#plot/inspo linked in source !!

[blcssom]

closed starter for @angeldcgs ft. ingrid cohen

"look— i think you're great. honestly, i do!" the words were dripping with sincerity, even as she crawled to the edge of the bed to gather her t-shirt (or is it theirs? either way, it'll be going home with ingrid) and tug it over her head. "but this just can't happen again. you get it. right, doll?"

[goodsgraces]

" his apology sounded genuine and it felt right to take him back . " ⸻ " i wanted you to hear it from me before you heard it from anyone else . "

[ghostwritcr]

' hey , humm ... didn't wanna bother you 'cause it's late and you're probably tired , but ... i just couldn't sleep without telling how perfect you did on tonight's . you were amazing on stage . ' sam admits with his body leaned against the door frame of her hotel room . || @popcultr

[everseens]

"just fine at it?" paula repeated with another scoff, shaking her head as she leaned against the doorframe. it was clear that he wasn't trying his hardest to convince her, arms crossed against her chest now. he had a right to ask her why she was nosy about it, it wasn't like the two were together anymore anyway. "just making observations.. nothing wrong with that." / @muchallure

"she's just fine at it," julian argues weakly, the deception in his tone easy for anyone who knows him well enough to recognise. he winces, despises that all-too-familiar way his heart starts to beat rapidly in his chest when he's close to her. "why does it even concern you, anyway?"

[heartflt]

open to f/nb! preferably 30 and over but at least 25. plot inspo is linked in source. meredith is a detective and muse a for this plot. y/m could be someone she met on the job, but not required.

"we shouldn't be having this conversation." meredith is shaking her head, closed off from the moment they brought up a romantic connection. she acts caught off guard, but the truth is that she's been pushing her feelings aside for weeks, thinking about kissing them for just as long, but the fear of disappointing them is too strong. "i like spending time with you. i love what we have. why does anything have to change?"

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[futurefind]

//I DID THE THING FINALLY!! 😭😭😭The years on first one indicate when they first inspired me/influenced how I wrote/saw Sa!! Hence them being absent on the latter

Elaborations/details below the cut!!!

Element Valkyrie: (Kit) Literally how/why Sa has her main gimmick of fire + water/ice lmao!! In fact I think fire was her original main...? Ice became a focus post-atla (all of like... a year later lmfao)

Link (Twilight Princess): (Aesth) What can I say I really loved TPs, well, 'edgier' aesth (my second zelda after all of wind waker). Also, probably the first wolf association...? Less consciously, perhaps the first taste of cryptid drifter that goes around solving problems? (Kit) Why Sasume has a sword!! And why it's at her back/shoulder!! Also, sort of, ass kicking with said sword, but as a video game YMMV lmao. (Chara) The silent protag stuff could not hurt? Esp w the contrast with being good w kids, implicitly (Heart) WHAT CAN I SAY I'VE SAID IT BEFORE Sa is very much HeroTM, in broader loz/link sense, at heart. Saving and helping people is her priority!! Even when it's hard!!

Naruto: (Kit) Tbh... the source of Shinrei's aesthetic effects wrt eyes, teeth, claws, etc? (Bg/Lore) Samehat with her bg. With an emphasis on samehat, as the two were connected 1:1 in those early days. But unlike canon Naruto even baby Nori went 'reality ensues' 'edgier' variant where shit is traumatizing as fuck. (Heart) As I've also Also stated elsewhere... she's very much a shonen protagonist at heart??? A Knight in Sour Armor but a Knight all the same

Sasuke: (Aesth) Do I even need to say it...? The grumpy/angsty edgelord Lancer surface level absolutely came from here, lmao. Not as conscious as Naruto (iirc, I gave her blue hair bc my brown marker ran out when doing that design? lmfao) but definitely couldn't hurt. (Bg/Lore) Probably colored/inspired taking the aforementioned 'reality ensues' traumatic framing for Sa's bg. And a bunch of other plot-y stuff that's sliding scale of preserved to scraped entirely (ie being Nth distant relative survivors to the Uchiha clan lmfao). (Chara) What can I say... aren't we all familiar w the broadstrokes atp?? Loner angsting edgelord who's just afraid of letting people in... A staple of the archetype, and undoubtedly helped staple that archetype onto Sa. (Other) Far more nebulous, but did inspire a general 'special heritage/family line' power stuff. Though what said family line stuff was wouldn't be figured out 'til further down the line.

