#the other stuff is just random cheesey romcoms

[runthepockets]

Most relatable The Boys characters and why:

M.M: older black dude with a shit ton of trauma. Tries really hard to be a good man, slips up sometimes but really isn't as big of a deal as he thinks it is (it wasn't great that he beat up his daughter's stepdad with her in such close proximity, especially since you can tell that a lot of jealousy was tinged in the altercation, but also? Dude was a fucking white supremacist. Fuck him.) Before he rejoins The Boys he's a youth correctional counsler, clearly very comitted to his wife and trying to help a ton of angry and misplaced black and latino boys become functional and vindicated adult men. He's very similar to me, while also being an insight on what I could be in the future.

Frenchie: dude just. Kinda does whatever. He's done every drug in the book, he knows a ton of dealers and knows a lot about weapons. He's seen a lot of bullshit. He's also one of the most laid back and grounded people in the entire show. He's as loyal and resourceful as he is impulsive and trickster-esque. He's a streetwise jack of all trades and cares very deeply about the people who choose to fight alongside him. Amongst all his random, violent crimes and impulses, he also watches cheesey romcoms and musicals with his girlfriend, and says things like "life is nothing if we can't dance!" He's just like me fr.

Hughie: a perfect everyman for every guy in his early - mid 20s. He's succesful with the ladies, he (had) a steady (but boring) retail job, and has a very close and healthy relationship with his father, but you can still tell he wants more. Billy Butcher steps into his life and shows him all this scrappy, high risk stuff, and you can tell it's scratching an itch that he's needed scratched for quite a while, it finally gives him a purpose. He's generally a good guy, with the best interests of the general public at heart, but he's not immune to falling into those shitty habits that everyone hates seeing in dudes a lot of the time; he gets jealous of other guys, especially those who have a history with his girlfriend, especially those that he perceives as more "manly" than himself, often to the point of self destruction and steamrolling the actual, material needs of female friends and partners. He's distrustful and paranoid and cagey, especially after being neglected and let down by the very role model of masculinity that got him roped into this self destructive lifestyle in the first place. There are a lot of times where you can tell he's just doing stupid shit to impress other guys, and not because he actually wants to do them. This was very much (and sometimes, still is) the path I lead during my first three years of transitioning, and very much the outlet that Hardcore and Metal were (and still do) giving me during that time as well. I have high hopes for him in the 4th season, which is due to air next year, but I also know he has to hit rock bottom before he can get back to the top of his A game, as is the human condition.

[bittybattybunny]

ok Bunn I managed to read the fused sentence *gun points you* tell me about this new AUs ideas.... pleas?

try me nonny----

anyhow the biggest one I've been playing with is one where Eclipse is a forest god playing human (tho there's more to it) trying to stop the hunting of wolves under order of King Arulius Law

So there's been an influx of missing livestock and a few villagers have been murdered, the first assumption is the wolf pack of the Horizon woods (also called "the lost woods" due to legends of how those who go in don't come out) So he puts out an ad for a wolf hunter

he ends up hiring someone (rather his aide does) and the attacks somewhat stop.

One day when doing rounds near the guards he sees some of the knights sparring against a lone woman and inquires who she is and is told she's the hunter hired for the wolves. He calls her over to speak and asks her name to which she replies she has no name and he can just call her "the wolf hunter" or something. he decides to call her "Wolf" in the meantime and doesn't get how someone has no name.

he gets annoyed because something about her seems familiar but he can't place it. He grows curious more so when he catches her playing with his daughter (He had been married but Vanessa passed during a bad winter and bad health. He's referred to as the "Ice King" because he can seem cold towards relationships but he really just doesn't want to get close because he's still hurt)

One of the times he's passing the guards again when he's sparring and sees her win he asks if she wants "apples with cinnamon and honey" which confuses her and he is also confused by her reaction because "you said it's your favorite" meanwhile others are confused when she ever could have said that since they only met briefly and had no other direct conversations and she herself actually wonders how he could recall that. She does confirm yes that is her favorite food for him and he's happy to be right.

