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[yolowritter]

Miraculous Adventurer Au 3: Time to spill the tea!

So...anyone remember back here when I said "this AU is still alive and kicking"? Yeah it's kicking alright. Kicking and screaming as I drag it out of my WIP pile! Welcome back to the show everyone, it's been a while! If you guys want a recap of what this Au is about (+ the Origins episode) I highly encourage you to go read part 2 of this Au here. Yes, I did just link it twice. No, I don't care. Anyway, this is just an info/idea dump for this AU, because it was in my head yesterday and refuses to let me write anything until I rant about it!

First off, I wanna explain the magic system a little better. People don't have actual "classes" like DnD, they just happen to be good at certain things and not great at others, just like real-life proficiencies! There's plenty of types of elemental magic like Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, Thunder, Light, Dark, etc. but not all of them can be casted by humans. Some magic subtypes are excusive to certain races (for example plant-related Earth magic is a druid-only thing), and others are very very rare, to the point where only a few people in the whole world can use a certain type of spells. It doesn't really need to go beyond "medieval fantasy magic", so I'm trying not to overcomplicate it. You're here for the characters and the lore, anyway.

Secondly, let's talk characters! I have almost everyone from the Miraculous Cast making an appearance in this AU, some as adventurers who encounter the Core 4 party (Ladybug, Chat Noir, Carapace and Rena Rouge), some as other roles! Here's a short list to give you an idea of what everyone does! Oh, and I should mention that everyone is in their early to mid twenties here, concerning taverns and the like. The legal drinking age in Medieval Fantasy Land is 18, so we're all good.

Marinette: Adventurer and aspiring fashion designer, travels with "Team Miraculous", including Chat Noir, Nino and Alya. Her adventurer name is Ladybug, and she really didn't mean to get wrapped up in all this hero business. Turns out wanting some extra cash can really go arwy if you tango with the local cat enthusiast. Marinette is the daughter of two bakers from a backwater village, and has always dreamed of being a famous seamstress in the Capital. Now an adult and having saved up for the trip, she ends up in a small town not far from her own home. Wanting additional funds for when she eventually arrives at the city of her dreams, Marinette decides to offer her services to any adventurer whose clothing might need adjustment or repair. Surely this won't lead to her signing up with the Guild, right? Cue the Origins episode from part 2.

Adrien: Son to Gabriel and Emilie Agreste, Prince of the Kingdom. Isolated in his childhood to be protected from political scheming, Adrien has only a few friends that he can rely on. His cousin Felix, and a rich noble girl named Chloe Bourgeois who took an interest in him when they were children. A few months ago, he recieved a marriage proposal from an eastern kingdom, and his parents introduced him to Princess Kagami, a stoic but passionate girl who he becomes fast friends with. But one day, tired and suffocated by his palace life, Adrien seeks to live out his own life away from rules and regulations. With the help of his betrothed and cousin, he and Felix switch places, allowing Adrien to don the mask of Chat Noir and freely travel as an adventurer.

Alya: A girl from a small village in the outskirts of the Kingdom, Alya has a high potential for magic powers. Unfortunately, no matter what type she tries to cast, she has great difficulty with even the simplest of spells, leading her to develop a desire to discover mysteries and the arcane as a way to try out new methods of manifesting this supposed potential. During an encounter with Ladybug and Chat Noir, Alya finds out she's proficient in Illusion Magic, for which a caster hasn't been seen in at least a century.

Nino: Childhood friend and later boyfriend to Alya, who happily supports her mystery solving and looks after his fiery and lovable girlfriend. Has a talent for music and defensive magic, and is a local bard. He knows their small village won't keep Alya occupied forever, and once she manifests her illusion magic, decides to follow in the footsteps of the adventurers who saved her and travel the land at Alya's side.

Chloe: Daughter to a backwater Baron, she's been spoiled her whole life in lieu of any parental attention. Her mother is famous in the world of high society, and so Chloe often gets invited to balls and functions where she presents herself as cold and untouchable despite her techincally low station. Once meeting the young prince Adrien, Chloe felt he was unprepared to deal with the "snakes" of the royal court, and took to being an overprotective friend through their childhoods. She still has unresolved anger issues regarding parental figues, and is extremely jealous of a village girl named Marinette, whose town her father's manor happens to be near, for having the loving parents she's always wanted.

Felix: Cousin to Prince Adrien and son of the late Duke Fathom of Lunden. Coming from a prestigious family and looking almost identical to his cousin due to the Graham De Vanily family having historically superior genetics, Felix is not much different than other nobles in terms of attitude. Cold, calculative and extremely cunning, he thrives in situations where backhanded compliments and polite threats are the norm. Having been isolated from the world by his father to be moulded into the "perfect heir", Felix lacks proper social skills, making up for this fault with sarcasm and quick wit.

