Final Fantasy AU

Final Fantasy AU (also known as FF AU) is a popular AU (Alternate Universe) within the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom. In the AU, Rapunzel, Merida, Hiccup and Jack Frost are featured in the world of Final Fantasy. This can be considered an offshoot to Fairy Tale AU, Sci-Fi AU and Arcade AU.

About the AU
In this AU, the members of the Big Four are portrayed as characters from one of the many fantasy/sci-fi Final Fantasy games or are given their job classes. Like Mage, Knight, Sky Pirate, Viking, Blacksmith, Thief, Archer, Assassin, Soldier, Summoner, Ninja, Elementalist, Warrior, Samurai, Tamer, Songstress, Dancer, Gunner, Tinker, Geomancer, Dancer, Beastermaster, Paladin, et cetera.

The four can also be placed in one of the many FF worlds or in one of their very own, so they can ride Chocobos, spend time and buy items from Moogles, come across crystals with power, travel and fight monsters that come their way with their skills, abilities, magic or with the help of summons (characters like Toothless, Baby Tooth, Marshmallow, Baymax and Pepita can be portrayed as some of the summoning monsters, with their human friends as the summoner they serve under).

This AU can also be an alternative AU with Kingdom Hearts AU, as some of the elements from the games (like FF characters, able to summon, the Moogles shops, the names of their strongest recurring weapons and element spell attacks) are placed in the KH series. The two Assassin's Creed DLC packs for FFXIII-2 and FFXV can also make it an alternative with Assassin's Creed AU. Along with Anime AU, due to the animes and mangas for some of the Final Fantasy games. While some of its animal-human races places it beside Hybrid AU, just as some of the Final Fantasy enemies and bosses (that aren't human and look like beasts) can place it beside Monster AU.

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Hiccup's job roles in the FF games can be Viking (for being one himself), a Tamer, Warrior, Black Mage, Blacksmith (for his skills) or a Beastmaster. He can also be cast as one of the four heroes from FFIII, with Jack, Merida and Rapunzel as the other three. Fans have also cast Hiccup as Tiz Arrior from Bravely Default. While Hiccup taking up his father's role after his passing in How to Train Your Dragon 2, became a king in the final How to Train Your Dragon book and has friends that would always stand beside him, could even cast him as Noctis Lucis Caelum from FFXV.

Hiccup can also be a Summoner that can summon Toothless as a Bahamut and Thornado, Scauldy or any other Tidal Class dragon, as a Leviathan. He can even be a Dragoon/Dragon Knight that wears a Night Fury styled Dragon Mail and wields Dragon/Dragoon equipment. While his shield serves as a type of shield from the Final Fantasy series, the Inferno's flaming blade can make it a Flame Sword and Hiccup's flightsuit can even be featured as a type of FF armor with air magic imbedded in it, so he can fly in the air a bit better and could control where he is flying.

Jack Frost
Jack has been given the job roles of a Blue Mage, Thief, Sky Pirate or an Elementlist. Fans have also cast him cast as Ringabel from Bravely Default, Cloud Strife from VII and Tidus from FFX. Jack can also be cast as one of the four heroes from FFIII, along side Hiccup, Merida and Rapunzel as the other three.

Since Final Fantasy staffs usually increases the user's magical powers, much like how Jack's staff acts as an conduit to better help him wield his powers and can unleash large or small blasts of ice from it, the wooden crook-like staff can be used as one of the many staffs in the Final Fantasy series; like the Ice Staff or the Ice Rod. He could even be give any of the known ice powered weapons and armor so they could help him strength his own ice powers. The snowflake that is seen as his personal mark can even be placed on the Ice Shield that he is given, since snowflakes are sometimes part of the shield's design or is the shape they take. The Guardian Stone could even serve as one of the large crystals that are featured in the Final Fantasy series.

Merida DunBroch
Merida's skills makes her a Archer (due to her main skill), Warrior, Samurai, Ninja (for her role in Dragon Warriors AU), a Red Mage, Tamer, Beastmaster or can be a Knight. Fans have also cast her with the role of the L'Cie from Gran Pulse, Oerba Yun Fang from the game FFXIII, a female, humanized Rad XIII or Tifa Lockhart from VII; as well as Edea Lee from Bravely Default. She can also be cast as one of the four heroes from FFIII, with Jack, Hiccup and Rapunzel by her side.

