NO WAIT THIS MIGHT BE COOL it’s just hard to find a role for everyone-
I like the idea of Rua being the protag without powers, we know he would have loved being one of the Signers XD and he did get a signer mark in the end, like Mirabelle!!
About Ruka, yeah, her being the sibling who could talk with animals (Antonio) fits much better bc she’s the last who gets her powers (do you remember the beginning of the movie, where Mirabelle encourages him right before the rite? That part, but with Rua and Ruka, it feels adorable to me! Even though it’s a little heart-breaking for Rua) AND because she can talk to the monsters spirits in 5Ds!
Crow as Camilo (shape-shifter) would be so freaking hilarious, sign me up IMMEDIATELY
I don’t need to comment on Aki and Isabela tbh, the parallelism is so perfect it really doesn’t need any explanation
JACK? CLEARLY LUISA (but with fewer insecurities XD)
At this point, only Yusei would be left out… I’m crying bc age wise, the only role left that he could actually FIT IS FREAKING MARIANO HAHAHA (Isabela’s bf, who later notices Dolores XD Yusei x Ruka is NOT my ship, but that’s what would happen with a direct parallelism, unfortunately. I’d have to bend the main storyline in my favor :V)
I reeeeally wouldn’t know about the other characters (Bruno, tia Pepa, Abuela…), they’re all older, and I’d have trouble into looking for niche 5Ds characters to get them all in the Madrigal family.
We simply don’t have an Abuela (Martha would be an excellent Julieta, Mirabel’s mother, but never an Abuela) and Bruno’s character is too important to be given to very niche characters… I first thought of Kiryu (I’d have to make him much older, of course)! But Pepa??? Would she be Sherry, with Bruno??? Again, they’d have to be much older-
SOooo yeah, this AU half-works as it is, but with some changes, it’s an excellent story!