#We're also bickering about who's the stronger dog

[canines-crown]

Ladies, gentlemen and others, I present to you:

Me

[mirai1269]

Cloning Catastrophe

So you can’t split MC into halves and make them share, and merging the two Yanderes only made one stronger Yandere. So with a last ditch attempt, Newt tried out Cloning.

Newt: “Alright, with the wave of this magic wand, I can clone my brother so that those two classmates would stop fighting over him.” He said, practicing the spell.

MC: knocks on door “Newt, if you’re going to turn somebody into an Eldritch Abomination, Don’t.”

Newt: “I’m not doing that Big Bro.”

MC: “Alright, I trust you.” He said before leaving.

The young boy sighed in relief and went back to practicing the spell. When he came out of his room, he found his brother about to leave.

Newt: “Big Bro, wait!” He said.

MC: “Huh?” He turned around, and as soon as he saw the magic wand in his hand, he ducked in fear.

?: “OWWW!!”

MC: “Wh-NEWT! What did I say about turning people into Eldritch Abominations!”

Newt: “I wasn’t going to do that, it was just a simple cloning spell.”

MC: “That’s it! Give me that magic wand!!”

Leon 1: “Ugh, my head…”

Leon 2: “Huh? What happened?”

The Brother turned around to see who the spell hit, only to be shocked to find Two Leons on the ground. The two Leons looked at each other with pure confusion. They even touched hands to ensure that the other wasn’t hallucinating this.

Leon 2: “W-Why do you look like me?!”

Leon 1: “I can ask the same thing! Who are you?!”

Leon 2: “I’m Leon.”

Leon 1: “But I’m Leon too!”

MC: “Newt! Turn them back!”

Newt: “I can’t! This wand as a 2 day cooldown. At least it isn’t an Eldritch Abomination.”

MC: “No! It’s WORSE!!”

The two Leon’s run up to MC out of emotion distress, but they quickly realized that they both have to share.

Leon 1: “Let go of him! He’s My friend!”

Leon 2: “No, he’s Mine Impostor!”

The two bickered until the sound of a car honking caught their attention. There, a pink limo pulled up to the house, and Vincent’s face popped out of the window.

Vincent: “Honey, I’m—OH GOD THERE’S TWO OF THEM!!”

The two Leons stopped fighting and ran over to Vincent like two Dogs chasing a Cat.

Vincent: “Drive Drive DRIVE!!”

Suddenly, the pink limo drove away at lightning speed from the two Leons.

Leon 1: “Yeah that’s right, Scram you Jackass!”

Leon 2: “Leave us alone Asshole!!”

MC & Newt: “………..”

(Hey, at least the spell "worked".)

MC: "What are we going to do now? Make up a story about Leon having a lost twin brother?"

Newt: "He doesn't have papers. It'd be difficult."

MC: "I also don't have papers."

Newt: "...true."

Once the limo is far out of sight, the two Leons turn back to the brothers.

Leon 1: "Okay, now can someone tell me what's going on?!"

Leon 2: "Yeah, I demand an explination!"

Newt: (Guess we're gonna get to school late today...)

Once Newt explained his brilliant plan, everyone looked at him in skepticism.

MC: "Newt, do you even know what kind of cloning you're doing? What if you had summoned an evil self of me?"

Leon 1, muttering: "I wouldn't mind."

MC: "What?"

Leon 2: "Your plan was a bust from the start. I wouldn't share any number of your brother!"

MC, Newt: "...."

Leon 1, a blush blooming on his face: "...besides, more MC, more to love."

The two brothers notice that the gesture is mirrored on the other Leon's face. Curious, MC grabs the second Leon's collar, pulls him down and starts patting his head.

Leon 1: "Hey! What are you doing?"

MC stops with the patting.

Leon 2: "Ey, don't stop!"

Leon 1: "Oh... it's gone."

MC: "Great, so they feel eachother physically."

While on their way to school, they decide that one of the clone's name should be "Noel", as to avoid calling him "Leon number 2". He's a very look-a-like cousin of Leon and he's just visiting. Vincent, despite wanting to spend time with MC too, avoids them for the whole of the 2 days. Once time's up, Newt randomly "snipes" one of the clones to revert the spell. They don't tell Vincent about it for at least a month.

