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Doll Grian AU
This is probably one of those AUs that exist just because yes, but recently I've found that I really like AUs where Grian's a doll.
I think I was first introduced to a doll Grian in this SCP type fic that told the story in the form of research papers and so on so a lot of it was left up for interpretation, but it was also pretty interesting, and then over time I ended up encountering another doll grian fic (and then realized there was a tag for it) so then I just went through most of the fics that have the doll grian tag, which in reality I only went to the ones that were completed, because I tend to go farther than recently updated or I'm not really interested in reading incomplete fics and all that stuff y'know, so.
Everyone's takes on it were pretty interesting, and I like it.
The idea where Grian was originally a doll and had a puppet that was human him that he kinda steered around, one where he's literally just a doll but big sized and has to switch through different bodies or something to change clothes since his are just sewn on, one where he was originally Link (I think something about his original skin being Link before what it is now) and then something something happened and then became a doll [and then how he ended up out of the Link universe or something there were other characters from the fandom I think appearing- uh.. I don't actually know that much about Link and all that stuff though so I'm not gonna try].
I don't know, I just like the idea of a doll Grian moving around and people don't actually realize he's a doll until something happens- cough cough, like 100 hour hardcore smp, where there's this one fic where when the.. mob in the woodland mansion who I can't actually remember with the axe killing him, a LOT of stuffing quite literally kinda exploded out of him and going all over the place.
Also he had a heart made out of fabric which is an interesting take.
But there's also one where we don't actually see him as the doll because something something swap, Zedaph becoming a doll [Base swap], or then there's Mumbo [Soul- ..thing?? What do I refer to it as ;-;]
And honestly I just adore it and I think there needs to be more. I'm well aware though that doll grian fics probably don't all use the doll grian tag, because the SCP one didn't have it either, and I might have to go through every single page that has the Grian as a character which I honestly don't think I could last that long, so.. yeah.
But since it's not really with the lore of anything and kinda just something that exists because yes, you kinda have to come up with the story yourself and what happens in it if you know what I mean?
Like if you were to write out a scene based off of story that has happened in say Double Life for example, where I wrote a fic with Desert Duo about a confrontation between them about the secret soulmate bond with Big B, then that'd be based off of stuff in a story that has already happened.
If you were to write a Doll Grian fic though, you don't really have anything to base it off of because it's not actually canon, and you'd have to either figure it out yourself and make up your own story, or somehow include it in a pre-existing scene, like Third Life but with Avian Grian with bound wings where you can use that idea and put it into a scene that already exists, like with Desert Duo being on Monopoly Mountain and create a moment there based on what has already happened and have for example, Scar preening Grian's wings.
Technically you would be able to fit a Doll Grian in a pre-existing scene, but you'd have to make up a lot more stuff, considering Grian would be soft, fragile, and injury or death make stuffing go brr, unless you want Grian to just be like some ghost haunting a doll which is also interesting and I would probably count that as a doll grian, so he's not actually really living and probably wouldn't feel pain..? I don't know the logistics of this and don't have enough brain cells to figure it out, but so yeah.
Recent fixation that I'll probably end up forgetting about in a few days.