#ok ko au tournament

[ok-au-tournament]

Hey! Just posting to remind you guys that we're still accepting submissions for the tournament! We have quite a few, but I'd like to get a a few more for some more variety in both aus and creators!

Also feel free to submit propaganda for your aus any time, even if they're not entered in the tournament! this is for fun and talking about aus after all!

[starburstdragon]

Guys Who Are Multiple Guys Tournament, Round 1

Elktaur

“He split himself in two because of self-loathing, and when one half of him married his crush, he broke his own heart. :(“ - User submission

K.O.

“hes got his loser emo boy headmate tko, the 3 different fusions between them (cko, pko, mko) which i dont think actually count for this tournament but its worth mentioning and hes even got an au robot duplicate (k-0) from the episode ok au and a silly roboticized form from the sonic crossover episode lets meet sonic (metal k-0)” - User submission

[earthnashes]

since magical healing is a thing, with the mushrooms and stuff, i wonder if Brawling is a bit more violent than the other sports? i.e broken bones might take a week to heal entirely instead of months if potions and red shrooms are involved, so injuries that are similar to that are less frowned upon in the ring? (but still seen as kinda mean). everything is still kept non-lethal mind you, and Permanent injuries are still bad, but since its a combat sport, people are ok with a bit more damage?

I've actually already talked about that when I was describing Brawling. I didn't go into detail but I did mention how injury allowance worked in the sport. Since I may as well get into more detail:

-Brawling is a combative sport that is best known for it's explosive and somewhat violent battles. In the AU it's basically Super Smash Bros but without the crossover aspect and instead focuses on international competition.

-Much like the Olympics, Brawl happens once every 4 years. It has 2 separate Leagues, 3 separate Branches and several classes under that branch to keep the fights as fair as possible. The Leagues are Solo and Team: Solo is self-explanatory, Team are always 2v2 fights.

The classes in question are Magic, Non-Magic, Mixed. Magic branch is for fighters who have magic, whether it be elemental or not. Non-Magic is of course for folks who don't have magic. Mixed is an allowance to let magic-fighters and non-magic fighters in combat with one another but with additional rulesets to even the playing field, such as the allowance of using power ups and items in a fight. Weight doesn't come into play for the magic branch but it does for the Mixed and Non-magic branches. Each branch has a skill class to further separate the fighters for more fairness: Casual, Amateur, Professional.

Casual allows for literally anyone who thinks they can fight a chance to participate, in which they will receive basic training to maintain rules and fight etiquette. Amateur are essentially "rookies-intermediates" of Brawlers; they're far more disciplined than a casual brawler but not as experienced as a professional brawler. They train with the focus and purpose to becoming a professional, and most have the hope that they'll meet criteria to be reclassed as a professional. Professional probably needs no explanation; they're the best of the best, constantly train to remain top of their game.

-Brawl's rules are generally basic. The fighters fight in a ring, often of which has different builds and themes to make them more interesting for both viewer and fighter. The fighters are always encouraged to use the environment to their advantage. The goal is to KO the opponent, or knock them out of the ring 3 times total. Simply falling out of the ring often isn't enough though; they have touch an erected barrier around the ring for it to count as a legitimate KO, meaning if they recover and manages to avoid touching the barrier, it won't be counted as a KO. Another method of winning is by literally knocking the opponent out cold, or what is called a "Kill" in the sport.

-To be chosen to fight either Brawl League, each kingdom holds local qualifying tournaments and let hopeful fighters come and challenge one another for the privilege to fight. There's usually upwards to 4 qualifying tournaments, in which fighters have to perform well in order to be invited to the World Qualification Tournament, the 5th and final one. Whomever wins the WQT (upwards to 6 fighters each kingdom) will then get to compete in the Brawl tournament, which typically lasts upwards to a month before the final fight is held. The Solo Cup League and the Team Cup League will always be held simultaneously.

-Given it's nature, Brawl is very lenient with the injuries fighters receive. Tighter rules are instated for Mixed in order to even the playing field more, and there are more rules placed on Casual brawlers due to their general lack of discipline, but overall Brawl is so well loved because of its violence. Wounds, blood, scars, and broken bones are very common in this sport, however there are some things that are sourly frowned upon or outright outlawed. Frowned upon is the deliberate attempt to break someone's bones. Broken bones happens due to how the fights go, but deliberately going to handicap someone, while not illegal, is seen as cheap and poor practice.

Maiming, murder/killing, and permanent disabling are outlawed. If it is determined that the fighter is trying to carry out any of these, the fight will be paused and the fighter evaluated. If it's ruled that the attempt was deliberate, they are automatically disqualified and banned from ever entering Brawl again on a global scale. Likely arrested too for attempted assault even by Brawl standards.

[your-local-lakewood-dragoness]

Y'know how everyone has one of those werewolf AUs, right?

