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Ace, Grim, Alice (Experiment 630), and Deuce.

Redraw/reference from the ED of Dandadan.

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If Alice has a wedding...

Galaxy Bride at Robert Wun Couture FW24

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Dancing ‘til the break of dawn - Pt10

<Pt9

(TWST Zombie apocalypse AU where Yuu beast tames just a little too close to the sun)

Yuu sighed internally as he watched Trey and Cater chat. They were hitting it off, though Yuu was hardly surprised about that — Cater was pretty obviously desperate for social interaction, judging by the entire radio broadcast he had thrown together to get his voice out there, and Trey was rather amiable.

He seemed like a nice guy.

But.

Yuu was struggling to ignore the fact that he was, apparently, holding someone captive. ‘For their own good’, yes, however…

Well, Yuu had gone through that himself. He could more or less ignore Ace’s… strange tendencies, in large part because he hadn’t yet had to deal with being eaten, and therefore it wasn’t all that easy to conceptualize the true horrors of what he was doing. But Yuu knew exactly what it had been like to stay trapped in a house for an extended period of time with no one but your captor to talk to.

It had… not ended well.

After all, Yuu was now allowed out. He could even talk to people, now, without Grim immediately trying to kill them! Even Grim had acknowledged, implicitly, that letting people outside so they can interact with others is necessary.

Yeah, everyone that had survived this long was clearly not a great person (save for Yuu himself, of course), but humans are social creatures. Most social interactions may end in attempted murders, but damn if they aren’t something!

So, what should he do to deal with this?

Yuu groaned, his head tipping back against Ace’s shoulder so he could see his face. “I’ve decided being a good person is for losers. Help me be evil.”

Ace’s eyes lit up, as if he had been not-so-patiently waiting for this day. “You’ve come to the right guy! I’m an expert in all things evil!”

“I know.”

Ace sent him a dirty look. As if he hadn’t totally walked into that one.

Then, he hooked his arm through Yuu’s, dragging them both up and over to where Cater was standing.

“Hey, Cater, I’m taking Yuu out. Can we borrow your gun, so he can defend himself?”

“Not a chance!” he said, cheerfully.

Yuu and Ace sulked. Now how were they supposed to steal it?

Whatever.

Yuu walked over to where Deuce was still trying to figure out how to fix the radio station. He, too, was sulking, but for a different reason:

“You won’t want to come on this trip,” Yuu said.

Deuce opened his mouth to argue.

“We’re getting Grim and me some food, you won’t want to be there for it,” Ace cut him off.

Deuce’s mouth clicked shut. He looked at Yuu, his eyebrows raised.

Yuu ignored the silent question, kneeling to pluck a hammer out of the toolbox. Deuce made a sound of protest at the blatant theft that had happened right in front of him.

Yuu kicked his bat over to him. “This should work well enough. Besides, I don’t think you’re going to be doing any hammering, since you’re mostly just reconnecting wires.”

Deuce scowled, but went back to work.

That done, Yuu went to the closet for Grim. The zombie immediately clambered up his pant leg and found a place in his hoodie pocket, only his head peeking out.

It, honestly, didn’t put as much strain on him as it probably should have. Which was nice, he supposed, he personally preferred not being in pain. However, he couldn’t help but be a little worried. Oh, his baby was practically skin and bones! He must have been so worried for him. The poor thing. Yuu slid his hand into his pocket, rubbing the place beneath Grim’s chin that the cat always loved.

“Is — is that a zombie?” Trey asked, his voice much higher in pitch than it usually was.

“Yeah…” said Cater, resignedly.

“He’s perfect. No notes,” Yuu said, ignoring the fact that Grim had started baring his teeth at Trey in warning.

“… no normal people in the apocalypse,” sighed Trey.

“I’m normal! You’re all just too abnormal to see!” Yuu said, immediately, his face reddening.

Ace poked his cheek. “Hey! Don’t talk like that! You’re not going to get evil with an attitude like that.”

