#dl cupipara AU

[carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich]

Diabolik Lovers x Cupid Parasite Crossover AU

Some quick notes before we start: For anyone not in the know, Cupid Parasite is an otome game that was localised in late 2021 and revolves around the concept of a heroine who works at a matchmaking service. The heroine is tasked with finding matches for the so-called “Parasite 5”, a group of 5 men who have proven so impossible to match that everyone else has given up on them. There’s also a whole bunch of Greek mythology mixed in (the heroine is literally cupid) but I won’t go into too much detail with that because spoilers.

The game is kind of wild but I absolutely love it so… I wrote a crossover with DL. You don’t have to have played the game in order for this to make sense, nor does this post contain any spoilers for Cupid Parasite beyond the synopsis I’ve included above. I originally intended to write this introductory post in prose but unfortunately I never managed to find the time so I’ve decided just post my planning notes as is.

Plan:

6 S boys are all human because there is no sensible way I can work vampires into this AU

-Ages:

Shu - 24

Reiji - 23

Laito, Kanato, Ayato -21

Subaru - 19

Reader works as a bridal advisor at the most popular matchmaking company in Kaminashi town(?), keep cupid corp name? Rename to something like aphrodite agency?

Reader is the top bridal advisor after working there for just 2 years.

The agency has been tasked by Karl to find matches for his sons to “help to better secure their futures and maintain the family image”. However the boys have proven unmatchable and been nicknamed the parasite 6:

Shuu - Lazy Parasite

Reiji - Strict Parasite (?)

Ayato - Oresama Parasite

Laito - Perverted (?) Parasite

Kanato - Unstable Parasite

Subaru - Tsundere (or Violent) Parasite

Thus reader gets tasked with matching them.

Fic plan:

Quick intro to reader and agency

First meeting with Sakamaki brothers -> interviews

Shuu - sleeps and then won’t stand to leave the office

Reiji - Manages to get Shuu out of the office, seems okay (currently doing a PhD in chemistry i.e. life sorted? lmao) then nitpicks reader, critiquing everything from their posture to their speech patterns

Ayato - makes unrealistic demands (mainly with regards to body type)

Kanato - says that the girl has to be able to bake but won’t be forgiven if she eats his sweets. Talks to Teddy and freaks reader out. Then says that the girl should look cute when she cries in fear. Reader is AFRAID

Laito - Flirts with the reader and is generally deplorable

Subaru - Earns brownie points by kicking Laito out of reader’s office and reader sympathizes that he’s young to be looking to get married but tries to comfort him on the fact. Thinks that they might actually be able to help him but then he punches the wall after he leaves and reader is forced to reevaluate. 

Reader laments how difficult the task will be, goes home to find Karl waiting for them. They ask why he really wants to get his sons married and he simply says it suits his purposes. He then makes a comment about how easy it is to convince a landlord not to rent to someone, even one who has a trustworthy record. He goes on to say that in fact, someone with enough influence may just be able to stop a person from being able to rent in this city altogether and that were that to happen, the individual in question might be left with no other option than to marry into money, as it were. 

The reader asks if that was a threat, and Karl (maybe he goes by Tougo here?) replies that it’s nothing so serious, just that if they fail in their job then he may have to resort to other means of getting his sons hitched and then comments that the reader themselves is unmarried and close enough in age. Karl leaves and reader realizes that they have to find matches for the Sakamaki bros or else they’re going to be forced into marrying one of them.

Some extra notes:

Reader’s gender here is up to you 

There are no vampires in this AU, yes I know it’s disappointing, but if the reader is supposed to be matchmaking the Sakamaki brothers, I needed them to be, you know, not literal murderers.

The boys are not highschool age here because 1) the idea of highschoolers being forced to use a matching service makes me VERY uncomfortable, so the boys ages are the same/close to those of the love interests in Cupid Parasite and 2) while we’re not given their actual ages in canon, we know for a fact they’re all older than the ages listed for them in their profiles anyway.

#dl cupipara AU #I have not proofread this as thoroughly as I should but eh

[carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich]

WDYM CUPIPARA X DIALOVERS

Well exactly that anon :D

Cupid Parasite is one of my favourite otome games and back when I first played it last autumn, I had an idea for a CP x DL crossover where rather than Lynette trying to help the parasite 5 find love, in my AU, its the reader who has the very unfortunate job of playing matchmaker for the six sons of the politician Tougo Sakamaki upon his instance, only as per CP (and canon really) and they're all disasters in one way or another.

Because I wanted to keep the rom-com theme from Cupid Parasite, the boys are human in this AU (as otherwise it rapidly starts to turn into a horror) but unlike CP the reader is human too because I love Lynette as her own character and I didn't want to try and rewrite her as the reader character if that makes sense?

Anyway that's as much as I'll spoil about it but at some point I plan to post a one shot which will basically act as a prologue to the AU. I'm not planning to actually write full otome game routes for every single boy because I might actually go insane but once I've posted that prologue then it's basically an open invitation so that if anyone wants to continue the story with a particular boy either doing a reader insert format like I do or with Yui or their OC then that's totally fine.

Hope that answers your question anon!

#cupid paradite crossover AU #ask