#Echo!AU

[kittysartbook]

Day 9- Old/New

[ani-action]

Code July day 11: Battle

The lake scene but Echo!AU

Had this one saved for awhile lol

Echo AU is by @kittygirl255

[cosmicpines]

Happy very belated Code Swap! Protip: don't enter a fic swap when you have your thesis proposal due unless your giftee is very patient, hahah. This is for @kittygirl255 of her absolutely lovely Echo AU, where Yumi is captured by XANA in season 1 in the aftermath of Cruel Dilemma and the fake Yumi from Image Problem is repurposed by Jeremie to take her place. Exploring the specter's mind and crises was a lot of fun, even if this fic went through... I'd say four different completely different concepts along the way, haha. Enjoy, and go check out Kitty's AU when you're done!

[shsl-box-worshipper]

Just Pretend

Ummm, so...I got hit with inspiration. And you know what that means?

W R I T I N G

So, ummm...this is a drabble I did based on @kittysartbook's Echo AU (AKA Imposter Syndrome on Steriods(TM)).

Title, as always, is a metal song. Just Pretend by Bad Omens.

Anyway, enjoy the...ridiculous amounts of angst I put in this little thingy.

When she was born, the first thing she saw was walls and walls of 1s and 0s. Or well, the word 'born' didn't really apply to her. More like 'made' or 'created'...but still, 'born' made her feel more alive. More like the humans she was made to imitate.

When she was born, she had no name at first. After all, how do you give a name to a simple collection of data?

Then, the walls shifted, and suddenly, she was met with an all-seeing eye. Red like blood and staring at her.

It had no coporeal form, yet it felt omnipresent in every bit that made up her code. It had no voice, yet its demands dominated her processes.

'Replace The Geisha', it said. 'Replace Her And Destroy Her Allies.'

She didn't have any will at that point. All she was 1s and 0s, after all. And this voice was all that she had ever known outside of those walls of data.

So, she obeyed.

The eye then wrapped her in a digital shell. A shell of thousands and thousands of lines of code, made to synchronize with her and her master's wishes.

And so, when she was materialized into the world outside the data, she was not specter of code, formless and nigh-invisible.

Instead, she was wearing the skin of a human. The flesh, the bones, and the muscles of a human.

The human's name? Yumi Ishiyama.

Known to her master as the Geisha, one of the four humans opposing her master along with little Aelita, whom her master was silent to talk about.

She was given supplemental memories of how Yumi acted in the real world. Mainly her life at somewhere called 'Kadic Academy'.

Her main function was to obey her master...but as she kept walking around, she couldn't help but deviate.

The way the humans conducted themselves...it just seemed so cool to her!

Sure, she didn't really know about 'personalities' and those kind of subrountines...but as she kept walking around, eating food, talking with the humans in their French tongue...she couldn't help but fall in love with the meatspace.

However, despite this, she could not deviate too far from her master's wishes. She would always be halted by her master whenever she deviated too far from its plans.

At first, she obeyed it. It was the only reason she was even here, after all.

However, she grew to dislike the tightening leash around her neck.

Especially when her master ordered that she used force to beat a man named Jean-Pierre Delmas. She knew it was completely unlike the real Yumi to do this and she didn't want to do it.

She didn't want to hurt the humans she had fallen in love with.

But she had to. Her master wouldn't allow anything else.

An animosity grew inside her data as her master's plan unfolded, as she began to bruise and hurt her supposed sworn enemies.

An animosity that turned to guilt once she finally met the real Yumi Ishiyama.

It was at this point that her master decided to completely take her over, having lost her will to fight.

As much as her master demanded their deaths...she couldn't help but appreciate how human they were.

They loved and cared for each other, and were so worried about what really happened to their Yumi Ishiyama. And her memories only gave even more credence to this.

Yumi Ishiyama was a good person, fighting against the eye's evils at every turn along with her friends. She wished circumstances had been different and, when she was finally put to rest by her master as a failure, she wished she could help them.

She thought it would be the end of her existence...but then, it wasn't.