[chubb-e-cheese]

okay so I started writing this without like thinking this might potentially be disturbing so like pls feel free to delete if like stories with death + human remains are a no go. last November i got invited over to a neighbors house to have dinner and smoke w her and her husband. they are former oddities dealers, their house is full of like massive taxidermy and antique collections, you walk in and the room is covered floor to ceiling, punctuated by a fireplace with a 4ft buddha head blocking it. There is a human ribcage on display in the corner, and this is where the house tour starts. I don't remember every single thing off the top of my head, but on the mantel Specifically was a taxidermy dolphin penis, various crime scene photos, and a taxidermied fetus with it's head replaced with a baby doll's (apparently the body got passed to them after another oddities dealer just. kept the head. and she said it didn't feel right to leave it headless so she made it one herself, which is like fair I guess.) I take a photo of the baby for posterity, because that's insane, it's the only photo I manage to get the rest of the night. They have a pug named Lola who they trained to play a little toy piano whenever she has to go outside, the dog also chooses what shirts she wants to wear out of their laundry every morning. Lola likes me very much.

Along another wall I notice a displayed preserved hand in some sort of orb (didn't touch, don't know what, looked like glass?) and was like "hey that's really cool how do you even get something like that." Her husband asks if I want to see the hand bucket. What the fuck is the hand bucket. I say yes and don't ask him to elaborate.

We head down a very cramped and shoddy set of stairs to their basement, where the woman passes me some disposable gloves and the husband drags this huge Tupperware tub from under an old desk. in the meantime, she shows the "very illegal" tortoise taxidermy they have. I'm not a snitch, but I feel concerned that she offers that info up so easily to someone she'd met exactly twice ever. We get into *why* they're illegal and then the husband is like OK WE'RE GOOD CHECK THIS OUT and I turn back to him and there is 5 (where is the 6th??) whole severed human hands in that tupperware tub. dope. the horror I should probably feel is replaced by scientific curiosity and the need to pick one up and ask for a high five. they are ELATED and remark that im the first person who didn't ask where they got them. I tell them my mom taught me not to look a bucket hand in the palm. they explain that another buddy of theirs works at a body farm for a med school, and he offered to give these preserved leftovers to the couple. Glad to know they're ethically sourced. I tell them so and we keep talking, I'm holding two at a time by the wrist and start absentmindedly gesticulating with them while I talk, this makes them lose their shit like it's the funniest thing they've ever seen. I get embarrassed and hide my face in the hands. Basement tour ensues, they insist I take home a big ass oil painting from the early 20th century to improve (hell yes). I don't get to take a hand home because I didn't ask.

We go back upstairs sans hands and continue looking at the rest of the tiny house; the kitchen and living are pretty normal, I learn that her husband plays upright bass and has a fish sock collection. their bedroom was fucking insane. you walk in and there is this giant, ornate, obviously extremely expensive carved wooden bedframe WITH A TAXIDERMY CANADIAN GOOSE HANGING OVER THE BED LIKE A BABY MOBILE IN ATTACK POSTURE. above the bed is a large still life oil painting, which she moves to reveal an erotic oil painting of a naked lady underneath. Love that.

The room is divided into two distinctly polar opposite halves - her's on the right and her husband's on the left. His side is like creepily organized and lined head to toe with an extensive record and CD collection. Her side actively has multiple lemon trees growing despite the lack of windows and kind of looked like an explosion, unfinished taxidermy pieces and fabric and books. There is a melting wax model of a person in the corner that smells bad, which they start bickering about a little bit in front of me. I'm honestly just impressed.

The wall by the door, facing the bed houses a glass cabinet with another human skeleton inside - mainly a ribcage that shows extensive damage caused by corsets which was also actually really cool, another giant taxidermy bird perched stop it (I don't remember exactly but I think it was an egret?? had a weird beak). He tells me this bird is also very illegal to own and makes a remark that, if they ever wind up having to move, they're probably just going to burn their whole house down so they don't risk getting caught with all this stuff. I don't remember what I said to that, but quite possibly nothing.

