#using original villains in multiple aus is so fun

[tmnt-obsessed-ace]

So I said a couple of months ago I would have to make up a Rise Villain to fit a super specific scenario I had for When The World Crumbles. (Ie the only canon that would've fit the role before was Baron Draxum but this is post his redemption arc and while I could do brainwashing why not create someone new)

Well

Her name is Dr. Theodora Bloodmoon

She and her two assistants Katrina and Anastasia will become a nightmare to fight. Not because their strong, no no no...

Because all it takes is an injection to turn the turtles against each other.

One little poke to reduce them to animals.

Hungry, blood thirsty, cannibalistic animals.

If they survive then they'll have to face the Armagon

[oc-challenges]

WELCOME TO OC HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE 2O24!

SMILE because it's time for the annual oc halloween challenge! We will see the evil, hear the evil, and speak the evil with these spooky challenges brought to you by @aliverse, @astarionbae, @endless-oc-creations, and @come-along-pond!

If this is your first time, here's the lowdown; This is an event that takes place over the 31 days of October and presents oc creators with Halloween-themed challenges to encourage creativity, foster community, and have fun! Some of these have guidelines/suggestions, but this is very much a free-for-all so you can ignore them if they don't fit with your interpretations.

RULES

DO NOT copy others edits.

If you are doing crossovers, PLEASE make sure that the creator of the other oc is okay with crossovers.

If you want your post to be reblogged onto this blog, it must contain the hashtag ohc2024.

Feel free to ask questions, I promise I’m more treat than trick.

Everything is up to the creators interpretation, although I have tried to include some examples for help!

Have fun!

Day One: Godly Parent

Whether Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian, or any other; What "God" could have created your oc?

Day Two: Mystical Communication

There are tons of ways we think we can communicate with those beyond our realm such as Tarot Cards, Oujia Boards, Prayer, EMFs, or even through other people with otherworldly powers. Which method would your oc use? Or maybe they are the communication tool?

Day Three: Merch/Memorabilia

When we really love something, we want a piece of it with us. What merch would people buy of your ocs? Ex. Dolls (like funkos or Barbie crossovers), Clothes (like shirts or sweatshirts), Buttons/Patches, Dishware (like cups or plates), trading cards, posters, or even spin-off books of the show they star in.

Day Four: If They Were Canon AU

You could create an actor oc who plays your character or even make edits about how you think your ocs faceclaim would promote/interpret their character and get along with fellow cast members.

Day Five: Social Media AU

Within their canon, what would your ocs Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Tumblr, Snapchat, and/or YouTube look like?

Day Six: Role Swap AU

Give your oc a role in their story that is different than the one they already have. Whether this is making a hero a villain or vice versa, your victim a survivor or vice versa, or anything else you can think of.

Day Seven: Butterfly Effect

One choice could change the trajectory of our lives or any game we play. Show us the effects of your oc making the wrong choice when they originally made the right choice, befriending someone they originally hated, or even just missing their alarm.

Day Eight: Multiverse

Maybe you have multiple ocs with the same faceclaim, maybe you have a friend(s) who have ocs with the same faceclaim that you've wanted to do a crossover with, or maybe you want your oc to meet some of the actual characters their faceclaim has played. No matter what it is, it's time for your ocs to meet their multiverse counterparts!

Day Nine: Literature AU

Put your oc into an alternate universe based off a book you enjoy whether it be a classic or a newer one, no matter the genre.

Day Ten: Dungeons & Dragons AU

Have your ocs play DND, make an au based off a classic DND campaign, or just tell us the stats of your oc in DND terms.

Day Eleven: Ghost AU

Sometimes when we die, we don't leave. Tell us the unfinished business that keeps your ocs ghost on Earth, who your oc would haunt, how they would haunt, or anything else related to your oc being a ghost!

Day Twelve: Supernatural AU

Make your human oc a supernatural creature or your supernatural oc a different supernatural character.

Day Thirteen: Video Game AU

Show us some of what your story would look like as a video game or put your ocs into your favorite game.

Day Fourteen: Musical AU

The doctor said I couldn't talk, he didn't say I couldn't siiinnnggg! Put your oc into your favorite musical such as Hamilton or Mean Girls, or come up with some original lyrics to show what you think your story would look like if it were written as a musical.

Day Fifteen: Nostalgia

Take the books, shows, or movies you enjoyed as a child and put your oc into them! Or, show us what your oc enjoyed as a child.

Day Sixteen: Fairytale AU

One of the most classics of classics. Make your oc a character in your favorite fairytale, whether you prefer the Grimm or Disney version, or make up a fairytale about your oc!

Day Seventeen: Being is Believing

For day seventeen, think about superstitions, urban legends, or folklore and either make your oc a part of them, make your oc experience them, or tell us which ones your oc believes.

Day Eighteen: Beloved Pet or Object Turned Human

It's not unusual for someone to grow an emotional attatchment to an animal or an inanimate object. What would your ocs beloved pet or object say if they turned human and could speak your ocs langauge?

Day Nineteen: Genre Switch

Whatever the genre of your story is, swap it with another one. Maybe your romance story is now a horror story, your comedy is now a tragedy, or your historical realism story is now future sci-fi.

Day Twenty: Darkest After Dawn

Things can go so right for so long and then suddenly so wrong. Show us what happens when something rains on your ocs parade, when a perfect day turns into a horrible night, or a dream vacation turns into a nightmare trap.

Day Twenty-One: Apocalypse AU

Put your oc into an alternate universe that's been thrust into an apocalypse whether that be because of zombies, aliens, radiation, or the Earth trying to reclaim its land.

Day Twenty-Two: Time Problems

Let's play with time for this challenge. Picture your story as if it has always taken place in a different time, throw your oc into a time loop, or have them somehow travel through time.

Day Twenty-Three: Horrorify A Song

Take your favorite Halloween song and tell it's story, or even take a perfectly innocent song and give it a horrifying meaning! Both using your ocs, obviously.

Day Twenty-Four: What's Your Favorite Scary Movie?

It wouldn't be Halloween without some good scary movies. Put your ocs into one of your favorite scary movies!

Day Twenty-Five: Horror Location

This is an easier throwback to one of the week long challenges we've done for this event. Make something that tells a horror story of your oc at a certain location such as a Hospital/Asylum, Summer Camp, Place of Worship, Cemetery/Tomb, House/Apartment, Hotel/Cabin, or Farm/Ranch.

