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Chaotic Minds (An AU I’m making) (small spoilers for Kayne/Intermezzo)

This is based around a couple “what if”s I thought about. “What if Kayne was in Arthur’s head instead of John?” “What if the story focused on ‘Darthur’ (dark Arthur)?” So, I combined the two to make the Chaotic Minds AU. In this AU, when the gate was opened, Nyarlathotep tries to come through and gets severed, trapping part of him in the book. The events play out mostly the same from there and Arthur opens the book, trapping the severed piece in his mind. From there, every situation that can be solved with a gun, will be solved with a gun. If not, the attempt will at least be made. The major turning point comes in the hospital during Arthur’s coma. Instead of the nurse making Kayne more human, a preacher comes to read bible stories. Listening to this triggers a hatred for the church in the piece within Arthur. This combined with Arthur’s previous religious trauma causes them to confront the preacher. The preacher calls Arthur a sinner and they decide to take on the mantle as they burn the church down. The piece within Arthur remembers the story of Cain and Able, the first murderer, so it takes on the name, twisting it into his own as Kayne.

The two of them, despite being the protagonists, are the villains of the story. Each feeding into a toxic relationship of codependency and completely unhinged nature. Arthur pulls away from his humanity and becomes more like Kayne.

John takes the place of Kayne in the original story, becoming a sort of exterminator and searches for any world where Kayne was the one to end up with Arthur. This John once had his own Arthur but lost him to Kayne, setting out to destroy any version of Kayne he can find that taints what Arthur was meant to be.