#deep city au

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

Wassup? I've just realised that if Elate ever gets a DNA test, Regis and co will come to conclusion that Niflheim cloned Mors and then lost that clone.

Ohhhhhh

Hmm...

You know, there was at least on emeeting between Mors and Aldercapt in canon that we know of. So that assumption would not be impossible. Especially since Regis knows about the MTs being clones.

***

The hug came rather suddenly, though not without forewarning. Mors never had liked close physical contact. Especially after his marriage. So he could have dodged, taken step back, and Regis would have backed off. Mors knew he would have respected that boundary, because he had done so before. Multiple times.

It was the look on Regis's face however, that made him stay still and let himself be cradled in his arms. At least that was what Mors told himself.

Within moments warmth seeped into Mors's bones. All encompassing and protecting. He supressed a shudder. A large, aged hand carded through his hair and the sensation did make him shiver.

"Elate."

Something about the way Regis said his name made Mors look up, his cheek still pressed against Regis's chest.

"You know that you will alway be my son, no matter how you came to be, right?"

Mors... did not know what to say to that. So remained silent. The look of absolute anguish that crossed Regis's face made something within Mors whine.

"Why are you saying that?" he forced himself to ask.

Anything to get that look off of Regis's face. No matter what age Mors was now, which name he bore, that was still his son.

The hand was back in his hair and Mors felt himself go boneless. Everything was warm.

"Remember the blood test we had done? According to the test you have the exact same geneting makeup as my father."

Suddenly all the warmth that Mors had previously felt was gone. Muscles stiff and minf racing he tried to push Regis away. The act was up. He had thought he had more time. When he had been King blood and DNA tests had taken weeks not a mere two days. What would his son think of him now? What would happen now? What-?

Regis's arms did not yield. Instead, Regis seemed to pull Mors impossibly closer.

"Elate. It's alright. Everything is alright. Elate. Son, please. I'm so sorry. So sorry this happened to you."

The words reached dimly through Mors's racing thoughts, and when they registered, he stilled his struggle, surprised and tense. He stared at the rug covering the floor. His own breathing seemed unnaturally loud in the quiet room. Regis's steady heartbeat was a strangely grounding force. Mors's mind clung to it for all it was worth.

Regis sighed. Long and deep.

"Elate, you are still my son. You are still Noctis's brother, Hiemi's brother-in-law. Solaris is still your niece, Astra your nephew and Ardyn your uncle. That will never change, no matter what. Being my father's clone does not change that. We love you and you are part of this family."

Mors blinked. Regis thought... what? What was a clone? Mors looked up at his son, and had to look away again, not able to bear the tender look on his face.

Slowly, ever so slowly, he managed to relax. He would figure out what a clone was and work from there. But for now he would stay right here. Just for a little longer.

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

@raven-6-10

This is so cool! And that idea for a Prompto centric reveal sounds amazing.

But yeah, this is definitely part of the Deep City vibe.

[starry-bi-sky]

Thinking about the CFAU and marveling at how much Danny and Jason care for one another. Does anybody else figure out that Danny is going to kill the Joker, or is that knowledge Jason exclusive? I can't see Danny being close enough to any other Batfam member to disclose his plans, but I wonder if he drops hints. They're a family of paranoid detectives. I'd be surprised if they don't figure out Danny has a PURPOSE for being in Gotham at some point. Whether Danny's able to disguise it as wanting to be closer to Jason or not is another burning question.

Its def Red Hood exclusive! You're right in that Danny isn't close enough to disclose his revenge plot to any of the batfam members -- hell, not even Sam and Tucker know his true motives for returning to Gotham, and they're his best friends right after Jason! And Red Hood knows only because Danny accidentally slipped up ;].

I do also think that the Waynes kinda think something might be up with Danny -- at least Dick and/or Bruce might since they're the only ones who actually know him beyond brief mentions of him. Tim knows about him due to his stalking, but doesn't really know him -- and Danny plans to keep a healthy, friendly distance from the family so he can carry out his plans.