Day Twenty-Six: Horror Subgenres

Another throwback to a week long challenge we've done for this event. Make something that tells a horror story of your oc within a horror subgenre such as extraterrestrial, apocalypse, monster, time loop, isolation, time loop, cult, doppleganger, or anything else you can think of.

Day Twenty-Seven: Horror Archetypes

Which horror character tropes do your ocs embody? The Final Girl or The Killer? The Accomplice or The Harmless Antagonist? The Harbinger or The Nonbeliever? The Comedic Relief or The Hysteric Annoyance?

Day Twenty-Eight: Solo Costume

Show us what your oc would dress up as for Halloween! Would they dress sexy? Scary? Lazy? Practical?

Day Twenty-Nine: Couples Costume

Show us what matching costume your oc and their love interest would wear! Peanut Butter & Jelly? Morticia & Gomez? Bert & Ernie?

Day Thirty: Group Costume

Show us what costumes your oc and their friend group would coordinate. Are they the Scooby Gang? The Wiggles? Mario Party Characters?

Day Thirty-One: Here's A Treat!

The Halloween potluck isn't happening this year but we still want to encourage interaction and giving. So, choose someone to give a treat! This could be an ask, an edit, some writing, or even a playlist.

[daemonmage]

A Stupid Batfam AU

Jason’s and Bruce’s rocky relationship is actually a pr move to make sure the rest of the batfam doesn’t get attacked by reporters and gcpd.

Essentially Red Hood, while liked by the Crime Alley citizens and other citizens as well, has a pretty bad reputation with a lot of the rest of the city. The GCPD hate him for his overt violence and the head incident. The Media hates him cause he’s what they all feared Batman would become and are constantly creating news stories on him. A lot of the other citizens are just scared of him cause sometimes his temper gets out of control. It’s not the best reputation.

Bruce and Jason have long since talked and settled their differences. Well, it’s more of a “I don’t approve of your methods but I will acknowledge you as a person who wants to help, but I will still dislike the guns. Also I missed you” from Bruce and “I’m not happy with a lot of your decisions but I also understand why you came to those decisions. I’m still mad but I now know that you missed me and I missed you too” from Jason. They’re better than they were originally and honestly that’s all they could hope for. Jason visits the manor more and is having fun being brothers to Dick and Tim.

Here’s the thing though… his reputation as Red Hood may have accidentally spread to the other Bats. A few team ups here and there (and the red bat on his chest) have made everyone assume that Batman is now working with Red Hood, a known crime lord. The media and GCPD were on them like flies on shit. Jim tries to calm down the gcpd with mixed results, but he can’t stop the media from blowing this out of proportion. It’s like the news channels from Dark Knight Returns, but worse.

Jason, who just got his family back, is fucking pissed. Jason is also dramatic as hell. Bruce was willing to just deal with this, but Tim is too new at this to be caught in the crossfire. Bruce was just gonna bench him out of fear until things calm down (he’s dealt with this before) but Jason brings up his plan to Bruce. Bruce isn’t as dramatic as Jason, however he is still absolutely dramatic. He agrees. So begins an epic fight between two ideals that ends two vigilantes at each other’s throats constantly.

Red Hood and Batman fight any time they are together, Red Hood is arrested by Batman on multiple occasions, and Red Hood always escapes leaving terrifying threats spray painted where the bat can see. (Jason and Bruce give each others shit for the pot shots they take and Bruce compliments Jason’s form when he gets a good hit in, Bruce gives Jason a heads up to the easier ways to get out of a police car and Jason ignores him going for the most dramatic ways, Bruce complains that the code Jason uses for his threats are obvious and he can just ask Alfred himself for cookies, why does Bruce have to be the middle man.)

The super hero community doesn’t really know this (cause they can be pretty bad actors at times, says Bruce) tis can cause problems. Superman and Green Arrow capturing Red Hood. Batman had to pull the “he’s Gotham’s problem give him to me,” which led to a hour of arguing to get Jason back. Tim’s friend have Red Hood on their hit list for what Hood did to Robin (Tim is over it but he does use this as a way to get back at his brother when he pisses him off) and Red Hood has to be on the Villain List to sell the act, so every hero ever knows the Red Hood is a villain. This leads to chaos.

There are still rough moments where Bruce and Jason still fight, but it’s better. Jason gets to hang out and play games with Tim. He plans overly dramatic fights with Dick (with full plot cause these two are so extra.) He helps Alfred in the kitchen again talking about books they’ve both read. He and Bruce talk again, they talk about their fears and what they’ve missed. It’s better, and that’s all that really matters.

[piosplayhouse]

Ayo thank you for your contribution to society and world culture through the SVSSS iceberg, now if you don’t mind can you please explain it? I’ve been in the fandom a while but I swear I’ve never heard of some of these

Sure! Explanations will be sorted under the cut:

SHEN YUAN TIER:

- all items in this tier are either surface level details from the source material or

- daily bingpup is a popular fandom meme (used in the metal gear sense lmfao) started by @ kamkamquats on Twitter that's pretty self explanatory: kam draws and posts a bingpup picture every day! The archive is available here.

I probably should have made this point just bingpup, as I believe his origins precede kam's art, but she certainly boosted his popularity significantly, and now her art and bingpup are canonized with the publishing of the 4th volume English translation of the novel, so I thought it was a fun point!

LUO BINGHE TIER:

- Feynite's au collection: an extremely popular collection of alternate universe fics written by legendary Scum Villain fic author Feynite.

- Scum Villain is a tragedy: an interpretation of the books that poses that from every other perspective besides Shen Yuan's, Scum Villain is an incredibly depressing tragedy.

- Luo Binghe is Airplane's self insert: "Don't asky why Luo Binghe wasn't the embodiment of [Airplane's] ideal man; Luo Binghe's use had primarily been to fulfill his desire to be a badass and get revenge, as well as his desire for wanton [this section has been censored]" (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System volume 4, page 163).

- Shen Yuan died on his birthday: Shen Yuan's death date is never given in the original novels, but in the first scene of the donghua when he dies while at his computer, you can catch a glimpse at the date reading September 21st (both his birthday and the day svsss was published!)

- Shen Qingqiu's canon fursona: binghe compares sqq to a crane multiple times in the story but is depicted as a cat in fandom much more frequently, leading people to joke about how the fandom disregards his "canon" fursona in the same way bingpup is much more prevalent than sheep binghe.

