#the closest i usually come is roleplaying characters in the same universe as something else

[vocalovely]

WOULD YOU BE DOWN FOR A RWBY CROSSOVER AU WITH VOCALOID IN IT

I'M NOT SUPER INTO CROSSOVERS BUT IF I WAS I WOULD LOVE IT /genuine

Unless it's crossover art but it's just not the AU trope for me ^v^ people make some really cool stuff with it tho

[ravenwolfie97]

2020 Art Summary

Yep, it’s 2021 already. 2020 is finally over. It felt like it lasted forever, and it felt like the end would never come, but here we are. Crazy how the time flew by.

I felt like I didn’t get much art done this year because of Current World Event, but I made a lot more than I thought I did. Even some of my new favorite pieces came out of this year, so I think that’s worth celebrating and looking back upon!

I was insanely productive during the first month of 2020, and looking back I was surprised at all the stuff I did, but then I remembered that that winter season was actually one of the best times of my life! I started being more socially involved, and I think my newfound drive at the time translated into all the art I pumped out this month. This is just a small fraction of what I made in January, but I only have so much space. Quite a few complex pieces in both style exploration and polishing my own style.

Apparently February was a rather intimate month. Things began to slow down in terms of my own art here, with me spending more time in social settings and school work ramping up, I didn’t have as much time to coop up in my room to draw. I did wanna do something for a friend’s Valentine’s Day OC art challenge, so I drew my lovey-dovey couple from Dance of 1000 Words havin’ a dance. Nothing actually came of that challenge, but it was fun to do regardless.

One of the things I was most proud of in the winter season was making more friends, and one of the closest friends I made was completely coincidental. I met a person named Kiri on the bus one night I decided to volunteer somewhere by myself, and we ended up chatting and getting along. They quickly told me their tumblr username, and I shot them a message immediately after they left. A couple days later, we met up for brunch, and we started becoming really close friends and creative partners!

Not much else happened in March cuz that’s when Current World Event started becoming an issue, but Kiri and I still kept in close touch and we randomly started developing a concept for a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Galar Edition. These are a handful of characters we thought up, with Skipper the Scorbunny and Dross the Dreepy as the main characters, Morgrem as the main antagonist, and some shopkeepers such as those of the Greedent Bank and the Indeedee General Store. This was also my first time drawing all of these Galar Pokemon (except Scorbunny, but I also made Skipper a bit more unique than a regular Scorbunny).

Lots of events happened this month. First of all, Steven Universe Future ended, one of my favorite and most influential shows was no longer continuing. I had to do something as tribute, both as a send-off to one of the greatest cartoons in the world and as a cathartic release for my feelings towards it.

A while later, I got the opportunity to start playing an MMO in beta called Fer.al, by the same people who made Animal Jam, which coincidentally I had also beta tested for back in the day. I ended up getting really attached to my first character, a Senri I named Sasha, and though I’ve made more characters than them since, they’re still my absolute favorite. Though I haven’t touched the game in a few months, I was really engrossed for a long time and enjoyed playing through the beta and early access phases.

At the end of the month, some friends of mine invited to a roleplay group with some mutuals, and we all played characters in a crime syndicate. Just a bunch of ragtag thieves and criminals who ended up together in order to protect an artifact called the Crown of Thieves, which was essentially a flag to be taken by other groups to prove that they are the best thieves in the land. My character was based heavily on my sona (if it wasn’t obvious) and was also influenced by Cloud Strife, since the FFVII Remake had just come out and I was super into watching the cutscenes at the time. My character’s (code)name is Valkyrie, and they are a mercenary, going between multiple different employers to carry out whatever duties they need to do. They have a more complicated backstory, but presently they were recently hired by recommendation of their friend Shark (played by @shmoots-universe​ who is also My friend now ily maya) who works with a group called the Court Cards who are currently in possession of the Crown of Thieves. Valk never really had a place to call home, but staying with this group of people had to be the closest they could get to that feeling. They still sleep with a knife under their pillow because of trust issue but that’s okay.

Okay, so technically these examples started in April, but I continued making content with them in May, and the month was just pretty void of art in general, so here I am addressing them.

