#im sorry i didnt involve ben hes just not very involved in the events from Allisons and luthers pov

[mandalhoerian]

ayup it’s the person that sent those vera things like a week ago ?? yk the one that made a fool of themself by rambling about ur oc ! anyways i reread it bc ofc i did and. idk. it’s such an amazing fic like genuinely and i felt a need to express it. like outside of how well-thought vera is and how interesting her dynamics with marvin + leon are (and claire ofc) and just. the pacing and story progression. it’s all so well done. and i’m sure someone has told u this in ur ao3 comments but the way ur reinterpreting canon a lil and having vera shake things up is so fun and genuinely interesting which is why i went back and reread it all. it feels like there’s a lot i kinda missed the first time round with the nuances of vera’s character which was. very fun to go back around and see again. hope ur doing well <3

HI OMG WELCOME BACK IM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU

(you aren't a fool it's my inspiration and motivation juice YOU TAKE THAT BACK🔪)

first of all you are A CHAD. The fic is 100K words oh god I can't imagine -- im happy it was more enjoyable the second time around at least 😭😭😭😭 It's amazing to hear that despite the fat word count, you think the pacing and progression is going well!

Unrelated tidbit but I really didn't know how to introduce Vera before starting the fic and was debating on starting from pre-RE2R in the summer of 1998, spend five chapters and so with Vera assisting Jill in her investigation and unravel things from there. But at the end I was like "literally nobody would read that" and thought what best technique is there by starting right in the middle of action and chaos? And the rest I winged it.

That had to mean I had to go through EVERYTHING about her life and how she got to that point by peppering the events throughout the plot as Leon and her story also progressed alongside it, and I couldn't gloss over anything, so it just expanded and expanded and expanded and I'm sure got boring as hell at places since she hides a bunch of shit from the others and good god do they have to be integrated to the plot of re2r AND UGHHHHHHHH. Thank you for telling me I havent messed up LMAOOOOOOO

About the canon. I have a bone to pick with some of the game and the story, I don't like how they went about a couple of things. This is me trying to lay the groundwork to fix them and everything by tweaking .

For example Leon pulling the "i have to talk to the chief first" bs and saying "Idk what happened it happened to fast" to ada like he was trying to make excuses like a child to his parent really irked me, especially in the original re2 he bent over backwards to get ben out of the cell so he could come along with them. (dont talk to me about how a law-abiding rookie he's supposed to be. that could have been done better. leon simply isn't a person to leave someone like that, and he was hearing about chef irons the writing on that could have been better) And the way Claire and Leon barely interacted when they are the core of re2 together was just not it. The lack of Sherry and Leon together was also weird when Sherry is a big part of why he was taken by the government and stayed, and how Sherry blatantly says he saved her in RE6. (I know they just completely wiped the slate clean off Sherry and Leon with RE4R backstory by just saying Leon just didnt have a choice but like. yeah) and also Ada. God Ada "(to the woman she wants to discreetly capture. since she's A SPY) We're here for the g-virus and i will now proceed to jump in front of the bullets" & "Where's Leon when I need him (has treated him as a nuisance the whole way)" Wong. Im sure there are a lot more things but i cant think of them rn but I am annoyed with Things

SORRY I JUST WENT OFF ON A TANGENT. But like. Having Vera involved and having her existence be a reason on changing things around is so much fun. I could just expand on child experimentation and the truth of the orphanage through her, it was always something wildly bothering me that they kept that plot so subtle in Claire's story. Birkins (or maybe just William. we'll never know) were using children in G-virus experiments WHY DIDNT THEY TALK ABOUT THAT MORE DUDE? That's why canon divergence makes things so much more interesting because it's not just transcribing the game and inserting an OC along the way, it's changing things and making new things up, keeping things fresh

GOD I TALKED SO MUCH SORRY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK!!!!!!

[klaus-4-hargreevess]

AU where Allison and Luther are close in a platonic best friend kind of way growing up

When they're caught in the attic Allison, being number 3 and not feeling like she has to be the responsible one, had coerced Luther to break the rules for once in his life and have some fun (she brought some of her magazines and told him about her celebrity crushes)

He grew to be overprotective of her but in that responsible older brother kind of way, cause lbr thats what he feels he is as number one

When he got hurt and turned into monkey man she was there for him because ppl dont care as much if their best friend see them as a monster and she eventually convinced him to leave the umbrella academy because of it

He was her uhhhh best man of honour at the wedding (listen idk how weddings work) and she made him Claires godfather

Luther got a job as a bodyguard after leaving, and is very very good at it

When dear old daddy dies, Luther suspects Diego and doesn't believe Allisons protests because "he's a vigilante and is exhibiting suspicious behaviour, this is the kind of stuff we learn about on the job trust me it was him" so she calls him an idiot and he pulls the leader card, because the moment he steps back into that house Reggies influence is over him again

She gets mad at him and gets herself involved in Vanyas love life

He does feel bad about it though, and like maybe he should listen to her, but he doesn't want dads ghost to see him being weak because he's still afraid of him, because he hasn't been away from the house for long enough

Both Allison and Vanya have gone through extensive therapy after leaving. Diego went to therapy when he was with Patch to make her happy, Klaus' therapy is his escapism obviously, and Allison tries to force Luther to go but hes too scared, whenever the topic comes up he disappears into his work for a while

(When he resurfaces she calls him an idiot and avoids the topic for a while, cause she misses her best friend whenever it happens)

Instead of looking for the moon correspondence (cause he never went to the moon) Luther looks for anything that could give them a clue on the apocalypse in Reggies files and finds documents of fake/modified missions that he was sent on to keep him busy and on form in preparation for the apocalypse, including the mission that nearly cost him his life, and he has a breakdown over the fact that his fathers lies made him what he is, and that he couldve had a normal life if he'd just left with the others

Allison finds him absolutely broken and takes him up to her room where she puts on their favourite mixtape from childhood and paints his fingernails bright colours "Just like i did with Klaus when we were kids! You know, I caught him stealing my make up once and I was gonna get mad but he looked so embarrassed and ashamed that I just gave him some of the stuff I wasnt using anyway. After that, I painted his nails every time he asked me to"

Allison treating him like a person, like her best friend, teasing him and joking with him cheers him up and by the time she has to leave for her flight he's calm but he still looks very lost so she invites him to come see Claire "The few times I've gotten to speak to her she's always asked about uncle Luther"

When he gets absolutely shitfaced and gets laid and she finds out about it she's beaming because he's worried and cried at her for years that no one will love him because of the way he is

she does also punch him because he didnt tell her earlier, "You were hurt!! I had more important things to think about!"

He does still lock Vanya up but Allison gestures up such an angry storm that he lets her try to open it, only she cant because she's still too weak from the wound

She storms off to her room when he refuses to open it for her, and he doesnt dare follow

When Vanya destroys the academy he cant look at her without getting a furious look of "I told you so, idiot" back

The phone call scene has a couple more insults from Allison to Luther sprinkled into it

He apologizes for not listening to her and being wrong about locking up their sister but he's also spent his entire childhood taking leadership lessons from dad and he's just never gonna learn that listening to her is smarter than listening to what their dad taught them

Bonus:

She hits him on various parts of his head and torso with her notebook when she's annoyed

Luther googles furries when he's drinking his hangover coffee the morning after he got laid

Luther is the first to know about Allison being bi, and he's actually really glad cause it means he gets to talk about girls with his best friend, like all the boys do in the books he reads

(Klaus is the second one to know, and Allison is the first to know about Klaus being pan)

(("I just dont think gender plays into it whatsoever, you know? Even people of the same gender are all completely different"))