#fable smp fanfic

[ya-boi-haru]

Last time I made a post like this, some of you replied with some pretty good ideas, so lets try this again...

Fable smp things that I find hard to translate into a modern AU cause how tf do you do that-:

• The entire corruption arc

• The Telkin in general

• The fact that Caspian got put into Prison and got experimented on (and if it were a "he went to prison for a couple days" type of thing - wtf would he have done!?)

• Jamie's trauma of being locked into the basement (in a modern AU I feel this would be taken more seriously)

• The Major gods and their "sibling war rivalry"

• The War of the Realms

• The Skulk/Warden

• Rae being a WereWarden and having to leave for 6 months

• Epros and Kinaxis

• Hayley, Momboo and Enderiens death???

• Centross' Death and the fact that he knew about it

• Easton going blind

• Ven and Ulysses originally being from Australia 😂 (my guys, what are you doing all the way over there lol

(Feel free to add to this)

[connorsnothereeither]

The Brink Brain Worms are back and wilder than ever-

Anyway so tonight I printed out a giant vintage map from the 1850’s and began marking all the listed locations that are visited in the Brink series.

With the exception of like, specific houses, and one fictional town, everywhere is like, actual locations so… now they’re marked on this map in colour coded pins for each book in the series.

So far this is Brink, and the first 30 chapters of Edge.

Technically some of them aren’t listed for Brink: if they’re exist in the same city/county in the UK (like Rae’s lab, Charleston House, and Bovine House, all of which are in London) it just gets one marker. But other than that, I think it’s everywhere up until chapter 30. I’m hoping to get a higher definition map soon to make things a little easier but also this was a dumb project I started at midnight on a Sunday so… who knows where it’ll go

[gremlin-cryptid]

( @ya-boi-haru its done!)

Kaleidoscope content

Minor panic does occur

Chat Quixis being touch starved and Malitae not having that

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Malitae hummed watching Quixis move around his island. They noticed how the other hovered slightly above the ground. Frowning Malitae moved to stand near them.

“Masterpiece? You alright?”

“I dont want to ruin your art”

“You won't ruin anything masterpiece, you make beautiful art!”

Malitae thought for a second before she weaved a pair of gloves. They silently handed them to Quixis, smiling.

“You sure?”

“Quixis my love when was the last time you touched someone or something?”

Quixis went silent at that. It had been a long time, probably since before their world collapsed. Probably not since the hug they had gotten from [Glitched] before everything went wrong.

“I don't remember…” they mumbled as a response. Malitae moved closer to them but Quixis flinched away. They didn't want to hurt her.

“You won't hurt me masterpiece, it'll be okay,” Malitae soothed gently tugging the gloves onto Quixis’ hands. Quixis realized in that moment how long it had been since they had gotten a hug. Or any sort of affection. Quixis felt the complete exhaustion wash over them as they leaned on Malitae. “See? You're not changing anything love,” Malitae whispered in their ear.

Quixis had forgotten how comforting it was to be held. They had long since forgotten the feeling, the feeling of being loved. But they had Malitae now, they had a wonderful partner. For at least a little longer.. Quixis knew this world would eventually crumble, they all did at one point or another.

They knew not to get attached.

But they had, they'd gotten attached to her, to the wonderful deity who was still reminding them that they hadn't hurt him. Quixis felt themself get picked up and carried somewhere. They were nervous at first but once they realized it was just Malitae they relaxed. They didn't know why the wack wouldn't touch her. But currently they didn't care.

For the first time in a very long time spanning longer than this world, Quixis felt safe.

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Malitae watched from her building, Quixis was supposed to be back soon! They had had to leave to check on Icarus whom she had learned was their tether to this world. There was a flash of color at the edge of his vision. Malitae turned to see one of the blocks in their room quickly changing between various red blocks. Normally Malitae would see a block or two change when Quixis was about to show up but never this many or this quickly.

It seemed like they were warning her….

The reasoning behind was quickly answered as Malitae heard people landing outside. A quick glance outside said it was three people

The one who went by Ven, Creations kid, and Creation himself. Wait, why was Creation here? Malitae grew nervous. Quixis appeared next to them.

“I- I tried to stop them! Mal your in danger! I couldn't- I couldn't stop him!” Quixis rambled, panic filling their voice as they looked up at the taller. Malitae looked down at the smaller and pulled them into a hug.

“It'll be okay Masterpiece, they haven't found me before and they wont this time,” Malitae soothed running his hands through Quixis’ hair. Malitae could hear the intruders walking around looking for him but he couldn't care less. They wouldn't find her not while she had someone to protect.

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Quixis had fallen asleep on Malitae while they waited for the intruders to leave. Malitae smiled and silently played with their hair. Fable had long since left their island and Malitae was relieved. Malitae felt herself drift off to sleep content to spend time with their love.

[feralwetcat]

I GOT MY SCHOOLS SOCIAL WORKER INTO BRINK IM GIGGLING SO MUCH RN

[hoardingpuffin]

So - I am still working on the next chapter of "Three Wishes for Caspian" [I had to make some - many - changes to the original plan for all the chapters and rn I am also preparing for Zenni's visit so there's just a lot happening] but in the meantime, please enjoy some screenshots from the actual film that I am referencing for this AU.

Yes, they are silly. Yes, everybody is in really cheap costumes. This is a low budget film from 1972/73. It's part of the charme.

