#i have some loose ideas for the AU ‘character quests’

[silvertonguedcharlatan]

random OC ask (for siobhan): if your OC was in a modern!AU, what would their job be? what would their day-to-day life look like? would they be very similar to their canon conception, or different?

(the modern!AU can be in the fashion of your favored iteration, whether that is a 1:1 version of our universe, modern-with-magic, etc.)

I think my Modern AU would be modern with magic but adventuring is a rarer occupation that it was in the past. Most people still have a class and such but it’s used mostly for the mundane not high adventure. The desire for adventure still exists but most people are able to sate it by going out of town for a weekend and killing a gnoll in a ditch next to the interstate. The world is still fantasy dangerous but most people stay in the cities since it’s safer. Baldur’s Gate exists pretty much as is on the sword coast with the addition of most modern tech and maybe some governmental changes.

With that out of the way, assuming nothing that would cause her to become the main character of a video game happens, Siobhan would live relatively simply. Since she’s a spores druid I think she would work for the fantasy forest service cataloguing the health of wilderness areas outside the city walls. Looking for serious health risks in animal populations and new diseases and parasites in plants. Professionally she’d be dealing with all the dead things and would be very capable defending herself from living things. Personally, she would care a lot about colony collapse disorder and the hemlock woolly adelgid. She would yell at you for transporting firewood across state lines.

Personality wise she’d be pretty much the same, her canon was my first playthrough so she was the logical avatar, moving through the story with curiosity and trying to do the right thing and make friends. Given that there’s no video game plot I think she’d wonder if there was anything else out there for her. Everyone hears the stories of heroes but is the age of the hero gone? She’d like to know.

I like to think she’d still meet all her friends somehow, like they all get lost in her forest and she finds them and invites them over for dinner. After meeting the gang her day to day would get more exciting than working and going home to read a book and watch tv. For example laezel bullies her into joining her kickboxing class and gale always invites the entire group to go to museums. She romances astarion (who is still a vampire) so I think helping him get out of his shitty vampire coven would be what inspires the group to adventure together and kill a vampire lord (because obviously they would, it’s fate that all these people who long for more meet each other) (would also allow for astarions story to play out more similarly to in game).

I think the whole vibe of the modern AU here is everything is much calmer, the cults are not around, fantasy violence is in full force, and everybody still has problems to solve via adventuring but not enough problems that they can’t get lost in the woods on their own.

[alitheakorogane]

My Genshin Impact SAGAU Masterlist

Made a master list for my SAGAU content so you won't get lost. Will be updated with new content.

Will always be updated as soon as a new SAGAU content comes by!

Reader's Protection Squad Series (SAGAU Imposter AU)

Freedom's Protection (Mondstadt)

STATUS: Still in the works!

The Two Imposters - Our beloved protagonist had finally met the Anemo Archon himself. Is he really one of your allies in surviving in this world where people wanted to kill you for 'stealing' the face of the Divine Creator or is he one of them?

May the Anemo Archon Protect You - You were chased out by your beloved characters from Mondstadt who thought that you were the imposter that 'stole' the face of the person you remembered who never even exist in the game files. Meanwhile, their own disguised Archon had done something stupid that could change everything forever.

A Blasphemy or The Truth? - Venti's outburst shocks everyone, making the people of Mondstadt question everything they knew about their Archon.

Stirring Up a Hurricane - The bomb was finally dropped, leaving nothing but a series of chain reactions spreading around the area... Literally. Venti revealed himself as the Anemo Archon Barbatos to his people as a last resort for defending you, causing the entire nation of Mondstadt to go into chaos.

The Eye of the Anemo Archon's Anguish - Venti had accidentally raised a wind barrier to defend you, your friends, and himself... but it caused some people to suffer the brunt of the Swirl reaction and activated his underlying trauma, causing him to lose control of his emotions and his power. As he was getting close to a nervous breakdown, the people noticed that the skies above the city of Mondstadt are starting to change.

Please Forgive Me - Venti tries to visit you while you're still recovering from your injuries and tries to apologize. At the same time, you found out the truth about the Divine Creator from Venti.

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Glitching Impact (Corrupted Game SAGAU)

STATUS: Title is STC, while still plotting ideas for this concept...

The Original Corrupted Game!SAGAU Concept of

Corrupted Game!SAGAU, but loosely based on Wreck-It Ralph...

Plot twist Idea Based on Corrupted Game!SAGAU

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Random SAGAU Oneshot Stories

"Who's your favorite Genshin Impact character?"

Just A Normal Genshin Impact Game Time...Is It?

SAGAU featuring the Unusual Hilichurl (Wei)

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SAGAU Fanarts

Corrupted Game AU - Venti (Based on Faceless Ayato concept)

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Random SAGAU Ideas and Thoughts

What if the Seven Gnoses are actually fragments of the Divine Creator's Soul?

What would happen if Venti got the same treatment as the Reader in those angsty SAGAU fics?

SAGAU and Regarding the Artifacts!

Short Villain!SAGAU Dialogue (1)

Short Villain!SAGAU Dialogue (2)

SAGAU (Imposter AU), but you have a snarky personality and a fiery tongue.

My SAGAU Playlist (Imposter AU) - PART ONE

Heights in SAGAU

Wishing for Characters Despite You Haven't Met Them Yet In-Lore

Kaveh: From a Humble Architect to a Man of Destruction? (Based on the now-confirmed recent hack using Kaveh)

Imagine Playable Characters Saying This (Screenshot came from a quest in Genshin Impact 4.8)

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Reply to SAGAU-related Asks from Anon

How I Will Portray the Archons In My Twist of the Imposter AU

Venti's Characterization In Reader's Protection Squad

U alive???

A Teaser for The Eye of the Anemo Archon's Anguish

We will give him the best treatment that our beloved Venti deserves.

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Random Incorrect Quotes for SAGAU

Among Us

Arrows With Love

Does Barbatos even know the existence of dental hygiene?

Chased Out By Obsessed People

Venti reacting on his SAGAU!Imposter/Cult AU self and his insane actions

Making Fun of Venti's Terrible Aim

Zhongli's Meteors Probably the Cause of the Dinosaurs' Extinction

Memory of Dust

Peace Was Never An Option

A Suggestion: Drinking Contest

[factual-fantasy]

I has 30 asks! :}}

@chickenmilk120​

@cherrycreamfairy​

The only thing that mattered to me in that trailer was Mario saying “I’m not afraid, I’ll do anything for my brother.” Their brotherhood is the only thing giving me hope for this movie-

That, and the blue shelled koopa troopa’s are interesting..

@sqirtle​

The idea I had in mind is that they were magically transported to the Mario universe some how, where they ended up in the middle of a forest. They kind’a wandered for a while before finding the Mushroom kingdom. This was right after Peach was captured.

I was thinking that the toad people let them in to help them and later witnessed Mario using a fire flower. That’s when they knew these two were the hero's of legend and their quest began :0

Yes! They don’t have enough food to go around so they try to avoid waking anyone else up. That, and the fact that that Spy and Pyro don’t carry anything particularly useful to them. Nothing worth risking being seen by the camera at least.

