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Last song: "The Mad Stone" -- Everything Everything

Currently Watching: I don't really watch shows anymore but I've finally been listening to the Magnus Archives.

Three Ships:

1) Kakyoin Noriaki/Kujo Jotaro (JJBA) These two got me into reading fanfic.

2) Varré/Tarnished (Elden Ring) These two got me to interact with fanfic and writers.

3) Dark Urge/Enver Gortash (BG3) These two inspired me to write my own fanfic.

Favorite Color: Dark greyish green, Deep navy blue with gold accents, and/or Rich Burgundy

Currently Consuming: London Fog tea with honey and a splash of cream

First Ship: Tenou Haruka/Kaiou Michiru

Place of Birth: A riverside town in Kentucky

Currently Location: Florida (the storms are lovely, the beach is nice, I'd love to live near mountains though)

Relationship Status: Taken

Pets: I have two cats, Anri and Fia

Last Movie: Paprika (2006) dir. Satoshi Kon.

Currently Working On:

1) Writing - Hound of Bane WIP (explicit, Dark Urge/Gortash, M/M)

2) Art - More bg3 npc mochis

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

in the tg au i want the jojo pod to meet the bucci gang so that the pod can find out about giorno. the only thing i can think of is josuke being capture and put on the mer market and the bucci gang busting the place and finding him. maybe there are so many mers at this place they dont have enough tanks so they bring josuke home and put him in with giorno temporarily until he's ready to be released?

I’ve sorta thought about this too! 

My thought was: Johnathan was swimming around, minding his own business, when he heard a whole lot of yelling. He swam toward it to find a boat with a panicking human family on it, freaking out because their boat’s motor has given out and they’re stuck. Johnathan being Johnathan of course tries to help, even after one of the adults on the boat flips out at the sight of him and shoots him through the arm with a harpoon. Johnathan understands that was just a panic reaction, and doesn’t let it sway him too bad and gets the boat back to shore. 

The family felt real bad about the whole, you know, harpoon thing, since Johnathan was extremely helpful, so they try to get into contact with the SPW to get him some help in turn. Because Johnathan is such a massive, obviously predator mer, they can’t really have him in the main facility with a bunch of super skittish rescues, but Bruno knows that Giorno is extremely well adjusted by now, so he offers to host Johnathan at their place. 

Johnathan takes one look at this stunningly blonde little octopus mer and goes “hey wait a fucking minute”. 

[voriiduraki]

Name: Eugeni Nuraliev

Known Aliases: Eugeni the Head, Sevens (Semerki), Ox, Brass (Latun)

Age: 40 (as of 1986)

Height: 5'2"

Weight: 150lbs

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Brown

Nationality: Russian-Kazakhstani

Family: Mother - Jelena Nuralieva, Father - Mels Nuraliev, Older brother - Uryuvkos Nuraliev, Younger brother - Timur Nuraliev, Younger sister - Marksena Nuravliev, Grandmother - Zhanika Kiselyova

Appearance: Eugeni is short and muscular. He works out regularly and has a firm, cut form of a bodybuilder. His hair is cut short and black, often slicked back. His eyes are a light brown. Like most vor he has tattoos denoting his rank, successes, and failures. Most of his body is tattooed with symbols of luck or protection, including one along his right cheekbone.

 He likes to wear short sleeve dress shirts and comfortable pants in casual and tank tops and shorts for working out. He will wear custom suits for formal occasions though is quite reluctant to.

Personality: Eugeni comes off as gruff and simple minded but he is actually very intelligent and chooses to be seen as someone who should be feared. He is pretty a logical person except that he is very superstitious which can interfere with his daily activities. He keeps numerous good luck charms and wards on his person and in his office and compulsively touches them. He has mild OCD and needs his space to be a certain way and does things in sevens such as knocking or touching his charms.

Eugeni enjoys math, working out, sparring, and various forms of divination. Outside of his superstitious related fears he doesn't fear much. He was never squeamish and during his debt collector days was quite brutal, especially if any comments or jokes were made about his height. He isn't afraid of a fight unless he feels that his luck is ill. Eugeni is an aggressive person but is also respectful. He knows his place and won't give too much input unless asked. His vocabulary is pretty large considering he didn't stay in school. 

✭ JJBA Verse Info ✭

Stand: Nautilus Pompilius

Stand Appearance: Nautilus Pompilius appears as a marble statue of a man but with the lower half of a lion and a face like a bronze mask that resembles a sun motif with spikes that resemble beams protruding from its face. Its body is shrouded in a thin, sheer tunic.