Aschenbrödel as a hunter [aka. Caspian's role in "Wishes"]

The Stepmother [aka. Perix' role in "Wishes"]

The Prince [aka. Rae's role in "Wishes"]

Karl & Willi, the prince's companions [aka. Aax' and Icarus' roles in "Wishes"]

The King and Queen [aka. Fable's and Isla's roles in "Wishes"]

[zephyrus-00]

I have this unexplainable urge to write wet bird and/or kaleidoscope

Have I ever attempted to write romance before? nope-

Am I in the middle of writing a different fic? yeahh-

[sunchipss]

If I write Nightstar in the Among us au and wetbirds in a modern au (which is like 70% done btw) then ariboo is a royalty au one shot

[just-abreeze]

Just finished Miscommunications by echos_of_incoherence on ao3, and I really liked it so @creator43-cerise thanks so much for the fic recommendation :]

And if anyone else wants if anyone else is also looking for a fable smp fanfic, you should read it. Its two chapters, so it's a nice short fic to read in between doing things

[lildevyl]

Egotober Day 3: Jewel

Day 3:  Jewel

Fable SMP Finale

Summary:  Icarus was infected by the Wack and knows it’s too late for them.  They do their final goodbyes, to their loved ones.  Going to where it started, the decaying, the abnormalities, the rioting, the Wack, Iracus decides that that is the place to end it.  Only to find out that it’s not the end, it’s only the beginning.

TW: Implied Character Death. SPOILERS FOR SERBERTQUACK'S FABLE SMP FINALE!

A/N: Hey! I'm not dead! Sorry, I haven't been posting in a long ass while! IRL Events have been kicking my ass! I don't think I'm going to be getting as much as I hoped done for Egotober/Whumptober. But in all honesty, I think I'll be alright with that!

Just a heads up, I probably will be posting after the events have ended! But this is literally my excuse to get some writing done!

HAPPY CREATING! And if you haven't go check out the Multi-Fandom Fiends you put together the Fable SMP!

(The Wack Area)

Icarus was infected and they didn’t know what to do or how to feel about it.  It’s getting worse.  The pain was getting worse, and the Wack was spreading.  Icarus was a crossroads.  They just killed their Dad, after they found out what he was planning.  Icarus felt like a fool!  The gaslighting, the manipulating, the urge to get their Dad’s approval, and thinking that they were doing the right thing, only to have it be flipped upside down.  Now, everything is starting to crumble.

Icarus, even asked Centros now Violet the God of Balance, if there was anything he could do.  There isn’t.  There’s nothing he or anyone can do.  Icarus just released the breath that they didn’t know they were holding.  So, this was it then?  Somehow, they knew, they knew that it was their time.  It was supposed to be their time, but Fable couldn’t let them go.  They couldn’t let Icarus their son, go and let them die, so they reset the timeline.  Over and over and over again, every time, Fable with reset the timeline, if that meant that they didn’t lose their son.  But it was time.  It was time for Icarus to say goodbye.  It was time for Icarus to set things right.

It was their time so now, they get to do the one that it was meant to be.  Icarus went to their friends and family and said their goodbyes.  They didn’t elaborate, they didn’t explain, they didn’t let anyone know what they were planning on doing.  All Icarus said was they had something to do and it involved “investigating” the Wack.

With a stack of rocks and the purple and yellow elytra wings on, Icarus flew to the spot where it all started.  The spot near their home and where Quixis and they were talking. And where the Wack and decay have been the worst.  Looking down in the hole Icarus knew what they had to do.

“You were right things,” Icarus said to chat.  “I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you.  You were trying so hard to tell me, but I just didn’t - no I just couldn’t accept the truth.  But now, it’s finally time.  It’s finally time to do the one thing that should have happened all those years ago.”

Icarus looked to the sky and smiled.  The birds were singing, the bees were buzzing and the they knew that everything would be okay.  They weren’t meant to be here.  They weren’t meant to still be alive.  They were meant to be in the Aether with the other souls passing by and then eventually they would come back reincarnated and see their family and friends again.  And with that, Icarus smiled and jumped.

(Sherbert Multiverse Portal)

“Icarus,” an echoing voice called to them.  “Icarus.  Open your eyes Icarus.”

Icarus gasped and then they shot up and began to look around.  Wait, where are they?  Hold on, they’ve been here before, right?  It looks familiar?  But how?  How are they still alive?  How are they here?  Icarus then saw someone across from them, that looked a lot like them but different at the same time.  Some pointing ears, same facial features but they also looked so completely different from them.  Their eyes are black and have a black-like mask, the jacket is similar to Icarus but the main is white with a kaleidoscope of rainbow colors on the sleeves, sides, and back of the jacket.  Their hair is completely white and part of their fingers are black.  On top of the white hair is a silver circulate, and a white teardrop jewel in the middle of their forehead.

Icarus knew who was standing in front of them.  “Quixis?”

“Hello, Icarus,” Quixis greeted them.  “It’s nice to finally meet you.”

“What is going on?  I’m not dead, am I?”  Icarus asked very confused.

“No, you’re not dead.  Far from it,” Quixis answered.  “And as far as what is happening.  Well, something that should have happened a long time ago.”  Quixis then took the jewel from their forehead.  “This is Quixis.”

“But you’re Quixis.”

“No, I’m not Quixis.  See, my name is Midas, I’m actually you from the Gray World, as you would call it.  I was called here by the Quixis before me, and in doing so, I lost my family and friends and my world because I was called here too soon,” Quixis tries to explain.

