#Knight Volo AU

[eldritchminmo]

i havent drawn anything serious in a while bc of hand pain and i realized that i posted this only on twitter. so have (half) of a fantasy au cast sketch.

its a thing me and my partner have been picking at off and on, and the classes (JRPG-themed) from left to right:

emmet - brawler/summoner (runaway prince)

piers - witch (descendant of the original slayer of the Worm)

volo - summoner/rogue (<- cursed by giratina)

raihan - knight (childhood friend to ingo, emmet, and piers)

leon - hero (the protagonist) (chosen one)

ingo - ranger (<- cursed to share a body with a dragon/the current Worm) (also a runaway prince)

[darkurgetrash]

2024 Writing Year in Review ✍️

Thank you for the tag @commander-krios @redroomroaving and @lemonsrosesandlavender! No pressure tags to @kimberbohwrites @graysparrowao3 @crystal-overdrive & @weaveandwood xox

Words posted: 269,774 (on my own account hehe)

Words unposted: I don’t have any wips going atm that I don’t post, so not sure 🤷‍♀️ an amalgamation of several paragraphs of half formed sentences and ideas probably haha

Total word count: I don’t know 🤔 I also have writing posted elsewhere

Fandoms: Baldur’s Gate 3 (mostly the Rolan fandom hehe) and a bit of Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Highest Kudos: Lead Me Through the Dark with 511 ❤️❤️❤️

Highest One-Shot Hits: Through the Veil with 647

New things I tried: Basically everything! I haven’t written fanfic since I was a teen, and back then it was maybe a few chapters worth of content that went nowhere. Most unexpectedly though, I hadn’t pictured myself trying smut or finishing a nearly 200k word fic.

Fic I spent the most time on: Lead Me Through the Dark, from February to December

Fic I spent the least time on: Through the Veil on my own account, but my secret alter-ego probably wins this one with some particularly terrible entries to Volo’s Erotic Library 👀

Favourite thing I wrote: Oh my god, it’s so difficult to pick! There are different faves for different reasons. The aforementioned secret stories, because of the horrified reactions they received. Lead Me Through the Dark because it helped me meet so many cool people and was my first entry into writing and the bg3 fandom; Help! I’m the Main Character! Because I personally have found that so much fun to write; and Gods Damned Gale Dekarios because I think it’s genuinely a well-written, funny one-shot, and I freaking love Opulentus as a character. I also think my Dreadrook fic I’m currently writing, What Is It That Stays My Hand? has been my best writing yet, but we shall have to see how it turns out going forward into the new year.

Favourite fics I read this year: Fuck. There are so many, though a select few from bookmarks on ao3 alone…

Planar Tears by @lemonsrosesandlavender, Sufferer, I Shall and Conductor, Ringmaster by @redroomroaving, The Dread Wolf’s Heart by @feynites, Of Black Knights and Bloody Damsels by @blackwatervial, Towards Tyranny by @crystal-overdrive, Ghost Lights Down the Chionthar by @ghostcouncil, and everything included in Volo’s Erotic Library—with a special shoutout to @threerattsinatrenchcoat for making me extremely unwell via Wulbren/Mystra.

Edit: can’t believe I forgot?? The Serpent and Until We Wake by @sorceresssundries! 👏👏

Writing goals for 2025: I’d like to try my hand at writing some original work. My brain has been turning around the idea of a grim reaper visual novel dating game, so I want to look into how to make that possible a little.

New works for 2025: I just finished Act 1 of What Is It That Stays My Hand? So will continue working on that. Might update HITMC a bit too, and also wanted to write a LMTTD AU that would be a short fic. And then, who knows? Wherever my obsessions take me! 👁️👄👁️

[captainlucasss]

ok i’ll just make a new pinned im tired of editing the old one its 2 years old

!! DNI PROSHIPPERS !!

hi guys im lucas.

i have multiple other names but currently my other main names are emmet, captain, and knight

he/him only, minor, taken, transman gay aroaceflux

i am autistic and likely have bpd so be patient with my shit please! i am also a system but i probably won’t post much abt it. my special interests are pokemon (mainly submas and colress atm.), identity v, and genshin impact

some of my other interests are mob psycho 100, cookie run, honkai star rail, undertale, and deltarune

i plan to be an animator and indie game developer in the future. i’m mainly working on something called GOD ZERO (G0) at the moment. i also have a pokemon au that i’ll probably post about a bit on here which doesn’t have a name yet.

umm some of my favs

Pokemon

Emmet, Ingo, Colress (duh), Volo, N, Brassius, Hassel, Piers, Maxie, Larry, Adaman, Melli

Identity V

Matthias, Florian, Aesop, Richard

Genshin Impact

Capitano, Dottore, Pantalone, Scaramouche, Tartaglia, Neuvillette, Ayato, Dainsleif, Zhongli, Baizhu

Cookie Run

Captain Caviar, Cappuccino, Almond, Langue De Chat, Pure Vanilla, Dark Cacao, Madeleine

(one time i was very obsessed with the republic sailor npcs. and abalone cookie. we’re gonna ignore that)

Mob Psycho 100

Literally everyone but if i had to choose reigen and serizawa ig…i like serirei

anyways sorry for the long ass intro. have a good day or night or whatever

[cheemken]

Hey Knight I just had a great idea before I fell asleep

Another champion villain AU, but the Champions are all working for their regions Villain teams

Diantha working for Team Flare because she agrees that only the “worthy” people should live, people who do good for the world

Iris working for Team Plasma, either from the beginning or when they reestablished themselves in BW2. Idk why she’d join but she knows how to bring the power out of dragon Pokémon and how to control them, and one of Plamas goal is to capture the three dragons

