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[espigeonage]

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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[chalicejoker]

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.