#God of Regret au

[catto-nade]

Narilamb fanfic idea that I’m working on! (If someone already made this Idea I will simply cry/j)

The Lamb spares Narinder, and brings him back to the cult to be indoctrinated. However, Narinder fights tooth and nail the moment he’s on the grounds, and immediately makes a break for it. (Debating if I’ll have Narinder be in the cult for a few days or if he’ll sneakily leave, I’ll see what works out)

Narinder, now a vagabond, is just trying desperately to survive. Each day is humbling him; He’s no longer powerful. At this point, it’s mere luck he’s managed to get this far. And all the while he muses to himself, where did he go wrong? Was it truly the lambs fault, or was it his for placing faith in him? Did he leave leave the Lamb go unchecked? Or was it from the very start, when he considered his siblings family? And eventually he questions, how did he become a God in the first place? It was so long ago, he couldn’t tell if it was the crown that made him almighty, or if he was just born omnipotent. Not that it matters; He was once Death itself, and now he was just a dead man.

He’ll build a cult, foster its devotion, and ascend. Yet, it was painful, humiliating even. And worse, he’d inevitably meet the lamb again. Doubts plagued his mind, he wouldn’t even know what his gospel would be.

And what is stronger than death?

The answer was one he couldn’t get to choose. It came naturally, wether it be from him his own nature or the crowns influence. He couldn’t triumph death, but he didn’t need to.

For he would be the God of Regret

Everyone will face regret before they die, and even after. As one dies, they’ll envision each little mistake taken, or a path that was never chosen. Some may regret just having to die. Others May regret continuing to live.

This is what gets people to convert, because it’s so utterly human. It’s not something you’d expect from a God. That maybe, their regrets will be smoothed over. A resurrection May give one everlasting opportunities to make peace with one’s life choices, but most would just stall. It could be from cowardice or idiocy, or maybe even just irrational thinking, but everyone has a regret. Maybe even the Lamb has one.

Narinder sure does.

(Anyways I’m still workshopping this premise, but I already have some irons in the fire.)

(This is also a reupload bc I might’ve posted this on main accidentally lol)

[soldierkitten]

tilly the god au ep 1 (part 1 of 4 I think)

starting stuff / prev stuff / next stuff

[zu-is-here]

I missed you, too

Murder & Phantom!Papyrus by ask-dusttale

Underswap Sans by popcornpr1nce

Nightmare by jokublog

Horror from horrortalecomic by sour-apple-studios

Killer by rahafwabas / rahaf-wabas / rahofy-sketch

[yellowflowrs]

oh, what will I do now that you’re gone?

[vanillazou]

i was looking through all of the downloaded op pages and i stared to long at this one panel (i forgot the chapter though. god damn it)

so i obviously knew i had to redraw it in a horny context. i barely drew anything for this blog recently i figured i should give y'all something before this month is over. augh

[writeshite]

The intern who approaches Hotch is red-faced, her voice shaky, she speaks, "Agent Hotchner?" She fiddles with the partly opened envelope in her hand, a long flat thing, unremarkable really, bar Hotch's name stamped dead centre.

"Yes?"

She stammers, words escaping her, and all she can do is hold out the envelope. Hotch stares, raising a brow. "What is it?"

The intern insists, just shoving it in his hands, imploring him with her subsequent breakdown. Elle approaches the poor girl, asking her if she's well and trying to calm her down. Hotch glances at the offending envelope. It's light in Hotch's hands, but the image it provides weighs on his mind for hours after.

Morgan is the first to turn at Hotch's pained voice, "No." It's loud. The loudest anyone's heard Hotch be. Morgan rushes to the older man and looks over his shoulder at the black and white image of you slumped in the seat of your car, the dark spot on your head no doubt blood pooling from a head injury. Near the edge, he spots Jack's face mid-cry, scribbled in the bottom right, he reads:

Miss me?"

[evelyn-and-art]

another brainrot au from me based on the concept of “what if the organizations in windbre are lowkey gods”.

[demaparbat-hp]

For the Spirits —Chapter XI: Into the Depths

Read here!

