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Botfighting AU is an AU (Alternate Universe) within the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons universe. In the AU, Rapunzel, Merida, Hiccup and Jack Frost are all portrayed as botfighters in San Fransokyo. Because it is not canon, ideas for this AU are shown through fanfiction, fanart, and other fan-made works. This is considered a sub-scenario to Modern AU, Robot AU and Sci-Fi AU.
About this AU
In this AU, members of the fandom are portrayed as active members of the sport of botfighting; a sport where miniature remote controlled robots fight in the ring.
How the characters themselves are portrayed usually differs, from being high schoolers to being students of San Fransokyo Tech and even full-on graduates. Whether or not the bot-fighting they partake in is legal or illegal may vary.
Whether or not this AU takes place in San Fransokyo (or at least in the same world) is not required, but is most common.
Featured Characters
The Big Four
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
In this AU, Hiccup is seen as the reigning champ, given his technical know-how translating to modern times. Given his timid nature, Hiccup would usually keep his botfighting hobby a secret from his personal life, drawing up a reputation as a result. His bot is mostly based off of Toothless, keeping the Night Fury as the core blueprint of its design.
Jack Frost
In this AU, Jack (as his human self) is a botfighter that does it for fun and brings his sister along for support. His bot has been designed after a white rabbit-like design, an obvious reference to one of his guardian friends, Bunnymund.
Merida DunBroch
In this AU, Merida possesses a brawler bot, her bot in particular drawing many influences from Scottish culture with bears as a primary influence in its design. Since botfighting has a "questionable legitimacy" due to spectators and other botfighters betting on the fights, Merida keeps her hobby and the bot she uses in it a secret from her mother; as she knows that Elinor would not approve the sport her daughter takes part in or the people she hangs out with at them.
Rapunzel Corona
In this AU, Rapunzel is a botfighter who's robot has been designed after a chameleon-like design, an obvious reference to her animal friend Pascal. Since her father is shown to be overprotective of his daughter in Tangled: Before Ever After and its follow-up series, Rapunzel keeps her botfighting hobby a secret from him.
Extra Characters
Hiro Hamada
Since Hiro is already a student at San Fransokyo Tech and spent time in the botfight fighting ring, he is usually portrayed as himself, as well as a fulltime botfighter and reigning champ with Megabot by his side.
Mr. Yama
Since Yama is already a botfight and has a bot of his own, he is portrayed as himself. As well as being a fallen champ that wants to get back the kid who defeated him and destroyed his bot.
Toothiana
Tooth's bot is mostly based on her fairies or their hummingbird like appearance and features. She is mostly seen having more than one bot at her side, and is commonly placed as a human in the AU.
Astrid Hofferson
In this AU, Astrid is a botfighter that hopes to go up against the champ and that her bot would someday beat his. Her bot is mostly based off of Stormfly or a blue bird, the form that the Nadder is sometimes given in modern crossovers.
Queen Elsa
In this AU, Elsa possesses a bot that has an elegant and a human-like design to it. Elsa mostly takes part in the Botfights as an escape from her life and the focus she uses in the fights allows her to keep her mind off of some things that have been troubling her of late, like trying to live up to her father, being the person that many expect her to be and her worries for Anna.
Princess Anna
Anna mostly attends the botfights to spend time with Elsa and to cheer her on. Even when she is mostly seen watching the fights rather than taking part in them; she only joins in the when she feels that she wants to give it ago and with bots that wouldn't badly damage hers. Her bot is mostly based off of Olaf.
Varian
Since Varian is sometimes viewed as a Hiro-like character (mostly in the Tangled universe of its TV series and the Tangled Hero 6 crossover) and the skills that the young alchemist used to build a reverse-engineered version of the Guardian Automaton, he encountered in the underground tunnel system into an army of them, can easily place him as a botfighter. With a miniature version of one of the automatons or the giant machine that was altered from them as the bot he uses in the underground, illegal botfights. His bot can even be based off of Rudiger, that can transform into a robot version of the raccoon's beast form; bit like how Hiro's botfighting bot changes its face to switch Megabot's playful mode (yellow face) with its battle mode (red face).
The Once-ler
While the Once-ler is seen as one of the attending botfighters, his Greed-ler side has him betting on the fights rather than taking part in them. The bot that he uses in the fight will most likely be based on the Lorax, one of the animals (like Pipsqueak) living in the Truffula Forest or has it designed after the axe-chopping machines that he and his family used to cut down the Truffula Trees.
