#lupato: kamen rider au

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More headcanons for the LuPato Kamen Rider AU (I have so many LuPato ideas...)

First part is here

A while back I got an ask for the AU fic meme I reblogged (I’m still trying to get around to the requests) so I’ll incorporate it here

Keiichiro resigned as a cop after becoming Kamen Rider Lupin and, to keep up an alibi, became...a florist

He canonically cannot cook, Kogure is smart enough to know that letting Keiichiro serve burned fish to customers is not a good idea

I want a “main base” that isn’t in relation to food

Most of his customers consist of admirers, primarily high school girls and young women. I mean...look at him? Really, look at him

He decides to do his best as a florist. It gets to the point where sometimes, he dashes away after the battle is over because he had to do a delivery. He could just leave it to Kogure but he doesn’t like going slack on the job, even if it’s a lie

Keiichiro wears a white suit as his heist outfit, and characters point out that he doesn’t need a suit in order to reveal himself because he yells at the Gangler

But in Kaito Kid fashion, there’s some good in having a white suit because officers would be focused on finding a figure clad in white while Keiichiro makes his get away in black

Keiichiro remains straight laced as a phantom thief - meaning that 1) he won’t spontaneously break windows to have a grand entrance, a door exists for a reason + he’ll just wait until the place closes 2) he’ll make sure the area is clear of civilians before doing anything 3) no flashy movements and 4) the public thinks he’s a “boring” phantom thief but love him all the same

Keiichiro actually dislikes it when Kamen Rider Lupin becomes popular

Ganglers defeated by Patrol aka Kairi have their Collection Pieces become badges

Kairi gradually learns what it means to be a police officer and what true responsibility is. I think he’d also learn that while Shori was more successful than Kairi was in personality, looks, friends and talent, he had his own share of struggles. Of course, Kairi knew that Shori probably loved him more than anyone in the world, but bitterness can cloud the truth at the most unfortunate moments

The same applies to Touma and Umika

Touma would likely be an effective instructor who keeps cadets calm. He might even receive a promotion at some point

It’s possible that while Umika realizes the importance of having authoritative figures in life, being a police officer might not be her life long passion. In contrast to Kairi, who’d probably continue his career because it filled in the gap where basketball was, Umika might even return to fashion school at the end

Uniform wise

Kairi keeps his jacket completely open. He only zips it up when he chickens out - and that doesn’t happen often

Touma has the tidiest uniform. Some wonder if he just pops himself into a dry cleaning machine and goes to work straight afterwards

Umika goes between wearing tights and not wearing them with her shorts. Sometimes she might even go for the trousers

Protecting civilians outweighs gathering the Collection, even if they’re power ups that would be useful to Keiichiro. I think this, along with the whole theme of his Kamen Rider persona, would serve as a ‘moral dilemma’ for Keiichiro

Similarly to SSSB, Keiichiro would have to learn that some things like world peace can’t be achieved instantly with a wish bestowed by the Collection. Everyone, even if they’re not police officers, is working towards making society a better place

Unlike the C&C AU and the Inversion AU (the latter already has Satoru) where the wish is granted with no repercussions, here the wish maker exchanges their life for the wish to come true. Basically - make a wish, you die

I suppose this is the AU where the main cast can’t revive their loved ones at all. There is the argument that Keiichiro and the others are willing to be selfless, but would that truly be called selflessness, knowing that bringing back someone will simply pass the pain onto them, and the cycle repeats?