It's not that he holds any dislike towards them -- quite the opposite. He appreciates what they do for Gotham and recognizes the hard work that goes into keeping their Rogues Gallery at bay (even if he is bitter about Joker, but there's an obvious reason for that) -- but, well. He knows they're the vigilantes, he doesn't want to risk them sniffing out his murder plot before he can even go through with it.

Luckily for him he can excuse any distance he puts between them as just being busy with life and trying to settle in, and they're not close enough to him anymore to find it suspicious. I do think they figure out he's back in Gotham for a reason, Danny's not going to exactly hide the fact that he's back to find some kind of closure -- but what that closure is?

I think the only person who might suspect something sinister going on would be Bruce, who saw the sinking rage in Danny's eyes at the funeral -- it was part of the reason he didn't tell him who killed Jason (beyond secret identity reasons). But that depends on whether or not Danny reveals some of his hand, and the fact that he was still holding onto that rage (somewhat unwillingly) all this time.

[fountainpenguin]

The more I think about my "Dale has misophonia" headcanon, the worse it gets, actually <3

(Hadley was in the shower for 12 minutes. He's ready for a vow renewal and second honeymoon. They cannot go because Dev is 3 weeks old.)

Alt text: "If you want more babies, maybe we should have them all at once and I can stay in a hotel." / "Dale, no."

[vomitspit2]

omfg it’s almost midnight here and i have to get up for work at 5 AM but let me compose at least some of my thoughts …

ok idia x robot girl! reader … hear me out 🥺

someone he creates to cure his loneliness of companionship in a tender way that ortho just cannot do; ugh i’m imagining a plain head just sitting on the desk, stripped down to the metal and skinless; him asking which eye color you like the best until it lands upon yours;

the midnight conversations as he builds a body; the pining from the reader (is it actual pining or are you just scraping the edges of desperate self perseverance so he doesn’t trash you like the other models); kind of dream-like transition between adding each body parts (like imagine yourself lying in a tub of ink — cheeks, nose, lips, a slight peel of your forehead visible — and eventually it all drains down as more and more body parts are added);

the first very touch of human flesh upon you; the cracked polystyrene blinks that you give with twitchy eyelashes; you siphon your romantic tendencies between a messy mélange of gritty 18+ hentai and victorian romance novellas; idia pours his damned and tormented soul into making you perfect for him and you pour yourself willingly into the image, designed just for one man <3

past midnight edit:

BRUH TO THIS SOnG

yeah to this fuckin banger

((past midnight edit again: there are really only two ways you can go with robot main characters: the building process or the robot being oblivious and thinking they are human (Ex Machina or Twilight Zone) i enjoy both sooo much))

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

@raven-6-10

This

Hmm...

I would set this in the Deep City verse, actually. Make it a story that Noctis found in the royal archives as a kid, when he was there searching for information about his magic.

And there he found the story of Aurel Lucis Caelum. He was the son of the Conqueror King. He had two younger siblings, Tempestates and Maris, and one cousin named Justus. All four had the potential to inherit. But then Aurel did not manifest magic.

By the age of 13 his father disinherited him from the direct line and he became Aurel Caelum. Later texts would call him the Forgotten Prince.

The text Noctis found is full of holes, brittle and old and written at least 2 generations after it happened as a copy of a copy, so it's hard for him to know what happened, but the story picks up again after Tempestates had been King for a while.

It goes that Justus died from a poisoning, Maris married out of the family, and all of Tempestates's children were born sickly and died early.

There was no one to inherit the throne. No one but the children of Aurel Caelum, who all showed strong magic.

Tempestates was relatively young still, at 39, but was already suffering badly from the stasis sickness that claims every Lucis Caelum king before they reach 60.

So Tempestates reinstated Aurel into the family proper, so one of his children would inherit. The oldest, Cremes, was already 17 at this point. (Aurel 44)

The old text doesn't really mention what happens next other than telling of Tempestates's untimely death at 41 and Cremes's coronation following that.

