Mysterious Fates Info!

So i will try to keep this as short as I can but first off: I obviously do not own the characters and worlds combined and/or mentioned in this fic and subsequent aus. Save for the ocs and world logistics for this fic, all rights go to the respective creators.

and with that, i do need to address the elephant in the room: the terf author of the hp series. To start off, this entire project existed well before her shitty views were made public. Safe to say, whatever nostalgia exists has nothing to do with me actually liking the hp series— I’m not a fucking psycho. However, this fic and the world I’ve created from it is something that is dear to me and that I'm a lot more attached to this fic than I am with the source material that it originated from.

i've had happy memories with the hp series and while I occasionally interact with the fics and art, that ship nevertheless sailed a long damn time ago for multiple, very obvious reasons. tbh at this point in my fanfic writing career, I’m just trying to finish something I started (so many wips…) 🫡

There is a small comfort in that said terf can’t make money from fanworks and I’m not consciously contributing financially to her wealth. Legality aside, fanfic and fanarts don’t (and can’t) make money for royalties to exist.

Also the canon post the initial seven books and movies has been dead to most of the fandom for years, with the fandom being 90% compromised of headcanons. it’s been like that since the series ended twenty fucking yrs ago. This is not news to anyone whose ever been in a fandom whose series long since ended and took a life of its own. and fuck that worthless ass reboot genuinely. Everything abt it spells bad news.

Growing older, I’ve joined others in being critical of its racism and internalized misogyny. It’s also worth noting that outside of the hp series, she’s not a good writer. However, for all of the bigoted elements present, what does have some value are the themes of love and sacrifice present in the larger scope of the series. Have other stories done those themes far better? Anyone with a functioning brain cell will say “YEAH, NO SHIT!” Because as shallow as the worldbuilding is in hp at times, it’s marginally better than twilight’s lmao.

(And I’m aware time is a flat circle but putting that stupid meme aside, twilight’s world is so underdeveloped and the aspects it chooses to expand on are no better than the more racist elements from hp and dare I say it, significantly worse. iykyk cause I ain’t explaining that can of worms— look it up lol.)

This is gonna sound like an excuse but the reality is that at this point in time, hp as a franchise is a massive conglomerate and in pop culture, has a larger than life presence— it’s why the fandom still exists in large numbers. I know some people really don’t wanna reckon with that and I do understand that sentiment tbh, but having an understanding of the series’ chokehold on the pop culture zeitgeist is crucial imo.

that’s my justification for this fic's existence at least. Look, this is entirely a ymmv situation. At the end of the day, fanfic is still fanfic, and worth reminding that if you wanna go after anyone, go after the ppl who are actually still licking jkr’s moldy ass boots and are causing real ass harm outside of the online bubble. This shit goes both fucking ways.

also I’ve tried to remove hp from this fic, trust me. unfortunately for me, hp is baked into this fic and switching the main base of the fic’s plot and worldbuilding means I’d be better off writing an entirely different fic. And if I’m gonna be honest with y’all, I do not have the brain-power to overhaul this fic again. I wanna finish this bloody thing while I’m still fucking alive lmao.

Harry Potter (base world)

cardcaptor sakura (ccs)

mo dao zu shi (mdzs)

suite life

scooby-doo! Mystery Incorporated (SD:MI)

fairy tail (ft)

how to train your dragon (httyd)

the fic is about Subha Patel (the mc) throughout the timeline of the HP series, her relationship with Harry and Sakura as her godsiblings being one of the primary focuses as they navigate their growing influence.

they’re also forced to investigate their parents and family’s pasts, esp with tensions rising in multiple directions, both bc of the looming war and just general familial pettiness

knowledge of the hp universe and plot is somewhat needed, but not a requirement— being aware of the major plot beats should be enough. prior knowledge of the rest of the series/universes combined is not necessary. even if the chrs included from their respective series will be in their post canon-era (w/ one notable exception which I’ll elaborate in a bit), it’ll be a nice bonus of understanding the choices being made for the fic 👀.

That being said, being familiar with at least hp, ccs and/or mdzs will be more enjoyable and easier for you in the long run. Being familiar w/ all three (all seven even) would be ideal but expecting that level of knowledge is realistically impossible, so I’m gonna try my best to make it coherent enough so that said knowledge (while still useful) can a moot point.

mdzs’ part in this fic will be a reincarnation au in part due to its status of post-canonicity. I will be working with a combination of novel and donghua canon— cql (the untamed) won’t be included bc it’s canon as an adaptation has enough contradictory elements to most of the novel to start messing with the fic’s plot.

cardcaptor sakura's sequel series (clear card) won't be taken into account— save for Kaito, Momo and Akiho, with their backstories accordingly adjusted. the OG plot for ccs will run concurrently alongside the first two entries in the hp series. Starting from Prisoner of Azkaban, the path will start noticeably diverging from clear card.

suite life’s lore in this fic is going to be noticeably different— i.e, the small shifts made are significant enough to consider suite life’s place in the fic as an au and thus, not post canon. For starters, suite life takes place in the mid-late 2000’s and i had to shift that to hp’s time period for the plot to be coherent, in addition to other fic appropriate adjustments.

fairy tail is used in a more historical context in this fic (aka, post canon, and for simplicity’s sake, it’ll be years after the OG run of the main series). All four main pairings are game, and by the time the guild appear in the fic, majority of the ft cast will be significantly more mature mentally. Lowkey, if you’ve seen the tags on ao3 by now, you'll probably understand what I mean lol.

httyd’s place in the fic is also in a historical context. In terms of being post-canon, dragons going ‘extinct’ will be played around with, mostly bc of fairy tail’s dragons also….well, going extinct, and hp’s dragons being highly dangerous beasts that you obviously cannot tame and ride.

scooby-doo has the least amount of adjustments; the only iteration of the characters being used are from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Also post-canon, and I mean that very loosely. If you are aware of how the show ends, just know that the “when” of where they get sent is a vital distinction from canon and that there’s a reason regression isakai is v popular as a genre.

TLDR; I want to make the entry point into this fic as painless as I can with minimal homework while also not repeating stuff for readers who will probably understand the context of my decisions.

also, regarding the canonicity of to live, breath and redeem, it’s worth keeping in mind that I had never intended to officially add MDZS to MF as a whole and it was supposed to be a one off like the other “MF with” series. Funny how the world works. Bc of that, tlbar is a draft of sorts to what MDZS will look like in the actual fic. The reason why I say this is bc in that fic, the main endgame pairing will be Jin zixuan and Subha Patel. Xuanli will still be endgame in the actual fic, tlbar is just me experimenting with different relationship dynamics.

🚧 character info is currently under construction!! In the meantime, check out the fic’s lore and how the respective histories are being mashed together! 🚧

the character profiles won't be super detailed —this is a carrd; it’ll be for brevity purposes. they will just be a quick-run down of simple stats like personality traits, family trees, etc.

This will be about the major OCs I create for this fic, i.e, ones that have significant effect on the overall lore and plot, and also potentially for the characters that are markedly a bit more different from their canon counterpart.

since I refuse to pay for a pro subscription to use more of carrd’s elements, you can click or tap on the thumbnails to zoom in and go through the gallery for every character profile and the family trees.

this will contain super basic stuff about how this fic’s world operates. I’ve separated by the respective series to streamline the fic lore and to not overload the amount of info, any overlap and places created for the fic will be located under the general fic lore section. Anything regarding the magic system in this world will be listed here too.

also pls don’t come at me for any potential inaccuracies regarding the British school system and/or culture— I’m trying my best and lowkey was operating purely on vibes until I actually did some research alongside my historical research on the chola dynasty lol.

Potential spoilers abode but also subject to change as of now bc I’m in the process of rewriting this years old fic.

