In The Name Of Your Dream

In the Name of Your Dream

An AruSheri role reversal AU where Sheryl is a pilot of the Galaxy, and a blind!Alto is a famous singer and dancer from the Frontier

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Where Alto had to rebel to become a pilot, Sheryl was actually encouraged by her family to pursue her dream and was supported by them until the Galaxy came and wiped out those who would defy the new law that made cybernetic implants mandatory. Orphaned, she lived on the streets of the slum area until she was found by Grace O’Connor, who took her under her wing and managed her to this very day where she’s become a top-notch stunt pilot. Playing around with exosuits can only sate her for so long, however, and the false sky of the Galaxy fleet is stifling. 

Alto still dreams of flying thanks to the inspiration from his late mother, but his blindness poses a real obstacle in becoming pilot. No matter how great he’s gotten at navigating the world through echolocation and other helpful means, there’s only so much that can be accommodated in such a demanding profession. With this logic as a discouragement, Alto never strayed from the path of a performing artist, but if he was going to stay on it, he’d walk it to his own beat. 

After secretly being introduced to modern dance by Yasaburo, Alto surprised and impressed a contest audience and his father with a style that tastefully combined the old and the new, and Ranzo gave him his approval to pursue this branching path so long as he returned to his roots down the line. Alto couldn’t say yes fast enough, and with Yasaburo by his side, he hit the ground running. He hadn’t felt so free since his mother passed away. 

This idol career has taken him far and wide across the galaxy, and eventually, he arrives at the Macross Galaxy fleet as part of his tour. 

He and Sheryl meet as you might expect: In the middle of the concert, a novice teammate’s reckless stunt knocks Alto off the stage, and when Sheryl recovers him, he has her continue flying him around a bit so the audience doesn’t know it was a mistake. However, Alto’s still the one who gets Sheryl’s precious earring snagged on his person, and she storms the hotel where he and Yasaburo are staying to demand it back. 

That’s when the unlikely romance begins to bloom.

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PS Notes

Sheryl is as surprised as anyone else who’s not familiar with the Interstellar Princess by the fact that he is, in fact, a male. Absolutely nothing about his stage persona suggests that he’s masculine in any way. His vocal range and control is that incredible, and Sheryl would’ve been none the wiser had she not met Alto in person. 

On top of that, she didn’t realize he was blind, either. At first, she thought he didn’t look at anyone out of arrogance, but the reality was that he couldn’t see them. 

(Consider this: Alto’s blindness is caused by the V-Type virus. He contracted it when he was very little, and it settled predominantly around the optic nerves, effectively killing them. The Frontier doctors couldn’t repair this damage by the time they knew what had caused it; however, they put Alto on a strict medical regimen to keep it from spreading to anywhere else.) 

The Galaxy still gets destroyed, and the rest of the story takes place on the Frontier. Sheryl was was able to get Alto and Yasaburo there thanks to her quick thinking and ability to steal an aircraft. 

For her first few weeks, the Frontier’s military has Sheryl under supervision because of a distrust toward people from the Galaxy. However, with Alto and Yasaburo’s testimonies toward her character, they back off and let her have some room to breathe. 

At some point, she’s (forcibly) enrolled at Mihoshi Academy in the piloting course to keep her from being idle. There, she meets Michael and Luca, who thank her for getting their friend back safely. Michael actually says, “Ah, so you’re the princess’s knight in shining armor. You have our thanks.” He gets a book thrown at him by Alto. 

Ranka is one of Alto’s friends from another school who wants to be a singer like him, and her character arc is still her journey to stardom. She also still has her massive crush on him, and she’s a little jealous when this other lady from the Galaxy steals his attention from her. She is grateful, though, that Sheryl got Alto out alive. 

When the Vajra attack during one of the first concerts Alto’s had since returning home, Sheryl ends up saving Ranka, who was at the concert in support of her best friend, by piloting a VF-25 Messiah whose pilot had been killed. This is how she becomes part of the Frontier’s SMS. 

If “Wings of Goodbye” had Been an ABOverse

Just imagine if omega!Alto had gotten pregnant after an unbridled night with alpha!Sheryl, and when he returned (from wherever tf he was taken), Sheryl woke up to see him at her bedside with a small child in his lap.

Also imagine if Alto died when their child was eight or so, and they grew up wanting to be a pilot just like their mother, but Sheryl disapproved, fearing that she’d lose them, too. 

All of Me

An alpha!Michael x omega!Alto ABO AU where they were an established couple, and an unprotected night resulted in an unexpected pregnancy

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Alto didn’t find out until the night Ranka planned to leave Frontier to return Ai-kun to his home planet. 

Brera, compelled by a strange gut instinct, checked his physical condition before knocking the pistol out of his hand and subduing him rather than resorting to more violent tactics. 

“You shouldn’t get worked up in your condition,” he told him, and Alto growled. 

“What the hell’s that supposed to mean?!” 

“Stress isn’t good for an omega with child.” 

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Silence. 

There was only a tiny gasp of surprise from Ranka, and tears broke their dams in Alto’s eyes. 

It...it couldn’t be true. It couldn’t be! 

Oh, but it was. The proof was in Brera’s holographic screens that he so kindly pulled up to show him. 

Michael left this world with all of him, but he left a piece of himself in Alto. 

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Notes

MihaAru’s relationship was a secret. Everybody knew they weren’t single, but nobody knew who their partners were. It was kind of a game amongst the Mihoshi students to guess who MihaAru were seeing, and there was most likely a betting pool out there. 

