#packbond au

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Realizing This Crossover Never Made It To The Borrower Tag [+ Lore Drop]

So I'm a goof and forgot to post my Slay The Princess AU into the Borrower tags as well so haha. Lemme fix that -

Main Post & Fic Here

Story & designs by me,

art commissioned from @feraljayce

(I prefer reblogs on this one!)

Further Worldbuilding stuff - Translation of STP into Borrower format

For those curious about the GT front of things so it's not just a repost, getting into those details here:

There are four types of Borrower species within this world: Traditional Domestic, Traditional Wild, Domestic Fae, & Wild Fae

Domestic Borrowers:

House-Dwelling Borrowers who live in the walls/under floorboards

"Borrow" household goods & lost objects to survive

Often use artificial tools to climb and navigate.

May live in groups, but many are singular family units or alone

Are traditionally considered "pests" and forced out of homes

These are closest to Mary Norton's / cannon Borrower taxonomy

Domestic Fae follow many of the same tenants as Traditional Domestic. Differences being:

Possession of artificial magic (conjuring manmade objects, cooking, metal etc)

Elven/spaded ear tips, but no tail

Are the only Borrower species considered "good luck"

Often captured to be sold as pets or other companionship to humans

Wild Borrowers:

Prefer living out in the woods to gather natural resources away from humans.

Use artificial tools to hunt & gather. Often live in groups if able.

May opportunistically packbond with local fauna

Live in abandoned burrows primarily, but will also take hollows, nests, and most other shelters if available.

Do possess unusual humanoid traits except for slightly sharper teeth & nails designed for climbing.

Wild Fae:

The most feral of Borrower species, and the most mistreated by humanity

Direct association with The Wild (goddess of the natural cycle) & The Network (the Wild's domain & the Fae/Borrowers' Underworld)

Possess Elven/spaded ears and a variety of different tails based on genetics (Ex: Thorn & Witch are of Feline roots)

Often have more "feral" facial features like different noses, slit pupils, etc which are either permanent or alternate with more human apperance (ex: Thorn)

Also use tools like weapons & gear, but sparingly/as a backup. Their teeth & clawed hands usually do most of the work of fighting & climbing

Live in small colonies in underground burrows, where each member has a specific chamber. Similar to a Warren. You'll rarely see them alone

Some have digitigrade legs to walk upright & all fours with ease (dominant trait)

Magic is naturally derived, and takes the form of Medic or Mercenary. Medics have to "charge" their magic by doing a two finger pulse check to summon necessary materials for the patient.

Wild Fae do not Borrow - they hunt & aggressively scavenge objects. They work in packs, which may include Chimeras (their designated packbond species) if going for larger or riskier prey.

All Fae worldbuilding stuff is my own; Wild Borrowers are semi-cannon, and domestic variations are cannonical to Mary Norton. The Wild Fae are semi-inspired by The Littles, which are typically what fanmade Borrowers most resemble.

(Yes, I happily accept questions about this AU! As a warning it does get a bit dark in places, but happy to discuss both the nitty gritty and the soft cuddly stuff.)

[paxdracona]

More self-indulgent brainworms~

Wolf shifter TG86-AU in which no one has seen Mav shift and Goose is saying NOTHING.

It's after hop 31 and they survived although Goose is worse for wear. The 86 group have formed a makeshift but very tightknit packbond so when they stumble upon Mav being harassed by some pushy randos Shit Hits The Fan.

They form a snarly, bulky circle around Mav (who is uncharacteristically cooperative) but the randos outnumber them and manage to separate Mav from them in the split second it takes for Hollywood to wince away from a mean bite.

It's what leads into Mav's hand being forced and suddenly where had been their bulky but small friend, there suddenly is the MOST FUCKOFF MASSIVE WOLF any of them have ever seen. He towers over Slider's bigger than average form, even. It doesn't take long for the fight to end after that, everyone too bewildered to really regroup.

Idk I'm endlessly amused by the smallest of the group having the absolutely biggest shift form of them all 😌 to make it all the more funny to me, Mav has a love-hate relationship with his wolf form and shifts only when absolutely necessary

[blorb-el]

Psssst does the au superbat fic exist bc I waaaaaaaaant it

I want it too 😭 tragically it only exists in about........4.5k scattered scenes which I try to poke at in between working on my main project rn!

misc worldbuilding scraps that are currently rotating on the back burner:

(omegaverse) human instinct relies on scent > hearing > taste > sight to find compatible partners, kryptonian instincts lean on sight > hearing > scent > taste, hence the mating markings

omegaverse humans have a much higher degree of face blindness than we normal humans do lmao

helps clark pass, the more he pulls his scent back the more it fades away, clark kent smells so dull/insignificant/mild that it seems like he's got a medical condition (hypomyrodia). jonathan kent had this. when jonathan and martha found bby kal, he was scared and tried to match scents to the two humans who found him, which caused his kryptonian scent to quickly fade. a hypomyrodic pup would probably face high abandonment rates and low adoption rates, so it was probably a relief that two willing parents brought the pup in

kryptonians all pretty much exist along a relatively smooth spectrum of sexual characteristics and can transition somewhat like clownfish if there's a hormonal imbalance in their community. having zero (0) other kryptonians around does things to clark before he grows the fortress and is able to synthesize hormone stabilizers

humans meanwhile have ten major sexes because betas can be true beta, alpha-leaning, or omega-leaning depending on their recessive genes

poison ivy is x100 more horrifying in any omegaverse world. she only manages to zop clark though bc the pollen is enchanted. however it's enchanted to induce primal alpha hindbrain, which means something very different to lone kryptonians than packbonded humans

it would have been the norm on krypton to have one's facial markings out. kryptonians would pull them back if they were sick, or perhaps terrified... primal hindbrain clark looking around and seeing nothing but non-glowing faces, and it coming across as everyone around him fucking terrified of him

for the first few months of their acquaintance clark is like. im not sure what gender batman is and at this point i'm not sure its ok to ask (he can smell past the concealing patches to bruce's strong omega scent but the patches could also be doubling as, like, the equivalent of binders, could be that batman's gender is null, but he mixes in diluted alpha cologne, but that could just be for concealment/intimidation....???)

sun-powered kryptonians have a strong, distinctively alien but somewhat alpha-smelling scent (when they're not pulling it back) but barely leave any on people they try to scent with, and scents barely stick to them. when clark politely explains this to bb dickie hes just like well i guess ill just have to scent you for longer! and clark goes 🥺

at this early point in the timeline barry is the only known omega superhero so the tabloids are huge into superflash

anyway all that's just kind of fluff/details... the core theme i've been rotating around is overcoming real and genuine barriers to intimacy. the loneliness of knowing you're a square peg in a world of round holes, the necessary compromises of sanding away your corners, the joy of meeting someone who will stretch to meet you where you are. there's a fair few excellent fics of bruce uncomfortable in an omega's role and body, i want to come at it from a perspective where a xenomegaverse clark has to define what gender means to him, in the heightened roles of the omegaverse. we are looking also at layers of passing. when parts of your closet become your armor that protects but encumbers you, and other parts become your exoskeleton, which grow into who you are. we are looking at that comic about the orchid that has the pattern on it meant to appeal to an extinct species of bee. we are looking at compromise made of love and compromise made of fear. and we are looking at tentacles baby.................

[sp0o0kylights]

Idk if you're still taking submissions from the WIP game, but if so, I would definitely be interested in a snippet for 20.

20! This is Hungry, the main werewolf AU I have. Outside of my big fics (in terms of word length--Cults and Illustrated) I have the most snippets for Hungry, but its so all over the place lol.

This is not A/B/O, this is a werewolf verse similar to Patricia Briggs/Ilona Andrews type of werewolves. As with the others, it may get a LOT of the editing axe lol.

Snippet:

Steve woke with a groan, feeling like he’d been hit by a car.

Again. 

“Do I want to know what happened?” He muttered, though it was mostly to his own wolf, as the details of the earlier morning slowly filtered through his memories.  

Like many werewolves, his wolf was a part of him, but often operated almost like it was a purely separate being. 

This was due to the drastic differences between wolf and human lives, with the human portion having more problems adjusting to their combined form than the blunt way wolves did. It let werewolves feel like they could “talk” to their other half, though the actual magic was far more complex than that.

Steve didn’t particularly care for complexities and so, just went with the basic explanation of things. 

