I'm going to do the Royalty AU + DS9 one first because I'm not sure yet about the Quodo Superhero AU.
For the royalty one, I'm still trying to figure out how the whole situation would work, and what kind of setting to use here (like a traditional monarchy vs. a constitutional monarchy type system instead), but I feel like Ben + Jake work pretty well as a king and prince of Bajor, but ones who were only recently brought in, for some reason. Maybe there was a series of regime changes and upheaval on Bajor, but then they found some foreign nobles who are distant, distant relatives of a past monarch or something who could function as a successor and wouldn't have any of the problems associated with the other options / is a compromise monarch between rival factions, and invited them to come rule.
The officers of DS9 would then be prominent members of Sisko's court. Kira is Sisko's majordomo or whatever -- the head of his household. She doesn't think this arrangement will last and is annoyed that someone who didn't grow up on Bajor is currently the king, but grudgingly admits Sisko is probably the least worst option here. Dax is Sisko's... general? Some sort of strategic adviser who he worked with before and brought from whatever country he was living in previously. Worf joins later, another general/military adviser who initially doesn't get along with Dax, but then they become bros. Bashir is the royal physician. Odo is the sheriff of the nearby castle town. Nog is Jake's commoner BFF who has an uncanny talent for sneaking the prince out of the palace and away from his studies, lol.
Winn is still the leader of the local Church and wary of Sisko's policies, especially where they curtail the Church's power/influence. Dukat is the former, recently-deposed tyrant of Bajor who is in exile and who everyone hates, but he's always going around trying to raise an army to take Bajor back and is ready to invade at the first sign of weakness.
I'm not really sure what to do with the Changelings/Dominion and whether to keep them in at all. They could certainly be a neighboring country and you could have some geopolitics that way, but I also wonder if they could be a powerful family within Bajor or something like that.
I'm curious if this is similar to what you were thinking, or if it's completely different!
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For the royalty one, I'm still trying to figure out how the whole situation would work, and what kind of setting to use here (like a traditional monarchy vs. a constitutional monarchy type system instead), but I feel like Ben + Jake work pretty well as a king and prince of Bajor, but ones who were only recently brought in, for some reason. Maybe there was a series of regime changes and upheaval on Bajor, but then they found some foreign nobles who are distant, distant relatives of a past monarch or something who could function as a successor and wouldn't have any of the problems associated with the other options / is a compromise monarch between rival factions, and invited them to come rule.
The officers of DS9 would then be prominent members of Sisko's court. Kira is Sisko's majordomo or whatever -- the head of his household. She doesn't think this arrangement will last and is annoyed that someone who didn't grow up on Bajor is currently the king, but grudgingly admits Sisko is probably the least worst option here. Dax is Sisko's... general? Some sort of strategic adviser who he worked with before and brought from whatever country he was living in previously. Worf joins later, another general/military adviser who initially doesn't get along with Dax, but then they become bros. Bashir is the royal physician. Odo is the sheriff of the nearby castle town. Nog is Jake's commoner BFF who has an uncanny talent for sneaking the prince out of the palace and away from his studies, lol.
Winn is still the leader of the local Church and wary of Sisko's policies, especially where they curtail the Church's power/influence. Dukat is the former, recently-deposed tyrant of Bajor who is in exile and who everyone hates, but he's always going around trying to raise an army to take Bajor back and is ready to invade at the first sign of weakness.
I'm not really sure what to do with the Changelings/Dominion and whether to keep them in at all. They could certainly be a neighboring country and you could have some geopolitics that way, but I also wonder if they could be a powerful family within Bajor or something like that.
I'm curious if this is similar to what you were thinking, or if it's completely different!