I Want An Au Where The Capture Targets Remember Everything From ALL The Time Loops And Try To Fix Everything

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Modern Au

Tags: Angst, Exes to Lovers, Office

Penelope and Callisto use to secretly date in high school. They met at the beginning of their final year of high school but broke up just before graduation. While they were compatible with one another, it was their family problems that drove them apart.

Callisto's relationship with his stepmother was downright hostile and Penelope was still clinging to the possibility that her family might love her. They both tried to not let it affect their romantic life but there was only so much they could have done given that they both were about to graduate and possibly go to different universities.

This all resulted in a massive argument between them that ultimately led them to break up.

They graduated high school got into different colleges, graduated from said colleges and got jobs and try to move on with their lives. The key word being tried. While they didn't want to admit it, they still miss one another and all the good times they had even if it was for a short time.

Years later they've both gotten promoted in their jobs. Their companies just so happen to collab with each other on a big project. Penelope and Callisto who are very hard workers in their jobs are chosen by their respective companies to be a part of this project, they think it will be just like every other assignment they've done before.

So imagine their surprise when they see each other at the beginning of the program. Their minds are like "Oh shit, what is he/she doing here?" while keeping a poker face. They decide right then and there to avoid each other as subtly as possible to avoid drama but low and behold their place in the same group together.

Not a problem they'll just do what they do best, ignore the problem till it goes away or till they have no choice but to confront it. The two of them decided that avoiding each other outside of work is the best option and all seems to go well...…....for a while.

You see, Penelope and Callisto work very well together despite trying to avoid any other interaction with one another. But even then they tend to bicker and throw jabs at one another at every chance they get.

Their other group members have collectively agreed that they are made for one another. Cut to them trying their best to get Penelope and Callisto to spend as much time together as possible without it being too suspicious.

This leads to both parties feeling emotionally drained at the end of every day from all the mental gymnastics they're doing around each other. They catch on to what their colleges are doing but don't have the time to tell them to stop, plus they'd prefer not to go around explaining that the person the group is trying to set them up with is the high school ex.

But soon they settle into their temporary routines and sparks are beginning to fly between to two. They're more comfortable around each other now and are reminded of how things were between them when they started dating years ago.

Everything is going normal until months later when they hit an important milestone in their project. To celebrate, their bosses take their workers out for a few drinks. You can see where this is going.

Long story short, Penelope and Callisto both get drunk, head off to Callisto's apartment and had sex, they went at it the whole night and slept till noon and would have missed work if it wasn't a Saturday.

Suffice it to say they were horrified when they woke up. To make matters worse, Penelope can't leave cause there is a massive storm outside, the streets are flooding and people are advised to remain indoors. So they've stuck indoors...…with each other...….not a problem at all.

They are a little awkward around each other since this is their first time in years interacting with each other outside of work. Things were a little tense on day one but they settled into a temporary routine by day two and were comfortable sharing a space together. But they could only ignore the massive elephant in the room for so long.

One of them finally brought up the topic that they indeed slept together the night before. Their both not embarrassed by this considering they were each other's first in high school. But the conversation inevitably shifts to their nasty breakup literally a week before graduation, and that leads them to bring up some still painful memories about the families they've since cut off from their lives.

To them, there was just too much happening all at once so suddenly. Things got tense in their respective households, they had to prepare for graduation, prepare college and all that jazz. They didn't seem to have time to process their emotions back then which lead to them braking up on such bad terms.

But now they're older and have worked through their issues over the years. However, they genuinely never expected to see one another again after going to separate colleges.

So after a very long talk, they decided to give their relationship another chance. They took things slow at the beginning which escalated to going on trips together and moving in together. After two years Callisto proposed, they got married, bought a house and had kids.

THE END

She's beautiful 😍

⚜️🌸 Yvonne

I feel like at some point in their time together the male leads have contemplated putting Penelope on a leash when out in public. because homegirl be wandering away from them getting into all sorts of trouble.

They've definitely got a bunch of mini-heart attacks when they take their eyes off her for barely 5 seconds only to look back and find her gone.

DITOEFTV Encanto songs

I was listening to the Encanto soundtrack when I thought about scenarios where Penelope is singing the songs "Waiting on a Miracle" and "What else can I do?". In this au everyone has a magical ability or gifts like Encanto and Penelope's gift is like Isabella's. I'll explain why. In this au Penelope has the title of "the perfect lady". She puts a lot of pressure on herself trying to be perfect to not bring shame to the Eckharts.

Waiting on a Miracle

As Penelope sings this song she thinks about she's always trying her best to be perfect to get the Eckharts to accept her as one of them ever since she arrived at the duchy and doubling her efforts after the necklace incident. She tries to convince herself that she is fine with the direction her life is going before she cracks and admits to herself that she is not fine. She does not want to pretend to be perfect feel loved.

What else can I do?

As mentioned above Penelope's ability is being able to control plants like Isabella. Like Isabella, she could only do flowers and never went beyond that as she tries to fit herself in this perfect mould. Then Yvonne (not possessed) comes back to the duchy and she feels like her world is crumbling around her.

She and Yvonne do not see eye to eye. After a very disastrous family dinner due to an argument, Penelope goes back to her room, hours later Yvonne comes into her room to reconcile considering she was the reason the fight started in the first place.

Yvonne is giving this half-assed apology when Penny has had enough of people's bullshit for the day a uses her vines to drag Yvonne out like Isabella did Mirabel. As she is getting dragged out Yvonne is throwing jabs at her which Penelope ignores until she hears the word selfish.