In my AU at least, there is no Glamrock Ballora. Its just the main Glamrocks we’ve already seen. The original Ballora did exist though. :0

As for the tiger guy and mermaid gal? They are not in my AU either.. 

JSOKDFSLDFKMTHANK YOUUU

Not only would he not care and do it again, but he would attack Mario because he is in pain. He would take advantage of his vulnerability.

@bungerpogger​

The plans I had for Luigi is that he dies to a Goomba. BUT WAIT HANG ON- THAT’S NOT FUNNY- The Goomba’s in my AU are real monsters. Luigi gets bitten by one and his entire leg gets shredded. Then the venom from the Goomba slowly makes Luigi rot from the inside out.

He rapidly begins to deteriorate over the span of a few days. Eventually he looses all his strength and is just laying on his death bed.

Mario is holding his hand and keeps telling him he’s going to be fine. Everything's gonna be okay, Luigi’s going to get better everything will be fine-

Luigi’s hand goes limp.

...

And then he gets revived by the 1-UP he had absorbed a couple of days ago. All better! :D

@genericstudios​

Thank youuu!!! :DDD

I don’t take commissions or straight up “Hey draw this thing for me” stuff. Buuut, the other stuff sounds like it could be fun :}

@network-warrior-01​

I think if a little kid came in and didn’t mess with anything and was just scared and crying. I feel like King Boo would show mercy and have his Boos kind’a guide them back out of the forest. 

If its some bratty little kid well... I cant say he’d be patient with them.

@burgycreeper405-blog​

I’m on desktop. If you click this little doo-dad here?

And then this one?

You can put literally as many pictures as you want. Its never stopped me and said there was too many images. Same thing with the orange photo option. When I fill up the 10 slots I just click the little grey camera and keep adding more drawings-

Yeah I remember trolls. Never saw world tour but I always intended to- here’s to hoping trolls 3 turns out good!

@ajthekingtheking​

JSADNCTHANK YOUUUUAAAAAAA

I have! Such a bizarre game concept has no right to have such good animation and interesting (to me) character design-

XD My body is basically just grey and black goop. I can have as many arms as I want! I’ve just found having a 3rd arm to be rather convenient recently.

@crazy-scary-crazy​

Thank you for understanding <:} It means a lot that even if some people don’t get it, they can still see my perspective and respect my boundaries. 

@dongpuncher-666​

The 1-UP has to be consumed before dying. So it wouldn’t work if you just shoved it down their throats after they died-

Also it works instantaneously. It could be literally 5 seconds before they’re about to bleed out, as soon as the mushroom makes contact with them, their body absorbs it and its energy is fully prepared to be consumed.

Also thank you! I’m glad to hear you like my content! :DDD

I’m not familiar with that character, so I didn’t write him into the AU.. <:/

@caronaro-flipaclip​

OH MY GOSH I LOVE SPONGEBOB LITERALLY MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD SHOW--

Bowser wants Peach’s land. Because it is healthy and fruitful. But he has never be able to take it because Daisy and Peach’s kingdoms stand together. Its 2 kingdoms against 1.

But somehow he managed to kidnap Peach. Not sure how he did it but this meant he had the upper hand. He threatened to harm or even kill Peach if they didn’t surrender their land to Bowser. 

Its right after this all starts that the Mario brothers show up and end up rescuing her.

Thank you! I’m glad you like my work! :DD But so far nah... I mostly just came back to goof around with the Octo-dads for a bit. Not much work being done on my Octonauts AUs...

When Foxy was reactivated he only went out of the basement for that first night. And Freddy guided him through blind spots in the cameras. 

After that first night Foxy never left the basement. Neither did Bonnie. So Vanessa never saw Foxy and doesn’t know they’ve both been reactivated.

@multifandom-traveler​

XD You can like what ever you want man! You’re never too old to enjoy your old comfort shows.

Also thank you! I’m glad you like it! :DD

aaaa thank you!!

Also its okay. Internets gonna internet. There’s always gonna be people who disrespect you for no reason. 🤷‍♂️

@livinwa​

snffle.... t-tnk u

Awe you’re too kind, Thank you!

I have not :0 I’ve heard good things about it though!

@dumbfishiesparadise​

Wow really? :0 That’s nuts!

@scrumpitouscollectorpuppy

Man, that’s an unfortunate way to find me. But its cool that you did! Also AAAA thank you!!! I’m glad you like my artwork!! :DD

[faelune-home]

FFXIVWrite 2024 #4: Reticent

(A/n: Originally when this prompt came up, I wanted to write about the twins father and how stuffy he is, but on the day, I didn't have the time or the proper idea to see it through. And now, this deep into the month, I'm so set on adding to the role quest rewrites (and occasionally breaking up with FoM AU to relax) I felt I had to use this prompt for one of those instead.

And I suppose that is a bonus of featuring the Scions, it's also finding ways they relate to some of the role quest cast in ways maybe msq can't dive into. The fact that even deep into EndW, Alphi still kinda blames himself and is haunted by being the cause of the Bloody Banquet could be grounds for a connection with Fordola (While not downplaying that her actions were also much bigger in scale and impact cos actual warzone etc yknow, its mainly about the guilt).

Word count: 790)

Their last meeting hadn’t been on the best terms. She had every right to call him out of course, and he knew that he could try and approach with an open mind to try and bridge the gap. But a stubborn part of him kept putting a damn mental wall on him, thinking it’d be best to keep his distance.

“You’re both a lot more similar than you realise,” Arenvald said, giving Alphinaud a nudge. He finally tore his eyes away from Fordola, sitting off in the darkest spot away from their campfire, just outside Ala Gannha’s boundary.

“Always beating yourselves up for things you did, even if you’re working to do better now,” he continued, trying to offer some comfort with a smile.

“Perhaps,” was all Alphinaud responded, knowing Arenvald had a point. Maybe on some level Fordola’s deeds may have had wider reaching consequences than his own, but letting loose a militia into the world hijacked by a mad man desperate for revolution at any cost was still something that left a severe impact on Ul’dah and the Ala Mhigan revolutionaries that join the group.

“C’mon, I’m sure if you both sat down and tried to talk about it, you’d have plenty to say.”

“Not to be rude Arenvald, but I am here on business,” Alphinaud huffed, not trying to dampen his friend’s enthusiasm, but still well aware of where he stood with Fordola, even if he were to get over the hump of interacting with her in the first place, “Even if we did have common ground to communicate on, I doubt we’d be branching out into stalwart companions afterwards. We’re allies in this fight and that’s it.”

Unperturbed, Arenvald just shrugged.

“We’ve managed to be mates just fine and we’re pretty different,” he said. Alphinaud sighed, but offered a placate smile in return all the same.

“I’d say that’s your own character that makes you so approachable, my friend,” he responded, “And it clearly works on Fordola as well, since you’re the only one that she seems to talk to on a casual basis.”

“To be fair, we were often assigned together on primal slaying duties as part of her rehabilitation before the Silver Griffins. She didn’t really have a choice to get away from me.”

