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just found some Valiant AU development sketches and notes in my old OLD sketchbook

I really thought it would be a webtoon

long post warning! And I mean long looooooooong post. If you get to the bottom and go "I'm not reading allat" I do not blame you

more under the cut:

^^^ OC

General notes:

This Valiant AU was meant to be a solarpunk superhero slice of life that slowly reveals a heavier plot, mostly focusing on character interactions and personal growth

White Hat Incorporated is a struggling, newbie business and clients are rare

The episodes can range from domestic shenanigans like fixing a leaking pipe or getting dinner, to running their business by defeating the villain of the week

The villains and heroes stay in their roles from canon. The only ones with major changes are our main 4 guys

All major information about White Hat would be discovered from the point of view of Lumencia and Zug as they realize that not only is PEACE corrupt, but that their boss is neither human nor demon nor alien

Now onto the characters themselves:

Dr. Zug Gleis

Like his name suggests, he likes trains. His train is also a drill that was an attempt to burrow out of government's arrest

Which he then modified into a laboratory, each train cart being a unique kind of laboratory for surveillance, medicine, etc. He sleeps very uncomfortably in cramped spaces and likes it that way

V.I.R.U.S is now a software he created and repurposed into his bratty computer assistant, now Cambot. She's also the one recording all their commercials and making his coffee. Basically Zug doesn't get along with ANY of his children

He doesn't like to leave his laboratories, so he set up a network of tunnels through White Hat's mansion that send and receive messages, inventions, food, etc. There's one little chute for these in most parts of the place

His arc was focusing on his inability to accept help from others because he sees any kind gesture as a possible way to control him. Even worse if the kind person genuinely means it, because he also sees accepting kindness as a handicap, a debt

His villainy was an easy way to make money and show the world his capability without any assistance from any hero or villain organization

Really, he just wants to be able to do whatever he wants, but his need to be the best or else he's the worst is tiring for him. Anger issues don't help

This stemmed from a past of constantly being bullied and compared to his brother, Goldheart

After dropping out of hero college, Zug became his own supervillain's known as The Mad Condoctor, whose theme was, you guessed it, trains. He stole trains, modified scrap metal, targeted stations and trade centers, held hostages, prepared puzzles for heroes to solve, etc

The Mad Condoctor was notorious for being uncooperative and a backstabber. He operated at night and was an expert in secret missions, spyware and tech-based combat and the likes

By the first season finale he would have genuinely cared for his coworkers but still didn't value his own life, so he let himself be taken in by PEACE. The crew have to go retrieve their idiot and many things about White Hat Incorporated are revealed to the public after they clash with their local PEACE headquarters

He finds authority annoying and hates seeing people kiss up. Mostly shameless in his actions and doesn't much care for other people's opinions. Can be honest to the point of hurting

So he is a terrible liar. It's like he's allergic to it or something. Prefers to lie by omission

Will only call White Hat 'sir' and 'jefecito' sarcastically or to get a point across. Unfortunately hopelessly devoted to him at the end of the series whoops

Lumencia

A superwoman with horse-like powers that decided to choose unicorns as her motif because that's way cooler. She has kicks and punches that convert her diet into energy, which is great because she loves eating

Changed it up so that Lumencia is the resident prankster and WH tells puns, not the other way around

She has a room with a slanted ceiling which she can climb out the window of to lie and chill on the roof. She's also converted that space, where flat roof meets slanted roof, into an outdoor cinema/gym, decorated with christmas lights. The mansion is a three-way clash of decorative styles from afar

She doesn't have a license to be a hero, but she helps out wherever she can anyway, stopping purse snatchers and helping lost children find their parents and such

In fact, she is actually one of the most beloved people in the little town they live near, with many residents familiar with her buffoonery but affirming her as a reliable source of help

She's also relatively well-known online, as she posts videos of her playing the guitar and well-intentioned but nonsensical 'Lumencia Tips', filled with terrible puns and comic-like ballpoint pen doodles

Her arc would have focused on letting herself acknowledge her strengths that aren't related to fighting

Shes very buddy-buddy with petty criminals and shop owners alike, able to strike up a conversation and make pals no matter who they are. Once she deems you chill, you can chill, yknow? This isn't on purpose.