Yuu scowled. He hated this already. Why was he doing this, again?

“Be safe out there!” Trey called, still a little faint, but clearly trying to be supportive.

He gritted his teeth and dragged Ace outside with him. He really should just start letting Ace kill people. Slightly less mental turmoil that way.

~

He should not let Ace kill people jesus fucking christ holy shit why is Ace so terrifying?!

Yuu’s grip tightened on his hammer as he watched Ace take down the poor, unfortunate soul who had just so happened to be within the vicinity. He pinned them to a nearby wall by the shoulder. With his knife.

Yuu realized that he had never actually seen Ace attempt to kill someone before (outside of that one time he didn't want to think about… not that it really counted anyway, considering the circumstances…).

He had known, intellectually, that it would be brutal. Ace used a knife as his preferred weapon, after all, but… it was one thing to know something and another thing entirely to see it with your own two eyes.

Yuu reminded himself that the poor girl wouldn’t have lasted that long regardless of what she did, thanks to Grim’s misogynistic streak.

It really didn’t soothe him all that much — it was much easier to just let Grim kill her and get it over with! Barely any moral dilemmas involved! Grim needs to eat humans to survive, and Yuu does not want to be one of those humans! It’s a simple trade off.

One that he could no longer afford, it seemed.

Ace turned to Yuu, smiling. “Right, your turn!”

“What?” said Yuu, jolting back into the moment.

“She’s not going to be able to get away, and she can’t scream anymore, either. So, it shouldn’t be hard for you!”

Is that why Ace had torn out her tongue?! Should Yuu be thanking him?! Because he doesn’t think he can open his mouth right now to do so, he would definitely throw up.

“She’ll die anyways,” Ace said, when Yuu stood there, unmoving. Barely even blinking. “She’ll bleed out. If anything, you killing her will be a mercy.”

Yuu… couldn't. Ace had clearly gone to the effort to make this as easy a transition for his conscience as was possible, but he just couldn’t.

He couldn’t he couldn’t he couldn’t —!

He felt a weight shift in his pocket, and a blur of green was the only warning the pair of them got before Grim had sunk his teeth into the girl’s leg.

It didn’t take long for the infection to set in. It never did. It was an almost scarily quick process, watching the green creep over her exposed skin, her eyes draining of all life. A small patch of moss formed over the infection site, as if to try and cover it up.

For a moment, it was silent.

And then Ace fell to his knees. “My food…”

“I mean, you could still try to eat it,” Yuu said, still hugging his hammer like a lifeline. “It could be an interesting science experiment.”

Ace gave him a mildly incredulous look. “You do it then!”

“Nah, Grim would be mad.”

Grim nodded once, firmly.

Ace sighed and shifted to sit, his knees pulled to his chest, his knife held in a deceptively loose hand.

‘Deceptively’ because Ace’s eyes never left the monster in their midst. It didn’t matter that Grim had long-since proven that he wouldn’t kill him, he would never risk it.

(The zombie was new, too, still trying to figure out how to move around, Ace could overpower it with ease, if it ever came to that. But old habits die hard.)

After a beat of hesitation, Ace patted the ground beside him.

Yuu’s nose scrunched. There was a puddle of blood on the floor. He did not want to sit in it. Fucking gross.

Ace raised an eyebrow at him.

He… sighed and sat down, mumbling that they would need to stop by a store and get new clothes after this.

Yuu felt Ace’s head come to settle upon his good shoulder. Ace had been far more openly affectionate as of late. Whether that was because he was just that rattled that Yuu had almost gotten shot or if the cuddle session they’d had afterward (that Yuu would claim he didn’t remember until the end of time) had broken a dam mentally, he really didn’t know. Either way, he was only mildly surprised by the person leaning on him.

“I don’t… get you,” Ace said, after a while, his eyes still tracing the zombie’s movement as it stumbled towards a nearby alley to try to disappear. “Why are you so… against it?”

“I think most people are averse to murder, Ace,” Yuu said flatly.

