#In my heart I still know all the various AU lore

[thatringboy]

alright but HOW deep were you into ut

back when I was on amino, of all places, I frequently participated in Paperjam Sans and crew RPs. My OCs could beat up your OCs

[yasminthespiritfaninnit]

I watched Tommy’s latest video and I agree with everything he says. The DSMP was brilliant. Sure, the lore and acting was all over the place, but it was amazing. I still love it and hyperfixate on it to this day. Like, these little OC’s that 3 dozen people made still are my muses!

No matter what happens, I will always be in the fandom. I am what they call a traveler with various trinkets. I collect things from different fandoms and consider all of them my home.

Which is why I am very relieved that Tommy adores the DSMP still. Knowing that another person, with their own life and flaws, will never let it go is always comforting to me.

Of course, if you do want to let it go, by all means! But for everyone who doesn’t, I will be here with you.

Fuck anyone who says that what you love is bad, no matter what it is. Love what you love. I do.

Oh! Also, on a related note, I noticed that Tommy’s videos that he edited himself doesn’t have subtitles. Which is a choice. I hope he brings them back in his own way. But if he doesn’t, it’s not a terrible issue. It’s nothing that makes him a bad person or takes away from the good that he does.

Other then that, the video is great. The jokes were funny, the gradual increase in emotion got my heart aching, and just seeing him be soft made me happy. I love seeing people be soft!

Now….. Honestly, I am filled to the brim with love right now. To show that love, I am going to make AUs with my besties. If you want to talk to me about anything at all, please let me know.

[unrelatedsideblog]

please tell me werewolf sanji and vampire zoro lore! can zoro turn into a bat as well?

The thing is, they don't have one lore! I have at least three (four?) AUs with them and they are not always consistent.

The smallest one is a comedy one, where I just test various traditional vampire and werewolf lore for no reason at all other than sillies. Things like “Vampires are physically unable to enter someone's home without an invitation, so Zoro just stands in the kitchen doorway because Sanji kicked him out and won't invite him back.” So he probably can here!

In the other two, their monster lore is more compatible (at least at the moment). In one, I simply inserted the Werewolf Sanji and Vampire Zoro into the canonical world and story. I honestly didn't think much of it yet. In the last AU (my main one), the action is set in a world with the vibe and ✨aesthetics✨ of the interwar period. (That AU actually also splits into two AUs but whatever)

In this world, Zoro was born human and later vampirized by Dracule Mihawk (via a cut on his chest). Zoro has a general idea about vampires but when he becomes one this knowledge turns out to be quite superficial, but he doesn't seem too concerned about the changes, accepting this as a new reality and that's about it. He can still go out in the sun, but it tires him out faster so he often takes naps during the day. Also, I know that in some interpretations vampires are dead and their hearts don't beat, which is not true for Zoro. He is very much alive and bleeds “rotten blood” (not completely literal I think, characteristic for this type of monster). He still discovers vampire abilities (passively).

Sanji is a werewolf most likely from birth. Werewolves can take the form of a “beast wolf,” which is a little scary, a little awkward. In this AU, transformation is not something that can usually be done on cue, and when it happens it can cause problems - the werewolf then becomes more animalistic in thought as well.

As for the setting of the story, in version one Sanji works in Baratie and finds a bleeding out Zoro in the alley behind the restaurant (after his fight with Mihawk). That's their first meeting. In the second version, Baratie receives their wine supply from Dracule Mihawk. Zoro lives with him and Perona (yay, Goth Vampire family) and the boys get to know each other through their parents' (?) business. They probably have rocky start tho.

I just woke up, so I probably missed some things lol

[darealsaltysam]

hiya!! welcome to my blog!! im sam (she/her) and i like to write :3

since you're stopping by anyway, why not take a little look at my fics? i write on ao3 and have done work in many, many different fandoms! currently, you can find fics from the following;

ace attorney

fnaf

wynncraft

faith

the walking dead

star wars

paladins

the x-men movies

dsmp (mainly older, discontinued works)

below the cut i'm going to put more detailed descriptions of all of the fics i'm proudest of, so if any of the above fandoms interest you, take a little peek!!

ACE ATTORNEY

spiky twink rebooted

a very silly highschool au chatfic. crack with minimal angst here and there to carry some plot along, but it's very low-stakes. really just something i write for fun to wind down. perfect if ur looking for some good ol crack to turn your brain off to!

waiting for godot

a three-part fic exploring mia and diego's story in ace attorney - before, during, and after his coma. it goes into the background of their relationship and dives into godot's mentality after waking up and finding out about what happened to mia. angst with a somewhat bittersweet ending, canon compliant.

SOME OLDER FICS

Object Class: Fey - completed. an ace attorney scp au, very miego focused with some light background narumitsu. does not represent my current quality or style of writing, but i still enjoy the story a lot and am proud of the fic as a whole!

Time Paradox at The Turnabout - discontinued. a time travel fic of sorts. various different versions of various different characters travel to one time period, hijinks ensue. not that well-written and was never completed, but you might enjoy the concept!

the adventures of spiky twink and the burger queen - discontinued. older version of spiky twink rebooted - read that one instead!

spiky twink extras - discontinued. companion piece to the above. short stories within the universe, essentially!

FNAF

THE SCRIPTVERSE

the scriptverse is a trilogy of scripts + a prose prequel which seeks to retell fnaf lore completely. it sticks to canon in some parts but deviates in others, so it will surprise you even if you know the lore inside out! i made my own changes to the timeline, mixed and matched stuff from the movie, books and games... overall, just a big revamp of the whole thing, all told through movie scripts!

the series is made up of:

MR AFTON, a william-focused first part retelling the missing children incident

MR SCHMIDT [act 1], a michael-focused sequel retelling william's trial shortly after

MR SCHMIDT [act 2], a massive third part to the series which deals with the fallout of the murder and the trial, michael meeting jeremy, ghosts showing up in the pizzeria, and michael finding out he has a sister he didn't know about! crazy stuff!

mr emily & ms schmidt, a prose prequel to the series which focuses on how henry, william and his wife clara met

WYNNCRAFT

warm hands, cold hearts, gentle smiles (also holy shit is that bak'al over there?)

a fic which focuses on exploring the dynamics between the four twain brothers as kids + includes an appearance from wynncraft's favorite bitch boy. also, i made theorick less of a bitch by explaining WHY canon theo is such a bitch!

my legacy in death, your legacy in ice, our legacy in blood

a follow-up of sorts to the above fic, focusing on mael having to help nesaak post-theorick freezing it. the second half of the fic looks at the time mael spent training bob. all around lots of angst, some hurt/comfort in the second part, and a very, very bittersweet ending.

requiem

currently ongoing!!! an x reader fic that has you, the player, take on the role of the villain. you team up with bak'al to take revenge on someone who has wronged you. the fic, and even its description, contains BIG spoilers for wynncraft's late-game quests, most notably a journey further and a hunter's calling. it also explores some dark and uncomfortable themes, please refer to all relevant warnings!! read at your own risk!

OTHER FICS

closer, then you're close enough to lose - completed. a short, slykaar/bob one-shot based in an au i came up with together with @meefys !!

PALADINS

a city of self-fulfilling prophecies [paladins superhero au]

currently ongoing!!! a paladins superhero au that i've been putting together for years, and am now finally writing! most champions will be included as characters, with maeve, ying and lex as the three protagonists and corvus as the lead villain, alongside evie, cassie & kinessa, lian & rei, octavia and many others as major characters!

SOME OLDER FICS

the scholar loved the scion // and the scion loved the scholar, but not in the same way - completed. a short fic exploring a one-sided relationship between lian and rei. hurt, and no comfort!

FAITH

soul of christ (sanctify me)

a short fic which focuses on john and lisa's childhood, with a nice portion of catholic guilt and queer shame on the side (yes i projected onto john. no i am not sorry). very experimental but probably one of my personal fave works ever!!!

X-MEN (movies)

oh, i will ruin you (it's a habit, i can't help it)

a very short cherik one-shot, because they've infected my brain. it's just them flirting and making out tbh. nothing more nothing less. but i'm pretty proud of it!

again and again and again and again

a 5+1 exploring charles' post-first class depression era, from hank's perspective. lots of bitterness, lots of anger, lots of sad feels, and a bitter-sweet comfort ending.

and daddy made a soldier out of me

currently ongoing!!!! the first fic of two in a big xmen au i've been putting together for two months now!! the au itself involves a lot of concepts and combines them to form a more complex retelling of first class, the ten year gap, and dofp. the changes to the story include; - cherik as soulmates - erik raising wanda and pietro, then him and charles raising them together - after the beach, wanda leaves with erik, and pietro stays with charles - the twins grow up apart (and erik doesn't get arrested, so he actually gets to raise wanda) - dofp reunites the family forcefully - angst ensues! - also, a few other mcu characters have been added into the storyline as alternate no powers/human versions to themselves to help with plot stuff. this means the inclusion of wandavision!!

OTHER FICS

below you can find all my other fics - these i'm a little less confident in, because they're either older works or discontinued ones.

tommyinnit - dragonborn! - discontinued. dsmp skyrim au, sbi focused, secondary dream team focus. i really loved this fic and writing it but was forced to discontinue due to... stuff(tm). im still very passionate about the story and happy with what i wrote here, so i recommend it if you're into it.

The Between Dreams and Memories Series - discontinued. a complete retelling of the dsmp storyline. was planned to have 3 parts - same as above, forced to discontinue. contains 2 complete fics (part 1 and a spin off) and one unfinished fic (part 2 of the planned trilogy). one of the biggest fics on my account, a product of several years of work, and a very important work for me, even if its quality doesn't hold up. read if you wish!

a house full of serial killers VS the barbie movie starring margot robbie and ryan gosling - completed. a very very stupid creepypasta chatfic oneshot. i wrote it in one sitting because i was bored. it's nothing special, but it's pretty funny!

dance with the devil - completed. a very short dsmp oneshot, focusing specifically on c!niki and c!schlatt. im still pretty happy with how it turned out!

Deserve Better - completed. a pretty badly written who killed markiplier oneshot. darkstache focused. one of the first fics i ever posted!

laughter [anidala] - completed. a short star wars one-shot i wrote for my girlfriend, focusing on ani and padme!

mutual hatred builds character - completed. a short the walking dead one-shot, focused on maggie and negan. NOT SHIP! i just think they're a fun duo to study like bugs

[ask-numberjacks]

IT'S LORE TIIIIIIMEEEEE

SO

This is my theory on the Numberjacks' (and meanies', kind of?) creation and anatomy. To begin with, I'll talk about how I think they were created.

The Brain Gain Machine is quite obviously not fully machine. It can move, talk and a lot of weird green goop is involved??? Which I don't think would be there if it was completely machine. So I think it is a cyborg. And it originally looked something like this. I think it is parasite-esque, using the sofa as some kind of shell. My lore theory/AU(?) says that there were 2-3 of these, the others being destroyed and this one being damaged, so it was modified to be a cyborg. Since the Numberjacks and Meanies are somewhat alien, I think they all share a godlike creator that sent the Brain Gains to Earth to then later send signals to them (via the 'cables' on top of it) that 'spawned' the characters. The other Brain Gains would have been the ones that created the Meanies.

Numberjack birth I guess?

