#the main character’s name is Evangeline btw

[v01ces-in-my-h34d]

I Killed Someone.

chapter 1/on probation

the world is reborn because of one company.

“Bullshit! Absolute fucking nonsense.” Heads turned toward the girl as she continued to let out profanities. Angry parents gave her nasty looks, covering their small children’s ears, but Evangeline didn’t care. All she cared about was the newspaper in her hand.

She shook her head and threw the paper on the wet concrete sidewalk. The robot gave her an emotionless look. Nowadays, people don’t work in customer service anymore. Even if they wanted to (which nobody did) they wouldn’t be able to. A law was passed in 2057, almost 70 years ago, preventing citizens from working in any store, restaurant, maintenance shop, little girls aren’t even allowed to sell lemonade in cardboard stands anymore.

Evangeline turned around to see the newspaper robot staring at her, it’s eyes incredibly human-like. It’s unsettling. She awkwardly turned back around and walked away calmly, having gained control of her emotions once again.

The government had taken her car and license nearly ten years ago, so she has to walk everywhere. Busses aren’t an option either, all ‘Automatic Motorists’ scan bus riders as they get on. If the rider is for any reason on the government’s ‘Dangerous Citizen Under Government Watch’ list, or DCGW list, they get forcefully removed from the premise. The government gave up on second warnings, in fact they gave up on first warnings too. The quote everyone knows all too well is, “You get your warnings in your email. You should know where you belong and what your social status is. If you don’t, you deserve to be punished,” -Mycroft Raith, 4th U.S.E president.

When Eva finally arrives at her puny apartment which reeks of moldy carpet and polluted rain water (though the whole city smells like severely polluted sewer water) she sighed heavily and slid down the closed door, placing her hands on her head. What was she going to do now?

Typically it is mandatory that citizens have roommates, but since Evangeline is on the governments DCGW list, she has lost her ‘roommate privileges’, that’s what her email from President Raith himself said, which is stupid, anyone with half a brain knows that a privilege is a special right, not a law. Of course she could never say it-there are cameras everywhere and one negative word about Mr. Raith is a death penalty.

Eva really isn’t sure if she prefers having a roommate or not. At first it was nice, the peace and quiet, more room, cleaner stuff, but most importantly she loved the thought that the government was scared of her and what she could do to stop them. Though, recently, it hasn’t been that great. She felt empty and she hadn’t done enough. Sure, she got some people to go against Raith, but some people isn’t enough. The entire population, both dead and living, are so brainwashed it feels like there’s nothing she can do.

She heard someone banging on her mildewy door. She groaned quietly before getting up and twisting the cheap gold handle that had come off multiple times.

“Evangeline Slasher?” A rather large man, who she immediately recognized as Knox Flair, asked. Evangeline knew nearly everyone that worked for the government. He had on a full body swat suit, well, what swat suits used to look like when they still existed. The only thing missing being the typical ‘SWAT’ that was replaced with ‘MR Co.’ Mycroft Raith Corporate. God that man is pretentious.

“Salutations. Is there anything you need, sir?” Eva said with mocking respect and a deadpan stare. The man looked uncomfortable.

“Yes.” He avoided eye contact. “My name is”, “Mr. Knox Flair. Nice to meet you.” Eva interrupted him. She stuck her hand out for the man to shake, which he awkwardly pushed away with one finger. Of course, she wasn’t expecting anything else from a brainless ‘police officer’ who would do anything himself for the president.

“Right, so, you’re being arrested. Please put your hands behind your back. Anything you say now may be used against you in prison.” Knox Flair sputtered out. The saying used to be ‘anything you say now may be used against you in court,’ not prison. Well, the government changed it, Preston Frederick Hilary, the founder of U.S.E (United States of Earth) got rid of lawyers. Once the president decides whether or not you are to be put in prison or not, that’s final. The president controls everything in this sick world. ‘President’ basically just means ‘King of the World’.

“I didn’t do anything! What do you mean i’m arrested?!” Evangeline practically shouted. “Did you not see the paper? It says exactly why you are getting arrested.” Knox Flair questioned.

Yes. Eva had seen the paper. She had read exactly why she was getting arrested. She knew this was coming-she knew it was coming since she decided she was going to speak up against Mycroft Raith. Speak up for all the people who had been brainwashed to think this is what’s good for them and for all the people who were too scared of what would happen to them if they protested at all.

She hesitated, thinking about what to say. Eva had always been stubborn, that wasn’t about to change. She settled on “I refuse to surrender to these retarded laws, though i refuse to inquire in Raith’s game, I will not let some crackhead control me like a puppet nor will I let him control these poor dolls anymore.”

Knox Flair looked taken aback. But soon his face contorted to immense anger, to a simple smirk.

“Are you resisting?”

That’s when she knew she fucked up, but she didn’t let him know that, of course. “Yes.” She crossed her arms stubbornly, to show dominance or to show she wouldn’t be going anywhere, she wasn’t sure-perhaps both.

He pulled out a gun and cocked it quickly. Holding it to her face in between her ginger eyebrows. Knox Flair pulled the trigger back and Evangeline’s mind went completely blank.

