#dead by daylight swap au

[applegameisprollytaken]

Ok so I recently found out about nightfall, the dead by daylight swap au... And I have some ideas for some of my fave characters

(I would do my survivor main Quentin but @aviatorhead already did it better. )

Tarhos Khovacks

Most of his lore is the same until just around the being taken to be a slave part. The people who captured him are attacked by a different kingdom, ruled by an unstable but kind king. He gets put to work helping the guards and all that, and eventually, he is the personal guard of the king, along with three of his friends. One day, a fog seeps out from the kings study, and Tarhos wakes up at a campfire in a strange place.

The king

Basically Vittorio toscano but he realizes what he was searching for actually IS and breaks down, killing the two guards who were with him in a fit or rage (the swap versions of the jailer and the carnifex). Past that is just the entity whispering in his ear

Frank, Joey, Susie, and Julie

Same as canon, but their life is better, and they DONT kill that one guy at the store. They go to jail, but as the cops drive to the precinct, they have to swerve out of the way of... Something (swap jeff). The four's bodies were never found.

(I refuse to do Jeff I don't know anything about him)

Jed Olsen

Investigative journalist who gets too close to catching a killer, who seems to leave arcane symbols on her victims bodies. After she frames him, he has to change his name and leave the country. As he investigates a string of disappearances, he stumbles across a strange cult in a ritual, a fog envelopes him, and he wakes up at a campfire.

(yes it's swap Mikaela in case you were wondering (idk how to spell her name))

(bonus one because it felt incomplete. I hate the clown with a passion but I thought of a good way to swap him)

(remember to put the clowns actual name here)

As a young boy, he loved to look at animals, and he thought clowns were funny, always wanting to go to the circus when it came to town. As he grew up, that never changed. But when the traveling circus said they needed someone to tend to the animals, he jumped at the opportunity. He was so good with the animals that he actually was sent to preform, doing tricks with the animals. Until one day, he came in, and saw a bloodbath. Half the people in the circus had clawed their ears off, and the other half were ripped apart. So he took his favorite animal, the horse Maurice and ran, and kept running until he found himself at a campfire.

(yes Kate is a siren. I thought it fit)

[bionicboxes]

DBD Swap AU - Unknown and Hillbilly's Survivor designs!

More Info Below the cut

The premise of this particular swap AU is to make the minimal amount of changes to the killer and survivors backstories required to change their role, since people usually make quite drastic changes. Unknown is one of the killers that deviates most, while Hillbilly is one of the ones that deviates least. Their stories are as follows:

Hillbilly: Stays the same up until Max kills his mother. As she's dying he realizes the Consequences of these actions and runs out of the house before the police catch up, blindly hoping that maybe, just maybe, if he just keeps running, he can leave here and never come back. In a way, he's right, since the Entity promptly snatches him up. As the officer arrives (that slips in Ms. Thompson's blood), Max is already long gone, and they're never able to find him.

Max is a name picked in a rush when he had nothing else to introduce himself as to the other survivors, part of him still processing what he did and part of him still clinging to the idea of a world where his parents loved him enough for him to be his father's 'Jr.' Over time, the other survivors allow him to feel loved and allow him to feel that he is, in fact, not doomed to be a monster, and therefore becomes highly protective of the others. He thus will never tell any of them about his past or murdering his parents as he's terrified of losing the trust and love of the first people to ever treat him with anything other than cruelty.

Unknown: The one that deviates the most (so far), but it was necessary to include it. Based on the theory that Unknown becomes an amalgamation of all the theories about it, except the theories are all about Unknown as a benevolent force. Picture:

Someone is lost in the woods, panicking. They sense a presence, neither good nor bad, completely neutral, as its not yet been bestowed with intentions. Seeking comfort, the person imagines the presence they feel as something friendly; A guardian angel, perhaps, or maybe just someone who can help them find their way out of the forest. Only then does a figure appear out of the darkness, a Man that's not quite Human, unnerving yet... comforting. The figure guides the person out of the woods, disappearing by the time they turn around.

This spawns all sorts of rumors as to what they experienced; Perhaps an angel? maybe the ghost of a man who died lost in the woods trying to help them avoid the same fate? maybe it was simply a figment of their imagination, or maybe it was just a normal man on a stroll who happened to come across them and lend them aid. Regardless, it appears when people who need help think of it, and one day, a survivor within the Entity's realm, lost within the infinite woods, remembers an old urban legend, the story of a man who helps the lost be found. And a figure appears. Or something like that!

