#legend of the riptide pirate au

[valeovalairs]

//Thinking ab that pannel that you did with the future Chip AU but his vision glitches and he sees Gill and Jay in them for a split second//

smiles

Sometimes he thinks he sees them again, when he looks at them. He’s always said they haunt the Albatross, haunt him, but it feels more real now.

(also omg I can’t believe people think about my silly little AU sometimes that’s crazy… that panel specifically hurt so much to do but I was also grinning like an idiot because mmmm one sided fnc)

For anyone who doesn’t know this is from my legend of the riptide pirate AU- aka: Chip is undead and basically immortal- and a myth now. Two kids, the new “chosen one” and a Ferin both accidentally meet while simultaneously attempting to run away, and wind up meeting Chip more than a century down the line.

[valeovalairs]

oh my god wait wait. I completely forgot that I had drawn a response to this comic

Thanks for inspiring this silly (slightly sad) idea (also again, thank you for the fanart, it’s been idk how long and I’m still losing my mind over this)

Fanart for @valeovalairs AU that hasn't left my brain it's so delicious go check it out right NOWW

[moongirldreamer]

….and because I’m feeling extra self indulgent. Could we have more headcanons about your mermaid au? Because I freaking love it and want to dive (pun intended) deep into that universe! 🖤 happy self indulgent sunday!!

Aw I'm so glad you like my fever dream turned fic idea 😂 I had fun frantically googling random facts and listening to my fic inspired playlist writing this thank you for requesting this since Sunday....

Lightkeeper!Eddie x Siren!reader headcannons :)

Ex Merchant Sailor Eddie Munson is looking for a quiet life after his short lived life at sea. It was less romantic than he imagined sailing the open waves meant being marooned after storms, threat of scurvy, low rations, and taking orders instead of fending off pirates and drinking at every port.

With no family or prospects waiting for him back home he quit at the end of his 4th voyage. Settling down in the sleepy village of Leeside, but he couldn't continue ignoring the call of the sea. 

So when a light keeper position opened up, on account of the last keepers mysterious disappearance, he applied. Ignoring the locals warning of every keeper either going mad or disappearing completely, some say they filled their pockets with stones and walked into the sea unable to withstand the light of the tower others say the sea witch seduced them taking them into the depths to be devoured.

The sea witch, a legend passed down generations only having been seen by passing sailors and keepers driven far over the edge of sanity. Both giving fantastical recounts of a woman dancing casting shadows in the tower light or on the beach, piercing eyes that seem to cut through fog, smile sickly sweet and her voice honey sweetened salt water. 

His first week of isolation went by without problem, this is what they couldn't handle he thought a bit of quiet, but soon his quiet would be interrupted by singing? 

As he slept a voice crept into his dreams, singing a song of the sea, gently it soothed the aches from his bones and he slipped further into sleep.

Days later a woman would appear on the doorstep of his tower, heaving large breaths, drenched, gown sticking to her skin. Crying over her lost family, victims of the sea, only she managed to escape the riptide by staying afloat on a piece of debris. “Thank goodness the tide took pity on me and brought me to your light. I dont think i had much longer out there in those cold, unforgiving waves” 

Are these headcannons or did i just write the first draft of the first chapter lol

[jester-creates]

This is where I am putting my posts for my creative writing stuff like aus or original works.

My main account is @jester-writing

Ocs

aus i have here:

Pokemon legends: Arceus/persona 5 crossover au

a persona 5 retelling au with rei as the protagonist

PLA frequency au

Ingo gets yeeted with a radio that is magically connected to the future and more specifically to Johanna (dawn/Akari's mom). they have to work together to make sure Dawn/ Akari doesn't die. timey wimey bs happens

PLA pirate au (somehow this got mixed with dnd)

heavily inspired by JRWI: riptide. Pearl clan are pirates (but don't exactly know what pirates are). Diamond clan is Navy. Galaxy Clan is neutral. Rei is the protag and got isekai'd to the world of hisui and turned into a seal (selkie) by a crab (Arceus)

pokemon/Magnus archives crossover au

post mag-200 au where as the Fears are being spread out into the multiverse, they accidentally get snagged on Akari getting taken to hisui. Arceus notices and tries shaking them off, but that only results in separating Jon and Martin, with jon landing in hisui alongside Akari and Martin landing in Gear Station in modern day.

