STRAYBIRDS!!!!!!!!! (plus some other aus)

SO IN ADDITION TO THE NORMAL TIMELINE!!!! there is also a modern au I made with some friends and their golden guard ocs. it's still very much being created.

THIS AU IS SET IN A UNIVERSE WHERE THERE'S NO DEMON REALM!!! however belos does still exist and surprise he's running a cult again. In addition to Peril, Cole (nicholas) and Hope are also there who are golden guard ocs made by my friends. They are sort of linked to peril in the maintimeline (I have yapped about them a bit on that page) HOWEVER. in this au THEY GET TO BE ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! In addition to peril, clover (basilisk oc) and rue (who is an ordinary owl in this au. maybe) are there.

Okay so peril is still Belos' right hand in this and its horrible and terrible as in canon. SHE'S ALSO TASKED WITH TRAINING COLE who shadows her a lot of the time. at first she hates him... originally because why does she have to look after this small child, and then later because Cole is actually Really Good at things and she has worked her whole life to be where she is. She feels like shes training her own replacement.

HOWEVER EVENTUALLY SHE WARMS UP TO THEM. Although, it takes her a long time to realise. The first time she realised she cares, was when she ended up intentionally taking the blame for something Cole did, and was very confused why. And then she was like. Oh. But she's also scared to admit it so she just continues acting very cold and terrible to Nicholas which. Is Very Confusing for him. She sends a lot of mixed signals.

ANYWAY after she slightly gets over this and they realise some stuff, THEY END UP RUNNING AWAY TOGETHER. along with hope who was also in this cult. Now you may be wondering. what are they doing in this cult? what does this cult do? and so. yeah and something something witchcraft!!!! (we have no idea) (ERMM WE'LL GET THERE.) (im just treating it like the emperors coven but modern day. but she doesnt arrest people. because they're the ones getting arrested)

Things at first are very Bad. they don't actually know eachother that well and are walking on eggshells around eachother, just trying to get as far away from the cult as possible. then at some point someone takes pity on them and they're able to get terrible jobs... and eventually a terrible apartment. MOST OF THIS AU is them just trying to learn how to Live. All three of them have so many issues that they need to deal with which none of them are really equipped to deal with. they're very codependant. its bad. BUT ITS OKAY BECASUE IT DOES GET BETTER FOR THEM!! They also manage to get Belos arrested. unsure how. They're very untrustful and also have been trained to avoid the authorities. BUT IT HAPPENS!!!

I was about to say long peril ramble incoming but. that's just this entire page. uhm analysis of peril's mental state time!!!

in all aus peril has a tricky relationship with words (I'm sure its mentioned above somewhere. but she talks a lot like belos) but sb!peril has the biggest issues. This is partly because she doesn't have the escape of expressing herself as a bird (she wishes she is one though), and also because Cole and Hope are there. And she is Ver Scared of messing up with them.

peril knows exactly how to get what she (...belos) wants out of people. she knows how to interrogate, how to be scary, and how to manipulate someone to tell say what she wants. She's very analytical in a um cold detatched people way, rather than like Cole who can break down and figure out a stitution without snapping some guy's fingers!! These are skills that Belos taught her specifically and she hates it because it makes her feel like him everytime she speaks. like her voice isn't really her own. She does use her learnt ability to lie incredibly well back at him though so. yay for her. This leads her into saying very little, even before they leave.

She also has big issues contolling her anger (always angry. at herself, at belos, at the titan, at herself for thinking that, at belos for making her angry at herself. at the titan for his silence. around and around in circles forever). As in the cult she was very quiet unless she had to be, her anger would just kind of build up inside of her. and so, whilst usually she prided herself on her efficency, she still knew how to be cruel and sometimes was. having power over people made her feel like she had control over her life!!! yay! Before she ran away with them, she wouldn't have been the kindest to cole and hope either (which she feels endlessly guilty for) Her anger is more Cold and Vicious than explosive (although it can be). she knows how to say things that will Hurt.

