#duke of marlborough (menheramen)

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old jamesborough art

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could you elaborate on the au's? 👀

omg YES YES YES OFC THANK YOU FOR ASKING!! i owe u my life thank u slash lighthearted

i wont say EVERYTHING about it just bc we'd be here forever but here are the basics

NEO: it's a fantasy AU with some stuff taking place in the afterlife! Bentinck is a reindeer man bc there exists such things as "half-demons" which is a misleading name for basically people born as animal hybrids. the theory is that those who are born that way are destined to be bad people bc it's ALL been bad people...basically, all half-demons are evil but not all evil people are half-demons. HOWEVER, none of this has been proven. i love reindeer Bentinck sm he's so soft,,,, anyway. W&M shenanigans in heaven and hell. it's a VERY old AU

MENHERAMEN: named after the song by PEPOYO, which uses the word as a pun using both "menhera" and "ramen." Bentinck is the main character here, and it's a modern college AU....with some CRIME added in. to avenge the Many Bad Things that have happened to William both in his childhood and the present day, Bentinck kills a few people that he blames for it. it's the only AU i have actually "finished" as in i wrote all the main events for it and it is *checks notes* 117 pages. i consider it my best (and darkest) work! despite Bentinck making progressively worse decisions he's still a fav

Alien Alien: you are hopefully a little bit familiar with this one! i won't explain it as much bc i did make the Big Posts (tm) on them, but ofc, William is an alien king and Bentinck his service android. Bentinck is different than most androids bc William actually changed his purpose from "i serve the Prince of Orange" to "i choose my own life." however, most people fail to see that and Bentinck generally has a lot of Issues with it and himself. Keppel and Marlborough, being mostly human (Keppel is 1/4 Defender), have their own backstory here, and William is kidnapped and experimented on at one point (love that arc btw), but otherwise i kept most historical events in. i love this AU a normal amount

Seraph of the End: this AU is based off of the manga by the same name! i have...a lot to say about that manga but when it hits, it fucking HITS. in this AU, William had been working on resurrecting Mary bc it's possible, unaware that doing so would start a virus that would kill all of humanity (kids excluded!). he also works on creating cursed weapons (weapons bound to demons) by making Keppel and Marly demons (very unethically). he dies before any of this is finished, though, so Bentinck finishes the job for him...bringing W&M back to life and triggering the apocalypse. however, before he did so, Keppel in his demon form had attacked and nearly killed him, and to save his own life, Bentinck dragged himself to the current king of the vampires (Third Progenitor Duke of Monmouth, who should have been dead but curiously isn't.....) so he could become one as well. after all that, Bentinck is a Seventh Progenitor vampire, and he, along with W&M, live in the underground kingdom of the vampires. Bentinck has a rabbit that also serves as his weapon and it is ALWAYS with him. as with any AU, a Lot of Things Happen, and there's a lot of secrets that need discovering, including the one over why the apocalypse happened....W&M have no idea they caused it. i love this one very much bc it's very dramatic n stuff

DSMP: this is sort of a crack AU based on the events of the Dream SMP. disclaimer: dsmp fandom generally does not make hc's about or ship real people! rather it's those people's characters of the same name, like i am pretty sure the actual Wilbur Soot is not a terrorist. anyway, in this AU, William is the president-turned-dictator of one of the many factions of the land, and Bentinck is his vice president. Bentinck is also a huge fan of guns and bombs here, mainly so i could have him in a suit and shooting stuff. it was For Myself

The Lamb of Orange: basically just everything historical except they are all sheep. it's mostly an artistic idea, i just want to draw the anecdotes with them as sheep bc i love drawing sheep in silly clothes. the sheep designs usually have some fun quirk that i thought fit them, like James' horns that could run into his eyes if he grows them any longer or Keppel's chest floof constantly poking out of his clothes.

CSM: an AU roughly based off of Chainsaw Man! it doesn't take place in the modern day like the actual anime, though, so therefore it's more like....sword man or whatever. I'VE YET TO FIGURE IT OUT. for now i'm calling him the blade devil. it's not super developed yet, but it's really Bentinck-centric as well. Keppel sort of plays the role of Power here, in which he's a fiend, aka a devil inside a human body. mainly so i could draw him with horns. William is also supposed to be Very Very Mysterious here the same way Makima is

MASA: an AU roughly based off of some of the songs by MASA WORKS DESIGN. it actually focuses more on James, Bentinck is hardly there....but he appears at some point bc he's with William so i had to draw him. it's more artistic like The Lamb of Orange, lot of gore n stuff like MASA's works back in the day. definitely a tw for this one, though, lot of blood n guts mentions coming up! the rough idea is that James is afflicted with a curse that causes him to want to eat human flesh, no other food tastes good to him. it gets worse as he grows, and rather than try to hide it he embraces it, and if you get into bed with him you better expect to have a bite taken out of you!! he's also somewhat of a masochist, he enjoys being eaten as well and loves fiddling around with his intestines out in the open sometimes. also he'll just randomly cough up hearts. Mary inherited this curse as well, but she's far more terrified of it than he is. cannibalism is explored in other characters as well, but it's meant to be taken far less literally. despite Bentinck's creepy-ish appearance, he's actually pretty gentle here. one idea i had for him is for William and Keppel to share a feast of his heart, but i still need to figure out how to draw that,,,,

Warrior Cats: exactly what the title implies, Everything Happens but they are all warrior cats. the cat politics in this series are far less complicated than they are irl, but i try to fit everything in nonetheless. a lot of things that happened are very warrior cats-esque, like Monmouth's rebellion....like that is SUCH peak warrior cats istg. i actually have a list of some names n appearances here (also i threw cat genes to the wind ok)

sometimes i write about it bc honestly writing cats fighting is very fun

THERE YOU HAVE IT all of my AUs with at least one piece of art or writing. again THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING i love love love working on all of these!!

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yknow these serve as great contrasts of each other despite being in different AUs.... how in both there's the height difference, how James has an arm over Marly, how he looks down at him fondly even if you can't see alien James' mouth, but except in one you can almost believe there is love there and the other one you can just see how the relationship is objectifying and possessive. idk if that was intentional but it's great :D

old jamesborough art