#magical apocalypse au

[discount-oranges]

thinking about mcr/killjoys magical girl au

would anyone be interested in this???

(the killjoys would be the magical girl forms of the mcr members)

edit: masterpost here

[flitterjitters]

stages of infection 🍄🦄✨ (CW for gore + body horror under the cut!!!)

after seeing the mlp infection au trend, ofc I had to give it a go!!!

I’m a big fan of the last of us games, so I went for a mushroom zombie look inspired by clickers 🍄

I usually draw more cutesy stuff so this more creepy, horror type art was v out of my comfort zone but I had a lot of fun!! I’m planning to date the rest of the mane 6 in this au + maybe some other characters too 👀👀

[thicctails]

MLP x MHA infection au concepts!!!

[wyyrmwood]

Here have another pocket sized horror :)

This one is apple flavored

[nardos-primetime]

I got the Donnie 'tism and the Leo 'DHD.

Asks are always open (I love asks they're so silly)

Requests are currently closed. (Just be aware I might not always finish them </3)

Call me Rain/Rainy, LED, Leon/Leo/Nardo or Don/Donnie/Tello.

I go by He/Him/His/Himself.

I may or may not be a kinnie of both Leonardo and Donatello. (Mainly Leo though.)

Mainly makes horror and angst aus, but I happily dabble in sillier things as well, there's some lighter things even within my dark aus normally.

(These can contain GORE AND INJURY (MENTAL AND PHYSICAL), PLEASE be warned and take care of yourself first and foremost!)

I normally don't do a ton of romance with the turtles unless it's for lore reasons within a story or something (other than leosagi, possibly donsagi and jasonnie). I do ship some of the adults on occasion for fun Mainly Barsonjitsu? (I Think thats the name I forgot) I absolutely don't do nsfw with the turtles. I might make something like a dick/sex joke here and there or a reference to sex within a story but nothing greater than that.

Feel free to message/ask me about shit, I need to get better with being social and love hearing shit about things I like/make! Just don't be a weirdo, y'know?

(Aka tc*st dni)

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#nardo's primetime.txt - Thoughts and Rambles mostly

#nardo's asks.txt - asks answered

#Writings - More concise rambles. Like minifics or mini fic ideas of some kind. Or story stuff in general. Normally not full works.

#practice makes perfect! - Specifically my adventures practicing drawing turtles

#writers wips - Clips and stuff from my fics what aren't done or whatever

#rottmnt fanart - most of my art is under this :]

#not turtles - other fandom stuff (mainly Gregory Horror Show rn)

#rainposting - IMAGES AND VIDEOS AND GIFS OF RAIN I FUCKING LOVE RAIN GOD FUCK YES RAIINNNN

#Scary Turtles - Physicalogical or Direct horror

Au Tags: (I don't have them all here but maybe one day I'll make a masterpost)

#Natural Disasters AU - WIP WIP WIP the turtles are all natural disasters/elements and such

#League of Single Fathers AU - Leo is raised by Hypno, Mikey is raised by Meatsweats, Raph is raised by Ghostbear, and Donnie is raised by Repo Mantis. Shit happens.

#Villain Mikey AU/#Broke a Million Dollar Box AU - Wow this bitch has FAMILY ISSUES surely he deals with it in a HEALTHY WAY and does NOT kill people and go crazy!

#Villain Donnie AU/#Viral Donnie AU - Local boy causes apocalypse and then runs the apocalypse more at 10

#Four More Villains AU - Tied in w Villain Mikey & Villain Donnie, shared with @midwesternvibes

#Identical Identities AU - Who am I Anymore?

#Nonsense Apocalypse AU - A Rise au focusing on a robot turtle and zombie turtle trying to find their brothers in a weird apocalypse, and vice-versa.

#Draxum's Side of The Family AU - AU that focuses on Clones of the turtles that have a lot of problems. Don't worry, the original turtles have more problems too! Equal opportunity angst! [Semi hiatus]

#Teenage Mutant Magical Boys AU - Local mutants are used to save the world and are idols on the side. Aware that they're related. All struggling soso hard.

