#here you gooooo

[thefourchimes]

Can you tell me more about the Four Chimes AU?

What paths did you originally have planned for Robin? I wanna see how close my own ideas are lol :D :D :D

And tell us more about the Chimes themselves please? Like what are they like? What kind of abilities do they have? I may need some ideas for a fight scene... hehe

so. four chimes au my beloved. the reason why my url name is the way it is, even when im an encanto centered blog AHSFUIAHSF but yeah, here we go then! also, finn mentioned you can send him asks too, he would love to answer you about this as well yeye

anywho, lore dump time! made with a tag team between me and finn

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Can you tell me more about the Four Chimes AU?

the four chimes verse is essentially an amalgamation of my want—need—for badass max, max angst, elumax angst, just general party and co angst, apocalypse four shenanigans, several unexplored character interactions and dynamics, the four horsemen of the apocalypse concept, and everything else that comes with this plus things i wasnt able to mention its very self indulgent ngl

but yes, it's about the apocalypse four (max, patrick, fred, and chrissy) and how they get turned into the upside down four horsemen of the apocalypse aka the four chimes of catastrophe by vecna, and they become his way of furthering chaos and destruction in hawkins, while also using them to get rid of his thorns aka the party and co

nobody's having a fun time lol

i've already got a lot of it planned out, i just need to write it lmao asufhaishdf

its funny because this all started when finn sent an ask to his friend about how the four victims of vecna are paralleled to the four horsemen of the apocalypse

on top of me already thinking about this, i saw the ask and pretty much ran with it

also, here's a bonus just for you! the following are the arc names of the og four chimes au (and technically still the general arc names regardless of the sub aus, tho ofc with some differences here and there):

pre-shattering

during catastrophe - the four chimes

during catastrophe - contact to familiarity

during catastrophe - jailbreak

during catastrophe - void dark

during catastrophe - escape the dark

during catastrophe - resonance

during catastrophe - the end

post-apocalypse

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What paths did you originally have planned for Robin? I wanna see how close my own ideas are lol :D :D :D

so robin is very feral yes AHSIFUHASf

im pretty sure i explained it a bit before but robin got hit by an arrow that was meant for nancy in the ciquest au, and because of nancy, she's able to find the will to fight back against the infection instead of succumbing to it, making it her own

One and the chimes sees how she's evolving and don't like it, so lence's suggestion of getting nancy takes priority, and so it happens

nance becomes quest and now the battle is on

robin is obviously devastated and the gang is slightly in shambles because of how much nancy brings to the table, and now she's gone—no, worse, she's being used for the other side

so robin steps up to the plate in multiple ways, trying her best to fill the void nancy was forced to leave behind

the burden on her is so heavy considering she got a power she technically never expected to have nor wanted, but now it's on her to make the most use of it

she usually questions why it was her who was in this situation and literally not anybody else who she thinks could definitely do better

lots of questions and wondering for her

now, unlike with renegade, she doesn't lose herself technically, but she gets close, like a lot

though should i mention that there was a little kidnapping that happened? the person who was kidnapped in question being someone who is very important to robin and may have caused a some strain and conflict for her and the chimes?

yeah, the chimes kidnapped steve to lure robin to them so that they can take her down

it was conquest's idea :)

robin was very much not happy about that btw

lots of things happen and as said, robin was very much close to losing it so many times but she doesn't for a couple of reasons

renegade is a completely new take and direction of ciquest and just four chimes in general, and im so interested in seeing where it goes, so very interested <333

i feel like im not able to tell robin's full story here, both because we want to keep some things hidden and also because my brain is kinda not working rn AHSFUHASF mb on that one

but yeah, that's generally it, tho if you got more questions, feel free to send an ask to either me or finn, and if we remember something in particular, we'll make sure to mention it

