#severance au

[rivaerys]

eruri in severance au

[doublxpresso]

so i watched severance

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i clock in, i make niche art, i clock out

severance art

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[ambarraquel]

Okay, since Episode 3 is out, I want to share what’s been on my mind since Season 1. I don’t know if this is possible or logical, but it’s about Irving.

This might turn into a rant 🤣. But keep reading—I promise it makes sense in a LUMONesque way.

1. We know severance is mostly irreversible, and Rhegabi just confirmed how hard it is to send messages between the innie and outie.

2. So how does outie Irving recognize that elevator?

Thanks to Felicia, we now know it’s “The Exports Hall,” where Optics & Design used to handle shipments directly. But if Irving has never been there, how does he know about it? It makes no sense for him to just know.

And then there’s his connection with Burt—it feels so deep, almost like it transcends severance.

What if Irving has been at LUMON longer than he remembers? The severance procedure can selectively erase memories, and we already know about the past MDR Refinement Calamity that LUMON may have distorted to create the lore and keep the departments separated. The most important thing is that MDR is curiously the center of all that weird lore!

Now, the OTC escape plan/MDR Microdat Uprising of Irving Mark Dylan and Helly has become new lore with the whole claymation thing—which we know has been spread to other innies, at least to some extent, because of the new employees Mark briefly shared as coworkers. What if that alleged cannibalistic assault from the paintings actually happened?

Maybe the exports elevator area was so successful that they decided to utilize it in different forms—thus the cannibalistic revolt. LUMON could have devised a whole plan, making that revolt happen as they tried to crack the technology enough to create Mrs. Casey. (Or maybe the revolt was an accident that led them to the technology behind her.) So maybe that place beyond the hall exists because LUMON had to devise a place for trial and error? Maybe employees involved in the cannibalistic revolt were wiped and “reset” down there? Maybe LUMON was experimenting with early severed chips?

We know for sure that down there is where they keep Miss Casey in storage. If LUMON can erase memories with severance, it makes sense they could also erase people or keep them in a state of suspension. So if Irving has been there before, maybe something happened to him—maybe he was even kept there as punishment. Maybe that was an early Break Room. Whatever it was, it must have been such a strong memory that, even without fully understanding it, it pushed him to take LUMON down.

Which brings me back to Irving and the plausibility of his remembrance.

1) What if he was originally in Optics & Design and met Burt over and over again, kept falling in love, and they went to the Exports Hall for work early on? So he was familiar with it, but didn’t expect to be exported himself. Maybe one of his last, most emotional memories was that black hall, which is why he remembers it. Maybe LUMON erased them multiple times because they wouldn’t allow it—or maybe they even knew each other as outies and chose to have their memories wiped. Maybe that’s why Burt followed Irving in his car—because he actually knows his outie—but that seems more convoluted 🤣.

2) Another theory of mine is that maybe Irving was part of the original cannibalistic revolt of MDR. I’d love to believe he also met Burt at that time, and he somehow survived and chose to have his memories reset rather than be fired—because that would mean living in a world where Burt was also in it, even if he couldn’t remember him. And maybe Burt was also reset?

So, the only explanation that makes sense to me for outie Irving remembering that elevator is that he’s been there before, but his complete experience was erased—except for that one lingering image of the elevator.

(And yes, I know the much simpler explanation is that someone from a Let’s Take Down LUMON secret society could’ve shown him that picture, and he’s painting it over and over because he’s part of an effort to take LUMON down. But honestly, that’s too simple—it takes the fun out of it 🤣.)

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FAMILY PORTRAIT!!!

No frame under the cut!!

I liked how I did the background :D) !!!

[spooky-dice]

dndads severance au. is this anything. glenn severing so he doesn't have to grieve morgan work. ron who's the best at ambiguous business work inside and crumpling under his father's lumon lineage outside. outie sparrow who won't stop sending his free spirit innie to a corporate job he hates because he believes conforming to normality is better. outie nick close and innie nicholas foster with a botched reintegration.

[littlearitan]

Just finished rewatching severance and now two svsss bingqiu/bingyuan aus got permanent residence in my head

Like,

Shen Qingqiu as Mark Scout, pulling all the weirdest bitches both as innie and and outie? Check

Weird mc's relationship with the boss who may or may not have romantic/erotic obsession with them? Check

A commentary on societal perception of personhood? Like in svsss the "reader's gaze" is prioritised by the system, and in severance lumon presents all that happens on severed floor through the lens of corporate agenda? Check

And it could go both ways

1) Be a bingqiu au where Shen Jiu is an outie and Shen Yuan is his innie, with Binghe outie having suffered from professor Shen, and then, after a couple of years, Binghe innie working under his kind department head Shen Yuan.

