#old soul au noncanon

[delicatechildwitch]

Hello!

To celebrate the beginning of the Family Reunion Summer Camp, we (cabin 8) decided to offer every other participant and cabin a little something!

(Art and Mind’ O Wave AU by @liya4kar

EMD AU by @evenmoreofadisaster

Big Mama’s Favorite by @usernameneon)

I wasted so much time on this and now there are other asks and events and-

(In case you can't tell, this is how mini-tello is envisioning this. The panic from the 'bomb' made him feel like he was back in the Kraang war.)

(Sorry. It getting everywhere made sense.)

So.

Rundown of the crew's reactions.

Mikey: plotting revenge.

Casey and Mini-tello: Kraang flashbacks. Casey blocked the slime with his cloak. That's why he's dry. Once they calm down, they'll pretend nothing happened, but Mini-tello will be doing everything he can to keep from lecturing you guys.

Raphael: Shocked, slightly betrayed, and he'll be embarrassed later.

Leo: impressed! He's still plotting revenge though.

Donnie: Grossed out and struggling with sensory issues. :( He will plot revenge when he's okay again.

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

[delicatechildwitch]

Rough sketch because I started it and didn't take the time to work on it and now it's the last day ...

Save me. @tmnt-fandom-family-reunion (Am I even posting this right… fml….)

[laikaflash]

im so curious, ive been dying to ask you this:

which soulcalibur ships interest you the most? for the canon ones (lol the few that we have), what about them speak to you? for the noncanon ones, where is the potential for them in your eyes?

Okay, this is probably going to be a bit of a mess, but I'll try to keep it concise. Not jinxing it at all. Going off the top of my head... (drum roll)

Canon

Kilik/Xianghua: It's not for nothing that I summed this one up as "complicated, but dammit if I'm not there for the emotional roller-coaster" in this ask from a while back. I don't want to harp on why the way it ended in the old timeline makes sense to me, but again, I'm a sucker for star-crossed lovers. 'Tis better to have loved than to have lost than to never love at all, and all that... Also, I get the feeling that some overlook the fact that Kilik was raised in a Buddhist monastery as something that plays into his decisions.

Li Long/Chie: The accidental tragicomedy of "My girlfriend's a ninja?!", as I like to call it. Li Long started off as a hotheaded assassin who bit off more than he could chew while deep in enemy territory, and would've bled to death if Chie hadn't found him by chance. I like to imagine them gradually bonding as she nurses him back to health... all while hiding the fact that she and her father are fugitive ninjas, of course. (I've thought about these two a lot because I've had a fic languishing in my drive since 2020. Also, Chie's muteness gives me an excuse to practice describing a range of nonverbal cues for just about anything.) Long story short (pun not not intended), he went through hell and back for her... And it all worked out. Since he ends up in the ranks of the Fu-Ma clan during the pre-SC5 timeskip, I like to think he was a good adoptive dad to Natsu. He probably left the demon stuff to Chie and Taki, though.

Not canon (but I can always dream)

Siegfried/Salia: The Schwarzwind side-missions in Libra of Soul were my fuel, especially with Salia keeping the group together long after Siegfried ran off. ("Because without us, he would have no one to return to...") I think her feelings toward Siegfried were only mentioned in supplementary material before, so I was particularly happy about this part of the "Feelings Shared" side-mission:

Sounds like an open secret to me! (Pardon the uneven cropping.)

To me, Siegfried and Salia have the sort of dynamic that writes itself. Close friends, erstwhile partners-in-crime, leader and tactician... What was that line in Siegfried's SC4 prologue? Something about not letting anyone touch his heart?

(T_T)

To be fair, having a child born with latent Soul Edge energy would be a reasonable worry for him. That might be part of it.

Bonus: according to this relationship chart from New Legends of Projects Soul (page 118), Siegfried's mother sees Salia as "a nice girl, too good for her own son"!

(I'm probably showing more of that section than I need to.)

And now we enter my self-indulgence zone.

I've been playing around with a (very id-driven) Mitsurugi/Taki scenario and went into crackpot mode to flesh it out. It's an AU partly because I think it would take a lot for Mitsurugi to see Taki as something more than She-who-dares-get-in-my-way... Like, oh I don't know, him jumping at the chance to do some mercenary work, even if it means getting caught up in the Fu-Ma clan's business (and Taki watching him like a hawk the entire time). A fair trade for that shard of Soul Edge he picked up long ago? This is all supposed to diverge from some point after Mitsurugi returns to Japan too late for the Battle of Sekigahara (during the pre-SC5 timeskip). For now it's a bunch of notes and scenes clogging my phone's memo app.

There's just... something about a pair of rivals growing to trust each other enough to show their vulnerable sides, I'll say that much for now. Man, that was a lot of words for what started as my brain going NOW KISS.

Sorry this took two weeks. Thanks for asking!

[invertedfate]

On using Inverted Fate Characters in Fanworks and Multiverse Stuff

So, I wanted to address this in a bit more clarity since I get asked a lot. As a general rule, it is okay to use Inverted Fate characters in fanwork if a) you give CLEAR CREDIT and link back to the website, b) you do your best to preserve characterization and lore from the comic, c) you don’t use the AU as a punching bag for outcode guys like Error to destroy, and d) make it clear that it is not canon to the actual AU.

In the past I’ve also asked that people not make Inverted Fate versions of the following AUs: Underswap, Dust AUs, A/xetale or any AU that pairs the kids w/ adult characters, A/ltertale or any AU that pairs Undyne with male characters, and no AUs that have the base premise of “monster goes ‘crazy’ and kills everyone”. I also ask that people not make their own fan genocide runs for IF and that they don’t misgender the nonbinary characters.

Please no inc/est ships, either. Charisk is fine if it’s kept G-rated as they are not siblings in this AU but they’re also like...13-ish, so be reasonable. These are all just requests- I know I can’t stop people, but I just wanna set some boundaries.

With all that said, I’m generally fine w/ stuff like fell versions of IF and even have some lore and a Papyrus design if folks wanted to play around. Just make sure it’s made clear it’s unofficial to IF itself! AUs of IF have always been fine within reason. Just no “takes,” as IF is a deeply personal project of mine.

What if-scenarios and fanworks about IF itself are also chill, such as exploring the alternate endings in the playable fights, and I’m fine with IF characters interacting with Underswap or other AUs in crossovers. With that in mind, here is some information to keep in mind for crossover type works..

1) Inverted Fate is an AU without genocide runs and never had one in the old world.

I often see it discussed in multiversal things that every AU has neutral, pacifist, and geno. IF has no genocide run. While at one point I had considered and even had some ideas for a noncanon one, reevaluation on characterization and motives made me realize it just wouldn’t make sense and that those ideas were really contrived (especially for Flowey, who wants his power back).

Even if we ever did a larger playable project with the Ruins, any attempted murder runs would end early. Flowey would destroy the Ruins exit during the Asgore fight, and Frisk and Chara would be extremely pissed that such a run happened in the first place. Since Flowey needs everyone alive, he’d very much railroad things, and Frisk has too much baggage to even consider murdering monsters (and Chara would not approve due to remembering the old timeline and Frisk’s kind actions).

2) Canon Inverted Fate has no player in the main story or in the old timeline.

It is a world that has a lot of video game flourishes, but Frisk has always been their own person with a life and agency. The playable versions of scenes are more of an “AU of an AU” where we can control things, but Frisk retains that personality and agency and reacts when things are out of character, hence them resetting if you kill Alphys. That being said, you can treat the alternate endings of the fights as offshoots from the main story- what ifs and all that, but they are noncanon.

Since some AU crossovers play with stuff like players being an active part of the story, which puts IF in a bit of contrast to those kinds of universes.

3) Inverted Fate’s characters do not know that theirs is an AU in the first place, nor do they know the out of universe name of their AU.

On all accounts, they believe theirs is a normal universe and even something like regular Undertale would be seen as the “alternate” to them. They don’t have any in-universe nicknames (e.g. Stretch, Blue, Boss, etc). They just go by their names, though Chara does have the nickname “Captain Cryptic” from Frisk.

4) IF’s Red SOUL is not particularly special. All of the fallen humans could at one point save and load, and simply lost the will power to do so or had their determination overpowered by another human’s.

In the old timeline, they had all given up against Asgore. In this timeline, the Mage being alive for so long brought complications due to there being more than one human at any given time after the cyan human fell. Asgore killed the cyan-souled human still.

Frisk and Chara are both red-souled humans, but the “trait” of their red souls is not explicitly “determination.” Ultimately, what it is doesn’t matter, as IF doesn’t treat the “traits” of souls as anything profound.

5) The Undertale timeline that spawned Inverted Fate was destroyed.

Functionally, the people in the IF timeline are the same as in the previous world, just repurposed with new lives and no memory of what came before. Some small scraps exist elsewhere, so there’s room for some trippy stuff, but note that Flowey has no interest in bringing back the old world, and I’d rather not have IF “fixed” back into Undertale in fan projects.

6) Papyrus canonically has a device that can connect to other universes, but it is unstable and cannot reach worlds where the barrier is down.

Other travelers with other means are of course welcome to find other ways in, but if you want an easy connection, boom. Unstable transporter go brrr. Papyrus has only made one or two stable connections. One of them is @altereddestinyau​.

7) IF Sans canonically drops socks into alternate dimensions with funny notes.

I am fine with other AUs referencing this. It’s just meant to be a silly thing, and the notes tend to have really bad jokes. He can’t choose which universe he drops socks into due to the unstbale nature of the machine.

8) Outcode stuff would make absolutely zero sense to IF’s characters.

They have never heard of your Inks, Errors, Dreams, etc, and concepts like the Doodlesphere are outside the understanding of IF’s characters. I’m fine with IF characters appearing in fanworks with these kinds of characters if they are treated respectfully, but in-universe, the IF world was created on accident by Flowey/Asriel. Granted, most of them do not know this.

9) Chara is merged to Frisk’s SOUL and does not appear as a ghostly figure.

They share a body and can alternate control. Only ghost monsters can hear them when they aren’t speaking through Frisk.

10) IF Gaster was not forgotten, the “void” does not exist here, and instead he is simply scattered across time and space.

In his current state, he is one with the fabric of time and space itself, beyond mortal comprehension. He cannot be saved and doesn’t really have an active presence in this world anymore and nobody really knows what happened besides the followers.

11) Keep in mind that Inverted Fate’s story is not over and is not beholden to UT’s story structure.

I think it would be best to set any crossovers no later than events that are currently covered in the comic because the story is going to be taking some very different turns in the near future.

If anything else needs clarification, feel free to send an ask! I’m generally pretty chill with answering questions. Also, feel free to reblog if you want, since there’s been some misinformation on what is and isn’t okay with me!

[purplexiasphinx]

Requests?

I wanna get back into serious writing, I'm gonna post some of my old works but if anybody would like to request a short story (or a longer one, but that'll be posted slower and I will genuinely need motivation to keep working on it) I'd be happy to do the things!

I can do...

Fanfics

Romance

Fantasy

Horror/Creepypasta

Comedy (sort of)

Weird game things

Fanfic types I can do

Ships (Canon X OC, Canon X Canon, OC X OC, Canon X Reader, Canon X OC)

Multiships (Canon X Canon X Canon, Canon X OC X Canon, Canon X Reader X Canon... Etc.)

Noncanon events with canon characters (Short stories only)

Reader inserts

AUs

Fanfic types I can't (Or won't) do

NSFW

Certain ships (I'll mention them if it comes up in an ask, but they're gonna be pretty obvious)

Incest

Anything harming my pure sweet babbies (Except for in very specific circumstances)

I??? Can't??? Properly??? Write??? Abuse??? Also it kills me to hurt people like that, so please don't ask.

Fandoms I'm in

Undertale

BNHA/MHA (Sadly my knowledge is limited to S1 only right now)

The Sims (I am adding this just because)

RWBY

Soul Eater

Pokèmon

BATIM

OHSCHC

Spyro

MLP

Yandere Sim

Vampire Knight (Don't ask me about Yuki and Kaname, that is on my NO list)

And probably a few others I forgot to mention, if you have something off this list I might still be able to do it.

Other notes

If you actually wanna see it happen, and it seems to be taking a while, feel free to poke me. I probably just forgot, or I've been putting it off because I got busy.

If you want me to use an OC, please give me a detailed description of their personality, appearance, and any little backstory quirks that might affect the story.

If I don't portray your OC right, or don't do the character like you wanted, please don't yell at me about it- I'll try my best, but I'm easily discouraged so it might cause me to stop writing for a while.

Hoping to hear from you all! I realize this got long, thanks for reading!

[delicatechildwitch]

(Sorry for the late reply.)

A young Donatello has decided to set up shop (possibly without permits) to take advantage of the tmnt au competition. He's even selling high tech friendship bracelets! So. Do your competitors want to buy anything?

Donnie: It is currently still in beta in terms of designing and getting prototypes, but I could whip some outfit choices out and delivered here in one to two hours max? What do you say?

@delicatechildwitch @tmntaucompetition

[quilloftheclouds]

Hello and happy Storyteller Saturday! Do you have any noncanon alternate universes, endings, or situations for any of your characters or for your WIP?

Happy Storyteller Saturday!! This is a lovely question.

I DO INDEED. Quill likes distracting themself from actually writing canon too much. First of all, One Siren’s Soul was originally the AU! It was a pirate AU using my SU fan characters. And then it turned into an original story! So there’s that whole shebang.

But of OSS itself? There’s the “They kidnapped the wrong sister” AU. Which I can’t really talk about without spoiling everything but you know. There’s also a modern spy-ish AU of it, which could actually be canon because so many of my characters are secretly heckin’ immortal. There’s also sort of a fallen angel AU I have in the works, but I haven’t actually written anything for it.

I also just... really love playing with back in time situations? Where some magical anomaly drops a bunch of characters into their respective pasts (or the past of another character o-o) and they have to try and figure out how to get back while meeting their old selves and not flubbing up time.

Aka Quill loves playing around with noncanon things because I am a nerd who makes AU works of their own story.

Thank you for the ask!

[laughingpinecone]

Yuletide letter 2018

AO3: laughingpineapple

Hello dear author, I’m glad we share one of these wonderful little fandoms and I hope you’ll have fun writing for it. The sections aren’t all of equal length for one reason or another but I love them all so much, from the classics I’ve been requesting since I started doing Yuletide (can’t have enough of those!) to this year’s shiny new findings. I tried to leave both specific and non-specific prompts for each canon and, again, I wanna see the farfetched postcanon scenario just as much as the vague one-word prompt and my general likes. Pick whatever works for you, or mix and match!

Likes: worldbuilding, slice of life (doubly so if the event the fic focuses on is made up but canon-specific), missing moments, 5+1 and similar formats, bonding and emotional support/intimacy, physical intimacy, lingering touches, loyalty, casefic, surrealism, established relationships, future fic, hurt/comfort or just comfort from the ample canon hurt, throwing characters into non-canon environments, banter, functional relationships between dysfunctional individuals, unexplained mysteries, bittersweet moods, journal/epistolary fic, dreams and memories and identities, canon-adjacent tropey plots , outsider POV, UST, exploration of secondary bits of canon, leaning on the uniqueness of the canon setting/mood, found families, characters reuniting after a long and/or harrowing time, friends-to-lovers, road trips, cuddling, wintry moods, flannel, ridiculous concepts played straight, creating a dynamic between characters who never spoke in canon, sensory details, sickfic

Cool with: what-ifs, AUs, any tense, any pov, any rating, plotty, not plotty, gen, shippy, IF, nerdy canon references, unrequested characters popping up

DNW: non-canonical rape, non-canonical children, unrequested ships, canon retellings, consent issues

Ghost Trick: Cabanela, Jowd

General: platonic or romantic, loyalty kink here we go, in any shape and form. Night time and secrets. Out of town. Knitwear. Twenty years from now. Size difference. UST. Cabanela’s scarf being in the way sometimes. Cabanela’s legs being in the way sometimes. I have Final Fantasy on my mind a lot recently so any FFIV, VI, VII, T, IX, X, XII or XIII reimagining would be fantastic (Monk Jowd, dancer/red mage Cabanela...?), or indeed The Last Remnant, but also regular fantasy, space opera, sci-fantasy… anything fancy!

Canon-specific dislikes: Sissel not being Jowd’s cat in the new timeline (which ofc doesn’t shut out Yomiel’s unbreakable bond with his cat – as the saying goes, Sissel has four paws...), infidelity

Cabanela&Jowd or Cabanela/Jowd: I love Cabanela being fierce and dazzling bright and determined and loyal to the very end, dancing to his own rhythm, so sure of himself and of his ideas that he doesn’t even need to prove to anyone that he’s right. Too sure of the wrong idea, once, and everything crashed and burned. And I love Jowd being the immovable object to Cabanela’s unstoppable force, a self-depreciating asshole with a penchant for gallows humor that grows more morbid by the hour, and also incredibly smart (both jerks figured out Sissel’s powers better than Sissel did) and athletic and with an unsuspected talent for stealth.

I ship them dearly, as part of a triad (or Jowd-centered V...? Has it been explored?) with Alma with all the fun possibilities of the third party sneaking into the marriage and negotiating that relationship. Or adjusting to a life together with Kamila in a no-reset scenario or a what-if in which Alma was never around (please no breakups or noncanon deaths if you don't want her around).  But I also want to read all the best friends fic with the corniest, most intense found family dynamics you can muster!

Alternate scenario where it’s Cabanela who keeps his memories, not Jowd: how does that change their dynamic in the new timeline? Or what if Cabanela stays dead in ch15 like he wished he could, joins the rest of the gang as a ghost and goes back 10 years with the others and so both of them keep their memories? (with my apologies to Yomiel, whose ch16-17 redemption has just been made a lot harder by the added stowaway)

Jowd knowing how much Cabs did for him and remembering him broken and bloodied is A Lot. especially if he’s a lil into it (and mr spotless is. not really on the same page.)

Casefic! With ghosts! There could be a new ghost created by Temsik’s shards or even by some unfortunate soul dying on top of the buried meteorite. Or with their own ghost, teaming up with Sissel! There’s so much potential for tense, death-defying situations! (with make-outs afterwards, if that’s your thing)

Deathfic, until it’s reverted. Jowd dying in Cabanela’s arms or the other way round, but one of them knows about Sissel and the other does not…

Jowd’s loyalty to Cabanela being tested for once, as a change of pace.

More detailed prompts for a few FF fusion AUs: FFX, Summoner Jowd and reluctant Guardian Cabanela. Any moment of their pilgrimage could be fun (and/or tragic and/or intense), or if you like a more detailed prompt, would Yunalesca’s truths be the tipping point of Jowd’s conviction? Would Cabanela manage to drag himself and his Summoner to safety before she killed them? What would life look for them afterwards as survivors bearing forbidden truths, would they stay away from Yevon? FFTA or XII, viera Cabanela and nu mou or bangaa Jowd. I’m sure there’s a poignant plot about magic-endowing extraterrestrial rocks and political backstabbing somewhere at the intersection of Ivalice and GT. If you can see it, I’m here to read it. But I’ll be honest here, the real point here is bunny Cabs. Please consider bunny Cabs. (viera, nu mou, bangaa visual refs for non-FFTA players who might wanna do a regular fantasy AU instead?) FFVI, Cabanela faked defecting to the Empire and is a magitek-infused officer while Jowd has Blitz and... Sketch somehow? And they meet again in the World of Ruin and things are very emotional?

The Last Remnant: Any (Pagus, Maddox, Sibal, David)

General: characterization based on battle quotes, red bubble dialogues, and even their unique stat (‘authority’ is a natural fit for David but ‘romance’ tells me something new about Sibal!) Character interaction. Bit of worldbuilding. What’s another festival they celebrate? Do they erect something else instead of the Valeria Heart? Any fun discoveries down in Siebenbur? Where the hell IS Veyriel, anyway, do they go look for it and if so what do they find out? End of an age. Old bonds.

Canon-specific dislikes: strong narrative emphasis on game mechanics. Stuff like mentioning that a character leads a unit is fine, but for example listing the materials they need for their weapon upgrade would take me out of the story.

The Qsiti bunch: just give me the deets on Qsiti worlduilding and I’ll be a happy camper. I ship these three very much but I’m also invested in their friendship and in each of them as a singular character. The fact that Pagus is a goddamn catch is one of my favorite things, and he can be a smart cookie with any of the other smart cookies in the party, or be a history buff with Glenys, or tutor Yuniver. Proud, paranoid chatterbox Maddox entrenched in his cover-up stories, finding it hard to stop being a spy and relax, maybe spending time with someone very simple, like Sheryl, or a very different kind of fellow veteran like Roberto. Self-assured Sibal who probably knows a lot about the mysteries of the underground world and is also the most romantic soul out of the entire cast, talking volcanoes with Paris or discussing the Rainbow Bond with Haruko? If you also like all three of them, either as old friends or as a ship, who of them comes up with what excuse to reconnect again now that Remnants are no more, or do they drop all pretenses and admit they just want to make up for lost time? And what do Qsiti cuddles look like?

David: Post-canon, adjusting to a life without remnants - how did it feel to be bound to one or two of them anyway, and what’s it like without, and suddenly knowing you’ll be the first Nassau in who knows how long who’ll reach old age? - and without Rush. Finding support and friendship even outside his trusted Generals. I’d be interested in seeing him get closer to any unique leader you might like, I can easily see half the characters absolutely adoring him sooner or later. From the Duke of Ghor to Roberto, to sweet Zolean who knows what it’s like to lose someone dear and hope he comes back, or Rhagoh & Remnant Kate, or Paris or Jager or, eventually, even Allan… David/Rush prompts: focus on Rush’s supernatural nature, how he was a strange boy with a good heart (Things Unchangeable meant so much to me!) who ignored human social conventions because he was not in fact human. Reunion fic more than a decade into the future, showing how David has changed and with emphasis on Rush’s Remnant nature.

David & Qsiti: basically a mix of the other prompts. David is close to all his Generals but what’s his dynamic with Pagus specifically? Is he a mentor, a friend, did Pagus stop David once when he was about to do something very stupid? And what can David learn about his dear General from people who have known him since long before David was born?

Myst: Yeesha, Jeff Zandi

General: The oddest of friendships. Road trip. Desert sunrise. Desert bird shenanigans, be it with actual roadrunners speeding by or cartoon ones. Descent. An oddly shaped rock. Strangers. Shooting stars. Any line from Words.

Canon-specific dislikes: please no Yeesha bashing?

Yeesha & Jeff: He’s definitely Team Yeesha and she could definitely do with a friend, the year is 2018 and I still want fic about this unlikely duo.

How much can he really say he gets her? When did they meet? Was it when a younger Jeff was exploring D’ni with his father Elias, did that create a rift between the two?

What do they do when they hang out? Has he played the Myst games – heck, has she? Does he play Magic the Gathering like his RL counterpart?

Do they set out on a road trip because she needs to chill for a hot minute and experience for herself that whole ‘you shall seek the journey’ thing? Late night driving and liminal places could be cool. Or does she link him somewhere cool with no travel time needed?

Do they agree to meet by his camp fire once a month or something like that, and one time Yeesha doesn’t show up? What happened?

Does he get to hang out with bahro thanks to her, in the depths of the Cavern where the DRC will never be able to reach, and what’s that encounter like for him (and for her, and for the bahro)?

Maybe some relaxing time can take place after End of Ages. He’d notice that something has changed, she’s somewhat less of a depressed wreck that she used to be...

Speaking of End of Ages, was Jeff chosen by the Tablet? If so, how did he fail his quest? I appreciate Esher a lot so if you go for an EoA plot feel free to use him too.

Anything based on Uru history is great!

The Secret History of Twin Peaks: Tammy Preston

General: Character dossiers that involve Tammy more directly. TSHOTP themes being used front and center. Owls, figurative and otherwise. Tammy Fashion™. Tammy Freeform Infodump™. The risks of staring into the void for too long. Gentle illusions. The moon. Static buzzing. Any title from the s3 ethereal whooshing compilation used as a prompt, actually. AUs and fusion AUs are great for this fandom! I have Final Fantasy on my mind a lot recently so any FFVI, VII, T, IX, X, XII or XIII reimagining would be fantastic (what would Tammy even be... scholar, fencer, mystic knight...?), or indeed The Last Remnant, but also regular fantasy, space opera, sci-fantasy... anything fancy!

Canon-specific dislikes: Gordon being a harmless, fun dad or conversely having the worst intentions. Clear explanations for canonical ambiguities.

(my Twin Peaks canon-specific likes and dislikes in the next section may also apply)

Tammy: what I find fascinating about Tammy’s positioning in the narrative of the books (and of the show, but not as markedly) is that there is this whole narrative of trauma, and the circularity of trauma, even within Blue Rose and the organizations that came before it, and she stands at the end of it and learns about it all without being directly involved. She can learn from it in a sheltered position. Maybe when her turn will come, she’ll know a little better. Her name’s anagram is Praemonstrata, “Having been guided”. She’s the new Archivist, in a way. She’s the future of Blue Rose, last woman standing as soon as Albert and Gordon retire and/or vanish (and after the show’s finale, I can’t see either of them lasting long). What does it all mean, in the context of the book’s overarching theme of secrets VS mysteries and the cost of knowledge (and the show’s connections between trauma and the fragmentation of the self, and TFD’s doubling down on the general concept of shoveling oneself out of the shit, and her moving final considerations)?

What could be a test for her, something that would involve her personally and make her risk losing her way? What makes her tick - would she cross to other worlds, how, and why?

I don’t know much about aliens, but I really enjoyed how the book wove it all into Twin Peaks lore. If you want to do the same with some other bit of UFO trivia and have Tammy draw her connections, I’m interested!

The books show that she’s not only Albert’s spiritual successor as the only other rationally-inclined soul in there, she also knows Albert personally to some extent, for example that he’s a jazz lover. Have they ever gone drinking in cool (LGBT…?) clubs with fancy live music? Are they jazz buddies or what kind of music is she into (and what does he have to say about her tastes)?

What other characters or pieces of TP history would she look into? What about that Diane dossier, for example? What about Lucy? (If you have her look into Diane, please be empathetic toward her and her tulpa)

Twin Peaks: Harry Truman, Lucy Moran, Chet Desmond, Garland Briggs

This one is an OR request – feel free to only write about some of these people and completely ignore the others. There were just too many good characters in the tagset and I couldn’t choose so, you know, to hell with matchability. The prompts are for the characters on their own or with some nominated canon mates but if you have an idea for Ruby&Lucy, Garland&Albert, Harry&Naido or any other odd combo, go for it!

General: the mystery of the woods, obviously. How do they relate to the woods, what do they gain and what do they lose in the woods. Case fic but they don’t find out jack shit, someone disappears, David Bowie was there, it’s complicated. Fragmented, shifted, mirrored identities. New Lodge spaces. Still any title from the s3 ethereal whooshing compilation used as a prompt. When in doubt, add Margaret. AUs and fusion AUs are great for this fandom! I have Final Fantasy on my mind a lot recently so any FFVI, VII, T, IX, X, XII or XIII reimagining would be fantastic (paladin Harry, dancer Lucy, fighter Chet, sage Garland...?), or indeed The Last Remnant, but also regular fantasy, space opera, sci-fantasy... anything fancy!

Canon-specific Dislikes: any singular Dreamer being the ‘source’ of canon, BOB (let alone Judy) being forever defeated in the finale, Judy being an active malevolent presence in the characters’ lives, ‘Odessaverse’ being the reality layer, the Fireman's House by the Sea being the White Lodge, Naido being nothing more than Diane but since she was nominated as her own character I'm hopeful here

(my Secret History of Twin Peaks canon-specific likes and dislikes in the previous section may also apply)

Harry: Bookhouse Boy Harry both in the sense of avid reader Harry promoting literacy and vague bastion against the evil in the woods Harry. Harry getting a sword out of a pond in the woods like he was meant to but , like, in a way that’s less random kitsch and more meaningful magical realism. Harry and Frank as actual brothers but also Frank as a projection of Harry’s insecurities. Harry, Ed and Hawk as friends. Harry finding some sense of belonging somewhere, somehow.

Lucy: Kimmy Robertson said she would like to be the color blue in Lynch’s palette, if the prompt works for you. Lucy taking her time to understand and organize the world around her. Lucy with Andy (the one functional couple in all of canon, bless), with Wally, with Maggie Brown and the rest of the new sheriff’s station cast. Lucy with people who don’t usually appreciate her (both sheriffs and Albert come to mind) but have to come to terms with the fact that she’s amazing. I also like that Hawk is a first-class gossip, apparently, and so is Lucy, so if THAT prompts works for you… last but not least, she seems to have some sort of connection with the symbolic weave of reality (picking chairs when a very important chair is introduced, wondering about bunnies and Jack Rabbit palace will be relevant, Robertson said that Lynch said that Lucy perceives a lot and needs time to sort it all out) and I’d love to see it explored one way or another. If you wanna go wild with meta Invitation to Love shenanigans, Lucy could be a good POV character.