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And tell us more about the Chimes themselves please? Like what are they like? What kind of abilities do they have? I may need some ideas for a fight scene… hehe

here's the longest part because...lore dump yes

the chimes our beloveds <33

so the chimes. in our 68600 messages (as of the moment) of a four chimes dump, we've built up the characters and personalities of the chimes, and somewhere in this thread is the scattered information on them

now, i unfortunately dont have the time and patience to go through the thread to find all of the little information, but we'll do our best to give a good rundown of their characters

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here you go with the characters and personalities first:

famine

wields throwing knives

very loyal to One (meaning he gaslit her so much for that loyalty to come to be, a consequence of being his first chime)

wants to be the leader because she thinks (and is gaslit to think) that she deserves it (One really likes to cause discord between his chimes)

having no prior connection to the main gang—or thorns as they call the gang—besides eddie who is dead and a spectre here, so she's the one who has the least moments of "remembering their past life" before

is very brutal and ruthless and likely the one the gang got the most injuries from in a general sense

death

wields a large scythe

my secret blorb

most likely to actually defy One, and fun fact, he has an au called the runaway au where he, a chime in the middle of the battle between the upside down and right side up, got to run and escape from One before certain things happened, which then causes a chain reaction in this au ofc

he's a coward, and this plays a lot into his actions and interactions

technically had a connection with nancy in the gang, but with conquest here, it gets harder for him to connect, but robin actually steps up to the plate here

war

wields a sword

is the most balanced out of everyone when looking at his loyalty and his defiance to One, in the middle of the pack in that sense

his past life of abuse shows up a lot when it comes to One, so he tends to throw others under the bus to not get caught in the crossfire (not that he wants to do this, but he also doesnt want to gain One's ire)

just generally very chill, the most chill out of every one here

is the medic of the team because of how he's the personification of war

has a connection with lucas in the gang, so that's something that gets him to "remember" some stuff in a way

pestilence

wields bow and arrows

finn and mine's blorb

leader in og, former leader in ciquest/conquest

if you can only see the rambles we have on her…it will take days to get through

will take the bullet for the other chimes when it comes to One's ire

vec has a tighter hold on her because she's max

literally connected with everyone, will have a lot of moments where she feels familiarity (and will subsequently get punished for it later)

second most gaslit by One in a way, which is big oof

conquest

wields a sawed-off shotgun

the leader in ciquest/conquest aus

very protective of all the chimes and especially lence

vec also has tighter hold on her because she's nancy

last one to fall, was suggested by lence to be taken

more aware of things than the other chimes, but still completely controlled by One

same case as lence, but even more so considering she's been there since the start of it all (does her best to take most of lence's punishments as her own when One goes after them)

gets very hyperfocused with robin (vaguely aware the thorn makes her weak in some sense but quest doesn't care), but is frustrated she cant hurt her too much because lence will get hurt too (and maybe another reason deep down, but she doesnt acknowledge it)

all of them

they're all dog coded

One can summon them/call them whenever and its shown through the shivering cold in their necks, like what happens with will

One wants them to be just the way he wants them, meaning the way they died and got transformed into chimes must be how they are no matter what (this includes clothes, hair, weapons, and everything in general)

the only new addition he accepts them to have are new scars :')

the chimes have such a complicated relationship, but at the end of the day, post-vec, they love each other

note for them individually: there's a lot more that i want to add but my brain is blanking a little and i am probably forgetting some things, but here are some of the important things to note (remember this is incomplete to everything we wanna add ASFHUIASFh)