[kinderartifact4]

A list of my Total Drama AUs because I love them all wholeheartedly, feel free to ask questions about any of them.

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Animal Mutant AU 🐾🧬

+this AU was just an excuse to make Noah an owl person

+canon divergence happens shortly after Action/before World Tour

+The mutations are a worldwide phenomenon, it’s happening to everyone and no one knows why

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A Bloodsucker and A Mutt🩸🐺

+Alenoco AU

+Show goes on as normal for the most part

+Noah’s a vampire

+Alejandro’s a werewolf

+Cody’s just there

+made this AU for fun

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Magic AU ✨

+Magical creatures living amongst humans type thing, but it’s my takes on them

+Like we got merfolk, satyrs, angels, demons, elves, harpies, that kinda thing

+It’s like an assimilated society thing, they’re mostly at peace with each other with some mild species specific discrimination mostly courtesy of humans

+mild feels like an understatement

+everything’s got so much lore

+and of course, we got ✨magic✨

+there is a war that happens later on in the AU, so there’s that too

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Assigned Species: Gen 1 Cast, Hosts, Emma & Kitty

Assigned Species: Gen 2 Cast

Assigned Species: Gen 3 Cast

Assigned Species: RR Cast pt.1

Assigned Species: RR Cast pt.2

Assigned Species: Reboot Cast

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Monster Apocalypse AU 🏚

+It’s an apocalypse, but not with zombies, these things are smarter than zombies

+People do die, so warning for that I guess

+Almost nobody is having a good time

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Duncan’s Group

Emma & Kitty’s Groups

Shawn’s Group

Cody’s Groups

Tyler’s Groups

Gwen’s Group

Fic Snippets

Mike’s Old Group

RR Beginning Groups pt.1

RR Beginning Groups pt.2

Sky & Scarlett’s Groups

Reboot Groups

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Drider! Duncan Dunoah AU🕷

+Sort of a high school AU? Most of them go the same school since a lot are kept human for this)

+Just a clingy drider with abandonment issues and his human bf who doesn’t actually understand how he got here

+definitely more of a self indulgent AU

+I don’t remember why I made this AU but now I can’t get rid of it

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Godly Patron AU ✨🙏✨

+Some of the cast each has a god that has taken a liking to them

+they’re my take on gods because I like having full creativity, so none of the ones people usually know about are here(like greek or norse gods)

+Alejandro is not having a good time

+Noah has the oldest god

+Alejandro’s got a lot more lore than he was originally going to have

+Made this AU because I wanted Cody to have a proper parental figure, then it kinda turned into this along the way

+Aleheather got that “Doomed Love” trope going on

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Assigned Gods pt.1

Assigned Gods pt.2

Fic Snippet

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Wings of Fire AU 🐉

+My favorite book series combined with one of my favorite shows

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Assigned Tribes: Gen 1

Alejandro’s Design | José and Carlos’ Designs

Trent’s Design | Bridgette’s Design

Heather’s Design | Cody’s Design

Tyler’s Design | Justin’s Design

Geoff’s Design | Lightning’s Design

Zoey’s Design | Noah’s Design

Owen’s Design | Fic Snippets

Harold’s Design | Gwen’s Design

DJ’s Design | Izzy’s Design

Cameron’s Design | Lindsay’s Design

Katie & Sadie’s Designs | Duncan’s Design

Sierra’s Design

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Trollhunter Cody AU🧌🗡

+I just thought it’d be fun

+Cody would be the type of guy to say “crispy” wouldn’t he

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The only post I have

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Project Cythraul AU💉

+The whole concept is old, like 2019 old, but it has since then been revamped

+The entire WT cast goes missing like halfway through Egypt, with almost no trace other than what’s on the plane and something left in the sand

+They stay missing for 2 or 3 years before one of them finally shows up again with amnesia

+Main premise of the AU is a secret facility that specializes in DNA manipulation

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Hidden Magic AU 😶‍🌫️✨

+AU is otherwise known as “A group of immortals build a camp in a magic pocket dimensional forest for some reason and end up with a bunch of kids”

+there are other residents but the amount of children that show up there is concerning

+humans are quite irrelevant here, we don’t see them much

+the lore for most of the characters is a bit dark, but hey

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Reassigned Species

About the Burromuertos

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Nivi AU 👽

+This AU was an excuse to give Cody a best friend, and that friend is my OC Nivi!