Your bloodline is known for carrying superpowers, but you didn’t inherit them. And so your family cut ties with you. But after having children who did inherit those powers, your family tries to reinsert themselves into your life.

[sirwadewilsonfromimgur]

Deadpool and Wolverine:KCAU

Deep Lore...

In the Heart of Kansas City stands a man dressed in black Armani, drinking a scotch most fancy.

The people around him would judge him handsome but clearly a dillatant and a dandy.

People were like that. Skin deep quick assessments... The Monarch Bar down at the Plaza was full of guys that looked like him.

What the don't know is this well manicured man is an act... a convenient one at that. His darling husband Wade liked dressing Logan up, and when Logan was doing less violent work, he liked how it made people misjudge him... underestimate him. No one suspects the pretty boy can fight. And he got a sick joy from the looks on their face when he popped his claws, slashed their throat, and tossed them like a bag of garbage.

With that little vignette for context.

My writing of Logans "fancy" fashion sense has a purpose...

The Noir was my poorly written Love letter to Patricia Cornwalls Scarpetta novels... up to and including a weird twist ending (something she's been doing lately) but more importantly, it's partial inspiration for why Logan is so "stylish" and dressed expensively (like Scarpetta's husband)

The other inspiration is my straight-up pattern aversion and fashion. Apart from a few situations for 20 years, it's been jeans and a tank top. Wade would totally think it got stale quickly... (fourth wall break... I also just want it to look like I baged Hugh Jackman) I also Firmly believe Wade has excellent fashion sense and good taste. He just refuses to express that in his own wardrobe, mostly because of self-image issues.

But I gave this guy money, a hot husband who has no qualms about wearing whatever is in the closet, Wade absolutely replaced all of Logans clothes with designer brands and fancy shit that they could suddenly afford, and Logan does look good. It's all tasteful, no outlandish high fashion, he actually doesn't hate the choices esthetically... hes not the biggest fan of how ostentatious they can be price point wise.

Lastly, I enjoy the contrast of Logan in his "street clothes".... Imagine if you will, on the streets of Kansas City this guy (see pic below) pops knives out of his hands, and it's the last thing you see after you foolishly said something (mean and homophobic) that upset the guy in a hot pink track suit with Jucy written on the ass that was holding his hand.

Also, let's be honest... unless it's certain people Wade is ok with... he's kinda jealous of wolvy showing off the goods...

This guy below only gets to come out in the bedroom.

[twpsyn-who]

Today on "Another JeanMarco Soulmate AU absolutely no one asked for" I present to you -

Soulmate AU in which you stop seeing colors when your soulmate dies, the only exception being your soulmate. Now cue to Jean who just found Marco's, his best friend's, body. And you know, there's the shock of finding out Marco's dead. The pain and confusion and guilt. But there's also the revelation, because despite everything he can still see Marco like nothing took place at all- yes, half of his face is missing and his body is straight up lifeless, but Jean can still make out the color of his eye ; see that light shade of brown perfectly, remember all the times he has found himself looking at them while listening to Marco talk. He can still make out the colors of his uniform, see the same shade of black his hair has always had, practically see. Despite being dead, Marco was the only piece of color left in his life.

And there's denial for a moment because there's no way Marco was his soulmate. But that goes away fast, getting replaced by guilt. By the fact that he hasn't been there to save him, that Marco has to die all alone without anyone being there for him.

And that was worse than the simple fact that he could no longer see colors ; because Marco was there when Jean needed him, but he failed to do the same. And not only he lost his best friend that day, but his other half too.

[aphel1on]

You know those really cheesy "WHO SAVED WHO?" stickers that owners of rescue dogs have sometimes? That's Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing

[cosmicseashanty]

Art I did for the City of Eorzea zine!! It's a free zine you can download here, set out in the style of a Dating Sim guide... it was a really fun collaboration!

