#oh yeah guess I should also say wx never became a robot in this au but they did still want to

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Dst role swap au concept rambles under the cut cause oopsie I chose roles for mostly everyone and I have thoughts now

So ok basic lore, I'm thinking I'm not gonna like fully boot Wagstaff from the picture but he's also not gonna be particularly well. Alive. He and Wx were similarly coworkers as in canon, but Wx may or may not have done a bit of an oopsie doopsie maybe kind of purposeful murder. After that they had to kind of half-hazardly remake their identity, which is honestly kind of convenient for them in some regards, but it does mean having to build their resources back up again. Around this time, they would have met a teenage Wilson, who was just beginning to socially transition as a trans man and was also itching to get to do some ~proper science~ and all that jazz. Wx saw this vulnerable eager volunteer and decided to allow him to be their lackey and not too long after they made their way back to the us, now with this cringe fail british boy following them around everywhere like a baby duck. They didn't pay much mind nor care to him initially, but as time went on he grew on them a lot more than they were expecting, to the point it eventually sunk in too hard and caused them to freak out. Before all they got to have that freak out tho, dear ol' Willyson came across a certain book of mysterious origins. He initially tried hiding it from Wx, hoping to showcase his own scientific skills without feeling second to someone. Wx eventually found out though, and they initially kind of panicked, but not being able to pull up a reason for their panic (it's because they were worried abt Wilson but they weren't abt to admit that lol) they tried to force down their anxieties and they instead scolded Wilson for withholding new resources and took the book from him. This upset Wilson a lot, but after a bit of back and forth he backed off, mostly at the threat of not being allowed to work with it at all if he kept arguing with them. The two would continue to look into it, but a clear tension had begun to form between them, and Wx continued to struggle to grapple with their unease at Wilson's involvement in this. Eventually Wx kind of impulsively decided that the two of them should put an indefinite pause on researching the book and the power contained within, which lead to yet another argument between the two, this one much more nasty than any of their previous ones. Wx eventually forcibly shut down the conversation as they got overwhelmed by unexpected emotions, and after that they finally had that oh fuck I like really care abt him moment that causes them to freak out. As a result of this, they once again act on impulse and fire Wilson and kick him out of their lab that they both had been living in. This, understandably, makes Wilson super upset and angry and scared and just a god damn mess. Not only was he being betrayed by the person he sacrificed his old life for, but he was also now being put into the position of being homeless in a place far far away from any old family and friends that could have helped him, so all in all he was freaking out rly bad. In an act of desperate anger, he broke back into the lab a few days later to steal the book, he was the one who found it after all. Wx of course didn't take this well, and the two got into a bit of a wrestle, resulting in Wilson attempting to use the power of the book, which proceeded to backfire on the both of them and voila, constant time. Oh and for a bit if additional context, at the time that they entered the constant Wilson was in his early 20s and Wx was in their late 30s to early 40s, so currently Wx would be abt 50