In contrast to the inversion AU, where the characters struggle with guilt and moving on + they are actually able to revive their loved ones, this AU would have the characters learning to truly move on and that the people they care for will remain in their hearts

In this AU, Noel isn’t just a non-human - he’s a Gangler

Basically I’m going through with the original headcanon I had for him (and this is actually a one-shot I’m writing...but I’ll elaborate what I had in mind)

Noel was originally a Poderman who was turned into a Gangler by Gauche as part of her experiments. But before she could give him a locker, he escaped the Gangler dimension to reach Earth, where Arsene found him in the 1900s while on a visit to Japan. Arsene took him back to France, giving him a name and teaching him how to modify the Collection as a way of bonding with Noel

This is also why Gauche is determined to take Noel with her

Arsene spent several years gathering the Collection, and at one point brought home the son of his lover, who was killed by a Gangler in retaliation for Arsene constantly going between dimensions and stealing the Collection pieces

Arsene made a wish with the gathered Collection to make Noel human, but doing so left him with little time to live. In exchange for granting him the chance to be ‘normal’, Noel vowed to serve the Lupin family. Arsene died after a couple of months

Noel ended up serving several generations of the Lupin family and was basically considered as family. It was through one of the Lupins using the binoculars Collection Piece that Noel discovered the wish couldn’t conceal his true origins as a Gangler. Kogure also joined the service of the Lupin family several decades before the series

What motivates Noel to gather the Collection - and therefore assist Keiichiro - is to revive the last heir of the Lupin family who was killed on the night Dogranio attacked the estate in about 2015

This may mean that while Noel did develop his identity as someone who served the Lupins, he now needs to start a new life without them

I’d elaborate on the relationship between Kogure and Noel more in this case because

Noel is actually hundreds of years old but he looks much younger than Kogure who’s about seventy or so. Cue the age jokes and Kogure being the one scolding Noel at times when it should be the other way around

This low key sounds like something from My Lover From Another Star

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Kamen Rider Build Ideas

I've been wanting to contribute to this fandom as soon as I could especially since Build is almost ending. So here's some ideas: - What if: Lock/Key themed Cross-Z and Phoenix themed Grease - AU where the Prime Ministers are the Kamen Riders. - I know it's impossible for canon at this point but if Build and Lupato ever had a crossover, how and when would you have wanted it to happen? - What if Evolt and Don Armage (from Kyuranger) are from the same species and Evolt kills planets to absorb their planetium - I heard that Misora's rabbit plushie is also a bag in real life. I would've like to have seen Misora (or any other character) use the plushie as a bag at least once (like maybe for smuggling fullbottles or some other plot important stuff) That's all I got for now. What do you think? I hope someone in the Build fandom gets inspired by these ideas.

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Here’s a playlist for you… Lupato vs Build Daemon AU by Alex Kamen Rider Phoenix

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/367hRSaZjZlYUoD7AOKyie?si=Xlp-AQp4TxqD02LE8tRtTg

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Kamen Rider Lupin AU - naming and ships

Snapping of the Flower Stem -> a possible title for this series

An obvious reference to Keiichiro’s new occupation as a florist aka his alibi

Keiichiro had to break away from his straight-laced path in order to counter the Gangler, and the fact that Kamen Rider Patrol exists infuriates him as it did in the original series episode 6

Kairi doesn’t take the responsibility as seriously as Keiichiro would like

Kamen Rider Patrol is, by default, a symbol of justice and Keiichiro wants to gain world peace through that kind of authority - but he had to become a thief. He’d probably get wary of Kogure from that point on

And in a way his hunch is right with the true nature of the Collection’s wish

Though Keiichiro/Tsukasa and Kairi/Umika is endgame, more ships will probably be teased at

Touma ships are an example of this since Aya is permanently dead in this universe (but I won’t have him reciprocating someone’s affections because he’s still in love with her)

I’d rather not go down the route of “someone sacrifices their life to bring back all of the Gangler’s victims” because

Canon - the Lupinrangers were stuck in the locker for one year

Inversion AU - similarly played to canon except it involves the loved ones being trapped in the locker

C&C AU - the people not used as disguises are brought back without any losses on the LuPato crew’s end + the Ganglers are destroyed forever

But it...could be a possible route. Idk, it depends on how willing I am to kill off a character (probably Keiichiro)

At some point Umika did have a crush on Keiichiro because of his reported heroics in the police department + she’s met him several times off the job but she gets over it