The Cloud Cafe: a major hangout spot that is owned by Madame Lan, who opened up shop almost a year after she got her memories back. While the initial goal was to just have a good backup financial source (cause you never know with the Lans), it quickly grew in popularity and became well-known for its quieter mellow atmosphere, in addition to the affordable coffee and in the London area where shit was expensive as shit, that was often the most important element. It quickly became Madame Lan’s other baby and a passion project.

Wisteria Manor: most commonly called Blake Manor, it is the home base for the Blake family in Kensington. It is the childhood home to Subha Patel-Blake, Wei Wuxian (Blake) and Wei Wanyin (Blake), and would effectively serve as primary headquarters for the order of the Phoenix once Grimmauld Place becomes compromised.

Hyland Primary School: a reputable independent school holding kids from years 1 - 6. Students from every walk of life attend here, but the entrance exam has a somewhat rigid selection process, esp given where they’re located. There have been a few notable exceptions, one of them being Ginny Weasley passing the English portion with ease, allowing her to skip a year.

Weston Private Academy: A prestigious muggle private school located in the Chelsea area. The school educates the affluent from years 7 - 13. Sorted by four houses, each faction will be using that sorting to participate in various extracurricular activities and events in addition to having a distinct identity and separate dormitories. The sorting process comes after the admission process. The school committee will go through the admission essays of each applicant that year and sort the admitted student based on where they think will thrive. Because of this, it is not uncommon for students to sometimes change houses during their time at Weston if the student submits a transfer request. The catch is that they can only do this twice, as to prevent house hopping and drama.

(*click or tap on each thumbnail to learn more about the Weston Academy houses!)

The species of dragons had specific classifications. Dragons like Igneel were classified as “the ancients”. They held specific magic powers that eventually led some of them to teach Dragon Slayer magic to their human foster children.

Dragons like the Red Death and the Hungarian Horntail were classified as the next gen of sorts, since these dragons appeared hundreds of years after they had supposedly gone extinct from the human eye. Dragons like Deadly Nadders and Night Furies were a smaller subspecies of dragons that predate the Chinese Fireball

The Patel family operate on a matriarchy, with the head of the family being the oldest of her current generation.

the oldest in the generation is the only one who controls all five elements: water, wind, fire, ice and earth. The rest of the family one control one element

(During the Marauders era, that was Priya Patel, with her only surviving daughter following suit in her own generation. Priya was supposed to take the mantel of family head after her grandmother, but ultimately her untimely murder, her rebellious nature and Subha being adopted by the Blakes changed things.)

They are also one of the few families who are able to use wandless magic, in part due to their ability to control the natural elements of nature. Bc of the very thin line between nature and magic, the trace that is put on younger witches and wizards til they come of age does not affect them unless they are actively using their wands.

This makes them both a threat and a liability to the secrecy of the entire magical community and the government. but the ministry is also forced to acknowledge the power that they have— choosing not to obliterate them was an active choice on the family’s part and thus forced to play nice

The women in the family are all born with color changing eyes, and often change depending on their mood:
green = happy
purple = sad
blue = love
red = lust
orange = anger
amber = pure fury.
The intensity and shades of color vary based on the intensity of the person’s mood. However, human emotions are also complicated. so sometimes if they feel a multitude of emotions, the eyes often just focus on the stronger one

The color changing eyes have one major caveat: if someone outside of the family interferes with family politics and/or fights, the patel who was closest to the interloper takes on their eye color and changes whenever said interloper is mentioned or nearby, serving as a reminder of outside interference being a big no-no.

(A major example of this would be Lily Potter saving her best friend Priya Patel from a death blow during a massive duel with her younger brother Rajiv. While she saved Priya’s life, the color of lily’s eyes was permanently etched into the myriad of Priya’s eye colors. This carries over to their children— which is incredibly rare, as it usually lasts only a generation— with Subha’s eyes often turning the shade of lily’s green eyes at the mere mention of the Potters or whenever she’s near Harry.)

The Patel family are trained in the art of sword fighting. Depending on a person’s skill with a sword, it grew their own elemental power. To curb the potential in family assassinations, heads of the past leveled the playing field by requiring sword training to start at the age of fourteen and no lower. This didn’t always work, in part due to the usual family politics and also because sometimes, some just had better talent than the others, some hated the sword training altogether. But some also genuinely did work hard to grow their skills and succeeded in doing so.

The family is directly descended from Princess Devasena Randall. Her original name was originally thought to have been lost to time and was thought to have been Jodha for hundreds of years. however historians eventually recovered ancient documents and letters that were traced back to the chola dynasty, and thus disproven.

This historic recovery was thanks to the years of combined efforts from the Tamil Magical Association (Tamil Nadu’s governing body in the larger magical community in India), the generations of Patels who were residing in Britain, and the British Ministry of Magic, who deployed a combination of help via Department of Mysteries and the Department of International Magical Co-operation.

Devasena‘s family ruled over a small sized kingdom in southern India during the early years of the chola dynasty.

How she was blessed with the ability to control the five elements was heavily debated between legends about her gaining a boon through a god or the reality that she was probably just born with it.

she was supposed to be groomed to take over the kingdom after her father. At the age of nine, however, a small coup erupted due to Devasena being named heir and was forced to flee with her mother after her father was tragically murdered.

Traveling far north, fairing treacherous seas, they eventually by some miracle, beach onto the shores of the Viking village of Berk.

A ten year old Hiccup Haddock saw them and the village helped them recuperate before sending them off to the Fiore Kingdom, but not before Devasena and Hiccup quickly form a tight friendship that would last them for the rest of their lives.

Settling in a town called Magnolia, Devasena was quickly recruited into Fairy Tail by Makarov Dreyar after witnessing her very powerful magic

Years pass, and Devasena, who took to being called Deva, spent her teenage and early adulthood in Fairy Tail, becoming fast friends with Natsu Dragneel, Mirajane Strauss and eventually Lucy Heartfilia.

She stuck around for the majority of the guilds’ major wars and trials, including the war with Alvarez, whose emperor was none other than the immortal dark wizard, zeref, who later was revealed to be Natsu’s older brother.

Her relationship with Team Natsu is what prompts her to name Natsu as her child’s guardian and godfather in the event something happens to her….which does happen well into her marriage with James Randall and the birth of their only daughter, Meena.

Yrs after the successful coup enacted by Devasena‘s uncle, it eventually fell into the Cholas hands via a rather humiliating defeat. Unfortunately this defeat is also what caused even more resentment for Devasena and eventually murdered her and her husband years later after tracking them down in Fiore. He got close to killing their daughter Meena too and would’ve succeeded if it hadn’t been for Natsu, Lucy and Mira staying over for the night. Natsu effectively becomes Meena Randall’s father and guardian overnight in all but blood.

Meanwhile, Devasena’s mother also eventually remarried to a traveling British man, eventually giving birth to Devasena’s half-sister, Nikita and half-brother clow reed.

(Again, historians were unclear about whether Devasena and Clow Reed shared blood, but recovered letters indicated that they were at the very least, related via marriage.)

the way the gang is transported into a different timeline is different— they’re also separated as they’re sent to a significantly younger age with full knowledge of how they defeated the Evil Entity

They are still the only ones who have memory of the previous timeline…or are they?

Daphne wakes up at the age of nine in 1980, with Nan Blake visiting her friend, Priya Patel, abt a year before the Patels are murdered and Subha is under the Blakes’ care, ultimately getting adopted by them

A lot the trauma Daphne experienced in the other timeline serves her determination to protect her new baby sister and informs a majority of the decisions she makes in regards to raising Subha

When Subha came under the care of the Blakes, Daphne spent the first six years of Subha’s life regularly visiting during the holidays before moving to Kensington (where the Blake Manor in London was located) permanently at the age of sixteen to be with her.

Two of her sisters had followed suit— Dawn moved six yrs prior once she married Wei Changze and Delilah semi-retired from the military years later to settle into a role as a board member at Weston Private Academy in Chelsea.

