My brain is still soupy but I like... pondering them...

for Aak I've mainly been thinking about swapping him into various canons and what role he'd play as, like, Persona social link, funny little deathgame guy, etc

Clara has a mess of canon timeline divergence AUs, "what ifs" and possible futures that are purely indulgent on my end... i should find the thing i scribbled about The Claraverse

and for Kurama i peeked at bakerstreet and saw the mortal-immortal romance and yearn for some AU in which a character grows up alongside unchanging god (and then stubborns their way into dating him)

me when i place aak in ignihyde

oh my god. a menace to the tech nerds.

he needs the enrichment, he can't get it with all this digital stuff, he needs blood

just make a bleeding robot

oh yea another "AU" I was thinking about is pre-godhood kurama.... something we have like absolutely zero info on but I've seen some cute ideas on pixiv

grumpy tengu that still helps people... delighted by games....

can. aak in ignihyde would absolutely get beamed by ortho at some point. i bet he would test that patience.

mortal-immortal romance....

IT'S SO GOOD... I do also have a weakness for the precocious crush into actual feelings... I know some people dislike that angle but my oldschool shoujo heart loves it

also most media doesn't give me "my immortal lover, who has loved and lost before" because there's a lot of "b but i want my ship to be their first true love" which is valid but cmooooooon gimmie variety

no the lost love thing is so real

oh oh yea also give me immortal lover + lover in cycles of reincarnation where the relationship changes a bit in every incarnation

I played a character off of an immortal OC once and they played into the idea of like.... "I've had many lovers before you and each was very special, and you are no less special for being with me now" and it was the good shit

because there was acceptance but also that loss previously

SO GOOD!!!

One of my older vampire OCs had that angle but also some toxic "if I turn any of my lovers immortal we may fall apart SO i'd rather savor their natural end and be indulgently sad for a few decades"

oooh that's the good stuff

all his other vampire friends (and vampire ex he DID fall out with) sighing and rolling their eyes like there goes walter again

lmaoooo

(Clara's stance on siring a romantic interest is disgust btw like... why add that power imbalance and ALSO being kindred sucks... cant she just bind your ghost to a beloved possession and they can be together like that...)

additional thoughts pondering: aak wouldn't know how to be immortal because he's the kind of guy that will be amazed he one day hits 30 like... fuck didn't see that coming

but also consider LDAswaps... rotate them around and try each one as the adult. it feels like hung would barely change. but sketchy older doctor aak with his cadre of misfits. waai fu strict but kind. baby lee.

LDAswap

young lee + mentor aak, "did you. did you drug the other two." "drug? no, no, just an herbal supplement."

i find great fulfillment in the idea of aak, older, not being a great moral compass for anyone but still caring deeply about young people having the freedom to be young people. changeable. not forced by circumstance.