Five dimensionally displaced children: a witch-in-training, a Wisconsin runaway, and three close friends, all stuck in a world not their own and searching for a way back.
Three unusual online “shows,” altogether revealing to Earth the shocking existence of otherworldly adventures with actual magic, talking frogs, and infinite trains.
One cosmic storyteller, both watching its newest audience melt down from such earthshaking revelations, and recording the currently unfolding stories of its unwitting protagonists.
In other words, welcome one and all to an absolutely buck wild crossover between Amphibia, Infinity Train, and The Owl House (plus a little Gravity Falls for bonus flavor)!
Part canon divergence, part fusion worldbuilding project, and 100% the unholy love child of The Truman Show and a react fic, the We’ll Be Right Back AU runs on the fun little idea that during Luz, Anne, and Tulip’s isekai adventures, their shenanigans got being transmitted back home for all of Earth to react and adapt to - and with all chaotic ripple effects on canon and society alike that implies!
After all, this AU isn’t only about the isekai protagonist trio returning to a world vastly different from the one they last remembered (especially with the whole startup religion about them and whatnot for example) and how that affects canon going forwards. Rather, it is also about exploring the various perspectives and worldbuilding shifts caused by these mysterious transmissions, and I would like to extend an open invitation for anyone interested in exploring these depths as well!
To put a fraction of this whole AU into perspective, just consider how WE the IRL fandoms know that these series are just cartoons with fictional characters and fantastical made-up scenarios that don’t exist in real life. WE are comfortably safe to hold the assumption that everything will work out by the end by virtue of plot armor and narrative conventions dictating so.
But for Earth here in the We’ll Be Right Back AU, they don’t have ANY of that to fall back on.
Actual goddamn magic, the confirmation of the multiverse, multiple sapient alien species, the probable answer to so, so many missing persons cases with the train, and etc. Just one of these fictional concepts being made true and known to the entire world would be enough to throw humanity into mass chaos, and yet Earth has to contend with ALL of them becoming undeniable facts about the reality they have to live with.
Oh, and fun fact: because these transmissions are edited recordings of true events as well as how in-show timelines don’t necessarily line up with IRL airing schedules, the people of Earth get to see actual children be in real near-death situations - and in effectively real time at that!
Now consider just how existentially unnerving it would be to watch the struggles of said kids be reduced into literal entertainment -their tribulations repackaged as ‘television shows’ with ‘overarching plots- for Earth to “enjoy.” Almost as if they were characters unknowingly acting out a play dictated by the mysterious entity/upload account known only as “the Transmitter,” and with no certainty as to whether the kids’ ‘stories’ will actually have a happy ending…
Needless to say, lots of peoples’ sleep schedules get completely screwed after discovering the transmissions for many different reasons both right and wrong lol.
After all, after seeing such an apparent example in Amphibia, Infinity Train, and The Owl House, who wouldn’t be agonizing over asking whether they themselves were also but a plaything dancing to the unknown whims of a higher being with no clear autonomy?
And on the flipside, who wouldn’t look at the society-flipping revelations or narrative framing of the transmissions and come to the conclusion that the Transmitter obviously is a god/like being informing humanity of Anne, Luz, and Tulip’s in progress divine destinies, and that it’s clearly instructing the formation of a religion of them and the trio?
Sure makes one wonder which interpretation is correct, let alone if either of them are correct in the first place, doesn’t it…
Overall, these are but a mere fraction of the sheer amount of possible stories that could be told within the We’ll Be Right Back AU, some of which you can even read over in the original forum thread where me and a couple of other folks put this whole AU together in the first place.
For example, we’ve got a dive into how the lives of some of Anne’s classmates were affected because of the international attention on the Amphibia trio spilling over, what it was like for Tulip to catch up with a familiar face after getting off of the train, a quick look at some of the fun ways pop culture has adjusted after the transmissions, and even how the Transmitter’s presence could completely alter the context of a certain encounter with Emperor Belos.
And if anyone’s interested in taking the plunge and contributing, there no need to worry about contributing fully fledged snippets or necessarily adhering to one particular “canon.” With the sheer scope and the many possible directions the base idea of this AU can take, as well as how the real world and real people are often messy and imperfect, feel free to contribute however you want! From fic drabbles about your own plotline for the AU to literally the laziest and unfunny memes you’re able to whip together in five minutes (no joke, the shittier the better), there will always be a niche anything you come up with can fill out!
