#boy from the island of lightning au

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Half of these are so long forgotten or just straight up weren't posted, Asie is the only Sonic one, the rest are Ninjago

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demi god LU time

the law of hyperfixations says you must combine interests at every given chance

adding a cut here as to not clog feeds!! its a real long post

i wanna hear thoughts too! so dont be afraid to comment. these are my personal opinions and i wanna hear if anyone agrees or disagrees :D (apologies for all the tags btw)

edit to add the stupid doodle

the gods all have favorites, and ironically none of them are their own kids (save for hades: he loves his kid. doesn't make him a good parent, but you know?)

In a more Zelda timeline abiding setting; Originally they weren't all at camp halfblood at the same time, but time shenanigans decided they were to be brought together

Imagine Chiron’s surprise when 7 of his dead campers waltz into camp (this happens EVERY SINGLE TIME they enter camp. Dionysus is completely unfazed, knowing the bs time shit the gods are dealing with atm)

By the time they enter camp in Wild’s Hyrule for the second time he kinda understands (Wind and Sky didnt have a Camp Halfblood, for the record, for obvious reasons)

Alternatively, its some form of modern au where they’re just from different parts of Hyrule (skyloft, downfall, ordonia, windfall peninsula, hyrule town (different from castle town), the list goes on) which would make a lot more sense for this kinda au (the world would’ve just had a LOT of calamities within the span of a few years, some of the heroes knowing about camp and others not so much)

(i think Legend, Wars, Time, Wind (post WW) and Four would’ve known about Camp Halfblood while the others were just kinda on their own until after their quests) meaning over half of them didn’t have prophecies and just went to deal with the issue themselves, possibly meaning on their journey they learned of camp

Ok well, all of them but Wars, who grew up at Camp Halfblood

All Zelda’s are children of Athena, save for Skyward Sword Zelda since she's the reincarnation of Hylia (yeah, im keeping the original Zelda goddesses! What of it?)

At some point fairly early on, a Zelda only had a son, who got together with Athena at some point and boom

Sky: child of Zeus 

self explanatory 

God of the skies? his name is literally Sky

not to mention how fucking powerful he is?

he was the "first" Link; Zeus was technically the first God, it makes sense (this is such a stupid reason)

The skies are his home, Zeus finding someone on Skyloft and “falling in love” with their love of the sky too results in this bad boy right here

The demise fight? Only a zeus kid could harbor lightning like that

A camp counselor in the modern setting (ik typically once you’re 18, you’re no longer a camper really, but shhhh)

Wind: child of Poseidon 

Don't roll your eyes, i've got a reason!!

the 4 wind gods throw a fit anytime he's sent on a quest (they all love him even if they won't admit it)

A world purely ocean and islands? Poseidon would have a fuckin ball

The Great Sea needed a hero, Wind was brought about more for necessity than out of the want to have a child (this leaves a hard disconnect between wind and the gods, knowing his dad didn’t really have him out of love for his mom but because the world needed to be saved)

The irony of Poseidon being the patron of pegasi and horses and Wind not knowing what a horse is will never not be a funny thought

Has more control over the wind than he does the sea (for now) 

he, like Legend, pointedly ignores that he's a demi-god, especially since he comes after the Hero of Time (kinda hard to live up to that, even outside of a demi-god au)

The ocean and winds are his mood ring: you upset him the wind gods are after you

In a modern setting, the same reason applies kinda; a quest under the sea would be virtually impossible for anyone but a child of Poseidon, and hell knows a cyclopes isnt gonna be sent (gotta love those prophecies) 

OR!! OR AND HEAR ME OUT

Wind isnt a demigod

The wind gods still adore him, but he doesn't have the hero’s spirit and i think that���d kinda translate to not being a demigod, yet still being the one who was destined to go on the quest because there just weren't any demigods to do it

Still not set on which id go with

Legend: child of Hades 

Ah yes, child of the big three goes on so many quests trope. Love to see it

he's Apollo's favorite favorite (Warriors is jealous as hell. Thats his dad! Wdym he likes Legend more????) 

Pointedly ignores the fact he's a demigod (at least, he definitely tries to)

Blessed by (and beefing with) so many gods from his quests

probably one of the few heroes who's spoken to their godly parent (trust me, it was out of obligation rather than free will)

Prefers helping out the more minor, underappreciated, and not as needy or bitchy gods (like Hestia, for example)

curses the Olympians constantly, they've learned to ignore him, hes their best questing kid

Sort of a general camp counselor since Hades doesn't really have kids (its technically his last year but hes been there the longest out of everyone)

Managed to block the oracle over iris message

After his trip to the dark world and lorule, the gods go haywire around him, much to his delight (because it means they leave him alone)

Hyrule: child of Hecate 

adopted by Hermes (much to the dismay of all the Hermes children)

I was on the line between Hecate, Apollo, and Hermes; Hyrule’s affinity for magic and the blood curse resulted in Hecate to win 

Very detached from the gods, the help he receives is never outright but more subtle blessings

The gods like to ignore Downfall after Legend died tbh (outside of modern, obviously)

Well, they still ignore Downfall as a city/country. 

Only learned of camp thanks to Legend, otherwise he wouldn’t have had a clue it existed

Wild: child of Athena 

Also adopted by Hermes 

One of the more chaotic children of Athena

The idea of Athena being his godly parent sourced from his resourcefulness and quick battle (or just general) strategies, along with his pre-calamity self being stoic and more on the critical side

Completely forgot he was a demigod and just let loose, Athena is more than slightly perturbed by him and yet so infatuated

Supervises archery at camp

Warriors: child of Apollo 

exemplifies almost 0 traits of his father other than his looks and his affinity for medicine (shit archer, shit musician, can't write poetry)

blessed by Athena during the war since he was struggling so much, she always has a soft spot for the heros since they fight to protect her daughters so hard (aka pity blessing) 

Actively beefing with Ares 

Aphrodite likes to keep an eye on him, mostly for entertainment (she woulda eaten the whole Cia debacle UP)

Very notorious in camp considering he was a war captain at the ripe age of 17; once learning of the whole Camp Jupiter has apartments and college for half bloods insisted and led a project at CHB to get something similar built (which is where he, Sky and Twilight stay after turning 18)

Twilight: child of Demeter

His love for ranch animals and caring for his farm lead me to this decision

Also the whole wolf thing, that also counts

Appalled by the fact Wind doesn't know what a horse is considering he's literally the son of Poseidon (jealous the kid can talk to Epona and he can't)

After his journey to the twilight, the gods kinda flicker between Greek and Roman around him so they tend to avoid him like Legend

blessed/cursed by Lupa, hence the wolf thing

Teaches foraging lessons at camp

Four: child of Hephaestus

He's the smithy, I couldn’t not say he's a Hephaestus kid

received a lot less help from the gods since he was one of the first 

started advocating that heros receive help from the divine after LU concludes so those after him have a fighting chance (not in the modern setting)

I havent played many of his games, but the kinstones sound like a thing Hephaestus would scatter across the earth as scrap from his creations

Not one of the fire wielders (the only one that can wield fire is Red when split, mostly because of the elemental bs in minish cap)

After drawing the Four Sword, Janus (despite being roman (i like to think the four sword would be a roman artifact, it just feels right)) was suddenly pretty interested and bestowed what wisdom he had for the demi-god

Vulcan, Neptune, Aeolus, and Ceres all came together to forge the elemental stones; the Minish were still the ones to bestow the sword to Hylian people

The gods tend to avoid him too, for the same reason they avoid Twilight and Legend (dark world shenanigans and the Four Sword)

He loves the damn forge at CHB, and was ecstatic seeing the one at Camp Jupiter

He was asked by Chiron if he would be interested in running a forge class for young demigods (be it his siblings or anyone interested) but sadly declined 

Has that air of responsibility to him, being a seasoned quester (and while his 3 doesn't stand to Legend’s 6, its still pretty sizable) hes looked up to by the younger campers

Time: child of Demeter Kronos? 

The Kokiri were so Demeter core dont even tell me they werent

I guess they’d kinda act like nymphs and dryads in a sense??

His abilities use to relate to his mother until the events of his first quest: the Ocarina of Time was designed to slowly corrupt the user, being a creation of Kronos’

However, it wasn’t really designed with a demigod in mind sooo…

Also self explanatory, the titan of time? Duh… huh?? what do you mean he was taken over?? What do you mean he was a child of Demeter?? No he wasnt lol that Neverrr happened

the reason he's the only “child” of a titan is mainly because of the fierce deity mask literally making him god-like, meaning he has a lot more power harbored in him sooo (the second he dawned that mask he discarded his old identity for that of a titan’s child, since it was also cursed object)

Don’t ask how he came to being Kronos’ kin, no one knows, not even he does (I do) (no, it does not imply a Hylian wandered into Tarturus and got out alive to have the baby)

Avoids interacting with the gods at all costs, he's weary of them as they are of him (even if he saved the world twice)

Extras :)

Ravio: child of Pluto 

blessed by Minerva for his natural quick witted nature and clever war strategies, if her own daughter can't succeed she might as well make sure ONE does

can tell if a rupee is real or not by glance alone

Sheerow scares the fuck out of the gods, which in turn means Ravio puts them on edge, a thing very few can achieve

the gods never gave him much thought until the events of albw, to which he suddenly gained like four pair of godly eyes on him

can and will plan one of the worlds most successful heists, refuses to participate 

also beefing with Ares (not Mars, Ares)

Based on my personal HC that Ravio’s some sort of artificer (be it replicating magic dungeon items or just flat out creating new ones) i think Vulcan has his eyes on him too

Hilda: child of Minerva 

by far the strangest child Minerva ever birthed

exemplifies the traits of a hero rather than a ruler

a little jealous her mother likes Ravio more than her

gods be damned, she's not going to let them neglect her kingdom anymore 

a force of fucking nature that single handedly forced a meeting with the gods and somehow forced them to agree to start restoring Lorule (she got the idea from Legend, who has done this multiple times for multiple different reasons)

[xoxoxkisses]

Mermaid Muichiro and Pirate Reader AU. 🧍

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Mermaid!Muichiro x Pirate!Reader

warnings: mentions of drowning, pet names

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You and your crew had set sail in the early morning. The weather seemed like it would be clear skies all day long, which was perfect for your long voyage. You and your crew were looking for an island that had been rumored to have tons of gold and other treasures scattered all around it. It was safe to say you and your crew were excited, which is why you set out so early so you could be the first ones.

