#monster!au finch

[bobateaboo]

The idiots in color! From left to right we have Finch, Passerine, and Sparrow, all of which are dumb fucks in distinctly different flavors

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[thedemonofcat]

Au: The Pankratz family bears a striking resemblance to the Finch family from "What Remains of Edith Finch."

Most of the Pankratzs are either dead, missing, or have turned into monsters. The reason behind this is uncertain; some attribute it to bad luck, while others believe it's due to a family curse.

Julian Pankratz, better known as Jaskier, is a traveling bard and one of the last surviving members of his family.

When Geralt learns about Jaskier's family history, he becomes determined to uncover the truth about the curse to save Jaskier from any cruel fate that might befall him.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Dead Boy Detectives Victor AU: Final Chapter!

And here we have it: the finale. We're killing some monsters, getting some characters together, and getting engaged. With a lot of fire and devouring metaphors the whole time. You know, the usual!

(ALSO MY GIRL NIKO SASAKI IS FINALLY HERE!)

"Well, I think it's time to say fuck it. Someone needs to get justice for all the dead little children,” Crystal insists, her eyes blazing with righteous indignation, because Edwin is a knife in the same way that Crystal is a knife, and they have had to break their bodies to save the people they care about, and while they had their bodies sold to suit the President’s needs there will always be a part of them that is theirs, sharp and spiked and District-hungry. "We kill Esther and the President, and do whatever it takes."

Charles whistles. “She’s right, you know?" He looks between Monty and Edwin. "Esther Finch has to die."

Monty doesn't shake his head. He just sets his jaw.

And no one is joking anymore. There isn't even a pretense at it. The fire in Charles’ eyes is about to burn Esther to the goddamn ground for everything that she has put Edwin and especially Monty through.

And the thing is that Edwin wishes there was some part of him that disagreed with him. He wishes there was some part of him that wanted to be kind to Esther Finch.

But sometimes, when you are faced with a monster that will just keep seeking to hurt more people, you have to put the animal down for the slaughter.

@anything-thats-rock-and-roll @icecreambrownies @anonymousbooknerd-universe @magpiemarten @mj-irvine-selby

@hartigays @tragedy-machine @just-existing-as-you-do-blog @orpheusetude

[buckybarnesss]

on fire: a teen wolf novel chapters 1-3

on fire was published on july 17, 2012. the day after raving had aired during the show's second season.

it was written by nancy holder who has written many, many tie-in books for multiple franchises but most notably she wrote novels for the buffyverse.

by tapping nancy holder to write the novel confirms to me that mtv was trying to do what teen wolf's spiritual predecessors did and create tie-in novels with the show and on fire was testing the waters for that.

it did not succeed because teen wolf doesn't have the kind of space for that. the timeline is too tight. teen wolf was part of the new netflix binge era. it had a seasons of 12 episodes that were wall-to-wall plot. there weren't silly filler episodes and they didn't do monster of the week plots.

on fire assumes that you have seen episodes 1-5 of the show but it is also an AU of season 1 post-the tell.

i get the vibe that the author was given notes, some information or like an outline that she used to build a plot so it's interesting to see what tid-bits holder uses and refers to that still gel with canon or is consistent with what we know.

this isn't a novelization of season 1 that's for sure but, hey, i took notes.

i'm going to break the novel up into 3 chapter chunks.

so without further ado let's get into it. on fire: a teen wolf novel or as i've been thinkin of it as.

the novel starts right at the very end of the tell after the parent teacher conferences. 

the way it's described when argent shoots the mountain lion brings to mind the scene in to kill a mockingbird when atticus shoots the rabid dog. chris argent is no atticus finch but he sure does learn to walk a mile in someone else's shoes doesn't he?

i somehow always manage to forget that the tell is the episode where allison turns 17. she doesn’t live to see her 18th birthday. shot through the heart man. 

oh my fucking god scott. the way this is written i imagine holder is trying to invoke derek and kate as if there’s some wild age gap between him and allison when they're like 9 months apart in age. allison is not kate jesus chris. look at this shit:

“scott hadn’t known allison was seventeen, a year older than the other kids in their class -- older than him -- and didn’t want anyone to know.”

Fuck Rafael McCall. Meet me outside and catch these hands.

“he knew his dad wasn’t keeping up with child support payments. not that his mom had ever mentioned it.”

this is where the transition into heart monitor would be. it is a pretty terrifying dream scott has. peter’s such a dramatic bitch. scott’s dreaming of being in the woods with everything on fire and then he’s being compelled by peter to come kill with him. which just reinforces my whole thing about peter and scott being psychically connected. we don’t see this with any other alpha-beta connection to this degree. derek senses victoria killing scott in raving but we really do not get this in the show very much as it seems to be a Dark Sided power. but we do see peter use it again in season 6a with the whole “you were my beta first” scene. 

scott mentions stiles’s having ADHD so to me that means that nancy holder was definitely working with the idea that stiles does have it. stiles having ADHD seems like a plot thread that got dropped really quickly by the show but remained in dylan’s acting choices and in fandom’s mind.

scott is the only beta we see experience sleepwalking episodes. it seems tied to the compulsion and mental link he shares with feral alpha peter.

the entire paragraph is something. firstly, it wasn't until night school, the episode after this one, that peter tried to push scott into killing his “pack”. but lol melissa called stiles scott’s “litter mate” and stiles wearing his target shirt that he wore in wolf moon and the one that subtextually could reference the nemeton and eventually scott's pack symbol. i don't believe we ever actually saw that shirt again. the tragedy.