“And yet even with more freedom now,” Alphinaud countered, well aware that ‘freedom’ still didn’t mean much for the woman, “she’ll still turn to you for companionship.”

“I’ve rubbed off on her then,” Arenvald simply smiled, earning an amused huff in reply.

“And hey,” he then continued, giving Alphinaud’s arm another nudge, “even if you’re not exactly going to be mates, I think it’d be good for her to have someone else to lean on. It’s hard enough for her. And maybe it’ll be good for you too, if you’re still giving yourself grief for all of that.”

“I’m mostly past it now, thank you,” Alphinaud said sharply, trying to stop the conversation even as he knew the whole conversation had already dug up memories of that night at the Bloody Banquet and the impact it had on the Scions, even if only indirectly.

Because of his foolish pride, his idea to form the group, a group that pursued them into the night and held a sword to his neck, and led Hydaelyn to summon forth Minfilia into the aetheric sea, and now she’s dead and beyond them–

“I mean it though,” Arenvald insisted, shaking Alphinaud again from his thoughts, “These things always come back to you. I’ve seen it in the other soldiers. Even when you move past it, it comes back like a thief in the night to haunt you sometimes.” Alphinaud just pointedly looked away.

And ended up staring right back at Fordola, still minding her own business.

“She’ll take some time to warm to you, but she’s not as much of a hard-arse as she may seem,” Arenvald finished, finally deciding to wheel away and leaving a quick word over his shoulder that he was off to bed.

As though finally sensing she was being watched, Fordola looked around, on high alert with her hand near her weapon. Until she chanced to see it was only Alphinaud. He tried to offer a friendly wave in return, just to be polite.

And she pointedly looked away, grabbing a blanket from her backpack and curling up into it.

Despite the brief disappointment and resignation he felt, he had to concede it wasn’t the best time to be trying to extend the olive branch. In fact, it was rather late, so maybe he’d be better served trying the next day, after a good sleep. And hoping that the old memories resurfaced during their chat didn’t linger in his dreams.

[ashyswoyaus]

About the Lord Wander AU, are there any episodes that would not exist? The characters being shuffled around change the dynamics so drastically, there's no way a canon episode would take place?

Or, are there episodes that do happen, but occur with such different context or with very different events, to the point of being borderline unrecognizable?

Much love!

ooooo yes!!! this is something i've thought quite a bit about—there'd have to be loads of changes like that. most episodes i think, even, would have to be changed significantly. for episodes not existing, there's a Lot that definitely seem like it at first, and i even made a list, but after thinking on it a little more...they might fit more into the second category, where they're pretty majorly reworked. for episodes i haven't really been able to come up with anything for, there's the box, the lonely planet, the tourist, the helper, the boy wander, the heebie jeebies, and the sick day. the good deed, maybe? (but i think it might work, if you replace wander's stubbornness in his beliefs with dee's struggle to be a good person. you could perhaps even insert wander in there, since he's meant to be a bit of a recurring character in s1) perhaps the epic quest of unfathomable difficulty. those episodes are really wander-specific, and putting dominator in those positions renders them kinda pointless (like with the nice guy, how she just buys the thunder blazz without any trouble). and i can't think of any work-arounds to keep the basic premise of each, unlike with some other wander-specific episodes.

oh, but also, you'd have to get rid of like. the Entire hater crush arc in s2. so that would get rid of the matchmaker & the rival...but that arc would likely be replaced with something else. i don't know what that would be yet, but maybe something where you could keep the new toy, the show stopper, the cartoon, and my fair hatey, while getting rid of the "impressing dominator" part. have to brainstorm a few ideas for that but i'd like to believe it's possible

and onto some episodes that would instead be majorly reworked: the hat, of course, and by extension the bad hatter. and together with them i'd put the bot. since i feel like the position of the dombots and wander's hat would be switched in these cases! sylvia has to learn to work with the bots, bot 13 accidentally gets onto the skullship (and gets his name), wander's hat somehow falls onto the beach...real question is whether beep boop or the hat dies...i don't know if the hat can die. maybe it gets stranded in space. that'd be a pretty major change for wander, though, so i'm not really sure. then again it is supposed to be a bit of a darker tone than the show so...it might work. i think i'll probably do more on this topic at a later time!

there's also stuff like the bad guy, the big job, and the rider, revolving around wander's lack of toughness compared to sylvia—dee's pretty tough, moreso than sylvia even, so she wouldn't have these issues, but you could probably keep the settings of these episodes and just change the main conflict. for the bad guy, dee and syl use a ship to get around rather than orbble juice, but you could easily have them needing fuel instead. and dee would fit in pretty well with ryder's attitude, so separating her and syl would be difficult...i'll keep trying to figure those ones out though!

this is getting long so i'll skip over most of them for now since i feel like i'd be repeating myself...i think the big day would be one of them, but dee wouldn't suggest a wedding-like ceremony. some other big event, like a funeral. and for the night out i actually have something Very specific for it: it moves placement in the season to the first arc, before lord wander is revealed as the wandering weirdo, and is titled The Day Off. while the night out was about letting loose and wild, it's a girls' night, brawling being something syl doesn't get to do so often—she gets plenty of that in the AU, and instead, the day off is all about relaxing, taking it easy and getting some rest, which is what this syl doesn't get as much of. oh! and something to do with wander's doing good deeds to stave off bad karma—while dom started the episode bored, and decided to go out to have fun, wander i think would start off somewhat Stressed and anxious because of how much Evilling he's been doing lately and take this day off to go help people, to keep in the universe's good graces. this is another one i'd like to do more on later when i get the chance!!!

there's tons of episodes i think would change (like...all of them) so if you (or anyone else) ever want to hear about a specific one or more about one i mentioned here just ask :)

[looniecartooni]

Okay- for over a decade now, I've thought about publishing a comic book series or graphic novel, but have never found the time, energy, or resources to get one off the ground. I've also been really nervous about exposing my writing despite coming up with multiple storylines in my life. I am planning to start a Kickstarter or something for at least one of them. I know I've pitched creative projects or theories before and haven't gone through with them, but I want to at least see what of things I have developed or began development on interests' people before I start anything.

So... I am going to start a poll. Maybe I'll make one free short comic before I dedicate myself to something that requires funding.

Descriptions below:

These Hands- A first person perspective from former Diamond Cutter infiltrator and later cause of their demise- Mimic the Octopus. See from when he first joined the Diamond Cutters and follow into his fall from grace. Will his plights be sympathetic or shall he be forever scorned by himself and his actions?

A full storyboard draft has already been created for a one-shot story. If chosen, it may take between a couple weeks to over a month to release (depending on my college schedule)

Henchmen for Hire- A cowardly magician with the power of luck on her side (and her Eldrich terrain shifter best friend) are stuck in their jobs as Henches for Hire for random Elites and criminals of their world, escapading on dangerous quests through ancient caves to find mysterious power sources and ancient treasures. While life is fairly comfortable (despite them having to live in a cave themselves because how can you live in a nice place when you're stuck in such a shady business?), the past is catching up to them, and one of them has a knife. Can these two ever live without the fear of being alone and helpless when nothing but danger plagues their lives?

