#project ARC au

[howi99]

Project ARC remake 17

Jaune: *waking up, feeling bad* Urgh, my head... *Looking around, seeing nobody* Where... Am i? *Get up from the medical bed he was in* Was i sick? *The headache intensifies* Jackalope! Why is my head killing me!? *See a scroll on a table* I should call big sis, she probably knows what's going on. *Take the scroll* ... They really make scrolls smaller and smaller. *He opens it* Uh, Jaune Arc? Funny, he looks just like me, but older. *He goes to enter Glynda's number, but see that it is already registered* Ah, she probably gave him her information. Make sense.

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Glynda: *sleeping as peacefully as a 27yo overworked woman can*

Scroll: *begin to vibrate*

Glynda: ...

Scroll: *continue vibrating*

Glynda: ... *Sigh* I swear, if it's Qrow asking me to bail him out AGAIN, i'm going to murder him. *Take the scroll, angry* What!?

Scroll: *startled* B-big sis? Do you know where i am? I just woke up in a hospital bed. The last thing i remember was you going for your first mission in solo. How did it goes?

Glynda: *not feeling well* Whu?

Scroll: Hello? Are you there?

Glynda: *croaking her answer* Y-yes, i'm here.

Scroll: *worriedly* Gee sis, you sound horrible. Have you drank enough water? *Sounds of a smack* i'm an idiot, it's the middle of the night! Anyway, i just want to know where i was and-

Glynda: *already dressing herself up* D-don't move! I'll b-be there in 5 minutes!

Scroll: Ok, but could you bring something for my head? I got a terrible headache.

Glynda: *taking her own Tylenol and putting the entire box in her purse* Of course! Just stay right there!

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Watts: *looking at Jaune monitor* His aura meter....

Pietro: *also looking at the monitor* he regained 15 percent of it in a flash, he's now at 85. Do you know what might have caused that?

Watts: ... His old memories might have been unlocked.

Pietro: You mean...?

Watts: *sigh* During the extraction process, the memory of their past life is blocked from interfering with the new identity.

Pietro: If i may ask why?

Watts: Pietro, the reason i seal their memories isn't because i want to. Memories are bound to the body, and if that body changes? Well, they might become unstable.

Pietro: Is this why you preferred putting them in a body reassembling what they should look like? And making them "age"?

Watts: In a sense, yes. It's a "in case". Because when they do remember their own death, their's a high probability for their mind to break.

[tearwolfe]

As an idol, Tsukasa's contract prohibits him from forming a romantic relationship with anyone. A star like him could live perfectly fine on his own, anyway. He was used to holding people at a distance.

Rui was no different. Their relationship wasn't real. It wasn't allowed. Their countless nights spent together visiting expensive shops and watching musical performances were just a bit of fun. Even if love was shared between them, they could never make it official.

As long as Tsukasa aimed for the stardom he so desperately desired.

It seemed that Tsukasa's arrogance would catch up to him. As much as he longed for Rui's embrace, it never dawned on him to reach out to Rui past that. Rui wasn't just some lovesick fanboy. And if Tsukasa were ever able to look past his own narcissism, maybe he would have realized that.

Tsukasa's vanity would be what severed the one true escape he had from his turmoil. Rui really did try his best to show Tsukasa to look past himself, to find enjoyment in life off the stage. He was naiive to think that he could fix Tsukasa, and naiive to fall in love with him.

Tsukasa's words were painful and Rui's patience was running thin. After his final words, Rui left Tsukasa in the street, cutting the string connecting them that he so desperately had tied.

Perhaps Rui would also find fault in his own failure to change Tsukasa with how his story ends.

NEXT

note: tsukasa and rui's argument is much longer, but more of the same, paraphrased, tsukasa being adamant that his status as a celebrity puts him on a higher level than rui. i just didn't want to draw 20 frames of their faces as they argued.

also, tsukasa is not intending to be fatphobic to rui. his point is that non-idols don't have to worry about what they eat, drink, put on their body, but since he's an idol, he can't just willy-nilly eat whatever. he unfortunately suffers from toxic idol diet culture and is not self-aware of this.

[ghostr0tz]

Very specific human Vox I've been trying to shake for weeks

[bixels]

I wanna get around to doing some small story beats for the "Main Six Takes Manhattan" story. It'd be a good chance for me to play around with different art styles too.

I'm really excited about this story too because it'd be splitting everyone up into pairs for their own little arc.