With the house tour complete, we order pizza and smoke and I don't really remember much after that, it was stronger stuff than I'm used to so I kind of just honed in on whatever show they decided to marathon. When it got too late, her husband insisted on driving me home with the painting to make sure I got back safe, even when I assured him I could make the trek home just fine, it was like two blocks at most. I think it was pretty sweet for them to actually worry about that kind of thing in spite of the other "we are totally going to crazy murder you" signals. I might try and visit again now that vaccines are rolling out. Also thank u for reading

I genuinely don’t know what to say. Also how is it the only time you said the word creepy was regarding the husbands organized side of the room lmao

[blue-rose-soul]

How about a Tokyo Ghoul au?

And now we're back to the blood and guts and existential pain! Gotta love it!

Because this is a Tokyo Ghoul AU, it will include some mentions of gore and cannibalism, although I don't plan on going too in depth with that. More like a general acknowledgement it happens.

Hiccup:

Species: Human

Quinque: Inferno

A sword-shaped quinque that retains the original ghoul’s power of pyrokinesis.

Because his father is a Ghoul Investigator, he’s a bit more knowledgeable about ghouls than the average college kid. Hiccup’s father had expected him to join the Ghoul Investigator Training Academy out of high school, but Hiccup chose to go to a liberal arts college instead. When he was fifteen Hiccup was attacked by a ghoul - nicknamed ‘Red Death’ by the CCG - who ripped off and devoured his leg. He only survived the encounter thanks to his dog, Toothless, whose barking drew attention and who attacked the ghoul. Granted, a dog can’t do much to a ghoul, but he was able to distract Red Death long enough for the Ghoul Investigators to close in and execute her. Toothless has some scarring on his flank and lost half his tail from the encounter.

He has been close friends with Jack since childhood. When they were younger Hiccup was the shyer one while Jack was more friendly and outspoken, but as they’ve grown older their dynamic has reversed somewhat. Although he’s still trying to find his place in the world, Hiccup has grown into a stronger, more confident person. When Jack suddenly starts avoiding him and subsequently goes missing, Hiccup begins investigating on his own to find his friend.

Hiccup doesn’t buy into the rhetoric that ghouls are all irredeemably evil. It’s only when he makes acquaintance with some ghouls personally - including discovering his best friend is half-ghoul - that Hiccup becomes an outspoken proponent of peace between the species, to his father’s chagrin and embarrassment. Since ghouls have no choice but to eat humans in order to live, Hiccup wants to find a way they can gain nourishment without taking lives, whether that means discovering an alternate food source, finding a way to make ghouls able to eat other food, or finding an ethical way of obtaining human flesh for consumption.

Eventually he does join the Ghoul Investigator Training Academy in order to gain a better understanding of ghouls as well as to find a way to help the ghoul friends he has made. He also tries to change the minds of other investigators in training, but it is an uphill battle. Ultimately he is only able to sway a small handful of people, including his closest friend in the Academy, Astrid.

Merida:

Species: Ghoul

Kagune: Bikaku

A spiked tail that can shoot small, wickedly sharp projectiles with enough force to penetrate concrete.

Merida is from a wealthy ghoul family that has been hiding in plain sight for generations. Although they are easily able to get human flesh by simply buying it, Merida would rather be able to go out and hunt for herself. She doesn’t hate humans in particular, she just doesn’t see a problem with hunting them since everyone needs to eat to live. The first time she sneaks out with a mask, however, she gets in a fight not with ghoul investigators, but with an older, more powerful ghoul who attacks her for encroaching on his hunting territory. She only gets away from the Devil Bear because her father comes to her rescue.

Following this incident, Merida’s parents arrange for her to start working at a café run by ghouls that caters to human and ghoul customers. Under Mr. Lunanoff, she’s supposed to learn to respect humans. She bickers frequently with her coworker, Jack, who likes to tease her and nicknames her ‘Princess’ two minutes after meeting her. They quickly become good friends who love to annoy the living daylights out of one another.

Merida also attends a public school where she’s supposed to learn to blend in with humans, but she tends to stand out by virtue of being an outspoken, tomboyish girl with a flowing mane of hair who is chauffeured to school every morning. Her first and closest friend at school is Hiccup, who is the first human she’s met who doesn’t write off all ghouls as monsters. As skeptical as she is about the notion that humans and ghouls can coexist, she enjoys his friendship.