“See Quixis is a title.  When start to show the signs, then you’re supposed to be called to take over.  And you are in charge of fixing any abnormalities that have occurred in your world and the next world.”

“What do you mean by showing the sign?”  Icarus asked.  Midas then pointed at the eye that was bleeding.

“When your eye begins to bleed it means that you’re next in line to take over.  Or the center of the next series of abnormalities.  I was supposed to call you here and pass you the crown and stop them, stop the abnormalities from happening,” Midas gave a sheepish smile.  “But when you started to show the signs, you were young, much younger than me when I was called.  I couldn’t take your whole life from you.”

“So, I waited and waited, and waited, and then -”  The memory of Fable ripping the page out of the Book of Present flashed before their eyes.  “I waited too long.  When Fable caused that first reset he did something to your world.  It ripped me away from you, I couldn’t get to you.  And since then well things have gotten out of hand.”  As if to prove Midas's point another abnormality happened.  “I shouldn’t have waited, but I’m glad I did.  You got to see the end of your story through, something that I didn’t get the chance to do.”

“I didn’t realize,” Icarus said.

“I know, and I don’t blame you.  But now, I must ask you to do the unthinkable.  Once you take this mantle everything will be set straight, all the worlds will stop decaying, and all the versions of us will get their lives back.”  When Midas turned back to Icarus, he had a sad guilty look on his face.  “But in your world, the change is too great”

“W-what do you mean?”  Icarus asked not liking where this was heading.

Midas took a deep breath, “To help them. You’ll have to erase any reminisce of changes.  Any reminisce of you.  You’re too closely tied to abnormalities it will be impossible to separate the two.  To them, it will be like you died back when you first would have before the resets took place.  And their memories will fill in the gaps without you.”  Midas explained.  “Their worlds will be the same without any risk of changes and they’ll have each other.”

“Oh,” Icarus said as realization dawned on them.

“Icarus I -”

“No, it’s okay,” Icarus said, and then more slowly, “They be okay, right?  They’ll all be okay and happy?”

“I think so,” Midas shrugged and he gave the most honest answer.

“Good,” Icarus breathed and then smiled.  “I guess I do get to fix something after all.  I am sorry, for everything.  Everything I put you through and everything I put all them through.”

“I don’t blame you,” Midas said and he meant it.  He honestly doesn’t blame Icarus.  “Neither do they.  Your family, your friends, they care for you.  And now you get to help them.  Protect them.  Until you get to go home.”

“Wait, I get to go home?”  Icarus asked hopeful.

“Yes.  Quixis is a position that you serve.  It was always meant to be temporary.  If it hadn’t gone wrong -”

Icarus couldn’t help but give a nervous laugh.  “So, what happens to you now?”  Icarus asked seeing the unsure look on Midas.

“I don’t know.  My world is gone, but with how long I spent here I can hardly call that my world at all.  So, I guess that’s for the both of us to find out.  You’re going to be a great Quixis.”  Midas reassures.

“I’m ready,” Icarus says and steps forward.  They take the jewel and turn towards the portal where they can see the different worlds.  And puts the jewel on.  Instantly, all the different versions of the Icarus began to notice a subtle change in their world.  All of them, their right eye had stopped bleeding.  None of them knew why but as soon as they saw that it wasn’t bleeding, they all shrugged and went on with their days.  None of them knew that Quixis was fixing everything to be the way it was supposed to be.

“Hey Things!  I think I’m going to miss talking to you all!  You, people.  The ones that somehow got “glitched” into my world watching from behind your screens and trying to help me.  I thought it sounded crazy and that you were crazy when you first said it, but now I see, that you were telling the truth.  Now, you're free! Yes, really!  You don’t have to stay here, you did it!  You’re still here huh?  Well fine!  Let’s make it an agreement then.  All of my versions are at least a little aware now.  If you're going to stick around, keep a proper eye on them all.  I might be Quixis now but I can’t keep communicating to you or them like Quixis did.  I do things like that in check after all.

And my family is well.  I know they will be okay.  You can’t stay with them though.  Not like you have been.  I can’t risk ripping that world apart again.  They’ll give you glimpses, I mean they already are.  I know I’ll get to see them again, one day.  But for now, how about you guys remember me for them?  I’ll be okay here.  Really, I will.  I finally get to do the one thing I always wanted to do.  Something right.  Thank You Things!  And goodbye!” Before Iracus was able to close the portal, something else unexpected popped in.  Bawk, Bawk, Bawk!  “Of course, you will find a way here.  Okay, Charles, let’s get started!”

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Tagging: @weirdmixofweirdness, @tracobuttons

[whosthere54]

O em gee look at that the fic is in fact here that’s crazy

I can’t find my original post about it but I did do a poll a while ago on what fic I should finish. Yes it’s been a WHILE but I finally did it so here’s the “If Icarus got that hug in family reunion” fic cause I can

Until Ao3 Works you get it here :]

The TWs for Family Reunion are Panic, Yelling, and Manipulation. Let me know if you believe anything else should be added and I’ll edit the list.

You know how it is, these themes will carry over to my fic so pls make sure to take care of yourselves first <3

“I never asked to be here at all. So why do I still have to face the fear of loosing it?” - Song: The fear of loosing this by Florist

Or - What if Icarus got that hug?