+Nothing really changes, even though she’s in World Tour

+This AU has since evolved into “Alejandro and his gaggle of idiots™”, ie. Alejandro, Nivi, Cody, Duncan, and Lexi(OC/Nivi’s girlfriend) all share an apartment. It’s an interesting concept.

+I think of this AU often

+During Island and Action, people don’t really think Nivi exists because “Cody couldn’t possibly have actual friends outside the show!”

+This makes Nivi feel like some kind of cryptid and she loves it.

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“What If?” Mutant AU ☣️

+A small AU I came up with, sort of a “What if?” AU. The what if being “What if other people came into contact with toxic waste?”

+The people who are mutated are the same as canon (Dakota, that one intern, Ezekiel had some toxic waste exposure, it’s just more obvious here).

+Additional mutant individuals include Noah, Duncan, Alejandro, and maybe a couple others but I’m not sure.

+The mutant individuals can’t go back to their families, they don’t want them to see them like this anyways, so Chris keeps them on Pahkitew Island (in the facility for the duration of that season).

+Alejandro is lost at sea for a bit before they finally catch him and put him with the others

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ToA IOTS AU 🔪

+Technically still a TD AU since the AU it’s based off is TD. Idk I’m not making a separate post for my ToA AUs there’s too few of them for that. And this is the only one I’m sharing probably.

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Interdimensional Remnant AU🔚

+Area 51, something went wrong, everything was destroyed. The base, the earth, the galaxy, the universe, everything.

+The gods tried to stop it in time, remove the source. When they realized it was too late, they instead grabbed the thing closest to it.

+Alejandro Burromuerto is the only remaining piece of a dead dimension, and the gods blame him for its destruction.

+Came up with this AU while listening to a song AXOLOTL by bumr, I do love the concept, great angst potential.

+Technically a branch off of the Godly Patron AU in the sense that the gods do exist.

[y-rhywbeth2]

Belated realisation post-novels that sacrifices to Bhaal specifically involve the blood and life force of the victim, which is not-so-metaphorically eaten. Bhaal craves blood itself, and may even demand specific 'vintages' via dream visions.

(This does nothing to dissuade me from the idea that the 'Death' Strahd originally made a deal with was Bhaal fyi).

So in other words a Bhaalist's job is going out and bringing home victims so their master can eat their blood. Most victims are carefully selected from the poor and outcast and criminals in shady high traffic areas. Normally Bhaalists are doing this of their own free will, but of course there are select others who were spawned to serve on pain of being stripped of autonomy and tortured for disobedience, so whether they serve willingly or not is irrelevant.

I personally picture Durge being slightly more like Cazador's other spawn than Astarion (specifically the better behaved/'better treated' ones), but hey, there's another layer to the things these various spawn have in common.

[lime1991]

speaking of spike...

i just thought about my infection au again! partially because of a tiktok i saw about twilight and spike in an infection au and it just killed me. and also izzyz made a video about them! so heres Spike's story:

He was there to witness when Twilight first started to get sick. He was fully aware of what was happening with the town and other towns because of Twilight. He wasn't allowed outside until "this whole thing blows over."

After Twilight, who was a shell of her former self due to the virus, attacks him with a magic blast he barricades himself into Twilight's bedroom. He doesn't come out for days. Eventually, Twilight seems to have wandered off, because she no longer was trying to get in.

When Spike leaves the room, the castle is a mess. When he finally goes outside, Ponyville is a ghost town. He learns very quickly that the infected typically come out at night, when they seem to be able to see better.

