#madness posts

This AU basically swaps ppl and their roles, not personalities. Whose swapped with who is; Jebus and Auditor are swapped, Hank and Sanford are swapped, 2BDamned and Deimos are swapped, Sheriff and Tricky/Hofnarr are swapped...

The basic story stays the same, at least after the beginning, Jeb gets the halo, Sanford+Hank go fight in hell w/ Sheriff, etc etv etc.

Though, the prologue/set up here is v much different;

We start things off w/ project Nexus being developed, Hofnarr and Christoff being apart of this development, both married bc I say so but anyways, Christoff gets assigned the halo project and works VERY hard on it. He tries the halo on himself and gets overtaken by madness, and afterwards slowly goes insane and starts to miss random days at work and etc.

One day, they were testing out something with clones, and Jeb came to work acting weird, and ruined the test on purpose, somehow opening himself a portal to "Purgatory" and going in on purpose.

Hofnarr quits Nexus afterwards and Sheriff mysteriously disappears around that time too, letting his position be open. Hofnarr takes the position, and is the new sheriff ofc, getting a new badge, outfit, and everything.

Sanford ofc starts the "park incident" through the same means as Hank did (boombox was not turned down and he was punched) but after killing like 10 ppl there was no "Jesus" to stop him, he more just stopped killing once happy. This became known as "The Tree Incident" and thst spot became famous, and it's also where the unlikely pair 2BDamned and Hank met and befriended each other.

At some point, Sanford personally pisses off Hofnarr by taking his badge snd Hofnarr makes him an official rival to him. So, then starts Sanford's whole "trying to kill Sheriff" arc.

During this time, Hofnarr hires a body guard, Auditor (an ex-Nexus worker as well).

So, Sanford tries to kill Hofnarr but fails because Audi shoots him before he can kill him, and later he's respawned by Deimos, a hacker whose interested in him and his mission. During this though, Jeb somehow finds his way back to the "real world", looking nothing like a grunt anymore, rather now looking like an employer, and finds his way to Hofnarr, riling him up and asking where him where the halo project is.

But, soon Sanford bursts in and tries again to kill Hofnarr, failing once more, this time being killed by Jeb with his trusty binary sword he got from his adventures in Purgatory, and afterwards, Jeb taunts Hofnarr abt how he'll take over AASM (Hofnarr created it) and etc.

Auditor caught Jeb once taunting Hofnarr and shot him, not hurting Jeb, rather just himself as black goop from Jeb's "shot wound" fell onto him, staining him for life with it.

Next time Sanford bursts in to kill Hofnarr, he succeeds, shooting him in the head with a shotgun, dying in the process to Auditor, and Jeb sees the scene, mourning over Hofnarr's death before taking over as head of AASM. Auditor quits at that point.

2BDamned and Deimos are then hired to go respawn Sanford whenever he dies. Sanford's next mission after respawning from Auditor killing him is to find Auditor and kill him back, breaking into the same building, and now finding a room for a party with some kind of undead DJ named "Sheriff". But before he can question that, Jeb bursts in and blows Sanford to bits, mostly for fun, maybe as revenge for killing his husband.

Sanford comes back again, now w/ a fucked up jaw+etc, and swears to somehow kill Jeb, w/ help from 2BDamned and Deimos.

The rest of the series happens, mostly with just slightly altered details, like Jeb gains the halo from Auditor who tried to use it and didn't go insane like Jeb, and etc.

A thing to note tho is this au is based on the series rather than the game, meaning Phobos isn't canon to this au, just like Skittles isn't. However, if they were canon, they would swap.