'bad end' AUs are so fun in concept but its like. just Not applicable in the Fun way to any of my stories- or applicable at all in most cases.
Or like- at least not with how I always try to think of them, that being keeping the story changes minimal to reach the 'bad end'- after all, if you have to completely re-write your character's personality for the bad end to happen, then its not really a 'bad end' version of the story, its a 'doomed from the start' version. the ending isn't the change, its All Of It. IDK!
It might just be that I'm very hell-bend on happy endings to the point it can be hard for me to think of sad ones. Bittersweet is the best I can do, take it or leave it.
But while on this train of thought I got thinking.
Conny is... sort of already in the 'bad end' of his story and is desperately clawing his way out of it. You'll see more of it as asksableye goes along, but the happy ending he was "supposed" to get did very much get thrown off by One Small "Change".