The first survivors he comes across are a couple of terrified foals holed up in an abandoned building. They're scared of Spike, they don't know whether or not he's infected. They don't even know if dragons CAN be infected. They know they aren't, so they don't let him in.

He has a few run-ins with the infected ponies, which is how he managed to get the tip of his tail bitten off. A few surviving fillies and colts he's come across have helped him, but they all have the same suspicion that he could be unsafe. the bitten tail doesn't help.

The pony Spike really needs to find is Starlight. She disappeared at the beginning of the infection's spread and hasn't been seen since. He hopes she's ok. She's maybe the only living pony who is able to reverse this.

But where is she?

Where is she?

[mephiles-the-jester]

out of curiosity, have you ever considered drawing one of human bill + ford’s conversations from weirdmaggedon?

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(feel free to ignore these if you want, i enjoy thinking about bill in silly little scenarios. if you want me to stop sending these requests in asks let me know please)

i have now,👍 with mostly messy lines except for the last one where i locked in the most because i kept getting frustrated with his gay little expression,,,,,(also do not worry i love silly requests)

[onesnazzy]

"The snow's gotten worse...and we're running out of food. We can't reach Cloudsdale if...anypony is even still alive up there. And with the frigid temperatures, magic and flying aren't options for those of us with wings and horns. So trying to go there ourselves is..out of the question. We're still unsure what caused this mass blizzard but...we're pretty sure it has something to do with the weather factory as a whole. The only way we've been staying alive is due to Spike starting small bonfires for us. We wouldn't be here without him...but he's also growing weak due to constant exertion. We're running out of options....i'm not sure what to do. I'll talk to the other's tonight to see if they have any ideas. Until then..."

Unedited under here!

[theearlgreymage]

I am beyond ecstatic to be able to finally present this collaborative project to the world! This is a COBB Project that myself, @shrekgogurt, and @artsyunderstudy have been working on together!!

This is a Magical-Zombie Apocalypse AU inspired by HBO's The Last of Us. (Specifically Season 1 Episode 3) ❤

Read is here on AO3

Chapter 1 |

Chapter 2 | Accompanying Music by ShrekGoGurt

Chapter 3 |

Chapter 4 |

Chapter 5 |

This work is a part of the Carry On Big Bang 2023 Event (@carry-on-big-bang)

Summary and Additional Information can be found below the cut.

Please be mindful of the rating/tags.

Fandom: Carry On | Simon Snow Series - Rainbow Rowell

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch/Simon Snow, Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch & Simon Snow

Characters: Simon Snow, Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch, Penelope Bunce, Shepard (Simon Snow), Mordelia Grimm, Gareth (Simon Snow), Marcus (Simon Snow), Fiona Pitch, Malcolm Grimm, Vera (Simon Snow), Daphne Grimm (Simon Snow), Sophronia "Sophie" Grimm, Petra Grimm, Swithin Grimm

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - The Last of Us Setting, Zombie Apocalypse, Magic, Minor Character Death, Character Death, Growing Old Together, Angst, Pining, Healing, Building a family, Love, Sex, Fanart, Fan Soundtracks, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary:

When the Humdrum’s destruction emits a near nuclear blast, the altered magickal atmosphere causes catastrophic consequences for Normals and Mages alike. However, as society flounders, Baz Pitch is driven by only one question: is Simon Snow still alive?

[discount-oranges]

i’m talking about the magical girl au again

masterpost

so after ray and frank meet the chibis they sprint home bc what the fuck but the chibis are neat and curiosity killed the teen so they went back to learn more and also because “it’s FUCKIN ALIENS RAY THINK OF SCIENCE” “you’ve never thought about science a day in your life”

so when they get back they learn that as part of their parasitic abilities the chibis can change your appearance when they help you transform. the chibis are pretty weak after their arrival so they have to have objects or permanent changes for them to be able to change you. jets chibi has sunglasses that they need, ghouls have snake bites that represent in their kj form as fangs, kobra has the classic mikey beanie that turns into the good luck helmet, and party turns gerard’s roots red and their hair completely red when they become party.