Unsure if she was dead or alive, Eva hesitantly moves her hand to her head (which is pounding like crazy). She opens her eyes, which she didn’t realize were closed in the first place, to find she didn’t know where she was. It was possible that she’s in heaven. But there’s always that inkling in the back of her mind that says she would have gone to hell. That everything she believed was incorrect. No, no she did it for the people-maybe that’s a stretch, but it feels wrong to say that she did it for herself. No matter how true it is.

She looks down at her feet to see that her foot is chained to a, highly uncomfortable, bed. She looks to her side to see a musty cardboard box used as a bedside table and a a newspaper sitting patiently on top of it. She grabbed it to see it was soggy. “Why is everything always wet now?” She croaked, voice hoarse. On the front page is a picture of Raith, his pale skin and grin features. He was incredibly skinny and he looked constantly tired and old all the time-despite being 31. The headline read, ‘Our savior; Mycroft Raith Captures Bloodthirsty Murderer, Evangeline Slasher, Who Spread Nasty Rumors About Him And Tried To Impeach Him For Power’ she was definitely in Hell.

[aces-come-in-spades]

NOBODY LIKES THE OPENING BAND!: CHARACTER MASTERLIST

Please read all of the following information. This covers some basic in-universe mechanics and provides enough background information to interact with the characters, as well as some info on the characters themselves.

(btw. obligatory fuck you ryan seaman before we continue. i dont support that dickhead <333)

BE ADVISED: HEAVY RELIGIOUS THEMES, SUICIDE, AND GENOCIDE ARE DISCUSSED BELOW!

Nobody Likes the Opening Band! is a non-sequential series of fanfictions inspired by the bands I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME (idkhow) and Waterparks, and draws places, people, and other elements from each band's respective lore. Currently only one work, The Paris Manuscript, is being written. It is available to read on AO3. There is a planned second work, Nobody Likes the Opening Band, that will eventually exist.

Nobody Likes the Opening Band! mostly revolves around the plot of the second work, with the Manuscript serving as a sort of prequel. In Opening Band, a new family moves to the town Ryan Seaman lives in, and Ryan is determined to learn what secrets their son Dal is hiding. In the process of trying to uncover Dal's secrets, Ryan discovers Gloomtown, an anti-Purgatory where certain souls who suffered a great deal during their lives or whose lives were cut off before they could have much meaning go to rest before the end of the world. Gloomtown is also the world's source of magic.

In order to fully learn the truth about Dal, Ryan is forced to team up with his ex-friend and current arch-nemesis Awsten Knight, and Paris, a spirit from Gloomtown whose attatched himself to Awsten.

Gloomtown has an incredibly powerful energy that leaks through to Earth, where it soaks into the DNA of random people and mutates it. This mutation allows the person, once they are born, to inherit magical powers once they are 13. Powers can be literally anything.

PASCAL "CAL" PHYLLIS (#cal phyllis)

the only child of the couple that adopted ryan. he has a soul of gold and the strangest humor you've ever seen. his particularly likes to joke about being a capitalist (he is anything but one). also a fantastic matchmaker despite his inability to get a boyfriend! he just wants to kiss someone :<

the only main character without any magic powers. he makes up for it by being the best fucking cupcake baker you've ever met.

(he/him, gay, no magic. birthday october 4.)

likes: baking, eldritch horror, cats, playing pranks hates: messy spaces, tea fun fact: he starts out by crushing on dal but eventually loses interest. rumor has it he's secretly dating a boy named mikey way ;)

PARIS EVANGELINE (#paris)

harley's youngest and most difficult child. he's a shapeshifter and is a (literal) being of chaos.

he was born with his soul outside and detached from his body. he wears it on a chain around his neck, but since this is unnatural he's not quite right. using his powers drain him so he's almost always tired, but he tries to hide it via masking. also his wings don't really get used because flying drains him way more than magic.

due to all of this (and all the bullying his siblings did to him when he was younger, they are incredibly ableist and a few are homophobic) harley wouldn't let him out of gloomtown until one day, they introduced star to paris! at which point paris and star basically became a did system. (more on this when we get to star)

in order to stay alive, paris has to take pieces of human souls and attach them to his soul. he likes to latch onto certain people he really likes and refer to them as his host. at the time of nobody likes the opening band, awsten is paris's current host.

he's super duper flirty and touchy and emotional. and also wears whatever the fuck he wants because he's trying to appeal to humans and to him this means showing off a lot of skin, so he wears crop tops and shorts a lot (he loves them dw)

(genderfluid but often presents as male, pansexual, universal manifestation of chaos. no known birthday.)

likes: raising a ruckus, geese, gummy bears, cuddling hates: whaaaaaaaaat? hating something? impossible! he would never! ahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! fun fact: he started out as my version of waterparks' character soulsucker but he literally turned into an oc this thing is nothing like the real soulsucker.