This series is one of the ones I am currently working on and its still very early in development. It may take a couple months, maybe even a year to complete. There are maybe 3 stories and 5 or 6 plot points planned out. But I'm having a lot of fun with it and do hope to make something off it some day.

Experimental Living- A mad geneticist and engineer finally returns home from his stay in prison and is ready to wreak havoc on the world with his new genetic experiments. However, things do not go as planned and in order to keep his cover as a "reformed" villain, he must raise them as if they were his children, which the 10-year-old and 6-year-old are more than happy with. With help from his Henchmen, constant harassment from his mystic and militant father, and suspecting eyes of heroes and citizens, will this evil villain turned single dad ever succeed in his violent plans to save the world?

I storyboarded almost the entire series and a sequel series for this for almost a full year. There are still many parts that need to be tweaked or rewritten as there are gaps and maybe some problematic elements, but this could be something that could get started sometime in the Summer. I want to be able to fund it, but I don't have the elements to do so at the moment and I'm afraid the premise is a bit too close to the idea of a Starline, Surge, and Kit AU. Though it is more loosely inspired by them with a lot more to it than that, I don't know if I might run into some copyright issues if I go through with it, no matter how loosely the characters or premise are to their inspirations.

Journey of Eclipse- The Light had fended off the Darkness for hundreds of years, constantly sealing it in a cave to protect the world from his curse. Now, a child born from the Light and conceived by the Darkness must tread on a perilous journey to save his mother from the curse that now finally firmed its grasp on her. But this story is not so black and white, and the circumstances that lead to the birth of such a child may have a much more deep-rooted tale than what has been told.

I had this idea back in High School and recently revisited it. I would imagine that it would be a rather short series or graphic novel, but may need a few months to fully get a good narrative out of it. There is a clear beginning, middle, and end, but much more needs to be fleshed out and reconfigured to tell a well thought out tale.

Angel Story- A long time ago, super soldiers known as "angels" were created to protect villages from strange dark entities referred to as "demons" or "shadows". With the dark entities seemingly vanished, the angels and their children were now declared to be the protectors against criminals and symbols of order. However, new chaos arises as these angels are seemingly vanishing, or getting corrupted by a similar energy to that of the shadows which should be impossible. Now a new crew of angels must try and stop these new monsters and the energies that are driving them.

Only one plotline of this supposed to be short series has been fully developed, but it's fun to work on and reread the storyboards for. It may take a few months give or take to fully start, but I feel it will be a fun read when worked out to its full potential.

I have quite literally cabinets full of stories that I have created since freshman year of high school and have on and off worked on quite a few. There are some others that I am currently working/reworking on such as a superhero trying to find out what happened to her superhero dad while being raised by her evil uncle. Feel free to ask for more information on any of these projects or any other projects. I've been too scared to bring them up or publish any creative projects because of being overwhelmed with school and fear of possible backlash. But I'd be happy to share anything people might want to ask about- I want to know if I could actually do this or if this is one of those dreams I've got to just put on the back burner.

I'll still create just random fan stuff for BBU and things like that. I did try to start a videogame/visual novel last year, but that never truly got really developed or much attention. I might work on other different kinds of projects in the future when I have the time, money, and energy (or stop making excuses). But for now- let me know what you guys think (very kindly) and if you'd ever wat to see an independent project created by me. If not- that's fine too, just please be nice if you think this isn't a good idea.

If no one chooses anything- that's fine too. I'd probably still do something eventually or try my shot again with other pitches. I welcome any advise for creating, publishing, self-publishing, legally making money or legally getting money to make something, ect. I'll be posting on other social medias as well. Let me know your thoughts (nicely and constructively). Thank you.

[il-predestinato]

Elle, you are actually writing a Hogwarts AU???? 🙈🙈🙈 When is it set timeline wise? What year are they in? Houses I think I know, but the rest???

Hi Pi! Oooh, I mostly have notes on this one and not much written! Except for this little snippet (probably a cut scene rather than part of the fic). I'll share another super short snippet and then some rambling answers to your questions: 😁

Before Max could blink the sleepiness out of his eyes, he was already soberly aware that he was - most unfortunately - alone in bed. After a disgruntled rub across his eyelids, he was able to crack open enough of a slit to glare at the empty pillow beside his own. A head-shaped indent stared back at him mockingly. A torn piece of parchment sat neatly at the centre of the indent.

He snatched it up and frowned at Charles’ offending penmanship:

‘Had to take care of a secret Slytherin thing something’ followed by a creepy scribble of a smiling niffler (or perhaps a Dementor - Max couldn’t be certain, no matter how long he squinted at the poorly drawn lines; no one would ever accuse Charles of possessing artistic talent).

‘Meet in the Prefect's bathroom at 0800!’

“Maybe I won’t,” grumbled Max as he crumpled up the piece of paper. Of course you will, he can almost hear Charles’ self-assured, scoffing rebuttal.

He grabbed his wand from under his pillow and casted a silent “Incendio.” The Silencing Charm that Charles cast around Max’s four poster bed from the previous evening had likely worn off by now. He couldn’t help the smile that formed on his face as he watched as small embers transformed the parchment into ash. While Charles may be uniquely gifted at wandless magic, Max still had him beat in nonverbal spells - much to the chagrin of his Slytherin rival (sometimes friend always thorn in the side occasional bedmate).

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Some notes:

Timeline wise: 2013-ish because they are 15 (fifth years)

Both are still born in 1997 (kind of cool that canonically both would be born at the height of the second wizarding war)

Max is a Gryffindor and Charles is a Slytherin

Story is a long-ish one shot. Title is "Unforgivable"

My base storyline is borrowed from a quest in the Hogwarts Legacy game (minor spoiler alert):

Charles has a sick family member at St. Mungo's who is suffering from a blood curse and is basically beyond all magical help. There is a secret Slytherin spell book hidden in the Scriptorium (think Chamber of Secrets, but a different room) rumoured to lead to a spell/artifact that cures dark curses, so Charles wants to retrieve it. Max is ... not a fan of this idea, because Slytherin was a pretty dark wizard and all around bad guy, so nothing good can possibly come out of this. But it's Charles so of course he chooses to help and goes down to the Scriptorium with him. There are a few tests (e.g. puzzles, speaking Parseltongue, etc.), each unlocking a set of gates, but you can't turn back because the gates lock behind you as well. At the last gate, there are a bunch of creepy skeletons (because people died here after getting stuck) and tortured faces on the gate/the world "Crucio" engraved on the floor. Max and Charles figure out that in order to pass the final test and not starve/die down there, they must successfully cast Crucio. And that's really the climax of the story. Who is going to cast it on who? Also, as Bellatrix explained in the books, you must have intent and truly want to cause pain and suffering to succeed in casting it... In the Hogwarts Legacy game, three characters are involved in the story: Sebastian Sallow, Ominis Gaunt, and Y/N [aka. player character] (yes, don't worry, I'm laughing at myself for using this term given my well known 'love' for uh... imagines 🤢). Ominis refuses to cast Crucio. It comes down between Y/N vs. Sebastian. In my fic, Charles would be loosely based on Sebastian, and Max is a combo of Ominis and Y/N (sorry, I can't keep a straight face whenever I type this.) Let's just say I have an entirely DIFFERENT idea as to how this plays out between Max and Charles (can anyone guess?) compared to the game.