- Shen Qingqiu can knit: there's official crossover Christmas merchandise that shows all of the mxtx couples participating in different holiday activities: wangxian are decorating a tree, hualian are baking cookies, and shen qingqiu is knitting a scarf for luo binghe.

- Luo Binghe's birthday: Luo Binghe is actually the only main mxtx character that doesn't have a canon birthday. He's noted in the books as being born on "the coldest days of the year", but it's debatable whether this is late December or early January, and there's no specific date from this that we can confirm is his birthday.

- sv manhua's indefinite hiatus: much to the excitement of starved fans, a Scum Villain manhua began publishing in 2019. It ran for a grand total of 3 wonderful weeks before being unceremoniously put on indefinite hiatus because of drama within the fanbase stemming from rumors that the artist/company drawing it actually hated scum villain. It has yet to return.

SHEN JIU TIER:

- Moshang's horrible first time: MXTX stated in a Q&A interview that neither Mobei-Jun nor Shang Qinghua enjoyed their first time having sex together.

- Shen Qingqiu invented maxi pads: the "scum villain pad commercial" is a commercial from the first season of the donghua depicting an exchange where Ning Yingying is self conscious about going out on her period because her sanitary supplies aren't cute, so Shen Qingqiu magics her up some maxi pads.

- Shen Yuan read mpreg yaoi: "#18 Peerless Cucumber [Expert]: Upthread, keep cool. This forum has a lot of Green JJ sisters 😎" (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System volume 4, page 145). / "''Great Master' Liu! Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky didn't write a green Jinjiang mpreg novel!'" (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System volume 4, page 295).

- Shen Jiu transmigrated into Shen Yuan: A somewhat popular theory in the fandom that when Shen Jiu died, he transmigrated into modern day Shen Yuan the same way Shen Yuan did to him.

- Cursed monkey island: Cursed monkey island is/was a private discord server made up of very og sv fans that was known for outputting somewhat dark/off-color/weird fics for each other, often with funny porn spoof names and niche concepts. The first fics from there were published in 2018, while the last fic in the collection seems to have been published in 2022, so they might still be active, but I'm not sure.

- Moshang has a 20 year age difference: Shang Qinghua died at at least age 20 (probably older) and since he transmigrated into a baby, he has 20 extra years of consciousness from his first life on the PIDW native characters, who he meets when they're both teenagers in the Airplane extras. Though physically the same age group, he would've been mentally somewhere around 30-40 years old at this point getting bullied by teenagers.

- The microwave: some of the first previews released for the donghua were static turnaround videos of the 3D models set to elevator music -- after these dropped, it was radio silence on the show's status for a long, long time. Fans called these previews "the microwave" because of the static rotation of the models and referred to the time it took for the donghua to come out as "defrosting it in the microwave". There's a fair amount of art/memes from this time period featuring the characters literally inside microwaves, even to the point where people made microwave-themed SV merch. When the donghua finally came out bingqiu were declared "free from the microwave" and a wave of fanart of them destroying microwave prisons emerged.

TIANLANG JUN TIER:

- Wangxian have read resentment of chunshan: in the mdzs audio drama extra episode "Accompanying you to sleep - Lan Wangji", Lan Wangji takes care of a drunk Wei Wuxian by getting him ready for bed. Towards the end of the episode, Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji to read him a bedtime story. Lan Wangji says he isn't good at telling stories and Wei Wuxian suggest he reads him The Resentment of Chunshan (bingqiu fanfiction). Unfortunately, Lan Wangji had never heard of it before and thereby could not ASMR it.

- Six Balls x Zhuzhi Lang: a rarepair (also called bamboo balls) written by the lovely Alex here.

- Shen Qingqiu has the protagonist halo: a theory/headcanon suggesting that when Shen Yuan transmigrated, the role of protagonist and subsequent protagonist halo left Luo Binghe and transferred onto him. Often used in angst canon divergences wherein due to the lack of a protagonist halo, Binghe dies from an event he otherwise would have survived because of his story invulnerability.

- Shen Yuan's sister found his dead body: an angst headcanon centering around the idea that Shen Yuan's sister found his dead body rotting in his apartment after he died- very good art made about this here!! (Gore/blood cw)

- Who is zhuzhi lang's dad: we all know zhuzhi-lang's dad was a big snake but what kind of big snake? How big? Why did his mom fuck him? all important questions heavily debated about in this fandom.

MOBEI JUN TIER:

- Every ship is cumplane: we already know Luo Binghe is Airplane's self insert, and Mobei-Jun's cold demeanor is somewhat reminiscent of Peerless Cucumber's tsundere wife-isms, making bingqiu and moshang arguable proto-cumplanes. However, we can go further and argue because Airplane created the entire world of PIDW, all of it in a way reflects him and his feelings, therefore meaning that because it loves Shen Qingqiu and Shen Qingqiu loves it back, every possible PIDW asset x sqq is cumplane in its basest form.

- Original donghua designs: the first pv for the donghua actually featured slightly different designs for bingqiu, which were then changed later in production! You can see the original ones here.

- PIDW is real: someone actually posted PIDW on jjwxc so you can get the real Shen Yuan experience.

SHANG QINGHUA TIER:

- Shen Yuan penetrated into the body of the scum villain: there is a listing for the svsss donghua on Amazon prime video (though no episodes are actually available) which features this banger summary:

 An ordinary youth, Shen Yuan, after reading the novel "Arrogant Gods and Demons' Journey", triggers the mysterious system so that he crosses into the book world and penetrates into the body of villain--Shen Qingqiu. Shen Qingqiu's disciple, Luo Binghe, is the main character of the novel.

- Airplane's foot fetish:

[sepublic]

Before S4 aired and all we had to go off of were the sets, I ended up having this theory that the cultists we saw were being possessed by the spirits of the Anacondrai through their remains. It was my explanation for why these humans were sometimes referred to as Anacondrai in set descriptions, as well as Kapau and Chope apparently becoming actual Serpentine named Kapau'rai and Chop'rai, respectively.

With the prominent bone motif and Pythor's presence in one of the sets, I speculated that Pythor went back to the Anacondrai Tomb and gathered the remains of his tribe, who were haunting their corpses and could possess anyone who wore their bones (In this case, humans that Pythor kidnapped).

