#ASAU time

[ageless-soul-au]

Flicker? 👉👈

Here's the boy!! Plus an added Time. Honestly we can't wait to get to Flicker's introduction, he's going to make so many people viscerally uncomfortable 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Flicker and Time are from ASAU, please don't tag any other AUs!! 🪲🌱

Bonus little guy:

[elgatt0]

Creatures time :D

I - Winged Wolfie from me ^3^

II - Kemi, The pink blupee jackalope from @ageless-soul-au

III - The Noodle, Lizard spirit from @heroesspirit

[pafyna]

“Magic time!” Red cheered, waving her hands. Her hair looked a little silly, gathered into a little curly poof on top of her head, but it had kept it out of her face when working and the Colors seemed used to it, so this must have been a regular forge occurrence.

— The Stolen Altars, Ch. 20

Red from @ageless-soul-au she is SUCH A LITTLE BEAN, I am not over her reactions on this chapter— enough to not forget finishing this sketch djdjdnfk

[ketchupkio]

Another one for the Linked Maze server's question game! With such a succcinct response, I had to draw it lol

I think I'm finally happy with Sky's locs and braids 👌💪 consider that canon!! Tho Ghirahim's outfit being different every time we draw him has become a Thing(TM) in the ASAU canon as well 🤣

Sky and Ghirahim belong to @ageless-soul-au! Please don't tag any other AUs!

💢♦️ kofi ♦️💢

[sparklepoint]

hey i saw stuff about ur asau (hermit!yusuke is perfect and kitteh ann is the fluffiest little baby and i love her) and i just wanted to ask if you have the other arcanas planned? is it a direct one to one swap or is it different?

omg. ty for giving us a chance to introduce

 ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ card shuffle ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

@floodbender’s and mine roleswap au in which the story roles are remixed based on randomly reassigned arcanas + canon backgrounds

it’s kind of a work in progress so this is not q definitive & some arcs are less developed than others, but we do in fact have something planned for everyone :3c let's meet the cast!!

starting with <3 bitter bitch besties <3

○ the fool – akechi

he has pretty much the same backstory as canon, but without Metaverse access; therefore his only outlet has been trying to prove himself academically etc. to show them all

it isn’t really working. even with all the effort, he still gets written off automatically most of the time

there is no arrest/probation/anything out of the ordinary that brings him to staying with Sojiro and going to Shujin, just a last minute arrangement by his previous foster placement 

Akechi POV: you’ve been booted from a family who didn’t want you there for the n-th time in your life and are now moving to stay with some rando who doesn’t want you there either. and everyone at the new school immediately labels you a troublemaker with a problematic background

(of course Shujin is going to make up rumors regardless)

personality-wise, it is as you might expect from a no powers AU Akechi - at the start he’s a bitter, cynical bastard masking behind his Pleasant Boy mode

would have eventually snapped in some self-destructive way if he didn’t meet someone who gets it

rest of the story is spent rehabilitating this man with the power of friendship, mutual understanding, and insane romance. and flufy kity

akechi and makoto: the world is a cruel and unjust place. *minutes later* omg lady ann!!!

i. the magician – ann

flufy kity

backstory inherent to the arcana role

she does not have hang ups about not being human specifically and embraces cathood quite well

instead her issues stem from feelings of comparative inadequacy and not knowing what her role in life and on the team is supposed to be, especially after the PTs get a dedicated navigator

similar to her canon arc, she does mostly handle these feelings by focusing on trying harder & with more purpose rather than growing resentful

when Morgana coined the ‘Lady Ann’ nickname it stuck and now everyone calls her that

still has a widdle crush on Shiho

the only reason Akechi has any side confidants

vii. the chariot – makoto

Makoto handles pressure from Sae far worse in this one

attempted to investigate and expose Kamoshida’s behavior on her own last year and got kicked off the student council for her trouble

grades are suddenly hard to keep up even though she’s putting in the same amount of effort if not more. keeps being left ‘accidentally’ out of the loop about important info. school just kind of making it clear it doesn’t like her anymore

entire social circle crumbled and no support from Sae who at this point is simply mad at her for ‘sabotaging herself for childish reasons’ 

would have eventually snapped in some self-destructive way if she didn’t meet someone who gets it

disillusioned, desperately lonely, and stewing in a lot of suppressed rage

in light of this it’s not surprising that she and Akechi end up bonding pretty much right away in spite of his typically raised hackles

used to be friends with Haru in middle school

vi. the lovers – haru

while Okumura still has a Palace, his behaviour towards Haru is more distant and less outright abusive, and she does not have an engagement hanging over her

instead Kamoshida creeps on her, fixated on adding a demure chaebol princess to his conquests 