Well, I have decided to do that too! For OK KO! But: what I'm doing with it is, to me, a really neat... unique take on said werewolf AU theme, but it's involves an alien creature that's sorta reminiscent of one but also not. I... don't... know. Just lemme set up the newest AU this way:

The premise of it takes place just moments after KO has merged and awakes to find out he eradicated everyone. (Very akin to the actual scene itself) The P.O.T.U. is there for the wish stuff. Wishing everyone to life remains the same, everyone else living their best life..... except him. After what this KO has pulled, the atrocities he committed, the powers he completely stripped people of, the lives he took. After causing this much damage when he was TKO.... he feels he doesn't deserve to be called a hero after everything. He's not careful with the word choice for his part. So a monster (what he calls himself) like him deserves a wish that would for sure punish him for his crimes. So he makes it, and there's this spirit/ghost of an alien werewolf species, called an Alterwolf. It ambushes him, when KO least expects it, and eventually makes itself at home in his head.

As sad as this sounds, KO in this AU believes he deserves a penalty for this. Cause... the stuff that went on in "Let's Fight to The End."

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The Alterwolf ghost, who goes by the name Lupus, responds to KO by afflicting him with a horrible curse: at every full moon night, he involuntarily becomes the same aforementioned werewolf-like alien creature, with very little self-control, but KO is aware of what the spirit forces him to do, but doesn't bother to intervene. He runs rampant at these nights, terrorizing the people he faced at the tournament itself.

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As few years go by, and he becomes a little older, (present day in the year this AU takes place; he's a teenager by then) he reluctantly tries to speak with the possessor and build a decent relationship with him, but one additional transformation trigger surfaces during this period: The second trigger would have no full moon involved, and for this- changes when he is caught in a situation that really threatens/endangers him. This occurs in reaction to said danger-- a boost in adrenaline.

Designs/about the characters:

This is him when he was alive ^^^^^^^^^^

And this him now... ^^^^^^^^^^

And Lupus is the ghost of a 600+ year old Alterwolf that might have some issues coming to terms with his destructive/potentially murderous tendencies.

This extraterrestrial mangy mutt is known to be these from his personality: Vindictive, sarcastic, fairly sadistic (if pushed far enough), fondness for making dark jokes/commentary, thirsty for moonlight, monstrous habits, lashing out at people he considers annoyances, believes killing/murder isn't much to make a fuss about, violent and sometimes-- when he doesn't admit it openly-- on occasion... protective.

From what you can guess, KO absolutely hates those full moon nights where he's forced by him to change this way. And yes.....

He's as hairy as you imagine him to be in that form. So here:

This was him at the emotionally fragile, ripe age of 6 - 11. (And just a mere three inches taller when he looks this way.)

Doesn't really make it better he's been stuck with this curse for a couple years now.

Yes. You read right. No need to get your eyes checked. It's been that long.

This is him-- now.

To lighten the overwhelming Alterwolf symptoms, KO wears patches Dendy was more than welcome to make to him, (he started using them 2 weeks after reaching his teen years officially) stating what it says in his design picture.

But only is he allowed to wear them and keep it on the week preceding AND during the week of that full moon night. (But that doesn't mean it's effective in any way if he feels that adrenaline rush.)

When that week does approach closer however, he gets this circular light that would progressively glow brighter on his chest--

--until that night comes, and it fully emerges as an orb embedded on it.

Then it looks like this:

Now these days he has a more stronger, and maybe a tad more taller appearance whenever exposed to both things.

Look at that... And take a peak at how big he gets. I mean, wow.

_-_-_-_

I think that's it for the important stuff. So here's some fun facts you should probably know! In the next post because a single one per post only allows 10 apparently. 😑

Here: https://your-local-lakewood-dragoness.tumblr.com/post/663901461854535680/alright-time-for-alterwolf-imprisonmentcurse-au

[theangrycomet]

ok what the heck is the madly broken AU supposed to be? like is that a one off thing or is there a plot here?

In summary? Mad Ben is able to escape prison after MKO crashes into this dimension. After getting each others stories and MKO’s insistence on staying nearby, Mad Ben ends up getting fond of the kid. Together they take back his title and Mad Ben tries to figure out what to do from there. 

Elaborated a bit below

After the events of the Tournament, MKO wakes up to find the world as he knows it is destroyed at his own hands. However, when the President of the Universe arrives to bestow his wish, he is appalled at MKO’s actions.

Despite MKO’s begging and pleading he refuses to grant him his wish. Feeling powerless and in a panic, he disempowers the POTU as well, accidentally killing him. 

However, there are consequences to killing a Celestialsapien, particularly one whose personality’s were as balanced as the POTU were. 

KO is brought to trial for his crimes. Being 9 years old and in shock, grief, and horror at what he’s done, he tries to plead his case to the best of his abilities. 

