#traffic smp au

[chirrups]

they got that dawg in them!

[lunarthing159]

With some newfound motivation from the newest TrafficLife session, I decided to pick back up a MCYT Heroes/Villains AU I'd been working on! I don't have a name for it yet, so after I've posted a couple character refs & scenes, I'm open to suggestions!!

Plops this over here, have a Piranha ^v^

Be careful, he bites-

[axiewaddle-life-series]

I am a life series fan

And I do have an AU

Maybe I could share that AU here?

I don't write very often, but when I do I could probably put chapters here

It takes place in the normal Double Life world, but the plot differs from it.

The premise of it is that Scott can't get over Jimmy is a little jealous of him and Tango being happy.

There's a lot of drama and angst, but there's some wholesome funny moments too

I think I'd be more motivated to write it if I had a fan base maybe :p

[solidaritygaming-fanblog]

what I REALLY need is a life series / hermitcraft / empires smp high school academic team au. Bigb's specialization for quick recall would be mythology and ancient Earth history. Jimmy takes trash questions (pop culture, video games, sports) but is in reality all over the spectrum (in both ways). Please believe me... the teams getting stuffed into vans and driven for three hours is the perfect setup for shenanigans. We can set up other smps as schools they go up against in matches and tournament's. I NEED THIS SO BAD RRAHHHHHHH

[verdantglow]

Apple Staff Alignments & Other Notes from Retail Purgatory AU

Etho

Role: Genius

Alignment: True Neutral

Has been at this Genius Bar the longest (apart from Doc)

He's mostly here because he's good at it, they pay him well, & it's generally pretty tolerable. Plus it'd be like, a whole thing to find another job, & he's got other things he'd rather spend his time on.

At this point, he's gotten pretty good at slipping into work mode, so he's generally pleasant, if kinda unremarkable (in demeanor), if you get him for your appointment.

That said, he's very much doing just enough to stay in the managers' good graces & gets maybe a bit too much enjoyment out of seeing just how close he can get to that line.

Like he knows exactly how late he can be on how many days each quarter without getting official feedback & he will be late all of those days.

"Sorry I'm late for the team meeting, traffic was crazy out there!" [is obviously holding a full cup of steaming hot coffee from Starbucks]

So yeah, he's not the one starting shit, but he's definitely just gonna watch in amusement & not help if Doc's pissing off another customer.

Refuses to work any morning shifts ever. Schedule him every weekend day if you want, but if you tell him to show up for a shift before 1pm, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

Tango

Role: Genius

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Tango is an absolute fucking delight to have as your Genius. He's got this infectiously good energy & is just soooo hype to help you figure out whatever's wrong & show you like ten completely unrelated but very cool things in the process.

He is constantly going out of scope, doing software fixes & in appointment hardware repairs that he's very much not supposed to do. Not to mention showing off the most awesome accessories the store currently carries.

So his productivity numbers are abysmal & he's got the longest average appointment duration in the store (well. probably the local market, actually).

But he's also got hands down the best customer reviews. Plus all those $1.5k drones he keeps selling by flying them around the back of the store while in appointments.

Management has tried asking him to hand those customers off to a sales person so he can do tech stuff, but he always just says he couldn't do that because he was still in an appointment with them & he can't send people off without fixing their problems, can he?

& honestly, they really need his review scores to balance out Doc's.

Doc

Role: Genius

Alignment: Lawful Evil

He's been a Genius at the store since it opened & he transferred from being a Genius at a different location.

He has worked on pretty much every Apple product in the last couple of decades & remembers how to fix all of them.

Not that he's happy about it. He will bitch incessantly while doing repairs on newer iPhones & iMacs, spending the whole time complaining about the degradation of product design at this company. He'll do these more challenging repairs flawlessly, but he will not be happy (or quiet) about it.

He has the shortest appointment times in the store. It's part him being wickedly competent at identifying & fixing issues, part he just doesn't want to waste time in appointments with people with boring problems.

Not that his customers complain about the quick appointments. In fact, that's the only good thing they have to say in his reviews. Most of them are more about how he barely talked to them & when he did, it was to insult them, their problems, &/or their devices.

Doc'll routinely cherry pick customers out of the appointment list even though he's super not supposed to. Because if there's a problem weird enough to interest him, he will be taking that appointment.

He really doesn't actually need this job. He's been really into the stock purchase plan Apple offers for the whole time he's been there. He's got such an absolutely wild number of Apple shares at this point; he could sell some & retire & have plenty left over.

And yet. He's still there.

Impulse

Role: Genius Admin (Genius Bar/Repair Room operations plus miscellaneous other responsibilities)

Alignment: Lawful Good

When Impulse became Admin, management told him how the Repair Room & everything in it was his responsibility. What they meant was, "keep everything on track & the Geniuses in line." What he heard was, "okay you're basically Repair Room Mom, so take care of these idiots."