Cynthia working for Team Galatic just for her own curiosity. She wants to see how far Cyrus is able to go, and maybe even gain control of the legendaries herself. Maybe the story of Volo has been passed down in her family and she wants to see if she’s able to complete what Volo wasn’t able to

And the other Champions joining their own villain teams, idk what Geeta would do considering there isn’t really a villain team, it’s just a group of kids who were bullied. Maybe she helped Turo and Sada with their research but she took it to far and brought dangerous Pokémon to the present time. Letting the Koridon/Miradon kill the professors so that she could take their research for herself

Ohhhh👀👀👀

Okay but fr Cynthia and Leon would probs double cross Cyrus and Rose hahaha

Ofc, Cynthia is a given considering her track record in our villain au hahah but that is interesting tho, if the story of Volo got passed down in their family, and they treat it like some cautionary tale, a warning yknow, Volo was a name in their family that none should ever speak out loud. But Cynthia, ever the curious child, wanted to know more. And learn she did. Found out what he really did, what he wanted to achieve, and he was close in accomplishing his goals. Yet he failed. Cynthia doesn't do failure, she's great w a lot of things, she prides herself w that, a lot of people look up to her. But she has to admit, it's rather boring lately, and then the story of Volo came across her mind again, and she wondered if she could do what he wanted to do. And she won't fail ofc.

She let Cyrus do all the work, tho she gave him what he needed to know abt the legendary Pokémon. They both knew that Cynthia shouldn't really ruin her image just yet, their plan would fail. So yeah the events of DPPt, up to the point of Giratina showing up. And everyone was at the edge yknow, they're waiting what would happen, then Cynthia steps in, catching Giratina's attention. Gira knew Cynthia was familiar, a spitting image of him, and there's a tug within him, in his already tainted heart, to bow his head, to submit to her commands.

Cynthia looked at Cyrus. The man was waiting for her to finalize their plan, everything was already in order, they have hold of the Lake Trio and even the Creation Trio. Cynthia smiled at him, but there was smth abt it that Cyrus did not like.

"a world devoid of spirit.. that sounds boring, don't you think?"

"what are you planning, Cynthia."

"well, a world without spirit, no one would have the energy to make ice cream, Cy. That's not the ideal world for me."

"what would be the ideal world for you then?"

Chuckling to herself, she was quite curious just how much Giratina would actually listen to her, without uttering a single command. She smiled at him, smiled at her childhood friend, oh, she will miss him, maybe, who knows. Then she smiled, "this." She snapped her fingers, and quicker than the light itself, one of Giratina's tendrils impaled Cyrus straight through his chest, killing him instantly. A few of the grunts screamed, the admins stood there, watching Cynthia in horror. Dialga and Palkia were struggling even more beneath the chains, how pitiful, but she can help them. As long as they'd follow her every word. She then turns to the admins, terrified, hands on the red capsules on their belts, but Cynthia laughs, "do you think that'd be wise?" They raised their hand in quiet surrender. This was easy. She never got how Volo failed.

Then w Leon, idk since I did have this au abt Sonia back then, it does have the same energy, anyways hahaha yeah yknow peeps looked down on Sonia, Leon did not like that. No one believes her abt Eternatus, abt how it was the (cause) of the Darkest Day, and he heard rumours how she was just trying so hard to impress people since she's filling in Prof Magnolia's shoes. Then he hears abt Rose and like all that energy for DMax or smth yeah, and ofc Leon believed Sonia, and he's gonna help her prove her theories are actually true. So he played along Rose's game. Let him summon Eternatus, and both of them are standing before it, w Rose letting Leon capture the legendary pkmn. Rose praised him for his good work as usual, but just as he was abt take the Master Ball from Leon, the champion merely looked at him, smiling, "thanks for your help, Chairman. But.. Sonia needs this more than you."

And before Rose could react, Leon's Charizard and Haxorus attacked him, feasting over his body. Leon just watched, uninterested abt the death of the man who helped him rise to fame. Instead he looked at the master ball in his hand, smiling to himself, "Sonia is so gonna love this!" Pls ur honour do you see my vision in them becoming villains together ik I said Leon is in a polycule but I'm also still fucking trash for lionheartshipping let me have this one small thing ncmxnx hahaha

Geeta tho like imagine tho after Sada and Turo's death, she took in Arven, telling the others that it's the least she could do as she was the one who was w Sada and Turo last, it's their final wish. Ofc it wasn't, but they all got convinced by it. And just cndmdn yo Geeta feeding Arven lies abt his parents. How they were the ones to bring dangerous Pokémon in their world, how they took it too far, how they took her studies abt it. And ofc, Arven believed all of it, he was so young, and his parents were always so focused on their studies more than him, but miss Geeta was w him now, and she's so much better, she gives him attention, she's always there for him. His parents didn't even listen to Geeta to stop, and it shows how they really didn't care abt him at all. Imagine how his encounter w his AI parents would be tho, if they actually tell the truth of what happened. Arven couldn't catch a break man bcmdnd hahaha

[steel--fairy]

i dont have a "people chosen by legendarys" thing in my main au but if i did, heres whod have what

violet, leaf, and green would have moltres, articuno, and zapdos. mewtwo would have no one. mew would go to yellow ig bc the boys don't get legendaries, it's the rules.

its a fight over daphne but i think celebi gets it in the end. in this au then the chosen two for lugia and ho oh would be sparrow and silver which is. certainly a duo thatd tooootallyyyy get along lmao. kris to suicune. raikou to anabel since i am firmly in the only one for the beasts camp. dunno about entei.

