With this occasion I bring to everyone the dozens of AUs me and @starryy-berryy @dharagalaxias came up with about how each generation of the Kurus could have gotten ass fucked by eachother in a potential war
Ancestral Gen: au 1 β Devyani's sons vs Sharmishtha's sons
Ancestral Gen: au 2 β All the sons trying to make their own claim*
*[Puru taking the curse away from Yayati doesn't happen]
Ancestral Gen: au 3 β The taking of the curse happens and that pisses the other brothers even more to rebel against Yayati and later Puru for the injustice done to them
Ancestral Gen: au 3: possibility 1 β Madhavi's kids join in the war (cuz it would be diabolical)
Ancestral Gen: au 3: possibility 2 β Madhavi's kids don't join in the war (cuz they genuinely don't want to associate with their fucked up maternal family)
[this is actually unnecessary af but I added it cuz I hate Yayati and and also because Kurus have been a fucking disaster since the beginning]
Anyways getting back to the topic at hand
Gen 1 β Bahlika vs Shantanu (just because)
Gen 2 β Devavrat vs Chitrangada and Vichitraveerya*
*[The oath taking of Bhishma before Satyavati married Shantanu doesn't happen and the question of making whom the heir happens post marriage and birth of Chitrangada and Vichitraveerya]
Gen 3: au 1 β Dhri vs Pandu
Gen 3: au 2 β Devavrat's kid(s) (which we will assume he had before giving up the throne, with the incarnation of Vasu Prabhasa's wife as his wife) vs Vichitraveerya's sons β Dhritarashtra and Pandu
Gen 3: au 3 β Chitrangada's son whom he had before dying and was too young to rule (supported by Bhishma) vs Vichitraveerya's sons β Dhritarashtra and Pandu (supported by Satyavati)*
*[Chitrangada's son is biologically a Kuru, while Vichitraveerya's sons are born through Niyog with Vyasa making them only be related to Satyavati. But, they are by the societal norms and law the sons of the previous king so...]
Gen 3: au 3: possibility 1 β Shantanu and Satyavati married and had Chitrangada and Vichitraveerya
Gen 3: au 3: possibility 2 β Bhishma and Satyavati were the ones married and had Chitrangada and Vichitraveerya (making each support the team with their own blood relation) [This is my least favourite one actually but it would be an interesting au if they were married instead]
Gen 4: au 1 β Kauravas vs Pandavas (the usual I mean)
Gen 4: au 2 β Kauravas (100 born to Gandhari) vs Dhritarashtra's bastard sons including Yuyutsu*
*[Dhritarashtra had a few numbers of bastard kids with different women other than Yuyutsu (because be honest guys the possibility of that is not that low). Pandavas in this AU don't interfere, they are settled well in Indraprastha without any Dyut and feud with the Kauravas]
Gen 4: au 3 β Three way battle between Bhurishrava (who suddenly appears claiming the throne through the ancestry of Bahlika) vs Kauravas vs Pandavas
Gen 4: au 4 β Kaunteyas vs Madreyas* (it would be the most traumatic and farfetched au tbh but well... Ehhh not the worst a person can imagine ig)
*[No intervenes from the Kauravas as the throne is passed down to the Pandavas smoothly, and fued happens among the brothers]
Gen 4: au 5 β fight among the Kauravas with all 100 β or some other than Duryodhan β wanting the throne for themselves and rebelling against Duryodhan*
*[The brothers divide into half with Duryodhan's team having the support of Dhritarashtra and Jayadrath and Vikarna's team having the support of Gandhari and Shakuni??]
Gen 5: β Upapandavas with support of Panchalas vs Abhimanyu with support of Yadus
Gen 5: possibility 1 β The Kurukshetra doesn't takes place in gen 4 and the throne was passed easily to Yudhishthir
Gen 5: possibility 2 β Post Kurukshetra feud between the Upapandavas and Abhimanyu for the throne after Yudhishthir
Gen 6: au 1 β Yuyutsu's kids/grandkids (could be born post or pre Kurukshetra) causing a rebellion against Parikshit (putting claim on the throne from Dhritarashtra's lineage)
Gen 6: au 2 β Yaudheya's kids (who were born before he died) vs Parikshit
Gen 7 β Honesty Idt anything can happen in this generation except maybe Janmajeya doing something bigger than what he did in canon and causing a bigger disaster with the Yajnas (ft. Astika the chaddest), ending the lineage once and for all with his death
*[his son Shatanika isn't born in this]
Gen 8 β Each kingdom (who were related to Kuru family in any ways) quarrelling over who gets the throne after Janmajeya's death and fighting with Shatanika [this just would be hilarious]
Ok yes so this is probably peak geek moments, and I'm sorry if someone's sentiments are hurt. Just take this lightly as a joke like y'all take the sexualization of Krishna lightly on some occasions ahem...
And like this isn't the worst thing someone has said about Mahabharat on this hellsite anyways