“stiles had on his bullseye t-shirt, and it kind of freaked scott out when he wore it. as if it meant that stiles were a target. They both knew the Alpha wanted Scott to kill him to cement Scott’s acceptance that he was a member of the Alpha’s pack. Who better to take down than the guy Scott’s mom had once referred to as his “litter mate”?”

this is where it's starting to get kind of weird because the plot of this book takes place during season 1 but it’s not strictly following the plot. it feels like an alternate season 1.

jackson has gone missing. when is he not missing is the more appropriate question? 

so chapter 2 starts with scott and stiles joining lydia and allison at The Popular Kids Table to discuss jackson being missing. this wouldn’t have happened in season 1. this dynamic didn’t exist until at minimum season 3. lydia didn’t even acknowledge stiles’s existence until the winter formal at the end of the season. 

jackson’s parents apparently went to paris right after the parent-teacher conference, leaving their high school age child alone for an extended period of time in the middle of the school year? what? no wonder jackson’s fucked up. why didn’t they just go around christmas and instead they waited another three weeks or some shit. that is weird.

jackson’s been left a note from a supposed private investigator about his birth parents while his parents are out of town, which is totally not sus at all. 🙄🙄 lydia's concerned about him looking stupid so she won’t go to the sheriff and she doesn’t even approach jackson’s best friend danny. like, danny would know a lot more about jackson than scott or stiles would. lydia, i know allison is the one who involved scott but for fuck’s sake. 

look even a page later lydia says “he and jackson barely know each other.” then why are you involving scott in what you seem to believe is a personal matter? 

do people just generally know jackson was adopted? i can see lydia knowing but scott and stiles? allison just fucking moved there so she doesn’t know anything about anyone. this is quite the personal piece of information i doubt he’d want others to know lydia. 

this is such an AU because after the parent-teacher conference stiles was giving scott the cold shoulder due to his dad being hurt. 

also stiles is supposedly sitting at this table the entire time lydia, allison and scott are talking and has not given his opinion on the matter yet. very unlike him. if there's one thing stiles has it's opinions on jackson and his father's job. stiles would be all over this.

this fucking line is brutal man -- “stiles was the only person on the planet who knew he had become a werewolf. well, derek knew, too, but derek hardly counted as a person.” that said, i do think it’s accurate to scott’s headspace at this point regarding derek. avoiding seeing derek as a person is a way of detaching himself from the situation he’s found himself in. 

alright so we’ve got a POV change to allison --a nd it’s all about how cute acott is. allison I love you but chill please. 

okay so this is interesting. “her mom had been angry, too. allison could tell that if had been left up to her, she wouldn’t have been so harsh about having to stay all weekend. her mom liked scott.” are we sure we’re talking about the same victoria argent? granted this is pre-werewolf reveal so as far as victoria knows allison is just mooning over a nice normal human boy but i have a hard time imagining this being the same victoria who gave us the crazy eyes and the sharpening your dick metaphor.

this still haunts me.

"except i won’t get to spend time with scott except at school until i’m, oh, 112.” oh right in the feels

this book really assumes you’ve seen episodes 1-5 of the first season. allison’s mentioning aunt kate and the necklace in a way that makes the assumption the reader knows who and what they are. 

jackson’s password for his tracking app is “captain”. that is worse than the password being lydia or like scott famously having allison as his password. y’all suck and have shitty computer security.

these kids are sophomores in high school and lydia and allison are really having a discussion about jackson going to a pay by the hour motel as if that’s a thing 15-16 year olds do in the california subburbs on a regular basis. as if jackson would lower himself in such a way to begin with. he’s snobby as fuck. it’s such a weird conversation.

i am page 20 and i feel like so far this author hasn’t been very nice to stiles. not having him say a word in the lunch conversation about jackson despite not only being very opinionated about jackson whittermore’s general existence he’d also have thoughts on a missing person. like, he didn’t even speak when his dad was brought up as a possible avenue of help which is odd. then about a page later there’s this sort of tone used around stiles that feels condescending about him being hyperactive.

this paragraph is, uh, something that could’ve only been written in 2012 because it feels gross:

“lydia shrugged. then she turned to allison. “tell you what. if the boys are willing to the motel for us ---” “to a motel. to look for a guy,” stiles said. ”maybe you should ask danny?” danny, their lacrosse team goalie, was gay, out and proud. “he could act, you know, more casual about it.”

that said, it does track with stiles being overly occupied with the perception of his sexuality and that danny does shit he’s way too young to be doing which is written around his sexuality. remember the whole older boyfriend and going to the jungle thing is season 2? 

it has been like 23 pages and allison’s got this subplot where she wants to have sex with scott. like girlie you’ve known scott for 2 days, keep your pants on. (it keeps coming up with scott too and it's annoying, okay).

it took stiles barely a paragraph to mention derek hale when the point of view switched to him. sir. 

i’m laughing at how derek’s point of view is paired with stiles in the way that scott and allison’s are. even in the non-canon book the Sterek Agenda is there. 

“a prankster with a wicked sense of humor.” is what derek refers to peter as before the fire. is that what we are calling it derek because i would disagree.

“i dreamed of other alphas coming after me. why? it’s not a crime to kill an alpha. i’m a werewolf. the way we progress in status is through challenge.” now this is an interesting perspective. werewolves progress via challenges. that's still sort of in-line with what we see in canon.

allison and scott are driving into the seedier side of town. AKA what seems to be where the poors live. scott describes seeing boarded up buildings, pawn shops and “some kind of clinic where you could sell your blood.” which I assume is a plasma center where people donate and get paid in return and this little classist shit says “remind me to never get a blood transfusion.” god he’s such a 16 year old..

i saw kate's name on the next page where chapter 4 is

[oc-poll-tournament]

OC Poll Tournament Round 3 Finale!

