#VBS motw AU

[yusuke-of-valla]

VBS Monster of the Week?

Ah yes this one is very much “I’ve started watching Buffy and am viscerally reminded of why I love a good, basic monster/conflict/problem of the week AU” so I guess “things that would happen” are just. Episodes

First episode is when everyone in VBS finds out the others are monsters (except Akito. He’s painfully normal). Akito knew Toya was a vampire but not about the others.

Obligatory Beach episode where Takeshi (cringefail loser monster hunter with a crush on An from one of Skye’s fics if you want to read it [he is less of a cringefail loser in that original fic but he is an abusive pos so that’s why we have him be a cringefail loser when he shows up in other aus]) tries to out the others as monsters but fails to do some because he’s completely wrong about which monsters they are so throws holy water on Kohane and just makes her angry and wet. Also Toya hypnotizes him into fighting with a crab

Arata is a Lenan Sidhe and also Akito’s half brother. All the SMT images of Lenan Sidhe have these little hook things that we have found no lore about so we’ve bullshitted that that’s like the source of their powers. Arata’s mom gave one to Akito’s dad for inspiration and then he never gave it back (bc he’s stupid not malicious) and then he gave it to Akito and Akito eventually gives it back to Arata’s mom but not before Akito thinks Arata’s trying to seduce his dad when Arata asks about him to get revenge for his mom

EVER is a group of centaurs and they’re all pretty normal and chill. Meanwhile Kotaro was a normal dude and then he died when a piano fell on him and no one noticed for like two weeks until his brother found his body and then learned magic to bring him back as a ghost (I have more lore for him from when I played him in a Monster Hearts one shot @galaxae and he ended up even more pathetic. He managed to get mugged at one point despite being a ghost). One episode is dedicated to him and his unresolved trauma. EVER is again, just vibing

Akito is kind of the chosen one but no one knows what the fuck that means because the translation of the prophecy isn’t great but roughly it means he’s supposed to ‘make the human and monster worlds one’ and some people think it means he’s gonna help monster and humans live in harmony, some people think it’s gonna smash earth and the monster world together and the monsters are going to kill everyone, some people think humans are going to overrun monsters, and all of this is based on a rough translation of a language so old and dead even immortal demons can’t speak it perfectly but the prophecy did, fortunately, come with like a picture that’s very clearly Akito so everyone has very strong opinions on their interpretation being correct and depending on that try to kill/kidnap him

And as a bonus ok I have this whole other AU where Yusuke’s mom was a part of RADder back in the day before she decided to pursue art full time it’s on my to-write list I just have to redo the entire thing but in this AU she’s a werefox and Taiga and Nagi are werewolves and Ken’s a siren so as a joke whenever Mamagawa, Taiga, or Nagi complained about something that Ken didn’t get they’d be like “of course the fish wouldn’t understand” “it’s a mammal problem” it’s very funny and cute