Ginga Alternate Universes

[Wolpard]

AU where Tesshin inherits Ohu as its proper heir. Whatever series he’s in in place of GDW focuses on his struggles as someone with a paw in two worlds, his disconnect with his birth culture, his father’s legacy, and most importantly, learning to stand on his own as leader.

There's SO much time that passes between GNG and GDW that I kind of wish we got a Tesshin story from Yoshi. He has an interesting backstory and it kinda sucks that its just glossed over and only verbally discussed instead of actually shown.

AU I guess where Tesshin was the leader between Gin and Weed's reigns. I know Ginga dogs age funny but c'mon, Gin was an old man way before Weed was born.

[Shining Sirius]

AU where Weed succeeds in saving Blue from being crushed by the second truck. Blue then goes on to become Weed's mentor instead of Jerome (or, alternatively, there is a conflict between Blue and Jerome over what policies Weed should lead by - redemption for enemies vs execution.).

Also; AU in which Monsoon and Sirius are not badly wounded at the end of TLW. Monsoon carries Sirius over the sea on his back and they peacefully live out the rest of their exiled lives on some quiet, unknown land.

[Spirit Tree]

I do have three AU's. And I'm also new to AU's, not just in Ginga, but other things in general. I haven't done this before, but I'll try this.

My first AU is GB still alive and living on with Weed as a best friend and godfather and continuing to be the great and lovable fun dog that we know instead of seeing Kyoushiro changing to Jyoushiro in GDN and being such a pain in the ass in comedy attempts. Don't even get me started about him grabbing a puppy's testicles like a goshdamn idiot!

My second AU is Yukimura alive and living on with his brother Weed and the rest of the Ou army instead of getting killed off tearfully. Either Yukimura or Joe should have been alive, for God's sake! And honestly, I choose Yukimura because I'm now seeing him as one of my favorite characters despite his early negative actions. But he redeemed himself for them.

My third and final AU is...what if TLW had ended differently, but better? Even as I honestly find Sirius's death pretty sad, it's no secret that I absolutely give no shit about him because of all the troublesome and frustrating bullshit actions that he committed in TLW...and a little in GDWO but did worse in TLW. However, if TLW had a different and better ending or scenario with Sirius admitting all of his wrongdoings, I could have probably started to like him just a little bit. If the idiot was going to get killed off in the end, I really think it should have been in a way that could have me praise him for realizing the consequences of his actions. How would he realize all that? Well I imagine that way before that, the Ou army would accept Sirius's pointless and ridiculous ambition of coexisting with Monsoon and befriend the evil and cruel coldhearted son of a bitch of a bear. But Orion would not buy into it and leave instead, as he would want no part of it. And so for like 2 or 3 days, Monsoon would act all nice and friendly with the Ou army but would proceed to catch them all off-guard and reveal his true evil self and hold the Ou army hostage instead of being what Sirius wanted to change him to. That's where Sirius would finally realize all of his mistakes. Then the Ou army sets up Rigel to escape to get Orion back. Once Rigel gets to Orion, the two brothers would head back to save the army and defeat Monsoon once and for all. During the battle, Sirius gets critically injured by Monsoon. He pushes Orion out of the way to receive the big hit from the bear for him. After Orion finally kills the evil bear, he confronts his dying brother, and both brothers apologize to each other for their actions, with both admitting their own wrongdoings as well. Then Sirius passes away. Orion and the Ou army then cry in tears and howl in grief and sadness for his death. After burying Sirius, Orion would give out a statement that impresses Weed. Then Weed could pass on the leadership to him, even though Orion would probably not feel worthy of it just yet. With this AU, the scenario in GDN would be a little bit different, except for the fact that Orion disappears from Ou in sadness of his brother's death.

You know what? Now that I talked about all of my third AU, I'm thinking about writing a fanfiction and re-creating all of that to make TLW's ending better. I just need a lot of time to think about how to do it. Wish me luck.

[Gingaddict]

I have ideas, mainly including Gin more in the GDW manga

Firstly, instead of giving them away, Sakura loses Yukimura and Joe in a a bad storm where they are found by Saheiji so she only has Weed. Things go on as normal in the manga until GB, Weed and Sasuke leave the northern alps where Gin, John and Akame arrive just shortly after they leave and find Nero and Sakura's grave. Gin smells Sakura but doesn't want to believe she's dead, it's only three days later when they come across Sasuke who tells them about Weed. Gin, John and Akame head for Ohu but several times they get shot at by humans and soon find out from Hook (after the events with Blue), who tells them that Ohu is in danger.
Hougen doesn't capture the three and they make it to Ohu just in time to see Weed, GB, Ken, Kagetora, Mel, Jerome and co in battle with Kaibutsu. Gin, John and Akame join the battle and Kaibutsu is defeated and Weed gets to meet his dad!
Soon after, Gin, John and Akame have to leave to sort a disturbance caused by Hougen which turns out was just a trap to capture them. Events go on as normal but instead of John and Smith's ghosts coming for Gin, it's Sakura's Ghost! (I'm convinced Gin thought alot about Sakura when he was being held prisoner.)

