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slow-reader-reads-books · 4 days ago

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Anyone wonder about a The Substance (2024) au for svsss?

I'm thinking it could work for either Shen Jiu and a quasi Shen Yuan, or with Bingge and a quasi Bingmei, but I think being able to birth via your spine and some green medicinal goop (created by an underground black market company called The System, perhaps?) an "ideal" version of yourself and inhabit it for 7 days, but having to then return to your original body for 7 days, and having to both vicariously live through your ideal self, and then being haunted by them when you can't be them anymore until you feel forced to artificially manufacture a way to stay in your ideal self because you hate your real self to the point of wanting to kill them, but that in turn killing you, so you end up injecting yourself with too much Substance goop until you're unrecognizable to even yourself all in the name of escaping a world you feel unloved by...

Idk anyone think of this au yet? Highly recommend the original movie if you like plenty of horror, gore, and dissections of body dysmorphia that more or less leave you feeling like a changed person by the end (do check out the trigger warnings tho, it is a horror movie)

#svsss #the substance #my text #legit brainworms about how the mechanics in the movie could be used as a reverse dissection of either shen jiu or bingge #but honestly im leaning more towards shen jiu bc imagine him trying to act and live like an idealized shen yuan but shen yuan doesnt exist #outside of being an extension of shen jiu #so it ultimately ends in failure bc while in canon the story is saved by replacing shen jiu with a real other shen yuan #for a shen jiu who has to grow and heal through himself as himself #he cant just try to be shen yuan #tho imagine if theres a scene like in the movie (spoilers ahead read at your own discretion) where Sue and Elizabeth both wake up #and are cognizant at the same time and now are two separate people #imagine if our real shen yuan transmigrated into the Sue!Yuan (Su Yuan? oh wait im cooking) in the mirrored scene where theyre both awake #ofc then it must depart from how the movie goes or else that plotline wont amount to much hahahhhaaa....#if it then turns into scumcum them i wouldnt be remiss but if it retained a more quasi familial coding like the movies mother-daughter envy #then that could also be good fun #i guess theres also the question of would this be a genderbend au or sinply reapply fem themes to male characters #both could be fun. a trans sitch (transfem shen jiu my beloved. gender whatever-im-employeed-to-be sy my darling) could also be fun #someone plz steal my ideas they are all public domain by my decree i'd read the shit out of it in any variation #wait i thought of the bestworst title for this au: Scum Senior's Self Saving Substance 🤣

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