AU Challenge Bingo Card

[chacusha]

I promised myself I would allow myself to request an au_challenge bingo card once I cleared some exchange fic off my plate. I have FINALLY done this, so here we go! I am not actually going to make any fanworks for this, but I just want to use it as a meme/activity to allow people to give me AU prompts and I can share my thoughts on how I think an X AU for Y canon would look like.

So, help me fill out this bingo: Pick a square + a fandom you'd like me to apply that AU to (+ optionally, a set of character(s) or ship(s) you'd like me to focus on for that AU), and I will write up some thoughts on how I think it would work. Here's a list of my fandoms if that helps. (If you happen to know I'm familiar with some fandom not listed there, feel free to request that.)

Porn Star AU	Single Parent AU	Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies ‎AU	Bar/Pub ‎AU	Medical ‎AU
Superhero AU: Star Trek: DS9, Quodo	Sci-Fi AU	Vacation AU	Renaissance AU	Canon Fusion (Movie) AU
Ghost AU	Non-Famous ‎AU	Free Space	Circus AU	Firefighter AU
Fae AU	Spies & Secret Agents ‎AU	20th Century AU: Final Fantasy IX	Royalty AU: Star Trek: DS9	Monster Hunter AU: Final Fantasy Tactics
Online Dating AU	Idols ‎AU	Crime AU	Racing AU	What If...? AU

Please help me fill up this bingo card with some fun AU ideas? 🥺 Feel free to specify an AU of your choice (not appearing elsewhere on the card) for the free space. Or just leave it to me to pick.

Comments

[chacusha]

Oh, thank you for the prompt!

I wasn't sure whether to interpret "Monster Hunter AU" as a generic monster hunter AU or one for the Monster Hunter game series in particular, but I'm not super knowledgable about the latter, so I'll interpret it as the former. I'm sorry if this wasn't what you were looking for!

I actually think you wouldn't need to change FFT all that much to turn it into a monster hunter genre, because demons are already such a big part of FFT, and Ramza and his party are kind of unaffiliated wanderers who go around helping people wherever they end up, which translates pretty naturally into monster-hunting specialists.

I think Ramza would be the main monster hunter in this AU, but everyone has trouble believing that he's the monster hunter because he's so small/quiet/meek/unassuming. But I think a combination of experience, instinct/intuition, and encyclopedic knowledge of monsters would make him actually good at this job.

I think the various people on his team would also have their own specialties and reasons for monster-hunting. For example, I think the high-faith characters would be sensitive to monsters/the supernatural, so good at detecting them and drawing them out, but it also makes them favored targets for monsters too. Mustadio would be like the resident sharpshooter who is like the "Q" of the team -- responsible for coming up with fancy new monster-hunting tools. He doesn't have anything against monsters, just likes the intellectual challenge involved in this work. Meliadoul, on the other hand, HATES monsters, won't rest until they're all dead, views it as her personal duty to protect the innocent from them, etc. Reis *is* a creature that a lot of people view to be a monster and who is regularly hunted, but she is not malevolent. Orran isn't a member of the team, but Ramza sometimes consults him on certain jobs because he has the gift of precognition.

Ramza doesn't talk about his past much, but there's a rumor that he comes from an old family that was wiped out by monsters. There's a dark prophecy that involves his family, and some people think it already came true in the event that killed most of his family members, but Ramza is not sure it has.

I'm not really sure what to do about Delita and Ovelia in this AU. The Church/Lucavi plotline fits pretty naturally into monster hunter AU, but the non-supernatural political plotline not so much. Maybe Delita turned Ovelia into a monster or cursed her so that she could escape from something, and Agrias is traveling with Ramza in the hopes that he can find a way to turn Ovelia back or something like that.

Those are some ideas I had. Hope they're entertaining!

[breyzyyin]

They are very entertaining! I love these ideas. Thank you. ♥