#undead ramblings

[rottenzombrainz]

Shout-out to everyone who's accidentally typed "Haku" when they meant "Haru" and "Luca" when they meant "Lyca" or vice versa

[undead-discourse]

i am once again searching for a decent alternative to ao3 that isn’t wattpad or ff.net does it exist or am i looking for a unicorn

[rottenzombrainz]

I feel like her piercings look a little funky and that I should have accessorized more, but other than that, I'm proud of how she turned out.

Yichén will be making his debut in a little bit~~ gotta do some stuff around the graveyard first

My student ID finally came in~!! I look so super pretty, right? The orange background totally clashes with my everything... but there's not much I can do :P

((inspired by @asks-for-daiki))

[huntinglove]

💙 Proselfshiptember 2024 ❤

Proselfshiptember is right around the corner, here's the prompts for 2024!!

Here's a few reminders for those who wish to participate:

The event officially starts in September, but feel free to take as long as you'd like with it, there's no expiration date for this project!

All creations are welcome: drawings, writing, painting, music, edits, moodboards, etc!

Each prompt is up to your interpretation and taste! All can be portrayed as SFW or NSFW

All forms of portrayal of oneself and their F/O(s) are welcome! Self inserts, OCs, canon characters, alterhuman IDs, otherkin and all other selfshippers are celebrated here!

Feel free to tag me in anything you post related to the prompts, as long as my squicks and triggers aren't involved, I'll give it a RB!!

Have fun and thank you so much for any and all of you who take interest in and participate in this event!

[sleepymaven]

Elden Ring/Dark Souls and the Sheer Lack of Fanfics. (A Slight Rant and Ramble.)

Alright, we need to talk, Elden Ring and Dark Souls Fandoms...

There are hundreds of thousands of you out there who love these games... So many, in fact, that they are both some of the most popular game franchises ever made...

So, pray tell, why is there such an atrocious lack of... fanfics!?

Come on, man! I. Want. More. Fanfiction!!

Give me a coffee shop au where Miquella takes Malenia to his favorite coffee shop and introduces her to the cute batista.

Give me a crossover ship between Messmer and Gwyndolin where they help eachother through their familial issues and trauma.

Give me a hurt/no comfort between Radagon and Rennala showing how the divorce went.

Give me an actor au where it shows the behind the scenes and/or bloopers for the character messing up or forgetting their lines.

Give me a Gwyndolin x Chosen Undead!reader with extra fluff and a side of gentle smut.

Give me Rennala x Carian Knight!reader where you help take care of her while she's in the library.

Give me a modern crossover au where Malenia is dating Gwynevere and going through the motions of being a cute, domestic couple before ending it with them being wife and wife and officially married. (I desperately want to see this one, I'm BEGGING.)

Give me a crack fic where Gwyndolin takes his snakes to the vet.

Give me a canon divergence au where you save Godwyn from being assassinated.

Give me Godwyn x Consort!reader where you and him are married.

Give me modern au Godwyn where he's a himbo who forgot his wallet at home to pay for his singular candy bar.

Give me a Godwyn x Tarnished!reader were you get to peg him. (I would also read this one, btw...)

Give me Godwyn with a breeding kink.

You know what...

Just give me any Godwyn fanfics!

Don't be shy people, make some more!

Make me some fanfiction or else I will ascend to godhood and place an eternal curse upon thee! 😡

..please? 🙏

Pretty please with a cherry on top..?

Just give me more Godwyn, please! 😭

(More Gwyndolin would also be IMMENSELY appreciated.)

[ceask]

Au where Geno, Error, Killer and honestly anyone who has determination or a parasite inside of them is a zombie. Would be easier and more interesting to make this into a modern au

Like imagine Reaper is just hanging out in a graveyard because he lives right next to it and sometimes helps out with the patrols, and then he just sees Geno dig out of his grave

[monstersandmaw]

You know that ‘but what if there was a good one’ trope of the ‘monsters’ from movies/media etc.? I’m thinking of BG3 (because BG3 brainrot is constant right now)…

What if there was someone in the shadow cursed lands who was undead but not hostile? What if this character could help your party? Or could be welcomed into your camp as a follower? Not heroic or anything. Just a lil undead guy (gn).