Captain Kagaya had ordered you to go below deck and clean the extra weapons just in case you guys had to fight. You did as you were told, and climbed down the ladder into the bottom deck. You quickly found the spare weapons and wasted no time to start cleaning them. After around 2 hours, you were nearing the end when it seemed to get darker. You didn’t think much at first bc it was usually dark where you were, but outside seems darker. You looked out and saw these huge dark clouds heading the ship’s way. As you were looking, something caught your eye. It looked like two glowing eyes staring at you.

You didn’t recall anything in the ocean that had glowing eyes, but something about them entranced you. Suddenly, you hear shinobu call for you. “Y/n! Get up here now, we need your help!” You quickly put away the rest of the weapons and climbed back up the ladder to be met with pouring rain. The winds were horrendous, tilting the ship every which way. You felt like you were going to be sick, but you had a job to do. You had to reposition the sails as they were making the ship go everywhere except the direction it was supposed to go.

Suddenly, the post that the sails were attached to had been struck by lightning, somehow the lightning has traveled through far enough you felt small sparks from it which made you fall back a little. You were now close to the edge of the boat. It was hard to stand up, the boat was moving way more now. Suddenly, a big gust of wind tilted the ship making the side you were on almost hit the water. Unfortunately, it caused you to fall off. Your screams could be heard until you hit the water. The last thing you remembered seeing before you went under, was some of your crew mates looking down at you.

It felt like you were drowning. You couldn’t breathe. You were in and out of consciousness. The last thing you really remember seeing, was a teal colored tail, and your own legs. You remember feeling like someone had pulled you into a tight hug.

When you awoke, it was still storming, but not nearly as bad as it was. You were on the shore of some island now. You looked over and saw figure beside you, half of its body underwater. When your eyes focused, you saw it was a boy that was naked, or so you thought. You sat up slightly, feeling a little lightheaded, you rubbed your head. “W-who are you?” You looked at the boy as he looked at you, and you couldn’t help but see those glowing eyes again. “I’m Muichiro.” You stared at him some more before it finally clicked.

“Hey, you’re what I saw in the water before I got thrown off the ship.” He simply nodded at your observation. “Why were you in the water anyways? Don’t you also have a ship?” He shook his head. “No, because I’m a merman.” You looked at him with wide eyes. “A-a what?!” Just then, he lifted his tail out of the water and repeated himself. “I’m a merman.” You looked at him stunned. “B-but mermaids or anything like that aren’t real.” “Oh but we are.” You couldn’t wrap your head around the fact you were seeing a real life mermaid. This couldn’t be true.

“But why did you save me?” He gave you a sly smile as he crept towards you. He crept towards you and cupped your face with one hand. “Sweetheart, I created that storm, I made you fall off that ship so I could rescue you.” You looked at him with shock and fury. “You what?! Why?!” He chuckled at you as he crept closer. “I wanted you all to myself. Once I saw you on that ship, I knew you had to be mine.” The hand that was on your face, had now grabbed both of your wrists, trapping you. He continued to creep closer towards you. “H-hey! What are you d-doing?!” “Marking you as mine.” He replied in a dark voice. And then, he leaned in and tried to kiss you.

Suddenly you woke up. You shot up in bed and looked around, breathing heavily. You realized you were in your bed in the cabin part of the ship. You tried to get up, but your head hurt. Suddenly Aoi came down to check up on you. When she saw you trying to get up, she rushed towards you. “Y/n, please don’t get up, you suffered a terrible hit to your head during the storm. You need rest.” You looked at her with terror in your eyes. “B-but what about Muichiro?!” She looked at you puzzled. “Who?” You looked down at the ground. So it was just a dream..? You shook your head. “Nevermind, um can I get some alone time?” She nodded at you before she left.

When she did, you got up despite what she told you, and went to the window. You stared out the small window, looking at the clear sky. Then you looked down at the water, just then, those two glowing teal eyes looked at you, winking. Was it really a dream or not?

[papagabu]

The other day I kind of went on a whole thing about Shadow regarding my feelings towards the character to help people understand how I plan to portray him in my AU. But I decided I want to give my reason for why Tails is the main character of my AU.

The short answer is the Metal Breakers AU is inspired by two ideas I had: What if Metal Sonic rebelled against Eggman early, and the idea that if Sonic died, Tails would replace him as the hero of Earth.

The long answer.

Tails is a character that I feel has loads of untapped potential, like Silver, but unlike Silver, whose potential is wasted just off the fact we almost never see the guy, Tails is just held back by two things. First, his age; people like to call him weak a lot of the time, but Tails is frequently shown and even stated to be comparable to Sonic. He’s still below him but very close. Tails is also younger, so there’s a lot of potential for growth there; he would likely easily surpass Sonic if it weren’t for the second, more substantial thing holding him back: his complacency. Tails doesn’t really strive to be the best; he strives to be equal with Sonic, which is not a bad thing. It’s cute and nice that he’s got a humbleness to him that makes him not really strive for more than standing beside his big bro.

Tails is also just flat-out my favorite character; he always has been since I was little and likely always will be, seeing as how I still have love for the little guy after the character assassination he went through the during previous decade. For the longest time I couldn’t figure out why I liked Tails specifically. Looking at him, he didn’t seem particularly remarkable compared to other characters in the series; even at his best, sure, he’s cute, but that can only get you so far when you have to compete with characters like Shadow and Blaze. But I’ve finally realized why in recent years, to me Tails is easily the most relatable and inspirational character in the franchise; this seemingly innocuous little boy has such real aspirations and shortcomings.

I already mentioned how he just wants to stand beside Sonic. Tails doesn’t want to be the coolest; he wants to be seen as cool as Sonic. He doesn’t want to be the strongest or fastest; hell, he doesn’t even seem to want to be the smartest; that just seems to be something he was gifted with. Tails just wants what makes him happy, and that’s being beside the person that makes him happy, the hedgehog who practically gave Tails everything he needed in life. Sonic, the first real friend Tails likely ever had, the first person he could ever really call family. And I love that about Tails; at his best, his relationship with Sonic doesn’t just serve to make Tails a better character but Sonic too. I don’t think Sonic would be anywhere near as likable of a character to me if he didn’t have this precious little bean he’s constantly uplifting; Sonic inspires Tails to be better, and Tails inspires Sonic to be more loving, because without that relationship, Sonic would be almost all snark, which would really get old, as games like Colors, Lost World; and Forces have shown us.

Tails also easily has the saddest backstory; as sparse as it is, the bigger picture we can gather from what we know is not pretty at all. The fact he was bullied is what’s usually focused on, but we also know Tails was homeless and had to sleep outside a lot before he met Sonic, and that stormy nights were the hardest to get through, which is why he’s scared of lightning. That one statement has so many implications; why wasn’t Tails put in an orphanage? Why did no parents or other family take him in? Why did no one take him in? There’s no reason given, but you can make some assumptions; one I personally headcanon is because of the fact there’s implied to have been an ancient civilization on West Side Island where Tails was born. The people from his town or village are likely descendants of that civilization and have carried superstitious beliefs from that ancient culture. It’s very likely that Tails’s mutation was seen as a bad omen of sorts, so he was chased out of town; it would explain why he wouldn’t even be allowed in an orphanage and why he’d be such an easy target for bullying from the other children. And living isolated and ostracized like this, Tails probably had to do stuff like eat garbage, bugs, and small animals to survive. It can also give an explanation for how he took up engineering; he likely attempted to build ways to defend himself from the elements using parts he’d find in people’s garbage, or at a local dump or something. And this trauma has obviously left him with some deep-seated issues, low self-esteem being the most prevalent. You can even easily rationalize his portrayal in Sonic Forces, especially when you take into account the fact that since Colors, Sonic had seemingly been actively holding Tails back, keeping him away from danger rather than letting Tails stand beside him. Tails had come to rely on Sonic again due to Sonic’s actions causing Tails to lose the confidence he built up over time. Lost World is inexcusable, though, but I like to pretend that game doesn’t exist, considering it contributes nothing to the series (that anyone actually likes). 

I headcanon Tails as bisexual, I used to be against the idea of Tails being gay due to all of the evidence of him liking girls but I got into a weird conversation with a friend of a friend a couple years ago where I ended up conceding and saying I could accept Tails being bi.

[thatoneerin]

SO THAT ITHACA SAGA, HUH?

so yeah, this is what I've been stirring up in my little cauldron for my skyvik epic au. Merry Christmas!! these are all designs for Sky at the end of each saga

this one's pretty self explanatory. not too much trauma yet (yet, haha)

this is where Ekko dies, and that's where the green bandana is from + the scar on her arm. she spent weeks mourning him.

here's where most of her army/fleet die by Ambessa's hand. she stills hears their screams sometimes in her dreams

reminder that Mel is Circe in this au, so ofc the ribbon she gives Sky to tie up her hair (after trying to seduce her cough) is gold. the locket around her neck has a picture of Viktor and baby Blitz

this is where Sky locks tf in. after 'Monster', she has let go of most of her empathy. she keeps Mel's ribbon tied around her wrist.

hoo boy. this is after Silco (Zeus) kills the remainder of her crew, including her right hand, Sevika. That's where the cape is from, and the scars are from her close proximity to the lightning that killed her crew. that cape was the only thing that made her feel warm

this is Sky after the 3 or so years she spends on Maddie's (Calypso) island. Maddie put in the beads, after Sky finally surrendered to her and just kinda let her do whatever.

this is, of course, after her fight with Ambessa. She didn't wash that blood off of her for a long time in pride.

(spoilers for the Ithaca saga)

this is after she is finally reunites with Blitz and Viktor. Viktor almost flinches the first time he sees her again, gazing at her scars.

[estellardreams]

Escape [Fail-Sibling AU]

[Characters belong to @emthimofnight]

"AFTER HER!"

Stellar bolted down the halls, panting heavily as Eggman's voice echoes down the hallway. 

First off... She had three siblings she never KNEW ABOUT?!

Second of all... They broke into her house while she was asleep and kidnapped her? What the hell?!

Third... They're now working for EGGMAN. How, why. 

Stellar shook her head, she couldn't worry about that right now. She had to escape... Wherever she was.

She kept running through the hallways, hearing pairs of footsteps gaining up on her. She burst through the first pair of doors, running up to the deck of a flying ship, a storm on the horizon in the distance.

"Stellar. Get back to your cell. The doctor requires your assistance." Void said.

