#Au!Ruse

[rusevampire]

Ruse?

You okay? I heard crashing.

[walks downstairs]

[There's no response, they remain passed out on the floor, face down, twigs and leaves in their hair]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for voting in the poll to decide who was going to be the leader of the band! It turned out to be such a close race!

[rororoorirooroo]

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tweaked the design and made it clearer to understand in color, very happy with this result !

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[mrfandomwars]

Epic Au - Fake Ody

Okay, I have an idea for an Epic Au that is based off of my theory of what Actually happened if the Odyssey is based off actual events

Which is basically: Odysseus Died either during the war of Troy or on the ride back to Ithaca along with the rest of the six-hundred men he took, and the "Odysseus" that appeared years later is actually a homeless man that Penelope and Telemachus convinced to fake being Odysseus until Telemachus could be crowned King so that none of the Suitors could take over.

Maybe even the skill of stringing 'Odysseus old bow' and shooting through the axes was something Penelope was the one capable of doing (and the bow was actually her old bow that she stopped using ages ago for a reason or another) but because people (or at least the suitors) underestimated her, they thought it was Odysseus the one able to do such a feat; so all Penelope had to do was manage to switch places during the challange with the old homeless man that Telemachus and her recruited before quickly switching back the second the challenge was over before anyone was any wiser, hence passing off the idea that "Odysseus" was actually back (and the suitors were either killed by Penelope and guards or ran away in the middle of the night because They Knew that now this was over they were going to be killed for all the laws and hospitality rules they broke)

ANYWAYS, to the au:

Penelope decides to do that - i.e. recruit an old homeless man to get the suitors out of her palace and Kingdom - to fake being her most-likely dead husband when Telemachus is fifteen ish or so, and this is something that lays HEAVY on her

...especially when the actual Odysseus pops up five years or so later to find a man claiming to be him, to be his wife's husband, his son's father and the king of his people.

[total-drama-brainrot]

Total Drama Psycho Noah AU, after the 'London Adventure' and the truth being revealed, Chris then decides to make this a reward challenge... The reward is that EVERYONE gets to be in First Class, with NOAH... Chris and Noah are curious to see, who will be brave enough to actually enter First Class, after learning about Noah's insanity... How would Courtney + Gwen + Duncan reacts to seeing the video of Noah's insane side showing? 😈 Would Alejandro and Noah still be friends? 😈

Listen, as much as this idea is so fucking funny to me, I really don't think it'd work from a storytelling perspective.

Though (not to push any agendas here, but-) if Chris were to hypothetically have the remaining contestants go against Noah in an enclosed space, in a sort of predator-vs-prey scenario, it'd probably play out something like The Beast chapter in Slay The Princess... without the "eating them alive" aspect, of course.

(Heavy Content Warning for that link, by the way. There's a lot of violence/gore/body horror, among other stuff, by virtue of it being a horror game.)

Maybe he'd lock everyone in the First Class cabin and turn off all of the room's electronics, so the only source of light in the cabin would be the wavering moonlight from whatever tiny windows are dotted around. Noah would use the cover of darkness to his advantage and toy with his competitors in a similar vein to how the Ripper had in their challenge that day, darting silently through the shadows to 'capture' his castmates, picking them off one by one.

It'd be a fun game of cat-and-mouse for Noah. For the others? It'd be a living nightmare. They wouldn't have the luxury of knowing that Noah wouldn't really hurt them, and the bloodlust they'd seen on that screen would be terrifying to watch but downright petrifying to experience first hand. They would be genuinely fearing for their lives, in a way that Chris hadn't been able to prompt since the early days of Island, and the host would love it.

Not that he would do that. And not that Noah would actually attack anyone either. (Without reason to, of course.)

But you are right about one thing; if this AU were to become a fully-fledged story, the London challenge would have to be a reward, just to keep Noah in the competition. Because he literally snapped Zeke's arms like chopsticks- his team would vote him out in a heartbeat just by virtue of him being so dangerous.

Which means the whole of Team Chris (plus Duncan) would be sharing a poorly-lit, structurally unsound cabin with someone they're terrified of.

