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[sawdusst]

Coroika Pirate AU part 2 (?)

Alright we’re back again :D I have a bit more info on the pirate AU which I’m gonna ramble about ig 

Here is part 1 of the AU if you’d like to read that first! 

I didn’t really get a lot of other character sketches done, other than Rider--- So i guess in this post I’ll be talking about him & some other characters in this AU! :D There won’t be any drawings in this post unfortunately, just more stuff about the characters :’) 

Enjoy :D 

(the infodump is after the cut, this might be another long post lmao----) 

Rider:

I might try to make a full character thing eventually--- I just haven’t had the chance to draw it out. So, I guess I’ll post that separately :/ Anyways! 

He’s technically a part of the S4 pirates, but he’s not on board with them. He’s an ally to them, but they’re not in the same ship.

Captain of the Chartreuse Pirates, which are another band of fearsome pirates. He’s also friends with the Blue Pirates (Goggles, Bobble Hat, Headphones, Specs) 

The Chartreuse Pirates is such a cool name fr

Sworn enemies with Captain Gloves (it’s more of a rivalry between the two, nothing serious)

He’s also somewhat well known across the seas for being as strong as the S4 pirates 

So basically, he was captured by Emperor’s army (Emperor’s family rules a kingdom in this AU) and separated from his crew. He manages to escape with a few injuries. After running away for some time, he eventually collapses somewhere because of his injuries. Aloha finds him and recognizes him as Captain Rider. After asking Skull what they should do, they decided to bring him aboard since his crew was nowhere to be found.

Rider wakes up a few hours later and he freaks out because he’s in the middle of the ocean aboard Captain Skull’s ship and his crew probably thinks he died or something and now he’s probably going to actually die because Captain Skull whatever evil pirates grrr and he has no boat and he can’t swi--

Anyways, Rider tries to escape but you can’t exactly get too far with a twisted ankle. Aloha found it pretty amusing though, hysterical even. 

Mask manages to catch Rider, sits him down, and gets him to chill out. He explains what happened and a whole “we’re not gonna hurt you” spiel

Eventually the S4 helps Rider reunite with his crew and as gratitude, Rider and the S4 become allies and help each other out whenever one needs it.

Rider is trying to be a kinder person

He’s pretty good at playing cards, specifically Blackjack and Speed.

Gloves:

Captain of the Dualie Pirates, a crew of pirates known for using two weapons. Two swords or two guns-- because they’re cool like that B) 

Captain Gloves is fairly new to the whole “pirate” biz, he thinks they’re cool and wanted in on the action overseas. 

He thinks Captain Skull is cool and wants to meet him someday, although his crew is HIGHLY opposed to this (they could probably die)

He also thinks the Wireglass Pirates are cool too and wants to be friends with their captain.

His crew also HIGHLY opposes this, as they are definitely going to die if they ever cross paths with the Wireglass Pirates. 

Gloves is bummed that he can’t meet the S4 pirates, but is still hopeful he’ll run into them eventually.

He’s friends with the Blue Pirates & Captain Hachi 

He’s fiercely competitive, he doesn’t take losing very lightly.

He doesn’t have any scars of his own-- yet, but he thinks they’re cool 

Gloves is friends with Prince, and sometimes sneaks into the kingdom to visit him 

He’s rather clumsy even though he tries to look cool

Emperor & Prince: 

(I put them under the same header since there’s not much about either of them) 

Emperor’s family rules over a kingdom, Emperor is next in line for the throne and he’s still learning to be a king alongside his younger brother.

Prince often sneaks out of the palace to wander around the town square. His brother actually knows about this, but chooses not to tell their parents. 

Emperor doesn’t really like pirates, but he does know a few of them. 

Emperor is aware that Gloves sneaks in to visit Prince, but he chooses not to do anything about it since his brother seems to enjoy Captain Gloves’ company.

Prince helped Rider escape after learning Rider knew Captain Gloves. 

The Wireglass Pirates: 

Everyone knows to stay out of the Wireglass Pirates’ way, as they are some of the most powerful pirates to patrol the waters. Even the S4 pirates steer clear of them. 

They supposedly got their name from their Captain, but it’s not really known where the name came from.

The Wireglass Pirates will try to take any ship they encounter, regardless of who it is. Very few survive their raids.

There are some rumors that the Wireglass Pirates serve Emperor, which explains why he hasn’t ordered anyone to stop them. However, it could also be because a lot of sailors are absolutely terrified of them.

Ocho is thought to be a part of this crew, but nobody really knows for sure. He’s mostly found away from the crew and hanging out by himself.

Ocho sometimes interacts with the S4 and Captain Rider. 

The S4 could probably beat them, but they don’t want to risk trying.

The Wireglass Pirates are also in possession of these things called “Black Labels” which temporarily disable weapons. But only the Captain is in possession of these. 

