#i already knew what was gonna happen at the end of p3 and somehow that made it worse

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I can't think about Persona 3 too hard or else I start crying

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My main persona AUS but literally no one asked

Yes they're all Persona 3 related how did you know-

Strega/SEES roleswap AU

This one is a fairly new one I literally just made it up a few days ago but I already thought of alot for it.

Basically what it says on the box: it's persona 3 but strega are the 'good guys' and SEES were the ones who were experimented on.

In this AU, Itsukui took Minato, Hamuko, Junpei and Yukari to be tested on but only 3 of them escaped. The twins still do have Death inside them, thus why Itsukui was so interested in them. He still hasn't given up on searching for the escaped twin, as he knows they're of importance for Nyx to rise...

Strega, on the other hand, were adopted by Itsukui after he realised that the kids he tested on weren't going to become his willing servants so easily. He searched for kids he knew he had the potential so they can aid him in his plan. And who knew that you didn't have to force kids to awaken and just wait it out, absolute shocker! Strega is completely devoted to their father at first as the year progresses they start questioning everything they were raised to believe...

3rd Semester AU

This AU explores how SEES were effected by Marukis reality, but it mainly focuses on two people..

What happens when Junpei wakes up on New Year's Day and sees that his wife is talking to his old best friend, who shouldn't even exist?

The story only gets werider when he reunites with their old leader and his other best friend who has been dead for 7 years.. Everyone is acting like everything is normal, except for Junpei and he just can't let it go.. After everything that happened, only for it to not matter...

Maybe with the help of a younger persona user who fills him in with everything that he's missed over the past year, he can try and sense of all this.. and maybe for the younger persona user it would be helpful to have an older ally...

Arcana/RoleSwap AU

Obvious title, it's an arcanaswap but I'm still not sure if every character is getting arcanaswapped or if it's just certain characters?

There are 2 versions of this AU to exist:

1. The one where Aigis and Ryoji swap

2. The one where Aigis and Ryoji are the protags

Let's start with the first one. In this version Aigis is Death and Ryoji (going by PHAROS in this) is the robot. The 'official' version has Hamuko as the main protag but she looks a bit different and is a bit edgy in contrast to her canon counterpart.

Second one has Ryoji and Aigis as the protags taking up mc and femc respectively, so they're both human(not sure if they're related in this AU). So that means Minato and Hamuko take up their old roles but I'm still not sure which one takes which role.

ryomina DILF (dad i'd like to friend)!AU

OK, that's not actually the name of the AU, I haven't actually thought of one yet so I've just been jokingly calling it that. This is the main one I've been thinking about. It has a beginning and an end but it's all blank in the middle.

Once again the title is pretty self-explanatory. It's Persona 5 but Ryoji and Minato are Akiras parnets. Important specification: the gap between p3 and p5 is bigger in this AU so SEES are like in their 40s in P5. Sounds really simple right? Somehow you would be wrong..

Yeahhh... this idea spawned from a completely different thing and somehow devolved into a Royal New Game+ but the first game didn't actually finish (thank a certain false god for that..) and it somehow resolves itself in the end..

Is this AU completely self-indulgent and technically my comfort AU? Yes absolutely.

There's also a LOT of angst and people being edgy, so be warned..

That's all folks, (unless I think of another one then I'll update it...)

Also feel free to ask about them cause i just want to talk to someone about them. I feel like im gonna explode if i just keep them inside lol!

[vro0m]

vro0m’s rewatch - 50/288

2009 Japanese GP

Recap + GIFs

Things are getting serious : Jenson could win the WDC here, and Brawn the WCC.

Unrelated but Alonso is leaving Renault for Ferrari?! That’s a pairing I don’t wanna have to deal with. And it means Raikkonen might go to McLaren? Ew.

Quali report : Friday practice happened under the rain so the drivers only had 1 hour of dry practice before quali so their cars weren’t really ready for that. Webber crashed in practice and couldn’t take part in quali at all. Buemi went out in the same place, and Kovalainen saved himself after spinning, but then did get into the barriers later on. Glock had a big one and suffered cuts and bruises to a leg to the point he won’t be able to race, because he has stitches. Then in Q2, Buemi touched the wall and left debris on the track. Yellow flags were waved but many cars didn’t slow down because they hadn’t set a fast lap yet. So Jenson, Barrichello, Sutil and Alonso all received 5 place grid penalties. Of course, because he’s a liar, Alonso claims he did slow down, which isn’t true as clearly showed by his onboards. Also because of the order in which the penalties were applied, not everbody was affected in the same way. And Buemi received a penalty himself for continuing to drive with a damaged car. Anyway, all of that was so complicated to sort out, nobody knew the actual grid order until they got to the track that Sunday.

