#nobody likes the opening band

[zafironix]

🎥 Opening band

"Singing here for you gives me a purpose".

[that-thoughtful-waffle]

I have 'Nobody Likes The Opening Band' by iDKHOW stuck in my head. Like specifically the last 30 seconds.

[le-velo-pour-dru]

[Image ID: Eight sketches of Dallon Weekes from different iDKHOW music videos. For the Razzmatazz one, he's looking up to the right, one hand holding a microphone and the other up right below his face. For the Debra one, his hand is raised, his fingers are curled in as if he were holding onto something. He's looking up at it with half-lidded eyes as he sings into a microphone. For the Nobody Likes The Opening Band one, he's wearing a tuxedo with glitter dots on his cheeks, and he's smiling and waving. For the Modern Day Cain (Slow Jam Version) one, he's standing at a microphone, slightly turned to face the left, and he has headphones on. For the Do It All The Time one, his head is slightly tipped up, and he has a neutral expression, holding a microphone away from his face. For the Social Climb one, it shows a view from above of him laying on the floor, holding a microphone up to his face. For the Modern Day Cain one, his hair is sticking up and his head is turned slightly to the left, his hand on the microphone in front of him. For the Leave Me Alone one, he's looking directly into the camera and clapping. /end ID]

Dallon Weekes. I have drawn him too many times.

[keo6323]

what it feels like to listen to absolution

[vitamin-zeeth]

last idkhow video!!!! this one's just the entirety of sunnyside lol it's the only one I recorded the whole of

[aces-come-in-spades]

NOBODY LIKES THE OPENING BAND!: CHARACTER MASTERLIST

Please read all of the following information. This covers some basic in-universe mechanics and provides enough background information to interact with the characters, as well as some info on the characters themselves.

(btw. obligatory fuck you ryan seaman before we continue. i dont support that dickhead <333)

BE ADVISED: HEAVY RELIGIOUS THEMES, SUICIDE, AND GENOCIDE ARE DISCUSSED BELOW!

Nobody Likes the Opening Band! is a non-sequential series of fanfictions inspired by the bands I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME (idkhow) and Waterparks, and draws places, people, and other elements from each band's respective lore. Currently only one work, The Paris Manuscript, is being written. It is available to read on AO3. There is a planned second work, Nobody Likes the Opening Band, that will eventually exist.

Nobody Likes the Opening Band! mostly revolves around the plot of the second work, with the Manuscript serving as a sort of prequel. In Opening Band, a new family moves to the town Ryan Seaman lives in, and Ryan is determined to learn what secrets their son Dal is hiding. In the process of trying to uncover Dal's secrets, Ryan discovers Gloomtown, an anti-Purgatory where certain souls who suffered a great deal during their lives or whose lives were cut off before they could have much meaning go to rest before the end of the world that is also the world's source of magic.

In order to fully learn the truth about Dal, Ryan is forced to team up with his ex-friend and current arch-nemesis Awsten Knight, and Paris, a spirit from Gloomtown whose attatched himself to Awsten.

Gloomtown has an incredibly powerful energy that leaks through to Earth, where it soaks into the DNA of random people and mutates it. This mutation allows the person, once they are born, to inherit magical powers once they are 13. Powers can be literally anything.

PASCAL "CAL" PHYLLIS (#cal phyllis)

the only child of the couple that adopted ryan. he has a soul of gold and the strangest humor you've ever seen. his particularly likes to joke about being a capitalist (he is anything but one). also a fantastic matchmaker despite his inability to get a boyfriend! he just wants to kiss someone :<

the only main character without any magic powers. he makes up for it by being the best fucking cupcake baker you've ever met.

