#fable smp fics

[connorsnothereeither]

I hear a voice on the wind through the mist. I look over the fog. It’s the Brink series. Calling to me from across the moores. Unfinished. Abandoned. Waiting for the next update…

I miss my little horrors…

[mustbemosstaken]

I don’t think it matters if someone’s written the “same” fic but better, if you want to write something you should.

I also don’t think it matters if you think that you missed the prime fic writing time for something, if you want to write something you should.

Oh no I completely agree!! Just because something similar to an idea already exists doesn’t mean that people can’t bring their own spin to it, and bringing your own unique spin to things is the basis of fanfic and art growing in general! Everyone should write what they want to when they want to.

I think I potentially mis-phrased by reasoning, haha.

It’s not that I felt I couldn’t write ite it because Ghaaeghaae had already written something “the same”. It was more that I didn’t feel the need to. I’m sure that if the concept was something I was super attached to writing, I would have! But honestly it just… wasn’t, at the end of the day. I was writing it because I wanted to read it, and it didn’t exist yet. It was an idea I wanted to see fully realized, more than I necessarily wanted to write it. And so seeing the idea realized so well, I didn’t really feel the need to write it myself anymore, if that makes sense? I don’t know if I’m explaining that well lol, but that’s my personal reason why I didn’t end up writing it. I’d love to do some kind of Among Us AU in the future, I just don’t have an idea/concept I really like for it. I’d prefer to write something I’m passionate about than write something for the sake of filling a void, especially if that void is already filled! :D <3

And for Wet Birds, I meant more like, I think I missed the hype for Wet Birds. Like so much of the attachment to it as a ship seems to have been from being there and seeing it unfold, and me personally, I just kinda wasn’t there, so I’m not quite attached to the ship enough to write something for it, unless I come up with an idea I think really suits them! Who knows, maybe once I someday catch up on all the POVs of the last few months of Fable, I’ll end up more attached to them haha!

[the-sunshine-dims]

A Wonderful Reason

Ao3

Words: 607

Summary:

And they meet, somewhere in the middle of the bustling, and they laugh, and they're just another couple in the crowd. and it's so, so very wonderful. And he finds it a wonderful reason for a festival.

(me going ham because I love festivals and the idea of the festival of lights seems so fun)

Contents and Warnings: festivals, just some light fic,

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The evening lights here were beautiful.

  A wonderful collection of paper lamps, homemade and brought, filled with joy and memories as they were crafted. As well as mass-made, filling booths alongside small prizes. So that as the night ends they can be released into the river.

  The street lamps, usually lit brightly, were instead turned off in favor of fairy lights hung between, dipping and going, leaving a halo on those walking below.

  It was all so pretty.

  And it was so incredibly filled with cheer too, Vikesh hovered just above the ground- not enough to be noticed, yet enough to not have to deal with the dirt coating onto their skirt.

  He watched people bob and weave, parents barely able to hold their children's hands as they ran with vigor to the next booth. Couples just walking, sometimes with purpose, grins so bright they felt warm, and sometimes aimlessly, more focused on talking and each other than anything else.

  Friends just laughing, having fun, teasing.

  Fireworks and sparklers, spread about with muted snaps of lights, giggles lacing into the noise.

  It felt bright, and warm, despite the chilled fall evening, the bodies of all kinds, overworlders and the couple end and nether folk blended into a mix of happy , of laughter and joy. 

  And it was just beautiful

  The booths of food, mostly breads and vaguely sweets definitely added to the warmth.

  It wasn't usual she actually got to visit towns.

  But with big crowds full of people much larger, and of people the smiling folk find of more personal importance, one slightly oddly placed God could go unnoticed.

  Maybe not all the nights, Maybe he could only visit it once this festival.

  Maybe the tensions would only allow one night of sneaking away.

  But it was a festival of the lights and they were the lights.

  And so they let themselves go unnoticed, taking in the warmth of the food, the lights, the sparklers, the people.

  Let themselves scan the crowd.

  Vikesh loved these festivals, they really did. Beautiful and bright. Chattering. The smell of sweet breads wafting through the crowd.

  Everyone was having fun.

  And that's what it was for wasn't it? In these times? It was just an excuse to laugh, to smile.

  An excuse to be around those you love.

  And as Vikesh finally made eye contact with a stranger across the crowd, a stranger with beautiful brown eyes who sees them and smiles.

  Smiles so brightly it makes him wrinkle in those same beautiful eyes, and Vikesh feels light in his chest at the smile, so stunning in its way, so lovely and wonderful. It in of itself disregarding how many times he repeats he's not lovely. And reinforcing how many times Vikesh tells him that he is.

