#rvb ai swap au

[pluto-glow]

I've been meaning to ramble about this for a while oops but me and one of my partners worked on an rvb au based on this art We don't exactly have an official name for it- we've called it rvb ai swap au and rvb freelancer fix-it since a lot of the freelancer's ai's were swapped around and we added a lot more ai's and freelancers and it kinda fixed somethings? But also fucked up some other stuff so ya know

But the ai swap that started this entire au was North and South getting Eta and Iota. North got Eta since Eta's associated emotion was fear, so that just ended up with North taking on even more of a caretaker kinda role for Eta. South got Iota who's associated emotion is happiness. The Director saw how well North and South worked together and when Eta and Iota formed together, he wanted to see if giving them to the twins would help North and South work even better together than they already were. And it honestly does kinda work, North takes care of Eta so some of his anxiety and worry about South has an outlet, and Iota helps South have more fun.

But where does Theta go if they don't end up with North? In this au North gives up Theta to Maine instead of Carolina giving up Sigma and I love Theta and Maine being paired up so much you have no idea. Theta helps Maine with communication and Theta figures out a way for some of the Freelancers to learn sign language so Maine can talk to people more directly. Maine also gets protective of Theta after a while which helps Theta a lot when they get scared at night. Maine doesn't have as many headaches from Theta as he did from Sigma either.

Wash still gets Epsilon, but the Director and Counselor figured that implanting an AI who's associated trait is literally memory directly could end up with Wash knowing more about the program than he should- so they did something closer to when Epsilon/Church was in that mongoose I think it was? He's in Wash's armor, can project and all that, can still access the armor, but can't access in Wash's head. It makes the 2 of them communicating a lot harder, but it also means that Epsilon being implanted doesn't fuck up Wash's head so-

One of the non-canon Freelancers that I've been working on for this au is Maryland. She's easily distracted a bit of a major klutz, and can get pretty social anxious, but she's one of PF's best snipers. She gets paired with Kappa who helps her with focus. Honestly helps with focus a little too much. Kappa doesn't see the point in doing anything that doesn't have to do with Project Freelancer, but Maryland still likes to relax when she gets the chance. They but heads a lot when it comes to when to work and when to relax, but they still work pretty well together. Maryland's armor upgrade is a rations pack, it holds everything from water to ration bars to fluids that can be injected through an IV if needed.

Now I know Temple isn't exactly a Freelancer and he hates them but- Temple is supposed to be Church's counter part, right? So why not make Temple an AI. Temple was originally an AI named Tau, he's the Alpha's want for revenge. The Director and Counselor figured that having an AI around who just wanted revenge on them would be a bad idea, so they shipped him off to a sim trooper canyon and made up this fake backstory for him that his name was actually Mark Temple and he had signed up for Blue Team, and did the best they could to make sure that Tau didn't remember Project Freelancer. But if Temple was really an AI then what about Biff? Biff was actually a Freelancer sent there to watch Temple like what Florida was originally supposed to be for Church. Biff didn't really know a ton about the "memories" Temple had, but Biff had to go along with them anyways. The Director and the Counselor decided they liked how the experiment with Tau/Temple went, so they ended up trying the same thing with the Alpha when the time came

We have a lot more than this- the google doc we made for the AU is like 60 pages? But this is just some of the main characters I've worked on

[rubykgrant]

If each RvB character (or you could just do the Blood Gulch Crew) was an AI, what would their trait be? What one word defines each of them?

I had this little vague idea for a Sim Trooper/Freelancer/AI Swap AU; that is, the Freelancers were all regular Sim Troopers in Blood Gulch, the AI were humans who were the actual Freelancers (all with code-names for the Greek Alphabet), and the original Reds and Blues were AI Fragments! Church was still the Alpha, but after taking his memories away, other scientists in the UNSC wanted the Director to DO something actually useful with the AI, so they stuck him in a robot body and told him he was "Agent Alpha". He has a reputation for always surviving terrible situations (so people that don't actually know him think he's so bad-ass and cool... but he just keeps not dying because he's already an AI). He also has a habit of getting really lucky with technology (again, he's doing AI stuff, but he doesn't KNOW he's doing it). The Director also put the Beta AI in a robot body, but decided to keep her safe from dangerous situations, and she got sent to a Sim Trooper base (ironically, Tex and Carolina get along really well over there on Blue Team).