Her bow can be used as one of the bows in the Final Fantasy series. She could even be given any of the elemental powered bows (along with some arrows) and swords, since she was given power over four elements (that she can use through her sword and bow/arrows) in the video game version of Brave. The marksmanship skills that she uses with her archery and her fencing skills could even have her wielding type of Gunblade, which is a gun and a sword merged together to became one weapon; or have a crossbow-sword version of it.

Rapunzel Corona
Fans have made Rapunzel a White Mage, Elementlist, Summoner, Thief, Tamer, Dancer, Bard (with her guitar as a type of instrument weapon) and as a Songstress. As well as casting her as Yuna from FFX or FFX-2, Oerba Dia Vanille from XIII, Aerith/Aeris Gainsborough, the last Cetra from VII and as Agnès Oblige from Bravely Default. She can even cast as Garnet Til Alexandros XVII from FFIX, for being a royal that traveled and fell in love with a thief. Rapunzel has even been placed as one of the four heroes from FFIII, with Hiccup, Jack and Merida as the other three.

The Golden Flower can be used as a flower that is a symbol of Rapunzel and her story or role in the AU. As the flower is the symbol of the power within her long, blond hair (and with her being in the spot that it sprouted from when her hair grew back) and due to her having a connection with the sun, along with being part of Tangled's storyline by starting it off; and a shape of it forming around Eugene's stab wound while its power healed him. A staff version of it can even be used as one of her FF weapons, along with her frying pan (as a type of club, rod or staff). The three tear shaped diamonds on her tiara could serve as crystals that are featured in the Final Fantasy series, by granting them power or having the diamonds being apart of Corona's FF history; or have the tiara serve as a accessory. Along with her diamond wedding ring as an equipment ring, they could even be a ring or helmet version of her crown; as both the ring and tiara can be placed in the recurring Diamond or Crystal equipment set.

Queen Elsa
Fans have made Elsa's job classes from the Final Fantasy series be Warrior, Geomancer, Elementlist (due to her ice powers), Black Mage and even as a Songstress. Her ability that allowed her to create Olaf, Marshmallow and the Snowgies could make her a Summoner, Elsa's ice power could even give her command over the ice woman-like summon monster Shiva. As fans sometimes portray Elsa as a Shiva, with Anna as the Summoner that she serves under. Should Elsa be placed as the Aeon Shiva from FFX, then her body and soul can serve or replace the Fayth that resides in the icy temple of Lake Macalania (which her ice castle and the snowy land surrounding it could serve as). She can also be featured as the Astral Shiva (which is also known as the Glacian) from FFXV, as the Goddess of Ice has a human form and identity known as the messenger Gentiana, which human Elsa can be cast as with Shiva Elsa serving as the Glacian.

While in the character role category of the AU, Elsa is commonly portrayed as Lighting/Claire Farron, a Guardian Cop from FFXIII that came an L'Cie while trying to save her younger sister, along with becoming a Knight to the goddess Etro in FFXIII-2 and a Savior in Lighting Returns. Fans have also cast Elsa as Terra Branford from FFVI (due to her past fear of her own powers), a female version of Kuja from FFXI (due to her original role as Frozen's antagonist), and as Yuna from FFX. Since Anna is sometimes seen as the main FFX summoner, Elsa could even be cast as one of Yuna's guardians, that is like an older sister to her, Lulu. With Sir Jorgenbjorgen and a doll version of Olaf as two of the dolls, that Lulu uses as her weapon to attack and cast spells with.

Any Final Fantasy weapons that she'll be given will most likely be one of the weapons and armor that are ice powered, so they could work with her ice magic. A staff version of the scepter that she held at her coronation could be used as her Ice Rod or Ice Staff, along with using it to unleash her magic or to bring the summon monsters that she can command into battle or to her aid. While the snowflake design that is on most of the Ice Shields can be of the snowflake that is seen as her personal mark, her gloves can even be used as ice powered gauntlets or a glove styled knuckle; like the Ice Gloves.