Since they are literally maths, the Numberjacks are just physical forms given to mathematical concepts/structures. Since they are created by the Brain Gain Machine, they do not need to reproduce (hence not having reproductive organs).

'But if the Numberjacks are maths given physical forms, what about the Meanies?' You might ask. Well, since they are more complex, with more specific abilities of their own, they are physical forms given to concepts, for example, topology (in Shape Japer's case).

Now on to the anatomy of the characters.

Their organs are somewhat similar to that of humans, but do not have all of the same ones. Since, as I've said before, they are just maths given a physical form, they do not grow or change in any way naturally. (The younger characters would be pretty small if that was the case.) However, since they are still living beings, they need to eat to survive. It'd also be pretty obvious if they did need to use the bathroom because Zero, One and possibly Two would be wearing nappies/diapers.

I think they'd also have an organ that I will call:

a Changeheart.

Which would be of similar size to that of their regular heart, except it gives them them a mild ability to change how things are mathematically described (and since the way things are described can't be changed, the thing being described has to change itself). The reason this would work is because I think the godlike being I mentioned earlier would be the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis given form, and the hypothesis is that our external reality is a mathematical structure. (You can tell I did a lot of research on this lol)

'Waste' products from their stomach are burned as fuel by this organ.

The changeheart gives out pulses (presumably bioelectric? Idk I'm not that good at science) containing the change that needs to be made to the surrounding area's structure. The Brain Gain Machine picks up on these pulses, concentrates them and sends them to a specific location to be used by another person with a changeheart.

The reason it has the same green goopy stuff as Brain Gain is because the Brain Gain itself has a changeheart, just a really big and more complex one.

Now on to human forms! Since I feel like it should be explained for various reasons.

Since they are 'aliens', they would not be born with a humanoid form. I think several other characters other than the Puzzler and the Numbertaker have humanoid forms since it has been implied that they have done things that only humans would be able to do (mostly shown in the audio stories). They may have one opportunity to visualize and shift into a human form that will be that form for as long as they live (which is forever). Since visualizing a human form means knowing what a human looks like, they would've only seen humans as they are usually, which also means their human forms would not have... you know. And anyway since they are all technically biologically agender they couldn't do that.

me right now

Oh gosh that was a lot. If you've made it this far, thank you so much for reading! I hope you found it interesting.

If you have any questions about this or want to know more about, for example, the Meanies' anatomies, feel free to ask in the ask box thingy!

[margindoodles2407]

Greetings from the Margins

Sup? My name is MarginDoodles2407, but y'all can call me Margin :]

The most important thing to know about me? I am Roman Catholic, Pro-Life, and Anti-Pornography. By the way, my definition of pro-life is not just "anti-abortion", although that is a big part of it. I believe that to be truly pro-life, you must make a commitment to extend the respect and dignity we deserve as human beings to EVERYONE, regardless of age, health, status, physical characteristics, gender, political ideology, et cetera. And my Catholic faith is central to who I am as a person, so while I try not to get political on this blog- because we all need fun places to hang out without the stress of the real world- I will not hesitate to post about my Catholicism and Pro-Lifery. If that’s not your jam? Understandable. But please, be respectful to my Religion and values, as I will be to yours.

This blog started out as a Zelda blog and uh, it quickly became a Star Wars blog. From this sentence alone, you can probably guess my two biggest fandoms. My natural habitat is openly weeping about warrior space monks with laser swords and a fictional army of genetically identical South Pacific Islander men. Speaking of which, I am The Fives Guy. Do you wanna talk about Fives? Do you have Questions (tm) about Fives? Has this man crossed your mind at all? Well actually I am in the process of writing an Essay about him, which I will link to this post when I finish.

In terms of Zelda, my favorite character is the boy himself, my guy Link, and my favorite game is Ocarina of Time, and even though I am mainly a Star Wars blog now, I am ALWAYS down to talk about Zelda because these games were part of my formative years, I am still a huge nerd about them, and they are very near and dear to my heart. I cannot stress how much I still love Zelda.

I am an Artist and an Author, and requests for both are always open. Just keep it Safe for Work :) In case you’re interested, my AO3 is Margin_Doodles.

Alright let's talk about a few more things. Namely, the Tagging System, and what on earth it means.

Zelda Tags (main tag: #the legend of zelda or #tloz)

#hero's spirit: The blog, @tloz-heros-spirit, that I run with my EXCELLENT best friend and partner-in-crime, @whyoneartheven. A concept for a potential Zelda game that would be, canonically, the final game in the series and break the Curse of Demise. If you like lore-accurate storytelling, over-the-top character designs, and seafoam-green ghost fire, give it a check-out! Fair warning, though, I haven't updated this one in a while, but if you'd like to talk about it I'd love to!

#margin's links: My interpretations of the various Links, Zeldas, and NPCs of the Zelda series. Includes meaningful meta, silly art, memes, and various questions and answers.

#my beloved hyrule warriors: I talk about my second-favorite Zelda game, Hyrule Warriors, which I am mentally unwell about

#zelink my beloved: I am a Zelink shipper. It has me in a chokehold

Star Wars Tags (main tag: #star wars)

#hfsw: My precious baby, the High Fantasy Star Wars AU. Basically I take Star Wars, and make it a High Fantasy AU. I don't know how much more on-the-nose the title could be. This one also has its own blog, @high-fantasy-sw, although I'm not always great about cross-posting. Includes overly-intricate worldbuilding, SO MANY FREAKING MEMES, very flowery prose writing, even more silly art, and lightsabers but they're actually just swords on fire.

#wdap au: Commander Fox of the Coruscant Guard and Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora are madly in love. This saves the Galaxy. 50% whump and angst, 50% crack-treated-seriously absolute chaos nonsense. Another collab with @whyoneartheven, this started out as a personal canon-compliant slowburn tragedy but then took a 180 degree pivot and became our silly fix-it romance AU, featuring a begrudging-coworkers-to-reluctant-allies-to-mutual-respecters-to-genuine-friends-to-mutual-pining-to-lovers-to-totalitarian-government-topplers storyline, the What to Do About Palpatine Tea Club (from which the au derives its abbreviation), Padme "Been There Done That" Amidala planning a secret wedding, and Robot Hand Buddies Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker, to name a few of the better jokes.

#newsies au: Blame the twisted mind of @luke-shywalker for this one; I was sick and decided to watch Newsies, and at her suggestion I liveblogged it. Then things got out of hand. Featuring Crutchie!Echo, Obi-Wan Kenobi In The Person Of Teddy Roosevelt, and "they have interplanetary travel but still read paper news?".

#baseball au: The Clone Wars, as a series of really high-stakes baseball games. I came up with this one on my birthday with one of my real-life friends. Featuring Political Baseball Intrigue.

#margin watches tcw: I watch The Clone Wars (2008), and provide commentary

#margin watches tbb: I watch The Bad Batch, and provide commentary

#rebels my beloved: the Star Wars Rebels tag

#master disaster himself: Anakin. The Anakin Tag.

#electric judgement: the Plo Koon tag

#look at my guys: the Clones tag. I need to get better at actually USING this tag, but it does exist.

#in this house we love and respect her grace duchess satine kryze of mandalore: the Satine tag

#maul is a drama queen: the Darth Maul tag

Personal Tags:

#margin doodles: my art

#margin writes: my writing

#margin rambles: my soliloquies

#you ask margin babbles: answers to asks

#memes by margin: my memes

#incorrect quotes: incorrect quotes, usually by me

#the vod'e: I talk about my siblings (i have a LOT of siblings)

#friend art: my friends' art! very cool, totally recommend

#catholicism: Catholicism :)

Fic Masterlist

Thanks for reading, thanks for checkin' out my blog, and May the Force Be With You!

[explorersaremadeofhope]

I would like to know more about both your Star Trek Terror fic and your Crozier hates tinder fic please 🙏

omg okay so like, these are both a bit old, star trek terror fic is proper old, i think i wrote it in 2021, but im still hoping!! i had so much fun just working out the worldbuilding on that one and how the different characters slot into different roles, but then i ran up against my old nemesis The Actual Plot and was like 'hmm ok, i think i need to know a bit more about Star Trek TOS lore for this', aaaand that's where i stalled. it's fitzier, but like, eventually. very eventually. you'll see why from the snippet 😂

crozier hates tinder fic was me going 'why is there almost no modern au romcom rossier fic' and then having a very funny convo with some folks on discord about science nerds on tinder. that one mostly exists in vague outline form with a scene or two written out plus random details like 'james ross owns not one but several tacky early 2000s mugs from various places in the southern hemisphere, preferably with penguins on'.

snippets mostly below a cut because they got long (sorry about that)!

Star Trek Terror:

francis raised his brows, but said nothing. ignoring fitzjames' confused expression, he turned his attention back to the file in his hand. "i see from your service record that you've received several commendations for bravery in engagements with the romulans and the klingons." he looked up. "out of curiosity, do you speak klingon? or romulan?"

"ah, no, sir," fitzjames smiled apologetically. "i'm afraid i don't."

"i see. so your expertise lies primarily in firing at alien races, not communicating with them."

it wasn't a fair question, nor a fair conclusion. clearly taken aback, fitzjames blinked in open surprise. "sir," he began carefully, "i believe my qualifications -"

"your qualifications, commander fitzjames, are perfectly adequate. even impressive. for war." francis fixed him straight in the eye and held his gaze. "but don't let the repurposed nature of our ship fool you. we are a survey vessel. you will appreciate, no doubt, that the primary goal of any exploratory mission is to avoid bloodshed, not to excel at it." fitzjames drew breath to speak. francis ignored it. "put bluntly, commander, we don't particularly need a war hero. what we need is someone who knows how to calibrate a spectrometer correctly."

"with all due respect, sir," said fitzjames, once he was sure francis had finished speaking, "i think you'll find i have the requisite scientific training to apply for this post." he'd uncrossed his legs while francis was speaking and now sat ramrod straight. his mouth was pinched, his dark brows drawn together.

francis waved that away with a flick of his hand and a shake of his head. "this isn't a twelve-month patrol tour along the neutral zone, commander. we will be five years in deep space. sometimes uncharted space. in that situation, a man's merits on paper will matter far less than his personal qualities."

there was a pause in which fitzjames lowered his gaze to the floor, his jaw working. when he spoke again it was to a point just above francis' shoulder. the affable buoyancy had drained from his voice, leaving a gravel harshness which francis privately suspected was far more genuine. "i respectfully posit, sir," said fitzjames, "that you don't know my personal qualities, seeing as we've only just met."

francis' smile did not reach his eyes. "be that as it may. i'm afraid my decision is made, commander." he set his padd aside and folded his hands on the table. "thank you for your interest. and good morning."

Tinder fic:

“Well,” says Blanky flatly. “That's sexy.”

But as he reads over the message one more time, Francis’ heart is actually slowing down from its panicked gallop – his dread replaced with sheer relief at being given a topic of conversation he's fluent in.

“No, no, it's fine,” he says absently, staring at the words I'm thrilled we matched. “I don't mind.”

“Aye, you wouldn't, would you. What the hell are–” Thomas peers at the screen more closely. “Pinnipeds?”

“Seals. Well. Not just seals.” Francis looks up. “It's one of those things – all seals are pinnipeds but not all pinnipeds are seals. You know?”

Blanky regards him with the look of a man who absolutely does not. "Right."

After staring at his phone for a few moments longer, Francis opens the keyboard. 