Ace snorted. “Not here, not anymore. And I get that you have Grim, so you probably haven’t had to kill as much directly, but...”

Yuu snorted. “My kill count is both zero and well into the thousands.”

He looked at him for a long moment, as if hoping he could find the answers in his face. Yuu, kind of, hoped he could, too, because he was kind of concerned that Ace might try to literally dissect him to figure everything out if it came to that.

Yuu looked away. The zombie was gone. Grim had left, too, seemingly to give them space to talk. Yuu didn’t know if he appreciated that or not. He hated talking.

He ran his thumb along the grip of his hammer for a moment, feeling the rubber ridges.

For a moment, Yuu wanted to admit that he was, in part, at fault for the apocalypse. Sure, he couldn’t have known, but that didn’t change the fact that, had he left that ‘stray’ by the road that day, things might have been far different. He had just wanted to help, he hadn’t expected —!

He swallowed, thickly, his head coming to rest atop Ace’s.

“I, um… I don’t want to…” he took a deep breath. “I’ve… done a lot of terrible stuff to survive, since this all started. I mean, there’s a very real chance that, if we kill Grim, the entire thing will go up in flames. That’s what happens in the movies, when you kill the center of the hive mind, after all, but…” He bit his lip. “I’m… scared. I’m always so scared. I don’t want to risk it.”

Ace didn’t say a word.

“A lot of people have died because of me, Ace, I can’t… I can justify it if you or Grim kills someone, because you’d be doing that anyway, but… with my own two hands… if I do it, then I’m the one doing it.” He gave a laugh, but it was halfhearted, and, embarrassingly, sounded closer to a sob. “God, it sounds kind of stupid aloud, yeah?”

Ace gave a snort.

After a beat of hesitation, he reached over and pulled the hammer from Yuu’s hand.

“I — uh — kind of get it? In a weird way? I…” Ace grimaced. “The first few days of the apocalypse, I… wasn’t… okay. I barely understood what was going on — no one knew, back then. It kinda just seemed like everyone had gone fucking insane. I remember — I… took down a zombie. I didn’t know it was a zombie, then, but that’s what it was. But, um… well, it wasn’t great.”

Yuu remembered that time. He hadn’t been let outside, then, but he could still see out the window. Could hear on broadcasts, back when the electronics still worked (and wasn’t that a strange thing to think about, these days?). It had been chaotic, to say the very least.

“I… after my first ‘kill’, I kind of thought I was… irredeemable. And so I…” He groaned. “I said, ‘Well, if I have already done that, why not sink as low as possible? I will end up going to hell, anyway.’ It was… freeing, in a way? I guess? If I just say ‘Yeah, I am a bad person, so what?’ then I don’t have to deal with all the… all of the…” He waved a hand, vaguely. “Y’know.”

Yuu did know.

He snickered. “Oh. So, we’re just opposites, then.”

Ace hummed. “Yeah, I guess so.”

Yuu sighed, turning his head just slightly, to look at him. “I’m sorry for bringing you all the way out here just to chicken out.”

Ace snorted, lifting his head just slightly. “I’m going to be honest, here, since it seems like the thing for today: I really didn’t expect you to go through with it.”

Yuu wasn’t sure whether he should be offended or not. Regardless, he smiled a little when he joked that, “I could kill someone! You don’t know!”

“I do, though,” Ace said, something soft in his eyes as he tipped his head forward to rest his forehead against Yuu’s. “Don’t worry, though, I’m here to save the day! So, you can just sit back and look pretty, I’ll deal with all of the gross, morally complex shit for you.”

Yuu felt warmer than the early autumn air should have allowed for.

But they had already meet their genuineness quota for the day — for the whole damn month, actually — so…

“Awwww, you think I’m pretty?” Yuu teased, batting his eyelashes.

“Well, it’s not like I can call your scrawny ass handsome, so…”

He pushed Ace’s face away. “Rude.”

Ace only laughed.