Lewis is 3rd! Trulli is 2nd. It’s Seb on pole, who’s been really fast all weekend, even though he carries more fuel than Trulli.

Formation lap.

And they’re racing!

Lewis takes 2nd place right away! It’s a clean start. He’s way slower than Seb though, that RedBull pace is unbelievable. 10 laps in, the gap is already 4.8 seconds, there’s no catching him I think. Then Seb pits, and he’s still in the lead, while Lewis is 3rd after his stop. Nico is in-between them. We’re now 20 laps in.

Nico pits, and that means Lewis is back in 2nd, 4.5 seconds behind Seb. McLaren tells Lewis he needs a 3 seconds gap to Trulli to make it, it’s currently 2.5 and they’re on the same pace.

Damn this is a boring one lol. And by that I mean nothing is happening anywhere, not only where I care. 30 laps in, nothing has changed : Seb, Lewis 5.5 behind, Trulli 2.7 behind.

40 laps in, Trulli has pitted and managed to come out in front of Lewis so there’s that. Yeah. He’s now far faster than him so I guess that’s it. McLaren is saying he seems to have a gearbox problem.

10 laps to go, Alguersuari crashes. Safety Car... He says on the radio he’s fine. As it stands, it seems neither the WDC nor the WCC are gonna be settled here after all. Ah, on the radio, we hear Lewis’ KERS has an issue, which was already the case back in Singapore. Somehow Alguersuari is still taken away on a stretcher? But we’ve seen him get out of his car by himself, and he seems okay. McLaren is trying to fix the KERS problem during the Safety Car but it seems Lewis is getting worried about it and there’s 5 laps to go... Safety Car in!

Lewis is struggling. Wait, was he 4th this whole time?! No, never mind, someone must have pitted or something, he is 3rd. Raikkonen is behind him. He was setting fastest laps before the Safety Car so it’s worrying. 3 laps to go, come one. 2. 1.

And it’s the end of the race!

Seb wins, Trulli P2, Lewis kept his P3!

Lol, Lewis and Seb joking on the podium during the anthems.

Lewis agrees it was a great race, he tried to overtake both Seb and Trulli at the start but couldn’t make it and then it was a good battle with Trulli. And then he had these issues with KERS, and once he overtook him and was in front, it was impossible to keep up with him. Seb is very giddy and says he enjoyed himself very much on this track.

Jenson sounds a bit bitter about losing a point to Nico after the Safety Car. So I don’t understand what happened with that Safety Car but Nico might get a penalty and if he does, the WCC goes to Brawn. Ah, basically they now have that whole delta thing which shows them the speed they’re supposed to get down to when the Safety Car comes out and Jenson claims Nico didn’t make it.

And that’s when we get that video : Jake says “But after a season when Brawn didn’t even exist and then they arrived in Formula 1 and they won races and RedBull came back at them, do you really want all that emotion, all that excitement, all that racing brilliance to be decided in a stewards room after a race like this– it just doesn’t feel right, David.“ And David Coulthard answers : “Well, of course you’d prefer to see it on track but the reality is : a Grand Prix is part of all of these factors put together, and the Safety Car rules are there for the safety of the drivers, the marshals, and they have to be abided by.”

Btw, I checked up, in the end Nico didn’t get a penalty.

Later on, we hear from Lewis again. He’s happy to be on the podium, at least he didn’t step backwards. It was a tough weekend, the RedBulls, especially, were extremely fast.

HAHAHA that’s so funny! In the press conference, Seb kept using the word “nevertheless” and now Lewis says “nevertheless I think we did a great job as a team”. I never heard him say that before, he clearly just picked it up from Seb earlier.

Anyway, he says third is good points for them and also a good result for his first time in Suzuka. He looks forward to coming back next year with a much faster car though. He confirms he lost KERS and then had a gearbox problem while getting out of the pits (his car got in neutral) which probably cost him that little time that allowed Trulli to pass him but he shrugs it off : it was close anyway, and a great race with him. He had fun.

