#hector lives au

[meekmedea]

an AU where the polycule (Max/Hector/Cleopatra) exists and Hector later survives that one trip to 11

I'm not saying Hector has a type. But, he definitely attracts a type - tall, dark, murderous...

PRE-trip

Nobody really knows how it started, but definitely before Hector/Cleopatra married. Is Max President at that point? Probably.

Possible scenario on the honeymoon:

Hector: How are you two still in bed? Cleopatra: Beloved, it's 9 in the morning. Why are you awake and dressed? Hector: Nine is a perfectly respectable time to be up at. Cleopatra: It's our honeymoon. Nine is a horrendous time to be up. Tell him. Max, half asleep: Come back to bed. It's a Presidential order...

Hector's wedding ring has a twisting sort of design so it looks like it's made of two interlocking strands of gold bands.

Polygamy being outlawed in the Capitol. But they're fine, since only Hector & Cleopatra are married. Their thing is a bit of an open secret though.

Hard to hide when they practically live on the estate with him.

Hector still travels to the Districts.

Who's Endymion's father? Probably Hector given physical similarities. They're not doing a blood test or anything, they really don't care. Endymion is getting named heir to House Dovecote regardless.

The Ravinstills on the other hand... they really do care. Like who's inheriting after Max - Endymion? Or is Max's younger brother (+ children) inheriting as the next head of house? Answer the question, MAX!!

POST-trip

PLEASE just stay in the Capitol, Hector. You almost died! - Max Beloved, please? - Cleopatra 🥺🥺 - Endymion, age 3, being bribed to convince his dad to stay Hint: Endymion was the deciding vote.

Hector does wind up staying in the Capitol a lot more often. Though he still does his trips. Whenever he returns though, both Max and Cleopatra are very clingy. Max more than Cleopatra.

Endymion's emergency contact after Hector + Cleopatra, Max.

Parent-teacher night - spin of the wheel who's showing up. Hector is the teachers' preferred choice.

The 2 hoping to influence Endymion's piano music preferences: Liszt (Max), Rachmaninoff (Cleo). Meanwhile Hector is like... it's okay, I don't mind if you don't like either composer, dear. However, Hector did do a whole, "Hah! In your face!" to them when decades later, Clemmie preferred Chopin's music.

Different thoughts about Aelia when they first meet her.

"I like her, she's a sweet girl." (Cleopatra) "She's nice, I suppose, but I do wish her family was–" (Max) Hector smacking the back of Max's head. "Shush."

I feel like Max's policies are a little less harsh if he's got Hector around so often. Not sure if the games would exist after the Dark Days for the same reason.

Because Hector & Cleopatra are moving out IF he signs the games into existence. (Yes, they're kicking Max out of the polycule.) Which would leave Endymion & Clemensia in an awkward position as the (grand)child of divorce.

The other Ravinstills continue to spiral over whether Endymion is a Ravinstill lovechild or not. It's becoming a problem for them. Sometimes Max thinks Cleopatra messes with them. (She is) Hector too, but he does it on accident.

Hector dotes on Endymion the most of the 3. He's the same with Clemmie. It's a miracle that neither Dovecote turned out spoiled rotten.

Unfortunately, I don't think Clemensia is becoming close friends with Coriolanus in this timeline. Gloriam is getting dragged in that household. Mostly because of Max.

With Felix, he's probably like, "This is Clemmie. My cousin. I think." Good friends with one another.

[friedmagazinebouquet]

What if we did an Astayanax Lives AU where he gets to stay with his living breathing mother??? I would love an AU where Andromache gets to actually raise her child

[somereaderinblue]

Odysseus of Troy AU

Inspired by the Warrior!Penelope AU, @maggie44paint's Malewife Menelaus AU & @theblindgoddess + DaughterOfDungeonBat's Penelope of Troy AU.

So instead of Helen, Paris chooses Odysseus, thinking he's the safer option because he's just the king of small, barren Ithaca & super smart. Baby Telemachus is also spirited away as extra leverage.

Paris thinks he's being cunning, hoping this choice can somewhat ease Athena's wrath as well.

At first, Athena is furious....but then she gives the go-ahead for 3 reasons.