STAR AVALON EVANGELINE (#star)

paris's guardian.... demon? ghost? spirit who is basically an alter. when paris is stressed/anxious/upset or physically injured/in danger star will assume paris's physical form while paris takes on star's ghost form. star basically gets to have a body for once while paris recovers.

star is a gloom, a type of demon that was created to originally oversee and care for gloomtown. harley wasn't very big on them, seeing them as useless since harley was the new ruler of the place, so all the glooms were wiped out. star had snuck out and was exploring earth and thus escaped death, but they were captured on return and given to paris as a protector. one of star's wings was ripped out of their back, so they hide their wing under jackets cuz they're embarrassed to have anyone find out about this.

due to all the shit that's happened, star tends to close others off and acts incredibly hostile towards most people. they're really only soft towards paris and anyone that is a host/close to a host.

sometimes calls themself avalon for fun

(they/them, aromantic, the last gloom in gloomtown. doesn't actually have a birthday but likes to celebrate it on november 2.)

likes: no one knows hates: everything, if their attitude is anything to go off of fun fact: star was the st*rfucker to soulsucker. again, it got way out of hand <33

HARLEY EVANGELINE (#harley)

a seraphim who, while fallen, never actually committed any sin. they were punished by getting reassigned to ruling gloomtown, and they wield this authority mercilessly. their divinity is what allows gloomtown to affect humans and give them magic.

somehow, they managed to give birth to 100 children.

there really isnt much known about them. they present themself as a benevolent and kind figure, but they hide a much more sinister and cruel personality

(they/she, aceflux, guardian of gloomtown. no known birthday.)

likes: no one knows. hates: no one knows this either. fun fact: they were inspired by bart harley jarvis from idkhow's music video for the song "WHAT LOVE?" (bart is this pink illuminati pyramid thing)

honorable mentions

RYAN SEAMAN: the protagonist of Nobody Likes the Opening Band and Cal's brother. He wasn't born with the Gloomtown DNA mutation, but accidentally fell into Gloomtown while conscious and met Maxx, a very temperamental snake who followed Ryan home and bit him. Ryan now has fangs and can discharge deadly venom by biting, but he usually tries to avoid using this power. Also, Maxx lives in his skin as a tattoo. LIAM FORD: ryan's ex-best friend, who killed himself when he was barely even thirteen after escaping the clutches of tellexx, a research company that had kidnapped and tortured him one summer. he now haunts the town as a ghost.

honorable mentions open for asks

AWSTEN KNIGHT (#awsten): (he/him, bisexual) the local spellcaster, enchantment weaver, and potion-brewer with a fondness for doing the most insane and impulsive shit you've ever seen. he's also paris's current host and claims that paris is a little bitch (which he can be, to be fair). he and ryan used to be friends, fell out after liam's suicide, and some time after dal moves to town, they become friends again before they eventually start dating.

DALLON "DAL" WEEKES (#dal weekes): (he/him, straight) harley's favorite brat, who went "MIA," so to speak. for a few years after extracting his powers from himself. ryan, awsten, and paris had to work together to return dal's powers. He is known as vengeance, and his magic allows him to summon knives that inflict death or a curse on anyone pierced by one. he's also suffered a lot of emotional abuse and experiences a good deal of religious guilt.

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I’m working on a rewrite of the whole Ninjago show within my Royals AU. There is so far only one book out on Ao3. -Warriortheninja

Alternative Universes

ROYALS AU- This is the main AU on my blog. It’s where most of my original characters thrive in. This AU revolves around the same storyline but things are different. For one, Wu and Garmadon aren’t old looking men. They look young (like season 7 flashbacks) and are married to different people. Lloyd is a prince, he has other siblings, there are anthro characters (because they’re much better than drawing human ones and honestly a dynamic between humans and anthros getting along just makes he smile).

Last of Their Kind or LOTKAU: This is where Garmadon (and Mystake) are the last oni in all the Sixteen Realms. Wu is the last dragon in all of Ninjago. Garmadon has pups with his mate Burr (the last Formling in Ninjago) and that’s how Lloyd is around. Lloyd is the main man (or oni) of this AU. Since a young pup, Lloyd loves the idea of meeting humans and becoming friends with them. He gets his chance when the Gang (they don’t go by Ninja) come and camp in The Valley. 

Nautica AU: This is an AU where it’s a crossover between Subnautica and Ninjago. Why? Because I was bored and thought it would be fun. This AU is where the Ninja and their young crash down onto a predominantly water world. Nya and Nyad exist as water goddesses in this AU. It’s supposed to be a sweet family thing. It revolves around Jay and Nya’s child, Ara. 

Train Zone AU: This AU is basically where Wu and Garmadon accidentally screw things up on their journey and land into my world Craftia and are taken in by Warrior and her crew. It’s also a sweet family fluff thing. 

Craftian Wind AU: An Aurawind AU where Morro left Wu and managed to get into Craftia. Gets attacked and unsavory things happen to him, Warrior and her group save Morro’s assaulters before they could kill him. They then take him in and get him to full health. Morro stays with Warrior in Craftia and a romance blossoms between them. It’s just fluff and angst. Mostly fluff though.

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