In the Monkey arc, Gin is encouraged by Akame to go with Weed on his journey to find the missing siblings (I mean they're HIS sons after all!). Gin and Weed bond closer than before and when Yukimura and Weed have their fight, Gin jump in-between and takes the hit instead, realising Yukimura is his son. However, Yukimura doesn't want anything to do with Gin due to what happened to Sakura but when it comes to the big battle and Shogen is about to kill Yukimura when performing Neck-the-killing, Gin jumps in and saves him (like Weed did in the manga). Yukimura finally accepts Gin because of it.

In the Hybrid bear arc, Gin begins to worry about Weed's long absence and decides to go look for him and he's accompanied by Teru who is also wondering where Kyoushiro is. When they find Weed, they see him and Joe fighting the bears and spring into action to help them. While GB dies, Gin thanks for all he's done for his sons. Joe accepts Gin as his dad as he helped him in battle.

Instead of getting Orion and co, the story just ends with Weed and Koyuki's pups and Jerome and Lydia's pups being born.

[Dragon]

An AU where P4 wasn't a character introduced to us until Sirius entered the story, so he could be swayed into being better.

Weed was one to forgive villains at this point, but not monsters, and definitely not without knowing P4's past. If he knew his past, maybe Weed would have tried converting him into a peaceful beast, but I don't think Jerome told him .... or Weed just didn't care cause he..ate humans...? But Weed was willing to try sparing Sniper despite him killing his human master.....

Sirius, on the other hand, didn't play favorites and tried sparing all creatures, from prey to horrible murderous monsters. Someone as truly sad as P4 could have been fixed if he met someone like Sirius. He almost did for Jerome, but Jerome wasn't as compassionate as he could have been.

[Shining Sirius]

AU where Tesshin becomes a standalone villain after meeting Weed and realising that he isn't going to inherit Ohu.
Much like Masamune, Tesshin becomes bitter after having been coached his entire life by Gin, John and Akame to be the perfect heir, only to have it all go up in smoke with, in his own sentiments; having a pampered brat take his place.

[Dragon]

AU where Tesshin becomes a standalone villain after meeting Weed and realising that he isn't going to inherit Ohu.
Much like Masamune, Tesshin becomes bitter after having been coached his entire life by Gin, John and Akame to be the perfect heir, only to have it all go up in smoke with, in his own sentiments; having a pampered brat take his place.

Dang, that's a good one and feel like it could have happened if the Elder didnt view the Ohu army as bad.

[Atha]

AU where Tesshin becomes a standalone villain after meeting Weed and realising that he isn't going to inherit Ohu.
Much like Masamune, Tesshin becomes bitter after having been coached his entire life by Gin, John and Akame to be the perfect heir, only to have it all go up in smoke with, in his own sentiments; having a pampered brat take his place.

Dang, that's a good one and feel like it could have happened if the Elder didnt view the Ohu army as bad.

Or if Tesshin hadn't chosen to believe a shady old man over his entire family who protected and raised him with love and care.

But yeah it'd be a neat AU.

[Spirit Tree]

Two alternate universe scenarios:

• Retsuga and Hyouma are present since the start of GDW and beyond.

OR

• A different arc story not involving the wolves progresses in GNG after the final battle against Akakabuto instead.

...because what the hell’s the damn point of doing the wolf arc to begin with if Retsuga and Hyouma are not even gonna bother being present in GDW and beyond?!

[Digsu]

AU where Tesshin becomes a standalone villain after meeting Weed and realising that he isn't going to inherit Ohu.
Much like Masamune, Tesshin becomes bitter after having been coached his entire life by Gin, John and Akame to be the perfect heir, only to have it all go up in smoke with, in his own sentiments; having a pampered brat take his place.

I'm sorry about hijacking this but this reminded me of an AU idea I wrote in the LOTPW a long time ago, but never posted in the AU topic:
Gin adopting Tesshin as his brother

Tesshin calling Gin "big brother" as a pup made me think, what if Gin had adopted him as his little brother, both because he felt bad for him and because he missed his own brothers? And by the time of GDW, only the oldest Ohu soldiers knew that Tesshin wasn't actually Gin's biological brothers, perhaps including Tesshin himself. They look alike enough to pass as brothers, I think. This would also explain why Tesshin was set to become Supreme Commander after Gin - being his younger brother, he'd naturally be next in line for the position.