  He sees him and he smiles and waves, and Vikesh waves back.

  And they meet, somewhere in the middle of the bustling, and they laugh, and they’re just another couple in the crowd.

  and it's so, so very wonderful.

  And he finds it a wonderful reason for a festival.

  Just to be around those you loved, those you cared about.

  And it makes everything around just so much more beautiful, and the festival seems so perfect, and it may be entirely possible Vikesh is just soft.

  But a chilled evening of warm orange light, sparklers, and the vague smell of wonderful warm foods. It seemed so very beautiful.

  For one evening, Vikesh could forget the other gods, the war, and their beloved could too.

  Their beloved stranger and them.

  Just another face in the crowd.

  And what a wonderful reason for a festival.

[connorsnothereeither]

Dan Thorns in episodes 6-9 of Cantripped

is THIS your man? [shows an image of a malnourished injured exhausted man with big sad eyes looking up at the camera with blood smeared all over his face and mouth. and he is visibly trembling]

[emberunderscore]

me when i feel sad so i cope by putting icarus morningstar through traumatic and painful experiences

[whosthere54]

Thinking about the duality of endstone reset Icarus “I don’t need to be fixed” Morningstar and third reset Icarus “after learning about me not being, entirely, me I need to work to fix everything I do wrong and fix myself to make up for the fact that it’s me” Morningstar

Just thinking about in the first reset Icarus when under corruption would always insist that they don’t need to be fixed. That this is how they were and nothing could change that. In the third reset, Icarus generally keeps that same mindset- but theres also that theme of fixing. Of them needing to be fixed because something was wrong with them. Of them needing to be fixed because their eye wasn’t *theirs* and that blood wasn’t theirs and-

And their death- being something fixing them. Fixing- getting rid of- the problem. Because they were a problem, and they were supposed to fix those. Icarus’s whole thing about fixing everything they’ve done just proceeds to extend to themself- thinking they need to be fixed that they’re broken or wrong because something in their head doesn’t seem to be quite right even if you ignore the eye not being theirs.

I just. Care. About Icarus and thinking they need to be fixed in particular.

[sunchipss]

Fable nation, what the fuck is going on in the House of Commons. One moment we’re watching the jack box stream, the next Connor is pushing is c!Centross/Fable like its ‘the old days’ all over again

[connorsnothereeither]

AHHH ARLO OMG THIS IS SO COOL AND AMAZING I LOVE!!!

This puts so many thoughts and visuals I had into proper context and words, and it’s just such an in depth analysis of it I’m so normal about this-

As much as Brink takes a lot of liberties at times I do really love incorporating elements of historical realism and actual history, and seeing that placed into the context of fashion (an area I admittedly don’t know a large amount about) is so fucking cool!!!

My ramblings about On the Brink of Scientific Discovery and fashion history

I’m very very normal about both Brink and historical fashion, so I decided to go down a research rabbit hole of what the characters would realistically be wearing in this fic, and it just kinda spiraled from there. I’m not in any way a professional or super qualified, I just think historical fashion is neat. I’m also not a writer so I apologize if any pacing or formatting in this is weird.

(WARNING, VERY LONG POST)

(Seriously I’m gonna go into detail about a lot of the characters and my reasoning for why they’d wear that, and sometimes background on the clothes themselves if it’s really interesting)

Disclaimer: a lot of the fable characters, and therefore the characters in Brink, are nonbinary or otherwise don’t fully conform to one gender, and while Brink takes some liberties with historical accuracy so these characters can live openly as they are, I’m still going to sometimes refer to the clothing as “men’s clothing” and “women’s clothing” because that’s how it was categorized in the period. 

“On the Brink of Scientific Discovery”(by ConnorsNotHere on Ao3) is a Victorian gothic/cosmic horror AU of FableSMP that takes place in 1889. Brink and its sequels do a decent amount of globe-traveling, but most of the characters are from and live in England. However, a lot of them have connections to or are from places like France, the US, etc. By this time in history there’s(very generally) not drastic differences between the fashions of America and western Europe, so while I’m gonna try to find things as accurate as possible to what I think the characters would wear, I’m also not going to be overly picky about if say, a specific suit is from England or America.

What were the clothes like then?

In 1889 we are coming off of the second bustle period, so skirts still had a lot of fullness in the back, however, they were starting to transition into the more “trumpet shaped” skirts of the 1890s. Bodices and sleeves were both still very fitted, and sleeves are starting to get a little bit of a puff on top, rather than the smoother, more rounded styles of previous decades. In the 1880s more tailored, menswear-inspired clothing also started to gain popularity for women, so you’ll start to see jackets and bodices that resemble menswear more than in previous decades.

