#frankenstein could but cant find him

[evilminji]

Okay... so it COULD be because, as a writer, I'm an ASSHOLE to my Characters...

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'D BE FUNNY?

Danny, innocent, gets YEETED into DC. As ya do. And he's a bit messed up. But! He's a Baby Ancient in the making. Gonna be master of Spaaaaaace(~~~☆!) one day. Very exciting, only slightly relevant.

See, Ectoplasm? Dumb. That's why we need Cores and Brains etc. Never let Ectoplasm decide things. It WILL chose the "technically correct but now the buildings on fire" option EVERY SINGLE TIME. And you are running out of fire extinguishers.

Because it is dumb.

Very, VERY No Brain, Just Goo, Dumb.

And THIS Goo has a life to save. A Halfa too maintain in Peak Performance(tm). Because THIS Goo is VERY smart Goo(according only to itself) and TOTALLY knows what it's doing! Damaged meat bits? Oh that's EASY! You just FIX that! Replace with meat bits! See? It's BRILLIANT Goo. 10 out of 10 stars, me!

Small problem.

The instructions have been damaged.

PANIC.

Wait! No! We got this! We are Very Smart Goo(tm). And have Space Powers. This is FINE. We'll... we'll just FIX the instructions! Hand me a hammer! If we smash enough bits together, it'll sort? Of look right? Close ENOUGH? Yeeeeeah. We're GENIUS Goo~

Use THAT!

But where did they GET their ill begotten DNA? Well OBVIOUSLY the place all the OTHER DNA they had was stored, DUH? Keep up, says the Goo with literally no braincells making horrifying choices for an unconscious man. It's Earth.

As in... the planet.

It's not even HIS planet. It's AN Earth. A Planet CALLED "Earth" that dwells in the DC universe, not his, and is covered with ZERO(0) Fentons but plenty of superhumans and aliens. THAT planet.

The Goo grabbed the Very BESTEST Meat Instructions it could FIND! The Goo is also a collective and did not AGREE on what the "Best" WAS. But it's... okay, no, I can't lie to you, it is NOT fine.

But thankfully it IS stable.

Because Ectoplasm may be dumb and indiscriminate as super-bacteria with a flamethrower, but it is a MASTER at the jigsaw of Life. It can reanimate ANYTHING.

Including the now SINGLE MOST CHIMERAD MAN you've ever SEEN. Who is he related too? YES. His left knee is Kryptonian, the fingers on his right hand are Tameranian, his skin tone has shifted to the most ambiguously multi-ethnic tone imaginable (think that future of humanity mock up, where they combine every ethnicity on the premise that inter-racial marriage will becoming increasingly common up to the point where we all just kinda look averaged out thanks to the ease of travel) because it's trying to do all of them at once and none of them are willing to back down, because all of them got the instructions "Be Skin". He might have Slade Wilson's cheek bones and hair.

Danny wakes up and basicly is half Ectoplasmic Goo, half the extended Super Community.

AND CANT GET BACK HOME TO FIX IT.

Because of course this IS fixable. It's just medical shape-shifting. But without HIS template, undamaged. His body is REFUSING to change from what is OBVIOUSLY the CORRECT form. And he keeps getting clocked as "probably related to me".

With the Fenton Luck kicking in? The parts of him people manage to swab and/or get DNA from? Keep MATCHING them. Danny doesn't know WHO is behind this but-! *spots a giggle child with a cat* !!!!!!

You.

Klarion you little SHIT!

So now he's wearing a face that's BARELY his, running from very determined superhumans who want to parent him, trying to steal enough technology to build a portal. AND vowing to kick the witch boy's ASS.

This ISNT FUNNY, KLARION.

His body is Frankenstein's FEVER DREAM! Every time he gets hurt, it tries to "FIX" itself! He lost a chunk of his should back there and HIS ENTIRE BODY CHANGED SKIN TONES. He's pretty sure if he SITS funny, his teeth might fall out and regrow POINTY! He's handing you over to WALKER you horrible little gremlin child!

Just? Take the "Danny is related to X" and "Danny is sick" and turn them uuuuup. Make EVERYBODY concerned except Danny. This is just another fucked up adventure in a long string of fucked up adventures. Give him his DNA back. If he has to suffer the Fenton Luck then he should AT LEAST get to keep the Fenton "built like a tank"!

*gets hit again*

*is GREEN now for some reason* The fuck?

Garfield, aka Beast Boy: I HAVE A CLONE SON!?

Danny: Zone DAMN IT not another one!

@ailithnight @hdgnj @nerdpoe @the-witchhunter

[willsolace-loml]

hello do you perchance have any xeno, evan or barty hc to yap about 🤠

ill do barty now and tag u in a xeno one later

-personally i LOVE ravenclaw barty and slytherin barty, so if we're talking raven barty then i think he would get kicked out of his dorm by his roommates for being batshit insane, and evan and reg had an extra bed so he dorms with them

-he knows the password to the kitchen, and surprisingly to literally everyone, hes an ANGEL to the elves, the first time he goes down there with reg, regulus hugs him afterwards because of how amazing he is to the elves

-hes in advanced classes (supergenius barty supremacy) and thats how he met dorcas, shes a year older and had class with barty who introduced her to the others

-speaking of advanced classes, my guy has to stufy ALL THE FUCKING TIME and he'll sit in his bed in the dorm, clear reading glasses on, monster in his left hand, writing in the other (or in a modern au, a laptop, cuz regardless of if he was a pureblood or halfblood, hed find a way to get one) and hes writing complex spells down n shit (evan is absolutely insane abt it and there have been multiple times where barty didnt finish studying)

-and i mean complex spells, like u think snivilus made spells, barty found ways to make nonverbal spells or made new spels without a wand

-he actually really likef being in class, not that he would admit, sp i honestly think he wpukd want to become a teacher, like he was an amazing teacher as moody, i think thats what he always wanted to do

-and think of how defying that would be. like bartys father wants him to be a ministry man, and he ends up working at a school, js saying

-he has naturally blondish hair, but dyes it black, with streaks of ither colors

-he absolutely LIVES for ghe book frankenstein, and he watches the movie every halloween (and all year round, he also wayches gremlins)

-the only thing he seems not to be good at is singing, he can play a couple instruments, but he cant sing for the life of him

-pandora was his second friend, they were both in ravenclaw (thats the hc we're goungb wigh rn) and sat beside each other at the feast, earlier on the train (where he had met reg) he had been drawing on his arm and a coping mechanism for his anxiety, pandora commented on it, he asked her if she wanted to draw something, handed her a sharpy, and she drew the coolest fucking plant barty had ever seen so he took a photo of it and got it tattooed when he was 15

-we moved past this topic BUT, when he made spells, he made a spell that can remove or add body parts, so like an underground ring of trans stufents come to him saying like "hey can u do my surgery" and it does no harm (he made it that way) and if they change their mind he can js reverse rhe spell

-reg was the first to test it out

-he collected as many punk records as he could

-he has bipolar disorder and struggled a lot with that until he started surrounding himself with people who actually tried to help him feel more comfortable abt it

this is SUPER long, but i absolutely love barty and think abt him every second, bro is my roman empire

[gilverrwrites]

Do you have some headcanons about Thomas and Martha Wayne ? And what is your favorite portrayal of them, as in which movie or comic do you like them most ?

I don’t have many headcanons to be honest;

Thomas is the academic type. He’s studious, focused, hardworking.

Martha is the firecracker. She’s sporty, loves track and tennis, and has a playful flare for the dramatics.

(This might be canon? Cant remember but) Martha is Jewish.

She’s the more adventurous of the two. She wanted Bruce to see the world, to take him to all the shows, try all the foods, and wear the new styles.