& he really took that to heart.

Like. Impulse can imagine every way that things can go off the rails & has plans for all of them.

He always keeps back stock of all the tools & consumable goods hidden somewhere in the store. Anything from sim ejector tools that everyone's constantly losing to those weird obscure tools used to fix the nearly unserviceble Mac Pros twice a year, you need it, he's got it somewhere.

While management expects him to enforce all the rules & tell them when they are broken, he is way more concerned with just holding the whole repair operation together. He's got so many irons in the fire as admin, he's not that bothered with rules that don't have an actual impact on getting things done.

However, he does remind them all about safety rules very often. You even try to touch the repair bench without being grounded, he will appear from nowhere to say that he knows you weren't about to do something that could brick a customer's device or start a thermal event. Because both of those involve a lot of paperwork that he's responsible for.

Tbh, he's actually pretty worried about their safety since things can go sideways fast with some repairs & either of those things would involve having to tell management. Okay, and he doesn't want do paperwork, but that's just because he's so busy keeping things going, he doesn't have time to get distracted by extra paperwork!

He works a lot of early morning shifts to do various inventory things & get things organized before the store opens. He's gonna be up anyway, might as well take the shifts no one else really wants.

Mumbo

Role: Genius

Alignment: Chaotic Anxious

Oh Mumbo. My sweet, sweet Mumbo. My anxiety baby. (I say as an anxiety baby.)

He's great with customers & at explaining things in ways that make people feel reassured, even if they have no clue how things work as soon as they leave the store.

However, he does get anxious easily when things are busy & the team is behind on appointments. So he gets sent back to do repairs when that happens before he flips out.

To be fair, he also gets flustered back there, which tends to lead to him trying to go faster & making mistakes that wind up making the repairs take longer.

But Impulse has a strategy worked out with Mumbo for when he's on repairs.

Because when Mumbo isn't flustered? He's the fastest repair person by a long shot, especially on iPhones. No one can perfectly replace as many phone batteries per hour as calm Mumbo can.

So when it's busy & there's a lot of phones to be done, the overhead lights go out with only the bench lighting on, classical music and ambient rain noises go on the speaker, & Mumbo works from a repair to do list that Impulse made just for him.

Seeing everything waiting to be repaired will just make Mumbo nervous & slower, so they decided that he only needed to see the next few at any given time. Impulse takes care of any priority rearranging that's needed on the full list & Mumbo puts on the blinders & only looks at the next three repairs & busts through a super human number of repairs.

(Even Doc is impressed. He just won't actually directly say so.)

[herm-itcorp]

OMFG, I WANNA CHANGE JIMMY’S STUPID PERSONALITY AND STUFF IN MY AU. BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW, BECAUSE HIM BEING AN ASSHOLE IS A BIG PART OF THE AU.

[nothingbutartstuff]

PEARLIZZIE ROYAL AU HERE WE GO LET ME EXPLAIN :3

Basic Idea

Pearl, Grian, and her parents are forced to leave their village due to humans attacking. Pearl doesn't know the full story and her parents never tell her. She is 19 in this AU. She tries out to be in the royal guard, however, she is seen as far more skilled than everyone else. With that, the King and Queen ask her to be their daughter's private Knight.

Lizzie is the Princess of the Kingdom (still figuring out names pls help-) she rarely shows her face in public, only people within the castle walls see her. She is very much against Pearl being her Knight, and they fight a lot, but she'll come around eventually. Her friend group is mainly guards in training, her maid, Cleo, and the gardener, Gem.

[characcoon]

"Color Theory" Chapter 6 - "Ender Chest, a Locked Compass, and the Sunset"

Purple chapters will always, usually, be veery important with the little lore hints. 👀

Doc keeps tapping his finger. Even with their eyes completely covered, the both of them are able to have an entire silent conversation through their shared bond. “You know who he’s reminding me of?” Doc says with a smirk, after a minute. “If you say his name in front of me, Doc…” he warns. “But you thought of him as well?” “...I did.” “And?” The wolf takes a deep breath, putting his elbow on his desk, facing away from Doc. His fang catches on the corner of his mouth and he pokes at his own lip for a few seconds. “I don’t like this.” he admits, voice solemn, fidgeting with the sawdust “Any of this. Something’s gone wrong, I agree. If not with him, with the Watchers entirely.”

[scrambledlikeeggs]

my personal hell :D

please ask me about this i will combust

[shiningstarlight101]

Hermitville au post ✨

So in the og version of course it was only hermitcraft, but i always felt like if i added other mc spaces then Scott would be an elf.

But then limited life rolled around and I kinda like the mean gills approach more I think. I originally played around a bit with the concept of a mermaid Scott and human Martyn, with them often going out at night to thr lake as Scott requires ✨ h2o ✨. Technically he can be out of water but being in water daily is a requirement to life.