Kagami: Princess to one of the Eastern Kingdoms, Kagami Tsurugi is the daughter of a queen despised by her people. Perhaps using her last bit of sense, Tomoe Tsurugi has sent her away to be married off to a western prince, who surprisingly turns out to be quite sweet and kind-hearted. However, while she could see herself and Prince Adrien becoming great friends, there exists no true spark of love between them despite his parents' enthusiastic support of their engagement. Kagami is stoic and prefers those who refuse to hesitate or mince their words...and happens to fall in love with exactly such a man. Adrien's cousin Felix, who quickly falls for her in turns during the few short weeks of wedding preparations. Explanaing the situation to Felix's mother and Kagami's fiance, the four devise a plan to ensure everyone gets their happy ending. With Adrien hurrying away to a life of adventure, Kagami is left to adjust to court life with Felix at her side, needing only to ensure Gabriel and Emilie don't realize their son is not who he seems...

Luka: Travelling bard and former boyfriend to one Marinette Dupain Cheng, what Luka lacks in magical profiency is made up for with great empathy and a golden heart. Coming from the family of a famous pirate, Luka sought to venture the world by land, and make a legitimate living unlike his mother, Anarka. Trusting the retired pirate queen with the safety of his younger sister Juleka, Luka left home to travel, and happened upon a village girl he quickly fell in love with. Despite their mutual feelings for one another, Luka still had big dreams of performing in the royal capital someday, and asked Marinette to come with him so they could be together. Unwilling to abandon all she's ever known, she refused his offer, leading to a mutual breakup. Two years later, Luka happens to visit Marinette's home town again, only to realize she's left it behind. Determined to find his one true love, Luka sets out to find out where she's gone, making new friends along the way.

Okay, that's it for the main cast! I have some details about the secondary characters such as Alix, Kim, Mylene, Ivan, miss Bustier, etc. but I'll add them at a later post. If you're interested in someone specific, feel free to shoot me an ask!

Thirdly and lastly, the storyline! I'll be honest, it doesn't necessarily have to be concrete! Since Gabriel is a standup guy and his wife is very much alive, there is no Hawkmoth! I won't spoil if Lila is or isn't here, that's for a later post, but aside from her...there isn't really a villain here. The Adventurer Au is only meant to be a light-hearted slice-of-life type of story, with the occasional beats thrown in regarding the Lore. For example, Alya and Nino becoming adventurers and quickly joining up with Ladynoir to form Team Miraculous. Chloe calling them back to her manor for a job, and joining up with the gang as Queen Bee for a short time. Ladybug bumping into Luka at some point. The Team finally arriving at the Capital, where Marinette has to wrestle between staying with her friends or going after her dreams. Obviously much more, and I do have an entire plotline about what happens when they finally arrive at the Capital regarding Adrien/Chat Noir, Felix and Kagami! That's actually going to be the subject matter next time, since I really want to share it with everyone! Until then, Stay Miraculous!

[incomingalbatross]

Tenth-century-or-earlier Old English poem Deor is great because it's just the poet going "my problems are just like when Blorbo from my legends had problems" and providing a long list of names of people in vaguely-described situations.

And then modern scholars have to read it like "we have literally barely heard of any of these guys, who even are they" because it's been a thousand years and several massive culture shifts, and some of the poet's blorbos now only survive in his references to them.

[thesweetnessofspring]

Me whenever Lionsgate reminds everyone that THG movies exist

[dooptown]

bringing up Halo 3's writing again, but this time a small part of it that i really appreciate and i don't remember anyone talking about before

the crow's nest intro cutscene is ok (aside from Miranda forcing a weird nonsensical one liner at the end) but my favorite part is after the Prophet of Truth's broadcast is over and Johnson says "Cocky bastard just loves to run his mouth"

and as he says that he pointedly looks toward the Arbiter, and this tiny action says so much about the relationship these two have. Likely, they've spent all the time between the end of Halo 2 and now fighting and planning together, and are pretty much the origins of the human/sangheili alliance. That doesn't mean they have to like each other (Johnson even states this at the end of Halo 2) but already we see him trying to find common ground with Arby.

Like he knows what happened between Truth and Arbiter, between Truth and his people. Johnson is talking directly to the Arbiter here as he tears down and belittles his former leader as a form of comradery, and it's so subtle that i wonder if whoever wrote it thought about it as hard as i have

[kacchanot-fucking-deal-with-this]

i was just trying to write a cute fic about bakugou touching izuku's hair and it's already double the intended word count and only about halfway finished

[bluheaven-adw]

Jim and the Unicorn: a Trollhunters animatic/animation

Jimtober 7: Scene from a favorite fic

This Jimtober is a very special one that is close to my heart, and brings me a bit full circle. My very first Jim art was a rather shaky lineart of Jim kneeling to a unicorn. I was a bit rusty, and had never used procreate before, so it didn't look like much... but I remember, vividly, the ever wonderful Sakon76 telling me that if a unicorn showed up in Your Future, it would be my fault. I was completely beside myself... my crappy art inspire a great such as Sakon?

