#one psychopathic homosexual with turbo brain cancer who got bored and also wanted to see his boyfriend happy

[zombie-art-n-doodles]

So this started as a crack ship. It wildly got out of hand and I have lost all control of it resulting in multiple doodles and even a whole fic. Fitting, given the themes of this au which has been very causally dubbed the “Flare Very Casually Starts an Electronic Apocalypse” Au.

To sum up the au:

Flare takes CS to the heart of the fortress where its computer core is, and in typical ‘I have no attachment to life and life is kind of meaningless’ Flare fashion, proposes uploading a copy of Flare’s fatal logic error to the system (effectively single handily destroying NME as this server connections to all other bases) so the two can be free of this corporate nightmare.

While canonically Flare does meet CS and interacts with him a few times, the two do not get to bond beyond causing problems for each other as Nightmare attempts to control Flare with his control band, causing Flare to violently relapse and defect from the company. However in this au he is successful or in more or less controlling Flare preventing him from running off and stationing him to work in the main fortress where he gets to spend more time with CS and slowly bond with him.

Eventually they gain feelings for each other, and Flare eventually reveals he’s not complete under the control of Nightmare and is just acting like he is. When he finally finds a way to take down NME, likely for good, he and CS go forwards with their plan and Flare infects NME’s system with his fatal logic error and the two take off.

A couple days later the GSA starts to pull back from the front line as they witness the terrifying and rapid collapse of all of NME’s bases and ships as some invisible force causes their electronics to fail on mass. Deducing this to be some kind of electronic virus, they stand back and watch their once seemingly indestructible enemy steadily burn from the inside out as they fail to find a way to control or contain the virus.

Meanwhile Susie and Haltmann Works Co catch wind of this ‘terrifying super computer virus’ and Susie gets the idea to find a way to fix it to make huge money off of a cure, and more ideally she could weaponize it. This rapidly backfires as she messes with an insanity she can’t even begin to fathom, and HWC gets infected and it starts to rapidly consume its servers.

Meanwhile Flare and CS are finally enjoying life, as Flare helps CS discover himself. All while Flare protects his nerdy ass boyfriend as he adjusts to a non cushiony life outside the corporate office.