The Anacondrai Blades would've been carved from the spines of dead Anacondrai, and a lot of the bones used in the vehicles could've been Anacondrai; Either they were leftover bits, or you had Anacondrai ghosts possessing machines. Some Anacondrai used multiple bones to possess a human, others used only one, possibly due to incomplete remains. Pythor's plan was to resurrect his tribe fully, possibly by fusing the living human hosts with the Anacondrai bones to create new Anacondrai bodies (although the presence of human DNA led to these newly-reincarnated Anacondrai lacking the usual markings). Kapau and Chope weren’t humans, they were Anacondrai ghosts possessing humans through their skulls and other bones wielded as weapons;

In the end, Anacondrai remains DID factor into the plot via the Jadeblades, as well as Pythor's essence being necessary for the spell. Humans became Anacondrai. Not to mention Anacondrai ghosts being an actual thing, which would set up an entire season around ghosts and possession before we got the summer leaks! So I was pretty off the mark, but also not? In hindsight, I wonder if the writers brought back Pythor in S3 just to set up the Anacondrai storyline of S4, and if Pythor was originally supposed to be the mastermind behind the plot, as some speculated, and/or working alongside Chen. I guess all of this could make for a fun AU where the Anacondrai themselves have agency as villains, rather than allies; Or I could salvage this idea for my own original story.

[codenamesazanka]

I need help writing the league of villains for a fan fiction. Like can you give me tips on to write their dialogue and stuff like that

Thanks for the ask! Here are some things that I think would be helpful, but please be aware that it's my approach to writing the League the way I interpret them. I'm sure there's people who finds my fic wildly inaccurate in terms of characterization. Sometimes I go back months later and disagree with my own stuff, given new information or outlook. You'll have different interpretations than me, and that's okay. And thus,

Tip #1: First of all, it’s fanfic, it’s fun, and it’s yours. You can do whatever the heck you want! It does not matter at all what you do with the characters, their dialogue, their personalities, their relationships, etc. I’ve read plenty of AU fanfics where I could not recognize Shigaraki Tomura/Shimura Tenko, despite the character having the name, but I still liked the story okay. Really, it’s all up to you and what you want. 

That said, to actually answer your question:

Tip #2: Re-read the manga. Read the scanlations - multiple versions from different scanlation groups. Read the official. No version will be perfect, some are better than others (Viz Official has its issues, but it is done by a professional translator and I tend towards it; Fallen Angels (Chapters 1-150s) was the first to scanlate and iirc they even included translation commentary at the end of their chapters; I found mangastream to be more accurate than Jaimini (Chapters 150-250s)), but having a variety of translations will give you insight into the intention of a dialogue, and different ways of achieving it. Read the original Japanese, if you can. 

Tip #2.5: Best way to figure a character, I find, is to describe the panels they’re in as if you’re writing a very plain, objective, impartial image description. Now you have an overview of their outward behavior, their actions, their dialogue. Using that, you have the basis for developing their motivations and personality. It’s the difference between ‘Shigaraki used gamer lingo a few times here, so he is a gamer... therefore he’s obsessed with games and that’s all he does’ and ‘In the first 100 chapters of the story, despite speaking sometimes like a gamer, Shigaraki is actually seen reading newspapers rather than holding a game console’.

Put another way, don’t assume generalized descriptions or traits for a character and write them based on that. You risk writing a trope or archetype or situation rather than the actual character. 

When a loved one dies suddenly, people will be in shock, before sobbing and weeping uncontrollably. That’s generally true, but the character may manifest grief in a different way. Someone close to Toga is killed - what does she do? You can write her breaking down crying, that’s perfectly reasonable. But if you look at the manga, when Twice is killed, she doesn’t cry right away. She gets angry; she lashes out. She’s deeply hurt by his murder, of course! But the tears she sheds for his passing are few in the immediate aftermath - her grief mostly takes the form of slicing Heroes’ throats.

Tip #3: Read everything else, for inspiration, for background knowledge, for tone, for your own gain outside of fandom.

Just the other day, I read Real, the wheelchair basketball manga by Inoue Takehiko. Its three main characters are marginalized by proper society - two because they’re disabled, one because he’s a high school dropout - and there were moments where I was reminded of the League’s situation. In the first chapter, the high school dropout makes a final visit to school where his teachers didn’t think much of him, and his classmates looked down on him. As he leaves, he thinks to himself that everything he does ends in failure and he’s an idiot, all the while he takes a dump at the school gates as a parting gift.

While I can’t see anyone from the League doing that exactly shot for shot, the spirit of it - being seen as a fuck up, being unwanted, being defiant in face of that, even in a inadvisable way - is similar.

Tip #3.5: Another book I’ve read years ago is Codes of the Underworld: How Criminal Communicate. It was very informative, and I think back to it sometimes when I write for the League. 

Criminals face severe constraints on communication imposed by the action of the law, and, unlike the rest of us, cannot easily develop institutions aimed at circumventing them. This central feature of criminal lives makes communication and above all reliable communication exceptionally hard to sustain. For instance, the same secrecy that protects criminals from the law hinders their opportunities to advertise their goods and qualities… In the underworld, moreover, punishments for mistakes and irrational behavior are harsher than they are elsewhere. In the world of regular business, failures of communication can lead to a loss of business, but in the underworld they can result in years behind bars, or worse.

I don’t follow it exactly, because the League is in a children’s fantasy story, and maybe this was obvious but now that it was written out to me, I know how to give the Villains an “edge” to them that a non-Villain might not have, because as Villains, they do often logically would to be secretive and brutal and cautious. Dabi walking around in broad daylight meant their hideout was discovered and All Might literally took down the wall to the bar; a breakdown in negotiations with Overhaul meant Magne dying and Compress getting his arm blown off. 

Tip #4: Related, let the League be assholes, because sometimes they are. Let them be mean and cruel and problematic. Sometimes they’ll be jerks to each other. Nearly all of them grew up in bad circumstances where they probably were not taught important lessons and details about respect and boundaries and being nice. They are definitely not going to be aware of the intricacies of fandom's (oft-American and oft-terminally-online) consensus about problematic behavior. And that’s fine. 

I remember once receiving an ask about why Shigaraki would pull Twice’s mask off in Chapter 224. Wasn’t that terrible of Shigaraki? Yeah, it was. It was also the quickest, most efficient way to get Twice to quit his arguing with the rest of the League, so Shigaraki can announce that they are going to rescue Giran (what Twice was arguing for). After that, he puts the mask back on for Twice. If you ask me, I’d say Shigaraki thinks this evens out - he does something mean that he knows will freak out Twice for a moment, but it’s because he’s arguing for Twice’s side, and he’s putting on the mask back at the end. 