Main artwork + alternate formal outfit

Expression sprites

Good + Bad Ending CGs

You can read all about her route in the zine, but this Albi works as a jeweller in the city. If you get to know her, she might gift you a ring... but depending on your choices, the circumstances may differ..!

[remadra]

I once got obsessed with dragons and that's probably partly why I like @neko-chan-13's griffin designs so much

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

So I'm currently working on the next chapter of To Live Is To Die Twice, and Mors thinks Ardyn is funny.

Mors thinks Ardyn is funny.

Gods help me

[potatoeofwisdom]

Minecraft rottmnt au?? Oh please tell more

-☆staranon☆

Ok now that I’m actually confronted with the task of putting my thoughts to print I’m drawing a bit of a blank, but I’ll try and ramble about some of it here! (thank you so much for the ask!!!)

The gist is, through mystic mishap (Mikey trying to save him from the prison dimension) Leo is sent hurtling through dimensions to Minecraft. It’s a silly little doodle au I made up after playing Minecraft a few days too many.

Leo, once thrown into the world, is left injured and alone without any means of escaping. So he’s forced to travel aimlessly, searching for any information as to how to get home. He finds strange structures that sometimes contain more information about the world and what had happened before. (Kraang invasion)

This all takes place hundreds of years after the kraang had been evicted from the world so we’re following Leo as he discovers the after-effects of wide scale kraang takeover on a world that defeated them.

Creepers are actually the last surviving “kraang” left on Minecraft, save for a few exceptions we’re still ironing out. They are both self destructive and green due to a fungus based bioweapon the “old ones” (those who fought the Kraang before) used in the war.

(Zombies are also an unintended side affect of this)

They kinda plague Leo specifically because I feel like it would be funny (traumatising). They’re pretty rare normally but he seems to attract them for some reason.

There’s a bunch of other stuff we created as well, like the kinda history of the villager and illagers (the villagers live in a kind of isolated cult society) and the political connections between the different old-one societies and why each of them individually fell to the Kraang or joined together.

In all honesty I’m bad at writing story elements, or character writing. likelyhood is I’m not gonna do much with this au aside from doodles maybe every now and then.

If I was to outline a kind of story it’d be how he goes from structure to structure discovering more about the stories of those who all died during the war against the kraang whilst trying to track down more information about “the portal”.

Obviously there’s several portals in minecraft so he gets mislead into believing a portal to the nether could be a portal home, and that could lead to a certain amount of angst.

He would eventually find a way home, probably after defeating the ender dragon (it’s corrupted by the kraang)

Some facts about the dragon and the endermen:

The endermen have a kind of cryptid, assumed benevolent vibe to them in this. No one really knows their objectives aside from them trying to save(?) the dragon, which is a kind of god in this world.

The endermen are revered as a kind of holy figure due to their connections to the dragon.

The dragon works like a kind of phoenix but nobody knows this, unless the endermen do but no one knows what the endermen know or don’t know.

The dragons breath is literally the dragon dying kraang style™️ it’s great 👍

The dragon is stuck in a kind of half-death because of the kraang so it’s eternally suffering lol

Also the villagers mistakenly believe Leo to be some kind of enderman equivalent due to his portalling, and worship him accordingly, as seen in this post here

Some other facts:

A lot of the old ones religions were focused heavily on life and death and the cycle of decay (the purity or lack thereof depending on the culture) due to the fact skeletons have always just. Existed.

There is more lore about the specific beliefs of each about the life and death thing but I’ve forgotten them and will have to ask my sibling about it again

Skeletons were able to become passive but only due to religious practices of one of the old-one societies (the desert peoples)

All of them added the dragon somewhere in these religions but how exactly the dragon played a role in them was different depending on the religion and was subject to many debates (+ wars)

High-tech-kinda Machinery and magic exist. The ins and outs of both are unclear (Each society were more or less involved in the practices of either )

The underwater temples (and the underwater peoples) were extremely technologically advanced. Arguably the most advanced of all the old ones. They didn’t believe in the standard respect for the cycles of life and death and the practices surrounding the skeletons but they had their own beliefs and culture separate to the rest of the old ones.