Whereas Thomas was more reserved, more cautious.

Sometimes Bruce sees his kids wearing something a bit out there, and he won’t say anything but he’s has that stony faces side eye and Alfred has to stop himself from saying ‘You look just like your father’.

Or when Bruce can’t help but read news articles aloud to him when he gets excited about some new tech that’s being rolled out in Japan or something. ‘Can you believe it Alfred? I have got to speak to Barbara about this.’ ‘Quite sir. I think your mother would have loved that too.’

She used to do the same thing at breakfast every morning. ‘Tom have you heard this?’ ‘Alfred what do you think?’ ‘Goodness, the worlds gone mad, and were here to see it!’

Bruce physically takes after his father the most but those pretty blue eyes that look into your soul are 100% Martha.

The pearls we so often see splayed across the alleyway are a family heirloom on the Wayne side. Forensics picked up every piece they could find. After years of getting dusty in an evidence locker, hoping nobody would notice Jim dug them out, had them restrung and gave them to Bruce on the 10th anniversary of their death.

Bruce was displeased at the time, he doesn’t want jewels he wants justice. But eventually he came around. He keeps them in her jewellery box which is in their untouched bedroom. When he really misses her sometimes he goes in there and just holds them.

The room is off limits to everyone but himself and Alfred. Despite this, all the kids have broke in out of curiosity at least once.

Except Jason who respected Bruce’s wishes. He was just grateful to have a home.

And Tim, who got caught and chewed out something fierce.

As for portrayals:

Obviously not true to their origin, but I really liked them in flashpoint.

The Ultimate Evil Castle of the Bat is spooky, and fun. I love the Frankenstein story but, like flash point it doesn’t do much for their origin as it’s an AU. Their actors in

The Batman 2022 are spot on for what I imagine their appearance to be, sans Martha needing darker, curlier hair.

There’s a fair few comics detailing Martha’s life pre Thomas but none that stand out. Honestly, I can stand when they make her out to be a villain or just put her on the arm of a criminal and call it depth. It’s been done, sometimes well, sometimes not, can we have something different now please?

I haven’t seen Pennyworth, but I believe they’re it quite a bit. Is it worth the watch?

[olde-scratch]

mm momsger high au. i didn't mean to misspell that. inspired by this post from @tobisiksi . sorry this took so long i had everything written out and then tumblr Deleted Everything even tho i had like two backup posts.

i tried to include everyone i could and give all of them unique monster types but there are some repeats :( ib sowwee i tried to make them unique when i could tho. lmk if u have any suggestions for characters or different monster types.

ALSO HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! i have to work but im going dressed as saiki so i still have the spirit

Saiki Kusuo - Lovecraftian Eldritch Horror

i mean. duh.

he poses as his own (human) worshipper to avoid being indoctrinated elsewhere

"i can't attend, i have worship tonight." "oh that's cool who do you worship?" "they don't like being talked about." "ohh so it's an... invite-only system. right......"

deciding now that closed worship systems like saiki purports are generally a total Scam and people avoid them like a plague. it fits with saikis foray into the internet lol

hes still sooo silly dw

to the people with the eldritch kusuo headcanons, i see u..... i hope u like monster high........ :)

Saiki Kuusuke - Cult Worshipper (Human)

bet you thought i was gonna say mad scientist. WRONG that's his day job.

kuusuke operates as a mad scientist since humans aren't allowed into the monster world (afaik humans arent even seen outside of jackson, who is half monster). idk what he makes tho. maybe he pulls a doctor finklestein and makes bone animals to roam the monster world?

kuusuke is the one who got his family into the monster world btw. i mean he definitely found it p quickly after kusuo started morphing and speaking in tongues and shit

kuusuke would LOVE the monster world, at least at first. he might get bored really quickly, but he'd love being able to be more of a crazy bastard than he already is

kuusuke functions as a head cultist for kusuo, but instead of strengthening him with sacrifices and praying for protection, he weakens him with sacrifices (the limiters) and prays for himself to be smote (kusuo to play games with him) (kusuo ignores him a lot)

maybe he made amp/anpu like he did warp. idk.

Saiki Kurumi / Saiki Kuniharu - Cult Worshipper (Human)

they were 100% human before being dragged into the monster world due to their sons

they basically live the same as they do in canon tbh i dont think a lot would change in the monster world

during the new years chapter maybe instead of saying kusuo has powers, they say something about his eldritchness or how glad they are to "worship" such a chill god. god i wanna write this now.

Kaidou Shun - Vampire

okay so not ACTUALLY a vampire but i think it was nopsi who had like an au where kaidou was like a weaker version of a vampire?? GOD i dont remember the name (hampir?? i cant find it on wikipedia, did it start with an f????). for all intents and purposes, im just gonna consider him a weak vampire

i cant remember if he'd be made thru a human/vampire relationship but if he was then i think we should play into the manga hair colors of his siblings and say that whole toki and sora and his mother are all full vampires, he was half vampire (perhaps he's from the father's side of the family from a previous relationship, since his mother has purple hair in her manga cover i think??)

draculara has her red drinks and her spf and her cute little parasol so OF COURSE kaidou has all of those as well. i think it would be very funny if kaidou had his umbrella customized to look like a hidden anime weapon, but it wasn't waterproof so he has to use a different one when it rains

i have a gen 1 og draculara from when i was a kid and i love her she's so cute :] someone draw kaidou in her outfit he'd slay. actually, just draw all of them in her outfit(s). gloom beach teruhashi. sweet screams mera. freak du chic saiki. sweet 1600 saiko. fearleader hairo. you cannot make her look bad idc.

Nendou Riki - Zombie (Frankenstein's Monster type zombie)

okay so this might be controversial but imagine:

everyone's chatting like normal, nendous head falls off, everyone goes deathly silent, nendou puts it back on and goes back to talking, cue kaidou screeching

bc im rewriting this im not gonna go thru my thought process so my idea was that takeuchi was a mad scientist who created midori after himself bc he only had access to a mirror (neither realized they looked the same). takeuchi died and chouno, who was smitten with midori, remade takeuchi who midori named riki and chose to raise as her own. chouno intended it as a poetic final goodbye but cut to 16 years later and hes still not over her lol

nendou being undead could also play into his appreciation for life.... protecting the obviously smaller and weaker saiki and kaidou.... his care for his dad that he never met (altho he might have two dads in this au?).... THE HAMSTER SCENE. NENDOU :((((

Teruhashi Kokomi - Tomie

im SORRY for bringing up junji ito but come ON

for those who dont know tomie, she's basically So Beautiful that men are supernaturally attracted to her until she drives them mad with her beauty. they cut her up and scatter her remains and they turn into more tomies

however. teruhashi isnt just a pretty girl. she's The Perfect Pretty Girl. so we can just ignore all the bloodshed and murder and deathmatches :D

i debated making her a siren but that just doesn't fit her for some reason. she doesn't have to try.

in op's post they made her aphrodite reincarnated but i don't think that there are gods walking amonst the student disembody unfortunately

Teruhashi Makoto - Intersection Bishounen

IM SORRY THE TERHASHI SIBLINGS JUST FIT JUNJI ITO SO WELL

the intersection bishounen is a vengeful spirit that roams the streets and gives fortunes to young girls that drive them to suicide, after which they come back as ghosts and beg for his affection.

