Masterpost of the Mandela Catalogue AU: Alternates in Arms
I figured, both for anybody looking for information and for myself to keep track of everything, I’ll have this as a pinned post to my blog that I’ll update periodically to keep everything straight! This will include “official” entries (roughly in order of when they occur in the universe) and any other misc lore and informational posts!
As always, feel free to ask me questions through asks or DMs, or even if you just want to talk about TMC in general or my AU! I’m also active in a few analog/TMC-themed Discords, so you can reach me there if you wish (or just on Discord in general).
Hi! Can you share a bit more about Mark rooming with Cesar and Six being homophobic towards Cesar specifically?
Sure! Admittedly, I’ve been really vague about it since I wanted to be conservative on what I reveal so I can tell the story with an “official lore post” (like the supplant video), but I decided I should state this outright so it’s less confusing: Mark does live after the night of September 1992. The events occur similarly to canon, and the Volume 1 entry I want to make will probably be a series of phone calls that occur during that night (plus some art or writing hopefully), illustrating how Cesar is involved as well as how Thatcher is involved. I’ve just been busy (and exhausted, ouuugh) lately, so I haven’t had the time to sit down and work on it yet.
Since everyone's been asking about Gabriel's fear I'm gonna try and guess it :D
He's afraid of being wrong
More specifically, he's afraid of being wrong about his perception of humans, and what that means for him and what he's done. Probably his whole identity, too, since we don't know a lot about him and what we do know leaves the impression that his identity is built around his hate for humanity
Obviously, it's not a 'cower and cry and shiver like a mouse' kind of fear, but the kind that can be easily ignored until something happens to bring the thought back to the front of his mind, and then be swiftly ignored again, rinse and repeat until it can't be ignored
So, in a way, it's more like the fear of losing sight of who he is and his purpose
But I'm just throwing wild guesses here :p
This is a really interesting take! I’m assuming for this you mean AiA Gabriel, and if so, then I think that’s an informed guess!
On that topic, though, I really need some of ya’ll to be more specific in your asks in you’re asking about CANON Mandela characters or AU Mandela characters 😭😭 A lot of the time I have to guess who you’re talking about, and my opinions/responses will change depending on who you’re talking about. If you asked me what I think canon Gabriel fears, I don’t think he fears anything, because I don’t think alternates feel fear. But if you’re talking about AiA alternates, who CAN have feelings, then yeah I’d say Gabriel can fear something.
This isn’t a purely dedicated TMC roleplay/ask blog, and AiA AU content will get mixed in with canon TMC stuff, so if possible it’d really help if you clarified more who you’re talking about in your ask (unless it’s SUPER obvious, like asking Gabriel about his barista job).
