other things first :0

this seemed to resonate with a decent amount of people on tumblr so i'm posting it here too :')

might do a "what your fav bucci gang member says abt u" but i'm not confident in my psych analysis skills

anyway...

today i went to my uncle & aunt's and we had a family dinner, and watched "The Purge: Anarchy" :'D and then my brother and i went home and watched the first 3 Purge movies' kill counts (channel's Dead Meat on YouTube if y'all wanna check them out, pretty entertaining content).

and damn it

i know nothing abt the Purge movies bc i literally watched recaps but

PURGE AU??????

(before we dive in lemme just tell you i am LITERALLY making this up AS I TYPE)

(feel free to drop cmts like crazy and add ur own ideas/hcs!!!)

1. Fugo:

let's be upfront Fugo's probably gna be the main character :'D

he most likely goes on killing sprees every year, and he deeeeefinitely goes all out :) but at the same time he's not crazy to the point that he snaps and does stupid shit that can get him killed, he plans out the 12 hours very carefully and is extremely methodical in the way he does things. he isn't looking for death, just some fun & stress relief :)

i was gna say his rich-ass family doesn't partake in this, but who am i kidding? they probably go on murder rampages with other rich elites every year. so they don't have a problem with what Fugo does... as long as he doesn't touch any of their upper-class friends.

so who does Fugo kill? i can't come up w anything too decent atm, but based on his anime backstory of him rekting his sexual-predator professor, and his PHF one (yess im starting to read phf!!) of him rekting his unsympathetic professor, i'd say he probably keeps track of the people he thinks have "wronged" him, and unleash all of his pent-up anger during Purge. he's not unreasonable or needlessly cruel, so most of the time his targets are actually people who've done bad things. but he's also not the sanest person ever, so he has innocent blood on his hands as well. (i don't want to erase the fact that the canon Purge is abt violence and crimes and murder (mostly) for the heck of it.)

2. Abbacchio:

recently Abbacchio is coming up in my writing a lot, and i tend to get attached to characters i write about, so:

Abbacchio is also a regular Purger. he's a cop, and the whole thing abt him accepting bribes and letting his partner get killed still happened. but he just didn't get fired (because literally all cops are this way anyway). however, he's tormented to hell and back by his partner's death, and soon becomes vengeful. he still has his whole justice ideology thing going on, so he settles for hunting down criminals who have evaded the law every year.

he's similar to Fugo in the way that he plans out his 12 hours, but of course an experienced cop with access to police/government resources can track down his victims much more efficiently. but Abbacchio would never kill an innocent; he sticks strictly to criminals.

he does this relentlessly every single year. soon enough, his "good" deeds are recognized by the higher-ups, and after that he climbs the rank like crazy, earning respect from everyone. he's even been invited to become involved directly with the "New Founding Fathers," but he declines and chooses to stay a normal cop, only holding a position of mid-rank importance in his station (idk like leader of a small squad or sth). that's because while he uses Purges to kill criminals, a part of him wishes these Purges after Purges will one day kill him as well, because he truly can't live with the guilt of killing his partner looming over him. but every year he wakes up alive, and his kill count keeps increasing and everybody loves him for it, so he can't stop.

3. Giorno:

Giorno is just an average boy, living with his average family, where he has been receiving all kinds of abuse every day for the past 15 years of his life. there isn't a single moment where he's happy or safe in that terrible household. and he absolutely DESPISES the Purge, bc his mom threatens him every day that if he ever misbehaves, she can just abandon him in the street during the Purge and not suffer any consequences, while his stepdad's favorite phrase is: "when the Purge comes, you're dead."

he hears people talking about the Purge every year, even more the closer it draws. anything is legal, even murder. and he tells himself he cannot succumb to the voice in his head that tells him every time another beating rains down on him, that "this year. this year will be the year you Purge them." because he can't do that he hates the Purge and he won't do what his parents did to him and it's fine he'll just endure this until he's old enough to leave because he can't become a monster he can't succumb to the Purge he can't—

until he does, and his parents lay before him in pools of their own blood, killed by the very knife his stepdad was waving in front of his face just moments ago. the Purge sirens went off just an hour ago.

Giorno is scared out of his mind, and even though the rules say murder is legal, he still feels as if he has committed a crime. he runs out into the streets bc he can't handle looking at his parents' corpses, but then he gets attacked, and for some reason he keeps killing and killing and killing until, somehow, the sirens signifying the end blare, and he's saved. from the onslaught of attacks? from himself? he has no idea, but he dreads next year's Purge all the more.

Comtinued in next chapter??