#first draft au

first draft au designs, will rb this w color later

wasn’t sure which one you meant, so here’s a brief summary of all of them under the cut (excluding walden and kardhaus, who are mostly joke ocs)

- if a character has an unused design that’s available for public viewing (ie. the warden, ozzal), this au will use it in place of their canon design! for characters who don’t have publicly-viewable concept designs but definitely had sth different intended for them (ie. lord stingray), this au will incorporate aspects of the original plans

- some characters’ personalities will change from canon and some won’t, it all depends on what i can infer from the concept art/animatics/christy karacas’ word on unused ideas

- the first major difference is that this au’s warden is a sleazy, completely insufferable megalomaniac who’s constantly looking to perfect superjail (and has some pretty batshit ideas of what constitutes a “perfect jail”, but unlike canon!warden he doesn’t lean into the whimsy of it, he’s just completely out of touch with society outside superjail). he doesn’t have any magical/reality-warping powers, aside from the obligatory ability to come back from presumably-lethal injuries without much explanation (since this is still superjail, after all).

- on the surface, jared is a perpetually-stressed yes-man who will carry out basically anything the warden asks of him (while looking like he’s 0.2 seconds away from snapping and doing something atrocious) without question. he’s secretly hoping that one day, he’ll get to take over as warden of superjail (preferably after the original warden’s insistence on making everything “high-tech” came back to bite him). he assumes that the warden doesn’t know about his plans to overthrow him, but he absolutely does. the reason the warden even keeps jared around is because he’s 1. fun to torment, 2. a pretty decent accountant and god knows he couldn’t find a replacement if he actually fired him, and 3. the warden has something of a “keep your friends close and your enemies closer” philosophy anyway.