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some relationship notes (by pairs, groups are another story)

min clashes with death when it comes to lence, but otherwise are fine with each other, neutral in general but are connected as the first two chimes of One

min and war are not quite friends, more distant than friends but closer than allies… (very interesting when you note how they were in their Before)

has a very one-sided antagonistic rivalry with lence, especially when it comes to the leadership position (this changes a bit when quest is in play as she's the leader, but there's still the rivalry with lence despite not being leader in ciquest/conquest), will be very callous in a way with her, but they actually work well together, especially as the similar twin concepts of famine and pestilence

quest is able to take min's bitterness mostly in a stride and keeps her in check from being too antagonistic when it comes to leadership roles and just generally (helps because quest understands them in a way, though she doesnt understand why she does)

death and war are more or less chill with each other, most cordial relationship out of every single chime relationship and the least tension filled, just vibing so real (though war knows death is a coward and death knows that war knows it)

death and lence are surprisingly close, only second to quest for lence (and death too technically, which is inspired by their Before), this relationship is due to the fact that in canon, max got to see and technically interact with chrissy, patrick, and nancy, but never with fred, so we saw it and ran with it and now they're close here

death and quest are more or less okay with each other, and their Before helped them understand each other better, unlike the other chimes' Before affecting their relationships in another way

war and lence are complicated, since war throws lence under the bus the most (especially in og) to avoid One's ire, and lence understands why, because of her own Before (and it doesnt help that she takes bullets for the other chimes), but they're both fine more or less

war and quest are similar to min and lence with the similar concepts, war and conquest, fire and lava, war follows quest to the T (just like he does with lence in og but more so here with quest), and they work well together because of their similar concepts

lence and quest are the closest out of everyone, helped by their Before and their instincts with each other, confides with each other a lot and are just helping each other no matter what, tho ofc this comes with the consequence of One seeing this "weakness" of theirs and using this bond between them to punish them when he sees fit

although here's a note about this too: finn said "honestly tho their relationships r So complicated its hard to capture in a few sentences", and i agree, what you just read is just some general thoughts on their relationships, but god is there so much more to them all, and if we want to really show you the relationships in full, we would have to ramble it all out ASHUFIUASHF but yeah

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here you go with their abilities:

famine

knife throwing, very fast and precise

the fastest of the chimes

can cripple the energy and power of a person

takes down the food supply and wilts crops

can take the energy and vitality of a being and/or object

death

scythe proficiency

is the slowest of the chimes

everything related to death

teleportation through the shadows

summon bone beings

forming shadow tendrils kinda

exudes the ambiance of the end of life, striking a deep sense of fear

war

fireeeee

flame sword, very proficient with swords

second fastest of the chimes

use the molotovs and flamethrowers against the gang because fire for real

hot skin, literally

can cause a sense of crisis and rage in those near

lence

causes sickness (through arrows) and disorientation of people (through aura exuded)

poison arrows

has a balisong (one she had as max—this is an hc we have) and uses it as an extra weapon

second slowest of the chimes

infect people to insanity or to do her bidding

also wilts flowers and plants in general

aura vision (she's blind because of her interrupted transformation due to el but she can see the sort of "auras" of beings, especially the upside down ones)

quest

gun proficient (obviously)

very precise shots

her gun can either fire in a scattered way like a shotgun or only one bullet at a time, it depends on quest herself

lava (we were thinking mix of fire and earth for conquest, hence lava)

also hot skin, literally

in the middle of the fast and slow spectrum

can summon different types of guns, smaller guns takes less energy for her actually, but One doesn't like that so she doesn't do it much, if at all

all

sort of intangibility (only works when they're full on chime mindset, if their anchor selves start waking up and breaching the surface, they become vulnerable and the intangibility doesnt work)

connected to One's power

summoning their weapons

connected to their hounds (their horses)

faster healing

technically immortality (as long as One is around)

and bonus!

robin

connected to lence, draws power from her

trying to infect her even more causes robin to grow stronger and lence to grow weaker (this is important to note heheheh)

means she's a bit more feral though (she gets close to losing herself but doesnt fully)

becomes more durable and stronger and the best at dealing with the chimes in the long run

also faster healing

another note: i am very sure i forgot some things so yeah, assume this list is incomplete AHSFIUHASF but thats what we can remember off the top of our heads

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anywho, yeah! that's pretty much a lore dump and a half, except i also know its not complete and there's still so much more we want to say but are unable to mention it for several reasons

but maybe those are asks for another day (wink wink, go check out @lumaxramblings' askbox too yesyes)

thank you for the ask! and i hope this helped with the renegade au yesyes <33

see ya around

[doitforbangchan]