Odysseus will give Paris hell.

Hera will give Paris hell.

This one is important: Penelope will give Paris hell.

Paris tells himself he's doing Penelope a favour! Now she can find another, more powerful husband & have another kid with him. Plus, she's a woman with a tiny kingdom, it's not like she'll come knocking on Troy's walls.

Newsflash: a furious Penelope comes pounding on Troy's walls with a vengeance.

(Bonus if she isn't even being backed by Ares here. Oh no, all that unstoppable rage is 100% pure Penelope.)

In Olympus, Hera & Athena are cackling and high-fiving over a bucket of popcorn. In Troy, Ody is going full Mission Impossible, being a monster (rawr rawr rawr) to Paris, mapping out servant passages, calculating how much cloth it'll take to make a long enough rope & hoarding tiny paper scraps and crumbs for bird feeding.

He goes all: Yes, I need more clothes. It's not my fault my clothes keep ripping. *wink wink*. Oh, I'm not supposed to be here? Silly me, I'm hopeless without Athena's wisdom now! Look at the cute birdie, little wolf! *slips a message onto them while his son's buried under feathers*

Athena is very proud of her master liar.

Bonus:

Hector & Ody ironically become good friends because they're both dads and loving husbands. Hector tells himself he will NOT get attached to the man who's singlehandedly screwed him, his family & Troy over......only to pat the guy's back as he sobs for the nth time over missing his wife. It's hard not to empathize with him & feel a little sorry for the kid who doesn't even remember his mom.

And maybe when Hector senses that the end is coming, he & Andromache ask Ody to take Astyanax with him. He won't have a future in Troy, but it's better than no future, period.

Thus, Penelope returns to Ithaca with her family one member bigger than before.

[sarafangirlart]

Imagine if I made an au where Perseus adopts Medusa’s kids, ppl will rightfully call me deluded bc he literally killed their mom and Medusa’s sisters are right there and deserve to keep whatever they have left of their sister. This is how stupid y’all’s au where Odysseus adopts Astyanax.

[sihtryggr]

AU: LUCERYS VELARYON + titles.

Rhaenyra ascends the Iron Throne peacefully. Lucerys lives, learns to master the sea from his grandsire, Lord Corlys Velaryon, and ascends the DriftwoodThrone.

[pennumbra]

[nonbinarylocalcryptid]

Hi I have a question about your astyanax lives AU

in this version of the Underworld saga do Astyanax or Odysseus see Hector's spirit while they travel the styxs?

if so how does that go? I can imagine Hector's spirit having complicated feelings about Odysseus

Well, Astyanax is very much a baby in a baby wrap at that point, so the burrito baby doesn't retain shit from that travel. Now picture Odysseus singing Monster at the top of his lungs with a baby carrier lmao

I imagine Odysseus sees Hector's spirit from the ship, and Hector sees him in return. They don't say anything because there's nothing to say, they just stare at each other in the Underworld knowing full well who the other is and what they've done. Odysseus wraps an arm around Astyanax and nods, still making eye contact. Hector returns the nod, and then vanishes.

Simon and Clary from Shadowhunters can explain the vibe a bit better than me:

Also, there's nothing to say because actions speaks louder than words. Odysseus kept the baby safe instead of yeeting him from a wall, Hector wants his son to be safe and loved, they are both fathers, they have fought in different sides in a war but there's no safest place in the world for Astyanax right now than in Odysseus' arms. Hector may not be pleased but he is satisfied with that.

Huh, you gave me feelings 😂

Have a nice day!

[psstwantsomecheese]

If I was suddenly confronted with the infant son and heir of the deceased crown prince that held captive one of the realm's most beautiful maidens, whose very existence threatens another war therefore making the one we're currently fighting pointless in the future, I would simply raise him as my own. RIP to Odysseus but I'm different.