...Owen notwithstanding, since Owen's a sweetheart and he knows Noah.

But the others would be immediately on guard around him. Noah, knowing there's no reason to keep up his ruse of sarcastic apathy, would probably relish in their fear- he enjoys tormenting people, after all, especially when that torment is purely psychological. So he'd carry on playing the 'unhinged, bloodthirsty sociopath' just to watch the others squirm.

He'd probably make a huge show of still having the Ripper's knife, tucked safely in the sleeve of his white undershirt, and comment that he and Duncan could be 'knife buddies' or something. If only to see how the punk's pierced face would drain of all colour at the prospect of Noah having a sharp object. (Duncan would absently rub at the puncture scars on his hand, to Noah's delight.)

But it'd eventually get boring, I imagine, so Noah would do something to reassure his teammates that he's not some ethics-devoid monster hellbent on destruction. Because having your teammates be in a state of constant paranoia around you would get annoying after a while, and it'd impact their performance in the competition (which Noah isn't really all that concerned with, but Owen is, so Noah doesn't want to do anything to jeopardise their chances of winning challenges).

So he'd drop the exaggeration of his more violent traits, and intentionally show off the unharmful aspects of himself- namely by koala-clinging to Owen and acting 'normally' like they'd done before the London challenge, and/or by approaching Tyler to ask how he was feeling after being stretched on the rack and sheepishly apologise for leaving him behind (showing empathy and remorse, to humanise himself n front of his teammates).

He's insane, not heartless.

As for Alejandro...? I have no idea. Would he even want to risk approaching Noah to find out if their shared comradery was all a ruse? Would whatever tentative trust he had in Noah be completely shattered by the reveal? Or would he be so engulfed by his need to win the competition that he only views this new development as a boon, since now Noah can be more of a physical asset for their team?

It'd probably be a mix of all of these. Alejandro would be left off-footed by the reveal of p!Noah's 'true self' (however much of his 'true self' he's willing to show to others) but I imagine he'd be quick to ally himself with the guy who can break bones like they're chalk and deceive a whole cast of people for two and a half seasons, regardless of any personal misgivings.

[quailxcrossing]

thinkingg..............i might want to post some AU content on here. bc my posts are just seen by my awesome friends n moots and most of them can't see my AU work...but they have no idea the beloved antics i put in my AUs.................i want yall to see the waffle fries human au SO bad

[homocidal-invader]

Lovebug Dib's default response to being asked who he's on the phone with is "my mom" and I definitely didn't spend far too long on this comic

[return-to-twisted-wonderland]

🔆anon

(I’m putting this around book 2 just because I don’t want to write the high priests’ reactions rn)

Kalim: Jamil is going to be taking me out of club early to study!

Lilia: Oh no! Jamil really does make sure you pass your classes doesn’t he?

Kalim: I guess, but I like spending time with you guys!

Cater: Bummer! We were getting so far on our new song!

Kalim: I know! I said I wanted to finish it first, but Jamil said no!

Ruse: You should probably listen to him more. You are Scarabia’s Housewarden, its leader. You are the one who has access to information that others would be harmed if they knew. You are the one chosen because you are the one who can use knowledge correctly, so you learn every bit of knowledge you can.

Cater: Are we thinking of the same Kalim here???

Lilia: Ruse, you are right in it being good to focus on your studies, you can’t expect someone to throw themselves into being the only one who knows ev-

Cater: Ruse! I know what Kalim should study first! You still have those books on bugs, right?

Lilia: *whispering to Cater* Cater, what are you doing?

Cater: *whispering back* Getting some extra time with our friend, obvi.

Ruse: My encyclopedias? I have them in my bag, yes. Along with a few diagrams I picked up from the school store earlier.

Cater: Why don’t we learn that?

Kalim: That sounds so cool! But… Jamil doesn’t like bugs… He won’t be able to learn with us.

Ruse: *starting to dislike Jamil*

Cater: You don’t need him to learn, right? We got Rusey Ruse-

Ruse: Don’t call me that.

Cater: We got Ruse here to teach you! Jamil will see you’re learning here, so let you stay while we finish our song! Then Jamil can have fun with his friends too.

