#this is a rickperson au they do happen eventually lmao

[bolly--quinn]

off season is for AUs so here's a bit more about that Rick and Beth au that I never shut up about ok so:

• Rick's crybaby backstory plays out roughly the same except only Diane dies before she goes and gets Beth from inside the house (sorry gorgeous, gotta use you for plot development once again 😔)

• Rick does roughly all the same shit he did before except as a single dad

• Rick Meets BP, Squanchy, Geardude (by extension Gearhead but like 😒) and joins the freedom fight against the galactic federation

• Doesn't really know how to be a single dad, emotionally reserved (except for when drunk) and kinda scared of raising Beth like this so he sends her away to an alien boarding school when she's like 9/10

• Beth gets kicked out of that alien boarding school when she's 14 for fighting (technically she killed a kid but I digress) gets sent back home to live with her dad and the freedom fighters

• Rick is like ???!?!?!? but BP says it's fine and it's probably better if they homeschool her anyway (plus he knows how much they missed each other but they won't say it because they are both stubborn and emotionally closed off and Beth isn't a little girl anymore so Rick doesn't really openly show her as much affection as before despite them both desperately needing it)

• It's been like 4/5 years since they have seen each other and Rick has cool, chill rockstar energy and Beth is a tougg mean girl and their reunion is awkward.

• Rick trains Beth to fight like the freedom fighters but never actually let's her go to any meetings or to a battle. He keeps her confined in her room with an AI watching her and sometimes the freedom fighters are gone for months (sometimes in battle, sometimes just drinking and hanging around exploring the galaxy) but Beth is forced to stay at the base and grows resentful and determined to prove herself to her father

• Beth is finally allowed to be a part of the freedom fighters around 17/18 ??? She's obsessed with it and her bloodlust is greater than anyone else's (Squanchy thinks it's really cool, BP worries about Rick's parenting, Rick thinks it's a little weird but fine)

• Beth insists on calling them the "defiance", Rick thinks naming things is dumb and refuses to ever call them that. They co-lead meeting sometimes (and by co-lead I mean Beth comes up with all the plans while Rick is drunk)

• Beth cares so much about fighting the federation because she thinks that it's important and their "higher calling" and kinda hates how Rick doesn't seem to take it as seriously, gets drunk, parties, seems aloof about it

• Beth and Rick's relationship is complicated because she still kinda suffers from abandonment issues from him leaving her in a boarding school and then for months/years at a time during her adolescence but she also fiercely respects and admires him to a degree while also being sick of him and his drinking and fake "uncaring attitude" but they do love each other and would defend each other no matter what, despite the fact that they also fight all the time and manipulate one another

• Oh!! And Beth is super aware of Rick's crush on BP and is just like "Tell him how you feel dumbass!! 😡" but Rick is like "Shut up, you're acting real silly rn hush" and then covers her mouth while BP talks about his new soul bond that seems to be getting serious and Rick just nods and then gets drunk and cries in his room (Rick DOES NOT confess his true feelings to BP after Blood Ridge because he has Beth to think about, despite sending her away to boarding school, so he doesn't ask BP to run away with him and just drinks his feelings down at a bar when they are all celebrating the victory)