[meme] The everyone survived AU

[goldenplaits]

Due to recent events in the movie world, it seemed like we needed one of these again...

THE ARDA AU MEME


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All the AUs! With classics as the obligatory and all important

> EVERYONE LIVED AU. Maybe you're at Thorin's festive coronation or a drinking game between Boromir and Haldir after the end of the War, or Fëanor and Thingol finally talk to each other. Maybe Belladonna comes with her son on adventures, or Maedhros spends some very awkward hours at Elrond's wedding. U know the drill.
> but let's not forget the staple COFFEESHOP AU either
> or the no less important WHAT IF AU: What if the Silmarils were glowing bunnies? What if Bard hadn't managed to take down Smaug? What if Maeglin had not betrayed Gondolin, what if Galadriel had accepted the One Ring? What if Sam had a giant afro?
> and really any other AUs that you can think of.


As a note, since not everyone has seen BOFA yet and some people care about not being spoiled, please make a note in your top level comment/the subject line of a comment if you might bring up spoilers in threads or don't want to be spoiled, something like "bofa spoilers yes" or "bofa spoilers no".

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[bythewaves]

[ He shakes his head, frightened and backs away ]

I am not allowed.

[feanaro_curufinwe]

But you are. And your mother misses you, my son, and your brothers... [He resists the urge to make a face, and continues:] Your uncles and cousins as well... And your grandfathers. And one by the name of Elrond.

[bythewaves]

[ He backs up until his back is against the wall, shaking his head in denial, but the last name, ah now. He goes very, very still ]

Elrond? [ He knows that name. It is not one of his ghosts, but one of his nightmares, yes. Slowly ]

I... knew an Elrond.

[feanaro_curufinwe]

Yes, the child you raised, when all his own blood abandoned him. Do you know, he and his love have more grandchildren for you, Cano.

[bythewaves]

That was also my fault [ He corrects and for a moment there is memory and sanity in those eyes ]

Good. Elrond deserves to be happy.

[ But I don't is not said, but implied - for who, in the end, bars Maglor's return so well as Maglor himself? ]

[feanaro_curufinwe]

And he misses you. We all do, my son.

[bythewaves]

He shouldn't. I am supposed to be forgotten.

[ It was why they let them go ]

[feanaro_curufinwe]

As if any could forget you?

[bythewaves]

They should [ petulant ]

That was why we sent them away.

[feanaro_curufinwe]

Do not be petulant, Cano, it suits you ill.

[bythewaves]

[ A blink and he stops, tipping his head to look at Feanor. Thoughtfully ]

You... used to sound like that. Before.

[feanaro_curufinwe]

And I sound 'like that' now, and I shall continue to sound 'like that' until the end of days. Now stop being stubborn- [says the most stubborn being in all the world] -and come home. It is time.

[bythewaves]

But you're dead. [ admittedly, his ghosts are usually not quite this persistent ]

And I am not allowed to have a home. [ Look, you passed on the stubborn gene, aren't you proud? ]

[feanaro_curufinwe]

I was, and now I am not. I was released, so that I might bring you home.

[Yes, but his children are not supposed to be stubborn at him.]

[bythewaves]

[ disbelieving look ]

You have said that before, and were always dead anyway when I looked again.

[ Too bad? ]