Because he is unable to provide any evidence to defend himself and his insistence that KO and TKO are one and the same, he is charged with 1st degree planet genocide and 1st degree murder of a celestialsapien and is sentenced to Erasure (where any and ALL KO’s will be removed from their dimensions to prevent another event like this)

MKO escapes into middle of nowhere in Mad Ben’s Dimension. Lost, alone, and a mess in every sense of the word, he’s a bit of a walking disaster. 

Directly after the events of It’s a Mad Ben World, Mad Ben’s already planning on how to regain his power as well as get revenge on his former-right hand Revonnahgander. 

It wasn’t exactly looking that great until an earthquake (MKO crashin nearby) loosened his and Psychobos’ bonds and they made a break for it, much to Mad Rook and his men’s horror. 

Psychobos flees one way and Mad Ben ends up going to where he hid the untouched, but mostly usable RustBucket where he ends up stewing for a few days. 

When restocking on water he finds MKO and it’s hard to tell whose more startled. 

MKO seeing a teenager twice his size who looks like he eats nails for break fast and tacks for snacks carrying two watercooler bottles with glittery cat decals. 

Or Mad Ben seeing a kid with celestialsapien shackles and is pretty sure there’s parts of Psychobos on the kid’s make shift cookout set up.

Gore warning: Skip to “Okay you’re good” to avoid.

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I find dark humor in Psychobos’ being paritally eaten alive as a sort of Kharmic repayment for the Way Bads. You destroy their minds, it’s only fair your’s gets torn apart for consumption by a small desperate human.

He survives, but only because the Prime time line had to bring him back to find what else the maniac’s done to help Maltruant f*** up the timeline, much to MKO’s dismay. 

Crab’s with pop-top opening’s don’t come every day.

-

Okay your good. 

Eventually the two bond and MKO’s able to break off the concrete inhibitor.

Unfortunately, Mad Ben doesn’t have Alien X, so he can’t remove the celestialsapien shackles on MKO.

The shackles serve as Power Inhibitors. However, they were placed on MKO when he was low on energy. Because of this, he can still use his powers, it just takes 3x the amount of effort/energy it normally would. It also causes some mental problems down the road as the shackles try to force KO and TKO to split apart again (as celestialsapiens are governed by 2 warring personalities)

 He was surprised that MKO was even able to snap the chain, seeing as they (celestialsapien) are supposedly all powerful from the myths he’d heard. 

They then proceed to regain Ben’s title

Mad Rook may or may not have lost his right hand in a fight with Mad Ben and is in hiding with a small resistance.

And Mad Ben, once again Warlord Tennyson, finds that a few new names have popped up in his absence that need squashing. 

An Evo Trading Boss in Hong Kong.

Some sort Gempiran’s rebels that thought Earth would now serve as a safe haven/base. 

A Crytid King set on slaughtering the few remaining humans (including Ben). 

It’s going to be fun. 

I will write out and draw more stuff for it, it’s mostly a self-indulgent niche AU. 

[scrabbleknight]

Enid/Elodie Roleswap AU

I just had funny/sad roleswap AU where Elodie and Enid from OK K.O. Let’s Be Heroes switch places and it’d go something like this;

Flashback episode; Elodie and Enid have their tournament and stuff to enter POINT Academy but this time, Elodie loses. When she did, a bunch of fans came on-stage and pushed her off, leaving her in the dust while Enid (who wanted to go help her friend) was instead carried by the crowd away.

So Elodie had this sad expression while literally being at the bottom, looking up towards Enid who was being crowned champion and was so distracted by the cheering crowd that she forgot about her best friend. Thus, Elodie leaves the place, dejected.

Timeskip to present; Elodie was working at Gar’s Bodega as some sort of hero apprenticeship (aka just like canon). She’s basically the big sister for KO who works there alongside her and Rad. She’s still as flashy as ever though but since she’s not famous, she’s seen as somewhat of a weirdo by the bodega’s standard.

She’s still extremely skilled however and can do incredible acrobatics just like Enid. Her main fighting style is still her bow and arrow but she likes to declare her presence before and during a fight. So long as she beats the robots, Mr Gar has no problem with her behaviour.

Some funnies;

When TKO first appeared, Elodie was his first target. Thus, Rad managed to escape and later search for KO’s mom, Carol, leaving Elodie on her own. Since TKO is such a beast, Elodie had broken her legs with his first punch and later her arms with the next one. So Elodie had to spend some time, bandaged and in a wheelchair, for a few episodes.

She has a much closer relationship to Rad than in canon and much like Enid likes to skip on work. She, however, likes to tease Rad about his nonexisting romantic life. Though, the two made an agreement not to talk about the one person the two share; Enid.

[mooshie-blue]

HOLY CRAP

SPOILERS YALL!

Look AWAY

LOOK

NOT HERE

STOP

LAST CHANCE YA HOLAGEN!!