Kanda: (Aesth) For a hot second I literally intentionally looked to Kanda for aesth inspiration for Sa lmao... in my NLOG phase I even did an inverse of him being confused for a woman by having Sa be more Bifauxnen bc 'feminine = weak' lol (gag). Also, while from DGM's uniform as a whole rather than Kanda specifically, codified Sa's token look of skintight slevelees turtleneck + fingerless gloves— as well as remove previous aspects of color from her wardrobe. (Kit) Again, a side effect of DGM as a whole rather than Kanda specifically, but this is why Shinrei's kit isn't just so thought out but so specifically staggered (the 'Levels/Stages' aspects present across many Innocence). As a direct inspo, though, Mugen fucking with his pupils/eye is what I used to preserve Sa's emotive angy vfx (and what made it, and her entire kit, 1:1 with her sword rather than being innate). (Chara) Do I need to elaborate...? Lol. He also fits into the archetype of Sasuke that Sa was already in, so nothing too big, particularly as DGM made me develop Sa so much more and breakaway from copypasting him. However, he's liably the source of her more overt tsundere tendencies, as well as her aversion to using people's names (also for tsun reasons). Also probably why Sa's surface level is outright Jerkass and not just ominous stoic dude deal lmao.

Dean Winchester (s1-5): (Aesth) Gets some lite points for styling themselves against/for a parent, jerkass with a reckless heart of gold, and bravado/masculinity that oft loops back around to disingenuous/insecure. (Bg/Lore) What can I say? The idolization of a lost mother, comparing oneself against a parent (derogatory), the deadbeat dad (who's like the younger sibling), and the parentification and resulting over-protection and -devotedness toward their younger sibling/'child'. However, not much direct inspo here, especially since one of his hallmarks is his dysfunctional jackassery toward his sibling and one of Sa's is that her jackass exterior breaks away for hers. (Chara) While I remember Sasume's snark being unintentional irp, passive Deanfluence def couldn't hurt to cement the snark, lmfao. (Heart/Other) Lumping these two together bc man!! Man!!! What if you were forced into a life of violence and endangerment and self loathing and you 'reclaimed' it by putting how much you hate it and life and yourself into something meaningful, heroic. What if you were meant for greatness and it destroyed you. What if you wanted nothing more than a life of domesticity as a partner and parent and thought your only way to get there was through dreams and death. What if the only way you can get through the day is by chasing thrills and throwing yourself into risk after risk for others and half-hoping it kills you.

GRAVEYARD/REVERSE INSPO BOOGALOOS!!

As these are blorbos you can use to 'find Sasume in' instead of vice versa, these'll hopefully be more brief...? Things to make you point at and go 'omg just like Sa :)', rather than unpacking the building blocks of inspiration that helped codify her into how she is.

Geralt: (Aesth) The wandering enigmatic monster hunter with an extremely dangerous rep but with more heart/morals than you'd think... yk? Bonus spn gold eye points. (Kit) Nothing overt, but general hyper-competence wrt combat. (Bg) Witchers' sliding scale of dubious rep, yk? As well as his Butcher legacy. (Chara) As stated, gruff bastards with a caring heart that's variably concealed, depending on the moment. Notably (vs some prev examples), very okay with killing human monsters, even if it's not ideal.

Alucard: (Aesth) Pwincesses The supernatural & enigmatic auras that are both intimidating and inspiring reliance/protection yk? (Kit) Again general combat competence, but also healing factor and resulting being a gd tank, relatively. (Heart) Hearts of gold!! More overt since he's not a tsun though lol

