Xiaolin Showdown au where Jack's evil genius thing is just a larp-like act he puts extreme effort into and he fully knows it's just a fun thing he does to stave off his loneliness, just normal-er Jack au. But when he opens Wuya's puzzlebox she sees all this shit and assumes Jack is onto world domination too and asks for his assistance. Jack goes along with it cause he's scared of what she could do if he refused. Yeah sure she has no body, but what if she posseses him or haunts him or something? He'll figure it out eventually.
Cue him running into the monks and the whole thing plays out similar to canon, as well as Jack getting some more context to his situation. After the Eye of Dashi encounter he manages to hack into Kimiko's PDA and they have a little "friendly" chat where Jack manages to convince them he's just going along with what Wuya told him cause he doesn't know how to deal with her or if she's dangerous. After getting explained that she is powerless in this form Jack is ready to tell her to scram until Raimundo comes up with an idea. Wuya could always find someone with actual nefarious intentions. Since Jack's, by his own admisdion, just putting on a show, he can keep Wuya in check and prevent her from rising to power by pretending to be on her side. Jack, not having much else to do, and finding the prospect of going on adventures and doing something that can almost be consideted hanging out with friends really nice, agrees.
Xiaolin Showdown but the conflict between the monks and Jack is just pretend. That's it.
They secretly meet up to discuss stuff, Jack gradually learns how to socialize and gets friends. Yeah!
Did a whole piece and a doodle to celebrate!! This show means so much to me, so I want to go all out for it!!
Here is an alternate version of the doodle I did, I'm not really fond of it 💀 I wanted to include as much as many characters as I could but, I was rushing 😭 Hope you all like it tho :')
Thanks to @sopranointhechoir for reminding me that I like Xiaolin Showdown! It's been out of my headspace for a while So the easiest thing for me to draw ended up being Fantasy RPG AU cause I've been playing hella pathfinder
Closeups under the cut!
btw I was GOING to include Chase and Wuya but I realized that they really wouldn't look different in this AU! So since I didn't have an idea for the redesign I decided to skip it.