Hi, he types out with deliberation. Thank you for – no. That comes off a bit pathetic, doesn’t it. Backspace. 

Thank you; likewise. Exclamation point? Does the full stop look dour? Cold? But he’s never been much of an exclamation point man. Likewise – I’ve always wanted to visit Antarctica. What

He stops typing, seized by a sudden fear. Hurriedly erasing the message draft, he looks up at Blanky. “Can people see me typing on this thing?”

“Fuck should I know, Francis? I’ve been married for twenty years. – Give us a minute, though.” Blanky pulls out his own phone and writes a text. Less than a minute later, his phone pings. “Hannah says aye. Also wants to know if I'm cheating on Esther.”

[theamityelf]

Saving Hajime's Daemon, Scenario 1: Sonia

(I'm basing my daemon lore on the HDM series, but I'm also kind of doing whatever I want, so.)

(More from the Daemons AU in this masterlist.)

...

It was a few nights after they emerged from the simulation. A few nights after their kouhais (now their Future Foundation benefactors) left them to their own devices.

Sonia was taking a walk in the dark, in the quiet. It was her daemon, a black bat named Sebastian, who noticed the injured sparrow first. A broken wing, a twitching leg. Sonia stared down at it, as Sebastian clung like a gargoyle to her shoulder, and she felt a perverse urge to crush the bird underfoot. End its suffering. She remembered the screams of peasants cowering at her feet...

Her eyes prickled, and she knelt in the dirt, staring at the injured sparrow with a racing heart, sobs catching in her throat. These feelings came at random, left without fanfare. It would only be a moment. Then she could keep smiling, keep walking back to her cabin, or perhaps...The bird...

"It's not a normal bird," Sebastian said. (In Sonia's home language. Sebastian very, very rarely spoke in any other tongue.)

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"It's like a daemon, but...there's no one else around."

Like a daemon? Sonia closed her eyes, but behind her eyelids, her mind conjured up the images of daemons disappearing into thin air as their humans died at her command...She opened her eyes. Her hand flew, subconsciously, to the scarf she was wearing. Gundham's scarf.

Her default polite smile slipped back into place.

She scooped up the bird and took it to her cabin.

With cheeks stiff with tears she didn't remember shedding, Sonia attended to the wing, the foot, the various cuts, with hands well-practiced at first aid. Offering the bird a steady flow of verbal reassurances. It hadn't spoken, but if Sebastian believed it was anything like a daemon, she should assume it had the same intelligence.

It wasn't until she had finished the task, gone to sleep, and woken up again that the sparrow (nestled in a shoe box, on a bundle of soft fabric) spoke to her.

"Sonia."

She was partway out of bed, her body already angled to approach the box with the bird, but that single word made her freeze in place. The familiar way the creature spoke her name, the exhaustion weighing each syllable.

She put both feet on the floor, straightened her back, but didn't approach. Sebastian did, gliding across the room to perch over the box and gaze down at the bird.

"You know us?" he said, in a formal tone with the lightest edge of menace. Warning. "Then what may we call you?"

"The name I had...I don't know if it's mine anymore, or what it is worth to you," the sparrow replied. It spoke with a rather high and silken voice. It wasn't a voice Sonia believed she'd heard before, but it still sounded familiar in some way. And it was speaking their language back to them.

Being spoken to in her home language made her think of Hajime. Perhaps she should have thought of him sooner: a daemon missing a human should have reminded her of a human missing a daemon.

And the matter of names, as well.

"We shall have it, regardless," she spoke up, taking her first (barefoot) steps toward the bird, her hands folded daintily.

"My name has been Minami. You may call me Minami, if you find it useful, though all that I'm certain remains of who I once was is the fact that I need my human and my human needs me."

Sonia's face fell, her folded hands now gripping each other tightly.

In the simulation, Hajime couldn't remember his daemon's name. In the simulation, Hajime's daemon was still changing shape, despite their age, and acted as though voiceless. Most of which had been taken as a manipulation of Monokuma's, or else Usami's. Like their lost memories, like Hajime's forgotten Ultimate. And once they emerged, Hajime had said nothing of his daemon except that she was dead.

A sparrow? A sparrow named Minami?

"I have seen daemons harmed as a proxy for their humans, and I have seen daemons suffer for the injuries of their humans," Sonia said slowly. "I have never seen daemons themselves injured. Certainly not while their humans remain intact. How can a being made from the substance of a soul have a broken wing? How can a daemon bleed?"

"You are asking how a soul can be harmed," Minami answered. "When a body is injured, the Self is not flayed. It takes exceptional meddling to flay the Self. But that is the part you understand already, is it not?"

She thought of the single red eye, the single green. "I see. And you need me to return you to Hajime?"

Minami didn't reply right away. "We need to be one again," she eventually agreed. "But it can't be taken as a given that my human will accept me. He never truly has, before."

"But he must now. He's decided to be himself again. He is choosing not to be Kamukura."

"He is choosing to be what he views as something better than Kamukura. I may not be an ingredient in the Self he wants to create."

"But what alernative is there? You are his daemon."

"We are damaged." That was all Minami said.

"Do you mean...? You can't truly mean that he can reject you."

"He can kill me."

Sonia stared in horror. Sebastian flew to her shoulder and crawled to her back, hiding under her hair. "Hajime would not...Surely he can't..."

"My human is deciding who he is to be. In order to reach his final decision, he will have to face me again. That is when he will kill me or keep me."

"It isn't possible! He would die!"

"He will kill me or keep me, and he will live with the results."

[meadowlarkx]

Hello! I absolutely love your finrod/sauron AU and I was wondering if you’d be willing to talk a bit more about how you have characterized finrod in this fic, and what his ultimate goals are? Also, does the series have a set ending or do you plan to keep it more open ended? Thank you!

Thank you so so much for the ask (and all your enthusiasm in general)!! I'm thrilled you're enjoying that au! 💖

I have a lot of feelings about Finrod and have been mulling and pondering how best to put them into words:

One of the most central things to Finrod, in my eyes, is his ability to see and value the small amid the "big picture." He values keepsakes from home (bringing the most jewels etc to Middle-earth!), individual lives (the Beorians and Beren's, his cousins' on both sides, thinking also of "But [Finarfin's] sons were not with him, for they would not forsake the sons of Fingolfin"...), beauty, others' culture and lore (hours spent with Andreth!), language. He loves really hard, and he loves people, not ideals. A while ago I rambled some about why I think he did a lot to keep the Exiles' spirits and personhood alive on the Helcaraxe. This is one of his best traits, it draws incredible, selfless feats and efforts from him, and it's why I can see him pulling out absolutely all the stops for the chance to save Beren+his companions in that AU! It also goes two ways. He chooses to honor his oath to Barahir--and leaves Nargothrond and kinda also Beleriand in political crisis doing so. I also think this love is why he allowed C&C to gain the influence they did in Nargothrond--he kept wanting to give his cousins the benefit of the doubt and to wearily hope they could yet change (I mean, this is just my reading!)

But what makes him really interesting, to me, is that he IS aware of the stakes, and the "big picture," and the immensity of what they have done and are facing. He isn't an idiot by any means--he knows exactly what he is doing, but often, he does it anyway. It is still "worth it". I'm thinking here of his private conversation with Beren before he announces his intention to honor his own oath, where he sums up the situation with C&C and says something like "So we are all by our oaths ensnared." But, amazingly, honestly, absolutely madly and almost selfishly to me, it is still worth it to him. He doesn't commit lightly!! I love that about him. I'm thinking also of he and Turgon's visions of future threat from Ulmo, and the way he knows and recognizes the "shadow" on Men's hearts, and on the hearts of himself and the Noldor. The way he can't speak when Thingol confronts him about the first kinslaying ("I marvel at you, son of Earwen..."), because he won't speak against his cousins: he knows his own fault--or sees it as equal to his cousins'. (I actually don't think he kinslayed there--but he knows that he would have taken those stolen ships, he knows he threw in his lot with the Nolofinweans, he would not think himself better than them...) The way he knows 'nothing shall endure of my realm'... And of course going on after hearing Namo's doom in the first place, when his father, who I think he's close to and proud of, chose to turn back. He has this deep streak of sorrow in him that goes with the savvy-ness of Knowing things.

And, like, it makes you think, well, why did he think it was worth it? Why did he think it mattered to keep his oath to Barahir or lug those jewels across the Helcaraxe? and obviously Silm fandom is all about drawing our own lines to connect the disparate dots we got in canon, so they can be connected various ways, but my connecting the dots is that Finrod is despite everything an optimist :') He hopes that from bad beginnings, ill deeds, the doom itself etc. they can find good ends. In his way, through what he values, he'll try to get them there. And if not--at least joy in the meanwhile, and that that means something. Beren's (to harp again upon this example bear with me...) life matters, even if it's just a handful more mortal years. I find that really idk... touching of him. He sees good in things. And his optimism can be prideful, but I think one needs pride to get anywhere, kinda. The line with hope is pretty blurry, to me. You have to imagine something can be a certain way in order to try to get it there.

(*I know some people prefer to read Finrod as abruptly blindsided and confronted by any complicity of his in the first kinslaying/reminder of his Teleri kin's murder in his song battle with Sauron, but to me it is more satisfying and tragic if he has never denied it--he has sought to live with it, to move past it, to affirm that the Noldor can be & do better here--and here is Sauron essentially saying "no. Remember how bad it was? You (plural) can never be other than that." A blow to the very core of Finrod. also he froze up because of PTSD and I'll cry forever about it)

Heh another thing on Finrod and pride--I imagine him with a particular flavor of pride that ironically comes with being humble, in his way. Or acknowledging faults. I mean, if you're Finrod, and you live every day with the memory of your slain Teleri relatives and allow for some kind of responsibility for it, and then you hear Celegorm boldly repeating the entire Oath at top volume to the unapologetic tenor of "we'll do it all again. Nothing wrong with any of that." In your house, where you hosted him. I dare you not to get a little frustrated, a little angry, a little self-righteous or contemptuous about it!! So I see Finrod who thinks he's great but because he thinks he sucks or because he thinks he's good enough to realize he sucks but also aware of this. Or um, something. He holds himself, internally at least, to a sort of moral standard that he can look down on others if they don't meet. There's pride in his insistence on upholding his own (lowercase) oath as equally important, too, and maybe some bitterness. But I think he can be pretty self-critical alongside it, in low moods and when things are not going well--he knows himself too well. In his own eyes, he is not a very serious person. He can be vain, he can certainly be a hypocrite (I interpret a lot of what he says to Andreth as like "do as I (or my brother) say not as I do"), but he generally knows these things about himself.

