#furnace sword af

[allthecastlesonclouds]

yippee :) @starstruckodysseys sword af modern au be upon ye! ty preemptively letting me ramble :)

FIRST. CHARACTERS.

let's start with... Koda Amakiir :D

they/them

traveling musician

child star /neg : ran away when it got to be too much; planned to meet up with fayen in the next city and couldn’t find him

show was called Four Seasons

they are not living their best life but they do love what they do

vibes with delores immediately. bug is sweet but. a bit too enthusiastic for them

always carries the SMALLEST hope that at the next city, they’ll find him :) they haven't yet :)

alr next Delores Paradise

she/her

owns a trinket shop with a constant Everything Must Go sign

Went into a coma years ago and was legally considered dead for a while – when she woke up she was given her children’s contacts, but was told she would have to contact them herself. She has not yet

(she’s afraid of what their reactions might be)

the hospital was Mourosel's and that medical debt is. hefty

very very close to straight up Buying the building from her landlord bc he jacks up the price every year.

rents it out along with fernie– the second floor houses two bedrooms and a kitchen/dining room, the first floor (behind the shop) has two more bedrooms, a Very Small sitting area, and a bathroom

the shop doubles as a performance space– artists are allowed to rent out the space during the day if they want to, but in the evenings, esp the weekends, there's an open mic night that does in fact serve alcohol

Bug

he/they

somehow very few people know his last name!

delores should since she hands over the rent to the landlord but she was. not fully with it when she did let’s say.

i am saying she was drunk and/or busy flirting with the next door neighbor

24, graduate school– studying to be a surgeon.

goes to their school’s athletic center RELIGIOUSLY

watched koda’s show as a child (also religiously) and that made them want to be. as buff as possible

def had like. so many posters of Four Seasons. like plates and posters and a blanket and bug is trying to keep as much of this a secret from koda as possible

he's trans. bc i can make him. also middle child. parents did not realize he came out to them and so now bug's just uncomfortable during every interaction

some of their siblings are. bitches tho

something in my aus is that i will retcon as few things as possible from the actors but I CANNOT MAKE BUG A PODCAST GUY. PLS. PLS BUG'S MY GUY

and our last guy got a name change: Ashton "Fernie" Fern

he/him

fernie by his friends, furnace by his family

delores came up with the nickname when they got drunk together

park ranger! faerashi faerani is one of the park’s lawyer; they’re pretty close. she handles all of the park’s legal cases, and sometimes they just get drunk together bc people visiting the parks are idiots

kevin the moth is a terrarium moth that he keeps in his room :]

has biweekly dinners with (first) delores (and then the whole group once they move in)

there are three rubens in fernie's life– one is his coworker, one is a weasel in the park, and one is his cat :)

such a nice guy. genuinely very sweet. and then he sees his family and faerasha literally has to shove him off a path so he doesn't punch them again

alr a few other points i wanna make :)

faerasha (she doesn't usually go by her full name, it's either fae or 'rasha) is doug's daughter

doug was a costume designer on Four Seasons. now he's a private stylist. he's also fucking rich

bug couldn't rent with the people he rented with the previous year of school– they're that group of heroes from s1– and koda likes to room in places that aren't hotels bc they're less likely to be found by fans

bug was punching trees in the park and fernie stopped him and they just chatted. koda swung by the trinket shop bc it was the most outwardly welcoming building they could find and then asked delores if she knew where someone could stay

bug sees koda when delores and fernie organize a meeting to make sure everyone would be alright with the living situation and went I Will Be Literally So Normal. I Am Literally So Normal About This. (to be fair he tried very hard with it)

bug and fernie are both Big Family kids. fernie's the oldest of like. 9 or 10 kids, i want to say? i'm really set on bug's family having 13 kids for some reason and bug's SOLIDLY number 7

fernie double majored in business and environmental studies, minor in economy, then got a master's of science in animal welfare and behavior

unfortunately this means that his father did not in fact change the deed to true neutral. yes it's nepotism. of course this bitch would rely on nepotism for his business

true neutral is essentially amazon in canon right? it continues to essentially be amazon.