In this scenario, when Alpha created the Fragments, they didn't originally have designations to help him deal with problems, but each was meant to be a companion (which I think the original Fragments also would have been, if SOMEBODY hadn't been a jerk about taking them away), and thus had "people names". Even with their memories erased, they still hold on to the names Alpha used. Tucker is sort of the Epsilon, because he holds on to all the memories, and refuses to forget. As AI Assistants to the Freelancers, the Fragments are given designations to help identify what their strengths and traits-

Caboose is Friendship (come on, what else~).

Simmons, ironically, could also be Ambition (though, unlike Sigma's ambition for himself, with Simmons it is more like "the ambition to live up to other people's expectations, hoping for their approval/attention". it's a nice way of calling him a suck-up with anxiety).

Sarge can be Determination (whatever idea he has, he just goes full-throttle on it).

Grif is Relaxation (the scientists think he's just "the lazy Fragment", but he reminds people to take a break, calm down, eat/sleep... he's actually VERY important).

Donut can be Drama (is he happy? then he's gonna be JOYOUS. is he angry? then he's gonna be FURIOUS. also, he likes to gossip).

Since Omega is a Freelancer, Doc and O'Malley are a pair of duo AI, maybe they can be Kindness and Mischievous (you need them both to balance things out; Doc can be so eager to help, he ignores personal harm. O'Malley is not entirely "selfish", but tempers the selfless reflex with some caution, and also provides an outlet for anger/unhappy thoughts. if you never voice your problems, they just bubble up. together, they give new meaning to the phrase "kill them with kindness").

Kai is Indulgence (party-party-party!).

Tucker is Hope (no matter how small it seems, hope is hard to kill~)

[calliecat93]

So for this Grimmons/Chex Role Swap AU to be made I have to do a lot more than I thought I would. I guess I don’t have to, but I like having my facts straight. So what I have realized is:

A, I pretty much write up EVERYTHING that happens in the show so that I can decide what would change. Lets just put it this way, with Simmons the Alpha and Grif, at least in the current draft, not being at Blood Gulch until later, Church getting shot by Sheila... is much more of a serious problem since he isn’t an AI. I mean it gives me an excuse to rewatch it, at least.

B, I have to do a crap load of research on Halo. I’ve never played the games and only know a few basic things about it. or example, I don’t knwo how AI’s in Halo work. While RvB is it’s own thing,, it DOES use elements from Halo so the least I can do is read up on how technology works.

C, I should... probably practice writing since I have NEVER written anything for RvB and the characters are surprisingly complex writing-wise. So... yeah... better work on that eventually.

UGH man this is gonna be so much work. I’m a lazy perosn. IDK if I can do this... but I’ll try cause I’m a crazy person.

[pluto-glow]

Hey! You don't have to if you don't want to and all that but you should talk about your rvb fix-it au more! It seems interesting!

This ask made me so happy you have no idea

Rambles under the cut

Plot wise the au’s pretty close to canon

There’s just a lot more AI’s and freelancers

Like in season 15 when Locus saves Wash and Carolina from Temple, Wash and Carolina aren’t the only Freelancers in there who are still alive. Instead of dragging out 2 Freelancers Locus has to drag out 5. Luckily Maryland with her rations are there so they all get to fuel up a little, but Wash isn’t the only loopy one.

Oh and Maine lives since he got Theta and never became the Meta. Like I mentioned in that original post about it Maine's a lot happier in this au with Theta's help. Theta and Maine really help eachother and it's so sweet and probably my favourite Freelancer and AI pair from this au.

Georgia and Florida both also got AI's, Georgia got Xi who represents greed, and Florida got Psi who represents pride. You'd think that since Xi was greed he'd make Georgia do stuff like steal stuff but no, Xi just made Georgia into a bit of a show off. The 2 of them really tried a lot to impress people and to make people think they're cool. Georgia did end up into space in that whole accident with the jet pack, but Xi was able to help keep him alive until PF could pick him up again. But he still missed a while, including when Wash got there, so the "you don't want what happened to Georgia to happen to you" jokes still happened, even when Georgia got back. I've been going back and forth between what Psi's like and how he affects Florida so I'll save talking about those 2 for another time.

