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Coco is Jim’s character in this AU. Filling that role of the teenage protagonist with an absent father and a mother who runs her own business (Imelda and her shoe shop of course), with her younger twin brothers.

Hector is Silver. However, instead of turning to piracy and seeking Treasure Planet under his own power, his role as a pirate captain is very unwilling. Hector has had a very rough past 10 years. He’s working under the orders of a pirate general of sorts who runs a criminal network primarily based around piracy and smuggling. Hector is essentially a puppet leader of the crew, who would willingly turn on him if he showed indication of betrayal. He’s been placed in charge of the Treasure Planet mission as a test, and ‘trusted’ with leadership of the crew. Hector has to play his role as pirate captain to survive his current environment and circumstances, that he has been trapped in for the past 10 years.

Worldbuilding

• The Ood watched as a breakaway society of humans running a totalitarian one-world tyranny on a Future Earth culled most of humanity and turned the rest into Cybermen. The Reapers EMP'd those suckers to act as the Ood's enforcers and used the data to create an Aetherium barrier around the Earth in 1900 and gathered enough genetic coding over time to repopulate the dead planet, connecting it like the second brain Oodkind is known for.
• The result was Modern-Day Earth being linked up to a second Earth that was decades ahead scientifically but decades behind genetically.

Backstory

Im gonna post my concept for this au within the plot of Treasure Planet, but before that I feel like I need to make this post establishing some important backstory for Hector (who is Silver in my AU, though with some key changes). Feel free to tell me what you think!

Ernesto and Hector: Before the Story. I haven’t really worked out some parts of the backstory yet. I imagine they both were still musicians but perhaps their big ambitions were set on something else in this au - Ernestos at least.

Either way Ernesto during the time of the film is probably living it up as some popular and likely powerful person on some planet or in some system far from where Hector’s family live. He’s rich and well loved but for sure has some shadiness going on. Definitely has connections to pirates.

I’m thinking for his getting rid of Hector it was either very premeditated - Ernesto staging everything by ensuring that pirates will attack the ship he and Hector are on and hector is “accidentally” left behind when he and as much of the crew as he can “heroically rescue” get away - Ernesto probably believing that the pirates will do the rest of the job for him OR it was an act of opportunity, seizing his moment (most likely this one). He probably had been planning to get rid of Hector somehow it hector kept talking about going home/etc…whatever motive Ernesto has to want hector dead in this au. But instead an opportunity arises when pirates really DO attack the ship they are on.

Ernesto again carries out a rescue/escape during the attack but…realises when he sees hector that actually…this is an opportunity to get rid of him in a way that can easily be written off as bad luck and not look suspicious.

He leaves hector behind.

Ernesto uses the urgency of the crisis as his excuse ‘I forgot to check, I didn’t see him, I thought he had made it out too and now it’s surely too late to go back’.

And again. He assumes that the pirates will do the rest of the work for him.

And so Ernesto escapes the attacked ship with the majority of the crew and things are a little rough because some people arent happy the cargo was lost but he also…is seen as something of a hero for managing to get the majority of his crew out of a pirate attack alive and with minimal injuries, and with some valuables. And he builds on top of that and keeps on climbing to success. Perhaps he also kind of…uses the loss of Hector.

And Hector was captured by the pirates. He’s terrified, thinks hes going to die. Knows it.

But he cant. He cant die here. He’s got to live, hes got to go home to his family. And so Hector talks. He first tries appealing to any sort of sense of compassion they may have, saying that he has to go home to his family he wont go to any authorities if they let him go please he just wants to go home. But that doesnt work and hes desperate. He cant die here, hes got to go home and be with Imelda and Coco again, but…if it means living to see them again some day maybe he will have to delay that reunion. He tries again, this time trying to convince them that it will be beneficial to them for them to keep him alive. He will be useful to the pirates, he promises.

Hector thinks if he can just convince them to let him live he can find a way out of this and make an escape.