It would be soulcrashing for a reintegrated Binghe to realize, that SY and SJ are the same person, and he could flip out in any way: either a) try reintegrating the Shens to see what will win, SY's love or SJ's hatred (it would be so easy for him to manipulate a confused merged Shen Qingqiu into choosing one feeling over the other with a heavy guilt complex later, about having "made" SQQ choose him), or b) try flipping the switch between innie and outie Shens permanently, fixing SY as a single owner of the body. Blackened Binghe would definitely not have any qualms over destroying Shen Jiu as a person. In this AU Tianlang Jun would probably be Lumon's CEO, having started severance procedure to cope with losing Su Xiyan, and Binghe would use that to gain access to procedure control

2) Be a bingyuan au where Shen Yuan is both innie and outie, with a Lumon high executive/secerance floor head Bingge with a Cobel-like obsession with SY. Unsevered Bingge would start as an uncaring boss, slowly obsessing over Shen Yuan innie and thaen pulling a Cobel-Selvig move and moving in to Lumon houses to a be SY outie's "simple friendly next door neighbour, who likes cooking, crafts and works in bakery", totally your average innocent guy, Yuan-ge, can I come to your place, I want you to help me taste-test a new set of dishes.

And Bingge would slowly start getting obsessed with SY, integrating himself further and further with SY' innie and outie, who both just can't resist his charms but don't initiate anything/don't respond to flirting because "well Bingge is my boss and definitely has someone outside" and "Binghe is so nice, he definitely has a girl or two at his beck and call, why would he need me" - slowly Bingmeifying Bingge, with a second plot of SY trying to know more about Lumon and discovering horrors of company-controlled life and Bingge, who previously did not gaf, gaining new opinion on severance procedure and deciding for himself what to do with his life, if it doesn't revolve around being an all-powerful Lumon executive (move in with healthily reintegrated SY and become his house-husband after destroying Lumon, duh)

Sidenote: Shang Qinghua would definitely be a double agent with Irving situation, where SQH outie is digging to destroy Lumon, but SQH innie ignores subconscious messages to focus on flirting with his co-worker MBJ

[zara2148]

"Just how much more culty can I make the squid game island?" I mutter as I re-invent a children's rhyme to be something that plays for the guards before bed for my Severance fusion AU.

Now I lay me down to sleep

My soul I give the island to keep

So in the morning when I wake

The games continue for my sake

[andillwriteyouatragedy]

if it's quite alright

a multi-chaptered severance au fanfic in another life, burt, a newly-retired former curator, finally talks to irving, the artist he's noticed in his art museum (and crushed on) for years.

[shatterstars-world]

So I am writing my Arcane fanfic where the severance procedure takes place in Piltover/Zaun and characters such as Vi, Caitlyn, Jayce and Viktor are severed. After reading @beetleandfox 's post on core characteristics and beliefs in the characters from Severance (e.g. Irving's "desire for meaning and art and spirituality" and Helena's "headstrong and entitled nature"), which talks about how morals and devotion to a cause are socialised in us rather than innate parts of our character, I've been thinking about the core beliefs and characteristics of the Arcane characters. I want to pull together some of the popular analyses of them, and think about how that may translate for their "innies". To me, one of the most interesting ways to build characters is asking: what is this character's core belief? And why is it wrong?

To me, Vi is one of the easiest characters to imagine in a Severance AU, mainly because in Arcane Vi literally spends seven years of her life in prison. She goes in a terrified teenager who has lost everyone she loved, and comes out hardened by tragedy and prison brutality – but she remains a kind, intelligent, caring and trusting person. Severance creates both a physical and mental prison for innies, who are designed purely for labour but are human and therefore need connection. And I think both Vi's outie and innie would be desperate for it.

One of her core beliefs is that she's here to protect and help others. It's why she risks her life again and again for the people she loves, why she can't let Powder go in season 1, why she loses her sense of identity after she's lost both Powder/Jinx and Caitlyn in season 2 act 2, and why staying to help in the commune has such an appeal to her. Similarly, I think her innie would be committed to helping others. I don't think she would find meaning in a god figure that Lumon creates, but instead find meaning in friendships with her coworkers.

Do I think Vi's innie would try to break out when she is first born? Absolutely. But I think that rebellion would be beaten out of her over seven years, much like it is for Mark S. through the torture of the break room. Think about Vi when we first meet her. As @generisydtoo says in their analysis of the prison warden and institutionalised brutality within the prison, Vi is expecting to be beat up when Caitlyn comes to question her and just wants to get it over with. It is only because of Caitlyn's power that she is able to leave, otherwise she may have lived the rest of her life in prison. Vi's innie would be taught that there is no means of escape, and if she were to learn that her outie had severed because she had to work tirelessly from a young age and this corporation gave her the best opportunity to look after her family, I think her innie would accept that. She too only really finds meaning in others. The flaw in this logic is that she will harm herself and others if all she can think about is trying to protect them. Protection is not the same thing as life, peace, justice and satisfaction. Ideas about rebellion would only occur to innie Vi if her friends were in serious danger (which they will be, but I don't want to give away too many spoilers...).