Like that man

I looked down into the depths when I met you

I couldn't measure it

—Through Me (The Flood) by Hozier

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Before, Zuko had seen the endless blue of his dream on Amarok's eyes and thought he had found purpose. He had found fate. 

Now, as Zuko's gaze was held coldly by eyes even brighter than those he had dreamed of, he learned he truly knew nothing.  . “Who are you?”

[ai-the-broccoli]

enemies to lovers / but you'll never own my heart

@luzon-dove happy birthday, Quinn!! As a present, I decided to draw a piece fanart of your "blood in the walls of the yagami house" AU fic series, since I found it very well-written and full of super interesting ideas and concepts. I hope you like it!

[bugwolfsstuff]

I sometimes wanna just shove all my AU Nicos together and make them travel a long distance together just to see what would happen:

Cause my Nicos are:

A depressed former lighthouse keeper who knows mermaids exist but doesn't care and left before any of the actual mermaid drama (Mermaid AU)

A angry traumatized kid who hasnt touched grass or seen the sun in 2 years and has relationship and father issues*✨✨ (Dark gods AU)

A newly ascended god who also hasn't touched grass or seen the sun in 6 years but doesn't have father or relationship issues**, turned his grief into the grind✨✨ and is waiting for his boyfriend to die (Post-Pomegranate Prince AU)

An undiagnosed autistic 8 year old kid from a small town in 1980s America (Pre TTC Mortal AU)

A reincarnated god with PTSD that isn't technically his and some form of a divine seizure disorder caused BY ✨godly memories✨ that swears like a sailor in ancient Greek*** (Zagreus incarnation AU)

Literally canon Nico but add on technical suicide attempt of the soul via the Lethe (Main AU)

Also just canon Nico but make her happier because she's slowly starting to see her sisters in the mirror and her boyfriend is great (Trans fem Nico AU)

I give them 10 minutes before they're at each others throats or crying. They are all trying to protect Mortal Nico's innocence the best they can as his sister's not dead (yet) and nothing bad has happened to him (yet). Somehow the healthiest and sanest one here other than him is Pomegranate Prince! Nico and that's wild, bro has his life together even if he's trapped in the underworld😭

*Hades' fault

**Also Hades' fault

***Hades' fault too, turns out the swears you accidentally taught your infant godly son transcend lifetimes

[catto-nade]

Woe, here’s the COTL AU, featuring the God of Regret.

If my hand writing is ass, here’s the text notes (+ more)

Haunted by his mistakes, Narinder starts a cult under a new alias. He hopes to overthrow the new God of Death… or to never see them again.

- The crown keeps Narinder’s 3rd eye permanently shut (the thorns will blind him if he tries to open them)

- While it was easy to put on, he’s unable to take it off. The thorns keep it secured on his head, and will harm him if he tries to take it off.

- The clothes were gifted to him by his first indoctrinated follower, though he doesn’t know they serve him at the time (more on them at a later date).

- The Chlamy [Robe-thing] was made by his first follower. This is what makes him realize he had already started a cult [of one]. It’s also when he’s fully realized as the God of Regret.

- The veil that hides his face is the last thing he has from when he was The One Who Waits. A gift from centuries ago. If he pushes the crown up a bit, he can use its thorns to keep it secured on him. It also keeps said thorns from piercing his face directly.

- Fairly weak and fragile at the start, but his strength/power is coming back to him (albeit slowly)

The Lamb + First Follwer will be uploaded at a later date. The first chapter will be uploaded when I’m free of my midterms and finals (I’m but a poor English major, I have 3 essays and a short story due at the same time LMAO)

Spoiler ahead:

Narinder ???

[terracyte]

latest pacrim rewatch ate me upppp

[pencilofawesomeness]

The JJK x TWST crossover that started living rent free in my head >:'D

Random Doodle Edition

Ahem, so, uhh, turns out the characters of Jujutsu Kaisen fit pretty well as Night Raven College students, temperament-wise, and that was all the excuse I needed. Yes the ages get funky but whatever. Happy high school AU except they still get cool powers and Trauma(tm). Just less than JJK canon so I count it as a win.

