I was thinking about my chimera Finn au and it’s lowkey evolved into an entirely new one. Enjoy the rant
So what if Mash and Finn were evil?
So Mash doesn’t get to grow up happily with his adoptive father. (Nooooo-ooooooh that gives me a new idea) so sad.
He is instead raised by innocent zero to be a weapon like the rest of his children.
During one raid on a town for something is when Mash is ten or something idk, he meets little Finn.
Finn had gotten separated from his brother and bumps into Mash mid havoc.
Finn pulls Mash behind a wall to protect them while crying.
Finn asks this kid if he has seen his big brother and Mash straight up tells him he’s probably dead. Finn cries harder.
They get found and Finn tries to run away with Mash only to find out that Mash is also behind the attack.
Mash asks Cell War if he can keep Finn and Cell War just lets him. (Subjugating people is good for development after all)
So Mash has Finn as a human friend. Someone to hold onto in his darkest days.
Innocent zero eventually learns about Finn’s personal magic and uses him as a reconnaissance agent and as Mash’s assistant.
Essentially using him to ensure Mash won’t run.
Mash and Finn get attached to each other in this messed up criminal organization. Trauma bonded for real. You can’t separate these two.
Finn knows Mash has done wrong, but he still lets people live when he can and is so Ernest. Mash likes that Finn treats him with respect when others don’t. It’s like his lack of magic never bothered him.
One day, Mash proposes that they run away mid mission and Finn agrees. They somehow end up in the Easton entrance exams while they were on the run and end up getting accepted.
Principal Walburg had a good idea of who they really were, but saw that they weren’t spies and just let them be.
Finn is still not confrontational when he stays being bullied; however, that only applies when the victim is himself. With the influence of being in innocent zero’s custody, Finn has had to come up with some rather unsavory uses for his personal magic.
Most things happen as normal until Mash’s trial. Finn lowkey breaks in and tries to set Mash free. They can run again surely, one more powerful organization of people is no different than the one already after them. Who knows? They might fight each other and no more problems for Mash and Finn!?
He gets stopped and Mash makes a promise to end Innocent Zero himself to secure a life for them both. (Mash this is the last thing I want!!)
Then there is a dramatic reveal of being Rayne’s believed to be dead brother.