And yep, Lee McKenzie congratualtes him for his 50th GP which allows me to check that I counted correctly lol. He says it’s weird and he feels old. Oh baby Lewis. I have to watch over 5 times that to cover your entire career, now. If only you knew.

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Ninjago/Avatar (NinjAvatar?) au P3

What I have worked out of Koko’s backstory, and maybe an angsty awkward family reunion

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5)

So how did a nonbender from the Earth Kingdom wind up in the Southern Water Tribe you ask? Hold your ostrich horses, I’m getting there! Koko was born on Kyoshi Island (I’m not gonna try and come up with a Ninjago equivalent of Kyoshi bc she is a Queen and I love her. Probably would have realized I liked girls a lot sooner if my parents had let me watch A:TLA when it was airing tbh.) Her dad was a scholar from the Academy in Ba Sing Se (can’t remember if it had a fancy name or not) who was writing a paper on Avatar Kyoshi, and her mom was the leader of the Kyoshi’s Warriors at the time. They fell in love, got married, had Koko, and were happy for a few years!

And then they got sick and died (debated whether I wanted to give Koko two moms for a long time, but I don’t have the energy to come up with two oc’s, and I wasn’t about to bury any gays)

Koko trained with the Kyoshi Warriors for a few years (idk how old they are when they start, but lets just say young enough for Koko to become a very skilled warrior at a very young age) but she was always drawn to her fathers old text...scrolls?(pretty sure that they only have scrolls and not books in the A”TLA world. If I say books at all in this, I mean scrolls btw) fascinated by the history of the world. She wanted to be able to go to the same Academy her father did, but there was one problem: money.

So Koko set out into the world, looking for work so she could raise money and putting her training to the test. She mostly took security and guarding type work, and took every opportunity to read new scrolls and learn more about history. And then she took a job helping to take relief supplies to the Southern Water Tribe after a Fire Nation raid (that probably never happened in the show, but I Do What I Want).

Seeing what they were going through, seeing how defeated and broken the people in the Southern Water Tribe were, really shook Koko. Kyoshi’s Island had never been involved in the war, and she had always taken jobs that avoid going near any active war zones, so this was the first time she had actually seen just how bad it was. That was when she met Maya, who had just lost her mother in the latest raid. Her father had passed when she was a baby.

Koko decided that these people needed help more than she needed to go to the Academy, so she decided to put her plans on hold and asked the chief how she could help them, free of charge. She stayed in the village for a little while, helping them rebuild. Maya let Koko stay with her, and the two became close friends. When Koko learned that Maya was a waterbender, she made it a personal mission to help Maya become a great waterbender. There were no experienced waterbenders left in the tribe, and practicing was risky (they never knew if a raid was going to happen or if the Fire Nation was watching them).

Koko taught Maya how to fight like a Kyoshi Warrior, and she had read a few things about waterbending out of curiosity, so Maya has her own weird self-taught waterbending style. That may or may not become a plot point later.

Everything with Ray and Garm happens, and Koko lets go of her dreams of the Academy and settles down with her family. She frequently left the South Pole for short trips, mostly for to get different supplies to make things easier on the tribe, occasionally she finds toys or games she can bring back for the kids in the tribe to enjoy, and she’s always on the lookout for new scrolls (yes, she has found some waterbending scrolls. Like, two or three. Yes, she stole all of them. She was just returning them to where they belong after all)

I am debating on whether or not to have Lloyd find his animal companion bc one of the cool things that Koko brought back was a dragon egg. She didn’t know it was a real dragon egg when she found it. It hatched when Lloyd touched it, and the baby dragon immediately bonded with Lloyd (yes, it’s Ultra). I might might come up with a different way Lloyd and Ultra meet, but I like having it be fairly early on in Lloyd’s life bc its cute and having a flying companion animal early on makes it so much easier to keep things consistent with the plot beats I wanna hit from both shows. Maya waterbends a series of hidden tunnels in the snow for Ultra to hide in whenever the Fire Nation shows up. (the whole tribe knows about Ultra and love him, as long as he keeps his fire breathing under control) 

When she and Garm figured out that Lloyd is the Avatar, (after they stopped panicking of course) they decided not to try and keep it from Lloyd until he was older (preferably not until he was like, 15 or 16). They told Ray and Maya and the chief so that way they had some people to lean on and help cover for Lloyd and keep his secret, and keep him from bending anything but water (didn’t stop him from messing with airbending in secret. He was never told about the Avatar, so he doesn’t make the connection. He just thinks its cool as heck, and then he and Kai and Nya each had their own element to use!). After a lot of discussion and worrying, Koko set out to try and learn everything she could about the Avatar.