Haru’s having trouble rebuffing him as she has issues setting down boundaries with men in general due to her proper upbringing, and is of course scared of his position of authority

in particular, the rooftop garden becomes a hazard for being cornered instead of a sanctuary; 

(fortunately it is also a prime place to be overheard by anyone who's heading up there for definitely not a teen vigilante meeting)

Kamoshida lets out that Haru is the Okumura Foods heiress, which makes her seem like a stuck-up rich princess to the Shujin rumor mill and leaves her ostracized

with regards to Makoto: in Shujin Kamoshida Issues forced them to drift apart, and now, even though both of them want to reignite the middle school friendship, each is reluctant to involve the other in her own respective mess via association

(pictured: childhood friend matching bwacelets)

after that is sorted, they reconnect and begin a prolonged awkward romance dance

(meanwhile the rumor mill is busy debating which one of them is dating Akechi)

iv. the emperor – joker ren akira

legal name, under which he is mildly famous, is Ren Amamiya, actual name he goes by is Akira

for these claiming your chosen identity reasons, his codename is Daybreak :)

his parents are both in the entertainment industry, and the second Palace belongs to his father

Dad Amamiya is a formerly acclaimed, currently washed-up movie director. a nightmare to work with who uses his old connections to run people he doesn’t like out of the industry and ruin their careers

his wife is aware of his transgressions but is too attached to the lifestyle to care 

to Akira’s parents, he is more or less a prop in their public performance as a happy picture-perfect celebrity couple; in his father’s Palace, his cognition is played by an actor

he had long since learned that going against his parents achieves nothing, and has been going through the motions keeping his head down until he meets the team

the meeting is a chance encounter prompted by Emperor-typical  overwhelming fascination with Ann, which in his case is because he’s That Much Of A Cat Person 

rest of his arc is about separating himself from his parents’ legacy as somebody who still wishes to pursue a career in entertainment

ii. the high priestess – morgana

he has Ann’s parents and last name since she doesn’t need them anymore

unlike her, he doesn’t handle their constant absence well and is therefore desperate for the Thieves’ companionship (while being just as tsundere about it in human form as he is in canon)

he kickstarts the Kaneshiro plot despite not being on the student council: since he is a very special smart boy, he can absolutely solve Shujin’s mafia crisis all by himself!

(it is probably rather obvious how well this goes)

his arc is a more mundane version of his canon one about recalibrating the self-worth issues and loneliness until he can be comfortable with himself and his place in the group

his awkward crush here is converted into being an even bigger Ann Stan than the rest of them

still besties with Akira. also perpetual ninth wheel

ix. the hermit – yusuke

Madarame does not have a Palace

without the international recognition from stealing Kitagawa-san’s masterwork he has to subsist on smaller-time forgery and predatory contracts and the like

his main victim is Yusuke’s mom, who lived long enough to start actually raising her son, but her poor health made her the perfect exploitable dependant 

after she succumbs to her illness, Madarame proceeds to take his frustrations over losing the convenient setup out on Yusuke in his typical insidious way

over the subsequent years trapped in an abusive living situation you’re told to be grateful for, the comments about how she would have lived longer and created masterpieces if she didn’t have to take care of you accumulate to create the most depressed teenage boy in the world

as far as Madarame’s concerned, if Yusuke’s too miserable to keep up with his schoolwork, it’s just another instance of him being a drain on everyone in his life. Madarame’s not going to cater to him and pay for his scholarship – he can just stay in and keep house, if that’s all he’s good for

that leaves Yusuke just listlessly haunting the place, convinced that all he can really do with his life is wait to die and go to hell for the sin of being himself: he sees his life with Madarame as perpetual penitence for his mother’s death, his work as almost ritual sacrifices to appease him, and the shack as his purgatory [--beginning navigation]