It suited him and his wolf just fine. 

Eddie was passed next to him, head pillowed on Steve's chest, face tucked into his neck. A glance showed Jonathan was blinking awake behind Eddie, curled up into a tight ball the same way he always slept. 

This meant Steve got to watch the sheer joy that was Eddie Munson’s curls tickling Jonathan Byers’ nose, the latter sneezing himself into full awareness. 

“Shut up Steve.” He grumbled when he finally stopped, Steve desperately trying to silence his snickering so that they didn’t wake Eddie. 

::I’d tell you to make me, Byer’s, but I don’t need to give Eddie ideas.:: Steve said it over the packbond between them, making the conversation both private and silent, so as to not wake their sleeping member. 

He waggled his eyebrows though, just to see the face it made Jonathan make. 

(He got an amazing eye roll in response, the both of them pretending Jonathan wasn’t trying to hide a smile. )

He studied their newest member while for a while, chewing absently on his lower lip as he did so, and Steve let him take his time.

Wasn't in the mood to rush things, after the close call they'd had back in the kitchen.

:: I like him.:: Jonathan said finally, sounding quiet even when he talked in a way that didn’t involve his voice at all. ::I don’t know what Hop said to him or why, but from what I’ve seen, he’s well suited to being our Second.:: 

Second as in, the official Second in Command of the Pack, as in Nancy’s replacement, something Steve agreed wholeheartedly with. 

Nancy tried, bless her. She did. Didn’t do a bad job either, it was just that….

Steve thought of how pinched her face got when all six children sprung one of their hair brained  schemes on the Pack, how she made strangling motions at Mike’s back when she thought no one could see her. 

It was hilarious, and meant in good fun, but it also was a reminder that when it came to wrangling all their younger members, Eddie was far superior both in ability to direct and lead them. 

(Bonus, they actually cared about Eddie’s approval and opinion.)

[steddieficfind]

I am looking for a fic that I'm pretty sure was on tumblr but may have been on ao3? It was a supernatural beings au where everyone thought Steve was the token human except he was actually a shapeshifter, who I think were extremely distrusted. The group sort of invades his house so he can't shift into a less human form and something makes it seem like they don't care for him anymore? His parents come home and kick everyone out to help him get healthy again (I think part of him shifting was he couldn't eat properly?) because he was basically dying from packbond rejection and being unable to shift. It was probably no later than February of this year but probably last November maybe? Thank you (and your followers) for help!

Request 495! Send us an ask if you recognize this fic!

[leethepiper]

BNHA/MHA Fic Recs

Lessons Learned

Rather than the police station, Katsuki's friends bring him to a hospital after rescuing him from the villains. His wounds were minor, but it didn't make having them treated any less important. As it would so happen, Best Jeanist was also brought to this hospital after the attack. Sometimes, small choices have a big impact on how a story plays out. --------------- Aka: Best Jeanist Acquires A Son. Featuring: Serious talks regarding abuse and emotional scars, one adult finally stepping the hell up and trying to help Katsuki, me going off about the sports festival because I'm still not over it, pro-heros having a group chat, and Katsuki finally getting a chance to learn how to be good.

throw me a goddamn rope - just enough to hang myself with

Shouta’s plan had been ill-defined and desperate from the start, but he figures the important shit boiled down to, “Change as little as possible, make sure Midoriya doesn’t get himself killed, and stock up on lychee jelly pouches because that flavor got discontinued three years from now.” Keeping it simple’s always better, and he’s normally good at improvising.

Somewhere along the way, he must’ve fucked up since now he has:

A quirkless problem child hanging off of his every word

His best friend going through a sexuality crisis thanks to said problem child’s mom

His other best friend clinging to him like a security blanket

Some two-bit mob boss threatening him with bouquets of daffodils

To wring the number one hero’s fucking neck for not telling him anything useful before sending him decades into the past

All he did was walk Izuku Midoriya home. It wasn’t meant to turn into whatever mess this is.

landscape after cruelty

“Bakugo, you need to update your costume.” Kirishima said, “There’s this one dude in the support class- he’s got a literal waiting list, that’s how good he is- but he did my new upgrade."

“Yeah,” Bakugo sighs and leans back on his hands, staring at the bracer. “I know. I’ll go,” his mouth twists a little. “I’ll go tomorrow. This is just- this is my design you know?” he’s not explaining himself very well, and refuses to look at Kirishima.

“It can be hard to give up your first hero design, and you did a great job,” Kirishima said. “You definitely had the best one out of all of us when we first got our costumes."

Bakugo hunched his shoulders. “I didn’t design it,” he grumbled.

Let's Reach the Horizon

After defeating All for One, all Izumi Midoriya wants are some holidays.

Then she gets kidnapped by aliens right after.

Well, at least her alien cat cellmate is nice.

It Takes a Child to Teach a Village

Life doesn't always go the way you want it to. Sometimes it just throws you in a garbage can and lights the garbage can on fire and laughs as you scream in agony. And all you can do is tell yourself that it'll be okay. That you'll be okay. And sometimes you're right and you wake up the next morning to a wonderful day full of sunshine and rainbows and singing birds and you start living life in a damn Disney movie.

Other times you're wrong. The cycle just continues. Maybe Life adds lighter fluid next time. Or fills the bottom of the can with dead fish. And it's up to you to get up off your sorry ass and do something to fix your life because it is clear that you're basically alone. When there's no hero coming to save you, you're forced to save yourself. Be your own hero.

Izuku decides the best way to be a hero is to be a teacher.

Packbonding with a Predator | MHA alien AU

[NO MHA KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED]

Humans- The primitive, savage beasts that poachers across the universe were dying (quite literally) to get their claws on. The no contact order placed on their deathworld, Earth, was supposed to ensure that none would ever pass the fringes of their solar system. They hadn't reached deep-space travel (and probably never would), so the Hyperspace Public Safety Commission was fairly certain that their unimaginable strength and bloodthirsty ways were no threat to the universe at large.

So imagine H'zashi's surprise when he and his bondmate, Shouta, were placed in a cell with one after being captured by intergalactically wanted poachers. He just hoped his flock would get a funeral.

And yet how, even though everyone knew humans were unintelligent and vicious, could the purple furred human speak Common? Even more surprising were its first words.

"No fight?"

same faces.

Midoriya is accidentally sent back in time to the entrance exam by a villain attack. He decides to take advantage of the situation and fix the things that went horribly wrong himself.

(this is a standalone teaser for now; I'll probably come back to it at some point but I wrote this with the intention of showing off a snippet, not the first part of a series)

Things aren't as bad as they seem (they are usually worse)

Giyuu can feel the tugging of his heartstrings and realises, with the briefest flash of horror, that he got attached to Class 1-A.

[themarginalthinker]

@hypocriticaltypwriter *laughs manically as we slide into your dashboard*

Since you asked, who are we to deny?

This is all co-created with my writing and irl partner @berd-alert.

So, this is a collection of headcanons that, broadly, apply to just about anything we write within the Lost Boy's universe, but also some of it spills out into other vampire fiction we write, and some of it is SPECIFICALLY to do with our planned longfic You Can't Catch Me (and Make Me a Man), YCCM for short, which is in production right now and will be posted when it's closer to completion.

If you have any specific questions about THAT, feel free to ask or look through the, admittedly, small tag we have for it.

But! Here we go! Some vamp headcanons that we use as our baseline worldbuilding!

-Vampire bones opalize as they age! This extends to the blood, and by the time a vampire is about a hundred or so, their blood can appear white when spilled! Live long enough, and their teeth will flash rainbow iridescence.

-Vampire mate for life! We played with the idea of soulmates for a while, because we don't generally Vibe with the 'bound by fate, unable to fight it, you just Have to be with this other person, no choice' that most soulmate aus tend to have incidentally, but we found a little work around.

Vampires mate for life, but who they end up with is a bit of a range. There will be people a vampire will have Resonance with, people they just click with, drift compatible if you will, and they can 'date' around, but...once one is chosen, that's It. That is the mate for the rest of their unlives. It IS entirely possible that if a mate dies, the remaining of the pair COULD find another...but it would take hundreds of years to make enough mental distance to allow that to happen.

To give something of an example from our own story: David and Paul had Resonance, but so did Paul and Marko - Paul chose Marko, because they had it more. David and Star had Resonance, but so did David and Michael, and David chose Michael.

