In The Name Of Your Dream

In the Name of Your Dream

An AruSheri role reversal AU where Sheryl is a pilot of the Galaxy, and a blind!Alto is a famous singer and dancer from the Frontier

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Where Alto had to rebel to become a pilot, Sheryl was actually encouraged by her family to pursue her dream and was supported by them until the Galaxy came and wiped out those who would defy the new law that made cybernetic implants mandatory. Orphaned, she lived on the streets of the slum area until she was found by Grace O’Connor, who took her under her wing and managed her to this very day where she’s become a top-notch stunt pilot. Playing around with exosuits can only sate her for so long, however, and the false sky of the Galaxy fleet is stifling. 

Alto still dreams of flying thanks to the inspiration from his late mother, but his blindness poses a real obstacle in becoming pilot. No matter how great he’s gotten at navigating the world through echolocation and other helpful means, there’s only so much that can be accommodated in such a demanding profession. With this logic as a discouragement, Alto never strayed from the path of a performing artist, but if he was going to stay on it, he’d walk it to his own beat. 

After secretly being introduced to modern dance by Yasaburo, Alto surprised and impressed a contest audience and his father with a style that tastefully combined the old and the new, and Ranzo gave him his approval to pursue this branching path so long as he returned to his roots down the line. Alto couldn’t say yes fast enough, and with Yasaburo by his side, he hit the ground running. He hadn’t felt so free since his mother passed away. 

This idol career has taken him far and wide across the galaxy, and eventually, he arrives at the Macross Galaxy fleet as part of his tour. 

He and Sheryl meet as you might expect: In the middle of the concert, a novice teammate’s reckless stunt knocks Alto off the stage, and when Sheryl recovers him, he has her continue flying him around a bit so the audience doesn’t know it was a mistake. However, Alto’s still the one who gets Sheryl’s precious earring snagged on his person, and she storms the hotel where he and Yasaburo are staying to demand it back. 

That’s when the unlikely romance begins to bloom.

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PS Notes

Sheryl is as surprised as anyone else who’s not familiar with the Interstellar Princess by the fact that he is, in fact, a male. Absolutely nothing about his stage persona suggests that he’s masculine in any way. His vocal range and control is that incredible, and Sheryl would’ve been none the wiser had she not met Alto in person. 

On top of that, she didn’t realize he was blind, either. At first, she thought he didn’t look at anyone out of arrogance, but the reality was that he couldn’t see them. 

(Consider this: Alto’s blindness is caused by the V-Type virus. He contracted it when he was very little, and it settled predominantly around the optic nerves, effectively killing them. The Frontier doctors couldn’t repair this damage by the time they knew what had caused it; however, they put Alto on a strict medical regimen to keep it from spreading to anywhere else.) 

The Galaxy still gets destroyed, and the rest of the story takes place on the Frontier. Sheryl was was able to get Alto and Yasaburo there thanks to her quick thinking and ability to steal an aircraft. 

For her first few weeks, the Frontier’s military has Sheryl under supervision because of a distrust toward people from the Galaxy. However, with Alto and Yasaburo’s testimonies toward her character, they back off and let her have some room to breathe. 

At some point, she’s (forcibly) enrolled at Mihoshi Academy in the piloting course to keep her from being idle. There, she meets Michael and Luca, who thank her for getting their friend back safely. Michael actually says, “Ah, so you’re the princess’s knight in shining armor. You have our thanks.” He gets a book thrown at him by Alto. 

Ranka is one of Alto’s friends from another school who wants to be a singer like him, and her character arc is still her journey to stardom. She also still has her massive crush on him, and she’s a little jealous when this other lady from the Galaxy steals his attention from her. She is grateful, though, that Sheryl got Alto out alive. 

When the Vajra attack during one of the first concerts Alto’s had since returning home, Sheryl ends up saving Ranka, who was at the concert in support of her best friend, by piloting a VF-25 Messiah whose pilot had been killed. This is how she becomes part of the Frontier’s SMS. 

me: what if i made fma content again  me: haha no….unless?

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Oiran x Maiko

An ABO AU where omega!Ryunosuke and omega!Kosuzu are an oiran and maiko in love

(A big thanks to my friend on Discord, Paullsia, who helped me with this!)

Ryunosuke’s backstory remains relatively the same. He’s still the son of a samurai who sold his status to pay off his debts and a mother who refuses to acknowledge that the glory days are over. He also has his affinity for art and works peasant jobs to put food on the table. His fate diverges when his mother decides to sell him to a brothel in Kyoto’s red light district since, in her own words, “he might as well sell himself for that, too.” He’s seven at the time. 

Kosuzu is the daughter of a geisha, who raised her to love the arts just as much as she did. Her training starts when she’s seven, as well. 

The two are fueled by very different things. Where Ryunosuke is motivated by a need to spite everyone who thinks he can’t be cultured and charismatic, Kosuzu simply wants to share her love of song and dance with everyone. 