(also annabelle cane and oliver banks also came along landing in Cogita's house and Modern galar respectively)

the fears are anchored in this world by the Red Sky Incident

au where i put a bunch of funky podcast people in a p5 au

self explanatory read the post to see more details

Mechanism Ingo au

Ingo becomes a mechanism after a zoroark attack thanks to Dr. Carmilla being nearby at the time. he goes on adventures with the mechanisms. plays the cello

(also Gunpowder Tim may or may not be AZ)

Mechanisms/p5 crossover au(s)

not too detailed ideas

Experiment au (pokemon)

easily my most self indulgent au yet

notice there is body horror in this one

but also fluff

mad science, main ones to blame being Colress, sada, and turo (i love those two but they're evil here) , happens resulting in some people becoming hybrids of pokemon.

trauma abound for everyone

people affected in order: Oliver(Ditto)(he's an oc), Atticus (ditto), Arven(ditto), Akari (eevee), Rei(Honchkrow), Hop(Corviknight), (time passed to next group), Hilda (serperior), Nate(Braviary), and Emmet(eelektross/ a bit of galvantula), (skip to different group), Juliana(Miraidon)(i made enough personality changes that she's now an oc), nemona (slither wing), and Penny (iron moth)

surprising amount of ships (don't ask me when it happened, I don't know)

ghost hand au (totk)

when Link gets his arm cut off and replaced with raruu's, it's a bit ghostly

aka only he and the sages can see it and he can't physically touch things with it

he can still use the abilities though

Origins au (pla)

pla characters suddenly got Origins from the origins mod for minecraft. except for kamado. he's normal

Au where joker (p5) is a Mechanism. (P5 Mechanisms crossover au)

He's an immortal alien, and has never aged past 16 since he was mechanized.

persona and remedyverse crossover au

Dark place is a thing like Metaverse or tv world. Mr. Scratch is a corrupted version of Alan's Shadow. The Treasures are Objects of Power. Christmas eve was a AWE.

Welcome to Inaba au

au where Inaba from persona 4 is basically Night Vale

The tag for this au is #welcome to Inaba au

Wixie in hisui au

I threw two of my modded minecraft ocs, Arthur and Sigyn(the wixie in question) , into pokemon legends Arceus for fun

The tag is #Wixie in hisui au

feel free to ask questions about these. The inbox is always open for questions

[bellarkefanfiction]

Hey so there's this one fic I've been looking for it's a pregnancy one where Bellamy and Clarke get a divorce because Clarke sees echo and him together after Clarke leaves she falls pregnant

That fic would be One Last Time. 

@ravenstal said: ‘Any mermaid/pirate bellarke?’

For sure! Here are some combo mermaid/pirate AUs:

Sing me a lullaby, cry me a river [mermaid!clarke / pirate!bellamy]

fathoms below [mermaid!clarke / sailor!bellamy

riptide (you’ll sing the words wrong) [mermaid!clarke / sailor!bellamy]

…and here are some mermaid AUs: 

look like the boy too shy

I Fell In Love In A Dream

there’s something in the water

…and here are some pirate AUs: 

Don’t Think I Want What I Used To Want

Red Skies, Black Waters

war against the world

The Pirates Princess

The Legend of Lupa, Scourge of the Seven Seas

they have no need for eyepatches

there are few things scarier than the beating of your heart

@awkward-dumpling said: ‘Hi there! I’m looking for some bisexual Bellamy fics, where he comes out or his sexuality is a plot point of some sorts. Any or no pairing. Thanks.’

Hey there! We have a bisexual!Bellamy tag for you to browse through, but here are two fics that have him dealing with his sexuality directly:

And I’m Having Some Trouble Just Breathing

How I Don’t Know What I Should Do With My Hands When I Talk to You

[valeovalairs]

jrwitober day two jrwi ocs - it’s Cal and Phoebe. :D

(basically modern riptide ocs for anyone that doesn’t know about them)

I’ll use whichever one i feel like using that day (if i remember)

[valeovalairs]

Smiles, here’s a Legend of the Riptide Pirate AU character lore dump (slash info about them just compiled into one place)

Chip

The “Riptide Pirate”

Uses his bandana to appear alive and eternally 19, despite being undead and being an actual skeleton at this point.

You know that meme, how do you do fellow kids? That’s how I envision Chip in this AU. He desperately wants to still appear young and cool once he meets the girls and warms up to them but he is an old man in a modern world. My guy is struggling.

He is very sad.