makoto is more of a teenage/ya heartthrob than a vengeful spirit tho so we can get rid of all the cool stuff like fortune telling and driving to suicide

the intersection bishounen also didnt want to fuck his cousin so points to him

Hairo Kineshi - Fire Elemental

i KNOW he's BORING

think of heath. i think heath is like the son of hades or something idfk i say fuck that ive never heard that before until i started getting back into monster high that's not canon to me

theres... a surprisingly low amount of sports name puns :( there's casketball, ofc ofc, because mh is american. there's monster soccer from toralei's ghoul spirit notebook, but baseball and tennis from clawdeen and spectra dont get named so they dont have names. thats BULLSHIT btw someone who's good w puns help me im freezing up

gilda goldstag was also a fire elemental right? i dont actually know anything about her other than that she was in the student council bc she was in the doll pack

theres a wind elemental mentioned in spectras ghoul spirit notebook. figured that id mention it idk

i have nothing else to say this should be obvious

Mera Chisato - Shouku-jinki

okay i need to preface this with something that is very important to me about this, the Japanese creature the jikininki/shoku-jinki originated in the story of musou the preist. as far as ive been able to see, there is a second story featured on wikipedia about a pregnant woman that is legitimately someone's fucking oc insert. im not making this up, it appeared one goddamn day and i dont want to make an acc just to get rid of it but i dont want to have my ip address just There and i dont know how to like draw attention to it. so please know that the story of musou is the only legitimate source of the jikininki and the "jijinki" are just someones fucking oc inserts. i dont know why they did this, i dont know how it's still there bc its been YEARS how has no one removed it??

anyways im calm now.

jikininki (or, iirc the more modern version is shoku-jinki) are demons that were greedy or impious in life and were cursed to wander the earth forever starving and thirsty. at night, they eat dead bodies.

sooo remember how mera acted when she got her money back for a day.

her death was the cause of their bankruptcy, maybe they put all their money towards avenging her?

i think that mera would come from a half human, half monster family so she could already be in the monster world, but i dont have to worry about what powers she'd have due to being a monster.

her mother would be a demon and her father a human who doesn't quite know how to navigate the monster would, so he still has to go away to earn money. also imagine four kids following mera around, three have devil horns and taiks and one is just some guy. (idk if she has 4 siblings but you get the idea)

so yeah, mera is immortal, unable to feel satisfied by any amount of food or drink, working herself to the bone to provide for her siblings. the mera lore is Strong w this one.

u could totally also go for some real body horror with her if u wanted

Yumehara Chiyo - Ghost

ill go into the difference between ghosts and souls in toritsuka's part since you cant take away toritsukas thing but you cant just remove ghosts from mh

i initially thought of making her a cherub/cupid but girlie would be getting No One Together. also there's only one cupid in mh and uhhhh there would be no hope if that was chiyo. yk what chiyo loves tho? gossip. u know what spectra loves? gossip.

i think the ghosts in mh all have a chain motif iirc? ik spectra does but sirena von boo also does (the siren/ghost hybrid) and i dont know any other ghosts off the top of my head

anyways yumehara is totally just a regular people ghost. maybe she cries blood or somethin fun like that? maybe have a bit where she keeps getting told off for having makeup and its her eyes leaking or its her having anti blood leaking drops or wipes

Saiko Metori - Mummy

i was gonna make him a vampire but HELLO??? CLEO IS RIGHT THERE????

rich, bratty, self-centered?? DE NILE IS CLEOS LAST NAME.

idk if him being a mummy would change him like cosmetically, like skin tone or hair texture or whatever but i cant draw so that doesn't quite matter to me. altho ig hed probably just look like a pale, dehydrated, brittle pile of bandages if you wanna be historicallty accurate

his father glows because he's ra next question

he definitely decks himself out in a looott more gold than just his earring as a mummy. bangles, cuffs rings, anklets, hair accessories.

the bodyguards are just the tomb protectors that cleo gets as slaves

he gets a custom made desk of pure gold at pk and he never uses it

i think in ancient egypt married couples would be buried together regardless of if at least the wife was dead or alive, so he definitely propositions teruhashi to take a sand nap with him

he gets a pet crocodile. he has a tiger in canon i think and cleo gets a snake so like. nile crocodile obviously.

i cant tell if he lives in a pyramid just randomly in the middle of hidari wakibara, or if theres a bit about nendou asking him where his pyramid is and saikos just like "bro i Dont Live In A Pyramid."

Kuboyasu Aren - Werewolf

hello?? violent, tragic past that comes back to haunt them regularly and interfere with their daily lives?????

i dont think werewolves can turn into wolves in mh but like if you want doggy kuboyasu who's as big as kaidou, go for it

KUBOYASU WITH DOGGY EARS AND A TAIL.... i dont think that werewolves in mh have tails but thats. a crime.

kuboyasu can smell the rest of the cast. god i wanna know what they smell like in the non weirdest way possible.

i dont have a lot to say about this. doguyasu

Toritsuka Reita - Cult Worshipper (Human)

okay so there's a difference between ghosts and souls in this version. ghosts are a form of undead that are sort of just humans that can float and go thru walls and stuff. souls are the base forms of dead people that remain chained to existence with no knowledge of who they were. normal people can see ghosts, but not souls. toritsuka can see both

toritsuka was also raised in a temple in this au, pretty standard stuff. nothing interesting there.

:)

so yk how toritsuka found out abt saiki thru the souls

and yk how saikis an eldritch monster that melts mind and twists reality to his will in this au

toritsuka does not know the meaning of the term eldritch btw

if ur a torisai or toritsuka angst fan then u can always imagine toritsuka thinking himself inferior to the rest of the pk psychickers bc he's a human and didnt even find saiki by himself, but with the help of his ghosts. sorry i gotta push the torisai agenda.

i personally also hc him to be hypersexualized by the adults in his life due to his touchyness from a young age which lead to him being ostracized by his peers when he began repeating the behavior, thus encouraging the development of touch starvation that he misinterpreted as horniness. in other words, "damn bitch u live like this?". sooo do with that what u will in this au.

(could saiki like..... taste his desperation??)

Aiura Mikoto - Cult Worshipper (Devil)

basically aiura but with cute devil horns and a tail that reacts with her mood. she 100% bedazzles and paints her horns like she paints her nails.

shes still a prophet and stuff but like shes just a lil demonic now. as she deserves.

"yeah i can totes check ur future!!" (rips open a portal to the underworld, chants in a forgotten language, focuses in on one damned soul that writhes and screams for mercy as it withers out of existence where it will wait to be reborn into hell after being offered the temporary reprieve of total nothingness) "babe ur bf is cheating on u like one hundo percent. but ur gonna be a bomb ass doctor one day!!"

i want her to trip toritsuka with her tail

she's not human and she lords it over toritsuka's head when they fight for saiki's attention

Akechi Touma - Cult Worshipper (Human)

initially i wanted to make him a bugboy bc yea but consider

saiki knew him in elementary school so he pulled a real I Tracked Down My Childhood Friend Who Is Actually An Eldritch Monster Masquerading as a Pretty Boy with Pink Hair in a High School?!

yeah soo like what if their dynamic was "what if we were friends in our childhood years before you had to leave to stop the uncontrollable desire you had to break down my reality and drive me into irreversible madness, yet despite knowing the danger i faced i still hunted you down, my prayers meant solely to get a response from you devolving into genuine reverence, solidifying myself as your most loyal devotee...... haha jk. unless?"

we all know that akechi likely faced no difficulty finding the monster world dont even ask

you can insert ur own hcs with his mom all ill say is that shes probably masquerading as some sort of cult worshipper or jekyll/hyde situation to live in the monster world. or maybe he just moved schools and lives sort of nearby but not in the monster world idk

akechi would fucking Love the monster world. he'd never get bored of it. you know the sweet potato scene? oh, honey, he's got access to information about the average size of different monsters, along with the influence of proportions and size, magical interference, etc etc. hed fucking LOVE the monster world.

