I TRY TO CHANGE BUT I JUST STAY THE SAME

[dousing]

ONE SMALL CHANGE MEME Everything is set in stone. ... Right? Fate is fate, there's no way to change anything. Maybe. But in another world, maybe something is different. Maybe someone that was evil isn't. Maybe the directive of a group has altered just slightly. Maybe, maybe, maybe. This isn't about choice so much as existence: things have always been this way. You don't know anything different. An AU, maybe, but on the smallest scale. What does this tiny change do to the whole world? Is it the butterfly effect? Does not much change at all? It's something to think about. • Top level your character. Include any details you might think are relevant. Or don't. As always, we're not the cops. • Reply to other people's top levels! • If your thread is going to contain a lot of gore, consider giving a heads up in the subject line! • Have fun!

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gellert grindelwald. hp/fbawtft.

[roblet]

[ what happens when a dude incapable of love is born able to feel? shenanigans, probably. ]

ok here we go

[preferable]

[ it's been an intense year. between seeing to ariana's care, accepting--and learning--the role of a professor at hogwarts, moving together with gellert, and also supporting gellert's fledgling ministry career, albus wonders at times that he ever has time to breathe, much less relax or socialize. he barely knows their neighbors, and he hasn't really picked up a book for pleasure in a few weeks now. even so, he can't be upset about it. things aren't quite what he imagined he'd be doing at this point in his life, but they aren't bad. he and gellert are both making a difference in their own ways, and they're good for one another.. most of the time. ]

I'm telling you, you may have to deal with old-fashioned, dull-thinking career politicians, but children.. [ he's in their kitchen, seated at the table with books and papers spread across the length of it. on the stove, a pot stirs itself. albus isn't much of a cook, but as most of his family's money goes toward keeping ariana and aberforth housed and safe and in relative comfort, he's been making an effort to learn. it occasionally has mixed results, and today dinner smells.. interesting.

he marks something on one of his students' essays, frown intensifying for a moment before he sets his quill down and turn in his seat, folding his arm over the back with an arch glance. ] I don't recall being as damnably sneaky as some of my first years. I hope you've had less nonsense happen to you today.

yayayayaya

[roblet]

[ It's been... a lot. Albus' influence serves to meter Gellert's fount of sheer inescapable energy, charisma, and danger. They meter each other's fire, to be honest. Things could have gone sideways when Aberforth had accused him of being a bad influence. His fingers had twitched for his wand in that moment but he'd paused, taken a step back, breathed, and thought of Albus. Thought of Ariana. Instead of retaliating he'd smiled and apologised.

It had settled things just enough.

Now things are settled if nothing else. He's a bit of an upstart in the Ministry - an anomaly, being a German that attended Durmstrang. His vetting had passed by all right though, and living with Albus is comfortable in a way he'd not anticipated. ]

Are you implying that children are worse than staid old wizards frightened to so much look at suggestions of change? At least children are malleable, Albus. [ It's good-natured though, companionable as he walks across the small kitchen to where Albus is seated so that he can draw fingers through his hair slowly. ] You're plenty sneaky now, I'd believe you a sneaky first year. [ With a hum. ] The usual for me, unfortunately. An unchanging wheel turning, some of the department heads questioning my motives. Nothing I'm not used to. Nothing I can't handle, either. [ He remains there but waves his hand idly toward the table, whereupon said papers and books settle themselves far more neatly. ] You weren't planning us to eat atop your work, I hope. [ A pregnant pause. ] What are we having?

Rey || Star Wars: The Force Awakens ||

[talentedscavenger]

[ooc: Rey was never abandoned on Jakku...or Rey wasn't found by Finn but by someone else.

Lots of shenanigans. All the shenanigans.]

Clint Barton | Marvel | OTA

[goshilovearos]

[Clint's first time out heroing, a cop mistook him for a thief. Only Black Widow picking him up saved him from getting caught (and ultimately led to him becoming an Avenger). What if she took a different route that day, and Clint stayed a petty small time thief?]

Sarah Manning || Orphan Black || OTA

[cloneororiginal]

[Sarah, one of the clones of Project Leda that slipped through DYAD's fingers. What if she never left? What if she was born into DYAD with her twin, Helena? Would she be under the supervision of a monitor...or be made self-aware and grew up in such an environment?]

rapunzel | tangled

[solarcorona]

[ Gothel refused Rapunzel's bargain to save Flynn's life. She fights to escape her every chance she has. ]

John Watson | Sherlock

[ihadabadday]

[What if John Watson hadn't been shot? Or he refused to stay in London and chased after Sherlock after Reichenbach? All the possibilities]

Wanda Maximoff || MCU ||

[scarlettwin]

[What if Wanda and Pietro had been rescued by SHIELD during List's experiments?]

[bravelittlemonkey]

"Okay. Just one more time." Fitz dragged a hand over his face, looking over the details of his clipboard. Enhanced people. Two of them rescued from a HYDRA base. He didn't know the details of the rescue, and he certainly wasn't sure he wanted to, but he'd been tasked with finding out exactly what they were capable of.