[rdps01]

in the backyard, buried deep underneath the tree there's a monster, taking root in the property

[irishqueen12]

Don't see many au versions of Anna in swap au's so I wanted to contribute! and I'm really proud of it 😅so here she is! I'll post a few more doodles on her soon! 👀

[didderd]

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This week's drawings I did for RedBeanPorridge's weekly Sketch Clup! The theme this week was videogames, so ofc I drew mostly Undertale. :> The top left was me in the discord at 4 am after reading the theme lol.

The bottom right is some DBD bc I wanted to give some love to one of the only games I actually play sometimes. I planned on more for it, but cramps got in the way. ;v; At least I was able to draw probably my favorite headcannon in the fandom: Legion looking up to Ghost Face as a role model, and kinda following him around. :3

[zefaruwere]

a little shit on swap au with these two. The design of Tarkhov the survivor belongs to @shminald

[shadowtoons]

Haven’t sketched these two in a long time! Since I was doing an au swap

Swapped these two

Basically Cy is a chill guy, he wouldn’t kill anyone without a reason, so he retired. Even so he was the top one than Hacker was.

While Hacker is a brute, he doesn’t care how one feels. He will use someone at his advantage to get what he wants, he still on a war path against Cy.

[dbd-the-swap-au]

So, Alien in DBD happened! I've actually had the concept for this chapter kicking around for a while now, I just never got around to posting it. I'll go back and fill in the rest of the chapters... at some point. I have some big art projects unrelated to this AU going on right now, but who knows? Maybe this will be back in full swing come November.

[movies-dont-make-psychos]

I couldn't help but Imagine Yun-Jin as the killer instead of Ji-Woon

I decided to try and give her a K-pop style, but I'm not very Good at designing outfits, I tried my hardest and Now I wanna draw Ji-Woon as a survivor

[aroacesetitoff]

"no light, no light in your bright blue eyes - I never knew daylight could be so violent"

A piece for the Swap AU, never let Maharlika into the woods or someones gonna catch these hands @demise-seems-dead

close up

[moldcursed]

verses : - all of these AUs can be edited and altered as needed (for example, swapping mia out with rose as the missing one, changing the timelines and details, etc.) ; these are just rough descriptions that i had in my head of each of them. i am also open to making new AUs specifically for writing with mutuals, ofc!

main : follows the events of the games. interactions in canon verse can be set anywhere in the timeline, whether that’s before, during, or between games.

survival : in which ethan survives the events of re8. things aren’t as they were before he entered the village, though. a heart ripped from his chest ; an awareness of his true nature. a man made entirely of mold, blood no longer flowing through his veins. the mold is what keeps him alive ; after all, the real ethan winters died back in louisiana all those years ago, killed at the hands of jack baker. now, ethan has to learn how to deal with his newfound awareness of his state, as well as dealing with all the struggles that come with it.  - headcanons abt survival au ethan are here.

dead by daylight: in which the entity takes ethan before he can die during the village’s destruction. she sees his potential, sees the way he’d fit perfectly amongst her motley crew of survivors, and snatches the father up before the explosion can kill him. in the fog, the mold’s decay is paused, too ; ethan is truly put in limbo here, a dead man walking. once again, he’s on the run from people trying to kill him. he just wants to escape, to go home to his daughter, but still he’s a martyr until the end, willing to sacrifice himself if it means that the other survivors can escape the trial. - here’s a post i made ages ago with ethan’s survivor perks.

fallout : the vault is safe. stay in the vault. that’s the most important rule — but what does it mean when mia and rose disappear from their vault? why would she leave? why would she take their daughter with her? these questions are what sends ethan up to the surface. the wasteland is cruel, with its horrifying creatures and toxic atmosphere. no place for a vault dweller. unbeknownst to ethan though, a transformation begins to take place after being exposed to high levels of radiation on the surface: he’s slowly turning into a ghoul.

far cry 5: after mia’s disappearance, ethan follows any leads he thinks might help him find her. a tip leads him to believe that she may be in hope county, montana, intertwined with a fanatical religious cult known as eden’s gate. it’s a risk, but one he’s more than willing to take.

IT guy : exactly what it says. in this verse, ethan is just that — an IT guy. yes, i know he’s a systems engineer but shush. basically, this is my Horrors Never Happened™️ AU. he’s just living his life, chilling and working on computers. pretty basic shit.

marvel : ethan is a mutant whose gifts didn’t manifest until later on in life. the powers in question? the ability to create and control a thick, black substance that he refers to as Mold. now, he’s struggling with adjusting to these newfound abilities after a lifetime of normalcy.

monster : this is more of an umbrella verse for pre-existing verses such as canon or survival rather than anything specifically thought out. for example, the ideas i particularly envision with this are ethan being turned into a lycan or him turning into one of the molded (ala re7).

