#dgs swap au

[b6b6b]

hey wouldnt it be funny if........ (WHERE DID HIS JOYOUS WHIMSY GO. WHAT DID I DO)

the moment i saw someone draw this idea one year ago i knew im gonna be crazy about it and well here i am

[tero-ga]

Eyyyy SwapAU enthusiast, missed me? I finally finished Gina's design from like, late July?

I used some references of the earliest history pictures of police woman in Britain for her outfit. I kept something from her original design like the buttons of her hat and pattern of her scarf, speaking of her scarf Idk why i chose that for her but it's just felt right (and I still think that shbsjsb). For her hair, in her original design her braided bun reminded me of mochi donut and keep thinking of desert during the process, so i made it to look like swiss roll as shout-out to Gumshoe hehe.

Anyway a doodle of her and Gregson (I've been wanting to make this meme for a long time lmaoo-)

Concepts for her design!!

[aaroleswapau]

Have you anything swap related for TGAA?

you know anon, since i haven't finished the duology and i don't know enough about each of the whole cast to actually assign everybody their so-called "opposite": not really pftt

however! a long time ago, i do remember someone in a server asking how i'd tackle something like that and my very silly answer is that iris and herrlock swap and she's like, i dunno, detective conan-ing it solving mysteries DFGHD

oh and ryuu-susato swap because i thought it'd be REALLY funny if case 2 was like "OOPS! ALL DISGUISES!" LOL

[cubedmango]

brainstorming

[unluckedtj]

i’ve had an au in mind for a while (quite literally came to me in a dream????), something like a swap au but not quite as your usual tgaa swap au. an au where barok van zieks and herlock sholmes are sent from britain to japan, at the age of 23 and 24 respectively

“ticket swap” au i like to call it

of course, this isn’t just ‘back in time’, there are many things jumbled around such as occupations and ages. and none of this is solid! i’m putting down the ideas i’ve had, and this can very well change overtime.

and of course, a lot of this is going to be me info dumping about this very self indulgent vanlock partners(?) focused au, side of mostly susarei but also asoryuu

ahem! tgaa:tsau cast!

below the line, that is

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herlock sholmes, (25) who wanted to research in forensic science, follows yujin to his nation to do just that (and preferably solve crime, too)

barok van zieks, (24) who applies to go to japan in hopes of learning more about the laws of other nations (and perhaps, something else) aiming to be a prosecutor like his brother

ryunosuke naruhodo, (33) a writer who had recently gotten into researching true crime. it scares him but he can’t help but think there is something about these crimes that are calling him. isn’t really thinking too much about looking into law (but something might change that…) close friends with kazuma asogi

rei membami, (26) yujin mikotoba’s long time forensics assistant that is working towards becoming a doctor herself. decided to help ryunosuke in his research hobby. (she seems to be interested in this man she sees in the hallways of imperial yumei university while on her way to dr mikotoba’s laboratory) close friends with susato mikotoba

kazuma asogi, (34) a well known prosecutor in japan, it is unknown what changed his decision from becoming a defense lawyer. despite being famous among people in law, there is not much known about him. close friends with ryunosuke naruhodo

susato mikotoba, (26) kazuma asogi’s famed judicial assistant (and as sholmes soon learns, sister). she seems to be taking law classes in yumei university under an alias. a bit of a sholmes fan. close friends with rei membami

yujin mikotoba, (52) sholmes’ friend and partner in (solving) crime of course, but also a mentor, and now that sholmes recently learned, a foster father to kazuma asogi and father of susato mikotoba

genshin asogi, (??) family friend of the van zieks, and relative of the renowned prosecutor asogi. he has gone missing

klint van zieks, (35) well known prosecutor in britain. happily married and has one daughter he loves so dearly, to the point of being a little bit of a helicopter parent in the recent years, but barok can’t quite figure out why. he has kept his daughter a secret from everyone apart from family

iris (wilson?) van zieks, (8) how in the world did she end up in japan?! (i’ll give you the answer; through sholmes’s suitcase, which she mistook for barok’s. there were shenanigans), her parents are in a panic looking for her (barok will get to them asap)