I also may or may not have written an entire oneshot (here on AO3) for some freshmen Satoru & Suguru bonding, featuring me still bullying Satoru over his funky eyes.

Image Text (and me rambling more) underneath the cut

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Gojo Satoru (of the Jupiter Clan)

Ignihyde Housewarden Year: Junior Species: Sky Dragon (Fae) Club: Movie Analysis Club Unique Magic: Six Eyes—pretty much just like canon Six Eyes. They can see far and wide and out of normal sight, and they can see magic in a highly detailed manner. They are also powered by magic that just, never stops ever, so he can decrease or increase the power/range at will to a degree, but technically, cutting off magic from them altogether will blind him. Also he has an inherited magic that he by no means asked for, which is, sad drumroll, Gate of the Underworld. (There are no shrouds in this AU, just me finding ways to forever make Satoru instrumental to the well-being of the world to his own detriment. I have waaaaay more thoughts about the "Jupiter Clan of dragons" and what that actually entails, but they are still jumbled and shifting, so. Maybe later.)

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Geto Suguru (of the Draconia Clan)

Diasomnia Housewarden Year: Junior Species: Night Dragon (Fae) Club: Equestrian Club Unique Magic: Magic-eater—can consume and nullify any spell and gain its base magic. With minimum side effects. Mostly. :)

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Satoru and Suguru are their usual brand of special-grade menaces, being the only two adolescent dragon fae in the world, buttttt they still inevitably become besties. With Shoko too, of course, who has no fear and will mess with them as they see fit.

Suguru is essentially Malleus in this AU, though in Suguru-fashion, he's way more stubborn when it comes to trying to catch up. (Translating him being new to sorcery to being new to technology was surprisingly low-hanging fruit.) Meanwhile I borrowed the Jupiter name/legacy because it was fitting and made the Gojo Clan into a long-lived dynasty of antisocial dragons who fist-fight and deal with Phantoms and recently accidentally became a tech empire, which is pretty close to the Sorcerer Family vibe a la TWST, if I say so myself.

There's definitely a lot of backstory I have in mind for the two of them. Neither of them beat teen parenthood (they are currently Malleus-aged, so 178 years old, but that's still teenagehood for a dragon/fae) and acquired children through various means, much to the consternation of their elders/court. I might develop/write more solid ideas later, but Suguru has a reverse characterization moment when he finds two starved/beaten human children (the twins) and begins his journey of losing all intrinsic racism via love, and Satoru still somehow gets his shit wrecked by Toji (probably a heist gone violent or something) and then finds out he had abandoned children: human Tsumiki and half-fae Megumi.

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Nobara Orientation Comic:

Nobara: Obviously, I'm going to get ~Pomefiore~ because I'm elegant and graceful. (And a badass queen, of course)

Mirror: The nature of your soul is... Savanaclaw

Nobara, getting dragged away from the Mirror by Maki: HEY WAIT A MINUTE! STOP MESSING WITH ME YOU DIRTY SMUGED HUNK OF JUNK AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I THINK OF—

(Nobara gets her reverse-Epel moment, but she adapts quickly. Especially because she still comes to have mad respect for Maki.)

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Ieri Shoko

Ignihyde Vice-Housewarden Year: Junior Species: Merfolk (Nurse Shark) Club: Science Club Unique Magic: Reverse—rewinds a target to its previous state within twenty four hours. The longer within the range, the harder/more magic it will take, especially for larger targets, so realistically her range is less. (For example, if someone cracked a piece of glass 24 hours ago, Shoko could restore it, but a day-old wound on a living being would be much harder.)

Making Shoko a mermaid was a joke to myself at first but then I liked it and it spiraled and now Nurse Shark Shoko is unironically one of my favorite things that I have drawn. The joke was right there too, but it's mostly fun to me because nurse sharks are docile and apathetic creatures, for the large part (they are still sharks lol), and I think match her temperament well.

Also when Satoru pestered the previous housewarden enough times to accidentally gain the title for himself, he made Shoko his vice (mostly because he trusted her) to make sure he never had to do the paperwork and the boring parts. She makes him do it anyway. To the dorm, she is less of a vice and more of a "dragon wrangler," which is still extremely appreciated.