He kept the Albatross busy and alive with people for a very long time, at least a good hundred years, until it became too painful and he stopped letting people on. That’s when he became more of a legend, when he retreated into the shadows.

He still hangs out in Zero. He tries to spend most of his time there because he wants to enjoy what time he has left with Ollie, but sometimes he’ll get restless and go off on the Albatross.

He has grey streaks in hair- because when he realized Jay and Gil had both started greying and looking older and he still looked 19, they all got really sad and he gave himself grey streaks and said, “look, we match now.” There were tears.

Ollie

He’s alive!

He is a very very old man though. Like maybe even 200ish probably (half-elf’s can exceed 180 which is probably for them what 70 is for humans).

He did travel a lot with the Riptide Pirates in his adulthood, but eventually settled in Zero.

Chip still comes to visit him and his family, who know him as “Uncle Chip”. A lot of them also traveled with the Riptide Pirates at one point or another while he still had a crew.

He has dementia:( Sometimes he’ll see Chip and ask where Gill and Ms. Jay are and it hurts Chip every single time.

Jay

Guys she’s dead, I’m sorry.

She traveled on the Albatross for decades before retiring/settling (with who, idk, but I do really like clockwork/birdbolt wives, so with Ensa maybe?)

I don’t know if she had kids (definitely not bio kids but maybe she like raised some kiddos at some point idk)

She still would join Chip and Gil occasionally on the Albatross until she physically could not anymore, and then Chip would visit her.

She died of old age.

Gillion

He’d dead, but I don’t know what happened to him.

I mean it’s Gillion Tidestrider do we really think this guy is going to live his entire possible 200 year lifespan? No. Because it’s Gillion Tidestrider. He’s going to die heroically in some way. Maybe it’s before Jay, maybe it’s after, idk. But he was too slow. That’s what happened he’s gotten older and one day he was too slow. 

Fnc? Im more leaning towards this au being one sided fnc on chips side but there is for sure a whole other kind of angst potential for fnc being an established thing in this au.

Phoebe

The Ferin!

A descendant of one of Jay Ferin’s cousins. (The Ferin’s feel like a big family too me, one with lots of cousins and twice removeds and stuff like that)

One of her parents, the not Ferin, was never too fond of the Ferins practices and so they tried to keep Phoebe distanced from them. (This included the name thing but they caved and allowed her to be called Phoebe May Ferin) And her Ferin parent agreed, despite having been in the Navy themself, that their family was a bit intense.

The family has pushed her to the point of joining the Navy academy, and her family wasn’t given much of a choice, so she was sent off.

She’s heard about the Riptide Pirate, through stories- but her favorite part is that one of his earliest companions was also a Ferin. She hears rumors that he’s still around, being spotted at various docks and Zero.

She decides to risk it and run away, looking for the Riptide Pirate. She escapes the evening the Champion is in the city as all attention will be on that. She panics when she realizes that the champion is also trying to run away.

She knows how to sail (small crafts) I feel like she’d canoe and paddle and know how to man like one of those tiny sail boats.

She has reddish hair but it’s a lot more mute than Jay’s. She also has darker eyes and a stockier build.

Class wise, she’s a fighter, I think. I’m not one hundred percent sure.

Edyn

Edyn is also still alive!

She’s “The Champion’s” grandmother

I think she never returned to the undersea, and ended up settling somewhere on the surface. She ended having kids. The Undersea found out about this, and at someone point sent some people up for them, and offered the kid (now an adult) money, status, community, as long as they returned to the undersea. All they want is for them to sire a child to be “the chosen one”, someone from the same lineage as the original. They like seed some distrust in their head and it turns into a whole argument with Edyn and they never speak again.

She hears about the Champion coming to All Port as part of some diplomacy delegation, several months before, and she really wants to see her granddaughter, get to meet her, so she ends up getting a job for the place they’re staying at as like a maid or an attendant or smth under a different name, and no one suspects anything of a sweet old lady. And they end up promoting her to serve the Champions room because a) sweet old lady b) shes a triton and a triton who has never been too the surface will probably be more comfortable around another triton.

Edyn gets to speak to Calypso and reveals first of all that she is her grandmother, and second of all that she is not actually the chosen one.

Calypso

The “Champion”!

The “Chosen One” who is not actually the chosen one! Just a person meant to replace Gillion as a religious figurehead after his “failure” she and most other people do not know this (they pushed Gillion under the rug and waited for people to forget about him before trying again)

She is a Tidestrider

Her thing is mostly the Elders trying to remain relevant in an increasing secular world.