Other super random details from my notes:

Charles and Max have a fierce quidditch rivalry (yes, there was an inchident with a puddle, because the puddle is a universal constant, a fixed point in time and space if you will).

Both are Chasers (but they do like challenging each other to one-on-one seeker games).

Max made the Gryffindor team in his first year (just like the Boy Who Lived) which irks Charles (who made the Slytherin team in his second year).

Charles' Slytherin teammates include George (beater), Lando (chaser), and their new seeker (Oscar).

Max's teammates include Carlos (chaser, Head Boy) and used to include Lewis (chaser, graduated).

Max really likes the grass flavour of Bertie Bott's every flavour beans and one time, Charles bought like - 200 boxes of every flavour beans and spent all night picking out all the grass flavoured ones to put into one box to gift to Max.

Charles is better at wandless magic - raw and uncontrolled power - but Max is better at nonverbal magic - precision and controlled power.

Charles is great at Charms and [hilariously] Divination (umm... he IS called 'il predestinato'), Max is great at Transfiguration and Potions. Both are excellent at Arithmancy (math nerds) and DADA.

Max's wand is vine, 12 ¾ inches, phoenix feather, reasonably supple. Charles's wand is yew, 12 ½ inches, dragon heartstring, fairly stiff. And yes, I spent like 30 minutes reading up on wandlore until I was happy with the choices. 🤣

[xikyuu]

ok so im listening to the heathers musical (highly recommend btw) and i get to dead girl walking reprise right

and the lyrics have given me some ideas for a dallas au

ok so. im thinking right. about a dallas villain au. hear me out

not necessarily that hes working for his father or something, but more like what if in a quest for regenge he becomes so enamored with the idea of making his father and everyone in charge pay for what they’ve done, that he disregards the lives of innocent people in the way?

obv thats very out of character for canon dallas, he would never go through with something if he knew innocent ppl were gonna get hurt (at least in my opinion. could be wrong)

but, in this hypothetical au, what if he was a lot like jd? only cares about the people close to him (jd with veronica, dallas with the other revolutionaries), and is willing to hurt anyone who hurt them?

i think in this song veronica would be. aw hell i forgot their name and i cant go to the tag or ill lose the ask but. the green haired person that dallas had a thing with. yk the one

im just spitballing here and im kind of in a rush, i just had this idea and i thought it would be interesting lol. lmk if it sucks

also go listen to yo girl, meant to be yours, and dead girl walking reprise in that order asap!! (those r my songs of the day!!)

stares at you neurodivergently. i wake up to this in my inbox, im eating good today MOTHERFUCKERRSSS!!

no youre so right its not canon dallas but thats what makes villain dallas interesting like oughh

amd yeah depending on the arc and time in the story veroncia would most likely be alibi if its before alibi dies at the beginning of the wilds arc or asmo/juno during the rebellion arc (when the copperheads and old members of solanace come back to the walled kingdom). i would say it fits w juno and asmo bc he already had to loose alibi and skip and is now holding on very VERY tightly but instead of dallas running until he basically kills himself, he has the “sacrifices are needed for the common good” mentality or whatever.

and im making my lunch and eating breakfast os i will listen to those somgs!! rn!!

[kingtrash-fox]

Funni Cassidy FNAF Mascot Horror Au Idea

After the events of UCN, PQ 1-3, SB and SB:R. Cassidy still hasn’t rested but Afton has been taken care of to the point she looked up 80 fangames to give him animatronics out the wazoo.

While that’s running she looks around the world (Cause Ghost logic) and sees locations with history just as dark or even Darker than Fazbear industries. Upon this she looks for the main culprit in those locations. When it turns out most of them have solved themselves or have someone in process of dealing with it (I.e: Sjsm Protag setting all the souls free including Spooky, The Prototype taking everyone out during the hour of Joy with the other toys, Audrey now in control of Joey’s Cycle, etc) She starts offering her services to tie up Loose ends.

This is essentially the “Cassidy become a loose end Solver door to door Salesgirl” or the “Cassidy Finishing Business Au”

Some ideas include Her going to the Smiling Critters cartoon to expel Theodores leftover spirit from it cause apparently the animation studio is still up and running but kids are getting scared and traumatized from the show like the “episode” from Mob entertainments YouTube. So she inserts herself into the show and Keeping the Princess quest theme going she makes a bear form called I dunno Princess Goldiebear or something and when she fixes the show the animation studio makes merchandise off this new character.

If you can’t tell I have thought about this for far too long. And yes I’m using She/her for Cassidy cause it feels like it fits more. Also I have a small theory the “He is the one you should not of killed.” Is her talking about Evan/CC and she’s doing this mainly for revenge but also for his retribution ok byyyeeee

[quaranmine]

May I ask what is the Hgttg au? I can't seem to find it and/or I don't remember what it is

Absolutely! I don't have an official tag for it yet (or at least I don't remember it) but it's been an idea rattling around my head since at least 2022. It's a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy AU with Boatem. In the book, earth gets destroyed in the very beginning. Main character Arthur Dent learns that his friend Ford is an alien who's actually been stranded on earth this whole time, and they hitchhike off the planet just in time.

In this AU, the inciting event for everything is obviously moon big. Grian and Pearl are both siblings, and loosely full Ford's role as the resident aliens. They manage to figure out a way off the server and save Mumbo, Scar, and Impulse before the moon crashes. Mumbo is the main pov character, loosely filling Arthur's role as "confused man who is just along for the ride." (Though honestly every non-alien member of Boatem fills this role.)

This is where the concept...kind of diverges? And where it starts becoming clear that I am also a long-time Doctor Who fan, because this AU also has time travel! It's very wibbly-wobbly timey wimey in a way that has occasionally forced me to scrap ideas because, oh wait, I messed up the timeline again. So. Boatem survived moon big, but did anyone else? They get to see their entire planet horribly destroyed. It's incredibly apparent that everyone else on the planet has to be dead. But Grian is convinced he can fix this--with time travel. If they can go back in time and either prevent the moon from crashing, or evacuate everyone else in time, then all of this will be fixed. Don't panic! It'll all be fine!

They just...need to get a time machine, first. Also, avoid dying. Also, avoid getting arrested.

Grian and Pearl both have experience with time travel. They're actually from the future and got "stranded" on Hermitcraft some time ago (this is relevant), so they are not in possession of any form of time travel or space travel. I put stranded in quotes because they're quite frankly pretty happy to be there and not to keen on going home.