Now if there's any Arcane character who is easy to transpose onto a Severance character, it's Caitlyn. Like Helena Eagen, she is born into power and wealth, is sheltered by her family, and is headstrong in her beliefs. However, Caitlyn is given opportunities to carve her own identity in a way Helena can't, e.g. being allowed to become an incredible marksman, joining the enforcers, not being punished for using her connections to release Vi and solve a mystery in the Undercity but instead being given an opportunity to speak to the Council. That being said, I think Caitlyn's innie would be similar to Helly R.: furious with her outie for imprisoning her in this way, raging against the corporation, desperate for freedom as Helena/Cailtyn is in the outside world.

Caitlyn is such an interesting character in Arcane because she goes from a naive girl guided by her moral compass and black and white thinking, to a jaded woman who becomes so consumed by grief that she believes that the ends (killing Jinx) will justify her means (declaring martial law, using the Grey to hunt the chem barons regardless of the damage it could cause to innocent civilians of the Undercity). It is only when she is forced to face the fact that her actions are immoral, regardless of the end result, that she accepts the total error of her ways.

I think at the core of Caitlyn's character is the belief that her moral compass will guide her to doing the right thing. This belief is obviously flawed and frequently wrong, which is what makes her so compelling to me. In a Severance AU, this may mean that her outie sees no problem with the subjugation of innies, and it means that her innie will see no problem in harming her outie if she cannot have freedom.

I have so many more ideas for this fanfic and cannot wait to flesh out the world-building. I am currently half way through chapter 1 of 7, but with Severance season 2 coming out, the possibilities of this fic feel endless to me. Thank goodness for art.

[unrelatabledude]

Hey there, honey bee. Who are you? Unknown, unknown, Osaka, unknown, unknown. That's a perfect score.

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Mark Scout…

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[hypfden]

The what if story

“Two rivals sitting in a frozen time space, 5 feet apart because their lesbian friend felt really guilty !!!!”

Aka “Severance”

When Allura was still learning how to use her alchemy correctly she never knew how to use it safely. When Lance died in that blast she was only unable to scrape bits and pieces of his quintessence back into his body. Functionally Lance's body was still alive and breathing but with what little quintessence in his body Allura had to essentially use him as a puppet. He still was sentient but barely able to keep up the fight otherwise he was nothing but a mere empty husk with no life in it.

Through guilt and voltron she kept puppeteering; the only people who caught on were Coran and Lotor. She knew Coran wouldn't tell anyone else, it would devastate the team and they could not form Voltron. Lotor on the other hand tried to find a way to try and fix Lance. Eventually this came to an end after he died in the quintessence rift. No one else could know.

She never knew that the rest of lance’s quintessence was in the red lion and by the time she had even thought about it, it was already too late. The lions had already dispersed into the universe, probably never to be seen again until another calamity. Lance would never be restored and she would live with that guilt.

At nights when she would cry on him begging for forgiveness in not restoring him properly. Some nights she debated on ending his life just so he could be free. She took a knife to his throat, he lay motionless as his dull blue eyes stared at her. She could never bring herself to do it anyway. She didn't have enough time to retract the knife from his neck when Keith came into the room. And before she could even explain herself she was knocked down.

Keith asked what was wrong with her and looking at Lance's unmoving body he thought the worse. She had no choice but to save herself. Keith knew now. The next thing Allura saw was Keith’s body collapsing to the floor as romelle stood behind him with a broken glass bottle. They both shared a glance and slowly took both Keith and Lance and stored them in cryo pods. She hid them beneath the castle which she put under protection. In a cruel form of protection she made sure that no one would be able to open the cryo pods until one of the voltron lions returned.

So they stayed there frozen in time for the foreseeable future.

End?

(Badly written??? Yeah it is someone please add to it so i have more influence to draw more :))) ill take anything by this point)

[oklotea]

Completely out of context severance trolls au doodles...... Beware the lack of polish

[julystruck]

the you you are

@keplerspacecraftofficial did the sketch

[indigosunsetao3]

Finally started Severance. I’m on on episode 1 but I have thoughts.

Like what if our 141 boys were ‘severed’? They come home beat to fuck, new scars, pain in places they can’t even fathom. But they can’t remember how they got them. Just a note thanking them for a job well done, apologies for the lingering pains after the ‘accident’, and don’t forget to report in two weeks.

They don’t know one another outside of work. At all. All four are complete strangers to one another; they wouldn’t even second glance at one another in the grocer.

But man, that guy across the street looks so familiar, though he won’t talk to Johnny. Won’t even wave when Johnny tries to be neighborly.

The guy who runs by every morning waves back, as any polite person would, as he keeps going around the corner. But Johnny swears he knows him from somewhere. The grin is so nostalgic it’s like a punch to the gut, but the feeling fades just as quickly.

And if the guy that keeps nagging him about the trash bins doesn’t let up, Johnny will deck him in the jaw. Right where he knows it will hurt the most since it had been shattered….when, when was it shattered? And how does he know that? He doesn’t even know the man’s name.

Johnny’s not sure why this time it’s different when he gets home from work, but he’s remembering such unsettling things. Maybe it has something to do with the new starburst scar by his temple and the raging headaches.