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i just really wanted something where it’s similar to tgaa 1-1 but younger vanlock without their life altering events (klints death for van zieks and iris adoption for sholmes)

and also just the thought of it and how it would play out; van zieks isn’t even a defense lawyer but was preparing to defend the guy he barely knew on the steamship (who had his niece in his suitcase) that he firmly believes did not commit this murder, but sholmes found out what was at stake (aka van zieks being sent back home for a couple more years if he fails this) and was like “nuh uh i got this im herlock sholmes after all” (he does not got this) (i lied he clutched like he always does)

this is superrrrr self indulgent so i don’t expect this to be perfectly aligned with canon, but i kinda just wanna see if anyone could give me more ideas because i currently cannnnnot talk to my friends about this due to massive spoilers 😔

maybe next time i’ll go more in depth on the group dynamics (specifically ryunosuke, rei, herlock, iris, and barok)

[drawer-ghost]

Ahahaha! I am glad you gave me permission!! Then allow me to introduce you to our lovely Darkners protagonists of WARPEDSUN!!

(p.s. Love your art and you are a huge inspiration to me)

Hello! I have a question, can I post here the drawings I made using your old ideas of a Swap Deltarune AU? (I can take it down if you want it)

oh man I'd forgotten about that post entirely ahah

yeah feel free! those ideas of mine became outdated the moment chapter 2 released and I don't have any plans to revisit or update them myself, so you're more than welcome to them :]

(also I would like to see 👀)

[proxylynn]

Imagine.. an AU where DG and Damon love triangle with MC

[I have one better. Swap!AU...Flip everyone around!]

(art by creator BlasticHeart)

[meowkusunoki]

things to draw

map of the dlgr prison

my sona in the milgramblr dating sim

the dg personality swap au

[n8ptune]

how did you learn to mimic the DG artstyle so well???? Your art is so good I genuinely thought ur fan games were leaks for the fourth one!

Thank you so much !! My fanarts being thought to be leaks is probably the best thing someone ever said about them lol And it's practice really- Studying the characters, drawing them all in that swap AU, seeing how the other amazing artists from this fandom do it, drawing their characters, and then making mine Basically drawing various shapes and characters to see how much I can push the artstyle ( although I feel I haven't pushed it enough with some of my characters- )

Also, I try to never use a color that's not already been used in Tangle Tower. Easiest way to get the vibe right when mimicking an artstyle (but also I'm just generally bad at choosing colors lol- )

Oh and, saying it just in case, as much as I would love to make one : not a fangame, just fanarts

[deliscandystore]

*microwave noises*

HELLO dgs enjoyers. Hoo boy do I have an au for you.

What if we swapped some of the characters' roles and personalities around? Just for fun? It's my swap au, aka itty bitty nervous protagonist Barok and older not evil prosecutor Ryunosuke (I took 10 years off Zieks and gave them to Ryu, just for the personalities to fit).

The plot has most of its features switched around, like Barok goes to Japan instead of instead of Ryunosuke going to Britain, but obviously there will be some hiccups due to the whole "we're only in Japan for like. 2 cases" thing. So far, here are the swaps I've decided on.

Ryunosuke <--> Barok

Susato <--> Iris

Sholmes <--> Mikotoba

Kazuma <--> Klint

Jezaille <--> McGilded

Menimemo <--> Ashley

I don't plan on swapping everything about the characters (I feel like it'd just be more fun to work around only swapping about an equal half of each character around, but that varies)

Everything isn't figured out yet, and I still need to make some designs, but I would love to elaborate more on this au if anyone's interested!

[b6b6b]

here's a kazuya nuri style imitation thing... im very normal about swap aus (something devilish possessed me)

used that one artbook drawing as a reference

[tero-ga]

Benbaro fanarts have a trope where Barok is standing there and looking edgy, dark, mysterious, and so menacingly. While in front of him there is Albert looking so friendly and always be the rays of sunshine. So I also made the opposites of the role for my AU Barok and Albert lol

plus I missed them a whole lot-

Anyways, sorry for lack of arts as of late. I have projects going on that took a lot of time plus doing commissions so I don't really have time to draw fanart and such, I hope I can get back to draw fanarts again because I missed it a lot.

