Parental au: how quickly do they gain the boys trust?

Admin Mawile: Do you mean individually, or in general? Individually, it depends on the boys’ personal issues with parental figures and opening up to people, but in general, I’d say it’s not too different than canon. Perhaps a little harder, considering their prior hardships.

I like the new au! Please tell more about it

Admin Mawile: (●´∀｀)ノ~

-So, the main idea is that, instead of being sent as a bride, the reader is sent as a parental substitute. In theory, they’re supposed to help the boys be less… terrible, but that doesn’t exactly go as planned.

Like in canon, with Yui having major issues with romancing the boys, the reader has just as much trouble winning them over on the friendship side. They’re all still awful, and most of them outright reject the idea of needing anyone but themselves. It’s a long, slow process of kindness and making progress little by little, but in the end, it does pay off.

Just how there’s a fluffier side with canon, where the boys genuinely love Yui and treat her sort of decently (in their own ways), this Au has an eventual similar point, where the relationship between them and the reader has reached a semi-healthy, semi-loving point.

However, considering that I thrive off of fictional misery, I am 1000% open to situations within this Au that are angsty, painful, or otherwise messed up. I have no issues with making this dark >:3c

In short, it’s a version of canon where the relationship with the boys is platonic/parental instead of romantic. It has all the same issues and trials as in canon, but the end result is something sort of healthy and good. It’s still difficult, but there’s potential to for positive change.

Hello how are you? So for the new AU, is it more like forming friendships than a romantic relation?

Admin Mawile: Yep! Pretty much! (´・ω・)ﾉ The main point of it is to cheer me up a little bit, honestly. My depression has been back with a vengeance lately, and I want to write some stuff that’s geared towards what I like… thus, Au where the relationship with the boys is platonic/parental.

Do you have a prologue for your surrogate mother AU?

Admin Mawile: By prologue, do you mean a summary of how things wound up that way? If so, I’ll describe it here:

So Karlheinz, as we all know, loves to do horrible things to his kids. Specifically, he seems to like doing the exact things that will upset them most. He also has a tendency to put people like Yui in danger for no reason other than his plans.

Thus, while in the middle of the whole “sacrificial bride” plan, it occurs to him that, hey, his kids have been pretty troublesome lately, what with killing everyone he sends to them. He gets the idea that sending in a replacement “parent” of a sort would both provide him with some degree of entertainment in the form of his sons’ irritation, and possibly actually fix some things in the household. If it goes well, that is.

Karlheinz already knows that it won’t go well.

So, in the same way he picked out the sacrificial brides, he picks out someone to fill this new role, sets things up for them to head to the mansion, and sits back to enjoy the chaos. Considering how things went for Yui, it’s probably obvious that he expects things to end horribly for said person.

Also, this takes place in some kind of canon-strange Au where the three families are already involved with each other to some degree. DL canon is weird, so I can’t place it exactly. *shrug*