Propaganda below the cut:

Chess (she/her) @concealeddarkness13 (the picture for her is made by the wonderful @drabbleitout, and she is the person on the left with the prosthetics in the picture): Chess is a special character, and I hope to show how special and awesome she is! She’s extremely distrustful, but she’ll trust people who even treat her with an ounce of decency, and she’ll protect the people she cares about with her life. She’s flirty and confident, but underneath, she has an abysmal amount of self esteem and thinks she’s a monster that will never have love or friendships. She is my blorbo who has been rotating in my mind for the past two years, and I hope you can love her as well! Someone described her in one of the AUs I’ve done as oscillating “between being a poor, wet little meow meow and a fierce feral protective lioness being held back by the scruff of her neck because she is still little”. (credits to @ratracechronicler)

She did start out with a loving family, but like all good protagonists, her parents were murdered when she was 10, and she was left alone. Especially because the society she lives in ignores violent crimes and the victims of those crimes, erasing them all from society as if they never existed. So, she technically didn’t exist in society’s eyes, so she couldn’t get a job or own property or anything. The people around her helped her for a few years until she was old enough to take care of herself, and then she learned to steal.

At twenty years old, she was kidnapped and forced into prosthetics experiments that gave her fire magic that hurts her, from her prosthetic right arm and left leg now. She has a magic fire in her lungs that flares up during physical or mental stress and burns her throat and makes her cough up smoke. Aeflin, the person running the experiments, believed her to be very strong (because she snarked at Aeflin so much and didn’t let her see her pain as much as possible), so she decided to make Chess into her weapon.

She changed her name (since Chess’s original name was Ezra) to Chess, and she put her through even worse torture. Finally, Naivi, the other person running the experiments, got Chess her own team and sent her out into the world to do what the experiments were for and to get her away from Aeflin.

Chess tried to escape that, but a random person found her and took away her memories and brought her back into the enclosure, where most humans are trapped. And she realized right away that the humans inside the enclosure found she was from the experiments and hated her and hurt her and called her a monster because God forbid women do anything (just trying to survive). She learned that the only way that she could get a warm place to sleep (not an alley) was to make herself attractive to people and flirt. She liked sleeping with people, but she mostly did it to have a warm and somewhat safer place to sleep. And even then, she’d have to stay alert because her partner could wake up and try to hurt her.

That’s where she is at the start of her story! She will get a found family and someone or someones to love! She’s pansexual and polyamorous and flirty, and she loves physical touch! She just wants people to treat her decently, and if she has to, she’ll fight to protect her boundaries. And she loves punching jerks in the face with her prosthetic! And we love a woman who loves to fight, right? Thanks for reading!

Crislie Crimsworth (she/her) @gailynovelry: The story of Crislie’s life is that she followed a really sad, really pretty girl out of her sleepy little village and got several new scars, a case of lycanthropy, a little bit of god-killing, and lots of trauma out of it. But she did get a girlfriend and a sick ax along the way, so it balances out! Since “sunset orange” is a mourning color in her country, she’s also a casual goth as well as a jock. If you become her friend then she will carry you around like a sack of potatoes and sometimes hand you a little carved wooden animal. I love her dearly.

Nat Finch (he/him) @albatris: I'd like to submit Nat Finch! he/him, 25 years old, brand new baby vampire. he works the night shift at dodgy petrol and convenience store Stop 'N' Go, where he falls asleep on the clock and encourages shoplifting. he's schizotypal like me and he loves cats, cooking, and his friends! he's the protagonist of my campy gory horror trilogy, though he'd rather not be!

he's short and fat with red eyes and lots of freckles. his hair is long and black, often uneven and choppy in length, because he just cuts tangles out instead of untangling them ❤

he's a sweet boy, earnest boy, awkward boy; he doesn't have many friends at the start of the story due to his paranoia, psychosis, and social anxiety, but by the end of it has a whole bunch of good friends AND a kitty he adores named Grub who purrs like a faulty tractor

in this story vampirism is a sentient entity and all connected via a hivemind known as "the Garble".... it lives in the vampires' blood and can manipulate their thoughts as well as give them heightened strength and speed, claws and fangs, and night vision when they need it. it can be useful, but mostly it's a bully and an inconvenience

at the centre of the Garble hivemind lives the very first vampire, an undead rotting corpse and the god of vampires, and a few of their close friends and confidants. all life force collected by regular vampires flows to them at the centre and grants them immortality and power. it's a sweet deal for the folks at the centre, and a terrible deal for ordinary vampires like Nat who rarely reap any real benefits from their condition, but are threatened and manipulated into participating in this system regardless

Nat's story sees him struggling to solve the mystery of how and why he was turned and trying to balance his kind, caring nature with his new violent condition... and eventually leads him to, "hey, I think I'm going to hunt down and eat the rest of vampire god"

good for him!

some other Nat Facts:

huge drama queen (will play up being sad and pathetic to get what he wants)

vampires are hardwired to seek warmth and coziness so Nat is always down to snuggle 24/7

bouncy cheery overexcited lad who will grin for weeks if you say something nice to him

vegetarian, aside from eating people, which he insists does not count

speaking of eating people, primarily preys on rich pricks and abusive bosses

is too awkward to tell his neighbours he bought them a cute knitted blanket he thought they might like for their corgi because what if that's a weird thing to do. this has been going on for three weeks

is too awkward to tell his neighbours his name is Nat, not Matt. this has been going on for three years

has a giant scary monster mode full of eyes and teeth >:3

please consider voting for my boy!

