ninthfeather: Waist-up image of Louise Halevy from the anime Gundam 00. She is a white woman with green eyes and long, straight blonde hair. (Default)
 Art of several characters from Gundam 00 in basketball uniforms and holding basketballs.

Happy belated birthday, @shengyoushengyin ([tumblr.com profile] w-ingsofwords)! You’ve mentioned Kuroko no Basuke to me as a series you particularly like, and that ended up giving me the idea for a Gundam 00 basketball AU. I don’t have a firm idea for an overall plot for the universe, but have some sketches, and some random thoughts for the story/character roles:
  • All of the Meisters were the best basketball player on their last team. Setsuna didn’t even play for a school team before this but whatever team he was on, he was still the best. There’s some friction between them, as a result.
  • Hong Long has some complicated family stuff going on that he’s trying to escape through basketball
  • Setsuna is probably trying to work through whether his tendency toward an aggressive, viciously competitive playstyle is really constructive (spoiler: it’s not)
  • Allelujah is trying to balance his mental health stuff and his commitment to basketball
  • Neil and Lyle’s complicated relationship is also an ongoing problem for the team, so the two of them are trying to work that out—Neil through toning down his “untouchable” perfection that’s often gained at the cost of taking unneeded risks/getting sports injuries, and Lyle by finding ways to define himself that aren’t based on his brother
  • Tieria is trying to learn how to have interests that he’s chosen for himself
  • Saji doesn’t start out being that serious about basketball, and thinks he’ll just sit on the bench all season, but seeing how important it is to everyone around him makes him want to start working harder at it 
  • Ms. Sumeragi is the coach, and various members of the bridge crew work with her on things like designing the team’s training schedule, overseeing stretches, and working with injured players. Most of them are high school/college students who are interested in coaching or sports medicine.
  • Marie and Anew are members of the women’s basketball team at their institution, and at one point they challenge the men’s team to a game out of sheer spite because of the differences in how much each team gets funded. They don’t have a proper coach, but Marina Ismail has been acting as their faculty advisor, and Marie’s dad Sergei, who used to be a professional basketball player, has been giving them unofficial advice. After the game, they start sharing coaching staff with the guys.
  • One rival team is coached by Kati Mannequin, and includes star players Graham Aker and Billy Katagiri, and possibly some other A-Laws. Another is coached by Laguna Harvey and includes the Trinities.  A third team is made up of the Innovades and they pretty much do what they want.
(better quality and an additional image of the Dylandy Twins here)
ninthfeather: Waist-up image of Louise Halevy from the anime Gundam 00. She is a white woman with green eyes and long, straight blonde hair. (Default)
 Pencil sketch of the Kingdom Hearts characters Vanitas and Repliku leaning against a brick wall. Both are teenage boys with spiky hair. They look tired but happy.

Sooooo KH3 AU wherein Vanitas and Repliku are both alive and instead of getting sucked into the conflict of good versus evil (and probably getting possessed by Xehanort, though I’m really trying not to think about that possibility) they just run around the worlds with their Keyblades, wavering between chaotic evil and chaotic neutral, avoiding Xehanort, and occasionally tarnishing Sora and Riku’s reputations as they go.
 
So, at some point Vanitas re-forms, and then defects because he realizes that Xehanort is basically using the possibility of reuniting with Ven to manipulate him, and also he’s getting really tired of the Unversed being used as cannon fodder.
 
Repliku also re-forms, but after Castle Oblivion has been abandoned, so no one can recapture him.  He doesn’t want to go to Org XII, he doesn’t want to go to Riku…and then Vanitas comes along.
 
They’ve both got Keyblades, they both know how to sneak around, and it’s not really that hard to steal a Gummi ship and basically start a road trip.
 