Princess Anna
While Elsa plays Lighting from the first or second part of FFXIII, Anna is cast as Lighting's young sister Serah Farron. Anna is mostly seen as FFXIII-2 Serah with Kristoff as her lover Snow Villiers or her time traveling partner from a dying future Noel Kreiss, while Olaf plays the lucky-charm Moogle, Mog. Fans have also cast her as Yuna from FFX (sometimes with Elsa as her Shiva Aeon), Aerith from VII, a female version of Zidane Tribal from FFXI (when Elsa is a female Kuja) and as Rinoa Heartilly from FFVIII. Along with giving her the job classes of Warrior, Geomancer and Summoner, that can summon Elsa as a Shiva.

Kristoff Bjorgman
Fans commonly casting Elsa and Anna as the Farron sisters of the FFXIII saga, can have Kristoff as Snow Villiers, due to his connection to ice, is friends with two sisters and is the lover of the younger sister, while helping Anna to find her older sister on their journey together could also have him as Noel Kreiss. The Kristanna pairing also has fans portraying him as Tidus from FFX, as there have been fans that have cast Anna as Yuna.

Flynn Rider
Flynn's thieving past can easily make his job class be Thief, along with being cast as Zidane Tribal from FFXI; as their both thieves that fell in love a royal that traveled with them. Fans have also made him a member of the Al Bhed, a tribe of technologists from FFX, while his second chance of life, and having a romantic moment on water (as Rapunzel is sometimes seen as Yuna), could have him as the main FFX protagonist, Tidus.

Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun
Since Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun and her troops come from a Sci-Fi game world, they can easily be given the job class of Soldier and even Gunner, along with other marksman and "warrior" related classes, that suits them. Along with being placed in the Final Fantasy worlds and storylines that involves fire armed soldiers, a war that has them protecting people from monsters and other related elements between them, Hero's Duty and the Final Fantasy series.

Baymax
Due to Baymax being a robot and the shape and form of his 2.0 armor, along with the strength that the red and purple colored armor gives him and making him taller, can easily place Baymax as the large armored robotic-like summon monster, Alexander. Which could have Hiro or Tadashi has the Summoner that he serves under and can summon him into battle.

Hiro Hamada
Hiro's skills can have his job classes be Chemist/Alchemist, Machinist/Engineer/Gadgeteer, Ninja (for the Japanese themes in the Big Hero 6 film and TV series) or a Machina Maw (to reference his teamwork with Baymax), he can also be given the job class role of Summoner, should Baymax be featured as a Alexander and Mochi as a Cait Sith (the summon monster kind or as a small feline creature that he befriended). Hiro's pirate Halloween costume in the Big Hero 6: The Series episode "Obake Yashiki", could feature him as a job class Final Fantasy/Bravely Default Pirate, as well as a Sky Pirate, for fun. The "Neko" identity that Hiro sometimes takes beside "Kitsune" Tadashi, can even portray Hiro as one of the two cat-people races, like a Mithra from FFXI or a Miqo'te from FFXIV.

While in the character role category of the AU, Hiro can be portrayed as Hope Estheim from FFXIII and Vaan from XII, as they both have lost a member of their family, that they are close with, and held anger towards the people that are responsible for their deaths, and are young members of small (hero) groups.

Dragons
Since dragons are part of the Final Fantasy series (in the form of abilities, limits, equipment, enemies and a few summon monsters, as well as a race), the dragon members of the fandom can easily serve and be portrayed as some of the known dragons in the Final Fantasy games. Foe dragons like the dragon antagonists from the How to Train Your Dragon franchise can serve as one of the many enemy dragons, as dragons like the Red Death and Drago's Bewilderbeast can be featured as bosses. While dragons that are friends with humans are summon monsters (with their rider as the Summoner that they serve under) or as the peaceful dragon race from the first Final Fantasy game. Since dragons are reptiles they can even be featured as some of the lizard and other reptilian races and characters from the Final Fantasy series.