Anyway, it's like a space comedy story in a sort of mission/quest format. It should be...crack treated seriously? It will occasionally lean into a spot of angst (i.e. with all the hermits being dead) but should bounce back pretty fast. It is not a MCD story. The working title has been "the moon, and other misbehaving celestial bodies" and I first wrote it in 2022, and the rewrote that part at Thanksgiving last year. It's about 6700 words so far, two chapters. The premise is pretty much that they need to run around space in order to find what they need in order to time/space travel back to HC-8 and prevent moon big. Of course, it can't be that easy though...

[bluegekk0]

how do approach basically rewriting a canon-

Hm I'm not sure if rewriting canon is what I do. Maybe in some areas, mostly when it comes to character deaths, but I try to keep the known and confirmed details from the original story mostly unchanged, and just write around them, if that makes sense.

Most of my AU is just filling blanks, really. Sometimes it means that I have to change some details about the canon elements to make things coherent, but I try to make the general idea still similar. For example, Grimm and his Troupe are probably the biggest departures from how they're implied to work in canon, but the death and rebirth cycle is so crucial to those characters that I kept it, albeit in a loose adaptation form.

FPK is a very self indulgent adaptation of PK, but we don't know a lot about canon PK, so 99% of that is stuff I came up with. I suppose him being gay and divorcing WL could be seen as rewriting canon? But then again, they're not together in the game (sure, it's because PK is dead, but still), we don't know when exactly WL left the palace, and we don't have a confirmation of PK's sexuality, so my AU isn't exactly rewriting that. His relationship with Grimm is also in that "they could've known each other, we're never told one way or another" territory, just pushed to the extreme. Really, the game has a lot of lore, but there are twice as many blanks to fill. What was PK like before the infection? What was his relationship with WL like? What does Grimm do between rituals, if anything? What occured to separate the nightmare and dream realms, as it was mentioned in the game? What were wyrms like, are they gone? If so, why?

You see what I mean? If you want to explore the characters, there is still a lot to come up with. You don't necessarily have to rewrite things to explore these characters however you want.

For example, FPK and WL were married, just like in the game. But I decided to write their relationship as pretty toxic and to eventually separate them. It doesn't change much about WL that we meet in the game, aside from maybe tiny bits of dialogue (but her loving her husband doesn't have to contradict her treating him poorly, if she did it without realizing like she did in my AU).

Sometimes I end up omitting some things, if they overcomplicate or contradict the story I came up with. Mostly those minor things, like Brumm banishing the Troupe (since this is one of two endings for the quest, I just pretend that one didn't happen).

I go by the idea that canon is just suggestions and rough guidelines, not rules. If one was to just focus on what we know, there would be a lot of blanks that still need to be filled in with original ideas if you want a consistent narrative. Sometimes you end up focusing more on those filled blanks than the canon elements, which is what I did, to the point where, in some ways, I see the AU as its own spin-off of sorts, something not exactly connected to the game's canon, just kind of its own thing, but one that keeps crucial canon elements as foundation. Basically just fully using the term "alternate universe" to my advantage.

And sometimes you just make stuff up and ignore the canon. That's also an option, if you prefer that. In those cases, just have fun, really. That's all the advice I can give. Remember. Guidelines, not rules. The toys are there for us to play with, restricting yourself to canon can be fun to some, but not everyone.

[demonetta7]

Okay so I know ive only talked about this like,,, a few times.

I have my own au surrounding mainly BOTW+TOTK but with a reader insert character as the main focus, with a whole bunch of arcs planned both during and post both games; including the events of AOC, and plenty of Links-meets-au shenanigans: I'd even planned to- at some point- even include a cross over into my own partner's LOZ au. And for the most part I change very little about the way the world is set and the things in it.

With the Tears of the Kingdom art book/masterwork being revealed and a bunch of scrapped ideas that were played around with during development, I find myself so incredibly frustrated that even though they had all these amazing ideas and plans for the game they went through with practically NONE of it. Totk took the miserating experience of travel in BOTW and made it worse by expanding into the sky and ground alike while adding so little in substance that it's hard for me and many people to actually want to explore the world. Granted, they did ateast make the depths a tad more interesting just by the inclusion of a few extra scattered ruins and the like: it still feels both overwhelming and underwhelming all the same.

The only part of the ground map that really changed was the castle being raised and lookout landing being added. Other than those things, it really doesn't show how much the world has changed since the events of BOTW, which is really misfortune because I'd have liked to see new towns pop up or maybe even current settlements expanding more into cities. They even showed that tarrey town had plans to expand! But even that was lackluster in the end because the only quest actually involving the new expansion of tarrey town was just a glorified kids race.

And that's all barely mentioning the sky islands. It was so MEDIOCRE, especially since the sky was the whole selling point behind TOTK!! Just a few dinky platforms with a few constructs and maybe a ruin or two was just saddening. The only properly exciting part of the sky was the wind temple and it's kind of sad that the only relevance it had was the one quest to help Tulin get the secret stone and clear up the snowstorm. It showed they could actually play around with the mechanics they created in an engaging way! And they did diddly squat with it!

And all this is making me think "Hey, how could I incorporate the scrapped material into my au?" And then immediately getting stuck because I can't! Atleast not properly. There's so little information surrounding the scrapped content that I can barely even find right now, and I doubt the book will go into much detail into the pieces other than loosely stating what it is.

Honestly tho, I'm curious how other people are reacting to this? I'd especially like to know how other people would play around with the scrapped stuff in their own interpretations of the games or aus of their own. I just hope an English translating of the book comes out relatively soon and that Nintendo atleast does better this time around with the release of Echoes of Wisdom just around the corner.

[dearwriters]

Hi, Can I ask for some advice? Ok. I am a fanfic writer, but I want to start writing original fiction however I have three problems when it comes to that

1. I really like the tropes the author plays and I have ideas they could play differently But I always am afraid Of being accused of copyright because the overall idea the author has I love. But I would tweak a few things or many things but not the overall concept like for example this series the folk of the air I love the idea of a power struggle between fae and a mortal girl raised in the faerie world and Eventually becoming their queen and being enemies to lovers with a happy ending to their king. I’m afraid of being copyrighted with that

2. I really can’t see the characters with anything but similar names There could be changes like Jude Duarte could be Judith Durante a Filipina variant and she’s Filipina but I always like the name similarities. I do however would change a few family dynamics

3. It’s the characters personality I may change a few things But I always write it to how I see them

4. Basically I have ideas of scenarios and interpretation of AUs or canon divergence that could have been different in the novels but I feel if No one else writes it in the fanfic world the idea will disappear forever.

5. I’m afraid of not getting anyone to read it

Do you have any suggestions to over come them?

Turning Fanfic into Original Fiction? Inspiration vs. Plagiarism

So here's the thing: I tend to say "nothing is original". We as humans have been telling stories since our inception and when it comes down to it there are only a handfull of stories always told and retold in many different ways. In our quest to be original we often loose what was once special to our stories. For example: the Romance. "People falling in love" is like the number one plot ever. But we still write and read these stories. Because it's about the specific way these specific people fall in love.

Of course when it comes to inspiration, there is a point at which it can turn into plagiarism. Which of course we always want to avoid. And there's more to it that the blatant type of plagiarism that just copys the written words. Idea plagiarism is a thing but it can become quite tricky in art and depends on things like established genre conventions (like tropes that can be seen time and time again) and amount of overlap.