Her training is less strict and started at a much earlier age than Gillion’s, and it followed a lot less combat and fighting and more religious and magical 

She’s literally just for ceremonially purposes, they keep harping about the prophecy and destiny but the elders all know it won’t come to pass for her. She does not.

She goes as part of a diplomacy thing to All Port and there meets Edyn. She had already been discontent with the undersea and uncertain of her place and she had thought about the possibility of leaving but Edyn finally sows the final seeds of distrust and she leaves- Edyn helping by creating a distraction and letting her slip out the window.

She realizes she has no idea of where she is going until she meets Phoebe. They put the dots together and once Phoebe understands she offers to bring Cal along with her, to join the Riptide Pirate. She follows.

She has a crown of coral that looks a lot like Gillion’s but it’s a crown that she can take on and off. It’s not real.

She has lighter hair than Gil and she has a more willowy build (she is also taller than he was)

Class wise, I thought about her being a paladin, but with there being less focus on combat and being a holy warrior, I think she’s a cleric (my heart is telling me she’s a cleric)

[valeovalairs]

A Riptide AU that I came up with

Some pretty big spoilers for Riptide Episode #109, please don’t read further you have been warned.

Okay, I know episode 109 JUST came out, and Niklaus is probably going to fix Chibo, -with a price and conditions blah blah blah most likely but like, hopefully he’ll be fine and get his heart back… hopefully, maybe, I hope he’ll be okay- but I had an idea. 

Or more like I came up with an entire AU in my head halfway through the episode as it really started to sink in that Chip is now undead (at least he’s not dead dead yk, thought he was for like two seconds). (Mind you I thought of this while things were really starting to seem hopeless and before Niklaus became a possibility.)

Okay first of all, Chip has a bandana that could change his appearance right? I’m pretty sure he still has that right? That’s going to be important later.

May I present to you: The Legend of the Immortal Riptide Pirate.

So say Chip never gets fixed. They’re able to successfully leave (idk how but they do) and eventually they escape the Black Sea (maybe they’ve fixed it, that would be great and ideal), but Chip is still undead, and for all they know they can’t heal him, he’s stuck like that forever. He begins to constantly use the disguise bandana to just look like himself. Alive. (So no one besides the crew knows he’s undead)

The Riptide Pirates keep going, but time passes. Everyone gets older, years go by, and Chip is still the same. He never will change. He’s 19 and he will always look 19. They live their lives. But eventually Chip is the last one (this gets a little sad I’M SORRY). He doesn’t take on another crew, and the Riptide Pirates become something of a legend. 

People begin to whisper about the Riptide Pirates, or Pirate. How he mans the ship alone, and some might even say he’s immortal, as people from decades ago remember hearing of him. And seeing him. He’s seen occasionally, docking the Albatross, and doing something piratey. Usually he helps people. (I just thought of this I don’t have specific details), usually he messes with the Navy and Raft (because they don’t die either apparently, so he’s made it his mission to screw them over as much as possible)

At this point where the AU really would kick off it’s been decades maybe even a whole century or more since the events of Riptide. There’s a Ferin descendant, and she’s heard stories of her ancestor Jay Ferin, who was apart of the original Riptide Pirates crew, back when there was a crew, and how she sailed with the Legendary Riptide Pirate. She’s her hero. Her family is trying to rope her into Raft, to send her off like to Navy school or whatever. She wants none of that but they aren’t really giving her a choice. So she’s there, probably in All-Port, and she’s trying to come up with a way to get out. She knows her ancestor used to be a Riptide Pirate, and she knows THE Riptide Pirate is still drifting around. So she has an idea. She wants to be a Riptide Pirate. She begins to plan her escape.

Meanwhile, the Undersea had a new Chosen One. She’s meant to do what the previous Champion didn’t do. She’s completely just for ceremonial purposes, and she isn’t actually THE chosen one, there was only one, but the Undersea pretends to have another one because they don’t know what else to do- the Elders keep this fact secret. She hates it, but she’s known nothing else. The Undersea decides to show her off, diplomatic stuff (what exactly, I’m not entirely sure atm). She’s in All-Port and above on land for the first time ever. It’s incredible. And for the first time ever, she sees a way out. 