~

Yuu hummed as he looked through the clothes options at the random store they’d found. Grim still wasn’t back, but that was fine — he’d find them whenever he wanted to, he had eyes everywhere thanks to his hive mind.

So… they can concentrate on clothes shopping!

Yuu picked up a light purple shirt. “Do you think this would look good on me?”

Ace barely even glanced over as he pulled a rather thick, red varsity jacket off of the rack. “Nah, that color’ll wash out your face. Try something a little darker. And! You should be focusing on finding long sleeves! Winter is coming!”

“Yeah, okay, mom,” grumbled Yuu, putting it back on the rack.

“You asked for my opinion!”

“YoU aSkEd FoR mY oPiNiOn.”

Ace rolled his eyes. He plucked a dark blue jacket off of the rack, probably for Deuce. “Just grab yourself a hoodie like usual so we can be done with this.”

Yuu huffed and pulled out a sweater instead, just to spite him. And it was an off the shoulder one, so he wouldn’t have to worry about anything chafing against his wound.

But it would make his injury pretty obvious to anyone who might see…

He pulled it over his head, pushing wet hair out of his eyes. “Alright, let’s go.”

Ace hesitated, playing with his knife.

“… fine, we can try to find someone for you to eat, but if we don’t find anyone by sundown then we’re going back!”

Ace beamed.

~

They stepped back into the radio station the next morning to very little fanfare.

Cater was still fast asleep, in a corner, his gun hugged close to himself like a childhood blankie. Deuce, too, was asleep, curled up on the floor, around Grim.

Trey was awake, tinkering with the broken broadcast console, looking very much lost.

Ace walked over to Deuce and, gently, set the new jacket over him and Grim.

Yuu, however, made his way over to Trey.

Trey looked over, raising an eyebrow, smiling softly. “Yes?”

“I want to meet your friend. You said you can’t bring him here, but surely you can take us to him?”