There were two main things I worked on this month: a Steven Universe AU of my own and the whole #sixfanarts thing that kicked off around then. Let’s start with the fanart bits. I did two and a half of them (six in April and nine in May), and it was so much fun to be able to draw stuff I don’t normally do! My personal favorites are shown here: Blake Belladonna from RWBY, Roll from Megaman, Yuki Konno from Sword Art Online, and Link from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The other thing I’d been planning for a while was a Steven Universe AU, probably to cope with the show being over but also because I was inspired by a lot of those SU AU artists I started following at the time. I won’t share the details here because it’s gonna have its own blog at some point, but the example I’ve shown here is of a comic I made loosely in order to introduce a divergence in the plot of the story as well as introduce a character unique to my AU. It was a lot of fun figuring out how to draw the characters and get a feel for the style.

As the year progressed, my amount of art I made per month began to dwindle, this time mostly because school was kicking my ass especially hard with finals. However, I took what time I had to get some backburner pieces finished, like the Tigerlily picture which I sketched out a couple months back, and the Gunvolt picture which I started working on SIX YEARS AGO. I don’t quite know why I got the urge to work on it again after so long, but it was nice to finally realize. The other drawing for DOTS was done in the dead of night but I was really happy with how it came out.

Despite only having two summer classes left of school, this month was really rough because they demanded a lot of my time and attention. I did not have the gumption to do anything digital, so I stuck to my sketchbook to get out what I felt like getting out.

My friends and I did a stream of the game Helltaker, and I really enjoyed the concept, so in following my friends I made my own Helltaker demon OC named Raksha the Ravenous Demon (it’s a pun but also got mythical insp). I also got super into Hazbin Hotel at this point, mostly because the Addict music video dropped and I couldn’t get enough of it, so I doodled Angel Dust cuz I felt like it. The other drawing I did was actually a free commission I gave a friend of mine as a prize for a trivia game show I ran back in June. He along with a couple other friends got some free drawings from me for getting the top three scores, and this one in particular was fun because of how interesting it was. He wanted me to draw a video game reviewer called the Irate Gamer from a specific moment, and I decided to go ham and just make it as dramatic as possible.

University classes finally wrapped up and right after that I was in the process of moving out of my apartment and getting adjusted to living with my parents again. I did a couple of agg.io drawing sessions with my friends from the Court Cards group as well as a new Dungeons and Dragons homebrew group I had joined. I drew some more of Valkyrie and came up with a design for my DND character Qakuqtuq (or Kai for short). He is monkey grandpa and I love him.

My main focus was on finishing a polished piece for my friend Cake, whose birthday was in the upcoming month. I wanted it to be as amazing as possible, so I put a lot of time into getting more detailed and making them look good. In addition to that, I did a few TOME doodles just for fun. The creature on the bottom was for this month’s art challenge on my Discord server where we made original TOMERPG monsters, and I created Hundylow, a Crystal-element monster based on the Grindylow from English folklore.

This month was a lot more productive than the past few had been. I tried to do a 31-day art challenge called Creatober but failed to get past the third prompt because I was still swamped with other work. I’m still happy with what little I did, including the piece with my characters Kyle and Guarudan from DSWD.

I don’t remember how, but I also suddenly rediscovered an old Flipnote Hatena series called Tales of LostClan, a Warriors fan series that I would say was the most obscure thing I’ve ever been super invested in. It was what got me into the actual Warriors books, and I liked it so much I redrew the animations into a comic... twice. Didn’t get nearly as far the second time but clearly my love for this little fanfiction had not waned after nearly a decade. I felt like drawing a book cover/movie poster for the series, just to get it out there and see how much I’ve improved over all that time.

Also I felt like making a vampiresona just before Halloween because I never dress up for Halloween in art (or real life anymore, for that matter), and I wanted to do something like that for once. It was short-lived but I really liked the design!

The focus of this month was definitely on Pokemon stuff. As per usual I contributed to the current Gotta Draw ‘Em All collab, and I was tasked to draw Regieleki. It was really fun to figure out how to make it stand out and look like it was made of electricity.

I also committed a lot of my spare time to my Fakemon Gym Leaders, as I had been working on bringing them to life in the past year or so now. As of this post, I’ve finished rendering their full body poses and gym badges, but I’m still working on completing all eight VS portraits, the first half of which are shown here.

I... didn’t draw anything this month, actually. What I’m showing here was worked on in the last few days but has actually been in progress for a couple of months, and I just finished it earlier today, in 2021. But I needed to show something off, and it’s also about time I mentioned it.

