#louis is like 'oh absolutely but also i know killing people IS wrong. i contain multitudes.

[elvesofnoldor]

i heard somewhere that will and hannibal from bryan fuller's Hannibal show is based off on louis and lestat and the more and more I understand about Louis (from the books), the more I think Hannibal is actually based off on Louis (and not Lestat like some people assumed it to be).

[blouisparadise]

Here are some amazing bottom Louis fics that were posted or completed during the month of October. We hope you enjoy this list. Happy reading!

1) You Control Me (Even If Its Just Tonight) | Explicit | 1591 words

Louis rides Harry and thinks he's in control.

2) Save a Horse | Explicit | 2400 words

Louis goes to a rodeo with Liam, and gets a lot more than he bargained for. Featuring bull rider Harry, obnoxious t-shirts, and one hell of a night.

3) El Comienzo De Una Vida | Teen & Up | 2779 words

Note: There is no smut in this fic, but it contains omega Louis, so we’ve included it in this monthly roundup. This fic is the second part of a series. 

After being bartered to Harry to save his kingdom, Louis is on his way to the Alpha's homeland and he would very much like him to stop being so cautious and just kiss him, god damn it!

4) A Treat For You And A Treat For Me | Explicit | 3416 words

Louis blushed at Harry’s flirty tone. “You’re just saying that to get in my pants.” He giggled, half joking. “But thank you. I’m glad you like it.”

“Not just to get in your pants, baby. I’m being honest. You’re always cute. Are you wearing mascara?” He asked, licking over his lips. Louis in makeup always did something to Harry. He loved it.

Louis nodded, leaning forward. “I am. Do you like it? I’m also wearing some cute Halloween panties under my costume.. if you wanna see them later?” He murmured, letting his lips touch Harry’s lightly before pulling away, a tiny smile on his lips.

Harry’s mouth opened a bit, but no words came out. Instead Louis was lifted up and carried in Harry’s arms, up the stairs. “Later? I wanna see them now.” He whispered into Louis’ ear, hot breath sending shivers down Louis’ body. “Missed you so much since last time.”

5) A Kiss For Then, A Kiss For Now (And A Million More) | Mature | 6073 words

Note: There is no smut in this fic, but it contains omega Louis, so we’ve included it in this monthly roundup. This is the sequel to this fic. 

A collection of moments from Petal's life with her mummy, the stinky alpha and their new baby boy.

6) Terror At Our Door | Explicit | 6201 words

A hurt man comes to Harry's home on Halloween, bringing in a world of mystery that Styles didn't want at all.

What a shame that feelings are involved too.

7) Fight Me Breathless | Mature | 7596 words

Louis Tomlinson has no idea why he’s in a London hospital for asthma, but enter Harry Styles, his doctor, who he definitely doesn’t think is hot, and he’s left wondering if asthma is why he can’t seem to breathe properly with his doctor around.

8) This Ain't Red Wine | Explicit | 9054 words

It’s not until he gets a whiff of the contents of his glass that Louis realizes his grave mistake.

That’s not red wine.

It’s blood.

It’s probably not the most rational, but his first thought is what people are going to think when they discover his body. On the list of stupidest ways for a human to die, accidentally turning up to a Vampire party has to be pretty high up there.

9) Colder Weather | Explicit | 15132 words

Note: Please remember to check tags for any trigger warnings.

Louis doesn’t know what comes over him. “Please H-Harry, take me,” Louis looks back at the farmhouse, swallowing once as his skittish eyes fall onto the master bedroom window, “Take me with you, please.”

Harry’s scent flares, the tinged anger so noticeable that Louis draws back out of the alpha’s space.

“Is he hittin’ on you?”

Louis’ right hand rests briefly against the bruise forming rapidly over the right side of his rib cage, the darkness of the night hiding the movement. “No.”

10) Those Who From The Pit Of Hell, Roam To Seek Their Prey On Earth | Explicit | 17636 words

1889. Louis Tomlinson is a student at the prestigious Harrow School for Boys, nurturing his passion for forensic medicine under the care of a particularly mysterious and dark teacher, Harry Styles, who has set his main focus on a series of gruesome murders, all of them reflecting the year 1888, when Jack the Ripper went rampant in the poor streets of Whitechapel.

