#saint felps save us

[chamoemileclown]

its felp's world were just living in it

[dnalt-d2]

SAVE US, SAINT FELPS

[wsdanon]

Vampire au Felps reminds me of Medieval living saints, where someone was not /officially/ a saint, because that needs you to die, but at very least locally they were believed to be sufficiently holy and live in sufficiently "good" lives that they could perform miracles! Giving blessings and advice is just part of their job, alongside stuff like visions and healing people and regrowing stuff. I forget the technical term for it and was not a historian, but you find references around the 13th century, at least in England. And in my head I'm now considering that /obviously/ his "sacrifice" of feeding the local vampires willingly is a very "good" thing to do, recognising even those "damned creatures" as "god's children" and volunteering himself to be their feed, suffering to protect both locals from the vampires but also provide the vampires with what they need to live. (Looking at it from the perspective of other humans, with the specific caveat they have to think of Felps as holy as opposed to the more likely a fucking weirdo into some kinky shit. Assuming there even are locals.)

Also yeah hard agree Cellbit is probably a bit much for Fit right now probably best for that one to be a slow introduction after he's already a bit more used to vampires ^^; Like introducing a new chicken to the flock.

this is really interesting but the last bit about felps took me out lol. yes there are locals! and i never mentioned it but he does actually do work in the town (so he can get money for food + other necessities) so they absolutely know him. he is actually probably very well known for this specific reason lol

i really like this version of him being a saint \o/ i was mostly just reusing my backstory for him that i talked about here (it's my headcanoned backstory for his canon character) but this is probably a bit simpler and easier for this specific au

i mentioned somewhere i think that cellbit especially used to feed on locals (and definitely did not care if they survived) but also pac e mike did a bit too (they might've been a bit more careful). i could probably say that around the time people found out about felps' connection to the vampires is around the same time they figured out they could all feed solely on felps so timeline-wise for the locals this is absolutely felps sacrificing himself to save them \o/

there is actually a specific maybe-plot reason cellbit is keeping away \o/ but i don't know if i want to make it canon yet so i won't talk about it oops. but in general: yes cellbit is probably a bit much for fit if they (basically only pac) want fit to hang out with them--he's used to much worse vampires than them but they (again: mostly just pac) want fit to like them eventually so…

[ceranovis]

(Tossing ideas at this under the cut, feel free to take any pieces you like or ignore my ramblings entirely)

Merc Fit works for the Federation, which the Favela 5 was originally formed for the sake of taking down.

Maybe they all used to work for the Federation?

What if Mike is the only one of them with super powers? Maybe a lab experiment exploded on him and Pac one day-- Pac lost a leg in the blast, but Mike developed powers, and they both suddenly share a psychic link.

Sometimes Pac is angry about how unfair that day was. Sometimes he thinks the reason he didnt get abilities is because he's really just not all that special or good at anything, compared to Mike (and everyone else he loves).

They knew Cellbit and Felps before the accident, they just worked in different departments. After the accident, Pac ended up spending a lot of time with Felps-- Felps' chill attitude would be a good counterbalance for his own complicated feelings about Mike in the aftermath. Especially with them just starting to navigate the brain link thing-- it's not Mike's fault, he knows, but even just looking at him hurts sometimes, nevermind suddenly having Mike constabtly there for even his most private thoughts. Maybe Felps helps him out with his physical therapy as he got used to the prosthetic leg, which is one of the times he's feeling the most frustrated and vulnerable and liable to be bitter towards Mike in ways he doesn't want to be.

Meanwhile Cellbit, smart guy that he is, figured put something happened to Mike too and then helps Mike figure out how to get a handle on his new powers, in secret. Cellbit knows what the Federation would do with Mike if they found out-- maybe he actually intends on giving Mike up to them, once Mike is a little more polished, a better tool, and then reaping the reward from turning over such a valuable asset.

But then Felps gets a little too close to a Federation secret, and they spirit him away. And with that, all bets are off. Cellbit is willing to tear the Federation apart to get his friend back, and he's got the perfect weapon-in-training to do it. Pac convinces Mike to work with Cellbit on this, because he wants to save Felps too.

Shortly after the 3 of them defect, Bagi follows her brother. She's not going to let him run off and make an enemy of the Federation without her, no matter how hard he tries to keep her at a distance. She's also, quite frankly, worried about the collateral damage he might cause to their relatively innocent former coworkers if she's not around to reign him in.

The do eventually save Felps. Since they made themselves Federation enemy #1 in the process, they decide to say "fuck it" and stay together as a team to stop the Federation's machinations and eventually bring it down entirely.

