#mantauri

My idea for their relationship is that in my AU, Mandarin is still alive and is brought back to Shuggazoom by Yuzu herself. She conceives him to come back with her after telling him that Skeleton King is now dead and Shuggazoom is finally safe from him. I think I’ve stated it a while ago that in this AU, Skeleton King is fully defeated and is no longer a major threat to the world. The only enemies the Hyperforce now face are enemies besides Skeleton King, threats from Shuggazoom itself, and old followers of the Skeleton King scattered here and there.

Yuzu tells Mandarin that she insisted to the team that he still had to be alive after Skelemandarin was killed along with Skeleton King. She used the Power Primate to seek him out and found him imprisoned and abandoned, unaware of the changes that happened to the outside world. She explained to him that she wanted to find him and bring him back home with her, and back to Antauri. When Skelemandarin was killed, most of Hyperforce didn’t believe that Mandarin was actually still alive. Antauri themself was hesitant to believe that Mandarin was somehow still alive.

But Yuzu told her dad that she found him and that she was going to bring him back to them. Antauri was hesitant at first to let their daughter go off on this retrieval mission alone. But they knew that even they told her not to, she would be too stubborn to take no for answer and go after him anyway. So, on her own, she went searching for her bàba, not telling the rest of the team what her plan was. The team wouldn’t realize that Yuzu left on her to retrieve her bàba until Antauri had to explain to them her absence.

Mandarin at first, refused his daughter’s chance to return back to Shuggazoom. After everything he’s done to them, after everything he’s done to her, why would she be willing to give him a chance. But Yuzu explained to him that Antauri once said to him it wasn’t too late for him, that even they were willing to give him a chance to start over. She told him that having to send him away broke Antauri. They grieved for him after his imprisonment. That having to raise their daughter alone was the greatest pain they ever experienced. Yuzu tells her baba that Antauri still misses them. That she misses him even though she never met him until after he reawakened from the HOOP. She wants her bàba to be a part in her life.