11) The Shining Distraction That Makes Me Fly Home | General Audiances | 19397 words

Note: There is no smut in this fic, but it contains omega Louis, so we’ve included it in this monthly roundup.

An omega Louis and an alpha Harry find themselves in a forced marriage that gives Louis the freedom he desires in exchange for Harry being chained up a bit more.

12) Welcome to The Rivalry | Mature | 19671 words

“Welcome home!” Niall yelled, clapping his hands in excitement. “Isn’t it great?”

Louis looked between Niall and the house, unsure how to respond.

“I don’t understand,” Louis finally managed to say. “Aren’t we a little old to be living so close to campus?”

Niall scoffed. “You’re only twenty-four for fuck’s sake. There is still plenty of partying left for us to do. What better place than one street over from where a car was set on fire after the Michigan game last year?”

“Is there proof of that? Did the car have Michigan plates or something? Is there a photo I can send in a DM to Wolfie?”

As if on cue, a Twitter notification popped up on Louis’ Apple watch. He had tweeted again.

13) Welcome to the Bottom of the World | Not Rated | 20859 words

Louis is an American musher/expedition guide, Harry is a scientist from England. They meet in the middle of Antarctica, what could go wrong?

14) Reach The Heavens Own Blue | Explicit | 21070  words

He steps up to the plate, eyes glazing over as he watches Harry chew sunflower seeds, his jaw moving obnoxiously and exaggeratedly. His eyes drag down Harry’s body, settling on his large bulge, accentuated in those sinful pinstripe pants. The lines cut across it just right, curving where he’s thickest. Louis wants to crawl across the dirt on his knees and just take what Harry gives him.

Louis shuts his eyes for a moment, opening them to find Harry staring at him with a smug expression. He fucking knows. Louis gets into position and waits for the pitch. He swings when Harry throws, missing the ball just barely. Strike one.

15) Terror Of Surrender | Explicit | 31566 words

Harry instructs them to step into Crescent Lunge, stopping when he gets to Louis to adjust his hips. “I think you can bend a little more.” He helps Louis deepen the stretch, his hands tight on his hips. “Good boy.”

Louis gasps quietly, his eyes snapping to Harry’s, his heart pounding in his chest. Harry’s eyes drop to his lips, his hands smoothing down Louis’ stretched thighs, then he’s turning and walking to the front of the class.

16) Eyes Off You | Explicit | 39396 words

A Charlie’s Angels inspired fic where Louis is the brains, Harry is the charm, Liam is the muscle, and Niall drives the getaway car - and Zayn is there, too. sometimes.

17) Puncture | Mature | 43383 words

Note; This fic has mentions of BH.

An alternate universe where Harry bites Louis and hates the taste of his blood but is still obsessed with him anyway.

18) Your Touch Shouldn't Make Me Feel Like This | Explicit | 48883 words

Uni AU in which Alpha Harry has been in love with his omega friend for the longest time and one motorbike trip to the countryside with Louis made him realize that he could no longer hold back his feelings.

19) Just A Flicker In The Dark | Explicit | 57191 words

Harry Styles is his case partner. High and mighty, annoyingly smug Harry Styles who’s known him for years and has fucking seen him naked for fuck’s sake.

He glances at Venus who’s blinking up at him with curious eyes, no doubt sensing the agitation sparking in his magic.

“This is not happening,” Louis says loudly. “This is not fucking happening. I am going to kill Liam, oh my god.” He doesn’t even know if Liam is responsible for this but it feels like something he’d do to drive Louis absolutely insane - exes don’t just show up to your assigned haunted house out of nowhere. “Fucking fuck!”

He nearly jumps when Harry knocks again, his muffled voice carrying through the wood. “I can hear you, you know,” he drawls, sounding frustratingly amused.

Louis exhales, resisting the urge to scream.

20) Wild Thing | Mature | 65962 words

Harry doesn’t think love is for him, until Louis shows him just how wild love is.

21) Three Days in February | Explicit | 187642 words

Louis is cursed after a night out with the lads and the five have just three days to figure out what happened and how to break it before Harry and Louis both lose their sanity and maybe something more. Louis can hear everything Harry thinks and Harry isn’t sure he can keep his feelings for Louis a secret from his own mind.

