Replaced AU - Rival Edition

Replaced AU - Rival Edition

Neither of my writing blogs has this fandom so this is just gonna be on my main.

Okay, it is the same in concept. The brothers find themselves preferring the presence of the new transfer, who I'll just call... "Sage".

While they've started to want to hang out with Sage more, they don't notice where their other time goes - i.e. the time they spend with MC.

So when Lucifer commented, somewhat harshly, about MC's poor grades as of late... They're not hurt, just looking slightly annoyed as they proclaimed that it wasn't their fault. Only for Sage to jump in and apologize profusely about keeping MC from studying.

The pair had been simply hanging out more often than not, they had similar interests and tastes in human media! Like music, shows, and one or two hobbies. It's not too surprising they ended up being friends.

Sage actually had the guts to cling onto MC, pouting and continuing to whine and apologize and asking for them to not be mad at them. They do all of this in front of the perplexed/shocked brothers, who are just now realizing that they had been so caught up in the appearance of the new human transfer that they'd failed to spend time with their MC. Who seemed to be doing just fine in the sense that they were also quite preoccupied by Sage's appearance and thinking that they were giving their time equally to everyone.

Who the brothers quickly realize had been monopolizing all the freetime MC suddenly had without any shame at all.

They understand why Sage would like MC, MC was amazing after all.

Now that they know though, it's somewhat of a fight for them to be able to spend time with MC now that Sage is clearly intent on being more than just "besties" with their fellow human. And oooh, they are good at keeping the brothers from encroaching on their time together.

They knew they'd have the brothers as rivals for MC's affection/attention and the sly lil' human is not keen on sharing right away. So essentially, when they hung out with each individual brother - they carefully observed them and their quirks, ticks, and exactly how to exploit them.

Lucifer is unfortunately cuffed by his loyalty to Diavolo. So when MC says that they can't do something because they and Sage are assigned work by the Prince/asked for a transfer specific thing; he can't intervene.

Mammon nearly choked on his own tongue when Sage straight up pulls his schedule off the top of their head to say that he's busy. Not to mention making plans with a couple witches who weren't very fond of him.

Levi is sent into an almost panicked spiral as they always remind him of something or other's game/show release and events! Or that they and MC have their own fandom based meeting that he didn't know about.

Satan is easily distracted with cats and new books. He curses the world when he realized Sage had simply baited him into getting engrossed in a particularly good one.

Asmo has fans and Sage knows he doesn't like to disappoint, so had gifted him a bunch of things to review/try on camera. He didn't know exactly why they'd got him these gifts and assumed it was because they liked him so much. While they do like him on a friendly level, he now knows it's because he's a clear rival. It makes him all huffy because they were being a good friend but also stealing his time with MC.

Beel was just distracted thoroughly by Sage's human culinary degree. If given food intermittently, he'd just focus on that just forget about almost everything else. Sage is nice too and their cooking is good and of they teamed up with MC, that's a win for him! So what does it matter if they're cooking without him? They know he'd eat the uncooked ingredients after all. Sage is just being considerate... Right??

Belphie is the most possessive of the brothers and quickly learn that Sage just tells MC that they don't want to wake him while he's sleeping so peacefully. While touched at MC's consideration to allow him to rest, kinda pissed Sage is purposely using it to keep him from spending time with them.

Ohhhhh and Sage is fully aware of their pact marka and how power MC actually holds. While it is another reason to admire them and fawn over how amazing they are, it also is extremely beneficial for them in the long run.

They know the brothers are still their friends and junk. But having MC be able to protect them by commanding them kinda makes them swoon and makes them feel more secure in just happily flirting with them. Sage also make the brothers aware that if they were hurting MC at all then they could just summon any of them at will. Despite now making sure they get to spend all this time with their crush, they're still the fair type and is not upset at the prospect of the bros being cunning enough to also spend time with MC

So overall, Sage is a highly competent human rival.

Has the potential to steal MC's heart with all the time they could now spend together.

That's all I could think for the time being.

~ Dari

The beautiful @achoonihaachu had written a piece based off this concept!!

It's titled "God Must Hate Me" and I am so ready for the next parts.

And I've drawn Yuki and Sage HERE!