Stand ability: Nautilus Pompilius shifts luck to where things go its user's way. Typically little things that could affect the outcome of larger events centered around its user. However, this draws up all the good luck they were to receive and only left with neutral or bad luck for a time afterwards. The longer he uses it, the longer it takes for the regular flow of good luck to return. It's spikes that resemble beams change color as an indicator of the users luck status. A tarnished black means ill luck while bronze means neutral and gold means good luck.

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Early Life: Eugeni's family moved from Russia to rural Kazakhstan after WWII during the Virgin Lands campaign. They were farmers and grew grain but did a lot of it manually due to equipment shortages. When Eugeni was old enough he helped too and grew up to be quite strong. In his JJBA verse he learned of his stand in his teens and used it to ensure their crops grew and things went well for his family. But through overuse he learned it caused terrible things to come his way as well. Soon crops died, rains stopped, grain was lost during transport and other unfortunate things ensued. Eugeni became very superstitious because of this and believed during periods of ill luck he could keep his family and himself safe with charms and wards. Something his distant relatives still believed in.

He went to the school at their settlement and enjoyed math, science, sports, and folklore but never got to actually graduate. His friend and old classmate would sneak off to hang out in an abandoned warehouse. One day while just hanging out at their chill spot they ended up getting caught up in a gang deal taking place there. Both gangs thought the other had tried to double-cross them and a gang fight started. After one organization finally won they rounded up the survivors of the enemy gang and shot them including Eugeni's friend. When they turned the gun on him. Eugeni used his stand in hopes they would let him live and they did. (In his main verse they saw potential in him.) But he was forced to work for them for sparing his life. He was taken from his town and eventually became a debt collector and was moved to the Russian syndicate. 

Eugeni knew Dmitri from when they both were in the same organization but weren't close. However he did like that Dmitri didn't treat him like an idiot. When the takeover of his organization occurred and was absorbed into Dmitri's, he was surprised he remembered him and even considered him a friend. He was kept close to his new boss until he grew to trust him enough with the position of Sovietnik.

Organization Status: Right hand of Dmitry/in charge of Sovietnik branch

Random Facts:

※Eugeni has OCD and his mood is heavily affected by it.

※He likes contact sports such as boxing and wrestling.

※He can do complex math in his head and was good at keeping track of money owed and money that was paid during his debt collector days. 

※He is intimidated by people taller than him and is secretly afraid of Boris but will never admit this and comes off as rude toward him. He does respect him despite his fear of him.

※Deer are his favorite animal. He has a stylized tattoo of one with protection symbols in the design. As well as things in his office with the motif and a few figures.

※He owns handmade tarot cards and casting stones. 

※All his clothes have wards or charms sewn in and out of view. 

※He actually is agnostic and is more into mysticism than religion.

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

ok this idea is just for fun but what if giorno was a goldentail moray because they're also called the banana eel and the bastard moray and i can just see bucciarati calling him by his actual species name, the bois calling him banana, and abbacchio calling him a bastard.

Even as an octopus, he has still been referred to as “banana” by Narancia, because he is indeed yellow. And you better believe Leone is gonna be calling him a bastard no matter what lmao. That’s just how he do. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

Could be a stand ability someone has then? Not like turn you into a mer but maybe a defensive thing where, on hit, it turns the person hit into the last creature they touched? If they're already human then it does nothing, or if they were turned into a animal, then touch a human, another hit would turn them human again? So the last "creature" they touched was either Giorno or another mer they rescued earlier. Also, could have a time limit even if they aren't hit again so they aren't forever mers

Ah yes, one of those good old fashioned hyper specific stand abilities lmao. 

It kicks in, and Bruno is like “um?!?!?!” He has no idea what to do with this. The stand’s effects only last 48 hours, so Bruno spends those 48 hours swimming around with Giorno in the giant aquarium setup they’ve got. Giorno is also confused, but happy to hang out with Bruno. He himself doesn’t swim in the way Bruno, turned into a single tailed mer, would, but he tries to show Bruno how to swim around nonetheless, and plays with him with some of the toys that have been put in the tank for him. 

It’s a strange experience, for sure, but Bruno finds it pretty fun nonetheless. It was a good time. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

where does the gang keep gio in the TG au? i imagine a tank would be too small and a bathtub would get really cramped really fast (unless they install one of those giant aquariums that are the size of a wall?)

Cioccolata was basically keeping Giorno in a box, so just about anything would be a step up from that. 

Thankfully, the big fancy mansion they relocated to after taking over has a swimming pool, so they pretty much just fill that up, forgo the chlorine, and stick Giorno in there until they can come up with a more permanent solution. 

It’s definitely not ideal, because it’s not proper saltwater, and there’s no heater, but trust me, compared to the sorts of places he’s been kept before, it’s a *luxury*. 

