#thats basically kinda an isekai plot lol

[orykorioart]

What if TAZ Balance, but isekai? (Or, voidfishing woopsie made Taako think he’s an isekai protagonist.)

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Digital Illustration styled like a manga cover featuring Taako, Magnus, Merle, and the Red Robe. Most prominent is Taako, dressed in purple starry wizard hat and cloak atop his chef’s outfit, holding onto a chef’s hat with little chibi Merle and Magnus excitedly popping out. Taako is looking down at them confusedly.

In the background is the Red Robe, their figure faded into the dark background, but their hand is visible, holding up seven red strands trailing off into the background.

In the middle is the title, in ornate lettering, says “Transmigrated into a (disgraced) chef, destined to save the world?!” Beneath it says “Vol. 1”, stylized as a closed umbrella.

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[manticorecure]

can I get more info about the ashzam isekai severhopping au please I am shaking I love this au and ashzam

hi guys im actually so shocked and very glad you guys are receptive to this silly little thing of mine. yes of course you can know more about the ashzam vswap au !! i am sooooooo normal about them too trust HAHAHA. i have more ramblings and doodles about them on my main here and here but theres no way im turning down the chance to talk abt them more. au rambling will be under the cut !!

okay. im gonna like, reoutline the basics since nothing really makes sense unless we all get REAL COOL with a bunch of worldbuilding stuff first; basically quag are all god-adjacent beings (following their admin powers and abilities to use private servers and stuff) and everything takes place in a realistic minecraft setting where players on hardcore/private servers usually live there all their lives, which means that quag ash and uu ash are two different people, for example.

ashzam are quag ashzam who got basically booted into uu ashzam's bodies by way of [INTENTIONAL GAME DESIGN] oor something. i havent really thought that through.

okay? okay. now im a proponent of the 'completely omniscient director has an avatar on the server they communicate through but isnt totally aware of smaller things going on' idea, so thats how this weird swap thing occurs in the first place without the directors knowing. the director's like, background coding or something, makes it so that everyone else thinks that this is how things used to be: and ashzam are the only ones who change, by the way, cause i saw some confusion about that- they are the only things that change, but the organizations names change with them lol. anyway so ashzam think that theyre supposed to be in these roles because Obviously everyone else acts like theyre supposed to be here, so why wouldnt they think that too? like theyre aware they probably took over the bodies of their alternative selves but they dont know they Swapped. that is until the mcs start getting involved

whats happened here is that the main trio Know that somethings off, but theyre not sure what exactly it is at first. egg tells wemmbu something about toppling 'that tyrant ash off his high horse' and wemmbu like, absentmindedly agrees but hes like 'i cant help but feel like we've got the wrong guy...' meanwhile parrot and wifies are conversing over how to beat zam, but it just doesn't feel like she's the one theyre supposed to be fighting... spoke and mapicc are talking about all the shit zams put them through, but spoke cant help but think that all the stuff theyre attributing to zams doing was someone else's fault. it all kinda culminates in the three of them reaching some kind of epiphany- for wemmbu its when he finally faces off against ash in the war thats been weeks in the making, and realizes when clown finds them that its not ash whos supposed to be there but zam in his place; i havent thought abt when the other realizations could take place bc i havent gotten thru all of uu yet but, yeah, all of these realizations take place in similar fashions. the sidekicks dont realize and probably wont ever realize, but they believe in their friends for the most part and are willing to go along with the schemes.

now, ashzam, as much as theyd love to fuck around and screw up whatever plan the director has, theyre being tugged along by the directors plot too. its slightly different from what should be happening- i.e. maybe ash doesnt try as hard to be a dick to wemmbu, even though hes like 'this guy is pmo' he recognizes that theyre all in a pretty shit situation and kinda lets wemmbu off easily, or zam isnt so cruel to her mafia members and doesnt try As hard to torment parrot (she does still. kinda torment him. because shes a cruel god at heart! and thats kind of quags thing, being cruel to each other and laughing it off.)

but its not until the protags gain like, sentience or whatever, that they start getting actually worried because at one point the trio makes a plan to try and hunt down the one they want dead and interrogate them, which results in spoke and parrot going after ash while wemmbu hunts down zam. this kinda all culminates in them like living in some kind of secret base like the kind ash and squiddo have in s2 of uu to go back to, and they try from this base to continually contact kyle and redd (quag/god versions) so that they can leave uu. and ofc while they like. dont want anyone Dead or anything, neither of them are exactly playing fair when it comes to throwing off their pursuers (ash is creative flying and dropping bombs on spoke and parrot while they try and kill him, zams spawning a thousand ender dragons and crashing the server whenever wemmbu tries to get close to her, etc)

i havent really thought of any proper conclusion to the vswap au or anything, but in my mind there comes a point where both ashzam and the protag trio get so fed up they decide to try a friendly diplomacy meeting (ashzam only agree because they know the protag trio cant actually kill them no matter what, since theyll be in creative the whole time). they do get trapped going in but when protag trio realizes theyre unkillable they do actually get some information going between them and stuff, and ashzam agree to help protag trio hunt down the director and kill them.

i imagine this happens sometime in s2, after zams had her hand forced to kill wifies and ash has kinda gone intoa fake sort of cottagecore life with pangi (hes not too happy about having to live with zams best friend, and hes definitely not happy about her having to live with His gf but they work it out somehow)

aaaand this is a kind of crack-ish ending i guess. but in my head kyle and redd finally manage to get ashzam out by creating a wormhole that crashes unstable and lets all the uu characters out into the HUB for the first time in their minecraft lives and ashzam help them acclimate a little better