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The Road Not Taken Meme

Save the Earth requires all characters, no matter how fantastical, to be reincarnated as normal people and animals. But "normal" encompasses a lot of options.

What if you had chosen a different reincarnation for your characters? Did you have other ideas? What if they were closer to their preincarnation selves - or farther away? If they were in high school, or the prime of their lives, or animals, or human?

Give a short (~1 sentence) recap of who the preincarnation is, then who their reincarnation is and why you picked that, and then lay out some alternative options. Would they have had the same Echoes? Reacted to them differently? How would they handle events? Comment on these or play things out, if you like!

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Yuuya is a ~teenaged superspy~ masquerading as the most popular guy in school, friendly, easygoing, and secretive. Julien is out of school entirely and aimless, but friendly and easygoing enough to easily make friends.

Yuuya's dual nature meant choosing between "spy" and "popular". So Julien is "popular". I didn't want him in high school or college since I didn't want to have to incorporate school. |D And built-in aimlessness is fun. I could have made him more "spy", because I love that fanart. I don't know if he'd have been a spy so much as in some position in the military, I'd have to research things! He'd have been the same age (25) and a similar background, and also friendly, but... less so.

Also he's a pigeon, so I could've made him start off as a normal bird instead. That version of him would be happier with life, unless I got him certain echoes, though he'd be bothered by not being taken seriously. He would also ride on people's shoulders a lot and pull on their hair and ears in fun.

In canon, Torin is millions of years old, a bird-dinosaur-man, and hangs out with robot dinosaurs and those humans the robot dinosaurs have chosen as partners.

In StE, he is a zoo parrot. But I almost had him reincarnate as a normal human who would turn into said bird-dinosaur-man, though in the end I decided the parrot would be infinitely more entertaining, mostly because I already had one character going through the "turning into a monster" thing, and that a parrot would be way more into growing thumbs.

But if he had been a human, I'm not quite sure what angle I would have taken with him. He possibly would have been a paleontologist who worked at Locke's Natural History museum and practiced fencing in his spare time.

In canon, Hajime is a 10,000 year old monster known as an Undead who learns the meaning of family and decides that he just really wants to be a human, and he is also a Kamen Rider.

Since family's a big deal with him in-canon, I eventually settled on giving him a close-knit family with a thriving family business here. But one of his most important canon relationships is with a little girl of about ten years old who takes to him as a surrogate older brother, and here, I reduced the age gap between Hajime and his younger sister by quite a lot.

In one of my early drafts for his AU here, the family business was still a thing, but his younger sister was a lot younger than he was (and a bit of a surprise for his parents), and he'd been more drafted into helping out with childcare than helping out with the restaurant. While he did love his sister, there was a bit of resentment towards his parents for dumping the bulk of childcare responsibility on him. I ultimately decided to veer away from this to give him a little bit less drama in his personal life thanks to the "I'm a horrible bugman" drama that I knew would be coming in the very near future.

As Ahito, he was a test subject for magic experimentation for his magic user parents who wanted to see if a. they could give magic to a person and b. that magic could be used to heal another dying child whose magic had been triggered by the deaths of her entire family in an accident before she also passed away, and were indeed correct on one count.

My main goal was to give Akito a happy family life so that he could be all the more disturbed once he started getting echoes back since Ahito's was anything but. On the other hand, if I'd gone with something to make him more similar to canon his parents would probably be in the midst of a messy divorce, the result of which puts him in the care of his grandparents since neither of his parents could be arsed to take him. This would give him a pretty good reason to be on terrible terms with the both of them while being in the care of his grandmother as is canon for Ahito (although in that case it was because his parents were killed during a war).

Personality-wise, he'd be more outwardly "cheerful" as a result, since originally Ahito's coping method when it comes to terrible things seems to be to put on a grin even while hating the world. He would be much more adjusted to rolling with shit as it comes without caring too much, whereas the route I've got him on has him struggling to keep up with how truly dangerous all of this is at times. As it is, he's much more based on what Ahito might have been like if his parents hadn't basically screwed him over - a lot more likely to brazenly reach out and help people, a lot less likely to resort to violence because someone happened to tick him off.

HAHA oh wow

There's this line in Pandora Hearts where Xerxes Break says, "I'm not good with children, and when they start crying, I'm at my wit's end!" So I was going to make him a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Locke City, so that he would know what to do with crying children. And also a fencing champion, because Break was a swordsman, and I liked the idea of his reincarnation using his fighting skills for something positive, like winning Olympic gold, rather than, you know, mass murdering. So basically I was going to make him a really "good" character, so finding out who he used to be was going to break him piece by piece.

But then I thought ehhhhhhhhhh

So I made him a neurotic, excitable, vain, petty, cheesy, sleazy Vegas magician and I'm so glad. Break can be very childish, creepy, and egotistical, and so it's fun to play up that aspect of his personality.

Tauriel in canon is a captain of the Elven guard for Mirkwood and she is an able fighter capable of fighting at both ranged and and to hand combat, but socially she is a bit awkward.

As a human, the options for her were vast and varied, especially with taking a fantasy character and sticking them in a modern setting. One of the choices I made for her was that she wan away at the age of 15, but was later reunited with her family 2 weeks later.

I toyed with the idea of her becoming a vagabond hitchhiker who traveled across country to eventually end up in Locke where her aunt and uncle were, but decided not to go that route because it would have ultimately created a very different character to what I was aiming for. She would have probably ended up a lot more bitter and jaded and a lot less impulsive or fun loving.

Whover she ended up being, a talking pigeon would've tried to make friends. And then want to play with her ears once they became pointed.

She would have liked a talking pigeon for a friend. Would have made her feel even more elven

It is well known that elves like doves.

Probably because of Tolkien being christian and into purity

It's fun applying real dove traits to symbolic ones! ...They're violent, passionate, devoted but also really horny birds.

really though, they'd be cute friends.

sometimes i regret not reincarnating mordin as a pop star.

or roxy as an enormously strict single mother of two.

Isaac and Miria are old.

That's literally the only difference. They are in their 60s or 70s and Mrs. Harvent is dead by now.

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