Connection is also something I associate really strongly with him. Not just empathy, but also (relatedly) personal and political connections. This is also sort of the well I draw his promiscuity in that fic series from--in my eyes Finrod can Never hold back from caring, getting attached and entangled etc, and he loves freely (Middle-earth's most eligible bachelor since Amarie is home in Aman RIP, and not bound by tradition). Every time I see a gif of Cate Blanchett's Galadriel, I just imagine how incredibly powerful Finrod's charm/otherworldly allure would be (Edain waking and thinking they were in some fair dream!). I like to think that Nargothrond was 80% held together by Finrod's personal charisma (definitely not robust heritable administrative structures) and Beleriand on the whole a little bit also, by the way things fall apart after his death (and the other B&L stuff, ofc, but Finrod could have smoothed out a lot if he had lived--is my truth.) To come back to the political-esque connections--Finrod is the only character who hangs out with Maglor and Maedhros AND Thingol (from whom he has his realm!), who has (according to him. unreliable narrator) friendly enough interactions with C&C in Nargothrond, who negotiates with the Laiquendi for land for the Edain, for whom the Dwarves forged the Nauglamir, etc. etc. (I really love him having an epesse from Khuzdul - I can't hear you badger Felagund origin story - and Nom as an epesse from the Edain. Finrod the beloved!) Making these connections and inspiring personal confidence/loyalty is what he is really good at, in my headcanon--it's really easy to see in the whole episode with Balan/Beor, who joins him in Nargothrond, after all the time Finrod spends with them. He has a link to everyone, and he's skilled at taking into account others' needs and hearts because for the most part he really does care. So in a way really it's good that he's on holiday from kingship with Sauron to work on his real strengths :)

Loving people and connections with them lends itself well to a thread of vanity too--he likes and wants to be admired and noticed (I mean, it's crazy to me that he decides to pull his little harp stunt while Beor's folk are sleeping to surprise them. What a Move). Love this for him, though.

OK, this is getting so long, but just to like, wrap up, I am also obsessed with his magic/Song--after holding his own against Sauron himself, his spells in Leithian are powerful enough to withstand even defeat by Sauron! His magic preserves the secret of their identities, and breaks his bonds to save Beren! Between this, his foresight line to Galadriel ("An oath I too shall swear, and must be free to fulfil it, and go into darkness. Nor shall anything of my realm endure that a son should inherit." I like to imagine he occasionally just Says stuff like this), his Ulmo dreams, his harping painting fair visions, etc., he is so powerful and mystical and eerie. He never quite takes a straightforward path to things. He goes missing for months on his hunting road trip. He isn't on the front lines of the leaguer with Maedhros & co, but making a safe hidden place in Nargothrond against the danger forewarned to come (and necklaces). Presumably he can fight with a sword or whatever, but I get the sense that's not his strength by a long shot--the one time he is actually on the battlefield in armor in Silm he nearly dies and gets rescued by his human friend. He doesn't intend to battle Sauron in any way when he sets out, but to evade him with magical disguises. (And terrible aliases. A testament to the power of Finrod's magic that they worked or that he lapsed so foolishly - exhaustedly? - later, IMO. I have to laugh.) He often is doing his own thing, which speaks to me of self-possession. He even names himself a king in Nargothrond, which he has from Thingol, but doesn't claim any Noldor high kingship. He's got this independent, maverick streak that just makes him fascinating and very fun to write.

So in the fic, I guess, I'd say I've tried to characterize him as willing to do anything for his friends, prioritizing their individual lives--I think this bit is canon. He's creative and evasive and trying to use any means at his disposal. After his canon defeat, he lost most of his hope and confidence, but seeing things proceed differently to what he had foreseen has done a lot to resurrect it--and Sauron being responsive keeps boosting it too. He feels like anything might be possible, however small and foolish the chance. He genuinely values knowing more of Sauron and his enemies and their thralls etc and is mentally filing it away, though the knowledge often comes at some painful cost. He often sees their games as a challenge, in a way, though he tries to be careful about letting his vanity or desire obscure his clearer vision. That said, I really think Finrod wouldn't be able to keep his newfound hope from extending to imagining reaching Sauron in a meaningful sense, too. He does hope for that, even if the hope is basically minuscule. It would be a victory for him and most importantly, an affirmation of his optimism and confidence to turn something in Sauron's spirit or heart, to have something "real," and he's always looking for something "good" there, even if he often does not find it or even realize he is looking for it. Other than that, beyond what is going on in the tower--he is a bit adrift. Now especially so--he's cut off from any people he loves, he's lonely, stuck being self-sacrificing, and he feels guilty about leaving Orodreth & co. in an awful position. He's a king who is no longer a king, and now he doesn't even have the companions he left with who might see him that way. But while all that is declining so precipitously, he increasingly has Sauron, and the tower, and whatever he can make of them. :') I hope that answer is satisfying enough! The challenge of writing this fic has been trying to make an emotionally believable (I should probably say "compelling" instead of "believable"--but you know) arc on both sides, but I'm looking forward to continuing this journey!!!

As for the ending, it's kinda yes and no! I do have a set end point in mind to conclude this series with them, which I'm determined to get them to. But there are also a handful of scenes set later on that I'm tempted to write which would kind of extend it--either as an epilogue or something else. I'm not sure if I'll ever write those bits though, or if I did what would be the best way to do it (ie. to keep it as installments of the og fic series or arrange it some other way on AO3.) That part is all hypothetical though!

[theha1r]

verse drop (steve winchester au)

things i want to preface this by saying: this is fully me doing my best to make this work as an actual verse despite never having seen an episode of supernatural in my life. please feel free to come tell me if anything doesn't work/make sense. on top of this, this verse does not function as a regular supernatural verse - it is basically a private verse really only open to @milleroptimism & all the siblings & family & everyone else involved in that/that knows about sarah's lore & everything else. if you have a supernatural muse & you're unfamiliar with any of that (which ... you should go follow hayley rn just saying) & you wanna interact with steve, i'll probably just throw his vampire verse at you. bc i simply do not have enough knowledge to give him an actual spn verse - ANYWAYS ALL THIS BEING SAID ...

this verse is basically just - steve still grew up in a town. (small town?). still went through a lot of the same arcs & bs. except - maybe instead of being terrorized by serial killers (main fandomless verse) or whatever the hell vecna & the mindflayer & demogorgons are (st verse), steve & his friends were terrorized by various creatures & beings of the supernatural variety. so he's still got that sweet trauma. still had his 'i was an asshole in hs but became a better person' arc. & ... still was constantly & continuously being left home alone by his parents time & time again. only ever seeing them for maybe a week or so, every several months. maybe even less. & when they were around, they were very far from parents of the year. so all in all, this was what kind of led to him frequenting sarah's spot. it wasn't originally something he planned to do, he just went in once for dinner. or lunch. who knows. then sarah's warm & maternal nature kept drawing him back in, subconsciously craving the love she showed him that his own mother had lacked his whole life. then came steve accidentally calling her 'mom' & him thinking that was the end of it all ... until, it very much was not the end of it all. in fact, you could kind of say maybe that was the end of the beginning. steve found a home in sarah's home. in the winchester home. with more siblings than he could possibly imagine & more love than he could possibly imagine. eventually, he finally fully moved out of his parents place & into the winchester's. his parents were in for quite a shock the first time they actually came home after that. there might've been a fight. but i think it's safe to say steve doesn't really talk to them anymore. not when he's got a safer & much better family. steve definitely helps out at the restaurant whenever he can & is probably constantly trying to make up to sarah for all she's done for him & everything she's brought him. & for the love she showed him that started it all. but being in a good environment, a healthy environment, a happy one, has definitely caused steve to grow to be a lot more well adjusted than he might be in other verses. & has definitely improved his life for the better.

all in all to say, this verse has my WHOLE ENTIRE HEART & if you read this whole entire thing steve & i love you. thank you <3

[redhoodinternaldialectical]

5, 16, 20?

Linking the original ask post cause it took some digging to find it again lol

Something you see in fics a lot and love:

B-boysss... kissing :3

lol okay uh the overwhelming majority of what I read is jaytim that's rated Explicit, so there's, ya'know, a lot of patterns in there that I've self selected for, but attempting to get into a more meaningful answer, I really like the way that fanfic repeatedly digs up old shit and uses it as a catalyst for characters to gain greater intimacy with each other. The constant reinvention and re-contextualization of Jason and Tim's various fights is neat to me

A tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate:

Oooh I'm gonna throw up the post I already made about the guy Jason manipulated into playing puppet for him

But that feels like cheating so I also want people to appreciate the asymmetrical aspects of the OG spoiler outfit, because I adore it so. I am a SUCKER for shoulder pads/spikes and 80s asymmetrical outfits.

Your very first fandom:

That's... actually pretty hard to answer.

The first online community I truly got involved with is City of Heroes. Loved playing the game when it was live, and I role played in the Homecoming servers for fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, for about five years. I still play every once in a while too! If you see Dread Captain Bones, David Drakal, or Cowboy Cline around, those are me :3 The only issue I have with saying it's this one is that I'm not entirely sure this counts as a fandom?? It really is more a role playing community than anything like a fandom for the game itself, most people only very lightly engage with the setting and it's considered a tad crass to get any of the named canonical characters involved with your character's story lines.

We could very technically count Naruto simply because that was the first one I ever tried to find fanfic for but uhhhhh... I started with ff.net with a super dark E rated fic because I thought E meant for Everyone and bounced off it so hard. I'm very sorry geisha AU naru-sasu fic I read when I was like thirteen, I tried so hard to like you, but my PTSD was not having it lmao

There's also half decent arguments to be made for Marvel comics, Doctor Who, or Vampire the Masquerade simply because my parents are/were such massive nerds lmao

Both of them did a lot of LARP and one of my favorite pictures of my mom is her as either the Sheriff or the Prince of our city ripping someone's heart out via a sponge soaked with fake blood :3 so yeah I def grew up learning about the clans and the lore and such

And this is very much a Marvel household lol My parents used to do story time with me about the X-men, and like they are completely accepting of my metal head and queer stuff, but I feel like it hurts my dad's soul just a little bit that I ended up being so into DC and so uninterested in Marvel. Whenever we talk about some of my (not romance related) plotlines for my DC fics he'll substitute in vaguely equivalent Marvel characters because he simply cannot be asked to dedicate braincells to DC characters lmao

Me: "I'm really looking forwards to writing out how the super geniuses and stuff push the limits of what Jason and Tim did to the diseases."

My Dad, knowing FULL WELL that I am not including any Marvel characters in this fic: "Oh yeah, Reed Richards would go nuts trying to figure that shit out."

My dad also collected Doctor Who episodes, like the ones from 1963 all the way to modernity, I grew up watching the black and white stuff, and for sure tumblr did expose me to Superwholock, through I never felt like I was a part of that.

It might actually be DC comics itself that's my first fandom! I just never really interacted with any sort of online or fandom space directly until Boostle dragged me into DC fandom's sphere of influence.

Anyhow I hope my ramblings were interesting/entertaining and thank you muchly for the ask! :3

[acaciapines]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

i was tagged by @snarky-wallflower and i love talking, lets go!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

70 total, but 5 of those are chara's! so under my name its 65.

2. What’s your total word count?

1,427,738.....

cannot wait to break 2 million w the owl house daemon au. lets go!! never stop!!!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

whatever i'm into, but for fandoms i see myself continuing to write for in the near-ish future: deltarune and the owl house!