Fred, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby were pretty understanding for the most part, and it helped that they all genuinely liked Subha as they also got to watch her grow up

For better or worse though, Daphne did not tell them about the wizarding world. Never mind that they literally defeated a whole ass evil god in the other timeline, Daphne was more so cognizant of the danger, esp as the second war rolled around, and explaining Subha’s family situation without them going ballistic on her behalf was complicated to say the least

The Blakes’ kinda ended up escaping the consequence of the Secrecy Statue being broken—partially by accident because they adopted Subha but also bc Nan Blake did prove herself trustworthy during the first war and Dumbledore vouched for her and Nadeshiko, who was also helping out

Eriol Hiiragizawa was an Hogwarts alumni (sorted into Slytherin house) and was a vital member of the original Order of the Phoenix after graduating.

The Order was also aware of his past life as Clow Reed and the reason why he’s using magic to keep himself from aging

after an undercover mission gone wrong (thanks Lan Qiren 🙄) he’s forced to go into hiding and he doesn’t officially make his presence known to the wizarding world until Sakura, Syaoran and Subha are getting significantly involved with the war post Voldemort’s return.

Sakura, Syaoran and Subha share a common ancestral tie via Reed, with Princess Devasena Randall being Clow Reed’s older half sister.

Historical records on both the Britain and Chinese sides of the wizarding world have conflicting reports about whether clow reed’s mother was Indian or Chinese.

However, one thing that remained consistent was the fact that his mother was of Asian decent and given India’s significant culture crossover and religious influences in China, hello Buddhism clow reed’s parentage can go both ways

Meanwhile, Nadeshiko Kinomoto (Lily Potter and Priya Patel’s childhood friend) is brought into the wizarding world at a young age. Years later, she joins the war effort via the order of the phoenix alongside Nan Blake. Given that neither of them can use magic, they helped out with gathering information wherever they could.

When the first war came to an end with the deaths of her best friends, she narrowly escaped getting her memory wiped, the consequence of the secrecy statue that keeps the magical world a secret from muggle society. Dumbledore and Hiiragizawa both vouched for her by citing her contributions and the fact that she had multiple chances over the years to break the magical law of absolute secrecy.

In nadeshiko’s case, it also helped that both the British and Japanese Ministries of Magic had immediately clocked both of her children being born with magic, with her baby daughter’s affinity for power being significant. This had the most damming impact on deemed her family’s knowledge of the wizarding world useful, given that she would’ve been told anyway once Sakura came of age to attend school

honestly all of this is a bit hilarious in hindsight considering that Lillie Shinomoto (Akiho’s late mother) told Nadeshiko that they couldn’t keep in contact because she didn’t want Nadeshiko getting involved in the magic world. Meanwhile Nadeshiko herself was kinda already neck deep into it when they both initially met and also did not make her knowledge of the magical world known for obvious reasons

Lillie’s worries were somewhat warranted though, because Nadeshiko eventually became one of Bellatrix Lestrange’s primary targets during the war. She ended up being told of Nadeshiko’s involvement in the first war via Dumbledore, who sought her out after finding out about their childhood connection around the same time she had secretly contacted him about checking for Akhio’s magical abilities.

her clan were kinda forced to stay out of the first war due to the Magical Association that was separate from the Ministry bc they didn’t agree with the vast majority of their laws. However, they had their own interests unfortunately.

Zack and Cody Martin are half-bloods, with their father being the wizard. Family history stays the same as canon (for the most part). The twins move to America with their mom after the divorce at the age of 8.

The twins’ time in Boston, while formative, doesn’t last long bc not long after their accidental magic starts running rampant, Kurt Martin convinces his ex-wife Carey to let the boys attend Hogwarts (his alma mater) instead of Ilvermorny.

London Tipton’s also a half-blood witch in this fic on her mom’s side, with her magical heritage being part of the reason why her parents hate each other so much. She attended Ilvermorny in America (and graduated shortly before Zack and Cody started their fifth year at Hogwarts). She mostly uses the ditzy rich girl act to deter any suspicion of her being a witch and is a lot smarter than what the muggle world believes of her.

(I say mostly, bc her cluelessness about everyday life was still real and she struggled to often use said everyday muggle items— i.e, think of Ron Weasley trying to use the telephone to call Harry. That level of cluelessness, just amped up to five lol. Funny thing is that some of her actual, more spoiled rich girl tendencies just made the overall act all the more believable to the untrained eye.)

Her mother is also a Hogwarts alumni, who was about a few years older than Kurt. London has a rather tenuous relationship with her in part due to her unhappy and lonely childhood. They do have a few arguments and conversations about the abandonment and the trauma it caused London over the course of the war while working together in the Order of the Phoenix. She later passed away during the battle of hogwarts— London doesn’t realize that her mother and Zack are both dead until the hour long ceasefire.

With London’s eventual involvement in the Order of the Phoenix, Mr Moseby is covering for her in a lot of places and is in effect her parent and moral center. He finds out about the twins being wizards during a letter delivery, not realizing that London did that on purpose to let Mosbey know that truth.

Maddie Fitzpatrick is aware of London’s magical abilities and the wizarding world v early on in their friendship but doesn’t find out about the twins’ heavy involvement in both the wizarding world and the war in Britain until they turn 17 with the war already at its most dangerous peak. She ends up finding out from a worried and (much later) distraught Carey of all people.

Hiccup Haddock III is in the history books as one of the first dragon riders, although some historians say that dragon riding was just bedtime stories created for young witches and wizards

Before Hiccup and Astrid Hofferson found the Hidden World and shortly after Hiccup took up his late father’s mantel as chief, he led his village army and the dragons to lend a helping hand in Fiore’s war with the Alvarez Empire. It was at that point when he found out about zeref and natsu being related, in addition to the revelation that Natsu was E.N.D

He and Toothless subsequently rescued Natsu and Happy from getting obliterated by Zeref and instead of nearly punching him in the face to snap him out of it, Hiccup brings up Igneel’s sacrifice and that he was going to make Lucy cry if he went ahead with his original plan

Devasena being a part of Fairy Tail was one of the primary reasons why Hiccup and the rest of Berk participated in the war against the Alvarez empire— she was the primary link between the wildly different groups

Then again, with Berk’s vikings being a “occupational hazard” and Fairy Tail being a rather rambunctious but loving bunch…maybe they weren’t all that different

that being said, given that most of them (Hiccup’s and Natsu’s generations respectively) met when they were all young, they built a fairly strong bond that ended up working out immensely as a political advantage for heir apparent Princess Hisui.

Stoick (when he was alive) was pretty chill with the political alliance Berk had created with Fiore because it opened up a new trade port that didn’t solely rely on Johann, which…ended up being for the better in the long run given that Johann was revealed to be a Dragon Hunter and his true intentions were to find the Bewilderbeast and slay it

The Fairy Tail guild in the modern world are legends learned about in History books across the magical community worldwide.

The other guilds that existed around that time are also pretty well known, but Fairy Tail’s reach and influence paved the way for a lot of people with magical talent to hone them in the long run. It’s also what eventually contributed to magical schools cropping up across the world even as magic was beginning to be ostracized and eventually hidden.

Lucy Heartfilia’s Celestial Spirit Keys are incredibly well known and are also the Patel family’s heirloom, handed down for generations to the main matriarch of the family

The Fiore Kindgom is now established as a cultural site in southern Italy. Both muggles and the magical community come visit the area and absorb the history whether they believe it or not.