After they leave (homeless arc) she really struggles to adapt and is still more of the old peril sometimes. quiet. but a cold, icy kind of quiet that makes you feel like you fucked up. she can get angry but this time its because shes scared of loosing control, of her siblings getting hurt. cole's talking too loud and she snaps at him or smth... ERM LIKE THAT ONESHOT I WROTE!!! and whereas before that would have kept them safe. here it does not.

even so its not until the time they get their terrible apartment, when they finally have some sembalance of safety, that she she starts to fall apart even more. Now that they're not actively fighting to survive on the streets, and belos isn't there to tell her what to do anymore, she really struggles to see the point in doing much of anything. She helped Cole and Hope get out but now what. (she doesnt think she deserves to be free) (sees herself as just as bad as belos) (shes so scared of fucking up. of scaring them even slightly, that she thinks they'll be better off if they just forget her)

and its not like she doesn't Try to get better either. part of her knows that she thinks that she's worse than she Actually is. but she just has no energy to do anything anymore. most days its a struggle to get up. she'll get halfway through a task and just. sit. on the floor. runs out of energy. (and distantly it scares her because this Never Used To Happen. but now she's trying to do things for herself and not belos it's sudenly impossible) she does try to hide that this happens from her siblings though because she thinks should be the one looking out for them, they have plenty of their own issues to work through without her being a problem. to be fair they're not really equipped to deal with her issues. and she's not equipped for theirs either (she knows how to break people not fix them) but guess what. all of them isolating themselves emotionally from eachother doesnt help!

Yeah but her siblings are what save her. Just them being there. If they weren't she would have taken even worse care of herself. she wouldn't have survived. or at least she wouldn't really be Living.

The bird sanctuary is the second thing that saves her. At some point, peril finds rue, injured and abandoned, and not really knowing what to do tries to take the fledgling home to heal her. This doesn't go well obviously and she instead takes her to the bird sanctuary where she visits the little owl so often that bat queen (who owns the places and is not. a ginat bat in this au crying) offers her a job there. Bat queen scares her at first because she's never really had to listen to someone other than belos. but it goes well and gives her a reason to leave the house. it doesn't pay that well but hope and cole convince her to continue with it because its so obvious to see the improvement in her. in a strange was she feels a kinship to the birds (bird therian peril real) and they like her in return. its more of a rescue, rehabilition place. helping injuried birds and if possible returning them to the wild. it does have a vistor side to it but she doesn't really ahve to deal with that. Maybe she meets eda through it too... owlbert is there and eda likes to visit him, maybe... editing this later

Music is the third thing. I don't know if she'd exactly be a part of a specific sub-culture but she is constantly listening to stuff. She doesn't really start playing anything until a bit later, (maybe eda introduces her to raine somehow... or maybe bq has an instrument laying around that she lets her mess around with) and even then it takes her A Very Long Time to learn, but it gives her a new way to express herself, to be loud? in a way that she can be sure won't hurt anyone. im trying to decide if she'd sing anything. because at first i was like no. but now im not so sure. she definately wouldn't want to in front of an audience but hm. ill come back to this. SHE HAS BEEN TAUGHT BIRD CALLS by her bird friends. she can whistle different calls.

and even if later she does start to talk a bit more, be more open, she's still very quiet and she likes it that way. quiet but not invisbile. her presences is always acknowleged even if she doesn't want to say a word. listening to cole yap about space or something. big on the stars that guy. ends up working as a space musuem tour guide


Fun details about this au which I can't fit chronologicallly!!!!

MODERN AU THAT IS NOT STRAYBIRDS THERES TWO

I also have another au which basically plays out the same as the main timeline, but modern au and rue and peril and both human. This was mostly an excuse to draw human!rue



This au is definately where the belos, caleb and rue, peril parallels shine through a lot more. It's upsetting. Somewhere theres a timeline where Peril leaves the cult without her sister and everything is miserable and terrible and belos parellels URGRH. I think i said this more in the rue section somehwere, but I think rue is quite similar to how he was as a kid and. yeah



PERIL LIVES AU!!!!!