4. Top 5 fics by kudos

you're something special: my first kris-identity fic! i have mixed feelings on this one lol. you can tell its the first i wrote and i hadnt yet solidified my version of kris, tho i think this one probably fits better with canon. overall i like it though!

but then a bigger heart grew back: ooooooh i REALLY love this one. its postcanon owl house fic centering on hunter's grief over flapjack's death and his friendship with waffles!!! i wrote and posted it the DAY after the finale came out which is still really wild to me. its also the only fic ive seen that uses my favorite headcanon of 'hunter didnt carve waffles, she found him' which im so so fond of.

i hope your organs fail you (before i do): this was the first deltarune fic i wrote after chapter 2 came out!! the beginning of my deltarune spiral....its sort of a messy non-chronological look at deltarune's various routes and how kris might experiencing the game's multiple save files. also it has such a banger title. salt lake city by motherfolk is just banger after banger lyrics-wise

non-imaginary friends: god i hate that this is up here dkgjdfg i wrote it back when deltarune first came out and it SHOWS. i refuse to reread it but i think it's kris trying and failing to introduce the dark worlds to asriel. c'mon guys ive written so many better deltarune fics. blease. let this one rest in the past <3

we don't belong (but we're together): oooh, a warrior cats one! im....i mean, this one is like, fine, i guess. it follows hollyleaf and jayfeather in an au where the two of them flee through the tunnels. it has fun lore and i do like my oc pine but. man. its also the fic where i gave hollyleaf a power and if theres one thing i would change about my warriors au its that holly would NOT get a power. this is why i pre-write all my fics before posting now!

5. Do you respond to comments?

yes!! or at least i try my best to. i love and appreciate all my comments sometimes im just Bad at responding to them....i never know what to say beyond 'wow thank you' so sometimes i try to focus more on comments where i can actually say something of substance, yknow?

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

oh thats hard hmmmmmmm. i think i'd have to say it's and i want to tell you something-- which is a fic about kris & ralsei & the player/soul, where susie and noelle try to save kris from the soul, but both kris and ralsei know they cant survive without it. so in the end kris shatters the soul and is implied to die rather than keep being trapped.

its!!! certainly a time!

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

hmmmm. i think most of my ending are pretty bittersweet so in terms of pure happy ending...gonna go for a deep cut here and say its my naddpod fic +1 dad in which moonshine meets lucanus when shes a kid and they hit it off and they get to have that father-daughter relationship from the start. bc lucanus is the BEST naddpod npc and oh my god he loves his daughter so so much you guys--

8. Do you get hate on fics?

i have a few times but its never been like, super major. the funniest time is. i deleted the comment so i dont have the exact wording but im pretty sure someone called me a fandom-deserting cur for. not writing more warrior cat fanfiction?

like what were they expecting. truly.

9. Do you write smut?

no im very aroace lol. i barely write romance.

10. Do you write crossovers?

i used to!!! i did the adventure zone crossed with both how to train your dragon and pokemon mystery dungeon: explorers of sky. i was a different person back then. i dont think i'd do it now, but. who knows.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

no, but i HAVE had a fic pod-ficced which is still so amazing. like......woag. someone liked my fic enough to read the words out loud?????? huh????

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

not exactly co-written but both sometimes i think i left you just to see if i'd be missed and a buy one, get one free sort of friend were inspired by conversations i had with my friend @hyperfixations-go-brr! they would not have existed without those long discord chats. halloween festival will live on forever. synth my love.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

im not super into ships beyond like. basic 'oh thats fun' when reading but i WILL actually give the two im the most excited to write in my dess raises kris au someday:

noelle/susie/ralsei: YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME. like. this is an au where noelle basically replaces kris in the fun gang but not in the prophecy and dkjgdfg its about. this budding relationship. and ralsei clinging to the prophecy that doesnt want noelle here and susie who bucks against anything that acts like it knows what shes supposed to do and noelle struggling with the return of her sister and a world that wants to write her out of the story and all of them wanting to be there for their friends but ralsei is dealing with so so much and in the end she gets to throw off her chains and be free <3 noelle/susie/ralsei is so real in my heart.

dess/chara: literally the funniest queerplatonic relationship ever. theyre reluctant coparents. dess trusts chara with kris's life. chara would never ever let dess watch either frisk OR kris unsupervised. chara is 'i can fix you' to dess's 'im literally the most perfect wife in the world.' dess doesn't believe romantic love is a real thing people feel. chara puts xir kids above everything else. dess never asked to be a mother even though she literally kidnapped her best friends baby sibling. they get married for the tax benefits. they should absolutely get a divorce.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you will?

oh god theres so many i would love to finish but its been so long i doubt i'll go back to them lol. the sequel to +1 dad that involves baby moonshine going to gladeholm. wall-e daemon au. gravity falls transcedence au daemon au. percy jackson daemon au. deltarune daemon au fangame.

as you can see its mostly various daemon aus. they were fun while they lasted! but ive moved on </3

16. What are your writing strengths?

pov you are me suddenly forgetting every single thing i have ever written.

i think im very good at writing otherkin or otherwise nonhuman characters. the comments that always bring me the most joy are those on my otherkin fics, by people who were able to see themselves in what i wrote--i think this is a thing that took me a lot of failed attempts to get just right and im really really proud of what i have.

im very good at writing daemon aus <3 there is sort of. an art to figuring out if one a work even needs daemons and two how daemons enhance or add to some aspect of the original work. theres a lot of things i like that i dont think really work with daemons but i always really enjoy figuring out how to add daemons and how to make my daemons like, characters in their own right, you know?

i like to think im good at dialogue and characterization! theres a few characters--kris and the collector, firefly to an extent--that im really proud of the voices i've made for them.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

fight scenes. fight scenes. oh my god i hate them so much they are SO HARD. stop making me put!! visual things!! in my text based medium!!!

really any scene that relies on having a strong idea of like, physical descriptions and sense of a place--i have aphantasia so having to describe scenery and landscape and just, anything really is always a struggle for me.

i also struggle with pacing, to an extent, especially across longer works (im looking at you, owl house daemon au)--knowing how long a plot arc needs to last and how to make it interesting still even when its going to be around for 600k+ words is a challenge and if the owl house daemon au was my first massive fic undertaking i dont think i'd be able to do it.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

god im so bad at it but i really really am trying to be better--one big thing im going to focus on in my owl house daemon au edit is based on this because i want luz's identity to stick with her throughout the fic rather than it taking a backseat, but i am not a spanish speaker!! i know like, a LITTLE, but nowhere near enough to feel confident writing it.

so. its a time!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

warrior cats. and beyond just 'oh its the first fandom i posted fic for' no i was writing warrior cat fanfiction from the START. i was out there on the playground coming up with warrior cat ocs. i was printing this stuff out in the school library. i would hand-write fanfiction about my childhood cats becoming warrior cats and starting their own clan. i would roleplay warrior cats on my bedroom floor with pictures of cats i cut out of printer paper and bits of plastic folders i folded into triangles and write down the stories i came up with.

i was the most warrior cat kid to warrior cat kid. I Have Always Been This Way.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

ohhhhhh this is SUCH a tough question i have so many im so fond of, but i think i'm going to have to go with alterhuman. it's an animorphs fic about tobias post-canon and its an exploration of species identity and being a hawk and as a red-tailed hawk myself, a lot of it is deeply personal, a lot of it is my love letter to animorphs, and a lot of it is neffit, who is the best oc i have ever created, hands down.

as for tags, uh....anybody who wants to talk about their fics! even if we dont know each other!! go forth! ramble on about your own stuff for an hour!! truly so so fun.

also @wynterwulf7 and @mackerelgray and @hyperfixations-go-brr. obviously. <3 even if its about fic that isnt on ao3.

[unchartedperils]

SPOILERS FOR MK1 AHEAD. DO NOT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO SEE YET.

First Tournament was really good. Don’t have too much if any complaints, though I wish Shao put up more of a fight against Raiden. And I felt so bad for defeating Li Mei 🥺😭.

The Johnny-Kenshi friendship was really cool and I almost cried when Johnny gave Kenshi Sento.

YES BARAKA AND REPTILE GET TO KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES! Unlike Reiko who stays as Shao’s jobber but that’s his job lmfao so I can’t be mad 😆 (don’t get me started with his “demonstration”).

The reveal of the Deadly Alliance, I LOST MY SHIT. Though I can’t say I like Quan Chi’s new voice or personality that much. At best he seems more like a Saturday morning cartoon villain in the background that Shang’s equal if not more dangerous accomplice.

Speaking of Quan Chi though, I REALLY LOST MY SHIT in Ashrah’s chapter. I had already known that her lore was unchanged at all other than she too had served under Quan Chi, but I still was in amazement at her chapter (wish Havik played a role but he’s up for later) and I hope she can free Sareena from Quan Chi in a possible Mythologies style DLC.

Next up: ERMAC. I CALLED IT, I CALLED IT, I CALLED IT. From the moment he was revealed and mostly bashed by the fanbase, there was a reason for his radical new look: HE WAS JERROD’S BODY and ultimately Quan Chi resurrected him with both his and other souls from the Living Forest! This had been building up since MK9 in numerous endings but it’s now been realized! So badass and touching (more on this in a min)

Then just like Deadly Alliance: THE DRAGON ARMY RESURRECTED BY THEM (not a fan of them writing Onaga out so far but there’s still hope for him)!

Onto Li Mei’s chapter: Obviously as a few of you know, my newest MK oneshot is a AU of her chapter and I have so much to say: Li Mei is just so awesome and I sympathize so much with her for being framed/kicked out of the Umgadi after Jerrod’s death. But her being Sun Do’s first cop is just as interesting and of course with Liu’s help does she kick ass and take names! Oh yea and TAKE THAT TANYA! I just knew you’d betray them just like the older timelines. But at least her and Empress Sindel’s relationship is restored. Btw I have another possible plot bunny for Li Mei but I’ll keep it a surprise.

Sindel: tears were shed when her and Jerrod reunited. And more at her death in his arms 😭😭😭.

Mileena: SO MUCH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND IT WARMED MY HEART! Even with her condition, she’s now a noble and strong warrior! Liu really did redeem her and gave her all she wanted in his New Era. 🥺🥹

And that’s all I can think of for up to the Dragon Army chapter. It’s around this time unfortunately as soon as Liu mentions “timeline” the MK11 part of the story was gonna come back. Per usual the quality dips quite a bit, but if nothing else we got the Armageddon tribute with Liu’s “Forces of Light” against Titan Shang’s “Forces of Darkness” and NRS literally did trial and error on various NPC designs 😆 (Black Dragon Sonya alone had me dying).

But the battle itself was really cool despite the wackiness and now EVERYONE’s ARCADE ENDING IS CANON IN SOME WAY SHAPE OR FORM! And bonus points to if you select someone other than Liu, he initially seems to lose to the Titan DA like in OG DA (except obviously not dying) before the selected character comes to his aid.

Great ending and I’ll leave off at that another 3D era character might attempt to leave where both the OG DA and Titan DA left off…

[asoulofstars]

📂 I want the RARE LORE

So, this is something that I've been thinking about as I've been exploring various things in the RPC Tea Room Development Server. And I thought I was playing Riona wrong because of it for a long time. I've noticed that Riona does a lot of things in college: her marriage with Luke, stripping, having at least two relationships (outside of Luke), etc.

And these things should, by and large, make her more confident and not wanting to hide from the world.

But then I realized literally as I was trying to figure out what to answer this ask with: this is the first time Riona has been truly free from her parents. She has been abused and neglected for six years straight, with little to no sanctuary, and she is finally on her own. Now, she's not truly on her own, as she meets Luke and rushes into this scheme of a marriage with him, but there's this sense of being able to breathe that she's almost unable to remember having before. She was twelve when Soll died, and she honestly has very few actual memories of what life was like before that.

