#AU?

[mommyscarcass]

Do you Remember? Chapter 0: Prologue

The heat emanating from Vlad Masters shoes were beginning to burn a hole in his office flooring. Wood chipped and sizzled with each heavy step as the man continued to circle around and around again. What was this? the 50th turn of his heel perhaps? After these few weeks Vlad was having it had become a habit of his once work was done, but by now he was growing sick of it, sick of this. In all 47 years of his life, Vlad had never felt so trapped, so pathetic, so...he paused and slumped down into his chair in an exhausted puddle. No, he had felt weak like this before, so long ago, at least it felt that way. Fingers tapped on Mahagony, filling the room with its constant rhythmic beating being the only thing to settle the man's thoughts. He was like a phoenix trapped in a cage of wood, burning it down with him inside and yet on the outside, just an inch away, sealing him in was glass. Hard, unbreakable glass. A Hell of his own making, suffocating him. Vlad was being haunted. A wry chuckle left the man's throat, a ghost haunting a ghost? But this was amity park, there were ghosts that granted wishes and a blob controlling a ghost mech so why was this out of the ordinary? Vlad sat back in his chair "It could be a ghost...I have not had a nightmare since college" he shuddered away the memory rearing its ugly head back into his mind after he finally got it out. Vlad was being haunted by memories of the past. Notes: That's it for the prologue of this idea, please tell me what you think and I'm sorry for any errors as English isn't my native language and I suck at spelling. I'm trying to push myself to post my writings and have a whole idea planned for this so encouragement is very much appreciated ^^ This story kinda disregards phantom planet as a whole and is in an Au where that just...doesn't happen.

Sometimes, I sit and wonder about scenarios that are morbidly intriguing. Like what if it turned out Danny's parents were unreliable narrators and Maddie was the one to cause Vlad's accident? Like we're shown Ecto-acne is actually pretty bad in the show and not just something that just "ruins your social life". Who's to say any part of that story is true. What if Maddie was the one that made the mistake, and Jack, being her boyfriend, decides to cover for her while Vlad's in the hospital. But the guilt starts eating at her, so they avoid him for as long as possible. Eventually, she lies to herself so much that she believes they did nothing wrong. Meanwhile, Vlad still believes his best friend scarred him and "stole" his crush. Imagine if that was the truth and it was revealed to Vlad. It would absolutely crush his perception of everything he knew for the last few decades.

[madsgumblr]

I refuse to believe that the l4d2 gang was executed, THEY WERE RECRUITED!!!

[almondcroissantsandink]

i've wanted to practice drawing cowboys for some time now and so the daggers have turned in their helmets and fighter jets for stetsons and horses! yeehawwww

[hugsandchaos]

A video was posted in a Facebook group that doesn’t include the Fentons. The video shows Plasmius and Phantom talking while Plasmius is holding Phantom by the back of his suit like it’s a scruff. The conversation goes as follows;

Plasmius: How many more times are you going to sneak into the planetarium?! I’ve caught you, like, 17 different times!

Phantom: I’m thinking… it’s gonna be at least 18.

Plasmius: … *tired sigh*

[theblueblazes]

Found a horrendous error in an early chapter of my fic- CLERIC?? LIKE THE FIRE EMBLEM CLASS?? THE CLERKS HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING??

So anyway, Cleric Orion and Hero Megatronus to distract you from my grave mistake (do not go back to look pls, I've already fixed it 💀)

[ammnd]

Come say hi whenever :)

Context

[melancholialapelada7]

I have alot of ideas regarding the bishop lamb

One here, for example, is that once in the definitive and most divine form they can change that form at will. Preferring to stay in their firts form because well

Who wouldn't trust a little and innocent lamb?