"Nope! I keep saying this, but I'm not working for that jerk!"

"Not THAT kind of assistance. To have you work with us and defeat those faulty hedgehogs." Andromeda said.

"... Did he seriously brainwash you two?" Stellar asked, confused.

"Uh, no?" Polarity said, confused as well. Void promptly smacked him over the back of his head.

"Doesn't matter. You're still not going anywhere." Void said.

"Not if I jump off!"

"And go where? We're surrounded by the ocean! There's no land for thousands of miles!"

"Maybe... But I can swim. No idea if you can, anyway-" Polarity snuck up behind Stellar in a flash.

By instinct, she spun around and kicked him in the head, knocking him to the ground. Void grabbed her and threw her towards Andromeda. Stellar swiftly curled up into a ball and bounced over her, landing safely on the ground.

She breathed, standing back up and readying her fists. 

Andromeda leapt back to her and threw a punch, with Void swiftly aiming to strike her down with some chaos spears. 

A huge boom of thunder and gust of wind knocked everyone down. Stellar immediately got up, trying to run. Andromeda grabbed her ankle, yanking her back down to the ground. 

She growled, kicking her off and scrambling back to her feet. Polarity tackled her back down as Void readied his chaos spears. Stellar spin kicked herself free, knocking the two boys down and running to the edge of the ship. 

Lightning struck down in front of her, causing her to stumble back. She slipped and fell from the rain making the floor slippery. 

"You're not getting away!" Polarity lunged towards her, about to reach Stellar before she moved out of the way.

The ship tipped towards the right as it made a rather sharp turn. Void dug a chaos spear into the ground as Andromeda grabbed onto the wall. 

But Stellar and Polarity fell straight off, crashing onto an island below them. 

The two immediately blacked out right after upon impact. 

"DOCTOR! SHE GOT AWAY!" Void yelled.

"And Polarity fell off too!" Andromeda said.

"Who cares about our weak link? We NEED Stellar!"

"No! We need Polarity!"

"Shut it. You work under me, remember?"

"Void. Both of them are important but we need Polarity first."

"Don't care."

"Both of you be quiet. We're turning back and we'll wait out the storm until we can retrieve them. Got that?" Eggman snapped over the intercom.

"... Yes, Doctor."

"Good. Finishing our turn now." 

[baambastic]

Woo Be Upon Ye:

Medieval fantasy TimKon AU where Kon is a half-dragon prince of the realm who elevates commoner Tim to the Royal Guard on a whim. Also has Bart as an apprentice mage, Donna and Cassie as Themiscyran ambassadors, many of Tim’s school friends as Royal Guards, Wildcat as a mentor, the Daily Planet staff as the royal council, and more! Planned as part one of a four-part series.

Bernard Dowd vs. The World:

After hearing Tim’s many, many, many stories about his friends, Bernard realizes that almost all of Tim’s guy friends were hitting on Tim at multiple points. Failing to convince Tim of this, however, Bernard makes it his mission to obtain written testimonies from as many of said friends as he can to support his case. Such friends include Superboy, Danny Temple, Sebastian Ives, Lonnie Machin, and more.

Two for the Price of Them:

In this AU, Tim’s 100th cloning attempt is a success, and so clones of both Kon and Bart are created. Partway through the artificial aging process, however, an agent of N.O.W.H.E.R.E. (overhauled from the same metahuman-abduction organization from the New52) attacks. Tim is forced to go on the run and off the grid with the two clone babies.

The World Didn’t Stand Still:

When Kathy Branden plugs a Phantom Zone Crystal into her teleportal and visits the Phantom Zone, she comes back with a young Krytonian boy, Chris Kent, who claims to be the foster son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Effectively taking pre-boot Chris from after his debut story and transporting him into post-Rebirth continuity. Part of a planned trilogy of fics centered on Chris. Guaranteed that they will not end with Chris getting punted into the Phantom Zone for an unknown length of time.

The Dichotomy of Lor-Zod and Chris Kent:

In post-Infinite Frontiers continuity, Lor-Zod begins getting flashes of a life before his own, of a life where he was family to the loathsome Kal-El of the House of El. Lor’s father, Dru-Zod, convince Lor that his affliction must be the machinations of the Justice League’s Martian Manhunter, a psychic attack meant to weaken New Kandor for invasion. Along with Non as a chaperone, Lor-Zod goes on a quest to hunt the Martian Manhunter, though he’s really on the path to restoring his pre-boot history and identity, and all the internal conflict that comes from the contradictions between his two selves. Effectively how I would approach reconciling the current iteration of Lor-Zod with Chris Kent. Guest-starring Martian Manhunter and M’gann M’orzz.

The Cola Caper:

Upon hearing the devastating news that an embargo on the island nation of Santa Prisca will halt the distribution of Zesti Cola in the United States, Dick and Tim go on a mission to infiltrate Santa Prisca and abscond with as much Zesti as they can, and maybe even the secret recipe if they’re lucky.

Stray Little Tiger:

A Billy Batson-centric fic placed in a Stray!Tim Drake AU. Selina Kyle, on her way home from a caper, comes across a lightning-struck boy in an alley. Clearly homeless and in need of help, she decides to take the boy in until he’s healed, though the lightning seems to have severely damaged his vocal cords. She doesn’t know that this boy is Billy Batson, that he’s Captain Marvel, or that there’s something deeply wrong with the Rock of Eternity. This story is told mainly from Selina’s POV, with occasional sidetracks to Tim’s POV, but never Billy’s POV. Identity shenanigans, found family, magic problems, and more.

A Single Word Spoken:

A girl in the shape of a weapon is brought to Fawcett City, where she fulfills her purpose for the first and last time.

The girl who can no longer be a weapon hides from her wielder in an old subway and finds herself transported to a place of great magic.

There, the girl who wishes to be more than she was made to be finds a Wizard, who sees the girl for her heart and not for the blood staining her skin.

The Wizard teaches the girl a name.

Cassandra speaks her first word.

And in so doing, she speaks power.

Also featuring Cass navigating the anachronistic Fawcett City, befriending Billy Batson, codependency issues, an old man who’s also a Bengal tiger, ancient grudges, a different old man who’s barely qualified to give Cass life advice, and more.

Fake it For the Win:

While on a cruise, Tim and Kon decide to fake being married in order to compete on an onboard game show for married couples. When they actually win, though, they have no choice but to keep up the act for the rest of their trip. Fake dating to real dating, with a focus on comedy.

Crossroads of Fate and Eternity:

JLI-era fic with a couple of canon-divergent indulgences. Kent Nelson, helped by Khalid Nassour, decides to take Billy Batson under his wing as a student of the mystic arts. Magic lessons, Tower of Fate and Rock of Eternity shenanigans, Bromfield family stuff, an ancient entity and an ancient demon, philosophy, and other such tidbits.

A Little Ways Along the Family Tree:

When a villain travels through time to the future and accidentally takes Robin with him, Damian Wayne must team up with Mar’i and Jake Grayson to defeat the villain and return Damian to his proper time.

A High-Speed Romantic Tryst on an Open-Water Murder Shack:

When a couple of thugs steal a houseboat belonging to one of Tim’s marina neighbors while he and Bernard are hanging out, the two of them give chase in Tim’s own houseboat. Comedy, crack treated seriously.

[waterfire1848]

AU: azula escapes the asylum becomes a vigilante akin to batman and is more effective at defeating ozai fanatics than zuko (much to his jealousy and anger when he finds out) and azula manages to fix the reputation of her nation through her vigilantism and while iroh sends agents to take her down as a threat (succeeding in imprisoning her) ty Lee and mai who have found out who the vigilante is, stand up for azula on the trial and state that most of the accusations for what she did during the war is slander. By the end of it, azula is freed and moves to Kyoshi island to live an easier life, even if the warriors hate her; she even sets up a life as a farmer/trader where she sells vegetables, fruits, teas, herbs, spices and medicine. (Tyzula endgame)

Hello, @supbro50000 !!!

1. Azula gets sick and tired of waiting for someone to let her out of the asylum so she breaks out. She frees herself then rushes to a small village outside of the capital to lay low for a while. While there, a nice family takes her in and allows her to stay. She gets food, water, a place to sleep and does some work around the house for them while she's figuring out her next move. The family that takes her in has a mom, dad and two young boys. Azula grows close to the mom in the house, who treats her like one of her own, and even spends some evenings playing with the kids outside. (Mother: I saw you playing outside with the boys. Azula: I was training. Mother: I'd love to meet whoever your parents are. Not everything has to involve training. Azula: You would not want to meet my parents. Trust me. Mother: I'm sure they can't be that bad. Azula: You'd be surprised.) Initially, Azula wants to take down Zuko and become Fire Lord again. She's just taking the time to figure out what the best way to do that is. However, one night, the village, and family that has been incredibly kind to her, are attacking by Ozai fanatics. Angered that they're hurting the people who have been kind to her (especially the mom), Azula attacks when she scares them off, revealing her blue fire and lightning. Azula doesn't try to remain in the village after this, she just gives the mom a silent nod and smile and rushes off into the forest.

2. Azula sets up base in an abandoned village that was deserted by people years ago. She hunts the various animals, collects water from the stream and buys whatever else she needs from neighboring towns to construct her base. From there, she decides to go after the Ozai fanatics who are terrorizing the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom citizens that are trying to call the Fire Nation home. She's careful, never showing her face, and hardly bends (so no one is able to see her blue flames). Wherever she goes, she takes care of the Ozai fanatics with ease because they don't know how to fight a sane Azula, no one does. She's hurt from time to time but never returns to her base without making sure she's gotten the fanatics to leave. As more time goes on, Azula overhears from various that the loyalists are backing down and are more and more scared to come out. Not because of Zuko's efforts but before of Azula. (EK citizen: I'm telling you. My fiance and I were terrified of staying in the Fire Nation last year. She wants to stay here cause her family is in the Fire Nation, but with the loyalists we didn't know if it would be safe for me. Azula: How horrible. Citizen: It was until that Phoenix showed up. Azula: Phoenix? Citizen: She's this fighter who's been taking down the loyalists. Everyone calls her Phoenix because someone saw her bend and the former Fire Lord wanted to be the Phoenix King so...kinda funny. Azula, smirking: I guess it is.)