Satou Hiroshi - Ghost

ive already got three ghosts (see suzumiya and makino) but i couldnt think of the Most Generic monster but hear me out

he's a sheet

hes got two black or cut out circles for eyes and a little 'o' for a mouth. just fuckin 0 。0 .

HES SO. USELESS.

SO PLAIN.

SO BORING.

SO GENERIC.

SO. PERFECT.

and saiki is IN LOVE WITH HIM.

toritsuka is honestly so offended that he is not the ghost-themed object of saiki's affections

satous friends and baseball team are either the core basic monsters (werewolf, vampire, zombie, etc) or theyre basic japanese spirits. im. not doing tons of research on if there are generic japanese demons or if theres just sort of one kind of demon that has a lot of forms,,,, im so sorry i can only do so much research please correct me if you know better

Rifuta Imu - Catgirl

i dont know what the name of the actual catgirls are in mh (werecats?) like purrsephone and toralei and meowlody but fuck it catgirl

she would have THE cutest collar. OR she'd have a ribbon around her neck w a matching one on her tail like catrine de mew. she could maybe even have some sort of shredded piece of clothing like catty noir's skirt or a habit of shredding things

im sorry i dont know a lot about cat breeds so i dont have a lot to say about her species

cat themed accessories.......

btw she's a cat bc of japans obsession w cats. i considered making HER a siren since i scrapped that idea for teruhashi but i feel like it just. doesn't suit her.

Bonuses (people i couldnt find that much to talk about)

Suzumiya Hii - Cursed Soul

i mean what else would she be.

okay so shes not a SOUL shes a GHOST i just think it sounds better like that

Makino Arisu - Ghost

ring-style ghost. i think it's called a yuurei? i did my research for her but i forgot it and the og post got deleted so. im upset.

Matsuzaki - Headless Horseman

idk what is his horse would be i just wanted bloodgood to have Presence in this and the principal is only seen like. three times.

i considered giving kuboyasu the status as headless horseman bc of his motorcycle but g1 bloodgood did not serve that much cunt for her type to be given to a 16 year old im sorry

(i also recently got a bloodgood as my first doll when i got back into mh and i love her :] she came w a cool coat that isnt her og coat but its nice anyways)

Chouno Urkyoku - Mad Jester

okay so ik i said he was a mad scientist but he retired that in order to go into entertainment. it's not going too well.

you could also go for a ringmaster/clown route but we all lived thru 2016 (or was it 2017?) and the ensuing cliche-ifying treatment the media gave scary clowns put me off them personally lol they kind of bore me

(if u don't live in the us or don't know what im talking about that happened in 2016, then god i envy you. just look up "2016 clowns usa" im sure you'll figure it out)

Michael (Ikemi something I think?) - Zombie

idk it just fits him

zombies in g1 can only communicate thru moans which makes them nonverbal in some way but g3 STOLE that from us. fuck them.

Nendou Midori / Nendou Takeuchi - Frankenstein & His Monster

i explained this in nendous thing im not repeating myself sorry

PK Principal - Gorgon

yes its bc of the glasses

also i think theres something fun about being able to say he can rule the school with an iron fist (or ig rock fist) without needing to use his eyes

Kongou - Minotaur

big strong and VIOLENT. you can also play into manny's more delicate side with kongous change of heart after saiki helps him realize what matsuzaki does for him

Takahashi - Goblin

idk i think it just suits him

Shima - Changeling

her whole bit is being a forgettable face so what if she was always just a Little Bit Different every time you saw her

Iridatsu family - Mummy

okay ik ive already done mummy but HEAR ME OUT.

idk abt the mom but i think it would be funny if yuuta was just covered in bandages and his whole thing is tripping over/hitting people with them

The pervy teacher who wasn't actually pervy at all he just had an unfortunate face - Human

he's not even disguised as anything

the monsters saw him and said "nah im p sure he's one of us" and then took him

teacher doesnt quite care cause the monster world has better health plans /j

The "your manga artist is gnc af" guy - Kitsune

kitsune are typically seen as elusive tricksters which doesnt suit his character BUT

theres a whole joke about japanese mangakas being worked to the bone to provide chapters every week or so for serialization even going so far as to hide or make excuses as to why they did not complete the chapter

i feel so bad for them bro i could not (used to do weekly updates for fics for 5 years before i started needing money bc i turned 18)

also. someone give that man fox ears and a tail.

The Alphonse guy - Invisi Billy

idk what invisi billy is but he can be here helping alphonse hide from the shame of his chunnibyou :D

Makoto's rival guy - Banshee

it just. Suits Him.

idk if there are male banshees bc we only know sarah screams and her mom but we can have a trans icon if we need

[nekofaust]

the 076 plushie you have out for preorder... did you sew him yourself (the sample at least)? if so do you have any resources you recommend for making custom patterns? i have a fumo fake i made literally years ago at this point who is STILL naked cuz i cant find a pattern for his clothes and dunno how to make it myself :(

Hi so no I didn't sew himself however!!! There are patterns for similar dolls and shape (i do sew some myself but i haven't gotten into plush making). I mostly get my patterns from a few random books I pick up at thift stores but etsy also has alot!

For Fumos there is a large community of fumo customizers out there. Here is a fumo pattern that could be modified for clothes! Trial and error is kinda how I push through making patterns and the more you do it the better you get at it. I end up Frankensteining some stuff together to get what I want. Also always better to make the first cutout too big so you can measure it down rather than making it too small 👍

[scolek]

@tunkus you ready to have your mind blown?

alright, so first off ive been aware of akira since before enstars, he wrote a light novel series called "kyouran kazoku nikki" which got turned into an anime and i saw it and remembered it fondly. its one of those "crack" type things like flcl or nchijou but with a really strong emotional core, like, the government assigns them all to be family but then they find it again on their own. i recommend it! i know the anime is subbed.

oh but theres a trans character in it! it's from like 15 years ago so its not. its not a great portrayal. but you can basically draw a direct thru line from that to early arashi who was very clearly supposed to be the same type of person, and then from early arashi to modern arashi as we move into an era where its not fucking acceptable to say the o word so goddamn much. progress!

so what i found out about. i was on akira's wikipedia page and because i read at a second grade level my eyes are often drawn to any snippets of hiragana/katakana i find and i see the phrase センス・オブ・ジェンダー (sense of gender) and its another wikipedia page so i click on it, and then that page, unlike akiras, has a version in english so theres this award for literary works that deal with themes of sex and gender, and akira wrote a novel called 'biscuit frankenstein' that won the grand prize in 2009.

so im like, ok, what the fuck is biscuit frankenstein, and its never been translated into english, but there is a review of it in english.

and THEN, in that review, it mentions another novel akira wrote called ikemen kanojo, and theres even less about that one than there is about biscuit frankenstein, especially since theres some fucking isekai or whatever novel out there with kind of the same name, but from the name ikemen kanojo alone its like.

AND THATS AS FAR DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE AS I'VE GOTTEN BUT THERE COULD BE MORE!!! THERE PROBABLY IS BECAUSE IT APPEARS AKIRA HAS A COMPULSION TO TRANS CHARACTERS' GENDERS.

like you know how serial killers can only go a certain time without killing, and usually the more they kill the shorter that window gets. the time between shu's grandpa and hokke was like, barely four months!!! if this guy were a serial killer i'd be like somebody please stop him, he cant keep getting away with this, but honestly. imagine youre like 9 years into a successful franchise and you go. hey you know one of the main fucking characters??? that dude's been trans the whole time. yup. fuckin afab. and then you just, dont explain???? thats legendary and we need to keep letting akira do whatever he wants.