"SELFISH!? I've been forced to live in a house where people wouldn't care if I dropped dead. I try to move on, try to find something new but you just had to come along and MESS THINGS UP!"

"Nothings messed up you can still have that stupid title!"

"I never wanted that title! I was doing it FOR THE DUCHY!"

*POOF*

A cactus

Penny is shocked she never grew anything other than flowers before ever since she got her power. She's in awe of the unsymmetrical creation. She begins to wonder what else can she do?

Everyone retained their memories from previous

In this au all the capture targets including the duke suddenly recall their respective memories of all the previous cycles. However there is one very big difference in this cycle, Yvonne is alive.

The Eckart siblings never snuck out to the festival, Yvonne had a fever from running around in the rain days before. She never convinced her brothers to sneak out to the festival, and she never got separated from them thus the Duke never adopted Penelope while looking for Yvonne.

Yvonne also has her memories from her time in the mirror of truth and being possessed by Laila.

Upon realizing that they never adopted Penelope the Eckarts begin frantically searching for her joined by the Crown Prince and Vinter. However, since it has been nearly six years by then, they have no leads. When they ask around the town about the duke who met her, they learn that her mother died but she was never buried and Penelope was nowhere to be found.

Cut to Penelope, after her mother passed away slave traders captured her, this particular group of slave traders has a reputation in the black market for selling high-quality ‘merchandise’. They initially intended to sell her along with the other enslaved children but because of her exotic hair colour, they decided to keep her until she was older so she would be sold at a much higher price. 

This particular organization is known for selling high-quality slaves as they ‘train’ them to serve multiple purposes. Penelope was able to learn to read and write because of this. However, one day the slave traders found out she could use magic, and they quickly scrapped the idea of selling her and instead using her for their own purpose. 

They forced her to learn magic on her own, she has a room with a straw bed, a bookshelf and writing material. Since she didn’t have anyone to teach her properly she had to get creative to get any results.

Compared to the other slaves she does get better treatment but she is more likely to get punished whether it was because they expect more from her and think she’s not working faster enough or she just happens to be in the vicinity whenever they're in a bad mood so they take out their frustrations on her.

Throughout the years she has gotten better at magic and has made process on her escape plan. The only problem is the colla they put on her neck that will electrocute her should she disobey an order. It's the only thing keeping her from running away and she is on a time crunch as she is finally going to be sold at the upcoming auction. And she's the main attraction.

Back to everyone else, Vinter has been looking for Penelope since the time-loop reset and has come across a rumour of a slave auction coming up at a party. It said that these merchants possess high-quality 'merchandise' and their prized possession is said to be a girl with the blood of a wizard.

This obviously gets his attention and upon further investigation, he not only finds out that the majority of the Empress's fraction are are going to attend this auction but the fact that these merchants may have ties with Laila . So he enlists the help of the Crown Prince in order to raid this event.

Callisto obviously uses the opportunity to weaken the Empress's fraction so that he could focus on finding Penelope. After much preparation, they've successfully completed the raid and arrested everyone involved.

Everyone involved is happy that she's alive and all but they quickly realized that unlike then she doesn't have memories of the time loops.

Callisto lead the royal guards whilst Vinter took stock of the slaves. You could imagine the look on his face when he came across the person he's been looking for, Penelope. He almost didn't believe it because she looked so....different.

She actually does have all her memories it's just that unlike them she went back in time to after her mother died so she now has to deal with her trauma from the six years she was a slave.

Death is the Only Ending for the Villainess

I'm just imaging an Au where instead of ghost Yvonne where only Penelope can see her. We get to the ghost of Penelope's mother (We'll call her Mama for now) where only the capture targets can see her.

The first ones to notice her are the Eckart brothers they are having dinner with the Duke and suddenly they see this woman just floating behind Penelope. They had to pretend that they couldn't see her for the entire meal. But she notices that they can see her, she was kind enough to get them alone before she absolutely TEARS into them. Screaming like a banshee about all the nasty things they've done to Penelope, how she wants to strangle them and bury them alive etc...

She later learns that every time the capture targets notice her she gains the ability to haunt things. Mama uses this new ability to terrorise the household staff. From minor inconveniences to giving them heart attacks at night with her hauntings.

Oh my god I have all those except King's Cage

DITOEFTV PET HEADCANONS

If Penelope had a pet, it would be the "hates everybody but her" trope but with a pet. When this pet is with Penelope they are all lovey-dovey and tries to smother her with kisses and affection. If other people (like the Eckharts) are in the room with Penny the moment she leaves the pet alone with them for any duration of time without warning it does a 360 and turns into a demon. Traumatizing everybody in the room until Penny comes back in which they act like the perfect little angel as if it had not tried to unalive everyone seconds ago. Penelope is blissfully unaware of her pet's attempted murder sprees to the dismay of the Eckharts cause how do you tell someone that you almost got killed by a pet?

They're small so Penny can just pick them up and carry them around. It hates everyone but Penny they only they even remotely tolerate are Callisto but only after a long time. They love Judith to bits though.

Hear me out. An AU with Penelope and Callisto as Morticia and Gomez Adams. Callisto already worships the ground Penny walks on in the novel. Callisto proclaims his love for her, Penelope looking at him like he's the only thing she can see.

They'd have their haunted gothic mansion Callisto has a torture chamber while Penelope has her laboratory. They take long walks in the forest or dance in their ballroom on date nights. Judith is obviously Wednesday but more expressive and joyfully torturing her younger sibling and poor Cedric is Lurch.

People of the VADD Fandom. What are your little headcanons about the story? It could be about the characters, the world, the magic system anything. Reblog your answers.