Back in October, I kept seeing people rave about this game called Genshin Impact, and I was interested but not so much as to start playing it... until my friends started playing and I was like “fuck it, let’s download it”. Since that day, I have been super immersed and in love with this game, to the point I came up with my own canon based on my gameplay experiences. This also included the creation of an original player character: Astra, the non-binary Traveller. And now, I’ve finally drawn them and brought them to life.

It has been one hell of a year. I had some of the highest highs and lowest lows in 2020, lots of changes, and I have now officially moved onto the next chapter of my life now that my time at university is finally over. I’m very excited for what 2021 has to offer, and I’m going to go forward with great ambition.

[tryingthisfangirlthing]

Teslen + gamer au, reality tv show au (y'know, like The X Factor or Pop Stars or whatevs), high school au. Sam/Jack + supernatural beings au... Oh! And Doctor/Rose + Star Trek au. XD

Okay, I’m putting this all under a cut, because it’s going to get super long and super rambly. I wasn’t kidding about the novel outlines. Oh, and I’m also tagging @viennainspringtime​ because I feel you might like this. (Yours is coming soon. I have the second AU already done and am working on the first, and yes, they will be long and rambly like these. ;) )

Teslen Gamer AU

Helen is the guild leader, super invested, mains cleric or wizard and probably switches between the two, but has one of every class and knows all of them decently well. Probably tanky cleric because nobody else wants to do it and it needs doing. Her characters’ names are all some variation of the same gamer handle.

Nikola is that guy from a remote country with a crappy connection — or at least that’s what he blames it on when he gets trounced, but half the time his oddball builds and combos actually work, pretty fantastically (the other half of the time he dies nearly immediately. There is no in-between. He is a full glass cannon long-range mage and refuses to ever touch anything else. He’s always up to date on the latest balance tuning and class changes and is constantly fiddling with his build.) He only has one character he really plays, with a lore-conform name and an elaborate in-universe headcanon backstory.

Nikola never actually joins her guild, but she invites him along on raids anyways. All the guild members grumble about it in private, though sometimes his firepower comes in handy, and Helen is a great guild leader otherwise.

Nikola didn’t actually realize Helen was a woman at first, then once he learned started cracking jokes about how, “oh, that explains my deep and lasting attraction to you.” She never takes him seriously, but he doesn’t ask for pictures of her tits so she quite frankly doesn’t care (and sometimes the flirting is fun). He is, of course, dead serious.

They met in a random dungeon run during off-hours (or rather, Helen had a free morning and Nikola was staying up far too late as usual). They synched in a way only gamers will get, and began to hang around at those times when they could in the hopes of catching one another online again. The pick-up groups during off-hours became a Thing for them, teaching  newbies how to do it and landing some loot in the process. (Helen gives all the explanations, Nikola is always just like “do this” and then gets annoyed when they don’t do it right and so half the dungeon run is just them bickering back and forth about patience and learning and so forth. “You didn’t have to do this,” from Helen always shuts him right up — because of course he’ll do this just to spend time with Helen but it wouldn’t do to seriously admit that — and she’s learned to use it sparingly because it makes him go all weird.)

Nikola loves to roleplay within the game, but Helen doesn’t. He regales her with tales of character drama, and she vents to him about guild infighting she has to deal with.

There was one half-hearted attempt at roleplay between them, which ended up getting heated. They didn’t have cybersex but that night saw them both incredibly sexually frustrated as they logged off. They don’t talk about it.

Helen’s real-life boyfriend already had issues with her gaming but the time she spends with Nikola is the last straw. There’s a fight, and they break up. Helen doesn’t tell Nikola any of this, because it sits oddly with her and it should really have no bearing on her and Nikola’s relationship.

The guild sets up a voice chat server for raiding. Nikola has a permanent guest pass on it, though he doesn’t use it for raids, claiming it sinks his ping to intolerable levels. Helen *only* uses it for raids. They almost studiously avoid one another on it for the longest time. Helen logged in once to overhear him talking with some of the guild members about mage builds and fell in love with his accent. Nikola desperately wants to hear her voice.

Finally one day during low-pressure routine dungeon runs with a pick-up group, he suggests they talk. A little hesitantly, Helen agrees. Nikola’s holding his breath as she turns on her mic and her voice is perfect because it’s hers.

They end up talking several times a week (in her leader’s private channel), and Helen isn’t sure why she avoided this before (it crosses her mind that her ex might have gotten the right idea after all).

