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rest time for me but for my nightly post i'm explaining that scott au i have or like. the basic points of it under the cut. shoutout to my og managers enjoyers

everything is the same up to scott's death . everyone is fucked up over this and it's initially henry who approaches fazbender's to offer to help them memorialize scott. this is, uh, obviously suspicious, but abel is way too hung up on things to question anything and so it goes through

scott basically becomes henry's first proper soul experimentation, with henry using the body and the soul that "lives on" to test how to potentially bring someone back with memories from the afterlife, or at least to see how emotions function in one's soul. this is kept distant from everyone except for just barely abel, who's kept like... very vaguely in the loop but it's largely just about henry working on his thesis. abel's now pissed off and really confused but henry keeps going You Wanted This, Trust Me

eventually the Scott Memorial Machine is blueprinted and brought to abel and the concept of having scott back instantly makes abel forgo his trepidation. he works on the machine and eventually henry brings in scott's body (which is in disturbingly good condition for how long it's been decaying due to henry constantly fucking with his soul, though henry just says hes been preserving the body and abel's too enthused to care) and the two make 01_01

he's as fucked up as he is in canon. henry makes a disassembly machine and abel takes scott to get broken down. with a combo of abel's desperation to have scott back and henry's desire to research souls and how they can be brought back and help his research, the two continue making phone guys out of springlock suit victims

skip to post-dsaf1 good end, pre-dsaf2. dave is working on the jacktrap plan -- he doesnt really plan on doing it, at least not without jack's consent, but also dave would never ask and a part of him knows jack would be unhappy. he still works on it. a failsafe? some kind of comfort? who knows.

tragically, dave hasn't realized the golden freddy suit he picked out... is the same one half of scott's soul, split in two from the torment and "revival", has been dwelling inside! oops! and this is the half that seems vehement on being The True, Godly Scott, the Ideal Manager,

come on down and see scott! he works here!

dave Freaks The Fuck Out and kind of just bails. cinematic parallel of "scott gets ditched in a room in the fazbunker for 30+ years and then dave gets springlocked and jack starts avoiding him for 30+ years". in the meantime scott's other soul half is sitting listlessly in the flipside and doesnt really know what to do -- this half of his soul lacks an identity (i literally portray him as having a black box for a head) because he lost it in the revival and he doesn't quite know what to be or what he's "meant" to be or what he ever was beyond a legacy. he doesnt do much for a while

finally the time for dsaf3 comes close and while davetrap is leaving the fazbunker reality!scott breaks out of the room and insists on being a Good Manager and "not leaving an employee behind, no matter how distressed". davetrap literally cannot shake this guy. reality!scott and davetrap become the Worst Dynamic Duo Ever of davetrap trying to pull his schemes while scott tries to help him. meanwhile jack kennedy is stuck in his neutral end mindset of "WHY DOES ANYTHING MATTER !!" so scott and davetrap are slowly figuring this out. the endgame is "jack gets veered onto the good route" but that's more the job of --

the flipsiders! flipside!scott meets flipside!dave and they get up to similar hijinks of trying to get in touch with jack once the two of them look thru their reality-selves' eyes and see the situation. ruh-roh! better work on getting that depressed substance-abusing husk to focus on the promise and not his own issues. maybe also focus on the issues though

tl;dr: two half-souls in furry suits have a one-sided rivalry. meanwhile the other halves of their souls try to fix the man with the weight of so many dead souls on his shoulder despite the souls being ghosts with little control in the mortal world. yeah