Even though she has gross taste in food and is messier than Zug, her handwriting is very pretty and neat. She also is very good at graffiti and sticks to an aesthetic, with glitter and y2k stickers and denim-clad wizards on skateboards, all the works

She has a very straightforward view on heroics and is not big on plans, preferring to punch her way out of situations or annoy her enemies to tears. In fact, her main goal is to become an official part of one of the many PEACE-brand hero leagues.

There's other hero corporations too but PEACE is the number one in America

So one day she just showed up on White Hat's doorstep and never left because it would 'look good on her resume'.

Previously, she bounced from place to place, relying on connections and the occasional tip from her halfway-illegal heroism efforts to get by. She also doesn't remember where her powers are from, only that her parents worked at PEACE and where killed by 'villains' when she was a little girl

Her favourite place is the funfair because that's the last nice memory she had

By season two she would have started another arc where she learns that she was an experiment and her parents were killed by their own higher ups in PEACE to silence them, and she has to come to terms with why she even wants to be a hero as well as stand her ground when her optimism is challenged.

Lumencia's music is like whatever Equestria Girls and Electric Mayhem have going on. I think the genre is power pop? Either way it sounds like those elaborate 80s radical van murals look

Is an effortless liar in the sense that she says the most batshit things with utmost confidence and treats consequences like an afterthought.

Only calls White Hat 'White Hat' and not 'boss' when she feels the situation calls for it. Also unfortunately hopelessly devoted to him by the end of the series

624

An extra set of hands that cleans the place and helps out with their little business. Does not like being interuppted when listening to music

Goes from 'fucking hate these guys' to 'they give me food therefore they are mine' in the span of the entire series

Quite lazy, plays the winning side. Which is usually the heroes here

Dunno if I'd call his arc an arc. All I know is there's an episode where his spoilt teenager-ismd hits their peak and Zug and Lumencia have to reach an understanding with him by respecting his boundaries and helping him feel secure

And after that episode, 624 stopped being a total catalyst for disaster plotwise

White Hat

He is one of the comic reliefs and manages White Hat Incorporated, often making really stupid decisions because profit is not on his mind

The final voice I settled on for him was fucking Australian Markiplier

His "growth" would be the characters and readers seeing him to actually be a caring, experienced-in-heroics-but-not-business individual who gives really sound advice and becomes a source of comfort for his close friends

But is still a MEGA-PRICK. Every time he gets beat up it's for a valid reason

In canon, villainy triumphs because Black Hat is there. In the Valiant AU, the story is in the heroes' favour because White Hat is in his place.

I wanted him to be (mostly) opposite to Black Hat in many ways! BH's office is huge, minimalistic, corporate and cold, while WH's office is small, maximalistic, filled with sentimental items and like a warm cabin.

BH basks in hellfire and while WH does use fire, he prefers the ocean. BH enjoys golf, WH enjoys dancing. BH takes himself seriously, WH very much doesn't. BH detests everything, WH has an appreciation for everything. And etc...

They're still horrible creepy eldritch monstrosities, the fish theme for WH is just because he likes ocean shit and fish are scary

BH has made himself known globally and universally, he has statues and monuments and paintings

WH has nothing; White Hat is five years old. This is his first time being White Hat

But he's been around since the beginning of time, taking many forms and names, learning the wonders of the universe and giving all of his time to help however he could

He believed this to be natural, he's the one of a kind who doesn't need rest or food. He can't die or get really hurt, and would later learn he couldn't bear to love either

Some of the things he was included many plants and animals before the humans, then farmers and warriors, witches and politicians, an entertainer vigilante, a writer, a parent, a fur-clad warrior in the snow, guiding forces of nature, and a female pirate.

I wanted him to cycle through the entire alignment chart in terms of morality as he exhausted everything he could do to make a difference

After World War 2 on earth, his psyche gave out and he collapsed into a long, long nap; a shadow pooling in a lake, his favourite

Finally woke up and decided to take his own form not based on any species or star or tree, chose his own outfit and everything

And made his debut as White Hat, forged documents to start a small business for heroes support

He doesn't have an arc, but if he did, he would be in the midst of learning to let himself get attached again and be properly selfish. Maybe identity issues.

But he doesn't have an arc

And so really only serves to help out Zug and Lumencia. He's comfortable with no one knowing these things about him ever, because what would they even do if they did?