Before Hiccup Haddock and Astrid Hofferson found the Hidden World and shortly after Hiccup took up his late father’s mantel as chief, he led his village army and the dragons to lend a helping hand in Fiore’s war with the Alvarez Empire. It was at that point when he found out about zeref and natsu being related, in addition to the revelation that Natsu was E.N.D

He and Toothless subsequently rescued Natsu and Happy from getting obliterated by Zeref and instead of nearly punching him in the face to snap him out of it, Hiccup brings up Igneel’s sacrifice and that he was going to make Lucy cry if he went ahead with his original plan

After the war ends there a lull for a few year before Team Natsu went on their 100 year quest.

During that time, Devasena eventually meets James Randall during a guild mission and over the course of two years fall in love. James follows her back to Magnolia, fully intending to leave his noble family and life behind, as he wasn’t the heir. He proposes to her after getting his blessings from the guild and her mother.

Years after Hisui eventually came into power as queen, having established peace treaties with multiple kingdoms, including the Alvarez empire, she eventually found out about Devasena‘s only surviving daughter and her royal bloodline. Having no children of her own at the time and wanting to not keep the governance to the family, she made Meena her new heir.

Natsu, who Devasena made Meena’s godfather and primary guardian years prior to her death, was not about it, knowing the trauma having that bloodline caused Devasena and her desire to keep her child out of it.

But a 19-20 year old Meena calmed her (god)father down before he could threaten to burn down Hisui’s castle, and told him that she was going to accept the offer to become her heir apparent.

wei wuxian and jiang cheng are reborn/reincarnated as twin brothers into the blake family and are subsequently named wuxian and wanyin blake

their grandmother wang suyin (Wei Changze’s mother) still calls them Wei Wuxian and Wei Wanyin tho lol

their parents? dawn blake (daphne blake's sister, subha patel-blake's adoptive sister) and wei changze, so this effectively makes subha the twins’ aunt, even tho she’s like only five years older than them

jiang cheng has his memories the moment he is born, however wei wuxian doesn't regain his until they both turn four

jin zixuan and jiang yanli are subha's best friends in addition to ginny, sakura, zack and cody

jin zixuan and subha have actually known each other slightly longer than zack and cody— a byproduct of daphne blake, her mother and jzx's parents knowing each other

wei wuxian and jiang cheng are both muggle-borns, which is kinda funny considering that their adoptive aunt is a pureblood witch

at any rate, both wei wuxian and jiang cheng both end up in gryffindor, something that surprises jiang cheng

Meanwhile, su minshan was sorted into slytherin, however he was also full of green envy and often acted like he knew everything to the point where the teachers would inwardly groan every time he raised his hand and were met with a wrong answer every single time without fail. he was more of a discount gilderoy lockhart, if you will, only far more cowardly and even more of a traitorous bastard. Even the vast majority of slytherins hated his ass, he was that annoying 😂

The teachers had eventually caught onto su she plagiarizing his essays. he subsequently got expelled in his sixth year (unsurprisingly, mcgonagall was absolutely fed up with his bs)

in some respects, the other sects really haven’t changed, their classism and elitism having definitely shifted to include the toxic pureblood ideology of the wizarding world (oh, you hoped they would actually grow and see any modern nuance? hope is for idiots; have you read the ending of the MDZS novel—)

despite that, they only had so much power, and because of that one single factor, it was a relatively kinder world for people like meng yao than it was in the past and this is true especially for xiao xingchen, song lan and a-qing (unforgiving in some aspects, but still kinder)

both xiao xingchen and song lan graduated hogwarts years ago as a gryffindor and ravenclaw respectively (and just a few years short of harry, subha and their friends starting their first year) but still showed up to fight during the battle of hogwarts

after the war, the two brought a-qing with them to visit wei wuxian at blake manor

luo qingyang was born a muggle and like wei changze, had access to her golden core

she attended weston private academy, where her classmates included camille merriweather and sakura kinomoto among others, and it was through them that she found that wei wuxian had reincarnated and that sakura was one of his aunts 😂

cangse sanren didn’t reincarnate and honestly is just content watching over her loved ones, and approves of dawn as wwx’s second mother (and a damn good present one at that…although ngl dawn was significantly motivated to not turn her adoptive sister into a glorified babysitter. then again, that’s still not inherently a bad motive lol)

ccsr also kept a keen eye on subha when she was at hogwarts…i think at one point she might’ve bribed one of the Hogwarts ghosts to try and shave off umbridge’s hair as revenge for subha’s punishment with the lines, but they outright refused

somehow, she managed to get the weasley twins to make the woman’s life hell (the twins didn’t question why she suspiciously resembled wwx at the time, the question really only hit when the war ended and yanli and subha were well on their way in beating up half of the cultivation world)

during subha’s sixth year (also wwx’s first year), when lan qiren temporarily took over binns’ position of teaching history of magic, you bet your goddamn ass that ccsr shaved off lqr’s beard, partially as revenge for everything he’s ever said and done to her a-ying and also because he was attempting to single out subha for her mere association to wwx and if the weasley twins were still attending, she absolutely would’ve let them do it

anyway lily potter and cssr and their actions both haunt the narrative in ways you only understand once you start comparing their haters 😂

jiang yanli, meanwhile, still has jiang fengmian and yu ziyuan as her parents and still has to deal with the same bullshit from them, even if jiang cheng and wei wuxian aren't jiangs anymore

the only difference now, is that she gains new two younger twin siblings nameed jiang mingyue (江明月) and jiang baihe (江百合) and she loves them all the same anyway

mingyue and baihe are reincarnations of Madhi Patel and Lily Potter (respectively), and jiang fengmian, the cheeky bastard that he is, immediately knew and gave them their names accordingly

tbf, the real question is how tf yu ziyuan let jiang fengmian name their younger kids after two people she despised...yeah she very much has a history of just being a total dick towards the Patels and the Potters, let alone the already massive beef she has with priya (and lily by pure association).

Then again, while the connection from lily’s past life to her chinese name isn’t that hard to make (relatively speaking that is), it’s not like she paid any real attention to what madhi’s name— full name, madhioli— meant in Indian culture and why jiang fengmian named mingyue the way that he did lol

the irony of yu ziyuan being sorted into gryffindor as a student at hogwarts, but her personality later in life reflecting almost none of what being a gryffindor normally entails except maybe being reckless and a single-minded bitch

At the end of the day, she never let go of her bitterness and pettiness, never learning her lesson from her past life. Her pride has always been her downfall and it will cost her. Not her life, no—not this time, but rather her relationship with every single one of her children, both former and current.

a daughter who lived long enough to become a mother herself in her past life and frankly has had enough of yu ziyuan’s petty bullshit, a former son who does not wanna repeat his own dumbass mistakes and two reincarnated twin souls who spend at least once per day wondering what heinous deed they committed to have yu ziyuan as their new mother while their a-jie becomes their sole sanctuary from the madness.

…yeah, by the time yu ziyuan realizes the damage, it’ll be too late for her to make any sort of amends

yanli couldn’t grow up with subha like zixuan could; long story short, the jiangs (read: yu ziyuan) wanted nothing to do with the blakes.....which was gonna get complicated real quick when jiang yanli and subha meet as first years on the hogwarts express and become fast friends

jiang fengmian was a hufflepuff, and a lot of people expected his daughter to end up in the same house as him, given their seemingly similar dispositions, but alas, the sorting hat had different ideas lmao

both jiang yanli and jiang mingyue end up being sorted into ravenclaw (in madhi's case, again); jiang baihe is again sorted into gryffindor

the jiangs, jins and lans are all pureblood families, but reincarnated lan xichen and lan wangji are both half bloods because their mother is a muggle

their family history is largely the same, except for the fact that madam lan's parents forced her into a marriage with the twin jades' father, who later died of a heart attack

madam lan and lan qiren get their memories back at the same time, and immediately lqr was adamant that madam lan leave the family and her sons

madam lan on the other hand, wasn't having it, she was tired of being pushed around by the lans and thus got into a huge argument that would've spanned years if lxc and lwj didn't step in and reveal that they got their memories back, and that if their mother left, they were not staying, period

