It was already a hard fight not to think about writing a Fallout AU for the sides before the show came out. Now I feel like I'm at the losing end of a long battle...
(I have so many WIPs for SaSi and for Fallout, already. I can't be doing this... But then the devil on my shoulder starts whispering to me about FEV!Mutant Janus keeping his nature under wraps well enough to become warlord of a lawless little town called Darkside, and about Roman and Remus as a synth and the man he was supposed to replace (though which one is which?) running away together to live as brothers, and Virgil as a world-weary scavver guiding two upstanding Vaulties on their journey and all of them meeting up and I just... I'm weak.)
SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO @nico-the-overlord ! It made a post that inspired me to look at my mlp au again
Ive chosen to redesign the designs i made, looking back some of them were just kinda boring :/ but like janus and remus are the same. Also they all have names! Id honestly love to draw more of them
Patton is our human (Clara's role) who was sent to the land of the Toys by Logan for the sake of breaking the princes' curses while they are trapped there.
Logan (not pictured, Drosselmeyer's role) was a member of the princes' court and fled to find someone who could help them. He transports himself and Patton to the land of Toys and is himself also a toy, cursed with the rest of their people once he returns.
Janus (not pictured) is the King of the Faeries, and the one who cursed the twins in order to punish the twins' father for stealing their magic sugarplum and causing the collapse of their whole world, leaving only Janus and Virgil to make it out of the magical carnage. He is angry and bitter. He regrets his decision but is too far lost to the bitterness and isolation of losing everything to reverse the spell. Perhaps a kind human can change his mind.
Roman was cursed to become leader of the dolls, turning him into the Nutcracker Prince, and he (like Remus) is puppeteered by Janus's curse so that when the twins see each other, they can't help but fight one another. Roman wants to stop fighting- he is exhausted and he's afraid if he fights too much he could kill Remus. The more he fights Remus, the more he is turned into an inanimate doll. Logan has a lot of trouble bringing him back to consciousness after a battle and it's getting harder and harder to do so.
Remus was cursed to become the Rat King, and unlike Roman he is flesh and blood and LOVES being King of the rats. He would stay this way if it weren't for fear that their fighting will get himself killed. Unlike Roman he is more and more flesh and blood rat by the day, and finds his mind wanders to less important things like food and digging through trash. He suspects the day his mind slips to his animal thoughts while fighting will be the day Roman kills him, and the day Roman becomes a fully non-sentient doll.
Virgil is the Sugarplum Faerie General to King Janus's court, and also his son. He has been acting as a go between secretly for the princes, but he cannot disobey his king according to faerie court law. The only interference he can manage is telling both sides the others' movements. He wants to help Patton break the spell.
Omg it’s Patton being cute and Roman being an insecure gay mess what else is new lmao made this a bit ago but never posted it. I like have a giant stockpile of Sander sides doodles as stuff I found on Pinterest at 3am
Heed the Content Warnings in the beginning of the edit please, this is an edit of an analog horror series after all HDASKHS
Anyways, you guys should watch Guilty Tears by @not-exactly-laborious 10/10 best Sanders Sides fan project ever, I thought this song would fit it well :3
I thought itd be a lot of fun to make the light sides demons and dark sides angels
More art and rambling under the cut! Id love it if you looked!
Ok im gonna ramble! Shoutout to @not-sure-what-im-feeling for contributing a lot of ideas and support to this au🫶
Roman Logan and Patton are demons
Virgil Janus and Remus are angels
Roman and Remus are brothers (ofc)
Roman used to be an angel but he fell and is now a fallen angel
The fall hurt :(
Roman then befriends Logan and Patton (or rather patton befriends him and logan warms up to roman)
Janus is a seraphim, and a pretty high ranking angel
Virgils role as an angel is to “deal with” and kill demons
Virgil and roman used to be good friends in heaven, but after romans fall virgil lost all respect for him and tried moving on from whatever friendship they had because hes a demon now and virgil assumes hes a bad guy
Roman still thinks fondly of his friendship with virgil :)
Remus really misses his brother
Theres probably more but i forget rn, if youre curious about anything please ask me id love to talk about this au🙏🙏