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[margridarnauds]

002 orleans, 001 peyronan, lets GO

001 | Peyronan

when I started shipping it if I did: Funnily, it went under my radar for YEARS, because I. Did not care about Lazare at ALL. Did not even L I K E him. And the 1789 fandom, as a whole, was VERY anti-Ronan. You could not say ANYTHING positive about Ronan at that time. Then, during a stream of Zuka 1789 in June 2017 (THREE YEARS. WHAT THE FUCK? HOW HAVE THREE YEARS PAST?), I was like “Oh? O H? O    H  ?” and so It began. I started off with the idea of creating a contained series of drabbles, highlighting the two of them over the course of the musical. The idea was that it would essentially be PWP, disconnected, plotless, researchless, no feelings involved, no softening of Lazare, and would probably end at Ronan’s death. But, as I began working the concepts further, I realized that wouldn’t work, and within a few months of beginning the project, I started to call it “The Abomination”, due to it warping far, far out of my control. These days, a LOT of what I’ve written ties back to those original ideas for The Abomination, and a lot of the concepts used in Between the Waves started there (Printing Press being one of them.) 

my thoughts: THE BOIS. THE B O I S. My favorite totally canon ship. The two of them really do balance one another out really well, they’re the classic fire and ice combo (though, underneath Lazare’s ice, there’s fire, and underneath Ronan’s fire, there’s ice.) Ronan’s character arc begins and ends with Lazare, and there’s SOMETHING about him going to Paris with this idea of “Okay, I’m going to kill the Comte, take back my lands, and dance on the ashes of the old world” and then meeting Lazare and being like “...okay, new plan: Save this fucking disaster from himself”. There’s something about his arc going from hatred to love. And could this be done with Olympe as well? Yes, it could be. But, for me, I like the full circle happening with Lazare, since he did start this. Both of them have a Hell of a lot to learn from one another, there’s going to be a lot of grappling when it comes to establishing equality, a lot of sniping back and forth, but I also do think, legitimately, they could make one another happy. (And, Hell, even if they didn’t, that doesn’t mean it can’t be a fun ride.) 

What makes me happy about them: The general idea that the Comte de Peyrol, a cold-hearted, professional guard dog who probably never really even THOUGHT of love as something he could have, could melt for this revolutionary, no matter HOW slightly, enough to risk everything for a relationship. That, despite everything else, Ronan could love him back. That, even if only for a few months, they got to be HAPPY with one another. 

What makes me sad about them: The ending. The things that were left unresolved. It’s doubly sad in, say, the PLP universe, where Lazare really DID love Ronan with his entire heart, but Ronan really died without KNOWING the extent that Lazare was invested. And that Lazare will have to live the rest of his life, HOWEVER long that will be, thinking of how he destroyed the one person who ever gave a damn about him outside of what he could do for them. 

things done in fanfic that annoys me: Given that the fandom mainly consists of me + the various friends I’ve kidnapped into the fandom, there really ISN’T all that much? Like, I feel like the 1789 fandom, as a whole, is a fairly chill space (knock on wood.)

things I look for in fanfic: Existing is a lovely start. 

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: I don’t MIND Camille/Ronan, Ronan/Olympe, or Olympe/Lazare. They aren’t FAVORITES in the same way, but I would probably read fanfic for it. And I have read fanfic for Ronan/Robespierre as well. 

My happily ever after for them: Lazare chooses to leave the Army after realizing that it’s destroying him, the two of them escape the worst of the Revolution together and go away, either to London or America (I. Doubt. That someone as high profile as Lazare could slink away to the country like a ton of other aristocrats did.) They live together more or less openly, Lazare deciding against taking a wife for convenience’s sake, and society is left to deal. In theory, they keep two separate bedrooms, but in practice? Yeah, that peasant boy is spending all his time in Lazare’s bed, and Lazare has no complaints. 

who is the big spoon/little spoon: See, I WANT to say “Lazare”. This has been my official stance for YEARS. That Ronan routinely cuddles up to Lazare (who had a very difficult time admitting that he, in fact, needs cuddles), and Lazare pulls his arm over him, protecting him, since we KNOW that Lazare tends to feel a deep sense of duty re: protecting the things most important to him, whether that’s the Crown or Ronan. BUT CONSIDER. BIG SPOON RONAN attacking from behind and Lazare getting to feel safe and secure for ONCE. 

