#Cage of Eden

[ceiling-karasu]

Update on the future AUs I'm writing. Since I am only a few chapters away from finishing Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket, I was thinking this was the right time.

I am glad other people have been enjoying it!

AU Based on Episode 32: The way it ended still angers me.

The next story will focus on Geumsaegi after the cliffhanger in Episode 32. Season two does mention that while Dr. Huinjogjebi is in charge, Commander Jogjebi's brother is gathering a lot of support to get rid of him and take over the army himself, so this is a viable plotline close to canon I would think. Plus Dr. Huinjogjebi seems like he would be fun to write.

I want to have a civil war power struggle within many groups of the surviving weasel army (the rebels of mount rock, wolfspider cave, surviving Tokgasi, Mulmangcho, ect), with Geumsaegi being one of the prizes. As the former guard commander/special envoy/special aide, he knows a massive amount of the old codes, intel, supply cache locations, and other information, so anyone who convinces him to join gets most of the power. He can use the disorder to his advantage.

I have not seen the supposed episodes 33 and 34, nor have I seen the rumored AU stories about them from people who claimed they did see it. However, as I have said in a previous post long ago, this series tended to end episodes on cliffhangers showing the worst possible situation, only to fix them in favor of Flower Hill in the first few minutes of the next episode. So, I plan to go that route in the style of the show.

I'll finish this one before getting to any others.

White Ermine Nurse AU: Treading into OCs, but still using canon characters and ideas

This would be a shorter story. A white ermine nurse (the same one that briefly appeared in the current story? Who knows? Certainly not me yet) from Flower Hill visiting relatives outside of Flower Hill gets conscripted by the weasel army because they are a nurse, and she has to play along. She recognizes Geumsaegi years later, and tries to covertly ask for help, but comes off like the coroner/medical examiner lady in MIB, leading everyone to think she has romantic feelings for Geumsaegi when she does not, and neither does he. Eventually she witnesses the downfall of the weasel army.

I still have to think of a name, but it will probably follow Flower Hill naming conventions so Snowy = Nunsong or Frost =Seoli. The nurses and female mice in the show are forced to act flirtatiously to the males, so having a nurse who gets the reputation as an ice queen seems kind of fun.

Hyena Army AU: Still treading into OCs, and the Hedgehog Waitress and Rabbit Guide will be instrumental along with Geumsaegi and the Commanders in Cherry Valley

Another short story, The Wolf Unit brings in a unit of Hyenas to help crush Flower Hill. These hyenas are huge, larger than wolves, and extremely ferocious. The hyena village has actually been very close friends with Flower Hill for generations, but the weasel army has taken their families hostage to force them to fight for them, and were promised they would not have to fight their traditional allies. Commander Seungnyangi doesn't know that.

They aren't sure if they should honor historical edicts and forgo their families by destroying the weasel army, or try and fight Flower Hill and break the pacts. Maybe this includes an alternate episode 32 AU, where one of the hyenas working as a prison warden/interrogator is given the unconscious trio and has to make the final decision.

The concept of a flag flown upside down is a distress signal will be an important plot line or maybe even a joke.

Honestly I could put the white ermine nurse and the hyena unit into the Geumsaegi focused AU as some kind of intertwining story, but I don't know yet. It could be great for the plot, but I also feel like I would prefer keeping close to canon on that one.

The Kidnapped Research Scientists AU: This one will require a lot of work into studying Research Scientists and connecting it with what the Weasel Army would want exactly.

I've mentioned this one in another post. A group of scientists and young civilians from Flower Hill get kidnapped while everyone is distracted with Fowl Village, and get slowly convinced to work for the Weasel Army with the idea that they aren't directly hurting Flower Hill, and their work will also help Flower Hill in the long run. Half serious, half humor.

There is a plotline in the beach episode where the Weasel Army discusses kidnapping other scientists, so that can work with canon as well. RIP the disguise artist, but sabotage does not work when a random like Mulmangcho can casually create a better disguise than what you provide.

I feel like the famous Skippy's List might show up here, although with it being used by the hostages to undermine the Weasel Army from within. I'm just going to have some fun with it until I get Geumsaegi into the mix as coming for an inspection, along with interactions of other canon characters from both sides.

Cage of Eden AU: The Fun One

Years ago I really liked an old story called Cage of Eden, so I was thrilled that they recently produced an ending. I don't think one needs to actually read that series to read the AU though.