- Ned Stark

[dilutedh2so4]

Still thinking about that post saying Odysseus should have brought Astyanax to Calypso’s island and left him there 💀

[afterthegreatunknown]

asoue au where gregor anwhistle is alive and the stepfather of fernald and fiona, part one:

in a ripple effect that can't be explain, the mother of fernald and fiona -frigga- still in the process of a divorce with her husband thursday, despite it seemingly confirming the so-call rumor she cheated on thursday with gregor and said rumor ruined her marriage, frigga decides to go after gregor.

gregor is a handsome man that while not frigga's personal taste, is still eye-catching. and gregor is an intelligent man she gets along with well, as work associates and regular associate. and her children (well, fernald at least) knows him, as well as like him. or at least has no complaints with him.

of course, the problem at hand is that frigga doesn't know if gregor thinks of her other than a work associate. so it surprises her when gregor agrees to go on a date with her one afternoon, and then another a few days later in the evening.

it was the second date that has frigga finally popping the question of them becoming a couple. gregor agrees with no hesitation.

gregor, despite having feelings for a certain no hesitating submarine captain, knows that his feelings will never be return. gregor knows that widdershins doesn't and will never, see him in a romantic light.

so gregor figures, if he has to spend the rest of his life with someone, frigga would do. she's someone who his mother would approve of, ignoring the small age difference. and frigga is someone he does gets along with well, as a work associate and as a regular associate.

with frigga and thursday's divorce finally settled, frigga and gregor go on several more dates, before deciding to get marry. it was in the papers, for the anwhistle name is quite well-known, and it is a family in the organization that is old and such has lots of respect.

and such respect has the organization willingly to be more accepting of the volatile fungus deportation project. it was a project that had a couple of great intelligent working on that is thought of to be grand. it would the thing that ends the schism once and for all!

but it didn't. it instead created a schism within a schism. some of gregor and frigga's associates thought it dangerous. that the couple was playing with fire, and would destroy everything.

associates like kit snicket. associates like widdershins.

kit and widdershins and others of gregor's generation came together, and agree that the anwhistle couple must be stop. after a long time planing, with the help from one of gregor's brother who was going to be leaving the city and relocated to a village in the hinterlands, widdershins and another associate was able to sneak into anwhistle aquatic late one night, ready to destroy the fungus.

said other associate was a vfd superior of frigga's generation: ishmael. kit and widdershins and everyone else in the know were wary of his presence. he was vocal about his his dislike for the volatile fungus deportation project, but never he tried to go persuading his associates to turn against the idea.

still, having one associate of frigga's generation gave the group the confidence they need to sneak into anwhistle aquatic.

but gregor and frigga knew of the plan. or at least, suspected it. gregor's other brother and his wife, while disagreeing with the idea of the mycelium, didn't like the idea of losing family, especially in a violent matter. they told gregor about the possibility of someone going after him and his wife, and told them to be careful.

gregor and frigga didn't want to lose their lives' work, especially to those they thought they could trust. such perspective betrayal had the confrontation between the four ending in fire and death.

ishmael barely escaped with his life due to finding the one working bathyscaphe that the marine research center and rhetorical advice service had. not before setting a fire without mercy, wanting to spite gregor for what he had done, to the organization, and himself.

gregor escaped the fire by stealing the queequeg, crying his eyes out for the betrayal and lost of the one person he truly loved. while never having proper submarine training, he did had a few lessons underneath his belt due to widdershins' teaching him.

frigga was injured by ishmael via gunshots, for ishmael brought a revolver. the blood loss had her dying before the fire. but she would have perished in the fire anyway if she wasn't shot, risking her life to save her research, forgetting about her children at home.

as for widdershins, gregor in the confrontation grabbed a sample of an prototype fungus on his desk, and shoved it into widdershins' mouth, forcing the man to swallow it. then, gregor pushed him out the top window. if the fall didn't kill widdershins, the mycelium did.

despite having a surname that is associated with being unlucky, widdershins got all the luck in the world that night.

gregor's brother hector, the one who helped kit and widdershins and others, had a feeling something would go wrong. on the night he was suppose to leave, hector instead stole a boat, and went to anwhistle aquatic, just in time to see the flames engulfing the center in the early morning. in the distance, he sees a floating body.

the body floating by, is widdershins. hector rushes to bring the man aboard, and in his horror, sees widdershins is infected not just by the fungus, but the prototype, which is more volatile. it's growing out of his mouth, trying to take over his entire body.

