WHERE DO I START hold on to your seats I apparently decided to go through all teh aus I ever remember starting or thinking of. That's a lot of aus XDD and the general theme is WRITE RANDOM THINGS WITH CLEF AS THE MAIN CHARACTER BECAUSE I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE HIM AND WISH TO MAKE HIS LIFE TERRIBLE
though I do intend on writing all the things. ALL THE THINGS. Well, some of them. Someday. So, you know, when I'm 90 I'll get around to the last.....
Except one of them which I'm not writing ever because it's terrible and I hate my brain but STARTING WITH - NOT THAT ONE and there are a few others which are nope but MOSTLY NOT EVER THAT ONE
-Pride and prejudice au where Clef is Lizzy and Umi is Darcy. Also Fuu is Bingley and Ferio is Jane. Which Mils and I are writing (there are two paragraphs it's going to take a while...) Which has its own thread on this forum somewhere but Umi as Darcy has to be mentioned at every possible opportunity because it's awesome!
-Northanger Abbey au with Fuu and Ferio. I have no details beyond the knowledge in my heart that this should exist, somehow, somewhere, and if I have to do my duty and write it myself I shall do so!
-as I'm going through the literary ones - a measure for measure au (this is the terrible one which I refuse to admit my brain came up with and refuse to write) with added extra pickpocket crossdressing Umi. Doesn't follow the plot particularly closely, but, er, Zagato is Angelo and has gone mad because of Emeraude not being allowed to marry him then dying giving birth to the illigitimate child she wasn't meant to have and she was ruler of the not-really-elizabethan-london-but-more-that-than-anything place it's set (Emeraude is basically the Duke but I think she really is dead rather than just wandering off to spy on Zagato) (it's not a comedy at all it's completely a tragedy) (I hate this au) (I studied measure for measure at school and this thing has haunted me ever since) BUT BASICALLY ZAGATO IS ANGELO, Clef is Isabella, Ferio is Claudio, everything is terrible and the sex and violence are mostly switched so instead of making Clef sleep with him Zagato makes him an assassin to save Ferio's life. Also it's terrible. And Umi is a crossdressing pickpocket who accidentally finds Clef as he's leaving an assassination and so gets caught up in things and actually the whole Clef (who is an apothecary) (when he's not killing people) and Umi-the-pickpocket working together to overthrow Zagato bits may end up recycled into a completely different fic or book some day but the rest I refuse to write.
-Umi accidentally touches a thing which turns her into a siren for reasons and then she and Clef have to escape because all the Cephirans (apart from their friends but they aren't anywhere near the castle for reasons) want to kill her because sirens are EVIL! au. Lots of running about hiding, nearly dyign in a snowstorm, eventually proving she's a water spirit and that whole 'siren' thing isn't really true (after lots and lots of angsting about it!) and living in the water shrine under the sea while changing the political structure of Cephiro. .....Which probably isn't technically an au but the whole Umi is a siren! bit counts right? I was writing this one when I was 17. XD I still like the idea of living in the water shrine but I don't think I'm actually going to dust this off and finish it.....
-Caldina/LaFarga au based on the video to 'Wildest Dreams' by Taylor Swift which Mils just showed me for - reasons. (Caldina latched onto that song for the NEXT au but vintage filmstar Caldina? YES PLEASE)
-Police undercover!au: in which SOMEONE has to go undercover at a retreat for couples who are having issues to get close to Caldina who is a criminal! and in a relationship with LaFarga who is a policeman who doesn't KNOW she's a criminal, hence the fact they're, well, having relationship issues. And the main cast are basically all police and none of them want to tell him that he's dating a criminal so if they can just pursuade her to turn in her contacts and help them out because it's not like her own enterprise actually hurts people... BUT anyway. Ferio hatches the CUNNING AND CLEVER PLAN of sending Clef and Umi undercover, because they might not be a couple but they blasted well argue like one! So they're perfect even though neither of them can act at all. Plus they might actually do something about the tension between them which would be a bonus but mostly at least we'd get some peace in the breakroom for a while!
