Rat breeder AU

Creator: Multiple

Description:

Modern AU Corvo but he breeds rats for rat shows.

Corvo buys one (1) buck from a petstore and then spends two years linebreeding to try to work out what sort of wretched genetic mess it is. He just gets cursed crosses that make no sense.

Serkonos is just a stop in their international tour except all the rats get lost in transit so now they have to go and find them. they find some with a nice scientist/activist lady, thankfully before she uses them as lab rats. they find some with funky science mustache man, thankfully before he uses them as lab rats. They find some with a funky plant woman who is also Delilah's gf, thankfully before she uses them as plant food. and then some of the rats were sent to this elderly eccentric gay man who's,,,, uh,,, might have dementia but they got them back so its fine. and then they pull a fast one on the rich asshole (luca) who believes all the debunk/everything wrong with videos on them and also orchestrated the rats getting lost

when they got back from the tour Delilah has snuck in a few creepy pots with unknown seeds planted within

DOTO is just Billie going to see Daud except he's in danger of losing the dogs to a dog pit fight thing (she saves them). and then rescuing the outsider from his abusive adoptive family

Characters :

Emily is a youtuber where she shows rats doing tricks. "My life as a daughter of a rat breeder"

The Outsider is a weird teenage goth boy and Corvo gets his best rats from him. He's also trash mad scientist/psych bio student with weird Goth makeup who messes with genetics for shits and giggles

Granny rags is a small animal store owner

Jessamine handles marketing and schedules their shows

the villains are assholes who make stupid debunk/everything wrong with videos on their videos. except boyle, she's just a mask maker who needs the sponsorship to stay afloat

Daud runs a dog rescue/wolf habitat. the whalers are his volunteers

Delilah has a conservatory for rare plants (for bad bad drug things). she runs a florist but mostly for poisonous plants

Sokolov is the science prof, piero is the assistant teacher that actually teaches the class. Cryptically and while suffering severe insomnia, but hey he gets the job done

Archives:

"h. how did i get a black eyed white out of a topaz x argente cross. genetically this isn't possible" - Corvo

"And this is Ms.Pilsen, my favorite" Emily at some point

Billie: “Daud im.... I’m not interested in wolves anymore”

Daud: “what?!?!! What are you going to do then?!?!”

Billie: “I’m.... im going to work at a greenhouse”

Daud: “..... get out.”

the whalers collectively gasp when she says that

Daud: "is this teenage rebellion?"

everyone else: "uuuuuhhh,,,,"