AU idea: Yasuho gets Paisley Park awakened early and decides to make Paisley Park a combat stand by becoming a tinkerer and inventor. She has at least two rudimentary suits cappable of channeling Paisley Park by the time Jojolion starts.
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like. Yasuho notices her pink shadow way earlier, but being the small child she is decides to try and befriend it. She realises her new friend can posses any kind of technology or electronic but that she can't be seen by people, so it's only natural that the next step would be to make something for it to inhabit permanently
and because of this, Yasuho's been an inventor ever since she was tiny. Her first versions of Paisley's suits are little tin cans with tangled wiring and a crayon colored smiley face that could barely move a few steps before collapsing. She would spend hours devouring book after book in the library trying to teach herself more about engineering to make Paisley better and better suits. She found an abandoned building and converted it into a workshop to keep all her stuff safe and even made a little sleeping area with a food storage on the days she stayed too late/didn't want to go home
and I love the idea of her have two rudimentary suits, but if I may raise an idea with them:
one is more "person like." It has the proportions of a human and looks like one, even maybe having synthetic skin or a hologram (depends on how much we want Yasuho to push the bounds of science with Paisley's help) to help it pass as a person which Paisley uses in public
as for the other, this one is more combat oriented :)
after all, Yasuho was a kid when she started building Paisley's suits, and she has no adult super vision. Oh course she's going to want to make a cool fighting robot
it's a lot bulkier than the human one to accommodate the strength and armour, and also I think it should be able to fly. Just Because. That part took AGES to figure out, but when she finally worked out the kinks Yasuho had never been so thankful that Morioh doesn't have too many towns in the surrounding area giving a lot of space for her and Paisley to fly freely without worrying about getting caught
Yasuho's goal is to someday create a suit that can work both as an everyday and a combat suit
(also, I'm not saying Yasuho should get a prosthetic after the Final Fight, HOWEVER I think Yasuho should get a prosthetic after the Final Fight)
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I just had like. The mental image of a younger Joshu stumbling across Yasuho's hideout and Yasuho having enough confidence to Not Take Any Of His Shit. He gets dragged into character development Kicking and Screaming.
What kind of style does Yasuho do for Paisley Park's battle body, do you think? I personally could see about 40% Tokusatsu, 15% Mecha Anime, 25% Magical Girl, and 20% Stand Design.
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Joshu Being A Not Shitty Excuse Of A Human For Real. He's still a bit of a brat and a tad rude but he's not The Actual Worst. He still has a bit of a crush on Yasuho, but he actually respects her feelings and realises she sees him more like a sibling than a romantic interest.
I'd imagine Yasuho had to practically beg him to keep Paisley a secret in the beginning, but maybe once he pushed her a bit too far and she shoved back hard enough to get him to start really thinking about what he was doing. Maybe he went to his dad or brother for help (while making sure to not mention Paisley of Yasuho's lab) and they carefully explain to him Yeah Maybe You Shouldn't Do That while giving him a much needed perspective shift. It takes a bit, but he apologises and Yasuho forgives him, and it kicks off his Better Person Arc
(heck, maybe Joshu ends up learning about Nut King Call early and he and Yasuho use it to make even MORE cool stuff together)
This time I can see his hostility toward Gappy stemming more from the fact that he thinks he's suspicious as fuck and doesn't want to risk Yasuho or his family being put in danger. He doesn't do anything to hurt him nor does he act as shitty as canon, but he's definitely noticeably more prickly which confuses Gappy for a bit. But after a few weeks, he chills out and is satisfied that he doesn't seem to be dangerous
as for Paisley's design Y E S
for the Mecha Aspect, I've definitely imaging some Brave Saga type stuff, mostly in the thicker legs/feet, forearms and shoulders. The head definitely looks mostly like how Paisley's is, but I also want to maybe mix it a bit with some Power Rangers/Super Sentai stuff (I'll admit I'm pretty biased here since I love Power Rangers djrgvhjdrbvd). And BIG yes with the Magical Girl Stuff, Yasuho is going to make Paisley's suit the most beautiful badass in all of Japan and you bet she's going to make it all practical. I'm imagining stuff like ribbons that can be used as whips or work like those segmented swords, glitter and sparkles that work like flash bangs, a skirt that has solar panels in it for extra power, that kinda stuff
I have SO many thoughts rotating now for a design but at the very least I know what to use my sketchbook for the next time I can use it-