it's a lucky thing that hector came prepare with a jar of grated horseradish. hector was able to cure widdershins of the prototype, though he now has 'scars' on his neck, his chest and stomach, and almost all of his left arm.

hector eventually does as he was told. he relocate to the village of fowl devotee, and he takes widdershins. hector asked widdershins upon their return back to hector's soon-to-be-former apartment, if he wants to leave with him, and widdershins agrees with no hesitation. he feels no loyalty and love to the organization that saved him, even to the man he calls father. the two go to the village, after some careful paper work that has widdershins going back to his biological name. widdershins is no longer v. widdershins.

widdershins is now back to veasna heng. most people refer to him as heng, for they can't pronounce his first name. well, except hector. and hector has the honor of still being able to call widdershins 'widdershins', at least when alone together. hector had fears the other man wouldn't like to be call by his old surname, but widdershins told hector that he can be the exception.

the village had initial objections to hector bringing in an outsider they weren't inform of, but they accepted the outsider after they got him on the platform, and questioned him nonstop to learn anything about him. hector was quite worry the elders would reject widdershins, or that widdershins would get himself into trouble and burn at stake.

with the elders accepting widdershins, hector can finally take his place as the handyman, with widdershins as his assistant.

hector quite likes living far away from the city, and the ocean. most importantly, hector likes having the company of widdershins. with widdershins around, hector has something to talk to, to vent to. hector realizes that he has someone to comfort him when thinking of past that has hector feeling close to tears. having widdershins around has hector realizing his dream of living in his self-sustaining hot air mobile home would be incomplete without company.

widdershins dislikes the hinterlands, for it's far from his element of the water, and it rarely rains. when it rains, it's short or too long and muddy. being around hector though, widdershins can forget his element, and the pain it caused. widdershins feels while not a different person, feels better than he had in years. being around hector has widdershins realizing that there's more to life than he once thought, and that he doesn't want it to disappear.

one day hector does a grand proposal; if hector has to spend his life with one person, it would be widdershins, flaws and all.

and widdershins didn't hesitate to say yes; if widdershins has to spend his life with one person, it would be hector, faults and all.

with their decision made, the two soon spend their days repairing and taking care of the village, as well as building the self-sustaining hot air mobile home, ready to escape and be free of the past, ready to start a new life together.

at least until three orphans decided that the village of fowl devotee be their new home. at least until another familiar face shows up, with hector and widdershins doing their best to defend the three children who were accused of killing said familiar face, and failing.

hector and widdershins realize as they escape the village with duncan and isadora quagmire, force to leave the baudelaires on land, that they can't escape the vfd. they see it's catching up to with them, and it reveals itself at open sea where it all began.

(it's always the ocean.)

[lonnitamongus]

AU where charlie is actually also evil and works alongside with du'met. or where their roles are switched. charlie is the serial killer and du'met films true crime documentary.

I actually really like this idea! I can imagine a whole story for this already actually. Granthem would go by his real name here though considering he isn't a secretive murderer.

(Help I accidently wrote a whole summary for this possible fic sorry :-:)

I image Hector being a true crime expert who is starting work for Lonnit Entertainment. He is a well known expert when it comes to criminal history and is recently hired in an attempt to salvage the show "Architects of Murder." He is a quiet man who is trying to let go of his traumatic past while still using his criminology skills to make ends meet. Hector is knowledgeable in criminology and research due to previously being an FBI agent. He resigned due to traumatic experiences with a certain murderer he caught and moved on to becoming a criminology researcher. Hector found himself being interviewed for his involvement in the Manny Sherman case in several documentaries and due to it found himself getting more and more opportunities in true crime media.

Very recently, Hector was invited to work with Lonnit Entertainment, a small film company. He was hired to offer the group insight into H.H Holmes, the highlight of their current episode. He began working with Charlie Lonnit and his small crew for a while before Charlie supposedly found an amazing opportunity for their show. An invitation from a man named Granthem Du'Met to a private recreation of the H.H Holmes murder castle. Hector was incredibly skeptical at first, something about this sudden invitation just felt too perfect for the shows status. Charlie urged them and made them take their weekends to head to the castle despite Hector's warnings however.