ivy and brendan with their latias and latios. no one for kyogre and groudon bc chosens are for good legendaries who dont purposefully try to kill off all of humanity. but rayquaza would have wallace. zinnias pissed about it. lisia and jirachi, then wally and deoxys. no one with the regis bc they never get woken in my plot.

chryssa and darkrai who used to be paired with her dad. palmer and cresselia as a match. azelf, uxie, and mesprit with maylene, prof rowan, and lucas. odd group, but theyre all there when theyre freed from the red chain (and cynthia, but her being overlooked is funny to me). thatd be it for sinnoh i think. barry maybe gets one some day but idk who. maybe somethint silly like shaymin, maybe something big like giratina. candice could theoretically be chosen of regigigas, but thats more a caretaker thing. oh and brandon (the hoenn frontier brain) has the sinnohan regis but i doubt he's a "chosen" of them.

ieva and n, and reshiram and zekrom ofc. had a cute idea of bryony, hugh and concordia matching the swords of justice. bryony-virizion, hugh-terrakion, concordia-cobalion. she would not be its chosen bc she is not human, but in this scenario i imagine zorua rides on keldeos back like a knight lol. and uhh thats it. i refuse to acknowledge the genies, dunno about victini and genesect (it stays with bryony for a bit but shes already spoken for), and kyurem is put in the corner with kyogre and groudon.

carmella and diancie, trevor and zygarde, calem and xerneas, shauna and yveltal and ig tierno and hoopa...? hoopa seems like it'd like to dance. that leaves only volcanion.

lillie and nebby!! aka solgaleo. then the tapu's and the kahuna’s. gladion and silvally? i think thatd actually be it. necrozma is with kyurem and the weather duo in time out.

lili and hop, and zacian and zamazenta. marnie and bede and g moltres and articuno is a vibe, and i do have at least bede in the crown tundra plot. peonia for zapdos maybe lol? leon and eternatus? peony and calyrex lmao? oh, i suppose mustard and urshifu.

jess and arceus. volo and giratina. cogita and enamorous (and also arceus, a little bit, sorta). adaman and irida, and dialga and palkia. rei and manaphy? thatd be cute : )

they're legendaries but ngl i don't consider the raidons one so they cant have a chosen. so, alyssa and ogerpon. carmine and pecharunt for the lolz. kieran and terapagos? ik how the whole scene goes, but i think you could tweak it. could do something with arven, penny, nemona, and ig florian and the four treasures. dunno whod be paired with who.

[kijiij]

alright, the pokemon x Danganronpa aus. This will only be a short summary of it, and will gloss over the details, but I will add a content label just in case.

Most of the AUs of this center around Volo, Togami, or just the story overall.

The one with most content is the AU where Volo is immortal, and is Togami Byakuya's butler, (more like the Togami cooperation's weapon, but still.)

AUs will have the canon-typical violence of all kinds that is in the Danganronpa games, including the back stories that usually no one cares about (ex. Akane, do mind any warnings I put up.)

I imagine that most of the danganronpa cast aren't serious pokemon trainers, honing their talents would take more of their attention rather than training pokemon, with that in mind, they would have pokemon that helps them and suits for their talents. A lot of them wouldn't have 'strong' pokemon, like how Celeste would probably have a Purugly rather than pokemon suited for competitive battles.

I haven't actually explored what Pokemon the students and the other people would have, other than the obvious. Sakura would have fighting type Pokemon, Chiaki would probably have a Porygon, etc etc. I will however, show you what Pokemon I think my favorites would have.

Kyoko would have an Audino, and this isn't just me making things up and putting my favorite pokemon with my favorite thh character - no, Audino can hear really well, even heartbeats, so it's self explanatory how it'll help Kirigiri with detective work. Not to mention, it can help Kyoko go rest and not overwork!

I think nagito would straight up, accidentally get a full team of shinies that work well competitively, and help him with his overall health- the explanation, his luck. A traumatic experience is tied to how he got the pokemon, of course.

Korekiyo would have pokemon that have some kind of tie to history. Obviously. I think he'd have an unown, and/or a bronzong. Maybe even a baltoy, or a darmanitan since it looks like a daruma.

Also, I think Kokichi doesn't have pokemon, because HE IS THE POKEMON. he's an hisuian Zoroark, change my mind. He doesn't like death, and who else wouldn't like death? HISUIAN ZORUA.

Why is Volo the main center of attention in most the Aus, and why is he suddenly a butler? Great questions, extremely long story short, he was kidnapped and brainwashed to be the Togami cooperation's weapon when Byakuya's grandfather found out the man was immortal. They used psychic Pokemon to torment him until his mind was broken and they pretended to save Volo so he has unconditional loyalty, basically, the white knight manipulation technique except it's so, so bad. How does this change the plot? I'll explain if anyone is actually interested in it.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. I'll explain the plot for the other aus some other time because that is a lot to summarize.

[scorchrend]

link to the tag with the rest of the art

link to the one with emmet my babygirl because tumblr is a broken website and it wont show this one (it is very long)

again. more of the dragalia lost x pokemon it has been consuming me

[startistdoodles]

I posted 1,133 times in 2022

That's 502 more posts than 2021!

1,021 posts created (90%)

112 posts reblogged (10%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 1,132 of my posts in 2022

#ask - 880 posts

#not art - 675 posts

#anon - 473 posts

#pokemon - 415 posts

#my art - 309 posts

#kirby - 117 posts

#arceus - 115 posts

#descendant au - 105 posts

#prisma knight - 99 posts

#giratina - 91 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#there are still timelines where the twins are still together though!! just boot up your copy of bw/bw2 and all will be right with the world

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Have you seen the AU of Emmet being stuck in the Distortion World? If it’s alright, I’d like your take on it.