Eventually the fact that the café where she works is a ghoul café is leaked and everyone who works there is forced to go into hiding. Merida’s parents are able to protect her, convincing investigators that they were oblivious to the true nature of the café and that the ghouls running it must have hired some humans as camouflage. They are able to pay to have a medical exam faked ‘proving’ Merida is human. But they forbid Merida from going out after or trying to track down any of her friends, so Merida dons the mask once more in order to find them.

Rapunzel:

Species: Half-ghoul (artificial)

Kagune: Rinkaku

Thin, wire-like appendages that look like shining golden hair. She has the most advanced regenerative ability of any rinkaku ghoul.

Growing up, Rapunzel thought of ghouls as something far removed from her every day life. Sure, she knew they existed, but she never expected to meet one and had utmost faith in the ghoul investigators to keep her and everyone she knew safe. Much of this faith comes from the fact that her father is a retired ghoul investigator, but that is the exact reason she is singled out and kidnapped by former Associate Special Class Investigator Gothel. Rapunzel’s father had uncovered Gothel performing illegal experiments on humans and ghouls and put an end to them. Gothel was arrested, but years later managed to escape. She had Rapunzel kidnapped and used as a test subject for her hybridization experiments as an act of vengeance.

Rapunzel is rescued by a group of ghouls working for Mr. Lunanoff and returned to her family, but now a one eyed ghoul she struggles with her new state of being and controlling her hunger. Mr. Lunanoff offers her a job at his café where they will feed her and teach her about ghouls. As scared as she is at first, Rapunzel soon becomes close friends with Merida and Jack, both of whom she is shocked to learn are ghouls since she’d been their classmates for a long time without ever suspecting a thing. She’s also shocked to learn that she has more in common with Jack than with the other ghouls.

When she resumes going to school, Rapunzel struggles to readjust to being with humans again. She has to resist the urge to flinch whenever someone calls ghouls monsters, and she’s afraid of getting too close to Jack’s friend Hiccup, who is the son of a top ranked Ghoul Investigator. As much as she tries to avoid being alone with him, she ends up accidentally revealing herself to him when they’re attacked by  a ghoul who accuses her of encroaching on their hunting territory. She is shocked when, after the fact, Hiccup’s main concern is if she’s hurt.

Rapunzel is the one who suggests revealing the fact that their café is run by ghouls to Hiccup, so when that fact is revealed to the CCG she can’t help wondering if it’s her fault. However they soon discover that their identity was leaked by an organization that Gothel is now a part of, in order to force them from their comfortable spot. Rapunzel is recaptured, along with Jack, and is used for this group’s experiments to create more half-ghouls.

Jack:

Species: Half-ghoul (natural)

Kagune: Ukaku

Ice cold wings that can shoot crystalline shards. They can also shine with radiant light.

Jack’s mother tried to keep him oblivious to his ghoul half for as long as possible. As a small child all he knew was that he had severe ‘food allergies’ and could only have meals his mother specifically prepared for him. As he grew older, Jack slowly became aware that something wasn’t quite right. Especially when his half-sister was born and he was never allowed to be alone with her, and was only allowed to hold her after he’d eaten. And when he realized that his ‘special diet’ pretty much consisted of raw meat and water.

After learning he is half-ghoul, Jack starts pulling back from his best friend, whose father is a Special Class Investigator. He also keeps his distance from other humans, scared of being discovered. He’s not so much afraid that he’ll be executed, but the law says any humans discovered harboring a ghoul will be given the death penalty. His greatest fear is that his mother will die because of him, and his little sister will be left an orphan. When she realizes how stressed and depressed he’s becoming, his mother introduces him to Mr. Lunanoff at his café, which is where she’s been getting Jack’s food from. Mr. Lunanoff has been looking out for them because Jack’s father was a close personal friend of his - an SS-ranked ghoul whose phosphorescent kagune earned him the nickname ‘Nightlight.’

Jack works at the café for a few years before Merida and Rapunzel join. Thanks to Mr. Lunanoff and the others he begins to feel normal again, although he still worries about the consequences for his family and for Hiccup if he were ever discovered, so he’s begun keeping Hiccup at arm’s length. This becomes more difficult when new girl Rapunzel brings Hiccup to the café out of the blue.