Eventually, they do manage to get a fucking *massive* aquarium (the joys of being richer than god), and they move Giorno into there and he is just... beside himself. Like, he has no idea what to do with this. He has plenty of room to swim, and it’s nice and warm, and the water doesn’t hurt his gills to breathe??? What?? This is amazing!!

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

Is Johnathan thinking about having to kill DIO spawn

The thought crosses his mind for maybe half a second before he reevaluates the scene and actually tries to take everything into account. The kid’s clearly had a nasty run of it. He’s smaller than average, and absolutely covered in scars, many of which are nasty enough to make Johnathan’s heart hurt. Plus, he’s a real sweetie, not at all like the monster that was almost certainly his father. The little octopus swims right up to him when he gets placed in this new tank, softly telling him everything was alright now, and sympathizing with his injury. DIO spawn or not, this was a good kid. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

ooooo that'd be some good angst! maybe once gio is on the mend and getting better, mold man had somehow found out about gio and got secco to kidnap him. que the gang having to rescue gio from the mad doctor before he kills gio! they do manage to rescue him, but not before gio suffers through some shit and maybe loses something. idk maybe a eye? idk

Good, good, definitely good. 

Consider also: There was another form of the mer AU I was considering that was already a lot darker in which Johnathan actually didn’t find baby Giorno in DIO’s den. Giorno got desperate enough that he somehow found the resolve to swim up to the surface in search of food, only to promptly get grabbed by human fishermen and subsequently sold off. He would’ve grown up being passed from shitty rich person to shitty rich person until eventually, as this ask has made me start thinking, getting sold to a very enthusiastic Cioccolata. 

The Bucci Gang betrays the boss, Fugo coming with them this time, and kills off Cioccolata and Secco. Shortly after, they end up looting through Cioccolata’s fucked up murder mansion and find, much to their collective horror, a nearly dead juvenile mer barely clinging on to life inside a way-too-small tank. 

Cue a rescue, and a whole lot of trying to rehabilitate an extremely traumatized Giorno. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

some rich rando to bruno and gang: oh you have a octopus mer as well? mine is quite a bit older but still in his prime! i've had him since he was around your mer's age, he came from a wonderful breeder. perhaps when yours gets a bit older we can introduce them to one another. if we're lucky they'll also breed and we can sell the pups for a hell of a price! i'm hoping people breed captive mers more and stop catching wild ones, so inhumane.

That dude doesn’t even make it out the house. Bruno just decapitates him right then and there, and then spends the nest few minutes gently assuring Giorno that no, absolutely not, they would *never* do anything like that to him. Guy’s body gets pitched into the sewers, pronto. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

We've seen the boys interact with Giorno, well I mean we've mainly seen asks about the boys and you said Fugo was the one to find poor Giorno on death's door, but how about the gang parents?

Okay, I’m assuming this is Tarnished Gold. I don’t actually recall saying anything about Fugo specifically being the one to find him? Maybe I did. I’m a bit scattered right now lol. 

Leone and Bruno are horrified. Really, the whole gang is horrified, but those two are the ones who have to put on the strong face in front of their teammates, to act as though their stomachs don’t turn violently at the sight of a brutalized child barely hanging on to life. 

Whether or not Giorno is going to survive is up in the air for a long time. He’s practically been ripped to pieces, and during the short spans of time that he’s fully conscious, he’s clearly in pain. 

Leone, ever the pragmatist, is the one who quietly brings up the idea of a mercy kill to Bruno one night. His reasoning is basically that the poor kid is obviously suffering, and is almost certainly going to die, so why leave him to die slowly and painfully when they can instead put the poor guy out of his misery? Bruno just on principle wants to staunchly disregard the idea of taking out a child, but... honestly, that really could be the kindest course of action here. 

They keep that in mind as a last resort, only to be called upon if it becomes clear that there’s not going to be anything else they can do, and go about trying to help anyways. Leone wasn’t a cop for very long before getting kicked out, but he still worked some abuse cases, and Bruno is basically a magnet for fucked up teenagers, so together, they have a decent enough idea of how to try and handle their newfound trauma victim. 

When somehow, miraculously, Giorno begins to take a turn for the better, they’re both utterly *relieved*. Leone may have been the one to speak up on the matter, but he still definitely didn’t want to actually have to go through with the idea, and Bruno felt similarly. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

jonathan after killing dio: no dios allowed | jonathan after meeting giorno: son dio allowed

Johnathan, returning to his pod after healing from the harpooning: “Hey guys, you’ll never guess who I just met and have fallen in fatherly love with-”

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

AAAA! In that au then giorno probably would do tricks and shit for the gang because thats how he expects to get food or something! he probably wouldnt speak mer but would probably only speak in broken italian because i seriously doubt any of his owners would have bothered to teach him to speak properly so he's just picked up commands and other random words.