See the full post

6,328 notes - Posted March 21, 2022

#4

Have you seen the meme where the cat knock over onions and get grabbed in the next picture and they say; it was you!!!

That's how I imagine Emmet finding out Ingo got sent to the past by Volo.

GIVE IT TO HIM

6,677 notes - Posted April 12, 2022

#3

So it's pretty well known that Ingo is one of the very few NPC's that doesn't acknowledge your presence, but apparently he will react to your Pokémon's presence, lol

8,315 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

#2

See the full post

8,659 notes - Posted March 17, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

weird stinky kitten

15,081 notes - Posted March 22, 2022

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[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Fandom-Specific Tag Directory

misc whatever that isn't expansive enough for its own section:

#fashion: ok i don't know if this belongs here but it feels weird to put it in the main directory. honestly just a "ooh pretty dress" tag

#swift plays (hollow knight / subnautica / flight rising / dragcave / deltarune / rune factory / half life / final fantasy 14): i sure do!

#dr analysis: deltarune bloggin. the narrative is ALIVE and it will GET YOU

#tma liveblog: magnus archives liveblog tag

elden ring: i don't have an elden ring specific tag actually oops. it's been too long and now i don't feel like starting anything consistent. you get what you get.

malevolent tags:

#mv liveblog: malevolent podcast tag that WAS a liveblog and now is just a catchall bc i was too lazy to make another

#malevanalysis: meta, character thoughts, chewing on these guys like a dog with a piece of dry chicken grr grrrr grr

#mv er: malevolent/elden ring crossover. arthur's an ex-carian tarnished, john's an ember of the flame of frenzy. this one is also a fic!

#mv tma: assorted (mostly silly) malevolent/magnus archives crossover thoughts

#mv fic pitch: random fic/au concepts

this section is the fuckoff huge directory of pla-specific tags

#pla analysis: for meta, character Thoughts, whatever

#pokefic pitch: grab bag of au/fic concepts that were one-offs/i never did anything with. a lot of more involved aus also start here

#surveyfam: the survey corps is a family!!

#strong pokemon... weak pokemon... maybe the trainer should just git gud: making fun (affectionate) of ingo and emmet’s starters/teamcomp. i mean they have to be so good to make it work but also why the rock lee ankle weights my guys

#hisui timeline debate: it is NOT in the 1800s

#volo’s evil togekiss: my conspiracy theory that the reason that volo has a togepi he manages to evolve is bc it is also super on board with the “reach god through violence and rewrite the universe” idea

sneasel: the funny animal pokemon: drawings of quadrupedal sneasel line (mostly sneasler) bc i think they're fun

substantial aus/things with fics:

#jailbirds au: aka Ounce of Prevention, my currently longest-running fic. kamado puts the rift travelers in prison and also emmet finally arrives in hisui after an ATROCIOUSLY long delay. it got wildly away from me and now there’s politics and every single minor character is involved

#galactic commander emmet: aka Fate of a Lost Comet. an extremely tense alliance is developed between cyrus, who wants to imprison the gods to rewrite reality, and his new commander and right-hand man, who is openly planning to sabotage him as soon as he gets what he wants: dialga on a leash.

#gligar emmet: aka Copy Corruption/silent loyalty. ingo's partner gliscor is actually emmet, who got stuck in a pokemon body upon arriving at the same time he did. they can’t communicate, but he’s very worried about his brother and is determined to stick with him

#pladoption au: Sinnoh is Silent. an au where akari falls like, IN the temple of sinnoh, and then gets really lost and then ingo finds her and he just keeps her. very minimal plot. mostly just fluff.

#immortal volo: fic: Nobody Writes Them Like They Used To. volo's immortal, but it’s been a few thousand years since hisui and he’s matured. he’s normal now. ...then he finds a pre-hisui ingo in unova.

#warden fusion au: wardens can fuse with their nobles. yeah like in steven universe. this one has a fic too: Covalent Bonding

#warden emmet au: emmet falls in hisui alongside ingo but lands in the wrong spot and they get separated. whoops!

#lord zoroark: a subset of warden emmet- the forgotten lord of the mountain, zoroark, finds a dude in the snow and decides to keep him. emmet lives in a cave with his dogs now

#living history au: a bunch of major pla characters get yeeted into the future. ingo does not get to go with them.

the following are aus that were more just posting/throwing stuff around w/ no real fic or art or anything. in no particular order:

#leader swap: adaman's now the leader of the pearl clan, and irida's diamond. the wardens are still the same

#ley lines au: magic fantasy au with some real worldbuilding happening

#timeloop protag: a "pla protag loops time when they die" au, except ingo is also conscious of the loops happening and has no idea why they are

#surveyparents: the protagonist falls into hisui as a toddler. cyllene and laventon are parents now and also The Plot is their responsibility

#card fortune: did you know the miss fortunes used to be galaxy team? what if they took the protag (counterpart) with them when they left? ...akari, who’s akari, i only know the Bandit Card

#the magical misfortunes: spinoff of card fortune based on a couple random posts. they’re teen superheroes/magical girls in a modern setting

#origin visions au: due to consequences from falling through the spacetime rift unshielded, ingo now has prophetic dreams. sort of. it's complicated

#hisui n au: N takes the place of the pla protagonist and has a bad time in hisui

#hisui fallers au: ultra wormholes take mohn, anabel and looker to hisui along with ingo. also, there’s more wormholes and they’re extradimensional monster magnets

#frenzy swap: swapping which noble of a region is frenzied—wyrdeer, ursaluna, basculegion, sneasler, and braviary instead of the canon 5

