Oh noooo, I'm being forced to write this post, what ever should I do!! (joking - thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to ramble!)
Okay, so. This all started back when I was first setting up Genesis so I could write it, which was .... in February of 2025, dear fucking lord. Coming up with mods for Wemmbu and Jepexx to have was so much fun that I decided to squirrel and come up with some for Mapicc, Ro, and Spoke as well, because I felt like they'd be fun. Somewhere along the line, I jotted down this note:
I want to add in another story with Ro, Mapicc, and Spoke. Preferably where they commit violence and then have a threesome. I’m thinking graffiti murals with impossibilities to them as well. Their mods are going to be over the fucking TOP and it’s beautiful. Mapicc knows a guy (Jepexx) so they can get their stuff easily off grid and enhanced.
And it all just sort of solidified from there! Mapicc, Ro, and Spoke had their own sort of vague existence I could reference when writing Mapicc hanging out with Jepexx, and that was that, at least for a while. Then I wanted to add Zam in, so I gave them a bunch of mods, and (as I am wont to do) went oh hell yeah, they can do gay shit with Mapicc. This all stagnated for a while, until the other month, when I went oh my god, I want Zam to have been part of Mapicc & Co's illegal heist bullshit, only for something to go wrong during a mission and result in Zam's biometric data getting compromised, and their arm brutalized beyond repair (to call back to her metal arm in s6). So obviously, unable to go out on missions with the rest of the group, Zam has to improvise. They get into neon and LED work, into smuggling, supporting the team from the sidelines and keeping their asses covered.
This all leads to tonight, where the pinterest board comes into play. I was trying to flesh out the sections for Zam, Mapicc, Ro, and Spoke, and then come across a post I .... didn't save, which made me think of Parrot! So now he has a dubious storyline in my head where by day, he's a normal, boring, bland office worker, but by night, he's an entirely unrecognizable hacker. He comes home from work, tired of pretending to be normal, and puts on so many mods it's obscene. He's reckless, craves the feel of flying, has little to no sense of self-control, and - oh yeah - sees Spoke's level of insanity and promptly falls head over heels. Essentially, he's a closet freak who gets pulled into a courtship death spiral with Spoke while they both cause obscene amounts of property damage trying to impress each other.
Ideally, they'd fuck. A lot. Honestly, if I could tell most of their story through sex scenes and general eroticism, I would! But then there's the issue of also wanting to tell Zam's story, and get all up close and ugly with Ro's sick ass mods, and it's like .... dear lord, where the fuck would I even start with this one.
And that isn't even getting started on the Casino Quartet story, which was originally started for whumptober! In that, CQ are an expensive, well-funded quad of elite specialists (Ash specializes in modding, Clown in assassinations, Branzy in hacking, and Reddoons in being a sweet-talking conman). Their whole story is about Reddoons getting sent into a bad job, where he's chloroformed and auctioned off, with the winner's men brutalizing the shit out of him.
Mane cameos in that story, which means I know what his mods are like, which (as you can probably guess by now!) lead to me going hey, what if three heart trio were some minimally-modded kinda poor grifters, and Mane sees Bacon on one of his murder/stalking missions and goes that one. I want him.
As you can uh. Probably tell, my issue with starting an AU is quite simple! I start an AU. I write the AU. I begin thinking of how other characters would fit into the AU, and all of a sudden there are five new half-baked story ideas that may never get written. But they sure are fun to think about!
