Personally, I’m Not The Biggest Fan Of Modern Aus (the More Distance From Real Life The Better Lmao),

personally, I’m not the biggest fan of modern aus (the more distance from real life the better lmao), but in particular the significant traumas of the characters don’t always translate well (which… maybe the point actually). But seeing how the author does is always interesting! that said, here’s how the closest I can think of for a dgm modern au:

Allen: if you cut out the whole past self and possession situation, up until the Order, it’s pretty one to one. As a child, he had a limb difference and was trafficked. He met Mana and Allen the dog, the dog died, the place he was trafficked to burns(? maybe attacked and he was spared out of pity?) Due to the trauma of the incident, Mana gets worse, thinks Allen is Allen the dog and then they live on the streets until Mana’s death. Occasionally Mana mistakes him for Nea to keep that aspect of the trauma. Allen is attacked shortly after, survives, and is eventually taken in by Cross (and his debts). He gets a few stalkers or already has them and finds out later.

Lenalee: once again, the fighting is a bit tricky for a plain old modern au, but I can make some things work! After her parents died in an attack, she was adopted out of China into England to an abusive family. Eventually Komui was able to get custody of her… I’m unsure/doubtful he would actually be able to do this with the systems in place, so maybe foster care would work better?

Kanda: A cult??? I guess? And Alma died setting a fire maybe? Unless you want unethical government experiments in your modern au!

Lavi: … I don’t know about this one. A very emotionally distant family that shamed any expression of emotion or connection as weakness? But it doesn’t have quite the same implications, I think.

Miranda: Pretty easy! She’s still miserable and can’t keep a job. Poor Miranda.

Alistar: A bigoted, isolated small town? Very tough on this one. Maybe such a small town that superstition still runs strong and he was run out of town during a series of disappearances (actually caused by his girlfriend, Eliade).

Timothy: Pretty much the same. Abusive father who was eventually jailed for thieving, the orphanage where he lived had money trouble and he started stealing himself. Not sure where the trauma from the orphanage being attacked could fit in.

Mana: A crime family/mafia?? His brother (for reasons we aren’t sure of yet) went on a rampage and managed to take out most of the family, forcing Mana to kill him.

Link: he and his siblings/friends from the streets are adopted by a corrupt government official.

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sammayrin

5 months ago

just started a Xena binge, and every time she launches herself onto Argo, my first though is “ouch”

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xena warrior princess xena xwp for the horse and her labia lmao I don’t ride horses but that HAS to hurt for both right??

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sammayrin

4 months ago

I enjoy this so very much because I’ve already been making jokes that Allen is somehow his own father in such a convoluted way.

Like his adoptive father is Mana, whose brother is Nea. Nea is possessing Allen, thus inhabiting the same body and making it not only his, but also his uncles body; you might think this is where it ends. But Mana and Nea are two halves of the same individual. So Allen is possessed by half of his adoptive father’s soul. Thus he is his own father.

If I integrate this new, fresh theory, I can now joke that Allen is both his own biological and adoptive father.

If past!Allen and past!Lavi got orbed to make Allen, does that make them Allen's biological parents? Since Bookman is past!Lavi's father, does that make him Allen's grandfather?

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d gray man dgm allen walker lavi bookman on a side note dgm spoilers a la “I am my own grandpa” it’s just so funny to me. it shouldn’t be. what would allen be to current!lavi? his cousin? his uncle? his brother?

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sammayrin

4 months ago

Allen, on the verge of death again: I’m tired of this Crowned Clown

Crowned Clown: That’s too damn bad! You keep going!

with the knowledge that innocence is an parasitic entity that basically eats misery, I want someone to know that I think of Crowned Clown refusing to let Allen be killed/die or be separated as a kid throwing a tantrum because someone took away their candy.

like Apocryphos is desperately trying to get this piece of candy away because “it’s not good for you!” and Crowned Crown is kicking screaming crying about losing this food.

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d gray man dgm allen walker follow up to my own post that’s only vaguely related but the idea made me giggle. so I have to share it even if no else does

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sammayrin

4 months ago

at some point in while being buried for 100 years, xie lian must have prayed for jun wu to let him die, right? so I just can’t get this out of my head:

xie lian, buried alive, begging for death: I’m tired of this grandpa

jun wu, in heaven: that’s too damn bad! You keep digging!

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once again tgcf heaven official's blessing xie lian jun wu only I think I’m funny

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sammayrin

6 months ago

*actively attempting murder*: his compassionate nature and aura of tragedy have captivated me

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d gray man dgm allen walker this is specifically about literally so many people have tried to kill or planned on it only to be like; this is kinda a shame still gonna do it tho

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sammayrin

5 months ago

mdzs au where everything is the same except jiang cheng calls wei wuxian “edge lord” during his yiling patriarch era

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sammayrin

5 months ago

god rest his soul. he’s not dead, he just needs a break and only god can get him out of that shituation.

please god, put him down (for a nap)

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sammayrin

4 months ago

Xena: Gabrielle and I are courting!

Aphrodite: We already knew that?

Gabrielle: But we started courting two days ago?

Aphrodite: What the fuck were you doing before then?

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sammayrin

6 months ago

can’t imagine how Allen’s conversation with the Bookman clan is going to go upon waking up. They’re pissed at him because they couldn’t find past!lavi’s body. Past!lavi didn’t leave a body because he basically absorbed it into past!allen’s.

Imagine having to explain that. How do possibly explain that.

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sammayrin

4 months ago

Allen: The enemy of my enemy is my friend? No, the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy.

Allen: They are fighting over who gets to kill me, though. So it does give me time to escape.

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d gray man dgm allen walker allen is like helen of troy except instead of everyone fighting over who gets to marry him they’re fighting over who gets to kill him or. y’know consume his soul or something it probably could be compared to the trojan war actually because the real reason it started wasn’t helen’s fault. it was because of the gods. and she was in the crossfire anyway. enough rambling in the tags lol

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