You and I would likely never do something like that because we know taking away someone’s important assistive aid, even for a moment, hurts them and we don’t want to cause them pain for even a second if we could help it/there’s not ‘evening it out’/it demonstrates a power unbalance that perpetuates ableism/there are other ways to stop someone and grab attention/we know not to touch someone even the slightest without permission/etc. But does the character you’re writing know all this? Does he care? Does he think it’s worth following these rules? Does he have time for it, does he have incentives for it, does he have the lucidity, does he think he’s an exception because of this and that, etc, etc. 

A lot of things, most people often just don’t know until they’re taught to be specifically aware. As an example: When I was younger, I knew broadly that taking things without permission was bad; but what if I took these pair of scissors from my friend’s desk and used it and put it back before the owner knew? The owner is my friend. They once told me it was okay to take it, so it counts even today, right? It was just a pair of scissors, a common household item. My friend did not care; still does not care. But knowing what I do now about things like violations of boundaries, explicit consent, the continuation of these concepts for the most trivial and mundane things even in the deepest of friendship or familial ties - I feel the need to ask to use something. That’s me and what I’ve learned through the years, though. It’s probably not going to be [fictional character].

And sometimes the League are just bad people. Shigaraki tried to kill Toga and Dabi at their first meeting. Mr. Compress is seemingly a-okay with kidnapping and murder despite his ancestor being more of a Robin Hood type. Spinner likely knowingly doomed his family to even worse ostracism and harassment from his fantasy-racist hometown when he ran off to join a group of well-televised terrorists. 

That’s also fine. They’re not real. They’re fictional Villains, and you’re temporarily using them as hand-puppets to tell a story. 

Tip #5. For dialogue, it helps knowing what each character’s voice/speaking style sounds like. Some basics:

Shigaraki: 

“Shigaraki speaks with the normal masculine contracted speech, but with a sinister tone. Surprisingly not very cussy. He likes aggravating other people though.”

Caleb Cook notes that Shigaraki talks like an overgrown kid. (In comparison to ReDestro, who “uses more SAT words, since he’s had a formal education.”)

He can be a sarcastic smartass.

Kurogiri:

“Kurogiri is Extremely Polite”

He only refers to Shigaraki as ‘Shigaraki Tomura’. Always the full name, always just that.

He speaks very formally and respectfully; however, there is also a nastier side to him that comes out when he faces off Heroes: Saying to All Might, “I can't say I like the idea of having blood and guts inside my gate, but… if they're yours, I’ll happily oblige.” (Chapter 18); mocking Eraserhead and Mic when they're being sad over him, “Have you mistaken this place for a confessional of some kind?” (Chapter 254)

Dabi: 

“Dabi is like Shoto but ruder, though not to Bakugo’s extent”

He calls people names: Toga most often, as 'crazy'; he called Spinner 'lizard' once; when he first met Shigaraki, he said 'gross'.

Note that all the examples above are people younger than him; as far as I know, Dabi refrains from name-calling his allies who are older than him: Compress, Twice, Skeptic.

He inexplicably politely calls Ujiko ‘Ujiko-san’.

Compress:

“Compress is kind of like Sero. He’s got that trickster tone to him. Gets rougher when things don’t go his way.”

Likes to call himself an ‘old man’ at age 32; talks like an older gentleman as well. 

Twice: 

Twice contradicts himself a lot. Generally, he says one thing, his alter then says the opposite of that immediately afterwards. 

However, when things are urgent or serious, his alter’s speech fades. See Chapter 148, when he confronts Shigaraki about the Overhaul plan - he spills out his feelings with no contradiction. See Chapter 224, after they find out Giran’s been kidnapped - when arguing with the League about whether to say Giran, he’s completely coherent. 

Twice argues back with the alter sometimes, rather than the alter simply blurting out the opposite of what he says. 

After he gets over his clone trauma, the alter seemed to have…integrated into himself? He still speaks in contradictions, but less so, and it doesn’t seem to be a separate voice speaking out involuntarily

Spinner: 

“Spinner also speaks the normal masculine contracted speech like Kirishima and Kaminari, but he talks like Tokoyami during the Forest Lodge arc because he’s a Stain chuuni.”

An average, normal guy, compared to the rest of the League: not very polite, but not particularly rude; no great wit or affect (after he stops being a Stain fanboy), but not unintelligible; game references infrequently.

Giran: 

“Giran is also like speaks the normal masculine contracted speech similar to Shoto, but he’s a lot more mature.”

He calls Shigaraki “Shigaraki-san”, being polite towards him as a customer. 

He calls Twice by his last name, ‘Bubaigawara’, likely because they seem to be friends beyond just business. 

Toga: 

Toga is a generally polite girl, talks like a teenager. 

She can be bad at explaining herself! Seems to forget the people are lacking context for the things she says. “Hey, my best friend Jin just got killed by a Hero, which makes me sad, as well as worried that I'm going to be cut down like nothing as well, especially because I've been told how abnormal I am, even though I think I'm a normal person just like you, because I have emotions like love and fear, as any regular human does, and that lifetime of repression has hurt me.” -> Whatever she actually says to Uraraka in Chapter 289.

Only Toga uses first names with honorifics with the other League members. This is her being cute and desiring familiarity, but still polite. 

　◦ Twice is ‘Jin-kun’

　◦ Shigaraki is ‘Tomura-kun’

　◦ Dabi is, at first ‘Dabi-kun’; after she finds out he’s Touya, he’s ‘Touya-kun’ 

　◦ Spinner is ‘Spinner-kun’

　◦ However, Mr. Compress is simply ‘Mister’ 

Conversely, only Mr. Compress and Twice call her ‘Toga-chan’. All the 20-somethings dudes call her just ‘Toga’. 

*Note what the League calls each other. They all call each other using Villain names. If the male members of the League are using first names and honorifics for each other, they’ve either gotten extremely close and intimate and weirdly polite, or they’re being possessed by AFO. 

Tip #5.5. Instead of fretting over writing good dialogue right away, just write whatever you need to get a scene over with. You can go back later to change the tone and speaking style of the sentence.

Here’s a line I had for Dabi at first: 

“Whatever hospital he works at should be shut down for incompetency in background checks.”