Kalim: That sounds amazing!

Lilia: *sees this working, even Ruse to absorbed in getting everything out of his bag to notice he’s being played too* I have a bad feeling about this…

Rosey Ruse.

Jamil's gonna be livid.

[sapphic-catz]

Warrior cats AU idea I had while looking at some art and want some thoughts on it.

Redtail and Tigerclaw as mates, with their kids being Sand and Long. Firepaw having the dynamic (ofc before Tiger officially betrays them) of trying to be friends with his girlfriends rough and tough dad lol

Also. GoldenSpotted. Idk how Bramble or Tawny would work but Swift is just Golden’s adopted son she found in the woods lol

[rusevampire]

[They let out a huff, adjusting how they are sitting in the tree, ignoring the pain]

.....I hope Faust is okay, I miss him, how long has it been?

..Really shouldn't have taken that extra fall, I didn't mean to, obviously, but it still happened. Feels like I broke something, or at least cracked it, not like it wasn't already though.

Then getting partly caught in the sun? Yeah that helped, wasn't even my fault, the person didn't even apologize either..

[beastenraged]

Saplings and roots

(That's right. It's finally time, finally health has returned for...another section of the Storm Whispers AU! Yay! For @hallowed-nebulae)

We’re just standing there, chilling there, Xehanort and I, when a pink and orange fairy suddenly shows up. Flutters in Xehanort’s face, yelling something about being kept waiting and how rude that is, and it’s frankly pretty hilarious. 

I have to choke back my laugh at his response, it’s simply too much. 

“Can I...help you?” One of Xehanort’s eyebrows go up at the sudden ambush. But he is so totally about to lose his mind on the inside. I can feel it. Somehow. Don’t know how, but somehow. In the itch of my chest. The itch that has spread to the tips of my teeth too, don’t know how for that too. 

“Excuse me?”

Oh wait, did he get insulted just now? I hide my grin behind my hand. Deserves it. 

The fairy puffs up their chest and spreads their wings impossibly wider. “You may be excused if you apologize.”

Those same wings rustle and ruffle out their..scale feather things? Whatever they are for butterfly wings? No idea. 

“Though I suppose I should be harassing your younger self-- but she’s still young and you can’t expect buds to be as responsible and polite as flowers are.”

What a backhanded compliment, whoa. 

The Fae in this Radiant Garden are more...forward than I’m used to, Sure the Gullwings may have ambushed me in a similar way, but that’s only because they wanted something from me, not just to meet me. And I haven’t run into any other Fae like that. No one else. 

That might be because the Radiant Garden of my reality was thrown into Darkness and everyone’s still trying to recover, unlike here where that never happened. Stupid. 

...Great. Now I’m sad. 

My claws scratch at my scarred cheek. A distraction, the best I can manage. While still keeping an eye on Xehanort at the same time. On the fairy that is...Feo Ul? That’s the name whispered to me, from my Heart brushing against theirs. Like I learn the names of other Dream Eaters. Huh, what a name, sounds a bit more mechanical than expected for a fairy. But maybe that’s just me working off dumb stereotypes. 

“And you!”

Huh?

Talking to me now?

I blink my eyes to better focus. Shake my head ever so slightly. 

“What a lovely young sapling you look like! Have you any fae friends, then?”

“I don’t...eeehhh, are...”

I’m not sure how to exactly answer that question. Because the Gullwings don’t really count, seeing how they only talked to me to steal stuff from Merlin. Are Moogles fae? They seem pretty fae with how set they are on contracts and business with non-Moogle peoples. Also them adding kupo to the end of everything. 

Maybe I should ask. 

“Do Moogles count?”

“Moogles?” Feo Ul taps very dramatically at their chin, calling attention to their interested body language with the gesture. “Moogles are far stranger than fae, but they shan’t steer you wrong.”

They haven’t so far. I nod, relieved at the agreement. Don’t need to pick a fight with a fairy of an entirely different reality, that’s how you get curses laid on you. Unbreakable ones. 

“Mayhap they’ll teach you manners, so you don’t become so cruel and cold to your dear branch.”