so the ceo dies and the company goes to "his eldest son, who is entirely capable due to his education". this sparks annoyance in the public bc of nepotism. this sparks annoyance in the family bc fernie hates his family. this sparks annoyance in delores bc her trinket shop is flooded with reporters all of a sudden– and then fans of koda, and then two of bug's brothers (she forces everyone to buy something for every question they want to ask, which does lessen her annoyance). this sparks annoyance in faerasha bc HE'S NOT SAYING ANYTHING HE NEEDS A FUCKING LAWYER–

fernie doesn't know what's happening. his phone broke a week ago and he hasn't bothered to get a new one, he can get to work and back just fine

finally faerasha just breaks in and sits him down

alr there's more not in that vein

koda and doug are besties even though doug is. a couple decades older. they have tea every now and again

koda's also working on an album. they're not going to announce it– people would find them– but they're thinking they might quietly release it and just let people find it

gunthar is the next-door neighbor and delores unabashedly flirts with him. rum-pum and tungo and chumo live on the other side and bug is consistently delighted by their stories. they're all dating. he thinks.

delores really does not know whether to contact her kids

she has a late night talk with koda tho where they talk about their. bad experiences. on their show. and she talks about her coma and her debt and her lack of memory.

and they push her to call one of them! she's got her family just one step away, and she's so kind to all of them!

and now. bc why not. some doodles. fernie doesn't look tall enough but like. the energy is there

[ammnd]

🌻|🔥

[thejegsu12]

F U R N A C E

SwordAF season 2 is here and MAN is it great so far!

[fallinginaforrest]

"This is Fernie. Plant it in my Garden."

[puch-jpg]

So… I’m obsessed

[justanotherspeck]

"i finally know what money is and what money does" in THAT context is so insane, what a way to bring it back around.

[iamchickenhearmesquawk]

Fernie and Furnace have my whole heart dammit

Also Koda bullying bugs bullies made me so emotional fuck

[alliexandra]

three wins. four arms. five nights at freddy's...

[tame-a-messenger]

PLEASE tell me you've watched the SAF S2E1 visualizer bc the part in the end when Fernie goes beast mode... There certainly was some Visualizing going on

!!! SPOILERS FOR SAF S2 E1 !!!

I went and watched it because of this ask!

Holy shit does he look cool~

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fernie/furnace from sword af is the best autistic DID representative the media has right now.

[vc55bughead]

SWORD AF S2×E2 SPOILERS BELOW!

Damien calling Fernie "The Inferno" and unlocking some of the biggest lore yet>>>>> : the reason they picked that name was BRILLIANT! To showcase him being a tree and part plant but him also being a literal machine- a furnace. *THE Furnace* 🤯🤯🤯

LADY-BUG 🤏🥺

THE PATTYCAKE MY HEART 😭😭😭

A BEEJ-

THE CLIFFHANGER STOP IT!!!!

we NEED more fun fluffy relaxed episodes that was so cool!

Also......🔥Henry🔥

[ammnd]

Hero

poster version :DD

[deliveringdestiny]

SWORD AF S2 E1 SPOILERS

I have not been keeping up with the sword af fandom recently so I’m not sure if I’m the first person to say this but I think we should start calling furnace fernie burnie

[fallinginaforrest]

Sword AF spoilers

a) I correctly guessed Bug would choose Oath of Devotion for his Paladin Oath (makes sense considering his cleric past). I can't recall his oath being explicitly stated anywhere but the spealls he used are available to oath of devotion.

b) I'M CRYING. OF COURSE THE FURNACE'S LAST MESSAGE WAS TO BUG. "This is Fernie. Plant it in my garden" Bug and Fernie had such a special bond, arguably Bug took it hardest when Fernie died and the Furnace replaced him. All they wanted was their friend back. But he was able to work through it. He found peace in the Furnace. They Consolidated this new creature with the creature he had known before and he was able to see them as two sides of the same coin. He loved the Furnace as he loved Fernie, and so of COURSE the Furnace would reach out to Bug in those final moments. Of course the Furnace, washed away, obliterated by the sheer energy of the reactor, a reactor made of nature, of life, would reach out to Bug. Of course Fernie would reach out to Bug.