E

Yo-

Yo holy shit

WE’VE GOT A BIG STORM COMMING-

AHH FECK MY HEAD HURTS

WHAT IS SLEEP

I’m not gonna do a full on REVIEW but I’ll just bullet things that suck out to me.

let’s get Shadowy

•Fink, Just Fink I’m concerned

•KO HISSING AT VENNOMUS ADDS 400 YEARS TO MY LIFE

•SO VENNOMUS IS SHADOWY FIGURE

•FOXTAIL STILL CALLS KO SUGAR CUBE AAAAA

•hiS DaD?!?!

•I love foxtails accent holy crap

•Carol just glaring at Boxman and being as calm as she can be.

• “iloveyoutoo” Boxman, sweetie? I would die for you

•I’m not sure how to feel about Vennomus? Uh..

You’re A good freind KO

•accurate representation of school blackouts oml

• PEE PEE PASS

•DENDY HAS A POND AWWWW

•GO DENDY

•thaT HUG

Red 3 Grudgment day

•RAD AND RED IN THE BEGINNING OML- I ALMOST WHEEZED

•Enid getting her girl and boi to stop fighting

•RED ACTION IN A HOODIE

•I think I saw a peanut’s reference?!

•THE PROMS SMOOTH ANIMATION OML HHH

•RAD IS SUCH A SWEETHEART OH MY GOD

•Red you bb I love you

•REDNID IS CANNON AAAAAA

•”I support it!” me too rad.

• Enid’s little “hey, what’s wrong buddy?” AAAA

•this I like

Carl

•Rad and Enid comforting KO AW!!

•Finks tournament oml

•Carl is so cu- *KO pet and fright* AW VENN YA GOOF YA DID IT AGAIN-WAAAAAHH

•Casually only remembers Vennomus trying to get KO to unleash TKO.

•Why am I getting an Erased vibe by this car drive?

•KO Just leaves Vennomus lmAO

•KO NO ITS NOT YOUR FAULT BB BOI

•Oh shit

•TKO NO!

•NO NO NO-

•WHY IS KO IN THE SUBCONSCIOUS NOW?!?

•NO! PERFECT SHADOWY FIGURE AND TKO-

•BOXMAN OML IM SO SORRY!!!

•mom come pick me up I’m scared-

Dendy video channel.

• ME TOO DENDY HOLY SHIT

•OH GOD- THE KARMA AU IS COMING TRUE- THIS IS IT-

•AAGEHFG CAROL AND MR GAR BEING WORRIED PARENTS AAGEHGJGBG

•BOXMAN OML I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

•POOR BOX BOTS!!!

•Dendy you precious angel oml I would die for you holy shit fuck.

•AWW RAD AND ENID I LOVE YOU BOTH AAAA

•I guess Gar is on good amends with point since Elodie told him about the pow card factory.

•MR GAR YOU DAD YOU-

•AH CAROL COMFORTING GAR AAH

Me too Dendy

•AAHHH DENDY NOT THE BEST IDEA BABY

•GAR AND CAROLS FACES AAA

•Were they going?

•BOXMAX AAA ITS OBSIDIAN BUT IN OK KO!!!

•Why is Ernesto the butt-??

•AAAAAHNGV IM SO PROUD OF MY BOX BABIES

•TKO YOU ASSHAT I HATE YOU

•YOU TOO VENNOMUS SUCK AN EGG

•DENDY YOU BEAN!! I LOVE YOUUU!!!

I LOVED THESE EPISODES

DO

NOT

MISS

THEM!!!

[qveensbury]

ch 3: don’t fuss over me

summary: a college au iwaizumi x reader fic. slow simmer/mutual friends/meddling friends/meet cutes/“not date” dates

AO3  | just a little oh a little bit | ko-fi

You saw Kaede sitting on a bench scrolling on her phone. You grinned, walking over quietly.

“Boo!”

Kaede jumped clutching her heart. She whirled to face you. “____!”

You laughed, doubling over. “Sorry I couldn’t resist.”

“How c—“

“Miki-chan? Everything ok?”

You straightened.

Iwaizumi looked at you and you saw his eyebrows rise.

“I’m fine Iwaizumi-kun, thanks. Do you know my roommate, ____?”

“We met at Matsun’s party.”

You hastily blurted out, “Nice to see you.”

Iwaizumi nodded.

“Right. The girls told me. Matsukawa and I went to the same middle school before my family moved to Osaka.” Kaede turned to you. “Iwaizumi-kun and I are studying if you want to join us.”

You stammered, staring at Kaede and feeling your cheeks heating up. “Ok.”

“Is it okay with you if ____ comes to study with us, Iwaizumi-kun?”

“Yea.”

His response was gruff and you glanced at him. He’d already started to turn. His ears were a little pink.

“C’mon,” Kaede stood and followed Iwaizumi. She smiled at you.

Iwaizumi opened the door to an empty study room in the library and sat across from Kaede. You stat next to Kaede.