Ooooo~ omg I’m so excited for tmr!! Is there any tinyyyy spoilers you can leak for the next chapter of abanb?? I’m on the edge of my seat 😫

hmmmm you want spoilers?? 👀👀👀

wellllll maybe just a sexy little snippet to hold you over 🥰

“

His fingernails dug into you - no doubt leaving behind crescent shaped indents - when you lifted and brought yourself back down onto him. His moaning never ceased, as you repeated the movement on him, taking his length deep into you over and over again.

“So good… better than I imagined… never gonna leave this pussy… wanna live in you forever…” The beta was spewing all of his thoughts, the words coming out almost incoherent. You shifted your hips slightly, causing you to take him even deeper than before. “

🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 hope this is enough. any guess who it’s with?

[the-sparkling-diamond-satine]

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for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing

“It hurts,” she sobs. “Please, make it stop. Make it stop.”

[behyunki]

hyunki attends the @benayoung school of sexy and cool

of the three concepts for this round, hyunki felt like he could have made any of them work. cute was more of his natural state. he wouldn't say being elegant and sexy were quite as natural to him as it was for some of the other contestants. not to say he couldn't. when hyunki started dancing, his main genre was contemporary. he could be elegant and graceful and precise as the routine called for. it just took a bit more work shopping sometimes, especially when he wasn't doing contemporary dance.

luckily, their coaches were helpful and knowledgeable. which is how he found himself with nayoung. despite her rough demeanor, he found her bluntness amusing sometimes. in order to make sure he was in tip top shape, he had felt her assistance was the best in ensuring he fit the concept well with his facial expressions and aura.

"teach me to be sexy" hyunki stated, ready to learn. it sounded quite comical really. it sounded like he'd never been a sexual being in his life, but that was far from the truth. what he did to pull men in a gay bar was different from this. "i got the basics, but advice from seniors is something i will never turn down."

[quietresistance]

( ❛ i say nothing. i know nothing. i certainly don’t remember a thing. ❜ ) ╲ @cnlyluck

                      ❝  ah…  ❞     her expression remained deceptively smooth along the drawn out sound, a note of understanding filtering through.   considering what little she could gather about the young man from his appearance, the shift in his stance, his refusal hardly shocked her.   arms gingerly crossing her torso, the journalist allowed her head to slip into a half cocked, position, subtly inquisitive.     ❝  i’m afraid i understand.  ❞

                      what a series of disappointments…   with a progression of gentle pokes into the perimeter of the subject, she’d striven to explore how far she could delve without the sort of stubbornness which not only called attention but also potential trouble.   honestly, she hadn’t expected to get far, and yet, she’d still attempted the investigation nevertheless.

                      ❝  how about this:  i buy you a cup of caf,  ❞     she emphasized the beverage, not wishing him to believe her pushing him toward a loosened tongue.      ❝  for your trouble.  ❞

[wr1tten]

@salvatoraes asked : ❝ you’re all i’ll ever need. ❞

forever  was  something  many  people  wanted,    but  it  meant  giving  up  everything.    people  would  grow  old,    get  sick,  pass  away.    all  while  these  immortal  beings  they  were,    held  them  in  place.    frozen  in  time.    her  fingertips  traced  his  knuckles,    intertwining  their  hands  together.    she  couldn’t  meet  his  gaze–    they  found  each  other  again,    but  it  just  reminded  her  of  what  they  could  have  had  together.    a  family.    a  trembling  lip  was  tucked  between  teeth,    holding  in  those  emotions.    sadness  that  felt  like  it  was  tearing  her  in  two.    valerie  tucked  her  head  into  stefan’s  shoulder,      ❝ i  know.    i  feel  the  same. ❞      he  was  her  happiness.    he  had  been  from  the  moment  she  laid  eyes  on  him,      ❝ but  you  would’ve  been  such  an  amazing  father… ❞

[damnbrosius]

@caeloservare asked 🍼 + Brosius with Jim <3 xD

Send me 🍼 + a ship and I’ll draw/make a fan-child

Alright, so I tried and tried but I could not fucking make a kid in that picrew generator that I was satisfied with. So I'm just gonna write u a drabble about how Jim and his big blue spirit made a kid somehow.