-Clans! You were given the other two vampire social groups in the previous post, but there is technically a third!

Clans are a group of vampires that are in no way related - don't share a sire, aren't born of another vampire in that group, literally just a collection of people living and working together. Clans are...the largest, but most unstable of any vampire social unit, unbound by packbond or blood. They can hold pretty big territories, but that power tends to be tenuous and prone to collapse and scattering. Occasionally you get a matepair gathering nomads and singletons to try and form something like an adopted pack, but they don't tend to stick together nearly as long as an actual pack or coven. This doesn't mean that clans are inherently violent or anything, it just means it's a much more open and loose, but less secure social arrangement for all involved.

-Nomads: singleton or matepair vampires who hold no territory and wander instead. (Fun fact, Alan Frog almost ends up like this in our offshoot story Flight Feathers because of Reasons ;) )

Magic and vampiric Banes/Boons

This gets its own little section because it's a little..long.

Banes/Boons: Just like in Twilight (yes! I know! I thought SOME of the vampire worldbuilding was a little cool! SMeyer is still,,..sus tho for a number of reasons) vampires all have a special little ability they get when they turn! A boon. Sometimes it can even manifest in their fledglinghood, but usually it takes fully turning for it to appear.

And just like getting a special ability, they also get a weakness that's particularly bad. A bane.

David: Boon - inducing hallucinations, false visions and even some tactile sensation (ie, making them feel heat, wind, the crawling of insect feet when it's not real). Bane - he is REALLY sensitive to sunlight. The others would take a few minutes of blistering and smoking to get to burning in the light, but David IMMEDIATLY goes up in flames. He can't even take sunsets/sunrises. It's bad.

Dwayne: Boon - animal communication/command. He can make animals do whatever he wants, and understand their thoughts and intentions. Bane - arithmomania. The old vampire folklore compulsion to count large groups of small items, like bowls of sesame or poppy seeds, beans, beads, that kinds of thing.

Paul: Boon - mist transformation (also called incorporeality or 'vaporous transmogrification' if you wanna be fancy). Bane - affected by holy/blessed/consecrated objects and ground. Now, this one can apply to a number of things, not JUST Christian/Catholic religion. It depends wholey on the intent of the blessing and object. If someone were to sincerely cast a pentagram for healing and life, Paul would still be hurt by touching or being around it.

Marko: Boon - mockingbird/doppleganger. Marko has this neat little ability where as long as he's heard it enough, he can mimic a person's exact voice and certain sounds, and cast a false image of himself into reality. Like a mirror illusion. (Paul and Marko are literally 'smoke and mirrors' lol.) So don't go wandering out into a dark woods at night if you THINK you hear a baby crying, or your friend crying for help, especially if you don't KNOW it's them. Bane - He's affected the most by herbal wards against vampiric energy, ie, wild rose, garlic blossom, mountain ash, and such.

Michael: Bane - extra sensitivity to running water. The others can at least stand to take a shower, but Michael can barely even do that. He can't swim in a river, or the ocean. Full body burns as if he's stepped into the sun. Now, we go more into detail with this in the story, but Michael's Boon is a little odd, and makes more sense in the narrative. Memory visions. If he spends enough time around you, he will eventually start getting visions of your memories.

Also, as something else to look over as background for how the world works, here is a post detailing magic and what...vampires even are. Short answer: they're a kind of fae. The old kind. Spooky, dangerous, scary, powerful. It goes more into detail than needs be here.

But uh. Yeah. Headcanons for the worldbuilding of the world the Lost Boys inhabit. There's a lot more, but that ties a bit more firmly into the story of You Can't Cath Me. Again, any questions you might have, feel free to ask us! You can also find more little tidbits collected under my Lost Boys Masterlist in my pinned blog post.

Thanks for showing interest! We adore talking about this stuff. :>

[fandom-puzzle-peaces]

ninjago au

okay so I got a couple of yeses....yes’s? however that’s spelled, on my last post so I guess I shall share my au

word of warning, I have been working on this for the past week so there is a lot. To the point that I will not be able to put everything in this one post

so.....yeah

anyways I will put everything under read and I hope ya’ll like it

so I call this au the PackBond AU. I wanted a sort of metaphysical bond type of thing going on; not like a soulmate bond although that is a thing in this au its just not exactly a fate kind of thing. So I wanted that but I also wanted animal features, so we also have spirit animal type things going on as well. This is also a mix of both show and movie. Okay that’s enough of the big details, lets get into the little details

So everyone at around 4-5 years of age receive the animal features of their spirit animal, and said animals could be normal animals like cats n dogs, or mythical like phoenixes n dragons.

so the spirit animals the ninja have are:

kai - phoenix

nya - not sure yet

cole - not sure yet

jay - thunderbird

zane - falcon

lloyd - fox/kitsune

as you can see I dunno what to make cole or nya, if ya’ll got any suggestions for them I’m all ears. And yes, I’m not making Lloyd a dragon. I know that he’s part dragon and stuff, but I personally think a fox fits him better. That and I wanted literal fluff, and a fox is nothing but fluff.(in case its not obvious lloyd is my fave)

Moving on, everyone gets tails, ears, feathers, etc. and life continues on as usual just with some animal instinct stuff. No wings or extra fur where there shouldn’t be.

Alright that’s all the physical changes, lets move to metaphysical. So bonds are a well known thing in this au, with the most popular one being the soulmate bond cause who doesn’t true love? Everyones got a couple of bonds with other people that vary in strength and importance. The types of bonds in this au are:

soulmate bond (aka marriage bond)

pack bond

friend bond

family bond

best friend bond

there will probably be more the further along I go with this, but these are what I have so far. So the bonds are these literal links between people’s souls to another. Bonds cannot be seen, but they are felt. It is a link forged between two people that both sides have consented to. They can be broken either intentionally or unintentionally and the deeper the bond the more it hurts. Although if its a case of time and distance wearing down the bond, then its more like it fades away or going into a kind of hibernation than breaking.

Now, how a bond is made exactly is a person shares a piece of their soul with the other party. And by sharing I mean they expose a deeper part of themselves to the other, not a literal cutting off a part of their soul and giving it to the other for them to keep. It can be done, but it is heavily frowned upon and unhealthy. Anyways, the experience is similar to having a deep conversation with another person and sharing something with them you don’t normally tell anyone else. And if the other person likes what they feel from this other person’s soul they will share something deeper of themselves in turn and the bond is formed.

Of course, the more of a person’s soul is shared the deeper the bond is. A bond can be strengthened over time like any normal relationship, but it is possible to jump straight to a very strong and deep Bond by sharing more of your soul from the get go. It is rare, but possible.

Now we get into what a couple of the bonds I mentioned above are in more depth. In other words, the fun part.

So the bonds I’m gonna be explaining are the soulmate bond and the pack bond since those are the ones I’ve worked on the most. The soulmate bond is a lot like your generic soulmate au bond in that its a bond two people share from birth that marks each other as their one true love. The difference in my au is that it is not something formed from birth. It is a bond formed between two people who have been together for awhile and they decided they wanted to be together forever. It is why it is also known as the marriage bond since couples who want to get married or are already married will form this bond with their s/o. It is a very deep bond of love and trust where both parties basically share the rest of their soul to the other. Why it is called the soulmate bond is because young couples would try and form this bond with their s/o early in their relationship to sort of see if they are compatible for life. If they liked what they felt/saw from the other’s soul then they would form the bond and declare themselves soulmates because of course they just knew that early on they were meant for each other. 

Now onto the bond this au is named after. The pack bond! Pack bonds are rare, and I mean very. Like there are only a handful in existence rare. The reason for this is because it is a deep bond formed between 3 or more people who have each shared their souls with each and every member whose a part of the pack and have been accepted by each and every person in turn. 

In short, this bond is the ultimate of found families which is my jam. 

It takes full trust from everyone in the pack to be accepted and for the bond to form for everyone in it. While it takes everyone for the bond to form it does not mean it needs everyone for it to stay. Anyone can leave the pack at anytime and the bond between the remaining members will stay, its just the person leaving will have theirs severed. But it never happens cause why would you wanna leave that?

