oh!! i wanna know more about kanata in ur ryusei precure au

so basically ! kanata (until about halfway thru the story) was a figure called 'the mermaid' (or yaobikuni) he was the figurehead of the shinkai cult similarly to canon but the difference was he became the mermaid in a form similar to becoming a cure .. ? its a magical transformation basically . possibly with a corrupted ranger star (the transformation device) i think hmm . whatever it is, as the mermaid, he can genuinely grant wishes on his own . he first became the mermaid around age... 6 ? and then on continued until current time (17, third year)

souma knew kanata since a young age because souma was originally tasked to help find cures except he met the shinkai cult + their 'partners' (the main villains .. i need to name em) thats why kanata has the corrupted ranger star .. yeah

kanata met madara when they were both about .. 10 ? and were friends for around a year before madara was found out by the cult and driven away. besides that kanata was an incredibly lonely child which affected him similarly to canon. .. basically eventually when he reached 15 he got to go to high school (yumenosaki is just a normal academy in this au for Reasons the councils and committees and clubs and etc r the same but theyre not idols)

eventually chiaki finds out about kanata being the mermaid and they have a Moment . and then a little later along the line chiaki finally gets through to kanata and kanata becomes a cure . also falls a bit in love with chiaki but this is not discussed much between them