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Kamen Rider Lupin - a Rider based off the motif of a phantom thief who is ironically wielded by Keiichiro, a former policeman who insists that he’s not stealing Collection Pieces (which get turned into cards once he defeats a Gangler) but reclaiming them and putting them to use under proper authority. After losing Satoru to a Gangler and left with no other method to stop the Gangler, he chose to become a Kamen Rider. But he doesn’t like how ironic the situation is + the dishonesty of it all and so handed in his resignation. He uses cards as his henshin trinket and it’s a homage to the card trend started by Ryuki

Sakuya and Tsukasa were unaware of Keiichiro’s activities but Tsukasa quickly pieced together that Keiichiro is Lupin (”at least wear a voice distorter”) and decides to help him out. Sakuya obviously jumps in too.

Kamen Rider Patrol - a Rider based off the motif of law enforcement ironically wielded by Kairi, a former delinquent who likes to nab Collection Pieces off Keiichiro. Maybe not so ironic since he’s a police officer in training, but you get the gist of it. While lenient about carrying justice (well, in comparison to Keiichiro), he’s got potential as a hero either way. He became a police officer to find a better way to avenge his brother. He uses badges as his henshin trinket.

He also has a “support team” in the form of Touma and Umika, who help give him an alibi + conceal his activities

Keiichiro has moved on from losing his best friend; Kairi is still in the process of denial/grieving.

There is just Too Much Irony about the entire situation, making the Lupin-Patrol encounters all the more funnier

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Horobi used to be a museum guide Humagear, hence the katana, and his first forgotten meeting with Jin was when the boy was ten, on a school trip and the kind of kid who'd say he wants to be a dinosaur when he grows up, albeit replace dinosaur with Humagear. Guess what happened after that

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In humagear dad and human son AU, is Horobi plan to upload Jin's mind into a humagear body once humanity is perish?

Probably not. Horobi is aware of human longevity, but doing something like that would be the last thing on his mind. Acknowledging that Jin may not last long would link into that complicated mess of how Horobi doesn’t want to associate himself to human concepts of i.e. parent and child relationships, yet he uses them as if trying to give them a new definition (the interview says it better than I would), if that makes sense

But the reason why I wouldn’t go for that option in this AU (though others are welcome to pursue it!) is that someone questioning Horobi what would happen to Jin if humanity was to go extinct is what triggers Horobi to eventually turn to heroism because

He considers Jin as a Humagear ally, so he doesn’t think about him being human. He’s the only (twisted) exception to this though, since I think Horobi would eliminate other humans who sympathize with his goals

He just assumes that Jin is strong enough to fight. Even if he steps in at times when Jin is helpless, he still keeps a barrier of sorts between them - that, or he tries not to think about his bond to Jin. But then he gets provoked into actually thinking about the outcome of human extinction - the dangers it imposes on Jin, how it may shorten his lifespan, would eliminating humanity even be worth it if it destroys someone he does care for as a son but might not openly admit until the end, how Horobi’s Singularity might’ve been triggered by the desire to have a family and he ended up forgetting about that as time passed on, etc.

Maybe in the past, Horobi did consider uploading Jin onto a Humagear. But even if surgery is easier in the fictional world, there’s no doubt that the procedure may hurt Jin in some way, so it doesn’t sit well with Horobi and he winds up discarding the idea

Not to mention that doing this may also hold the implication that he cares for Jin, which he doesn’t want to admit

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With Sentai I can say with absolute certainty that LuPato is my favourite. But with Kamen Rider...I don’t have an explicit favourite?