Year to year men’s clothing doesn’t change a drastic amount, but there are still a lot of things characteristic of the 1880s. Suit jackets were often buttoned very high up, sometimes to the point where you were barely able to see the shirt and tie. When the jackets were left open, it was actually quite fashionable to have bolder, more colorful waistcoats, which were often beautifully patterned.

However, not every person dresses like the latest fashion plates, and this photo is a good example of people who are still fashionable, but also just normal people and not wearing anything overly fancy. The entirety of the Fable Society has a decent amount of wealth, so they would be able to afford fashionable, good quality clothing, however, they still wouldn’t be dressing in their best, fanciest clothes every day, especially if it’s not practical for their job.

This is a photo of some teenage boys from 1889. This gives a really good idea of what characters like Athena, Easton, and Jamie would be wearing when they’re not wearing more casual or practical things.(side note, I really like the suit on the left I would 100% wear that)

Individual Characters

I’m not going to go into detail about *every single one* of the characters in Brink, as that would get repetitive and excessively long after a while, but I wanted to talk about a lot of them still.

Momboo

I want to start with Momboo cause in my opinion she would probably be the most fashionable(to the period's standards) of the Fable Society, and I had a lot of fun looking for things I think she would wear. Lots of pretty trims, ruffles, and florals were very popular at the time so there was a lot to choose from. While I can see her enjoying fancier clothing a lot of the time, she also loves to garden and care for the plants on her estate, so obviously she would wear different clothes for that, something with darker colors and less elaborate decorations so it would be easier to wash when it got dirty. There honestly isn’t much super unique going on with her clothing, it’s just very pretty so I wanted to talk about it first.

(That green and pink dress on the right is one of my favorites that I found the entire time I was researching for this, it’s so pretty) (also these 2 fashion plates give me such world sisters vibes, I like them a lot)

More pretty pink dresses :Athenafire:

Sherbert

In the 1880s there wasn’t yet standardized protection or uniform for chemists and people working with more dangerous compounds, and in pictures I’ve seen they just seem to be wearing normal(if slightly more casual) clothes with maybe an apron over them. In Brink neither Sherbert nor Easton wear any protection in their lab out of pure “well nothing bad has happened yet”(which I’m sure will be great for their health and will never have any adverse effects later in life /s) which is actually pretty accurate to chemists of the time.

(I had a really hard time dating this photo, it’s probably closer to the 1870s but still gives really good examples of protection used by chemists in their labs)

It was pretty difficult to find pictures of chemists in the clothing they would wear while working, but I did find a lot of really cool pictures of chemistry labs that are really interesting to look at.

A really fun detail that I realized when I was researching things for Sherbert(that was probably accidental but I still like it) is that Sherbert’s jacket is often described as being very long and having a large collar that is often turned up. This actually wasn’t a very common style for overcoats in the last couple years of the 1880s, *however* it was a lot more common just a couple years beforehand, so I like to think of Sherbert’s jacket in Brink as being something they’ve held onto for a while either out of practicality or just because they like it.

Caspian

One of my favorite details about Caspian’s clothing in Brink is that even when he’s given new clothing from the other characters after he’s rescued, he still wears his old blue jacket from when he was traveling around the world in the mid/late 1810s, looking for a way to bring back the lady of the world. To me It’s a really cool detail, and if Brink was in a visual medium rather than written, it would be such a cool way to show the audience that Caspian doesn’t quite belong, and has been in the End for a lot longer than the characters think.

During and slightly before the regency period(1811-1820), men’s fashion went through a massive shift from the elaborately embroidered and patterned fashions of the 1700s to a more toned down and subtle style(and contrary to popular belief, Beau Brummell was not the sole reason this change happened, he just became the face of popular trends that were already happening, but that could be its own whole rant). The most common type of men’s coat in this era was called a dress coat or a tailcoat, which was cut high in the front with long “tails” in the back, and large high collars.

I’m not sure if I really like this style of coat personally, but I think it’s really interesting that the men’s coats from this era are so different from what all the other characters would be wearing in the story.

