đđring ring ring, the Fantasy AU might get a new plot.
Iâm less and less interested by the RDR2 fandom, so Iâm just gonna pack up my shit and make a story that interests me.
âWhat will the story look like?â
no idea. Working on this AU is not a top priority of mine, but I like the designs and want to do something more with them.
what I want to explore further is the ideological war between Dutch, Owen, and Colm (and maybe Micah. He might fit into it somewhere). Adding onto that, the poetic downfall of all three leaders as none of them has the one âcorrectâ path to surviving the impossible force that is mankind vs. monsters.
Colm: monsters should kill the humans. Theyâre a weak species, what could they do against monsters? -> he mows down his men against an exponentially growing force of humans. He is tunnel visioned to the reality of things. -> he gets out smarted, shoved in a cage, and executed by the âweakâ humans.
Owen: monsters should assimilate with humans! We can outsmart them through infiltrating their ranks. -> he alienates other monsters who canât / wonât disguise and conform to human society. He was overly optimistic and ignored all who disagreed with him. -> he angered the wrong monsters and gets himself killed in a primal, beastly brawl to the death.
Dutch: toed in indecisive line between âmonsters can live with humans as long as we help the good ones be the majority.â -> he did this by meddling in human matters from time to time, but overall living pretty civilized monster lives. -> as tension grew, he began turning on the âgood onesâ when they disappoint him. He begins killing more and more humans because a lot of them are âthe bad onesâ in his eyes. Even monsters begin to be divided into âgoodâ and âbadâ ones. Anyone who agrees is good. Anyone who disagrees are bad and need to be stopped so the good can come out on top. By Chapter 6, he cannot decipher good or bad anymore⌠-> he has seen that powerful monsters like him canât change quick enough to survive. He takes his life into his own hands as his last act against mankind.
if the summary length doesnât imply it enough, Dutch is still the focus of the story as he sees himself as the most sympathetic of the three major leaders.
Apart from the big leader conflict, I imagine mini stories involving the common folk of the three leaderâs gangs. It would be under appreciated characters (cough cough and I mean characters I want to write about).
If I come up with more lore to retcon, Iâm sure Iâll messily explain it in some blog posts. The F!AU Google doc is unlikely to be edited immediately because thatâs the lowest priority on my list. I might even remove the link on the directory until I update it.