Mizu: (Aesth) Edgelord wandering blue eyed 'samurai', lol. (Kit) Violence hypercompetence, pragmatism, and being a disturbing levels of tanking severe wounds. (Bg) What can I say Mizu's entire traumatic backstory and hardening into who she is is because of being othered and seen as nonhuman (if due to racism, vs Sa's). Plus some spoilery stuff I'm not gonna say bc oh my god guys go watch BES :') Esp if you like Sa. (Chara) The terrifying determinism, raw brutality/pragmatism, being stubborn idiots who need to be forced into accepting help... but also going to extreme lengths once the loner walls are breached. Also, the sass and taunting and blood knight aspects??? Peak Sa. Chef kiss. (Other) Holy fucking SHIT the insecurities? And self perception?? Seeing oneself as monstrous and inhuman and that inhumanity linked with an 'inability/failures of' being a woman yk......... augh,

Ed: (Kit) Having fun with 'bending' elements in utilitarian ways. (Bg) Orphaned big siblings whose main priority is saving/helping baby sib yk... Also, in retrospect, the hypercompetence being developed for the sake of said sib. (Heart) Again!! Shonen protagonist at her core!! Though ofc focusing more on the unironic softness, as well as her 'aspiring' for pacifism and hating having to kill but having no qualms doing so when necessary.

Rengoku: (Kit) Badass swordsmen with fire related aesth? Badass swordsmen. (Bg) While far more... mundane in the tragedies of his upbringing, the overlap in the themes and impact of their traumas are :') very much similar :'))) (Heart) Shonen protags but also mentors!! Staring very loudly at and ignoring even harder how as a kid my intent for Sa's story would be to kill her off. Tbf she's a very solid candidate for the Obi-Wan type 'crutch' characters whose death symbolisms an emblematic turning point...........

Vash: (Kit) Again: See: Hypercompetence in combat, now with more overt inhuman uncanniness!! (Bg) While far more fantastical and sort of... spread out? Impersonal? Than Sa's, it's impact and his view on it are very Sacore!! (Heart) SHONEN PROTAG OF ALL TIME??? And also see: aspirations of pacifism and how, just like Vash is able to be so extremely pacifistic because he's nonhuman levels of sturdy... Sasume cannot be because she's still very much human, and so can only take so much before she's forced to retaliate :') (And also being long past the point of breaking pacifism for sake of necessity/saving others... and p much Only breaking it to protect others... yk.......)

[cashthecomposer]

Any good resources you can recommend to learn more about the inspiration for you musical?

Yes! Here's a list to get you started- each title will link to a place to read or buy the thing!

The Clairmont Correspondence

These are a collection of Claire Clairmont's letters. I wanted to be true to her voice, as she is often the most muted in many adaptations of the story- and it is really her story, more than anyone else's.

The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron

Some Unpublished Letters of Mary Shelley

The Life and Letters of Mary Shelley

The Correspondence between Byron and Percy and Mary Shelley

Though Claire's letters were the most important to me, I also gathered a lot of character info, dialogue inspo, and plot points from the letters of Byron, Mary, and Percy. There's some overlap in these, but it's still worth it to read everything.

The Diary of John Polidori

John is a very insular character, and most of his presentation in the musical is self-reflection. So, I had to read his thoughts. And boy, the guy was depressed AF.

Then, there are the various stories told within the show... get ready for this:

Don Juan

Le Morte Fiancee & The Family Portraits, from Fantasmagoriana

Christabel

Darkness

Fragment of a Novel

The Vampyre

A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus

Note that for the Frankenstein text I selected, I chose the original 1818 text, purely because this is the original, the least edited, and in my opinion, the best. Far too many people only know the 1831 version, which is so far removed from that original summer I feel it is irrelevant.

This Article from the New York Times that was totally viewable back when I actually started researching for this show back in 2015 without a subscription so here's the web.archive link yo

After my dad suggested this story as the basis for a show to me back in 2015 (my god, 8 years ago???) this article was the very first thing I read about the Shelleys and Byron, and their summer at Diodati, and it got me hooked. I recommend giving it a read. It's great writing, and the sort of thing that NYT no longer writes nearly frequently enough anymore.

I immediately purchased the following three books, cited as sources by that article:

Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives

Byron and the Romantics in Switzerland, 1816

Followed by like... hundreds more books, articles, etc. But those three are a great start! If anything, I'd add this book, purely because it's more well known and referenced than those three, and takes a more Byron-centric view that, well, gels more with the portrayal of events in my show.