(Don’t pay attention to why his hand is in his pants here, I have no idea why but a lot of men in fashion plates from this era are posed like this)

Rae

Rae’s research comes before most things in his life, including staying up to date with the latest fashions. However, in fable, Rae really likes fancier clothing so I think it’d be fun to have Brink!Rae also really like good clothes. Rae also does a lot of traveling and working outside at archeological sites, and so most of the time would be wearing more practical things.(though in the 1800s this still means he would often wear a full suit, just one made of different materials and not as fancy)

I really like this painting and I can definitely see brink Rae wearing something like this when at his home(or at least when not traveling or working in the field), I like the super dark blue/almost black of the suit and whatever he’s wearing on his neck is really pretty(I can’t actually tell what that is specifically but I like it)

Haley

I can see Haley wearing pretty fashionable clothing, but probably more subtle and practical designs than Momboo, and she would wear things in more subtle colors, but she would still have an overall pretty feminine style.

I wish I could have found more purple or gray dresses to use as examples for her, but I don’t think those colors were very common, at least in the fashion plates I was looking at. I was able to find some really pretty darker navy dresses though, which I think fits really well too. I don’t have a ton to say with her either but pretty dresses>>>

Jamie

Connor has talked about Jamie’s clothes in Brink before so I’ll keep this one shorter, but Jamie is the only person in the main Brink cast who regularly wears sweaters, which was a deliberate choice. At the time sweaters were associated with college students, working class people, and people who had very physical jobs, such as sailors. Sweaters were considered extremely casual and people outside of those groups didn’t really wear them often, but as Jamie is an orphan who was later adopted onto a very large farm, it makes sense that they would wear one often and feel more comfortable in one.

Ocie

I think Ocie is the character I’m taking the most liberties with when it comes to historical accuracy, mostly cause she is described in some scenes as wearing a naval jacket, and as it was only men wearing those, I couldn’t find anything completely accurate to what she was wearing. I can definitely picture how her jacket would look though. I picture it as being mostly in the men’s style, just cut more like a woman’s jacket of the time. 

During the 1880s some popular styles of women’s fashion started to become more tailored and more resemble menswear, especially in jackets and some bodices, so it was pretty easy to find menswear inspired women’s jackets that I think fit pretty well.

Riding habits(outfits for horse riding) have also been very inspired by menswear for hundreds of years, and I can see ocie wearing something similar as her jacket.

this image is very crunchy and slightly too early for brink (1886), but give a good idea of menswear inspired womenswear from the late 1880s

Other than her jacket I actually found some blue dresses I think fit Ocie really well.

The blue dress on the right is probably more fancy than Brink!Ocie would realistically be wearing, but it fits her so well I had to put it in, and I just think it’s really pretty.

And this is what actual navy captain’s uniforms like around the 1880s(it was really hard to reliably date these but they’re from approximately then) 

Galahad

Contrary to the popular image of the brave lone wolf cowboy who lived a life of courageous freedom, a majority of old west cowboys were actually very poor and rarely owned even the horse they were riding, which usually belonged to the man who owned the cattle they were herding. Obviously there were exceptions to this, including Galahad in Brink, but I think it’s interesting to see how much the fantasy of the old west has changed the image of the cowboy in America.(I highly recommend checking out Kaz Rowe’s video on YouTube, “Exploring the Queer History of the Old West… Yehaw”, its a really fascinating video on the old west as a whole, and honestly just check out Kaz Rowe’s channel in general, it’s so good)

There was no one uniform way cowboys looked, as they had to adapt to a ton of different climates depending on where they were working. Galahad travels often but he stays in the southwest, which makes their wide brimmed hat very practical, and he also wears a serape, a type of colorful wool shawl that’s draped around your shoulders. A serape isn’t the same as a poncho because a poncho has a hole for your head in the middle, while a serape doesn’t.

The variety of clothing cowboys wore in the old west is really fascinating to me, because even though fashion and style was pretty low on the priority list compared to things like their work and getting their next meal, these people still valued what they wore and took pride in it, and the variation of it is so cool to see in photos.

Athena

Throughout Brink, Athena wears both suits and dresses depending on their environment and what they are doing at the time, but I want to use this section to talk a lot about Victorian mourning wear, cause that’s what Athena is wearing for the end of Brink and a large portion of On the Edge of Worlds Unknown.

In the Victorian era, mourning was a very serious practice with many many rules that depended on gender, class, time period, and closeness to the deceased. While Victorian mourning clothes existed and were widely worn before the death of Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert in 1861, the fact that she wore mourning clothes for the rest of her life skyrocketed their popularity and made mourning wear a social requirement. 

Depending on how you knew the deceased you could be in mourning anywhere from a few months to several years, and some(usually widows) chose to be in mourning for the rest of their lives. The exact time you should be in mourning varied greatly, and was often a source of anxiety for the mourners as coming out of mourning “too soon” could be a social death sentence for some.