[nouns-are-bad]

Different Monster 141 au-

Price is a dragon (I know, very original), he breathes smoke out and lights things on fire when he’s mad

Gaz is a squirrel, more specifically a flying squirrel, he likes climbing trees and gliding through the air

Ghost is a fallen angel, black wings and small horns growing out of his skull, though as a recent update on his wings they’re loosing feathers faster than they can regenerate, Simon knows he’s falling more

Soap is a shapeshifter, he can never decide on a definitive form ever, when he changes you can either get a normal animal or a mixture of animals that makes him look terrifying

Laswell is a brib, more specifically a house finch, very very small but so so pretty and also loud

[ratsoh-writes]

Hello y’all! Let me introduce you guys to the new monster subspecies, the vila!

Sparking the folklore behind the ladylike air spirits in Slavic mythology, vila are a monster subspecies found in every au. They’re most commonly seen in the bird AUs however as they are air affinity type monsters

Vila are one of the more humanoid monsters, with soft faces and a head of hair like the average human. They tend to have dainty ladylike facial features. However they’re still easily identified as monsters due to the pale cool tones that their skin comes in, and the white wings in place of ears, feathered legs, clawed hands and feet, and the secondary set of wings at their hips.

Vila present their magic/ecto color in their eyes, hair and claws, making them all match if they don’t dye them.

Despite looking closer to air elementals, Vila are actually a monster subspecies who claim ghost monsters and snowdrakes as their parent monsters. However due to the Vila being an older subspecies, records on this are conflicting and can’t be proven.

Vila monsters excel in air magics, but can also have an affinity for ice and healing.

While there’s no personality “stereotypes” for these monsters, one thing rings true for all Vila, they love music. Vila monsters have a trumpet like singing voice that can carry large distances. Those who can hold a tune compete against plenty of their other kind to get a spot in the music community.

Vila monsters rarely enter in relationships outside their subspecies, tending to be drawn in to their own kind, but the ones that do always seem to pick a monster completely opposite to them. Vila that choose a non-Vila partner often aim for fire or earth type monsters.

And yes, I do have a new character to introduce! Meet Diane Swann!

Diane Swann is a Vila from birdtale! She’s aged 312 and has an affinity for both air and ice magic. She has peach and canary dual colored magic and is a known advocate for body positivity in monsters with dual colored magic.

Diane is the only monster successful in the modeling scene with dual colored magic. She mostly does shoots for and promotes makeup and hair and feather care brands. Shes considered among ebott’s most beautiful and has even been in shows outside the country. Her fan base among the humans is huge!

Diane is an outspoken and confident monster. She’s bold, never shying away from a fight and is loved by fans for her dry humor and elegance when arguing. Plus she isn’t afraid to show herself behind the scenes of the show, often posting herself in non-modeling scenarios, even if the picture is unflattering.

Diane has a close relationship with the mettas, especially Dazzleblook (lustswap) and velvetron (underlust). She’s friendly as well with crow who works for the mettas. She does know pepper from the modeling business before he left. She believes his departure was a crime against beauty and every couple of months will hound him to try and get back into modeling again lol.

Things she loves: nail polish, feather wax, cute hair claw clips, her pet zebra finches, the color beige, anything cinnamon flavored, trying to discover the secret shampoo that Queen toriel uses, pedicures, the opera and Fortnite and tik tok dances lol

[neptuniadoesstuff]

Comic/Novel Series that prob wont become a thing but who knows lol

It will be called "Fableling Myths" which will take place primarily on Fable & the now island based city of Aldikrass (used to just be a small town but due to Elemere's influence it became its own lil thing & kinda separated itself from the main land).

Now the timeliness is pretty similar to TES's timeline but considering these guys are technically apart of a AU that belongs to a frend of mine, it will be tweaked. (Yeh the Mynks are NOT Canon to TES at all, they're just a bunch of goobers I made)

Now here will be the (supposed) timeline (Might change later on):

FM: Dawn of Time (The rise of the Guild & also the creation of the Mynks + how they became to be) (Before the war started) (Mid ME - Late ME)

FM: Civil Disputes (Where Elemere is killed in her hometown of Aldikrass & later on where the Elemental War starts) (Late E1 - Early E2 (Also the time where Mina's current champion is born)

FM: Changes in Prospects (Years after the war ended & now things have changed in the species bcs Mina felt very.... let's say...not good about what went well. So she makes them completely different in body shape. Also where teh Generals & Cardinals become a thing) (Also Early E2 - Late E2)

FM: Finch (Aldikrass separates from the main land & Finch is born. But instead of being born in Fable she is born in the... Mortal realm? She meets a few foes (mainly mages bcs SHE IS A SPIRIT) & frends along the way but eventually finds the strange island city called Aldikrass & settles down) (Early E3 - Mid E3)

FM: Marksman (Take place primarily in Aldikrass & some of teh islands near it during the Oblivion Crisis. & yeah.... A bunch of monsters are everywhere to the point that Mina is really starting to not trust anyone (especially with that one incident with a certain Daedric Prince of nightmares) so with that she closes off Fable from humanity but selects a few Mynks to scout out the Mortal realm... Except none of them were successful... But in Aldikrass one the Marksmen (Mortal followers of Mina & the Guild as a whole) kinda had a contract with one of her Mynks... And that Mynk is... FINCH? The 2 do eventually reach the continent & do meet some foes... Especially a certain foe who was locked up in the catacombs of Fable for a crime that he committed so long ago yet so HEINOUS!) (Late E3 - Beginnings of E4)

FM: Cluttered Events (Multiple story's taking place during the current era/day. All primarily taking place on Aldikrass & Fable but also on the mainland but since the Oblivion Crisis was so recent... Some ppl believe that Mina was apart of it... Which isn't true bcs Mina COMPLETELY DISTANCED herself from everyone except for her mortal followers & the ppl of Aldikrass as a whole (Keep in mind she is actually OPENING her doors again but now in order to get in fable there will be Fableium Portals created by Mhnks who go out into the Mortal Realm). This thing will focus on the individuals whom are important (Like Mina's Champion, some pretty important Mynks.) (Also this is like the same timeline as Noirvillah so yeh) (Current Day)

Im not really sure what to do with this thing atm bcsI kinda succ at making actual making sense lore without trying to rewrite the whole gosh digity thing for like a lot of time so this is just a draft of what will prob happen in Fableling Myths' Storyline.