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Zen'in Maki

Savanaclaw Housewarden Year: Sophomore Species: Human Club: Track & Field Unique Magic: N/A—Maki doesn't actually have magic of her own, but she is unnaturally resistant to most magic. She can, however, use magic/cast spells through a magic-capable familiar.

She befriended a phoenix when she was younger, having survived an encounter with a wild youth. (idk what I want the details to be but I think it would be cool if she had some related burns to it, with the idea that these creatures are rare and volatile and hard for normal humans to handle without high magic resistance.) His name is Torch because I don't think Maki would put that much thought into a name, so long as its not completely stupid sounding. I almost named the phoenix Jogo but I refrained for my own sanity.

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Inumaki Toge

Savanaclaw Year: Sophomore Species: Human Club: Board Game Club Unique Magic: Reality Speak—pretty much just how Cursed Speech works but with a world-friendly name. Also it can apply to inanimate objects as well. The power and scope of the command is proportional to the magic required.

Toge gets an overall nicer time in this AU because he doesn't have cursed speech 24/7 and therefore can speak normally. Though the idea of him being able to affect people/bend reality with his words does freak people out. I imagine he had a rough childhood nonetheless, because why not, leading him to be less verbal than he would have been otherwise.

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Okkotsu Yuuta

Diasomnia Year: Sophomore Species: Human Club: Board Game Club Unique Magic: Wraith Pact-maker—he can enhance/bolster a ghost's magic/presence through making a link with himself. It has to be mutual, and it can last for any duration of time, although actively using the link does require magic. The ghost in question gains magic and grounding from Yuuta, and Yuuta can use the ghost's magic, including their UM, if applicable. He can have multiple links, but the first and main recipient of this magic is his childhood friend Rika.

Between her longlasting connection with Yuuta and her brutal death, she is a more wraith-like and powerful ghost. Her unique magic was to copy other people's UMs, which Yuuta can use through her in short bursts.

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I didn't have space nor solid ideas for unique magics for the Hasaba twins and the Fushiguros, so I didn't do full bios for them. Later, perhaps. All of the girls are sophomores and Megumi is a freshman. Tsumiki and Nanako are sharing their social brain cell and trading stories of stupid things their dragon dads/older brothers/untitled guardians have done, while Megumi is helping budding-gamer Mimiko learn Pokemon strats. I love the idea of them all being friends, maybe after minimal difficulty in the girls' first year, likely on account of the twins being a little Sebek-shaped, in terms of wanting to be The Best Guards for Suguru, etc etc.

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I technically have way more ideas for other characters and other dorms, but, I will end this here, for now. I am trying to reign myself in lmao.

[mohntilyet]

i’m having illario dellamorte thoughts. what if instead of knowingly betraying lucanis he did it like, unknowingly. idk how this would work but i’m intrigued by what it gives us. illario ‘i accidentally caused my cousin’s death & can never tell anyone’ dellamorte. genuinely grieving. blaming himself. does he take advantage of the year before lucanis comes back?? does caterina still ignore him the whole time?? how different is the canon plotline once rook shows up with lucanis post-rescue…..

anyways i would love your thoughts!!

95% of what i do with illario operates on the idea that he is frighteningly competent so you can see why the way the crows plotline plays out in the game might frustrate me. it’s also this reason why i don’t actually think too much about “illario got lucanis killed, but didn’t mean to do it”, because i like the idea that everything illario does in his life is planned to the second and that he’s too well trained to mess up this badly, if that makes sense. with that being said. 5% of my brain power does sometimes go towards “and what if he just sucked actually” and it was a theory i enjoyed before the game even released. so i have in fact been thinking about this anyway LOL . maybe he tries to honeypot zara, accidentally actually reveals lucanis’ next assassination job, and zara gets rid of him as a ‘gift’. illario is horrified and that gets even worse when lucanis’ body shows up, and he assumes this must be because he spurned zara by leaving her and not having the guts to seize power.

