How Do You Imagine A Kind Of Skybound But In A Timeline Where The Jay Main Ship Is Plasma?

How do you imagine a kind of Skybound but in a timeline where the Jay main ship is Plasma?

i can’t imagine that it’s that different !

i probably need to rewatch skybound, but i think it’s pretty easy to separate the romance from the season if you just tweak some stuff . obviously it doesn’t erase the fact that it IS about romance, but you know

ramble under cut : )

instead of jay’s arc revolving around his feelings for nya, i think it would just be about him feeling insecure and doubtful in himself . his internal troubles are very easy to note if you pay even the smallest bit of attention to him and i doubt nadakhan would have any difficulty exploiting them . his first wish could easily still result in him being led to the truth about his birth parents because he could still wish that he wasn’t poor. he could still wish that he wasn’t born in a junkyard, because that is essentially one of jay’s biggest insecurities

i like to imagine that his “i wish that I wasn’t alone with you!” wish would summon kai instead of nya , for the romantic drama of course <3 but it wouldn’t make much of a difference, and i think it would still lead to kai being captured first , especially since nadakhan can tell jay is in love with kai . kick him to his knees from the start, and then he won’t put up as much of a fight

nadakhan would still be after nya because she looks like delara, but instead of jay being in love with nya and constantly talking about how she “isn’t into either of them”, he would just be defending nya . sticking up for her like he did with dareth, attempting to help her . this would probably drop the misogynistic subplot with jay taking his father’s advice, but he’d still be a lying punk because that’s just who jay is .

the ending, i think, would still be the same too . nya being desperate for her independence is not something exclusive to her romance with jay, so if jay had tried to be overbearing and help her at the start, i still think she wouldn’t have taken his hand. jay likely wouldn’t have said “it’s okay, we’re just having our first fight”. rather, something more platonic but nonetheless triggering to nya , albeit unintentionally.

i can’t reaaaally figure out what it is, but you know…

thus, when she dies, jay feels guilty because it is all his fault . he’s the one who caused it, and he would be distraught over that fact. he would likely wish for nya to take his hand not out of any romantic implications, but because he wants things to go back to the way they were, before he ruined everything

i would sprinkle in a few plasma moments here and there though <3 jay getting flustered and panicky whenever kai finds his father’s estate, kai being worried about jay when they all finally get out of the djinn blade and pulling him aside to ask what happened to him, yada yada

i’m sorry if this wasn’t the response you were expecting ! these are just my thoughts : ) this is a really cool ask and i had a lot of fun thinking about it though so tysm anon! sending you lots of fruit ! ❤️💙