#franz forts sandforts

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what on god's green earth would a barbie princess and the pauper au entail/pos

listen I have a full notes app summary of it but basically

lysander is the princess (technically prince. but he’s a princess in my heart) and forts is his servant and Lysander’s about to get married off to a princess of a foreign kingdom (my friend’s oc) which will bring peace or some shit. Lysander and forts are both miserable about this but neither knows the other likes him back. And then shenanigans happen and Lysander is kidnapped before the wedding and forts has to scramble and find someone that looks like him before the nation is plunged into war and he finds my friend’s oc accela! So it’s literally just Barbie princess and the pauper but with crossdressing (so, it’s vastly improved)

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you are very into your OCs so it is statistically likely that you have at least ONE au (besides the escapism and awbtl versions) about them. would you like to share with the class. and if not My Bad ✋take this chance then toooo ummm tell me about a character that reminds you of ur OCs? Or that you take inspo from? 👁️

YES I have like a BAJILLION aus, mostly bc forts and Lysander’s story isnt super concrete, so like half of the stuff I write for them is an au. I have like. A modern au, a mermaid au, a even worse end au that I made to hurt my own feelings, a Barbie princess and the pauper au, an utena au, and yes, the various aus I have from my friends’ oc worlds. I’m insane about all of them. There are simply too many to talk about in detail here, but if a specific one interests you, feel free to ask!!

As for the second question, I don’t think I really take that much inspiration from other characters to write my ocs, they’re all parts of me in some way. That being said:

THIS GUY IS FORTS THIS GUY IS SO FORTS I LOVE YOU ATUARTO WITCH HAT ATELIER…. he looks like forts he acts like forts he has a similar story to forts he is just forts he’s so forts have I mentioned he’s forts. I love him. I might have based forts off of him unconsciously, but I didn’t make the connection until I reread the chapter.

everyone should read witch hat atelier. It’s got really well written gay people in it

Forts is also kinda based off of rogier from Elden Ring, but like, very loosely. I just thought that seeing rogier slowly fade away until he dies was so painful and it’s a really good tragedy, especially since he’s so kind the whole time.

As for lysander, I’m unsure? He’s very specific and I can’t really think of characters that are like him. Maybe Remy Bonnaire from Tiger, Tiger.

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saw a cute template thing and wanted to do it with my idiot dummies

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That’s really all there is to it

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oops

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meant to ask you a while ago but I Forgor anyway care to explain why Forts' token Shakespeare character is Mercutio 🤨 (I'm sorry I haven't read romeo & juliet in a whiiillle)

Oooo boy. Thank you for asking!!!

Mercutio and Forts have very different personalities, of course, so the reason they’re similar is more of their narrative role.

Romeo and Juliet is a classic Shakespearean romance right up until the moment Mercutio dies. That death is what unravels everything. It makes Romeo kill Tybalt in revenge, which leads to Romeo’s banishment, which leads Juliet and the Friar to make their plot, which leads to both Romeo and Juliet dying.

Similarly, in the plot I made for Forts and my other friends’ bloodborne characters (named Cress, Accela, and Adagia), Forts becomes friends with a group of hunters and everything is wonderful and fine… until Forts gets attacked by a beast and passes out, and his dear and well-meaning friend Cress administers a blood vial, not realizing that healing blood turns people into beasts, especially without the proper blood ministration surgery. (similar to Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo’s actions inadvertently cause Mercutio’s death)

Forts knows this because of Lysander, and when he wakes up and is told what happened, he knows he doesn’t have much time left. The thing is, he loves his friends too much to leave, and he’s just so desperately lonely that he can’t bear to just run away and spare them the grief.

Eventually, the beast plague catches up with him and he can’t hide it. He hates the idea that he might become a beast and hurt people, so he asks to be killed before that happens. Adagia is the one that kills him.

The grief of his death is what pushes Cress over into becoming a beast. Accela and Adagia have no idea that the beast is her and they kill her, and once they realize it causes Accela to freak out and have a fight with Adagia, during which fight Adagia kills her.

Adagia then proceeds to wander the bleak world of Yharnam alone, just as she had before.

So yeah, Forts is the reason everything falls apart. Is that his fault? Debatable. It’s that good tragedy shit that I’m a little insane about.

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Maybe I’ll just reveal all of my oc lore through memes

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drawings that are only funny to like five people (my wonderful friends who read my stories 🫶)

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these guys are so stupid

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trying to figure out how best to introduce her but here’s forts’s awesome adoptive mom

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he loves dogs

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they make me sick

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I don’t think I posted this. heart attack chuu mv except it’s two stupid thirty something guys

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put these goobers in @butterscotch-goat ‘s story, escapism!!! I was actually planning on doing this before awbtl because it’s funny to me that charles and forts look so similar while having WILDY different personalities, but I couldn’t think of what powers they’d have or if they had any at all. I had a lot of fun with this!! y’all have cool worlds!!!!

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you know what I like you (awbtls your fortsander)

thank you @thatlenguy for telling me about your cool world!!! the benefit of forts and lysander having no set story is that I can just plop them into any world and it works… they’re so silly and stupid I love them

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having so many thoughts about forts but alas I have no energy or ability to draw rn so all I can manage is this