—=+=—

There’s a moment of silence between the two brothers, Rae glancing at Aax before speaking again.

“Do you… do you want a hug?”

They look up, surprise and confusion washing over them before they’re able to adjust their expression to something neutral.

“I… yeah. Please.” Their wings adjust on their back, draping themselves over their shoulders as they move their arms to cross over their chest.

Rae nods, glancing at Aax again who gives him a nod back. He takes a few test steps forward, when they don’t move he walks over to them. Aax follows, keeping a decent distance between her and Rae- letting him have space but making sure he’s safe. They can’t exactly blame him, like they said- the two don’t have the best track record when it comes to “talking” right now.

Rae gets close, and they instinctively take a small step back, feathers flaring for just a moment before settling again.

Rae stops, holding his hands out placatingly. He gives a gentle reassurance, a simple repeat of what they’d said before- another “we’re not here to hurt you” “I-I’m not mad.” and some other quiet reassurance they didn’t quite hear.

After a moment of hesitation, they take the next step forward- Rae immediately pulling them into a hug.

It was nice. They couldn’t remember the last time they had a hug from Rae.

Trying *so hard* not to let tears escape, they look at Aax over his shoulder. Though immediately regretting it when she just looks so… sad. Pity held in her gaze that makes them feel sick.

They hid their face against Rae’s neck, quiet shaky breaths the only indicator that they were trying not to cry. Rae sighs softly, and when he speaks again it sounds like he’s close to crying as well. “It’s gonna be okay Icarus… I’m still going to try- I promise I’m not going to give up on you.”

Maybe that causes some of their tears to fall, and maybe Rae holds them just slightly tighter.

When their knees shake and threaten to give out Rae adjusts them so they’re both sitting in the wet grass, not letting go of them. (Not letting them fall, even if it’s something as stupid as this.)

They hear Aax settle to sit nearby, facing away from the brother to scan for threats. It was comforting, they couldn’t do it themself and if Fable came back and did something to him they don’t think they’d be able to forgive themself.

They sit like that for a while, Rae occasionally murmuring soft reassurance not once loosening his hold. It was nice, a comforting pressure- a distraction away from the cave they were still sitting outside of. Rae seems to think of something then- adjusting slightly and causing Icarus to pull away. Not completely- just enough so the two brothers were looking at each other. Icarus tilts their head just slightly as Rae looks at them with renewed sadness- pity in his eyes causing them to look away, fidgeting with the hem of their sleeves.

“I… Icarus it’s four months today isn’t it…” He says it so softly and they can’t-

“Shut up-“ They mumble.

“Icarus-“

“No-no. He isn’t… he isn’t gone I can fix it I’m going to fix it! He’s gonna come back-“ They wrap their arms tight around their chest careful of the ever-changing wound still concealed.

“Icarus…” Rae tries again, but they cut him off just the same.

“No- if you’re gonna say what all of them have been saying I’m not- I don’t have to *mourn* him he’s gonna come back, I don’t have to think about it because when I fix it it’ll be fine… you can go back to normal and it’ll be fixed…”

Rae’s face contorted into something confused, and then shocked and it crumbles into something sad, he blinks tears away so he can see them clearly.

“Is that… is that why you’re working with him?”

They give him a weak laugh, head angled down so their hair covers their face- goggles having fallen to their neck earlier that day and they didn’t bother to put them back up.

“Icarus…” they can’t handle this. They can’t handle the way he’s talking to them, holding them so gently like they’re something that’s going to *break.* they can’t handle him looking at them like that- they can’t-

“You have to go.” They say their voice firm and monotone.

“Icarus no-“ Rae’s brows furrow slightly and his hands linger on their shoulders.

“Please”

And that makes Rae pause.

“I don’t… Icarus I don’t want to leave you alone here. I- even if I don’t… *like* him Fable isn’t here right now. I’d rather you at least have him here.” When Icarus frowns at that Rae asks another question that leaves them thinking- more than they should be. When they think it doesn’t usually lead to anything good.

“Icarus how long has fable left you alone?”

They shrug. They really haven’t been keeping track of the time he was gone.

“He’s… he’s busy. The faster he gets whatever he’s doing done, the faster we can get this over with.” They mumble. It feels like they’ve said the same things over and over and *over* again and it still seems like nobody understands what they’re doing even after they explain it. Geez how many times have they done this circle of conversations with the things in the past four months?

“So you’ve been… you’ve been alone out here most of the time?”

They shrug, and nod. (They don’t want to lie anymore. It leaves them feeling sick and *wrong*)

“Icarus…”

Aax gets up quickly, face contorting into muffled anger, motioning at them to get up as well.

Rae turns to them- “Icarus-“ but they shake their head, getting up and helping Rae up as well.

“You have to go-“ They repeat the words, this time fueled by anxiety.

“Icarus!”

“Rae!”

“Icarus!” Fable’s booming voice echoes through the small clearing and they back away muttering a quiet apology under their breath that only Rae was meant to hear.

“Are you alright? Are they… are they here for anything?” He pulls out the reaver and it takes all of their power to look away from the blade glinting in the rain dimmed light.

“I’m okay… I ’m-I’m okay.”

“We’re not here to fight.” Rae’s gaze lingers on them for just a moment to long that it makes their skin crawl, arms wrapping around their torso and wings pulling slightly tighter to their back as Fable sighs.

“Of course. I see that it is only the two of you.”