Altogether, this is an open invitation to a sandbox I hope you all will enjoy playing in, and feel free to ask me any questions you have and or for prompts on how to start!
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some extras below: a couple transparent background versions and a couple versions with frames
1. the transparent ones - mal du pays hides when the background is bright and comes out when it is dark
i made the second one after noticing that a cloud on the left side was kinda odile-shaped, which prompted me to draw in the rest of the party, and then i kept adding more things to it to fill more space. it was fun!! i like the emptiness of the first one a lot, though. and that one has a hat
2. the ones with frames
i decided against these because i like the way the full rectangle image looks, but there were thoughts. there was intent. there were attempts.
I will ALWAYS love that Infinity Train chose to make Lake a huge crier. I feel like sometimes creators are afraid to have the "tough" characters like that cry, but Lake's arguably one of the biggest criers in the entire show. There’s times they cry when they’re sad, angry, happy, distraught.
It's just very refreshing to see a character that can be viewed as the sort of badass archetype simultaneously be highly emotional.
some niche splatoon social media / squid research lab lore:
after splatoon 1’s story ended with its final splatfest, the SRL tumblr started posting about callie being missing, including a series of short stories about the squid sisters. these posts culminated in a story mode trailer for splatoon 2 with the following caption:
they did not anticipate that everyone would assume callie was DEAD. she lost the final splatfest and it LITERALLY KILLED HER.
the fandom began to lose their minds. it was absolute chaos. for a time, the phrase “but where’s Callie?” became a sleeper agent trigger word for anxious callie stans assuming the worst about their favorite girliepop. eventually Nintendo of America confirmed that she was indeed going to appear in the next game, which finally laid the “callie is DEAD” theories to rest.
fast forward to end-of-year 2019, when Nintendo of America took over for splatoon’s socials while SRL transitioned away from tumblr (temporarily). splatoon 2’s final splatfest was a loss for marina, which historically does not end well for the idol on the losing team, and the fandom was still on high alert from The Callie Incident. on their official instagram, NoA posted the following photo:
I think you see where this is going.
mass panic descended as splatoon 1 oldheads awakened en masse, activated by the forbidden phrase. assumptions were made. theories were crafted. people were sure that marina would end up being the antagonist of splatoon 3… or maybe she was DEAD.
as it turns out, she was the one taking the photo. a separate angle of the picture was posted on their facebook the next day, revealing that it was, in fact, their yearly “happy holidays” post from the dev team.
this is, in my opinion, one of the absolute funniest things the splatoon team has ever done. the specific wording they used was a laser-guided attack on the small percentage of people who lived through the “but where’s Callie?” days of yore, and the pandemonium it caused was 100% calculated.
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I was thinking recently how Mirabelle and Euphrasie both do the holding someone else's head in both their hands as a comforting gesture (Mira to Sif in the prologue and Euphie to Sif in the main game) so it made me wonder if Mira learned it from Euphrasie...
When your live studio audience of one doesn't take you seriously and gets you in trouble with your mom.
Did you know if you heckle the toddlers at Gamestop, someone enters mortal danger?
This was originally going to be much shorter for an ask, but the devils of improv kept saying "hey the joke keeps going, the joke keeps going!" and here we are.
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No because the implications of the train coming to Jesse for a SECOND time over him losing Lake are insane. I’m still not over it years later
Like he was in so much pain over losing them that the train LITERALLY TOOK HIM BACK FOR ROUND 2
Not only that, but it’s even deeper than that in terms of showing how much Jesse loves Lake. Because not only did the train return to him, Jesse made the active choice to board again. This time he knew exactly what that train was and the danger and the kinds of things that happen there. And he still actively chose to get back on because the danger doesn’t matter. What matters is getting back to Lake. That alone says so much about both Jesse as a person and the importance of his relationship with Lake.
It’s just insane to me how much the time Jesse is away from Lake in the book 2 finale conveys exactly how much Lake means to him and vice versa. (Like we literally see all Lake’s actions, cannot be overstated how much they care). It’s actually insane how much these 2 love each other. Dare I even say soulmates.
"I think the reason I don't want a new look is because I'm finally happy with who I see in the mirror right now. So what ever I put on, I just want to be able to see the same me looking back."
reposting the animatic i made for that one contest bc of the quality
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"I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend."
thinking about Hatchling discovering Grace & Rocky's story hundreds of thousands of years after it happened when there are no more Eridians or humans to tell it :')