[darkicedragon]

darkicedragon how does kentas deal w if hes actually pissed m off? bc werewolves probably just fight it out and then move on, but m holds Grudges and trust needs to be built up again after a fuck up (theres maduke, but he also probably held a grudge BECAUSE he couldnt just fight it out w muzaka and get the result he wanted) and asking m to fight after upsetting him is just going to upset him more so kentas is just ono???? ococo They would probably need intervention Cause both of them deals with it differently And to be honest i dont think Kentas is smart enough to realize that M is holding his issues in XD They probably gonna have a big fight To the point kentas thinks that they have broken up darkicedragon or that its his fault. oh no 'hey, you seem kinda grumpy/down today. wanna spar to perk you up?' o3o 'are you FUCKING serious??' '.....yeah? thats why i asked?'

ococo Cause M would def say something like "I dont want to see you, and I dont want to hear your fucking voice" ococo Yess Franken and Muzaka would have to middle darkicedragon muzaka just like OHO 'oi, kentas. here, NOW!' kentas just like O-O??? while frankenstein steps in to go distract m before m goes for kentas' throat 8') azure honestly, if M got angry at Kentas Kentas done fucked up for real bc I can't imagine M like being upset with something small, or annoyed esp when M would be the type to take a loooong ass time to trust someone so Kentas would've had to fuck up BIG to break M's trust and get him angry ococo Yup Probably kentas deserves to be kicked in the ass XD azure imagine they go searching for M's past and they find out that some/all of the M series ppl were like criminals and Kentas is like "good, they deserved their fate 😤 " and he meant well, like criminals need to be punished but M is livid darkicedragon maybe m is v much 'want to be left alone rn' vibes, but kentas cant read that, which keeps making m more annoyed bc pushing ms comfort boundaries is going to make him vvv techy darkicedragon oOOOH BOIIIIIIII ococo OH MY GOD darkicedragon could depend, bc kentas prob flips between the warrior mentality and 'well. almost all the ww warriors were also criminals so...' ococo HE NEEDS TO BE SLAPPED ON THE FACE azure if M would stop and think, he'd understand why Kentas said that but he's angry Kentas said that about what was like his family ococo And I like the concept! M "are you saying that I also do deserve to die?" azure M would get cold bc there's one thing getting angry at an enemy who you know is gonna attack you and it's something else when it's someone you trust back stabbing you ococo Ohohohohoh 🤤 darkicedragon m just stops interacting w kentas completely blanks him ococo Kentas screwed up Muzaka would also tell him in the face That M needs space and he better give it to him azure gets worse when they find out M was actually a criminal himself had to serve some good years for something bad darkicedragon kentas trying to figure out how to make up and muzaka just shooting them down 'so i should go spar w him?' 'no' '?? talk w him?' 'no' 'but.... what do i do?' ono 'keep out of his way and dont try ta force your way back in. yer LUCKY hes still letting you even see you rn. hes not a ww, so he doesnt act like one. remember that' ono azure bc M realizes Kentas thinks he should pay for his crimes as well ococo M starts to feel as awful as when he was first adopted.. feeling that he is not worth the second chance, and his boyfriend thinks the same darkicedragon 'i guess i should have just stayed in the union where i belong...' ococo Qwq T2 if they exist in this au they would very much be like hisssssss at Kentas too azure Kentas not understanding what he did wrong bc subtle things like these just... don't cross his mind he's v straight forward ococo He thinks M already redeemed himself but it sounded like if M didn't get the chance to be at frankens household that he also ought to deserve whatever happened to him darkicedragon kentas' thought processes are like 'hes at frankenstein and muzakas house and accepted here. hes strong now. past is in the past' and thats all that matters 'me helped me realise the other ww warriors were shit and move on from that, so i should do the same' not realising theres a difference between ww warriors and being experimented on bc of past deeds (that they dont even remeber) azure Kentas going to ask Franken and Muzaka what's wrong bc he simply doesn't understand and they ask him what he said or what their convo was Kentas tells them and Muzaka goes 😬 and >^> at Franken bc Franken goes =_= "While I do understand your line of thought, Kentas, you must understand you said that about what was practically M's family. At the same time, it sounds like you think M does not deserve redemption." "You are not wrong to think one must face the consequences of their actions and punishment for their wrongdoings, it's not always a black or white matter. There are grey areas." ... what would M be convicted of? 🤔 I'm thinking fraud or theft or like maybe some criminal activity stuff darkicedragon gang member? òvó azure yesss ò0ó darkicedragon basically a smaller version of the union w no experimentation 'hah... it would explain why i took so well to the union...' azure >w> and finds out he was a target bc he was an orphan who was taken in by the gang so no one would miss him so no family in the first place, except for the gang that used him darkicedragon so even no past in his past >w> or his gang also got destroyed bc they were trying to encroach on the unions turf azure yesss òwó Franken will prolly advise Kentas to think from M's perspective and understand why it hurt him so and to talk to him

[mephiles-the-jester]

Funny you post your Doll AU Shadow art because I’ve been thinking about the concept of a Frankenstein’s monster Shadow all day, and your AU scratches the same stitch (badum tssss)

I’d like to know more of this au if you have a story for it

(eyy)

so my basic kinda idea for my au for most of the characters is that its kinda like if everyone got hit with whatever caused werehog sonic, so its just a lot of dark gaia energy concentrated in one place. it would happen like years and years before sonics friends would be born, so they all just grew up like that

for shadow specifically though, they were still supposed to be ultimate lifeform, but instead of staying in space, they were made where that energy is strongest. the issue was that when all was said and done, shadow looked like a freaky doll and it freaked out all the scientists. maria still loved the little guy like a brother despite how odd they looked, but everyone else in the building was insistent on destroying it. i cant decide how it happens, but maria ends up sacrificing herself to help shadow escape either way, and shadow ends up falling into a 50 year sleep in a graveyard without any charge left in them to keep them active. tails would find him and help them but they never heard them talk. eventually shadow met rouge, where tails found out that shadow could talk, but only rouge's ears could pick it up because it was so quiet

i have a couple other ideas for the other guys, like amy as the headless horseman with a pumpkin head on her hammer (because itd be badass), tails as a kitsune, and knuckles as a zombie maybe. sonic would technically only exist in the au as regular sonic who ends up in the wrong dimension but ends up fitting right in as the werehog at night. blaze might be with him so hes not alone probably, she also gets a cool werecat form (still a werewolf but theyre now insisting on saying it the wrong way) to also fit in

[thatrandomsideblog]

going off on jekyll’s sleeping habits and hyde

jekyll straight up can’t sleep half the time, like if he doesn’t let hyde out for a while, either hyde will pester him so he cant sleep or jekyll just works, notes on his interactions with hyde and other experimental potions he’s made. 

and when hyde is out, they still share a body, so while hyde is on an adrenaline rush from being released, jekyll is still exhausted from before, even in the mindscape, there are too many distractions, with mind lanyon and mind frankenstien both talking or getting caught up in conversation.  

at some point, when hyde is exploring the mindscape and is absent, and jekyll is alone or talking to one of the lodgers or real lanyon, the exhaustion gets too overwhelming and he just… collapses. maybe mid sentence, maybe while walking around the Society, he just collapses. 

if he’s with a lodger, the reaction would vary, from catching him to running away to find someone else to help with it. if he’s with lanyon, robert would catch him and bring him to the study, put him on the couch and worry until jekyll wakes up. 

that could go two ways:

jekyll could get up and the two would chat, letting lanyon know he’s ok and goes back to work or smth while lanyon protests. this senario is similar to the comic in regards to when jekyll passed out while opening the exhibition, but this collapse is purely caused by exhaustion and hyde is away in the mindscape. 

