#plus it cuts the dr cast off from the rest of hatchetfield

[agentravensong]

incoming self-indulgent crossover au pitch:

kris, susie, and noelle deltarune go to hatchetfield and meet hannah and lex foster (maybe also rose? (I think she and susie would be fast friends) as well as miss holloway/holiday. the forging of new friendships - partly involving delving into similar supernatural trauma - ensues :)

putting the elaborate setup i came up with to justify this fun thought experiment under the cut (featuring brief spoilers for nightmare time season 2)

My thought for how this comes about is that, during or post the events of deltarune chapter 3, kris gets across to toriel that they are in need of capital H Help, the kind regular monsters may not be equipped to deal with.

Fortunately, when Toriel adopted the baby human from a not too far off human town, she was given a number to call in case of such an emergency. Her call to the social services is picked up or overheard by Duke Keane, who, after hearing the type of problem it is, tells her to come bring the kid to town to see Miss Holloway.

When Kris informs Susie they’re leaving for a little while, Susie insists on tagging along cause they’re besties (she convinces Toriel that her parents agreed to it). Noelle gets involved either because Kris and/or Susie asks her to come along, or maybe because, when Kris tells them the town they’re going to, Noelle remembers that was a place December had interest in as a weird town where weird things happen.

Susie doesn’t hear or fully absorb the name of the town they’re going to until they’re arriving, but once she does, she realizes she remembers it. See, building off the hints in-game that Susie grew up around humans rather than monsters, I think it’d be fun if her family, for a few years at least, lived in Hatchetfield. I mean, you can imagine a Hatchetfield story about a family suspected of being lizard people or something, right?

And, more importantly, it’s a good excuse for the squad to meet up with the Fosters. Susie goes back to the spot where she grew up, out of her or her friends’ curiosity, and runs into a face she very vaguely remembers: Lex. (Lex, for her part, forgot about this Susie kid - or, at least, forgot there ever being anything monsterly about her - when she gave up on her “imaginary friend” Webby and the idea of magic and the supernatural in general.)

Anyway, that’s my long-winded excuse to see the dynamics that would arise between these five teens (again, potentially six if we rope in Rose, or Ethan). Featuring Susie and Lex awkwardly catching up and finding each other to be kindred spirits, Noelle seeing herself and Dess in Hannah and Lex’s dynamic, Kris and Hannah quietly bonding over being Weird Kids with musical talent (among other things), and generally all of them having fun with, learning from, and helping each other.

And while they’re all growing close, Holloway/Holiday* is trying to help Kris (and potentially Noelle, if we decide to involve That Route) with the whole possession thing. A thing that Hannah inevitably picks up on - maybe even before Holloway does, with Webby’s help - and, perhaps, tries to help with in her own way.

Obviously the teens all have to go on a Dark World adventure together, but the contrivances required for that are something to ponder on a future date.

* I was thinking of maybe setting this around the events of Nightmare Time Season 2? Both for the easier way to tie in Rose (depending on timing), but also, the parallels between what Otho does to people in Yellow Jacket and Kris’s situation are so ripe for the dissecting that I would love to have Hannah notice and act on them in some form. Problem being, of course, that she and Lex leave Hatchetfield at the end of that whole thing. Might just cheese it and have this be a separate timeline where Hannah has dreams of other ones. This AU isn’t supposed to take itself that seriously, after all; it’s just for funsies.

…That being said, having Miss Holloway be going by Miss Holiday at the point that Noelle Holiday shows up is a joke waiting to happen. So I might just have to make it work.

#deltarune #starkid #hatchetfield #i’d also love an excuse to throw daniel/stopwatch and sophia/spitfire in here #I considered having the premise of the AU instead just being that Hannah and lex’s first stop post-yellow jacket was dr’s hometown #but I feel like them meeting a whole town of monsters would be too big a departure for them and get in the way of things #plus it cuts the dr cast off from the rest of hatchetfield #this post is solely for me #narrative nonsense