I'm a sucker for the Poet x Knight Espilver, but my mind thought of something more juicy. What if instead of Espio being a poet, he's a samurai? Samurai x Knight AU 👁👁

How cool and interesting it would be their dynamic to be? Lucky for me, I am a artist, so I can provide the vision😼

I can't get this idea outta my head lol

Main gist idea of the au is that both q!Philza and Missa are both teachers and parents of a school

Philza; English teacher father of Chayanne

Missa; Spanish teacher father of Tallulah

The two of them aren't married but the two's small interactions got both Chay and Lullah kinda suspicious somewhat.. making them plan to make both Phil and Missa actually meet each other getting the two to date platonically...and yeah that's all got lol

Now I’m watching this and thinking, “These motherfuckers are terrifying to look at and there’s no sight of my boy, Austin.”

And my friend and I are texting back and forth as I’m reacting to this. Then they said, “FNAF LOOKING MASCOTS”.

And my brain is only able to produce a title: Five Nights in the Backyard.

A Five Nights at Freddy’s AU where you, the player, are returning to the neighborhood you grew up in for the first time in a couple decades. Something horrible happened in the shared backyard you and your friends used to play and share snacks together. Something that even you don’t remember well. Until you find yourself playing again like you used to. The backyard transforming into the woods as your friends start playing a game of hide and seek. But overtime, the game is becoming a little too real. And your friends don’t seem quite like themselves. Almost as if they were waiting for you. Waiting for your return to play again. Waiting for you to join them as you should have long ago…

Do with that what you will, internet.

This is the video if anyone is curious lol: https://youtu.be/i2fKYEJ_bsw?si=Q8eIM8tvcynjs87i

Okay. Hear me out.

They're both smart in a unconventional way.

They both have issues with traditional teaching (school)

They're both craving for a future and a purpose in life.

They both have insecurities regarding their self-worth.

They both find a parental figure in a morally ambiguous outlaw who grow fond of them.

In both case, this new parental figure help them to grow as a person and figure out their future.

They both have a single mother who struggle to connect with them.

They both have emotional scars regarding they're disappeared dad. (in very different ways but still)

Feel free to add more. I'm sure there's many similarities that I missed. Their character arc is also very similar.

Part 1: Beginning of the end

Overall, the plot line is mostly the same as canon, except the MC has been feeling very uneasy around Kieran and feels that something’s off. Not just appearance, but something, really, REALLY wrong. The MC has also been plagued by nightmares, and all of them have a Kieran that looks corrupted and have chains, and keep sending death threats. However, it was all just a nightmare. Fast forward to the crater, everything is the same, and that feeling disappears, Kieran shows no sign of being corrupted. Skip to the epilogue, basically the same but no Pecharunt involved. But MC feels that something is watching them, and even when she’s alone or a group, she feels being watched. On the last day of the trip, when he/she woke up, there was a letter, saying that he will come and end him, the ink was in purple and there was a series of random numbers. It was eerie but no information can be found.

3 months later, MC got a call from Carmine to come back to BB academy to act as a mentor for new students, since, he/she became champion before. MC agreed but the Zero Crew decided to tag along. After a while, when MC checked his/her boxes, he/she realized that Terapagos is missing. They went to Carmine a who was with Briar, and told them that Terapagos is missing. They were shocked before Carmine revealed that strange things were going on in the academy. Power outages, wild pokemon being more aggressive, students complaining of nightmares and so on. Briar is trying to find out what is going on as they are becoming more frequent. When MC returned to the Terrarium (battling some aggressive pokemon), was the Terrarium Core slightly more purple than usual? Anyways, he/she saw Kieran and Kieran asked for a friendly match, right here in the Terrarium, that uneasy feeling as back but couldn’t put a finger on it, in the end, he/she didn’t have a choice, a friendly battle commences.

To Be Continued

Oooooooh I love this idea so far!

My only question is how would the epilouge play out without Pecharunt? (Unless you're talking about something else.)

Also gotta love how Kieran is like "sure let's have a friendly match here while the Pokémon are acting aggressive surely nothing bad can happen!"

Unless he (Or Pecharunt/Dokutaro is behind it, which could be the case here)