or, jekyll could just not wake up. he finds himself in the mindscape and is exploring the lore of the nightmares in his mind with mind frankenstein, or he runs into hyde, who’s incredibly confused but doesn’t assume control over the body, mostly cuz they’d be so far into the subconscious. 

while jekyll is asleep, lanyon is just freaking the fuck out. he doesn’t want to leave jekyll but he needs help, so the next time he hears a lodger walking near the door, he sticks his head out and asks them for help. depending in the lodger, more lodgers could get brought in or the lodger would try to help by themself. lanyon stays the whole time jekyll is asleep and jekyll has no clue what’s happening outside as he explores his subconscious either with or without hyde. 

the next time he wakes, like truly wakes in the real world, he finds lanyon a mess, snoring away in a nearby chair. jekyll chuckles and gets up. hyde manifests in the mirror and they chat for a bit, prolly talking about the mindscape or some old memory they uncovered together. 

lanyon wakes up and paniks cuz jekyll’s gone, and he almost gives himself whiplash trying to look around and get up and the same time. he finds jekyll chuckling to himself as he works on something and lanyon sighs, alerting jekyll of his presence. 

hyde watches the two interact, occasionally interjecting to jekyll, who shrugs in response and ignores him. 

jekyll feels really good for the rest of the day and night, which starts his cycle up again with hyde now being allowed out after days of inactivity. the other lodgers are more careful to watch jekyll to see if he’s overworking or exhausting himself again, since his mini coma is prolly the only time they’ve seen him actually asleep and not just napping ever so often in his office. 

TD:LR, jekyll doesn't sleep and everyone else suffers

[therealnotta]

making one of these again bc I've once again become obsessed

Things I want to see in a Wizard of Oz adaption that I remember happening in the books (under the cut bc spoilers and also. it's a lot):

Tin Man absolutely murdering 40 wolves without waking up Dorothy

Tin Man going on a journey to find his ex to apologize for leaving her at the altar after he lost his heart

Same journey Tin Man findings his severed head from before he got Alphonse'd and had his soul transferred to a metal body (lost the old one mostly) (it got cut up) (his friend kept the head) (THE HEAD WAS STILL ALIVE)

Honestly, anything that mentions the fact that Oz is like... a place that the Fae took over???? this gets left out all the time, it was a normal place (it's the bermuda triangle also) but it sucked, fairies found it and made it cool and also took over

HONESTLY THE FAIRIES?? They were all named either Oz or Ozma depending on gender?? And for some reason they're gone now? And the next one was kidnapped as a baby, magically turned into a boy, and then she grew up and learned the truth and was like "hey dorothy. im actually a girl. also i'm the empress. peace" we need Ozma back

Tin Man nearly murdering someone because they made too many puns

Everyone to have their MOTIVATIONS BACK. tin man was worried he'd go on a murder spree because he couldn't feel regret or remorse anymore. scarecrow was a week old and had spent that week having crows telling him that his life was completely worthless, and he was convinced having a brain would fix that. the lion was pretty close, except he really was brave, he just thought having fear made him a coward.

Tin Man's backstory (there is a theme here)

Give Dorothy her agency back???? SHE saved THEM. They were all... incapacitated to say the least

please the tin man's character was so wild. he'd cry over killing a bug and then be like "Oh, no, sorry Dorothy, I'm forcing myself to react appropriately to me killing something, hopefully it'll become a habit and stop me from becoming a serial killer haha :)" and then literally kill an animal as they were walking past it because it was chasing a mouse, so like, now it's defense, which is fine

tin man threatening to kill the wizard of oz if he didn't give them the things they asked for, leading to the wizard just. just throwing some stuff together and everyone being like "this. this is nothing man" except for the tin man

Literally, he never puts two and two together, he's just like "well.... i still can't feel anything.... BUT that's because this is a CARING heart not a LOVING heart :') and I do care about what happens to my friends :')" the pun situation comes after

guys im so disappointed by the tin man's character in every adaption except for. the anime

yes i sent him valentines on starfall no i dont know why that was an option????? im pretty sure everyone else was like... characters made for starfall and then The Tin Man is just THERE and you can send him a love letter

guys. i have very few memories of starfall. that's cemented in there

ANYWAY dorothy legitimately going missing for months and her family holding a funeral and all

The emerald city isn't green!!!!!!! that's a con they do by forcing everyone who enters to wear green-tinted glasses

guys it's the bermuda triangle i cant stress this enough

tin man finding his ex and she had married this... frankensteined person that was made out of his and her other ex's body parts (they both got got with the same curse and became tin men, but the other guy had artificial brains bc the tinsmith couldn't remember who wanted what i guess. the brains were horrible though so the poor guy could never hold a train of thought again)

look the immortality is critical. everyone is immortal and can't feel real pain. that has to be in the story or else the tin man's existence is horrific.

[dykexenomorph]

FOR the fandom ask, Baldirs gate 2 and 3, Fallout 4, Scarlet Hollow, and LIS (any of them)!!

YAY! YAY! HURRAY!!! (answers under tha cut just so this doesn't get too long </3)

FANDOM ASK GAME

bg2/3 (assuming u meant bg1 and not 2?): fave male chara: for 3 its wyll and minsc and for 1 its EASILY khalid (i am looking AWAY from bg2) fave female chara: MINTHARA THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE U!!!!! (also isobel thorm <3). as for bg1 i haven't met everyone yet, but neera and dynaheir are my favorites by FAR least favorite chara: i dont really have one for either? i guess halsin for bg3 on account of him being a bit boring? or maybe raphael on account of him being annoying as HELL!!!!! fave ship: basic answer for bg1, but dynaheir/minsc is EVERYTHING TO ME. for bg3 i LOVE shadowheart/alyin/isobel, they're everything to me fave friendship: maybe an odd answer for 3 but i like the thought of isobel and jaheria being good friends!! for bg1 i like the thought of imogen and khalid being close :3 fave quote: literally any minsc line. name a minsc line and its my favorite. for BOTH games. worst chara death: KHALID AND DYNAHEIR I WILL AVENGE U 😭😭😭 (i dont rlly have an answer for 3? killing ketheric always feels bad tho) fave/happiest moment: for both games its finding minsc LMAO. i love him so much its unreal :( saddest moment: again im still early game for bg1 so i cant answer this, but bg3 is probably the karlach gortash scene i was talking about? maybe also the scene you get with astarion post-killing cazador. fave location: for bg3 i actually LOVE the shadow-cursed lands. act 2 is my favorite act by far. not sure what it'd be for bg1, but i can tell u for a FACT its not baldurs gate. that city is a complete NIGHTMARE to navigate in the first game, i hate it badly.

FO4: fave male chara: hard choice, but probably a tie between nick and x6? prestons pretty high on the list as well. (high-rise too. i dont care if hes only around for 5 mins nobody else knows him like i do!!!) fave female chara: PIPER AND DESDEMONA I LOVE U FOREVER!!!! (cait and glory are also extremely close seconds) least fave chara: danse.................god. god. fave ship: mann this is SUCH an odd answer but i love x6/curie :( fave friendship: CAIT AND PRESTON!!!! they're extremely close and u will NOT convince me otherwise fave quote: "can u say that like frankenstein?? IGGGORRR!! FETCH ME THE BRAINNNN...........sorry :(" worst chara death: glory's death was SOO unneeded and dumb, it enrages me fave/happiest moment: the FULL question is which moment makes me the happiest, which is EASILY when u get to team up w glory for memory interrupted :3 saddest moment: if u couldnt tell the railroad is my favorite part of this game. of COURSE im gonna say glory's death fave location: again. i hyperfixated on the railroad for 5 years. im OBVIOUSLY gonna say the railroad hq. (i also enjoy far harbor!!)