3. You know who doesn't like this development? (Ozai Loyalists? Not far off, but no). Zuko. He's not against the fact that the loyalists are being taken care of (that's the only part about this that he actually likes) but he doesn't for the fact that it's some masked vigilante who's doing it. They don't know what she wants or who she's working for and that does not sit right with Zuko. One day, when Azula is fighting, Zuko happens to be nearby with Mai and they head over and see the Phoenix. (Zuko: It can’t be…) Pretty quickly they discover it’s Azula and Zuko is not happy. He believes this is all some big stunt by her to trick people or that she’s working with the loyalists in some way. Mai isn’t convinced that she’s doing that at all, but Zuko doesn’t listen. Instead, he informs Iroh about what is going and Iroh orders Yuyan archers and imperial firebenders to head out and capture Azula. During one of her fights when she’s injured, Azula drags herself back to her base and finds everyone there waiting for her. They subdue her and take her to the palace, throwing her in a cell while she awaits her trial. During this time, Mai talks to Ty Lee about Azula being the vigilante and the two come to the understanding that Azula wasn’t doing it for fame or to trick anyone because she never seems to want to do that. Even in prison, she just talks about wanting to get rid of the Ozai loyalists. The two decide that they have to do something.

4. At Azula’s trial, both for her vigilante actions and actions during the war, Mai and Ty Lee speak up for her. They argue that if she’s getting put in jail then, by logic, so should they and Iroh. (Mai: We were on her side. Everything you’re accusing her of is something we did too. Zuko: That’s different. You two- Mai: I love you, Zuko, but that’s the only reason why I defected from Azula’s team. I didn’t think the war was wrong or the Fire Nation was wrong. I did it to protect you and Ty Lee defected to protect me. Ty Lee: And if Azula deserves to be in prison for her actions then why isn’t Iroh. He tried to conquer Ba Sing Se too. Iroh: That’s different. I have realized the mistakes of my actions and deeply regret them and I’m doing what I- Ty Lee: You had time to understand that you were wrong. How long did you go on your spiritual journey? Iroh: 2 years. Ty Lee: 2 years after the war Azula was helping stop Ozai loyalists. Isn’t that a sign that she doesn’t want Ozai back? That she doesn’t want him to succeed? That she realizes her mistakes? Azula: I don’t want Ozai back. I want him gone and in prison forever and those loyalists would have prevented that from happening.) After much arguing and back and forth, Azula is released and allowed to leave the palace without issue. Azula does leave but she also realizes that the Ozai loyalists are pretty much gone now and, after the trial, she doesn’t want to remain in the Fire Nation. Ty Lee comes to her after the trial and says that she might have an idea.

5. It’s a challenge at first, living on Kyoshi Island, but Azula and Ty Lee get used to it. The Kyoshi Warriors are not fans of Azula when she first arrives, but the firebender learns to gain their trust and prove that she’s not here for any kind of malicious reason. Eventually, the girls learn to accept that Azula know lives on the island. For the sake of having something to do, Azula trains with Ty Lee in the Kyoshi Warrior style(some girls are against it but Ty Lee convinces them). Suki provides her with more than a few books about a firebender who traveled with Avatar Kyoshi who could create white fire (Azula becomes an instant fan). When Azula had mastered the Kyoshi Warrior’s way of fighting, she decides to stop fighting, taking a few years to simply rest and be free. She and Ty Lee get married when they’re both 25. By then, Azula has become a farmer and trader on the island, learning how to grow crops thanks to her neighbors and trading with Earth Kingdom coastal towns. During one of her visits, Azula notices a young girl stealing from her stand and discovers the child (about 4 or 5) is an orphan. She takes the girl back to the island and she and Ty Lee agree to adopt her. 3 years later, they adopt a Water Tribe baby boy (who is a suspected waterbender). (Katara: Not that I don’t love seeing you two with kids, but why not a firebender? Someone you could train. Azula: I was too worried I’d end up like Ozai. It might be harder for him to learn bending but at least I’ll never hurt him. He’ll be safe and loved even if he is raised by two women from the Fire Nation. Katara: Aw. That’s so sweet. I’m sure you’ll both raise him well. If you need any help with his waterbending later in life, let me know. Azula: We will. Ty Lee: *Side eyeing Azula* Katara: What? Azula: There’s a second reason we adopted him. Not nearly as important as making sure he’s loved and supported and- Katara: What? Azula: It’s hilarious watching old racist Fire Nationals at the palace almost have a heart attack when they realize their former princess is now the mother of an Earth Kingdom ‘peasant’ and a Waterbender. Katara: You know what? That is hilarious.

[maria-rayro]

the devil in me!inhun au (kind of?)

• gihun is a director of a true crime show that is not doing well and about to end for good cause they don't have enough money and their views are not as high as before. he is depressed about it and smokes a lot, and tries to hide the downfall of their show from his team

• sae-byeok is a sound-enginieer that doesn't speak much and prefers to listen; she's dating their lightning technician, ji-yeong; ali is standing behind the camera, and is in love with the host of the show, sang-woo. the later suspects that the show doesn't look good and already plans on leaving. he tries to convince others to move on as well, to be realistic, but gihun is too stubborn to see that

• gihun receives a strange phone call from oh young-il, who invites them to his hotel that replicates the infamous murder-hotel made by serial killer that lived in 20th century. he offers them to film an episode there, and it's the chance gihun was waiting for, the chance to make his show popular again. he is so happy he ignores the obviously suspicious rules this young-il has - like, no phones on the island and not inviting anyone else, not showing his face anywhere and so on. then again, maybe he is just shy and private? nothing too weird about that, so gihun ignores sang-woo's suspicions, moving on

• the host looks off and nervous and asks them to go into their rooms until dinner. but, when they come in the dining room, he's not there. they still eat and drink a bit of wine, but end up fighting - sang-woo wants to leave the show and move on to a more successful project, and tries to convince gihun to join him there in some new role, not directing for a while. he wants what is best for him but fails to understand that this project is everything for gihun. this dinner ends with a disaster

• some time passes. they are planning to shot in the lobby but can't find sae-byeok. she turns out to be in some weird room, locked, and now that they have freed her, she talks something about seeing the very same serial killer who died almost a century ago. gihun tries to convince everyone that she just saw a mannequin dressed like that killer or that this is just a prank. nevertheless, the team wants to leave. he begs them to shoot just one more scene

• gihun tries to find young-il, but this weird young anxious boy (he will soon find out that this one's name was dae-ho, and he was not the owner of this estate) is nowhere to be found. and then, he and ji-yeong find a pool of blood on the floor. gihun explains it to her and himself as "well he probably just brought here a corpse of some animal to feed us tomorrow, what's so bad about it?" but then, they hear someone screaming, and run to help

• gihun sees someone trapped with a bag on his head, begging to be saved. he moves to help, but accidently steps on some mechanism - and now, if he moves even a bit away from it, this man will die. he freezes it horror, and then - the killer comes closer to him, pointing a knife to his face. gihun never moves, and he cuts him, making him step away from the platform, activating to machine. before it happens, he stared for a good long minute into his eyes through the slits of his mask, and now he can't stop shaking, remembering every second of what just happened

• trying to find others and run away from here, gihun accidently falls into another trap. in basement, he walks for a while, all alone, scared and in terrifying need to smoke just one little sig. he couldn't find his pack since his ride here, though he's pretty sure he took one with himself. now his hands are trembling cause of his addiction, and that's when he sees it - his pack is just lying there on the floor. he exhales in relief, steps inside like a fool he is - and it turns out to be a trap. he looks back at the door, and through a small window sees this face in a mask. watching. staring. and then - walking away.

• he almost dies there but survives the fire, hiding under the vent. he tries to find a way out now, but instead finds the maniac instead. he pleads and begs and cries, but the frontman doesn't take his life. he lets him run, almost amused. for a while.

• gihun finds others, but not everyone. sang-woo is visibally stressed and brooding, silent. gihun asks him where ali and ji-yeong and what happened, and sae-byeok, with tears still on her face and her voice small, explains that this serial killer made them make a choice. she says, sang-woo chose to save himself and let ali suffocate in a room with no air. and that  ji-yeong chose to save her, letting the moving wall crush her body like in a real horror movie. that's just the three of them now, and they walk towards a lighthouse to call for help.

• but sae-byeok tells him - and sang-woo - something else too. she says she knows that gihun is in this with the killer, that she heard the record of a call he had with him. says that gihun wanted to make his show popular again, and what the best idea could save it if not murder? gihun tries to tell her that this is insane and that he knows she's upset but he has nothing to do with this. he looks at sang-woo, trying to find help in him - but he doesn't even say anything because he already sees it in his eyes

• when he tells him he also found something on him, gihun can't believe this. and when the two people he cared most about decide that it would be better to tie him up until the police comes, he feels miserable and hurt

• and that is when he comes to him. this maniac in a mask that forced them to play his games

• frontman never speaks, like he forgot how. but he stares, oh, he stares. he comes closer to him, left alone and tied to a fence, and tilts his head to the side in a mute question. gihun keeps crying, already thinking he's gonna die just like this, but then - this man comes closer, slowly unbuttons his shirt, uses his blade to curve letters of the word "complicit" on him, and- kisses him.

• gihun is trembling in pain, in shock, in horror, then stares at the man when he takes a step back to take a better look at him. and then, with a terror in his eyes, gihun looks at him leaving towards the lighthouse

• gihun screams to stop him, offering him to kill him and not his team. he begs him to come back because no matter what, he knows that the rest are just terrified and try to survive, knows they don't deserve it and knows, that in some way, he really is to blame for this

• this confession, this emotional speech of his, makes the frontman stop at last, turning back and staring at him once again

• then, a voice, quite and broken. "you never change, do you?" and gihun falls silent. because he knows this voice. because now, thinking about it, he knows this lips, those kisses. he remembers this man. he knows who he is. and it hurts, because for a moment, just a fleeting moment - he forgets about everything that happened that night and just smiles in relief, saying "inho", like they are just old friends bumping into each other in a subway

• inho was a detective gihun knew once many years ago, when he was just a journalist, fresh out of college. and inho - inho was a star. that detective people write books and make shows about. he caught a serial killer ones, the one that was called "the salesman", and it was a huge case everyone wanted to write something exclusive about. but inho hated talking to a press. until the moment he met gihun, who with his soft smile and genuine interest and fascination made him feel something again

• they dated for weeks (it was love, and it was great, and it was too late for inho and too soon for gihun), no more, before inho disappeared for good. no one could find him - the police, gihun, inho's little brother. no one knew where he is or what happened, but gihun tried to solve this mystery, for years before he just accepted what happened. inho's disappearance was the reason he started smoking and drinking

• once, gihun even convinced junho to let him talk to the salesman, because he knew that before disappearing, inho talked a lot with this man. he came as a visitor every week and never explained to gihun why. and, sitting across from this serial killer, gihun still couldn't say why.