[sailor-tri]

Edgeworth's Laboratory: cleaned up Model sheets

[snootlestheangel]

Hear Me Out

Guys, just, hear me out: YouTubers/Streamers AU for COD. There was a series of posts on @cod-dump 's blog about what games are banned for the boys and I've just been thinking about this but with Ghost, Gaz, Soap, and Alex where one of them is the actual streamer/gamer dude and the others just almost always play with him (maybe Roach if we went on the path that he's not actually mute, just kinda hates talking)

Retired or discharged for whatever reasons, the 141 are actually kinda happy to be living semi-normal lives. Maybe they're not all entirely civilian now, maybe Price has a position that doesn't require him to be on the field but he's still teaching/being a Captain.

But he's constantly telling the boys to find things to do to keep themselves happy. Especially Gaz and Soap, cause the military is kind of all they know, they've never had to be civilians really as adults.

Ghost is transitioning fine, and he's been a huge help for Soap, but Gaz is still kinda struggling. Eventually something happens and Alex is part of his life, but it's still not really what Gaz needs to feel "normal".

So Soap and Alex convince Gaz to start streaming/recording videos of their gaming sessions. It's a slow start, and Gaz is getting frustrated.

Until one time they play something silly but incredibly rage-inducing. It's a trending game because it's designed to pit you against your friends but is still silly nonetheless. There's one clip in particular that starts trending and becomes the reason Gaz's channel starts to take off.

The clip? Gaz yelling at Soap for something and Soap immediately just cursing him out in straight Scots only for Alex, an American, to scream into his mic as loud as humanly possible "WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER?!?!" after having been dead silent for the last 2 minutes. Why did he scream this? Not because of Soap's Scots, but because he had secretly just won the round after having lost the entire time they'd been playing.

People eat that shit up! Suddenly everyone's like "damn there's this hella attractive dude that records gameplay with his friends and they're all really funny." Everyone falls in love with Gaz's appearance first, but then they actually hear him and his friends interact and it's just trading insults and stupid jokes, acting like there's no one watching and they're suddenly kids again.

It eventually comes out that Gaz and his friends are all veterans, and despite the air around military not being the best, there's no denying that caring for veterans is a must. People slowly start to support Gaz's channel/streams, and before he knows it, he's actually got quite the following. His whole thing is about "wanting to do something to distract himself and others from the shitty aspects of life with a few laughs and some good games"

Eventually they convince Ghost to start gaming with them. It makes Gaz's popularity grow because now there's this really deep accent in the mix that's completely clueless as to what he's doing like 90% of the time (I just have this gut feeling that '22 Ghost is so fucking awful at video games) that they refer to simply as "Ghost". Suddenly, the chaos Gaz and his friends are known for increases tenfold. Ghost is flirting with all of them, Soap is arguing with him over literal couple things that come with living together, and there's a new element of really dark humor that wasn't there before (there was dark humor, just not this dark)

They're playing The Backrooms one time. They're not even in the game yet, just in the lobby. Gaz is laughing at Alex's tag for the game "MYLEG!" which is a reference to that one fish in Spongebob always yelling "my leg!" after an incident. Gaz is laughing too hard to actually explain to his viewers that, yes, Alex is an amputee. Soap starts making fun of him, as usual, and that's when it happens.

Alex: "I'll take my leg off and hit you with it, Soap, I swear to god." Soap: "I forgot you were already missing one for a second there and got real concerned." Alex: "No, Soap, I planned on removing my other leg. The one that's still attached, yeah. Just like a lil *pop noise*, ya know?" Gaz: *wheezing so hard he almost throws up*

Then they're playing this silly monster/cryptid hunter game called "A Day Out" and there's skeletons every now and then on the map. Gaz walks up to one and just starts freaking out, saying Ghost's name over and over.

Ghost, freaked out: What?? Gaz, pointing at the skeleton: Look, it's you! *cackling* Ghost, after a concerning long pause: *quietly* Nah, I'm not gonna say that Alex: SAY IT COWARD Ghost: No, that's my brother *Gaz making the most horrified face as he tries not to laugh* *Alex and Soap are losing their shit* Gaz: NAH THAT'S NOT OKAY

That clip posts and the internet looses it. I see this being the actual first video Ghost is in, so for this to be the first thing the viewers get of him, it's safe to say he's a hit. It's also never explained that Ghost does have a deceased brother, so there's just an acceptance of Ghost's skeleton brother.