lqr just relents in resignation, thus madam lan is very much alive and healthy well into her sons' adult lives

lan qiren was a ravenclaw, however only lan xichen ended up in the same house as lqr years later, as lan wangji ended up being sorted into gryffindor and one can imagine lqr being pissed about wangji being put in the same house as wwx and not being able to convince dumbledore to switch him to a different house (thank harry and subha for THAT)

luna lovegood is literally lan xichen’s closest and also his best friend by a certain point; he feels too awkward and guilty around nie mingjue, meng yao was completely out of the question

luna, to her credit, was one of the few people able to take lan qiren’s constant criticisms about being xichen’s choice of friend with a grain of salt; anyone else in her position would’ve ended any friendship or relationship they had with xichen bc they absolutely cannot mentally handle his uncle

the jins are a pureblood wizarding family, but they also have significant ties to the muggle world as well

because of this, jin zixuan (much like subha) grew up being well acquainted with both worlds

jin zixuan is very well aware of jiang cheng and wei wuxian are brothers by blood this time around, and hasn't told yanli that they are alive (yet), knowing the chain reaction it will inevitably cause (read: he's understandably terrified of yu ziyuan and doesn't want to put his new friend on her wrath radar)

worth noting that subha is his first best friend....like yanli is there too on the other side but like he could've totally chosen to not be friends with subha, the important thing is that while he still cherishes yanli, it was a relationship that was still foisted onto both of them, while with subha it was a relationship that felt like he had a fucking choice

much like jiang yanli, he's also stuck dealing with the same bullshit from his parents (i.e, jin guangshan's philandering ways, his mother screaming at jgs at every turn) and for both him and jiang yanli, subha is definitely a reprieve from their stressful home lives

meng yao is a half blood like lan xichen so they have something in common for once 😂😂😂😂 (im sorry I’ll see myself out)

meng shi, (jin guangyao’s mother) is a muggle and has heard the rumours about her son's rise and eventual downfall; while she's not happy, at this point, she's just glad that they have a more stable life than they did back in their previous lives

bc of this, jin guangyao/meng yao is now actively avoiding the jins per his mother's pleading

(although once subha tells jin zixuan about meng yao holding jin ling hostage, meng yao is absolutely done for)

also, meng yao has been sorted into slytherin, like the bastard's still got ambition and a sly mind, however muted by his mother

jin zixuan's mom was in hufflepuff and his father in slytherin; various jins landed up in different houses (in fact, a large portion are slytherin alumni), but zixuan himself is literally the only gryffindor in the entire clan...which honestly should say a lot

jin zixun is a hufflepuff, something that greatly annoys him and is a huge dick to his housemates as a result

qin su is also hufflepuff, and in this current life, is largely a quiet and timid person

qin su also avoids meng yao like the plague (and in her sixth year, subha patel proves to be immensely helpful in that regards…for completely mysterious reasons)

zixuan and yanli are very much confused by subha’s attempts to comfort, help and befriend qin su…only to find out how much of a scumbag jin guangshan was after doing some digging

unfortunately the sperm donor of a father remains the same, with madam qin eventually committing suicide right before qin su started attending hogwarts

sect leader qin does find out what happened and is very distraught about the fact that his wife never told him about her SA and ultimately swears revenge but he still loves qin su like his own regardless because at the end of the day, he was the one who raised her…twice, one might add lmao

wen ning and wen qing are alive and well, as is the rest of their family

unfortunately, this also means that wen ruohan, wen chao, wang lingjiao and wen xu are also alive

that being said, wen ruohan doesn’t reeeally give a shit about taking over the cultivation world anymore or the wizarding world for that matter (yeah, not even wrh wants to deal with the sheep/mob mentality of the cultivation world, and after finding out about the aftermath of his defeat in the sunshot campaign, he wants it even less)

he is however, content with more or less having an iron grip over the wen clan so he is still an ass

wen ruohan is very much amused when it gets out that the yiling laozu and sandu sengshou are subha patel and harry potter‘s nephews

while wen qing ends up fighting in the battle of hogwarts, (with her also joining the dumbledore’s army during her fifth year), wen ning is forced to go into hiding alongside wei wuxian and jiang cheng (thanks subha)

wen xu sits out of the entire war along with his father, but that doesn’t stop wen chao from joining the war as a death eater

wen ning is a hufflepuff, with wen qing ending up in ravenclaw (y'all saw this coming, don't @ me), wen chao and wen xu end up in slytherin; wang lingjiao is a squib, a forever stain on her reputation in the wizarding world, but that also means that the cultivation world cares about her even less than before and as a result, is a laughing stock

wen qing is recognized pretty early as a medical prodigy, with madame pomfrey taking wen qing under her wing outside of class time

she also finds out about wei wuxian and jiang cheng being alive (and them being the adoptive twin nephews of the two most famous godsiblings) through hermione of all people

padma patil is wen qing’s best friend and like luna, is very much aware of their past lives and found it odd that yanli and zixuan haven’t told subha yet

wen zhuliu is also alive but no longer uses the wen name; he goes by zhao zhuliu and is content with just managing a small bookstore while not interacting with the cultivation world on the whole

zhao zhuliu however, had grown up with madhi patel and because of this, got embroiled in the 1st wizarding world war and consistently remembers madhi as a good, compassionate man; he wouldn't be the first nor the last person to see a significant amount of madhi in subha by a long shot

in the grand scheme of the plot, the nie brothers are rather minor characters

but worth noting that nie huaisang ends up as a ravenclaw (the sorting hat seriously considered him for slytherin, but nhs wanted to just spend his days in carefree mode, so the hat just shoved him in ravenclaw 😂)

nie mingjue, to no one’s shock in the cultivation world, ends up as a gryffindor

nmj still has no idea about the bullshit his brother pulled in their past lives after his death and that huaisang garnered the “headless shaker” title for the next 13 years just to topple jin guangyao

…at least until one day, he overhears huaisang and subha patel talking, where subha tells him that he can do whatever the fuck he wants to meng yao, but the minute nhs tries to manipulate her nephew wei wuxian into his plans, subha will tell mingjue everything and also destroy both of the nies’ reputation in the process

nie huaisang, to his credit, doesn’t try to keep up his façade like he usually does to literally everyone else, because he had the dire feeling that subha was not fucking around

nie mingjue does end up getting some more details from lan xichen tho, and he is…understandably a bit distraught that huaisang had to go that far

none of the 3-zun trio members want nothing to do with each other, or more specifically, nmj and lxc no longer want to have anything to do with meng yao (and unfortunately for meng yao, the fact that he’s been sorted into slytherin doesn’t exactly help in him trying to make any sort of amends)

nie huaisang still (indirectly) torments the shit outta meng yao tho, and it’s because of huaisang that word got out about meng yao’s parentage within slytherin house

while def becoming canon for MF moving forward, it’s still in the planning stages

whatever hcs I come up with before I get to writing this part of the fic is subject to change

I call this the alt timeline despite making it the canon path bc im lazy as hell and it’s mostly outta habit.

diverges during the battle of hogwarts— Sakura Kinomoto and Zack Martin bite the dust

Main focal relationship: Subha Patel and Syaoran Li

a large portion of their relationship post-war/battle of hogwarts is trying to deal with the deaths of their s/o and the aftermath of the war with the rest of their friends all the while slowly falling in love with each other

lotta angst but it does end on a overall happy note

Almost immediately after the war ends, Syaoran and Camille are stuck at hogwarts for the next two months lol, and they both set sorted into gryffindor

Camille’s stuck there mostly to help with the cleanup of hogwarts but also partially bc she spent years going through Hermione’s old schoolbooks and thanks to a device via hiiragizawa, was able to use that knowledge to wield a wand

The final two months are relatively peaceful as everything slowly goes back to normal amid post war recovery operations