Wayyy too formal. Here’s the line after I went back and fixed it:

“Whatever hospital he works at should be shut down for being shit at background checks.”

Still not my best shot, but better. Sometimes all you need is just to change a word. 

Tip #6. Humor. The League is ridiculous and hilarious. Always try to have fun with their interactions and antics.

[rubykgrant]

I love your headcanons for Freelancers and AI being alive, but I raise you: BOTH AT ONCE! And 479er because I totally see her being like an aggressive mom friend to the Freelancers, and maybe Illinois lives too and teaches Donut how to use grenades even better.

Heck yeah, that sounds awesome! We definitely need more grenade-Donut, and I want to see him with ones that explode with the pink freeze-paint from the Freelancer training rounds~

Oh, I have a WHOLE THING with 479er in what is my "main story-line". I love multiple AUs myself and other people have where the Freelancers and AI all get to still be around, in various different ways. Just the potential of the character interactions is so much fun!

I had this one vague AU idea where Alpha was not such a big secret during Project Freelancer (like, the day he was created, there just happened to be a few extra official people around, and thus the Director wasn't able to totally lie about what he was doing). The nature of the whole project and Sim Trooper situation changed... because they asked the new, unique, and highly advanced AI what would be the most practical ways to run things; Alpha wanted the Sim Troopers to KNOW they were part of training simulations, be given non-lethal ammunition, and potentially participate in certain Freelancer missions (some even becoming like "side-kicks" to Freelancers, with code-names based on big cities and capitals from the state the Freelancer is designated). Alpha also thought it would be optimal for his AI Fragments to be able to help different agents, thus interacting with multiple people, gaining more experience and learning how to deal with various situations (so it isn't just "top agents" who get AI assistance, but pretty much every Freelancer at some point, but obviously they form bonds with certain people). Alpha still finds all his Reds and Blues, who also know Tex, Carolina, and Wash from the beginning... things still go WRONG, but in a vastly different way (also, the Director is ticked-off the whole time, because he can't work on his dead-wife project)

In my main story-line, I've shared how I have Church and Tex return along with the other AI Fragments; when Epsilon Deconstructed, all the data from his memories were sent back to the original AI units, reviving them. Because the Director eventually planned to have his "ideal version" of Allison back, and revive her with a synthetic human body, he also planned to do the same for himself (because he wants it all to be "perfect", and have a new, younger body so they can "start their lives over"). Even though the DNA samples came from him and Allison, the genetic information sort of "randomizes" itself without any restrictions, so the synthetic bodies aren't identical clones, but more like siblings or cousins that have the same grandparents. Tex and Church get to be people, and still do AI things, plus the Fragments are finally able to be part of things with everybody!

I want Wash to go looking for the Triplets, so they're around too. Every time he got in a tight spot, Flowers just fakes his death and peaces-out, but he comes back too (while he's definitely intimidating and kind of insidious, but he's not a pure "villain", and would like to attempt being more "positively involved" with his favorite boys from Blood Gulch). There are a few other people from Project Freelancer that escaped the after-math of things falling apart and who weren't killed by Temple's group, but don't really get involved with the other characters... HOWEVER, I do indeed bring back Niner, and I also have a Freelancer OC AND a former Insurrectionist that hadn't been part of the the direct-fighting but was very close with Sharkface's group who become part of things! Repeating Carolina and Wash having a "past that comes back", but not to haunt them with new villains, instead trying to make new connections with the chance to heal old pain~

[emeraldgreaves]

I'd love to hear more about Take Your Daughter to Work Day for the finish your fics friday, please?

send me a fic title so i can add five sentences and ramble about it

“Because we could change it. We could steal some schematics and leave them in a conference room right now, and just let someone find them.” “How would you guarantee that they use them?” “I don’t know, we’d think of something.” “I have,” Sarissa says sharply. “Think about it, Gwen. Really, properly consider it. You would need to convince multiple people— Riel Syndran, chiefly, never mind our own parents—to divert their resources to publicly constructing defenses when Haven is already being rocked by major political turmoil—” “So we tell them to wait a few months.” “And why do we know how long to wait? How do we justify that information?”

in which gwen and sarissa clash over how much to interfere with their parents’ present. discussion of time travel genre beats, spoilers for terry pratchett’s night watch, and why i’m in wip-of-a-wip purgatory with this fic under the cut!

brief au context: there’s a scenario post on the shoh blog from like four years ago about how the ROs would react to their child from the future coming back, and i think that’s fun, so. fic.

one of the direct inspirations for this fic is terry pratchett’s night watch, in which sam vimes goes back in time to the very start of his police career to stop a serial killer and has to preserve the chain of events started by a citizen revolution. my main structural takeaway was the causal chain, or, the list of cause-and-effect events stretching from the past to the points in the present.

narratively, three things have to happen (examples from night watch): (1) the villain has to break the chain, forcing the protagonist to fix it (e.g. the night watch villain murdered young vimes’ original mentor, forcing him to step into that role) (2) the protagonist must also be tempted to break the chain, but ultimately upholds it for the greater good (Vimes repeatedly debating whether he could jumpstart some of the changes that make his present more stable) (3) the self-fulfilling paradox to preserve the chain (vimes being his own mentor)

so this is me taking a stab at (2). however. i do not know what the causal chain looks like because we haven’t finished the main game, so (1) and (3) are kind of in limbo. and therefore: purgatory!

usually i would just make an educated guess and move forward, but this fic will necessarily involve the difficult choices that go into preserving major endgame canon events, so there are gaps in my outline that i simply do not have the information to fill. on the plus side, it does mean i potentially get a burst of inspiration at the end of every month—the reveals at the beginning and end of ch7 were major for determining exactly when to set this. so for now i just daydream about the girls vs remembering there’s no cable car in past haven and they have to walk??? two hours??? to get across town???

[destiny-in-the-universe]

Fixation Central

Anyone who follows my blog knows I am auDHD and I fixate extremely fast. I am constantly frothing at the mouth with how much I adore certain fandoms. Most of what I'm into right now is superhero cartoons, but my journey with two of my first ever fandoms: Scooby Doo and Harry Potter.

I've 'left' Harry Potter, but that's because I made my own canon lmao. Or attempted to, at least-

It has long since branched off and my honorary fixations include Gravity Falls, Warrior Cats, PJO, and Doctor Who. And yes, I did also have problematic fixations - let yourself be cringe; if you want to enjoy DSMP, Homestuck, ATLA, or anything in between - do it. I was only part of one of these though. All fandoms have their toxicity, and in the end... make your own fucking canon. Problem solved.

Though, now... it's time to talk about what I like now and the ones I never truly left so without much further ado - let's get on with it!

Read below the cut for the rest!

The Fixations That Just Stayed

Gravity Falls (joined the fandom late, ended up being the creator of multiple original AU's and adored the Pines family dynamics; would've wanted to see something actually used with the Cipher/Zodiac Wheel)

Warrior Cats (never finished the books, unapologetic Firestar fan - first fandom I ever roleplayed and had an OC named Dawnheart of all things)

Doctor Who (adore New Who, loved all companions and thought more could've been done with Martha; huge Riverdoc fan, Donna is my favorite companion - was obsessed with the Pandorica arc for literally no reason; actually enjoyed the Timeless Child reveal)

Scooby Doo (on-off fixation, made up Scooby Doo AU's and crossovers for a lot of my fandoms-)

Current Fixations

Danny Phantom (literally what started my superhero cartoon fixation; adores Everlasting Trio - Sam bashing is irritating I'm ngl, also platonic Badger Cereal is one of my favorite things; has made ghost king and TUE AU's, among other things)

RC9GN (Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja) (never watched it as a kid afaik; huge Randy Cunningham kin, kickstarted my Secret Trio fixation - multishipper for the fandom)

Wordgirl (nostalgia fixation, watched few episodes as a kid but came to love it as an adult; adoptive villains apologist, obsessed with the Rise of Miss Power episodes; Becky Botsford and Tobey McCallister kin, a lot more thoughts but I can't list them all down-)

K-Dramas (kind of picky with them, anything high-drive/action are my favorites; adores Vincenzo and Descendants of the Sun. Taxi Driver was also a fun ride, among others)

AU's and Crossovers Hoard

Secret Trio/Quartet (American Dragon: Jake Long, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, and Danny Phantom + bonus appearances from Miraculous Ladybug) (massive fixation, currently being worked on as a fanfiction series on Ao3 - post canon/future au timelines, darker depictions than their given canon)

Superwholock and Co (Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock) (original crossover I ever got into; adores crossovers with Merlin)

Mystery Kids (crossover between Coraline, Paranorman, Gravity Falls, and Danny Phantom - as I've never seen/played Psychonauts) (first of the crossovers as well, was a casual fan in the beginning - currently also being worked on as a fanfiction)

Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons (Rise of the Guardians, Brave, Tangled, and How to Train Your Dragon) (the OG, attempted to make an LPS series for it as a kid; adored any plotlines with Pitch Black - the four being New Guardians of the Seasons? chef's kiss)

DP x DC (personal favorite, i like the Vibes)

Personal Hoard

Totally Spies/Glitch Techs (made it up like Right Now; very behind on Glitch Techs but still-)

RC9GN/Wordgirl

C:KND/RC9GN (Codename: Kids Next Door/Randy Cunningham) (original creator; former KND operative Randy Cunningham becomes the Ninja, what could possibly go wrong?)

Project Zero: Heroes United (expanded Secret Trio/Quartet universe) ("Heroes Cinematic Universe" multi-fandom au where superheroes of different cartoons are selected to be an elite team against evil)

Once Upon in Camelot (OUAT/Once Upon a Time and Merlin) (abandoned project, might return to it; crossover/au where BBC! Arthurian cast are reincarnated following the S4 finale - exception being Merlin, shenanigans ensue; post-canon arc, Merthur storyline)

Other projects will be brought up later so if anyone's curious, interact with this post! Likes are appreciated, but comments and reblogs are preferred! Meows.

independent fandom AU's (i.e. Reverse Falls) will not be included within this post! I will be linking that separately!

[2manyturbos]

🏁 Rules 🏁

Hi: You can call me Vile. They/She/He with a slight inclination toward They/Them. I’m 30+ and have been rping for well over a decade. Me nb grey ace gay cryptid that loves their villains.

This is a Side Blog: Follows are through vile-muses.

Content Disclaimer: Please use your better judgment when following. Expect heavy themes; this is NOT a coffee shop AU. Regardless that such themes will be tagged, if you can’t handle dark themes, I cannot recommend a follow. There will be morally grey if not outright immoral actions included on this blog. IC =/= OOC. This should go without saying, but I do not condone all the actions of my character. If this is a triggering subject or if you cannot divorce the writer from any potentially villainous characters they write, I cannot recommend a follow.

Obligatory Mention: I reserve the right to not RP with everyone, ect ect.

Fandom DNI’s: As a personal preference, I'd rather not see the following with high frequency on my dash: Harry Potter, FNAF (and similar “mascot horror”), South Park, Family Guy, Marvel, DC, Superheroes in general, My Little Pony, Star Wars, Homestuck, Disney Descendants, Twisted Wonderland, Once Upon A Time, Disney “Live Action” Remakes, K Pop. So I avoid blogs where it seems like I'll be seeing a lot of any of this.

Self Inserts: I don't roleplay with them. Sorry. In my experience there's always a problem with the inability to separate ic from ooc with self inserts. That and I'm just uncomfy with it in general. It isn't fun for me.

Accessibility Clause: If I can’t navigate or easily read your blog, I won’t follow. Ditto for post formatting. Accessibility is important. On the flip side: if there’s anything I can do to make my content easier to enjoy, please don’t hesitate to ask. I am a player to values accessibility over aesthetic.

Duplicate Muses: I will not allow duplicates of my own muse to meet each-other. I will allow my characters to meet other oc Turbos but NOT other versions of the original. Ties into me not wanting to focus on the multi-verse, as elaborated on further down. I will, however, interact with multiples of other characters.

Regarding Live Action Icons: If you cannot tolerate that I don’t always use them, I am not a good partner for you. I spent time and effort into developing my artistic skill and use my own art for some graphics; please be respectful of that. I have zero interest whatsoever in getting a rl face claim for Turbo.

Shipping: Highly selective. I need to trust you. I need to be familiar with your vibe, which requires months of me sharing a space with you. I do not like to ship with cis straight male muns, sorry.

Actions have consequences in my RPs. I don’t kill without consent, but don’t expect me or my character to be a doormat. If your muse antagonizes or annoys mine, expect an appropriate reaction. This goes both ways; my characters may not be terribly nice. Feel free to respond to their behavior in kind.