They only kill Heartless because the things drop items and munny sometimes and those are useful for staying alive. Other methods they’ve figured out for eating include straight-out theft and crashing royal balls (they’ve gotten more subtle since the time they straight-up ran out with armfulls of pastries and the royal guards chasing them)
 
It’s very likely that anyone who wanted to hire them would have to make it sound vaguely nefarious in order to appeal to them, just because they’ve spent too much time being taught to look down on “good guys.”
 
Riku and Sora are Very Tired of being mistaken for them.

ninthfeather: Waist-up image of Louise Halevy from the anime Gundam 00. She is a white woman with green eyes and long, straight blonde hair. (Default)
 Proposal: An AU where All Might figures out exactly what is going on in the Todoroki Household in the absolutely most unlikely way possible, and maybe adopts some Todorokis in the process of trying to fix it.  (More-or-less cowritten by @hawk-in-a-tree of Tumblr)
 
So, when Shouto is around 7, one of his older brothers, let’s say he’s 10, is at the park when he meets a weird guy.  He’s this tall skinny blond man with sunken-in eyes and clothes that don’t fit, and his big sister Fuyumi would say he couldn’t talk to this guy.  But Fuyumi is busy with school right now and his Father doesn’t care and his mom is gone, so…maybe he’s pouting a little.
 
Anyhow, the weird guy starts asking him questions about what’s bothering him, and he’s angry and not really thinking so he answers them.  He knows he’s not supposed to, that Father might get angry if he talks too much about private things, but everything’s really stressful.  And…he’s worried.  About him, and about Shouto.  Because he used to be jealous that Shouto gets all of his parents’ attention, but he’s starting to realize that having Father’s attention wouldn’t be a good thing.  Mom had Father’s attention, but it wasn’t good attention.  And something was wrong with Mom, before she left, and Fuyumi says that’s why Shouto’s face got hurt.  He doesn’t really know everything about what’s going on–not because he couldn’t understand, but because Fuyumi won’t tell him everything.
 
The weird guy does not get any less weird.  He does cough up blood, though, which is why the Todoroki brother doesn’t leave.  He has a cell phone; he can call an ambulance if he has to.
 
(Meanwhile, All Might is planning to call Child Services as soon as he gets a name)
 
Except, when the brother accidentally mentions his last name, he doesn’t get the reaction he expects, which is maybe this guy calling a gossip magazine or something.  Instead, the man’s eyes get really scary, he stands up, and he starts yelling like he knows Father.  And like he can punch him.  Which is weird, because this guy is built like a twig.  
 
Finally, the guy calms down, and says that the brother should go home and wait for one of the man’s friends to show up and help.  
 
About an hour later, All Might–All Might, bursts through the door, starts yelling at Todoroki Enji, and eventually gets into a fight with him.  By the end of it, the house is a wreck and All Might is gesturing for all of the kids to follow him to someplace safe.
 
They thought he meant a hotel, not Child Services.  Things happen very fast after that–there’s paperwork, checkups, a visit to the police station for a restraining order, some discussion about “temporary accommodations” and then suddenly, they’re at a relatively bare apartment full of blankets and pill bottles, with a man that one of the siblings recognizes.
 
“You’re All Might?” the child demands.
 
There are explanations.
 
An hour or so later, there’s a knock on the door.  “You broke Endeavor’s house and stole his children.  Tell me there’s an explanation for this. Please.”
 
There are more explanations, and a few phone calls to media outlets about how to handle this without putting the children through any additional trauma.
 
Eventually, the kids settle into the house.  All Might doesn’t immediately take to child-rearing, and the kids are jumpy and uncomfortable at first.  He doesn’t eat enough himself, so he’s bad at cooking and keeping food around.  He has a huge learning curve when it comes to dealing with their trauma.  The kids, meanwhile, have trouble remembering that All Might is a little bit fragile when he isn’t in hero mode.  But they figure it out, and Aizawa helps where he can.
 
And Endeavor quietly gets kicked out of the Hero Association after due process.

Originally posted 12/6/2016 with 506 notes

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