Another example: "Chosen one discovers new magical world they now have to protect from evil forces". A tale quite literally as old as time. Could apply to basically any YA story published in the 2010s. Are they all plagiarized? No. They just follow the same genre convention.

Now to your specific example.

1. Let's say the base concept of this story is: "an outsider living in a world that oppresses them, just to rise to the occasion and come out on top". That's a very basic concept and a story often seen. Making the outsider a human and the setting the fae world is the flavour given to it. The setting of a fae world, dangerous to humans is nothing new either. "Enemies to lovers" is a very common romantic trope, that can also be read in many stories. What you are describing here are merely the bones of the story. The question is how you will flesh them out. And as a writer of original fiction, it will be your responsibility to find your own style and voice, your unique point of view and special ideas, to make a base concept your own. Every idea always starts out with the basics and then evolves as you work on it. Ask yourself: What in this base concept is specifically interesting to you?

2. Now with the names is where things get dicey. I'm sorry to tell you this, but turning "Duarte" into "Durante" will raise at least some eyebrows. Combining barely changed names with a similar base concept will invite scrutiny. I'd advise you to think a bit about why you would like to keep the names this similar. It also doesn't really sound like you want to change up the cast of characters that much, besides some family dynamics. Wouldn't it be a disservice to your own characters? You have your own ideas and I am sure they would be just as great as your inspiration. You just have to allow yourself to work with your own creativity. I'm sure it would turn out even better!

3. Having different characters is great! I would just like to invite you to stop thinking about it as "changing" things. If this is supposed to be your original work, it's not enough to take an already existing work and "change" it. You have to build your characters, your world and your story from the ground up. This may just be a question of mindset! Yes, take inspiration wherever you want, but then let it go and do your own thing.

4. If it's specifically AUs and canon divergence of this work is fun to you, why not just write fanfic? Approaching it as an original work may do a disservice to what you are actually trying to do here.

5. Readership will find you, depending on what you intend to do with your work.

I hope this helped a bit. Have fun writing!

[emmalostinwonderland]

WIP update

Hey, friends. I know literally no one is asking for this, but I started going through my google drive folders recently to see if I really do have as many WIP fics stacking up as I think I do... and apparently I have MORE than I thought.

I'm gonna go through all of them here mostly for my own peace of mind. However, if you read this and think one of the concepts sounds great and you want to shoot me some encouragement, my DMs and asks are open. Vague threats are also accepted, just to mix things up.

Anyway, synopses below the cut. Fandoms are tagged.

MCU

Steve/Bucky/Tony - Medieval Knights AU - est <20k words

Tony is the ruler of a small kingdom, and Steve is the lead knight. He and Bucky are together, and they open their hearts to Tony as time goes on. This is actually my fill for Fandom Trumps Hate 2023, so it's my top priority right now. I've got a full synopsis, most of the chapter outline, and literally none of the draft itself done.

Steve/Tony (with some Steve/Bucky in the beginning) - Conversion Camp AU - est >50k words

Steve meets Tony at a Pray-The-Gay-Away camp in 1995, they lose contact when Steve ages out of the program, canon events (super soldier serum and Iron Man) come into play, and they are reunited due to mutual connections with SHIELD or the US Military. So far with this, I have a very detailed synopsis, a full timeline for both Steve and Tony, a spotify playlist, character analyses, thorough research, and only like 800 words of a draft. This one WILL be finished, even if it takes me literal years.

Steve/Tony - Ireland AU - est <10k words

Tony meets Steve on the ferry from Liverpool to Belfast, and they have a whirlwind summer romance in Ireland. It's literally just a romcom. I wanted an excuse to fuck with their accents, so in this idea, Steve moved back to Ireland with his mom when he was super young, and Tony went to live with the Jarvis' (his godparents) in London after his parents died in his mid to late teens. I've got about 800 words in the draft, some loose research, and half a chapter outline. Maybe it'll get written, maybe not. Who's to say.

Steve/Tony - High School AU - est ~1k words

Steve and Tony are established high school sweethearts. They have Tony's parents house to themselves for the weekend. I wrote about 700ish words of this in January as a challenge to myself to write a whole oneshot in one night, but I chickened out when I got to the smut part, so it just sits in my google drive haunting me.

Steve/Tony - High Fantasy Soulmates AU - est ?? words

Steve is on a quest with a small party of his closest friends to take out the evil king in a neighboring kingdom. He meets his soulmate, Tony, in dreams every night. We all know what the plot twist is on this, so I'm not gonna bother spelling it out. I have about 4 sentences worth of an outline, but that's it.

Steve/Bucky - Friends with Benefits AU - est >20k words

Steve's wife, Peggy, finds that their relationship is getting stale and suggests inviting a third person to join them in bed from time to time. When Peggy ultimately leaves Steve anyway, he and Bucky discover something new just between the two of them. This is my latest collab with LouiKazooie! We have 2 others up on Ao3, and this one will likely be done before the end of the year.

Steve/Bucky - 1940's Canon Divergence - est ?? words

Dr Erskine sees Steve and Bucky's farewell moment before Steve attempts to enlist again, but he selects Bucky for the program instead in order to give him a higher likelihood of making it back home to Steve in one piece. I've got a synopsis, and I've got a one-liner for Howard written. That's it. Keep your expectations low.

Red, White, and Royal Blue

FirstPrince - Missionary AU - est <20k words

Alex moves to London for a study abroad program for international law, and Henry attempts to evangelize to him in a coffeeshop. Alex takes pity on him, and strikes up a tentative friendship with him. As they grow closer, Henry starts to realize that maybe he doesn't believe or connect with his religion the way he used to. I've got a detailed synopsis, and some of the scenes are clear as day in my head, but if I'm honest, there's no substantial outline or draft written down for this one yet.

FirstPrince - Din/Luke Oneshot Series - est ?? words

Alex and Henry roleplay as the Mandalorian and Luke Skywalker sometimes and the level of involvement gets more high stakes with every oneshot (like including cosplays or speaking Mando'a). This might be the dumbest idea I've ever had, but it's in my google drive so I had to include it here.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percabeth - Revolutionary War AU - est ~10k words

Percy is a spy for the militia. Annabeth is a plantation owner's daughter. She joins the cause, providing secrets, maps, and the occasional distraction all while unlearning things she's believed her whole life. This was an idea I had on a flight somewhere, and I wrote a scene in the notes app of my phone until I could get to wifi again. Apparently I have 1500 words of the draft done? I've also got a character breakdown and a vague idea of the flow of the story. I'm excited about this one.

Idk I think 10 WIP fics is enough for now. This was painful to look at. Thanks for the support, guys.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

If layline MC has a creation starter then maybe she shows up with an egg that they know its theirs to care for by its parent. and out come the most gangly little horse thing wobbling everwhere. its arcs are not there yet it looks cute in an almost ugly way. It comes up to their Thighs and only starst growing when the Plottm starts happening.It still only grows to be around a head taller than them and is like an affection cat. Its a scardy cat and hides behind is parent half the time. No one knows how it Eats. They blink and food has bite out of it. I think this still puts little MC as the one who is doing the Plottm and not have something do it for them. ( I assuming they themselves are throwing down with the corrupted Lords and Ladies (maybe I dont know the plot yet) and Still have that nice companionship. and baby arceus is cute in my mind)

No one knows its a god. Laventon is excited only bc He got to witness a brith of a magical creature that probably has only been hearsay before.