his Palace is stylistically themed after the Shinto Yomi with more general underworld theming as well; cognitive Madarame is of course the final boss, although he only drops the benevolent underworld guide pretence once thoroughly provoked

the gang finds out about All This after a series of Mementos requests from Madarame’s latest underpaid helper

post change of heart we’re getting Yusuke the fuuuck out of there

Sojiro ends up taking him in, first temporarily and then permanently

neither of us has the vocabulary to concisely explain the respective holes in their heads this Yusuke and this Akechi have about each other

team navigator. please take a moment to imagine yusukespeak navigator lines

iii. the empress – sumire

the Okumura setup is still happening (sorry Haru), but the PTs recognize it as bait and stay away, instead ending up doing a different palace entirely

the Palace Ruler for this arc is the Yoshizawas’ abusive coach (not the one from Sumire’s confidant)

a classic unethical teen sports situation with disproportionate pressure and a concerning disregard of their physical and mental wellbeing as long as they Get Results tm

neither of the sisters is good at standing up for herself, which in Kasumi’s case spirals into continuous self-denial for the sake of The Sport and in Sumire’s exacerbates her feelings of inadequacy

at the moment Kasumi is being pushed to compete despite an injury which would put her out of commission, which is the deadline/reasoning to deal with this ASAP

the palace theme is Colosseum/gladiatorial arena, with the implication of entertainment of the masses at the expense of the athletes’ lives

(pictured gladiator!cogsumi)

xi. justice – ryuji

Ryuji is the one to get slapped with the arrest record courtesy of Shido in this one

the consequences for a 14yo on scholarship and with no support system outside of his mom (except he just feels guilty about creating problems for her) are predictably devastating 

he winds up at Shido’s Palace afterwards by accident while loitering around the Diet building, which is where his awakening happens

he’s spotted entering or exiting the Metaverse, which leads to Shido making him the job offer he cannot refuse

initially framed as “help with secret research” in exchange for erasing his record and bankrolling opportunities for a sports career, but it’s not like there are any easy ways out once the requests starts getting seedier

he’s just the Metaverse assassin/errand boy for the conspiracy, no astroturfed public persona

to an extent Ryuji convinces himself this is for the best since many of his targets do very much have it coming and it’s AN outlet for letting out some steam over the bleak as shit view of society he now has, but ultimately this arrangement and all the murder involved make him utterly miserable, and on a level he understands this is not going to end well for him

gives himself away to the Phantom Thieves early and in the dumbest way possible

for all the above reasons, he’s not at all hard to persuade to switch sides and start double-agenting

did you guess who’s faith no you didn’t

○ faith – hifumi

we just really like hifumi so she’s included

at first her deal is a toned down version of her canon arc, with her mom pushing her towards an idol-like career based off of shogi. then her father actually dies

mom’s grief response is to lean in further into building her career, thinking that this is what her dad would have wanted; Hifumi’s own grief response is to start crumbling under that pressure until “I wish I could just be the person my mother wants to see” is the prevailing sentiment

this is where Maruki’s unethical therapy comes in and actualizes her into the perfect teenage celebrity personality

thirdsem Hifumi is terrified she will never be enough as herself and it takes the team effort to get her to let go of the idol persona, but conveniently there are SO many people with parent issues here to talk to her about it .

bonus: xvii. the star – futaba

Wakaba survives the assassination attempt, but is left unable to continue her scientific work, igniting Futaba’s interest in researching the topic herself

her confidant’s Mementos quest block is still her uncle, who is not as horrifically abusive, but treats them poorly and demands Futaba reimburses him for taking care of them financially

Sojiro is still a pseudo-parental figure in her life, but his role is limited since he cannot insert himself into the situation without permission and Futaba conceals the extent of it from him

she becomes available as a confidant during Yusuke’s arc, which still overlaps with the Medjed crisis

her fixation with cognitive pscience leads to digging into the Phantom Thieves leads to offering to deal with Medjed for them – but only if they prove themselves to her by sorting out a specific request that hit a little close to home. cue Yusuke arc

from then on she’s their tech guy

and that's everyone ✧∘* thank you so much for expressing interest and thank you @floodbender for cowriting this post with me ♡