Aax moves to stand only slightly in front of Rae, trident out and ready to attack if necessary. His voice carries confidently actress the clearing, low and sharp. An easy enough warning to understand. “We wouldn’t be stupid enough to come just the two of us if we were here for a fight.”

“No. You wouldn’t be that… stupid. No one would be.” He looks at Icarus then, solid gold meeting heterochromatic gold and purple. His eyes are too sharp, and they look away, casting their head down again.

He turns back to Rae, head held high. “But why are you here?”

“I’m here for Icarus.” They look at Rae through unkempt bangs, eyes darting between Rae and Aax as if analyzing them for a threat.

“Because they don’t need to be alone out here with just you, isolated from everyone else.” His tone holds more anger with Fable than it had with them.

“I’m not alone.” They say, loud and probably too sharp. They wince at the sound of their own voice casting their eyes to Fable when he looks at them again.

“Yes.” He looks away, and they do too. “They have me, they have Ven, they have Arisanna…”

“Which don’t know where you are?”

They cast their eyes down once more shuffling their feet.

“This place is supposed to be a secret for a *reason*, Rae. To keep others safe.”

“From… what, exactly? We’re not the ones running around hurting people.”

“Perhaps not now.”

“You haven’t changed! You’ve always hurt people! I’m starting to remember more of that now! You’ve always been like this… and now…” Rae turns to them, his voice softening just slightly again. “Look, Icarus he’s not a good person!”

“Neither am I!” They hold their head up as they say that, regretting it immediately in the way Rae shuffles and glances between them, Fable, and Aax.

“None of us are good people right now, Rae.”

He starts talking, he starts talking and they try so hard to tune him out. They don’t want it- they don’t want him to say more stupid words that get them to comply because they’ll comply regardless of what he says. They don’t think he knows that, but they will. They don’t… like him. They don’t trust him. But they’re good at putting on a show, and they can pretend they do. (Maybe deep down they do. They try not to, they know he’s wrong and they know what he’s doing to them -they don’t want to acknowledge the fact that it *is* working- but they love him. He’s their dad after all, and when they have no memory of their childhood he’s something that they can cling to)

“You hit me!” Rae says, anger disappearing to leave a suffocating tone of sadness fear, and *betrayal* that lingered in his voice.

“I did.”

They just look between him and Rae feet shuffling against the grass, begging their head to go blank like it tends to do. They’re feeling too much and it’s too wrong and they’re thinking- thinking leads to questioning and questioning leads to things they don’t want to know-

“Where is she.” Rae’s voice wobbles with anger and unshed tears. They glance up to Fable as he turns to them- “Where…”

“Icarus, do you wish to see your mother?”

They blink, looking back up at him with a muted look of confusion. “Yeah…” they said it too quietly, too much emotion filling their voice that wasn’t supposed to be there. They can tell in the way they feel Rae’s gaze on them again. They try to cover it up- “Yeah, yes, yes.” But then Fable starts to walk towards the stupid fucking cave and-

“W-wait- wait” they stare with wide eyes as Fable creates a small opening, just enough for them to get through. “Uhm..” Rae glances at them again, Aax moves to stand in front of Rae, trident in hand face contorted into disgust and then anger. “Wait-wait where…” He pulls his shield out.

“It was the one place I did not think anyone would go.” He breaks a small hole through the stone, just enough that they would be able to walk through. Rae walks closer to him, while Aax lingers behind.

“Uhm…. Um…” They walk towards him, stopping about the same distance Rae is away from the entrance for a moment before moving up to stand beside Fable.

They don’t want to be here anymore- they don’t want to be that close. They don’t want to *see* it again- they can’t…

Their breathing shakes.

“Where are you… where is…” Aax moves quickly back in front of Rae. “Where is that? What are you…”

“She is in a pocket dimension. Just as Enderian had held her before.” He says his sister's name with a sneer. “I will bring you Rae, and I will bring Icarus to see her.”

They can’t breathe- they look through the space Fable had cleared into the cave. The first thing they noticed was that there was still blood on the floor… theirs or Centross’s they couldn’t quite tell. Their eyes fell on the slab, seeing their blood still dried on the smooth stone and splattered on the ground in front of it. Fuck they can’t breathe… their chest *hurts* they can’t-

They manage to pull their gaze away from the cave back onto Fable as he speaks again.

“I’m sorry, Aax, but I will not let you see her. I cannot take the risk.”

“Why… why does it smell like death in there?” They turn to look at Aax, his tone settling on a heavy undertone of sadness as they speak.

They try to bring themself to explain.

“It… it’s-“ Fable cuts them off sharply. “Because it is a place that I thought was of life. I was *foolish* enough to believe it was of life. But it is a place of death. This is where the first mortals were made by me. This is the place where I first mourned them when they *died.*”

“This is where… Centross… died.”

“And you’re taking him in there alone, just the two of you?”

“Yes. I know you do not trust me…”

Their chest aches. They have to take a moment to breathe through a wave of pain that courses through their chest, through their ribs. They tune back into the conversation a moment later when Fable says their name again, though they don’t pay much attention. Their mind won’t stop wandering, and the things won’t stop talking.

“If *anything* happens to him. Know that I will be hunting you to the ends of the earth.”

“As you should. Rae is important to you, as he is to me.” He turns and walks into the cave, but before they can even *think* about following him Aax stops them.