The underwater ppl did body modding with copper and technology. Think underwater steampunk. You get me. Their zombies reflect this.

Mushroom islands are like nuclear wastelands but from mushroom bio weaponry

Mooshrooms are the only things that can survive on those islands anymore

They are like the zombies but better (somehow managed to reach complete symbiosis with the fungus. Unclear how exactly??)

Oh yea the dragon lives on the moon but the moon has an atmosphere so it’s fine

The kraang were all eviscerated by a machine created by the old ones. The only remaining kraang are those who were too far altered to be recognised as fully kraang anymore (creepers) and therefore managed to avoid whatever the old ones machine did, or were protected by plot (the dragon corruption).

The deep dark has lore and Leo is definitely gonna explore it in his search to find a way home.

[science-lings]

Ryunosuke is so funny in my Phoenix AU bc yes, he's still the most normal guy, that doesn't change at all, he still gets so nervous in stressful situations and never really knows what's going on, the only difference is that he has an actual backstory he doesn't want to share and he is fully aware of the fact that he can die. None of this changes the overall plot (unless I deem it so after thinking about it more,) and no one figures it out because they have no reason to. Ryunosuke doesn't have the thing going on that Phoenix does where it's a shock that he is still alive.

But where's the fun in that? I'm sure there's no reason at all that Mr. little guy/prey animal-core/ foreigner who unearths government secrets/ Naruhodo would ever be in any physical danger... there's no reason anyone would want him dead... right?

[passions-and-pupils]

Here me out: Lego Monkie Kid X City Of Blank auto

Sun Wukong and Macaque were blank hunter partners until they got in a fight and Wukong tore off his friends mask in a fit of rage

MK wants to be a blank hunter really bad and begged a retired Sun Wukong (AKA The Monkey) to be his memtor. Wukong agreed but secretly he doesn’t believe in blank hunting anymore and is slowly trying to convince MK that it’s wrong while not admitting that he agrees.

Lady Bone Demon is the leader of a top blank organization (she and mayor are basically Jericho and Claude) and hired Macaque who at first disagreed to the partnership but then was forcibly injected with red blank space that LBD controls so he’s kinda stuck now(think Charlie)

pigsy is a blank who feels incredibly guilty and completely cut off his faces family out of shame. his face was in the military so it wasn’t that hard to do but sadly he does have trauma from his faces memories (Think Desmond)

Mei comes from a long line of blank hunters but really just wants to forge her own path in life away from all that. Redson is a half blank (DBK is a blank PIF isn’t) who is proud of being a blank and he runs a smaller blank terrorist organization with his family

Sandy is a blank who’s face was very violent but now he does yoga and therapy and stuff to help with the PTSD that comes with his face. His face and Pigsy’s face were buddies so he’s tried to help knowing Pigsy is in a similar situation but Pigsy has been very resistant

oh and plot twist! MK is actually a quarter blank with the ability to faze through walls. His father was arrested for being a half blank who stole the face of MK’s mom’s husband and took his place. MK’s mom didn’t know this and was horrified when she found out and gave up MK out of fear of what he would become.

MK didn’t know this because he was adopted by Pigsy at like 3 and found out when his mask fell off during training and nothing happened. That lead to him having a very difficult conversation with Pigsy who knew but didn’t want to say anything because he didn’t want MK to have to live with that information, especially after MK started talking about becoming a great blank hunter.

[fountainpenguin]

Hey, you know what's way funnier than Dale NOT having Dev in his college years?

Girl, you are so "Turning Out Pts. i, ii & iii"-coded, fr fr...

Hadley's profile and the cherry lemon ship masterpost have been updated with new, correct timeline info. tl;dr - Still married in January 2012, but they're one year younger than previously stated and got married during Hadley's junior year instead of after she graduates. Hadley's out of school before her pregnancy... Dale's in it for the long haul.

Bonus:

Daddy's special graduate... Too bad he wasn't there to see it <3