Then there'd be drama when the rest of the Koga dogs come out of hiding and the Elder accuses the Ohu dogs of brainwashing Kurojaki's heir, forcing the Ohu dogs to explain to Tesshin that he's adopted and all that jazz.

Also Weed would call him "Uncle Tesshin" and Tesshin would be super protective towards him because he's (supposedly) his only nephew.

[Shining Sirius]

AU where Tesshin becomes a standalone villain after meeting Weed and realising that he isn't going to inherit Ohu.
Much like Masamune, Tesshin becomes bitter after having been coached his entire life by Gin, John and Akame to be the perfect heir, only to have it all go up in smoke with, in his own sentiments; having a pampered brat take his place.

I'm sorry about hijacking this but this reminded me of an AU idea I wrote in the LOTPW a long time ago, but never posted in the AU topic:
Gin adopting Tesshin as his brother

Tesshin calling Gin "big brother" as a pup made me think, what if Gin had adopted him as his little brother, both because he felt bad for him and because he missed his own brothers? And by the time of GDW, only the oldest Ohu soldiers knew that Tesshin wasn't actually Gin's biological brothers, perhaps including Tesshin himself. They look alike enough to pass as brothers, I think. This would also explain why Tesshin was set to become Supreme Commander after Gin - being his younger brother, he'd naturally be next in line for the position.

Then there'd be drama when the rest of the Koga dogs come out of hiding and the Elder accuses the Ohu dogs of brainwashing Kurojaki's heir, forcing the Ohu dogs to explain to Tesshin that he's adopted and all that jazz.

Also Weed would call him "Uncle Tesshin" and Tesshin would be super protective towards him because he's (supposedly) his only nephew.

Aww, that would be an adorable AU! Especially since Gin never really got any quality time with his actual brothers.

[Dragon]

An Alternate Universe where one of Cross's first litter pups replaced or called themselves George and still calls Ken 'brother' and such. I mean, once the dogs are grown, what's really the difference between a year old in appearance, right?
*tries ignoring Tesshin and Gin being separated by 1 year but one being treated as an old man*

[Spirit Tree]

An alternate universe where at least one or two of Izou’s kids are living on with their father instead of all of them and his wife getting killed.

Because seriously! It’s just very sad and cruel. It reminds me of Max Payne when his wife and kid were murdered and he lived on alone. So Izou is like Max Payne when he lost his wife and kids. So horrible. At least one or two kids should have lived. Izou did not deserve to have his happiness with his family destroyed.

[Troll Berserker]

AU where Reika succesfuly drowns Hougen and she either drowns with him or survives.

[GSDJohn]

I have been looking for this topic everywhere! Time to post it all about my personal Ginga fanon, about the Ginga AU that I have formed during my two years as a Ginga fan . I will post my Ginga AU facts in the order I came up with them (oldest to newest).

All my Ginga AU facts have somewhat lengthy descriptions and backstories, so I'll put them on longspoilers as this could get text-heavy and image-heavy.

These facts are not separate and they form together my personal Ginga Alternate Universe. These are all true at the same time on my take on the Gingaverse. (Except for these indicated as Meme AUs and Separate AUs). They're not headcanons/theories either as they're modified takes on the characters, their personalities and their abilities.

My take on Sasuke - "Sasuke the group organizer":

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Sasuke has great group organization skills that compensate his weakness and cowardice. He also can organize fun events for the pack members to enjoy once they are at peace. This is a simple AU fact coming from my Ginga RPG Maker experiments, where Sasuke is the guy who allows you to add and remove dogs into your current party (this was done by chance, though, as the characters that were on episode 1 of GDW were Weed, GB, Smith and Sasuke, and since Sasuke didn't go with them, I decided to make him the one who you talk to if you want to change your current party).


Sasuke providing Weed and friends the posibility to add and remove characters from the current group.

Later on, Sasuke functions as the host for extra minigames, which are the "events" that he organizes for the pack while they aren't fighting. This Sasuke rarely/never fights and is a wimp at it, but he has much higher intelligence than canon!Sasuke and he actually helps the Ohu soldiers to take the toughest decisions when it comes to war strategy. The pack relies on him to decide which dogs should go to fight, which should stay, which should just defend, etc. He also completely lacks the gross humor aspect of manga!Sasuke. His "funny" side is centered on the events he organizes and his playfully jerkish interactions with GB ((Also when he speaks he has a tendency to troll GB by mocking him between pharentesis), and (GB somehow reads his mind and also responds on pharentesis!)) :p.

