#mphfpc au

Just imagine:

Coraline, a girl who doesn't know she's peculiar yet, just moved on and unintentionally discovers a loop while exploring her new really old house

The loop leads to an old version of the house (described by Coraline herself in the books as more beautiful and with more vibrant colors. This would make sense, given that the current house is old and full of flaws, while the old one would be brand new and recently built)

In this loop, only one peculiar lived: Beldam, or 'the Other Mother', a deadriser who had previously tried to escape the loop with her friends, but time caught up with them (her older friends aged to death, while she, being younger, survived and returned to the loop). Driven mad by the experience, the Other Mother kills every peculiar child in the loop until the current moment in the movie, where she lives there alone. In her insanity, she believes her deceased friends are better off as the dolls she sewed to resurrect them. And then Coraline suddenly appears of nowhere, and now she wants Coraline to be her friend too (as a new doll)

She treats Coraline well, putting on banquets and performances with the 'other inhabitants of the loop', all while trying to convince her that she’d be happier there as a doll and that she could turn the place into a perfect world

And if I had to give an ending to this theory (just to use the photo I found on Pinterest that actually gave me the idea), unlike the original story, the Other Mother gets what she wants

I don't think I've ever shown my female version of Rick from my AU.