they also learn about what is after the chibis (this will DRASTICALLY change depending on the result of the plot poll) so ray takes the chibis and their respective objects with them back to his house.

the next day frank is taking the chibis to a grocery store to try and better explain food to them when a robbery happens. he panics and asks the ghoul chibi to transform him so that he can fight back. this leads to him being the first magical girl and (eventually) one of the fab four

he gets his name later down the line when a reporter asks what the papers should call him while he was fighting a monster or something, ghoul yells fuck you the reporter mishears and he just rolls with it.

there is a lil blurb and some drawings i did in class but they’re pretty rough so if u wanna see em let me know

ps his weapon is a magical glittery grenade launcher that doesn’t damage things but can stun people

[apocalypse-weekend]

consider this one of my worse ideas, but My Little Pony Breaking Bad au anybody?

Honestly this might already exist I wouldn't be surprised

[emonerdboy]

There's been an apocalypse AU for MLP going around on tiktok so I'm putting my spin on it using creature lore from the show!

{{scroll down to 💀 for AU story}}

I am so sorry to all the Fluttershy fans out there for making her the patient 0 😭 it just made the most sense for my version of the "virus". I say that with quotation because in my version it's not a virus rather a parasite!

More specifically Parasprites! Much like the zombie fungus which is technically parasitic and uses other creatures bodies as a host body, in my au Parasprites do essentially the same thing lol. I'll go into more detail another time but here's the first part of the story!!

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{{Day one of the Parasprites Outbreak}}

• Twilight has been tasked with finding Fluttershy. 2 weeks ago she went out to the forest and hasn't been seen since. Dispite not being worried at first, twilight soon began to sense something was off when she arrived to fluttershy's hut on the outskirts of Ponyville.

Empty sheddings of what appear to be insect shells scattered across fluttershy's home, the lights were off making it hard to see inside the small building but a croaky voice whispered through the stale air.

"Kill me..." Twilight froze for a moment unsure what to expect, did she really just hear that right?.

"Fluttershy? Is...is that you?" She called out but no reply, just the sounds of weak shuffling in the back corner of the house.

"No..no..hungry...stop..twi...li...get" the voice gargles out, was Fluttershy okay? Twilight thought to herself. 'She...she needs help' she pondered taking a few steps closer to the figure in the corner.

"Fluttershy...I'm here to help" twilight said nervously as she stepped towards Fluttershy, her eyes adjusting to the dim shadows before falling upon the rotting corpse like creature that sat there in fluttershy's skin...Parasprites flying out of clusters of holes that adorned fluttershy's skin.

"Flu..tter..shy?" Twilights eyes widened before she began slowly backing up toward the exist. If she's fast enough maybe she can contain this...whatever this is to fluttershy's home, quarantine the cottage.

Fluttershy suddenly stood up, her legs longer then usual making the disfigured filly tower over twilight.

"Please...so..hungry...ki..kill me... twi...light" the voice fought with itself on what it was trying to say as if Fluttershy was still in there trying to warn twilight.

[wyyrmwood]

It's quick, it's easy, it's free! Create a manmande horror beyond your comprehension today!

I love doodling these freaky little horse zombies this is by far my favorite trend, might do a few more like this.

In the words of a friend, "F that purple horse"

[queenofthursday6599-blog]

Mmmm Jinx AU where after being taken in by Silco, thinking she's been abandoned by Vi leads to her not latching on to Silco as the most important thing in her life who she must be loyal to above all else, but full on swinging into the direct opposite direction and becoming like Sevika.

[This AU is in part inspired by the idea of Jinx becoming more idealogically like Sevika, but also from OG Jinx's personality.

OG Jinx is a character who's primary drive is her own personal enjoyment and happiness. Which comes from building weapons, causing explosions of all kinds, and pranking Piltoveans.

Jinx doesn't go out looking to kill people, she goes out to to have a good time, and if people happen to die while she's having her good time, then that doesn't really concern her.