So, even though she doesn't go "crazy wild party girl" in college, she still gets to explore herself. She gets to be a stripper and get tattoos and figure out what she's doing in life and what she believes in.

And then when she and Luke graduate, and she moves onto grad school, and Luke goes to start really practicing his music and making his career happen, Riona loses her anchor, and things are actually serious. And because of her trauma, she becomes that scared little girl again. She's alone. Having people a phone call away isn't the same as having them there in the same house with you.

So she goes back to what she knows; she goes back to being invisible and trying to make herself as small as possible. She does what she has to do to get through school. She does ask questions; she wants to know everything she can. But she doesn't draw attention to herself if she doesn't have to.

Even when she gets into Quantico and goes through the Academy, she has to put on a persona when she goes to work. She's not good at compartmentalization. Every case takes a physical and emotional toll on her. She is told to get into therapy quickly after starting at the FBI, and she does. But she has so much guilt and trauma to work through that there's so many behaviors she can't just undo.

And I think there's a similar trajectory for her in my novels, where when she moves out, she finally gets that freedom, but it's harder in the faerie world. There is no therapy. There is no escaping her parents; they're in the same community, and they're Elders; they're highly respected members of the community. So, she latches herself to her three best friends: Aislinn, Aidan, and Logan.

(I am trying to figure out how to work more of Riona's human AU stuff into the faerie world, because while Human Riona and Faerie Riona are two distinct characters, since I usually translate Faerie Things to Human Riona, I want to try translating Human Things to Faerie Riona.)

All in all, healing isn't a linear path, and Riona is someone who gets caught in a spiral very easily. She feels everything and can't turn off her heart. That's what happens.

Thank you for getting me to actually sit down and put these thoughts into words, Ben. I was like "omg, not the rare lore" when I first saw the notification, but this was necessary for me to write out and figure out my own mindset here.

[interstellar-au]

WELCOME TO THE. MY AU. MY FREAKiNG AU. WHERE SONiC AND RATCHET KISS. BiSEXUAL RiGHTS!

im ash, my pronouns are they/them/xe/xem, i'm real life silver the hedgehog and i like making my dolls kiss. this is a sonic + r&c crossover au that started off by me drawing sonic and ratchet in various Predicaments together. the main "plot" revolves around sonic + ratchet navagating their differences and relationship, etc. the team dark side plot is. hohoho. the team dark side plot 😈.

my sonic blog is nonbinary-sticks-the-badger, where a decent load of sonatchet/interstellar posts are currently. there are wayyy too many to reblog, so if you want to check out interstellar posts prior to 24/06/2024, click here.

asks both in and out of character are encouraged seeing as asks are like a cornerstone to this au imo, just keep anything sexual to a minimum seeing as im sex repulsed and most characters are minors (innuendo is probably about as far as im ok with. maybe for adults light hearted stuff like "they have cheeky bum sex on tuesdays"). also this does not mean "i think x ship is an aroallo relationship" is hereby blasphemy and warrants a trip to the gallows

featured tags below!

more info:

im better versed in sonic lore than r&c lore if you cant already tell, so apologies for any ignorance. if youre a fan of sonic but youve never heard of ratchet and clank, you can still probably understand this au (to some degree)! if its the other way around I'm So Sorry.

ig if youre going as far back as possible, ive sort of shipped sonatchet since 2022 by making them friends in WSWE (if you dont know what that is then good). speaking of which the second ever "sonatchet" fic on ao3 was a spin off of that fic, sonic and ratchet go to tesco.

tbf interstellar probably wouldnt exist without asks, so i have to thank the numerous ive had over this time. and i WILL answer them all one day if its the last thing i do.

[bluepoodle7]

#InfectedRealtorAu #FosterAdoptRealtorOc #MyThoughts#PoodleArtMyArt

What Casa Court's office in my Au looks like.

Image not mine but link is there.

Desk Aquariums : r/FrutigerAero (reddit.com)

Part 1

#Foster Adoptable REALTORs – @bluepoodle7 on Tumblr

More lore for him from the original creator.

Has a large burgundy ribbon and the lure string is connected at the back of the neck like the other real estate agents.

He likes to dress himself beautifully, so he will wear anything he likes, such as hair ties, hair ornaments, clothes, and sunglasses.

What a Foster adopt is from the creator.

All rights to use the characters I created will be transferred to the person who took over them. Therefore, I no longer have the right to decide what to do with the characters I gave them.

I often use the language of flowers and objects that have various meanings and thoughts, and I chose columbine flowers for my business card, considering the inner meaning of CASA. The font was created on a site that converts it to cursive, etc.

This flower has different meanings depending on its color, but I chose it because it means ``determination to win'' or ``I'm sure I'll get it.''

Feel free to use business cards, seeds, and badges!

Traveler's Palm is Casa's flower.

Found this termite and cat plushies I randomly found that I might use as a ref later.

Images not mine but link is there.

Termite (giantmicrobes.com)

Wirziis 4.7 Inch Realistic Cat Plush Cats Toys Stuffed Animal Cute Kawaii Cats Plush Plushie Toy Look Like Real Purrs Kids 3+ - Walmart.com

https://twitter.com/Maison1963_0508/status/1731334600436383749

https://x.com/Maison1963_0508/status/1731463999156523222

Ref for his hand holding his business card and hand in pocket with his thumb out.

Businessman with a credit card Royalty Free Stock SVG Vector and Clip Art (vectorportal.com)

Body Language Trainer - › The Thumb Pointer › sonamics

These are the sketches of Casa Court and Clementine the Flying Catmite shaped mutualism fungmammal with the gold flower portal she changed into to keep up with Casa Court's lure cord.

I also drew his house body but added the chimney smoke heart and the water drip from his pipe.

I was more comfortable trying to draw the house body mini sketch than the lure body since Casa Court looks like a how to draw manga character in this.

Clementine the Flying Catmite would protect Casa Court from danger like other parasite fungmammals or other dangerous things like fire.

But if it's ice she would take one for the team and sacrifice herself but Casa Court needs to break her to reform her spores back in place.

This will also spread the fungmammals spores to make more of them but needs to stay away from acid if she is frozen which will kill Clementine.

Casa Court is still non infected realtor but uses Clementine be half infected like keeping up with his lure cord for easy travel and making a clone of Casa Court in case he wants to explore to feed his house body.

I hand drew Casa Court's sprouting flower seed REALTORs baby form to the best of my ability that I need to Ms paint test color this later.

I had to stare at the sketch to get the detailed patterns in order sketched the best I could.

I know I need a white ink pen for this pic.

Just the lineart of this oc before I test color of a adopted REALTORs oc that I'm using in my Infected Realtor Au.

Casa Court's eye color is Ivy gray.

Casa Court's finger nails are red similar to Maison Talo and Heim's.

CASAs are conscious about fashion, so they sometimes wear nail polish. (From the creator.)

CASA's hair color is a mixture of slightly darker blonde hair and dark green hair that is almost black.

The story continued

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Merve Lively noticed this REALTORs has three heads.

=Interesting I guess whoever killed you must have cut your lure body in half three ways then just started tossing you in all three directions.=

The newly died REALTOR shakes their heads.

=But it's our fault we snatched.=

=I may need to look out for this person but you are safe here.=

Merve Lively pats their shoulder.

=Well it's almost time for me to wake up so I will save you guys.=

Merve Lively takes out his mini mobile home from his storage room behind his neck and presses a button.

Both ghost REALTORs glow green and have a check mark next to where the pins are.

=Wow so cool.=

=What will happened to us when you wake up?!=

Merve Lively chuckles and puts back up his mini mobile home in neck in his storage room.

= When wake I will check up on you and see how everyone is doing by day dreaming but we may need a relax moment together to keep this colony stable.=

=Hope you like show tunes and musicals.=

=Also if I die then your check mark will glow gold if Effect has chosen you. =

The two newbies see all the ghost REALTORs seem to be playing games and doing whatever they want while they wait but one seems to have been there for a long time.

=Oh okay then good morning to you.=

=Good Morning to all of you and you been a lovely audience. =

Merve Lively bows then glows gold to leave the dream world to wake up in the waking one then stretches his body.

Merve Lively looks out the window to see a REALTORs do their buyer hunting thing.

"Been there done that and can't be me ever again."

Merve Lively jumps out the window to get in front of the buyer and the REALTOR.

"Hi, I'm Merve Lively and I see you are in need of a house?"

Merve Lively thumb points back at the REALTOR with smirk on his face and has both of his hands out for a response back like a hand shake or a fist bump to confirm the build.

"I will gladly make you one without needing to consume you like this fool would."

"Please be my client if you want but if you don't want my services then it is understandable."

The buyer is thinking of this new person's deal or the realtor's deal.

"I-I have to think about it since a house would cost a arm and a leg to own maybe a whole body and soul even."

Merve Lively and this REALTOR death stare each other down then Merve Lively says.

"Well my house is free but I may need some supplies you can easily find by recycling."

"Trust me it will a dream house created by you."

Merve Lively and this REALTOR keep saying their speeches.

This buyer/client seemed to be walking in place with a microphone in hand.

"You two done chatting or can I just go?"

=One of the ghost REALTORs screams in Merve Lively's head like they have seen this person before.=

Merve Lively and looks up then nods then walks away chuckling.

Yeah you can have this client.

"Hey wait can I interview you please."

The person follows him while the REALTOR hides in the bushes.

=Scary.=

Casey Laney gets up then gets ready for her interview at the I Want That And You Need Company that Casa Court is now the new face of the company.

She eats her breakfast and brushes her teeth while also flossing.

Clementine jumps out the fish tank then floats up to Casa Court's lure body then lays on his chest until he wakes up to use his lure body to telepathy chat with Casa Court.

~"Morning boss."~

Casa Court fits in his lure body and screams with both his outer with inner mouth when he sees Clementine on top of him on his chest then shivers.

"W-why wake me up like this?!"

Clementine puts paw on Casa Court's nose.

~"Boop."~

Clementine then jumps off him to float in the air then telepathy chat with Casa Court.

~"I didn't know you had a inner mouth thing I need to add that to your clone if you decide to explore again."~

Casa Court sighs and gets ready for work as the Ceo then cooks breakfast.

"Well you are too close to be looking."

Clementine floats in the air next to Casa Court then telepathy chat with Casa Court.

~"What are you making?"~

Casa Court is cooking a quiche lorraine.

"A quiche."

Casa Court watches the quiche lorraine cook and get his mimosa made.

"Thanks for getting my groceries both the food and the buyer variety."

Clementine floats in the air next to Casa Court then telepathy chat with Casa Court and sniffs the area.

~"Np."~

~"Can I have some?"~

Casa Court watches the quiche lorraine cook then the oven dings and drinks the mimosa.

"Sure."

Clementine floats in the air next to Casa Court then telepathy chat with Casa Court.

~"Neat."~

~"Don't you have a interview to go to?"~

Casa Court spits out the mimosa from the walls of his house body then reasorbs it from the floor and eats some quiche from the floor to consume.

"I forgot!"

Clementine sits on the table and eats the quiche then telepathy chat with Casa Court.

~"Glad I reminded you."~

Casa Court gets hair fixed then wonders and asks.

"H-how long has my bathroom always worked?"

Clementine eats then telepathy says.