outlast : ethan is wrongly committed to mount massive asylum following the events of re7. after all, everything you saw wasn’t real, ethan. you murdered an innocent family, they all say — but he knows the truth. he knows that it all really happened, knows that he lived through a fucking nightmare, knows that he was put in here as a cover-up. no one believes him, though. why should they, when they’ve all decided he’s insane?

red dead redemption / western : after his wife’s sudden disappearance, he heads further south towards the swamps. it’s there that he finds trouble : after getting lost and being attacked by a psychotic family in a secluded house tucked away in the bayou, ethan ends up having to kill the parents in self-defense. it’s not a clean getaway, though — the son, lucas, lives and tells his own version of the story. a bounty is placed on ethan’s head, an unwanted notch on his belt. he’s a terrible excuse of an outlaw, all things considered, but … he’s a damn good shot.

remedy : under construction, but i currently have two concepts in mind (but am absolutely open to suggestions) : 1.) ethan is a character written by alan wake, brought to life during alan’s attempts to escape the dark place. 2.) the dark place’s dimension and the megamycete are somehow connected, therefore ethan’s consciousness resides there.

silent hill : a pull. a feeling. that’s what leads ethan to the town of silent hill during his search for mia. why? he isn’t sure. there’s nothing about this town that particularly seems special, that seems like anywhere mia would go normally — but this isn’t normal. there are shadows lingering on the street corners, a fog that hangs over the town, and monsters lurking in the alleyways. and worst of all? there isn’t a way out.

stranger things : after visiting family for the summer and liking the small town, twenty year old ethan moves from los angeles to hawkins and takes a job at radio shack. things change however when his friend, zoe baker’s family ends up getting controlled by the mind flayer ; ethan tries to help her figure out what’s happening to them … why they have changed. the baker family ends up infecting him, resulting in the man seemingly dying along with the rest of the flayed when the flayer creates its physical body. once the flayer is destroyed, something new forms out of the remains : ethan winters, restored and with no memory of anything that had occurred after his infection at the baker house, but with a newfound connection to a certain alternate dimension.

texas chainsaw massacre : missing posters hang everywhere. so many have gone missing — and in ethan’s hunt to find his girl, he’s the next one to fall into the sawyer family’s clutches, fighting to survive alongside others who have disappeared and even losing a hand in the process.

the last of us : ethan is infected with the cordyceps, whilst mia is a part of a group of scientists, the connections, whom are studying the fungi after the outbreak. he’s initially unaware of the infection since there are no physical signs — but mia notices it right away. she sees it, the way that the other infected they encounter don’t seem interested in ethan. it’s only a matter of time before her group begins running experiments on him, injecting him with more and more of the cordyceps in their attempt to figure out exactly what it is that makes him tic. it is only then that physical signs begin to show, but with the careful wearing of gloves, he’s able to keep it hidden away. eventually, ethan manages to escape the connections’ grip, but he’s always on the move. he cannot risk being caught again.

[markerofthemidnight]

Tell me about your AU pls

Well, it depends. Which AU do you wanna hear about? Just off the top of my head, there’s:

Hatchetfield

Greyscale

Hidden Depths @hiddendepths-aublog

Dreams of the Black (crossover with Dreams of an Insomniac)

Hatchetronpa

The crazy multi-timeline timeloop Hatchetfield AU I once posted about

The very simplistic AU concept where the entire island worships the Lords in Black

Project: Eden’s Garden

In the Midst of Wolves (the cryptid au which I gotta start talking about more…)

The furry AU

The Prince Turned Pauper (the one where Tozu gets demoted to a contestant)

The Tobias Zollo Collection (cancelled(?))

The swap AU (which I’m just realising I’ve never talked about????)

Project: Eden’s Island S (concept I came up with of Danganronpa S but the P:EG cast is there too for some reason. shenanigans ensue.)

Danganronpa: Spectacle (technically just my own fangan loosely inspired by P:EG. can’t believe I haven’t talked about it yet…)

Others

Oneiric Observation @oneiricobservationaublog (Dreams of an Insomniac)

Cacophonous Concord (Chonny Jash)

The Basement AU (Chonny Jash)

The Lob Corp Crossover Concepts (Lob Corp)

The Dead by Daylight Crossover Concepts (Dead by Daylight)

Technically Across the Mirror Dimension too? (super big multi fandom crossover that I gotta start thinking about more…)

Take your pick!

[bionicboxes]

Commission work I forgot to post

[spoopy-arcade]

(Sorry in advance - this ask ended up being long. Swap AU my beloved <3)

Swap AU Cassie is SO BABY……. would love more of her and your beautiful human Roxy.