Like there's this one quote about OG Jinx that basically boils down to: "If Jinx found a box of firecrackers that had a person sitting on top of it. She'd light the fireworks without even thinking about the person on the box because she was so focused on her excitement about fireworks, that she didn't even notice the person."

OG Jinx has prioritized her own personal enjoyment over everything else, that people potentially dying as a result of whatever she's doing is so completely irrelevant, to the point of her being effectively unable to perceive the potential collateral damage.

It's not even that OG Jinx wants to kill people, or enjoys killing people, it's just that people dying while she's doing what she loves isn't even a linked phenomenon in her brain. Because people (who die) are going to die eventually with or without her actions, so why shouldn't she enjoy herself even if people happen to die while she's doing so.

Jinx's loyalty to Zaun is prioritized in the same way in this AU. People are going to die with or without the revolution happening, so they might as well have the revolution.]

Loyal to the dream of Zaun over any individual leader.

I mean, she still comes to love Silco as a father figure, and he still comes to love her as a daughter, but also much like with Sevika, they're both fully aware that if Jinx ever comes to the conclusion he isn't the person who's the best bet for securing Zaunite independence, she'll abandon his gang and possibly go elsewhere.

Or even more so, if she comes to the conclusion that he's worse for Zaun than he is good, possibly kill him herself.

Which I feel like wouldn't stop him from loving her more than anything else.

I think he'd just consider it another aspect of her that makes her the ideal Zaunite. The ability to put The Cause even before her personal feelings and attachments, something he's still not able to do.

Basically this Jinx thinks of her loyalty to Zaun and her personal love for individuals in her life as entirely disconnected to each other, with Loyalty to Zaun being her default.

Which adds a number of complications to her relationships. Specifically her being totally unafraid to fight to the death against her loved ones without an ounce of remorse, and then thinking of it as a complete non-issue in the aftermath if they both survive.

Like she fully still considers Ekko her friend by the time Vi gets out of jail in this AU. Full on "We try to kill each other on alternating Thursdays, but that's no reason to stop being friends" feelings.

Which also results in her not feeling an ounce of shame in helping him and the Firelights out when it comes to basically anything they do that isn't in direct opposition to SIlco.

I mean, the Firelights are also working towards bettering Zaun just like she (honestly believes) is, they just have different opinions and methods of how to do so from Silco's gang. While also serving different parts of the community.

[And yes, Ekko and the rest of the Firelights have complicated feelings about Jinx in this AU. None of them know where she stands with them.

She'll help them without expectations one day, and then turn around and kill some of them in a confrontation without an ounce of hesitation the next.

Some of them hate her, some have mixed feelings. Others just think she's completely mentally unstable, and shouldn't be trusted considering she seemingly flips between being ally and enemy with no warning.

Ekko's feelings are especially complicated, as you can imagine.]

None of this is to say Jinx doesn't feel just as deeply about the people she loves, as she does in canon. It's just that trauma has convinced her that unequivocal loyalty to an individual vs an idea is a very easy way to be hurt.

Detached logical decision making as a way to avoid being harmed by making emotional mistakes. Which is what she feels is why she failed so much as Powder.

The belief, that she was so obsessed with gaining approval from individuals in her life, she never had a real personal goal to strive towards that she could measure progress and growth to. Resulting in her always feeling like a failure, even when she was doing good, or at least improving.

She's still deeply hurt by Vi choosing Caitlyn over her (as far as she could tell), the Firelights taking Vi, and her accidental killing of Silco while spiraling in the wake of her Shimmer surgery. She's also extremely frustrated by her freak out on the airship where she shoots Eve (pink haired Firelight).

Because she feels like those are instances where she gave into the impulse to emotional over reaction to specific individuals that caused all of Powder's problems.

She was so focused on Vi, and her desire for Vi's approval, that she couldn't fight the Firelights as effectively as she normally would.

She was so focused on Vi seemingly leaving her to go off with Caitlyn that she couldn't focus on fighting Ekko on the Bridge, resulting in her getting far more injured than she normally would have, and nearly not succeeding in getting the crystal back.