There's several times where they've all gotten together and played silly games like Mario Kart when there's a bunch of them. There's the sober one and there's the drunk one, where there's so many different languages being hurled as curses at each other, Gaz gives up on captioning ANY of it.

OOOOooooooooohhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! WHAT IF! Roach becomes his editor once he gets popular enough so he can spend more time playing games, solo ones when the others are working.

For a while, everyone's going crazy wanting to see what the others all look like, and sometimes (cause we're assuming the world they live in now during all this is a lot better), they're joined by Rudy or Alejandro, or both in one rare instance. Sometimes, for old times's sake, during the drunk gaming sessions, they'll call Laswell only for her to scold them. There are times they'll bully Roach who always, as the editor, changes their words from the insults to compliments. Or he definitely trolls Gaz a lot with some of the editing, and it's all around just a good time. Hence why everyone wants to know what they look like.

Then it's around the holidays after about 2 and a half years of Gaz's channel being as popular as it is. He posts a single picture on his socials with a group of people and the caption: "Love seeing the boys over the holidays."

It's such a nice photo; Alex with an arm wrapped around Gaz's shoulders, Soap and Ghost on his other side with Roach between Soap and Gaz.

And the internet has once again gone crazy. Why? Cause not only are these dudes fucking hilarious, but they're hot and taken.

Except, as they all end up teasing him about, Roach is very much still single XD

I have been watching too much YouTube lately, can y'all tell?? Haha anyways back to my hole I shall crawl

[dododlee]

Wow I sure hope nothing bad happens to them

[kiu-k]

The fallen angel

[kaliemary]

just a little family photo to celabreate their son's first muder!

just an what if they survived the end of euclydia alongside bill scenario they probrably would be a a very chaotic couple, just like bill or worse, that loves their son

[benigraiek]

They would have helped each other a lot !

[mycabbagesmycabs]

au based on this picture where they switch combat styles but almost everything else stays the same.

Sanji’s a swordsman but also a cook.

Zoro still fights Kuina but instead of learning to be a swordsman he learned martial arts.

Sanji is found by Zeff not in the cruise liner but instead he’s found by himself on an island after he escapes Germa and was at this point a swordsman because it was the only fighting style he knew to use for his survival. They still get stranded on the rock, and Zeff still opens the Baratie after their escape.

Zoro was the one stowed away on a ship and earned his keep there before he made it to Shimotsuki.

Kuina challenged him and he is never able to beat her. Constantly training to beat her and he never does.

Kuina becoming his best friend but she dies and he vows to become the world’s greatest fighter.

He takes Wado with him when he leaves and now he’s searching for someone that deserves to wield it. Someone that can challenge him the exact same way Kuina did. Someone he can entrust their shared dream with.

He becomes a pirate hunter, putting everything on pause until he makes it back home.

Then he meets Luffy, and becomes a pirate instead.

Then Zoro meets Nami, Usopp and eventually we get to Sanji. The weird swordsman cook. The swordsman cook who can’t keep his mouth shut, the swordsman cook who keeps up with him and challenges him in ways no one else is fully able to. The swordsman cook that makes sure everyone is fed and well taken care of despite everything.

Then they get more members of the crew; more people to protect and more people that have their own hopes and dreams.

Zoro deciding to entrust Sanji with his and Kuina’s dream in Thriller Bark. Him realizing that there’s no one else he would entrust this specific dream with (other than Luffy but it’s not exactly the same).

Zoro gripping Wado after knocking Sanji unconscious in case he doesn’t make it and yet he still wants to entrust Wado to Sanji.

Him in FACT making it and post thriller bark he just gives the swordsman cook the sword. No other words needed. Sanji getting it and taking extra care of Wado because he knows it’s special to Zoro and he’s been entrusted with it. He makes sure it’s in perfect condition while also handling it and honoring Zoro’s quiet wish.

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