#nitoto and knaveve are mentioned but it's not as important

[arvoze]

what if theres an au where peruru is a robot and takaka is like a normal keronian??

OOPS forgot readmore lmfao!

VERY good question. it changes a lot of things

it can go a lot of ways but i’ll go with the assumption that like, it’s just a roleswap more than anything, so the specifics in how they come about isn’t all that important (like, peruru met takaka by essentially stealing him, takaka’s appearance is meant to mirror peruru’s, etc)

it’s mostly just removing takaka’s entire armour suit and making other changes here and there and giving that stuff to peruru instead, because visually, there shouldn’t really be too much of a difference. i’d stop it at design-wise but i love the deeper implications instead so, generally, instead of “oh they just swap roles and everything else is the same”, because it won’t be the same - they act differently, they have different morals and motives, and everyone’s too connected to eachother for these kinds of changes.

tepopo wouldn’t be out to go against either of them; assuming takaka’s taken up a role in the army, he wouldn’t have the same job peruru did. he’d be more weapons-based, and would be out on the battlefield more, whereas peruru’s job kept him inside the grand star for the most part. peruru’s rank and department is entirely different to what takaka’s would be - tepopo would still get fucked up by the rest of the “cleanup crew”, but they’d have a different fifth member, so tepopo would be out for those five, not the original four and peruru.

panana is an only child. this actually messes with his workflow, because he’s always set out to do better than peruru. he can’t compete and compare against someone who doesn’t exist.

majojo doesn’t have an older brother figure growing up, which impacts her mental state heavily. majojo and peruru were a big part of eachothers’ lives growing up, and peruru was really the only person she ever spoke to and was an especially important comforting figure (and vice-versa), so she’d be in a pretty bad place now.

tepopo succeeds in getting revenge on all of the relevant scientists that ruined his life. he remains a member of knaveve’s collective, and never strives to become a hero figure in his community. he never meets nitoto, and lives the rest of his life as a criminal/outlaw.

panana, possibly, never even gets to make the model of robot that regular takaka is (TG3). with no younger sibling to push him to greatness out of spite, he doesn’t have the drive to work on a project as big as that (thus, TG3s were never made - panana was the core engineer in that).

assuming that panana did go through with making the TG3s, and assuming that peruru is one, in this au, peruru and takaka would never end up meeting eachother.

takaka only exists because of peruru’s ignorance and lack of desire to do the right thing. takaka only exists because peruru can’t keep himself to himself - peruru is curious and acts on his curiosity, breaks into a place he shouldn’t be in, and ends up accidentally stealing takaka.

takaka isn’t like that; he always wants to do the right thing, and he wants to do his job in the army right. he plays by the books and doesn’t get into trouble. he wouldn’t do stuff behind anyone’s backs, and he certainly wouldn’t break into a storage unit and steal property of the army.

wink emojie……………. ;-)

srry this actually got rly long LOL. i like thinking about the bigger impacts these kinds of things have overall

[arvoze]

Does knaveve drink? Or tepopo? If they don't, is there something that makes them act drunk? Like being drowsy, medication, etc.

im so late answering but yes :-)! they both drink, the whole gang drinks sans hehehe but it's to different degrees. tepopo is the most likely to get drunk and it's mostly bc he doesn't really Care about the repercussions of doing so. kuchichi will drink a little but not a lot. her, nadede & knaveve will all drink under somebody else's influence but to varying degrees; kuchichi and nadede will probably have too much together because they start having Too Much General Fun; nadede will drink too much if influenced by tepopo because they find competition against eachother over everything (ie "first to get fully smashed loses" or whatever (and spoiler alert, when it comes to drinking games, nadede will never win)); knaveve will absolutely drink too much exclusively if he is around tepopo bc if you want me 2 be flat out honest about knaveve then he will absolutely do a lot of things in his power to shirk responsibility for stuff and absolutely doesn't want to be held as The Responsible One for when ppl do shit when intoxicated so he's like (shrugs) if i do it too then it's not my fault lol

wow what a long paragraph! anyways

the gang don't drink a lot, not together, kuchichi won't drink much outside of the occasional celebration, nadede in a similar suit sans the occasional competitive game w tepopo, knaveve will drink in moderation but will also throw moderation out of the window if he a) has stopped caring or b) his depression is particularly hightened, tepopo just does whatever the fuck he wants because people have come to terms with the fact that they are probably safer Not getting in the way of him drinking

knaveve gets a lot more woozy when he's sad and/or tired, moreso than people normally would, iirc nobody takes medication