Klan took this pretty hard. Her childhood friend didn’t choose her and was seeing some mysterious person he refused to tell her about. What was so special about them? Why keep it a secret? Did they even exist at all, or was it some kind of trick to keep all the suitors off his back? 

When Sheryl asked if Alto was making excuses to his partner—perhaps that girl, Ranka—during their little outing, Alto was terse, “No, we trust each other.” That was all the confirmation Sheryl needed to know she was with a taken man. So, being the mature person she was, she didn’t make anymore advances toward him but did take every opportunity to tease him about his mystery girl- or boyfriend.

Ranka never figured out Alto was already seeing someone until that night when Brera revealed to Alto that he was pregnant. She never asked, and he never perceived her gestures as romantic. If he was seeing anyone, Ranka guessed it was Sheryl, her rival, and she continued to think that until after the conflict with the Vajra was resolved. 

While Sheryl was able to deduce that MihaAru were an item just by watching them, it was revealed to Klan when Michael died, when his last words were an apology and a farewell to Alto. Ranka had to be told when she asked if the baby was Sheryl’s. 

Following the revelation of his pregnancy, Alto was hysterical. The Vajra took his baby’s father, and Michael left him all alone to raise them. How could he’ve possibly thought straight regarding the Vajra after this was dumped on him? 

He wanted to do nothing more than to eradicate the insectoid race with his own hands, but Klan was the one who brought him back to reality. “A piece of Michel is inside you right now. A part of him is still here,” she told him. “Don’t you dare run headlong into danger when they’re the only link to Michel we have now!” 

She then vowed to him that she’d get revenge for the both of them, and that Alto should take care of himself and the baby in Michael’s name if nothing else. 

After the final conflict with Grace, Klan and Alto bonded over their mutual loss and even became a couple, raising the baby together on the Frontier’s new planet. 

Uh, honestly speaking, this is one of my older AU’s, and I can’t answer a single one of these. XD I never actually thought this one through.

to be morbid on main based on this post by @jae-duhb bc i hv a few questions

The Duhb Hub

NingXian Omegaverse AU Where Wen Ning Was Wei Wuxian’s Worshipful Alpha Before Lan Wangji

I dropped this idea in the GDC Discord chat already, but I’ll drop it here, too. There’s just something appealing about such a gentle man tr

why did the lans (most probably lwj anyway) take in wen yuan? this indicates that he had met wwx and a-yuan that day in yiling and by extension knows that a-yuan is wwx's birth son (even if he probably doesnt know who the father is)

and bc a-yuan grows up with his actual dad i.e wn, he probably wouldn't be so sticky with lwj

if lwj was never wwx's lover, would he still receive the 33 whips and come back to burial mounds to save a-yuan? if not why would he go back all the way after the massacre to save one child? bc as righteous as the lans may be, they still, u know, participated in the killing

im assuming wn still becomes a fierce corpse

would lwj still look for wwx? or would he still do bc he only realized he was in love with wwx when it was way too late?

again, assuming lwj would still defend wwx and help him clear his name like in canon either bc hes a good guy or bc hes besotted

and afterwards lan sizhui would be reunited with his birth parents that he lost so many years ago, how would he continue his life as a lan disciple? unless wwx gets together w lwj, he has no reason to stay in cloud recesses. which is probably the case bc wen ning is there. and lwj never showed interest in him anyway, he wouldn't ever know.

how would lsz feel abt his name? would he even be named sizhui at all?

one possibility is wwx and wn live a simple life near caiyi so their son can visit them easily

or.. dark lans bc i love this au so much, lwj puts the nails back into wen ning and forces a mating bond on wwx to keep him in cr. which, i think would absolutely revolt a-yuan, to think that his adoptive father would do that to his mother.

Husband Dearest

A ChengXian ABO AU where WangXian was once a happy married couple until a freak accident gave LWJ amnesia, and unfortunate circumstances forced the couple to divorce. 

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LWJ just couldn’t reconnect with WWX no matter how much either of them tried.

Now divorced, WWX meets a young businessman in a coffee shop by the name of JC. 

JC has seen his fair share of tragedy in recent years. His parents died in a car accident two years ago, and only a few weeks ago, his sister and brother-in-law died in a condo fire, leaving him to care for their barely-a-month-old son. 

They grouse about the shitty days they’re having and lament their seemingly bleak lives together, which sparks a friendship that blooms into a loving marriage.   

Within thirteen years, they have three beautiful children, a diligent nephew, and all the happiness in the world.

On the flip side, thirteen years later, LWJ seems to regain some of his lost memories and seeks out WWX.

And of course I’m over here thinking, But what if this were an ABO AU? 

Can somebody write an AU where WWX is JC's ex husband and then JC finds out about the golden-core truth when WWX has just married LWJ, please? (evil smirks)

“Is it really so bad,” Wei Wuxian started. The sadness in his eyes was ages old as he looked at the man he once called husband. “That I wanted to save you? That I wanted to stand by your side for a little while longer?”

“But you didn’t!” Jiang Cheng roars. “You didn’t stay! You left me! First for those Wen-dogs and then again for-” he cuts himself off, not wanting to say it.

Lan Wangji. The man Wei Wuxian has recently eloped with. The last little bit of himself that Jiang Cheng and only Jiang Cheng had held, given away without hesitation.