Nikola finally can’t stand not knowing how she feels about him, only him being him, he goes about it all wrong and asks why she spends so much time with him. She’s surprised, a little disappointed, a little offended. He doesn’t have to spend time with her if he doesn’t want and she tells him that, but that she enjoys his company and thought he enjoyed hers.

He can’t help but pry further, why she enjoys his company, why does she like him, how does she like him. When she finally asks him why he’s asking all these obnoxious impossible questions today, he blurts out “I think I’m in love with you.”

She takes it as one of his jokes at first, only he reassures her he’s serious, and she goes quiet.

He fears he’s ruined everything; she tells him she just needs some time to think it over and adjust, but she’s gone for several days. He’s glued to his computer insofar as he can be, hoping against hope she’ll log on again, though he knows she’s told her guild members she’ll be absent for a week, maybe longer.

She’s different when she does come back, a little quieter, wants to talk with him immediately.

She just took her final exams to graduate med school, she tells him, the first she’s really talked about her life outside of nerd culture or the game, besides having mentioned her boyfriend once upon a time when he started flirting. She just took her final exams, and she took them in a fog, because she couldn’t keep him off her mind.

She asks him if he’s serious, if he meant it about being in love with her. Of course he’s serious. He’s told her everything about himself, all his secrets— reassures her it’s all true.

She’s terribly afraid of being toyed with, because this is Nikola and he flirts with almost everyone, men and women alike. He asks what he can do to prove it to her.

She wants him to play a cleric in their next raid, so she can run her mage for once. He does, rolls one and power-levels it in time, even if it’s slightly undergeared. (He’s actually almost as good a cleric as he is a mage.)

They switch off after that, though not without Nikola complaining dramatically every time she makes him go healer.

Helen slowly opens up to him, tells him about her life, about her day. (She did pass her exams.) She finds she relishes it, relaxing with him whenever she can, letting down the wall between hobby and “real life” a little.

He doesn’t make any grand declarations again, doesn’t dare ask what they are or if that was enough or anything like that. More than friends, hopefully, but he doesn’t know what.

Helen is the one who asks. “It feels so middle school to ask if you want to be my boyfriend, but — do you?”

Of course he does, and he asks her how there could be any doubt. She doesn’t have a good answer for that.

They talk a bit, about long distance and visits and seeing how it goes. Absolutely no one in the guild is surprised when it comes out they’re dating — in lieu of RL dating Nikola takes her to scenic out-of-the way places in the game, and spends time with her there. (And teases her in chat whispers, loving how her breathing changes and dreaming of the day he can say these things in person and see the look on her face. She admits he’s good at dirty talk. He looks forward to honing that skill.) 

Teslen Reality TV show AU

Nikola’s here as part of his own little experiment, the study of applied psychology to game the system of shows like this (though of course he comes up with some bullshit about dreams for the camera). He’s not in it for the prize itself (though of course he hopes to get it nonetheless). He picked a modelling competition because it relies on the looks he knows he has — he can’t sing for shit.

Helen is skeptical, but figures she might as well give it a shot — she has nothing to lose, and someone has to win. And she knows she looks good.

Everyone is surprised Helen is working her way through med school, because, what? She’s so done with the “dumb blonde” stereotypes and finally dyes her hair brown and goes for the “smoky mystique” angle. Nikola is blown away.

Nikola wears everything like it was made especially for him, and needs almost no tutoring on anything. He’s almost disqualified from the amateur competition due to prior experience, but they can’t come up with any proof of that. (Basically, he’s just naturally that showoffy and Extra.)

Nikola is both intrigued by Helen and disgruntled at the serious competition. Yet they gravitate towards one another as the two keenest minds in the place.

The candid camera picks up some of their shared scorn at the competition, which does not make them popular with the other competitors or the judges.

The public loves them, and their push-pull frenemies dynamic becomes the biggest draw for the show. Nikola is fascinated by this new development in his socio-psychological study. Helen is happy about anything that will give her an edge.

With great difficulty, Nikola does not flirt, because he doesn’t want to give Helen or anyone else any edge over him, any way to distract him any more than he already is. (He worried he was going to have a heart attack when she walked out in that slip of a bikini.)