She was so triggered by thinking she was seeing Vi on the airship, that she completely lost it and started shooting indiscriminately and caused the job to go south and injured people on her own side.

She was so caught up in her spiral and hallucinations at the tea party, that she shot Silco based entirely on instinctual protective instinct when hearing the hammer being drawn on a gun on her vulnerable loved one, rather than anything intentional on her part. Which she'd previously had always sworn would be the case should it ever come to her killing Silco.

That if Jinx ever killed another of her loved ones, it would be because she knew with certainty it would result in the betterment of Zaun, not because she made a mistake because she was being an over emotional idiot.

I think the only major change from this Jinx's actions in the Season 1 part of the story would be how she went about stealing the Hexgem, and why she did so.

In canon she does so because she failed a job, and felt like she needed to do something big to prove to Silco that she was capable, in order to gain validation from him that she was. Even though he never tells her he doesn't think she's capable, just that she needs to take some time off because she had an episode.

He said "take a mental health day, even if you don't think you need it," and she responded, "so you think I'm a fuck up?!"

In this story. it's more that Jinx is so focused on what she could potentially do with Hextech to help the revolution and Zaun as a whole. That she was already planning to steal some research notes and crystals to get experimenting with it on her own terms, before the job gone south, and the new advancements in Hextech being whispered about for progress day.

Getting her hands on the newest form of Hextech is just her getting lucky.

This also means she doesn't steal it the same way. She doesn't do anything to kill any Enforcers, but she does cause a distraction with what seems to be a box of fire works going off prematurely on "accident".

With her swooping in to steal the notes and hexgem while everyone's busy with trying to contain the panic the fireworks accident is causing to really pay attention to what she's doing.

Which the Enforcers do react to, but everyone but Caitlyn disregards as an accident. As once it's clear that nothing other than a few decorations got ruined and people getting startled came of the fireworks incident.

They're far more concerned with the stealing of hextech that's happened, and Viktor's testimony of a young woman with long blue hair sneaking out of their lab.

With the fireworks incident being dismissed as an accident that's completely unrelated to the burglary of the Hextech lab. Beyond the burglar potentially using it as a convenient opening.

Caitlyn's not convinced, and it's already happened so close to the airship shootout incident, so she still goes down and ends up freeing Vi from Stillwater with some of Jinx's drawings as evidence, from the airship shootout.

Which does mean that her trajectory in the Season 2 part of the story would be a bit different.

She still goes into a depression after Silco's death. Mostly because she feels that she's broken her most important self imposed rule: not killing because of personal feelings about someone, but for The Cause.

She killed Silco not because she felt killing him would make things better, but because she was scared and spiraling and in that vulnerable emotional state, she defaulted to the same way of thinking that had gotten her loved ones killed the last time.

She protected Vi who she loved, and couldn't defend herself, based on gut instinct. And it resulted in the death of another loved one, and the complete destabilization of Zaun.

Now because Jinx is more focused on Zaun than on her personal relation ships, I don't know if she fires on the Council immediately after Silco's death the way she does in canon. I don't really think she would.

I could see her doing it because she's still in the peak of the Shimmer high, which is heightening all her emotions. Driving her to seek revenge on Piltover in her grief. Even though if she could think more clearly, she wouldn't do it, and would instead wait to gather an actual following and doing an organized and planned strike to be the most effective.

But I could also see SIlco's death snapping her back to reality as she sees it. That she simply takes the gem, her guns, and Silco's body and Disappears, vanishing into the night with neither Vi or Caitlyn knowing of the weapon she's built or what she's going to do next.

Which could have interesting repercussions on the story. Considering Piltover's council would to have agreed to Zaunite independence on the conditions of handing over Jinx.

Except the man they made that deal with is now dead, no one (except Sevika) knows where Jinx is to hand her over, and the Undercity is and of itself divided on handing one of their own over to Piltover (to potentially be executed, because of how dangerous Hextech can be, and a lot of the counsel fully thinking Zaunites are inherently dangerous, not to mention thanks to Caitlyn, Jinx is a known weapons builder, so what else do they think she'll do with access to Hextech other than build weapons) in order to gain independence.