Rarity attends a fashion showcase in upper Manhattan, with April-Jacqueline in tow as her "attendant." The two get swept up in industry drama as they uncover the abuse faced by amateur designer Carol Cho under the American fashion house "Polomare."

Pinkie and Thea head to Harlem for a rent party, hosted by Thea's city friends. Despite Thea's protestations, Pinkie can't help but be the life of the party as its tenants and musicians attempt to raise enough money to fight their landlords and demand housing justice.

Dash and Félicie navigate NYC's transportation system to go to a ball game: the New York Wonderbolts vs. the Washington Senators. While Dash meets her heroes, Félicie can't help but feel homesick and smothered by the big city.

[catwafers]

11/23 is good big brother day in japan (11/23 = ii nii-san) so, with that, after one and a half months of working on this, i present my very self-indulgent scenario of vash and knives being brothers and taking that first step to heal.

if you want to throw some support my way i have a higher-res pdf version on my ko-fi shop for $3 - no pressure obviously, this will remain free to read here on my blog indefinitely!

also i would like to give a quick thank you to @/nimpnawakproduction for their references on vash's scars which were pretty much my bible when drawing this LMAO

(not ship art)

[cure-stars]

HAVEN'T DONE THIS OR THAT YET, IT'S ALWAYS SO FORCED

IT'S LIKE I'M, LIKE I'M, INEXPERIENCED, SO FROM NOW ON,

LET'S JUST DO IT!

HAVEN'T DONE THIS OR THAT YET, IT'S ALWAYS SO SUDDEN

IT'S LIKE I'M, LIKE I'M, INEXPERIENCED,

BUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT? 💛

[nomsfaultau]

Part of my big differentiation in TLWW between the imposter “Techno” and real Techno is how “Techno” is a soldier because although I see the headcanon so often. That man could NEVER. Sorry, you want to put him in a STRUCTURED STRICT environment to be the TOOL OF THE GOVERNMENT. What?? The sarcastic laid back anarchist could never. They would ask him to stay still to stand in formation and his adhd would explode. Like I maybe see him trying to join for training opportunities and then immediately dropping out because he can’t stand it. He could be a mercenary at best and even then I cannot imagine him handling subordination with any grace. Techno despises a hierarchy. (At least institutional ones, he’s perfectly fine with might makes right, but specifically the constant demand of obedience, rigidity, and, oh yeah, being the coercive arm of a government, really go against so much of his characterization.)

[noname-nonartist]

No One:

Me:

…

Look. This AU idea has been in ma bwain for over a week now, and man. I just have so many ideas about this AU man it’s crazy! >w<

this is also one of the reason why I haven’t been really drawing pjsk stuff as much lol

[reashot]

Spoiler for my next RWBY fanfic project:

(We all know it's going to be Jaune so don't ask who's it supposed to be.)

Sorry if it seems long because I have to do some little world building (I lied. I have to create RWBY from scratch because the lore are non-sensical & made no sense.) Because I want to provide my reader better quality story telling.

Some changes I made is as follows:

- Grimm are stronger now. The heroes will have to work harder to even beat a beowulf. With a few special one able to gain self awareness and have some "slight" reality altering power. Think the witches from Madoka magica franchise.

- Of course with the Grimm getting stronger. So does the Huntsman. With someone like Qrow or pretty much any Huntsman older than the main cast no longer be a pushover.

- Rank System for the Huntsman.

- More (named) students at Beacon.

- Huntsman are treated like a Rock stars.

- There will not just be four relics but hundreds of them. Each with varying degrees of power. And most are monopolized by the state.

- Don't know what to do with the maidens though. Any suggestions?

- Grimm no longer feed on negative human emotion. Biggest reason for the removal is that it contradict the Faunus Racism subplot. And I don't know about you but I think racism is one heck of a negative emotion. (They still want people dead though)

- Faunus Racism subplot will be handled much better.

- Salem still can't be killed but she can be sealed. With her needing to be sealed every few decades or so.

- Grimm will appear less frequently and only starts appearing more and more when the seal around Salem starts to weaken.

- There will be a cult dedicated to bring back Salem and serves as the primary antagonist.

- Of course everybody favorite part of prequel trilogy. Politics. But it mostly be in the background until it isn't & the heroes are then forced to make a choice.

- There are other group beside the Huntsman fighting Grimms and they hate their guts.

- The event of Ice Queendom is mostly canon and even part of the Grimm Eclipse. Because I needed something to pad out the world building.

& there's more but I would like to keep some a secret for now.

And yes many character's story will be expanded or in a few case rewritten. Adam especially will be rewritten to better reflect the freedom fighter he supposed to represent. He's angry at the world but not an a-hole.