Though this take on Sasuke is well respected for his organization skills and, other than providing fun to the pack by organizing events, he is not a comic relief on the "butt monkey" sense (Not always, at least. There are some exceptions where I sometimes make fun of him, like in my Papercraft Pack topic). Instead, that status is given to GB, sometimes to Kyoushiro, and EVERY SINGLE TIME to Jyoushiro.

Mel's Special Ability - "Skillful Jump":

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Mel has an special ability named "Skillful Jump" which allows him to jump much higher than any other dog on the pack. Jumps made by Mel using this ability can be enough to jump over fences on human territory, and similar obstacles on the dogs' territory. He is still physically weak and while this ability has defensive potential in combat, he doesn't really know how to use it there. The use he can give it is to gain access to places to which no other dog can get because of said places being covered by a tall obstacle: and retrieving objects or information from there so that he can give it to the rest of the pack once he gets back.

This also comes from my RPG Maker experiments with Ginga, where Mel has said ability, and said obstacles block the path to powerful items or anti-backtracking shortcuts.

My take on Reika - Combat Medic:

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Reika is a very talented healer whose skills are crucial to keep the pack alive. Think of her as the equivalent of a Warriors Medicine Cat, without the visions/StarClan/mysticism stuff. She decided to learn all the sanation techniques she knows as she wanted to help the pack and she realized that she was much more skilled at healing wounds than at causing them and became the pack's official healer. She also can participate on the battlefield, compesating her low power with the possibility of using her techniques to heal her wounds and cause physical weakness on the enemies during the fight. Of course she has to be cautious and retreat accordingly if her enemies have the advantage.


Reika's card I made for IRL Ginga Mahjong. Her ability description says: "If an opponent makes a hand worth 12000 points or higher, the points you will pay will be halved"

She has been the quintessenial support/defense character in my Ginga stuff since this.

Nero is as threatening as he acts:

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Simply put, on my take on Ginga, Nero is one of the most dreaded villains. The key here is that he lacks canon!Nero's cowardice, but he is as much of a bully who loves to pick on the weaker dogs and send large armies against a single target, while being equal in power to the high-level characters. Beating this Nero at combat is a difficult task that requires you to have as much, or more numeric advantage as him and to make sure to keep the iniciative during all the fight. Nero has the special ability to sense physical weakness and cowardice on the enemies, and once he spots a dog that is injured or scared, he makes sure to go harsher on that one!



Hougen also doesn't kill him and he has a lot more time being a nuisance to the pack. How he dies? Does he dies? This would depend on Weed's decision, if he decided to side with Ohu though his fighting style won't turn any more honorable and he would be jerkish (though playfully) with the weaker dogs of the pack!

I usually give him the most irritating and annoying abilities that affect every opponent, he can go as far as decreasing everybody's power/MP/SP to zero on a single go! And on a custom character ruleset I'm making for Battle for Futago Pass, he is a Level 3 character, which is the highest level for the ally chips and shared with characters such as John, Benizakura, Hakuro and Musashi.

This AU take on him exists, well, because I wanted Nero to be actually as scary as he seemed initially and as his design suggests he is (That single light blue eye makes for a totally threatening stare!). This Nero is not the wimp who refuses to fight by himself and who gets kicked on the face by John, this is the Nero that would mercilessly burn Ohu while playing the fiddle!

Kisaragi is the smartest dog of the pack:

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On my take on Ginga, Kisaragi is infamous for being the smartest dog of the pack. For a example on where I portray him like this, check out my Papercraft Pack topic. There you'll find a very intelligent Kisaragi that curb-stomps the other dogs at strategy competitions, that stops Sniper's evil plans by cleverly making him on a trap and, on my latest post, he is shown watching Hougen and Sniper fighting, patiently waiting to play a trick on them that makes him win the fight.



Now, canon!Kisaragi does seem to be slightly smart given the way he traps his opponents and how his jump to dodge Terry's attack resulted on the latter's death, but on this AU, Kisaragi's wits are emphasized and he is known as THE smartest dog of the pack. Gin and the others have a very hard time winning against him on a battle due to how he seems to predict all the moves the opponents are going to make and how he acts accordingly. On the post where I made about ideas for a Ginga game, Kisaragi is presented as a low power, high technique character that is very difficult to beat because he can change his direction at will while he is attacking.

Kisaragi (Technique): A low-power character designed for clever, tactic-based combat. His attack power is under average and he moves slightly slowly, but his moves: unpredictable and without delay, allow the player to pull many witty stunts that can lead even the strongest foe to their defeat! You can punish overly-aggresive opponents and people who button-mash! He also has over average HP which is a second compensation for his drawbacks. He also is the only character than can curve his direction at will on the midst of an attack, making his play scarily unreadable. His special ability, Kisaragi's MP Depletion, allows him to reduce a random foe's MP to zero and also increases his own attack power temporally in function to how much MP he took away! His ability's charge speed is Slightly Slow.