After so long spent in sleep, she awoke to the familiar light of the scanners.

She was still wearing the skin of Yumi Ishiyama...but her master's will and voice were completely devoid from her.

For the first time since she was born...she was free.

Free from her master's influence.

It was so overwhelming that she began crying. She didn't even know what that emotion was at the time, but now she knew: it was joy.

However, she came to a shattered band of friends.

Yumi Ishiyama...was no longer a free human.

She was a prisoner of her master- no, XANA.

She was a prisoner of XANA, a monster concealed in layers and layers of code.

The one that was desperate enough to summon her, the one named Jeremie Belpois, told her to simply act in Yumi's place, as she had under XANA's control.

...But she didn't want to do that.

She wanted to be free, to experience the world!

She wanted to try out so many different human things!

She wanted to experiment and finally live. She wanted to be truly human.

...But the warriors didn't want that. All of them scolded her for even trying, wanting her to simply be a replacement for their lost friend.

The only one that seemed to truly understand where she was coming from was Aelita. The strange being bound to Lyoko, the only one understanding why she wanted to be free.

However, despite this...she understood their pain completely.

Her brief time under XANA's control gave her a true view into how they loved and cared for each other. In actuality, she was probably meeting the Lyoko Warriors while they were grieving.

They were not like that all the time...they were just in pain.

And that, she could understand.

But...she could surely compromise between their wishes and her own.

Right?

Well, firstly, it didn't feel right using Yumi's name to refer to herself.

She was already wearing Yumi's skin...she didn't want to also steal her name.

So, she picked a new name.

One that she could use to seperate herself from her purpose.

And she landed on one after reading a few Japanese books: 'Mizuki'

And while she couldn't be too flamboyant with her tastes in public...she could easily experiment while the rest of the world wasn't looking.

Fashion, music, art, Mizuki was ready to conquer them all!

...Still, it hurt seeing the people in Yumi's life.

The way she had to smile and put on a mask as she had to look at the longing and worrisome faces of her family, concerned about the complete sudden shift in how their 'daughter' acted now.

The way she had to hold back the tears as her colleagues (She couldn't call them friends. They didn't want anything to do with her outside of Lyoko) pushed her away.

Still, she'll carry on and march forward. She'll experience as much as she can of this meatspace while she's here, and help bring back Yumi.

Maybe then, she could have a chance to forgive her for taking her place for so long.

[aus-full-of-suffering]

so anyway. them. my children

[here-to-cause-suffering]

Major OK KO spoilers below! (Screencap edits of Carl and Let's Fight To The End) as well as future spoilers for the @echo-ko ask blog

Warnings: mentions of abuse, manipulation, being trapped in space, starvation

Sometimes I just like to think about a very specific scene in my Echo!AU— it takes place a little bit after their version of Carl, which landed them on another planet (the name of which is currently unknown— as well as the name of their species, those parts of the au are still wips!)

Their version of Carl has KO ending up on the planet with "Professor Venomous", and a similar conversation to canon happens— but it's revealed that this is really Shadowy Venomous (with a significant influence from Shadowy Figure) and that they're not going him anytime soon. That's what causes TKO to come out of the subconscious— on a whole new planet.

The planet itself is peaceful, and they usually have someone outside playing some quiet form of music— constantly producing sound waves for them to use for their echolocation. There's very few signs, but any sign they have is engraved in multiple spots— including the ground— so it won't be missed. They can visibly be read by those who can see, but for most of them they can be felt clearly. (A playlist of songs with a similar vibe can be found here on Spotify!)

It's specifically a scene that happens after several months of TKO being stuck there with Shadowy. It takes place at night, with Echo!TKO sitting in a dark, nearly empty bedroom that contains only a bed and a desk for furniture. It's hard to make out but he's bruised and dirty, and his wing is freshly wrapped up and in the wing equivalent of a sling. He's barely awake. His finger's run across a booklets pages, as he's trying to memorize the language and it's rules.