[tvdufemslash]

Its time to celebrate the many wonderful sapphic ships in the tvd universe!

From April 24th - April 30th we invite you to create anything and everything involving any femslash pairing across all three shows. You can create gifsets, graphics, edits, fics, art, moodboards, even just share your headcanons! Each day will have a prompt for inspiration. Use the tag #tvdufemslashweek so we can find your stuff! You can create as much or as little as you wish, pick one pairing for the week or do many. As long as it's f/f, we want it!

The Prompts: Day One (April 24): Canon Rewrite - Wish it was Rebekah that Hayley fell for instead of Elijah? Didn't like the way Nora and Mary-Louise's story ended? Here's your chance to fix it! Smash canon to pieces and make your own! Day Two (April 25): Body Swap/Role Reversal - What if Hope and Josie got Freaky Friday-ed? What if Elena was the witch and Bonnie was the doppelganger? Time to switch things around! Take a walk in the other person's shoes for a while. Day Three (April 26): Slice of Life - The tvdu is a hectic place, time to slow it down! What does your pairing get up to in their down time? What fluff were we robbed of? Give us Bonnie and Caroline practicing for Miss Mystic! Lizzie and Jen's monster truck date! A peek into the lives of our girls when they're not fighting monsters. Day Four (April 27): Dark Side - What if Caroline gave into her dark side and ran away with Katherine? What if Lizzie shut off her humanity with Hope? From Expression magic to the humanity switch to just plain old corruption arcs, there's many ways for our good girls to go bad! Day Five (April 28): Box of AUs - Noir, Western, Horror, Medical. . . the "Therapy Box" gave us some great AUs, but not all of our girls got to participate! Wanna see Rebekah and Elena in a noir drama? Finch and Josie meeting in the Wild West? Now's the time to give your ship the AU they deserve! Day Six (April 29): 10 Years Later - Who doesn't love a good time jump? Ten years after your ships ending, where are they? Have Josie and Penelope finally reunited? Have you resurrected your ship to have a happy ending? The future holds endless possibilities! Day Seven (April 30): Free Choice - Anything you wanna make for your ship! Did you get inspired but it didn't fit the prompt? You've been dying to make that one thing but never got around to it? Nows the time!

Get creative, have fun, and remember to reblog and comment to spread the love!! We're excited to see what you make!

[just-call-mefr1es]

Yay :3

Doin it as anon because uh, why not-

So basically: After a finch dies they get some sort of power linking to their death or what they wanted most

For example, Calvin and Barbara: Barbara has the ability to uh, basically kill ya ears with her new scream and she's a speedy bitch/j meanwhile Calvin can fly/float and teleport (he can also teleport a person.)

Sam has the ability to get a perfect shot, even if not aiming at the person.

Walter can uh...idfk summon a fuckin train?-

Edith. Let's see... Y'know how those words pop up with Edith's voice in-game? Yeah she can do that anywhere now (say if gus or someone was causing trouble, words would pop up in front or beside them with Edith's voice saying smth :3) oh and she can also teleport because why not

Now, lewis is a fun one! He can instantly behead someone! Don't let him find the person who kidnapped Barbara :3 (that person did uh..bad things to her.)

Milton is also a fun one! I think he can go in-between worlds and such oh and just think of the ink demon from batim (traveling through walls, popping up from ink etc)

Edie, same as Edith just not in her (edie's) voice. It's just plain text

Sven! Can build anything instantly :3

Oh and Molly! She can breath underwater (due to the shark/monster thing), silent like a cat (idk if that's how that works but eh.) and can fly like an owl

Now idk if I forgot anyone-

(oh Dawn and Gregory don't have any btw-)

poor dawn n gregory 💔💔 but this is a swagger au holy shitt

i love milton’s power:3 whenever he doesn’t want to talk to someone all he has to do is just walk through a wall💪💪 gigachad frfr

walter summoning trains😭😭 “yk what? i don’t like you” *summons thomas the train engine*

[puzzled-pegasus]

Spooky AU idea

I got an idea for a Horror/scary Edith Finch AU where there actually IS a monster killing everyone. I'm not generally into scary things, so who knows if it's actually scary lol, but here's my idea.

After Odin's ship capsizes, a sea monster finds him and devours him, and gets the taste of Finch blood.

When Molly is left alone in her room, the monster comes in through her bathroom, and consumes her.

It climbs up the cliff from the sea and takes Calvin when Sam and Edie aren't looking.

Walter hears it outside his bunker for years before it finally breaks his wall and comes in through the cracks.

When Barbara is left alone with Rick, the monster comes to take her and Walter. Barbara and Rick manage to fend it off, but not before it kills the former. It slinks away, but doesn't forget that Walter is still there.

It pulls Sam off the cliff like it did with Calvin.