[valdrinors-writing]

alright time to talk about some of my social links for p4 asau. i was inspired by @beezonia's character introductions for their asau

heirophant - nanako dojima

ageswapped with ryotaro dojima - a very passionate and outgoing detective (although she struggles from some of the sexism issues that naoto suffered in their canon storyline) who was a colleague of naoto's grandfather. very playful, almost like a 'big kid', but hides her feelings of grief over her husband - and ryotaro's father's - untimely death. loves junes, big coupon girly

justice - ryotaro dojima

ageswapped with nanako dojima - much more serious than his mother, ryotaro tends to hide himself in old pulp media and action movies and is a bit of a reclusive. he and naoto bond over both feeling as though - even though they know that their parental figure loves them - that they don't know who they really are. also secretly grieves his father, which leads to him being partially responsible for the creation of the 'heaven' dungeon

empress - agatha (hisano kuroda)

naoto's velvet room attendant and a sweet, caring, grandmotherly figure who dotes on both naoto and fellow velvet room resident percy (yu narukami). very excited to see naoto's progression, and constantly encourages him to do better. secretly very terrifying in combat, as most of the party can attest to

aeon - percy (yu narukami)

the other resident of the velvet room and an amnesiac. loves cats and is seemingly good at everything without trying. tends to behave stoic but secretly can say the weirdest shit when naoto isn't expecting it. he's mostly hanging out with naoto to learn more about humanity and figure out what his memories are

[brokenhardies]

alright i have an unfortunate announcement

i have decided that bitbo/runaway/foolsuke au is finished. there were several reasons for me doing this;

up first was the fact that i was overplanning and underwriting, not focusing on the actual concept and instead focusing on getting the story perfect instead of actually focusing on creating the concept

the next was my classic anger at not being able to draw causing me to become frustrated that i couldnt just dump the concept and walk away, which caused me to get angry that i was not writing and instead just sitting in concepts and ideas

finally - i was not writing from a very healthy place. i was angry at another writer and frustrated with the lack of help i was getting on my writing, so actually writing it felt like pulling teeth

the last straw was the poll i published, where i realised i actually was more fond of the bosozoku jumpsuit for akechi and the only reason i was putting the poll out there was because i wanted people to be okay with whatever choice i made, which was also not healthy!

i might come back to the foolsuke concept and make a hypothetical summary post using certain ideas, but that's probably all you're going to get. its a shame bc i was very passionate about this idea, but i feel like i have to throw it away due to my own perfectionism.

if you want a good asau to read - @hobie-doh's take yer time, you're gonna need it is a mix between an asau and a ng+ fic which focuses on ryuji and is an excellent take on both genres, focusing on ryuji's survivor's guilt and martyrdom complex, while @ur-favoriterecord's keep your faith is an amazing take on an asau without having to change most characters positions.

for art if you regret/reset the game is another ng+ au by jazlyn-jin on twitter and @crescentmoonteas here on tumblr that was a major inspiration for bitbo and the art is gorgeous and well designed

thanks again and sorry for any inconvenience caused lol

[starsfic]

Art School AU Sanzang: So uhhh… my question is: my "friend" keeps on going into the pantry and grabbing handfuls of fettuccine… uncooked…

ASAU Ao Lie: I would hope they're not grabbing handfuls of cooked fettuccine!

ASAU Wujing: In your pantry!

ASAU Sanzang: Yeah… and eating them raw, and they keep calling them 'chips'. … How do I make them stop?

ASAU Ao Lie: Is your "friend" here?

ASAU Sanzang, motioning to Wukong: Yeah.

ASAU Ao Lie, to Wukong: You're a monster! Words MEAN things! >:(

ASAU Bajie: Does anybody remember- I haven't been to Olive Garden in many moons- but they DO have a like- fettuccine bottle that you can just- grab em out of and chew-

ASAU Bajie: HOLD ON. WAS THIS A PRANK YOU GUYS PULLED ON ME WHEN WE WENT TO OLIVE GARDEN LAST TIME?!

ASAU Bajie: NO, STOP. EVERYBODY SHUT UP. DO THEY GIVE YOU RAW FETTUCCINE TO CHEW ON IN THE LOBBY OF THE OLIVE GARDEN

Everyone else: No.