SHE GETS TO LIVE! giggling okay so everything is the same in this au except instead of killing her, Belos traps her in her wooden palisman form for like 80 years!!! and then maybe forgets about her. AND THEN SHE GETS FOUND AFTER THE EVENTS OF SEASON 3 (they find her around 5 or 6 months? after watching and dreaming) and she gets to meet all the characters and finally heal, learning to accept both parts of herself, which in the other timeline she never got to do... she really hated herself as a witch, especially towards the end.

IVE ACTUALLY BEEN WRITING THIS ONE AS AN ACTUAL FIC hopefully i'll write more. the first bit is all in Darius' pov WHICH IT WASNT'T MEANT TO BE? no idea how that happened. I don't think peril would even interact with him much so it makes not Much sense but IM REALLY PROUD OF IT SOOOO eveyrthing is fine THE STORY IS HERE!! if anypony wanted to read it. Well a chapter and a half anyway, that's as far as I will get for a While i think.

Anyway. so shes found and magiced back to normal (the cage she's found in is Rues old one, by the way) but she's still extremely injured (meaning she can't just go fly off into the wilderness because thats 100% what she'd do) and is forced to interact with people. she hates this but she does start to bond with people and, by Hunter's presence, is convinced to not just Disappear. Although as soon as she's well enough to be a palisman, she stays in that form as frequently as possible, at the start.

So I know this is supposed to be a happier au, but her wing never truly heals, and she loses the ability to fly. Which is like her one thing ever and actuallly destroys her.

She'd be very lost on what to do for a while (even if she had time Before where she was free from belos, a lot of her energy back then was going into survival, to not being found out by the Bat Queen or working with various rebellions). Peril is An Adult, she can live on her own (which she does do eventually!) but even after she recovers from her injuries, she has so much healing to do and so I don't think it would go very well. Rue is gone, she's in a different era, she can't go back to the Bat Queen and she also has No Idea how to look after herself as a witch after living as a bird for so long. And she needs to do that!! its very bad for her to stay in one for too long!! She does not know how to be a Person. she does try to disappear into the woods but. she can't just neglect half of herself. shes not actually just a bird she needs food and shelter. so they convince her to come back to the owl house. she'd stay there for a bit but I think it would be a little overwhelming for her for a long period of time. I mighttt let her stay with raine for a bit. She'd like that I think. whilst she figures out how to.. do. normal activities.

Eventually though, she'd end up a place of her own, not too far away, but not too close, in the woods. She's assist with the rebuilding efforts for a bit and then would help with the replanting of the palistrom trees. dell ends up with another grimwalker apprentice I guess. AND THEN... im not really sure. ill edit this later when i have more ideas just rambling here but maybe something with palismen... but as much as she Is One of them. and that they're easier to understand than witches. that doesnt mean she's really socaible and good friends with them.. she's too guilty HMMMM

anyway TIME TO YAP ABOUT HER RELAIONSHIPS TO ALL THE CHARACTERS

She of course bonds with Hunter (long lost siblings!). I was considering making it a harpy hunter au, but I think I won't considering I took away Peril's wings and I think that would be too cruel. She likes to hang out whilst he's carving palismen. She still hates speaking (although its less of a problem than in stray birds au as, whilst when she's upset she does talk like belos, most of the time her thoughts and speech are more palisman like, so thats the learning curve she's fighting in this one.) But yeah she's still good at lying and manipulating and also has anger issues which she knows and hates and thinks is worse than it actually is. This leads her into staying as a palisman more (also she feels safer in that form and kind of hates hersef as a witch) and saying as little as possible. Hunter eventually pins her down about this, talks aboout how he feels the same after belos possessed him and sometimes gets scared that he's not in control. yay!

RAINE WHISPERS!!! she's friends with raine (maybeee lives with them for a bit). They're the right level of energy for her. THEY ALSO TEACH HER AN INSTRUMENT!!! (still deciding which) But this really helps her express herself, despite her lack of words. she can't hurt people with music like she thinks she will with words (WELL SHE COULD WITH BARD MAGIC but she can't do that. this is Just Music)

(continuing this later)

GHOST??? AU???