And that's about it I'm already halfway in and I will post the 5k fanfic soon as a form of early preview.

[summertimemusician]

Something something 'The Wild that went into the Shrine of Resurrection is not the same that came out, how much of me is myself and how much of me is my experiences and the perception of others and since memories and perception are reality, losing your memories is essentially having a part of yourself killed and all the trauma that comes with it but not knowing WHY you have the scars and becoming a different person for it.' and 'Wild did come out as himself because even without his memories he is still Link he's just at a different point in his life simply for the fact that just because you grown doesn't mean you are a completely new person. You just changed and you are more than just the sum of your broken parts, you are still beautiful and lovely and deserving of love and there's always a place for you no matter how you change because at the end of the day it's still you.' are two thoughts that can and should coexist actually.

[howi99]

Project ARC remake 16

Weiss: *angry* That Dolt! Why didn't he defend himself? It's like he wants to get killed!?

Ren: *looking at Weiss* I don't think he doesn't want to defend but more so that he is incapable. We saw how efficient he was at dispatching Grimms.

Weiss: That's why i don't get it! He could go toe-to-toe with a deathstalker! Why is he struggling against Cardin!?

Ren: I don't know why, but he is unable to attack anyone. He said it was against protocol, but what was he talking about?

Pyrrha: Maybe where he trained, they couldn't fight in exhibition match? Maybe he only learned how to fight against grimms?

Weiss: *rolling her eyes* Pyrrha, you saw just as i how good he was at dodging and weaving. He knows how to fight.

Pyrrha: Then... Maybe he is a pacifist?

Ren: *Thinking* Then why did he choose to come to Beacon? Why not just take the huntsman exam?

Pyrrha: Why didn't you? Would have been easier than coming all this way from Mistral.

Ren: I'm not really good when it comes to fighting grimm. I know i still have a lot to learn.

Weiss: *sigh* When he's back, i'll ask him.

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Ozpin: *looking at the camera footage showing Jaune's inability to retaliate against Cardin* ... There must be a way to overwrite his protocol.

Qrow: *drinking a bit* that would be asking the good doctor to remove it. But then again, he might just want to study him. It's not everyday someone is missing part of their soul.

Glynda: *hitting the table with enough force the marble fissured* I REFUSE! *Panting, her aura trying to heal the broken bones in her hand*

Qrow: *jumping from Glynda outburst*

Ozpin: *sigh* His condition isn't getting better Glynda. You know that, right?

Glynda: *grinding her teeth* He's the reason my brother is in this state! *Sitting down* I was supposed to be there for him...

Ozpin: *sigh* It shouldn't have happened. The fact is, Salem found the right person even though we took precautions. We couldn't have known.

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Watts: *looking at Pietro* What is it?

Pietro: *scratching the back of his neck* My daughter is asking for an update on Jaune.

Watts: *annoyed* Well, so am i! That damn kid is still missing in action and we STILL haven't found a body!

Pietro: You seem... worried?

Watts: Well of course i am! Imagine if someone with half a brain took him and retro-engineered him!? He's the first fighting prototype to actually be somewhat as good as yours!

Pietro: *shaking his head* Again with that? Penny is my daughter, not just a project to complete or a work in progress.

Watts: *rolling his eyes* You and your damn feelings, i can't understand, really i can't.

Pietro: Really? So the clothes you buy for each and every A.R.C you make, all of them chosen after carefully asking each what their favorite type of clothes and brand are.

Watts: *groan*

Pietro: *laughing* Ah don't worry, i will not ask about the birthday cake in the fridge.

Watts: ... *Sigh* White, made it for Jaune. We know he is alive, his vitals are still transmitted even if they are inconsistent.

Pietro: I see... Well, i will tell Penny the same news as always.

Watts: *looking at Jaune's Vital, seeing his aura getting from 70 to 71* Hm...

Pietro: *who was leaving* What's wrong?

Watts: Well, nothing wrong per say... His aura stayed at 70 for the last month but... It seems to finally get up? I wonder why.

[minecraftrelatedrandomness]

idk why but i just had the idea of p!martyn sailing off to capture a few sea otters to bring them to the faction isles

actually i Do know why.