Mike is their public face, because his powers make him pretty conspicuous anyways and he can go head-to-head with the Federation's goons (maybe he's got a whole anarchy theme going for his hero persona? Anti-hero persona?). Pac is the Man In The Chair, aided by the brain link for field communication with Mike and his own technical capabilities. Cellbit does a lot of their strategic planning, with Bagi providing a counter-balance and alternatives to Cellbit's more sociopathic tactics; they both do some field work too, usually more lowkey stealth sorts of things. Felps is less active on the Federation-fighting side; he deals more with the back end, the things that keep everyone else functioning when they get too wrapped up in the mission to take care of themselves or each other. He keeps the spiritual/emotional health of the team from declining they don't call him Saint Felps for nothing.

After the Felps incident, the Federation starts hiring mercs to protect their assets as it's pretty clear their own security isn't going to stand up to the Favela 5. Fit & Foolish are brought in around the same time.

Technically Mike and Felps are the only confirmed Favela 5 associates, the rest of them are just suspected by the Federation based on their connections to Mike and Felps and the extremely suspicious timing with which they left Federation employment.

Pac, being the Oracle of the group, would absolutely know who Fit is long before Fit had even seen his face outside of a Federation suspect file.

Maybe he first engineered running into Fit because he wanted to prove he could be useful for more than just chair-duty. He can do field work too, right? He can collect intel on their enemies too. He's totally stealthy.

Fit clocks him immediately.

It's not every day that someone clearly linked to the elusive underground vigilante group you're supposed to be taking out just walks right up to you in the grocery store and starts making small talk about the price of mangos (Pac looks cuter in person a bit different from the old company ID picture Fit saw in his file, but it's defintiely the same guy). He figures he can use Pac to get to the rest of them, so he plays along with the weird conversation and manages to get Pac's number and a promise to get mango smoothies together sometime.

Neither of them expected to actually be charmed while attempting to extract information out of the other. Their equally pisspoor espionage attempts kind of just turn into increasingly honest flirting.

Fit eventually confesses to suspecting Pac and trying to use him, because he wants to actually date but can't do that in good concious if he doesn't come clean. Besides, they've been dancing around each other for ages and, from what Fit has pieced together, Pac left the Federation when Mike blew off his leg in an unsanction experiment to gain power-- even of they were close before, there's no way Pac is actually helping the guy who did that to him. Right? Right. Totally unfair to level suspicion on him for that.

Pac knows it's going to be A Problem, but like... Fit is a really sweet guy, actually! Not even that evil! Haven't we all done bad things sometimes? They all worked for the Federation once too, they cant really hold that against Fit, right? It's not like Fit's attempts at murdering Mike were anything personal. He'll totally come around when he hears their side of things, and he'll definitely forgive Pac for the teensy bit of deception once he does. And it'll be even easier for Fit to forgive his boyfriend!

So Pac conveniently leaves out that Fit was right to suspect him, and they start officially dating. And Pac starts laying the groundwork for easing Fit (and his team) into the truth.

Pac just knows Mike and Fit will get along great, if they aren't actively trying to rip each other apart. He's been very careful to only think of Fit as 'the hot guy from the grocery store' or 'my boyfriend' when the link with Mike is strong enough for Mike to hear specific thoughts. Originally that was just so Mike didn't catch on to his attempts at spying and try to stop him, but it's come in handy now. He starts thinking about all the parts of Fit he knows Mike would appreciate in connection to the boyfriend thing, when he knows Mike can hear it. And also redirecting Mike from doing things that would put him in direct conflict with Fit while they're both on duty (Poor Foolish suddenly has a very bad lucky, constantly running into Mike instead)

Meanwhile he works on subtly persuading Fit to start questioning the Federation more. Dropping hints that the Federation was really what hurt him the most. Mentioning that he's spoken to Mike since the incident (though not exactly how much), and maybe doesnt blame Mike as much as Fit assumes he does. After all, forgiveness is super important right, Fit? Especially when people hurt you unintentionally? They can still care about you a lot! Love you, even! Right, Fit?

And then, when Pac thinks they can probably see each other without immedietely attacking, he sets up the dinner and crosses his fingers under the table. Fit and Mike are remarkably well-behaved, considering.

superhero mike and merc fit are arch enemies pac is mike’s civilian sidekick and he told mike he’s been seeing this guy for months mike couldn’t give less shit and when pac finally introduced his boyfriend to him over a dinner both mike and fit are both shocked and are fighting every time pac turns around

[chamoemileclown]

saint felps save us

[terezicaptor]

help us saint felps... save us...

Do you ever think about how poly morning crew is literally one step away from becoming the canon?

Fitpac both shamelessly check him up just now, they had talk about polyamory, piso told tubbo he could date both of them, they invited him on their date, I'm JUST AAAAAAGGHHH

LITERALLY IM GONNA GO INSANE

they have unintentionally set up this subtle poly storyline so so well... all it would need is like. a slight push of one of them talking about having feelings for the other two. doesnt matter which one. all we'd need is a slight push...

qsmp do u love polyamorous people 🥺 i am poly qsmp do u love me... u could show that u love poly queers in this one simple way... tubbo.. fit.... pac... do u hear me..