Maybe they cook for your party, or maybe you find a lute and bring it back, but no one at camp can play it so it gets set aside, but they pick it up and strum a few chords and remember what it felt like to be alive? What if they can fletch and enchant arrows for you? What if they’re so desperate to be useful and loved and cherished that they’ll do anything not to be sent out into the cursed, dark, echoing shadows again? spoilers they don’t have to *do* anything to earn their place, but after 100 yrs they don’t know that

What if they can pass as the undead and slink out of camp after your party one day, only to find you surrounded and struggling, so they grab a dagger from a nearby corpse and chuck a bag of healing potions and scrolls at you at the last minute and literally save everyone, and they’re celebrated and hugged and thanked that night back around the fire and finally feel like they have a home and a family again after a hundred years of fear and isolation and loneliness…

What if…?

Oof.

[kingtylerproductions]

Not a drawing but look at this cool 3D print I made of the union emblem from Undead Unluck!!!

I plan on spray painting it gold and attaching a pin backing. (Maybe part of a costume? You’ll have to wait and see!)

I designed it myself over like 15 hours (This was the first thing I made so I was absolute hell figuring it out). Reference photo ⬇️

[dreamnants-mis]

Something that only came to me while re-reading the manga after the anime came out involves the name of Andy itself and I think it's actually pretty interesting to think about.

Spoilers for the later half of the manga (roughly about up to Chapter 124)! .

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After the mess with the Union goons, Fuuko asks about Andy's name after calling him "Zombie" for most of the chapter. Andy responds that he doesn't remember and says being called "Undead" is good enough. Fuuko doesn't like that and decides to give him the name "Andy" instead. Andy clearly doesn't like the name very much, but considering he knows he'll have to humor Fuuko to find a way for her Unluck to kill him, he just accepts it.

In fact, I've noticed most people at first tend to call him "Undead", a dehumanizing sort of term, such as Void and the Union goons. Which considering Andy's desire to die is rooted from the guilt and loneliness being immortal brings, serves to further create emotional distances from others and perhaps even himself.

And even "Undead" doesn't quite fully fit him either because Andy is an alter ego of the original Undead Victor, so even that name wouldn't be really unique to him specifically since there are technically two different individuals with the ability.

(On a tangential aside, the first person aside from Fuuko that calls him Andy consistently is actually Shen after hearing Fuuko call him that…and he's essentially the closest thing Andy has to a bro. Make that as you will.)

But I think where Andy starts to view the name differently happens starting in the climax of the Spoil arc, with Fuuko telling him they still have so many more things to do together and then literally risking her life trying to bring him back after Victor takes over the body. And Andy knows and Fuuko also knows he is using her for the sake of finding a way to die.

It's also after this event that Andy calls Fuuko by name for the first time after she wakes up in the hospital after having called her "brat" every time up to this point. Of course, this time, he takes it back, but Fuuko notices the significance of it to want him to call her by name again.

Anyway, both of them get sent to the black market auction and Fuuko picks a dress that needs some bust tailoring. It's something I didn't really pay attention to during my initial reading when it came out, but Andy signs his name as "Andy" on the delivery form. While it might have been for practical reasons, the fact he used that name for the signature is actually pretty significant because it implies Andy is slowly beginning to accept the name Andy as his own and not just something Fuuko calls him.

(Andy has really nice penmenship, as an aside.)

But it's only during the Ragnarok arc that the significance of the name Andy really changes.

In Chapter 99, Lucy asks Andy who is he after he saves her from an UMA. Andy initially introduces himself as "Undead", but then immediately nixes it and re-introduces himself as Andy. And this is actually the first time he's introduced himself as Andy because everyone else who calls him Andy usually only does so because Fuuko calls him that (such as the example with Shen). This leads into what happens in Chapter 124, where Andy finally calls himself "Andy the Undead", accepting consciously that his name is Andy, a member of the Union and Fuuko's partner in slaying God.

In other words, Andy fully accepting Andy as his name is a form of humanization, which is something Fuuko helps him to understand is what he truly wants is to feel human.

[greenbirdtrash]

So, what if....

"Ghoul" is actually an umbrella term given by the Clergy to the vast variety of hellish fiends, imps, the undead and various demonfolk they summon for anything from their dark rituals to helping with the Ministry's deeds.