Probably going to be a mix of a lot of canon characters and OC characters here. Honestly I kind of want an excuse to write more Dr. Huinjogjebi, because again, he seems like he would be fun to work with and write about. Also the sturgeons.

A group of Weasel Army and a group of Flower Hill go to peace talks in a third, neutral, country, and go back on a jumbo jet filled with supposed civilians. Something mysterious happens, and the plane crashes on a suspiciously large island and everyone gets separated. Mystery animals are still non sentient on the island.

Except instead of the ending to Cage of Eden, more like The Forest where the plane was deliberately brought down, but not like the ending of The Forest either. I don't like mixing alien god time travel magic relic stuff into other fandoms that don't have it, but there are several plausible ways in the Squirrel and Hedgehog universe to solve the ending and escape.

Ideas being:

the Weasel Army smuggled a group of solar powered Sturgeon robots onboard, which is not hard since they can fold up like briefcases in the show

The Weasel Army also smuggled weapons bio-coded to weasels and mice onto the plane

Flower Hill squirrel soldier who went to a foreign university accidentally legally married a mouse during a drama club performance, but they both got drafted when they went back to Flower Hill to explain the situation and have yet to explain. This is revealed by a former classmate who also happens to be there.

Someone, possibly Bamsaegi, is scouting the area around the plane crash using a hanglider, only to get caught up in a strange wind that whips him all the way to the residential area, where he is injured enough to have to stay and investigate all the skeletons and apparent failed evacuations.

Neither Flower Hill nor the Weasel Army are going to put up with Nishikiori's antics. I'm seeing him as a White-Naped crane.

Going off of the discussion on the international community, and laws discussed in 'Pangulggot Reports,' I can come to the idea that medics are not supposed to fight the enemy unless the enemy is non sentient and/or actively trying to kill them. Using this logic, the weasel army captures a Flower Hill field medic/surgeon with the idea that medics are extremely important to have in such a situation, who goes with them since there are creatures in the woods, they can't find anyone from their squad, and the weasel's weapons are bio-coded, and they can also glean important information. The medic become the team dad/mom/voice of reason while shenanigans happen.

Instead of the Mina plotline, a third party spy group disguises themselves as members of Flower Hill. Their intentions are mysterious, even to me because I have not yet decided if they are hostile or not.

Mainly going to follow the plot of Cage of Eden, I think, but undergone with more soldiers and survivalists than high school kids.

Mistaken Identity Hedgehog AU: The one Least Likely to be written at all, since there would be few if any canon characters

A hedgehog living in some kind of integrating Ainu style village in another small country near Flower Hill. Traditionally they speak in a kind of mountain dialect/mountain language that is shared within a few villages, but the new village leader forbids it and wants everyone to speak the common tongue. Maybe the hedgehog does not have a given name other than the identifier Goseumdochi yet since children are raised communally. Apparently, not allowing girls to have given names was actually a thing in some Korean and Chinese cultures.

Their area gets destroyed in the crossfire between Flower Hill and the Weasel Army, and when the village tries to escape, Flower Hill mistakes them for a group trying to escape conscription, and since they cannot give names, and are forced into the army to train. Eventually, after several years, and most of that village dying. the lone hedgehog breaks down and says some things at a gathering. A nearby military investigator recognizes a faint accent and starts a military investigation, whereupon they realize they have no records of these hedgehogs. And if the story is true, that's an international incident where they are at fault, so they send them to some allied islands/coastal country to hold them while they figure it out.

I was reading the plot of Barakamon (came across my dash) and remembering the old series Useless Ponko while thinking of this, so peaceful village life, except instead of calligraphy it will be the hedgehog learning that not everything has to be bad, and they are not some sort of representation of the child from Omelas. Except these islanders speak a similar dialect/language to the mountain people, so they start learning that to fit in.

Planning some romance and eventual marriage with the locals, and harassing officials from the mainland who want everyone to have special IDs but don't even speak the local language. So maybe a bit of a dark story going into humor later on.

Unfortunately, some other people have posted ideas about suspected spies being arrested, as well as the idea of 'mountain languages' that military investigators do not like, so I may have to alter or drop that idea.

However, this idea for a plot originally came from when I watched the new Murder on the Orient Express and then played TMOSTH right after. It consisted of a drunk Flower Hill hedgehog despairing over being accidentally conscripted years ago to the bartender, and the story making it back to everyone on the train, becoming a key part of the investigation. Was not sure why a group of Flower Hill soldiers are on this train.