So the ninja have this bond and there is good fluffy goodness all around, and I’m gonna stop here cause this post is looooooooonnnnnnnggggg!

if anyone has anymore questions you are more than welcome to shoot me an ask

please ask away, this has been in my head for the past week n a half and it needs to be set freeeeeeeeeee!

also I only just barely scratched the surface for this aoiwhgiregherigheraaaaaaaaaaaaa

[bedrockbones]

Sbi Aliens human Tommy 👀

send me an au and i’ll give you 5+ headcanons about it ///not accepting

Idk if you meant this for flying saucer attack but I'm gonna assume it's just a random alien au sorry lmao

1. Ok so part of the reason humans evolved so fast is because of our tendancy to just. Eat Fucking Everything. Plants made themselves spicy for us not to eat them? Not only do we eat them, some people LIKE the spicy pain taste. Pufferfish are literally toxic? Guess what? Theres places where they are prepared specifically for you to safely consume. If we can eat it, we eat it. And if we cant we will keep trying until we can

That being said the first time they saw tommy drinking wilburs coffee rations they SCREAMED. Caffeine is toxic to humans!!! What in the galaxy was tommy thinking?!

That horror only grew when tommy explained that almost the entire earth regularly consumed caffeine in many different forms and many even actively pursue the product. They effectively banned tommy from consuming it further despite him insisting it's fine

2. Tommy steals from the others so oftenm not anything valuable just food and blankets and small things here and there. and for the first few years of them living together sbi allow this because tommy kind of heavily implies it's a "human instinct"

When they find out later that tommy was screwing with them just to use their shit they are so offended (though techno begrudgingly respects the hussel)

3. The human smile is...weird. it took Technoblade a while to get used to tommys baring his nubby fangs as a positive sign. (Though he'll never admit its kind of adorable. Like a piglet trying to look tough)

4. Something they all secretly love is Tommy's ability to adapt to their instincts and habits. Humans seem to be this blank slate for most instincts and senses. They dont even behave like their ape ancestors that much. But to SBIs surprise, this doesnt mean tommy is detached from their behaviors, he actually adapts to them faster than they even do for each other. Tommy let's phil "preen" his hair. Even mentions it feels nice. Tommy likes swimming with Wilbur and even tries to mimic his bubble blowing under the water. Tommy even let's techno drown him in his gold hoard and lays with him during his hibernation days. philzas theory of this has something to do with humans need for pack and community. its something so ingrained in a humans instinct it allows them to packbond and mimic practically any species behavior in the name of community

5. though SBI has learned a human’s pack bonding tendency is both a blessing and a curse in one. tommy can join in their instinct behaviors, yes. but he also has the terrible habit of taking any and all strays he comes across. he even puts techno’s pet hoarding to shame in only that tommy does not seem to care whatever animal he is adopting is hostile or not. there have been multiple occasions that tommy has smuggled in a alien beast twice his size that very much wants him dead. how he manages to do this without being caught is something that no one knows. they only find out by the bite marks and injuries (and on one memorable occasion, the need for anti-venom) that tommy starts gaining.

“kevin is my friend! you cant get rid of him!” tommy cries about the 2 ton hoglin he has somehow smuggled from technos home planet in the thirty minutes they had stopped by

“shroud wouldnt hurt a fly! ...well he would but thats just because he eats them! he wouldnt hurt me!” tommy says seconds before shroud requires them to make a hospital visit for tommy

[sp0o0kylights]

Werewolf AU wherein Jonathan was Expecting King Steve to be the Worlds Worst Alpha Wolf and got a Total Mom Instead

This is Werewolves not A/B/O (no a/b/o involved, think more like the paranormal romance smut that inspired Twilight. Two alphas and one Omega to a pack type of deal and its decided on dominance/other shit.) 

Hungry Verse Werewolf AU that takes place S2 and S3  before Eddie shows up. 

Jonathan's shy.

Has always been shy, and will likely remain shy, at least around large crowds of people. He's socially awkward, has never been good at making friends, doesn't really care too much about his clothes and is poor, so even if he wasn't shy, socializing wasn't likely to have gone in his favor anyway. 

He knows it takes a while for him to warm up to others. Nancy was something of a one off, the two of them brought together by his own admittedly shitty actions, his brother's disappearance and an interdimensional monster. 

He fully expects it to be different around Steve. 

Particularly since Jonathan, as their Pack’s of three’s most submissive werewolf, automatically gets the spot of Omega Wolf. Not that he isn’t suited for it, he’d be marked as Omega with his abilities regardless. 

It was a point of contention between himself and Lonnie for years.

Jonathan just-doesn’t see the use in posturing. 

Fighting.

 Acting like a fucking moron over dumb shit. 

What he did not expect was for Steve Harrington, Alpha Werewolf and jock douchebag, to try and mother him. 

"Byers, where the hell is your coat!? It's freezing out here!" Steve huffs one afternoon, appearing out of nowhere and making Jonathan jump. 

He'd been waiting outside the arcade, leaning against his clunker of a car for Will and friends to finish their last round of games. Had perhaps been waiting longer than he should have, just happy to let his little brother be a kid. 

“I-what-" Jonathan stumbles over his words before regaining ground and protesting, "I'm wearing a coat?"

Steve rakes his eyes over him, hands on his hips. "That is a jacket. It is absolutely not warm enough for you to hang around outside in." 

Jonathan's mouth pops open, words on his tongue but Steve's already turned around and trotted back to his car. 

He opens the hood and digs around for a minute, before making a pleased noise and returning, holding something victoriously in his hand. 

It's a medium weight hoodie with the zipper down the front, Hawkins Swim Team blazed across the back above a snarling tiger. 

Steve holds it out to him. 

Jonathan looks between him and it, before hesitantly reaching out to accept.  

The packbond hums happily with Steve's pleasure, a feeling totally alien to Nancy's own. Hers had always been about some answer he'd gotten right, or when he'd said something particularly clever or poetic, the pleased, happy feeling of a kiss on his cheek. 

Steve's…Jonathan almost can't pin down the exact feeling of Steve's. His mind supplies the images of warm maple syrup and a fuzzy blanket, then tries to combine the two.

Fails and leaves him confused. 

"Put that on over your jacket, should at least help you stay warm." Steve instructs, and Jonathan really, really wants to say no, that this is ridiculous, Will is coming out any minute, but-

He doesn't want to.

Does not want to look too hard as to why Steve is somehow harder to displease than Nancy is. 

Finds himself putting the stupid jacket on, refusing to look Steve in the face as he does so. 

Is very annoyed by the sheer happiness radiating off his Alpha (and maybe at the own blush rising up in his cheeks, the result of his embarrassment.) 

"Steeeeve!" 

That's Dustin, tearing out of the arcade. The pack of children follow him, with Mike and Will bringing up the rear. 

They chatter at Steve for a moment, before the group splits, the Dustin-Lucas-Max trio diving into Steve's car and the Mike-El-Will trio going into his. 

Steve claps a hand on his shoulder, saying "See you Byers!" 

Mike's nose crinkled up as Jonathan got into the driver's seat. 

"Why do you smell like Steve?" He whines. 

Which is the worst moment to realize that not only does he smell like Steve, but his wolf likes it. 

"Shut up Mike."

xXx

Steve Harrington has changed from the guy Jonathan punched out. 

Not completely. Jonathan still see’s glimpses of the forever cool, waspish King Steve coming through now and then. Those moments are few and far between though, particularly now that he led a Werewolf Pack, 

At their core, an Alpha Werewolf was a provider. 

Steve, it seemed, absolutely delights in doing just that. 

Nancy had already growled at him twice over for it and at first Jonathan hadn’t registered that’s what it was about. 

Thought Steve was back to courting Nancy and was gearing up his own discussion with his girlfriend about how they wanted to handle it-until Steve pulled the same shit with him. 

“I know you said you could make your own lunch but I had extras.” Steve says, handing a brown paper bag to Nancy one morning, apparently having been roped into driving Henderson to school. 

Jonathan’s schooled his face into a blank mask, letting his girlfriend handle this the way she wants too-and thus misses the second brown bag until it’s shoved in his face. 

“Um.” He says. 

It has his name on the side in Steve’s scrawl. There’s even a little smiley face in the middle of the O. 

“Uh.” He says again, startled, but Steve’s already got his back to them, throwing a wave over his shoulder. 

“Have a good one guys!” He calls, as he heads off to his own class. 

Entirely out of his depth, Jonathan turns to Nancy for help. 