As finals draw closer they decide to pair up the remaining male and female models for a shoot. Of course Nikola and Helen are paired up. He tries to stay professional for the camera, but something in her eyes and her breathing when he has his hands on her skin…

Immediately after they wrap she drags him to the closest dark corner and shoves him up against the wall and kisses him senseless. They just make it back to her dressing room before he lays her out on her couch and makes love to her. It’s fast and messy and desperate and they just lie together afterwards, awkward and wordless, until he kisses her on the cheek and leaves. 

Somehow their liaison is the one thing the cameras don’t catch.

(Everyone, judges and viewers alike, agree their shoot was effortlessly sensual — the others look flat in comparison.)

They avoid each other for the next week. Speculation, public and private, runs rampant that something must have happened between the two of them. But after a week it’s back to normal between the two of them. (Nikola isn’t sure whether to be relieved she’s speaking to him again, or crushed that it seems to have meant nothing.)

Helen really appreciates his ability to drop it, though she hates the long psycho-analyzing glances he shoots her (and she knows he has some ulterior motive in all this than just a winning a modelling contract, though she doesn’t know what). She just wants her friend back (because he’s the only thing that really made this entire thing bearable). (And if she relives certain memories sometimes late at night, that’s nobody’s business.)

The finals come down to the pair of them, of course. Everyone wants to see what happens when these two are really and truly pitted against one another, and the interviewers play off of that, onstage, before the big moment.

Helen never really expected to get this far, and she has a few offers of modeling contracts that will get her what she needs to get the rest of the way through medical school easily.

So she looks around at the audience, turns to Nikola, and kisses him, full-on, in front of everyone. Then she walks off the stage.

Everyone (including Nikola himself) is shell-shocked.

Nikola runs after her, once he’s come back to his senses, and cameras show them kissing in the wings, him edging her back against a wall as she wraps her arms around his neck. (The cameras cut out after that, because they have a rating to keep.)

Helen is actually declared the winner, much to her surprise, but she declines the contract (she has a hell of a lot more lucrative ones coming in after that little stunt she pulled, because it got everyone’s attention).

Nikola is also offered the prize, but he refuses as well. Studio executives are left scratching their heads. Finally it goes to one Kate Freelander, third runner-up, who uses it to help get her family out of debt and into a better life.

Nikola’s study is interesting, to say the least. It certainly doesn’t fly scientifically, but he’s not too bothered about it. The story does become a best-selling book (though that part about her dressing room will always be their secret. Sometimes, Helen likes to keep it fresh in her mind, on the living room couch, and he’s happy to oblige).

They move in together, and everyone speculates about a proposal, though none is forthcoming and the gossip slowly dies down. Helen only models when she chooses — her real passion is medicine and Nikola is happy to support that. They coauthor several scientific articles on the relationship between physical and mental health, something they’re far more proud of than that bestselling book that generates most of their income.

Nikola shakes his head when they want to make a TV movie out of the story, but Helen is far more practical about it, and sells the rights with the provision Nikola have creative oversight.

Teslen High School AU (Okay, this ended up being a high school-slash-college AU. :P)

There’s an unofficial betting pool on who will become valedictorian (between Helen, Nikola, and James), with both teachers and students in on it. They both know about it. (Helen bets on herself. Nikola doesn’t bet, because he couldn’t decide whether to bet for himself or Helen. James bets on them both.)

Helen is a cheerleader. Nikola being a teenager, he constantly jokes about her flexibility. She regularly punches him for it.

They bonded instantly. Everyone used to tease them about being boyfriend and girlfriend. Helen always laughed it off, and people eventually accepted they were just friends. Problem is,  Nikola’s been head over heels for her since that first ninth grade chemistry class.

Helen is chair of the science club and has special access privilege to the lab rooms. Nikola meanwhile is nearly been banned from all use of chemicals or physics apparatus no less than three times a year, and never allowed near them without supervision (not since The Explosion, as everyone calls it, with capital letters). Helen lets him into the lab after hours, but supervises him herself because anything that goes wrong will be on her. (It’s still gone wrong a couple times, but they’ve managed to cover it up so far. And sometimes it’s her fault, too.)

Nikola is head of the mathletes. He and Helen compete to see whose club wins the most competitions and awards in a year.

Helen has a brief thing with a senior in their sophomore year. She ended it after six months, and swore off guys until she was done with school.

Nikola privately hates that he wasn’t her first kiss (and maybe not another first of hers, but he refuses to think about that).

Nikola is a year younger than everyone else, because he skipped a grade in elementary school.