Thank you for this question! I'm going to post this list on my Patreon as well, where I'll go more into detail on each resource. :)

[samuraiondo-mace-1177]

11 and 14 for the ask game :D

OHHH OK OK I like these questions :D

11. A WIP you'd like to finish someday

That's gotta go to 切ない-以心伝心 (Setsunai - Ishin-Denshin), my Judgement Ishin fic! I have the groundwork and the script for the first couple of chapters, plus later plot points, but I have a lot of work now, so idk if I'll be able to finish it :(

(Altho, my manga has sm stuff related to Edo period Japan, so maybe I can sneak sm writing whilst doing script for the Manga >:])

14. Where do you get your inspiration?

There's several sources for inspo, lol

One is randomly staring at items and trying to think of links or what my characters would do with it (e.g: There's a random beanie on a chair - Is that an item connected to my character's past? Is it cold outside? Maybe it's snowing! or maybe someone bought one for someone! etc. etc...)

Another is songs! I listen to a shit ton of music, so it's natural to happen lol I think Jann and Will Wood have been my biggest inspirations for fics so far

Finally, fanart or my own artwork!

Asahi's lore, where he gets interrogated and beaten the shit out of by Soma, is actually due to a manga page I drew of the two. It led me to think, "...What if I just nearly killed this guy?" and I did lol

[blcssom]

closed starter for @persephonyed ft. dylan kirsch

yet again, the moment they entered the room dylan's brain emptied of all thought or reason. only when someone clearned their throat did she spring back to life. "yes, sorry: so i called that location you requested and cleared us for shooting tomorrow, but they wanted to know what you'd like catered and i considered that little diner we saw on our way into town but then i thought that i....should, y'know... ask? if you have any preference." she's hyper-aware of the makeup-crew watching her crash and burn and it does not help the blood pounding in her ears by any stretch of the imagination.

[nepofm]

I'm seriously considering bringing in two muses, how would you guys feel about having a character with the fc of sabrina carpenter who is the child of two famous movie stars but changed her last name because she doesn't want to be a typical nepo baby and build off of her parents careers she wants to be her own person and work for what she has and another muse with the fc of savannah smith with a plot where she kind of lives a double life think hannah montana?

 hey  there  !  these  sound  like  great  ideas  .  please  note  that  sabrina  carpenter  is  currently  a  TAKEN  fc  .  for  future  reference  ,  you  can  find  our  taken  fcs  page  HERE  and  linked  in  our  mobile  navigation  .  if  you’d  like  some  fc  suggestions  for  that  character  ,  please  feel  free  to  send  a  follow-up  ask  <3  

 unfortunately  ,  we  did  just  accept  an  app  with  a  savannah  fc  so  again  if  you'd  like  some  fc  suggetions  ,  please  feel  free  to  ask  !  we  would  still  love  to  see  this  type  of  muse  around  .  there’s  a  lot  of  potential  there  <3  it  could  even  be  that  everyone  is  under  the  impression  that  your  muse  is  rich  but  no  one  really  knows  how  and  the  gossip  blog  could  even  come  into  play  .  but  these  are  all  suggestions  so  go  for  whatever  you  have  the  most  muse  for  !

EDIT:  you’re  also  more  than  welcome  to  check  out  @nepomw  as  a  source  for  fc  inspo  ! 

[andtheyreonfire]

i've been saying this with friends because it's so real, but what turns me off immediately from a lot of g/t stories is an explicit lack of conflict, stakes, and consequences. i think it's like--a lotta people just??? never formally learned how to write??? there's absolutely nothing wrong with being self-taught, and that's what i'd imagine a lot of online writers are. but i see so many stories that just have a lack of concrete plot, which makes them super hard to get into.

the tldr i can give for writing conflict is this: every character has a goal. a story cannot begin until this character takes their first step towards achieving this goal. the conflict is the external or internal force that prevents characters from achieving their goals. stakes are the reason a character must or mustn't achieve their goal, and will occur based on the character's actions. consequences are the results of the specific actions characters may take. a story will end once the character has achieved or lost their goal.