He's exhausted, he's injured and cob he's hungry— he wasn't fed that day— and doesn't know if he'll be fed the next day either. But he keeps going, scared to fail. Scared to be punished. And eventually, he ends up passing out at his desk. This happens frequently. No one knows where he is. No one can come save him. Not untill they go back to Earth on their own— but at that point, he's been too manipulated to really believe he's being abused. I can't wait to do an ask blog event on @echo-ko for this scene!

[rackcty]

interest check for devin’s apocalypse zine opens this week! @devinsisland

[joshuamj]

Okay, but what if EoW!Zelda had to impersonate Link

[minas-linkverse]

I like this game 👍

[phantasm-echo]

Cat dad captain Rex cat dad captain Rex—

[ask-echo-ko]

Yeah, it comes weekly. Also, new KO sighting! Hello! 👋🏻

Hi!

[kittysartbook]

Day 1- Possession

Couldn't help myself! Enjoy some Imposter Syndrome art!

(and no I do not have plans to every single prompt again this year I want to live T.T)

[ani-action]

Code July day: 5 Missing

Ulrich misses Yumi :(

Based on Echo!au by @kittygirl255

[m00ntunaart]

Bad Batch/His Dark Materials AU!

Here’s The Batch with their daemons! Be warned I have so many thoughts behind this AU. So leave now if you don’t want to read my absolute essay of a lore dump.

My idea for this AU is that all the clones tend to have dogs daemons, both in line with the whole ‘clones are the same’ idea and ‘dogs who follow orders’ stereotype, but also this idea in this universe that the ‘Vode’ are a “pack” of sorts. Generally the clones’ daemons are dog breeds with pointy ears. And battalions usually get made up of clones with same dog breeds as daemons (the 501st has mostly huskies/malamutes and the 212th has mostly German Shepards/Belgian Malanois for example). All of this to say, Clone Force 99 stands out even more in this AU because of their daemons. “Regs” who have daemons that deviate from the ‘normal’ type of daemon clones’ have, get terminated. Though for clones to have daemons that settle into something ‘abnormal’ is rare to begin with. So The Bad Batch having not-dog daemons AND being allowed to live is kinda the main reason of tension between The Batch and the ‘Regs’.

Some more details about TBB in this AU: 

Because Ghost is albino, she has sensitive eyes and bad vision in general. Which is an interesting duality to Crosshair’s exceptional eyesight. 

All through out s1-3 of TBB I imagine Omega’s daemon (Delta) hasn’t settled, and she shifts between a bird of prey and different dogs breeds. And Delta often will shift into the same animal as the other Batchers’ daemons when interacting with them. It’s not until Omega escapes Tantis with Crosshair that Delta settles into a Timber Wolf.

Echo’s daemon (Mimic) was originally a grey husky, but after being captured by techno Union she starts to shift into different dog breeds. This is very unparalleled, it’s very rare for daemons to shift again after they originally settle. And it’s NEVER happened to a clone before. Its not until Echo joins The Bad Batch that Mimic settles again as an Australian Cattle Dog. Though it takes even longer than that for Echo and Mimic to become comfortable with each other again.

[blackseafoam]

“Got a bad feeling.”

[aus-full-of-suffering]

Main blog: @here-to-cause-suffering !!

I talk a lot about my aus so I figured I could put them on their own blog so people can ignore (most of) my rambling if they wish because I. I do ramble quite a bit!

I currently have three aus!

OK K-0 — My robot sons, also my oldest au

—>TAGS: #ok k-0 #k-0 #tk-0

Echo!AU — my fluffy boys, inspired by one of @bubbleberryuniverse 's Shiny noncanons

—>TAGS: #echo!au #echo!TKO #echo!ko #echo!shadowy figure

Grounded!AU — an au based off Grounded and OK KO !

—>TAGS: #grounded!au #grounded!ko #grounded!tko #grounded!enid #grounded!rad #grounded!dendy #grounded!foxtail #grounded!elodie

You can find brief descriptions, content warnings and lists of common, potentially triggering, themes discussed in the respective aus here!

Potentially triggering content will be tagged as such, such as #mild body horror for grounded!tko, or #self harm for echo!tko/ko and so forth!