A Lavender Menace

ft. Vi and Sevika as Mark S. and Seth Milchick respectively.

"Did you tell her you fucked her outie at the ORTBO?"

Inspired by the Severance AU art made by @cambieart. I don't do art that often and I know there's a lot of mistakes with the anatomy and stuff, but I'm pretty proud of it because I haven't even attempted to draw side profiles in over a decade.

Full disclosure: this is old art piece from like 2? months ago. I just never felt brave enough to post it here, and now I want to expand on it with other sketches after finals.

So, not sure if anyone else shares the vision, but to me the casting/story is as follows:

Violet (full name Violet R. Cain) joins Lumon after the death of her sister Powder because she cannot cope with her grief and her drinking means she can't hold down any other job.

Powder is essentially this story's Gemma Scout except her relationship to the protagonist is different (obviously). In the context of Lumon, Vi R. knows her at work as Jinx the wellness coordinator.

Also given that I am just changing the relationship of certain characters in Severance to reflect the Arcane relationships better, I believe very strongly that Mylo should be a Ricken Hale style character. In my AU, he's Vi's adopted brother rather than her BIL, but this doesn't stop Mylo for annoying her all the time. [for drama reasons, maybe, Vi got into a fight with Powder before she died after a comment from Mylo and she resents him for that a little]. And he and Claggor (Devon Scout-Hale) are adopted brothers and roommates. For this reason, RIP baby Eleanor, but you're getting replaced with a pet dog or something. Perhaps I will give Mylo and Claggor a dog named Vander and Harmony Cobel (Silco) will dognaps him like in S1Ep3.

Cait is the Helly/Helena character. Her innie goes by Cait K. and Caitlyn Kiramman as an outtie. I haven't decided if the Kirammans are the founders of Lumon in this AU or if Cassandra is just on the board as a major shareholder though. Anyways, Cait K. (Helly R.) is the love interest and we see her and Vi R. fall in love. In a similar way to Arcane, we will see Vi have to make the choice between finding her sister or her own happiness; whereas Mark S. was choosing between finding his outtie's wife and the woman he loves.

Sevika is Seth Milchick. More on this and her relationship to Mrs. Cobel/Silco later.

Dr. Mauer is Singed btw & Silco's goon/the guy with the metal jaw who Vi keeps beating up is Mr. Drummond to me. RIP to Mark S., but Vi R. wins her fight with him.

Also tbh beyond this I am not too clear on who I think should be the Arcane counterparts for Irving, Burt, Dylan, Reghabi, James Eagan, the board, and Petey. Possibilities I am playing with:

Jayce as Dylan G. with Mel as Gretchen George. Alternatively, Jayce T. as Burt G and he and Viktor (Irving B.) fall in love as innies. Jayce's outtie has been working with Lumon for a long time though and that's how he has a relationship with the Kiramman's/Board.

Viktor as Irving B. He can be Viktor H. as a nod to Machine Herald.

Ekko as Petey. He and Vi were best friends, and he helped Vi get used to life at Lumon. He falls in love with Jinx at work, and when he gets unsevered he sees a picture of Powder in Vi's house and dies before he can tell her that she's alive. HOWEVER!! as much as I think this works, I don't want Ekko to be dead in my AU bc that is baby boy. So maybe he will be Reghabi, and like the good evil scientist.