~"Well I made it work because you needed a bath dude and same with the other non infected REALTORs."~

~"If we fungmammals just walk past a REALTORs house they tend to feel and act human like or weird to your species."~

Casa Court was shocked but did feel more human because he didn't eat Casey Laney but became friends with her and also befreinding another species that he would be a rival to.

"You are a strange creature."

Clementine licks the mimosa then telepathy says.

~"Same to you sir."~

Casa Court and puts the rest of the quiche in the fridge that he found that his house body had flesh around it while using his own energy to power and walks up to his door mouth with hand on the door handle.

"Well I am leaving to work."

Clementine jumps up to float to Casa Court then telepathy says.

~"Should I come with you or house sit for you?"~

Casa Court thinks and says.

"Maybe you can come with me but no funny business."

Clementine telepathy says.

~"Will do and I will keep up with your lure cord."~

Clementine jumps up onto Casa Court's back to create a gold flower pattern on his back to blend in.

~Ready.~

When Casa Court walks out and sees a Instapartner outside waiting for the CEO to carry him to the company.

"All this happening will always still be weird to me."

Casa Court walks up to the Instapartner and says.

"I can walk by myself and I don't need to be carried but thanks."

The Instapartner nods and walks back to the company while Casa Court follows.

Clementine tracks the lure cord in a portal so it won't be showing.

Casey Laney waits in the waiting room and then sees Casa Court finally walk inside then waits for her name to get called.

Casa Court walks his office to sit at his aqua desk the press a button to talk on a intercom device.

"Please inform Casey Laney for her interview."

The Instapartner tells her that the Ceo is ready for the interview and leads her to the Ceo's room.

Casey Laney nods and follows the instapartner.

The instapartner opens the door for her and Casey Laney smiles then says as she walks inside the room.

"Thank you."

Casa Court sees Casey Laney enter inside his office then stands up and holds out his hand to shakes her hand then sits down while holding the stress toy of his house body.

"Nice to meet you Ms. Casey Laney."

Casey Laney gets up and shakes his hand back then sits across from him.

"Nice to meet you Mr. Casa Court and nice office."

Casa Court crosses his legs while glancing at her resume then looks at her and lightly squeezes the stress toy of his house body.

"Ms. Casey Laney your resume impresses me since you work so hard."

Casey Laney smiles.

"Thanks I try my best to improve everyday."

Casa Court nods and says.

"So what can you bring to this company?"

Casey Laney thinks and says.

"Well I can start out wearing outfits and trying new products if there is another spot open for me next to Hazzy that Regular Guy I saw on tv."

Casa Court writes some notes down while listening to the old energy boss Project Obscura talking in his ear piece.

"Maybe that would be a good position for you but I can see what job positions we have."

Casey Laney nods and holds out her hand to handshake.

"Okay then well thanks for having me here."

Casa Court smiles and shakes her hand back.

"See you at work tomorrow."

Casey Laney smiles and handshakes back then gets up to walk out the door.

"Thank you sir."

Casey Laney walks out the door to go to a cafe to chill out then might go clothes shopping for her new job then bumps into a 7'8 Infected Realtor.

"Oh sorry."

Casa Court interviews more people.

Pule Kaplica smiles then looks back at Casey Laney then hands her a pamphlet with his business card attached.

"It's okay my dear sister."

"Please take this to be saved and not be a sinner."

Casey Laney inspects the pamphlet with the business card.

"Saved?"

Pule Kaplica nods and holds a small book.

"Yes my dear buyer I mean sister."

"I would love you to attend my house of worship."

"Anyways have a have a blessed day dear sister."

Pule Kaplica waves and walks away to hand out pamphlet's with is business card to other people and other REALTORs to try to save them while also trying to look for the perfect sinner or buyer to consume.

Casey Laney puts the pamphlet in her pocket to look up this religion later then bumps into a wheelchair Infected Realtor then she falls out her wheelchair.

"Strange might have to look up this place later."

Casey Laney was going to help this new person up but she picked herself up.

"Sorry!"

"Man I keep bumping into people lately."

Inrochtana Teach gets back up on her wheel chair which is part of her body then checks if her eyepatch was still on her left eye so it won't show her wood skeleton eye hole since her body heals from slowly to quickly.

"I-it fine and I wouldn't go see that guy's boring house."

She rolls around in her wheelchair to better see Casey Laney then hands her the business card.

"You should check out my house if you have the time."

"Bye and be safe."

Inrochtana Teach rolls away to a pond to look at herself.

Casey Laney now has two business cards and tries to accidently bump into fancy looking folks to try see if they weird quirks to them while getting new business cards.

"Might just start a collection then."

While Casey Laney was collecting business cards and meeting weird folks there were two Infected Realtors that were planning to snatch this buyer.

Tanti Fie and Inu Domo plan in the bushes how to attract this buyer.

Tanti Fie had his arms behind his head pose.

"So how are we going to sucker this buyer puppy?"

Inu Domo pants like a dog while wagging her ponytail like a dog tail.

"We just pounce on them from behind right then drag them to our housebodies?"

Tanti Fie shakes his head and holds his skateboard.

"Nah then we have to knock them out with a weapon since the sun is out if it was night we could do that."

Inu Domo whines and has her dog ear like hair design down on her head.

"Fine."

Tanti Fie thinks and has a plan to whisper to her.

Inu Domo listens to the plan and wags her pony tail.

"Oh that's how we do that."

Tanti Fie and winks at Inu Domo then jumps out the bushes to greet a random buyer by doing skate tricks on his skateboard then offers his business card.

"Follow my lead."

Inu Domo watches from the bushes to wait for the signal to surprise the buyer with tricks.

Tanti Fie and eye motions at Inu Domo to appear while doing skateboarding tricks.

"Here is my business partner Inu Domo."

Inu Domo jumps out the bushes and balancing on a huge colorful ball that catches the buyer's attention while gathering more buyers to watch the show.

"Hi!"

Casey Laney watches the show and claps.

"Amazing."

Inrochtana Teach rolls in to see the show for herself.

"My topiary animals shows are way better."

Pule Kaplica watches this happen then shakes his head.

"These sinner's could use their time studying the good word and book but are wasting their time watching this sinful activities."

Tanti Fie and puts his hat on backwards then skates to his tent house body.

"Don't forget to follow us for more interesting tricks. "

Inu Domo balancing on a huge colorful ball while juggling smaller colorful balls to her dog with doghouse body.

"Yeah you won't regret it."

Tanti Fie and Inu Domo both put on their shows then stop near their house bodies then snatches the buyers once their show magic wears off.

"Gotcha!"

Casey Laney hears a rock band practicing then decides to check it out.

Inrochtana Teach wheelchair rolls to the other buyers that didn't go to the show.

"Want to see my topiary animals?"

Pule Kaplica lures some older people to his house mimics looking like a church and hums a old religious song.

"Yes my house is a perfect place to worship and read up on the good word please follow me."

A thicc male body type Infected Realtor holding a guitar walking with one of each Uncanny Valley species walks past Casey Laney.

"Excuse me miss just moving house with my posse."

Casey Laney steps out of his way.

"Sorry about that."

Hovy Guasu Óga (Harvey Blue) stops and looks back at Casey Laney then he hands her his business card which has a VIP code number written on the back of it and says.

"Thank ya kindly little lady and it's nice to see folks still having manners."

"Seems rare nowadays."

Casey Laney inspects the business card and says.

"Well I was thought to be courteous around folks."

"What is this business card for?"

Hovy Guasu Óga (Harvey Blue) chuckles and says.

"Flip the card over and bring the code in to see a special show."

"Now I will be off now."

"Have a nice day and see you tonight dear."

Hovy Guasu Óga (Harvey Blue) walks to his trailer to practice with his posse.

Casey Laney puts the business card and in her pocket then walks to the mall.

"Well that guy was nice and wonder what the special show is."

Hovy Guasu Óga (Harvey Blue) practices with his posse to make a new song for the Nosey Neighbors Band.

Casa Court finally gets his interview done and looks over at the list of people to hire in his fish tank themed office.

"Who should I choose?"

Clementine jumps up to float to Casa Court then telepathy says.

~"Maybe the human or maybe that Carz Sales Persons."~

Merve Lively and walks to look for people that need custom built homes then looks back to notice the person that wanted to interview him then stops.

"Yes new client?"

Zable Fable tries to catch up with this new person with her step watch at 3000 steps and tries to catch her breath.

"Boy you are fast on your feet huh?"

Merve Lively and has hands in his pockets while looking around for danger then smirks.

"Indeed I am a little nimble on my feet."

Zable Fable tries to get a water bottle out her monster purse and offers Merve Lively one.

"You want one? and can I please interview you for my job?"

Merve Lively is lost in thought but senses someone dangerous is here then snaps out of it and takes the water bottle.

"Thanks and sure I would love a interview but maybe in a safer place."

Zable Fable drinks her ice water and looks for her tiny mic but feels this well dressed man pull her arm like he needs to show her something.

"Hey you okay buddy?"

Merve Lively sweats nervously like the danger is getting closer and pulls Zable's arm.

"Let's talk in a more private place please."

Zable Fable wonder's what's wrong but shrugs her shoulders and follows Merve to a 3D printed office he created.

"Whatever dude."

Merve Lively opens the door to his mobile home shaped office then walks inside.

"Please come inside."

Zable Fable confused on the building shape but walks inside and looks around in awe.

"Wow so pretty."

-The Inside on the mobile home shaped office was a lot bigger inside while having interesting stuff to look at.-

Merve Lively walks up to the door to close the door then finally sees the danger to see a conjoined fungmammal that is trying to mimic a REALTORs by having a smaller cute fungmammal one to lure people or beings to a larger fungmammal that is trying act like the house by hiding in the bushes with it's mouth open to capture prey.

Merve Lively closes the door slowly and locks it then he walks back to see Zable Fable taking picture of the place.

"Thanks I made this house myself."

Zable Fable sees a sign that says humans and beings deserves housing.

Merve Lively sighs calmly and the three headed REALTORs inside of his head is freaking out because they died to this person.

"Well I'm glad you wanted to chat with me and it's rare for me to have guest over."

Zable Fable sits down on the couch the sees photos of Merve Lively with other creatures and people he made houses for on the walls.

"Oh I see." "Well you made a lot of friends."

Merve Lively closes eyes to try to calm down the three headed REALTORs inside of his head and then opens his eyes to look at Zable.

"Indeed and I try my best to be courteous toward people."

Zable Fable nods and holds her tiny mic with Janet the Robo Sloth translator on her back.

"Well are you ready for the interview?"

Merve Lively sits in normal 3-D printed his chair and smirks.

"Yes I am ready for the interview."

Zable Fable gets up then holds her tiny mic toward Merve Lively.

"Who are you?"

Merve Lively thinks then looks at his hands and closes them up.

"I'm a Second Chance Real Estate Agent/Broker and my purpose is to make houses for folks that need or want them."

Zable Fable walks in place to gain steps on her stepwatch then holds her tiny mic toward Merve Lively while Janet holds the camera still.

"That's cool but I just wanted to know your name dude."

Merve Lively shocked then chuckles and rubs the back of his head shyly.

"My name is Merve Lively and I used to be called Movil Koti but that was my REALTORs name."

Zable Fable walks in place to gain steps on her stepwatch then looked shocked while holding her tiny mic toward Merve Lively while Janet holds the camera still.

"Wait so do you sell houses huh?"

Merve Lively looks up and nods.