• the salesman said he just opened inho's eyes and no more. gihun till this day didn't know what he meant, it was all in vain. he thought inho died somewhere trying to solve some mystery, but it turns out that he was drawn mad by other serial killers, the ones he had caught. il-nam, the salesman, all of them - looking into his minds, he took something with himself when tried to walk out. and now, almost 20 years later, he stays here, in a mask, with a knife and blood on his hands. not a person anymore - a wild animal. and he still loves him so much and in that type of twisted way that he did all of this for him. and gihun wants nothing more than to die when he realizes this

• inho talks to him. tries to convince him that his team hates him, that he'd heard the way they talk about him when he's not around. he tells him he deserves better. he wipes gihun's tears from his face and kisses him again, holds him like a broken cup and is too focused on him to hear someone behind them

• gihun hears a gunshot. and suddenly, the grip of the man's hands on his waits tights more before letting go of him for good

• he can't tell he doesn't wish for sang-woo to shoot him too

• when they untie him, gihun falls to the ground, weak and crying, and uncovers the man's face hidden behind the mask, and he cries again.

[ask-missparker]

Women Of The House | EPIC AU 💋

Pairing: Amelia x Nikolai, Michelle x Rochelle

Characters mentioned/hinted: Petra, Melissa, Arrow and Liane

Note: As I was writing this, I realized I put a mix of first person POV with three person POV oops 😅 oh well! AND YES I HAD FUN WITH THE COLORS!

— Warrior Pen style Au

—

At the 16, I became the youngest queen of my island and did it with pride. I will admit it wasn’t easy even had my doubts, but I had my family and friends beside me, so it became a ride.

Years past by and it clearly was time for me to become a faithful bride. I knew I needed someone clever, loving, empathetic, experienced and supportive.

Weeks went by without any results of any kind that could fit the charts. Then I started to feel like I wanted something more—I wanted someone could be there for me and make me smile on my darkest days, as I can do the same for him.

As we search, Petra thought of Alexander Of Sparta, but Melissa had her eyes on someone different.

I wanted someone smarter. Kinder! Then we searched his family tree, as my eyes caught onto the boy for me. A boy I would give the world to see…

Nikolai.

He made my heart beat faster than I swore it couldn’t do such a thing. He made my smile grew even more. He had a lightning in his darkest days, I couldn’t explain but it felt just right.

He made every face in our island blush, men and women alike, with his recognition and charm. Trouble. That was the word whisper across the room from the elderly woman who stood there watching.

It felt like a roar! A fighter with a heartbeat that held layers.

I swear, he was one of the few men I had a curiosity for. He’s what I saved my affection for. Oh! He was the most impressionable man I ever seen, witty enough to be.

But long before we had a true chance of peace, he wrote to me that he thinking the same thing.

We were wondering…

Where is she? Where is the women you’ll have as your bride?

Where is he? Where is the man you’ll have as your guide?

Where is the love with whom you’ll spend your life?

Cause in my darkness, my heart is my drive. Time is fleeting, it’s running out, time to be women of the house.

—

Queen Amelia tug on her hood as she took a deep breath, her sword behind her back as she walked towards the palace. Her palace. As she headed to grab the doors, she paused hearing voices as she glances around to see several ships docked afar.

‘The fu-? Is my man having a party of some kind? I mean it’s been more than 10 years, he can do whatever he wants but still.’ She thought.

But she kept her guard up, as she slide in between the palace walls only to find it to be completely torn down and sacked like Troy.

‘Oh hell nah!…pigs.’

She even saw the silhouette of her husband in his layered clothes, slightly longer hair and stronger built. He built a challenge for the people here as he left the room.

Behind him followed their dog, Arrow.

‘He’s replacing me?! Oh wait, I been gone for years. Nevermind..’

Whoever could string Mia’s bow…

But what caught her attention more were the words coming out of men and women too. Suitor and suitress.

‘They are gonna wh-? And then—ooh hell no! Nah nuh! Nope! Geh—not today!’

— — —

I went on to hide their weapons as they OUTWARDLY planned out their attacks against my man AND MY SON—closing the doors as i shuffled to the weapons room. That’s when I saw a certain white dog.

‘Oh shi..ahh!’ I thought as I was approached by the fluffy mutt.

I was sniffled, licked and nuzzled in the side by the dog. Mainly surprised he would still recognize me.

“Oh, oh, hey, baby. I missed you too.” I whispered, “Shh, Arrow.”

Arrow calmed down puffing his chest out in front of me and looked determined, yet faithful.

“Good boy. Where’s daddy?” I asked in a whisper.

And without a single second to spare, I got my answer. Like a shadow in the wind, I looked up to see him coming through the curtains from the other side of the room.

I lost my breath, my mouth went dry—

‘Ah shit! He’s looking at me! He’s looking at me! I’m not even freshened up, oh no, I probably smell like sea! And then—uhh why is he looking at me like that?! Gah—’

Before I knew, I was slammed onto my back facing the floor, seeing my husband on top of me. He had a dagger in his hand and the other locking me in.

“You think you can buy me into your arms so easily?! That you’ll have to take me down—” Nikolai exclaimed with a glare.

I looked at him with frantic eyes, my hood fell off and my hair fell onto his fingertips. I could hear the sounds of suitors screaming and laughing down the hallway.

“Baby, wait it’s me!” I shouted.

“As if that were truth, I had women claim—” He snarled but then paused noting the scar on my cheek, “Wait...Mia? Is it really you?”

“You else would think to come in here?”

“I…hi.”

“Hey..”

He removed himself from me, and stumbled back onto his feet tugging me off the floor with him. I could see the wav of emotion spiraling his eyes and body, as he picked up his infamous sword.

“We uh..we have a lot of explaining to do to each other..” I mumbled, reaching for my bow and arrow.

He chuckled dryly and hummed, “Yeah, no kidding…”

Then I saw the determination in his eyes.

“Listen. Here’s the plan, for they don’t suspect a thing, you’ll take the ones in here and I’ll take the ones who’s stupid enough to reach our halls.” Nikolai stated, with a firm expression.

“But..” I started. “You don’t have a question for how I..?”

“No buts. And believe me, I have questions. But first..”

Before I could say anything, his hand slipped underneath my chin and pressed a long awaited kiss onto my lips. I hummed returning the affection, as my hand came to rest on his chest.

“But first, I have plans to ravish my dear wife once this is over.” He mumbled between our lips, before pulling away to exit the floor.

That left me breathless…

— — —

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-> CUT TO MOUNT OLYMPUS ✨

Liane sat down with her large mirrors on display watching the screen unfold as she squealed. She is holding her tissues in her hands and replying the scene.

“Oh my gosh! Finally some romance—wait why is he..? Oh right.’ She said.

Michelle walked in raising an eyebrow muttering, “What in gods are you—ooh! Gross, my human with Rochelle’s human again..eh they’re kinda cute.”

“Go away, i’m watching the show—oh my! Did she just..?”

“THATS MY GIRL! Shoot them in the back!”

That’s when Rochelle walked in, “What is all this yelling abou—Oh my goodness!”

“ISN’T IT WONDERFUL?!” Michelle yelled with a grin.

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Okay I had way too much creating this! Let me know what you think

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[impulsivefanwriter]

Other Emperors AU — Ninjago

So. The beloved Ice Emperor. The corrupting potential of the Staff of Forbidden Spinjitzu + Amnesia + Vex.

Now what if the Ice Emperor came in other flavours?

That’s right, introducing the Other Emperors AU, a collection of different “What ifs” for if other people had been zapped with the staff by Aspheera!

Different Versions:

Earth Emperor / King of the Underworld = Cole

Lightning Emperor / Thunder God / Lightning Striker = Jay

Fire Emperor / Western Wildfire / Fire Maker = Kai

Energy Emperor / Lord of Energy / Luh-Lord = Lloyd

Water Empress / Commander of the Sea / Wrath of the Waves = Nya

Empress of Technology / Automated Empress / Overseer / The Technodrome = Pixal

Creation Emperor / Second Spinjitzu Master / The Creator = Wu

Not all of them are fleshed out (honestly most just have… one or two minor ideas, but I’ll gladly bounce ideas back and forth with people in Reblogs, comments, and/or asks!), but here’s what I’ve got—

Earth Emperor / King of the Underworld

- Got zapped into the Neverrealm instead and lost his memories from a concussion in the fight

- Vex finds him and the staff and convinces him to take it

- He raises/sinks the Earth to create a stone dome over the realm and make it a cavern of tunnels; some call him the King of the Underworld (Hades vibes) for it and he hates it even if he can’t remember why (haha forgotten Skulkin memories)

- Master of the Mountain mixed with ancient mythology vibes

- His hair grows out and becomes partially lava because come on that look just is so cool on him ; his armour is also formed of obsidian/onyx and crystals

- Difficult to anger (a very patient emperor that listens to his people whenever Vex doesn’t interfere) but if you do (usually on Vex���s manipulation) OH BOY you’re in for it now

- Built a dangerous labyrinth King-Minos-style complete with a stone minotaur in the centre that he sends prisoners/people Vex tricks him into thinking are enemies

- Is very fascinated by Kai’s fire (and Jay’s lightning) because the only light source in the caverns are glowing crystals formed from his powers or special regulated flint/coal-based fires

- He keeps Kai with him when the Ninja arrive and banish the rest to the labyrinth to “prove themselves” on Vex’s manipulation (possibly specifically dropping Jay in the minotaur room as a sacrifice because Jay made a menace of himself in the throne room)

- The Ninja make it through the traps because they’re all kinda Cole-themed (like one involves the Triple Tiger Sashay) and arrive back at the throne room after defeating the stone minotaur, much to Cole/Vex’s astonishment/ire respectively

- Cole realizes the Ninja are telling the truth and that Vex has been lying to him and ends up dropping the staff after reverting the Neverrealm back to its original state

Lightning Emperor / Thunder God / Lightning Strike

- Realizes Zane’s vision (yeah, Jay is the only person who knew Zane had a vision and he DISMISSED IT, hecking come on) is about to come true and shoves Zane out of the way of Aspheera’s shot