Kaede smirked as she opened her books and started to read. It was the same face she’d make successfully substituting an ingredient or when she discovered an opponent’s pattern of play.

Meanwhile, your brain was a scratched DVD. Your thoughts skipping and stalling.

You jolted. Pull out your books dummy.

You placed your notebook on the table and started studying for a lit quiz you’d have on Thursday.

 I wonder if Iwaizumi is looking at me.

You glanced up and he was looking at his book. You blinked, realizing you’d never seen him so close before.

His eyelashes are so pretty.

Kaede nudged your foot with her foot.

You glanced at her before returning to your notebook.

Maybe he’s checking me out now. You peeked up again.

Kaede cleared her throat and you realized it was meant for you.

“____, do you mind taking a look at this to see if it looks right.”

You looked at the notebook Kaede held open.

<<I’m gonna need you to get a grip.>>

You swallowed. “Yea, it is.”

“Do you want me to check it?” Iwaizumi looked up.

“No, that’s fine. Thanks, Iwaizumi.” Kaede smiled at him.

He nodded in return.

You looked at your notes, reigning in your thoughts.

And studied.

You were pulling out your lit textbook when Kaede clicked her tongue.

“Sorry, I have to answer this call. Okay?” She looked at you, and you nodded. “I’ll be right back.” She stood up, looking at her phone.

You looked at your book.

“Oh, ____, before I forget, I remember where I know you from.”

The three of you crafted the perfect story in case Iwaizumi brought up where he really knew you.

“Yea, I go to volleyball games, so I can wait for Kaede,” you said, reading a sentence for the eighth time.

“That’s not it either.”

Your heartbeat was like an angry wasp in a jar. “You had a shirt that said you were Kamado University’s 12’s Number One fan.”

“Y-yea. Kaede made it for me as a joke.”

Iwaizumi’s eyebrows went up. “So, it was about me?”

You inhaled so quickly, you thought your back would straighten like a slap bracelet.

“I…” You could feel your face and neck and chest climbing toward nuclear temperatures.

“I thought maybe you knew Takenaka who had Number 12 before I did. But, if it was about me,” Iwaizumi rubbed the back of his neck.

“Yea. I—."

“I don’t know. It’s really flattering.”

You exhaled, a little defeated. "I’m glad it made you happy,” you replied, figuring what was another embarrassing blow before you were finished off.

He chuckled, “I’m used to not being noticed.”

 How? How could anyone see that smile and look away?

“Why?” You frowned.

He shrugged. “I’m just complaining.”

“I don’t mind if you want to vent.”

Doubt crossed his face. But you held his gaze, nodding for him to continue.

“You’ve met Oikawa.”

“Yea.”

“He’s this magnet for attention. Growing up, it was like living with a celebrity. And, one of the top aces in the country was living in our prefecture which meant playing against him every tournament and losing. No one cared if I got an all-time best. Ushiwaka would absorb all of the limelight.”

“But, you’re playing in university. Someone noticed.”

Iwaizumi sighed, crossing his arms. “That’s true. I don’t wanna burden you with all my grumbling.”

“It’s not a burden.”

He paused, before smirking. “Right. Number one fan.”

“I’m burning that shirt when I got home.” You pouted.

“What? You won’t wear it to our next game?”

“I’ll go to the game just not in that shirt.”

“But, you looked so cute in it,” he said, earnestly.

“Are you making fun of me? Kaede worked really hard on that shirt.”

“What?” Iwaizumi sat up, his face flushing with blotches of red. “No, I was– never mind. Forget I said anything.” He bowed his head, covering his forehead with his hand, and stared at his book.

You frowned.

Why would he say I looked cute—

Oh. He was flirting.

Your stomach twisted in knots.

“Iwaizumi.”

He didn’t move.

“Iwaizumi.” You waited for a response before tapping his shin with your foot.

He looked up.

“I’ll go to your game.” You leaned forward, “especially because you asked so nicely,” you smiled.

He smiled back. “I’m counting on your support. What are you reading?”

“Literature. I have a quiz on Thursday.”

“Is that your major?”

“No, I’m still unsure. What about you?”

“I’m doing physics homework. I want to study engineering but it’s pretty intense. So, that and volleyball might crush me. Plan B is sports medicine. It’s mostly physical therapy and injury prevention.”

“That sounds great.”

“Just a lot of work.”

“I’m sure you’ll do fine. Kaede never complains about you so I’m sure you’re capable enough.”

Iwaizumi smiled again and you wanted to press the image in amber to save it forever.

“How do you know Miki-chan?”

“We went to high school together.”

“It’s good you know someone in this big city.”

“Osaka isn’t that different from Tokyo.”

“Right, I forgot Miki-chan’s a city slicker.”

“What about Miki-chan? I leave for a few moments and you two are gossiping behind my back.” Kaede reclaimed her seat.

“How was your call?“ You looked at your roommate.