Helen was homeschooled by her father up until high school. Half the material taught she already knows.

It is Known that, after things ended with John, either Nikola or James will take Helen to dances.

Nikola always, always asks first. (Nigel “keeps James away” until Nikola texts she’s accepted, and James lets himself be kept away.)

Nikola pretends it’s a friends thing. He thinks Helen believes him. (She’s not quite sure she does.)

Helen thinks he’s cute, but immature.

He asks, hesitantly, at graduation, if they’ll stay in touch during college. She asks, incredulously, if there’s any reason he thinks they wouldn’t. He shrugs, mutters that no, there isn’t a reason, and beams all through the ceremony (even though she and James end up tying for valedictorian, because Nikola just couldn’t always be arsed to do his homework).

They do keep in touch, frequently actually. Helen’s college friends tease her about her handsome long-distance boyfriend. She gives up trying to correct them.

He visits her, once. Hearing she’s talked about him thrills him, though he never says it.

He sleeps on her couch, and one night a bottle of wine turns it into both of them sleeping on her couch. There’s no convincing her flatmates they haven’t slept together.

That’s not the only time he visits her, or she him. She’s pleasantly surprised by how he’s matured. College is good to him.

He isn’t her first, but she’s his.

They talk about it later, about not letting it ruin their friendship, about how she doesn’t want a relationship right now.

He’s crushed, until she kisses him and says maybe in a few years.

(She specifically applies for medical residences near his research lab.)

Sam/Jack Supernatural Beings AU (This is a complete mess, okay? It was originally going to be something that veered into Arthurian legend but I didn’t like that version so much. But anyways don’t expect coherent lore here.)

Jack is a guardian angel who lost his charge. He blames himself badly and is sentenced to live as a human for a lifetime.

He’s made the uncle and guardian of the orphaned boy he lost, and sees it as a chance to redeem himself, another chance to save him. But no matter what he tries, the march of time seems immutable, most things so far happening just as they did before.

Sam and Daniel are fae, brother and sister, in possession of powerful magic.

Daniel is fascinated with humans and is especially good at seduction (and oftentimes is just a huge unconscious flirt). Sam is just a pure mischievous mage-scientist, at least until she meets Jack.

Daniel drags Sam along with him on his jaunts among the humans. It’s frowned upon by the fae elders, because falling in love with a human changes a fae, causes them to become bound to that person, and they lose their magic and all connection to the fae world, essentially becoming human, until the person dies. (And often the fae becomes so bound to the fragile human that they end up dying too.)

Sam asks Daniel why he likes humans so much, if his wife and then watching her die was really worth it. He tells her it’s not the kind of thing you can explain to someone else unless you’ve experienced it for yourself.

Sam usually takes more interest in the humans’ crude physical devices than in people, but there’s something about Jack that fascinates her.

Jack is a miller, and he explains all the workings of it to her. He finds it strange that she doesn’t seem to have any experience with what is an everyday thing for most people.

She immediately has suggestions on how to improve it, some of them good, some of them (to his human sense of logic) nonsensical (because she forgets humans only have very limited access to magic).

Fae and angels usually have limited to no contact, and their magic is very different. Heaven and the Seelie Court leave one another well enough alone, and they’re both quite happy that way. (Hence why he doesn’t realize she’s fae, and she doesn’t realize he’s angel.)

For the first time Sam understands Daniel’s fascination with humans, she tells him. He watches her and Jack bond, a little eagerly but also a little worriedly.

Jack’s kid loves her and is fascinated with the little tricks and illusions she creates for him. Jack doesn’t take Sam seriously when she answers that she does it by magic (even though he can’t find another explanation for it).

Jack can’t find her at the inn she said she was staying at, when he wanted to see her; but that evening she shows up at his door without fail.

She shrugs and evades his answers, asking why he was looking for her in the first place.

The change never happens all at once. It’s gradual, just like falling in love is.

Sam notices one day that she can’t perform some of the more complicated spells anymore. She bites her lip and tells no one, but Daniel guesses.

Sam spends more and more time at the mill, offering to help him grind grain, free of charge. He’s puzzled at the offer, but sees no reason to refuse. He’s happy to spend more time with her, though she’s still sometimes infuriatingly adept at evading his questions.

When he confronts her, she asks him whether or not all of those particulars are really so important, and he’s forced to admit they aren’t, not right now.