#legends creation starters: instead of rowlet/cyndaquil/oshawott, when transporting the protagonist to hisui, arceus offers them a newly-created egg of one of the creation trio

#zoroark twins au: ingo is a unovan zoroark but still has amnesia, leading to some Complicated feelings about his human guise. meanwhile, emmet dies shortly after falling into hisui and comes back as a weird dog

#dragon champion ingo: ingo’s a chosen champion of the unova dragons but he forgot. one day he summons a deity by complete accident

#distortion subway au: gear station has always been a little Weird, actually

#rift ghost au: instead of falling through a rift into hisui, ingo gets trapped in the distortion world. wardens think the rifts are haunted. also, turns out staying in the distortion world long-term is not so good for human minds and souls

#twin dragon curse: ingo and emmet are descended from the original unovan heroes, and their bloodline is cursed

#guardian of ideals: arceus’ champion was sent to stop volo at any cost. ingo, zekrom’s champion and divinely-ordained guardian of ideals, was sent to save him.

#zero constructs: the area zero professor decides to use their time machine to recover Champion Dawn and Subway Boss Ingo from their place adrift in time. unbeknownst to them, and unfortunately for dawn and ingo’s loved ones, they do not have a time machine, they have a wish-granting machine, and it does NOT know how to put a dawn and ingo together

#magearna twins: “hey the shinies for regular/oc magearna look sort of familiar”

#platinum clan: spawned off of living history- the clan leaders and wardens never figure out how to get back to their original time and ingo becomes the de facto leader of both clans, eventually unifying them into one

#tringo: SUB-subclass of platinum clan. ingo goes to unova and gets turned into the three legendary dragons

#giratina champion ingo: much like the protagonist is arceus’s champion, ingo is giratina’s, unknowingly serving volo and giratina’s will

#emissary au: spawned off of giratina champion/living history—after the leaders vanish, ingo is approached by a shadowy entity that claims to be almighty sinnoh, and which makes it his priest. giratina Is Not Evil, and is in fact trying to protect reality from a greater threat... not that the rest of the world believes that

#anthro legends arceus: i’m doing a miserable job beating the furry allegations

#modern hisui: rei and akari, totally non-suspicious teen twins, wind up in a small town full of cryptid stories

#nobel lady sneasler: this one is fully a stupid joke that got out of hand. pseudo-1920s-au, pokemon all have recognized sapience, and the clans are two rival groups of scientists with their own pet theories, trying to prove themselves right in time for an upcoming award. get it. nobels

CROSSOVER STUFF:

#arc vessel: hollow knight au. ingo is the ghost and emmet is the hollow knight

#pokesouls: grab bag. some of it’s elden ring, some of it’s ds1, some of it’s ds2, some of it’s bloodborne. we are just vibing

#msaxpla: pla/mystery skulls animated crossover. unlike 99% of my crossovers this is a “the characters exist in the same universe” crossover bc we are hyperfixation multi track drifting. vivi is the protagonist, lewis died in hisui and became a zoroark, and arthur’s a depot agent doing really inadvisable things to one of the train engines (it’s fine emmet okayed it)

#subnautica au: ingo crashes on the degasi. several years later, emmet chases his voice recordings across the crater, hoping to catch up to him (and find him alive when he does) (they both end up fine dw)

#pla dhau: submas/pla dishonored au. no listen listen. ingo and emmet were twin princes, but one family assassination attempt and several years later, ingo’s an assassin-turned-vigilante with no memories and emmet’s smiling in the lord regent’s face while turning the palace against him behind his back.

#pla rf4: rune factory 4 au. the wardens etherlink with their nobles to sustain both adaman and irida. if you know what that means congrats and also come yell with me about it

#poke slayer: demon slayer au that is, i will be honest, mostly about torturing former darkness hashira ingo

#the legends zone: taz balance au. an ipre consisting of ingo, emmet, elesa, prof. rowan, laventon, cyllene and one stowaway. emmet and elesa are liches, emmet gets stuck in a whistle, rowan voidfishes everyone and becomes kamado and founds the galaxy team to fix their mistake with the light of creation (arceus) and the nobles.

i don’t post much msa anymore and most of this is not particularly Up To Standard but i GUESS i’ll compile those tags too

#msa analysis: for meta

#fic pitch: approximately 2 billion msa au concepts that never went anywhere bc my brain is a pinball machine

#msa mermay: i did two of these! it’s mermaids! more or less 100% art!

#mystery hate blog: aka kitsune (derogatory). i DON’T hate him as a character but i DO bitch a lot about how Everyone Except Me Is Wrong About HIm

#mori and arthur are friends: i think it would be funny if they bonded

(most of the following are also au concepts that span maybe one sketchsheet or a few posts, because again, brain. pinball machine.)

#precave lewvithur: you can't textually prove that they WEREN'T all already dating and lewis just forgot

#search death au: arthur dies while looking for lewis and comes back as a ghost whose death mission is to find him. this uh, raises some conflcits with lewis’ own existing death mission

#ot3 fake dating: no cave no mystery skulls au where, for Reasons, lewis has to pretend date both arthur and vivi at the same time. not as a throuple just. two legally distinct fake couples he's gotten accidentally involved in. at once.

#spooky kids with magic powers: au based on the idea that lewis was a station experiment where they (lewis, vivi, arthur, reverb's also there i guess) are All science experiments

#vampires au: everyone in the gang is a "vampire” but they’re all following different cherrypicked rules about it

#shards of winter: a sort of ambiguously period au? lewis is a... something, vivi and arthur are... something else. this one is a fic! it's more interesting and coherent than it sounds here

#noir au: fantasy noir, vivi’s a detective and arthur enlists her to find lewis

#western au: fantasy western, specifically. arthur made a deal with the devil. lewis is a ghost.