[mountainiplier]

Some thoughts while listening to sword af, i'm so normal about these losers (lies)...

- Well, jokes on you, cursty and sean are asexual, and they really are just making macaroni art! (Jk, but wouldn't be really funny though?)

- the sound design is fucking amazing!!

- These fuckers (affectionate).... they're so familiar with tropes n shit, i fucking hate it (love it) when they're breaking the fourth wall that way.

- I'm a fucking sucker for dismisive, powerful, villain. Yes, i am talking about characters voiced and played by damien haas. First we got krungdar the bloodsmith, now we have whoever this mech suit wearer is. Just the idea of a big, powerful, masc person, so dismissive because they know their power and what they're able to do.... just, bend me over or something. Y'know?

- I'm freaking the fuck out on the train, i can't do this shit. I need to listen to this in private!

- "Little fernice (furnace?) infernum"..... "my little toy back"... what the fuck is your past, fernie????

- "Oh it's go time!" NOOOOO!!!! WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN?? HOW FCUKING DARE THEM ENDING IT THERE? BOSS FIGHT???

- I wanna see their facial expression so bad.... but it's okay! But i wish at least some sort of subtitle somewhere.

[waitingforwinterwinds]

Game of Thrones - 43 EDDARD XI (pages 446-454)

Ned is petitioned for vengeance justice by the survivors of an assault lead by the Mountain, Gregor Clegane. Ned sends Lord Beric Dondarrion and a party of men off to try.

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Through the high narrow windows of the Red Keep's cavernous throne room, the light of sunset spilled across the floor, layering dark red stripes upon the walls where the heads of dragons had once hung. Now the stone was covered with hunting tapestries, vivid with green and browns and blues, and yet it seemed to Ned Stark that the only color in the hall was the red of Blood.

Now ain't that just a metaphor for the whole bloody place?

He sat high upon the ancient seat of Aegon the Conqueror, an ironwork monstrosity of spikes and jagged edges and grotesquely twisted metal.

Was thinking to myself "is the chair younger than King's Landing which is itself only 300 odd years old? Can you really can a 300 year old chair ancient when Ned's family has lived in a castle built 8,000 years ago? What's a good word to encapsulate its history that doesn't make it seem so much older than it is?"

So anyway, the Iron Throne is Retro now.

"His Grace is hunting across the Blackwater, Ned said, wondering how a man could live his whole life a few days ride from the Red Keep and still have no notion what his king looked like.

*moves the marker for Ned Stark's estimated intelligence down a few notches*

A few days ride is A Lot if you have no real reason to travel it. If I was a peasant, I'd hope to go my whole life without having reason to meet or need to know the face of the king. If I had reason to see the king, it had better bloody be because I was in town for a trade and happened to catch a royal procession through the street. You genuinely think the 'small folk' give two shits what the king looks like as long as he's not interfering with their lives overly much? Cause Ned? If these people need to see the king? It's either because they're having his promo pics shoved in their faces, or something absolutely devastating has happened and they need to make an appeal in court, like say, what these people are doing right now!?!

Ned could feel cold steel against his fingers as he leaned forward. Between each finger was a blade, the points of twisted swords fanning out like talons from arms of the throne. Even after three centuries, some were still sharp enough to cut. The Iron Throne was full of traps for the unwary. The songs said it had taken a thousand blades to make it, heated white-hot in the furnace breath of Balerion the Black Dread. The hammering had taken fifty-nine days. The end of it was this hunched black beast made of razor edges and barbs and ribbons of sharp metal; a chair that could kill a man, and had, if the stories were to be believed.

Aegon the Conqueror was so freaking extra.

Also no wonder this ugly-ass chair is cursed AF. You can probably walk into that room and see the chairs corrupting malevolent aura, and everyone be like "psh, nah! that's just the smoke from the crapton of candles and torches we leave lying around."

This is one of those chapters where my fic loving brain is already writing fix it fics that amount to "and then (insert awesome team here) from (insert non ASOIAF fandom here) break not only the fourth wall but the fabric of space time and stomp (insert degenerate piece of garbage masquerading as a human being here) into the ground!!!"

NGL, I would love to see Gregor squished under the foot of a Zord. Or char-grilled by a Charizard.