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Ronan likes Lazare reading to him. Lazare has a very warm, smooth voice, when he isn’t barking out orders. Ronan loves getting to cuddle against his shoulder or on his lap, Lazare stroking his hair with one hand and holding the book in the other, letting his voice flow over him. Lazare will sometimes (gently) chastise him for not listening to a single word he says, but it’s worth it to see Ronan at peace (and, in the case of at least a few of the works, it isn’t a particularly great loss, anyway.) 

002 | Orléans

How I feel about this character: Thotty, ambitious bastard who should NOT be this charismatic and yet somehow IS. Also right for a solid 60% of the musical. I’m trying to articulate all my thoughts but they are just variations on “SON” and “PROBLEMATIC”. 

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Margrid Arnaud. Arnaud, Margrid. The sister of Marie Antoinette. Street Gremlin. I can KIND of see Antoinette, in a very, very odd way. Less “I love you so now I’m going to destroy you” like the Hungarian did, more “We were friends, there were Undercurrents to it, Things happened to make them have some mutually hurt feelings, and being stung like that set up this Mood for things later on.” 

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I’m actually really interested in Louis & Orléans, as a relationship. Like, they were COUSINS. Something went deeply, deeply bad in their relationship at some point, and it totally ruined both of their lives. In another life, they might have been closer, but, with a throne between them....there was really no other way for it to end. 

My unpopular opinion about this character: The LOVELY thing about a fandom that consists of, like, three people on a good day is that IT’S MY SANDBOX. But, one thing that I do think is that it wasn’t really a straightforward Mnaipulator-Manipulatee relationship with Margrid. She signed on knowing fully well that she would get her hands dirty, Orléans TOLD her as much, and she wanted it, at the time. It didn’t really benefit him to conceal what they would be doing. The two of them just happened to drift to two different places over time. I’ve seen a certain....tendency to baby Margrid over her choices, because she DOES have a traumatic backstory, but...she can still be rather reprehensible as a human being herself. In the early stages of the musical, HE’D be more likely to hold her back from doing something awful as opposed to vice versa. I also do think that...he didn’t GO OUT intending to supplant Antoinette. That was formed after years of seeing her bungle ruling the country. You can even see it in M cast when Antoinette turns down Rohan’s attempt to make nice, where he has this very distinct “Oh....she DIDN’T....she did” face. That isn’t the face of someone who’s THRILLED that things are going according to plan, that’s the face of someone who’s realizing that there’s only one way for this to happen and for France to remain in one piece, and it’s for him to take the throne. 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: The problem with Orléans, as a character, is that at least in the Toho production, I DO think he’s fairly well done. It’s hard for me to REALLY see....what I wish could have happened. Because you kind of realize that there were only ever a few ways for this to end, and as the musical progresses, the available options just get narrower and narrower. It isn’t GOOD, but like....you UNDERSTAND how it happens. I do wish that he had more scenes with Margrid, obviously from a self-indulgent ship perspective. Not even in terms of “canonical makeout session” (since I almost feel like a canonical makeout session would ruin it), but in terms of him finding out that Marie was her sister and that THAT was where he went wrong, but also....I’m not sure how MUCH it would have ended, and there’s something to be said for the tragedy of him just never KNOWING why she betrayed him. That hurt, furious look on his face as he’s led away really is probably the best place to end their relationship on. I would have loved to have seen their second meeting, after Hébert convinced her to take the job, since it would have REALLY given a ton of groundwork for their working partnership and would have given them the chance to discuss their kind of disastrous first meeting.  Obviously, I would hope that he gets his head screwed on properly and he runs off with Margrid to America, where they end up living peacefully for many years and having children who are spoiled absolutely rotten, along with his other, legitimate children, who also flee to America. Philippe, being himself, naturally ingratiates himself to the new country, becoming very active in politics, and upon his summoning of his dear friend the Chevalier de Saint-Georges to America, the cause of Abolitionism is given a massive head start. It isn’t entirely France....or London, where Philippe’s heart will always lie, but it’s a nice existence, and his ego is suitably stroked by the American fascination with royalty. (He and Laz still have at least one near-duel, which is halted by their respective significant others.) 

my OTP: Morléans. Shockingly. 

my cross over ship: Never 5get @lochley fucking selling me on Marie/Olympe/Orléans. 

a headcanon fact: Part of why he has his ongoing snipefest with Fersen is that he’s bitter that Fersen was able to fight in the American Revolution while, in his case, after the Royal Family tossed him to the wolves after the Battle of Ushant, he was forced to remain in France and sit it out, and someone as active as Orléans could barely STAND it. (Also, along with Ronan, has SOME form of ADHD. He has a lot of plans, and one LARGER plan, but when it comes to things outside of that one larger plan? Yeah, he scurries around, chases after whatever seems good in the moment. It drives Margrid up a WALL.) 