-BONUS TO THE ABOVE: Caldina and LaFarga meet when he's undercover. She doesn't actually know this. He doesn't realise she's actually running a smuggling ring which works alongside the one he's investigatiing. Somehow things manage to work out anyway? (Until the lying which ends them up in the above fic but hey)
-the EPIC AMNESIA AU from when I was 16/17 (I may have explained this somewhere else I don't remember but the epic apparently needs to be described again??) okay buckle up this one takes explaining. SO. Cephiro is a lot more medieval-fantasy-world and the girls were summoned from a medieval Japan to it and don't go back after they help restabilise the realm (it's not created by the pillar there's an actual monarchy and all of this was backstory so I don't have a CLUE what the crisis actually was, apart from the fact there was a war! UM). In the last battle, which happens on a plain next to a river for plot-convenience, they win, but Clef gets hit on the head and falls unconcious into the river some time before it's over, and gets washed downstream - into the bandit-ridden woods. They don't have enough people left to go look for him (and various people are too badly hurt to manage to go off on their own looking: Umi, Ferio, Hikaru etc) SO they don't find him.
Instead the bandits do! And they take him back to their fortress, and they can tell he's a mage becuase of his clothing but don't recognise him, so he gets a magic-blocking collar, but also because headwounds and magic really don't go well so it's actually a medical device at the same time. ANYWAY he wakes up and has absolutely no idea who he is, ends up becoming one of the bandits - turns out they're doing a better job of looking after and ruling the land down through and below the great forest than any of the rulers of Cephiro or the really appointed local lords have done. Because the local rulers are corrupt as anything. During several months! (without magic because he's slightly worried about who he was why he was fighting if he was someone who would have to not like these people etc etc also everytime they try to take the collar off his magic goes insane and nearly kills him/everyone because he has no idea how to control it because he doesn't REMEMBER.) He grows closer to the leader of the bandits (a guy I imaginatively called Raven, I have artwork somewhere in a box, I really liked this damn fic Clef with amnesia amused me) and then eventually Umi infiltrates the bandits! And they catch her and realise she's someone from the capital and she seems? to know Clef? (because she can't act at alllllll and she's really confused by his not recognising her) AND THEN they try to get his memory back and it actually DOES come back - and he pretends it hasn't but also accidentally says something when half-unconcious which is, slightly incriminating, and manages to somehow imply he was in an illicit relationship with Prince Ferio who hasn't come to find him and is therefore a TERRIBLE BOYFRIEND (particularly as everyone has heard the news that the Prince is about to marry Fuu) and therefore they let him stay amnesiac! as they think he is. Because POOR GUY also that bit where bringing back his memory nearly killed him.
Oooooooooooooooooonly he ends up in a relationship with the leader of the bandits officially at this point (which is slightly awkward as now he has to try to a) get Umi out of there b) escape himself because he's meant to be helping rebuild Cephiro and hey now he knows a hell of a lot more about corruption they need to do something about! and c) is lying to the guy about both of these things (though not the fact he likes him) d) is remembering he and Umi have a ~thing~ neither of them would talk about or do anything about e) so she's there and now knows he's now in a relationship with this guy and he can't actually talk to her because see: pretending to be amnesiac and not remember teh prisoner so he's meant to avoid her!
................Eventually they get away and back to the castle and sort everything out with Raven getting to be officially in charge of the areas he was looking after but I can't remember if it was going to end up Umi/Clef or if it was going to be an all three of them thing?
I wrote a LOT of this one but never bothered working out the middle of the plot, it's all on paper somewhere. THere's even a map. XD Basically I was just writing a fantasy book which happened to have amnesiac!Clef as teh main character and a lot of INTERESTING plot, er. Sorry Clef.