She just stares at Steve’s retreating back, a look on her face that says she's deep in thought. 

“What did you get in yours?” She asks him later, at lunch, holding up her chocolate pudding. 

“Vanilla pudding.” He says, the only different part of his meal to hers.

He had to hand it to Harrington. The guy made a seriously wicked meal. 

“Hmm. Trade me?” She asks with a smile, holding up her pudding. 

Grinning, Jonathan does.

[mayfay]

(Throws this through your window like a rock)

Damn this good

So I personally lean towards dragging things out but it really depends on what scenes you like best, pre AFO life, life under AFO, and his subsequent downfall, or the Fallout. The power vaccume left behind the world needs to fill and the horrors he left behind not fading silently into the dark like he did. Of course you could do Both or have it as a possible sequel but that’s a lot so it really comes down to what you like best. Still gonna ramble about ideas though there is So Much (now with Basic Formatting Skills!)

So first off quick delve into TIFs quirk again cause I Can Not help myself. So we already established TIF probably has wonky physics and can take a hit cause of it right? Well I realized while writing that she technically? Has No vital organs. It’s all a projection of her quirk factor. If she gets stabbed she could simply reform over it, steal your knife, and happily skip away. Of course that’s probably *not* how it’s gonna go cause stabber? Gonna expect to do some damage. And that’s Belief! Belief that’s getting sent *straight* to her. Still, she doesn’t let much influence in through her connection so it’s not a Big deal, just annoying. Combined with the other methods discussed earlier means she’s hella durable though

Next up is stuff she can make! Cause that wallet you mentioned? Disappeared. Vanished once it left her sphere of influence. Why though? If it was just something she made it there’s no reason it wouldn’t last! Well, that’s if she used matter manipulation and Remade it. If she was just “playing pretend”? Then it would be just another projection of her quirk. Technically part of her body as much as her hands are but since she and others Believe it’s separate, it is. As she gets better control though? She could likely extend her sphere of influence or even section off parts to stay with her “creations” like her main body does. Only problem with that of course being that it would likely eat away at her sphere of influence, weakening her. But in exchange? I imagine it’s Much easier to “play pretend” than it is to reshape matter into a stable form of what you want and have it *work*. Of course just reshaping matter is probably less resource intensive for long term creations. The Best method though? The one that’s permanent and barely costs Anything power wise? Stealing. Walk by someone or a shelf and Whoop, sense what’s there with your sphere and use it to pull in what you want. From there? Slip it into a pocket or hide it inside Yourself where No One is looking and you’re home free (unless there’s an alarm but shhh). She could probably make a killing as a pickpocket until she finds someone shady enough they’re willing to forge a paper trail for cheap. Also she probably needs to list a basic body modification quirk for that stuff to avoid difficult questions and constant updates on height and whatnot.

Now! Pre-death AFO ideas!

So TIF? Isolated. Probably kept away from the public where she could reveal information. But AFO? Not dealing with That 24/7. Best solution? Keep the quirk factor but give her connections some slack so she can be stuck at the doctors place where he can get stuff done. Don’t want to leave her alone All the time though, AFO recognized that look in the doctors eyes would rather she not “disappear”. While there and annoying the doctor to hell and back? She can see Others. Other people, quirks, experiments, Nomu, Everything. And for a quirk that’s been isolated? One that’s Built to be social, has the concept of friendship Baked into the Core Of Their Being? She’s gonna packbond So Quickly. As for who’s there it depends on the AU and timeline. You can have plants, animals, quirks, ocs and mha characters, Anything. After all gotta have characters to have a story and the doctor needs parts for experiments and Nomu.

Now to revisit an earlier thing on the Power of Friendship cause AFO? Doesn’t have it. Like you said, devoid of friendship and all the things that come with it. Incompatible. Why though? AFO is Still human, despite how it may seem, so he still Has emotions (namely curiosity and ambition but still). Well, maybe not! Cause AFO has Outright Stated he wants to be a God (technically a Demon Lord but God’s more dramatic and in character). First problem with achieving godhood? Gotta make tough decisions. Kill, steal, don’t let them feel, etc. So? What if he had a way past all that, move past all those feelings that come up when he has to make sacrafices. A way to move beyond that guilt bubbling up every time he sees his brothers face. A quirk. One that allows him to modify his own emotions. Have to leave the curiosity and ambition there to stay functional but guilt? Pain? FRIENDSHIP? That was All dimmed/turned off Centuries ago. At this point he probably does even remember how to turn them Back On even if he wanted to. Just a fun way to explain the incompatibility and make this even more “AFO designing his own downfall” than it already was.

Now onto post-AFO!

AFO? Dead. Body fell apart as his quirks eroded and glitched out and was left brain dead or a pile of dust. But TIF? For there to be more story TIF has to Live. And for that her quirk factor needs to keep existing. No quirk factor=no processing=no energy/projection=death. A basic necessity of her quirk no matter who believes what. So who has it? Who has this self destructive quirk factor and how?

First and simplest option would be Hiro. If AFO had such an interest in TIF it makes sense to keep the original host for study. And when he started to have problems? Or when the doctor located those internal mutations and told AFO? TIF got shunted off onto Hiro so she would stay around and wouldn’t risk dieing due to complications in a different host.

Second option would be a Nomu. I mean that’s where all the clones are going and it’s the final goal of this whole operation. Makes sense to test that for any complications. Especially if they can use it to better control her. With AFO gone though? It’s Hers now. No one giving orders anymore! She’s a free quirk! And with a new body she has free rein over too! Unless of course the Nomu is high functioning. In which case it has its Own lingering personality to contend with. And the doctor? Well, he was never one for leaving an experiment without a failsafe, kinda a necessity in his line of work.

Third option is a character from MHA. Most likely Nedzu since the rat already has intelligence modifications and AFO might have him close when his body starts shutting down and he’s panicking for either a final study or cause he’s sadistic and Nedzu was a friend from TIFs time in the lab. Either way AFO has a character from MHA in the room and forces TIF onto them in a panic. And now it’s Their problem

Fourth idea is more an extension of the previous but instead of a canon character it’s either a crossover character or, my personal favorite, another oc. Could be a civilian, hostage, experiment, doesn’t matter. Same case as before, AFO pushed TIF onto someone and now they gotta get their stuff together and get out and find a way to keep from dieing of seizures. (May or may not just be an excuse for me to pick apart another quirk but shhhh)

Final and most morbid option is AFO himself. Cause AFO? Braindead. Dude’s not coming back without divine intervention or a long session with the doctor. But TIFs quirk factor? The thing she cares about? That’s stored in the Cells. Just gotta keep enough of them alive and she’s perfectly fine. Weather through a Petri dish or piloting AFOs corpse TIF is able to keep those cells alive by keeping them in her sphere of influence and Forcing them to be. Gives extra reason for others to be chasing her down but removes to need to find a way to keep the new host from going brain dead (though she might be able to use a similar method to do that. Get the host in her sphere of influence and “pretend” all that excess belief and emotion is getting fumed out and it Will be. Also a chance for immortality now that I think of it if she can will them younger, but that’s less important. Could explain why Nedzu’s still kicking around in canon when the average mouse would’ve died years ago though)

Now onto clones!

So a core part of a post-AFO story seems like it’d be running from the clones, so what could some of their intentions be?

Well it could be simple revenge. AFO made them because of Her after all. And if they gotta suffer She should as well.

My personal favorite’s that they’re inefficient when it comes to energy. Haven’t worked out how to micromanage it and aren’t producing as much thanks to cloning degradation. So the solution? Slurp up TIFs energy! She has Way to much, she can share just a Tiny bit right? They Totally won’t leave her as a husk with barely anything to function! Trust us~ and maybe some really Do just need to skim off the top. Take that excess hurting her host and they’ll be fine and everyone’s happy! But others? Oooh boy some of those guys are Starving. And they know Just where to find something.

A good one for the creep factor is they’re looking for a Mother. She’s their base, their genetic donor. If a quirk could have a mother She would be it. They just want someone to guide them. Teach them. Mentor them. Someone who Understands cause there is No One else who could like her. And if she doesn’t want to? She’s spent her whole life running away, holding herself first? Well, they can work on that. The Doctor taught them All About how to Break someone

Final idea is that AFO may be dead but his vision? All the little horrors he left behind? They’re still here. Still programmed to do what they have to without any input from the big man himself. And TIF? TIF has gone rogue. They just have to bring her back and make sure she Stays

And of course there’s more than enough clones to have any mix of these or more, but onto other ideas!

So the clones? Gotta eat. They need energy from belief and emotions and braindead Nomu aren’t gonna cut it without some very specific quirks that probably aren’t cutting it. After all, these are just the early iterations, the doctor didn’t expect to need something self sufficient for years (and maybe even then if they need to come back for upkeep that guarantees some loyalty and a failsafe). So how to get this energy? Well it depends on what kind they need and how they get it. Most probably feed on emotion and can get that by scaring others. A few likely got secondary methods of energy production thanks to quirks in their Nomu host (weather that be through food, passive production, or something else). But some? Some have to Feed. And they need a Lot. Draining people dry of their belief and emotions, leaving them permanently damaged. Possibly even directly draining off their quirk power. It might not be Great for their system, but their whole line of quirks aren’t exactly paragons of health. And the worst of them? The smartest? The newest iteration that had a Useful defect allowing it to drain energy through their connection? They leave husks in their wake. Drained people and Nomu alike, left with a festering connection that continues to supply the new clones rampage.

Now how would they track down TIF though? Some probably have secondary quirks to help but I imagine the clones spread out to avoid stepping on each others toes and to better avoid detection after the first couple rogue Nomu got killed (either by failsafes, hero’s, villains, or each other). Well, they all have the basic connection part of their quirk they need to survive, and TIF Definitely has Feelings about their existence. So they just gotta follow the yellow brick road! Follow the line and race the others to the prize (or block the others depending on motivation)! TIF can run but she certainly can’t hide

Also worth bringing up the Doctor! The grand bastard himself! The one man potentially more evil than AFO! No way in hell is he letting TIF out of his grasp. If he wasn’t left a husk, mauled by a Nomu, or killed by a contingency measure by AFO to prevent betrayal he’s gonna be mustering All his resources to get her back into the lab. Cause his life’s work? His magnum opus? The shining star of his career? The high end Nomu. And TIF is the key to it all.

Now, anywhere in the timeline the death of AFO leaves a power vacuum. The closer it is to canon the less that is but it will Always be an issue. Cause without AFO around? Everyone’s gonna want a piece of the cake. If it’s early in the timeline it’ll mainly be Yakuza and the remnants of freedom fighters, but if it’s later it’ll be the Paranormal Liberation Army, Overhaul, League, and any number of other homemade groups I’d love to go into. And the hero’s and commission are gonna be Scrambling. This kinda chaos hasn’t been seen since the first generations, and if they don’t get their act together some random group might start to fill AFOs shoes or another country might take the chance to “stabilize” them and get some hooks into their country. And what’s this? AFO left a gift? It’s Chaos?!

Cause the clones? Not the only thing AFO has been working on. He had his hands in every aspect of the underworld and a good portion of everything else. And with his death, the doctors disappearance or single minded focus on TIF, and the likely breakout happening in the lab with rogue clones. Everyone is gonna make a break for it. Rogue Nomu, escaped experiments, failsafes meant to act as MADs when AFO was fighting for his place as king, it’s a mess. And the hero’s are gonna be playing cleanup. Rounding up all the little beasties and handing them off to the commission or killing them if they prove too difficult. And when they get word of the clones? Strange monsters that suck people dry and disappear into the shadows? Possibly even get some info that one of them was the death of AFO? They’re gonna jump Right On That. Nedzu hasn’t had this much fun in years! Aizawa really wishes he had saved up some more PTO

My WIP fairy hates me. But like... in that homoerotic Nemesis sorta way, I swear.

Cease an desist, woman! (I scream into the void, knowing damn well she, being my own brain, SHAN'T.)

Cause NOW? Now I CAN NOT stop Pondering, with a Capitol P, the life of a Sentient Quirk. The trials and tribulations. The indignities and sufferings. Countless micro-aggression and out right dismissal of sentience. The reduction to the EXTENSION of another.

You are not a person.

You are JUST a Quirk.

An organ that "thinks" itself separate, in the way knees spasm when struck just so. The child you are attached to just needs to get better CONTROL of you. Your words and actions are actually THEIRS. You are simultaneously an unruly animal and strange adult, not allowed near other peoples children.

Why are you trying to follow this four year old into their school? Why are you SITTING out side a pre-school? Are you stalking that child?

You are a grown adult. Connected to a random Japanese child.

The child is expected to "control" you.

Punished if they do not.

No one is listen to EITHER of you, as you try to explain the situation. The child is upset, scared, and does not have the emotional maturity to understand why you are not to blame. All they can understand is that you appeared and everything became stressful and "bad". They started getting punished. Have to share their room now.

Do you even have rights? If you get hurt, get MAIMED, what will happen to you? Can you hold a job? Own land? Open a bank account? Fuck it! Can you have a RELATIONSHIP?

If you went out RIGHT NOW and punched a purse thief, would the FOUR YEAR OLD be arrested?

If the kid grows up, becomes a hero, and you do secretarial work... does his license cover you? If YOU wanted to become a Hero, would he be your hero partner? Could he technically sit in a corner and let you work?

If no one could TELL, over an internet connection, then surely that should prove SOMETHING? Right?

And! The question NO ONE ever seems to ask!

Could..... could you LEAVE? Do people have the right to force you back? If you don't WANT to be some kid's Quirk? You're sentient. If, unlike Dark Shadow, you are not PHYSICALLY connected, but tethered by distance?

Could. You. Leave?

Just "Allright, I'm out. The way you're all treating me is unacceptable. See ya never." And walk out the door? You'd be able to gain distance as the kid grew older. As long as you hid? You be homeless, without papers, but free.

A sentient Quirk means free will. Means you don't HAVE to do shit. It's like being born with a twin, not a slave. And that Twin does NOT have to put up with your bullshit. YOU are the one asking THEM to work with you, after all.

This? Of course, ALSO just ABSOLUTELY BEGS the question? What if that four year old grew up to be a BASTARD? Just... NO self reflection or empathy. Everything is everyone else's fault, always. And they want a NEW Quirk. One that won't question them.

So they sell theirs, buy a new one. Probably die off screen trying to throw it around.

What happens to you THEN? Pain, obviously. Like... massive, massive amounts of pain. You ARE a Quirk. You're being ripped out by your metaphorical roots. By the NERVE ENDINGS. But? Do you... for lack of a better word, "reset"?

Are you back infront of "your" person? Or do you stay, safely, where you are? Both would be fascinating, honestly. Because I imagine All for One? Does NOT get sentient quirks often. If at all.

They'd sooner kill themselves.

After all, if your choice is "kill yourself and your beloved twin" or "be ripped apart and watch them die horribly, then be used to go against everything you both stood for"? You weep and promise to make it fast.

Then you make it fast.

It's... really annoying, I'd imagine, for All for One. It's not necessarily that he WANTS a sentient Quirk. But they are INTERESTING. And he likes interesting.

He also likes owning things that can't leave. Ever.

So of course he'll poke and prod at the Quirk. It will inevitably be a nightmare, either way. Because EVERY Sentient Quirk has some degree of communication aspect to it. Just because the original holder never figured it out, doesn't mean HE can't.

And while your range may now be much, MUCH bigger? Because the fucker is strong as hell? How useful is that... if he can talk to you when ever HE feels like it? Day or night. 24/7.

And that's assuming you don't reset. God help you if you reset. Because THEN your STANDING infront of, most likely, pre-face-smash All for One. Who's looking at you like he just won a Mildly Interesting Prize and you would PREFER HE NOT. But what are you gonna do?

Walk out again?

You think THAT'S an option here?!

I mean... you can and do TRY. But, obviously not. So like? Fuck ™.

THEN the question becomes? Would YOU go to Tarturaus. Are you a hostage? Or an accomplice? You have the same level of power and authority as a cat, deliberately knocking pages of tables and cups to the floor, but... like? Oooooh~ oh yeah! THATS gonna slow him down! His empire crumbles beneath the sheer MIGHT of your petty inconveniences!

*trips the doctor again*

Fffffuck you.

[phoenixyfriend]

Commander Buir

Follow-up to this post. Not in any particular order, just spitballing ideas, with contributions from several friends on discord.

Like presumably it takes long enough for them all to meet up again that Anakin and Cody do, in fact, end up treating each other like family, just so I can have that good good "well, guess I'm Dad now" energy. Shmi isn't entirely sure what's going on but she's not a slave anymore and her kid seems to like this rando mando, so.

Anakin gets to have a mom and two dads, though one of the dads is arguably younger than him.

Also when they all meet up again and Cody explains the "General Skywalker got shrunk" thing, there are three reactions: (General) Obi-Wan: Oh, Anakin. Obi-Wan: [gestures to take him, ends up with an armful of clingy padatoddler] Anakin: You can't blame this on me, Obi. Obi-Wan, a little teary, because babies cause emotions: Of course I can, you absurd human being. ------ Rex: That's... my general. Anakin: I am, Captain. Rex: Cool cool cool I'm gonna go stand where I can't, uh, break you. Anakin: I'm not THAT fragile! ------ Ahsoka: [gasp] Skyguy is SKYKID! Anakin: Padawan, this is-- Ahsoka, grabbing him and cuddling: Oh my goodness you're adorable this is the best day ever. Anakin: This is humiliating, Snips, put me down. Ahsoka: Never.

Anakin hates being a toddler because of the lack of independence but Cody keeps picking him up when he's cranky and just holding him until he falls asleep and that's... nice.......

- The brain limitations aren't quite as bad as the situation with Sokanth and Ylliben in the other AU, but - Even if his brain is mostly adjusted he’s still got a tiny body with different needs that he’s not used to. Like, he needs to sleep more but he’s got more energy than usual when he’s awake and it’s all weird.

Cody carrying around toddler Anakin like "God you give me ulcers but you're adorable, you little shit."

Inconveniently tiny body aside, Anakin has a pretty great time in this au. His family are all together and safe and within reach. His wife isn't around, but toddler brain means he doesn't have the Romance Drive, so that's not as bad as it could be It could be significantly worse.

@atagotiak asked: Does Anakin get annoyed about being called cute? - To which I say, He bites the first few times but Shmi tells him that's Naughty so he stops. - Babies are cute so you packbond with them before they’re annoying, Anakin is cute as a self defense mechanism - He’s extra annoying so he needs to be extra cute

You know how you need to keep an eye on toddlers so they don't, like, fall down the stairs or put something toxic in their mouth? - They need to keep an eye on Anakin specifically so he doesn't rewire the ship they're in while they're in hyperspace. - He has less self control on account of being smol. He still has all the mechanical knowledge! Just less comprehension of y’know, consequences.

Anakin, with a sippy cup: This is demeaning. Ahsoka: Your hands don't work great enough to avoid accidents yet. Anakin: It's still embarrassing.

General Kenobi can't just kill Maul, not when Maul is baby right now (sixteen, which is baby enough) so he just. Kinda. Kidnaps a baby Sith. (It's fine. He's fine.)

General Kenobi (not to be confused with Padawan Kenobi) decides to declare Maul his new padawan because someone has to deal with this teenager, and Plo already claimed the rest of Ahsoka's training. And Anakin's three, so.

"What do we do with Maul?" "Eh, I can handle him. I dealt with teenage Anakin getting arrested for illegal pod-racing twice a month, I can work with this."

Maul bites, but only slightly more often than Anakin, it's fine

Ahsoka definitely bullies Maul whenever possible

Consider: Rex holding very still because Anakin wanted to be tall, so he climbed Rex. Being unexpectedly climbed is better than being unexpectedly yeeted. It's still extremely nerve-wracking. - Cody is perfectly capable of running around with a backpacking toddler General, but Rex freezes like a statue. - Ahsoka finds this hilarious

You know how little kids like to be thrown around and swung in circles and stuff like that? This must get even more ridiculous with force users. Can throw a child real high and catch them safely. - Rex panics whenever Ahsoka throws her chibified Master

Literally everyone except Rex loves being yeeted. Even Maul can appreciate a good tactical yeet no shut up he's not having fun this is TRAINING - Rex is Suffering - Cody, a very Tired Dad, deserves to mock his vod'ika a little, as stress relief - Rex, a certified Little Brother, shoves Cody off something tall. Jokes on him, Cody thinks freefall is fun too.

Tia asked: So the people who didn’t exist yet got flung bodily back in time and Anakin did the mental time travel. Why did Obi-Wan not become Padawan Kenobi? (I mean “because I want it that way” is def a good enough answer I’m just wondering if there’s any reason.) - Which, well, it really was mostly "I want to" but here's two options, both of which come down to Blame Daughter and Father. 1. They figured a responsible adult Jedi Master was needed to convince people. 2. Nobody was supposed to get de-aged but Daughter figured they needed to make Anakin less liable to kill things for a few years. - Also IDK the Force God-Manifestations also took away any risk of rapid aging and early death from the clones because uhhhhhhhhhhh I said so

Rex and Ahsoka are fumbling their way through a relationship where ages are just really confusing and awkward, so they're keeping it to just kisses and cuddles for a bit.

Cody is so tired he doesn't even realize anyone's hitting on him until it's been three years of co-parenting with Shmi and his General. - Somehow Anakin knows Cody is in a relationship before Cody does. Cody has never been so embarrassed. - How did he manage to be less observant than Skywalker? -- it was sabotage; all his brain cells were taken up in managing said Skywalker -- Because Skywalker was up at three in the morning whacking a training droid with a stick so he didn't have the energy for Relationships

Also Shmi's come-ons are super subtle, while the General's are... well, Cody's gotten very used to ignoring anything ambiguous on that end because fraternization rules, and also because Obi-Wan flirts a lot with everyone. So.

Please imagine Cody and General Kenobi walking around with Anakin tucked into a toddler sling while they do whatever work they've ended up with at the Temple. - Yes, Cody is helping the Jedi figure out the best plan of attack to take down this slave ring because his grasp on tactics is phenomenal and he knows how to deploy people at greatest efficiency, but also he's got a nosy toddler on his hip who keeps offering his own insane-but-competent ideas. - General Kenobi ends up with a Council Seat just on account of, like, being the kind of person he is. As often as not, he's got Anakin tucked into his robes, chewing on the ear of a stuffed tooka or something.

IDK what Shmi's doing but apparently Legends had it that some of the administrative and support positions in the Temple were held by non-Jedi civilians? So probably something like that.

GENERAL KENOBI LECTURING PADAWAN MAUL WHILE ANAKIN'S BALANCED ON HIS HIP AND GLARING AT MAUL FOR STEALING HIS DAD

General Kenobi: Ahsoka's babysitting. Anakin: I'm her master, I don't need babysitting, this is-- General Kenobi: Fine, then you need supervision, so that you don't blow up a training salle again. Anakin: And you think Ahsoka would stop me? General Kenobi, eye twitching: Fine, I'm leaving you with Plo.

Even if he’s mentally an adult Anakin always needs supervision Look at canon! Anakin was left without supervision for like two days and he became a Sith

Quinlan gets distracted by how attractive General Kenobi is and tells Obi-Wan "dude, you're gonna be so hot once you can get rid of the stupid haircut" and Obi-Wan pushes him into the nearest pond.

They end up with this weird "Uncle Jango" situation (uncle to Anakin, via weird brotherhood-ish to Cody) because Rex and Cody are just like "Uhhhhhhhhh yeah okay" about him eventually, and Jango just like. Drops by. Trying to Earn Affection Of Blood Kin by bringing weird gifts for them and their (ugh) Jedi.

"Okay, Rex'ika, I stopped by Shili--" "What?" "--and apparently this is a delicacy there, so just... your girlfriend will like it." "She's not my girlfriend." "..." "Okay, I can't call her my girlfriend. Jedi have rules about that sort of thing, and--" "This will make your Jedi happy, probably. Just take it, kid."

Baby Anakin got his arm back but for some inexplicable reason still has The Eye Scar. He matches Buir.

[himiko-yumehellno]

Humans are Space Orcs au but it's Korekiyo and Shuichi who end up in space

Korekiyo is super excited to tell the aliens they meet all about humanity, but he's always "yes, and"-ing the rumors about humanity, which unintentionally scares the aliens even more. Oh, you've heard of humans having hysterical strength? Yes, that happens sometimes in extenuating circumstances, here's a story of a lady who shut off her ability to feel pain to save her child. Oh, you've heard that humans will packbond with just about anything, no matter how dangerous? Yes, humanity can be just as quick to compassion as it is to wrath, and on a related note, would you like to hear about a time a village I hold in high esteem nearly killed me?

