i know the AU is discontinued. However, I had this question for a while now ever since I first hear about the Corrupted Edd AU, but I didn't know you were the creator for the longest time because I was young and stupid lol Anyways, from what I know, the reason Edd turned out that way is because of the laser that gave him powers in the og series. However, in said og series, Eduardo was also hit by it. Does that mean he was going through similar things Edd was or was he somehow immune to it? Sorry if I got anything wrong, I'm not SUPER knowledgable about the AU though I have been very curious about it.
Oh wow, I haven’t answered a ask involving CorruptEdd in YEARS….. I won’t lie, there are definitely times in which I do become pretty nostalgic over this old edgy AU 😅
Yes, pretty much the main catalyst for how Edd got his (messed up) powers was due to being stuck by Eduardo’s nuclear tv satellite dish, but the implied reason why he got soooo messed up instead of Eduardo, is that this AU basically just started with a alternate, more morbid take on their fight. Edd’s suppressed negative emotions at the moment + a more brutal beating from Eduardo basically put his body into overdrive, and by ‘overdrive’, I mean that the radiation in his body just spontaneously liquified all of his internal organs and made him incredibly stupidly OP, at the cost of his sanity 😄
Eduardo basically managed to avoid getting the brunt of the nuclear blast, as most of it went directly towards Edd instead. Eduardo is still incredibly powerful, but due to the boiling up rage + genuine fear that Edd felt while they had their fight, basically something just snapped in Edd that caused him to undergo that ‘transformation’.
Now that I’m talking about this, I actually never really wrote a definite ‘end’ for this AU, since truthfully I was having wayyyyy more fun in writing out the grimdark cringe stuff about Edd gradually becoming more and more isolated from his friends (due to him being a LITERAL walking nuke) and becoming more and more violent while out doing hero work. I did at least conceptualize a possible ending at that time, and it would’ve been either:
A.) The End kinda happens, but instead of Tord mainly coming for his giant robot, it was instead a ‘kill two birds with one stone’ kind of plan. The first step intended on either trying to manipulatively convert Edd to join his army (as he KNOWS trying to defeat Edd in a fight would just immediately kill him) as the ultimate ‘hero’, or to partially cure him in order to get on his good side. The second step was to retrieve the mech without any further mess, as Edd would either be on his side and will become a wonderful weapon to have, or he’d be so grateful from being ‘cured’ that he’ll just allow Tord to do whatever he wants. Either way, the options mainly led Tord to either have Edd on his side, or still as a (slightly de-powered) passive ally by the time the future timeline occurred.
B.) As kinda implied in the very first post I made for this AU (back when it was just a stupid concept, way before catching any steam in the fandom at the time lmao), Eduardo was PULPED by Edd in their fight and he seemingly vanished into air by the end of it when Tom and Matt manage to calm Edd down. In actuality, he managed to flee during that conversation and basically fled the country for a while, mainly coming to grasp how Edd IS indeed superior to him + also trying to bolster his own powers via more radiation exposure. Eventually he gives up on this and returns back home (at this point he is presumed dead by Mark and Jon) and is horrified to see that Edd’s basically a borderline supervillain at this point, due to the inadvertent carnage he always creates while ‘saving the day’. He manages to get on Edd’s good side eventually (by hyping up Edd’s ego ironically enough) and eventually finds a way to cure Edd, right before Tord comes in to make things worse again lmao
C.) The obligatory ‘everyone fucking dies’ ending where Edd becomes so deluded about being a hero that he basically drives away Tom and Matt + he straight up becomes public enemy number one for the entity of Europe, thanks to how reckless he is while doing hero work. He’s basically a living weapon that keeps harming EVERYONE (either by being collateral damage from his overly busted powers or from radiation exposure) and him getting a addiction to ingesting more radiation Clearly Doesn’t Help At All. It goes on up to the point where his body cannot sustain his physical humanity anymore and uh. Yeah. Imagine Jello/Slime Ell, but it’s just Edd. He basically is reduced to being a mindless monster that just destroys the entirety of the UK, and it’s now up to both Tord and Eduardo to kill Edd before he turns into like a Hedorah-kaiju lol