“Black Labels” are illegal and supposed to be outlawed in the seas. Not a lot of pirate crews use them. 

If Black Labels were stuck onto a pirate, they are unable to use their special ability for a little bit. 

aaaaand, I think I’ll just end the infodump here in case it gets too long to read :’] Thank you for reading! :D 

[skillzissuez]

*drops from the sky* Hi I’m back

[literallyepjc]

uhhh big sweaty alpha and biblically accurate feather

[mielgf]

this is the best day my medieval lit course didn’t get enough enrolment so it merged with celtic lit, which is under a diff department and was a class i WANTED to take but it didn’t count toward my degree so couldn’t, BUT NOW ITS COUNTING TOWARD MY DEGREE AND I GET TO LEARN CELTIC MYTHOLOGY AND A BIT OF CELTIC LANGUAGE :D

[meistoshi]

<- oblivious (hasn't been keeping track of what day it is & hasnt looked at his phone in like a week)

[britishchick09]

it took nearly 2 weeks, but people in the uk can find the rewrite! :D

[annamations03]

hey guys guess who’s doing artfight this year after years of saying i would and never getting the chance (me. it’s me)

[emeryxyz]

so i did a bit of art

u dont know me . but hi anyways this is my first ever finished digital drawing hip hip hooray i made this like a good long while ago but. its here now this is aVERY OLD OK VERY OLD

boba and omega except for I HATE BABIES I HATE THEM I HATE SUTPID BALD BABIES DIE OMEGA LOOKS SO STUPID STUPID BALD BABY also THE SHADING ON BOBAS LEG LOOKS LIKE INTENSE LEG HAIR THAT ISNT REALLY A BAD THING BUT HES LIKE. 9?? and the hair good god dont ask me what i was doing with the hair OR omegas shirt i was in a time crunch BUT ANYWAYS HERES MY REFEREMCE :D

[vespidclan]

For all the newcomers (because there’s so many hehe hi), the lore behind vespidclan’s profile pic vivflicker is that while I was just starting the blog, my device killed itself and all its data which contained notes for 100+ moons and lore of the clan. I did not think they would’ve, but miraculously they were saved in my icloud and were imported into the new device. I was so so scared :’) The first thing I drew on my new ipad was vivflicker (and later the other two) because I couldn’t be bothered to draw the actual heartflicker and I really like the Mario games (also during the time when I was gushing about the Thousand Year Door remake) The merging of two nations if you will

TLDR; it’s a callback to the fact the entire blog would’ve been scrapped completely had my ipad not done something right for once! Hip hip hooray! :D

[zakajnespim]

When we're famous, promise me you'll wear that shirt - zakaj_nespim - Joker Out (Band) [Archive of Our Own]

Hip hip hooray! Feel free to leave a comment here or on ao3 :D ENJOY!!!

[yours-trulyy]

AJSJSJJS YAYYY TYSM

Is it normal that we are in almost the exact same fandoms and have more or less the same taste in music?

omg youre so cool ilysm /p

[nuks]

guys hip hip hooray!!! My AC is fixed! :D

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio wends his way through Wednesday morning helping us while away the hours. Weatherwise we're not exactly talking tropical, but definitely David Attenborough sweaty pits kind of weather. The traffic lady says there's animals loose on one of the main Dublin roads again, and suggests farmers need a fencing refresher course.

Today's groaner: a man fell into a vat of coffee and died. In an attempt to console his wife, the police told her "at least he didn't suffer; it was instant" ;-D badoom tish ... here all week!!

Off to the shiny metropolis, hip hip hooray, calloo callay. Well, maybe I'm not that excited about it ... but my poorly kitty cat needs vet tlc. Too tired to be overly quippy at this point, so as you were and tomorrow may bring more in the way of sentence silliness.

Bring me the coffee pot and let's see if I can stay upright! ;-D ...

[thecloudstan]

Hooray~!!! Rufus loves D very much. He's Rufus's faithful companion and partner, after all. 🥰 Honestly, I'd love to see how D reacts to Cloud in this AU. Would be mean and wary of a stranger getting close to Rufus? A little jealous that someone is receiving Rufus's attention? Will D warm up Cloud over time? It's fun to imagine. 🤭

Hmm…now you’ve got me thinking about it…

It may take a while to peel Cloud from his comfort zone (Wall Market) in this au, but let’s imagine Rufus is able to pry him away for a weekend someplace far away from Midgar, so D is with them (and the rest of Rufus’ entourage, but they’re kept busy). I can see him forcing Cloud to let him dote on him in his controlling way. Insisting Cloud simply look pretty in pretty clothes and decorate his suite, his balcony, his bed. And D is just Around, being obedient, being subtly intimidating. Climbing up onto the bed while Rufus is out and Cloud is there napping. Making a point to flop down right up against him. He’d lay his head heavily over Cloud’s hip. Maybe Cloud swallows hard and is a little scared to make any sudden moves…until he realizes D’s head is inching closer and closer to his hand…bullying him into giving pets…

**edit: changed D’s pronouns to male**

[stealthnoodle]

Mothman ruined everything! Hooray! And in particular, he ruined Wyll.