When their café is exposed, Jack is forced to go into hiding with the others since they don’t have access to the same resources Merida has. He doesn’t tell his mother or Hiccup what’s happening in the hopes that keeping them in the dark will keep them safe from the CCG. He hopes that the CCG will assume he’s an artificial ghoul like Rapunzel. When the two of them are captured, Rapunzel is used for experiments while SS-rank ghoul Pitch Black keeps Jack for himself.

Kozmotis Pitchiner:

Species: Ghoul

Kagune: Rinkaku

Pitch black tentacles that can induce horrific visions in those they touch.

Leader of an organization of mostly ghouls who wants to tear apart the CCG and create a new society of ghouls. At one time he tried to recruit fellow SS-rank ghoul Nightlight to his cause. However, Nightlight had fallen in love with a human woman and put a stop to Pitch’s plan in order to protect his lover and their unborn child. Pitch was badly wounded in the battle and lost most of his followers. Since then he has slowly been gathering allies and resources in order to resume his plan. He still harbors a grudge towards Nightlight and wants to get revenge by swaying Nightlight’s son to his side.

Gothel:

Species: Human

A former member of the CCG and a scientist who knows more about kagune, kakuhou, and RC cells than any living person. She believes that the secret to immortality lies in RC cells and began experimenting with transplanting blood, tissue, and organs from ghouls into humans and increasing the RC cell count in ghouls to see what effect that would have on their lifespans. When Pitch breaks her out of prison and gives her the funding and tools necessary to resume her experiments, she immediately targets Rapunzel to get back at the investigator who caught her the first time. To date Rapunzel is her most successful experiment and she is determined to recapture her.

Dagur:

Species: Human

Quinque: Skrill

A projectile launching quinque that spits lightning at its targets.

Dagur is another childhood ‘friend’ of Hiccup’s, though really they only spent time together because their fathers were friends. ‘Were’ because Osvald was disgraced and arrested after it was discovered he had grown sympathetic towards ghouls and helped several ghoul children hide from the CCG. Dagur is determined to erase his father’s failure by attaining the rank of Special Class Investigator and annihilating all ghouls. He considers Hiccup a worthy rival and brother at first, until he discovers that Hiccup has been protecting ghouls as well and trying to convince other investigators to do the same. He takes this as a personal betrayal and is determined to kill Hiccup himself.

Grimmel:

Species: Human

Quinque: Deathgripper

A flexible spear that injects those it strikes with an insidious venom that causes those affected to attack anyone around them - allies included - before ultimately killing them.

Current head of the CCG. Special Investigator Grimmel is known as Grimmel ‘the Grisley’ to humans and ghouls alike for his brutal methods dealing with the ghouls. He considers ghouls little more than animals and wishes to completely eradicate them. He utterly despises Hiccup for sewing dissent among the junior investigators and spreading the idea that ghouls are people.

Stoick:

Species: Human

Quinque: Skullcrusher

A giant hammer that can smash through even the toughest koukaku shells.

A special investigator widely feared by the ghouls. Stoick takes great pride in protecting humanity from the ghouls and wishes for his son to follow in his footsteps. He begins to question his entire life’s purpose when he is saved from Pitch Black by a young white-haired ghoul, no older than his son.

Other notes:

Eugene is another student in the Big Four’s school. Before she is turned into a half-ghoul, Rapunzel had a budding romance with him. She cuts it off afterwards, not wanting to endanger him.

Heather is also a Ghoul Investigator in training. She is one of the first volunteers to under go an experimental procedure that will let Ghoul Investigators summon quinques from inside their bodies like kagunes. Afterwards she is often used on undercover missions where she pretends to be a ghoul.

The Guardians are all ghouls who work at Mr. Lunanoff’s café. They unofficially adopt the Big Four, including full human Hiccup.

Jack’s hair is originally brown, but it turns white from his experiences after being captured by Pitch. He dyes it brown again in order to keep a low profile.

Because her regenerative abilities are so advanced, Rapunzel actually ages somewhat slowly. She’s not immortal, but she does have the capacity to live an extremely long life.

Merida eventually unlocks pyrokinetic abilities with her kagune.

Nightlight is presumed dead after his last big battle with Pitch Black. Then again, Pitch Black was presumed dead in that battle as well.

Jack’s little sister doesn’t know he’s a half ghoul, and he’s terrified of the thought of her ever finding out because he doesn’t want her to be afraid of him.