Kisaragi's AI is one of the smartest, if not the smartest among the playable characters. Playing against him is much, much more challenging than what his low attack and speed might make it seem.

This emphasis on Kisaragi's intelligence comes from a WIP game mod I'm doing where I was not sure of which character to add Kisaragi over, and the one I chose was coincidentially an Artificial Brilliance character.


AI Kisaragi kicking our butts like usual.

--Aditionally, I have the tradition to make Kisaragi the character that can deplete one opponent's power, due to his ability there being reducing one foe's ability charge to zero. Weaker than Nero's version in the sense that it doesn't affect everybody, and stronger in the sense that it increases his own power. On my take for Battle for Futago Pass, Kisaragi's ability is preventing one enemy character from using their ability and improving the player's spirit cards according to how many uses said character's ability had.

Blue "the Leader of the Dark":

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Blue is a nocturnal dog with very good night vision that takes advantage of the dark in order to catch his foes off guard during battles. He is dreaded for this and known by many as "Leader of the Dark". His dark fur blends very well with the colors of the night and he uses this to give surprise attacks during the time on which the others can't see very well. It shouldn't be complicated to tell from where this AU comes from: it comes from Blue only ever appearing at night scenes on the GDW anime. Sure, he only appeared shortly, but his fur color combined with the dark night background and with his character (can be calm and soft spoken like the quiet night, but is capable of very "dark" actions) is just asking for me always associating Blue with darkness and nighttime.



This take on Blue as well as using the darkness as a way to hide his attacks, he is also portrayed as only being awake at night and sleeping at daytime. He orders his minions to look for food for him at daytime and expects them to have the food ready for him at night. I may as well portray him as a nyctophile who not only uses the dark for covering his attacks but he also loves the night, its quietness helping him to cope with his painful past and present.

On my Ginga Unreal Mahjong mod he replaces the character that has the ability to darken his field of play, the opponents not being able to see his discards and melds during the rest of the hand:


A Blue-only match. The Blue on the left hid his field of play on the darkness, which makes it difficult for the others to strategize properly and allows him to make surprise attacks.

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When this Blue has a change of heart, he tells the good dogs "not to be afraid of the dark" either literally or metaphorically, and once he dies (which could be the same way he died originally or after a fight while siding with Ohu), his ghost occasionally appears to the Ohu dogs on their sleep, using the dark to conceal possibly harmful dreams and nightmares. On the final battle against Hougen, he is one of the dogs that appears a spirit, and he really scares Hougen as he hides the living dogs and the scenery on completely pitch-black darkness: only allowing Hougen to see the other spirits and nothing else, which makes it much more terrifying for him.


I'd let you know, Hougen, that Weed was the only dog that worried for me on my whole life! You made a big mistake by attempting to take over his territory! Are you afraid of the dark? Wanna see nothing but darkness in your life? If you don't give Weed his territory, I will make you go blind FOREVER!! And then the Ohu soldiers will finish you off and you won't be able to block their attacks! Is this what you want? Do you want to see nothing but blackness? You will see nothing but blackness... and the angry souls of all these who were killed by you!! Then you'll go to hell, and when you regain your vision, the only lights that you'll see will be the flames that will consume you indefinitely!!

Outside of more serious contexts, this AU of Blue has many "inside memes" associated with him, such as "BLUE LIKED THIS": an statement made when somebody tries to "pull a Blue" by uploading a picture of themselves but intentionally not using the camera's flash to prevent the picture from being seen properly. And of course, if this Blue was an user on GingaBoard, he would only speak on spoiler tags :p

Bill the actual bandit

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A simple variation on Bill's portrayal, portraying him as an actual bandit (who specializes in theft) rather than it just being a nickname. With all of canon!Bill's personality traits, this Bill has the additional ability of being very skilled at stealing things. He is a honorable "Robin Hood" type of bandit, though, stealing only from these he sees as evil and giving the stolen items to the pack. The rest of the pack doesn't see this as honorable but they do rely on him when they need to steal a key item from the enemy.

The food Bill brings to the pack is mostly stolen from dogs and people that he considers evil, though he hides the fact that it's stolen; he doesn't tell the pack about the procedence of this food.

This Bill's personal motto is "Stealing is good" -- That is, from these that he thinks that they deserve it. Also, that motto originally was associated with one of my OCs, and is now associated with Bill, so we could say that Bill indeed stole it!