She finally blurts out that she wonders what kissing is like. He finds it difficult to believe she’s never been kissed. She insists. He’s happy to show her (and kissing ends up turning into a lot more, up against the wall, at her insistence. She asks, at the end, jokingly because she does know how sex works, whether all of that was just kissing. He laughs and kisses her again.)

Even the huge addition of the guardian courting someone (more or less — he wants to but they haven’t talked about it, never mind angels not exactly being encouraged to marry) doesn’t seem to change the boy’s path. Jack becomes more and more distracted as the day of the accident approaches.

Sam notices, and finally pries something of his worry out of him, a “bad premonition.” She offers to put a ward on the boy (one of the few spells she can still pull off nowadays). He finally realizes she wasn’t kidding about magic, and feels entirely betrayed, throwing her out of the house, calling her a witch.

She shows up at Daniel’s door battered and bruised, because the physical reflects the state of a fae’s heart. He lets her in without a word, and holds her while she cries.

When she’s done, she asks him if humans can foretell the future. He mentions Sha’re used to get “premonitions” sometimes that were usually true. Sam decides she still has to try to save the boy.

With misgivings, Daniel lets her go.

Jack has kept the boy out of the mill, preventing the original accident, and is relieved, for a short while, until he realizes he doesn’t feel redeemed, only unsettled. He calls for the boy, but can’t find him.

Sam finds him, in the middle of the road with a cart barreling towards him, and does the only thing she can do in that moment — shoves him out of the way and is hit herself.

Jack, hunting for the boy, finds the pair of them, the boy shell-shocked, the driver regretful — they came out of nowhere! — and Sam seriously injured.

She refuses to see a doctor, even more vehemently refuses to have the priest fetched for the Last Rites, because they’ll both know what she is — even if she doubts  she’s much fae at all now.

When she passes out, Jack carries her back to the mill and fetches the village midwife.

Janet regards him shrewdly, but doesn’t say anything, and works on helping Sam.

Daniel visits, once, asking after his sister, and leaves a small fae healing charm by her bedside, to help the remnant of her fae self.

Janet starts when she sees this the next time she visits, but she doesn’t say anything, not until Jack asks her what’s startled her. She’s surprised he doesn’t know his… lover… is fae. (He begins to insist they’re not lovers, then thinks the better of it. Janet tosses him a “damn right” glance but simply remarks that Sam must certainly love him.)

(Jack tells the boy to stay at Sam’s bedside, both to keep a watch on her and to keep the boy safe while he has to run the mill.)

Sam finally wakes up. She wants to talk with Jack, about why he saved her, but he tells her to just focus on getting better. It frustrates her.

(Daniel bumps into Janet on his second visit, after she’s awoken. Janet sees through his glamour at once, which startles both of them. He offers her a grateful smile as he passes, no charm intended, and she ducks her head and flushes a little.)

Janet and Sam have a long talk about the situation. Sam swears Janet to secrecy.

Sam and Jack finally sit down and talk. She admits she’s a fae, or was, and that she’s in love with him. He’s over the moon, nearly forgetting to mention the part where he used to be an angel. She’s startled, but they decide to see how it goes.

They want to get married, but the priest has trouble saying the words to witness it properly (because supernatural beings he really really has no authority over). They try to help him and eventually they all stumble through.

Jack, and Sam once she’s better (something that happens very quickly once she hears he feels the same for her), are constantly rescuing a very very accident-prone boy. It takes several weeks for Death (probably Maybourne xD) to realize he isn’t supposed to get him right now, and stop trying. (Jack suddenly realizes he’s beginning to regain his angelic sight, and runs to look at Sam. She practically shimmers for him, and he tells her right then and there how beautiful she is.)

Daniel falls for Janet, and the pairs are the best of friends until Janet dies and Daniel moves back home among the fae.

Sam and Jack watch the kid grow up and move away, and when he finally dies of old age they both return to their original forms. Heaven and the Seelie Court are a bit flabbergasted, but somewhat awkwardly and incredibly formally arrange a joint ceremony. Neither society really wants them in it, but they won’t be outdone by the other so they both invite the pair to join them. Sam and Jack respectfully decline, and decide to use glamour to live among humans again.

