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This is an explanation of the AU:
- Still takes place on copper-9, but if the absolute solver didn’t exist, and wasn’t post-apocalyptic. Instead, it’s just a normal, functioning society.
- Everyone are drones! Not humans! But they have more human-like characteristics than in the show. Like for example, they don’t eat or have food in the show, but in this AU they eat and js again are more human-like. I don’t really talk abt their “systems shutting down” and shit like that, and also I’m not gonna use words like “optics” for eyes that’s js extra 💀.
- NOTE instead of the word “person,” the word “drone/drones” is used. And instead of blood, it’s oil. But again since the characters are more human-like ig I do use the word “skin,” but like I’m assuming they have “synthetic skin” cuz that js makes sense.
- One thing though is the murder drones are basically vampires in this universe. Honestly I’m trying to think of a better word than “murder drones” and I don’t wanna use the word vampires. If yall have any ideas that’d be great, but for now I’ll js call them ‘disassembly drones.’ EDIT: (7/1/25) I decided to just call them disassembly drones throughout the story. It’ll make more sense as you read it, jsyk.
- NOTE the fact that the murder drones are well, murder drones, isn’t relevant until later. But trust me it IS important!
- Some background on Uzi - her mom’s dead, but like actually. And her dad has his door business, but had to travel a lot cuz of it, so Uzi constantly changed schools and stuff. I’m gonna be blunt though, I’m not gonna make her have to move schools halfway through cuz I feel like that’s stupid and atp I might as well restart it, so no way am I doing that.
- N kinda has more trust issues in this AU compared to the show. But again not changing his whole character - he’s js way too trusting when first meeting people in the show (like when he believes Uzi isn’t a worker drone and he js immediately believes her when she says that js so he won’t kill her 💀) and I js don’t think that’d work for this AU. When he gets to know people (or drones ig) he lets his guard down a lot more than he maybe should.
- I’m really big on character development so this story is kinda “slow” paced ig. But it’s also a Nuzi slow burn and there def will be moments throughout it
- I love headcannons so if I include any I’ll be sure to note. But I don’t mean like I’m changing the characters entirely that’s stupid. May make a whole page or a separate work js for headcannons too so if you wanna read it go ahead.
You can js skim over this next part idrc, not important to the story, js some ‘author's notes’ ig:
I couldn’t find any Nuzi fics that weren’t either poorly written (sounds like a 13 year old wrote them 😭🤚), completely changed the characters/the species of them (like I’m trying to read it for Murderdrones, not humans or dragons. What’s with all the dragon fics btw??), js completely smutty (like bro I don’t wanna read smut of minors that’s so weird 💀), or had extremely poor grammar with typos. Some of the AU ones weren’t bad stories necessarily, they js changed the characters, like making Uzi shy or making N some type of “bad boy” 😭 also I really don’t like the OC inserts. I JUST WANNA READ IT FOR THE ACTUAL CHARACTERS 💀💀. Ok I probably js sound really picky tbh.
So I decided I was gonna write my own. Pretty excited for how this is gonna turn out.
ALSO I wrote a bunch of it while I was waiting for my ao3 account to get approved, so they’ll be super fast and frequent updates. I won’t js disappear halfway through the story and never come back I promise 😭🤚