The crew arrives at the island, Charlie seemed to know how exactly to enter despite Granthem Du'Met's absence. Hector felt that everything was wrong with this place, even if there were genuine artifacts from H.H Holmes. It was until dinner time did the group meet up at the dining room to see that Charlie Lonnit was missing. A doll was in his place, it told the group of five that Granthem Du'Met never existed. Charlie Lonnit had planned all of this from the start, and now that they were trapped in the castle he'd kill them off one by one while recording everything. Their murders would be turned into the greatest film Charlie Lonnit had ever made...

But that's just what I imagine with this idea. I can't believe I wrote an entire summary to this maybe I will actually write this one thank you so much for the idea haha I somehow got myself into writing so much for this response I didn't mean to :o

[meekmedea]

5 & 32?

Ask Game

5. Quote one of your fics out of context.

Who was he to not reward such devotion?

32. Which fic would you most like to write a sequel to?

all that begins must also end - I do like how it ends, but it'd definitely be fun to see whether Hector & Max go from there.

[rottenalt]

Songfic;

Clinton Kane - I Guess I'm in Love

Ahh yess I see all the angst and fluff with this one 🙌 Thank you anon!

[mirrorofliterature]

10. something sharp, something new

thanks for the ask (and here's the belated answer after a chaotic few weeks)! again - the title is from an encanto song and is just a placeholder title.

now - I'm not sure if I'll ever finish this fic. this is the first coco story I wrote, or started to write, and the basic premise was that there was a detective in mexico city who knew that hector had been murdered but not WHO hector was, and finally was able to identify him and bring him back - to imelda and whatnot.

I probably won't finish it because I wrote a spin-off of that idea where felipe goes to mexico city and encounters that detective and finds out about hector's death in 1923, which I have already published the first chapter (in july, whoops): all we have left are ghosts, which I quite like, so I think re-hashing the same idea at this point doesn't make much sense (or spark joy for me, tbh), but it was essentially a good piece of worldbuilding for the story I actually polished (and posted the first chapter of) - so yeah!

likely a perpetual WIP, but one I'm happy to linger.

wip title ask game.

[planetpedri]

Hi, can I request a Hector Fort blurb maybe where you’re either his girlfriend or girl that’s a friend and she’s contemplating whether or not she really does have feelings for him and the only way she actually finds out is when she’s with him, he’s not smiling at all, like at all whatsoever until he meets her gaze which makes her flush and she’s like yeah, okay, I’m lowk screwed…

I love your writing so much! Xx

Friday, i’m in love — Héctor Fort.

Pairing: Héctor Fort x Fem!Reader

Summary: While out with friends, your mind is preoccupied by the boy sitting across from you. Did you or did you not like him? That was the question you’d been pondering all night. But when his eyes meets yours, and he gave you a rarely seen smile… you knew.

Word count: 376

Disclaimer/s: none! well this is SLIGHTLY and i mean slightly, a high school AU!

A/N: sighs bc i need him BAD. BAAAD.

The living room of your friend’s apartment was packed with your friend group. Your annual Friday after school get-together. The couches filled, seats filled, and a few scattered around the floor. You sat on one of couches, squished in between Marc and your best friend, Ellie.

The sounds around you muffled as you escaped into your mind. Your eyes subconsciously wondering to him. Héctor Fort. The man who’d been invading your mind for the past six months. Your eyes traced his facial structure, from his well defined cheeks, to his perfectly shaped lips, the ones that always seemed to be pressed flat.. oh he was everything you could ever dream of.

Your dilemma laid exactly in that. You’d always had a hard time differentiating platonic from romantic feelings, and he was really pressing your buttons.

Every time you looked at him, you felt as though you could hardly breathe. But at the same time, thats how you felt looking at a sunset. Plus, he was one of your closest friends, so there was no way you could like him.. right?

Too caught up in your own thoughts, you almost didn’t notice him looking up at you. Your eyes met and you felt the air leave your lungs. Time stopped as you watched his lips form a small smile, an expression he hadn’t worn the whole night.

In fact, Héctor rarely smiled unless something was very amusing. Or, rather, he would smile, but it would just be a slight upturn of the lips, not a whole teeth-showing smile. If that makes any sense.