Subha and Syaoran gradually end up growing closer, especially with Syaoran helping out with controlling the SAKURA cards that Sakura left in their possession in the wake of her death (and make sure that Subha’s body and magic get acclimatized to the cards)

Two months go by and post a small incident where Subha gets stuck in the forbidden forest after accidentally activating the DREAM card, the relationship noticeably shifts between Subha and Syaoran

They graduate, passing scores on their newts, and Syaoran finally has to go back to hong kong

Before they separate tho, Subha gives Syaoran the HOPE card, knowing the significance of it in his relationship with Sakura

During the first half of the summer, Subha finally deals with the crushing grief of the war that was at least partially kept on the edge thanks to syaoran’s presence

Syaoran’s no different 😭 poor man had a slight breakdown— that was kept at bay in part due to Subha’s presence— in the middle of the night in the family gazebo

They do keep in touch tho, and during a trip down to the market, Syaoran sees a beautiful butterfly clip that can be worn as a comb too. He buys it in a haze and sends it to Subha for her birthday…along with the HOPE card she initially gave to him

another derivative of the alt timeline in that it diverges during the battle of hogwarts with one caveat— Zack survives, but poor Sakura still bites the dust

this “arc” was initially scraped for a multitude of reasons and now has been retrofitted to fit the current tone of the fic + the changes it has gone through…

however, it is essentially a non-canon version of the og alt timeline

I expand on why this has no chance of being canon on the next page but tldr; og arc was nonsensical, already had its feet out the door when the OG canon alt timeline was created, which also fast tracked the removal of some series that were attached to this thing

you also kinda have to take this au with a grain of salt bc some chrs are rlly ooc here, fic canon or otherwise. (particularly Zack, and eps in comparison to how in the actual fic canon, he’s a lot more intuitive and perceptive when it comes to Subha. Like he obviously grows out of his dumbassery by the end of the arc…but still)

The og plot of this scenario was essentially a break-up arc where Subha was forced to split w/ Zack when her bio cousin starts threatening hermione’s life

chaos ensued in various points, and tensions rose when Zack fell for maya bennett and when the hitachiin twins board with their very young sister, Hikaru took an interest in Subha and it wasn’t long before the two also hit it off and started dating…much to Harry’s (honestly hilarious) dismay bc while he didn’t have a problem with Hikaru as a person, he just did not like him with his sister. Said dismay (and some amt of genuine worry) was also exacerbated by the fact that hikaru’s fancied Subha since they were kids, much like Zack, only slightly earlier by two years

(yes, ouran high school host club used to be part of this fic lol. emphasis on used to be. They had been close friends with Subha, Ginny and Sakura but lost touch when they were fourteen. I wonder why 🥲)

meanwhile, only v few people knew the reason for the split (Lucy, Ron and Cody) and while angry, they also have their hands tied

with mdzs’ addition to the fic— the blackmail bit also includes Wei Wuxian’s overall general quieter life as well. Subha just wants a break from everything by that point and relents bc she loves her a-xian more than anything

Ron, Jin Zixuan, Jiang Yanli and Syaoran do end up finding out and after enduring an attack from pia singh (said bio cousin) in toemeda, they’re quick to board the SS Tipton to make sure Subha doesn’t do anything drastic

(And also to make sure that Harry, Toya, the Blake sisters and Ginny don’t find out lol, bc Ron was positive that heads were gonna start rolling)

(he was right on the money, esp since maya bennett, an old classmate of Sakura, Zixuan, Subha and Ginny from their old muggle primary school (aka, pre-hogwarts), was also on board. They all have massive beef with her, and she started dating Zack three months after Subha and Zack broke up. Zixuan was furious and Yanli was angry at the sheer betrayal of him dating someone their friends clearly don’t trust)

Ron, Syaoran, Yanli and Zixuan were originally just gonna board the ship without anyone knowing so that they could observe the situation (except for moseby lmao) but the spirit of dear old Sakura Kinomoto fixed that real quick

wei wuxian and Jiang cheng have no clue that all of this is going on, they just know that their aunt has had her heart broken massively and are lowkey out for blood; lan wangji and wen qing are legit the only reason why they are not in Azkaban for murder

(and also haven’t informed their mother bc putting aside aunt daphne, dawn is raising absolute hell. they knew dawn has always been incredibly protective of Subha’s autonomy— more so than Daphne at times.)

(you think jyl’s stopping the twins? oh, bless your heart. Her best friend is sad and heartbroken— she’s absolutely raising hell with those idiotas. also this is a jyl who doesn’t know about the phoenix mountain kiss (yet) iykyk lol. Lwj is lucky that Harry and Subha are taking wwx’s comfort and love for him into consideration. otherwise JYL would’ve dangled wangji off on the highest castle roof she could find on hogwarts grounds during her sixth year)

Subha and Syaoran's relationship develops at a significantly faster pace than the OG alt timeline and totally not bc of divine intervention…esp since they start tentatively dating as a means to just try to move on with the agreement that if they find someone else they can pretend it never happened…even as they are growing closer and rapidly falling for e/o

Sakura, watching over the two from heaven: “casual”, eh? how about you don’t make my sister wait a year for you to confess, Syaoran-kun—

given that sakura was alive in the og ver of this arc, the changes to syaoran’s role are pretty damn significant bc in the OG arc, he was just…there? I don’t remember doing much with him admittedly 😭

It is rather funny that he’s now a major chr in her place and the one with the incentive and need to protect Subha from the bullshit around her. well that, and he did promise Sakura that he would look after Subha lol. It was just that falling in love with Subha was a side effect that literally no one except for Sakura saw coming

The revised ver is accounting for a Subha and Syaoran endgame (obv) and the love triangle aspect is noticeably absent bc Subha and Zack are not pining after e/o in this ver; both of their attentions are now focused on their new s/o. Zack really only realizes that he’s lost Subha (in the romantic sense) for good once he sees how free and open she is with Syaoran.

I kinda like the idea of Sakura literally haunting zack’s ass once he starts dating maya and getting really weirdly…jealous(?) of subha evidently falling for Syaoran, and honestly that last bit is what increased her appearances in trying to make Zack’s life absolutely miserable bc in Sakura’s mind, he lost Subha to Syaoran the moment he let Subha break up with him w/o asking the question of what subha’s actual emotional state was at that point to even warrant the breakup

Maya Bennett used to be a major character in the fic when this arc was still kicking in the fic’s canon. She had been friends with Subha, Sakura and Ginny during their childhoods but had a rather complicated relationship with Ginny that lasted well until the time the arc kickstarts.

Her dating Zack also caused massive complications between her friendship with Subha that opened up a big can of worms that I don’t wanna get into; just know that it was really, really fucking dumb

The only similarity between the og and revised ver of this arc is that childhood connection but significantly less complicated in the revised ver— I’ve lowkey relegated her to a side chr/minor villain. However, she does have some sense of compassion, esp where sakura’s death was concerned.

she’s also a muggle-born witch in the revised ver (attended ilvermorny in America, London Tipton was her senior by five yrs) as opposed to her being a muggle originally and she does genuinely end up bonding with Zack on some level bc of their shared connection to the wizarding world

you have no idea of the guilt I had when I created this timeline. Like this was my ship and yet I was in the process of hurting them 😂

real talk tho, I was in the middle of a massive hiatus from updating the obsolete ver when I realized that there were no lasting impressions and/or consequences in the original, happier ending of the fic’s plot and started to feel super cheap

There were no long lasting consequences for Subha either, eps for someone who has gone through fucking war along with everyone else. Subha's mental state had to reflect the state of her world in order for her to be relatable and grounded in that reality.

Sakura's development throughout the fic reflects this thinking. i think even her super friendly and energetic personality would have its limits. With the fic taking place over the course of the HP series, a changing environment has to do one of two things: change the person fundamentally or at least test their core values.