Flash forward, weeks, months...years. The bond James Ironwood has grown with a being that, frankly, is out of the realms of imagination itself has grown deep and their affection for one another is permanent.

James supposes it can only be the feeling of appreciation that's brought them together. He's spent many of the past few years straining himself mentally and physically, shouldering more responsibility than one man ever should. It had been a slow but steady nightmare, coming to feel mistrust, fear, and anger steadily encroaching inward despite his best efforts to defend Atlas and the world, especially once Ozpin had gone. Even on those days where he felt sure of the course, and those were few and far between, it always felt like the distance to their goal was an eternity of hardship away.

Those feelings had disappeared when Ambrosius was present. It was more than just the fact that he could sleep easy when the spirit was around; Ambrosius seemed to light up every time James talked about his plan for Amity, bursting with an excitement that washed over him and made him feel like he was actually doing things right. Far from being a sycophant, Ambrosius seemed genuinely interested in his plans for the future...and in himself.

Ambrosius was never overly flattering, despite how taken he was with James' physical makeup. Despite all the good-natured jokes (often at his expense) and the occasional ribbing, when he talked about things that mattered, Ambrosius listened, and though he didn't have the answers to every doubt James voiced, he did at least make him feel like the things a general was supposed to be... A proper leader, a trustworthy individual...hell, sometimes even a hero.

That first kiss had been something magical. Literally. It was quite embarrassing in hindsight, how they had both panicked as soon as it happened--James for feeling like he'd severely overstepped, and Ambrosius for, as he'd learned that day, fearing that something awful was going to happen to James. Magic had flowed out of Ambrosius and into James once their lips connected, and reacted with his aura, dissipating it. It was a strange feeling, a rush, and dangerous...and yet he'd known from the first kiss he'd want a second, and a third.

That had been so long ago now. Ambrosius--Rose, as he'd occasionally taken to calling him--was now his closest friend and the lover he'd thought he'd never had. It was an unconventional arrangement, but he'd known there was no going back. Not after he'd been given that particular gift.

Laying now in his bed, staring at the ceiling late at night, his hand brushes across his chest, where his heart lay. Not the one beneath his ribcage, that beat with the aid of several implants. The strange metal strurcture that had fused with his chest in the very center of his torso, which he'd come to understand was a very powerful artifact and--though Rose hadn't said it--a deeply personal gift, one he chose to believe was the closest to a ring he'd ever get.

The Heart of Steel, it was called. It was given to him after a bad fight with Salem's forces, one that had nearly ruined everything...including himself. It resembled a simple silver gear, a cog that rotated on its own in the round frame set seamlessly into his chest. Ambrosius had promised that if he decided he didn't like it, he could easily be rid of it, but he had never felt the need. Without need for aura, or magic, or electricity, or any power source of any kind, it reacted when he was injured, painlessly healing both the flesh and the metallic parts of him as though they were one and the same. Ambrosius had told him this was his means of protecting the man he loved, and by extension the country and the world he'd vowed to protect.

It was a marvelous creation, one he hadn't asked for and felt was too beneficial to be fair, yet one he never wanted to part with. It felt like a piece of Rose was with him at all times this way.

Yet, lately, the gear had been whirring, spinning on its own despite the fact he wasn't injured. He had no idea what it meant and he'd been afraid of telling Rose, for fear of it crushing Ambrosius if he thought a creation he was quite proud of was defective. It wasn't like it hurt or was in the way, it had never occurred when he was around other people, nor when he was around Rose...it happened exclusively when he was alone, and usually when he was alone with thoughts he didn't like. Turmoil hadn't left him completely just because he had a lover, and now he had this conundrum to add onto it.

