#superhero homuncli au

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I've been cooking an AU a bit in an Adam server on discord. I am going to call it the Superhero Homunculi AU with Lilith and Adam are the first manmade homunculi with powers.

There is an age of people having powers, this is skyrocketting, people gaining them from curses, experiments, or were born with them. It's a new age of uncertainty where there are those who wish to have a normal life, others who turn to the life of crime, or are vigilantes fighting against other criminals or the system at large.

One company, Edan Corp., hopes to change things for the better. They have been crafting perfection of genetically engineered quasi-humans called homunculi born to assist humanity at large. The homunculi are created as twins to balance the other out, and if there happens to be any failures that the other will be survive and have a working blueprint to change the next batch of homunculi. The CEO of Edan Co. is known as the God of Creation, who created this substance for the homunculi that will allow them to grow fast, to an adult, as they master and unlock their their powers.

The first two homunculi that were created is Adam and Lilith, where Adam is the first of the duo to wake followed by Lilith. The two appear to be children around the age of 7 with their own handlers that are top scientists of Edan Corp.: Sera and Michael with Adam while Lucifer and Gabriel are with Lilith.

Both Adam and Lilith grow up together as if they are brother and sister. Adam is more curious while Lilith is outgoing initially. The duo are sometimes socialized by the various employee's kids, learning right from wrong from their respective handlers, and go through training from the Seraphs, aka their main handlers.

The humonculi need to be together when they are young as the substance that makes them up is unstable before it levels off after a few weeks. The Seraphs had to keep them calm and make sure they are relatively well-adjusted. While these two are the future for humanity it is important to give them some form of a childhood before throwing them to solve various problems. However, Sera and Michael are more harder on their charge that even Lilith notices when both Lucifer and Gabriel (one or both) are caring for Adam while she gets Michael and/or Sera. [going for vibes similar to Umbrella Academy]

Adam does not notice this as he pushes some of Lilith's concerns that something is off with Michael and Sera. They need them to be better and he isn't the best - he lags behind mastering his power compared to Lilith who ages faster than him as she becomes better. Both can have access to either their primary or secondary but typically the secondary manifests (looking physically 15) when the individual is aware of what they can do.

Lilith has the power of Inspiring Song - she is able to manipulate others, calm them down in large crowds or make them angry. If she sings she is able to actually change the viewpoint of the masses, it works better if they are within a certain radius of her and being physically there. She can temporarily gift someone power but only for a short time with her Inspiring Song, but this has to be her actually singing to someone. As she matures she gains the ability of Empower, which she can embolden herself with her own songs and, if someone gifts their name freely that she has, she can give them extra power by directly shaping any ability one has or gifting a small power to someone with no power. This is a permanent boost which is different than her Inspiring Song which lasts for like 20 minutes tops

Adam has the power of Nature. Initially he can control plants, how they mature, if they can be dormant etc. before having the ability to control the wind, rain, thunder and lightening. His secondary ability is Bestow. With Bestow, if Adam names someone/something - be it a nickname or something else - he gets more power to do things (enhance strength, breathing underwater, durability, tremorsense, lifesense, minor healing salve/plants etc.) and when someone is named, they are slightly changed and some of their power - be it actual or something related to what they can do - is taken by Adam. He turns it into his own (ex., he names an artist he gets a small portion of their power aka drawing a bit better). Adam doesn't use his secondary ability too often because it feels weird.

Lilith, despite her power being supportive, uses it actively and there is more ease. Adam blunders a bit with his, with his secondary ability Bestow because he uses his subconsciously - he knows that there is more to it (to Bestow and Nature) but he wasn't sure what since Nature/Bestow has more of an evolution stage for him. When he gives people nicknames - Lilith = Lily - it feels weird to him because while he gets power he takes some from other people. Lilith doesn't realize that she had some of her power taken away initially but likes that flowers seem to perk around her and can create vines.

She'll realize the true ramifications later.

When Lilith and Adam are physically 12 the CEO announces that there is a new face of heroes to answer the world's problem. Both Lilith and Adam are wearing costumes, and are helping people evacuate or get hurt. Lilith is able to Inspire and Empower firefighters and crowds they can take matters into their own hands and she is well-versed in hand-to-hand combat. Adam tries to work in the background, sometimes it's difficult to use his plants initially in combat but makes sure to use them to trap any criminals.

[I'll write more about this later, it is quite late. I just want to set up a thing where Lilith and Adam are friends/siblings before the inevitable rift happens. I'll talk more about Lucifer, Michael, Sera, and Gabriel next time]