Is it a cheap shot to kill of Sakura and Zack? Depends on how you view it: Sakura and Zack both being fridged as a means to create angst for their s/o…or as a consequence of the goddamn war that they were literally fighting in, while also creating ramifications for the surviving characters going forward. idk man, pick your poison.

all that being said though, this timeline and the changes the fic in my head has gone though because of it can mostly be attributed to me growing up lol. This entire thing started well before i knew what fanfiction was and the fic just gradually evolved with me. The characters, plot, themes and world-building were getting more nuanced and grounded. If the mere title wasn’t obvious, this was supposed to be a one-off scenario. But in hindsight maybe creating this timeline was a blessing bc it forced me to consider the ramifications of the larger story and its characters at hand.

as to why im making this canon despite syaosaku being my otp: angst sells and i'm a writer— exploring different avenues is part of the job description and by extension, what fanfic is all about. It’d be boring and limiting if I just stuck strictly to canon

And honestly, this is a more recent realization but hearing abt the stranger things series finale being game of thrones s8-level-bad validated the fact that letting my fic evolve from my initial vision was a fucking good thing.

like I wanna reiterate: I was 15/16 when I came up with this fic. the ideas I had back then would not have worked with the current outline of the fic. This thing also used to have five other suckers attached to it— Ouran High School Host Club, Kung Fu Panda (kfp), powerpuff girls, iCarly and Wizards of Waverly Place (wowp).

ouran got dropped bc of a post war arc I scraped when I came up with this timeline— see the alt tl (SS Tipton arc ed) for more info on that. kung fu panda got replaced by fairy tail— and it was for the better in the long run lmao bc wtf was I thinking. icarly and wowp got removed bc while i wanted Carly and Alex to be major players, it just wasn’t fitting the vision and i had to make some sacrifices. ppg got removed bc after demoting princess morbucks to a minor antagonist, the ppg and rrb kinda lost their relevance to the plot.

you wanna know what the funny thing is? wowp has a slightly better chance of being added back into the fic, albeit with more realistic expectations abt where I could fit the characters.

aaaaaand I’m officially getting off track 🫠. But you get the general idea.

in an special a/n I posted on the now obsolete Wattpad ver in celebration of fairy tail’s OG series ending, i briefly talked about OG ver of the arc, mulling over the number of changes the fanfic had gone through up till then.

…and then I thought about how that arc would work with the current state of the fic and by extension, the alt timeline, esp w/ Sakura’s death but not Zack’s. It led me to start thinking up of scenes and old, old memories of me cooking up this arc were starting to pop up. Essentially this revised version is me feeling somewhat nostalgic for this arc despite its more cringe elements lmao.

(trust me when I say that you don’t wanna know how fucking convoluted & pointless the original ver was. on one hand I was trying to make use of suite life on deck’s last few episodes so it really was just me not understanding good drama and tension. On the other tho…I mean what did you expect honestly I was 16 😭)

ouran being on the chopping block also contributed to the arc being scraped. they were minor characters and they didn’t affect the plot all that much, and it was mostly the twins at that for a short period. Like Hikaru and Subha’s ultimately short romance did make a mark on them both in a way that affected the finale of the entire fic and the relationships colliding atp, but the alt timeline ended up changing things. I saw no other reason of keeping ouran part of the fic once the og arc got booted. If it’s not super obvious, hikaru pretty much got replaced with Syaoran in this revised ver. Poor Hikaru, he never got to be Subha’s endgame lmao. like I dabbled with the idea before coming up with the concept of the alt timeline so…there’s that I suppose

although… that was back then. Idk what the future holds for ouran’s place in the fic rn bc on occasion i still think abt the interesting aspects to explore in Subha and Hikaru’s relationship in a world where subha and syaoran’s relationship remained platonic post Zack and Sakura’s deaths. But I also can’t see ouran being part of the major bind on the plot to justify adding them back into the fold of the already large combination of series in this fic. If it’s gonna replace any series in the fic, it’d probably be httyd. i might end up giving ouran the same treatment I gave mha, but also again, narrative importance is key here

besides all of that, the logistics of them also attending seven seas high back then was super iffy 😭 esp since they’re of the age that they were supposed to go to college in the muggle world. Like i really did hand-wave a lot of the general timeline of the entire fic for that arc looking back lol. In the revised version, I’m definitely playing around with the setting a bit— it’s Seven Seas College instead of HS, and prom is changed to a prom-like spring formal

80% of the changes made for the revised version of this arc are bc of my own growth as a writer, 10% is to account for the fandoms that have been added in and removed since, and the last 10% is bc i don’t remember half the details of the original scraped arc (aka, it’s been years since I’ve last thought about it)

one of the first

this au mostly exists bc I find Gilgamesh a fascinating character (cas!gil is another story entirely but this au is mostly focused on the f/sn gilgamesh)

originated from a Tangled AU I made for MF which I’m not listing. It’s been years, come on 😭

takes the OG alt timeline route for post battle of hogwarts

Ironically this au is also part of the reason why the fic started to take a more mature route, especially in the uh…erotic department. The fic had been mostly vanilla till then— like no smut beyond just probably intense making out and then dear old gil reminded me that “oh yeah. Subha is a growing girl and even with Zack as her bf, will probably have considerably repressed her more sexual desires bc of the war”

starts right after the events of the fate route in f/sn; gil gets defeated by saber, but instead of his spirit fading way, it somehow finds its way into the MF universe.....aka, at the near end of Subha's 5th year at Hogwarts

long story short, Gil corners Subha, both of them try to kill each other

Hermione and Jiang Yanli hear the commotion and tries to help but they both gets their asses beat eventually

he's abt to kill them all three of them before Merlin comes to the rescue, the only catch being that the four of them are now bound in a typical Holy Grail War Master-Servant contract, with Subha, Yanli and Hermione essentially co-masters to Gilgamesh, command seals and all...without the Holy Grail War to go with it

the four of them spend the next three to four years together, with gil overseeing the three through the Crocus incident and the war, despite thinking that the latter was a total waste of time

they all do end up developing a begrudging (but still genuine) respect for each other

since this takes the OG alt timeline route, Sakura and Zack are still dead post battle of hogwarts

(this is important bc gil and subha's relationship goes through a wave of significant changes that most definitely would not have happened had Zack survived

Also, Sakura would’ve been straight up trying to kill him with the amount of times Gilgamesh tries getting a rise out of Subha)

subha's relationship with syaoran develops at a slightly slower rate because of this as well (aka, they’re even slower to realize their feelings for e/o but the irony is that by the time it’s Gilgamesh’s time to leave, having learned some amount of humility and care for humanity, they’re both in a better place to accept it and give it a go)

this AU exists bc I believe Shoto deserves more love and i also wholeheartedly believe that Subha would be a sucker for his blunt but ultimately sweet personality

post battle of hogwarts and post the final war against shigaraki (for the most part)

still haven’t decided if i want sakura to be alive in this au. zack is unfortunately still bitting the dust

also haven’t decided if i want Toya Todoroki to be alive as well. The angst of Shoto meeting sakura’s older brother in a world where his toya-nii is dead is delicious 🤔

sidenote, bkdk is absolutely gonna be a romantic pair in this AU, sorry (not). This also includes krmn, tgck and momojirou hehe

main pairing in the au (post war): Subha Patel and Shoto Todoroki

Subha, Hermione, Ginny, Sakura and Yanli end up in the mha world due to a portal mishap…in the midst of planning for bill and fleur’s wedding 😭

although unbeknownst to the girls and class A, aizawa and mcgonagall have known each other for years, so the portal mishap was more so it moving to where the magical energy seemed the strongest (aka, Subha and Sakura)

a portal to a parallel world I know, know, but go with it but this portal works differently (ie, it’s a natural point and not forcibly opened) and until Subha and her friends come across it, the only people who know it exists are Aizawa, Mic (aka Hizashi) and Mcgonagall and Dumbledore.