[ Anonymous: I thought I saw a tag about creation starts on ley lines but now I cant find it so maybe I made it up so apologies if I randomly threw that into the au think tank out of nowhere ]

no you saw correctly! it wasn't a tag, it was the first paragraph of this other reply lol. i do think babi arceus is always a very cute idea whenever it comes up

...but man. plot. plot plot plot. you've asked a question about The Plot now i have to think about it. i feel like it isn't just the nobles being frenzied again, since that feels like just doing canon again and i kind of want to get further away with it? i don't know, this is all very loosey goosey thoughts and i'm bad at putting my vibes ideas down on paper, but i feel like if the nobles and wardens and pearl/diamond as a whole are still a structure in this world, they're like, much more of a background thing? like, they have this noble soulbond so i guess they do exist, but the actual plot is some other much different Fantasy Quest and they're really just other characters on the adventure. if that... makes any sense at all.

like, is hisui even a thing? i feel like the clans might be much more spread out as a whole... if they're even clans, and it isn't just the wardens and leaders forming a structure with no other regular people involved. like every individual warden looks after a certain area, and they all report to adaman and irida, but those are the only people in diamond and pearl. and they just sort of... orbit loosely related towns and villages etc. and then they all get dragged into akari's situation, maybe because akari&co went to adaman and/or irida as a user of a primal magical force who could maybe shed some light on the situation (they couldn't, but they got caught up in the adventure for their own reasons anyway.) i guess since they're all picking up and leaving, their jobs are also much less important than they are in canon? like it's not such a huge deal for them to just wander off for a while.

this might all sound like complete nonsense, i don't know. like i said it's just vibes in here.

[upsideoutinsidedown]

10, 17, 34 for the writing ask!!! :DDD

Hi lark :D

Thank you so much for the ask! I just wanna talk writing with people sometimes ;-;

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

Even worse, Katsuki was slowly getting used to waking up in the middle of the night, panting, pulse drumming as if sleep itself had been chasing him to consciousness; then tentatively feeling for his eyes, nose, mouth in the dark and discovering that he had none.

This right here continues to haunt me. It’s from a bnha fanfic called “exit, pursued by a bear (Katsuki and Izuku are dead)”. I read it, uh, four years ago? The whole fic is good, but it’s this specific line that haunts me. The beautiful existential crises a medium-aware character would have to deal with when out of focus.

Of my own writing, um, I guess I have an idea I’ve been dragging around with me from fandom to fandom because I never end up writing it, so that kinda haunts me, I guess. It’s a soulmate au where the first words your soulmate says to you get printed on your arm as they say them. The caveat being character a is a “glitch in the system”, so if they ever talk to someone before they got their soulmate’s words, they’re words instead get imprinted, and of course, character b trying to convince character a to accept that they don’t care if they have a “real” soulmate out there that they ruined because they love them now and they couldn’t be happier to have them as a significant other even if it was just an “accident”. Oh, and explore some less savoury sides of that potential <3

EDIT: I just remembered one other that haunts me, a line and a prospect.

Encountering [him] represented the acme of his existence and, like everything at its peak. the beginning of his downfall.

It's from what I call "fateweaver au". Wherein people are born with fates that are impossible to escape, and "fateweavers" are characters who are able to read a person's fate. The narrator is a fateweaver who's fate it is to die saving someone who has no fate of their own, but is present in others, so the narrator knows this character intimately from reading about them in the fates of the world around them. The Fateless, however, is like a loose thread on a tapestry, and by interacting with the world around them he pulls on that thread until eventually it all comes undone. Fateweavers are a concept I really enjoy and will often use them in my more fantastical stories.

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

I have a few WIPs, but the one I’m most focused on (and coincidentally the one with the most worldbuilding to it) would be Breaking Bounds (the dnd inspired/cleradin au), so I’ll do that one. There’s so much, in fact, I think I’ll just elaborate on a few things relevant to the story: namely the pantheon and some world views.

The main faith is a pantheon of seven gods. Phedes, the Sower, god of fertility; Ithamus, the Riddler, god of time; Æyzar, the Warden, god of the heavens; Usaris, the Conqueror, goddess of war; Amaryllis, the Lover, goddess of pleasure; Enlisen, the Wanderer, god of gales; and Amayadair, the Stranger, goddess of the seas. I could go into more detail about them, but I’ll be here all day because I did, in fact, create a mythos for them, so forgive me. What you need to know is Æyzar is the god Mike serves (and Will used to), and Amaryllis is the goddess Robin is invoking on her quest. Most temples are dedicated to the entire pantheon, but there are some monasteries dedicated to specific members of the pantheon, though these are more for training paladins and clerics. Mike and Will are from one such monastery.

A few world views that won’t really be talked about in detail because it’s in Mike’s POV and these are all just expected and I’m not going to be actively challenging some of them include:

Same-sex attraction is no more or less discouraged than opposite-sex attraction. Homophobia just isn’t a thing in this world (I like exploring Mike’s internal homophobia, but this is a fantasy world, and why add homophobia when I can just not? Also, somehow it felt out of place even if I wanted to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) Same with misogyny. It just doesn’t exist. Their warrior god is a woman. To say a woman can’t do things as well as men might just get them smited after all lol.

Humans are the only speaking race on this plane, but there is a belief that the other dnd races (elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, etc) are on other planes. They believe that once, before the gods, they all walked amongst humanity, and so some people, even centuries later, would make claim to an ancestry of these other races. The Wheelers, for example, are believed to have “elven ancestry”. Whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter; they get no benefits from it because they’ve been just human for so long ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorcerers, for the most part, don’t exist. The only known sorcerer (and by known, I mean known by Mike, not by the general public) is El. El has a similar backstory, having escaped Dr. Brenner and his experimentations.

Warlocks exist and aren’t objectively seen as evil. The thing with warlocks is they typically come in two flavours: those who could not form a connection with the divine (not enough magic potential on their own), so they make a pact with a lesser being and are therefore much weaker, or they’re those who reject a connection with the divine for a patron instead. The first is seen as harmless because even if three agreed to do horrific things in return, they just aren’t much of a threat, and most are just people who want to be able to use magic in their day-to-day life and, therefore, won’t agree to those terms. The second is sketchier because if you can receive your magic from the gods, why wouldn’t you? What could you want so desperately you would shun the gods who refused to give it to you or were incapable to give it to you therefore, what did you have to agree to in order to enter your pact? Will, having grown up as a cleric in training who could and did hear Æyzar’s voice and was able to channel his divinity, makes him one of the second kind. Hence why Mike is harsher towards Will than he would be a random warlock, he comes across in his travels.

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

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