{Hello there, reader(s?).

This AU was inspired by the image I've attached to this li'l chapter-thing! It's legit my favorite fanart I've ever seen, by nicktoonsunite on Tumblr (one of my favorite artists); additionally, an apocalypse AU called "Endsworld" apparently already exists, something I found out having started this story. I'd like to take a moment to say that, obviously, this story is affiliated with theirs, and any similarities are coincidental since the only thing I can find on that AU is this photo. If you manage to find it shoot me a link, , I'd love to see it. I'm an absolute sucker for edgy AUs.

Speaking of images and such, though, I too am (sort of) an artist so I might end up drawing things for this story and adding them in where they fit. And if you, dear reader, do art-stuffs too and want to draw something for this... PLEASE show me what you draw because holy heck that'd be cool. And I'd even add it to the story (only if you're okay with that!).

Moving on to what the story's actually about...

Despite the photo only being Matt, Edd and Tom, I'm gonna include Tord too, because even though he's Terrible (well, post-The End) I still love him. The dynamics in the show are still the same—Tom and Tord don't get along (no TomTord here, sorry, y'all, I know it's popular but I personally just don't get it. No hate to anyone who ship it though), Matt likes everyone but most of all himself, Edd and Tord have been friends for longer than Edd's been friends with the others, et cetera. They might act a bit more serious, sure (there's virtually no way this will be a Light Happy AU, sorry, but it also won't be Doom and Gloom and Emo Shit 24/7), but I'm not aiming to destroy readers' souls. For one I can't imagine killing off one of the main four...but no promises at this moment in time. It's a li'l too early for that.

This starts rather far after whatever events led to the apocalypse, meaning the first chapter will probably be something like "Hey look it's four dudes wandering around a destroyed English town." There might be some kind of deeper plot further on but I'm really just wingin' it, doing stuff for fun. The designs I'll create for the main dudes will also be different from the ones in the attached photo, because I don't want to steal anyone's ideas, and so therefore I'll eventually be uploading my drawings of those designs. I'm gonna keep to their canon color schemes of course, but I want it to be a different.

Anyways! Sorry for prattling on so much. Last note, most chapters will be slightly upwards of 3,000 words, because I've found that's a nice length for a fanfic chapter. If you think that's too long or too short, well... Oh well!

Let's get this show on the road, shall we?}

—RacheTanz