It oozes up through the bathtub drain, turning on the water and consuming Gregory, and when Kay returns to check on her baby all she can do is scream as a black tentacle disappears back into the pipes.

It finds Gus during the storm, sneaking up on him as he flies his kite, his attention to his surroundings inhibited by his current emotions.

It finds Milton in one of the passageways and devours him.

It tracks Lewis to the cannery and hides in his locker, and as he tries to fight it off it shoves his head into the slicer and then eats him.

Oh, and it finds Edie as she walks into the low tide.

Someone with the ability to write horror, feel free to take this if you think it's a good idea!

[fipindustries]

in a way doris is the exact opposite of bethel, bethel was in many ways a monster because she was near omnipotent, which is why she cant be trusted, doris finch is a monster because she is so starved and desperate that she loses nothing by betraying so she also cant be trusted.

it would have been very interesting to see an AU where instead of bethel we got doris as a companion.

[jack-kellys]

cannot remember if i sent you one sooo

Monster Hunters AU/World War I AU

- @we-are-inevitable ✨

this is the second one u sent but i had like a "funny" thought abt it??

so the time period is wwi. so this is a canon era vibe, but.. without the newsies part lmaoo the gang's like in their early 20s in this let's say.

it's 1919, and the attacks in new york city are the worst they've ever been. (they're bad across the country, but nyc's been hit hard.)

davey's family is stuck in their small apartment, having no choice but to stay since the prices are higher just about anywhere else in the state. the attacks are violent, of course– ravenous, torn flesh, only leaving gory destruction in their wake. but with his family getting closer and closer to being in real danger, davey's been paying closer attention, reading every story he can catch in the other local papers, and the attacks are starting to look strategic. like those things are capable of planning and analyzing.

said things are...hard to classify. he's never seen one, it's rare people do and survive or remember, but the descriptions are never the same. some are large, a decayed color, with no discernible face besides teeth. most are said to have long, sickle-like claws due to the usual nature of attacks. but some are small and run on all four limbs, some have long, mangy manes, or weeds growing out of their veins. they're monstrous, and there doesn't seem to be any other way to put it.

but there's a pattern now, he tells his chief editor (davey's a grammatical editor primarily, not writing the stories quite yet), and how has no one said anything?

until, quite suddenly, the president wages open war against the creatures, finally, though war is a strange thing to call it. but at least davey can do something, and get these things out of his city.

the "funny" part that i was thinking about is like... basically the government puts people into five person individual squadrons based on collaboration of skills and my brain was like "oh like a d&d party"! so davey is assigned into a monster hunting dnd party consisting of uhh lets say. mush, albert, finch, specs.

their second mission after basic training takes them north of the city around sleepy hollow, since plenty of attacks have taken place in vulnerable suburbs. in fact, most of the town had been deserted, most suburban dwellers able to afford housing elsewhere. there's been a consistent group of monsters traced to this area, and they're tasked with taking them out. it's grim, but if it gets these things further than his family, then davey'll do anything.

but it's a battle.

those things are fast, quicker than finch's aim or al's grenades, and davey's commands fall short too. it comes down to close combat, specs shouting out possible exit routes while davey and the rest do their best with knives against claws.

they sink into albert's leg, and finch's side. they scrape specs' face and mush's medical attention can't keep up before he's practically swatted against a tree. davey's arm gets raked, his skin tearing while he stabs the thing the best he can glaring into its deep, night-sky eyes. he gets slammed into the ground, something cracking, hearing albert call out for him before it all fades away.

he's surprised he wakes up, but when he does, he is.. elsewhere.

definitely further into the forest of the town, greenery and tall trunks of trees surrounding them- them, since through barely-opened eyes he can make out his squad. no monsters, though, and his team is bandaged up so mush must have... but mush is unconscious with the rest of them, so who–

"morning, neighbor," is said to him, and davey looks up. a young man is in front of him, accent a bit heavier than his own, but certainly manhattan. davey can barely move–pretty sure he's broken a few ribs–and the man seems to sense this and kneels down. he looks familiar. messy dark hair, deep tan skin with a rosy undertone, and even deeper, night-sky eyes.

davey's own widen. the man grins, and his teeth are a bit mismatched and sharp. now that he has davey's attention, he notices the man has bandages hidden under his shirt from where davey must have stabbed him.

"i'm called jack. i'm gonna tell you a story, but if you don't believe it, i'll have to kill you and your team so you don't squeal. deal?"

not like davey has much choice. "...deal."

soooooo Basically. the "monsters" are government experiments on young humans gone wrong and they are now getting revenge on the country <3. so the war is a front to basically exterminate the government's failure to create what was likely meant to be supersoldiers!!

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Dead Boy Detectives Victor AU: Villain POV.

Alright. Strap in, folks. Thomas King POV. Because he's nasty and horrible and writing from his POV is fascinating in the way that getting covered with spiders is fascinating. Please do not read if you aren't comfortable with the tags listed- this is very much a Dead Dove: Do Not Eat situation. Thomas justifies some truly heinous shit to himself.

(Also blame this particular war crime of a fic on my instigators.)

But if you're interested in plumbing that, here's the excerpt as usual:

Thomas King isn't a monster.

He knows what some might think of him, here in Thirteen.

But being a Gamemaker doesn't make him a monster. After all, he saved those kids. Stopped them from dying in the Arena. Even helped engineer his favorites' wins in certain years. A little push there, towards an exciting conclusion, and even the Head Gamemaker and the President applauded his efforts.

And, well, since Thomas saved those tributes' lives- well, they are his Victors, aren't they? He's earned their appointments. Earned their time. Earned their affection.