I'm sure the chem barons would have no issue handing JInx over, because then they'd be free to divide up territory and completely take over with no one like Silco holding their leash, or PIltover dictating what is and isn't legal on their side of the river in the first place.

Oh the Firelights would be around to oppose them, but they'd never really were able to gain any ground beyond causing problems for Shimmer production.

But I'm not sure how more ordinary people would react.

I mean, in this AU it's pretty well known that Jinx holds the idea of Zaun above anything else, and was willing to help people who weren't affiliated with any specific group, as long as doing so wouldn't harm the independence movement of Zaun.

She's not really shy about expressing that stance, it's just up to everyone else to believe it or not.

Jinx, who would use her high position in Silco's circle to help ordinary Zaunites. Be it from one of the gangs overstepping and trying to start rackets Silco had forbidden, from unjust arrest from Enforcers, or even pointing them in the direction of the Firelights if she thought that was for the best.

Declaring that so long as the help she gave random people didn't harm or slow the march towards independence, helping her fellow Zaunite was helping Zaun, was part of the fight toward an independent Zaun.

She's the Loose Canon, shooting for Zaun and no one else. Loyal to no kingpen or Chembaron, but to The People of Zaun as a whole.

She has a bit of a following even without firing on Piltover or turning the Grey back on them. She's a bit of a living folk hero to some people, especially those she personally helped out of a bad situation, for no reason other than "I could, and doing so doesn't hurt anyone else. So why wouldn't I?"

Not to mention I definitely feel like Jinx would be way more intentionally politically educated in this AU than she is in canon.

JInx as she is in Arcane, never really gave a shit about Zaun's independence beyond what it meant to Silco (and later Isha), and she very obviously never bothered to learn anything about politics. At least nothing Silco didn't force her to learn.

But with Jinx's primary drive being Zaun, I feel like she'd definitely be way more politically minded, and while I do think she would consider turning herself over to Piltover to secure Zaun's independence (in a direct parallel of Vi's willingness to hand herself over to get the Enforcers to leave the Undercity alone to keep her family safe).

I don't think Jinx would actually go through with handing herself over.

Not with the Undercity being actively torn apart by gang disputes in the wake of Silco's death, no way of ensuring Zaun's prosperity after handing herself over, and no way of securing actual tangible betterment of conditions in Zaun even with Zaunite independence.

I mean from what we're told, Piltover's offer of independence was essentially cutting the Undercity loose.

Stopping their dumping of industrial waste into Zaun's water supply, ceasing utilizing of Zaun's air duct and water system for the climate control of Piltover's Hexgate system, release of Zaunites from Stillwater (or at least transfer to Zaunite custody)), and the Kiraman family handing over control of the vents that suppress The Grey over to someone from the Undercity weren't anywhere in that deal from what we're told.

[I don't think everyone on the counsel would have agreed to it if it was, they're all complete capitalists, no matter if some of them value sapient life more than others (Mel, Cassandra) on a conceptual level.

I believe the ones who outright hate Zaunites (which some of them clearly did) would have staunchly opposed if it meant having to alter how they actually approached how they ran their businesses, vs just cutting Zaun loose.

Hell I think those councelors would have gotten even more lax with their business regulations. I mean, Zaun wouldn't have been part of Piltover, and their citizens not their legal responsibility any more.

So why should anyone from Piltover worry about them dying? The trenchers wanted independence and if they can't survive without Piltover's support, how's that anyone's problem but the trenchers?]

It was, if you hand over Jinx, we'll legally make you not our problem any more.

Which I don't think a politically educated Jinx would go for. It would just leave Zaun to the messy power struggle that appeared because of the power vacum caused by Silco's death. None of the Undercity's actual problems would be solved, besides Enforcers no longer being able to harass them.

So the Zaun Piltover conflict would stay more political and less outright invasion than it is in canon as a result.