I had been discussing this with the lovely @yandere-linked-universe a while back and she helped mold this with me so decided to share it with you guys.
So I was thinking about the mafia au and then I was thinking about the self aware au and TTAU (like always)
And I had the idea that, even if (y/n) HAD successfully gone back to her world. The chain would have eventually found their way to her,
(And for the sake of my sanity, their games don’t exist here.)
But I made it slightly different. (This is where a bit of TTAU comes in)
Where instead of them going to her present.
They went different periods of the past.
And they went back to the combined amount of years of their journey up to meeting her.
So to explain better: in ttau they go back to the start of their journeys and have to walk forward til they meet rest of the chain and eventually (y/n).
in this one, they are sent back to the same year equivalent to when they started their journey (so if Wind started his journey when he was 12 and met (y/n) two years later when he was 14 then he would be sent back two years in (y/n)’s world before he bumps into her, where Twilight would be sent back the the age of 18, which is when he started his journey.
So For example, Time turning into a kid and found by cops and he runs off.
Now i’m using Time as an example since he’s the one with the most years between his journey up to meeting (y/n)
This is much more conflicting for the heroes since this is a DIFFERENT REALITY ALL TOGETHER. Nothing is familiar, the government system is all over the place, there are no monsters but there are things so much worse lurking in the dark.
And since Time would be the farther back, imagine if he decided that this world was going to forced to bow to the demands of the chain.
And their demands were to give (y/n) everything she wanted.
So here’s where the mafia au comes in.
Time is an orphan, he slowly realizes this world wouldn’t work to his methods, to none of their methods. So he would do just as he did when he first started out and createnew methods.
After all, he still had his ocarina
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So he takes full advantage of what abilities he has and slowly gaining street cred, making a name for himself.
Time doesn’t have any mercy for insects and this world is full of them.
So by the time he ‘meets up’ with one of the other heroes, he’s flawlessly adapted to the rules of this strange world and he has a long part of the underground in his possession.
This helps when the second person with the longest time between their journey and meeting (y/n) arrives (one of his men heard of a strange person wandering around with strange items), he realizes what the circumstances are and is able to prepare for their arrivals.
So when they all gather together, Time is able to help them adjust to the world and they all take to it like zora to water.
So, by the time (y/n) re-enters their lives, well…she has no more excuses not to stay by their side, now does she?