OKAY WITH THE GOLDEN GUARDS theres various ways to do this. there's full ghosts who act as they did in life, but ive also read fics where the ghosts are more like echoes? that hunter glimpses throughout his life in the castle (IF I FIND THE FIC ILL PUT IT HERE!!) and i've also read a few where they're in his mindscape which was very fun. I DONT REALLY AHVE A PROPER IDEA ON HOW THE GHOST GUARDS WORK but it doenst matter too much I jsut want to write random thoughts about my dead daughter.

In life, Peril was very very angry especially towards the end. But in death I think she'd just be tired. Apathetic. Because for all her anger she didn't manage to stop Belos, she didn't manage to change anything (she just got Rue killed). She'd been fighting and been angry for so so long and now that's gone she's just tired. Doesn't really know who she is without the anger... YAY!!!!

I also think this is fun because Hope's ghost would is very vengeful and angry in death and I think this is a fun switch around.

If the other guards were there she'd make friends with Hope, or Hope would make friends with her. maybe they'd teach her sign language. She'd probably be quite taken aback by Hope at first because theyre so sweet to her but also can turn incredibly angry and vengeful if Belos is mentioned. Peril's already been angry. Now she's just tired, wants to sleep.

For a ghost au if she appeared to hunter. I think the guards would be more like the first option i said where theyre more like echoes... they wouldn't be able to talk and i also really like the idea that the ghost guards can't take off their masks because. peril would Hate This. or maybe she'd be too tired to care. She'd also be in her golden guard uniform, even though she didn't die in it and all the guards would probably have the wounds that killed them. Her wings can be unbound, but they're really damaged and broken becuase of how belos killed her.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG AU

THIS AU has a few of me and my friends other ocs in it. so if you don't know about them it might be a little hard to follow. MAYBE. no idea

Originally I thought Peril would like shadow WHICH SHE WOULD but my friend showed me this metal comic (idw metal virus one) and compared metal to Peril. WHICH WAS SO REAL AND TRUE and was also the thing that kickstarted my sonic phase. its embarrasingly easy to get me into things if Peril is involved its so bad. SHES SO NEO METAL SONIC CORE.

SO YEAH she would relate to metal sonic a lot so au where she's a badnik. RUE would be a flicky, chao or also a badnik and I can see versions of all of these working. Somewhere along the line she defects, or gets too damaged to return and gets found by hit oc skorp hfth who takes her to mud hfth where she gets enough repairs to be functional again (maybeee one of my ocs crayon did this, removed some of the coding tying her to eggman).

When she's repaired enough (enough to move, she would not wait around there and so would not get fully repaired) she would leave with rue. I'm not sure if she would be driven by revenge much in this au. I Think instead she's a lot more like how I imagine her ghost (I've written a bunch about this in another section) tired, apathetic. Not really sure what she is, who she is, espiceially without her coding which filled her with so much burning anger and hate and not much else.

Her programming still gets in the way of a lot of things though, reminding her of a purpose uncompleted, which does still her angry, along with thoughts about eggman probably, but. I don't know, I can just imagine her lying with rue in a forest for days on end slowly getting more overgrown. She and Rue wouldn't be terribly social, maybe occasionally seeing skorp and friends, but not really having the energy for much alse. Maybe she grows more over time, maybe not. I wouldn't say she's unhappy watching the world go by. She really likes nature.

Like metal, she can't talk, although her design does take a lot of neo metal sonic's elements.



TEH OTHER SONIC AU IDEA I HAVE IS, i saw this omega drawing where he fused with a flicky, and become half bird. and. yeah peril I would like to do something with this.

POKEMON AU YAY!!!!!!!!1

Peril's teams would be different depending on how a pokemon au would work. If she had a choice, i think she would just have one or two partner pokemon who she would be very close with, perhaps a flying or dragon type pokemon she could ride. But i'm going to talk about a potential team she could have anyway. (I ALSO think it would be fun in a pokemon au to make her a zoroark (literally gave sb!peril the hair), maybe she was raised human or is pretending to be human to fit in. sort of like N, though i can't remember too much black and white lore right now. ALTERNATIVELY ALTERNATIVELY, maybe a Pokemon au set in the boiling isles, where all palismen are pokemon)

Again, very much in progress, but i think potential pokemon she could have could be: