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[eponymousfics]

Ooo monster alternate universe ? 👀 I mean, there's beyond just a few AUs with them as monsters/mythical creatures but what do you personally view as 'most fitting' for each brother ... ?

This. Um. This answer spiraled and really got away from me. Sorry it took so long to get to it >_>

But here's some visual aids:

(The rest is going under a cut bc the explanations get long. because i'm incapable of shutting up lol)

OK so roster of sextuplets as monsters according to their personalities and most "monstrous" traits:

Oso:

I went with a kind of tanuki yokai thing because they're associated with trickery, laziness, crassness, and shapeshifting. Also drinking lol

The idea is he's pretty low-level and weak compared to other yokai but he still has magic, which is more than can be said for any human he comes across, so that inflates his ego and emphasizes his absolute worst traits.

He'd be kind of a devil figure, someone who makes underhanded and twisty deals where whatever service he provides you either sucks or only lasts long enough for him to get his payment and book it.

If you run into him in the woods he will follow you and pester you until you agree to a shitty deal.

But he's also not that bright so if you're careful you can wriggle out of the worst consequences, get away with just a lot of wasted time.

Kara:

Classic werewolf, to emphasize his two-faced side. I think he would try his best to blend in among humans, and Kara is Kara so that involves trying to be a cool biker guy to varying degrees of success.

I think he's lonely and subconsciously looking for a pack, but he's also got some "no babe, i'm a monster, i'll hurt youuuu" kinda angst working against him. I think his wolf transformations are a toss up between Slavering Eldritch Wolf Beast that will kill indiscriminately and completely harmless doggo who will beg for treats incessantly

He can be very protective and kind and loving but he is also a monster, he can be petty and vicious and violent, and I think the melodrama of werewolf transformations and symbolism (especially the animal instinct vs. humanity thing) fit him pretty well. Of the brothers, I think he'd be doing his best to actually integrate with human society, not just prey on it or play with it.

Choro:

He's an evil ghost. He looks innocent at first glance, some quiet young man who asks for some innocuous help or offers to do a small kindness for you, like walking an old lady across the street.

But the moment you accept his offer or ask him for anything, he's bonded to you and starts to slowly leech your life force for himself.

He's very polite the whole time, and while his requests might get more and more demanding as you grow weaker, his pointed smile never wavers. It gets harder and harder to say no, until you finally fade away yourself, and he moves onto the next sucker.

However, if you decline his request he won't ask again out of sheer embarrassment, so as long as you cotton on to the fact that he isn't human at the start, you're fairly safe.

Wherever he's standing, for some reason, there always seems to be a huge flat expanse of nothing stretching out behind him, partially obscured by fog.

He wants and he wants but he only knows how to take, never how to give or reciprocate beyond the shallowest, lowest-effort means.

Ichi:

I picked boogieman, but specifically the Discworld variety, where they're always hiding behind doors or under beds and scare children simply because children believe they're real, and therefore they are. They can be defeated with a blanket over their head, because everyone knows that boogiemen disappear if you put your head under a blanket, therefore if you put their head, the boogieman believes that he doesn't exist.

Which is very distressing for the boogieman.

So he's fairly easy to defeat, but I think he'd have a great time scaring the shit out of people and hiding/lurking in dark places. Rifling through people's private closet stashes, whatever they are.

He's potentially befriendable if you see him but show you're not scared. You can try offering a glass of milk. He loves scaring people but is also curious and lonely.

Jyushi:

Anthropomorphic personification of destructive fire.

He's an unstoppable force of nature, and while he isn't malicious, he has so much energy. And unfortunately, it burns everything to ash. He can do his best to rein himself in, but it doesn't change the fact that to touch him is to burn.

He's very cheerful though, definitely a lot of elements of Calcifer in him, but he also revels in fulfilling his purpose: burning shit to the ground.

He can be tamed, briefly, in campfires and hearths, but requires constant supervision. He can be everywhere at once in a breath, and you'll die sucking down his smoke.

He likes people. They give him so many places to live, and so much to eat. He wishes they would last a little longer when he comes around to visit.

Todo:

Fae, but specifically using a glamor to make himself look nice and princely. Underneath he's something more like a lich, and his pretty persona is there to lure you in.

He likes toying with people. He likes tricking them and pulling the wool over their eyes, both visually and in the twisty deals he makes with them.

Which he never refers to as deals, they're just pinky promises. That's not threatening, right? It's just a little promise. Don't worry about it. Don't look beneath the glitter.

Like Kara, he's extremely two-faced, but unlike Kara, he doesn't really care about humans or being part of their society. He'll take what he wants from people (which doesn't always cost them their lives) and disregard the rest. He needs to eat, after all.

SO that's my serious personality-based answer, I also have alternatives though because I love monsters. These are like, if I were picking monsters specifically for more wholesome or romantic AUs. The above ones would technically be romanceable, but the genre would probably be more horror and angst, vs the following are for lighthearted fun.

(you can tell which set i drew first lol)

Oso:

Classic incubus/devil, the transactional and non-commitment based nature of it works for him. He could be persuaded to fall in love with someone, maybe, but he lovessss sleeping around with no strings attached.

Once again, being a monster gives him actual powers, so he winds up being insufferably smug. You can tell that I don't like drawing feet lol

Kara:

Like a satyr but with bull parts instead of goat? I'm not sure what to call those. I'd say minotaur, but that's specifically with a bull's head and human body, not this way around.

But similar to the Greek Minotaur, he's kinda isolated and lonely, too big and too awkward to fit in with normal society. He tries to make himself small and quiet and appealing by learning music and things like that. Kind of a gentle giant thing.

Choro:

Frog prince, but caught in between. He's like a half-metamorphosed tadpole, with the arms and legs, but still with a tail. Idk I just wanted him to be slimy and awkward.

I'm not sure why I keep choosing washed out colors for Choro as a monster, maybe because I think he'd be the most self-conscious or distant about it? Like, most of the others would revel in or embrace their monster status, but I think Choro, while fulfilling his "job" as a monster, would always hate that he was one deep down.

A simple kiss probably won't break his curse. In the original fairy tale, the princess needs to learn to look past her disgust at having a frog husband, but in this case Choro needs to learn to look past his own sliminess and find worth in himself and others.

Ichi:

Blobby shadow monster, idk what to call it. He's got a bit more substance and weight than mere darkness, it's a bit more drippy and fluid.

But like the boogieman version, he can hide and blend in shadows and scare people, although he mostly chooses to watch. I think he's an accretion of the misery of the isolated, and goes to keep them company as they die. Or get help and get better. In the former case, their souls become part of him. In the latter, he just leaves.

In some ways, he wants to help. But he doesn't think there's anything he can do but be a witness. So he watches.

Jyushi:

Cyclops/oni thing, absolutely huge and cheerful and unfortunately clumsy. He does his best but he breaks things all the time. People still like him though, they just have to be very very careful. Luckily he has amazing hearing so he's so far managed not to step on anyone.

He could act as a guardian for a city, or as a transport service between towns. He can also rip up trees and deposit them directly in lumberyards for people to start chopping up. He's very useful.

But he does get a bit lonely. People are always happy to see him, but it's usually because they have a request. No one every wants to hear about this fun new game he invented using boulders and his club.

His laughter often causes avalanches on nearby mountain ranges.

Todo:

Classic vampire, because at least one of them had to be. I think it's fitting for Totty, who once again can use his appearance to lure people in and get what he wants from them.

Only, of course, most people nowadays are quite happy to have the attention of a vampire, even if they know where it's going. And he loves getting to dress up and be fancy.

He's arrogant and entitled, but less malicious than his fae persona.

END

ANYWAY I'm SO SORRY this spiraled so hard, I was just typing up a reply and then next thing I knew I was hunched over my drawing tablet and it'd been six hours. I might need to write some monster AU one shots now please fucking shoot me

[merakiui]

i hope this message reaches you cause i have a song to recommend that reminds me so much of tmdg!jade x reader’s relationship: fire and gasoline by sia

:o OHHHH OMG!!!!! That is so tmdg!Jade and Reader!!! The lyrics describe their relationship so perfectly. OTL they truly are just like a fire and gasoline dynamic…

I may have some other songs that I’ve compiled that suit our beloved duo!!! :D

✧ make me like you - gwen stefani

✧ sweet for you - kashii moimi

✧ obsessive - planet zuz

✧ yukei yesterday - jin

✧ side effects - the chainsmokers

✧ let’s be friends - emily osment (the “let’s be friends so we can make out” lyric is so 😵‍💫)

✧ baby - charli xcx

✧ fff - zara larsson

✧ lmly - jackson wang

✧ kiss u better - katzú oso

As you can tell, I’ve thought about tmdg far too much. The brain rot is immensely strong and has had me in a vicious chokehold for nine months. orz

[notsobeautifuldisaester]

Honestly an funny idea for Tougou getting revenge on Oso is instead of killing or kidnapping him, he rats Oso out to the cops or frames him for something.

Like imagine Oso getting arrested and Tougou comes out of nowhere with a shit eating grin and is like “Wow Oso, I never thought you grew up to such vicious criminal... Well, I’ll be on my way, I have a life to live outside of jail.”

Plus it’s not like Oso doesn’t have any dirt on him.

[DON’T TAG AS SHIP OR I WILL CRY]

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Albums in Stores – Aug 9th, 2024

If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the comments to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed. And So I Watch You From Afar – MegafaunaAtom Driver – OccupantsBest Case – LemonsBig Sean – Better Me Than YouBless The Dead – We Create ThisCarnivore Diprosopus – Rise Of The InsurrectionChlöe – Trouble In ParadiseCoalesce – The OX EraCold Hard Steel – Vicious CycleCommon Sage – Nostos | AlgosCrushuman – CrushumanDark Funeral – Dark FuneralDestroy Boys – Funeral Soundtrack #4Duhkha – A Place You Can’t Come Back FromFinal Girls – Prey On The WeakFour Year Strong – Analysis ParalysisdiscussFucked Up – Another DayFulci – Duck Face KillingsHammerfall – Avenge The FallenHeilung – Lifa IotungardHell Can Wait – Reaching The Point Where Pain EndsHoney Revenge – Retrovision (Deluxe Edition)In Aphelion – ReaperdawnInertia – Second ShadowJ Balvin – RayoKali Uchis – Orquídeas Parte 2King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flight b741Kurokuma – Of Amber And SandLouis Cole – NothingMamaleek – Vida BlueMilton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding – Milton + EsperanzaMushroomhead – Call The DevilNiki – BuzzNo Edits – We All End Up The SameNova Charisma – MetropolitanOsees – SORCS 80Oso Oso – Life Till BonesdiscussOxygen Destroyer – Guardian Of The UniversePorter Robinson – SMILE! :DRyuichi Sakamoto – OpusSavage Pleasure – Savage PleasureSecond Shadow – InertiaSiamese – ElementsTwin Atlantic – MeltdownWhy? – The Well I Fell IntoX – Smoke & Fiction --- Thanks to helloiamzach for providing additional contributions to this week’s list. You can check out and support his weekly music podcast It’s Not A Phase or follow him on his socials. --- Please consider becoming a member so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/albums-in-stores-today/albums-in-stores-aug-9th-2024/

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Elizabeth Banks Presents Trailer For Hilarious 'Vicious Bear': 'Reality Was Stranger Than Fiction'

Elizabeth Banks Presents Trailer For Hilarious ‘Vicious Bear’: ‘Reality Was Stranger Than Fiction’

Elizabeth Banks returns to directing and does so with solid foundations. The famous actress will premiere her third film behind the scenes in 2023, “Oso Vicioso”. In English baptized as ‘Cocaine Bear’, the title already gives a good example of what can be expected of her. And although there are still a few months left to enjoy it, Universal Pictures has already released its first trailer. A small…

[fluffystuffies]

walks into your inbox, sits down, hands you a mic

howdy friendo who are your favourite lees i am curious

(and lers if youd like)

slams hands down gently on table Hello, hi!!

This is probably just gonna be OSC lees/lers, hope you don't mind-

Favorite lees?? Probably Paintbrush, Trophy (he works great as a ler too), Cheesy, Silver Spoon, MePhone (though I'm almost afraid to admit that considering what's circled around lee!MePhone and i don't want that one anon attacking me :///), Tissues (yes. i love him. still too embarrassed to post the tickle art i made for him), Pen, Blocky (though i haven't seen much of him), Lollipop (she works great as a ler as well!), OSO Novel, Knife, and pretty much ALL the ONE characters-

Favorite LERS?? Candle, Bow, Lightbulb, Trophy, Lollipop, Holly, recently been having thoughts about ler!OJ, aaaaaand not sure what else. Probably a couple ONE characters if I'm being honest. Sorry if this one's a bit barren akslakgfh-

Honestly, ONE is probably the only one I can say for certain that all of the characters are both my favorite lers and lees. Because my goodnesssss does Amelia need cheer-up tickles, Airy needs to learn what physical contact is again, and Bryce and Liam absolutely need to interact with tickles involved just aaaaaaa-

(Oh and as a side note for another one of my fandoms. . .ghost-type Pokemon. Absolute vicious lers and adorable lees-I stand by this-also Darkrai. I want to reduce that nightmare-inducer to a giggling mess.)

I am so sorry that you had to read all that. XD

[radio-charlie]

What if our whiny far-right incels are the darlings of both the administration and foreign powers looking to crack us like an egg. idk how to lay this out well. but ya u wield them as blunt instrument oso, the backlash drives more and more young men into their arms. not going to go into whether said young men were ‘secretly shitty all along’ or what, its more complicated than that. but yea la. reactionary young men and the pick-mes who jilat tapak kaki dia are very good enforcers of our status quo. and if u can rope in those who know how to make cool videos and dress reactionary thought in hip clothes, and then a whole bunch who are so vicious and hardened in their thinking that ppl would rather just keep quiet than go against them, then uish bestnya nothing to worry abt dy im guessing. dunnid pay this cuck army to cytro even.

The result is a combo of greater polarisation and more knives in wounds that ppl have less room to heal due to the increasing hostility towards anybody who isnt these ppl. U can play this type of thing to keep the majority on ur side (hence spike in misogynist and racebaiting nonsense coz elections coming kek) or to both undermine the administration and split any solidarity in movements that will fortify the country against this type of psyop. But ya. if we are not careful with how we navigate the socmed landscape, since once again - malaysians are very wired, that pain is going to cascade and cascade until its an unstoppable avalanche. its unfair la kan. why do some of us have to be even more careful than we already are. but what to do. it is what it is eh.

[whumpmatsus]

I got a headcannon: Choro is the only matsu who smokes. I heard somebody in my family said "it helps for anxiety, and also relax people a lot" and we now what matsu needs a relax from anxiety heheh.

I think before that Oso also would smoke but he don't know how/he dislike the taste, also jyushi would dislike the taste, totty maybe don't think that fits his cute self, kara also think don't fit his cool self and ichi would DEFINITELY hate it looooll

aaaa this is a good one! I’m not a smoker myself (I have asthma and cigarette smoke is my worst trigger for that) but almost all my managers are work smoke, and I definitely notice they smoke more when things are stressful, so I think smoking is like a Band-Aid for anxiety since nicotine is SUPER addictive

this is a good headcanon tho! I headcanon cigarette smoke as a trigger for Choro’s asthma, but not the worst one, so I would think he’d be okay/willing to deal with using his inhaler on the days he’s having bad anxiety and smokes more... though I don’t peg him as a really heavy smoker, he’s anxious about it worsening his asthma if he smokes too much which would be a vicious cycle ���

(tho, I used to have a coworker who had lung problems and was on three inhalers and she still smoked like a chimney, so...)

most of the others are spot on I think, too! I think Oso would smoke only when something is really bothering him, like when he gets REALLY stressed, it makes him feel more relaxed but he can only tolerate the taste of a specific kind of cigarettes

Kara might have tried it in the past to make him look more like a ‘bad boy’ but then he realized he doesn’t really wanna be a bad boy he just wants to be a slightly edgy cool guy 😂

Jyushi tried to smoke a few times when he was 18 by stealing his father’s cigarettes but holy shit they taste so bad why do people like this, he probably only did it two or three times before he figured the taste wasn’t worth it 😂😂😂

Totty definitely wouldn’t think it was cute, especially because he hates smelling like smoke?? I wonder if he would take up vaping tho... he might think it’s cuter than cigarettes and trendy and they have so many flavors, the smoke could smell like something fruity instead of that tobacco scent

ICHI WOULD DEFINITELY HATE IT THO he may have tried it in high school from peer pressure but he’s so sensitive to smells that he just can’t stand it, like he even struggles not to wrinkle his nose in disgust after his dad comes in from smoking outside 😂😂

this is an interesting thing to think about, for sure! in real life I hate people smoking because of my asthma, but as for fiction, I think just the look of someone smoking a cigarette or cigar or vape is sexy

(yeah, I don’t make any sense, lol 😂😂😂)

[tooottyyy]

Just sayin, I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts on the Matsuno's codependency if you ever decided to touch upon it. 👀

Oh I’m gonna JSNJXN I’m going to talk a bit about it now, but once I finish rewatching s1 and 2 I want to make a long post talking abt it SO

I have read a few times people talking about how Oso-san works in an stablished status quo. HOWEVER. this is like this because of an in universe reason and irl reason. If any of the brothers did get a work, or did get a girlfriend, that would simply break the series. Oso san bases a LOT on the fact that no brother is really better than the others, even if each brotehr has different qualities: - Osomatsu is the most shameless one in his NEET antics, which probably saves him from a lot of embarassment - Karamatsu is genuinely kind with his brothers in numerous occasions

- Choromatsu is the “responsible” one and genuinely tries to be better, even if he fails - Ichimatsu is way more calm than most of his brothers - Jyushimatsu does a lot of physical activities - Todomatsu is able to talk to women (And have friends) and tries (And is able to!) to get a job All of these qualities give them a chance to be BETTER than what they are. They’re a start that could lead them to become better people. So, why aren’t they able? Why isn’t Choromatsu able to get a job interview, Ichimatsu could maybe work on a pet shop, and why isn’t Todomatsu able to get a date if he’s able to talk to women amicably? (Putting it under a read more for suspense and because this is already very long)

WELL, friends, in my opinion, the reason is simple. It’s each other. It’s the rest of the brothers who hold each other back. One of the themes of the show is that at the end of the day, they’re all scum. There’s a lot of studies on group mindset and how it affects the individual, and no one can deny it has affected the matsunos a LOT. Their big appeal throughout all of their lives is that they’re together! Would anyone really watch osomatsu-san if it was only about Choromatsu? If suddenly Todomatsu had a girlfriend or a job, what would that mean for the rest? Totty suddenly would have an “upper” hand in their dynamic. He would have something to brag about, something that truly makes him different from the rest. What does that mean for his brothers? What would that mean for him? Of course, this never comes through, it CAN’T. The rest of his brothers don’t want him to stop being a virgin- to stop being like THEM-because theywould have to face that they’re not a unit of people, and that they all have the capacity to leave (Aka. what happens in s1ep24). On another side, the six of them being in the same state allows them to enter a vicious circle of self pity and not allowing themselves or each others to grow. They need each other to be in the same state as them to maintain their useless neets status quo. Because of that, it’s highly possible that none of them make any breakthrough dating wise or job wise until the finale of the series, and since it seems to be Pierrot’s cash cow, it won’t be for a long while

[alucience]

Master Post - Key AU Information

So, I’ve decided that as my blog grows and information about this AU gets buried in old posts, I think it would be helpful to create a master post to organize all the information I believe is important for you to know. I’ll update this as I see fit. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! 

*Keep in mind that currently on Tumblr, if a post is reblogged by another person and then edited by the OP, the edits will not appear on the reblog - so, for the most up-to-date version of this post, please seek my blog’s description! I’ll keep a link for this there. 

What is this AU about?

In a nutshell: Titled “The Structure of Blood”, this AU explores the story of an ill man known as the Creovorce; a highly intelligent scientist skilled in bioengineering, microbiology, and chemistry. With demented morals and untreated quirks, he used his sharp mind to fulfil his desired philosophy of equilibrium: a balance between life and death. Using a perfect set of similar DNA samples he found and stole (DNA from sextuplets of course; same genetic base with different acquired traits, a perfect variable), he created six living beings. Six living beings programmed to kill, to end life rather than to give. He created a new nature; not one of reproduction or procreation, but one of simply destruction. One wired to see and accept and understand the concept of death rather than life. 

The Creovorce created Otsumatsu, Karumamatsu, Kyoromatsu, Shishimatsu, Kuchimatsu, and Toramatsu (later coined by Osomatsu as their “anti” versions). His perfect little creations were finally awake and curious, quiet and observant as the young little lives that they were. However, it soon became clear that the Creovorce had programmed a flaw, one that could not be undone: for in their beating hearts was a strange bond with their DNA donors. If their original counterparts were to die, so too would their hearts stop. Distraught by his mistake, the Creovorce was desperate to undo this weakness, this imperfection. Taken by his growing episodes of insanity, the Creovorce could not stop the six beings from plotting their escape. It was only 7 weeks after their birth that the oldest four - Otsumatsu, Karumamatsu, Kyoromatsu, and Shishimatsu - successfully broke out of the lab. The youngest two remained trapped, and Shishimatsu vanished. From there, the older three reached out, trying to find their counterparts as soon as possible. Counterparts that didn’t even know they existed. 

The rest of the story is written in my documents (200 pages and counting), but isn’t fully available online or in comics.

Where can I read the comics for The Structure of Blood?

Due to personal issues and my fluctuating mental health, I don’t have much done - even after all this time. I’ve tried to start the comic three times over (all at different points in the storyline), but never finished them. You can read what I have here:

- This was the start of it all. It’s several years old (from 2017, so I was still in high school) and a tad bit cringy, and in the end I was just never satisfied with it. I got farther here though than I did with any of the others, so here are the links! Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 

- This is one that I worked very hard on at the time, and it looks the most official - but I haven’t had the motivation to finish chapter 2 yet. Who knows if I ever will. It starts out with the backstory of the antis, narrated by Anti Kara. (This is from 2018.) Chapter 1

- This is my most recent one, but still a few years old by now (from 2019). It takes place a little later in the story, AFTER the oldest four antis escape the lab and met their counterparts. They were recaptured with the help of Karamatsu (who by this point is acquainted with his anti, Karumamatsu), and Karamatsu is now in the lab with the Creovorce, busy contemplating some harsh lies. This one was drawn on paper in hopes of getting more production, though I haven’t updated it in some time. Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 

Who are the “antis”? (Detailed) 

The “antis” (a term coined by Osomatsu) are the six beings of destructions created by the Creovorce using the original brothers’ DNA. Although they possess adult bodies and the innate intelligence of a regular person, they are only seven weeks old. Despite their violent nature, they hold a child-like essence, being naïve, simple-minded, wide-eyed/curious, observant, and truly lacking bias. They still take naps and have some childish quirks such as rubbing their eyes when sleepy, twirling a strand of hair with their finger when bored or tired, staring at and studying faces closely when curious (like, to the point where they break boundaries), touching others’ faces when analyzing or observing, becoming rowdy right before bed, innocently mimicking others to understand the purpose of an action, and holding no boundaries between themselves and their counterparts (such as grabbing on to them, keeping them physically close, playing with their hair, etc). 

I have a post that discusses their name meaning/kanji, MBTI type, birthday, and general personality/information (plus information on The Creovorce). To read that, click here.

Why do the antis all seem to hate Shishimatsu (Anti Ichi)?

Well, it started at the lab. As the antis were created, the Creovorce spent time and energy day after day studying them, testing them, loading them with information through tubes and wires. With every little flaw he caught - whether it be behavioral, physical, mental, emotional, - he took all of them back into the testing tubes and manually fixed. Although the tubes left them unfazed, it’s not like they liked it (or really the Creovorce, for that matter. Or each other. They weren’t very happy fellas.). So when it became clear that Shishimatsu had the most quirks (often emotional) that the Creovorce saw needed to be fixed, the others were pretty exasperated. Time and time, it was Shishimatsu’s fault yet again. Back to the tubes. Back to the tubes again. Oh, here we go again. The others don’t necessarily hate him for this, but it gave them someone to blame and make fun of.

As for the younger two - Kuchimatsu and Toramatsu - their hate stems from a different reason. When the antis sought to escape the lab and formed together, the plan was that all of them would make it out - it was the only way to defeat the Creovorce. It was all or nothing. None of them could rise against him alone, not when this was a person who knew them better than they did themselves. However, the plan fell through. Shishimatsu made a mistake while attempting to separate from the others during their escape, and the result was that Kuchimatsu and Toramatsu were trapped and left behind. As the others ran free, the younger two were left to grow their hatred together as their lives were put in danger in a situation that was out of their control. All because of Shishimatsu. 

Why didn’t Anti Jyushi or Anti Todo escape the lab at the beginning of the story?

Seek the answer above. 

Why do the antis cuddle with their counterparts when they sleep? Aren’t they supposed to be vicious?

This is a concept I’ve had since the beginning of the story way back in early 2017, but I realize I’ve never actually explained it here. The antis themselves are very light sleepers - they’re programmed to be alert and ready for a fight at all times. They don’t even dream at night. This increase in sensitivity gives the antis a special intuitive ability that aids in their protection: the ability to detect irregularities in a person’s heartbeat. When an anti sleeps with his head resting against his counterpart’s chest, he can sleep listening to their heartbeat. Even during their most vulnerable state, they feel a sense of control when they can unconsciously detect wakefulness, sleep, dreams, anxiety, excitement, etc. It’s commonplace for the anti to wake up multiple times during the night as their counterpart dreams and speeds up or slows down their heart rate. My friend described them as living baby monitors. 

It’s also likely they find subconscious comfort in hearing a heartbeat that matches their own. After all, if their counterpart dies, so do they. Even as violent killers, the beating signifies life and therefore hushes them slightly. 

Why don’t the antis dream?

Again, another early concept that I’ve never explained. It was supposed to be revealed later on in the story, but that’s taking too long. 

During the time that the antis’ bodies were still developing at the lab, they resided in testing tubes in a state referred to as “cunae” where they could not breathe air or experience full consciousness. As their growth progressed closer to their “birth”, the Creovorce took note that Anti Oso (Otsumatsu) had developed nightmares. As the nightmares began taking a toll on his development, the Creovorce saw this as a flaw and - just as he did any other “flaw” - erased it. From that point on, the antis lost their ability to dream. 

Otsumatsu remembers this. He remembers his nightmares. He doesn’t recall seeing or hearing anything, or even what they were about - but he knows he had them, and he remembers what they felt like. He remembers the feeling of helplessness and terror, but nothing more. He also remembers the point where they suddenly stopped. The “flaw” had been fixed. While he was aware that he was the reason they don’t dream, the others grew up not even knowing what dreams were.

What sexual orientation are the antis? 

The antis are being of destruction, and therefore find no use in attempting to procreate. Their sex drive is pretty much as dead as anything else that comes in contact with them. 

Sometimes it’s fun to imagine what a beast one of them would be in bed though~ I don’t blame you for that. 

Is the story for this AU actually finished?

Ehh that’s a complicated question. There are several story arcs in my documents that I continue to play around with and add to. Some arcs are complete, some are almost complete, and others continue to get added to over time.

Worst case scenario: years and years down the road when everyone’s abandoned this story/fandom and I’ve moved on to other AUs, I’ll just tell you guys how it ends (anyone who’s even interested in hearing anyway). I mean, I’ve seen unfinished AUs before and it drives me mad never learning how it ends or what happens. I’m way too nostalgic to do that. 

What is this blog’s relation to the timeline of the AU? 

It’s a little hard to explain. The official AU/story is its own thing. I even update the comic every once in a while (thought I’m not very consistent - which is my bad!) 

Meanwhile on the blog, I like to just pretend that the story already happened and now Anti Oso and Anti Kara (and sometimes the other four in some scenarios) are all just living with the sextuplets at the Matsuno Household. Since they have nowhere else to go, they’re allowed to live with them as long as they don’t kill anyone (and they get their sedatives every night). 

I always like to remind people that the scenario on the blog may be inconsistent with the original story. For instance, if in the AU Shonosuke had died, then maybe he’s suddenly back on the blog for comedic purposes or something. Or if Anti Oso moved to Australia in the AU and now he’s suddenly back on the blog, despite him moving. The blog isn’t necessarily canon - but feel free to ask what is and isn’t. 

Are there any other posts you think are important?

I think each post provides just a little more insight on the lives and personalities of the antis. My Tumblr blog was started in 2017 and has lots of early comics and stories you can scroll through (since this was originally an Anti Kara ask blog). There are some things that are even too old to have been posted on my Twitter. 

If you don’t want to spend a thousand years scrolling, you can see most of my artwork without all the annoying text posts on DeviantArt (yeah I know, we’re in the 20′s and I’m still using DA). I’ve even compiled a Journal entry on my page that compiles a list of questions people have asked me over the years regarding this AU. Check out my DA here.

[ichimacchus]

Oso: I mean, small creatures are way more vicious. It’s because their anger has less space to be bottled up in.

Choro: Ridiculous. Give me one example of this.

Ichi: Spiders.

Jyushi: Wasps.

Totty: Terriers.

Kara: Chibita.

[sevensmuzik]

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[destroysworldsxarc]

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         ——————    BLADE SLIDES INTO CHEST     far too easily and for moment,    she believes she’s dreaming   :   just a nightmare plaguing her mind,   brain instinctively going to tighten her grip upon the girl laying beside her.    but there is no feel of body pressed to chest,    all there is is pain and the sensation of blood upon skin.    tattered breath leaves her lips,    coughs falling from tongue as blood fills her mouth,   threatening to suffocate and choke the blonde.    blue eyes glaze over as hands go to her new wound,   sword still embedded within her,       ❛     o-octavia ...     ❜    name is spoken through thick crimson as she falls to her knees,   ever so aware of the eyes watching her,   the screams that beg for blodreina to end her quickly,   but death does not come quickly,    even if she wishes for it.  eyes flutter to the dark haired girl,    who’s distance from her was notable.    she’d kept the sword in for a reason,   to slow down the blood flow probably   -   something clarke had taught her.    was it an attempt to save her life,    or a vicious swipe to make her suffer longer  ?   either way,   bloody fingers curl around the blade,    the razor edge cutting into her palms as she pulls it from her body,    allowing it to clatter to the floor.     and even though death took hold of clarke’s hand,    she couldn’t help but smile up at the girl under the floor,    ❛      i’m proud of you.    ❜     she whispers through the pain,   the gasps of air that would never fill her lungs.    the shadow that comes closer brought comfort to her weakening figure,    forehead leaning against the younger blake’s   :    it was them against the world   -    when did it change to them against each other   ?   one of them had to win,    ❛   mebi oso na hit choda op nodotaim, oktievia kom wonkru.       ❜

                               stab clarke   /    accepting    /   @xnctafraid​

[objectivesubjectivity]

My Top 50 Songs of 2020*

*not necessarily from 2020

Four years ago, I came up with a new kind of “best of” list: a list of 50 songs that, this past year, surprised me, captivated me, or reminded me why I liked them so much in the first place.

This year may be the first where current songs eclipse the number of by-gone tracks. When the pandemic hit, one of the first things I did was order some new albums from Amoeba Records. I spend a pretty penny at Music Millennium and on Bandcamp Fridays. I bought Matt Pryor cds *directly* from Matt Pryor. In other words, I purchased and listened to a lot of new music this year.

And having spent so many years digging through bargain bins and discount websites, unearthing gems buried in $1 CDs, I found a renewed sense of comfort in the exhilaration of hearing a brand new album, combing through liner notes and analyzing lyrics, picking my favorite tracks and subjectively ranking its greatness. It was a pastime I didn’t know I particularly missed but am certainly glad I rediscovered.

Who knows what next year will bring. I hope to get back to blogging at some point (fatherhood eats up tons of time in the best of ways) and maybe that process will yield a wider berth of years for this yearly “best of” list. But for this strange, awful, inspiring, infuriating, redefining, devastating, and, hopefully, unique year, it makes sense that the majority of these tracks were shared in this moment.

I hope you enjoy/need/feel/rock out to them as much as I did this year.

Songs are roughly sequenced and not by any ranking.

99 in October - The Rad Trade

ooh la la (feat. Greg Nice & DJ Premier) - Run the Jewels

Fire - Waxahatchee

Venice Bitch - Lana Del Rey

Youth Decay - Sleater-Kinney

bury a friend - Billie Eilish

Last You Heard of Me - Joyce Manor

J.A.R. (Jason Andrew Relva) - Green Day

Miracle - Sparta

Where is Our Love Song (feat. Gary Clark Jr.) - Stevie Wonder

Express Yourself - N.W.A.

Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin

She - Laura Mvula

City on the Hill - Desaparecidos

Be Afraid - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Less Than - Nine Inch Nails

Are We Alright Again - Eels

Slide (feat. Frank Ocean & Migos) - Calvin Harris

The New Auld Lang Syne - Less Than Jake

Fantasy Baseball at the End of the World - John K. Samson

This Forgotten Town - The Jayhawks

Phenom - Thao & The Get Down Stay Down

Timebomb - Chumbawamba

No Control - Brand New

impossible game - Oso Oso

Stay up Late - Talking Heads

Virile - Moses Sumney

Mariana Trench - Bright Eyes

Last Supper - D Smoke

Shapeshifter - Hum

Harmony Hall - Vampire Weekend

Vicious Love - New Found Glory

Time (feat. Ariana Grande) - Childish Gambino

Gentle - Disq

Graceland Too - Phoebe Bridgers

Big Sound - I’m Glad It’s You

Doin’ Fine - No Pressure

Gravity - …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

Dyers Eve - Metallica

DIET_ - Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats

Dotted Line - Pinegrove

Winter Western - Local H

Fear of Death - Tim Heidecker

We’re Sharing the Same Dream Tonight - Ultimate Facebook

betty - Taylor Swift

Ghosts - Bruce Springsteen

Levitating - Dua Lipa

Self-Destruction (As a Sensible Career Choice) - Spanish Love Songs

Drumset - Fiona Apple

Murder Most Foul - Bob Dylan

[steklir]

Clarke should have come to Scotland. Halloween originated here and concepts like 'trick or treating' are actually called 'guising' in our wee country. No tricks either! Children have to do a 'party piece' in order to get their reward. Mine was almost always a really shit joke. www(.)historic-uk(.)com/CultureUK/Halloween-in-Scotland/

Ooh, I didn’t know that about Scotland—I’m genuinely fascinated, especially since one theme I regret not being able to include in mwtw was the Celtic festival of Samhain (i.e. the precursor of Halloween). I’d already published the halloween chapter when I learned about it (and subsequently got a little research-obsessed, haha) but I would have love to have that limited-POV contrast, Clarke thinking the UK’s behind when it comes to Halloween when it’s really the opposite. It also would have led into some fun May Queen analogies for Clarke, possibly even the genesis of Lexa’s nickname for her. Sigh! 

Actually, just remembered I went as far as to re-write part of the halloween chapter but ended up abandoning it because it would have required too many changes. Part of it is below—maybe one day I’ll do a real re-working of the fic…

There’s a rustling in the crowd and the center section of girls moves aside. Clarke scans for the familiar brown uniform and red cloak of Heda but what appears on stage is a shock, even having seen the girl in cotton-candy pink pajama bottoms and glasses a couple of weeks ago.

She’s Boudica.

She’s fucking Boudica.

Her hair is in dozens of braids, war paint on her cheeks, tattoos along her naked arms, and she’s wearing a sleeveless leather tunic and fur-trimmed cape and gold torque necklace and there’s a belt that cinches it all together and fuck she’s fucking Boudica.

Clarke’s pretty sure she’s never given a second thought to the aesthetic attractiveness of Celtic warrior queens until this exact instant and she’s even more sure this is the beginning of a lifelong kink for leather. Fuck.

Fuck.

What’s worse is that nothing about the Head Girl looks out of place. It’s like she’s not even dressed up, like she was born to wield this raw, vicious power. Like she’s finally donned her true skin.

“I was unaware that I would be called upon to say anything tonight,” Heda starts and the entire school falls shock-still. The Headmistress looks equally shaken, no doubt imagining her star pupil would be in her steadfast uniform and clean face. “But if I must say words this All Hallow’s Eve, let them be these.”

“Since the Celtic festival of Samhain and likely even further back into Britain’s prehistory, this evening has held a sacred significance, with all its macabre, liminal mythos. With the sinking of the sun, we don’t just usher in the darkest half of the year: we celebrate it.”

A pin could drop and they’d all go deaf.

The Head Girl’s eyes blaze as she lets her words settle and then sweeps them right back up in her tempest. “But our celebration isn’t for the demons and fairies, for the encroaching nights or the cold mounting its bitter war march. Nor is it a celebration of death, as many might believe.”

Clarke feels her blood turn to ice as Heda catches her eye for the briefest of moments; a shiver rockets up her spine and then down into her fingers and toes.  

“Tonight, we celebrate our certain victory over the looming darkness. We celebrate life, we celebrate green sprouts and newborn animals sure to emerge in the Maytime sun. We celebrate because the light always returns.”

“Oso gonplei nou ste oden!” She raises her fist in the air and translates louder and with even more power behind every syllable. The bronze bracelet around her bicep flashes under the florescent lights. “Our fight isn’t over!”

She’s the lit match and they all explode into fireworks; the resounding cheer shakes the chandelier, rivets of luminance dancing over Heda’s face as she stands over her troops, arms behind her back and chin as high as the sky.

After a few moments, she finally moves to quiet their whooping and they calm down quickly, although it does take a several seconds. Out of the corner of her eye, Dr. Peters has joined in the ruckus with a few slow claps of his own, as have several other teachers.  

The Head Girl finishes with the usual school valediction once they’re silent again. “Ai na gon raun gon chit ai wich in!”

“Ai ste yuj!” the school hollers back.

Clarke fails to assert her own strength.