!Dandys_Petals!

The Coddled AU is something I've thought of, because thanks to my urge to make characters happier endings, I've decided to make this up. Andrew doesn't get his head split open and Ivan doesn't jump off. At least only in one of two endings this AU has.

Ivan, ever since his fathers death, his mother would coddle him which would lead to him moving out. But ever since he did get his apartment, his mother would text him.

Andrew moving in with Ivan led to him piecing together how mentally ill his friend was. Every sudden change in attitude, every paranoid glance at the corners of the apartment.. It had him wondering what was wrong with Ivan that he couldn't quite figure out.

Every episode that Ivan would have in-game would be normal aside from every appearance of Ivan conflicting with himself would actually be him conflicting with his mother. Every single episode was hallucinating due to his lack of medicine that his mother had kept throwing out because she believed he didn't need it.

Believed that he was alright.

Andrew found out about this when he, Ivan, and Ivan's mother had dinner at her house one day. Andrew asks if Ivan takes any medicine, to which Ivan's mother admits she throws it out because he "Doesn't need it and there is nothing wrong with him".

After some more hallucinations, Ivan ends up in the scene where he is seen with a tied up Andrew. And somewhere in a different time, he is being chased by himself, though the figure is replaced by his mother.

This is where the AU's two endings come into play. If Ivan is caught by the hallucination of his mother, he wakes up at the balcony just as he is about to jump, revealing just how far his lack of medication has taken a toll on him. It also shows Andrew pulling him back onto the floor of the roof, hugging him tightly.

If Ivan makes it to the end of the scene, via cutting all those vines to progress, he is seen jumping off the balcony with a slow cut to Andrew pulling up to the building with a bag holding medication in it, showing his face as Ivan collides with the concrete before his very eyes.

The aftermath of Ivan passing away is Andrew sitting in the house he had just bought for the two of them, far away from Ivan's mother. Andrew is seated on the front porch with a bottle of anti-depressants meant for his friend in one hand, and a bottle of beer in the other. The scene ends with Andrew's figure pouring one of the bottles into his mouth, not revealing which bottle he had taken.

The aftermath of Andrew pulling Ivan from the balcony leading to them hugging, with Ivan finally letting out what he had been holding all this time in the form of sobs. They both manage to pack up their stuff and move into the house Andrew had bought, far from Ivan's mother. Ivan is seen sitting on a bed in his new room, his knees huddled to his chest as he stares down at his phone which rings with his mothers name dawned on the center. Andrew's hands are seen slowly reaching over from the opposite side, declining the call and gently placing the phone on the nightstand next to Ivan's bed just before he hugs his friend.

On the nightstand where Ivan's phone now lays, face down, there is a portrait of Ivan and Andrew at an ice skating ring, holding hands.

For the rest of the GOOD ending, Ivan slowly recovers, taking the proper medication he needs and getting a job while Andrew later publishes his game and starts a part-time streaming career. Ivan also uses his free time to write stories and books him and Andrew can read together.

I made this AU because I was upset at the time, but the longer I spent thinking about it, the more I added.

I want them to be happy.