I still like the idea but i think a fun (edgy and angsty) alternative idea which would lean even heavier into the mean gills aesthetic is that both Martyn and Scott are sea monsters. Through means (i still have to develop and think about), Scott started to get "sick" as a human. And as a result he is becoming more and more like an ocean monster as time passes. The only person Scott trusted with the knowledge had been Martyn, concidering magic and all that good stuff isn't a known thing amongst humans. So Martyn started spending a LOT of time around Scott, to the point where he himself managed to get the same "sickness" as Scott

As a result you got 2 human-sea creatures who are desperately trying to hide their identity while being there for eachother. With no way ro know how to stop it from spreading further on their bodies. At least not without help

[mysteriousmoss]

Very crappy doodle of my au where some characters are adults and some children and the adults are in charge of the kids schools activities.

Also context.

[chirrups]

doggone it!

[lunarthing159]

(I'll Write This w'o My Usual Typing Quirk To Make It Easier To Read)

So I've posted a bit before about a Heroes/Villains MCYT AU I've been working on for a fair while now, and with some newfound motivation from Session 7 of WildLife SMP, I decided I want to revisit the project!

I've already drawn one of the Main Villains, Piranha, Here. However, before I make and showcase more stuff, I want to create a Tag for it! Something like Vigilante Sheriff AU (VSAU) or Double Hearted AU (DHVAU)

So, here's some ideas I've managed to come up with! I personally like Option 2 best,,

My reasonings for each of these ideas will be under the read-more, but I'd love to hear what y'all think!

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Desperado AU (DAU)

The definition of a Desperado is "a desperate or reckless person, especially a criminal". It's attributed to individuals of the past who would act carelessly amist despair. For example; a Vampire, whom needs blood to survive, but not as 'posh' as traditionally. The Vampire might 'act out', taking whatever blood it can get through whatever means they feel like they have to, then being dubbed a 'Desperado'.

Considering Desperado is a term used for criminals and such, it'd make a lot of sense for a fair amount of the criminals/villains of the AU

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Sinking Hook (SHAU)

One of the main Hero/Villain conflicts of the AU will be between Jimmy/Piranha and various heroes & vigilantes; particularly a Hero Sausage, a Vigilante fWhip, and a Vigilante Duo of Tango & Scott. The main plot is that Jimmy's powers have manifested as a small 'creature' that hangs around on his shoulder. It would appear at first that Jimmy controls the creature, but in actuality, he is naught but a puppet for it. The more this puppeted him uses his powers (Venom & Toxic Gas) the farther he slips under it's control.

Considering I've made Jimmy a Cod Hybrid for this AU, Sinking Hook is a nice nod to that and his place in the story

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MCYT Heroes/Villains AU (MCYTHVAU)

This is mostly just added here because it's a generic option, kinda funny how long it is, but slightly impractical

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Wraith AU (WAU)

I won't hide this, Fantasy SMP never quite left my brain. The High-Elf Sausage or The Tiger-Tabaxi Scott. However, the person who never fully left me was the Pixlriffs of that world, A Revenant. To put it simply, Pixlriffs is going to be the main villain of this AU. Known as 'The Wraith', he will have a power known as Phobokenisis ALSO KNOWN AS Phobia Manipulation; the power to put people through their worst fears, and to give and take said fears.

And, well, if he's going to be this AU's main villain, why not name the AU after him?

[prest0allay]

BAM! BAMPIRES for my au. I'm making my own au "Cruel cruel world" ccwau for short. Honestly, I'm treating it more like dress to impress. The outfits are not definete, what fun would that be

[the-lesbian-orpheus]

GOOD NEWS THIS POST IS NO LONGER RELEVANT- IT WAS ABOUT MY TREASURED AU POST SEEMINGLY DISSAPWARING

Every post that I had linked it on the link no longer worked

And I thought it got deleted somehow

I went thru a related post I made of the au when I first had the idea and clicked the tag i made

The post still exists thankfully tumblr just broke all links to it for some reason

Original post of me asking frantically for help to find it is below the cut lmao no need to read

Guys the master post for my Hadestown AU has mysteriously disappeared off the face of the planet

I don’t know if it’s actually gone or if it’s just a glitch on my end

It’s linked at the top of my blog but every time I click it or search my blog for it or click where I’ve linked it in other posts it gives me the this page doesn’t exist blank blue thing

If it’s gone is there anyway to retrieve it

It wouldn’t be in the wayback machine unfortunately

Please reblog this post so some genius can help me I’m actually gonna cry if it’s gone

I mean i remember it for the most part and i have art in the making for it but ugh it took so much time and it had links and it’s not gonna be the same if i remake because it’s so hard to cohesively explain your thoughts

Please help

[avi-mation]

Apocalypse buddies