....................................The longest lasting legacy from this is that I borrowed Spark Piercasen, who is one of the bandits who is in Raven's trusted group of friends/lietenants who helps Clef, and threw him into Protecting You. .........Raven may or may not turn up in the sequels to Protecting You. There may or may not be a link between them but Raven and Clef never meet so it's not going to go down the same route XDD
-Fairytale au the first: Selece is the last dragon and also mad because he's the last dragon and steals girls to eat to fuel his magic - he steals Umi, and Clef, the centuries-old fae who Selece bound to help him, manages to break his bonds enough to help her kill Selece. Aka the Selece-isn't-Emeraude-except-he-is au. Which I'm not writing because I don't want to kill Selece? But the start of it exists in an old notebook somewhere.
-Fairytale au the second: hundreds of years ago evil mages tried to break the weather of the land of Cephiro because they were jealous. The three gods made a tool of their combined magic for a weather mage - HI CLEF - to use to fix the weather and stop it happening. And they made a nice shielded room for him to do it from! And then they were tired so they fell asleep for several centuries, not realising that they'd shielded Clef's room from all outside influences, including time, the need for food and drink, and the realisation he might want to leave the room at some point! So he's been controlling the weather for several centuries and no one realises it only the weather doesn't really like this and now there's a drought. Emeraude is the priestess-queen who gets a vision and summons three girls to go wake up the three gods to end the drought. And when Umi gets to Selece's cave he tells her to go get the mage upstairs to leave his room because oops he's been in a spell for mumblemumble years, Umi asks how if she can't get into the room? Selece suggests seducing him? Umi disapproves! And ends up irritating Clef into leaving the room and the three knights manage to use the tool TOGETHER to fix the weather. Also Umi yells at Selece until he fixes the whole Clef-dying-from-sudden-reintroduction-to-reality thing.
I am actually planning on writing that one but it's one of those I haven't touched for years. XD
-Ova au in which Clef and Ferio were in a relationship before everything happened but Ferio doesn't remember while he's under Emeraude's spell except brief moments in which he finds Clef then fails to kill him. FOR REASONS.
-Rock!au. ........Has its own thread I'm not going over this one here you are spared XDD
-medieval!au (no magic!) I've written a lot of this one and it's all online random places!
-PACIFIC RIM FUSION AU because GIANT ROBOTS YES. Also bits dotted about the internet XD
-Random mediterranean classical-inspired au thing where Umi was shipwrecked on an island about half a year ago and then Clef is shipwrecked on teh same island. And then they get off the island. Ihave no idea what the rest of this was meant to be, I was reading the black stallion and then wanted to shipwreck people but have political fallout in almost-ancient-Greece when they were found?
-Thing with late-medieval politics where Clef is an exiled heir to some duchy or other working as ambassador for Ferio in the negotiations for Fuu's hand. Then Clef's evil uncle dies and he can inherit his own title! Ferio may have to finish his own negotiations. Also Umi sneaks around in the dark a lot and challenges various people to duels. *shrugs*
-the noir/magical!prohibition/greek mythology/faerie au which I've also posted bits of. Ferio has amnesia, Emeraude has disappeared, and magic is illegal etc etc etc.
-Mils and I want to do the Ever After film as a Rayearth au.
-Clef is a vampire who wont eat people
-Clef is really the personification of an asteroid also Mokona is the sun and doesn't like him and this one is entirely crack
-Rebels have taken over Cephiro and the main cast are now in hiding as outlaws running from safehouse to safehouse. This has no plot I just wrote a bunch of tense we-might-die-tomorrow hookups.
-High school au which was Clef/Umi while Clef is a new student teacher and Umi is a student. Stopped because this does NOT actually need to exist in the world despite what I thought about their ~forbidden love~ when I was about 14!
-Five Times Clef Became The Pillar And All The Ways That Went Badly Wrong.
-The thing where everyone is spies and it's mostly a modern!man from UNCLE au. With some Bond influence. Emeraude is M/Waverly, Clef is almost-Q.
And now I'm posting this because it's a monster?
and I'm not sure quite what some of these say about my taste when I was a teenager XDD
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