[bandtrees]

Estrogen could have saved her

[its-no-biggie]

something so interesting about writing a sort of pfl arc fix-it au is that a lot of the really awful characterization gets fixed by just. making south in the right and york in the wrong. and changing nothing else about the characterization. like

[under the cut since this got kinda long]

okay im always thinking about like. the version of pfl that was implied in 6-8 and the way it specifically emphasized the conflict between the freelancers. the fucked up nature of the leaderboard and the competition. "we were a competitive bunch. we had to be." theres hints of this in 9-10 but its really just carolina and south being unnecessarily uptight about the rankings and a vague suggestion of an "in group" that doesnt actually go anywhere.

but like. what if the rankings genuinely mattered and the freelancers had to fight for the right to get an ai at ALL, not just to be the first one to get one. what if there were more consequences to falling in the ranks than some light criticism. then high-ranking agent "are we the good guys?" york becomes complicit in this fucked up system designed to create the perfect soldier by any means necessary, and never-good-enough agent "i never GOT an ai" south becomes a victim of it. instead of south caring too much out of. pride? loyalty to freelancer? its a preservation instinct and york et al are like "whats HER deal" because the system works fine for them.

then naturally south would be one of the first to defect from the project because what has it done for her?? while someone like york is enjoying the perks of being a highly ranked freelancer agent with an ai and not thinking too hard about it. like. in this scenario south would never be the one defending freelancer from being raided by north - it would absolutely be the other way around. and its so much more interesting that way!

anyway. i can guess why they made the most bland character in existence the good guy and the raging bitch the enemy (ahem. misogyny). but like???? give me the weaponized indifference antagonist and violent resistance protagonist!!! that rules!!!! (well. you dont have to give it to me. im already writing it myself lmfao this is taken directly from my au)

[duckapus]

So I'm still not sure how exactly Blotch and Overseer find out that Tama is alive and well in Glitch Productions' copy of The Cloud's Songbird, but as soon as they do they make a beeline for it... only to find absolutely nothing. Obviously Blotch starts freaking out because they were so close and even if their source was wrong about Tama there should still at least be the server itself there. Overseer manages to find trace elements that prove that it was there, it just got moved somehow, and within the last few hours no less. He finds two portal trails, though one is scrambled and encrypted beyond his ability to decipher, and they decide to follow the other one to its destination, hoping to at least get some answers.

Obviously they end up in Cappy Town, which is in a state of barely-organized chaos as they try to sort things out with the Harmonian refugees. They spot a purple and green snail with a clipboard who seems to be one of the people in charge and decide to see if he knows anything.

"Uh, excuse me, sir-"

"Registration desks are over there, miss," he doesn't even look up from his clipboard as he points off to his left at a bunch of tables manned by Cappies and Waddle Dees and slides off elsewhere.

Blotch is confused but undeterred, and follows him "I-sir, I'm trying to find my sister an-"

He cuts her off again with a heavy put-upon sigh, "Just about everybody here's trying to find somebody, sweetheart. Look, I've got about half a continent of displaced memes and oc's I've gotta sort through and find shelter for before the sun goes down. If you give the people at the registration desks your sister's info they'll find her eventua-"

"ESCARGOON!" a tubby blue penguin in a red robe and hat waddle-jogs over, huffing and puffing more with frustration than effort, "we need you over on the west side pronto! What's the holdup?"

"Er, just dealing with some more concerned relatives, your majesty. I've just about got things sorted out though."

Blotch scoffs at that, which gets the penguin's attention... and he does a double-take when he sees Overseer next to her, trying and failing to not attract attention from the refugees and townspeople. For whatever reason, this prompts him to clonk Escargoon on the eyestalk with one of his mitt-covered fists. This finally gets the snail to look up, glaring at his companion and rubbing the cartoonish bruise that's forming.

"Ow! The heck was that for!?"

"Escargoon, ya nitwit," he leans in, seemingly trying (and failing) to whisper quietly enough they won't hear him, "didj'ya even bother lookin'? She's got one-o them "Adnim" fellas with her!"

Escargoon takes the cue, his eyes somehow bugging out more than they already were.

"Look, I'll handle things here for a bit, you take these two over to the other me. If he ain't still at Yabui's clinic, ask Tiff or dat scary grey Meta Knight with the one eye ta call 'im wit dem fancy Star Phone doohickeys."

"R-right." He hands the penguin his clipboard slithers off again, in a different direction from before, waving Overseer and Blotch over, "Alright you two, follow me."

The duo shoot each other a Look before obeying.

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After a few minutes, Escargoon's leads them to a small clinic just off main street, "Alright, the other King Dedede's in here. Trust me, you can't miss him."