Chet: What’s his deal? Empirically, new canon draws a hell of a lot of connections between personal troubles and being jettisoned out of reality. So why did he? A friend recalls that he was named after Chet Baker and Norma Desmond, so that could be a starting point. I like to think that he manages to pull himself together at some point and make it back – how? Does he find any familiar faces beyond the curtains, like Phil? Finally, like all Blue Rose and Sheriff’s station characters, when all other prompts fail: office shenanigans. Please. Now that they’ve all been blatantly retconned as a merry gang who coexisted at some point, please give me Chet bouncing off literally any other named character in there.

Garland: He’s a good bean, almost naive compared to Doug Milford & co in TSHOTP, and I wish him the best wherever he is... the metaphysical adventures of Garland’s floating head could be a fic (maybe Bill Hastings and Ruth Davenport could tag along). Or back when he was alive, weird occurrences at Listening Post Alpha up on Blue Pine mountain. He wasn’t born in town, so what’s HIS relationship with the woods? Or an encounter with some of the federal cast, like Gordon and Phil or a very young Albert. I’m also intrigued by his s3 narrative but I have a very negative view of The Plan(tm) so I don’t really know what to make of it. If you also think that the Fireman’s hints only ended in tragedy and that Blue Rose’s search for Judy was a monumental act of hubris, and you have a good spin for Garland’s role in all of this, I’m listening! All I got is something like "he gave his last fuck... now he's free....." (not that Garland is legally allowed to say fuck, I mean)

Albert/Harry: my main headcanon is that they got together in the aftermath of Coop’s disappearance, holding onto each other in his absence not unlike James and Donna did with Laura. Then... did they last? Or was it a terrible moment to get together (...not unlike James and Donna) and they had to go their separate ways for a while before finding each other again? Does this sad time last up until the end of s3, when Albert can finally quit the castle of lies that was his job and stay with Harry? I am also, however, open to other timelines for these two. Emotional reunions are great and so is domestic fic with a dash of surrealism. What would Harry do for Albert? For example, when would he take his side in a heated dispute with someone else? What would Albert share about his past? What could they do in town? Or do they take a well-deserved vacation somewhere else? Do they team up for a small investigation? Old men taking care of each other is very much welcome, especially after Harry gets through the worst of his treatments.

Dale/Harry: Harry seeing his Coop again... somewhere, somehow. Maybe he perceives him in the woods, maybe Coop isn't all human now. Monster cuddles very welcome. Could be canon divergence but could very well be post-s3. Harry getting closure for waiting all that time in front of Glastonbury and never giving up on Coop... they can live in the woods together...

Harry&Lucy: what could make them spend some time together outside of work (is it donuts)? Does he ask for relationship advice since she and Andy are literally the only people in town who could make it work? Does she feel loyal to him and Frank or is it just a job to her? Does she go visit him after s3 and does he tell her that she was very brave? What about Wally - Harry is the boy’s godfather after all, I don’t usually read kidfic but I can make all sorts of exceptions for my beloved Wally (maybe when he’s more of a teen than a kid). Are they all fans of Marlon Brando?

Chet/Sam: reunion fic! Chet’s been AWOL for years, Sam has fallen through the cracks, how do they find each other again and why do they choose to remain off the grid? I would also like to read about them in the present day-ish, handwaving the return and reunion. Maybe they made a new life for themselves. If Sutherland were to play Sam again, Sam would be... notably more buff. What caused that change, was it traveling with Chet, what kind of person is he now? Could they be in Buenos Aires, investigating on their own whatever that shrinking box was?

Chet&Dale: In which ways are they both real boys and in which ways are they aspects of each other? How do they work together?

Chet/Albert: whatever passes for an uncomplicated office romance around those parts, where they both know very well that they’re not the other’s One True Love, but they have a good understanding - except when Albert’s pacifism clashes with Chet‘s readiness to throw down 24/7. But then again Albert is also ready to throw down 24/7, only with words instead of fists, so there’s fertile ground for conflict and unexpected agreements. Also they’re hot.

Garland&Harry: they’re both good dogs living in a cold and cruel world, with their own partial experiences of other worlds beyond this tangible reality, and I think they should be at least a little friends. Maybe Harry found himself at Garland’s observatory one day without even knowing how he’d gotten there, maybe they chatted at the RR. Then there’s Mfrost spitballing some connection which, given how Garland ‘died’ literally on the day after s2, can only be read as Harry passing his info to Garland when Garland was already beyond this world. I’d read that in a heartbeat.