Sometimes, like now, he thought he could see small somethings--tiny little flecks of blue in the air above his chest. He'd thought he was imagining it, but he's not sure he is now. It at least gave him something to focus on besides his various worries, though as is typical of him, not having an answer nor a means to find one frustrates him. What is it that's going on with his Heart? He wished he had someone he could talk to about this...

Sighing, he turns over and closes his eyes, opting to go to sleep.

...........

.......................

"Good morning, General Ironwood!"

[fiotrethewey]

4, 11, 45, 54, 72, and 73 :)

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

Everywhere? Anywhere? I like to take things I already love and mesh it into something else and make it stick. Other times it’s just expanding on my favourite tropes, or stories from friends or family. Ideas in general are difficult as hell for me, I have to really pull it out of my brain to get my imagination functioning. Though that’s also probably because I always worry my ideas aren’t very good. Whoops.

11. Link your three favourite fics right now?

I’m afraid I can’t really answer this one at the moment as I’ve not had the time for fanfiction - and now I’m writing for the IP I would have wrote fanfiction for I get very anxious about it - SO - I will recommend instead the last book I read because I love it: A Marvellous Light: https://publishing.tor.com/amarvellouslight-freyamarske/9781250788870/

Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes: including a magic-infused murder mystery and a delightful queer romance

Also the lovely @fahye is on tumblr :)

45. Do you want to break your readers‘ heart or make them laugh?

If I can achieve either it’s an accomplishment? I think probably breaking hearts though. I am a sucker for angst. 

54. What’s your favourite part about the fanfiction writing process?

I think for me it’s the moment of being -in- the writing. I love a good outline, so once that’s done and I know what’s happening and who says what, and why - the act of getting it down is great. If I haven’t actually got a good outline, if I’m not well, if life is crushing me to write -right now or the world will explode- however, that same process can reduce me to tears…

72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favourite scenes first? something else?

I am a person who writes front to back as I like to see where my characters are going, and how they got there. When editing I’ll go all over the place, but the initial draft zero is always front to back for me. 

73. What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?

Oh god. This isn’t a weird one at all. I don’t think my writing necessarily stands out. I like to think I’m good with dialogue, but I have met writers with much better writing than I in that regard so I don’t really know? If my characters feel 3D for me - I think that’s a win?

I hope you liked these answers! :)

[erdogan-nevra]

Location: Nomentano

Date: March 9th

@vinnievespucci

"Okay, so I'll have one of those lemon shots please. I was told they were good. What are they called?" Nevra twittered over the bar to the man behind it. The look he gave her was only slightly exasperated but luckily she'd managed to look cute enough that it shifted to kind pity.

"Limoncello, sweetheart. Now I'll warn you, they can bite you in the ass if you're not careful."

It most definitely would and she played into it, giggling and looking up to the challenge. "It's Saturday, I can handle a little bite in the ass. I'll take five please." The bartender guwaffed at the number before turning to prep the drinks.

It wasn't her normal haunt but the Rutherford had a job to do. Gather information on the Sovrani. Giorgio, Giordana, and the person she'd been told would be here tonight, Vincenzo. The boss no less. Why try her luck with the others when she could go right to the source?

[sincerlyus]

two best friends in a room, they might commit crimes!!

[puffywuffy8904]

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY TO THE GUY OF ALL TIME!!! THE MOST SPECIALEST DUCK EVER!!!!!!!

[jamiesgotchu]

hey idiot heard you like tickles

throws this at you with great force

(click for better quality + reblogs greatly appreciated<33)

[clairedaring]

Liar! Why would P'Joe help you? At first, he wasn't going to help me. But he wanted to help my baby

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.11

[canonkiller]

a reflection on character thoroughlines

[poltergeist-coffee]

[nights-at-crystarium]

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