As mourning practices became longer and more complex, different stages of mourning started to become common. During full mourning, you would wear only black, dresses were usually less ornamented, and close family of the deceased would very rarely take visitors or go in public. During half mourning, black was still the predominant color but some purple, white, or gray was also allowed, and the close family of the deceased was allowed to venture out in public a little more.

As dress styles and silhouettes started to change more rapidly starting in the 1870s, It became more impractical to buy or make a new fashionable mourning dress every year just in case someone died, and extravagant mourning practices started to become less common, though mourning dress was still a requirement for a few decades afterwards.

WWI was the final thing that ended mourning wear as a common practice, as so many people lost loved ones that practically everyone would have been in mourning if it was still a social requirement, and many people who’d lost sons or husbands simply wore a black armband to symbolize their mourning.

The one plate that started this whole thing

The one fashion plate that started me down this entire research rabbit hole was this plate from 1851 that I think just works so so well for Brink!Isla, and it lines up with the timeline too, cause as long as Brink keeps the timeline relatively the same for the Morningstar family, 1851 would be right before all of the god drama starts happening with her. I wanted to include her as a kind of honorable mention to the rest of the character breakdowns, cause that blue dress it so pretty and fits so well for her, and it’s what started me down the path of “what would all the other brink characters be wearing?”

If I got any details or information wrong please let me know and I’ll correct it! 

If ya’ll have made it this far in the post, thanks so much for reading. This has been a project for me since like July for a while now, and I’m so glad I finally got it finished and out here! It was so cool doing all the research for this, and turning all of my semi-coherent bullet points into something that would actually be comprehensible was a lot harder than I thought, my hat goes off to anyone who writes things ever.

Most of the fashion plates I put in here are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, as well as Mark Hartley(bygonewhimsy) and Melinda Kovács on Pinterest, but a lot of the plates and portraits were just things I had in my camera roll so I unfortunately don’t have sources for all of them.

[d1sc0-1nfern0]

January really is the month of seasonal depression smiting down creative passion huh.

[just-existing-as-you-do-blog]

Listen I don't think Ven and Icarus could ever get together except in what if fics BUT what I could see happening is Icarus having a deeply unrequited crush on Ven that they would not be willing to explore because Icarus is under the impression that Fable will be bringing everyone back from the dead. OR post war I could see them developing either a QPR or a romantic relationship as they heal (if they both survive that is.)

[connorsnothereeither]

Just got done planning out the final 25 chapters for my 90 chapter long Fable SMP fic and OH BOY I’m so excited to get through them all. Like aside from finishing the story (or at least this part of the series, there’s gonna be at least one more fic if not two) I’m so excited for the content of the chapters and getting to write it. We’ve got Ghaaes, we’ve got Garden Duos, we’ve got plot-lines merging and therapy cows and eldritch daddy issues and just maybe a little bit of unknowable cursed monster transformations but I don’t wanna spoil too much in that regard…

Anyway I’m excited for it :)

[connorsnothereeither]

God feel this in my soul tho

So i think ive realised, coming up with AUs for Fable is easier with a Fantasy setting, rather than Modernised aus...

Some things are easy to "translate" to a modern au, but other things like; Caspian in prison and being experimented on, the corruption, the Telchin doing human experimentation, certain characters murders etc

Like, how do you modernise that!?

And yes not *everything* has to translate over to a modernised version, but some things are just funky character moments that you gotta keep, in my opinion anyway

All those insane things and I'm working on a coffee shop au like how do i-

[mustbemosstaken]

Secret inter-office coworker romance Wet Birds is amazing, yes, I agree I agree.

But what if secret Romeo and Juliet style opposite sides of the war romance Wet Pages?

(I think someone here said Ulysses/Ven was Wet Pages but correct me if I’m wrong lmao I just think there’s potentially with them)

[burnt-outtransgender]

Prison Duo Fic!!

I turned an interaction between @icarus-m0rningstar and @centross-mistvale rp accounts into a fic!!

[thedawnoficarus]

fablesmp modern coffee shop au where icarus and rae don’t grow up (rae’s with isla and icarus’ is with fable) and fable’s.. like. majorly religious. and icarus grows up in like complete and utter denial of their queerness. but when they were visiting their hometown again, they run into their brother and he’s.. everything fable hated (he’s wearing makeup and a sheer blouse over a dark crop top and a skirt or something similar), and icarus freaks out.

rae’s like, “!! you should come with me, i’m going to a meeting with some of my friends :D” and icarus agrees, begrudgingly, because they haven’t seen their brother in many years.

and they go to the meeting and everybody’s happy and out and like.. not what icarus grew up around.

[donicosplay]

what if I were to hypothetically draw Ven and Icarus and maybe write a fic