In this version, I had two ideas. She was either a laboratory scientist, and willingly sneaks off with a group of soldiers from the weasel army who would stand to gain a life changing amount of reward money for acquiring a scientist like that, or joins an idol/performance group/the private investigator Poirot character of some kind where they have to wear a disguise. Adventures happen while avoiding secret scouts and investigative agents from Flower Hill looking for deserters and weasel army looking for soldiers.

Random Short Stories Collection: Small stories, shorter than the ermine and hyenas

I have some one shot ideas. Very short stories, maybe rewrites of other chapters where things go differently but not enough to change the plot.

Whatever loose ends I miss in Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket, because wow do I have quite a bit to clean up

Earlier or different rescue in Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket

More fluff scenes

Actual Scooby-Doo-esque shenanigans with Commander Jogjebi in the background

A tufted ground squirrel scientist visits Flower Hill with a hyena bodyguard. Turns out the roles are the opposite

'Nope' parody, but I don't know if I want it to be a Weasel Army weapon or not

Jinro the Jindo dog is probably going to drift in and out of stories, making delicious food and then get everyone drunk on his special soju so he can escape being conscripted as a cook.

Names for non canon characters:

I'm just having fun with these AUs. I'll think up some names as I go along, although I will probably have to hunt down other AUs and old fanfictions (there's years old stories on here including Hanahaki fics) from across the internet to look for OC names, because I don't want to use a name someone else has already used. Unless it fits really really well and is generic enough.

Really kind of liking the idea of naming characters after trees and flowers, but I'll have to rewatch the show again to make sure I fully understand Flower Hill naming conventions. Also I think I love the name Nunsong (or Nunsongi) from a visual perspective.

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August 14: Happy Birthday Kouhei Arita (Cage of Eden)!!!!

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[ceiling-karasu]

I had an idea of a group project like this a while back when I was new!

I was thinking that the Cage of Eden (taking the manga and replacing the jumbo jet plane full of high schoolers with Squirrel and Hedgehog characters, but also changing the ending) AU would be next after Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket, and we could try and organize OCs and canon characters into fun short (or longer) scenarios we could all work on like a fanzine.

So regular serious plot could be happening for one group, in between what could be a beach/tropical island vacation/funny shenanigans for another. They wouldn’t even have to meet. So one group is undergoing a serious dilemma in one area, while others could just be chilling on a beach somewhere or something like that, depending on what we all agreed to do.

Or maybe they could even meet up. Since a lot of the AU would be exploring the area, groups would be moving all over, so meeting up for one chapter and then being separate in the next works just fine!

It allowed for a lot of different genres and plot lines to be used if people wanted it.

I was kind of hoping to get better at drawing before then, though.

BUT!

Fanzines technically don’t have to be comics. They can be short stories and such. So I thought maybe people could write out a little Drabble with their characters, and then they could draw it out later if they wanted and had the time.

Or someone could make a request for a short plot line, and I or someone else could go and write it.

I also figured it would be a massive amount of work. But it didn’t have to happen all at once, considering I would have planned the basic plot out beforehand, very loosely based on the manga.

It was an older idea of mine, but maybe it could still work someday!

While I was working on a other project I thought "Damn, wouldn't it be cool if we do a SaH fanzine?"

[hakusins]

CAGE EVENT CAGE EVENT CAGE EVENT CAGE EVENT-!!!!!!!!!

[rainxdewsupremacy]

I’M DROOLING

I’m sorry- WHY ARE THEY SO PRETTYYYY

[unhingedsentientrock]

The Sua comic is so good it scratches the right cortical regions.

The remains of dead children are akin to snow -a hallmark of winter- to insinuate the cessation of existence. If Sua's sister is to be taken at face value, it is a ritual restricted to children. Mixing their remains in the grass they once walked on, in the only place that offers the vestiges of humanity as a bargain to elicit their most beautiful cries, is horrid.

Equating ashes with snow is such a twisted play on the connotation of purity the latter carries. But also, the remains are scattered under the starry night sky, as if to symbolise the glimmer of hope fading away. Or it could be seen as going back to the abode in the sky where God would have lived had they not been forgotten.

Anakt Garden represents a one-way trip to the afterlife, which is why Sua's sister references it as "hell", because it is frightening. She still has her instincts intact and fears death unlike those who grew up in the garden. However, Sua finds reprieve in this afterlife, morphing into a "heavenly garden", because she was found by Mizi, her delight, her enticing "paradise". In the end, she becomes a perfect victim of the system that ensnares all.