#little mysteries: little nightmares au

#msa celeste: lewis, vivi, and arthur are all mountain climbers with their own issues to work through

#msa hk: vivi is hornet but also the protagonist? arthur is the vessel. it’s convoluted

#dishonored au: you know the grimdark stealth action game series dishonored yeah i made a msa au about it that i have brainworms for and almost exclusively talk about in the tags

i think that’s all the major ones but i’m almost definitely forgetting something anyway. whatever. i’ll pin this post i guess

[galacta-phantasma]

Writing masterpost

As it says on the tin, this is a collection of all my fics on AO3! It'll be updated when a new one is posted, but I'll still be making a separate post for each new chapter/story. Do note that fics in a series will just be listed under the series they're in, unless they're multichaptered

Pokemon:

once more, a bit to the left : 23/23 chapters. Dawn fails in the final fight against Volo, and is sent back to fix it... again. This is how Dawn deals with it all, and accidentally-on-purpose terrifying everyone in the process.

ingo & dawn arrive 15 minutes late with potato mochi : 3 part series detailing the return of Dawn and Ingo, with an accompanying laugh track

undead tracks : 2 part series. An incredibly short ghost!Akari and vampire!twins au

the only sign : oneshot. The only sign anything had happened was the clatter of a chair hitting the floor

PLA but dawn has a litwick : oneshot. au where everything is the same, but Dawn gets sent back with a Litwick as well, and causes some heart attacks along the way

blessed champion : oneshot. Yes, Dawn was strange. But she was their Champion and savior, and Sinnoh protects its own with a fierce love rivaling that of a mother Bewear. It only makes sense for those oddities to follow her into the past, where they were arguably needed most.

earth-shaking menace : oneshot. Akari recreates (discovers?) Earthquake. Rei wonders if its too late to change his name and flee the region.

space's burden : oneshot. Arceus and Giratina have plans. Dialga is acting strange. Palkia’s stuck in the middle, trying to keep everything from falling apart.

hilda gets trolled : oneshot. Hilda keeps running into this girl, and every time she forgets to ask her name. Yet she can't shake the feeling that she's seen her before... Meanwhile, Dawn is on vacation and traveling to Nimbasa City.

once more, rewritten and to the side : 25/25. A rewrite of "once more, a bit to the left". Dawn fails in the final fight against Volo, and is sent back to fix it... again (thanks, Arceus). This is how she deals with it all, and accidentally (read: purposefully) terrifies everyone in the process.

Kirby:

sparkling stars : oneshot. On a day like any other in Dreamland, Kirby looked up. This wasn’t really remarkable. What was unusual was the lack of anything to look at. The sky was a clear blue with not a cloud in sight. No leaves or petals or butterflies flew about with the wind. The sun shined as it always did - just in the opposite direction of where he was looking. He took a few steps back, blinking like he was making sure something was there. Then he smiled, and turned to run back to his home.

funhouse mirror : oneshot. Kirby stared into the eyes of a distorted reflection of himself. Void stared back.

counting tiles until sunrise : oneshot. Both he and Shadow were heavy sleepers, so this wasn’t a problem for them. It was a problem for Daroach, who had sensitive hearing and was a light sleeper.

like falling in slow motion : oneshot. Marx's sleeping schedule seems to change with the phases of the moon, and then hits him when he least expects it with a steel chair

The Ultimate Quest to the Grocery Store : oneshot. It's up to Dark Meta Knight to save the day... by going to the store. Unfortunately, life seems to have it out for him today.

wrath of the galaxy : oneshot. Galacta finds out Meta's been captured by Haltmann Works. Safe to say, they're not pleased about it.

How to Win a Date in Less Than 10 Minutes, a Short Guide by Dark Meta : oneshot. Dameta wants to ask a certain leader of the Squeak Squad out, but isn't sure how. So he does what he does best: apply force and hope for the best.

in what regard does the butterfly hold the bird? : oneshot. Galacta Knight and Morpho Knight were not always the feared knights they are today. A very long time ago, their names were Kirby and Meta Knight. Or: an au in which, due to space-time shenanigans, Kirby and Meta end up in the past and become Galacta and Morpho.

can't help falling (apart/in love) : oneshot. Gaining powers granted by Galactic NOVA, dying, bringing yourself back to life with the clockwork star's broken pieces out of sheer force of will, dying again, and being resurrected again has... interesting effects on Marx's body's sense of time. But even though it hurts, it's somewhat alright. Because Magolor will always be there to guide him back to the present.

Devil May Cry:

brought together by needle and thread : oneshot. It would make Dante happy if he agreed, and he could keep the props afterwards as a memento. The only problem is that he would be seen wearing the outfit in public. The logical thing to do, Vergil decides, is to draw Yamato and stab himself.

for my brother wears a stranger's face : oneshot. In a last minute decision, Dante summons his Doppelganger to bring Lady and Trish to Nero and V so that all four of them can escape, leaving him to become Cavaliere Angelo in Trish’s place. A month later, Nero helps V take down the Elder Geryon Knight while Trish searches for the Sparda. This is the aftermath.

Assassin's Creed:

these hands were made for... : oneshot. Ezio is a man drowning in blood. But a certain artist shows him that his hands can create more than just corpses.

they can fly, but they can't drive : oneshot. The most important thing for survival in the Rooks had nothing to do with how well you fought. It’s learning to avoid any road or sidewalk whenever either of the Fryes took control of a carriage. Or: How the Rooks collectively developed a 6th sense to avoid being run over by their bosses.

