Headcanons on what might happen in a Minecraft Story Mode AU where everything's the same, except Jesse is a child (somewhere between 5 and 10, everyone else remains their canon ages) going through all these adventures. We can even assume Olivia and Axel adopted and co-parented Child!Jesse at the start of the story. (Oh, and make Child!Jesse female)
My girlfriend and I actually have an RP on this! But I won’t be using female!Jesse, sorry, since my Jesse uses he/them pronouns and that’s what I’ll be using ::) So unless there’s a very explicit reason as to why Jesse has to be a certain gender, I’d like to stick to my one! But of course, you can imagine all this stuff with female!Jesse if that’s what you wanna do
(Also note that some of these headcanons are technically @arizaluca’s!)
-If we’re taking a bit more of a Minecraft logic view, people in their world grow up as normal until they reach a certain age where they ‘stall-out’ and age much, much slower. When they stall-out varies from person to person, but is usually well after puberty. Greying hair usually comes from stress rather than old age.
-Jesse stalled-out at five.
-Axel and Olivia found Jesse alone in the woods and were unable to ever find their parents, so have taken them on as their honorary baby sibling. At this point, they’re rather certain it would be a good idea for them to never find their parents.
-Aiden bullies Olivia and Axel, but he’s not cruel enough to be a prat to a five year old.
-Gill sneaks Jesse candy when no one’s looking because he’s a sucker for little kids.
-They get Reuben a little saddle and Jesse rides around on him because everyone else has Big Long Legs and they struggle to keep up sometimes
-Petra doesn’t let Jesse accompany her to her deal with Ivor, ‘cause, you know, not really a kiddo thing. But they are one of the first people to find out she was scammed out of a diamond when she goes searching for him, and so hurry off to be A Good Little Bean and get it back for her.
-Ivor is incredibly unimpressed (and somewhat baffled) when a tiny five year old storms up to him while he’s in the middle of reciting his Evil Speech and calls him a meanie for stealing from their friend
-Petra goes back for Lukas and Axel and Olivia take Jesse to speak with Gabriel
-Because Lukas froze and Jesse’s too small (and also were more likely to be plucked up by Axel/Olivia and taken straight through the portal), both Petra and Gabriel are sucked up by the Witherstorm.
-Jesse stays behind with Lukas to fortify while Axel goes to Boom Town and Olivia goes to Redstonia.
-There’s no swordfight in Soren’s library, considering Jesse can’t even lift a sword and Petra isn’t there. Because of this, Ivor doesn’t attack and trap them, and even hears of their plan for the Formidi Bomb. Considering he’s low on ideas himself, he (very) reluctantly decides to tag along.
-Jesse does not like the Grindr.
-They do quite like Soren’s Wool World, though. They end up taking a nap there ‘cause everything’s so comfortable and squishy and they’re exhausted.
-Olivia loses a game of rock, paper, scissors, shoot and ends up being the one to go out to find Soren in the Enderman suit. Ivor has disappeared somewhere.
-Soren takes a quick liking to Jesse. Jesse really likes his singing and dancing. Soren appreciates that.
-Soren and Ivor’s reunion is as awkward as you would expect it to be.
-Ivor takes the Formidi-Bomb.
-He only takes one half of Ellegaard’s armour and one half of Magnus’.
-They find both Petra and Gabriel without their memory. Jesse is upset when Petra doesn’t recognise them.
-Ellegaard and Magnus both survive but are badly injured. They stay behind in the cave while Axel takes the Amulet to lure the Witherstorm.
-Jesse tries telling Petra stories to jog her memory. It doesn’t really work, but she takes a really quick liking to them because of it.
-While they’d been rather grumpy with him for most of the adventure, Jesse slowly takes a liking towards Ivor as they travel to the Farlands. Ivor (and he will never ever admit this) also starts to take a liking to them.
-Ivor gets the cake so Jesse can eat, before staying behind to fend off the witch.
-Jesse ends up alone on the maze wall, but thankfully avoids danger (mostly because of Olivia having a bow and arrow and saving them their amazing fighting skills) and is able to meet up with the others safely.
-Jesse, Soren and Reuben end up stuck together in Ivor’s lab and figure out the puzzles bit by bit- mostly because of Jesse having a good memory (Soren was a little busy being nostalgic)
-Hearing about the Order from Olivia and Axel and all the stories, Jesse practically regarded them as superheroes. To find out they’re frauds is... disappointing for them.
-Ivor adjusts a few things and is able to give Jesse a little set of Baby Armour (tm).
-Ivor goes up into the Witherstorm to destroy the Command Block- instead of staying put like they were supposed to, Jesse and Reuben hop on and end up going with him.
-To say this gives everyone a heart attack is an understatement.
-Ivor’s knocked away and Jesse, riding Reuben, grabs the Weapon to give it to him, only to be grabbed by tentacles.
-Reuben falls.
-Jesse destroys the Command Block.
-They don’t understand why he wouldn’t get up.
-Ivor stays for Jesse.