--On my take for Battle For Futago Pass, his ability is stealing one ally chip from any territory without fighting for it.

--On my Ginga RPG Maker experiments he is filled with theft-based abilities, he can steal HP, MP and items from the enemies.

--On my Ginga Mahjong mod his ability is "You can steal 1 tile from any of the opponents' discards and use it as replacement for a tile you don't need.".

---Additionally, I occasionally use the Bill smiley as a metaphor for theft: putting it on the end of sentences where I'm indirectly implying that I stole or am going to steal something (E.g. "I first entered GingaBoard just to borrow its emojis ", "Yeah, some of these supplies are mine "), this explaining why sometimes I use the Bill emoticon on posts completely unrelated to Bill and even on topics with absolutely no relation to the Ginga series .

Rick the fake-detector

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"Jyoushiro, you are FAKE!!! I can detect it! Bring us the real Kyoushiro!"

Anybody even remembers who is Rick? Well, my take on him gives such a background character a bit more depth, as he has the ability to tell if something is fake or real. Once Rick joins the pack he is actually quite an asset because decoys are useless against him, he can tell if a dog is a spy or if an object is false.

Now, from where does this AU fact come from? It seems like giving Rick this ability came out of nowhere, right? Well, it started as a meme and then became an actual part of my AU. Specifically, it started as my adaptation of the "I don't know, Rick, it looks fake" meme to the Gingaverse. It started with images of Hachi telling Rick "I don't know, Rick, it looks fake" while referencing a post, object or event that appears to be false. It then mutated into AU!Rick having strong abilities to tell between fake and real things.

On my works where Jyoushiro does exist, he is the one dog on the pack that suspects that Jyoushiro is indeed NOT Kyoushiro. He no longer feels any loyalty for Jyoushiro and he actively accuses him of being a fake.[/b]

--In addition to his abilities to recognize fake things, this Rick also has a not very strong but very unpredictable fighting style, taking advantage of fake attacks to fool his opponents!

Next time you buy Ginga merchandise, let this Rick check first if it isn't a bootleg!

Fun fact: There's this verb "Ricking out" which I use among friends. It can refer to a bunch of things but mostly to the last-resort tactic of adding certain visible elements to a project but actually not showing their functionality: as they actually lack it (i.e. they're fake).

Shingo joins the Ohu dogs

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A character that barely exists who actually has certain importance on my take on Ginga. There, he was accepted into the Ohu pack after he left Hougen and Kamakiri; and he proved his loyalty later on by comfronting Kamakiri: who he didn't defeat but he impulsed the rest of the pack to attack him as well. He has a bit of a nervous and easily worried personality, and he can be somewhat scaredy, due to him witnessing the less than pleasant things that happened with Hougen and Genba and him once being taken by Kamakiri's pack, events which he still struggles to erase from his mind. He is also rather lacking on strength. However he is a very kind hearted dog selflessly willing to help the pack, and in most of my fanworks (Battle for Futago Pass expansion to give a example) he is gifted with the powerful ability of cancelling all the abilities of the other dogs! (This coming from my RPG Maker experiments on which he can cancel all the enemies' statuses at the time on which he buffs, defends and speeds up himself). He is also prudent and smart, if a bit too paranoid.

His friend Kerry also joins, being slightly stronger than Shingo (and not being weighted by as much horrible memories as him) but a bit more reckless.

==MEME AUs==
The following AU facts are only true in my least serious fanworks and don't always apply.

"Jyoushiro"

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The character of Jyoushiro exists on my take on Ginga as a separate character to Kyoushiro, portrayed (in addition to his unpleasant personality traits) as a complete joke character who is the weakest, dumbest and most useless dog of the pack. He is usually differentiated from Kyoushiro by being drawn deliberately badly. Like the Jyoushiro icon shows: completely #FFFFFF white with no shading, an asymmetrical face, exaggerated eyelashes, a wrong eye color and scars, and a sewn mouth referencing the bootleg Kyoushiro and Akame plushies.

The usual character description for Jyoushiro is:

useless.

Yeah, just that: "useless.", in all lowercase letters and with nothing else.

The Kanji used for Jyoushiro is 冗四郎 (じょうしろう), which means "Useless Fourth Son", the kanji 狂 (crazy) on the original name being replaced with 冗 (Jyou) which means "useless".

It's also common for "Jyoushiro" to speak with extremly bad grammer, thiz beimg useed to difarintit hims form teh reel kyoushiro.

--I'm thinking about adding an additional "Jyoushiro" rule to my custom take on Battle For Futago Pass, where he would be a Level 0 character that can't do anything on battle and has no special ability.