A concept that my partner came up with that I think is so genius is that CT got Lambda, who represents loyalty. CT agreed to get an AI implanted so she could easily take an AI with her when she left. The Director had heard of a rumor that there might have been a mole in PF, the Counselor believed that CT was one of the more likely people to be the mole if there was one, so they figured that Lambda would make CT rethink that and become loyal to PF again. It didn't work and CT still left, but Lambda made it harder for CT to leave.

Man I need to draw more of these guys. I did a doodle of a Temple/Tau concept a while back but there's some scenes I wanna draw out and maybe make into comics sometime (I'm kinda shit at comics tho so- /lh nav)

[rubykgrant]

How many RVB AUs have I made so far? Hmm...

Monsters AU (mostly Vampires and Werewolves, but a few ghosts and some other spooky things thrown in)

Sim Trooper/Freelancer/AI Swap AU (the original Freelancers are the Red and Blue Teams in Blood Gulch, the AI are now human and have the Freelancer roles, and the Fragments that come from Alpha are the Reds and Blues we know and love)

High School AU (Church, Tex, Sarge, and Lopez are the teachers. Tucker, Caboose, Kai, Grif, Simmons, Donut, Carolina, Wash and Doc are all students)

Tooth Fairy AU (yes that Rock the Dwayne Johnson movie)

“Mermaid” AU (younger human Grif and merkid Simmons)

Care Bears and Cousins AU (I love these little fuzzy guys, what can I say)

Wizard of Oz AU (this was bonkers and I don’t even care)

Same Leaders, Different Group AU (in which Sarge gets Tucker and Caboose, while Church gets Grif, Simmons, and Donut)

Locus and Felix in Blood Gulch AU (Locus is on Red Team, Felix is on Blue Team. later, Sharkface is hunting down the AI while Wash is stuck on a prison ship, and Carolina has been convinced by her father to get involved with the war on Chorus)

Circus/Carnie AU (they all work with a traveling circus, because they’ve always been a bunch of clowns)

Sharkface Lives and Gets Sigma AU (pretty self explanatory. I just like the fire boys. also, Sharkface eventually chills on trying to kill Carolina, and joins Red Team)

The Memory of Tex Works with Epsilon, and also South is on Chorus AU (that’s a long title, but yeah; Tex and Carolina have a reconciliation. meanwhile, when Wash was still stuck with the Feds, one particular soldier kept picking on him... turns out, somebody didn’t die)

Grif and Simmons College AU (if they had somehow met earlier, going to the same college. they eventually join up for the space war, and go to Blood Gulch together. the only difference is, they’re more aware of how they feel from the start)

Ghostbusters AU (who you gonna call? I guess these dorks)

Sailor Moon AU (Tucker is the reincarnated Moon Prince who needs to fight evil with the power of glitter and friendship. Church is his bossy cat guardian. the rest of the characters all get magical powers too, and Tex is their Tuxedo Mask)

Jumanji AU (Church, Tex, Sarge and Lopez began the game years ago. Tucker, Caboose, Simmons, Grif, Kai, and Donut are new players. Carolina, Wash, and Doc don’t have tokens or turns, but they get pulled into the shenanigans)

Pokemon AU (the Reds are Team Magma, the Blues are Team Aqua. Freelancers are Team Plasma, Locus and Felix are Team Rocket)

Grif and Epsilon are the Only Survivors of the Final Battle on Chorus AU (Carolina, Doc, and Wash actually all survived as well, but they lost the rest of the Reds and Blues. naturally, Grif and Epsilon are pretty depressed... when time-travel nonsense happens, they both get pulled into alternate realities where their counterparts died, but the others lived. they are very tempted to just... stay. it is never that easy, though)

Coraline AU (a young Carolina moving into a new house after her father mysteriously passes away. she finds a pathway to strange new world where everything seems better, but it is actually insidious. her new neighbors might be odd, but they help her see the truth)

Alpha Remembers AU (when Church first woke up in Blood Gulch, he remembered who and what he was. he’s slightly more quiet at first, being so forlorn and all, but slowly grows into the Church we know. later, he doesn’t deactivate the other AI with the EMP, and Epsilon just joins the group. two Churches now)

(I think that’s most of them... well, a few others that are just vague ideas, but these are all a bit more solid~)