ASAU Bajie, to Ao Lie and Wujing: YOU FUCKIN BASTARDS

ASAU Ao Lie: YAAAAAAAAY!

ASAU Wujing: THE PRESTIGE!

Sanzang: "I just want him to stop doing it so Xiaotian doesn't break the pantry."

Bajie: *yelling*

[lilliths-not-just-httyd-blog]

okay, normally i wouldn't make callout posts about one specific person, and i hate the fact that i'm even doing this because callout culture sucks... but oh my goodness, i feel like i have to because of what i've seen, this is a safety thing basically. if you don't want to read that sort of thing then just keep scrolling but uhhh tea under the cutoff:

basically on youtube in the comments of httyd related videos there's this person who frequently pops up called dra-gozill-asau-r under the username @/ pr-imev-alya-utja13-05 (without the dashes, i put them there to avoid them finding this post - i do not want them finding this post oof). if you see them, ignore them. you'll recognise them by their classic phrases "you're a httyd 2 fanboy", "you're a httyd purist", "people are not wrong for defending the hidden world" and calling people "woman/girl/etc" in a derogatory manner. they clearly have issues and have been hyperfixating on attacking people with opinions different to theirs for years now. they will not see reason and realise that people are allowed to have differing opinions, they will just abuse and abuse and abuse. just block 'em and move on.

this person will pop up in the most random places 'defending' thw (by abusing people basically), and their reading comprehension must be in the negatives because it doesn't matter what you say to them, they ignore it in favour of abusing others. i made the mistake of interacting with them one time and my youtube channel got ass blasted with hate comments until i blocked them at which point they brought out the alt account. like i outright specified to this kid that i literally don't hold anything against anyone if they like thw and they responded with something along the lines of "and you say that we who like thw aren't true fans?" (like omg i said the opposite?? they reaching fr). they refuse to see reason and it gets under my skin.

this person then had the audacity to say to me that they're not even a fan of httyd (but they made the mistake of linking their twitter in their profile :/ i go to it so i can find out what kind of person i'm dealing with and what the most effective/least harmful way to approach them is,, and what do i see except this person claiming that they think win/ger from res/cue ri/ders is kinda hot). they are very clearly a dragons fan and they uhhhh thirst for a lot of various fictional dragons from various franchises which like, i got nothing against monster fuckers (im on the monster fucker site after all), i just think its funny that this person had the audacity to say that they're not even a fan of httyd when they're posting shit like aforementioned.

basically just block this person and move on is what i'm saying. please for the love of fuck do not attack this person or interact with em or anything, thats just weird. ignore em.

and remember, you can like what you like and dislike what you dislike, and your neighbor may have differing opinions to you and that's okay, people should be free to have individual thoughts

[monochromaticblue]

ooh considering youre so hyped about him... asau akira????

IM GLAD YOU ASKED.

He’s my favourite so he’s the first character I ever saw worked on and the most developed

Funfact: when I randomized the roles Akira got Fool again originally

TW: Abuse, self harm, torture

Akira Sakura, formerly Akira Kurusu is the adoptive son of Sojiro just as Futaba is.

A few years prior to canon, Akira lived with his twin brother Ren and his parents. Akiras dad was a private investigator currently gathering evidence against Kamoshida for a client. When his investigations started to get a bit too close for comfort, Kamoshida employed Haru to silence him.

Haru unfortunately has really bad timing and when she shoots his shadow, he was driving the car, with the rest of the family in it. This ultimately results in a pretty nasty car crash, Akira being the only one to come out alive. The crash was labeled as a murder suicide after a (fake) note is found in their house detailing how much Akiras father hated his family.

After taking a few months to recover, Akira, already severely fucked up, is sent to live with family. Because of the note his dad left, Akira is blamed for the deaths of everyone else and even abused by a few family members. Eventually Akira is taken in by Sojiro, an old family friend but because of everything he’s already been through, he’s become a shut in.

Akiras Alibaba alias in this au would either be Orpheus or Prometheus, I can’t explain why I just like them. His palace takes the form of a prison due to his blaming himself for his family’s death. Cognitive Ren & Parents are the wardens and final bosses. There are cognitive Akiras throughout the palace going through various torture methods in prison cells. Akiras real shadow is in the very final area of the palace, the solitary confinement room.