Her brother had been easy to figure out. He was fast. Really fast. Fast enough to warrant SHIELD building highly secure cells for the both of them. He didn't like talking through a window, but for this, it was necessary. Some agents had already lost their minds and had to be contained after talking to her unguarded. An inch of bulletproof plexiglass seemed to have the desired nullification of her powers while the other agents recovered. This girl was dangerous, and Fitz could see that pretty clearly. He hadn't had the training that Ward or May had to overcome mental torture and coercion, but there were more pressing matters to attend to for them, and so he was stuck on Enhanced duty.

Truthfully, he was grateful for it. He'd heard tales of magic and otherworldly people from Coulson himself, but to actually be able to see someone who claimed she could manipulate people just by a word... It was fascinating. Curious, even. And he was nothing but curiosity.

"How does it work?" He tapped the tablet in his hand, ready to record an answer. "How did you get these abilities?"

Viktor | League of Legends | ota

[glorious_evolution]

[Going off the current lore, Viktor had left Zaun to study in Piltover, where his work was stolen from him, he was often mistreated, and never truly respected by his peers which eventually lead to his decent into madness. What if, instead, he had chose to stay in Zaun and study there?]

Miles Edgeworth | Ace Attorney | OTA, gen pref

[takethestairs]

[What if Edgeworth was raised by someone besides von Karma after his father died? He would still be intelligent, prideful, and no-nonsense, but he would have modeled his life after whoever his guardian is, followed in their footsteps, and taken on their beliefs... for better or for worse.]

[swisstroll]

[What if, indeed. What if before Manfred could even conceive of the idea, Byrne Faraday beat him to the punch and adopted Edgeworth?

For one thing, Edgeworth would have a very different little sister. She's sneaking up on him right now, and if he's not fast or attentive enough, he may just find himself enveloped in a big surprise hug from behind with hands full of Swiss rolls still in their packets.

But if he figures out her game quickly, she'll just fall flat on her face. :(]

Steve Rogers | MCU

[notmyfuture]

[SHIELD weren't the ones who found him in the ice]

[notthaticequeen]

[If Rule 63 is a problem, no hard feelings.]

"Is this him, soldier?"

"Yes."

"State his name."

"Steven Grant Rogers."

"Very good. To the chair."

She didn't argue. Didn't fight. They had kept her out for an intentionally long time this time, just so the conditioning would begin to fail. Confirmation. Anyone could look almost like the pictures that had circulated. Newspapers, film, covert shots - all well and good. But why trust reproductions when they happened to have a firsthand witness in their pockets?

They grabbed her arms, pulled her back, and she relaxed into the seat, her arms strapped down, mouthpiece shoved in place, and then the halo closed around her. It was agony, but the emptiness afterward was a sort of bliss. Once it was done, she sagged instead of sat, eyes unfocused but gazing up at the ceiling over them both.

Both. That was new. Slowly, she looked over at the other inhabitant. A doctor was taking the mouthpiece out of her mouth. She opened without thought, wondering instead in silence at a man with golden hair and skin that looked unhealthily pale. It was him she watched while a man nearby spoke the words that slipped her into a suggestible state and told her the new mission.

"When he wakes, he will not be a good soldier. You will help us make him into a good soldier. We have already begun the process. You will have to help him stay calm while we finish it. This is your history." And the story was told to her, woven to her with all details so it would convince the super soldier they had really wanted from the beginning.

They combed her hair. Dressed her well. Took the star off of her arm so it would pass for an advanced prosthetic. Once the backstory sank in, there was even a little light in her eyes when they left her in his hospital room to wait for his eyes to open.

Thea Queen l Arrow

[redarrowqueen]

(What if she simply goes on a long term leave of absence from Team Arrow during the period between S4 and S5? Does ignore the whole bloodlust mess.)

Peggy Carter | MCU

[missunionjack]

[[There are a lot of options. What if Michael's death isn't enough to spur Peggy into the field? (Fate should feel free to toss friends from another timeline into her path anyway somehow.) What if Peggy gets chosen to get the serum instead of, or as well as, Steve? What if Hydra took over through open warfare instead of hidden sabotage? What if she gets tired of being ignored, leaves the SSR, and becomes a vigilante?]]

Kara Danvers | Supergirl (DCTV)

[wapow]

[What if the Kents decided to adopt Kara too?]

Aredhel | Silmarillion | ota

[outwards]

[What is she never walked into the forest of questionable consent and just hung out with Curvo and Celegorm instead]

Houou Maniwa | Katanagatari | ota

[musubitori]

[ ooc: His entire canon is a mess, but not catching that damn sword would have been a start - /edna voice/ no sword hunts.]

Kusakabe Hikaru | Doukyuusei | OTA

[zgok]

[Perhaps he never decided to pursue his education after all and more or less lost his motivation to try?]

Kristen Kringle l Gotham

[misskringle]

[What if the GCPD shooting was the push she needed to file transfer papers?]

Frisk | Undertale

[dustless]

[What if...Frisk decided to stay with Toriel in the beginning?]

Noctis Lucis Caelum | Final Fantasy XV

[fishingking]

[What the Lucis kingdom was actually the aggressor in the war?]

Margo Hanson | The Magicians

[ibiza]