- Cracked his head on a rock falling through the portal and has zero memories <3 Should he be dead? Probably. But he’s Jay, so he survives, especially with his boosted element lashing out

-  Vex finds him and is so confused over the lightning appearance but realizes he can use it

- Skybound / Lightning Ruins parallels with Jay ripping up chunks of ground and making floating magnetized islands

- Has a very ominous cult following Vex leads because its Jay, of course it would happen, its not the first time

- Is kinda revered more as a ‘godly figure’ than an emperor (Vex uses his status to make orders in Jay’s name)

- Kinda unhinged, but you can blame the staff + Vex + the concussion and blood loss

- Fascinated by Cole because he absorbs/grounds lightning fine ; also fascinated by Zane who is a walking metal lightning rod

- Constantly zapping around

Fire Emperor / Western Wildfire / Fire Maker

- Lost his powers to Aspheera, battled her with the second staff, and got his butt yeeted to the Never Realm- that’s rough, buddy

- Gets his well-deserved focus season

- He really means well and just wants to keep his people safe, but unfortunately it comes across as overly possessive and tyrannical 

- Older brothers so hard that he comes across as evil/possessive and aggressive when he’s trying to be caring and protective

- Don’t have much for him because the fandom already has insanely cool Fire Emperor AUs

Energy Emperor / Lord of Energy / Luh-Lord 

- So many Lord Garmadon parallels

- ONI-DRAGON LLOYD ONI-DRAGON LLOYD

- Also a surprising amount of Morro parallels about making his own destiny

- So, so traumatized and got corrupted simply for wanting to take his fate into his own hands for once

- Punts Vex out of the castle because he’s had enough of people telling him what to do

- Kinda goes back to S1 Lloyd because this kid just wants his childhood back

- Goes from “scary emperor who’s going to execute you” to “excited little kid” the second he sees his siblings

- Taking the staff back hurts because Lloyd isn’t mad, he’s just super sad and confused and pleads with them not to do it

Water Empress / Commander of the Sea / Wrath of the Waves

- The Never Realm just became the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

- All the ice and snow melts into an ocean with islands

- Nya builds a big ol’ palace that’s both above and below the water’s surface

- Seabound parallels in terms of architecture (lots of accidental Wojira foreshadowing)

- So. Much. Rage. You anger Nya, you’re done for.

- The staff + her element amplified the ocean’s whispers and she’s kinda merged with the sea but not fully, her memories are a bit scattered

- Was going to take on Vex as an advisor because he convinced her she knew him before her memories got lost/scattered, but then her memories associate him with Krux, and she kicks him onto a lone island

- Her brothers have to face the ocean to get to her. They hate it, but they do it anyway 

Empress of Technology / Automated Empress / Overseer / The Technodrome

- Pixal gets to sacrifice herself for Zane

- While the staff doesn’t amplify powers for her, she still gets boosted strength, speed, smarts, etc., her processor running at 300x proficiency

- Is able to get the mech up and running— she DID build it, after all

- Still loses her memories from Vex’s interference, somewhat reverts to S3 Pixal

- Makes the entire realm “efficient” and rapidly revolutionizes technology

- Easily one of the scariest rulers because of how good she is at it

- Took Vex on as an Advisor because of his knowledge of the realm, then fired him once she was done. 

“But you— you cannot FIRE me! I am your loyal, most trusted advisor—” 

“And you are no longer necessary. There is more important matters to attend to.”

- It’s very difficult to dismantle her empire

Creation Emperor / Second Spinjitzu Master / The Creator

- Aspheera blasts her intended target

- Wu is sent to the Never Realm with the other staff

- The Ninja are devastated because they just lost their Sensei AGAIN just after getting him back

- Wu refuses to use the staff at first but then… well, he starts getting desperate to return. He misses his family. And his essence— creation— could be used to help the people of this realm. So he uses it once or twice, sparingly, to help the villages, to help travellers— and slowly gets more and more addicted. Why does this realm hurt the people in it? If his essence is one of creation, couldn’t he use it to… reform this realm into something more peaceful? More habitable? Remake it in his own image? Correct all the mistakes he’s made, start again, start better—

- FSM and Pilots-S2 Garmadon parallels

- His students manage to get into the Never Realm only to find it “prosperous” and “thriving”

- Bonus if there are copies of them, but the way Wu sees them— uncanny valley alert

- EXTRA bonus if there’s a fake Morro that’s based on how he was as a student / if he’d lived , and a fake Garmadon cured of venom and evil

- Breaking their Sensei out of this illusion of a perfect world really hurts

- Wu is traumatized by all his mistakes and they get acknowledged in this AU whether he wants them to be or not <3

[ceilingfan5]

go around

@taznovembercelebration "super au" and "silly"

“Man,” Taako sighs, as quietly as possible. “This is the second time I’ve been a hostage this month.” He’s not tied up this time, at least, but he’s sitting in the back hallway of the bank and regretting his choice of errands today. The guy next to him nods. 

“You too, huh?” He’s pretty, and goth, very serious-with-a-side-of-secretly-goofy, and Taako wants to crack him like a nut. Shame they’re busy waiting for the supervillain of the week to either get got or get his private island and fourteen pounds of gummy worms, or fucking whatever. “It’s ridiculous. They need to spend less money on making flashy superheroes and more on just–security, infrastructure, safety, you know, mental health initiatives-”

“Or maybe we need to break down and be supervillains ourselves.” Taako shrugs, with an I’m JOKING I PROMISE…unless? Air about him. He’s sick of it. 

“Really?” Handsome asks, laughing a little. 

“Really,” Taako says, still kind of joking, but also kind of not joking. “Taako can barely get his errands done when there’s no Captain Backwards Lightning Man in the way, you know? It’s enough to make a guy wanna destroy some well-placed props.”

Handsome laughs. 

“You’re Taako, I take it?”

“In the flesh, skele-fellow. You?”

“Kravitz,” Kravitz says, and then, “Probably. If I’m going to be a villain, you don’t know that, and I’ll have to erase your memories, or something.”

“Or we could be a team,” Taako teases. “We could be the only ones who knew each other’s secret identities. You could come over for chicken alfredo, I could go to yours for game night, little bit of blackmail to keep things spicy-”

Kravitz laughs, and covers his mouth, but it must not be too loud, or maybe the gummy worm accords are going sour, because nothing comes of it except an embarrassing amount of affection from Taako. 

“I wish I had a power worth doing anything drastic about,” he admits, looking at Taako for comiseration or approval or something else that might lead to romance. 

“Yeah? Cha boi’s in the same boat, so keep paddling. Dumber supers have done worse.”

“Really? I mean- about your power, I remember, uh, Pickle Monster.”

“Who could forget.” Taako shakes his head solemnly. “Yeah, no, I can read minds, but only if it’s food related.”

“Seriously?” Kravitz grins. “I love specific powers, but that sort of thing drives me nuts in practice. Like- surely the universe could have been kinder?”

“Would it ever stoop so low?” Taako snorts. “No, seriously, try me.”

“Okay,” Kravitz says, screwing up his nose in the cutest stinking way Taako has ever seen. “What was my dinner last night?”

Taako looks him directly in the eye, feels that weird connection he gets with people sometimes, the sort of way that makes him sweaty and lonely. He steps right into Kravitz’s doorway, looks around his home, wonders if there’s more than meets the eye. Surely. It’s welcoming enough, maybe just because Kravitz is inviting him in, in this moment. Much less of a trespass than it usually is. 

He watches the memory unfold, and feels fond over this dork, who looks so business goth put together on the outside. 

“You air-fryered tater tot nachos,” Taako says, and Kravitz blinks, surprised, and Taako’s shunted right back out. 

“Really? You really got that much?”

“Oh, honey-nugget, I got more than that, I’m just trying to-”

“How much do you get?”

Taako grimaces. 

“Pretty much everything, especially if emotions are, uh, involved? You- uh. You poured frozen tater tots in the air fryer, dropped one on your bare foot and started bleeding, went to put a pokemon bandaid on it, and when it beeped for you to turn the food, and you tried to test one, because your timing was off because the package didn’t have air fryer instructions, you dropped it on your other bare foot and burnt it.” 

Kravitz’s mouth drops open. 

“Sorry?” Taako says, even sweatier. “You opened the door, kemosabe.” 

“Right,” Kravitz says, with a conspicuous glance at his shiny boy shoes. 

“I wasn’t trying to intrude,”

“No, I, get it, I, could have picked something else.” Kravitz clears his throat and loosens his black-on-black rose patterned tie. “Mine isn’t nearly as interesting.”

“Seriously?” Taako snorts. “Maybe you have an eight foot vertical leap, or your snot is acid.” 

“Is acid snot better than mind reading?”

“Dog, everything’s better than mind reading, do you know how fucking loud the world is all the goddamn time?”

“Touché.” Kravitz glances at the noise from the bank lobby, but nothing seems to come of it. He shifts his feet, looking at them again. “I mean, they were good tater tots.”

“Sometimes food that hurts fucks harder.” 

“So true?” Kravitz laughs. “I wish I had super healing, or super-not-being-a-dumbass, but, you know,”

“Man, if I was super-not-a-dumbass, I really could take over the world. Watch out, Townsville! Pew pew!” 

Kravitz looks at him with some kind of goopy eye disease that could be confused for fondness, if you were stupid, like Taako. 

“I just- so, see, I have this knife?”

“Yeah?” Taako looks him over for said knife, which he does not manage to produce. “Taken, was it?”

“Mhm,” Kravitz sighs, glancing at the lobby again. Some loud discussion is going on, between the somebody of police and TToday’s Evil Baddoer. “I can cut these little rifts with it, nothing huge, because it’s just a big fancy pocket knife, but I can store stuff in there, which is kind of neat. One time I climbed through and found myself somewhere else, but it was really difficult, on account of the small blade and all.”

“Yeah?” Taako’s heart pounds. “Seriously? Does it have to be the one knife?”

Kravitz pauses, and then turns to him directly. 

“I’ve only done it with the one knife, I guess. And a grapefruit spoon.” 

“What if-”

“Oh my god.”

“Hear me out-”

“Oh my god.”

Taako casts about for literally any kind of blade, fucking at all. There’s a letter opener that looks like a sword on the Mortgage Guy’s desk, and Taako checks out Super Badguy in the lobby, and then slowly, painfully, starts sneaking his way toward it. Kravitz chews his fingernails behind him, and truly fourteen thousand ice ages later, Taako returns, and hams up presenting the letter opener to Kravitz.