“Stupid athletic department. They misplaced paperwork, so I had to track down one of the player’s doctors to email over a form.” Kaede rolled her eyes.

“Why are they calling you and not your coach?”

“Because I’m the manager. And, I’m better at the bureaucracy than Sawamura.”

You hummed.

“I have class in another half hour and I should get something to eat.” Iwaizumi stood. “Nice to actually meet you, ____. Miki-chan, I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Bye Iwaizumi.”

“Bye, nice to meet you.”

You opened your literature book back open.

“Look at you getting friendly with Iwaizumi.” Kaede’s grin split her face.

You fought a smile. “Maybe.”

“Maybe,” she repeated, rolling her eyes.

+

You looked at your nails again.

Iwaizumi won’t even notice you did them.

You crossed your arms and looked at your shoes.

You started to gather fabric from your t-shirt hem into your hand, pulling them into your fists.

 He wanted you to be here.

You exhaled, letting go of your shirt.

And, Iwaizumi played well.

You smiled.

“____!” Kaede waved at you. “How was going to a whole game?”

“It’s so long.”

Kaede laughed. “These are just best of three’s. And, no one really wants to break the thirty-point mark in a regular-season game. Wait until we have best of five sets.”

“Thirty points? I thought twenty-five took forever.”

“Iwaizumi did really well today. He surprised us with that toss in the second set but it was beautiful.”

“He did great.”

“Oh hey, Miki.”

“Sawamura.” Kaede turned and waved. “Everything ok? Do you need help.”

“Nope. Just letting you know we’re all in order.”

“Great! Sawamura, do you remember my roommate? ____, this is Sawamura. He’s my co-manager.”

“Nice to meet you.”

“Likewise.”

“What were you planning on doing?” Kaede asked.

“My afternoon is open.”

“Hey, you came.”

You turned to Iwaizumi. “You asked me to.” You smiled.

“Ooh, we should get something to eat to celebrate the win!” Kaede brought her fist to her palm. “Iwaizumi, are you free?”

“Yea.”

“Sawamura?”

“I’m in.”

“____, that’s cool, right?”

“Yea,” you glanced at Iwaizumi. “Let’s go.”

Kaede led the way to a restaurant you often went to after your night class.

“Kachan, your favorite waiter doesn’t work on  Tuesdays,” you said sympathetically, putting a hand on her shoulder.

She stuck her tongue out at you. “The pork katsu here is really good. I usually get the soba.”

“I like their rice dish. I think it’s supposed to be like bibimbap,” you suggested.

“I’ll need to see a menu,” Sawamura closed his eyes and crossed his arms, probably to think.

You laughed.

“He looks 75 years old, right?”

“Miki, stop telling people I’m older than I actually am,” he said, eyes still closed.

“Here’s a menu, grandpa.” Kaede handed Sawamura a menu. “Do you need one, Iwaizumi?”

“I’ll try the rice dish.”

“____ does have good taste.” Kaede nodded her head.

“You’re so lucky that waiter isn’t here or I would embarrass you,” you said under your breath so only Kaede could hear you.

“I see a table for four.” Kaede led you all over.

“____, let me get your chair for you.” Iwaizumi reached for the one closest to you.

Your eyes grew a little. “S-sure, thank you.”

Kaede’s eyes sparkled. She sat across from Sawamura, who sat next to you. Iwaizumi sat next to Kaede, across from you.

“____, you and Miki-chan went to the same high school right?” Sawamura looked up from the menu for a moment.

“Yes.”

“What are you studying?”

“I haven’t decided. You?”

“Education. Our volleyball adviser thought I’d have a knack for it.”

“You used to play?”

“Yea,” Sawamura chuckled, crossing his arms. “We can’t all be like Iwaizumi and break into college athletics.”

“It’s their loss. When Sawamura was in the back row, it was like they had two liberos.”

“You played each other?” You glanced between the two.

“Yea, we were in the same prefecture.”

“Oh, with the top ace?”

Sawamura shivered. “What is Ushiwaka up to?” He looked at Iwaizumi.

“That’s a question for Oikawa.”

Sawamura paused and chuckled. “I take it they’re not friends.”

Iwaizumi smirked. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

“Noted,” Sawamura returned to his menu. “I think I know what I want.”

“And you know what you want right, Iwaizumi?“

You looked at him and he held your gaze for a second before looking away.

“I’ve got it.”

Kaede waved her hand and a waitress came over.

“Hello, are you ready to order?” Once you shared your orders, the waitress repeated it back. “The gyoza will be out soon.”

Kaede nodded, “Thank you.”

The waitress walked away.

“Ok, so, Sawamura you wouldn’t manage the team unless Kaede co-managed?” You turned to him.

“I wanted to quit but Kaede convinced me otherwise. Coach didn’t give a good reason to justify making Miki-chan the assistant manager when she was more qualified than me. Maybe if he had said managers need to be former players, ok. But he said it was because she was a girl. Our high school manager was a girl and kept us afloat. Miki has the experience and frankly does a better job than me. I should be the assistant.”