[delicatechildwitch]

From behind the stage, you can hear in hushed whispers:

"Are you four sure about this? It's only been a year since he came to the past, and-"

"What, you don't trust him?"

"Oh, I think he could, I just think he's not ready."

"He'll do great! Trust us!"

"Why did you nominate him anyways?"

"... We couldn't agree on which one of us should run."

"So you just wanted to nominate somebody?"

"Yeah! But I'm sure he's qualified! He got to see how things were run in the future, was trained by us, and he's pretty reliable. Why wouldn't they vote for him?"

@tmnt-multiverse-election

(vote here)

[delicatechildwitch]

Tello splutters for a second. Glancing at Ron, he makes a decision. "I guess you can help. We just have to bury this ... Sphere. But as soon as we're done digging the hole, you should go back to your cabin, okay?"

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion @olliethescribe @irequirealobotomy (in case you guys want to make your characters add anything.)

POV: you just caught them burying a body on counselor prank week.

Characters involved belong to: @olliethescribe (cabin 16), @irequirealobotomy (cabin 2), and me (cabin 4)

Cabin 2 Misa would love to help

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

[delicatechildwitch]

You've just been glitter-bombed by Cabin 15! Mwhahaha! 👹✨

Comic by @justalittleobsessed and amazing art by @belleyellsaboutturtles

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

Unfortunately, they're a little paranoid about gifts and spent the science fair checking it for pranks ...

They did find another use for it though.

Context

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Cabin 8 (if you wanna respond, no pressure <3):

@usernameneon

@autumnmoon15

@its-captain-sir

@evenmoreofadisaster

@genderfluid-envy

@liya4kar

@little-banjo-frog

[delicatechildwitch]

Welcome to the camp craft fair from Teenage Mutant Beetle Teetles! Feel free to choose a bandana or t-shirt. Mikey is also still handing out friendship bracelets upon request :] 

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

Raph enthusiastically picks up a shirt, before realizing it was a bit too small. "Uh, do you have any larger sizes? No worries if not."

Mikey also picks up a shirt. "These are really good!"

Tello humms for a second. "I love your tie dye, but it would be simply wasted on me. I already have a whole- On second thought, maybe the bandana. I can switch between my own and the tie dye one."

~

"Which do you think looks better on me, Dontron?" Leo asks, holding up both the blue shirt and the mask.

"Scoff! As if tie-dye could make your face look better." Donnie says, but the barb clearly wasn't intended to be cruel. "The mask."

Leo shrugs, taking the mask. "You're just jealous because you can't pull off tie dye as well as I can. Let me guess, you're going to pick a mask too, so that we can 'be twinning'."

"Ha! Just for that, but not really because I already wanted to, I'll take the bandana instead." Donnie exclaims.

"What? Why?" Leo asks, confused for a second, but then he realizes, and immediately teases him instead. "Are you trying to match your Mini-Tello?"

"You have no proof of that!" Donnie says, clearly embarrassed.

"I know I'm not one of the main turtles, but do you have any bandanas in all four colors?" Casey Junior asks. "I understand if not. I just would like ..." To remember them remains unsaid.

[delicatechildwitch]

The Old Soul gang's Library adventures thus far.

@tmntstorycomp

[delicatechildwitch]

Donatello lets her pick out the colors and food. He does balk at the large amount of money though.

He didn't say it, but he thinks she's very sweet. :)

A "young" Donatello would like to know if any of your tmnt competitors want to purchase any souvenirs of the TMNT AU competition.

(The beads and wire are for a custom friendship bracelet.)

Donnie has a rich Appā and no real understanding of how money works. But she wants supplies for a few friendship bracelets and whatever very well sealed food you have in tamper proof containers.

How's 1,200$? She has some ¥ and € on her person, too.

[delicatechildwitch]

[delicatechildwitch]

(@tmntstorycomp) the twin-sync twins got in trouble! Will you help them escape Library jail?

"Of course!" Leo snickers, drawing his blade to summon a portal.

"Leo! What if they're dangerous!" Raph asks fretfully.

"Do they look dangerous?" Leo rolls his eyes, but sets his swords away.

"C'mon, Raph!" Mikey says, "We can't leave them trapped like this! What about their Raph and Mikey. They'd be alone."

Raph huffs.

Leo meets Mikey's eyes. "Calm down, big bro. Don and me'll make sure Mikey's fine."

Don blinks. "Of course. Besides, I highly doubt any alternate of mine would hurt a Michelangelo."

Leo wasn't as sure, but he had his blades.

"We were just passing out food, we swear." The other Don says.

"We didn't know it wasn't allowed." Other Leo adds, without missing a beat. Almost like there was no reaction time.

"Fine." Raph says, wrapping his ninpo around his fist he smashes apart the jail cell without injuring the inhabitants. "I hope you know what you're doing."

"Hey, before you run off." Mikey's smile hardens. "You wouldn't happen to have seen a younger version of our Donatello here? He's wearing a purple sweater?"

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