#darkscales attempts writing

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Summary

Here was a thing that no mortal would ever learn: the person who would become best-known as Siffrin, in every world and every time and every place, was the Universe’s favorite.

Notes: spoilers for Act 3 lore! no explicit spoilers for the secret/twohats ending, but lore from that is vaguely and briefly alluded to.

anyway, guess who's been obsessed with ISAT for the past month, lol. this was originally meant to be part of a larger fic, but it turned into more of a general headcanon/mini character exploration instead. hope you enjoy reading!! :D

[darkscaleswriter]

haha thanks for the tag! this also isn't 7 lines, but I don't think stretching the prompt hurts lol.

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"She hates me, Bal," Ambrosius groaned, burying his face in Ballister's shoulder.

Ballister reached back to pat Ambrosius on the head like a dog, not even looking up from his computer. "Who does?"

"Nimona!"

"Nimona doesn't hate you."

"I'm pretty sure she was lying in wait to scare me last night when I went to the bathroom. Her eyes glow in the dark," Ambrosius whined. Petulantly, he added, "This is why I never wanted a cat, you know. Sneaky little bastards."

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I don't have anyone specific to tag, so tagging in anyone who wants to join!

I've been tagged by @lutiaslayton to share the last seven lines of my most recent WIP. As tempting as it is to copy-paste my half-written emails, I'll do something slightly more interesting (and maybe slightly over seven lines):

"Randall 'Randy' 'Bratscot' Ascot," Angela said, moving and talking faster now, herding Randall back into his own hotel room and feeling a bit like she was the terrorizer rather than the other way around, "you have thirty seconds to give me a really good speech as to why you're destroying your own city and giving all of us extra paperwork and PR drama."

"Okay. You're the real Angela. I get it now," Randall said, his voice small and eyes wide. He was fiddling with his hands now, the exact same way he used to when they were teenagers. Though he was certainly taller, more tanned, and with a messier hairdo, he really was the same person. She must really have caught him off guard. "I—listen, you guys were the ones who—" he paused. "Wait, did you say my city?"

Angela crossed her arms. "You're a co-owner of our bank account, you know. You co-own the land we're standing on. You co-own this hotel." And goodness if that hadn't been incredibly annoying to pull off. Trying to sign it so that a person who, in the eyes of the law, was at best missing and at worst dead for the better part of eighteen years had been… a hassle, to say the least.

Randall was gaping at her now. "I—but—you—he said—"

"Who said what?" Angela narrowed her eyes. "Are you referring to the man with the feather boa and the cape?"

"Descole," Randall said absently, "his name is Descole."

"Right." She didn't really care. "I'm not sure where he got his information, but he either got it wrong or has been intentionally lying to you. I can show you the deeds if you would like. Or have you talk to our lawyers." She just wanted to put all of this behind her. She wanted Randall to come home. She wanted to fix things up with Hershel without leading him by the nose. She wanted to throw her heels at Descole.

Ideally all of those things would happen, but she would take two out of three.

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No pressure if you're not interested but @the-therapist-is-ace, @darkscaleswriter, and @blue-skelly if you join in ^.^

[darkscaleswriter]

thinking about lego monkie kid again and i have... So Many unposted AUs where macaque and mk have some sort of connection to each other pre-canon, bc their relationship is fascinating and i love them. but also, a big part of macaque's character to me is that he's so mean. he's so mean!! he's a scrungly feral cat who will look you in the eye as he bites the hand that's feeding him with 0 regrets.

so, to make a pre-canon connection with mk work in my head, macaque needs to have a REALLY good reason to care about this kid. sometimes, that's a genetic relation (bc it never fails to amuse me that mk looks more like macaque than swk, especially when they're in bird form lmao). sometimes, it's a "i helped you one (1) time out of self-serving reasons and now you keep showing up at my house and refusing to leave me alone (and i won't admit it but you're growing on me like a fungus)" type of dynamic. sometimes, it's even "you're a critical part of my stage tech crew and opening night is tomorrow, if swk makes you skip work for 'training' then i am taking that Personally."

regardless of why macaque cares, he's almost always mad about it lmao. classic villain turned antihero character. he has been conned into becoming invested in this kid and it sucks!!

then, after the monkie kid thing happens, macaque is alternately tying himself into knots about it and resisting (or not resisting) the urge to break into swk's house to fight him, bc how dare that stupid monkey king put a claim on mk. macaque has dibs! he was there first!!!

usually in my AUs, macaque ends up training mk out of spite, bc swk sure wasn't doing it in the early days of mk's stint as the monkie kid. this has Consequences when swk finds out and mk always gets caught in the middle, poor kid. how the story goes from there depends a lot on the AU. regardless, macaque and mk have the snarkiest mentor-mentee relationship ever and it's hilarious.

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Happy Ides of March to all who celebrate! Unlike Ceasar, I am alive and still writing haha. Chapter 13 of WONitWC may not contain any knives, but it sure does contain the aftermath of (thankfully non-lethal) stabbing. Nobody is having a good time :)

(start from chapter 1)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

chapter 15!! in which casey and leo get an actual break haha.

(you can also start from chapter 1 here)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

chapter 14 is up! have a brief interlude before the next arc of the fic.

(you can also start from chapter 1 here)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 7 is now up! pay no attention to the chapter title :3

(start from chapter 1)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 12! the pirate adventure comes to an end. warning for canon-typical violence.

(start from chapter 1)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 10!! in which leo thinks fast and casey unironically likes spreadsheets (mood).

(start from chapter 1)

[darkscaleswriter]

Chapter 5! In which Leo and Casey venture into the Hidden City. This is going to go totally smoothly and uneventfully, I'm sure :)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 11 now up! no wildlife was harmed in the making of this fic :3

(start from chapter 1)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 9 is now up! casey is so totally normal and unalarming to outsiders :)

(start from chapter 1)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 8! please heed the canon-typical violence tag. don't worry though, everyone's gonna be fine :3

(start from chapter 1)

[darkscaleswriter]

Summary

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 6! Leo and Casey continue to have a totally calm and uneventful time in the Hidden City. What trouble could they possibly get up to in a library, after all?

[darkscaleswriter]

happy friday the 13th! have chapter 3 of the time travel fic, the scariest chapter of them all, where casey learns what money is and leo is forced to do math. they're both doing their best, lol.

[darkscaleswriter]

Fic Summary:

The Resistance failed. The Krang won. But Hamato Michelangelo refuses to let any more family members die, even if that means grabbing his stupid brother and throwing him through a time gateway himself. Or: in which future Leo and Casey Jones Junior are sent together into the past, two years before the Krang invade.

Chapter 2 is now up! mild content warning for brief, non-graphic description of a medical procedure in the first few paragraphs. future leo is having a great time :3