He doesn’t speak at all. He’s picked the language up pretty well, sure, but none of the previous humans have liked it when he made noise, so he tries to keep quiet. Well, that wasn’t entirely true. The Man With Green Hair had loved it when he made noise, but only if that noise was screaming. Any attempts to actually *talk* were punished, so he gave that up real quick. 

He doesn’t know any tricks, either. Nothing especially remarkable. He knows to Obey whatever’s commanded of him, and to keep his mouth shut and his eyes down because no one likes being stared at constantly you little creep, but he didn’t know much more than that. That was why the one lady with the little humans had given him up when he was smaller. He was too boring, she’d said. Not a fun pet at all for her children. The Man With Green Hair hadn’t found him boring, but he supposed everyone had different ideas of entertainment. 

All he could do now was wonder what form appealed to the new humans that’d picked him up, and hope against hope that they’d just find him boring, too.     

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

In Tarnished Gold, I can see Narancia putting some bath toys in the tank they have set up for Giorno after a shopping trip on day to give this weird octopus kid something to play with, but Giorno doesn't know what to do with them without being directed because he's never played with anything before

Awwww :,( That's so precious!

He gets Gio a ducky, and Giorno is deeply confused. He doesn't know what this thing is? It's.... it's not a threat, he's pretty sure, but he still doesn't know what to make of it? He bats at it curiously, and kinda nervously, but it just floats there? It's kinda... cute?

Narancia walks in on him tentatively sniffing at the ducky, muscles coiled as if ready to spring back should the need arise. Cut to Narancia trying to show Giorno how to play with the bath toys. He gets him a whole bunch more, like some toy boats and the like, and Giorno is... happy? He thinks so. He likes these things. They don't do much- just float around in the water with him- but he likes that.

That first ducky is his favorite, and loves it. He usually sleeps with a tentacle gently wrapped around the ducky, or clutching it to his chest.

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

who named giorno in the TG au? like was it his first owner? and did he ever get his name changed? i know when people adopt a pet, it's name could have been something like hunter but they'll rename it if they don't like the name. my mom briefly had a cat whose original owners named it yankee, but she hated that name so she changed it to charlie.

He’s been called many things. Some of them names, most of them not. By now he’s learned to just listen for that tone that means he’s being addressed rather than to listen for a specific word- it’s easier that way. 

None of his previous buyers had ever really seemed to put much thought into giving him a name, not even the ones who actually did decide to name him. Usually, they just seemed to call him the first thing that came to mind, and that was that, but this new group was different. 

They presented him with many names, all posed as if they were asking him a question. He never responded, just twitched to show he was listening and kept his head down so not to aggravate them with his staring. He didn’t know what they wanted, and he wished they’d stop asking him things, because questions never ended well. In the past, questions were always a trap. He’d get punished for indolence if he didn’t respond and punished for speaking if he did. There was no way to win. 

Eventually, though, they seemed to settle on something they liked. “Giorno”, they called him, and it was a word he knew the meaning of- day. It meant day. It was certainly much nicer than most of the things he’d been called before. 

“Giorno”... yes, he thinks he likes that name. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

in tarnished gold what do the gang think of giogio? do they ever at some point think about selling him for extra money since bruno is getting rid of drugs and all the money that that brings in?

God no they’re not about to try and sell him. Dude’s a trafficking victim already, and he’s a total wreck. 

Plus, as far as getting rid of the drug trade goes, I’ve never personally interpreted it to be quite that simplistic, because I think Giorno (and also Bruno) is smarter than that. I think it’s less “get rid of every drug altogether”, and more “get rid of the drugs that are wreaking havoc on the impoverished”. So like, the heroin is gonna get the boot, obviously, but rather than stop there entirely and just lose a huge chunk of income, I’ve always thought it’d be pretty smart, and also pretty on brand for Giorno to switch it up and get involved in the trade of designer, “high end” drugs- the type that rich people tend to go crazy for. That way, the poor are no longer being victimized, *and* Giorno is able to make hella money off rich people. It’s a win-win. 

But yeah, to answer the question at hand: no, the gang is not about to try and sell Giorno off. That's not to say that they have any real idea what to *do* with him, because they definitely don’t, but they sure as hell are not about to put him right back into the system that did *this* to him. 

[psychodelic-insomnomaniac]

Narancia and Mista may think it is a good idea to get a giant pool for Giorno, then adds in like giant ladybug floaty or something. Giorno enjoys sunbathing on his giant ladybug floaty. Thoughts?

Absolutely. He also kinda wrestles with it sometimes, just for fun. Mer don’t do well with direct sunlight for too long- especially not deeper sea mer, like Giorno- but the warmth is nice in short bursts