See, the most interesting part of this playthrough has been that the main character has been Wyll all along. Wyll is the Sherlock Holmes Corruption Arc to Mothman's John Waston Murder Spree. This poor man no longer has a functional moral compass; he really likes Mothman, despite everything, leading to moments like this:

Protest all you like, pal, but your approval rating, like Shakira's hips, doesn't lie. (I made him a wizard even though he double-sold his soul because why not, no one could stop me.)

He's so far gone. Wyll babygirl I am so sorry, I don't even know how this happened, I somehow backed you into a universe where all the druids and tieflings died in Act 1 and you still stuck around, and now here we are. Broken.

Anyway, Mothman got a neat new antenna-helmet:

He wore it to fight the Netherbrain, which gets DIRTY TRICKS in Honour Mode. The final battle was a real nail-biter, like I needed to get up and have a few deep breathing exercises afterward. I need you to see this shit, which took place on the final round, my last turn before everything would have been over but not in the way Mothman wanted:

Everybody say, "Thank you, Murderdaddy."

Because I would not have won this fight without Power Word: Kill. Especially because Mothman entered the final battle with four summonable allies, which is honestly more than I expected but not enough to do effective crowd control. I kept Gale's severed hand in my inventory all game, and looked at it sorrowfully every time something especially unfortunate happened in the battle that he could have spared me from.

Anyway, here's how we thank Murderdaddy properly:

Shadowheart's objections are very funny to me because Mothman has been nothing if not upfront about his plans. Volo fled my camp because Mothman wouldn't stop being like, "I fucking love being a Baalspawn! I'm so good at murder! I'm gonna murder everyone! :D"

You all deserve this tbh

Then I immediately created Pizzazz, the cool half-orc monk with cotton-candy hair, because if I could slog my way through Dishonour Mode making terrible pig-headed choices, surely I can play Honour Mode for real making smart ones.

[nocompromise-noregrets]

five good things

aaaaand straight in with the really good one:

We have Last Cat Standing back after his thyroid treatment - he spent nine days at the vet hospital, and his thyroid is completely cured. Hooray! He turned 18 on Monday, and this has got him back to normal and given him who knows how many more years. I can't tell you how much of a relief it is, given that we lost the other three to various things that we couldn't do anything about.

I have a four day weekend, having done two days for job number two last week, and I am going to enjoy every last moment of it.

I did a full-body-stretch yoga routine today, having done no exercise whatsoever (other than a bit of walking) for far too long - I've been really achy and sore this week, particularly around the hips, which is always a sign I need to exercise, and I feel a lot better for having stretched properly, although I'm going to have to do the same routine every day for a good long while, I suspect.

I've got a gig lined up! It's not until October, but New Generation Superstars, a bunch of punk rock n' rollers from Leicester who I got to know at Trash Fest in Helsinki well over ten years ago, are finally playing this end of the country, and to top it off they're supporting Spread Eagle, who were a fantastic hard rock band at the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s and who have been reformed for a few years now. I had no idea they were back, so when I saw the dates on NGS's FB page yesterday I had to go and check in case it was someone else - but it's them! I'm so excited. :D

I've almost finished my OU course - I just have the final essay to do, and my tutor thought my essay plan was good so it should be fairly easy to write it up from that. I'm on course for a good First/Distinction, which is deeply satisfying given that the last time I did any studying I was fairly solidly in the 64% territory all the way - which is all right, but I couldn't seem to improve whatever I did, I didn't know what they were looking for so I couldn't do it. This time round there's a lot more guidance, and also I'm 30 years older and more experienced, and it's given me a bit of a self-confidence boost.

Talking of self-confidence boosts, I was rather delightedly surprised (or surprisedly delighted) that Supermodel got such a good reception - thank you to everyone who's read, kudos'd and commented! I've been feeling a bit invisible in fandom lately, but you've all really helped me feel better. Perhaps a tiny bit tempered by the almost-resounding-silence that greeted the greatest treasure you could ever hope to find, but hey. XD I've long suspected that the Barduil fandom prefers modern AUs to canon-'verse, and this pretty much bears it out. Extra-special thank you to everyone who kudos'd and liked that one!!

I've nominated a few pairings and fandoms for the Rare Pairs Exchange and am rather looking forward to signups and assignments...

That'll do for now! And a reminder that I'm taking prompts for Barduil Month so if anyone wants to request a fic or two, please feel free!