Treasure Hunters AU

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Treasure Hunters AU is an AU in the fandom where the Big Four are treasure hunters, tomb raiders, paleontologists and archaeologists.

About the AU[]

Spawning from fanart, this AU places the Big Four, and other such characters as people that search for ancient treasures (like the Moonstone, the Mirror of Incanta and the Dragon Eye) and lost forgotten and even legendary places, and undercover myths and legends, as well as how they were made. Even when the magic/witchcraft, monsters, places and deities from those stories turns out to be true and uncovering them changes their lives.

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Featured Characters[]

The Big Four[]

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III[]

Hiccup is a archaeologist who studies Viking lore, history, artifacts and legends. He can also be placed as a paleontologist, that has his life turned upside down when he uncovered a fossilized dragon (and Viking next to it), thanks to an old book Hiccup was able to uncover the specie of the dragon that he had found. Some of the treasures he finds can be Hamish I's long, lost treasure and even the Dragon Eye, and a few of its lenses.

He may also be placed as a geologist and/or zoologist, and he might also end up discovering by chance the Hidden World in one of his geological expeditions, and discover actual dragons living there (reminiscent of movies about discovering subterranean worlds such as Journey To The Center of The Earth and Godzilla vs Kong).

Jack Frost[]

Jack is a young archaeologist that is the apprentice of Nicholas St. North, as they seek the ruins of Punjam Hy Loo and the Green Labyrinth, lost treasures like the Globe of Light, a large, legendary, gem stone and the lost Golden Ship of Sir Mansnoozie. The two can even stumble across the a remands of an ancient future-like pirate airship.

Merida DunBroch[]

Merida is a archaeologist that seeks the ruins and treasures of the White King. She wears one of her discoveries around her neck. She'll uses her archery skills to trigger and locate traps so she won't walk into them and to fend off wild animals and those who wish to harm her. Like unfriendly locals that what to prevent her taking their ancestors' treasures from their land, thieves that try to take her findings for money and some of the beasts that guard ruins and are said to exist in legend(s).

Rapunzel Corona[]

Rapunzel studies and searches for fossilize and surviving ancient plants. She can also be a archaeologist that is searching for the lost crown of the sun goddess, that is said to be hidden within a lost tower. The tower can even be seen as the still standing remains of what is left of a once great castle. Rapunzel can place her findings and discovers in the journal that her mother had given her.

In the third season episode of Tangled: The Series, "The Lost Treasure of Herz Der Sonne", Rapunzel and her friends uncover a mythical treasure map that was left by King Herz Der Sonne. Because she wasn't able to understand all of the writing on it and with the people of Corona needing a pick-me-up to bring them together, she holds a race that would have the winning team claim the treasure. When her own team partner, Feldspar, translated the warning on the copy map he made, however, Rapunzel realized that she has unknowing sent everyone to their doom unless she and her partner prevent the waking of the dormant curse, by getting to it before anyone does. Rapunzel has also uncovered a small piece of an ancient scroll and traveling through the ancient understand tunnel system in season one, along with coming across a few other ruins that have her understanding the scroll and piecing the scattered pieces of it together again during her world traveling journey in season two.

Extra Characters[]

Tinker Bell[]

Tink's journey in the Lost Treasure can easily make her treasure hunter or archaeologist that searches for the Moonstone and the Fall Scepter, so she can find the location of pirate treasure that lies in a ship that sunk, but never sank. Along with a mirror that can lead her to other lost and legendary treasure and the place it originally came from.

Professor Bomba[]

Professor Radcliffe Bomba believes in the legends of the ancient, lost city/kingdom of Moonhaven and it's Green Knights and he hopes that he may someday find, explore and see it with his own eyes. His daughter promised to go with him when he believes that he has finally found its location, so he'll have someone to cheer him up when he realizes that it's just a "legend".

Dragon Hunters[]

Instead of dealing in the capture and selling dragons, Viggo Grimborn, his older brother and their Dragon Hunters would be featured as Treasure Hunters and Grave Robbers, that rob tombs, temples and even sunken ships for their treasures and sells them on the black market. The Dragon Eye would be the prize of Viggo's privet collection, as it belonged to his ancestors and is a map to other treasures that he could sell for a higher price.

Ericka Van Helsing[]

Due to Ericka's task of retrieving the Instrument of Destruction from (the Hotel Transylvania version of) Atlantis, and facing the traps that guarded it with Dracula, fans can have her as a treasure hunter/archaeologist.

Alix Kubdel[]

Both Alix's father and big brother being historians who work and reside at the Louvre, and this has allowed her to know the Louvre inside and out. As she was able to help Ladybug and Cat Noir find the oldest exhibit in the whole Louvre, indicating that she may know a few things about history and art. There are theories that Alix's possibly knowledge of history is one of the reasons why Alix's future self is entrusted with the time traveling power of the Rabbit Miraculous.