[lovedreaming]

pokémon AU bio part 1 of 2 - origin.

tbh it would be better for me to describe this as a pokémon-classicaloid crossover because that’s more of what it is. but anyway, it’s about damn time i got started with this, so here we go.

[Content warning for some nsfw phrasing below.]

so, as we all know, kyogo is an aaaassssshoooole. canonically, if we count the classicaloids as gods, he was asshole enough to piss off the gods, and there’s no reason that pokéverse kyogo would be any different.

kyogo otowa, kantonian science genius and professional shitbag, had just as shady a past as he does a present (and future). he was actually a minor scientist involved in team rocket’s mewtwo experiment, which is how he gained his knowledge of creating artificial life forms--and also, since he was a minor scientist, that’s how he managed to get away with it. he originally joined team rocket as a way to escape his creditors; they had agreed to either pay off or straight-up off the creditors if kyogo provided his services in the mewtwo experiment. the deal was that he would be paid after a successful experiment, although if any creditors came hunting him during the experiment, they would have to be taken care of. but since we all know how the mewtwo experiment went, and since kyogo fled the lab the moment mewtwo started getting Angery™, he was seen not only as a failure but also as a traitor of sorts. not only was the debt deal completely off, team rocket PUNISHED him by refusing to go after his creditors AND demanding he pay them the amount as well, in hard cash. so now he jumped region to region fleeing rocket, as well as the creditors who had not been paid off. it was in unova that he met with meloetta, unsurprisingly, by pissing on one of her shrines.

he and a “friend” (read: someone he was relying on to smuggle him place to place) were taking a path through the woods, during which they passed by an ancient shrine. purely for the sake of being a dick, kyogo dropped his pants and let loose a steady stream onto the base of the pedestal, sighing with relief as he emptied himself, probably making some stupid remark about how pissing came to symbolize letting go of all his worldly cares. his smuggler gaped in horror, begged him to stop, and told him that the moss-covered stone he was showering was actually an ancient shrine to meloetta. but kyogo just shrugged and said, “How bad can it be? Gods are just super powerful Pokémon who decided one day they wanted to be worshiped. And besides, classical music is boring. Who the heck would want to worship that?”

apparently, as he was to find out, a lot of people. 

enough to sustain the goddess who would then punish him for his misdeeds.

when he arrived at his hideaway in unova, the goddess awaited him with a black metronome in her hand. she told him that as punishment for disrespecting her, she had hooked his heartbeat to the metronome. if he was unwilling to perform for her an extreme act of devotion, she would stop the metronome from beating, and so would his heart. he joked back that classical music was indeed boring and asked her to let him off the hook because he just reeeeallly needed a piss, at which point she started slowing down the metronome to convince him. when he felt his heartbeat slowing down with it, he realized: oh shit, this is for real. 

and so kyogo relented. all right, you got me, he said. what’s this act of devotion i have to do? meloetta told him that he would have to create eight beings that she would call the eight sounds, one human body to be a vessel for each note on the harmonic scale. they would have to be his biological children--and she would take them from him the moment they were born. if he made any mistakes whatsoever, she would kill him, because after all an offering to a goddess has to be flawless.

kyogo said such a thing would be incredibly hard for him because he’d have to take some risks; meloetta bluntly replied that if any harm came to him in the process, it wasn’t her problem. as a constant reminder of what awaited him should he fail, she left the black metronome with him as he worked in the lab. this would turn out to be her biggest mistake.