And wouldn't you know, chapter 136... and there it was. I won't lie and say I totally didn't make this prompt specifically so I could make art of this scene, because I totally did. What I didn't expect though, was that art to morph and grow into something I think is truly special. So volume up, my friends, watch it in 4k on a bigger screen if you can, and please excuse the bit of shakiness in my voice.

@sakon76 , this one's for you.

Art and link to Your Future below the jump

[cinamun]

Just so you know I'm not anon. Plus you know I don't do anons because it has always backfired. However, I can see what they're saying. I wouldn't say it's a race of whose trauma is worse per se, but at least Indria had a reference point of what healthy love looks like whereas Indya did not. Now about me saying she's my least favorite Drake that is just my feeling about her overall persona not because she's non-committal. The non-commital part... my thing is I get it, she has been very vocal about what they are BUT her actions say otherwise. If the roles were reversed it would be considered mixed signals. Your mouth says one thing but your actions say another. We sit up here playing house, fucking, meeting family but you don't want this to be exclusive? I can see how that would mess with Charlie's head and his heart. One last thing, why does any trauma big or small mean you get to mishandle other people? Now, I know she thinks she's keeping it a buck but I'm looking at it from an outside perspective. That being said no one is making Charlie stay. So if he decides to leave will she be upset with him or herself? Assuming she does care...

I didn't think you were anon but I know you've used that point before. This truly is not the oppression olympics: two things can be true. Indira can have adverse experiences that shape her behavior and her mother could have generational trauma that shaped her behavior.

My question is why are we forcing something on Dira when she could just want to fuck and fly out as I asked the previous anon?

Its giving bias.

Now why can't two friends cook together and laugh about a wild ass neighbor?

How is it playing house? What happened to platonic relationships? Why are we rushing marriage and love?

Why can't she take a +1 to her parents anniversary dinner?

Why can't she set a boundary with this young man without him consistently questioning her about how she feels?

Why is she your least favorite because of that?

When she was getting flewed out to the jungle it was applauded despite Charlie.

Lastly, how is she mishandling him if she's been nothing but honest about what they are?

There is nuance here. This isn't black and white. Didn't Rahul force feelings on her? How well did that end for him?

[sewi-li-suwi]

so, i made a speedlang a month or so ago that i'd love to develop further and polish. i'm considering posting my progress on it / explaining various aspects on it on tumblr (either here or on a sideblog).. is that something people would be interested in seeing? it'd be cool to share it with other ppl and hear their thoughts/feedback on it

[deancodedinthewater]

You know what? Fuck it! *throws my version of the confession scene at you without context and runs away*

“I love you.”

“Don’t do this Cas,” Dean responded, sandpaper in his throat. “Not now.” He glanced at the wall, a portal to the empty already forming between the bricks, and then made a decision. The door broke open and Billie came in, scythe ready. 

Cas squeezed Dean’s shoulder with his bloody hand. “Goodbye Dean,” he said.

He grabbed Cas’s hand, where it sat on his shoulder- the shoulder, and felt his eyes flare black. The colour did nothing to mask the tears forming there. “You are not leaving me.” His other hand wrapped around Cas’s waist and he pulled him in. “Not again.” Thick black ooze spread up Cas’s legs and over where they were joined.

Cas tried to push him away. “Dean please-” Dean kissed him. He wasn’t taking anything Cas said as the goodbye he intended it to be. The ooze covered them both and pulled them away. The only thing left in the dungeon was Dean’s phone, vibrating in the empty silence left behind.

-

Sam held his phone up to his ear but with no answer he hung up, jabbing his finger to the screen in frustration. Jack stared at him with wide eyes as he dialled again.

“This is Dean’s other-other cell, so. You must know what to do.”

Sam hung up again and turned worried eyes on Jack. His fear was mirrored in Jack’s eyes.

“Sam?” Jack asked, voice quite. “Was it just them?”

“...I don’t know.”

The world was empty. Not a soul left in the world. All Sam could do was hope that Dean and Cas hadn’t been taken with them. He tried Dean’s number again. The phone on the floor in the basement of the Bunker vibrated against the ground with no one there to answer it.

[jaskefer]

Obsessed with the idea of Extraordinary Things being a back and forth between Jaskier and Radovid, with Jaskier trying to draw him out in the first verse, and Radovid finally answering him in the second.