Then they look at Shuichi (who, by his and Korekiyo's own admission, is much less eccentric than Korekiyo by human standards) and they're like "okay maybe this human isn't like all the stories" and then Shuichi is like "I wrestled an alligator once" and everyone loses their minds.

I think they'd make possibly the worst best duo for an accidental space road trip. Throw those fellas into orbit and see what chaos they create

[deusvervewrites]

An AU where everyone in 1-A is a spy, no one knows the others are spies, and they still somehow end up as found family despite this mess.

So all of them are in some way indebted to All For One. He hired the Uraraka's to build a base or two, took Todoroki's Quirk in exchange for an Ice Quirk, gave Midoriya a Quirk, established the Yaoyorozu fortune, etc. All of the class and some of their families are in his debt and thus being forced to spy on UA.

The thing is that all of them do actually want to be Heroes, which results in them occasionally giving... conflicting reports of dubious validity but nothing that can be proven as deliberate misinformation

The USJ is great because Kurogiri warps all of the kids somewhere safe, but they're all in their own little safe areas for the whole attack. These safe areas are rooms throughout the facility to get around Tsukauchi's Quirk, but they all pretend to have seen each other in passing at the USJ to help sell their stories to each other, and they're all lying through their teeth.

This is hilariously what gets the class to packbond, as they want to get to know each other to keep their stories straight and end up having sleepovers and hangouts and whoops now they're attached

All For One is mostly doing this because he thinks it's funny

[internerdionality]

You were ABSOLUTELY not the only one, they were trying so hard for a fakeout that they managed to make it look like the character himself was the one who got screwed. I didn’t realize it until some of the comments Spike made about fighting to get his soul back and even then, I kinda thought it was maybe his own revisionist history until I saw that the writers had clarified that they did actually intend that Spike had been wanting his soul the whole time.

In which it would kinda hilarious to do an AU in which the demon DOES do the “be careful what you wish for” genie thing and then Spike has to grapple with being all packbonded with the Scoobies and in love with Buffy but NOT ensouled or chipped

So like I watched buffy season six around the time I was turning 13, and I remember truly believing that the end of the season when spike gets his soul that's the demon playing a joke on him basically. Like I know we were supposed to think that he was asking for his chip out, but I genuinely bought it so much that I kept waiting for him to fess up all throughout season seven that he hadn't actually asked for his soul, but just the double meaning of his wording got him the wrong thing. It wasn't until rewatch that I got it I don't think, like, it took me embarrassingly long to realize they did indeed mean that he had asked for the soul from the very beginning.

I can't be the only one, right?

Right?

[princeanxious]

New au idea just dropped: abducted by aliens + found family; familial anadukeceit addition with a twist:

tw: minor abducted by aliens, mentions of illegal scientific experimentation on a minor, general au theme following the rescues of ppl getting abducted, those are the big ones, lmk if i missed anything!

Virgil and Remus are normal adult humans that are part of a galactic crew that specializes in rescuing aliens that were abducted for black market trade and experimentation purposes and rehabilitating them

Janus is a young teenage human who'd been abducted and experiemented on for two years before his rescue, leaving him half-covered in abnormally healthy scales, sharp fangs and coldblooded-like qualities, and without a way to talk like he used to.(he can growl and hiss and whine ect., but they mostly ruined his ability to mimick sounds without it being painful and thus he cannot actually try to speak without pain.) He's not seen another live human in years, and is way too young to know how to cope with it, so he doesn't trust anything anymore and often comes off as extremely violent because he doesn't know whats a threat and what isnt, and isnt honestly sure hes not experiencing a vivid nightmare half the time.

Cue this team getting a report from a different rescue group about requesting help for a specific rescue from their mostly human rescue team, this time its about a small earth-like dealthworlder that had been discovered and rescued as one of the few surviving aliens from an illegal testing facility.

Report lists it as extremely volitile and hostile, but only when provoked(see: any attempt to interact with it). If left alone, it simply cowers in a corner and cries. There have been efforts to get it to eat that have only been semi successful due to the poor thing seemingly not being able to digest certain foods, and they worry it will simply die of starvation, or loneliness, if they cant get it's condition stable.

The reason theyre requesting Virgil's team is because the original rescue has never seen this kind of alien before, but it looks mostly human and thats the assumption. Humans are known to have high-packbonding instincts, and that persistence for kinship is pretty much this rescue's last hope.

To the humans, its a bit of a far leap seeing as they arent provided with any clear pictures of the thing, but its their job and theyre getting paid to do it, might as well try.

They.. They arent prepared to arrive to the sight of a child. Well, sort of child. A teenager? Whose regardless way too thin and quite too small to look anything but vastly unhealthy.

From his one side of his ribs curled up all the way around one side of his face and down that arm are rich yellow scales, that perhaps look like the healthiest part of him.

He wears a blindfold from his previous containment, and word has it the first alien to try and take it off was met with the worst lash-out yet and was still in recovery. They had kept it on him because he wont let anyone near take it off. It keeps him calm to be sightless, and its unfortunately all they can do to keep him that way.

And well, while Remus has always been the best at taming some of the wilyest deathworld creatures, its actually Virgil who has skill in taming those few labeled 'deadly.'

He sees this 'dangerous' behavior for what it really is.

Fear.

This is a child who is scared, terrified, and lashing out at anything that doesn't feel safe.

So you can imagine the brief uptic in nervous alien chatter from the main observation room when Virgil decides to walk straight into the containment room with no gear, no food, nothing but himself and his jacket.

Its a little jarring to hear a teenager hiss angrily at you, but Virgil used to Be That Teenager, so he doesn't really react. And he can see it when he speaks, using a soft and comforting voice, the way this kid freezes at being spoken to. In a langauge he understands.

"Hey buddy."

There's an immediate growl of uncertainty, pressing himself further away. Disbelief. It cant be, right? It's been 2 years since hes been in a room with another living human, there's no way.

..Right?

"Cmon now, none of that. It's just me here right now. My names Virgil."

He doesn't really want to believe it, that hes hearing another human. But he cant help the instinctual need to turn and hide the scales, the thing that makes him a freak of nature, no human would want him after what had been done to him.

Its a slow back and forth, really. Virgil asking a mundane question and getting some cautious hiss or growl or click in reply. But slowly, ever so slowly, the boy is relaxing.

"Can I reach my hand out? I wont touch you, okay? I want you to reach out too, if you're okay with that. We can move at your pace, okay?"

And maybe he gets a slightly petulant whine, but theres no aggression. Just. stress.

He holds his hand out, palm down, and waits. And is rewarded with an extrsmely shaky hand reaching out and grasping his own with a little fumbling. And then theres a pause, where the boy is taking thw time to register the hand.

Human.

And then the boy is all but flinging himself forward, blindly reaching out with a sob. Maybe some aliens in the observation room tense, but the humans in the room remain completely calm.

And now Virgil has a lap full of entirely too distraught child and no say in the matter, but thats fine. Hes content to just hold the poor thing and let the kid cry it out, god knows he needed this.

They learn this kids name, Janus, through some shake tracing of fingers on skin, then pen to paper. He's barely 16, and was abducted at age 14.

They learn one eye had been tampered with as well to match the scales, but all that was successful was a color change to yellow. It fortunately affects Janus's sight very little, except when hes tired and finds himself with migraines from his eyes being tired.

Janus is a special case, because he cant go back home, not with the things hes seen and experienced, as the galactic rescue is still a bit of a secret to earth. But hes a minor, so he cant very well join the rescue yet, even if he wanted to.

So, Virgil and Remus adopt him. Janus is more than happy about it, despite his struggles to show it.

They have a number of humans and humanoids on their team, one of which is a therapist named Emile(human), and another who is their navigator and unofficial translator named Remy(half-human).

Janus p much gets unofficially adopted by them as well, standing in as the cool uncles most likely, but through them he learns to deal with his trauma, and gets to learn how to communicate via galactic hand-sign language.

Sometimes a family can be a Team Rescue Group Leader, his Danger Tamer Chaotic Boyfriend, and their Half Danger-Noodle Half-Sassy Human Son, and two fun uncles who collectively know how to heal trauma and 47 different ways to say 'fuck you' in alien.