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PARKCIV WEEK DAY 2: Role Reversal

another seaj piece because theyre so incredibly dear to me❤️ genuinely spent like 8 hours on this canvas and i still have things i’d change but WHATEVER it’s done.

details and closeups under the cut🙂‍↕️

parkciv week day 4: rarepair

it's done!! originally this was meant to be for day 4 of parkciv fandom week, but... well i went a little overboard and decided to do nice line art and shading and such. plus the foreshortening on emf's hand gave me such hell 😭

but overall i'm super happy with the final result!! I hope you all enjoy :] and happy anniversary to parkour civilization

im pedantic so a lot of role reversal aus fall flat for me personally because a lot of characters have roles that suit their motivation and how theyre themed (if they have a theme; think elements in magic worlds and that sort of thing) and not every role reversal au accounts for that. they dont explain 'why' these characters have switched places, only that they HAVE. which is why i think if i were to make a role reversal au, id have to dissect the characters and/or 'reverse' the worldbuilding. as i thought of 'reversing' the worldbuilding first, lets talk about that mostly!

i think since the fighter layer was the only layer gone in canon, itd make sense that for a 'reversed' au itd be the only layer left (maybe after the parkour 'villain' destroying the other layers first) and i think itd also make sense that since seawatts the closest evbo has to a narrative foil, that hed take the place of the protagonist. "but if seawatts not the sidekick to the champion, does that mean evbo is?" yes! evbo canonically only focuses on his own goals but he IS easy to manipulate because of his lack of social experience which means that someone WITH social experience (the parkour villain, since having at least one friend canonically even while it ended in shreds, takes a lot of effort and learning) could give him a goal to focus on instead--like how seawatt aimed evbos goal of going home in the same direction as his goal of destroying the parkour civilization that destroyed his home and his life. what would this goal be? clowns assassin, under the guise of being his student. hed be taught difficult and complicated parkour so that he could defeat clown but hed also be sent to exile (we'll get to that) or kill would-be future champions (or future gods if we're going the crown route) that could get in clowns way.

lets shift gears to how society would work. parkour civilization is a very lonely world canonically--a few of the only people with even FORMER friends were the old man and the parkour villain, and theyre from a separate parkour era than the one evbos from. if we're doing reversal, itd make sense to have the fighter layer instead be a hub of sorts where people socialize (presumably for equally light and heavy reasons depending on the person) with the legendary domains being a place for learning and self reflection but mainly exile. and they earn their way back by completing the parkour course in whatever legendary domain theyre exiled to. but probably nobodys ever done it before, and just like with evbo and seawatt, whoever completes those courses only helps those trying to reach championhood or godhood (for better or for worse idk yet)