E. Aster Bunnymund
Since Bunnymund is a large rabbit with a human posture and behavior mixed with his rabbit behavior, appearance and abilities, along with being portrayed as a human-rabbit hybrid in hybrid related crossovers and AUs, he can easily be featured as a Viera. While a dark and vicious version of Bunny, in a slightly larger version of his small rabbit form (when he was weakened by the fading number of believers), could have him as one of the two rabbit enemy families from FFXI and FF Dimensions.

Nicholas St. North
North is seen as the Cid of the AU, as North matches some of the "Cid" traits. Like his age, being Jack's confident and father-like figure, assisting people in their needs and when his sleigh is featured as a type of airship. The icy location of his home and having his holiday in winter, can have ice as the main element that North wields, which could have his swords featured as a pair of Icebrands (also known as Ice Swords). North's red coat and sword skills could have his job class be Red Mage.

Xavier
Since Xavier is a sage-like figure in the Tangled TV series and possesses knowledge in Corona's history, myths and legends, he can be placed as a Final Fantasy Scholar, Sage and Blacksmith, due to him being Corona's local blacksmith. He could even be placed as a Cid, due to his age and crafting skills.

Miguel Rivera
Miguel's love for music and guitar skills, can give him the job class of a Bard; with Héctor's guitar as a type of instrument weapon.

Héctor Rivera
Since Héctor is a mariachi he can be featured as a Final Fantasy job class Bard; with his guitar as a type of instrument weapon.

Momakase
Momakase's ninja-like skills, fighting strategy and thieving attire, can feature her as a Final Fantasy job class Ninja, which can give her the recurring ability of that job class, Ninjutsu. Her Graphene knives and Graphene katana can serve as the type of knifes and katanas used in the Final Fantasy series; Momakase can also use other bladed weapons that Final Fantasy ninjas (or any other job class that she is given) can use. She can also be a Final Fantasy job class Thief, that is her only class or her second class that is beside her ninja one; as some Final Fantasy ninjas have thief-like skills.

Manolo Sánchez
Since Manolo is a mariachi he can be featured as a Final Fantasy job class Bard; with his guitar as a type of instrument weapon.

Maui
Due to the water/island themes of Moana and FFX's Besaid, Maui is portrayed as Wakka. Some fans have placed Maui in FFXV-like clothing that is slimier to what three of the four main FFXV characters wear, or portray him as a Gladiolus "Gladio" Amicitia-like character, for fun.

Heihei
Since Heihei is a type of chicken, fans enlarge him so they can make him a Chocobo, that is either a summon (monster) or one that people can ride at any time. Should Hehei be a Chocobo that has a fulltime owner or is rented out to travelers. Some fans like to come up with an original design for Heihei's Chocobo form or use one of the known Chocobo designs, as the Chocobos are given many different and unique deigns for each game in the Final Fantasy series. As well as FFXIII having two versions of its Chocobos, due to where they were breed and raised, Cocoon or Gran Pulse.

Wolves
Since Elsa is sometimes placed as a summoner, and some fans have the wolf pack serving under her, in dark or wolf related crossovers and AUs, one of them can be featured as the wolf summon monster, Fenrir. While their (minor) antagonist role in Frozen could have them as (the sometimes monster-like) wolves, that are one of the recurring enemies in the Final Fantasy series. Along with Warg Wolves and Werewolves (as some of them stand on all four legs).

Valka
Valka's time and bond with dragons can have her as a Beastmaster, Trainer, while some Bahamuts having dragon-like appearances could have her as a Summoner. As some of them in the Final Fantasy series carry and wield a staff.

Fanfiction

 * Hopeless Desire by moredibell
 * Leaning to love again by acquabellezza11
 * Immortal Angel by acquabellezza11

Video

 * Let it go - Final Fantasy (Lightning ver) by Aron .Jo
 * "Aetherflow" - A Final Fantasy XIV: Online (FFXIV) Frozen "Let It Go" Parody by Jess Plays
 * [MMD Frozen - I Can Fly (original from Final Fantasy X) ] by animefancy 动画台
 * 【Frozen MMD】 Elsa can fly by MusicLoveDD

Articles/Links

 * BH6 AU Ideas | Final Fantasy