this is a super basic explanation, and i'll provide some resources later, but it works for now. so, how do you implement this into a borrower au? it depends on both your character and the story you want to tell. a lot of borrowers in fics usually have their goal as surviving, which is a fine goal. it's just that these stories usually follow the same, brief conflict of the human finding the borrower, without any deviation to the formula, like op said. the human will never hurt them, the borrower will gradually trust the human and come back to them more, maybe a very brief external source of conflict will show up before disappearing, etc etc etc

i am actually so bad at giving prompt examples bc i just figure stuff out in the moment, but i think the plot has been lost a little. i think with any genre or set of tropes, you at least need to poke around a little with what you have. so many common g/t story beats--like the borrower getting sick, or having human-related trauma, or having someone they want to protect--is about creating conflict and guiding character development. i firmly believe forcing your story to conform to any notion others set is antithetical to creativity, and i know a lotta people use g/t as a coping mechanism. but, if you want to enhance your story, or just have some inspo/basis for future writing, i'll give some links below the cut:

finding resources for plotting is frustratingly difficult, especially with search engines getting worse and worse. i found a few promising ones here, but i haven't looked through them yet. personally, i use a "save the cat" (which is a novel i'll link later) type outline, the closest match i found is right here. i honestly don't pay as much attention to following a strict outline anymore, but i try to make sure my characters are always moving, and that there's a clear desire, conflict, and stakes.

for general writing, i found brandon sanderson's lectures suuuper helpful. here's the link, and here's the link to the lecture on short stories. if you want something shorter, i know tyler mowery makes some good videos regarding writing/screenwriting. his series on character arcs was fundamental to how i write characters, the first part is here. i've also had localscriptman recommended to me, but i haven't had the chance to go through their videos yet.

if you don't mind spending a bit of $, "save the cat! writes a novel" is probably one of the most influential writing books out there. i haven't read it myself, but i've heard its advice discussed countless times in writing spaces. what i have read is "blueprint for a book," which has some solid advice, as well as some simple (but surprisingly forgotten) plotting advice. lastly, angela ackerman and becca puglisi's resources can be super helpful. i have some of their character trait thesauruses on my shelf.

uh. yeagh. happy writing ya'll, and happy holidays 👍

Whats a g/t trope y'all genuinely hate, but is considered a "hot take"

For me it's borrower stories, specifically those that always follow the same formula and never get creative.

As in, borrower is outside looking for food or smt, somehow gets into a situation where they are trapped, human finds them, borrower is scared and tries to flee, yet gets trapped under a glsss, with the human assuring them that they're kind and won't harm them. Then after a few chapters, the borrower leaves behind all the fear they held for humans and becomes close friends with them (this especially throws me off whenever the borrower has had a friend or a family member be killed by a human). They usually also meet their friends who are also super nice.

I understand that most humans wouldn't be out here tormenting a tiny person they found, but I honestly don't get the hype behind stories where it's only fluff and basically almost always the same plot.

The human characters are usually the most boring to read about, which is a huge let down for me. Especially as, it feels weird that I've yet to see a borrower story where the human genuinely freaks out that a tiny person has been watching them all along.

I mean how disturbing is it to know that you were being watched all this time, that you were never truly alone. Including in moments where you were feeling down.

For more interesting prompts, you could have the human actually be someone insane, that sees the borrower as nothing more than another experiment or something to exploit for money, with the borrower showing them that they are sentient, yet, perhaps, due to sn inability to understand each other, the humans doesn't understand what they're doing.

Or

Have the borrower have a whole web of crime with other borrowers, where they purposefully steal things from humans to make their days just a little more upsetting. Getting back at them for, maybe, having hunted them in the past. Have borrowers actually be evil little gremlins or something.

Heck, maybe even have the two be criminals, with the borrower helping breaking into people's houses and spying on them, to see who has the best stuff to steal from and the human doing the rest.

And if you do give your borrower a sadder backstory, please please please let them deal with their trauma and not completely remove it for fluff. Have them have moments where they feel inferior and break down, rushing back to their holes regardless of if the human is being nice or not. Let the human get frustrated with the borrower for not fully trusting them, not knowing the full story. LET THEM HAVE TENSE MOMENTS WITH EACH OTHER. I WANT TO SEE THEM FIGHT

MAKE THEM HAVE CLASHING PERSONALITIES WHERE THEY OFTEN GET INTO HEATED ARGUMENTS

Idfkanyway hope you liked this silly lil ranty rant I wrote. No hate to anyone who writes borrower stories, considering my own story has borrower elements.