Kravitz stares at it, and hestiates. 

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

“It doesn’t work and you’re mad at me,” Kravitz admits, painfully honest. 

“What if it does work?”

“I’d take you out for dinner,” Kravitz admits, fully focused on the silver blade. 

“What kind?”

“Any sort of food you’d like?” And Taako steps into his mind one more time, slips in through the door, and finds himself in a nice restaurant across from Kravitz in a cute dark purple button up, slut that he is, one button open, just a hint, just a peek, and they kiss over the dessert, which costs way too much for crème brûlée, but Taako won’t tell him that, no sir.

And he zhoops right back out. 

“You have to do it,” he says, a little breathless. Kravitz looks at him, alarmed, and back at the letter opener, whcih he finally takes. He moves it around in the air, getting a feel for it, and then SWIPES–

And a flickering, dark tear in reality appears. Kravitz covers a gasp, Taako doesn’t, and certainly they’ll be spotted soon, but Kravitz tears and rips and hacks into the rip in the universe, and once he gets it big enough, tears at it with his hands, and then gets a knee in there, and there’s a sickening non-sound as it widens ever so slowly, achingly, and Taako watches with deep, embarrassing affection as Kravitz manages to clamber through, looking like an absolute idiot, and turns and reaches an arm out for Taako.

Fucking ROMANCE. 

“I’ve, gotta-”

“We’ll go around and help from the other side, Taako,” Kravitz promises. “It’ll just be way easier if I get literally anything sharper.” 

“Oh,” Taako says, relieved. And he jumps into Kravitz’s arms, because he has the chance, and it’d be more embarrassing if he didn’t take it. 

Any kisses between the jumping and the rescuing are off the record, and also private. So there. 

[id: gameboard with 15 spaces, 1-6 taken up with stickers of a cat, fish, "good worker", door, dragon, and "kapow"]

[goattypegirl]

Psionics in bionicle is weird. There were classic psychic style abilities all throughout the story, like telepathy, telekinesis, illusions, etc, but those individual powers were either abilities granted by special masks or artifacts, or something that that specific guy could just Do. But then, late into bionicles story, psionics got confirmed as a capital-E Element, and it's. Pretty weird.

Psionics was actually suggested as an element and then canonized in a Word of Greg thread, which were. Things that happened. Regardless, one of the main characters in one of the serials was a toa of psionics! And with him came like actual worldbuilding and lore about his element! Granted it was one of the post-cancellation, unfinished serials, and that new lore was kinda dubious, but still! That's more than most secondary elements got. (Like plasma, my beloved)

But when psionics was declared an element, all those weird one off abilities were reclassified as subpowers or specific applications of psionics, and that gave it a different feel than other elements. The other elements are all very physical; you're generating and controlling fire or water or lightning or noise or whatever. And yeah, a toa of psionics could make a psychic damage beam or whatever, but they have all those other abilities tacked on too. Psionics is also unique in that while other toa can absorb their element from the environment to recharge their powers, psionics can't.

(My personal headcanon is that toa actually can absorb psionic energy, but they don't do that because it would basically lobotomize whatever they absorbed it from. You could do some interesting things with that. A toa who doesn't have qualms about absorbing power, or one who's figured out how to steal memories specifically and absorbs memories about themselves in an antimemetic way.)

Psionics getting canonized basically on a whim created some weird Implications for the story. Namely, why would the great beings make brain boys and not have them live inside the giant robots brain? Remember, the whole point of the matoran is to act as maintenance for the GSR. What exactly to ce-matoran do?

I think focusing on that maintenance aspect would make for an interesting AU or gen 3. Swap out the 6 classic elements for obscure seconday elements better suited for maintaining the giant space faring robot, and change the setting from a series of islands to the inside of the superstructure that is the GSR. Keeping with this more sci-fi theme, ce-matoran live near giant server farms dotted throughout the structure and keep them running. Specially trained matoran can temporarily link themselves to these servers, and divine the future by interpreting the torrent of data flowing through the GSR. That process and the information they glean is dangerous at best for the untrained mind, so turaga fervently guard access to those servers and the secrets within.

Magnetism, plasma, lightning, and iron would fit nicely into this hypothetical au as well. Problem is, I want a nice even 6 elements here, and I don't know what the last one would be. The other canon secondary elements options are plantlife or sonics, neither of which I'm really sold on. Maybe we could pick ice or water from the classic 6 and flavor it as coolant? Hm.

Oh my god wait I forgot about gravity. Ok there you go new set of 6 elements. Plasma, lightning, iron, magnetism, gravity, and psionics... Actually, I'm kind of enamored with that ice/water coolant idea. Maybe nix magnetism, or fold magnetism into iron?

Honestly this post just started as my headcanon about absorbing psionic energy, but now I'm kinda tempted to write like a setting guide for this...

[gilbertsdumbblog]

Got any AUs for the sky people?

Oh boy, too many. Though, besides Milocraft and like, two others, the majority of them are very surface-level and don't really have stories/continuity to them beyond, "Hey, this idea is kinda neat!". Usually, I'm exploring the city through a 'post-canon' type continuation, which is where Terracotta Villa comes in, though I'm not going to include post-canon stuff here since I don't really regard it as a proper AU.

Skipping over Milocraft because I've talked about it before, if you're curious peep this post or go through the 'Milocraft' tag on my blog. Also because I'm not in the mood to yap about that au right now since I'm currently reworking some story stuff.

Firstly we've got an old au that was more of an art project than anything else; The au itself doesn't really have a name, as it revolves around the idea that the people of Sky City don't speak English, but instead their own language called 'Skaia Voc'. It was an early attempt at a constructed language, with the idea being that beyond the normal events of 'Order Up!', Jesse and the main crew are trying to also figure out the language barrier between their group and the residents of Sky City. There would be hints of Isa understanding English, especially with certain books within the palace, and eventually we would see her break from Skaia Voc and instead start addressing Aiden, Jesse, and the others in English. Other than being a fun project for me to try and make a constructed language, this au honestly doesn't change much about the actual characters or setting that much.

The Sky Drake City au is another REALLY old idea of mine in similar age to Milocraft, though this one desperately needs a facelift still unlike the other au. Originally stemming off my now-defunct-and-deleted Milo askblog, it was an event where I made Milo a 'Lightning Sprite' which was basically just a weird angel-esc thing?

(Yes I have the art from the blog. No, you don't get to see it.) I dunno, I was mostly fucking around and having fun with the original event. Anyways, I vaguely revisited the idea a few years ago wherein the entirety of Sky City's people are partially draconic in nature; Everybody has wings and scales, and other details such as tails, claws, fangs, and horns are extremely common. There's just one caveat to all of this; Nobody in Sky City can fly. For the vast majority of people, both their bodies and wings are simply too heavy to effectively enable flight, and the most they can get away with is gliding between islands spread out over Sky City's "territory". But, the Founder and her guards are capable of flight; it's a necessity that allows them to better patrol the vast and spread out people of the city, though it's never really explained to the public how any of them are able to fly. The basic idea behind it is that Isa is the only one who is able to genuinely fly due to having a bone density light enough to enable flight. The guards get away with flight due to having enchanted armor, which Isa is able to enchant due to grinding mobs for resources constantly. (Possibly feather falling, but also probably just a custom enchant for the story? idk) Although Isa can technically fly without an enchantment, it does make things vastly easier for her. Thus, her circlet is enchanted, and this eventually gets stolen by Aiden. Build Club (yeah this is still minecraft logic and building is still hella restricted) somehow finds out about the armor enchantment thing and, once Jesse and their group accidentally make their way into the city they get roped into helping Build Club steal some poor guard's armor before breaking into the palace (on it's own island high up above everyone else; meaning the only way to get there is to fly) to find the eversource. after that it's more-or-less the same up until everyone is getting settled from the ordeal of Aiden spreading mobs everywhere. (Sidenote, the mental image of Jesse clinging to Isa who is desperately flapping her wings while also knowing it's not going to help while complaining about the situation? golden.) Not 100% on how this 'Terracotta Villa' (might get a different name?) would settle after the fact since SOMEONE would spill the beans on how the guards + Isa are able to fly due to enchantments, so I can only imagine air-travel becomes a relatively common thing for the people of Sky City after the fact. Tbh, might actually let them keep the name 'Sky City' just due to the flying aspect? I dunno, something to think about.

After that we've got an unnamed Monster Au where everyone in Sky City is, you guessed it; a monster of some sort. Isa is a Cockatrice-Harpy hybrid, Reginald is a Werewolf, and Milo's a siren. How does that work in Sky City if he has to be in water most of the time? I don't know, the Garden is surrounded by random channels of water at walking level, they extended them into the floor of certain buildings or whatever. Try not to fall in on top of Milo or some other aquatic citizen, thanks.

Another strange au, this one mostly inspired by Dungeon Meshi of all things; the Eversource Milo au. If you're confused as to how this is inspired by Dungeon Meshi, allow me to provide the same shitty chart I gave my confused friend;

You start with Chimera Falin.

Wild start, I know, but this stems from her looks. Specifically, the sort of 'fade' from humanoid to feathery/draconic is something that, aesthetically, is EXTREMELY appealing to me. How does this relate to the aforementioned au?

Well, I've mentioned previously that Milo is something called a 'glitched spawn' which normally can have a vast array of effects on a player, but was rather mild with Milo for the most part other than a stupid fast hunger drain. Most of the time, him being a glitched spawn isn't really relevant other than some backstory, but in this au is EXTREMELY relevant.

Prior to Milo spawning, something happened and Benedict just kinda. Vanished. Like nothing had killed her, there wasn't dropped feathers/crown/etc or anything, but she couldn't have wandered off the island either so Isa was left sitting there quietly shitting a brick as she realized the Eversource keeping everyone alive was. GONE. (The real answer is she despawned. Sorta.)

How is Benedict 'despawning' relevant to Milo being a glitched spawn?Well. Because it led to uh. This happening

Honestly this au is kind of a shitpost that derived from the idea, "What if Milo was a man-sized chicken" before I decided to give it an iota of a fuck and make him a weird hybrid instead. His nose is a beak. Don't think too hard about it. Mostly just made for fun, don't ask if there's anything resembling a plot because I'll never take this au seriously enough to give it a story beyond, "How much more inconvenient would it be if the eversource threw their eggs up and also could learn swear words and use them at you if he gets angry enough".