Doctor/Rose Star Trek AU (This is the only one that even approaches headcanon status, and is a bit more of a fusion. It’s still long and rambly. :P)

They all call him “the captain,” or just “Captain,” even the admirals. (Nobody’s sure anyone else actually knows his name. Surely he has a file somewhere, but nobody working under him has ever found it. They whisper about top secret something or other, but he doesn’t look at all like the black ops type, and gets offended if you mention it to him.)

He’s a human. No other species has that “hold my beer, I’ve got this” recklessness.

His ship is confusing as hell, both from an engineering and layout standpoint. It’s an older model, overhauled and upgraded to meet current Starfleet standards.

The running joke is that something about the warp core has created a localized spatial anomaly that randomly moves the corridors and rooms. Older crew members swear it isn’t true, but to every cadet first setting foot on the vessel it certainly seems like the case.

You’ll more often than not find the Captain in Engineering, instead of on the bridge or in his ready room. He claims it relaxes him.

The official head of engineering has learned to roll with it, and has taken to programming holonovels in their unexpected spare time. (The ship is known for having the best assortment of holoentertainment in the galaxy.)

The only really permanent member of his crew is one Rose Tyler. Half-human, half-betazoid, head of operations on the ship, even the official first officers know to defer to her when it comes to decoding his occasionally cryptic orders, or ascertaining what he would want done in his absence.

(People constantly question why she isn’t his first officer. She lifts one shoulder and says she supposes he needed a good chief of operations more than he needed a good first officer. Nobody’s ever quite sure how to respond to that.)

People who’ve never been on the ship assume from hearing about the pair that he’s in a covert relationship with his subordinate. Crew members will swear that’s not the case. (And if they notice a moment or two of pining on Rose’s part, they never breathe a word.)

Rumor has it his favorite holoprograms involve him being a woman. Rose, the only person he’s ever shared any of his personal holoprograms with, remains steadfastly tight-lipped about it. (But she’s grateful for the holodeck’s soundproofing and privacy controls.)

He despises visits to the infirmary, and tries to avoid them at all costs, going so far as to hide various medical supplies in his quarters. Without fail, Rose finds out, and sends him to medical for a check-up. The ship’s doctor tries not to take it personally.

Rose, by virtue of her betazoid half, can sense others’ emotions most of the time, and is often the first to offer a shoulder or a hot cup of tea. She’s made herself popular around the ship just by virtue of being her, and even if some of the crew don’t necessarily care for their eccentric captain, they care for her.

She refuses to be made into an unofficial ship’s counselor, though. She has a job, and she’s here to do that, and anything else is at her discretion.

Every new chief of security has a short, personal meeting with the captain in his ready room. If there is danger, they are to protect Rose first, and they are not to tell her of this order.

Rose is always waiting for them when they come out of that meeting, with a short, “I know what he said. Just ignore it. Do your job: protect the captain first.”

The poor confused chief of security is shot pitying looks by the entire bridge crew.

The captain always calls the ship his Tardis, though no one knows what he means by that. He claims it’s a nickname based on a famous fictional ship in human history, one that could do anything.

Only a select few human history scholars specializing in popular culture and entertainment have any idea what he’s talking about. Most people just shrug and move on.

Few Vulcans last long on his ship, citing “illogicity and disorder” as their reasons for requesting a transfer.

There have been one or two investigations into conduct aboard the ship, but nothing ever seems to come out of it.

The captain has thrown himself in front of phaser fire for Rose once or twice. The ship’s doctor eagerly described the loud, furious dressing-down Rose gave him once they’d been left alone in the room. The doctor returned in time to hear his response: “The ship can run fine without me — but I — not without you.”

They don’t have a row, but for a day or two it’s all stiff glances and meaningful looks the rest of the crew can’t decipher.

Not long after that, Rose is offered a position on the command track and the prospect of captaincy of her own ship. The crew congratulates her, and says this has been a long time coming. She quietly turns it down.

A few days later, he calls her to his ready room and asks why. She wasn’t aware he knew. (Of course he did; he was the one who put her in for it.)

She asks if he wants to be rid if her. Of course he doesn’t, but he thinks she deserves better than being stuck as his chief of ops for the rest of her career. She already basically runs the ship; he just tinkers and does stupid heroic stuff every once in a while, and everyone knows it.

“Yeah, and who’d run your ship for you if I was gone?”

“You want to stay with me?” He doesn’t understand it, but when she says yes he beams.

They quietly (unofficially) start sharing a cabin. No one says anything.

He finally does convince her to accept a position as his first officer, though.