this is her in her most bare sans being naked. I’d imagine the survivors of this AU would wear a little extra padding here and there to help prevent getting possibly bitten, so Twi owns leather bracers and such to protect her arms while her pants have a little padding under them. The tape around her legs are to keep her pants from being so loose and reduces the risk of getting caught on stuff. The knife is kept rusty on purpose, to be more of a danger to the living that may threaten her.

So I originally wasn't going to post these untilof the Mane 6 were finished but I've been inactive, so I figured I may as well go ahead and post what I have and make the rest when I can.This is basically a complete revamp of an old AU I had that focused on a Zombie Apocalypse, but I'm a little more interested in scenarios where pockets of society have managed to develop aside from the world being absolutely destroyed (inspiration from The Last Of Us and Fallout). SO! The new very short version of the basic plot is this:The Mane 6 and co. are trying to survive and find some semblance of actual living in a world that's been plagued by a zombie-like infection for more than 15 years. I can get a little more specific if you want me to but that's the short of it. So aside from that, let's get into these two and their roles in the story!So Twilight:

As for Twilight herself, in this AU she is infected and has been for quite a while (for about 10 years). She’s immune to the infection, however, which was discovered when she was bitten and left her brother’s settlement to die alone, only to return a week later. In this AU, thanks to the infection still having a bit of an effect on her, she’s easier to irritate and is more aggressive (to the point that some cringe at her brutality). The infection causes her to have a high body temperature and a faster metabolism, but it also makes her prone to headaches and the occasional full-body ache. The bite itself usually simmers at a constant dull ache, one she’s learned to completely ignore, but sometimes the scar gives her something similar to intense phantom pains, as if she had just experienced being bitten, despite the wound having been long since healed.

She’s on a personal mission to find and engineer a possible cure to the infection using her immunity as a basis, but her goal isn’t to give this cure to the world. It’s to have it on hand for her brother’s settlement to make their lives a little less scary when under threat of infection; as far as she’s concerned, the world as a whole has long since damned itself, the outbreak not withstanding, and thus as a whole the world doesn't deserve it.

As a side note here are some pics of her with out the bracers to show off the tattoo and the bite underneath the tattoo:



And now, Spike! In this AU he’s a little older than what I typically peg him for in my headcanon (specifically, in comparison to the CMC). Here he’s about 14-15, although the way he acts might give people the impression that he’s older. And of the youngsters of the group, he’s probably the most experienced in terms of actually killing things other than just the infected and just surviving on his own in general.

As always, he’s the near constant companion to Twilight and rarely ever leaves her side. However in this AU the two of them are more or less a singular entity of themselves; you can’t have a Twilight without a Spike, and vice versa; wherever one is the other is pretty close by. He’s among the first to know about Twi’s strange immunity, and the only one to actually witness it. As in, he was there when she was bit, and he was there when she was supposed to turn. And he waited with her so she wouldn’t be alone but aside from a violent fever and terrible body pain and sickness, the expected inevitable just never happened. It’s only because Twilight smelled differently than the typical infected that Spike didn’t pull the trigger (he also quietly admits that he just couldn’t bring himself to do it, even when she told him to).

Anyway, at the current point of the story, Spike travels around with Twilight in her search for the supplies and equipment needed to conduct her own tests in her attempt to find a possible cure for the infection. The rifle she’s holding actually belongs to him; while Twilight is a good shot, she’s much better at close-ranged combat and pistols. Spike on the other hand is a better shot with long-ranged weapons, and their strategy often revolves around her going down into the fray with Spike covering her with his trusty rifle from a distance (far enough to be unseen but close enough to reach Twi if she needs him to get to her). Very rarely does he ever worry about the things kids his age would normally be focused on, but there are instances where his true age shines through, such as his hunger for knowledge and learning and his love for comics and books and the game Oubliettes & Ogres.

He forms quite the bond with the CMC eventually, and is one of the first ones to teach Sweetie Belle how to use a weapon and how to hunt (when Rarity herself didn’t, at first).

Aaaand yeah. I think that’ll do it? Feel free to ask me any questions if you’re curious about something or if I didn’t cover everything, and I hope you like! so far Thank you guys so much for taking a look! :3



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