That latter bit seems more directed towards Xehanort than me, honestly, but I’ll take the apparent advice in the spirit it’s intended. Weird, weird, weird. 

I can tell Xehanort wants to roll his eyes so bad, but he doesn’t. Good. I pat at his arm as a reward for avoiding getting cursed. 

“Thanks for chatting with us, as your, er, saplings?” I try. 

Feo Ul takes a moment to think before settling on a firm nod. One big enough to cause the pixie to drift momentarily downwards before fluttering back up. 

“Come along then, dearest saplings.”

Xehanort and I look at each other. The younger Xehanort is already falling in step. Seems to be just talking to the three of us, not the others who are still talking about who knows what with each other... 

“Um, sure?” I say. 

Satisfied by our compliance, the fairy flutters off all dramatically. 

Okay.

“So...that happened.”

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The roots of this Radiant Garden reach deep. 

Yet they still welcome the Radiant Nightmare in. They know her, even as they belong to a separate worldstate entirely. A worldstate where it never fell to the Dark these roots creep around. 

She swishes her tail, stretches out her ribs briefly before collapsing them into her chest.

Yet her core of being still yet exists. The Radiant Nightmare is meant to protect Radiant Garden, so she means no harm here. No matter if calamity has happened or not. 

She sighs and releases a gasp of bubbles in the sound. 

The Radiant Nightmare reaches. 

Something very Fae indeed reaches back. 

Hello there! Will you be my friend?

[rororoorirooroo]

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I’m addicted

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[nightly-ruse]

(Firestar is a broad darker brown tom with lighter brown markings like fire all across his pelt. He is standing with his tail up and one paw up with his claws out. On the outstretched leg is his old collar that is blue with a big star on it. He has little fangs and emerald eyes with a star in the middle. A Thunder bolt like scar is in his right ear with a diamond shaped scar around his throat, smaller cloud scar under the neck one, and a large scar on his side. Above is his name and to the right is the color guide for him)

At last… the lad. FIRESTARRRR!!!

Rusty was a small fluffy dark brown kit with a stripe of rusted fur down his back and round emerald eyes, a large blue collar with a yellow star around his throat.

Firestar is a thick dark brown cat with heavily rusted messy fur like a fire blown by wind, his eyes a brilliant green and his old collar tied around his front leg. A notable scar is around his throat from a fox trap, a cloud like marking below it from a rat, ripped ear and scar on his face from Scourge, and a large scar on his rump from a falling tree. His leader mark is on his chest and forehead.

Leafpool will get her brown pelt from him and Princess is like a lighter version of him and actually more ginger. Over his years in the forests he’s become more and more rusted though not solidly rusted because he lives in Thunderclan which has a heavy canopy. He is also rather scarred for a leader. He tends to throw himself at the front line beside his clanmates, a fire that burns so brightly but snuffed out too quick. He’s also pretty down to earth being really close to his clanmates and having m any friends, in his own clan and across borders.

In his leadership he actually had a interesting sort of circle of cats who acted like a second opinion for his decisions as leader. This included the best hunter in the clan and his strong minded partner Sandstorm, redeemed close friend who has a gift for strategies Longtail, fierce elder Goldenflower while she was alive though Daisy took her place quickly after joining, Brambleblaze who showed promise to be a deputy some day, and Dustpelt who was great at managing the cats. Sadly this idea didn’t prosper much and died out when Brambleblaze took power, still it’s seen in younger leaders like Harestar.

Anyways he is trans masc (he/him) tom and aromantic being platonic partners with Sandstorm. Father of Squirrelflight and Leafpool with Sandstorm. His father was Jake and mother was Nutmeg, sisters are Hattie and Princess, half siblings are Smoke/Ruby, Scourge/Tiny and Socks. His apprentices were Cinderspark and Brambleblaze. And his mentor was Dahliaclaw and Bluestar.

[hallowed-nebulae]

saplings and branches

[in which a fae investigates and causes exciting new interpersonal problems for everyone. @beastenraged ]

It's hot out today, in Radiant Garden. Sweltering, even, if you're some of the less sun-inclinded residents, a kind of heat that sinks into the bones.

