More hath arisen, it just occurred to me that RV wouldn’t exist as a villain in this timeline (Because he’d never have become involved with Darren in the first place, heck dude, Darren and Evra probably wouldn’t even be THAT close come to think of it, they’d never have gotten the time to really bond!.)
I am making it a point to ignore Destiny in any and all of my AUs, so he can fuck off, he isn’t relevant no more!.
I wonder where Steve is in all of this....
(I’m kind of enjoying the thought of Darren as a sort of feral smol, like he still hates vampires at this point because he is a total child-with-no-perspective-check-brain, so he’d probably bristle at anyone who tried to get near him. Maybe this would be a good AU to make him Kurda’s future apprentice, sense everyone else would be trying to “Toughen” him up when he is clearly already super lost-in-the-trauma-sauce of being blooded against his will and then watching his captor - whom he’d still view as such - die violently at the hands of said captors own supposed allies, meanwhile Kurda would be the only one willing to take a gentler approach.)
(Darren willingly going along with Kurda’s plans to merge the clans?..... CANNON WOULD NEVER!.)
This just in, what if after Kurda successfully merges the clans (Because Darren is his kid now and perfectly FINE with the vampires getting their asses handed to them), Darren and Steve reunite?...
With Steve not being such an unhinged dick as in cannon?... (Because semi-sane-morally-grey-Steve is my lifeblood.)
OH!, OH! (But what about Darren becoming Kurda’s apprentice with nothing save malice in his heart for the vampire clan during the beginning of it all, only to slowly get to know them and change his mind even as Kurda makes his plans to merge the clans. Ergo: there is a lot more heartbreak, because as Darren develops morals, so too does he realize that said morals will inevitably force him to turn on Kurda, who might be the only person who he has actually trusted/cared about sense having to leave his human family behind.)
DisasterSiblings!Darren is pretty much the same as the Darren which we see in cannon.
This Darren is a lot more metal than Cannon!Darren.
I’m calling this AU “The Scholar’s Apprentice”, heck dude it might as well be a companion piece to “The Prince’s Assistant” (Another AU of mine wherein “Larten kicks the bucket and, borne of a poorly thought-out wager/argument between Mika and Arrow/Vancha, Mika winds up as Darren’s mentor”.)
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