#whereas coleri is busy getting tangled up with an old villain we all know and love.....

[razzle-zazzle]

talk about the new imposter au please? you have captured all of my attention

Yeah! Been debating whether to outright state the twist or try and wait until the whumptober piece comes out, but yanno what I'm in a sharing mood so. yeah:

Basically, at some point during his fall in MotO, Cole and an oni who doesn't have a name yet but I've been using Eri as a placeholder... swap memories. Like, entirely. Eri wakes up in the form of Cole with all of Cole's memories and none of his own, and is thus convinced that he is Cole and not once does he question any of it. Cole wakes up convinced he's an oni serving under Omega, and is eager and ready to get back to it... as soon as he can manage to shift back into his true form and away from this weird disguise he doesn't recognize.

This, as you might imagine, is going to cause problems. The ninja don't realize that "Cole" (ericole??? coleri??? actually yeah for eri-disguised-as-cole we're gonna call him Erico, and then we'll call cole-convinced-he's-eri Coleri) isn't Cole, and Erico isn't about to realize he's not Cole either! And then while Coleri gets left behind when the oni are driven back, he also doesn't realize the obvious and thinks it's because he's a shit oni who lost the ability to shapeshift! There's gonna be a lot of imposter syndrome going around in this AU, hence why I didn't change the name 😌

so yeah tl;dr cole and a random oni swap memories and thus identities and this causes problems both for others and for themselves