#ozzie's multiverse diner AU

[moonblossom-bunny]

More 'Ozzie's multiverse diner AU' tidbits! (Really need to think of a better name tho)

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. Prior to opening the diner, Oswald actually ended up experiencing some sort of excistential crisis about finding his purpose in life after realizing the studio mainly gave him work for merch products and the odd advertisement here and there. If he can't do what he's designed and made for, what else can he do?

.He talks it through with Ortensia, whom suggested he just take a break from it all and take some time for himself to figure things out.

.Not really being part of a larger friendgroup like Mickey, he doesn't have anyone aside from Mickey and Ortensia to actually confide in on this matter.

He doesn't want to bother his brother with this, he wouldn't understand his point of view completely anyway, so he ends up taking a roadtrip trough the country.

It isn't until he, by chance, he meets up with people and Toons who give him some clarity.

He can find and create his own purpose.

. The diner was actually his own idea. Mickey and Ortensia fully supporting him.

. Doesn't mean Mickey fully understands his reasoning, leading to some brotherly squabbles from time to time.

. Doesn't help Mickey was the one tasked by the studio to confince Oswald to bw content with what he was given, the moment they find out he went mia due to his sudden, unplanned, roadtrip.

. They still have a good brotherly bond despite that.

. I mentioned in the last post that Oswald has 13 kids in this AU. Epic Mickey named them all Junior followed by a number. But since there are a lot less of them now, they can all have individual names. But to keep it as kind of a callback to all the kiddos being named Junior, all their names will start with a J.

. Word on the street apperantly is that Ozzie's diner has pretty decent coffee. Prompting some 'cop, detective and PI characters to drop by first thing in the morning or at the end of the evening for a cup.

. Most Toons haven't heard about Oswald either or his relation to Mickey. So it's ussually a mystery to them who this random fry cook is the Mickey Mouse seems to have befriended.

. Ortensia bakes most of the pies and cakes they sell. She ussually also has a blast coming up with new milkshake combos.

.Oswald can, and will, throw hands with anyone who ends up bothering the staff or other guests.

. Because both of them are smolls, the floor behind the counter and in the kitchen are adjusted and raised so they can reach the counters without having to stand on stepstools all the time.

[moonblossom-bunny]

Been stuck with an Oswald the lucky rabbit AU idea for the last week now and I figured I'd share the unrefined layout of this thing here.

I call this AU the 'Ozzie's multiverse diner AU'. (Might workshop that name tho)

It takes place in a Toons are actors/House of mouse like setting.

Disney still got Oswald's rights back in 2007. Everything he was in irl happened as well.

But over the next decade the studio hasn't asked him to be part of big projects like Epic Mickey and he realizes he's only being used for merch bc he has a marketable face and not much else.

Kind of bitter about that and knowing he's in the public domain anyway, Oswald decides it's time for a career change. That he was promised a show and that it got canned is actually the deciding factor with this.

No more hoping to be in the limelight for two seconds tops and waiting for another ten years until he's asked to be in a project.

He can't really retire either bc he has a family to look after. So with the funds he has, he manages to buy and renovate an 50's styled diner and turns it into Ozzie's.

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. Oswald is the chef/fry cook as well as the owner.

. Although he used to love being in the spotlight, all the empty promises the studio made him has turned him away from that. So he rarely leaves the kitchen of the diner.

. He does interact with patrons, but mostly around opening and closing time, or if they end up ordering something insane and off menu. He gets currious usually about who tends to have such a liking to weird food combos.

. He actually adores it when he can get creative with his dishes and patrons order something wild. It makes his whole day.

. Ortensia is there too of course. She is the head waitress and the offers advice and an listening ear to those who need it.

. Two of their eldest children help her out most of the time too, when they are not busy with their own work or school.

. Oswald and Ortensia don't have 420 bunny children of their own in this AU. Instead they have 13 and the bunny children used for the Epic Mickey games were 25 or so "extras" who tend to look alike at their young age. Making it seem there were a lot of them in the games.

. Both of them attempted to adopt them as their own though, but studio meddling prevented them from doing so.

. Speaking of studio and company meddling. Ozzie's is located across the street from the now boarded up and unused House of Mouse previously run by Mickey. The building still stands unused because the company no longer saw profit it letting Mickey keep the place, even though he really wanted to.

. Oswald is very determined to not have the same thing happen to his diner.

.That's why he's opening his doors to everyone and not exclusively characters from Disney.

.Characters from videogames, comic, other cartoons etc. All are welcome at Ozzie's even if they don't feel welcome anywhere else. (Hence the multiverse part of the AU)

.That doesn't mean the diner is currently a big hit yet. Since it's located in a more quiet part of town.

. The diner also has a downstairs bar/nightclub hidden away. Dusty remains left from the prohibition years.

.Ozzie's doesn't have a liqor license atm though, but Mickey has expressed a willingness towards reopening it and turning it into a bar of sorts, but so far Oswald isn't on board with the idea yet.

That's all I have so far.

Haven't worked on an AU in a long time, but hoping to expand on this in the near future.