As he starts heading back, Blotch opens the door, revealing a cozy lobby/waiting room, where two (unusually detailed, from Blotch's perspective) Harmonian cats, an odd collection of Pokemon, and a much bigger, more impressive-looking version of the penguin from before are huddled around a Command Box that seems to be in video call mode, having a discussion in hushed-yet-frantic tones between themselves and whoever's on the other end. They hang up a few seconds after Blotch and Overseer enter, and as the huddle disperses one of the Pokemon spots the new arrivals and Blotch suddenly has a Hoppa with a suspicious scowl all up in her face.

"You! Where'd you come from? How come you look like Tamakin?"

As the group scrambles to get Hoopa under control, voices overlapping with apologies and admonishments, her mind latches onto one very important detail, "You know Tama!?"

"Of course! Tamakin is Hoopa's trainer!" He puffs up with pride as he says this.

"So, you know where she is, right? Is she here? Please, I need to see her."

The poor little mythical immediately deflates as she says this, seeming to almost tear up, before his face scrunches up in anger and distrust again, "Why do you wanna know?"

"I'm her sister, I-" her breath catches as she realizes the possible implications of how Hoopa's acting, how everyone in the room is acting, now that she looks at them, "Oh Muses no, she can't be- Please, I can't lose her again, tell me she isn't-"

"She's not dead," King Dedede's voice, deep and rumbling and authoritative in all the ways his local counterpart's isn't, cuts through Blotch's spiral of despair and commands the attention of everyone in the room, "It wasn't destruction, it was a teleport. She's still in Harmonia, wherever it ended up, just like all the other characters that're part of the game."

That should be a relief, but... "but, my Tama's not part of that game. We were from a spinoff."

He rubs the back of his...neck? head? whatever-it-is sheepishly, "er, she is as of a few weeks ago."

"...wot."

"Yeah, I should probably start at the beginning, when she first showed up. You two might wanna sit down, it's kind of a long story."

[eir-parade]

Polar|Star (P|S)

Leo/Need Adjacent Band

A group of music enthusiasts finding comfort in one another through their own music. Made with and for each other.

Hoshino Ichika - Vocalist, Guitarist, Partial Lyricist. Losing her passion for music, she wants to relearn what it means to enjoy music.

Asahina Mafuyu - Keyboardist, Partial Lyricist. Wants to find herself and feels as if music is the correct direction.

Shiraishi An - Drummer. After learning the truth of RAD WEEKEND, An lost her aspiration of trying to surpass it but also out of respect for Nagi. Ever since though, she has been having difficulty trying to understand her music.

Kiritani Haruka - Bassist, Composer. After quitting being an idol, Haruka found her way with a new instrument, showing her feelings in a new way.

SEKAI: Empty Assembly SEKAI

Similar to the Empty SEKAI where it’s just a huge white area, except in the design of a School Assembly Hall.

Despite there being a stage, the Hall itself seems to expand on forever.

School desks and chairs haphazardly dotted about in the Hall, blank sheets or paper with garbled writing strewn out on the desks and the floor.

First Virtual Singer

Hatsune Miku - Is basically like Niigo Miku. Acts like a calming presence to the others.

Virtual Singers

Order of Appearance (StC)

All act fairly similar to their Nightcord selves (blame Mafuyu /lh)

Megurine Luka - Tends to specifically criticise Ichika. Will read over Ichika’s lyrics or hears how she plays and will ask “is that it?” Though never actually giving the answer, Luka will nudge and hint Ichika in the correct direction. Ichika used to dislike how Luka would ‘pick on her’ but now trusts Luka’s opinion whole-heartedly.

Kagamine Rin - The group's biggest critic. Even if they think they’re doing something correctly, or playing right, Rin would immediately criticise them, telling them they’re wrong and that they should be doing it like this. Her criticism helps bring Haruka back down to Earth but causes Mafuyu immense stress and panic. Rin also acts similar to a prefect so will tell them off for running or shouting (namely An).

MEIKO - Represents distance… again. And hesitancy. Specifically An and Ichika’s hesitancy to get close to people again due to their own abandonment issues. When the group were deciding on actually becoming a full band, MEIKO directly questions An and Ichika’s dedication.

Kagamine Len - Childish. Like Niigo Len, P|S Len represents Mafuyu’s inner child, a childhood she lost. He also represents being a good student and would stress when he doesn’t get something right but also has moments where ‘slacking off’ seems to make him happy. He can also represent the other’s childhood as he can be very starry eyed.

KAITO - Anger. Pure, unadulterated rage towards Mafumom, broken promises, liars, fakes, and the world.

Subject to Change as I go on figuring out this AU more.