You knew then, the difference between platonic and romantic. Because there was nothing platonic about the way your heart was beating so rapidly at something as little as a smile.

So, you smile back. A warm look that told a million truths, one’s you’d been denying for so long — too long. He had to have known the meaning, because his Adam’s apple bobbed in his throat and a light red color blossomed on his cheekbones.

Héctor Fort was blushing. The brooding, never expressive teen, was blushing? And the cause of it was you? He was blushing because you were smiling at him. Oh yeah. You were one hundred and ten percent, screwed.

DTS , @halfwayhearted @spidybaby !

[maple-tree-hills]

Percy Jackson AU where instead of Poseidon being absent in Percy’s life, he helps raise him. But Percy doesn’t know his dad is Poseidon. He thinks Peter Johnson is a marine biologist and a fisherman who is frequently on long business trips for his job. Maybe Sally and Poseidon are divorced, and she marries Smelly Gabe or maybe they’re still together, who knows.

Just, instead of Percy being in anger at the gods for neglecting their children he’s in disbelief that his very normal father is Poseidon. They go on fishing trips together all the time and he dresses like a tacky Hawaiian tourist. Not a god. He refuses to believe this despite Grover being a satyr, and Mr. Brunner being a centaur.

I’m not sure if Percy should know all of the gods or not. Maybe he knows Mr. D already as Cousin Dexter. Cousin Dexter has shown up a couple of times in his life. He’s a devil for the drink and a known alcoholic, so why is he at this weird camp playing cards with Grover and Mr. Brunner? And they start talking about the gods and demigods again. And Mr. D calls him ‘mortal.’ And Percy’s like yeah, no Cousin Dexter has had a bit too much to drink despite the fact that he can’t smell any alcohol on him, and he’s only been drinking Diet Coke. Percy switches subjects as to why Mr. D isn’t drinking any alcohol. Apparently, his father won’t let him drink alcohol anymore and is forcing him to work at this summer camp. Percy is happy to hear this because at least someone isn’t having Cousin Dexter’s shit anymore.

Then they switch gears back into the conversion about gods existing and he’s sure Grover, or Mr. Brunner, or Mr. D will say sike, but none of them do. They all seriously believe in the gods. Well Percy is stubborn and won’t be convinced this easily.

And then he finds out that Hades stole the master bolt and has his mother, and he’s like uncle Hector? Uncle Hector is a god of the underworld? And he has my mother and stole Zeus’s lightning bolt? No way. Uncle Hector lives in LA and works at a music producing studio. He is not the god of the underworld. He is not Hades, this is insane and Percy does not appreciate being punked. He’ll admit some supernatural stuff is real because a minatur killed his mom, but being a demigod no way.

And they keep telling Percy about the family drama and he’s still in disbelief. All he knows about uncle Zane is that his father is not on good terms with him. There’s no way uncle Zane who his father HATES, who works in the Empire State Building is Zeus. There’s just no way.

And then he finds out about the Big Three and forbidden children thing. And he goes ‘That can’t be true uncle Hector has two kids: cousin Bianca and cousin Nico.’ And he just accidentally spoils to everyone that Hades has not kept his end of the pact about fathering more mortal children.

And then they’re on the road going through quests fighting against Alecto again, Echidna, and Medusa and Percy still can’t believe the gods are real.

It isn’t until he gets to the underworld that he starts believing. There seated on a dark throne surrounded by skeletons is Uncle Hector? Uncle Hector is actually Hades? He’s freaking out he’s never seen his uncle this way before. He’s terrifying and keeps demanding this Helm of Darkness thing in exchange for his mother. Where’s Nico he wants to hang out with his cousin?

And maybe Percy sasses him because what the heck uncle Hector sending furies after your nephew and holding your sister-in-law hostage and accusing your nephew of theft is not cool. And things for the most part will proceed like they do in the book for the most part. I could see Hades when he’s pretending to be a human behaving similarly to Jay Duplass’s portrayal of him in the TV show. Just a comical uncle who is most certainly not lord of the underworld.

(I’ve only seen the TV and I’ve almost finished the first book so far, but I do know Hades has two kids named Bianca and Nico)