(he/him, gay, no magic. birthday october 4.)

likes: baking, eldritch horror, cats, playing pranks hates: messy spaces, tea fun fact: he starts out by crushing on dal but eventually loses interest. rumor has it he's secretly dating a boy named mikey way ;)

PARIS EVANGELINE (#paris)

harley's youngest and most difficult child. he's a shapeshifter and is a (literal) being of chaos.

he was born with his soul outside and detached from his body. he wears it on a chain around his neck, but since this is unnatural he's not quite right. using his powers drain him so he's almost always tired, but he tries to hide it via masking. also his wings don't really get used because flying drains him way more than magic.

due to all of this (and all the bullying his siblings did to him when he was younger, they are incredibly ableist and a few are homophobic) harley wouldn't let him out of gloomtown until one day, they introduced star to paris! at which point paris and star basically became a did system. (more on this when we get to star)

in order to stay alive, paris has to take pieces of human souls and attach them to his soul. he likes to latch onto certain people he really likes and refer to them as his host. at the time of nobody likes the opening band, awsten is paris's current host.

he's super duper flirty and touchy and emotional. and also wears whatever the fuck he wants because he's trying to appeal to humans and to him this means showing off a lot of skin, so he wears crop tops and shorts a lot (he loves them dw)

(genderfluid but often presents as male, pansexual, universal manifestation of chaos. no known birthday.)

likes: raising a ruckus, geese, gummy bears, cuddling hates: whaaaaaaaaat? hating something? impossible! he would never! ahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! fun fact: he started out as my version of waterparks' character soulsucker but he literally turned into an oc this thing is nothing like the real soulsucker.

STAR EVANGELINE (#star)

paris's guardian.... demon? ghost? spirit who is basically an alter. when paris is stressed/anxious/upset or physically injured/in danger star will assume paris's physical form while paris takes on star's ghost form. star basically gets to have a body for once while paris recovers.

star is a gloom, a type of demon that was created to originally oversee and care for gloomtown. harley wasn't very big on them, seeing them as useless since harley was the new ruler of the place, so all the glooms were wiped out. star had snuck out and was exploring earth and thus escaped death, but they were captured on return and given to paris as a protector. one of star's wings was ripped out of their back, so they hide their wing under jackets cuz they're embarrassed to have anyone find out about this.

due to all the shit that's happened, star tends to close others off and acts incredibly hostile towards most people. they're really only soft towards paris and anyone that is a host/close to a host.

(they/them, aromantic, the last gloom in gloomtown. doesn't actually have a birthday but likes to celebrate it on november 2.)

likes: no one knows hates: everything, if their attitude is anything to go off of fun fact: star was the st*rfucker to soulsucker. again, it got way out of hand <33

HARLEY EVANGELINE (#harley)

a seraphim who, while fallen, never actually committed any sin. they were punished by getting reassigned to ruling gloomtown, and they wield this authority mercilessly. their divinity is what allows gloomtown to affect humans and give them magic.

somehow, they managed to give birth to 100 children.

there really isnt much known about them. they present themself as a benevolent and kind figure, but they hide a much more sinister and cruel personality

(they/she, aceflux, guardian of gloomtown. no known birthday.)

likes: no one knows. hates: no one knows this either. fun fact: they were inspired by bart harley jarvis from idkhow's music video for the song "WHAT LOVE?" (bart is this pink illuminati pyramid thing)

honorable mentions

RYAN SEAMAN: the protagonist of Nobody Likes the Opening Band and Cal's brother. He wasn't born with the Gloomtown DNA mutation, but accidentally fell into Gloomtown while conscious and met Maxx, a very temperamental snake who followed Ryan home and bit him. Ryan now has fangs and can discharge deadly venom by biting, but he usually tries to avoid using this power. Also, Maxx lives in his skin as a tattoo. LIAM FORD: ryan's ex-best friend, who killed himself when he was barely even thirteen after escaping the clutches of tellexx, a research company that had kidnapped and tortured him one summer. he now haunts the town as a ghost.

honorable mentions open for asks

AWSTEN KNIGHT (#awsten): (he/him, bisexual) the local spellcaster, enchantment weaver, and potion-brewer with a fondness for doing the most insane and impulsive shit you've ever seen. he's also paris's current host and claims that paris is a little bitch (which he can be, to be fair). he and ryan used to be friends, fell out after liam's suicide, and some time after dal moves to town, they become friends again before they eventually start dating.