Trey dropped his screwdriver in surprise.

~~~~~

Pt11>

[sinjaangels]

A monster, NRC students, and an alien who is a lady version of their headwarden by taking his saliva through her tentacle mouth.

WIP. Completed here.

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Above, Omair standing on all fours with folded wings. Wings folded doesn't take any space and are tight.

Omair in uniform!

Scarabia dorm uniform.

Savanaclaw dorm uniform.

How to dress your harpy!

To most, it seems difficult for harpies to wear clothing. Most harpies prefer and are found to only being feathers and scales. Fluffiness is based on the species of bird. It is possible for harpies to wear clothing. 85 to 90 percent of harpies chose a feral lifestyle.

Typical harpy clothing is fitted to be streamlined for flight. Close to the body to retain balance and focus.

Harpies that have settled in a single location with more social interaction wear more clothing based on the weather and presentation. Being social creatures, all harpies, even if they are species that typically lives alone, live in groups. Some harpies live in proximity of other monsters. In social groups, wearing clothes is much easier with assistance.

Harpies can dressed themselves. On their wings are two or three "fingers" that can grip and hold. Not as dexterous as a human hand. Prefered clothing are ones that can be pulled on. They avoid buttons, zippers, and the like.

The major concern when it comes to clothes, are the wings. As mentioned previously, clothes must not hindered flying. No heavy fabrics! Sleeves must be wide enough to slip the wings through. As broad as the wings are unfolded, the wings are tightly folded like an accordian and the feathers are strong and flexible to bend.

Omair is on display wearing the Scarabia and Savanaclaw uniforms. Omair wears the Scarabia uniform because he is fond of Jamil.

If Omair's soul was percieved by the Dark Mirror, he would be sorted in Savanaclaw. Omair's persistence for freedom lead him to kill for it.

Parts of both uniforms were omitted. Omair is very active and does a lot of flying, crawling, and climbing. Also fighting. He could wear jewelry but he losses them. The second vest with the red flaps were removed. The belt has too much fabric and could catch on something. With the Savanaclaw uniform, Omair goes without the best. The leather feels heavy to Omair and the zipper annoys him. He doesn't want the vest flapping against his chest. Distracting! Instead of the belt, he wears the scarf.

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Full-body of Omair the Harpy. Omair is a Scaldian harpy, a Black Macaw.

He may look thin, but he is built for flight and swooping down on his prey. Wings, legs, and reptilian tail are powerful. Jamil is here for scale.

Macaw eat fruits and nuts. All harpies are omniviorous. They can eat meat being partly reptile.

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Alice's first form and her default.

First Appearence - Chapter 1 of She Came from Outer Space.

Second Form

Third Form

Fourth Form

Fifth Form

Sixth Form

Seventh Form

Eighth Form

Ninth Form

Tenth Form

Eleventh Form

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Alice wore non-school regulated clothes for P.E. Magic was used to shrink and shape over her body.

Floyd loves squeezing Alice's squishy ears and tentacles.

Alice was surprised and very pleased that this marine-humanoid is comfortable with her alien body.

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Coure, the ninth form from Ace.

First appearence - Chapter 36 from She Came from Outer Space.

Named by Ace meaning "heart" (in Italian). Ace was very pleased how attractive he was as a woman. The Ace-Coure combo, when together, makes Deuce hot and bothered.

A headcanon in SCOS, the card suit markings are birthmarks. It marks them as descendants of the Royal Suits, the living cards that served the Queen of Hearts.

Which is why Alice has the suit of hearts on her face.

Check out other forms here.

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Seventh form - Floyd and Jade Leech.

First appearance - Chapter 28 of She Came from Outer Space.

Topaz was named after Deuce based on his mother's favorite gemstone (headcanon). Topaz is another top favorite form. She obtained the twins' blood in a fight. She used her mer-form to try to overcome thalassophobia, fear of deep water. In her mer-form, her skin is much paler than the twins'. She has Jade's eyebrows and Floyd's eyes.

Riddle finds this form her most attractive... along with another mer-form.

See her first form and others here: Start Here

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Alice, Riddle, and the hedgehogs. One of the checks to Riddle's heart. Must love hedgies!

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Second Form - Lime

First appearence - Chapter 11 of She Came from Outer Space.

Alice uses her psychic powers to change her DNA. Also, DNA is extracted by saliva. Riddle's form is her first form and her default. Her second acquired form was from Jack.

Jack named her Lime after the species of one of his succulents/cactus.

First Form - Alice

Third Form - Kamala

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Have been trying to design Alice's NRC Pop Music Club outfit for years. Have yet to finalize a design. I know tgat her hair will have a undercut and under dye and in a pastel goth style.

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First concept of Anthony the Alarune. First appearance, Chapter 56 of She Came from Outer Space (AO3).

Based on the talking flowers from Disney's Alice in Wonderland. In the movie, they are shown as kind, motherly, and beautiful.

Further inspiration is from Ryo Sumiyoshi's MAD K, the character Datenshou. Dantenshou is a demon that runs a brothel. He is a plant-type demon that uses his scent to keep guests and workers at ease.

SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILER ALERT!! SPOILER ALERT!!

(I highly recommend reading MAD K! It's three volumes. The art is beautiful, the beastly designs are gorgeous... the themes are dark, there is some gore, and there is sexual content! The story and lore is good!)

Dantenshou doesn't have typical sex organs. As we now the flower petals and buds are the "sex organs", hence the anatomy of a rose on the top right.

SPOILER ENDS!!

Anthony head and "hair"/petals are sensitive sex organs. Don't touch Anthony's face or hair. Deep within the petals is the highly senstive filament and stigma. This produce pollen that bees collect and pollinate. Alarune reproduce asexually.

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More Dandadan referenced art! I like Momo's fashion!

The colors to Lime's clothes came from Jack's pajama card. Alice-Lime grows fur on her legs thick. She experiments with shaving patterns. She starts a trend. Bringing back the furry-bod life!

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Curled and uncurled arms.

Alice can stuff her arm-tentacles into her vest and goes up a cup size!