side note: in the past, such remarks would not have merited such blackmail from the Muse. however, in the modern era, she’d come to have a totally unjustified grudge against those in math, science and business--she was bitter that the arts, especially music, suffered at the expense of those three professions simply because they made more money. her grudge was even greater against people in those professions who had no interest in music--and she could become extremely angry against those who outright said music was useless, or those who tried to stop their kids from becoming musicians. as a result, she was more willing to inflict a harsher penalty against a scientist like kyogo.

but, as i was saying. the eight sounds.

kyogo’s first step to creating the eight sounds was returning to the rocket lab from which he’d run away. getting back into kanto wasn’t the problem, seeing as kantonian law enforcement infrastructure is actually highly incompetent, with about half of it bought up by team rocket itself. but seeing as kyogo himself was highly unpopular even among the rockets for pretty much bailing on mewtwo for self-preservation, returning to kanto was still a risk. however, he had no other choice, because that was his only source of income and materials for the project. but seeing as mewtwo had killed the other scientists who’d worked on him and kyogo was the only one left, rocket had no choice but to listen to his new design for “failsafe superhumans.” after all, he wasn’t just some disobedient grunt--you can’t exactly pluck a replacement for a genius biologist off the street. to be absolutely sure of a safe return, however, kyogo stole a stash of valuables from a dying relative to cover a slice of the money he owed.

soon, eight young embryos began to germinate. in order to kiss up to meloetta, he modeled them on the great european classical composers (read: he just picked the first eight composers whose names he saw in various places) and obtained illegal eggs from women in the countries of the composers’ origin to combine with his own sperm. there were five ready pods, so the children could have all developed to the same age at the same time--but meloetta had requested of kyogo that all their ages increase with the same intervals between the ages; he chose the sequence of ages 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16. the four pods contained two batches of classicaloids, and the fifth pod contained the experimental control body, which will be explained later. 

as for where the kids got their powers? meloetta filled the room with Relic Song for eight hours every day. the song imparted psychic abilities to the experiments, as well as the ability to use mujik. i’ll explain what mujik is fully later, but the tl;dr is an ability, uncommon in pokémon and extremely rare in humans, to manipulate typed auras with sound. with meloetta’s divine influence, it also gives the muijk user a psychic communication ability.

the children, their classicaloid equivalents and the order of their birth can be grouped as follows. batch one contained bach, mozart, beethoven and schubert; batch two contained chopin, liszt, tchaikovsky and badarzewska. however, i grouped schubert with chopin and liszt because of a key difference between him and the rest of batch one.

Sebastian Otowa - Bach. he was the first child to emerge, physically aged 16. kyogo actually took him out a tad early in order to please meloetta. of the eight, sebastian was born with the greatest amount of mujik potential, and was programmed to be a musical genius of the highest order. but since he was aged up so quickly in the pod and taken out early, he had extreme trouble communicating in anything other than mujik and musical terms. therefore, kyogo found it better to  (meloetta didn’t care that he had trouble speaking, however, because she didn’t recognize it as a speech impediment but rather as a sign of sebastian’s connection to music being so strong that he couldn’t even form words.)

Amadeus and Louis Otowa - Mozart and Beethoven. these children were taken out of their pods at ages 14 and 12 respectively. unlike bach, who spoke in musical terms only as an accident, kyogo deliberately created these two to speak musically--all to please meloetta. they can speak somewhat normally, but usually default to music terms. when they made it to otowakan with some of their siblings, learning how to speak like normal humans was their biggest challenge--and the biggest source of their grudge against their father. like their brother sebastian, they also had their mujik and meloettan psychic abilities activated. quite honestly they left because of their severe frustration with their older brother sebastian--with whom their views on mujik completely differed. aside from being frustrated with him, they were also angry at the fact that meloetta seemed to take sebastian’s views unquestioningly over theirs.

Peter, Freddie and Franzi Otowa - Schubert, Chopin and Liszt. these children were taken out at the ages of 10, 8 and 6 respectively. like amadeus and louis, they were made to speak through musical terms and mujik. but kyogo took peter out late by mistake, and made a second mistake taking freddie and franzi out early because he was worried about also taking them out late. taking them out at the wrong times messed up the original intent of the design, however, and made them speak in a more normal way--just like taking sebastian out early messed him up and made him speak abnormally. as a side effect of this, they can learn how to mujik-speak as well as their older brothers, BUT their mujik raw power is inherently less powerful than said brothers’. note: peter was named after schubert’s middle name.