DALLON "DAL" WEEKES (#dal weekes): (he/him, straight) harley's favorite brat, who went "MIA," so to speak. for a few years after extracting his powers from himself. ryan, awsten, and paris had to work together to return dal's powers. He is known as vengeance, and his magic allows him to summon knives that inflict death or a curse on anyone pierced by one. he's also suffered a lot of emotional abuse and experiences a good deal of religious guilt.

[tomsgreg]

This is INSANE. Like they were in the Brobecks together. How do you betray a friend of 10+ years like that it’s sick 😭

[scottpilgrim4everr]

New band shirt!! I actually went to the Hot Chelle Rae show in Palmer. They were performing at the state fair. I BEGGED and PLEADED with my mom to let me get a shirt but she didn’t let me. :(

12 years later I GOT MY SHIRT >:3

[camscendants]

Concerts coming up 👹

[marighould]

Just saw idkhow live with my friend and then had an exceptionally surreal post-concert meal at a dennys. Got home at like 1:15 am. I think I finally get what your 20s are supposed to be.

[nearisqueer]

need to curate a workout playlist with metal, emo, and punk. I know this is cringe. Fuck you. Help me do it

[born-to-lose]

*Gripping the bathroom sink* I need to go to the rock bar immediately

[dirt-str1der]

Ever since i read this one fma fic about an alchemical natural phenomenon / disaster that happens once every few decades its been on my mind

[torchickentacos]

who do I have to fight to change the lyrics to the correct ones on spotify

[aces-come-in-spades]

"Well, you see, Awsten has absolutely zero sense of fun and maybe I think it's funny turning into a caterpillar so-"

i invite you over to my house and while we're greeting each other at the door i turn around and yell "down boy! DOWN! NO!" and you just see a caterpillar moving very slowly across the floor toward you

[aces-come-in-spades]

obligatory "meet my freaks" post

mod introduction

MONA

your incredibly charming mod! spends way too much time wasting her time when she should be doing other things. prone to disappearing in the middle of conversations.

has an ao3 account (traversety) and draws all her own characters (drew the blog icon, too! say hi to paris), but would also go INSANE WITH DELIGHT if someone drew them too......... ;>

(she/her, aroace, 17, autism & adhd. birthday april 19.)

likes: bunnies, music, writing, drawing hates: tornadoes, being ignored fun fact: mona's main blog is @traversety!

emergency character color guide

ROMAN KEITH NILSEN

LOGAN VAILE

JAZZ VAN JANSEN

ALAN HARPER

ALTAIR SANDLER-MCBRIDE

JAMIE WINCHESTER-SOMERSET

ELLIOT ROUSSEAU

CAL PHYLLIS

PARIS

STAR

HARLEY

AWSTEN KNIGHT (he's technically not an oc but he's in the opening band au and can answer asks and stuff)

DAL WEEKES (also technically not an oc)

oc masterlists

FROM THE LIBRARY OF AN ACE OF SPADES MASTERLIST

NOBODY LIKES THE OPENING BAND! MASTERLIST

DO NOT, FOR ANY REASON, DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

send nsfw asks! your mod is aroace, underaged, and very much disgusted by that sort of content, so stay away, thank you!

use any kind of slurs or degrading language! this should be obvious, but be nice to me and the gang!

send any asks regarding religion! alan is a catholic and so is your mod, but online religious discourse triggers a lot of anxiety and paranoia for your mod, so please don't talk about it!

ask about the political beliefs of any characters! your mod isn't very up-to-date on the political scene and finds it all to be objectively important but subjectively a bore! also that shit is controversial and this is supposed to be a peaceful place. no politics here, thank you very much!

tags masterlist & other misc things

#mona speaks: out of character posts from your mod. #the librarians speak: general tag for posts/answered asks done by any of the ftloaaos (from the library of an ace of spades) characters. this will be used alongside character name tags and the tag #from the library of an ace of spades. #the band members speak: general tag for posts/answered asks done by any of the opening band (nobody likes the opening band!) characters. this will be used alongside character name tags and the tag #nobody likes the opening band!.

CLAIMED ANONS: currently none