And now back to the confrontation at the South Pole! Lloyd and Nya get back from setting off the flare (Nya wanted to see if she could find something in the ship to re-purpose and use in the village, and Lloyd was bored so he tagged along) and run right into an angry Maya and Garm. The kids are saved from a scolding however by a rapidly approaching Fire Nation ship. There isn’t enough time to get into one of the tunnels with Ultra, so Garm drags Lloyd and Nya (who’s covered in oil from the old ship) over to the wall away from where the ship is coming in and Maya waterbends them a little hidden room to hide in. (There is a peephole thing for them to see whats happening.)

The Fire Nation ship makes its dramatic entrance, destroying the wall and all that. Kai tries to charge Morro with a spear, but Maya catches him and holds him back before taking the lead in talking to Morro. Don’t ask me why Sorrla, the chief, doesn’t do it. Wu is there, but he’s just hanging out in the background a bit. Garm doesn’t notice his brother, partly bc he’s too far away, partly bc he’s focused on Maya, Kai, and Morro. Morro ends up saying that he’s in search of the Avatar, but decided to check out the Southern Water Tribe when he saw the flare.

Maya is internally panicking bc ‘this can’t be a coincidence, he must know something somehow’ but plays it cool. Kai wonders outloud what the Avatar is, which made Morro a bit suspicious bc how could someone not have heard the stories of the Avatar, and decides to threaten to burn the village down to see if Maya was bluffing about not knowing anything. Maya starts internally panicking more, bc burning down the village will not only, y’know, burn down the village, but it could very well reveal not only the Avatar, but his father, the ‘dead’ Fire Nation Prince as well. So Maya makes a tough choice.

When the firebenders in the crew get ready to burn the village down, (and Wu tries to covertly get Morro to, y’know, not burn the village down) Maya uses her waterbending to douse the guards flames, before turning herself over in trade for leaving the rest of her tribe alone. Garm has to hold Nya back, and another water tribe boy named Lar grabs Kai to hold him back as Maya is brought onto the ship in chains. As soon as the ship is far enough away, and they’re no longer being held back, Kai and Nya are pissed. They both yell at Garm for letting their mother get taken by the Fire Nation bc no-one comes back from the Fire Nation, until Garm tells them ‘we’re going to rescue her, and then we’re going to have an important conversation. Lloyd get your dragon.’

So a rescue scene happens. Maya gets free on the ship thanks to her training from Koko (and Garm and Ray taught the both of them about Fire Nation combat training), and then Kai, Nya, Lloyd, and Garm show up on Ultra. Lloyd and Nya both use their limited knowledge of waterbending to fight. Garm keeps his face covered and his hood up to hide his identity, and doesn’t use his firebending at all when they’re fighting on the ship. Kai doesn’t use his firebending either, but he does end up punching Morro if the face. Garm gets distracted and almost takes a nasty hit when he finally recognizes Wu, who’s mostly hanging back from the fight, and only stepping in to deflect something coming his way, or to subtly help Morro.

They get on Ultra and start to fly away, but Lloyd airbends to shatter a glacier to help cover them and deflect some projectiles coming at them, revealing that yes, he is the Avatar, and uncovering Garms face on accident. So now Wu knows that his brother is alive and is with the Avatar, who is a thirteen-year-old child.

As they fly off on Ultra, Garm and Maya tell the kids everything. They already knew that Ray was from the Fire Nation (when Kai started firebending they told the kids just enough to satisfy their curiosity and confusion), but now they tell them about how Ray and Garm wound up in the South Pole, why Koko’s been gone so long, and why they waited so long to tell them any of this. The kids are stunned, mb a little mad at first but they understand why these secrets had to be kept for so long, and Lloyd is scared. He just got blind-sided by a huge destiny and burden, and it’s terrifying.

After the talk, they set a course towards the North Pole. Even though Maya can teach Lloyd her own style of waterbending, she thinks it might be a good idea to have the Avatar learn some traditional waterbending, and the Northern Water Tribe is much more fortified and would be the safest place for him to learn, regardless of who teaches him. And so the journey begins...