting against her jcjdkfkdkkdmf

I do get the feeling Karin would be less of an advocate of straight up murdering Le’garde rather than roughing him up and then bringing him to Justice. That said, in Termina, what I find interesting is that Karin is actually more trigger happy than Pav is (Pav makes threats, but actively avoids killing when unnecessary—Karin meanwhile whips out her gun on August just for making some notes on the other contestants). Maybe in a Funger Senior setting, she actually convinces Pav to wait on killing Le’garde, but while going through Mahabre and Le’garde has one of those fascination “I’m gonna become a god!” moments, Karin gets involved with a scuffle with him and accidentally kills him?? Then she would have to deal with the guilt and D’arce’s wrath—Pav there trying to comfort her and tell her it had to be done and it was for the best????

I DUNNO, DO WE FUCK WITH THESE IDEAS??? AM I COMMITTING MISCHARACTERIZATION HERE???

I am NOT doing the other characters, this alone hurt my brain (and I’m p sure August would be near impossible) BUT I do want to point out Twitter user @/B0nesJam’s au with their Nightshade dungeons of Fear and Hunger designs, ‘cause they’re super cool :3c