LIFE IS STRANGE (gonna just say the series as a whole cuz im indecisive) fave male chara: SEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fave female chara: i hate to only answer w the protags for these but i obviously HAVE to say max and alex. ESP alex, i love her sm :( least fave chara: skipping the obvious answers to say warren.....a character being slightly annoying to me is worse than literally anything else they could possibly do LMAO fave ship: im a rachel/chloe/max truther <3 fave friendship: again, IGNORING (most of) the obvious answers, i really liked sean and lyla's friendship, i wish we got to see more of them :( fave quote: ready for tha mosh pit shakabrah.................. worst chara death: MUSHROOM </3 (real answer is gabe. obviously all of the major chara deaths make me sad but smth about gabes just hits hard for me) fave/happiest moment: I LOVE THE DND RP IN TRUE COLORS SO MUCH ITS UNREAL, the entire UI changing to make u feel more immersed is soo good augh saddest moment: mann its SUCH a basic answer but finally finding rachel always makes me cry :( (esteban's death at the start of lis2 is also pretty high on the list to me) fave location: THE TWO WHALES DINER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also really enjoy the camp u stay at in lis2 with finn and cassidy

(PLEASE forgive me for skipping scarlet hollow, i dont feel like i know it enough to have good answers for most of the prompts. i WILL say tho that kaneeka is my favorite chara of all time and tht nobody else knows her like i do tho!!!!! also FUCK sybil!!!!)

[n4th4nzw0rld]

this!!! not even just him but like- anyone!!! sure sometimes its alright to be like "oh this person is so hot if only we could've dated" and all that if you dont take it too far. i get it i really do. but please dont take shit so far that you've convinced yourself you're the only person allowed to like someone and say that some guy who died belongs to you????? most likely its someone young convinced theyd get married to the person on the spot immediately after meeting(if still alive and stuff like that in cases like this i bet they forget in situations like these the person would be older) bud..you're a child. if the person did like you back that'd be illegal. yes its possible to meet a system whos bodly the same age who could have em but please dont be a creep about it. (please dont harrass them if you get told no back off dont be a weirdo who cant take no for an answer. coming from the host of a system. please be respectful. yes you can befriend people in system yes theres a chance you could end up together. but don't harrass and dont get pissy if you get rejected i beg of you. its exhausting) but the real deal will never belong to someone whos never met the person. please get help. find a therapist who actually can help you properly. dont harrass people because they like the same person as you. you'll likely regret it when you get older(speaking from experience i wanna slap past me for some of this shit i did) plus theres a chance someone you meet in the future could find it and bring it up

sorry for the rant guys back to silly posts (but seriously you can be in love with someone you never met just please don't harrass people over it and go all "oh hes mine back off you don't know him like i know him hes my husband" neither do you, kid. please dont harrass people and let the dead people rest in peace. you're not Dr. Frankenstein you're not bringing them back from the dead and if you did they wouldn't instantly fall in love)

People fucking scare me, Pelle does not love you, he is DEAD, he has no idea who tf you are. If you genuinely think he loves you please seek mental help, that is an actual delusion (erotomania or something similar).

[clanoffelidae]

Since the Landegre have the whole unicorn thing going on I’m pretty sure Frankenstein constantly bugs Gejutel by asking if he can ride on his back.

[antidotesprout]

Adding a couple of characters that are not submas because I realized I gave you nothing but submas oops. I cant help my hyperfixation

-Lavention x undead reader. Perhaps his lover died? Perhaps he is a Dr Frankenstein and was trying to prove he could create life? Either way, potentiol for angst. (I know you wanted the monsters as the characters but Laventon is such a gentleman I can only see him as the beauty and we the beast)

-Banshee Piers. His voice sings to you from afar, beckoning you until you find yourself deep in the woods with an old abandoned cabin in-front of you. He usually kills whoever he lures out there, but he finds you pretty for a human so he lets you go. It happens for a few weeks where he calls you back to him just for him to get another glimpse of you time and time again.

Aw these are both so good ;A; always good to get excuses to draw these two 💖👀

I also agree on not being able to picture Laventon doing anything particular monsterous, but maybe man was the real monster /j

[wri0thesley]

Hi nat! I'm going to the bookstore soon (hopefully today) and I was wondering what kind of books you have read or recommend. I'm in love with the way you write its so effortlessly elegant! That whole gojo fic with him being a prince was *chefs kiss* and has plagued my mind since I read it. Especially the last few sentences of it "childish has the same syllable count as clever, does it not?" THAT IS GOLD you are an amazing writer!!! Thank you for sharing your work!!

ahh anon i am flattered that you would ask me!!! ;w; here are some of my personal favourite books and series;

the vampire chronicles (anne rice). if you can handle a LOT of purple prose, of course, but tvc was my first real love and i revisit them a lot, they hold a very special place in my heart! if you try interview with the vampire and don't like it, i'd recommend at least giving the vampire lestat (the second) book a go, lestat is a far more engaging and interesting narrator than louis imo!

les miserables (victor hugo). if you're not good with heavy or weighty books with a lot of dry history, i'd recommend the julie rose translation over the more commonly found norman denny (or the more accurate wilbour), which whilst not entirely accurate n takes a lot of creative wording liberties is i think the most accessible!

the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde). one of my absolute favourite books; as a whole that gothic horror genre is one of my favourites but i was so fascinated by oscar wilde growing up and i find dorian's relationships with henry and basil so interesting that i'd recommend it over any others. although i think frankenstein, dracula, the turn of the screw, carmilla and the phantom of the opera all bear reading in that genre too!

in the gothic horror vein, my favourite modern writer creating books in that tradition is laura purcell. i'd especially recommend bone china, though the shape of darkness is very good too!

i love shirley jackson. i think that 'we have always lived in the castle' is more interesting and better than 'the haunting of hill house' personally, but her short story collections are really my favourite and i don't think you could go wrong with any!

i think if you haven't read a lot of classics, they are always good to read for inspiration and i would like to think and hope that i got a lot of my own style inspo from them! i especially love jane eyre. i have re-read brideshead revisited a thousand times. i have a very soft spot for children's classics like anne of green gables, little women and the secret garden (the secret garden, coincidentally, i think is RIPE for a gothic horror re-telling).

when i do occasionally write fantasy stuff my favourite fantasy creators are terry pratchett (READ DISCWORLD READ DISCWORLD READ DISCWORLD) and diana wynne jones (howl's moving castle is lovely but the chrestomanci books are my personal favourites, i'm particularly attached to gwendolen in charmed life). i think i was reading a lot of mercedes lackey's heralds of valdemar series when i wrote that one!

i got very into cj cherryh's alliance-union universe this year. her writing of alien worlds is so . . . i cant quite explain it but it very much feels incredibly real. 40,000 in gehenna especially for me felt like it could be partly an anthropology journal from another planet. if sci-fi isn't always your thing but it sounds interesting, i'd recommend starting with merchanter's luck over the 'official' start of the series downbelow station, it's a little less political intrigue-y and heavy layered but still gives a v good overview of the series!

great shame time; one of my foremost writing inspirations is actually vc andrews and her vaguely trashy gothic-romance inspired series. please be warned for a lot of off-putting stuff if you read them (most notably incest). also, only the ones actually penned by her (the flowers in the attic series, the vast majority of the heaven series and my sweet audrina) have the right vibe for me, the others are very obviously ghostwritten. i would ALWAYS recommend reading my sweet audrina for possibly one of the most fucked up experiences reading you will ever have, but i do enjoy her writing style a lot!