“Icarus. I need you to promise…”

They nod, trying to get their thoughts to work to the current conversation. “Yeah… I’m- he won’t-“

“Promise me he’ll be okay.” Aax asks, and they nod firmly this time.

“He’ll-he’ll be okay.” They can’t tell if they’re trying to reassure her or themself.

“Okay.”

Icarus turns to the entrance, hesitating a moment before heading inside.

“Are you ready?”

“We’re going… in?”

“Yes. I did not think Enderian had this power. I thought she could simply create the bubbles, but she could move if she wished it. If she had other abilities I now hold. She might have been able to escape at any time if she had known. If she could’ve held the same powers I now have .”

They have to take another minute to even out their breathing.

“She couldn’t escape. She- she gave them to me. She was trapped there.”

“Just as Isla was. But now we can move freely to see her.”

They nod lightly. “Okay.”

Fable inhales, “Here we go.” They teleport into the small pocket dimension.

It was a bright, glow stone blinding encircling the small space. As soon as they looked up at their mother- blonde hair blocking a face they couldn’t even remember- they felt an overwhelming sense of dread. It was almost like anxiety, the way it thrummed through their veins. Just a sense of something was wrong.

They couldn’t tell if Rae felt it, but when they got in there they knew he was more distressed, probably at the sight of their mother in a stasis chamber than anything else.

“Icarus I can… I can help. You don’t need him- I can- I can help her! I can help us…” They don’t know what to say, but they get cut off by Fable before they could respond.

“How, Rae?”

“I… I’m not going to tell you. I’m not going to let you do something else to her. Or screw up trying.” He spits the last part with lingering anger, tears beginning to form in his eyes.

“Rae…” He turns to look at them a moment before turning back to Fable as he speaks again.

“You will not give me the chance to help your mother? *My wife?* To bring her back to us.”

Rae doesn’t speak, he simply shakes his head.

Fable frowns. “No?”

“No.” Rae says softly.

“You’d have her stay here?” Rae’s expression crumbles.

The next time they look back at Isla, they can’t look away. This is the first time they’ve seen their mother in person. They don’t have any image of her in their memory other than the portrait that’s sat locked away in Fable’s house. She looks different, they can’t quite see her face but she seems so… tired. A lingering sense of sadness seems to be all she has in that small tube, and it almost physically pains them to see her like that. (To have her feel so similar to what they feel locked up in their house.)

“I have Enderian’s powers now. I could wield them.”

They look back at Fable then. “What?” They glance between him and Rae.

“You could do this! You could hurt her all over again!”

They frown. “He wouldn’t.”

“He did it the first time!” Stray tears are beginning to fall down Rae’s face now that make them stop.

“As a *mistake*, Rae.” He tries, but Rae isn’t having it.

“So what’s preventing you from making the same one?!”

Fable sighs. “Remembering what happened the first time. Seeing my wife’s face, and having it haunt-“

“She doesn’t want to be yours!” Rae yells, his voice echoing in the small chamber. There are more tears spilling down his face, and Icarus can’t help but take a step back as they take another shaky breath. They watch Fable's face, but he doesn’t seem to react. Simply responding calmly, anger quiet and reserved (as if that doesn’t scare them more.)

“She gets to make that choice. Not-“ Rae cuts him off again. “Does she?!”

Fable frowns, and his tone comes out just slightly more angry than he probably wanted it to. “Yes. When she is well, Rae.”

“You don’t get to make that choice, you tried to take that choice away from her. I won’t tell you shit!” Rae talks over what he tries to say next, words hitting their mark effectively when Fable sighs again.

“Rae!” They start, trying to maybe help in some way, try to get that information. But they go quiet as Fable talks again.

“I understand. If that is what you wish.” He inhales sharply again, and they are teleported back outside the bubble. Back into the cave.

They can hear Rae’s breathing shake, as he is ushered out of the cave by Fable. They take a lingering glance back, eyes falling on the slab, and then spot Centross died before Fable pushes them out.

They linger near the cave entrance as they hear Fable walk out behind them with a sigh. Rae goes to huddle next to Aax with his head down as he wipes the lingering stray tears from his face.

“Rae. When you are ready to help your mother and to fix our family, now you know where we are. You said it yourself, you can do that Rae. Bring her back to us. I have made mistakes in the past, but I have done my best to watch over *you* and your brother in her absence. I have protected you and your brother as best as I *could.*”

His tone changes then, more earnest, more desperate. It was all tinted with an undertone of anger a force perfectly covered as he says the words that hit their mark as Rae seems to cower as he says them.

“It was not perfect, I admit this, none of this has been perfect. None of this had been perfect. I have not been perfect, Rae. But *you* gave me a chance. All the same. As you have given so many others. *You* freed me from purgatory Rae. I owe you my life. You can do the same for your mother. You can give her a *chance.* When you are ready to give her that chance, we will be here.”

There’s a deafening silence as Rae takes a few steps back, eyes moving between Fable and Aax.

“We should go- we should go.” His voice sounds like he’s trying so desperately not to cry and something in them feels concerned, it does, but as Rae and Aax fly away all they can think of is that he didn’t say goodbye.

All they can think of is that he didn’t even look at him after they left the bubble. All they can think about is how he left them alone again without saying goodbye. He’d just said he wasn’t going to give up on them. That he wasn’t going to leave them alone here again, but that’s all they feel like is happening.

