bakerstreet | Reincarnation AU

reincarnation au meme

Ah, reincarnation! The possibilities are as endless as the cycle of lives your characters have led. Perhaps they knew one another in a life before what you now call canon. Perhaps canon is a past life for one they're leading now. Perhaps they've lived many, many times, and are now on yet another iteration... in space.

The choice is yours! But if choosing is hard, here's some prompt ideas:

Relationship:

Family: Siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, parents, children... The bond of blood remains strong, from life to life.
Friends: The most chosen of families. Perhaps you swore once you'd be best friends for ever-- how true it is!
Enemies: You have been rivals for longer than perhaps even you know. Maybe someday there will be an end to this feud... or not.
Lovers: Soulmates-- or at least, romantic partners. Maybe one life was enough, or maybe you'll keep loving them 'til the end of time.
It's Complicated: Friends to lovers to enemies to lovers to....... Well. You've lived many lives. People change, and relationships do too.
Other: A vindictive deity making you live and live again? A helpful spirit supporting you through incarnations? Something else entirely?

Situation:

Found: You've found one another yet again, in another life. How easily does it go?
Memory: One of you remembers... But the other doesn't. Or neither of you remember, but feel the pull. Or there's a terrible memory, rising up and making you lose all sense of when you are.
Coping: It's not easy, having another life (or lives) rattle around in your brain. How do you deal?
Repeat: Something from your past life is happening again. Can you make it go differently this time? Do you want to?
Denial: No, no, no. Past lives are just something for fantasies and fairytales. So why is this person so insistent they aren't?
Marked: For all your soulmate tattoo/scars/words AU needs. There's a mark connecting you two-- has it remained the same across lives? Have you?
Outside: Your family member/friend/love/etc. has a past life. You weren't a part of it-- but they've found the people who were. How does that feel?
Other: There's so very many reincarnation AU ideas out there! Play them out!

As per usual, toplevel with your character/whatever info you want to include about your thoughts. Tag out! Have fun!

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[ this journal is set up for pre-timeskip claude (18) but i'm happy to use post-timeskip (23) also! ]

[ maybe a platonic variant to find and help a former life's important person? it's canon she was trapped in a cycle of death-rebirth as a human where her new life had a tragic love (romantic or not) that end in her painful death until her last reincarnation as the messiah. this doesn't mean she's her former lives, but she remembers them all. as does a good case to separate the different lives. ]

[ I'm quite the sucker for soulmates, particularly marked or memory. Glutton for punishment whomst? ]

[cw: suicide // ota + assumed cr is fine and dandy.

more info on his journal. a medieval fantasy crown prince who started a coup/civil war. ended it by ending his own life when he realized there was no happy ending for him. then woke up in his own body as a 4 year old and killed himself again immediately, refusing to endure that life anymore. ~~then woke up after the fact with zero memory to live it out anyway but that's unimportant.~~ he will 100% pretend he remembers nothing. but it's okay, he's a bit of a shit liar.

be someone whose life he took in the course of his selfishness. be someone he was engaged to and discarded. maybe be someone who was sympathetic to him? choices.]

Edited 2024-03-12 00:39 (UTC)

( m/f for shipping, ota gen. )

Reincarnation AU

April O'Neil| Rise of the TMNT

claude von riegan ( fire emblem: three houses )

The Wizard Howl ★ Howl's Moving Castle (Novel)

Harry | All of Us Strangers | M/M

alexiel | angel sanctuary

esther moreau / original / ota

Essek Thelyss | Critical Role | M/M

Astarion | Baldur's Gate | OTA

Robert Muldoon | Jurassic Park | OTA

korel, oc

zelda | tears of the kingdom

machi kuragi | fruits basket

chiaki nanami | super dangan ronpa 2

Nie Huaisang | The Untamed | OTA

tifa lockhart | ffvii remake

mion sonozaki | higurashi no naku koro ni

vash — trigun maximum

knives — trigun maximum

Leanne | Fire Emblem | F/M for anything Shippy/Smut, otherwise OTA