Not that anyone would notice, of course, in Midgar, or in the Faewilds. There are far too many trees and haphazard buildings and shadows being cast for it to be too hot, of course.

Now, the residents of Midgar and the Atrium have been all shaken up, recently -- some travellers arriving from beyond the rift, beyond this world, causing chaos and ripples in their wake even without trying!

The Faewilds, though -- the Faewilds are unbothered. The fae are unbothered -- a strange occurrence, uncommon yes, but not impossible, and not never-before heard. Most fae hear the news and think little of it, as fae tend to do.

Not so for Feo Ul, however. Feo Ul is intrigued.

Flitting this way and that, a fae is neither uncommon nor common in Midgar -- Feo Ul is more common than most, their insatiable curiosity often drawing them towards Midgar where the other beings live, the non-fae and fae-touched and fae-born all.

Nothing new here, nothing new there, not there either -- but oh, there! A new face, one they've seen before. The face is older, the hair is longer, the eyes are yellow, but Feo Ul knows that face, don't they? An older, different version of their dear sapling Xehanort (what a cold sapling she is! Not calling on them once!), but a Xehanort nonetheless.

A sane person would watch and wait and consider the points that this is a different Xehanort, and that Feo Ul's sapling has not even become their sapling yet in this time. But -- that is a sane person, and why should fae play by men's rules anyways?

"There you are!" They shout, triumphantly, appearing in a burst of light before this yellow-eyed Xehanort. He startles, and the others by him (two Dream Eaters, that almost-Darkling Ephemer, and that strange not-quite-godling with red eyes) do the same, but why should Feo Ul care about that.

"Can I. . . help you?" Asks the Xehanort, raising a brow.

"How cruel!" Feo Ul cries. "I wait for my lovely sapling to call upon me, and you've simply left me waiting and waiting! My sapling has no regard for his lovely branch, none at all! Such a cold and cruel and heartless thing he is!"

Xehanort scowls, then. "Excuse me?"

Feo Ul sniffs, unheeding of his expression or the thoughts of all the others. "You may be excused if you apologize." They say, very graciously. Not even calling on them once! "Though I suppose I should be harrassing your younger self -- but she's still young, and you can't expect buds to be as responsible and polite as flowers are."

The not-quite-godling chirps at them, and Feo Ul waves a hand at them. "Oh don't you worry, little one, your branch will find you when they need to." Such is the way of Fate and Miracles, after all.

Then they turn back to that Dream Eater that isn't quite so light-blinding. "And you! What a lovely sapling you look like! Have you any fae friends, then?"

The Dream Eater -- the girl, perhaps -- looks at Feo Ul oddly. Perhaps she's confused? She must be young, then, or perhaps there are no fae in whatever world she and her kin are from (though that does not excuse her sapling for being so cold to her). "I don't . . . are -- do Moogles count?"

"Moogles?" Feo Ul taps their chin. "An odd sort, but I suppose. . ." well. Moogles are better than nothing. They nod, decisively. "Moogles are far stranger than fae, but they shan't steer you wrong. Mayhap they'll teach you manners, so you don't become so cruel and cold to your dear branch."

And with that, Feo Ul settles into their decision. This is a strange bunch, but this conversation alone has been more fun than the past two weeks -- these newcomers from beyond the rift may even share their stories! What a wonderful thing that would be! (And if they are unused to Feo Ul's presence, well -- they shall adjust. Eventually.)

[dark-elf-writes]

What if in the Timeloop AU after so many time fighting and dying to Orochimaru Naruto was able to pick out how his Chakra feels.

If he could sense it like the cool scales of a snake dragging over his skin.

If he turned to the Kazekage a month later surrounded by most of the village with ANBU that all feel wrong stationed in the stands and felt it again.

[quailxcrossing]

some more Tuesfries Human AU! ive wanted to draw something more of Gwen and her fursuiting! she made her suit herself with lots of trial and error but she got it! being in her suit gives her so much confidence, its like a completely different Gwen when compared to her usual anxious self! and I was reminded of when I drew Ruse (midveil) in Winter Soldier cosplay......hhhhhh that's. just for me.

little doodle I did with Magic's arrival too! yeah.........