Giving gifts started with Esther Finch's son. Since he hadn't saved the brat from the Arena yet, a little bit of extra compensation was a fair bargain. Some day, the boy would make it up to Thomas, would trade back in what he owed. The debt could never be properly paid, of course, but Thomas could live with the little finch always owing a bit too much.

The gifts are different with Edwin Payne, though. They are a bargain, a payment, for Esther's son, but for Edwin, they're sincere. A gesture of affection. A gesture of rebellion.

(Aka: a monster's POV.)

@deadboy-edwin @icecreambrownies @anonymousbooknerd-universe @magpiemarten @ashildrs

@tragedy-machine @just-existing-as-you-do-blog @orpheusetude @mj-irvine-selby

@pappelsiin @itsbitmxdinhere @rexrevri @sweet-like-h0ney-lavender @saffirez

@the-ipre @sunnylemonss @days-light @agentearthling @helltechnicality

@tiredghostby @sethlost @catboy-cabin @secretlyafiveheadeddragon @vyther15

@anything-thats-rock-and-roll @queen-of-hobgobblers @every-moment-a-different-sound

[moonfurthetemmie]

I’m Out Of Funky Titles For the Crossover of DS Verses

I couldn’t write a whole lot for the scenarios I had, so I put them all together. 

Previous | Next

“…I suppose that answers one of your questions,” Blue mumbled.

The new Dream’s expression didn’t change much. Blue was starting to learn that he just didn’t emote. It was unnerving, even after him staying with Blue these past few days.

The new Dream, who had taken the nickname ‘Delusion’ for now, was listening intently to the remainder of the JR announcement of the…other Meme Squad. Even the censored blood from the security footage made Blue queasy. He really hoped he didn’t run into them.

“I suppose it does,” Delusion mused. “The three of them…It’s not like them to risk something like that. I suspect they appeared there much the way I appeared in that park, and didn’t see any way to just sneak out.” He tapped his chin. “They wouldn’t have been able to get nearly that far in our multiverse, though…Perhaps this JR has less security.”

“W-well…our Meme Squad aren’t murderers,” Blue said. “They- The guards don’t really have to worry about being killed when they break in. They would’ve been…pretty unprepared.”

Delusion hummed, but said nothing.

Blue handed him the remote. “I’m…I’m going to go lay down. I don’t want to hear any more.” He was only feeling more and more sick the more he watched.

Delusion’s expression softened ever so slightly. “Alright. Would you like me to lower the volume some?”

“That would be...much appreciated,” Blue mumbled. “Thank you.”

Delusion turned his attention to the announcement. Perhaps he should pay this JR a visit sooner than he’d intended…They may need his help tracking down his Meme Squad. He was still worried about Blue, though. He was still awful anxious; what was he afraid of? Perhaps an ex-lover was stalking him? Paranoid that someone was out to get him? Or just nervous to be in Delusion’s presence? Whatever the case, Delusion was sure he could assist, though it would be very difficult to do so if he left.

If the problem was simply shyness, it would be alright to leave him alone, but Delusion wasn’t sure that Blue would tell him the truth. He’d lied about staying with a sister, Delusion had no guarantee he wouldn’t lie about a dangerous stalker or what have you. He was probably afraid to be honest.

Delusion felt bad for him. But he really should go visit his alternate…Maybe he should take Blue with him. When Blue wasn’t feeling so sick, at least.

~~

“We need to figure out where they could be hiding,” Dream said. “They can’t escape to their multiverse to hide-“

“Which only leaves us with the entirety of this multiverse,” one of the monsters at the table said dryly. A small owl monster that had to sit on a stack of books to see over the table. “Shouldn’t take too long.”

Dream sighed. “Yes. Thank you, Peggy.” He turned on the projector and brought up a map of the multiverse.

‘Map’ was a very generous term for the thing; it was impossible to map realms with no physical distance or barriers between them, so it was more a graph of many known universes. Large circles for particularly important ones (such as the AU JR’s headquarters is in, or the universe that is theorized to have been the very first one in the multiverse, and the ‘first’ of several other genres of AUs…), and small circles for minor timelines or universes that had at least something of interest—mainly AUs that the Meme Squad was known to frequent, or hide out in. There were notes denoting whether a universe was particularly positive or negative, and anything else that JR decided was of interest to them.

“Sparrow, what can you tell us about the places the Horror Squad tend to hide in?”

Sparrow, the new Finch, folded his arms and studied the map. “Not much,” he admitted. “So far as we’ve been able to discern, there’s no real pattern. When it was only Pluto, he’d switch between hiding in positive AUs and negative AUs at random intervals. But since he was joined by Slash and Byte, we’ve been finding hideouts a lot less, and there seems to be even less pattern to that when we can find one.”

“I’m willing to bet they’ve got a more permanent place in the middle of nowhere, so they can’t be spotted or tracked,” one of the other humans said. “We’ve suspected the Meme Squad’s got a place like that for a while, now It would be the safest way to hide, and explain why we haven’t found any kind of hideout in years.”

Sparrow slowly nodded. “That would be smart. They can’t do that now, though. They could try to go to the Meme Squad’s house, but given what I’ve heard of them, and the whole destiny bond thing, they may be willing to risk calling for help from JR, and there’s been nothing except a random note about a freeloader.”

“Which still doesn’t make any sense,” Peggy mumbled. “Unless it had some hidden message that was just ‘fuck you’.”

“And I doubt they’d call murderous alternates of themselves ‘a freeloader’,” the human said. “So Horror Squad may go back to Pluto’s old method?”

“That’d be my guess, but I don’t know where they’d start,” Sparrow admitted.