Akira and Cognitive Ren have a moment to talk before the palace collapses and it’s just Akira finally stopping blaming himself for what happened.

Akiras persona, Pollux is derived from the Greek myth of Castro and Pollux where Pollux is the immortal twin of the mortal Castro, who gives up half of his immortality for Castro. I thought it was pretty fitting for him

Following his awakening, Akira is still pretty quiet but slowly opens up to the rest of the thieves (eventual shuake mayhaps.). The beach episode would probably not happen here since Akira has a lot of scars everywhere from the accident and himself that he would rather not show off, I’m thinking they take him to Dome Town instead? But I haven’t decided on that yet.

ANYWAYS. THATS AKIRA. I RAMBLED SO MUCH BUT I LOVE HIM. THANK YOU FOR ASKING. He’s just a guy. Things are still subject to change though

[a-vacuole]

tagged by @adelidae 🌷 make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s fave!

the mix of medias I have going on djdjdjdk special mention to ASAU Rulie just because I adore them— not really sure who to tag though so uhhhhhhhhhhhh feel free to do it?.......

[ageless-soul-au]

Twilight and time fusion? The ultimate family resemblance!

So, I (Mizu!) have no idea if you're sending this as part of Kio's recent and as of now closed suggestions, or if you're referring to the ooooold series of Hero Fusions I did... Probably a year and a half ish ago? But it sparked an idea, and a drawing was made! I hope this was close to what you were looking for, lol. Twi's characteristics turned out to be a little overpowering, actually 😂

[wildsage00]

🤝😘📝🗡<warriors

🤝 Those two Links from different AU's you think would get along really well? Bonus Link Spirit and Heroes Spirit Picori. I've decided they would have an adorable friendship. Get that little guy ON A TRAIN!!!!!! ADDITIONALLY, Bonus Links Wake and Linked Maze Sky!!!!!!!! They are both so sweet and supportive.

😘 (For AU's that allow this) favorite crossover Linkship? I have been overthinking this for way too long Linked Maze Time and ASAU Wild????? idk if that would actually work but it's what i'm going to say.

📝 Who's your favorite Link to write? 🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜WARNUT 🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜 (but probably actually botw link)

🗡 Favorite version of [HW Link]? Eras from Heroes Spirit and extending to space au because Lee infused him with Sweetest Guy Around Syndrome (barring the murder) and I explode every time the comic or fics update.

[symphonic-scream]

Hello, fellow Magician!Goro-ist (see https://archiveofourown.org/works/44101893 for explanation)!

It's a refreshing change of pace to find another ASAU that's contains no NG+ or any other timeline hooey... to my memory...

Tell me more about Crow as opposed to Rasu, if you wouldn't mind...

Okay so the reason I chose Goro was. Just because someone needed the fucking braincell. He's a little irked by his three teammates at first, and wants to peck at them all the time for what they do, but. They grow on him eventually

He's serious. To a fault. They have to *teach* him what joking is. And it still doesn't work! Cause it's Yusuke, Haru, and Makoto! He also just. Has a car. No Mona Bus, he just drives them around in his like, Honda CRV or some shit

Basically just. A less insane Akechi. That's Crow. He scowls and calls them all idiots but he's taking the corners softer so they don't flop all over the car

[ketchupkio]

For @birdmomblogs! Sorry i couldn't stop myself from making it asau lololol

Hierarchy of needs meme by c-upid

Wind (he/him) and Tetra (he/she) are from @ageless-soul-au, pls don't tag any other AUs!

Requests are closed for the time being! Thanks for sending them in, everyone!

[actingwithportals]

friends to enemies to lovers :3

A: Love it. Spend my time combing AO3 for it.

B: Like it. Not one of my bigger cravings, but it can scratch a certain itch if I’m in the right mood.

C: Neutral. A good author might be able to sell it, but a bad one will kill it deader than dead.

D: Not my favorite. I avoid it if I can, but it won’t necessarily put me off reading something.

F: Hate it. Will immediately make me nope out of a fic.

This one can also be so good but IT IS ALSO SO EASY TO FUCK UP AND MAKE TERRIBLE SO I'M VERY WARY OF IT GENERALLY

Ohshit, in a way I guess this is kinda the trope I'm doing with Quirrel/Tiso in ASAU isn't it?