Wouldn't change anything, they wouldn't understand the full scope even, so he's at peace with himself right now, grateful that he's alive for once

He uses manipulation to direct conversations away from himself and get people to spill their feelings, or burrow into their trauma without using magic

if he wants he can let loose to trigger some kind of indescribable primal instinct within a person, that cripples them with terror and despair and love for the sublime face of something divine, bigger than the observable universe. He doesn't like doing this.

He's a fan of ice and shadow manipulation, he thinks the colours go well with his coat

Most animals hate him and he cries about it

He also cries when he tries to download an app on a laptop

He is a competent medical doctor, babysitter, and waiter. In fact, he seems to have infinite patience and calm when he isn't whining over dessert like a toddler

The human skeleton hanging in his office is real

Hopelessly attached to Lumencia, Zug and 624 by the end of the series but they don't need to know that

This AU will forever make me warm and fuzzy inside I love them so much, I had so many locations planned, started Pinterest boards and shit

Instead I think I'll take some of these things and apply them to my OCs instead! HUGE thanks to everyone who enjoyed this version of this AU while it lasted! Maybe it'll come back one day, maybe not. Likely not

#my post #my art #art from last year #villainous valiant!au #villainous heroic!au #villainous #villainous hbo max #villainous cn #miss heed #white hat #dr zug gleis #lumencia #624 #long post #not tagging all these characters

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nivilliain · 5 years

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Smile Like You Mean It (Chapter 12)

Name: Smile Like You Mean It Fandom: Villainous/Villanos AU: Smile!/Valiant Beta Reader: @rachrar Rating: E to Teen Warnings: Brainwashing; Torture; Summary: After Zug goes missing, White Hat and Lumencia try to find him. However, they end up in a strange dimension with darkness under its smiling surface.

Banner artwork edited from a piece I commisioned @theinsanefruitloop-chan to do

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Zug had made his own makeshift lab with help from the Resistance. They were regularly going out to get what he needed. They didn’t want to risk him getting discovered.

Or that's what they kept telling him.

He knew the truth, however. After finding out that not only had Lumencia been corrected, but White Hat too? He just wanted to go after Smug himself.

It had been an advert that had alerted him to White Hat’s conversion. He was selling something and Zug could recognise his Hat anywhere, even after such a drastic change. Yellow didn’t suit HIS White Hat.

While waiting for the machines to analyse the virus, he had been slowly going through all the files from Smug’s computer. Some of which were encrypted and took a while to open. A lot of them were just CCTV footage from the park. Some of the encrypted videos had been of White Hat and Lumencia’s visit. Smug had been watching them this whole time. It was pretty obvious that Smug had been manipulating both of them the moment they entered this dimension.

Document after document. Hours if not days of footage. Reports. So many of them useless. All of it Zug had to go through because it was the small details that were the key to winning.

“COFFEE!” Zug demanded, barely lifting his head from the desk. “Antlers! Coffee! Now!”

“Sir, my name is not ‘Antlers’, its-”

“Don’t care!” Zug said. “Won't remember it. COFFEE ANTLERS!”

The animalistic boy with fangs and antlers sighed, pouring him coffee. He was one of the rare non-human heroes who hadn’t been corrected. Apparently the day when all the heroes were invited to the park he had been too sick to go.

They had gone because Yellow Hat had been a respected member of the hero community in his dimension. Anyone who could have prevented this from happening fell before they even realised what was going on.

If Smug hadn’t hurt those Zug had loved, then Zug might have had high respects for him.

Zug sipped the freshly brewed coffee. The Resistance had developed a filtering system to help get the food clean of the ‘sunshine serum’ made from the virus. Zug had taken it into consideration while working on a cure. However, it was too crude to copy directly as it could cause permanent damage to biological matter.

“H-how is it going?” Antlers asked.

“Well, Smug- despite being an evil genius- is boring as fuck at times.” Zug mumbled, checking through the next set of decrypted files. “And the virus is being stubborn.”

“I-it’s clever...” Antlers shivered, remembering things he wished he didn’t.

“It’s amazing.” Zug commented. “Therefore a pain. It was definitely manufactured.”

“W-wait, so someone made it?” Antler asked, hugging the empty tray to his chest.