The day the Champion is in All-Port coincides with the day the Ferin decides to make her break for it, there’s supposed to be a lot of commotion with the Chosen One and Undersea Elders which should help them get away and give them some time. The Ferin gets out and begins to weave her way through the city, heading for the docks. The Champion had got out too, but she hadn’t really thought that far ahead and doesn’t know where to go or what to do. She’s just wandering around late at night by herself, clearly lost and a little scared- because she can’t get caught she doesn’t want to go back. The Champion runs into the Ferin who instantly recognizes them as the Chosen One and is confused and panics a little because what is the chosen one doing here? The chosen one is supposed to be on the other side of the city and being the chosen one and distracting everyone not here. They both realize they’re trying to leave, and after a quick conversation the two of them run off together, because the Riptide Pirate had known the first Chosen One, they had been friends and co-captains. He could help her, help them both get away. He would understand. So they leave.

The Ferin has a small ship that she’d be able to handle herself, or maybe she steals it idk. They go off together. Eventually they dock at one port (I’m thinking Zero- they know from asking around that he frequents Zero) and then they wait. And once they know he’s there and docked, they sneak onto his ship.

Chip is very surprised to find the Champion of the Undersea and a Ferin together on the Albatross once again.

(That’s as far as i thought but I think it’s pretty cool- I may or may not work on this some more)

[valeovalairs]

babes im thinking about my legend of the riptide pirate au again

pspsps here’s the main posts on it for anyone that’s curious and has no clue what I’m talking about X X

[valeovalairs]

you have no right to make an au that gets so stuck in my brain. legend of the riptide pirate you will forever be famous to me

AHH!!! Glad you like my funky little AU they’re very special too me

[valeovalairs]

Every once and a while someone stumbles upon the legend of the riptide pirate AU and reblogs it, and suddenly I get an influx of notifs from people discovering it and I get a surge of motivation every time.

[valeovalairs]

Hey i love your legends of the riptide pirates au!!! what's pheobe's (the ferin, pardon if ive gotten her name wrong) opinion on the undersea elders after learning about what happened to both gill and calypso? (Im assuming her opinion was at least neutral or just didnt know about them prior to this)

Oh my gosh hi, happy to hear you enjoy my au :D

As to answer your question, I hadn’t really considered her (you did get her name right) opinion on the Undersea elders yet.

I think she mainly had a neutral opinion of them personally, since politically and socially tensions between undersea and navy have eased, however those within the navy still don’t exactly love the undersea elders. So she would have always heard negative sentiments about them. But Phoebe doesn’t like her family and likes to think for herself and always thought, well they can’t be that bad. She doesn’t know that much about them, and really doesn’t think about them much at all until she meets Calypso.

once she does meet Cal and learns more about Gillion through Chip her opinion of them does sour quite a bit. She really doesn’t like them for what they put the two of them through (though I picture for Cal it wasn’t nearly as bad as what Gil had to endure, since she’s more symbolic and a figurehead. She’s not exactly a warrior, she’s trained but the elders know the truth and they know she’s not the real chosen one. She is trained to be a soldier but nearly as intensely as Gillion was- and not for as long either, both girls are younger than the crew is presently, around seventeen, eighteen I imagine). Phoebe would have a relatively negatively opinion of them at that point.

Thanks for the ask, I love answering questions about my au and the girlies :D

[valeovalairs]

Well since the Riptide hiatus has been extended I think I might commit to the legend au to fill the Riptide shaped hole in my heart in the mean time.

[valeovalairs]

I genuinely haven't been able to stop thinking about your riptide pirate au since I saw ur post on it yesterday

Andgsjjakaja that’s crazy honestly, you have no idea how excited and happy that makes me to know someone also thinks it’s fascinating.

I haven’t thought about it much since September but the last few days I started thinking about it again and how I do really want to work on it and make it an actual thing. Yesterday just made it super clear to me that yeah I should do this.

So it probably will be a thing? At some point. I just really want to figure out the plot because it kind of just goes up to -they meet Chip- and that’s about it, and I do want there to be more. I just need to figure it out. There’s a lot left to be figured out, which might be me severely overthinking things, but if I commit to it I want to do this right and have a plan for it. Because I genuinely think it’s a neat au that I really want to explore further.

But yeah. Hopefully, you can expect more to come. <3

[valeovalairs]

I should make a master doc with all my au stuff huh

[valeovalairs]

Them :)

babes im thinking about my legend of the riptide pirate au again

pspsps here’s the main posts on it for anyone that’s curious and has no clue what I’m talking about X X