Although - and forgive me if I ramble a bit here - this takes place in a Ruin equivalent time yeah? Wouldn’t Cassie be more banged up? It’d be sad but she probably would be right? :[

It’s okay, I’m sure Roxy could fix her up. She probably does her own car maintenance ‘cause she’s a badass.

Ooh, now I’m also wondering what a base-game Swap would be like…

Lol, it should take place during the day and Freddy’s trying to smuggle Gregory out, and shenanigans ensue! (Possibly Gregory is due to be scrapped, so Freddy wants to keep the clearly sentient, slightly feral-acting child-like robot from that fate. He got emotionally attached <3)

Of course, if Roxy and Freddy are visiting there then there is prolly some attraction attracting lone adult patrons.. idk what that means for changes to the theme of the Megaplex.. But that’s not important right now!

Also, the main obstacle for Freddy would just generally be that he is trying to steal a child-sized robot in broad daylight while the place is possibly open/at least has workers there that he has to dodge. Good luck to the big guy.

Actually, the now-humans could be workers at the Plex. Like say instead of having tons of bots all over, they only had a few (like Cassie, Gregory, and possibly Vanny?) that were designed specifically to seem/be completely harmless, and more childlike. Cassie and Gregory could’ve been made to attend birthday parties (especially of lonely/upset kids), and Vanny could be a playful and friendly older figure who helps lost kids and cheers up anyone who’s feeling down. (I’d probably include Vanessa as a security program assigned to Vanny because. Security guard. Plus we’ve already seen that with Moon.)

In this case Gregory would probably still be messed up and act weird and get retired and shut down to be scrapped for parts, leading to Freddy finding him and rebooting him and then deciding to take him home once he figures out what’s up.

That kinda begs the question of what everyone’s jobs would be in the Plex, ‘cause how would Freddy find Gregory? And why would Cassie and Roxy be close in this version?

Well I have some answers to that!! ….I have no idea what Freddy’s job would be! He has. Very little by way of interesting character traits. Same with Monty. Why are the men so uninteresting in this game. Maybe Freddy’s a manager, since he was the leader of the band? Maybe he was taking inventory when he found Gregory? Idk!

Chica is definitely easier to pick for because she actually has distinct traits, and gets the obvious choice of working in the kitchen/bakery. (On that note, this kind of feels like a lower tech AU with less automated jobs, so managerial work/cooking/other tasks that are automated in SB I’ll give to people lol)

Would it be a dick move to make Monty a janitor? Lmao I swear I don’t hate him but idk what to give him at this point. Night guard? He could be a night guard.

….do I need to assign Bonnie a job? Wouldn’t he technically be dead? (He’s associated with the wet floor bots right? He could be a janitor.)

Who I REALLY have ideas for is everybody’s favorite, Roxy!! Saved her for last cause I knew I’d go on about her. She would totally be the maintenance gal for the race track - keeping the karts in working order, making sure the track is safe to drive on, etc. I imagine she could also do general maintenance, but her main area she works in is the racetrack.

As for how she and Cassie met. Well. Roxy is shown to be a very insecure person in the games. So what if the people she knew were busy and forgot/missed her birthday? And a little bunny, built for accompanying lonely and upset folks on their birthday, sees how upset she is, and overhears Roxy talking to herself and mention her birthday?

Well, I’m just saying, that little bun might just go hunt down a spare small cake from the bakery to put some candles in, and saunter her way into the nearly empty room to place it right in front of her new friend, smile, and say “Happy birthday, Roxy!”

The thems <3 I hope any of this makes sense I am just Thinking About Them…..

OMG THESE ARE SUCH GOOD IDEAS ANON. BIG BRAINED !!! I love the job choices for the gang (Monty being a janitor/nightguard is so funny 😭) and Vanny being along with animatronic Cassie and Gregory is rlly good, it's something I definitely I thought of! (She would be a rabbit ofc)

And that last part IS SO CUUTE !! I need to draw young Roxy with Cassie.....

And to answer your first question: Yes, it takes place in ruin and she would be banged up. But!! I decided not to draw her ruined version because I wanted to show off her design, if that makes sense?? :0 when I do expand on this au, I'll change it in the future which will be PAINFUL :(

Ty for sharing these with me, anon!!

[irishqueen12]

some survivor!anna doodles! including killer meg who messes with her Anna also has the bad habit of not really taking her wounds too seriously, as she's delt with worse and with the idea of coming back after getting killed and whatnot, she's kinda reckless. Anna: "Eh, i'm fine!" (is literally bleeding out)

[fl1ckh34d]

WOOO! More roleswap AU stuff. Wesker and Jill being besties and doing their makeup in the bathroom to flirt with Captain Chris 🤭