Ilya and Tekla Otowa - Tchaikovsky and Badarzewska. these two were only 4 and 2 years old and still in their pods when kyogo cut and run. he took the middle five children with him and left the toddlers behind because he was unwilling to wait for them to be ready to come out. note: ilya was named after tchaikovsky’s middle name ilyich.

it was at the time that kyogo hatched peter, freddie and franzi that he realized a few things. one, these kids were “flawed” because they sometimes spoke normally and sometimes spoke the way meloetta wanted them to. two, given the scope of his three sons’ powers, he could easily use the others’ skills to pay off his debts. three, he couldn’t use his children to that end if meloetta took them as soon as they were born. and four, he felt increasingly demeaned by and fearful because of meloetta’s blackmail/curse, and he just was not going to put up with that anymore.

so he duped her and took the children away--but ended up paying for it with his life.

his temporary salvation lay in the fact that he had another body prepared in a secret location, one that was intended as a “scientific control.” he wasn’t planning ahead for this, because it is standard scientific procedure to create a control for any experiment. shortly after he realized that peter, freddie and franzi could and would never be able to mujik- and music-speak in a way that perfectly mimicked their older brothers, he decided it was time to get out of there. meloetta had already grown fed up with his relatively slow progress, and if she sensed the flaw in these three, kyogo was done for. so on the night of his escape, he used a psychic pokémon to transfer his consciousness into the slumbering control body, then outright smashed the black metronome, killing his old body. he then lied to peter, freddie and franzi, saying that there was an angry legendary pokémon and her servant (sebastian--whom they hadn’t even met) who wanted to kill them. they might not have believed him, except for the fact that at that moment, meloetta was indeed pissed and everyone in the general vicinity could hear her relic song roaring with rage. 

kyogo’s plan was this: first they would get out of the lab. then he would send them to his mansion, otowakan, where they would meet his other daughter kanae and hopefully start raking in cash with their mujik. unfortunately, things didn’t go quite as smoothly as he’d hoped. amadeus and louis were the first line of defense, using their mujik to attempt to fend off sebastian, but seeing as sebastian was always the most powerful, they got pretty damn curb stomped. they could barely hold off sebastian long enough to allow kyogo and their younger siblings to keep running, and were badly injured in the process. 

for a while, it seemed as though the escape would totally fail. but as the group ran, however, peter was accidentally hit by one of sebastian’s attacks, and dropped to the ground. it was the desire to save their brother that motivated amadeus and louis to stop running and face sebastian with the full extent of their power; freddie and franzi turned back to try and save peter, but the brothers urged them to keep running. kyogo, on the other hand, abandoned his youngest son without a backward glance, sprinting for his life from the battle. the schmuck probably didn’t even notice that peter was no longer following him.

at first, things looked even more hopeless than before--but that was exactly what saved them. they already had an incredible drive to defend themselves. now that they had a brother to save as well, they had the impetus to jump up a stage in mujik usage. it was just like in episode 24 of canon classicaloid, in which beethoven and mozart’s combined powers were enough to defeat bach. now it was meloetta’s turn to intervene, but sebastian urged her to let them go; he believed that all of the eight sounds would return to him eventually, and besides, he really wanted to talk to her about the differences in their beliefs. it was, after all, a difference in opinion on mujik that spurred amadeus and louis to achieve their greatest form--and that moved sebastian enough to make him reconsider things a little. for now, he said, the greater concern should be peter, who was badly hurt, and whom meloetta had managed to take back while sebastian was fighting. not to mention ilya and tekla, whom he currently sensed were suffering in their pods--kyogo was supposed to check up on them to make sure nothing went wrong (but something HAD). so now sebastian and meloetta would have to keep the girls alive using supernatural means.

kyogo, naturally, got his just desserts. amadeus and louis were ENRAGED that he left their brother behind, and so they paid him back on peter’s behalf by likewise betraying kyogo--they turned sheet music bars into unbreakable strings and tied him to a tree, leaving him for meloetta and sebastian to collect--or for wild pokémon to devour, whichever one came first. after healing the children, they found kyogo easily by tracking the mujik signature of the sheet music strings--and this time, there was no escape. she killed him.

as for what happened to franzi?

i’m saving that for part 2. ;)