Yes Reginald escorts him down the waterfall when everybody evacuates Sky City.

There's the Admin Access Granted au, which explores my headcanon of Isa being an Ex-Admin from a different dimension than the one Sky City is in, but instead of giving up her admin powers early on to play in survival mode she kept cheats enabled. Just in case. It means Aiden gets his shit ROCKED when the other shoe drops, and Jesse and Co. are kept sorta prisoner on the island? Prisoner in the sense that, because nobody knows about the land below the island still, nobody has found the portal exit either. So Jesse, Petra, Lukas, and Ivor are stuck in Sky City as 'citizens' who can't say SHIT about what they saw. Despite how fascinating I find this au, I've never been able to settle on whether or not to make it a full-on Villain!Isa au, or to instead make her EXTREMELY morally grey and conflicting to leave potential readers equally conflicted on how to feel about her. I've also never really figured out a solution for Jesse and their group in that situation, though it probably has something to do with going over the edge of Sky City eventually. Not sure when they'd dig up the portal or why though so -big shrug- the au is rather vague right now despite the potential, and I'm likely going to explore this one a bit more in the near future.

I have a very fringe, honestly pretty OOC au, which explores the idea of the Sky City trio getting their asses sent to. The Twilight Forest.

I don't know, I just really love this fuckin' mod and I really enjoy the 'progression' system it has with the areas and their respective dungeons/bosses. And I think that, given there's no actual story tied to the mod itself, it has a lot of potential for someone to write characters going through that progression system and figuring things out.

Thus I shoved Reginald, Isa, and Milo in here. How'd they get here? What kind of equipment do they have? Do they know where they are?

FUCK YOU!!

I'M HERE TO WATCH THEM STRUGGLE AND GET ANGRY AT EACH OTHER AFTER KILLING A KOBOLD AND THEN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE HINT IT GAVE THEM TO MAYBE GET INTO AN AREA THAT DOESN'T BURN THEIR LUNGS OUT OR BLIND THEM OR FREEZE THEM TO DEATH. I might doodle some random shitposts for this au at some point because it's really just a surface-level, kinda joke au to project the struggle of survival twillight forest without OP equipment onto those three. Because I know the team would CRUMBLE

Other than those aus though there honestly isn't much. I've focused pretty hard on the Milocraft au, though I suppose if any of these other aus catch people's interest I could talk more about them? Except the Twilight Forest one, I don't think I have any questions to answer there because there's not much to discuss other than, "I think this would be funny. Here's how they would struggle to overcome this task together."

[lightning-of-farosh]

Incurable Homesickness

AU: Marin wished the world of BOTW into existence

A fox appeared to a woman in a dream.

I am a spirit of the magic that resides within this land, they told her. An echo of things that were, that are, and that could be.

You must go to the mountain where the lights of the night come from the earth instead of the sky. Climb to the praying peak to the pond that holds an ever-blossoming tree.

The woman held everything and nothing close for she could fit her whole world in her dream-hands even though they stayed empty. What about my son? What about our lives? We have a home, here. We have a future.

Black eyes looked up at her and the edges of the fox’s body swirled away into soft, crimson smoke. It was whisked away by darkness and the faint, kind melody of an ocarina. Trees passed by in her mind’s eye; tall ones with broad, sliced leaves and ones with heavy branches baring round, red apples. They were swallowed up by the sea, by a storm, by a crack of lightning and the massive shadow of a beast she couldn’t see.

The woman woke to the cry of a seagull and clutched her blanket to her chest. The wind howled against the stone walls, battering at the wooden shutters and the frame of the door. Rain pattered against the roof and she could feel the humidity sticking to her shoulders and neck even as she wound her long, red hair into a bun.

Beside her—curled up on a bedroll of reeds and feather down—a boy slept through the rumbling thunder.

oOo

It did not rain the day they left their home behind. The woman managed to gather enough rupees by selling herbs and insects and uncut gems scavenged from the cliffs to get enough funds for a single, old horse. A few people stopped by—but only a few. She was on the outskirts of the village, a stranger to most and an outsider to even more with her long, red hair and freckled, pale skin.

With a small goodbye to their neighbours, they were off on an adventure; the woman, her boy, and their horse.

oOo

A campfire crackled beneath the moon, sparks rising from the wood to become small, glimmering stars before they vanished into nothing. Sitting beside it was a young woman who was on her way to find answers to questions she didn’t know she had. In her lap was a small boy. He had been wrapped in various blankets to keep him warm in the stray night chill and keep his arms pinned at his sides. It didn’t seem necessary as he sat still without complaint, letting deft fingers braid wildflowers into his almost-gold blonde hair. Together, the boy and his mother hummed a song that had been lost to the ocean’s waves; one of shipwrecks and storms, of dreams and wishes.

Wandering through the trees, their horse snorted and pawed at the ground. Rain had left the dirt soft and there were tracks from beasts peppering the woodland trails.

“Mama?” The boy leaned his head back to look up at the woman. Petals drifted from his makeshift crown with the movement: one even slid down his nose, fluttering on his breath.

“Yes, Link?”

He curled against her. Various birds cawed in the trees as insects buzzed and sang in the underbrush. “Can you tell me a story?”

“A story?” She tapped a finger against her chin and tilted her eyes to the sky, pretending to be in deep thought. Stars winked between the leaves, watching them with billion-year amusement. “It’s very late,” Her voice was soft. “And you told me you were so tired that you couldn’t move another muscle.”

“But I won’t be moving, Mama,” Link grinned at her with a small, impish smile that made the corners of his eyes squint and his nose crinkle. “You’d be the one telling the story!”

The woman laughed in surprised delight, and pressed a kiss to his forehead. “I suppose that’s true,” she said and wrapped her arms around his little torso, holding him close to her chest. “What type of story would you like to hear?”

Link leaned up, lowering his voice to a whisper-that-wasn’t. “The one about the seagull and the island,” he said, eyes wide and reflecting the amber of the fire. “Please?”

“Again?” His mother gasped, ruffling his hair and sending petals flying everywhere. He giggled, unable to squirm away from her hold as they toppled backward onto their bedroll. “I suppose I could tell it again.” One hand ran down the boy’s back, counting his breaths as he wiggled closer, pressing against her ribs as if he could curl up next to her heart.

Silver moonlight dripped through the leaves, trickling down the jagged, arching trunks of durian and palm trees. The sounds of the night filled the shadows and stone, creating a music that sung of heat and lightning and rain. The fire continued on as the horse snorted and settled.

“Once upon a time,” the woman said, her voice drifting between shifting plants and night birdsong, “There was an island, a boy, and a seagull...”

[reliablejoukido]

Digimon LOST AU Headcanons part 4/? - Background Lui & Ukkomon stuff

I have no idea why I decided to go hard into the Lui & Ukkomon lore today. But since it's kinda long, I figured I would give them their own post

Lui & Ukko/Ukkomon

Ages: Unknown/immortal (for now)

Ukkomon: The “Man in Black/Smoke Monster”

Lui: The “Jacob”

In the mid-1950s, Ukko and Lui were born on the Island as human twins after their dying mother washed up on the Island. The boys were taken care of by the Island’s protector, who was created along with the Island when the first programmable, digital computer was built by humans. When Ukko and Lui became young adults, the protector of the Island gave them both special powers, turning their bodies into digital versions of themselves and burying their human bodies and souls deep beneath the Island. She was then killed by humans living on the Island, making Lui and Ukko the new protectors of the Island and its secrets. They are immortal, and can only die if their human souls are destroyed.

Ukko, distraught over the death of the woman who raised them and angry at humans in general, becomes obsessed with making his brother Lui happy. He would bring people to the Island, puppet them, and play with them like dolls, killing people if he thought Lui was unhappy with them. The more Ukko kills people, the more corrupted he becomes. This disturbs Lui, making him want to find a new protector and leave the Island. Ukko does not want Lui to leave and becomes quite deranged about it.

Lui tries to find Ukko’s body and soul in order to kill him to save the people on the Island. He’s able to destroy his brother’s body. This doesn’t kill the soul, however, and Ukko’s data corrupts and he turns into a monster. The monster looks like a giant white cloud with lightning flashing inside it and giant green eyes. The sound it makes is akin to thunder rumbling. Lui names his brother’s monster form “Ukkomon”, meaning “Thunder Monster”.

Longing to leave the Island and his brother, Lui starts luring more people to the Island in hopes of finding a new “Chosen” candidate to replace him as the guardian and protector.

Without a body, Ukkomon cannot directly kill people on the Island. Buy it’s only as matter of time until he figures out how, thinks Lui. Ukkomon, wanting to sabotage Lui’s goals to leave the Island, projects himself as holograms of dead people to mess with the chosen candidates instead. He also corrupts some of them (Maki, Osamu, and eventually Ken), persuaded them into killing for him, since Ukkomon can no longer do so himself.

In the 1980s, Lui meets Daisuke Motomiya when a freighter ship he was on gets misdirected to the Island. Daisuke is strangely incorruptible and unable to be controlled by Ukkomon. Initially Lui thinks Daisuke is a good candidate, but he does’t pass Lui’s test (not sure what this is yet). So instead, Lui makes Daisuke immortal (like Richard) to help him in his quest to bring people to the Island and find a new protector. Daisuke spends decades living amongst the “Others” on the Island, just kind of playing along, waiting for Lui to choose a successor. Lui, meanwhile, hides from other people on the Island and usually only talks through Daisuke.

Lui is quiet, withdrawn, but determined to save, and also leave the Island. Sometimes he wonders if his brother isn’t too far gone, and that he can save his brother too. The thought that he should even attempt this terrifies him. He doesn’t quite understand the Island’s true powers. On the Island, organic life and digital beings/programs are one and the same. But Lui wouldn’t know this, as he has never known anything outside of the Island. He learns of the outside world’s technological advancements based on what the people who come to the Island talk about.

Ukkomon is manipulative and possessive and wants to have full control of the Island, as well as for his brother to stay with him. Ukkomon’s manipulation is like a computer virus and his obsessive personality is like a corrupted file that can’t fulfill its purpose. It’s possible the death of the Island’s previous protector caused this corruption in Ukkomon. Or it’s possible she shouldn’t have designated two protectors, as that somehow caused a glitch in Ukkomon’s program. Deep down, Ukkomon wants to be fully human again, but needs a body to accomplish this as his was destroyed by Lui.