Lucky John

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A gag AU stating that John is a walking lucky amulet. Using John images, using John nicknames and possessing John merchandise/fan-merch has the power of highly increasing your luck at everything. This started as a inside joke between friends which mutated into a (non serious) AU as I have gotten coincidentially very lucky on online games while using the name "Ginga_John". There isn't much else to say about it

=SEPARATE AUs=
AUs that are completely separate from my main Ginga AU and don't apply on it.


Murder S: An undercover Sniper and the True Final Boss:

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A crazy AU. While my main Ginga AU consists on subtle changes or additions to the characters' personalities and capabilities, this one completely alters Sniper's post-GNG story and it establishes him as the "True Final Boss" of the Hougen storyline.

On this AU, Sniper is presumed dead for most of the time and "Murder S" is thought to be an entirely different character until the very end. This Murder S would have more wounds, etc, that would make his appearance differ more from GNG Sniper, and his scent would have somehow changed. He joins Hougen as his right hand but Hougen is not aware of his past as Sniper. Murder S is also just using Hougen to kill his enemies, the Ohu dogs, and he eventually betrays him when "he is no longer useful". The Ohu dogs also aren't aware nor even slightly suspicious about Murder S's original identity. He is also immune to having his mind being read by Batto.

Murder S behaves slightly differently to his "Sniper" self to prevent raising any suspicions about his past: he is calmer, doesn't display much emotion nor is shown to be wrathful/being there for revenge against anybody. He is wrathful, though, planning to have Hougen's army finishing off the Ohu dogs as revenge against them... And he still has his power ambitions, for which he doesn't mind if Hougen's soldiers die, as he wants to get any dogs out of the way for his leadership!

Murder S is sent a few times by Hougen to attack the Ohu dogs. The Ohu dogs have some battles against Murder S, just thinking of him as another of Hougen's soldiers and not realizing who he actually is. Vague hints of Murder S's identity are usually implied but nothing is really specified.

The reveal of Murder S's identity and past comes after Weed wins the battle against Hougen. Weed doesn't really know if sparing Hougen's life or getting him to be killed, as he doesn't want to make the mistake of being overly forgiveful again. While Weed is thinking what to do, Murder S comes and kills the weakened Hougen!

This is when they learn that Murder S is Sniper and all the things that happened to him and that he did. Sniper goes back to acting like his GNG self and he celebrates as he has completed most of his goals: He weakened many of the Ohu dogs, he used Hougen's army and he caused it to stop existing once it was no longer necessary. Then all the remaining Ohu dogs go into the true final battle against Sniper!

The battle against Sniper is a very long one even if it's all the Ohu dogs vs just him, as his metal legs make him much stronger here, stronger than Hougen himself. A single kick from Sniper can be as lethal as an attack from Akakabuto!

As the Ohu dogs progress on the battle, Sniper becomes angrier and more thirsty of revenge, killing many of the weaker unnamed soldiers and injuring some of the powerful soldiers out of the battle. On his final phase of rage, he forgets the existence of everybody but his mortal enemy Gin and his son Weed, and he aggresively goes out of his way to attempt killing them!

The next events go the same as in the original story (though in changed order), he ends up dying drowned, not without attempting to take Weed with him. And it's Jerome who helps Weed escape from this last attempt of revenge by Sniper, showing his loyalty to him and the pack.

And this is my compilation of AU facts for the Ginga characters!

//This AU take on Ginga is not static and is subject to getting expanded or modified with the time, and this post is subject to being edited a lot of times with every new change on my Ginga AU//

[Gingaddict]

I got a new one!

Joe survives GDWO but dies at the start of Last Wars, therefore giving Orion true motivation for wanting to kill Monsoon!

[SoullessDog]

I don't know if I should post my AUs. All of them are really weird and don't obey real world logic. Then again, Ginga itself doesn't obey real world logic, with sapient dogs, the battougas, ghosts, etc.

A lot of my AUs basically center around the idea of the characters traveling around the Ginga multiverse and that with an infinite number of universes, there's an infinite number possibilities.

Imagine the pacifistic Weed we all know and love(some of us, but I won't judge), meeting an evil version of himself so cruel that he makes Hougen and Akakabuto look forgivable.

What makes it weird isn't the whole interdimensional travel, but the fact that their evil counterparts are ridiculously OP at times and there's just no way they're obeying real world logic. It's kinda like the MCU in that regard, but probably worse.

I don't know. What are your guys' thoughts? Would you like to hear more about my AUs or should I stick to something more grounded?

[GSDJohn]

I don't know if I should post my AUs. All of them are really weird and don't obey real world logic. Then again, Ginga itself doesn't obey real world logic, with sapient dogs, the battougas, ghosts, etc.

