AUROR AU GAIDEN: ZODIAC AUROR SWAT SQUAD

ZODIAC AUROR SWAT SQUAD

Is a new gaiden set in the (Hogwarts AU) world of El semen de los ahorcados, decades after the main storyline (Catherine Pontmercy, Kinu Sohma, and Juliet Butler among others appear as side characters), but focusing on five 20-something Aurors after they left Hogwarts and went through Auror training. A ragtag "armata Brancaleone" with much in common with Enjolras' AS-SORTED (and Giorno Giovanna's branch of Passione), they were originally the Aloof Ally West Coast Team in the magical girl warrior comics Zodiac Starforce. 

The quintet, under the leadership of top brass Colonel "Capricorn" (her real name unknown), are made a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team (given zodiac codenames and custom uniforms) and sent on suicide missions because they're too powerful and talented to be given typical new-meat missions, and also because the Ministry wants them out of the picture. However, when they find out that another, rival SWAT team of Aurors, the Ministry's only SWAT team until the Zodiac Squad was established (a veteran team who are in cahoots with organized crime), La Squadra di Esecuzioni led by Risotto Nero (first appearance of La Squadra in a StrixAlluka AU since Twilight Robbery AU As the Luck Would Have It!), are planning a war and a coup d'état to take over the Ministry from within... of course no one believes the Zodiac Squad at first, and soon both teams are interlocked in a deadly struggle...

And of course Tiziano and Squalo are there as a Greek chorus/Those Two Bad Guys who also are lovers (think Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!), just like in As the Luck Would Have It!

Moreover the members of the Zodiac SWAT Squad will turn out to be the reincarnations of some really special people, from the same universe, who share their personalities (and sometimes something more), which factors into the plot...

The main inspirations were Vento Aureo, the 007 franchise, and 1990s action series like SWAT Kats (the SWAT team idea came from there) and TaleSpin, ExoSquad, Valerian & Laureline (the animesque series), and the Batman and X-Men animated series, among others.

The members of the Zodiac SWAT Squad are (their weapons were taken from the original Zodiac Starforce, and they take the weapons out of their own chests/hearts Utena style like in the original. Also the weapons here were given a wizarding twist, their Hogwarts wands were melded with the weapons):

Capricorn

South Asian, mentor (not part of the team, real name unknown). Colonel. Left-handed. Fights using a rapier.
Jack Novak, Leo

(Polish-British). Lieutenant, Gryffindor, half-blood, ex-Quidditch captain, descendant of Jack the Giant Slayer (the hero of the Beanstalk and other tales, who was real in this universe). Fights using a flaming greatsword. Thinks he is a shonen protagonist and acts like one. Left-handed. Reincarnation of Courfeyrac.
Álex Pérez, Aquarius

(Latina). Lieutenant, pure-blood, Ravenclaw, ex-prefect and Quidditch captain, omniglot, rival and avatar of the author (Ravenclaw, omniglot, child of two worlds and only child of divorced parents, genki girl with ADHD and autism, etc). Fights with a bow (in spite of her sign) and ice powers, firing ice arrows. Right-handed. Reincarnation of Combeferre.
Lux Han, Sagittarius

(South Korean) Ensign, Muggle-born, self-taught, the only one who didn't go to Hogwarts, fallen ex-Kpop star and ex-girlfriend of Romance Saja. Serious substance abuse issues... Fights with a whip and light powers. Reincarnation of Grantaire.
Samson "Sam" Walker, Cancer

(Afro-Caribbean) Ensign, Hufflepuff, pure-blood, Voodoo priest, orphan with massive number siblings, super strong, healing hands, stoic with a heart of gold. Pacifist. Reincarnation of Lesgles/Bossuet.
Jenny Clark, Virgo
(British) Ensign, Slytherin, goth of unknown parentage, suffers from autism and OCD, another avatar of the author, turns out to be someone very special, inferiority complex. Fights with two kunai, dual wielding (ambidextrous) and electric powers. Reincarnation of Enjolras. In a romantic relationship with Lux/Sag.