The Alternate Universe Meme

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The Alternate Universe Meme

1. Comment with your character.
2. Others will reply with an AU idea.
3. Thread. Profit.

AUs can be any AU of any kind, but if you need ideas, I have this masterlist and this tumblr to get you started.

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[cherryblooded]

...There's nothing for me to return to.

[He's starting to tear up, and his voice quivers, but he tries his hardest to stay steady. He only marginally succeeds.]

My wife and daughter are almost certainly dead, Mettaton is dead, my home is corrupted and dying there wouldn't nearly be the worst thing that could happen to me. I can't go back with you.

[Even not considering what just happened, Yosuke's world is no place for a shrimp.]

It should feel like we won, but... I don't feel like celebrating at all.

[garudynamic]

We'll figure something out- we're... we're not even really sure what state your world IS in yet, right?

[cherryblooded]

Do you want to look?

The portal's right there. Hold your breath.

[No reason they can't just take a peek.]

[garudynamic]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Once they know they can decide what to do next]

[cherryblooded]

[The results, after they take a look through the portal:

Red in the water. Skeletal hands and eyes everywhere. Fish that are more bone than fish. More than anything else, a feeling of wrongness you don't have to actually swim in the sea to feel.

Cherryblod sits back on solid ground and takes a deep breath of air.]

...Ah.

[garudynamic]

[Yosuke is coughing and gagging on the floor, finally gasping loudly- the pressure of being so deep and the surprise at what he saw made his lungs hurt]

[cherryblooded]

[Oh yeah, he forgot that high pressure was a thing that humans react badly to. Oops.]

Are you hurt?

[At least it gives him something else to focus on.]

[garudynamic]

I-I'm okay-! Just surprised.

...that... didn't look good.

[cherryblooded]

[Well. Momentary distraction gone.]

No, it didn't. Never seen it that bad, even during the war.

[garudynamic]

We're gonna have to prepare.

[As if the fact that he's going back in is a given here]

[cherryblooded]

What do you mean 'we'?

[Yosuke's not coming.]

[garudynamic]

You're not doing this alone-!

[cherryblooded]

You can't come.

[Firmly said. Cherryblod rests his hands on Yosuke's shoulders.]

Even not including things like you not being able to breathe underwater - I won't risk what could happen to you there. Refuse to be the cause of any harm to you.

[garudynamic]

Yeah, well I refuse to sit by why you lose more family!

[cherryblooded]

Do you want me to lose everyone? At least let me know that one person I care for is safe.

[garudynamic]

[He's practically vibrating in anger... but Cherry is right. He can't even survive down there as is.]

Then... what CAN I do?

[cherryblooded]

Go home. Go hug your mother and your real father, see your partner and your friends again.

[Cherryblod might not have happiness ahead of him, but he wants to know that Yosuke will.]

[garudynamic]

I... I can't do that. I can't just go back like nothing happened.

[cherryblooded]

There's no possible way for you to come with me, and I can't come with you. You can't stay here, and neither can I if there's the slightest chance my wife and daughter are still alive. What else is there for us to do?

[garudynamic]

I...

I don't know.

[cherryblooded]

[...This time Cherryblod will hug Yosuke without asking.]

I'm sorry. Honestly... I don't want to leave you. Can't think of anything I'd like more than to stay with you.

But you'll be alright. You won't be alone.

[Cherryblod probably will.]

[garudynamic]

Can't... someone else go with you? Someone that can fight and not, you know, drown?

[Who? He has no idea. Even Sigrun can't really fight in the ocean]

[cherryblooded]

Caren has responsibilities and her own family to find and protect. Couldn't ask that of her.

[The mermaid should really have been your first thought, Yosuke.]

Everyone else is a no.

[garudynamic]

[Look, he's surprised she hasn't already jumped into a portal to find her sister. He expected that to be a no right away]

...then I'll wait here.

[cherryblooded]

For how long?

[There's a good chance he won't return.]