#draft au

A Vox Machina Military Draft AU.

Percy and Vax are both drafted into a faraway conflict (perhaps to aide the war in Wildemount),and though they don’t actually know each other very well yet, they both know they have very important people waiting at home.

They’re assigned to the same platoon, with a ragtag group of guys and their sergeant, Strongjaw.

It’s beyond awkward, being forced to work with your sister’s boyfriend in such a horrible circumstance, but they end up really getting to know each other and supporting one another through the roughest moments.

Understandably, Vex is beyond devastated, sending letters to the boys as much as possible. To help them, she volunteers to help train dogs for the war effort, sending them a little Trinket she hopes will keep them safe.

It works, for a while.

But when Percy is gone for four months, Vex reveals that she’s pregnant, about four months along, and though she didn’t want to say anything, it was starting to weigh on her.

also, when vax was drafted, he and keyleth were juuuust starting to maybe be a thing, and so neither of them knows how devastated they’re allowed to be about the situation. keyleth writes him regular, polite letters, trying not to let on how much she misses him, and vax treats every one like it’s fucking gold. and keyleth doesn’t know if it’s okay for her to commiserate with vex, bc obviously it’s so much worse to have both your brother and your boyfriend go as opposed to a guy you are maybe flirting with, but she just feels so alone in her grief.

Oh my goddddd this is so good.

Yeah, I absolutely think Grog volunteers! He’s the type to go to the frontlines both to fuck shit up and, where he can, lead people to survive through the toughest part of their lives.

And godddd that Keyleth stuff is so good.

Imagine Vex inviting Keyleth to stay with her, genuinely wanting a friend to try and work through all of hardships, but Keyleth leaves early, or detaches faster, and it honestly saddens Vex.

Totally!

She’s the badass field medic who gets all of the worst cases, and she’s considered somewhat of a miracle worker on the field for the men that need it.

So people are more than a little shocked when her boyfriend, the rambunctious performer meant to rally the group in times of low morale, comes around and seems to effortlessly lift her spirits, doing the same for anyone facing scary odds.

Oh I love that.

She also learns amazing skills like medicine, survival tactics, and just how to help whoever she can, and she’s doing so well, but at the end of the day, it’s still so very hard.

Bonus points, she compiled most of the best stories into a journal, taking the best parts into letters to Vax.

Turns out I just made another StoryShift AU. I have seen AUs with royal skelly-bros and commoners Asgore and Toriel, so I had the idea to make my own. I stumbled across the OG (I think) StoryShift (with Chara as the judge and Papyrus as Toriel) a few days after posting my first draft.

Gonna say, it is extremely funny. There are several StoryShift type of AUs, one of them is made by the original creator of UnderSwap (it's really nice, it takes groups of 4 and swaps them, so we get Royal Scientist Asgore, Royal Guard Toriel and Old Women Yuri in the form of Queens Undyne and Alphys. I think it never went beyond the idea point).

Nobody is judging me (yet...) and the realization came to me by itself, but I wanted to do something different, and now that idea is only stronger. There is a saying that two people do not see the same colour the same way, and I believe it to be the same for characters. I will continue working on my AU, but I will not copy other StoryShifts. Any similarities are pure accidents.

If someone is confused by this post, they can check my blog for the AU draft.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Gravity Falls Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Grunkle Stan | Stanley "Stanford" Pines, Ma Pines, The Author | Original Stanford Pines (Mentioned), Filbrick Pines (mentioned) Additional Tags: Cold War, Vietnam War, Draft AU, Ford is AWOL, Presumed character death, Stanford Pines is not dead, The draft, Alternate Universe, Aromantic Stanley Pines, Abusive Relationships Series: Part 1 of Draft AU Summary:

Stanley sets up work for the day. His mother gets a telegram and comes to a startling realization about her husband. After six months homeless, Stanley finally gets a call from Ma Pines, and they meet in a little ice cream shop and discuss the world.

Part of a series of oneshots for the Draft AU. Yes they're all named after songs.