The pirates actually consider it. They don’t agree right away, but do let him live and decide to take him to their boss for him to decide if they should kill him anyway or find some use out of him. Who is in a way kind of a pirate general - they have authority over a kind of network and this crew of pirates and their ship and captain are only a part of it. This boss clues on to what Hector is trying to do/planning right away and it amuses them. And so Hector joins the pirates. And despite many attempts to escape, is with them for 10 long years.

(And Hector has no idea that he was left behind on purpose. That Ernesto left him to die deliberately. He thinks it was just bad luck.)

The cyborg limbs were gained separately after two different really bad escape attempts. The eye? After a particularly harsh and horrible punishment for a failure.

The eye is the most recent addition and kind of what tipped him over the edge to that complete and utter terror of failing to the point where it causes that crisis decision between the treasure and coco at the end due to him being so deeply caught up in it.

Side note about Ernesto in this au: he’s been living the past 10 years under the assumption that Hector really is dead. He’s probably got some kind of high ranking and highly respected position among the space navy or something by now as well as fame and popularity and has no idea that this cyborg pirate he has been hearing so much about lately, causing trouble, is in actual fact Hector.

The Plot

1. Coco is 15 and helps her mother and uncles in the shoe shop. At this point in her life she’s a bit troubled and rebellious. Things change when a spaceship crashes close to their house/shop and the dying man gives Coco a golden sphere while telling her to “beware the cyborg”. Shortly after this they are raided by pirates and just barely escape in time, though the shop is destroyed.
2. From Hector’s perspective, he recognises the location they have tracked Bones to almost right away, and feels sick with horror. He tries to convince the crew that it would be best to just leave it, that Bones probably landed there to throw them off, or to at least approach the situation peacefully. His efforts are ignored, and after his protests cause one of the pirates to threateningly question his loyalty to the mission there’s not much more he can do. Hector stays out of the raid and tries his best to minimise the damage done. He hopes, prays, that Imelda and Coco no longer live there. He wanted to go home, but never like this.
3. When Coco boards the ship, she and Hector don’t recognise each other right away. 10 years have passed since they last saw each other and they both look different now. The last time Hector saw Coco she was only 4, a little girl, and now she is only just 15. Hector himself looks very different as well, older and less healthy, and of course the biggest change being his cybernetic limbs and eye. However it’s not a case of complete lack of recognition. They both feel that they know each other somehow, they feel familiar.
4. Hector realises who Coco is first. He begins to suspect early on but then one evening he overhears Coco singing “Remember Me” and just hearing that is all he needs to know, but he goes up to her and asks her about it, just to be sure. He asks her where she heard that song and she tells him it was her father’s song that he used to sing to her. Hector…has very complicated feelings about being reunited with his daughter like this. He would be happy to be reunited if it weren’t for the circumstances. Not here, not like this. It isn’t safe, the situation is too dangerous for him to say anything. Hector resolves to keep quiet about it, as much as it kills him inside to do so.
5. The “Im Still Here” sequence shifts in significance slightly in this AU because during it, like Jim, Coco grows to see Hector as a father figure, but she has not yet realised who Hector really is.
6. When Scroop (or whoever may play his role in this AU) kills Chicharron (Mr Arrow) and then blames his death on Coco not properly securing his lifeline, Coco is devastated and blames herself. Hector suspects what really happened, and catches Scroop’s eye. The pirate gives him a look that confirms he really did kill Chicharron. There is a clear underlying threat to Hector that if he doesn’t keep in line the same could happen to him or Coco (Scroop in particular having noticed his fondness for her). Hector is furious, but has to bite it back.
7. Hector has a talk with Coco afterwards, reassuring hrt that no it wasn’t her fault. He gives her a talk/speech similar to what Silver gives to Jim, including “I hope in there catching some of the light coming off you that day”. Hector secretly also thinking that he hopes that some day he can come home and be a proper father to her again.

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