I invite you to elaborate on the TOA x VSMP AU c:
the plot more closely follows the vsmp plot, since toa was driven by averys fear of his father francois catching up to him. no one in toa was locked in on leaving oakhurst, so avery had to drive the war. but in this au he can let owen be the bad guy and doesnt have to bring up francois to anyone but people hes cloae to.
avery discovers the coven vampires first and falls into the same position he was in in the capital as their human servant. incidentally, scott is francois' sire, so they have a weird kinda familial relationship? avery sees scott as a grandsire, but scott sees avery as more like a useful pet. very similar to how francois views him
avery stays with the coven until he discovers trinity is a vampire and then they split off from the coven to form the church. the church and coven are allies, and avery still helps the coven but theyre two distinct entities. they work together but scott very much doesn't respect the church for letting avery (human) call the shots over trinity (elder vampire)
the church and covens relationship starts to sour after the vampires are outed in episode 3 because the church positions themselves as the good vampires to the covens bad vampires. the church supports the cure and maintains a good relationship with the town. and they can blame any fuck shit behavior on the coven. as well as getting their own willing turns (when the coven refuses to turn sausage the church immediately swoops in to offer to turn him), they actively poach vampires from the coven (namely apo and pyro post avid killing)
church vampires: salene, polidori, apo (because theyre curepilled), sausage (trinity fledgeling), cleo (triple agent style), pyro (post avid kill), legundo (curepilled + good friends with avery). the coven gets all the other canon vsmp vamps plus abraham and finn.
as for peoples relationships with avery. since avery gets to actually.be aeen as literally nice in this au he makes friends with a couple of people in town before completely retreating to the church. he and legundo are very good friends because theyre so similar. avery knows legs is an atheist but he still opens the church doors for him if he ever needs to talk. avery was niceys to avid during the early days of oakhurst, he was firm in that he didn't believe in vampires but he didnt shun or mock avid for it. avery is closest with pyro because he sees himself in pyros experience of vampirism, the parallels between him and pyro and francois and scott are too obvious. he was hpping to somehow be able to get pyro away from scott and into the church, so he jumped on the opportunity as SOON as he realized pyro killing avid created an opening. avery and owen werent exactly friends but owen respected avery as a vampire even before he had properly turned. he saw avery as more of a proper vampire than half of the fledgelings in oakhurst. avery was hoping to also poach him from the coven but because the church is pro cure owen was never going to work with them.
also this is my au which means i get to fix my problems with canon. since pyro is taken from the coven he doesnt get killed by shelby. with both pyro and apo on the church team, plus avery projecting francois onto scott, mid vampire human war the church coordinates jumping and killing scott to let pyro and apo be cured. shelby carries on his legacy as the new cult leader (ny duo prevails, but in an explicitly horrific way and not in a way where we pretend its wholesome and good)