“Yeah.” Zug finally looked up from his computer and desk. He frowned at Antlers. “What the fuck are you wearing?” “Like it? I found it-”

Zug’s eyes widened. He grabbed it off of Antler’s head. “This... this is White Hat’s hat...” He scrutinised every inch of it, checking for any sign of infection. “It.. it’s not infected..”

“Hey! I found it.” Antlers pouted, trying to grab it back.

Zug easily pushed him off. “You idiot! This could be key to curing the virus!”

“W-wait, it’s not just a hat?” Antlers said, stopping in his tracks.

“No.” Zug held it up. “It’s White Hat’s hat.” He looked at Antlers. “This stays between us two, got it?” “I m-mean I should really tell CL-”

“GOT. IT.” Zug said firmly. “Or do you wanna be known as ‘Antlerless’.”

Antlers yelped and ran.

Zug rested back in his chair, looking at the hat. Definitely White Hat’s. It even smelt like him despite what it had been through. Mostly because it wasn't just a normal hat but a part of White. Which begged the question- why wasn't this infected?

“Ah, you are awake.”

Zug nearly dropped the hat. A playlist of Smug’s encrypted videos were playing. So far most of them had been without sound and this was the first one that had recorded a conversation clearly. He turned from the hat to the screen. Smug was talking to Lumencia.

Smug and Lumencia-

He scrambled to sit up properly and pay full attention to the video, ignoring the hat for the moment. He watched as Smug and Lumencia talked back and forth. He fumbled, grabbing a notepad and pen.

He jotted down all points of interest Smug spoke of. The fact that “The Minister” was definitely not Smug, but rather someone beginning with ‘Ye’. Next was the fact that.. That Smug seemed to get some sort of physic message from The Minister. Was the virus was able to physically communicate between infected?

That ment there was a host. An original.

If it was connected to all the other infected, then maybe curing the source could at least lower the resistance of the other infected, if not cure them all at once.

“Euphoria was just like you. Somehow, she was resistant to it. Your hoodie, the food you had, the music- all of which have somehow not affected you. Which means, and I’m sorry to have to say this but, I am going to have to do to you what I did to her.”

“I’VE GOT YOU!” Zug laughed, unbelieving that it was just handed to him. “I’ve got you, you Smug bastard!” He said, grabbing the Lumencia samples he had saved from the capsule. With this and the uninfected hat he knew what to do.

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Zug had synthesised one possible cure. It was just enough to cure one person. Testing a drop onto a tiny sample of virus had proved promising. He knew who he would be using this on.

However, getting Lumencia was now the hard part. Her and Euphoria were practically joined at the hip so they’d have to kidnap both. In the end, their best plan was their original plan. That was to have Zug dress as Smug again and lure the two to him.

The first time Zug had worn the costume, he didn’t mind so much although he was grumpy. Now, he down right hated it. He kept feeling his blood boil every time he caught his reflection in the sewer water.

Once he was given the signal, he climbed up and walked out the alleyway- as if he didn’t just climb out the sewer. “Euphoria! Hysteria!” He snapped upon seeing them.

They both stopped, trembling. Clinging onto each other, they turned to ‘Smug’. Honestly Zug wasn't one for hugs but he just wanted to hold them close and protect them from the monster he was dressed as. Instead he took a deep breath. “What are you doing?”

“G-getting.. C-cotton candy?” Euphoria asked, pressing herself more against Hysteria in fear.

Hysteria seemed to be beginning to panic. “W-we’re not d-doing anything w-wrong-!!”

Zug peered at them, “I’ll be the judge of that.” He said, indicating with his index finger for them to come closer.

The girls looked about ready to run away, but ‘Smug’ had them paralyzed. After a few minutes, he just grabbed their linked hands in one of his own roughly and began dragging them. “Hurry up!” He growled.

“Please.. Please... please don’t.. W-we’re being good!” Hysteria said, drool and tears running down her face in panic.

“Quiet.” Zug snapped, unable to look back at the woman he considered like family.

The moment they reached the manhole, resistance members grabbed them and chloroformed them. Zug grabbed Hysteria’s- Lumencia’s hand. “Shhh.. it’s okay... it’s okay...”

There was a look of realisation- of recognition in her eyes as she gave into the chemical.

#smile! fic #smile! au #My writing

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