Resident Evil:

passing storms in your area : oneshot. Piers, a quiet day at home, and the start of it getting better

RGG:

love, twisting into infinity : oneshot. It's a devotion that goes both ways. For children of the night, nothing could be sweeter.

FFXV:

soul of eos : series. A fem!Noct AU where the Kings of Lucis have Aspects of magic they excel in over all others, and Noct's Aspect is that of the soul

a fin-tastic morning : oneshot. When he was younger, Noctis once fantasized about carrying all of his lover's clutches at once, a fantasy he's glad died as soon as it was born. Now, a few years after taking Prompto's and Gladio's eggs, it's finally Ignis's turn.

in the salt and swell of the ocean : oneshot. Noctis receives a vision of his future self.

LOZ

wretched and divine : oneshot. It was never a question of if he would falter in battle, but rather when. It was as inevitable as the cycle of day and night, as the cycle of the moon and her faces, and yet still he hoped, he prayed, that it would be delayed. To a lesser battle, a kinder battle, where his pack was fit to burst and an inn to rest was only a few moments away, and his son would laugh the blunder off and return to the world with his next misstep far, far away. The truth, as always, burned.

FFVII

The Circle : oneshot. Weiss survives. Nero does too. ...From a certain point of view.

RDR

Exit, Carried By A Bear : oneshot. John rests splayed across his back like a starfish, hands weakly gripping Arthur’s fur. If they had to run, he’s not so sure John wouldn’t fall off. He can feel the burns marring John’s wrists and ankles even through his thick fur, the skin fever-hot and blistered.

steady beat : oneshot. Looking to get away from the gang for a bit, Javier and Kieran spend the night in Valentine, but what begins as a desperate stumble for the bed before someone trips and breaks their elbow becomes something much more tender.

a daring escape from a fluffy prison : oneshot. An average morning in the Duffy-Escuella household.

faith, loyalty, and other chains : oneshot. Javier stands at a crossroads

[volot]

what's a scenario you really want to write volo in but haven't had a chance to yet?

›   ❝   munday questions.

guess who has to put this under a cut bc they got wordy... meeeee

oh this is genuinely a really tough question... i had to rattle my brain around because i have so many good thread ideas in the works with others that my usual check-list feels checked off, but i thiiiiink... i'd really like to dabble with something regarding the sinjoh ruins, past or present. it's something i've talked about before and i'm working some plotting stuff out with a friend right now, but outside of that there are a few different avenues i'd like to explore with it! the ruins of alph, too. less of 'haven't had a chance' and moreso 'i haven't really voiced my thoughts on it.' i want to write more involving the celestica too, but might be more of a drabble thing than an interaction thing.

other than that... legendary / mythical encounters are always something i'd like to explore ( i know i owe knight's darkrai an ask so i'm :eyes: ), whether they go pretty alright, mediocre, or horribly terribly bad for volo.

thinking about it and tbh i have to wonder what it'd be like to throw volo at any of the modern gen villains, especially ones who had tried conquering gods of their own? you know, talk villain shop. in general, i'd like to do more with my modern verse, so i'll have to write up a proper verse explanation for it when i'm more awake!

this did remind me though that i'd love to throw him at a cyrus sometime, but i don't know if there are any active that i've seen? i think it'd be a fun time to dissect their similar-but-different worldviews and means of going about them. also how do you react when this run into this survey corps' captain's great-great-great-grandkid who wants to do what you do but like, not in the way you wanted to do it, you know? encountering the protagonists from gen 4 in the modern day is something i'd like to poke at too; whether they remember him or not depending on if they got isekai'd back - or maybe they remember him from before getting isekai'd? - he sure would remember them.

volo... traveling. volo traveling to modern celestic town. volo... how volo met giratina, i'd like to see how other giratina mun's interpret it and play with their ideas on their dynamic and write out other people's ideas for it, because i love seeing people's perspectives / interpretations by things!

speaking of cyrus... my original blog headcanon that i'm kind of wiggles hand about now because i don't think it fully makes sense anymore given the lore we know Now but i'll probably turn into an au on this blog is like... volo being a vessel for arceus. or more specifically, a failed vessel of arceus that was abandoned late-creation process because it felt unnecessary and was left to live a normal life, so that's why he feels so empty, because he literally doesn't have a purpose. i don't really know how much i could do with it or what interactions i could squeeze out of it, but it's def something i want to explore either in drabbles or anything else.

'volo wins the battle with the protagonist' is something i'd like to chew on, solely because i'm curious on what would happen if he had won. i can't imagine it'd go as he'd planned and it would not be a fun time for him, but definitely something to throw at the wall. in relation to this, divine retribution if he ever did try to actually subjugate arceus would be interesting? i think arceus deserves to knock him flat on his ass from his pedestal. as a treat. another related to this is like... this is definitely probably something better suited for a drabble, but writing volo grappling with the fact that like if he did create his ideal world or try and force arceus to, it'd be impossible to fulfill because it's an extremely unrealistic dream for what he wants. i'd like to see him have to swallow that down.

god volo... i do think of him as a concept. no clue what i'd do with it yet, but i do think of it. cannot imagine it'd be smooth sailing for him though.

aura users... i've talked with a friend about his aura being very, very intense. he sure can't use it, but this is something i'd less imagine is a big scenario and more like 'oh that's a cool detail to note, i wonder if anything can spiral from this.'

outside of that... i just think general relationship building is neat. good or bad, healthy or toxic, whatever the case, i just really like writing dynamics against people and seeing what comes from that and where they could go, but again this is less 'i don't have the chance to' and more 'oh man i need to reply to my threads.'

sorry this got so long, i hope all this makes sense!!