“Sawamura, you definitely were the boy everyone wanted to bring home.” Kaede grinned at him. “Such the gentleman!”

He chuckled, waving his hand.

The waitress set the gyoza on the table.

“These gyoza are great.” Kaede took a piece. “Guys dig in.”

Sawamura hummed. “I can’t wait for the udon if the gyoza’s this good.”

“And it’s all affordable,” Kaede gushed.

You reached for your glass.

“Let me pour you some water,” Iwaizumi offered.

You froze. “Thank you.”

Iwaizumi nodded.

Your chest started to feel fuzzy. You took a deep breath and smiled, dipping your gyoza in the sauce.

“Iwaizumi, such a gentleman. Sawamura, you better keep up.”

“Kaede, he’s just glad I came to his game. Don’t tease him.”

“No, I—“

“I won’t let you beat me, Iwaizumi.” Sawamura poured water for the rest of the table.

You giggled.

Iwaizumi pouted, crossing his arms.

You laughed, sending him a soft smile.

His shoulders relaxed and he smiled in return.

“The gyoza are actually good.”

“Imagine what your bibimbap will taste like,” Kaede smirked.

“You say it like you cooked it,” Iwaizumi jabbed.

“Hey—“

“Yea, Kaede, tone down the ego,” you added.

Sawamura laughed.

“Hmpfh.” Kaede put two gyoza on her plate. “Fine, I’ll just shut up.”

You looked at Iwaizumi again and smiled.

He laughed, leaning forward on the table.

+

The four of you left the restaurant after paying. Sawamura and Kaede discussed an upcoming practice. You hooked your chin over Kaede’s shoulder, half-listening as you looked at Noa’s text messages.

“____.”

Pulling away from Kaede, you turned to face Iwaizumi. “Yes.”

Iwaizumi rubbed a hand on the back of his neck. “Thanks for coming to the game.”

“Of course, you invited me.”

He raised his eyes to meet yours. Clearing his throat, he lowered his hand. “Is it okay for me to ask for your number?”

You raised your eyebrows and giggled at his expression. Why does he look so afraid? Of course, I’d say yes. “You can have my number Iwaizumi-kun.” Handing your phone to him and accepting his phone, you smiled to yourself.

“Well,” returning his phone to him, you said, “I’ll keep in mind that you’re pretty busy.”

Iwaizumi frowned at you. “Don’t—I’d make time for you.”

A/N: title from Hozier’s Cherry Wine. can i offer a flirty iwaizumi in this trying time?

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Ko-fi Reopened!

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are you determining who’s in the competition based on how many submissions get put in for each?

I was originally going to, but I actually haven't gotten any duplicate submissions yet to do so!

The closest thing I've gotten to duplicate submissions so far is OK AU the episode, OK K-0 the au and Sea Demon!TK-0 (which is a scenario based off of OK K-0, spectral!KO and pros!KO (the last two aus belonging to @bubbleberryuniverse ) )

But overall, every submission I've received has been a different au! Which I think is really cool!

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I'm not in the business to submit all my human boxbot aus but i did submit my main human au, would it still be okay to submit my cryptid au? It's @touchtonetouchtone

Of course! Go for it!

And I did see your correction about it being @touch-tone-touch-tone :D

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they’re not ready for

✨ A M O G U S ✨

No one ever is /lh (that's why it's fun!)

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Tired of OK KO constantly loosing tournaments? Well have I got the tournament for you!

This tournament is dedicated to specifically OK KO related Alternate Universes! This is all for fun, and a good way to talk about people's au creations for the show! However, there are some rules!

You can submit more than one AU, but please use separate form submissions for each one!

Please avoid submitting aus with content relating to any ship involving KO or TKO (such as TKKO, Kendy, TKendy etc.)

Angst aus are allowed! Content warnings will be listed with them.

Propaganda is allowed and encouraged!! Talk about your favorite aus!!

The creators of the aus will be credited so people can find their aus and learn more about them!

Submissions can be put in here!

They will be open for a while! (Due date TBD) Feel free to send in asks in the meantime!

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is there anything in place to keep a single user from filling up the majority of the bracket?

There will be yes! I'm keeping an eye on that as submissions come in— and is actually part of why I'm keeping them open for a longer time, because I do want a variety of people and their aus to be featured in the tournament!

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SUBMITTED BY: @here-to-cause-suffering

Time for an Echo!AU ramble (Part One)

So overall it does follow the shows plot for the most part, diverging at certain parts (such as the episode TKO— where the transformation itself is very different. It was very painful! TKO's wings alone were enough to tear the body's back up, along with the brutal forming of a tail, claws and extra large, sharp teeth and even their eyeballs changed. (I will not get into the graphic details however.)