-Lucky

[darkwingphoenix]

Small plans for my @loominggaia AU

I'm prolly gonna go on a semi-hiatus. I'll be focusing on making 3 fics at once: Formations of a Kingdom (Current AU fic rn), Scoria (My Saraia Backstory fic), and a as-of-now unnamed JW cartoon/Looming Gaia Modern AU crossover fic. Because fuck it.

Here's a link to a playlist to catch up on the JW cartoon stuff I'm using, because this has a surprising amount of fanfiction for this kinda stuff (And RAID Shadow Legends, despite being everywhere, has not much more (13 to the JW cartoon's 8, or barely over 50% more, despite RAID's insane advertisements and the cartoons' audience not usually making fanfiction, it's all ExJWs).

Anyway, I wanted to pop out a couple chapters of Scoria and the JW/LG fanfic, and give an outline of each.

Note that these are mild spoilers, but like the pre-surgery spoilers LG dropped there's prolly gonna be subplots and smaller details that didn't make it in.

Scoria

One night before she got to Folkvar Capital, Skylie decides to ask Saraia her side of her villainy towards Evangeline.

Saraia tells of a young woman killed to save her parents, only to find they had died in slavery. Enraged, she vows to never let Evangeline forget her rage until slaves were gone from the nascent kingdom, and the Scourge of Evangeline was born.

This fic will go deep into the lore of Evangeline, with the origin of slavery, the crowded politics of pre-Evangeline Noalen (It's a crowded muthafucka), and Saraia's trauma.

This video is essentially the climax of the story:

The JW/LG Crossover Modern AU

Context for the JW cartoons: Sophia, the titular girl in the cartoons, is a JW (If you couldn't tell), as is her brother Caleb (Titular boy), and her unnamed mom and dad (Literally just called Mom and Dad, I think). For some odd reason, her dad has this thick as all hell accent. No one else in the family has this accent. It's some sorta, IDK, East European accent? It's thick, tho. Like his biceps before ExJW Panda (The creator of the videos linked above, not the dragon one) said he got nerfed (IDK, a meme?)

Anyway, ExJWs (And their non-JW friendos) love to meme on the cult, and there's two major sources of inspo for the fanfics: Caleb and Sophia (The one I'm using for my fic) and Experience the Joy of Disciple Making (Which, I agree, would make one hell of a yuri/lesbian show if it weren't literal JW propaganda).

The comments of those videos do yearn for a brave soul to make the fics, never mind the existence of 14 total (8 of Caleb and Sophia, and 6 for the other one). Soon, there'll be 15, one being of my own penmanship (Boardmanship? Typemanship? What's the word for good writing on a keyboard?)

Anyway, basic plot! Uh, I don't have much right now beyond a few points:

It's in the future of the Caleb/Sophia cartoons, in like early-mid high school (For exact ages I'mma say Sophia's maybe 15-16 and Caleb's a couple years younger, like 14-15, or they're Irish Twins or actual twins, IDK yet, they both go to high school)

Sophia will be questioning at some point in the fic, and eventually become a lesbian. For whom? Well:

Fuck it, poly yuri! Alaine and one of the Evangeline Royal Cousins, fuck it! Which ERC? IDK, one of the chicks (Which is easily most of em: I have 3 out of maybe 13?)

If I do Amber or Citrine, they'd replace Carrie as the kid with two moms Sophia's mom torches for the entire video here:

The FGG will all be roughly high school age (Varied, but they'd all be 14-19, with Alaine, Elska and Isaac being the youngest and Evan, Jeimos and Linde as the oldest)

Mr. Ocean and Solveig will be the gang's mentors/Former sitters they still hang out with and have a Discord with. They'll be in their maybe 30s-40s. I might make Solveig an ExJW herself, why not? Could make a very easy replacement for her original escape plan in canon.

I'm prolly gonna make th Evangeline Royals and Sovereign noticeably less fucked up (Sovereign doesn't drug his brother and take over half the ocean and pull a Genghis Khan and make so many kids half of the ocean's cecaelia in a few millennia are his, and he's only married to Jewel, and Machine's Champ's wife and they had Vex, who's also in the FGG because fuck it, and the Evangeline Royals are just sorta strict but not terrible, and saints compared to canon for several)

If I don't have Amber of Citrine as Sophia's love interest, Carrie exists still, and the other JW propaganda (Not gonna repeat that shit again, it's Jade/Neeta now) are her moms (No reason, just because)

No matter what happens, Amber will be paralyzed and need a wheelchair, and Maui's a monitor lizard (Maybe a service animal so he has an excuse to show up, IDK what for tho)

Justinia and the rest of Amber's family will be there too, and have various mobility issues (Justinia might be an amputee from the Gulf War, Jet was born without legs, Clarity got a snakebite that required her leg removed, one of em has multiple sclerosis, etc), and Amber was adopted for reasons IDK yet (Might not even have her adopted and just have her know the ERCs as family friends, like Cyana or Angie knew Justinia from the Gulf War or something)(IDK what it is with me today and the Gulf War)

Might have Nicole and Jecka from Class of '09 show up too, IDK (I'm being an oddly obsessive slut with smaller fandoms today, IDK why that is), and have them just be there or as some sorta reference

I'll fill out much of the teaching roles in the school Sophia, the ERCs, the Jetinia kiddos (Jetinia being my ship name for Jet and Justinia) and the FGG go to:

As I noted Cerulea and Rodrig look like teachers sans hat and makeup, I might have them be teachers (Maybe Cerulea's the principal or something, IDK). Might not do both, but IDK

Mr. Ocean or Solveig might be a teacher, likely for biology or history (And if I do Solveig as a teacher and ExJW, I'd likely have her as a sorta mentor for Sophia to help the gal break free from her JW brainwashing)

Saraia's definitely gonna be a teacher, and maybe be the biology teacher? Either way, King's gonna be her leucistic pet reptile (Maybe a large snake or crocodilian, IDK yet), and she also has various reptiles, amphibians and birds as pets (Replacing the Saraians)

The other High Rulers are prolly gonna be teachers too: Sovereign as a health/gym teacher (Might give him a dad bod and not the 600 Pound Life bod he has now), Titania as a depressed art teacher, Oberon as the music teacher, Gultopp for gym (Why not?), Hethor prolly for a foreign language (IDK for her), Chua as a religion teacher (How it's done normally, just tellin' them facts about the religions and not pressing beliefs on kiddos)(And she has pet snakes named after her canon siblings), Okatogg and Hulushka as subs (Because goofy haha), Serafeen as a chemistry/astronomy teacher (Or just a general science teacher), Qara as the finance/Life Skills teacher (And be way less bitchy than in canon), Roz as an English Teacher, and Marghan as a cool ASF homeroom teacher (And he's not the psycho he is canonically, and he has a pet parrot named Pidi!)

None of the larger issues with the canon High Rulers really exists here (Sovereign's not fat and tryna be Genghis Khan of the Sea, Serafeen's not obsessed with Project Starlight but is in love with space, Oberon has a way better married life and isn't cheating with Qara and Titania, Marghan is just a cool, hip young teacher, Qara isn't a greedy hyper-capitalist, and Gultopp isn't ashamed of Sygbarne)

Roz will have lost Tep to a cult, prolly the JWs, and Tep's referenced at a JW meeting

May add the Hoyoverse games too, likely just to throw around names for convenience (That's 3 games I have names to steal from), but I might have the remaining main characters (Aether from Genshin (I have Lumine already), Stelle and Caelus from HSR and Belle and Wise from ZZZ) be more major, but IDK yet

Beyond these, Zoe (A girl Sophia converts in the cartoons) will feature aplenty, the High Rulers kids might show up (Likely Blomi, Sygbarne, Naduna, Kobi, Keatto, Thetos, Winnie, OJ, and Kast), Drifter's Hollow characters may also appear (Maybe Flora's also a teacher, maybe a math teacher?), Karenza and Darshaan may appear (As Isaac's parents), maybe some unnamed from the cartoons, Carrie (Two moms kid) may also show up too.