Fable ends up coaxing them inside. They take the confirmations and reassurance he gives them, ignoring the fact that they know that sometimes he’s lying to them. They ignore the things all yelling, ignoring the way they erupt again when Fable apologizes to them. Apologizing that he couldn’t remove Quixis from them. They ignore them as they say he just apologized for not killing them that day.

They just don’t want to think about it anymore. (They don’t want to remember… and that’s a concerningly familiar wish for them.)

Fable finally gets them to take their mind off it, changing their focus to the birds lingering at their bedside.

They eventually lie down, Fable leaving them to their own thoughts again. The things leave soon after that, sleeping or going somewhere else they still don’t exactly know.

The silence is so so much worse. They curl in on themself under the covers, their birds having fallen asleep a bit ago on the birch next to their bed, so they weren’t making any noise either.

There’s a lingering feeling they can’t quite explain. It’s something under their skin that just makes them want to cry. It’s the lingering feeling of their brother’s hug, his hands running through their hair and his arm wrapped securely around their back. Their wings try to compensate, wrapping around their curled-up figure tightly as their arms wrap around their chest and their tail falls over their legs.

They want their dad. As stupid as that sounds. They want their dad, they want Rae they want… they want Centross.

Four months.

Their hand moves to stifle a quiet sob.

They miss him- gods they miss him so much.

They miss him randomly interrupting what they were doing to get them out of their house. They miss talking with him, joking with him. They miss being *near* him, as pathetic as that sounds. His presence was always comforting. Something that made them feel *safe* and fuck they missed that feeling.

They miss his voice, they miss and they miss and they miss.

They *swear* they’re going crazy when they get the phantom feeling of fingers running through their hair, just closing their eyes and willing themself to just sleep as their breathing shakes through more muffled sobs.

It takes too long in their opinion. By the time they fall asleep, they’ve run out of tears. Sitting in heavy silence for too long until they finally fall asleep.

Maybe sleep isn’t much of a release, the only thing they see is the memories of their best friend, the happiness stained by a lingering sadness and guilt that follows them when they wake up in the morning because of the memory of the cathedral that the dream always ends with.

Soon.

That’s all they have to remember.

It will be over soon.

[ya-boi-haru]

Ayo I did a thing!

I took the episode "Sublimation" [Ven: S3 E:8] With Ven and Ocie and did some funky audio work to make it sound how I imagine this scenario would go in my Miraculous AU...

(Headphones recommended!)

It's tricky to get the exact/canon sounds from Miraculous and I obviously can't get the CCs to say the command phrases, but we'll just use our ✨️imagination✨️

Context, audio description and reference images under the cut!!!

So in a past couple posts I made myself a fun challenge of assigning Miraculous to Fable Characters (you can find those posts under my page with #miraculous au) and then slowly am making a little AU about it...

I do plan to do a big post of headcannons and miraculous designs, but I couldn't wait to post this, so to try and summarise...

In my AU, Ocie has the Tiger Miraculous - which grants the user "clout" (which is basically a super op force punch) and Ven has the Fox Miraculous - which grants illusion.

Unlike Miraculous, it doesn't turn them into superheros, more so gives them the Miraculous power, gives them some animal themed (whichever animal their miraculous is) armour and the weapon with the miraculous

Audio Description:

- To threaten Ven and get revenge, Ocie activates her miraculous and gives Ven time to run before summoning her 'Clout' ability.

- Ven runs into the Nether and hides to activate his miraculous and create an illusion of himself for Ocie to chase, hoping it will buy him some time to get somewhere safer.

- Ocie steps through the Portal and chases after Illusion Ven but slips and falls through an open gap in the path, falling and knocking her out

- Ven, hearing Ocie call out, runs over to see what happened, calling off his illusion and seeing Ocie knocked out on the Nether floor

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This is just one idea I had for how this AU would go, I think it's really funky and I can't wait to do the last few posts I have for this AU (assigning the last few, headcanon psot etc). Maybe I'll even do more of these audio bits, who knows?

Here's my little headcannon design for Ocie and Ven...

Giving them both the miraculous weapon and altering their appearance with some light themed armour.

The tiger weapon is a Bolas, however I like the think the panjas bracelet extends and shapes into claw like blades on the hands and the Fox weapon is a flute/staff!!

(Also fun fact, this ep is almost 1 year old! - at least according to Vens vod posted day)

[connorsnothereeither]

I’ve mentioned before that the Edge audiobook is in production, and I’ve already been entirely unsubtle and leaked that @venear-tmblr will be our primary narrator for the audiobook!!

Of course with that comes… many wonderful bloopers he has so wonderfully entrusted me with. So please enjoy as a teaser just a little treat, where Ven reveals his biggest “Hear Me Outs”- (cw for loud noise)

[gremlin-cryptid]

Fic referenced is Not Just an Act by Gremlin_Cryptid on ao3

I am staring so hard at my actor au for fablesmp rn.

Things that occur

- Ghae acting

- Athena shipping the ghaes

- Atlas is a service dog

- End duo are chosen brothers

- Rae fuckin Morningstar is the most overprotective man with shit self esteem

- Halfway through i decided to add in Aax

Chat i should be sleeping but brain is going nyoom about block characters

Things i rly should add

- i need to do a garden duo pov or like give them their own work or sum

- it'll be like that one drag race au on ao3 for fablesmp but multichapter fics

- introducing Wolf/Fenris

- somehow i think Sherbert/Icarus hasnt shown up?