Of course, unbeknownst to them there was the Mega Darrell attack still happening. And honestly, TKO had no idea what was happening in all of this— he couldn't even see the figure standing in front of him as he formed, let alone the Mega Darrell about to destroy the plaza.

In fact, TKO can't see at all. He's blind, but that doesn't really bother him that much. He— along with Shadowy Figure— uses a form of echolocation to be aware of his surroundings and get around. It's not perfect by any means, and he's very easily overwhelmed, but it works. All of his senses are incredibly sensitive, which really adds to that. Because of this he's actually often quiet, to avoid hurting his ears, and rarely yells.

The Mega Darrell is dealt with, and everyone gets to meet TKO! This goes on pretty much the same way as it does in canon, except instead of actually kind of working like he does in the episode, he kinda just flops down in the break room and raids the fridge for ice packs. Everyone allows this because what the FUCK that kid is clearly in pain. He's a little more willing to do things the next day, but generally still has a hard time. When he does attack them it's more of a mixture of things, most notably: pain, sensory overload, being overwhelmed in general, and being called cute definitely doesn't help that either (/hj)

He gets put in the cage in the mind, which doesn't quite fit. His tail hangs out between some of the bars, he can't really stretch his wings, it's overall not very comfortable. Meanwhile, KO is in control of the body again and it takes him several days to recover physically from the first transformation. He doesn't have TKO's wings, just the tail— albeit a different color, and some of the splotches. His eyesight has worsened and his other senses are a bit stronger, but not to the level of TKO's. (A rough example of the approximate size of the cage and TKO)

KO doesn't show up to work, or school, for a few days as he recovers physically and gets used to his new tail. Things generally continue the same way after this for a bit, though he is noticeably more hesitant to let TKO out then he would be in canon because doing so physically HURTS. Because of this he's a LOT more hesitant in Mystery Science Fair 201X— though Dendy does still get to meet TKO, and he does still destroy her lab, but that goes a bit differently as well. (I haven't really worked that out exactly, but on the ask blog you can see them hanging out a bit with the anons and TKO still actively expresses his dislike towards Dendy.)

When you're in control happens, KO is again more hesitant to allow TKO to come out to fight Boxman Jr. but is aware that it's really the only option he has. During the conversation they have he realizes that TKO is surprisingly pretty calm when not overwhelmed, overstimulated and in pain— and being treated like a human being and not some thing in his head. The situation is dealt with, and TKO is given his little house in the mind, though it's quite a bit different then it is in canon with a lot of accomodations for him.

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SUBMITTED BY @bubbleberryuniverse

Quick Sami Apocalyptic AU Rambles! This time it's about how the villains managed to destroy things! This is a more simple one cause it's super late :)

In short, the planning of destroying a lot of heroes dates back to years and years before it even happened. And them destroying everything wasn't even part of the plan, originally. Because what happened was that the idea was kind of like a game of telephone.

Around before the Sandwich Incident happened, a few villains were like, "hehe what if we attacked POINT." They ended up not doing much outside of discussing the idea in very secretive ways. Which ends up being unfortunately the big thing.

Over time, the idea goes from "hehe let's attack POINT" to "let's DESTROY POINT" to various other outlandish ideas over the couch of years, in secret, until it gets so far warped from the original idea that it's not the same one anymore. PV ends up hearing about it, and, by extension, Shadowy, and Shadowy pretty much does his snakey sneaky thing and absolutely latches onto that.

Keep in mind, again, this is over YEARS of keeping their communication secret from POINT. Shadowy probably picked up on the plot a WHILE before PV met KO, so the plan was already there and things to carry out the destruction of most heroes on the planet were in the works. Meeting (T)KO just kind of motivated him more cause he can use TKO to help.

Shadowy was not alone in the plotting, nor was he the originator of even the very warped version of the original idea. He just decided the other villains' who thought of it weren't doing much and took over the idea.

POINT eventually suspected SOMETHING was up. But they could never figure it out. And unfortunately they really couldn't have, cause then the villains destroyed everything. I don't have anything particular in mind for what they did but they definitely blew up, like, everything. Not all at once, it was definitely over the course of a lil' bit, BUT TKO being there made it easier for them to. Cause, yk, separation n' junk; KO and TKO have been separated for a little while by the point this happens.

PV never was interested in the plot to destroy everything, but Shadowy absolutely was. And once Shadowy got his hands on TKO, he kicked PV into the mind so he could focus on manipulating the boy and also continue finishing up things elsewhere. So PV is very unaware of everything happening. Fun!

I'm definitely not able to express the sheer amount of things that happened though and just how bad the destruction was. Part of that is cause it's super late, but it's just... augh, words. POINT was unprepared and they were destroyed first, so the help they could offer was beyond limited, because holy shit, their ENTIRE building was destroyed. And now EVERYTHING is being destroyed. It's... augh it's so much and it's horrible!

I'll get into more later :) This is all for now!