[bksnie]

susahao but what if they were stuck in the 90s-early 2000s. asougi orders the biggest most expensive parfait on the menu for them and he meant to pay for their bill. but he left his wallet at home so susato and haori need to foot the bill because they don’t do refunds. also asougi is working like 7 jobs to pay for law school so he’s always at the spots susahao are at for their dates but he doesn’t do it on purpose

[cubedmango]

Aa/dgs swap AU has so much space for shenanigans.

Phoenix trying very hard not to fuck up time.

And then there his grandpa is. Taking notes with the express purpose of fucking up time to give his friends nice things.

Or Phoenix, casually surviving things that he shouldn't and making people think he's actually what his namesake implies.

(The possibilities... The chance that they take whatever they're holding back with them... Grandpa starts carrying around several notebooks everywhere... Phoenix being concerned with the timeline while sir government conspiracy revealer casually plays god with what he can learn...

;D

So much can happen, no matter how long it takes to send them back.)

akajdjfnsj love the concept of phoenix in the past trying to be all careful and not fucking up the timeline while ryuus in modern times going crazy w those govt conspiracies and souvenirs from the future bc its not gonna affect him once hes back in his own time

also wait omg phoenixs weird as hell resistance to any physical damage i almost forgor.... that would be so funny w the dgs crew like maybe sherlock and iris try fixing up the time machine thingy to send him back and while it doesnt work and also explodes phoenix just walks out the smoke completely unharmed going all "?????" and then he becomes their v unwilling test subject for everything while hes there-

[unluckedtj]

I apologize for putting you on the spot a bit ago with my Ticket Swap questions. It's just rather fascinating, partly because I can't say I know of many AUs where Barok is, for all intents and purposes, swapped and therefore a member of the defense counsel. Though since it seems the dynamics have shifted, I can't help but imagine Kazuma is in the role of "very grumpy and very angry Prosecutor with a deceased relative" we saw with Canon! Barok and Revived Kazuma, so..

thank you for asking once again, anon! and don’t worry, i know this isn’t a very common thing in tgaa aus, but im glad you find this interesting enough to ask about it 😁😁

yes, that’s true, i kind of wanted something similar to what barok and kazuma’s mentor-mentee dynamic in canon but less vengeance oriented, and more like a puppy following a person around.

at first, kazuma does not know who barok van zieks is apart from a very vague description of him, he’s not necessarily important to him but the family name is. meanwhile barok, seeing kazuma at work as a prosecutor, knew that this is what he was looking for to when he chose to go to japan to study. so he bugs kazuma (formally and politely) to the point where kazuma does accept him as an apprentice after a handful of run ins with him on difficult cases.

of course, this also unlocks potential for him to get to know susato in this au, and connects back to herlock/ryunosuke/rei/iris team regularly, due to iris and now susato (and unknowingly, kazuma. he won’t know for a while that he’s friends with ryunosuke, let alone that the ryunosuke that kazuma speaks of is the same one who sholmes is working with)

kazuma isn’t necessarily grumpy here, like van zieks in canon appeared to be. he appears quite calm and stern at first, before delving deeper into his character and more and more like canon kazuma’s willpower and determination… minus the whole vengeance thing (well. less vengeance, for now. i haven’t quite figured it all out yet, but i still think vengeance is something important to his character growth, so i’m trying to find a good way to make sure it flows smoothly while keeping him in character)

their character dynamic is something i find quite interesting in this au, and will parallel their canon a lot! (in my head at least… still don’t know how much of this i plan on drawing/writing) so having those two AND susato interacting regularly will definitely open some doors for me to explore

please feel free to ask more, or even give some ideas! i would love to ramble about this au more!!

[cookieswithay]

Finally a picture of a princess Peridot and Asparagus! As usual this took forever. Full page pic coming soon!