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on that previously mentioned pn2/twf au:

pn2 is kinda implied to be in 1982 (based on whichever version of the timeline ur using at least), based on that one poster of ford, or at least sometime near 1982. Coincidentally, this is also the yr that bunnyfarm takes place! pn2 likely occurs around july-ish since yknow. summer camp! and bunnyfarm takes place in october, so theres a reasonable but not timeline-breaking gap between the 2

for sophie, i think shes got like. talking 2 ghost powers! (dunno the name of that. also it works for the au even if pn2 itself implies ghosts dont exist inuniverse kinda. but twf does so sashas just wrong in this au) alongside common stuff like telekinesis and telepathy. But i also think shed have very defensive specialties like the shield and invisibility, tho i think her powers are like. EXTREMELY suppressed and kinda fucked. in this au i think that like... the pills may possibly also have been intended to suppress her “unnatural” powers in conjunction w/ their previous, canon purpose, since they were likely seen as somehow being smth hurting her

she also likely has very light capabilities for time bubbles, confusion, and illusions, but they wouldnt be anywhere near a specialty

but playing bunnyfarm would like. essentially b her psychic awakening, tho she probably had one already when she was younger but cant remember it and the one after bunnyfarm is closer to the sudden spike due to trauma that pn seems to imply can occur. but i think her family would like. naturally b moderately strong psychics but that combined w her own suppressed ability 2 talk 2 ghosts like. broke thru basically and due to the extreme stress, her powers suddenly become SUPER uncontrollable and shes like auuuu fuck . god damn it

from here, jenny would contact the psychonauts for her cus shes like. im pretty sure they are psychics that help other psychics??? and would probably help her control it all since atm her brain keeps like. tossing their Nice Dishes!!!! (/j) and she just generally seems v stressed abt it and maybe they could help? so sasha nd milla (or mayb just 1 of them but i like the hc that agents are almost always sent in pairs for safety) show up and like. offer to help, and r like. we can train u, but it probably would take more than 1 day so ud have 2 head 2 hq. sophie kinda jumps at this not only so she will stop throwing things w her brain but also bc she does Not feel safe in brighton, not atm. tho shes... uncertain abt how jenny Cant go. she has college. i havent planned htat bit out but she does become convinced to go 2 the motherlobe, likely bc of safety, tho jenny goes w her on the ride there. she doesnt like being so far away from jenny but jennys like i WILL visit im not really leaving. ill send u letters :)

(sophie has her promise she wont go anywhere near bons burgers, st juanas, OR her old house. bon wony know jenny exists unless he sees her, after all))

at hq one thing leads 2 another and sophie ends up as an intern!! cus its. very clear that smth is Up w her powers cus they jump between being completely subdued, bordering on nonexistent, to VERY strong and uncontrollable, so shes gonna need a mentor

since the issues w her power seemed tied w dealing w shit, rather than personal self control (since she seems good at that, thats not the problem), ottos too technology based, truman too leadership based, oleander too aggressive for the position and also not rly specializing in more “dealing w shit” stuff, and all the other potential mentors not taking mentees atm, her mentor is milla!

also, not inuniverse reasons so much as just from a writing perspective but like. milla and sophie work so well 2gether poetically. both have had Horrible and Horrifying experiences, milla abt losing the orphans she cared for and sophie abt losing her whole family and becoming and orphan, tho milla has learned to deal w her trauma and sophie very much hasnt. while other agents have lost others and dealt w their own traumas, sophies mirrors millas own the most, and i think that milla would b able to help her w the powers the most as a result

sasha and milla dont go in her mind when the first meet her. contrary to raz’ actions, this is not what most agents immediately jump to. rather, it takes a WHILE before they ever step foot in there. before they even do, they allow her to use the brain tumbler (milla joined since she wanted to very specifically work w her mentee!) and explore on her own tho its... very blocked off so she cant go many places

aside from that, tho, here are other, less fleshed out details of the au:

(unfortunately cant format this as a list like i wanted 2 cus tumblr keeps killing the formatting)

speaking of raz, she does see raz a few times. shes mostly confused as to how how hes even ALLOWED to work there? Isnt he, what, four? This doesnt irritate raz as much as it does w other agents since it seems less like thinking hes incapable and genuinely being kinda concerned. It still does irritate him tho

Hollis does a background check on sophie before she becomes an intern, since recent events have made ppl more on edge. Her search leads her to the information that sophie is missing her parents AND siblings and there is almost no info abt it anywhere. She doesnt know what to do w this info and just kinda… sets the discomfort around the mere idea aside

Sophie bumps in2 helmut one day (getting his body back is gonna take… a while. More than just 3 months, thats for sure) and is like. Is that a fucking brain in a hamster ball. Wearing a hat. And hes like Yes :) and, going off the hc that he can project figments (which im choosing to interpret as a form of illusion!), he waves w a figment and shes like holy shit. And the 2? End up genuinely getting along RLY well

Her pills also very specifically have psilirium in them. Yes, milla finds out and is. OH MY GOD?

Sophie is like. Super bad at levitation. This makes training w milla very hard but milla accommodates whenever sophie visits her mind!

sophies own projection in minds, including her own is… very unclear and undefined. Her general shape and face can be made out, but any other details are obscured. She also just looks perpetually very sad. In millas mind, at least, her self is very colorful to match :)

Speaking of minds: sophies mind, while planned enough to be its own post, does have a smaller starting segment. The first room is themed after her apartment room, and while some details are fuzzy, its near perfect. In her room is also a gray rabbit. The door is locked and the windows are gone

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