Cause like, with Radovid, Jaskier meets someone who he can't fully read properly. He knows there's something under the front of a drunken, bumbling prince, but he doesn't know him well enough yet to be certain as to what.

So, he tests the waters a bit. throws out a line to see if Radovid will take it—and he does. A little bit. But it's so interesting to me, because it doesn't just feel like Jaskier is trying to nail down Radovid's truth in this verse; it feels like he's injecting elements of his own mask into it, as well.

"Keep your words on ice, your gaze lights the fire. They say 'keep on playing nice,' but I have no desire. Why waste our words when lips were made for extraordinary things? It's not a want, it's a need, it is paying no heed to what others say to sing."

This is Jaskier's read of Radovid as he knows him so far: a man hiding more complex wants beneath the veneer of a drunken party boy. But it's also Jaskier admitting that he knows this about Radovid because he wears the exact same mask himself.

Much like how Jaskier and Ciri speak through Geralt and Yennefer in order to process their own feelings about them later in the season, Jaskier sings through himself in order to comprehend who Radovid is. Jaskier is using the performative persona he's crafted for himself in an attempt to coax Radovid out of his.

All of it leads into the main intention of this song: "The greatest songs are made up of unspoken words of love. Of them, I've had enough. with you, I am enough." I am tired of having to put up a front. I want to be understood. I think you understand me. Prove me right.

And Radovid sees what Jaskier is doing. He comments on Jaskier's ability to see people for who they are and not who they pretend to be. But there's still more he wants to understand. This still feels like a game, in a way.

It's only after Radovid sees the brutality of Dijkstra and Philippa up close, watches them orchestrate the assassination of the queen and threaten to incriminate him if he doesn't fall in line, that he then grasps the vulnerability in Jaskier's lyrics. Jaskier is also caught between multiple conflicting desires, that of his loyalty to Geralt/Yen/Ciri, and that of his work as the Sandpiper & how said work is backed by his continued commitment to Redanian Intelligence. That internal conflict and the desire to escape it is also highlighted in the song's first verse ("they say keep on playing nice, but i have no desire"). Only after all of this, when true fear begins to take over and the game stops being fun, does Radovid truly begin to truly understand Jaskier.

And so, he seeks him out. And he responds.

“Drop the sweet disguise, your heart’s beating too loud. The fairytales and little lies can’t drown out all the sound.” You were right. I do understand you. I know what you really want, because we're the same. You can’t hide it behind a façade of a song and a story and a persona.

“Take this heart and break this heart for extraordinary things.” I don't know what will become of this, or us. I still don't fully know if we can trust each other. But no one has ever seen me in the way that you have.

It's not a want, it's a need. With you, I am enough.

[albatris]

sometimes my writing style gets so dull and stale then I read one book—no matter the genre or relation to reality—and then I immediately improve. like a pipe has come unclogged

[static-radio-ao3]

hi baby!! trick or treat? <3

hi laurie love <33 anything for you but also i'm preemptively apologizing for this one

“You were always my better half.” “You were never half a person to me.”

>> ask box trick-or-treat

[laze-art]

The Wolf of Bronx

Extra gritty, extra noir feel. Reminds me vaguely of "An American Werewolf in London" for some reason.

[amethystina]

So I just found a document in the "Yo Han's POV" folder of Who Holds the Devil that I don't remember making

And when I open it, it's just two sentences in an otherwise empty document. Which are:

"Ga On loved Yoon Soo Hyun too much, and Yo Han not enough. If at all."

... and now I kind of want to sue myself for emotional damages.

What the hell, me? Why did you leave that there? For me to stumble over? RUDE.

[muzzlemouths]

- 🧠 What’s an idea you have that you can’t quite call a WIP yet?

- 🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

👀 I know the Sun and Moon fandom is mostly cenetered on Sun and Moon but I'm. Admittedly curious on how you're going to answer this. And the WIP thing is just because I'm nosey :3 hope you're having a nice night!!

🧠 What’s an idea you have that you can’t quite call a WIP yet?

Pair of Wings, Gently Used

In which Sun/Moon/Eclipse is assigned as a guardian angel to y/n, who has completely given up on life. Their task? To help y/n remember how to love life again.

All three are confident in their ability to do their assigned job — y/n isn't their first case — but they are the last, as fulfilling the task at hand will be the final job that earns them their wings. However, this isn't y/n's first — or second, or third time with a guardian angel, either. Every single one has given up on them, viewing them as a lost cause. What would an angel, flawless in every way, know about humanity? What would they have in common?

As it turns out, quite a lot.

🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

CHICA. Chica my girl chica. also Michael. Those are two characters I keep meaning to at least cameo in my fics and so far I've only achieved this within Dead Mall Dare lmao.

Ask me a question!

[ashcoveredtraveler]

They both deserve to rest