Siblings and sisters of sin are used to say and think that most of the Clergy ghouls "belong" to a certain element only because they often see some distinctive traits of theirs leaning into a certain element, or because a clergy member with a bigger knowledge in summoning and demonology told them so. And technically, they're not entirely wrong. It's just easier to refer to them that way because it's usually common for their elemental powers to manifest in a form of things that are linked to natural phenomenons inherently familiar to humankind. Also, the element-bound ghouls in question are from the most common "artificially established" type of ghouls that end up in the Ministry, the process for summoning them is well-known and has been practiced into perfection by the Emeritus bloodline through the eras (you could say they're lowkey "domesticated" them by experimenting and figuring out how to get the most loyal and tame ones with similar traits that work well together without sacrificing certain aspects), usually providing consistent results with less room for surprise features or chances to get a different (maybe even kind of an eldritch) kind of demonfolk...

The truth is, just like each snowflake is different from another, so are Ghouls. Those charismatic hellbeasts come into our world different and diverse. They are so, SO different in their looks, abilities, places they come from, element-bound magic and their very nature, it'll be impossible to catalog all of the possible variations into separate categories, and there's probably dozens of such that we don't know anything about or haven't even discovered yet. Take the reign of quintessence for example, being such a mysterious element on its own and all the different ways it manifests itself in different ghouls over the years.

So there's that.

And also there's that glittery undead skeleton-looking folk that we met recently. Still bearing the cold of the deepest parts of the pit they crawled out of, glistening in the spotlight, baring their sharp teeth in wicked grins and indulging in alluring carnal displays of sin and desire on stage.

Almost feral.

The whole new type of ghoul, a triumph of an ambitious necromancer and Ministy's newest addition for us to figure the hell out of.

[ambrosykim]

when taash says she dislikes corpses and i'm planning to romance them with my mourn watcher necromancer rook

[rottenzombrainz]

SINCE WHEN DID THEY READ BOOKS IN THE CAMPUS???

He read the book before he started doing paperwork...... HE DID HIS RESEARCH!!!

also, finally reached aff 8 with Jiro and I honestly did not expect his room to be..... less than bare minimum...

[tadpolebobatea]

Happy Tatiana anime day!

Tatiana and billy are my very favourite father and child thing, they’re very important to me. They are so very dear to my heart and Tatiana is the sweetest kid to ever kid.

If you recognise the pose that would be because it’s a redraw of that adorable panel from chapter 122 (and the outfits are from that pair popularity poll from chapter 108)

Break since it’s a little spoilery

Words can’t express how much i love this panel. Love all Tatianas plasters to show she’s been interacting with the world. It’s so sweet.

I only have the cropped version of this one, apologies. It is very cute though (i did find out yesterday that billy and tella got 14th on this poll. Which made me very happy)

[shinobus-left-eye]

IT'S SO GOOD WHATTT I'M IN LOVE

[huntinglove]

From the creators of "He would not fucking say that" comes the brand new "He would not be this fucking good at sex"

[tomyo]

Undead Unluck is fun because I have a weird thing for “We’re in a relationship for formal reasons.” Like it’s kinda fun to explore romance out of some sense of duty or side benefits. UU is interesting because technically Fuuko is forced into it but clearly she’s pretty into it almost immediately. and like, it’s not an official or really lovey dovey one but they’re talking about dates and she holds his arm and he gets her permission to marry another woman which isn’t taken too seriously but also is??? Peak. Even better that they then develop this mental synchronization. A big shonen problem is the weak/everyman usually female protagonist just getting pushed to the side but I fucking love she attached onto him like a backpack and is used to just cutting off his head now. I remember around ten years ago that I thought it would be fun to have an explicitly established couple be the shonen protagonists, like imagining this scene where in a middle of a fight one of them admits their junk smells bad during sex. I know that’s dumb and kinda embarrassing to admit but to me I’m like “Hinted romance is so boring, I want two people so in love that it doesn’t even matter that they are anymore.” So like, this is fun. Yes they still don’t really know each other all that much but they catch up pretty fast. Also again back to relationships beyond romance, love the person and their scary dog dynamic tons. Which they do so good at god damn. Gonna be so real, you know at some point when they get around to having sex, he eats her out so well. It’s just baked into his character goals lmao.