A lot of my AUs basically center around the idea of the characters traveling around the Ginga multiverse and that with an infinite number of universes, there's an infinite number possibilities.

Imagine the pacifistic Weed we all know and love(some of us, but I won't judge), meeting an evil version of himself so cruel that he makes Hougen and Akakabuto look forgivable.

What makes it weird isn't the whole interdimensional travel, but the fact that their evil counterparts are ridiculously OP at times and there's just no way they're obeying real world logic. It's kinda like the MCU in that regard, but probably worse.

I don't know. What are your guys' thoughts? Would you like to hear more about my AUs or should I stick to something more grounded?

Personally I'd love to read your AUs , I like going crazy with my AUs myself, giving minor dogs abilities that aren't based on canon and that might be somewhat unconventional/illogical (Insta-Healer Reika, Fake-Sensor Rick, Blue having his own way of doing stealthy attacks taking advantage of the darkness, Bemu being able to use a very powerful attack only at the final phases of the battles, sometimes John and Sniper are portrayed as outright OP, sometimes characters that originally died in GNG are shown to be alive at the same time as GDW and GDWO characters. No logical AUs here!). Not sure if crazy AU's are on other users' tastes but they're certainly on mine! That's why they're alternate!

Imagine the pacifistic Weed we all know and love(some of us, but I won't judge), meeting an evil version of himself so cruel that he makes Hougen and Akakabuto look forgivable.

So this is the truth about "Jyoushiro" (Kyoushiro's ruined personality on the newer Ginga mangas)! He's actually an evil version of the original Kyoushiro from another universe! Everything makes sense now!!

[SoullessDog]

I don't know if I should post my AUs. All of them are really weird and don't obey real world logic. Then again, Ginga itself doesn't obey real world logic, with sapient dogs, the battougas, ghosts, etc.

A lot of my AUs basically center around the idea of the characters traveling around the Ginga multiverse and that with an infinite number of universes, there's an infinite number possibilities.

Imagine the pacifistic Weed we all know and love(some of us, but I won't judge), meeting an evil version of himself so cruel that he makes Hougen and Akakabuto look forgivable.

What makes it weird isn't the whole interdimensional travel, but the fact that their evil counterparts are ridiculously OP at times and there's just no way they're obeying real world logic. It's kinda like the MCU in that regard, but probably worse.

I don't know. What are your guys' thoughts? Would you like to hear more about my AUs or should I stick to something more grounded?

Personally I'd love to read your AUs , I like going crazy with my AUs myself, giving minor dogs abilities that aren't based on canon and that might be somewhat unconventional/illogical (Insta-Healer Reika, Fake-Sensor Rick, Blue having his own way of doing stealthy attacks taking advantage of the darkness, Bemu being able to use a very powerful attack only at the final phases of the battles, sometimes John and Sniper are portrayed as outright OP, sometimes characters that originally died in GNG are shown to be alive at the same time as GDW and GDWO characters. No logical AUs here!). Not sure if crazy AU's are on other users' tastes but they're certainly on mine! That's why they're alternate!

Imagine the pacifistic Weed we all know and love(some of us, but I won't judge), meeting an evil version of himself so cruel that he makes Hougen and Akakabuto look forgivable.

So this is the truth about "Jyoushiro" (Kyoushiro's ruined personality on the newer Ginga mangas)! He's actually an evil version of the original Kyoushiro from another universe! Everything makes sense now!!

Well, my AUs get pretty extreme when it comes to the characters being OP. For example, in a lot of these AUs, Weed, or some other character I made evil, somehow conquer the Earth, including humanity, and start using advanced technology to colonize other planets so they can expand their empire.

At that point, I've turned it into a weird sci-fi/fantasy story.

As for Jyoushiro, I've actually thought of a story where Weed and Kyoushiro find themselves in another universe and are traveling throughout the Ginga multiverse in order to find their home universe(but it's futile). Along the way, they end up in a universe where Jyoushiro exists as an anti-Kyoushiro who takes pleasure in ruining Kyoushiro however he can, hence why Jyoushiro abuses pups(when Kyoushiro loves pups and protects them), among other things I don't know about because I've yet to read the manga.

I can probably go into detail about some of my AUs if you want, but they probably won't make any sense. My imagination is too wild sometimes.

[Nerdykestrel74]

I once thought up of this GDW au where Hougen learns that Gin has a son and manages to find Weed before GB or anyone else can. He manages to convince Weed that he's actually a misunderstood nice guy, and all the rumors he's heard about him killing dogs aren't true. In this au Gin would likely believe Weed when he tells him this because when he first heard about Hougen he didn't believe he was evil until being proven otherwise