I started out this blog loving Build like a maniac in 2018. Flash forward to 2020, I can’t remember specific details about the characters and scenarios, and sometimes I even ask myself why I liked it that much

I can say with zero hesitation that I think OOO is the best written Neo-Heisei series, I think about a specific soundtrack whenever I’m trying to get in the mood for sadness, and Ankh’s demise made me cry three times. But I don’t feel passionate about it as other fans do

W is a nicely packed set and Shotarou is in the top five rankings for my favourite Kamen Rider list. And yet it doesn’t spur me into coming up with a bunch of AUs and headcanons

Fourze has my #1 Rider character, it’s very cute and wholesome - and once again, a solid series. It could just be me wanting a spice of angst to flourish and linger, and Fourze isn’t exactly the type of series to do that

Kiva is the first Kamen Rider I finished and maybe the three years that passed since then explains why I don’t talk about it unless prompted (I do, however, remember being obsessed with the lore of the 13 Demon Races and the biology of Fangires)

Wizard is the first Kamen Rider I got exposed to and the one I call my first love. First love holds true because despite being fond of it, I’ve moved onto other series

Currently I adore Zero One but I often wonder if two years down the line, my passion has all but died or I’m the fan sitting in the corner and seeing posts where some people say “actually, Zero One isn’t that bad”

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Green and pink ;)

This came about a year ago and I still haven’t finished what I have in mind because I combined this with some other things - but anyway - here’s some notes about the project I have in mind which I can’t work on yet since I have 10+ I need to finish first I’m sorry

It’s for LuPato and the main character…is…Keiichiro…again…

The ships are Kairi/Umika and Keiichiro/Tsukasa. I hope you don’t mind - I can change it if you want!

It’s a Goblin AU mixed with some ideas I had floating around + what I intended for the Kamen Rider AU of LuPato. When I thought about the latter, I realized that I don’t really have an ending in mind for that one

This won’t have Kamen Riders, I doubt I could make that work XD

The lore and roles the characters have will be tweaked to suit the LuPato crew and to give this AU my own twist

Yes, this means Keiichiro is the Goblin

Their main “base” is a flower shop Keiichiro owns like I wrote in Kamen Rider AU headcanons. The main cast sooner or later develop a connection to that place

He’s been a police officer many times, but he’s run out of places in Japan and he feels bad about having to lie about his identity, even with his circumstances. He decided to try his hand at another business while watching the city and people’s souls as his primary job

Keiichiro has to collect 49 artifacts now known as the “Collection”, and seal them in cards in order to pass on. But due to his desire for world peace, he’s delayed the job for hundreds of years (without meaning to), and while the Collection can grant a wish, world peace isn’t one of them. The same goes for reviving the dead

The sword embedded in his chest is the last Collection piece that needs to be retrieved to complete said Collection. But it can only be removed by the Goblin’s bride, as per the original Korean drama

Keiichiro may not be the only Goblin in existence

I’d give a character summary sheet, but the roles may change - and I want to save them for when I upload the story. Though the pairings may hint at what kind of role they could have haha

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Current/In Progress AUs:

Receive the Flagrant Blessing of God (LuPato; Shori, Aya and Shiho become the Lupinrangers, Satoru lives, possibly goes down the “Noel has lived for 100 years and is a former Gangler” route too)

Coffee & Cake (LuPato; Umika apologizes to Keiichiro soon after episode 17, and then things happen)

Salvation Beyond the Laws of Physics (Build; everyone finding their way back to Sento; I’m really stuck on this one)

Not Posted:

Goblin AU 

A Keiichiro/Tsukasa one

“Official” personal canon series for LuPato

A lot.

Scrapped:

Kamen Rider AU (LuPato; it's kind of fused into the Goblin AU)

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My biggest fic aspiration is to finish all 2018 fics, one-shots and series, by the end of this year, but realistically speaking the fics I’d most likely finish would be

Conditionally, Not Under Specific Circumstances

Salvation Beyond the Laws of Physics

Coffee & Cake

As for Buildranger and Receive the Flagrant Blessing of God, I’d like to type up everything before posting anything because I want to give them linear timelines

There’s also the LuPato one-shot collection, a fic I owe quatresnuku and possibly the LuPato Kamen Rider AU (I feel like it could end up as a one-shot) that I’ll upload in the future ^-^