Dream rubbed his chin, and looked over the map. “…Well. It’s a good start. Now…”

~~

Ink was woken from her sleep by a searing pain in her side, and an annoyed voice saying, “If this doesn’t wake you up I’m going to start cutting fingers off.”

She yelled out in pain and jolted away, only to fall on her side, the chair she was sitting on banging against the floor with her.

“Good morning.” The voice said with false cheerfulness. “Christ, you’ve been out for ages. I didn’t hit you that hard.”

Ink’s vision was blurred from pain and sleep, but she recognized that voice. She also recognized the feel of a rough fiber rope binding her arms and legs to the chair.

“Wh…what the hell,” she gasped. “What did you fucking stab me with?”

Her chair was pulled upright, and she was turned to face her alternate. She’d taken off her jacket, revealing a black tank-top, and identical tattoos to the ones Ink had on her arms. She had one hand on her hip, and in the other was holding a rod of metal. One end was glowing bright red. She looked deeply unimpressed.

“I didn’t stab you,” she scoffed, walking off and setting it carefully on a metal table. There were…a lot of things on the table. Things that Ink didn’t like the look of. She twisted her hands in their bindings, to no avail. “I poked you. There’s a big difference. We’ll get to the stabbing with hot metal later.”

“….what the fuck.”

Her alternate picked up a pair of blue rubber gloves, pulling them on as she glanced at Ink. “You’re not particularly interesting. You’re pretty boring, actually.” She picked up one of the things on the table, though Ink couldn’t see what exactly. “But I thought, y’know, if I’m going to be stuck in another multiverse, I want to get some fun out of it.” She picked up a small white square—an alcohol wipe?—next, and wiped off whatever she had in her hand. “I can only get my hands on so many people, though. Especially if some of your JR is on their way.”

She turned around, slowly twirling a razor blade between her fingers. The blade was still damp from the rubbing alcohol.

“I don’t have my Dream here to cover me for this stuff, so I have to take some extra to not be found.”

Her eyes gleamed with a strange light as she stepped towards Ink.

“I’ve taken your phone already, and made sure it can’t be tracked.”

Ink’s breathing quickened.

“This shed used to be part of a park, but it looks like it’s been abandoned for years.”

She tried to push herself away. Fighting against the rope around her hands desperately.

“No one will find you.”

She could only manage a few inches, the way her feet were tied to the chair.

“And no one can hear you.”

Her alternate roughly grabbed the chair and held her in place.

“If you bore me now, I’ll cut your throat and leave you to the crows.”

She could’t remember the last time she’d felt so fucking scared.

“So you better have a decent pain tolerance, and you better scream.”

The razor came down on her skin.

[andthekitchensinkao3]

Fic tag game :3

Fic tag game!

tagged by @sweeteatercat Thank you <3<3<3<3 :3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

27

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

669,998 words o_O Yeah. Lots of words for my own entertainment.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Detroit become human (mainly HankCon, but some Sirkus too); Person of Interest (Reese/Finch, the ultimate disaster gays of emotionally repressed middle age, I wub them so much. Must write more!)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Silent Treatment (254)

Great Pretenders (176)

Metamorph (162)

Being Alive (128)

More than Words (121)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I never know what to say (except THANK YOU), but I do try to break out of my shell and respond to everyone.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I tend to write happy endings, but the road to get there can be Hella bumpy. In that sense, I think Gambit takes the angst-flavored cake. It’s a spinoff off my first ever DBH fic, Metamorph. Long story short, Gambit takes place after a peaceful revolution, Hank and Connor are partners (and now established as lovers, officially speaking), and Gavin decides to shoot Connor in the face, essentially blowing his face off. And then, just a little while later, Connor-52 arrives on the scene, expecting to investigate a crime involving a deviant…

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

As I said, about my fics having happy endings 🙂 But if I can choose one I love, it’d be Great Pretenders - an undercover fake couple, friends to lovers, only one bed type fic (although no sex in this one, they do share a steamy kiss for purposes of maintaining their cover. mwarharhar).

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Feels like I’m jinxing myself on this one, but I have been blissfully spared of hateful comments. At times weird comments, sure, but nothing outright negative. Maybe I haven’t been popular enough in the fandom to attract the attention of haters. I don’t know, but I’m glad for it.

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I never used to write outright smut, out of a fear of getting hate (weird, I know), but since my comeback from fandom hiatus, I’ve been writing smut to the high heavens. M/m smut, customizable android genitalia smut, transmasc!Hank smut, genderfluid robo smut, dom Connor/sub Hank smut. I’m up for almost anything, really.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Not so much crossovers, but I do a lot of AUs, some of them inspired by other franchises and/or movies.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. Not that I know of.

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Nope. But it might be fun. Maybe?

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Not counting DBH or PoI, one of my longest standing OTPs have to be Kirk/Spock, very closely followed by Garak/Bashir, of Star Trek TOS and DS9, respectively.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Oh, I will finish them all. Just you wait. 😀

16. What are your writing strengths?

I have come to appreciate that my funny bone isn’t so weird after all, and I should embrace the quirk. So, my ability to weave in humour into my fics. Sure helps when almost all my fics are angst-riddled monstrosities ;)

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I am a chronic over-writer, imho. I can’t ever keep things brief and to the point, but I’m trying!

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I'm multilingual. English isn’t my first language, but neither is German, French, Spanish or Latin, and I frequently use those as well if/when it fits a story.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

FAKE, closely followed by Star Trek DS9 and The Sentinel

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE XD But I am very fond of How to Create a Monster :3

Tag yourselves, my darlings. All of you! <3<3<3<3<3