#or maybe she stays behind and later impersonates her counterpart to get info on the zentopia corps?

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Okay, so I had this idea for an AU where Coco ends up in Earthland, because I like her vibes and I wanna put her in situations.

Basically, the day Wendy finds Carla's egg (Which I'm gonna say is a couple days after it and the other Exceed eggs were sent to Earthland), Roubaul takes her back where she found it to make sure it didn't fall out of a nest or something. Of course, they don't find anything, but on the way back to the guild, they hear someone crying and find Coco hanging from a tree branch.

I'm not completely sure how she ends up there? She doesn't have any magic for Anima to mess with and I don't think we ever find out just how Porlyusica winds up on Earthland. Either way, once she calms down and tells them what happens, Roubaul regretfully tells her that he doesn't know how to send her back or if it's even possible, but she's welcome to stay with them in the mean time.

And just like that, Cait Shelter has another living member.

At some point, I could see Roubaul setting her up with a similar kind of Athletic Magic to her Earthland counterpart's, probably with the caveat that she can't use it without supervision until she gets the hang of it. Similarly to how I imagine Mystogan's staves working, the lacrima in Coco's shoes draw and storing magic from the air around her instead of her body. Of course, even with supervision, she'd still get into scrapes. But hey! At least Wendy gets more chances to practice her healing magic.

I'm trying to figure out how to describe her dynamic with Wendy and Carla in detail, but it's not coming out the way I want it to, so I might go in depth in a different post. But off the top of my head, Coco and Wendy are thick as thieves, but Carla kept Coco at arms length for a while after she first hatched, especially when Edolas is mentioned.

Anyways, Wendy and everybody else are a little more informed going into Edolas. Unfortunately, their info came from someone who hasn't been there since she was five, so it isn't completely accurate. I imagine Coco wouldn't know exactly how Anima worked when she was little, so seeing Magnolia get sucked up would be just as much a surprise for her as it is for everybody else. And throughout the arc, she has to deal with he fact that Edolas is a lot more different than she remembers.