......So the Future AU, it's pretty swell and yet so damn overrated at times.

In order to understand this, I would like to say this quick: I do not hate the Future AU. In fact I love it, but I have nitpicks about it that really get on my nerves.

Before we into those nerves, let's start off where it first began. So kids sit down and get comfy, it's story time.

Once upon a time, in the year of 2010, we get treated with the first Eddsworld episode in the new decade. It was one cool episode that involved time travel. It was called WTFuture and one of the best episodes, and say it with me,....OF ALL TIME!!!

Soon afterwards, many fans of the Eddsworld fandom came together and formed the future au by putting two words in motion. Those two words are, of course without a doubt, future and the other Red Leader.

A quick history lesson, there was a point in time where Tomska and Edd had an idea on this. Edd even made concept art and two different people made full reference art on the Red Leader. They wanted the Red Leader to appear in a series called Super Average; however, due to Edd's passing, this didn't happen.

Buuuuut this didn't help the fact that the Red Leader made some small cameo appearances throughout Legacy and fans were creating content around it. Originally, Tomska and Edd didn't want to reveal the Red Leader's true identity. Again, this didn't stop the fandom. The fandom made Tord (not the Pre-legacy Tord) the Red Leader and created an au out of it, more a like a fan continuation of Legacy. Well ain't that just lovely.

Okay, I'll be completely honest with you, there was a point in time where I adored the idea where Tord's the Red Leader. However, that love kinda turned into a why bother?, all because of me disliking Legacy Tord and wanting to go back to the good ol' Pre-legacy Tord.

In all seriousness, does every fanfic on the Future AU has to have Tord as an evil ruthless leader? Does it? Well maybe for story telling, but at the end of the day, it gets to the point it's where overused and it gets old.

That is one issue that I have with this AU. The other problem that I have is that uh...Future Edd is both depressed and is the leader of the rebellion. Once again, it was cool the first couple of times seeing this, but....can't we just get one story where he's not depressed? The same goes for Tord. Can I also get one story where he's not evil? Why is it so hard to ask?

This next problem that I have is that there are plot aspects that keep being reused in many fanfics that I come across. But the most overused aspect would be the whole Future Tom being a slave to Future Tord and half time he's being mind controlled. Now add the fact that Future Tom can turn into a monster against his will into the mix and you get an aspect that making whatever fanfic having it boring.

This is the trope in the Future AU that I can't stand the most and that this one story element revolves around one ship that seems to get the most attention. Yeah you know that ship. TomxTord or TordxTom or whatever you call it. It doesn't matter.

This ship is so overrated and since those new fans of Eddsworld got introduce to Legacy, they came to the conclusion that Legacy Tord is the true Tord which isn't the case, but here we are. We get to deal with their obsession with Tord screwing with Tom's life. What's even worse is that they impile this obsession into their fanfics, which isn't even written that good, and call it a day.

This right here makes me go back to the dark days of when Dear Starboy first became a thing. I can't believe that I am saying this, but the whole Future Tom being a puppet under Future Tord thing is at Dear Starboy levels of bad. It may not look like it, but trust me, it's slowly becoming like it by each passing day.

I would like to take the time to mention TBATF's future based arc. I don't think you've noticed or not, but if you were to take a closer look at the recent chapter number and the events leading up to it, you will see the same tropes that you'd see in a Eddsworld fanfic on Wattpad. Heck, the whole comic feels like what the crew wrote feels like an edgy fanfic that they wrote when they were 12. And it sure shows doesn't it? It's just the same old, same old. There is nothing new just only the same overused aspects we've seen a thousand times. Now that I've mentioned that, I'd rather torture myself reading Dear Starboy than living though another day with TBATF.

All of these tropes and ideas used for the Future AU are all the exact same with slightly different dialogue, but at the end of the day we already know what's going to happen next. It's not new, it just gets old and it's a real shame since there's been many great fanfics around the Future AU, plus the Crisis AU in that manner.

(Editor: And this is where Lbat starts rambling. I really didn't want to take this part out even though I wanted to)

I've been thinking about the state of the future au for quite awhile now. I've was even thinking about it while I was writing my fanfic that takes place after Legacy and where WTFuture left off. It pains me to say this, but it just feels like my fanfic is the only fic out there that doesn't reuse those same tropes that I've talked about even though it's probably not the only fic out there that did this. But personally it just feels like it to me even after I published it's last chapter.

For years, I've gotten tired of seeing Tord being portrayed as a bad guy and I decided to create a fic where he's not a villain and that he's actually sorry on what he did in The End. Thanks to having this idea in mind, I created a small mini shot where he feels the emotion of regret and sorrow and that he wants to be forgiven by his friends mostly Edd. He got that wish.

....Oh dear heavens! Was I really talking about my reasoning why I created my two fics that take place after the events of an episode that divided the Eddsworld fandom between old fans and new fans? Ah...sorry bout that.