The entire world is built on a travesty of concepts as we know them, deprived of their most raw characteristics. Everyone has to return to the Great Anakt; ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

[necros-writing-stuff]

Pc just having enough one day and blows up at Eden, saying their not a good spouse and they're since miserable with him since 1. He doesn't care about their consent/needs. 2. He treats them like a pet. 3. He puts his own needs over them. 4. He treats them like a pet. Then they just run away to the forest in tears

Bold of you to assume Eden's gonna let them get to the forest. Or that he'll listen to a word they just said.

Now, it's been stated by Vrel that violence for Eden against PC is a very last resort, but if they started throwing around accusations like that at him (however true they might be), I think Eden might backhand them, then it could lead to a spanking.

And then. Well. Fucking guess.

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For all of those who are deeply crushed by the Doctor Who finale, don't forget that the first of three Doctor and Ruby novels just came out in ebook. It's called Ruby Red and it sounds wonderful. Another comes out later this week and a third later this year. The audiobook for Ruby Red also comes out soon and is narrated by Millie Gibson herself. Check them out!!

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Random silly @pxstarru doodles from discord

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Keep me from the cages

Felix did not know about Chat Noir — about Antichat. He did not know about the fiery sky, about the shattered moon, about their partner’s ashes on their murderous claws.

Adrien had killed his mother — killed his father too. If the apocalypse was to come, it would not start with what little family he had spared.

“I’m not going away,” the youngest said, with the resolve he knew by heart. “When you’re ready, I’ll be there.”

OR: Felix struggles to get through to Adrien. Argos is determined to save Chat Noir from himself. 🌱

Inspired by @hartwign’s wonderful art and by John Steinbeck’s East of Eden!

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Black Panther and the Crew #1 (Art by Damion Scott and Laura Martin)

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@flufftober 2024- Day 17: Only One Bed

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Summary:

Excerpt for "Caged Bird" (Swan Lake retelling) Nic has a "small" crisis over the sleeping arrangements in the apartment

Notes:

Characters: Nic- Siegfried Teddie- Odile Rosalin- Odette

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Word count: 407

Nic PoV

It wasn’t until they got home that Nic realized one of the biggest issues of three of them living together in the same space. There was only one bed in the apartment.

Leaving the other two to get settled in, Nic hid in the bathroom to frantically text Will. What were they supposed to do? Teddie couldn’t sleep without them. But now that Rosalin was here, maybe they wouldn’t need them anymore? Then again, what if she did? What if she needed both of them now? But what if Rosalin wasn’t comfortable with that? And it would be rude to make Rosalin sleep alone on the couch. Plus, they were all soulmates. This could be an opportunity to bond. But what if they rushed it too much and messed up the healing process? Nic just wanted the other two to feel safe and loved here.

Their phone pinged with a message from Will, breaking up the wall of rambling ones.

-Dude, *breathe* Just make a pillow fort or something for a while. Good for movie nights, too. Figure out the rest later.-

Huh. That was actually a pretty good idea.

“Hey, uh,”

They walked into the bedroom, both of the women turning to them in unison. Which was vaguely strange, having two almost identical people that acted so similar living with them now. But they could see the differences. How Teddie smiled at them with relaxed trust, how Rosalin stayed emotionless except in her eyes, concerned fear keeping her on guard.

Tentatively, Nic smiled at them, rubbing the back of their neck. “So, the bed is probably too small for all three of us. Not that we all have to share, no pressure! But we could make a pillow fort nest or something in the living room for now. If you want! Again, no pressure. I can just sleep on the couch and you two can take the bed. That’s okay, too.”

The other two looked at each other, a silent conversation happening quicker than Nic could track. Then it was Rosalin who turned to them, speaking quietly, hesitantly, “Pillow fort sounds nice.”

Teddie looped her arm around Rosalin’s waist, her smile glowing. “We’ll make the best nest. Together.” she said before pulling Nic towards them, standing on tip-toe to kiss them softly on the cheek.

Nic didn’t think their face could get anymore red until Rosalin timidly kissed them on the other cheek a heartbeat later.

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[hakusins]

DAMMIT ITS STILL NOT THE CAGE SCENE

[s0fter-sin]

AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOT ITS TEETH IN ME BUT I’M ABOUT TO BITE BACK IN ANGER

[supersoftly]

So many of my favourite series I just choose to actively ignore that they killed off my favourite character(s). Still good fucking series, but I'm just going to pretend the AU exists that they lived through the ordeal and are just having a good time.