i think we could make his inferiority complex worse. illario’s worst fear confirmed: he is as worthless as his grandmother believes he is, botching something so badly that he accidentally sentences his cousin to death when what he wanted was lucanis just… out of the way for a bit (maybe while he kills caterina. LOL. i still think his resentment of caterina trumps his jealousy for lucanis though those two things are very intertwined its hard for him to differentiate them). so incapable that he got the only person who actually supports him killed, and now he’s dreading the idea of becoming first talon. he doesn’t want first talon without lucanis backing him, and now the only person left is caterina which is suffocating and makes him even unhappier. at least he hadn’t lived through her alone, and now through consequences of his own decisions, illario has no choice but to.

i think that would affect his plans for talon because of how horribly he’d fucked up, and tries to mask it because if he suddenly actually doesn’t want to be talon that would be a red flag for everyone. lucanis coming back would delight him (talon is within his sights again if lucanis comes back!) and freak him out. i think the plotline would actually be pretty similar because of this freak out, so he still shows up to zara’s fight to cover his tracks. lucanis can never know, caterina can never know, because what little faith they have in him will be lost. like he committed fratricide and didn’t even MEAN to😭 ...corpse whispering still happens, and zara is like “ohhh that coward. he can never finish what he started, can he?” + “elaborate.” + “i gave him what he most wanted in the world and instead of being grateful, he ran away.” so lucanis finds out about what happened but feels a mix of “illario, you idiot” + pity because turns out he didn’t even mean for it to happen, and keeps his secret for now, otherwise he’d probably have to kill him.

i also think not meaning to kill lucanis would sour his feelings towards the venatori, who are a reminder of how badly he failed, so the alliance wouldn’t happen. this does mean if the story goes on as it does in canon, he has to take desperate measures another way and kidnap caterina for some other reason but i can’t think of why….. maybe a thing where illario is like “ok. lucanis is distracted by the elven gods. this time i just have to kill nonna for real and then nothing is in my way” and recruits disgraced houses or houses that don’t like caterina to do so? not sure tbh but i don’t believe caterina made it so far without making enemies lol. this would happen post bloodbath + corpse whispering— lucanis leaves his cousin unchecked because while he knows illario didn’t mean for him to die, he has no idea how far he would go to have caterina dead. teia could find out about this and send word to foil the kidnapping and assassination attempt

so ‘murder of crows’ is still about saving caterina, the illario-lucanis fight still happens, but it’s a little more hesitant and lots of “why won’t you just let me kill her? i’m doing this for the both of us”. he’s had to live with being the un-favorite, but never would have thought lucanis would actually pick caterina if it came down to it. with all of his missteps here, i think the final decision (and i think it should be like this in canon anyway) would be to imprison illario or kill him. imprisoning him is just a lot of “i can’t kill illario as much as he couldn’t kill me”, vs killing him as is expected from him as talon, and what he knew he would have to do after finding out about illario's failures. unlike canon, where illario is actually meaning to kill him and can be seen as a 'good crow' despite the sloppiness, here he's like. just bad at everything. the allied traitor houses that went against caterina would also have to be imprisoned or killed. no happy ending at all here, and lucanis still becomes first talon. now that i’ve written it out this is actually probably the worst ending LOL

the above sticks a lot to what is canon to the game (plot points, choices, etc) and i didn’t go very far away from it so it's like canon 3 inches to the left. tho my thoughts on this are not fleshed out* because i think illario works better as an antagonist character that sets things in motion !! not necessarily the villain in a cain-abel story, but a character who opposes lucanis while still not wanting to hurt him. that kind of discipline where he finds a way to get what he wants (first talon) without compromising what he also cares for (family) is so much more fun for me than a man who apparently just loses it and decides to enact a bad plan to get rid of his cousin. if he waited 20+ years to become talon i think he’d be more careful when it came down to it. if i had my way illario would be playing insane 5d chess to rival solas (insert black sails “i once thought that to lead, to be liked was just as good as feared. and that may very well be true. but to be both liked and feared all at once, is an entirely different state of being.”)

[south-sea]

drops of light

[ourselvers]

chara has joined the party!