[cheemken]

Saw your latest art, and Geeta and Diantha are definitely rumoured to be dating despite just being friends. These two idiots will spend the day with each other then share a bed and be confused about the rumours

Also I know you have your Villain Diantha AU, and her whole reason is that she wants to get rid of those she herself deems “filth” or “to far gone” so that the world is a better place and she can rule/dictate the planet

But what about the other champions? If in separated AUs why would they become the villains of their worlds? What caused them to go down a separate path then their original counterparts?

No but fr tho imagine all the fucking rumours Dia has to hear from her manager abt her and Geeta tho hahaha these two are like the definition of kissing the homies goodnight and they can somewhat do it in the most platonic way like they'll sleep together whenever they're staying at another champion's or each other's place and the first time Geeta joined them the others also thought she and Dia were dating hahaha

And ohhh👀👀

Ngl tho, the villain Dia au was originally villain Lance bc I did write two chapters of it too, and he got Giratina from Cyrus hahaha so in a nutshell it's the same corrupted Galar League bc of Rose thing and Lance went all knight mode and killed Rose for Diantha. But another concept I thought that maybe he did snap sometime before that bc people kinda look down on him despite being the Indigo Champion now, as they know Red and Green are still around and those two just probs gave Lance that title bc they dont want it anymore, leading different lives now. And Lance didn't really take that well bc hey, he's a strong trainer y'know, ofc he's Champion, but still people kinda see him as a stand in for Red and Green and he fucking hates it, so during the tournament he went above and beyond to try and beat everyone, and if they're close to winning against him, well.. Dragonite's Hyper Beam will be the last thing they'll see

Idk how'd Steven would be villain tho bc of all the champions I see him as the kindest and the most open minded, so he'd probs have no problems other than the ones he buried for so long na. I do wanna say that maybe he does see Wallace struggling tho, and maybe he would want to change the world for him and Lisia bc hey, those two are his family now too, he loves them very much, and he doesn't like seeing Wallace struggle anymore, so maybe he would do a Diantha and change the world for the one he loves. Tho, unlike Dia, I imagine Steven as a villain to be the kind that's extremely inconspicuous, more so than Diantha. Like legitimately no one knows he's behind every shitty thing that's happening to those who don't like Wallace, bc unlike Dia who showed herself to Malva, Steven kept quiet and just watched from the sidelines

Same w Wallace ngl, but I also think that if smth were to happen to Lisia, he would snap and lash out on everyone. Think of Team Aqua, but tenfold, it didn't help he's the Guardian of Sootopolis too, this mf knows where Kyogre is and knows just what to do for the legendary Mon to bow to his will, and soon everyone will die in the same sorrowful waters that drowned him

God villain Cynthia is also reallyyyyy *wild hand gestures* cause like imagine her similar to Volo, acting all friendly then stabbing the trainer in the back. She knows abt Galactic and tried to "help" Dawn and Barry on stopping them, but she never really stopped them y'know, if you catch my drift. Like she's equally curious what Cyrus would do, what would happen if they open the portal to the Distortion World, and she did find out abt it. She watched Cyrus die in front of her, watched Dawn battle Giratina, and stared Giratina dead in the eyes, telling it that if he joins her, he'll finally escape the Distortion World and let the people see just how much more powerful he is compared to Arceus. And ough smth smth Giratina seeing Volo in Cynthia's place, sees the potential in Cynthia, and God imagine if Giratina did possess Cynthia tho, and Cynthia's playing along too bc now people really know she's unbeatable, now that she's a god.

Iris and Hau I can't imagine them as villains but I can imagine the others becoming villains for them. like,, back then I had this concept, y'know the song Hell's Coming With Me by Poor Man's Poison? I have this thought that people really looked down on them so much that the two became ashamed of showing themselves to the public, but Iris was pissed y'know, and made a vow that when she and Hau returns then all hell will break lose, she will make sure of it. The people thought she was just bluffing, but then suddenly all the champions went against the people of their region, against those who look down on Iris and Hau especially, and the two are just happy y'know that the other champions are "taking care" of em by taking out the people who shit talked them

Leon,, same w Wallace?? Like if smth happened to Hop? Cause he does care abt his bro y'know. But I also wanna add that maybe Rose did smth to Hop when Leon was acting out of line and that was the final straw for Leon and really up and killed Rose, bc Lee really couldn't bare the thought of smth happening to his brother, and if he's going to make sure nothing bad ever happens to the one he loves too (so basically like Diantha, do you see now why these two make me so fucking ill like cjmsndmd)

Ough Geeta my guy so in my hcs she's like,, she's struggling w feeling empathy, y'know, any sort of emotion really. And she's trying, and Diantha's helping her and such, but I also wanna say in the Villain Geeta au, as much as she loves Diantha, she also doesn't listen to her much. So most of the time she feels kinda empty, even though Diantha's helping her. I wanna say in this au, she did know what happened to Sada/Turo, and she was there when it happened, she knows what will happen, but she never warned them of the danger, bc maybe if smth happened to them she'd feel something too. And when they died, she didn't feel anything but the thrill of watching them dying over their own research. She didn't understand why, perhaps they weren't that close, but there's smth abt it y'know, watching others suffer that makes her feel some sort of thing, and it made her feel alive. Tho w this bc I'm trash for these two, if Dia did get hurt tho, that's when Geeta would really feel absolute anger, if those who hurt Dia won't die naturally, then she'll kill them herself. After all, it's one thing to feel that thrill watching someone die, imagine how much more she'd feel if she's the one to actually kill them