"Yes but that other well dressed individual was REALTORs which is a different from me but I used to be like them hunting humans but now I only hunt for reviews and companionship."

Merve Lively gets up to check out his window to see if the dangers are gone but taps his left foot & right foot to release a ghost shadow scout of a long dead ghost REALTORs to search the area to be his eyes.

"There are not a lot of us but I'm the special version of my species."

Zable Fable walks in place to gain steps on her stepwatch then looked watches while holding her tiny mic toward Merve Lively while Janet holds the camera still.

"How so? and hey what was that?!"

Merve Lively walks away from his window and fixes his scarf to keep his storage room hidden with his mini mobile home house body safe.

"It's nothing but you are safe here if you need a place to stay for the night unless you want me to make you a house."

Zable Fable walks in place to gain steps on her stepwatch then looks at Merve while holding her tiny mic toward Merve Lively while Janet holds the camera still but is thinking this person's old name was mobile home.

"Oh I can't afford a house right now it's too pricey."

Merve Lively and tightens his scarf to keep his storage room hidden with his mini mobile home house body safe in his mobile home neck hole.

"Well my custom house's are free but I do need plastic and certain materials to make your dream home but we need to work together."

Zable Fable walks in place to gain steps on her stepwatch then is curious about Merve while holding her tiny mic toward Merve Lively while Janet holds the camera still but is wondering what the catch is.

"That's cool. But what are the other materials?"

Merve Lively and thinks then snaps his fingers to make a invisible force or the ghosts hand him a piece of paper but to Zable it makes a piece of paper appear in Merve's hand.

"Metal and wood will work but I need your custom house plans if you are serious about the custom house."

Zable Fable stands and watches Merve Lively with awe and Janet holds the camera still but she speaks up.

"Wow that's a cool trick."

"Let me guess if you give us this house then will it eat Zable?"

Merve Lively and chuckles to himself with his ghost squad then pets the robo sloth's head.

Merve Lively smirks at Janet.

"Listen if I was my old self I would have tried to knocked out your interview friend already maybe call them a buyer or something with a silly speech but that old me is dead and now you are both my clients now."

"Also gross I used the term buyer."

Zable Fable stands and shivers at what Janet was talking with Merve about and Janet holds the camera still but she speaks up.

"Guess I got my answer then and it's your turn to talk Zable."

"Hey wait a minute you used to eat people?!"

Merve shivers at him using the term buyer since it gave him terrible flash backs to him struggling to buyer hunt to find food, got tricked by a parasite fungmammal, becoming a Husk Realtor of himself to die then comeback in this new form but is now happy to make houses.

Zable Fable gives Merve Lively space but is worried for him and Janet holds the camera still.

"Hey dude are you okay?"

Merve Lively opens his eyes then dusts himself up to look professional.

"I'm okay but I used to eat people, beings and trash with anything since I was in parasite mode but now I just eat normal foods with inanimate objects to make houses for folks to enjoy."

Zable Fable checks her watch and Janet holds the camera still.

"I see." "Have any questions for me?"

Merve Lively has hands in pockets.

"How did you get here and have you entered any strange houses lately?"

Zable Fable thinks and Janet holds the camera still.

"Wow a strong question out of the gate."

"It's a long story that Zable might just tell it all."

Zable Fable starts to list off things that happened to her while pointing to her hand and Janet records this interview.

"Well I used my Realm jumper clicker to randomly realm jump here but inside of a monster blue house that was going to eat me."

Zable Fable says.

"But he already ate so I made myself too awkward to be eaten so I left but that owner was pretty hot."

"I wonder what Mr. Casa is doing?"

Merve Lively sits down and shocked.

"What's a Realm jumper clicker?" "Hey I know that home owner and he is a Ceo now."

Zable Fable starts to list off things that happened to her while pointing to the fingers on her hand and Janet records this interview.

"Wow I need to interview him later if he is free."

Zable says.

"Also I did go inside of a house since the home owner offered me some homemade desserts for me to review then I blacked out then ended up outside of the house for some reason and it was on fire with it broken into three halves."

Zable looks into a random corner of the mobile home then looks at her blue upside down necklace when saying this and Janet knows what happened but LCD sweat drops.

"It was strange that I don't remember what happened but I know the home owner was gone."

Zable Fable digs in her monster bag and finds a crystal realm jumper clicker which is a pen shaped object with a small crack in it.

"Here is a Realm jumper clicker."

"A realm jumper clicker is a crystal pen like device each realm jumper has and it personalized."

Zable Fable explains the rules of her job with the items she uses.

"This realm jumper clicker needs to be green from the interviews, food reviews with cultural important foods, and realm history I do to make it glow green to go to the next location but so far it's yellow."

Zable explains more while Janet records and Merve Lively watches interested.

"If the place is too dangerous then I can skip a realm on my realm jumper click that can be only used three times."

Zable Fable shows off the Realm jumper clicker with the stickers.

"I already used it two times already and refreshes once my last one is used by midnight."

"The clear realm jumper clicker that glows red for low charge, yellow to almost charged, and green for fully charged up."

"If I see a realm as safe then I will put a teleport sticker somewhere around the realm then takes a picture of it to save that location on my phone to revisit quickly and if it's not safe then I will revisit the area to give it another chance in the randomized rotation."

Merve Lively holds the Realm jumper clicker and checks it out then hands it back to Zable Fable.

"For such a small item has a huge power to it."

Zable Fable nods and Janet nods also.

"Yeah I get scared where I end up since I once ended up in some random vents in a building and stopped a evil corporation."

Merve Lively checks the time and opens the door to the guest room.

"It's getting late and It's dangerous out there at night so please stay the night here."

Zable Fable saves the interview and yawn stretches while Janet clings to Zable's back.

"If you say so."

Zable Fable rubs her eyes then opens her monster bag to walk inside in her inner bag realm to brush her teeth and Janet jumps off her back to sit on the guest bed.

Merve Lively looks out the peephole for danger and then walks to the couch near his door to cross his arms to rest to check up on the ghost REALTORs scouts colony.

Merve Lively sleeps then dream talks to the passed on REALTORs and Real Estate Agent/Brokers in the colony to see how everyone is doing.

=I'm back everyone.=

= Hey our leader Merve is back. =

All the ghost beings crowded around Merve Lively to talk to him while the three headed REALTORs looks at something that is not there.

Merve Lively wonders what is wrong and walks up to them.

=What's wrong?=

The three headed REALTORs points in the direction on where Merve's front door to his mobile home house would be then Merve's physical body feels a breeze of air that makes him shiver then wakes up to see his door open with Zable missing with Janet resting on the bed.

"No!?"

Merve's shadow changes into a wobbly shape to represent the ghost scouts.

=Want us to scout for her?=

Merve Lively looks up then nods and 360 spins around the hops in place to release all of them then stops to close his eyes to scan the area with them for both Zable with the dangers.

"Scatter search!"

"Hope she didn't go far."

Fable is now in control of Zable's closed eyed vessel body to sleep walk but Fable can see by sensing the area but is mostly looking out Zable's upside down blue then now orange heart necklace just to explore this new place while Zable get's her rest.

"Zarvara ken tekay? (I wonder what fun I will find today?)"

"Kerkey cevant kon we. (Huh I guess that person is offering something and I might as well check it out.)"

Fable walks Zable's closed eyed vessel body to sleep walk but while the triangle glasses makes Zable look awake.

Fable in Zable's closed eyed vessel body watches a REALTORs try to lure a buyer that they get pretty close to the house but the buyer changes their mind then sees the house give up to walk back but they see Zable's vessel body checking out the house by touching it.

"Zee ki bure v ty owner? (Such a pretty build and I wonder who the owner is?)"

"Kee kee see ans. (Guess I got my answer.)"

Fable in Zable's closed eyed vessel body senses that the house creature is looking at them then waits for the REALTORs to do their speech then sees them offer their business card for Fable to take it normal like to look up at the house creatures eyes to see the many windows.

Fable makes Zable's body lost in thought while speaking in Ancient Shiften which sounds like gibberish to others and can kind of understand this new creature.

"Yuve ko I we v ty treat? (I wonder how long has this creature tried this speech and is this person a threat?)"

Fable makes Zable's body walks away from the danger but walks backwards up to the house door to stare at it while eating the business card then looks back at the lure body then tries to open the door but can't.

"Wuder Iw zepre Inzide? (I wonder what surprises are inside?)"

This Infected REALTORs thinks this is a easy buyer to pull in but the weasel fungmammal warns them that this buyer seems off like it's too easy.

"You know what I think you should not check out my house."

Fable makes Zable's body knock on the door curiously. "Yht! (Why not!)"

The Infected REALTORs sighs as the weasel fungmammal in their brain telepathy tells the house creature to ask the person to leave then the lure body gesture waves this person off.

"Hey no yelling and now shoo!"

Fable makes Zable's body sighs and walks away then gets snatched by a REALTORs.

"Aew mun! (Aww man!)"

"YEE! (AHH!)"

The very hungry drooling muscular female looking REALTORs picks up Zable's body easily and opens the door to a weird looking house that is sideways then tosses Zable's body in then pushes lure body down on the floor with the enzymes activated.

The snatcher REALTORs closes the door with the house's meltedness tendrils.

"Some people look down on us snatcher types but I pity the hungry ones that restrict themselves for some sort of honor system thing."

"I maybe house poor when it comes to buyer hunting so I snatch them up at night when they distracted and by themselves it's much easier to catch than luring the old school say with a silly speech."

"What is that smell and this strange song?" "AH!"

"D-dream move 555 Boy Crazy Boy Band. Eh."

Fable heavy breathes in the enzymes to get knocked out to quickly wake up Zable then uses Janet's translate to say that then makes her sleep to make Zable's body limp to "die" and slowly sinks in the floor but pushes the body back up to have a discontinued all different flavored 90's fruit flavored soda scented shifter mist song protrude out Zable's body and this plays https://youtube.com/watch?v=yZ68cMjkX_c .

The ground rumbles that the whole house feels it and a you start to hear the same song muffled then slowly get louder that a boy band tour bus rams into the side ways house hitting the lure body making the lure cord stretch like a rubber band then fling back to the brain killing it but the tour bus fades when it hits Zable's vessel body while the stan fans rush to the tour bus to sing the song with the band members for the fans to destroy the rest of the house.

Once the dream move ends with the enemy gone then Fable in Zable's vessel body would get up and looks around to see the monster house gone with debris everywhere with the fleshy pieces everywhere but sees the REALTORs business card then eats it.

"Cvee hove gu? (Where did the home go?)"

Fable in Zable's vessel body shrugs and dusts themself off.

Walks past some other snatcher type REALTORs that get scared then hides away from this mystery person and feels a familiar recent ghost presence pick up Zable's vessel body to bring them back to Merve's mobile home house.

"Fuy brung mye heur? (Why bring me back here?)"

Fable faint falls but Merve Lively carries Zable's body and hears Zable sleep for reals with some snoring.

"This is a strange individual but at least you are safe."

"House Call!"

As Merve Lively walks inside of his house with the light on then you see the shadows fuse within his shadow to save them with a light gray one being the new one.

=That character is scary and I agree with three heads over there.=

Merve Lively closes the door then sets Zable in her bed and noticed the upside down blue heart necklace is glowing.

Merve Lively watches over Zable just in case something weird happens.