I might have Sophia join an extracurricular GSA (Gender/Sexuality Alliance) club, and maybe join an attached Discord (She'll also join an FGG Discord once she starts getting buddy buddy with Alaine, the ERC I choose once they get into the throuple)

The latter chapters may have Sophia becoming PIMO (ExJW code for Physically In, Mentally Out, AKA she's doing the motions but not really dedicated anymore as compared to a PIMI, or Physically In, Mentally In but still dedicated more than a POMO, or Physically Out, Mentally Out) and eventually fade from the JWs, maybe taking Caleb with her

Once Sophia joins one of the two aforementioned Discords (FGG or GSA Discords), I'll be shoving in some Discord chat chapters, where most or all of the chapter will be Discord chatting). May have more once she joins both

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Okay, first of all, everyone go listen to the Mechs right now, they are fantastic. If you liked Dragon in Worm, check out Frankenstein, it's one song and it's a retelling with Frankenstein's monster as an AI, and it's great. Anyways. On to the reaction.

Not sure that I would flip the ending - Worm's already a tragedy. Hone in more on it, though? Totally. Taylor actually dies (unless you want to link up with my Worm Mechs AU where Taylor joins the Mechs after Gold Morning, in which case make it like a 10-minute origin song).

It's hard to remove the powers from Worm, because they're a fundamental, structural component of its tragedy, but it could perhaps be achieved. I have cyberpunk on the brain (and there's this fantastic cyberpunk Worm AU as precedent) so I lean towards that.

Since Mechs songs are all mythology retellings, well...

This isn't the story of Taylor; it's the story of Khepri.

Misc. ideas:

Khepri was the god of "personal transformations. These transformations, called kheperu, included the passages from childhood to adulthood and from life to death." (source), or, from Wikipedia, "Khepri's four main functions were creator, protector, sun-god, and the god of resurrection". The transformation/rebirth/multiple aspects part is reflected with Taylor (Taylor-Skitter-Weaver-Khepri, and just her development in general). See also this post by @henghost as another example of transformative Taylor stages. I think it could be retold by alternating songs about other characters/plot points with songs that mirror one another, each centred on a specific 'aspect' of Taylor. Think a structure similar to Ulysses Dies at Dawn, but perhaps two/three other songs then one Taylor identity song.

Names are also important in both Egyptian mythology - "The Egyptians believed that names held power, so much so that gods went by pseudonyms to keep their power safe" - and Worm, so the song titles could just be the names Taylor goes by in those stages. Easiest bait is "[unnamed? Taylor?]", "Skitter", "Weaver", "Khepri". Maybe throw in an "Administrator" too.

Speaking of Administrator! That's one way to sci-fi it up! The "Shards" are literal shards, the Entities are self-replicating machinery (a la Machine Army) and AI, the product of the hubris of an ancient alien society. Therefore, getting powers = having your brain hacked by self replicating machinery, which sometimes also takes over your body, hence the cyborgs you mentioned.

Hacker Taylor is amazing, btw. Definitely keep that.

Long songs as Interludes, the main plot/Taylor songs are shorter.

And in terms of inspo... the god/mythology aspect reminds me of this fic series too, and for musical Worm adaptations, consider this post about an Amy ballet by @skitterstan.

idea for a worm fanfic Worm but told by the mechanisms To anyone who doesn't know the mechanisms is a band that takes various mythologies and adapts them from what would normally be fantasy to Sci-fi greek mythology is a cyberpunk mafia story Norse mythology is a mystery story about how the first attempt at dimensional travel went wrong Arthurian Legends is a space western and the stories are always tragedies (usually with only one character surviving) also, the story's themselves don't usually follow the actual myth's plot

so my current ideas 1. flip the ending by making Taylor the sole survivor of Gold morning 2. probably no actual powers and at best characters using some type of technology that achieves a similar effect 3. most people are cyborgs to some extent 4. Taylor is a hacker and the way Khepri is achieved is she somehow starts hacking people's brains 5. Wolfspider is a thing (because every mechanisms protagonist is queer to some extent, Arthur is Bi, Loki, and Cinders are lesbians and Ulysses is nonbinary)

im not sure what Sci-Fi genre it will be but suggestions are welcome