- Literally most of the characters havent because it's ghae centric

- remember what i said about garden duo? Might do that with Wolftross too

- this fic needs more Athena content fr

- feral Athena times maybe?

- maybe roping in recent lore reveals about the god of creation himself?

Chat I have 4/6 chapters of this fic written/started- i might need more-

[whosthere54]

ILL YELL ABOUT IT

Icarus comes home.

[feralwetcat]

I genuinely don't know if I've posted my writing before so this is ✨ scary✨

But anyways among us au (read tws, very important)

[hoardingpuffin]

Over the Garden Wall Fable AU Concepts

Okay, so - when I was across the pond to see my partner, them and I watched Over the Garden Wall. @the-uninformed-zennial had never seen it, and it's so very much their vibe so obviously we had to. And, as we are both Fable nerds, we ended up talking about potential AU ideas. I'd had two possible concepts for AUs floating in my noggin for a while and we fleshed them out together a bit.

Now, between (hopefully) finishing Three Wishes, and the holidays, and that pesky 30+ page bachelor thesis paper, I won't have time to write them as actual fics anytime soon, so I figured I'd at least put out the concepts somewhere, and Tumblr seemed like a good choice.

For anyone unfamilar with Over the Garden Wall: It's a mini series by Patrick McHale that aired on CartoonNetwork a while ago, focussing on two brothers stuck in the mysterious Unknown trying to get home and experiencing wacky halloween-y hijinks on the way. The Unknown is often interpreted to be a sort of afterlife/limbo, and the series has a lot of themes of that direction, but it's still quite charming and cute and funny (as it is made for kids).

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Concept 1 Icarus and Rae are in the place of Greg and Wirt – they got into some sort of fight in the real world and ended up in a situation that made them enter the Unknown as a limbo between living and dying. In this case, the characters from the Unknown would be remaining a lot more like the ones we know from the show, so the Woodsman is just The Woodsman, the Beast is just The Beast, and so on. I’m not sure who’d be in the place of Beatrice, but there are a few possibilities. If we’re going with the popular interpretation that the Unknown is a form of the afterlife, then it could be someone from canon who has passed already (if we wanna be angsty, it could be Haley maybe? I am not sure if I want her to be though), or alternatively Beatrice could just be a random soul who, like in OtGW Canon, is trying to free their own family.

In this AU, the story would probably progress similar to the one in OtGW – Icarus and Rae trying to get home and through the Unknown, getting into more fights along the way, until Icarus ends up losing faith in being able to get home completely. Rae – much like Greg – would offer himself to the Beast in order to get Icarus home, and Icarus in turn would have to step up and be a responsible older brother and save Rae from turning into an Edelwood.

There’s a lot of similarities between Icarus and Wirt, I feel like, though Wirt’s anxious poetic nature seems more alike Rae. But both Icarus and Wirt have this streak of blaming their younger brothers for stuff that those brothers weren’t necessarily responsible for, and lashing out at them, so I can see Icarus in Wirt’s place rather well. Plus, well, Rae, like Greg, going on a whole arc of “maybe this is actually my fault so I’m gonna go with the Beast to try and fix it” seems fitting for him to me.

Concept 2

Now, the other concept I might actually like more by just a little bit – in this, the people lost in the Unknown would likely be Athena and Jamie, who (due to something other in the real world) are finding themselves in the woods, where they meet the Woodsman – who would be Rae. I can just see Rae being someone to devote themselves to being the Lantern Bearer for the Beast, if it meant to keep the soul of a loved one alive (though in this case it wouldn’t be the child, but likely Aax and Caspian) – plus, the Beast has the whole antler aesthetic going on, so that can overlap neatly with the warden in my opinion. Maybe it’s just cause the Woodsman is such a tragic figure already in OtGW canon, but I think it would be a neat spin to see that character lead the ones lost in the Unknown instead of just sending them on their way, to make the idea that he might be the Beast even worse of a betrayal, which I always thought OtGW was a bit light on. I wish they’d have given that betrayal as much weight as Beatrice’s betrayal. And then, once revealed to the Woodsman that the Lantern holds the Beast’s soul, not anyone else’s, the big fight feels in character for Rae to me, too. Rae’s devotion to the ones he loves is immense, and him fighting the monster that deceived him so – especially to also keep two innocent souls safe in the process – would not only be in character, but also give a quite triumphant turn for him in this AU. Plus, he’d get the happy ending he deserves once he actually slays the Beast and returns home to see that his loved ones are actually there and likely have been all along. The unfortunate side to his AU idea is that most of the characters in the Unknown, like Rae, already being dead and likely for a long time. However, Zenni presented an alternative idea, where the inhabitants of the Unknown aren’t always actually the souls of the deceased, but might also be sort of mirror-verse representations of them. I’m not sure how Athena and Jamie would get to the Unknown then, but it would be an interesting concept to explore, and give more detail to the world – plus, give Athena and Jamie both more of a reason to trust the Woodsman and either for the believed betrayal to hit even worse or for them to not believe it because they know Rae so well in the real world.

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Now, obviously, these are just concepts, not nearly as fleshed out as I would make an actual fanfic - and some stuff might be jumbled as I've not actually written it out before and the whole Putting Things In Your Writing Brain Into Actual Writing thing is difficult as fuck.

Anyways. Those are the two ideas I came up with and have been mulling around my noggin. I don't know if I'll write them, gonna be honest, but - they are concepts alright.