bc of this, Aizawa and Mcgonagall have known each other and have been friends practically since the Marauders era ✌️

I say that but given the massive age gap, one could say that Mcgonagall took him under her wing as her unofficial mentee(?) bc he was starting UA when he met her— and we all know what happened during that time 🙃

so aizawa is def aware of the situation during the actual hp plot and Mcgonagall has def ranted about Fudge on more than one occasion

When class A bumps into the girls, it’s about two-three months before the war against the paranormal liberation front in jaku (They’re also a year younger, essentially the same age as Ginny 😂)

Aizawa does manage to send them back after two weeks but not before he, nezu and all might end up going through the girls’ ring journals (aizawa wanted to make sure that LOV weren’t somehow impersonating mcgonagall’s own students)

cute lil’ hc is class A referring to the girls (save for Ginny) as their senpais. This is also added to the fact that the girls attended classes as a cover for their actual origin, hence the honorifics

two lacrima visions get left behind by accident. Bc of this midoriya and todoroki end up watching the entire wizarding world war unfold, up to the battle of hogwarts

a year later (post-war on both ends), aizawa gives Harry and Subha one hell of an earful while mcgonagall wearily stands off to the side bc she agrees with him about their recklessness

Class a end up reconnecting with the girls while also meeting Harry and the others

Subha, with her ever expanding understanding of her own elemental powers, is told by aizawa to give class A pointers on how to use their quirks more effectively

Subha and Shoto start growing closer as a result and nearing class a’s graduation, Shoto realizes that he’s fallen in love with her

he doesn’t do much about it though, and even though they’re in touch, almost five years pass before they’re face to face again

it’s almost a year before they officially start dating 👀

before some of y’all give me crap abt saying 431 is not romantic or that izch is not canon— bc i know that’s gonna crop up given how similar the setup looks— i sure as hell am not gonna make Shoto and Subha’s to e/o confessions vague lmao. im writing this AU with the full intention of making Subha and Shoto a romantic couple and that also includes developing their friendship and dynamic leading into their romance, before and beyond their reunion after five years. Don’t come at me for your hetslop not getting the same focus from Horikoshi 🙄. The fact that I even have to make this disclaimer says everything about the current state of the izch fandom, imma be so honest

bare with me here— this particular au is all over the place but I ask you to stay with me

chronologically, this au will take the OG alt timeline route

however the doctor and his companions are literally jumping through time and different dimensions— expect some fuckery and other wibbly wobbly, timey wimey bullshit with, well…everything lol.

Lowkey this au will be my excuse to play around with different timelines but i digress

this au only includes the NuWho doctors in person. Basically anyone from the reboot is game here

fifteen will be difficult to work with (but not impossible!) bc this au kinda depends on the chronological progression of their regeneration

and speaking of fifteen— Belinda and Ruby both will be there bc rtd is an idiot and utterly wasted all three of their character arcs. Belinda’s arc in particular was done so fucking dirty, like genuinely WOW

Okay, to start off: dw as a show exists in this au but the actual doctor and his companions come from a dimension where their lives decidedly are not a tv show.

Basically, all of the worlds combined in this fic exists as their real world counterparts in the doctor’s dimension— ie, hp is the book series and exists as an “inaccurate” account of Harry’s life (once Harry finds out, he’s more amused than mad. If anything he’s furious that neither of his sisters were mentioned 😂), ccs is the manga/anime, scooby-doo as the famous mystery-Solving cartoon, etc.

(And in dw’s case, we’re following the real world’s timeline of its initial cancellation and revival, so nine’s run is not even out in the fic’s world yet)

so this au starts with sakura’s death during the battle of hogwarts with the tenth doctor and rose tyler landing smack dab in the middle of it

sakura, in the process of transferring her control of the SAKURA cards to Subha as the new master and Syaoran as her secondary successor, spots ten and rose in the stands of the burning quidditch pitch

in her dying breath, she smiles and also enables “the doctor proclamation”, and Sakura’s magic circle is visible as a stamp on ten and rose’s hands. the TARDIS is also now protected by Sakura’s magic as ten and rose immediately hightail it

but let’s turn back the clock a bit to 1983, when Subha was three; nine and rose happen to drop on a blake property in Scotland

Daphne Blake finds them and the TARDIS and honestly overwhelmed for a bit to not realize that that was the same TARDIS from that stupid old tv show. But they offer to watch a toddler Subha for a short amount of time and nine likes Subha and her quiet nature, eps since she gets mesmerized by a simulation of the stars in the TARDIS 🥹. Rose liked her too for what little time they spent together.

cut to the time after nine regenerates into ten; he and rose barely escaped the chaos of the battle of hogwarts after Sakura cast her spell on the TARDIS. cut to years later in Subha’s life— ten and rose come literally barging in the backyard of Blake manor (by accident) barely three months after the battle of hogwarts. Subha Patel just turned eighteen and for her, rose tyler was literally frozen in time 🫡

time fuckery for both rose and subha aside bc rose was way too used to this shit by now and Subha loved Doctor Who the Show(tm) growing up lol, ten and rose offer Subha a trip in the TARDIS after she offers to repair the TARDIS’ navigation system which got damaged in the crash landing

Said TARDIS lands itself in 1983…in toemeda, japan, when nadeshiko kinomoto was still alive (for what it’s worth, nadeshiko took it mostly in stride, bc she recognized Subha as priya’s grown up daughter immediately 😭 pray for Subha’s heart atp)

she was rather surprised at subha being fluent in Japanese tho and that the TARDIS’ translation matrix had nothing to do with it

nadeshiko does find out about the subsequent future war and that her daughter was going to die as Subha sat in the living room drawing with the three yr old ver of her godsister

at the end of the day, nadeshiko was happy that Sakura was and will be loved. She holds Subha’s hand gently and tells her that no one blames her for Sakura’s death—that she must’ve known the consequences of getting involved. on some level, both of them knew that being stuck grieving sakura’s death rather than celebrating her life was probably the last thing Sakura wanted for Subha

nadeshiko would know lol, she herself went through that with the first wizarding world war

even after the TARDIS team left, nadeshiko kept all of Subha’s drawings of her daughter grown up, looking powerful and kind. It’s a keepsake that Sakura carried with her everywhere, not realizing that her sister was the one who drew them until she meets eleven, Amy and Rory at the age of sixteen, hours before albus dumbledore’s death

It’s later revealed that “the Doctor proclamation” was a spell to lock the Doctor into looking after Subha for the rest of her life as a secondary reassurance. Ten intrinsically understood this, and it became even more apparent once the tardis crash landed in the Blake manor backyard and back into Subha’s life

Subha and Syaoran have literally no idea that all of this is going on in the background btw; after the trip back to 1983 toemeda, an emotionally exhausted Subha collapses into syaoran’s arms

and thus starts syaoran’s beef w/ the doctor lol bc the doctor’s constantly dragging Subha off to god knows where and it’s a constant whack-a-mole of whether Subha comes outta the TARDIS home relatively fine, hurt and wounded, or saddled with even more trauma (hello daleks 💔)

16 yr old Sakura: you could stand to heed some of Syaoran-kun’s worries
eleven: you and your sister are both prone to running into the first light of danger you see 🫠. Also, this is Syaoran with Subha alone. He finds out that I let you travel into the future and let you run after a dalek in rage, my head on a silver platter is guaranteed. Especially if he’s anything like Rory—
rory: and I would help him!
eleven: …anyway, if Syaoran wanted to, he will succeed on that.
amy: and yet he won’t. He does trust you despite his constant griping. That being said, the boy is a softie at heart 😂
sakura: hoē…

(also if any of this is reminding you of the doctor’s story with river, good! I thought the doctor’s relationship with Sakura would be a nice platonic parallel)