When they first meet at lessons, it’s a rivalry at first sight. Ryunosuke doesn’t understand how someone can be so enthused about putting on a show in these gilded cages, and Kosuzu fails to see how such a grumpy and half-hearted boy can be so good at everything he does. They fight for the top spot in every class they share, pushing themselves to excel far above their peers. Everybody in the district knows their names. 

Ryunosuke, running (almost) entirely on spite, shoots up the ranks after his debut and achieves oiran status at the age of sixteen. 

Kosuzu is not yet a full-fledged geisha, but she’s why her senior sister has the most recurring customers out of all the geisha in her okiya. 

The cream of the crop, everyone is vying for them; however, right under their noses, the pair’s heated rivalry is blooming into a forbidden romance born from mutual respect and a shared love for art. 

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Afterthoughts:

In this universe, omega men are just one step above women in the social hierarchy, and that means all women: alphas, betas, and omegas. An omega man will be deferred to before an alpha woman, even if the world has similar expectations for them. Being male just affords them a few more privileges. 

As a male, Ryunosuke is allowed to leave the hanamachi unlike his female counterparts, and typically, this would mean he’d need to disguise his scent and obscure his face. However, he dresses so casually and speaks so crudely outside that he only needs to alter his scent because there’s no way this boorish young man could be a refined courtesan. 

When Ryunosuke can’t accompany Kosuzu outside, she might bring back things that she passes onto him at lessons. 

Ryu’s professional name is Shuugetsu (秋月 / “autumn moon”). It’s said that the moon is best seen during autumn when the sky is clear, and the weather is neither too hot nor too cold. It’s a beautiful scene, and that’s what he told his ageya when asked why he chose his name. Secretly, it was inspired by Kosuzu after she made a comment during a secret nighttime outing. 

In his early years, Ryu was very familiar with irate patrons, earning himself tongue-lashings and resounding slaps, thanks to his poor attitude. One particularly cross man kicked him with drunken rage and would’ve beat him more had his senior brother not quelled the situation.  When his senior brother took the ageya’s punishment on his behalf, he realized what consequences could follow his actions, and that in the future, he must also be willing to shield those under him. 

Those of Ryu’s patrons who bring large parties often ask for him and Kosuzu’s senior sister, who’ll bring Kosuzu along as her junior, to work their banquet. This means the pair get to work together a fair amount. 

When they’re older, sometime after Kosuzu becomes a full-fledged geisha and has paid off her debt to the okiya, Ryunosuke has a son sired by a young lord who rejects responsibility for them. 

Through letters and other means, the omega/omega pair arrange for Kosuzu to become the baby’s guardian after he’s weaned off his mother’s milk, and each of them picks out a character for his name: Kotetsu. 

Ryunosuke chooses “ko” as in 琥, referring to his son’s amber eyes; while Kosuzu chooses “tetsu” as in 哲, meaning “sage.” 

Ryu actually procrastinates and doesn’t come up with anything ‘til after his child is born, and Kosuzu makes fun of him for choosing something so unimaginative. 

The sad part of all this is that he can’t openly be a mother to Kotetsu since his pregnancy was kept secret to preserve the reputation of his ageya. He has to watch him grow up from a distance with barely a hand in his life through Kosuzu. 

The Trash Fires are a Power Couple

An ABO AU where a married couple transmigrated into the bodies of omega!SS and alpha!JZXun

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In their first life, Yin Angye (訚昂烨 / YAY) and Wei Mujing (韦慕晶 / WMJ) were a renowned martial arts director and the CEO of a family-run corporation that had been happily married for over a decade. Unfortunately, a freak car accident took their lives, and they were thrust into the bodies of two scummy cultivators. (You know who they are. Their names are in the header.)

The couple must now navigate this unfamiliar cultivation world while thinking one another are dead. They’ll reunite, of course, and realize they’re both alive in this world, but it’d be much easier if there were less adjusting to be done and politics and a war on the horizon between four of the great sects and the tyrannical one that’s trying to squash them all under its thumb, but they’ll manage. They always did.

[1/2] JYL Kills WWX AU: In response to the idea of JYL using Suibian to kill her brother, it takes her a little over a week to fully register what she did. In that moment, she felt relief, triumph. She obtained justice for her late A-Xuan who was so brutally murdered by WWX's Ghost General, and was it not within her right to do so? Everyone who celebrated WWX's death reassured her that no one could blame her, and yet why, after the festivities have died down, does she feel so empty?

[2/2] She’s alone in her room when the realization finally hits her, when she can think without the distracting cheers and praise of the LLJ and many other sects’ disciples. She killed her brother. She took his own sword and killed him, and she’s not even sure if she could call it an act of justice. After all, she only felt the fury that was deeply hidden within her as she drove the blade through A-Xian’s neck. Perhaps she’s more like the Violet Spider than anyone thought, she thinks.

[3/2] She even spat venom at him as he fell to the ground, blood pouring from the wound in his neck «she» made, and as she recalled the scene, she could easily see her mother’s face over her own. Instead of pride for finally showing she was indeed YZY’s daughter, she can only feel shame and remorse. She used the hidden strength from her mother to mercilessly slaughter her brother, and she cries herself to sleep harder that very night than when A-Xuan was pronounced dead.