GOD sorry this got long. i LOVE talking about books, honestly, and i don't get to do it much! i didn't even mention let the right one in or the secret history. if i typed much longer i would never stop!!! <3

[an-army-of-nightmares]

Porcelain Jekyll au

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This is gonna be long so heres a tldr

TLDR: Jekyll gets taken to a sort of real nightmare party full of dolls, if he misbehaves they'll kill him and if he's a perfect gentleman he'll turn into a doll. There's a branch where he's rescued and two where he turns into a doll

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•The au starts with Jekyll going to sleep, timeline honestly doesn't matter as long as Frankenstein, Jasper, and Jekyll are all around. Could start where tgs currently is? But Jasper doesn't accidentally wake Jekyll up in his panic

•"The Party of Dolls" is basically a supernatural nightmare? I haven't found a better explanation but basically it's a nightmare that's real and happening, while still "just" being a nightmare. It takes you to like a different dimension while you sleep basically? (The party of dolls isn't the only one but that's not relevant)

•The dolls invite specific people, they invite people who want to be perfect. People who dont want anyone to hate them or find a flaw. Jekyll fits this perfectly

•Jekyll is taken to the party. He tries to be polite despite being unnerved. There's another human at the party, he doesn't learn the man's name before the man gets ripped apart by the dolls for shouting

The dolls target specific people, but they can still take "fodder", people they know will immediately break the rules. So that their actual guests can learn what happens if they are impolite. The dolls also surround guest on all sides, and have them in the exact middle, so that the guest cannot just run out

•Jekyll is terrified, now knowing he'll die if he does something wrong, he tries his best to be perfect

•Unknown to Jekyll, if he's "perfect" he'll start turning into a doll. Ultimately it's a die or die situation

•Jekyll does start to notice the porcelain creeping up him, its be hard not to. He is very much (silently) panicking. But,, the more porcelain on him the more calm he becomes, the more he acts as if this is a simple party and nothing is wrong

•Eventually he reaches a point where he'd actively resist being taken away from the party, but still not fully covered by porcelain

A quick note, Hyde can't do anything about the situation. He wasn't invited and the dolls are suppressing him so much he can hardly even tell what's happening, or leave the mindscape. He's absolutely terrified about this because he can Feel something is wrong and everything is just becoming more and more suffocating

Now onto the branches! There are 2 and a half branches for this au!

Branch 1: Jekyll gets rescued

(Assuming this takes place at Chapter 11 Page 8)

•Jekyll is asleep on the couch, Jasper rushes in the room like his panic on the page except this time Jekyll does not wake up at Jasper's sudden entry. Jasper, noticing Jekyll is asleep, silently contemplates on if this problem is really worth waking Jekyll. Because on the one hand he's probably overreacting in his mind, but on the other Jekyll is really the only person he can panic to?

•He decides not to wake Jekyll, and wait until it's properly morning or noon?, now that the panic is a bit subdued he probably still has stuff to ask Jekyll

•He goes up to find Jekyll is still asleep, and Zosi frantically pawing at Jekyll's chest, occasionally nibbling him, and seemingly really wants to wake Jekyll up. Jasper tries to wake him up but it seems no matter how hard he tries Jekyll stays asleep

•Seeing how Lanyon probably isn't in the Society at the moment (and besides Jasper is pretty sure Robert dislikes him) and he's currently avoiding Rachel. Jasper cant ask Jekyll's friends if this is normal behavior. Why doesn't he ask the lodgers? Maybe a combination of they all seem busy and still being a bit intimidated by them? So he goes to his last best bet, Frankenstein. She's, kinda a doctor and has traveled quite a bit, so she may know whats up with Jekyll and why Zosi is panicking

Note: This whole decision happens in like a few seconds while Jasper is panicking

•Frankenstein does not ease Jasper's worries

•Ah, I guess there has to be some sort of tell, something that makes it clear someone is in one of these "supernatural nightmares" and that Jekyll is specifically in the party of dolls. Idk yet what that tell would be. But Frankenstein knows and thats all that matters

•They take Jekyll back to the attic, lock the entry, and make preparations for a rescue mission

•Frankenstein will be going in to try and distract the dolls while Jasper will be looking for Jekyll. Creature is there as plan B in case the dolls get hostile towards them (as Creature is fully capable of lifting them all up and running out of there. And the dolls are very likely to get hostile towards them)

•They get in, how? I have no clue. But they do. Probably a potion?

•Jasper quickly finds Jekyll and tries to convince him to leave. Much to Jasper's concern, Jekyll doesn't want to leave, and keeps brushing the danger off

Frankenstein and Jasper dont know much about the nightmare. Its likely all they know is that its filled with dolls and people who are "invited" are never seen again/found dead

•Frankenstein's distraction consists of pointing out flaws in how the dolls act. The dolls keep finding excuses, but eventually become agitated with her

•Japser notices the porcelain on Jekyll and loudly panics, attracting the already agitated dolls attention

•Creature picks them all up and runs towards the doors. Jekyll is greatly struggling against this rescue attempt, but once they get out of the building and onto the stretch of yard before the exit Jekyll calms down significantly

Jekyll did not actually calm down, but rather Hyde managed to weasel control after they left the building. Hyde absolutely does not want to be at this party, and Jekyll's struggling could've jeopardized the rescue

•They get back! Whatever porcelain was on Jekyll falls off him with ease. He's angry for maybe half a day or more. But when the doll's control completely leaves him, he's nothing but relieved

Sidenote: It seems reasonable that this whole experience would leave Jekyll with a fear of going to sleep. Perhaps give him something that can deter these types of nightmares? A desire for the comfort of another person, at least in the room, while he's asleep?

Branch 2: Jekyll fully turns into a doll

•Well either Jekyll went to sleep at his own home or some place where no one would think to look for him, as if he was right in the society they'd certainly take notice that something is wrong

•Jekyll fully turns to porcelain. Once he's a full doll they give him new clothes (the sand/beige colored suit I tend to draw porcelain Jekyll in)

Previously, Jekyll had been wearing the suit he wears at any formal party, like the ball in An Army Of Nightmares

•Porcelain Jekyll gets back to the real world. This is not entirely out of the ordinary for the dolls to do. If a guest was reasonably young or famous they'll be returned once a doll, to make themselves more known or respectable before they "die" and go back to the party full time

•Zosi notices something is Wrong while Jekyll is asleep and tries to wake him up to no avail, Zosi can't bark for attention and he's scared of leaving Jekyll alone, the few times he does go out to find someone he's largely ignored or avoided, or they misinterpret what the zombie pup wants. When Jekyll does wake up, Zosi immediately notices that it's not Jekyll, at least not anymore. Zosi knows he's supposed to get rid of any evil creatures, but this was once Jekyll. So the pup runs away and avoids him instead

•ooo I dont want to describe this whole branch? This has already taken way longer for me to write then I want XD, just check out this reblog chain about it bsksndks

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Branch 2 ½: Jekyll dies

•Jekyll fully turns into a doll, however instead of entering the real world his real body simply dies. He's found rotting in bed. "Jekyll" however, is still in the party. (Fun fact, this was the original plan for the au)

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Extra notes:

▪All the dolls in the party were once people, except for maybe one or two? A handful? But it has long since been lost who's who. And it never mattered

▪Lanyon would not have ever been invited to the party. He doesn't seem to want to be a gentleman, and he knows too much about etiquette to be fodder either

▪Jasper is a proper candidate to be invited, and in branch 2 "Jekyll" is giving him alot more lessons on how to be a proper gentleman, planning to invite Jasper to the party at some point

▪The party always has a host that they cycle though, the host talks to guests a bit more than everyone else

▪Porcelain Jekyll gets to keep his new clothes when returning to the real world