The two go to the kitchen where she scoops harriet up enticing laughter from the girl and harriet admits she's been learning self defense from the wolf hunter.

over a few months, the king finds himself talking more with the hunter and she explains that she's sure the wolves aren't the cause and admits she trusts him enough to prove it. She takes him to the forest edge and whistles. Then a pack of wolves appears and all are docile to her. She explains there is only one pack in the horizon woods and they were human-friendly. she tells the king her theory that the wolves are simply the scapegoat for a bigger issue. She tells him how the missing livestock doesn't actually line up with how the wolves hunt and she's sure there's something more going on.

And then

Tradgey

Harriet is kidnapped and no one can find her. Eclipse ends up running into the woods with her wolves and when she's alone shapeshifts into a giant white wolf. With her pack she's able to track Harriet and her abductors down. It turns out to be a local group who've been trying to slowly embezzle country funds and are the ones responsible for the missing villagers and livestock (they are taking them to sell black market) Eclipse confronts them, protecting Harriet and is shot by an arrow in the shoulder. She's able to capture the offenders and leaves before the royal guard and the king show up.

Stories crop up over how the king solved the matter and he corrects he didn't (he may be king but he thinks credit goes where it needs to) and when he's watching the guards and wolf hunter notices she's having a harder time sparring. When resting he asks whats the issue and she says she just got a 'splinter' in her shoulder. he asks her what her plans are and she admits she's going to go home since she has to. her contract is over. this distresses the king as he's grown so used to having her around. she tells him he'll get over that as people can't remember someone without a name and if he looks he'd see people have already forgotten her (the credit for finding the culprits is hers but everyone thinks its the king) he asks her what she wants as a reward and she says she wants a memorial for 137 lost children who were left to die in the woods. He finds this odd but complies.

After a few days Harriet is telling her dad about the cool forest god who saved her (cuz when eclipse helped her in wolf form she growled at the men it was her forest and she was the forest's protector) and how she hopes the wolf is okay cuz of the arrow. this sets off alarms in her dad's head.

The king goes to find the hunter but no one knows who he's talking about. He also finds himself forgetting her face and a certain phrase she said sticks out ("you're a lying king you know, don't make promises you can't keep.") and he finds himself going to the woods often looking for someone but he can't recall.

During this time Eclipse isn't doing great, the wound on her shoulder becoming infected due to poison on the arrow tip meant to hurt spirits.

As the king keeps coming back he finds himself recalling forgotten things from when he was young. how he used to be friends with a count's daughter and slowly he begins to realize he completely forgot her. he finally realizes why he keeps going to the woods and begs them to give Eclipse back. using her name he calls for her right as she ends up falling from a tree and he catches her and immediately brings her to a doctor.

She's in shock when she notices she's had her wound dealt with and the king is sleeping on a chair beside her bed. When he wakes up he just starts crying and apologizing and admitting he really is a lying king. She's confused until he says her name and she realizes he recalled her.

She starts crying too and he asks her to never leave again, he's already begun spreading her name through the country so everyone knows who she is. She laughs and says she's just glad someone remembered her. The doctor admits she's never heard of the woods giving someone back so the king must have impressed it. Eclipse is able to explain what had happened to her and how she was thrown away to the woods by her adoptive uncle after the death of her parents when they were children. The forest took her name and humanity since she had a strong magic affinity. She was taken in by the prior spirit, a large goat like satyr who raised her and he passed on when she gave him a name. She had been keeping the forest safe and keeping the number of "lost ones" down even becoming a forest spirit herself. When the forest was upset over the wolf hunts she was allowed out and when she saw him she was hurt to really be forgotten but did her best despite it. She also admits she was sad to return to the woods but saw no other way as she couldn't give her name as it was taken. So the fact he recalled is what saved her.

She ends up becoming human again and staying in the castle and becomes known as the Ice Kings Wolf Queen and they never have issues with the woods again and rule happily and peacefully.

(the forest gave her back because the king had the memorial for the lost children built. this pleased the forest greatly to the point it let him have Eclipse)

I have a few other things Im in the works on but that's the fleshed out one that's been my brain rot for the past week