Assuming Relationships: I don’t do pre-established relationships (that aren’t canon) at all. I build IC relations from the ground up. If you want to plot out some -basic- history, or a sort of outline, that’s fine, but nothing too in-depth to start with. No long-lost lovers, children or family members. Please do not attempt to imply relationships I haven’t agreed to. If you have a destination in mind for their relationship (i.e. eventual family figures), I’ll slowly work up to it thread by thread, but I won’t go all in at first before I know what their chemistry is like.

I Am Slow: Please be aware I’m a working adult who may have to go on hiatus for months at a time. I can be a slow RPer and may take a week or more to respond to threads regularly. If potentially waiting a month or two for replies during my busy periods is a dealbreaker for you, I’m not the right partner. I do however do my best to give notice of hiatuses.

You Are Slow?: On the flip side, I don’t mind fellow slow RPers and I understand that life happens; in this case I will expect something in your rules, a hiatus notice, or even direct communication with me if replies will be slow. Don’t apologize for taking a month +, I’m very used to it.

Post Length: I regularly write two paragraphs (5+ sentences) or more. I don’t exactly have a firm wordcount requirement. As long as it seems like we’re putting in an equal effort, specific reply lengths aren’t a deal breaker for me. I never do one-liners; I honestly just can’t… unless it’s for crack threads lol.

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I only rp with other adults. This is not an invitation to convince me otherwise. I will check blogs for ages; any blog without an age, I will assume is under 18 and will not interact. If I suspect you are lying about your age or are otherwise not mature enough in interactions, I’m within my rights to cut contact.

No Multi-verse Shenanigans Please: I’m not interested in multi-verse shenanigans. I don’t like plots where my characters are warped to another universe and will not respond to RPs that paint me into that corner. I’m an old rper who’s already done that to death and am bored with it. Instead, I would suggest just a mutual agreement between partners that our characters come from the same universe. Or, if you really want your character to come from a different universe, please don’t make it the focus of the rp.

Digital vs Real World: “Players” somehow entering the digital world is okay as a plot point for face to face interaction reasons. But please don’t put my characters into the real world without plotting first.

Story progression is a thing. What your characters do will be remembered thread to thread. If we have a relationship between our characters in mind, I will generally try to work to get closer to it thread-by-thread. Also, there will be changes to the character on my blog as time goes on. Development happens. I am a roleplayer to likes to keep track of continuity.

Passwords give me anxiety. Sorry, lol: I’m not going to have my anxiety invalidated either. I don’t follow people with a password requirement in respect to that. I read rules before I even follow/follow back to check if we’re compatible. If you don’t believe me, that’s gravy, but we’re not compatible.

I am assuming if you’re down here, you read my rules. I have no password requirement so *party horn*

[nami-moittli]

[Part 1] [Part 2]

Note: There will be appmon spoilers ahead!

So, picking back up where I left off, now that we’ve got one half of the appdrive-color coding out of the way, let’s move on to the other half, where I will slowly start to get more indulgent and headcanon-y

So, now that I’ve talked about how each chosen is color coded, we now have to take a look at the appdrive DUOs

(Sorry Astora, for the blurry photo)

But now we get interesting, each DUO has two colors, each chosen’s main color and a secondary one. All but one of them have the same secondary color, and guess who that is!

It’s Yuujin. Because of course it is.

Yuujin has purple as the ‘top’ color, which as I’ve stated represents himself and Offmon, but on the ‘bottom’ color, it’s white, silver, really.

All the rest of the chosen have their respective colors on the top portion, and a yellow, gold, on the bottom. Now what could this all mean?

I, personally, see it as a slight show of Yuujin’s “other” nature. Being a second “sixth ranger” and, of course, being an A.I. being originally made for Leviathan before Minerva decided to use him herself.

Now, I can’t really talk about color theory and why Yuujin, Leviathan, is silver while the others, Minerva, are gold, but I can talk about my own headcanons and general AU bs!

So, speaking of the appdrives and Leviathan, that brings us to everyone’s favorite arc-long villain, Unryuji Knight.

We see in the fight between Warudamon and the app drivers there is a mysterious applidriver who allows for Mienumon to app fuse her to get her to ultimate, and this mysterious appli driver also shows up with Cameramon to app fuse him to Scopemon.

As we can see here, from Mienumon being listed as Knight’s buddy, (I think from the manga?) it would make sense for this mysterious applidriver to be our dear Knight.

Now, why am I saying this?

What color would his appdrive be?

To confirm that the manga is the reason why Knight is listed as Mienumon’s buddy, here on Wikimon it lists all the applidrivers:

Of course, the color is listed as “unknown”, which makes sense, it means we, the fans get to speculate!

(Also, slight mention for the game appdrivers, apparently Kazuki/Itsuki, who I believe are the male/female protagonists, have white appdrives. I’m ignoring that because it’s game canon, not show canon.)

Now, the easiest color to choose for him would be white, as that is what he is mainly seen wearing. However, as I’ve previously mentioned, the appdrive’s color seems to match the buddy, not just the child.

This, decidedly, makes things harder.

Of course, we could give him, maybe a pink, to match Mienumon, as blue and purple are already both taken (unless we want to go with a “different shade is good enough!” Approach) but, I and others who have watched the show know that this isn’t quite right. Knight originally had an app that he himself made, being a messaging app, before it got shut down due to hate speech.

Of course, we would go with this app’s color scheme instead. I don’t remember if we ever get to see this app’s icon in the show? I think it’s shown, but I don’t really remember the color scheme. But even, I do have my own ideas!

Now, I know that I said that white is the obvious option, and it is the one that I would pick for his applidrive, but I did want to talk about his buddy as well. So with that out of the way, and me diving into the trenches of my own cool ideas without regard for what makes the most sense, I do have a fun idea as to how Knight’s applidrive more interesting!

I think it’s be cool, if like Messemon, which has multiple colors, Knight’s appdrive reflects off different colors as well! Of course, the base color would still be white, but depending on the angle, maybe the outline color could change? Maybe green, blue and red like we see from Messemon? Or something else?

Idk, I just think it’s cool.

Oh, and of course, with his DUO the secondary color would be silver like Yuujin’s.

New section: My madness (with a hint of analysis still sprinkled in)

So, now that I’ve got all of the canon stuff out of the way, with an exception of Hajime, which I will get to in this section, I can talk about my own personal headcanons/post-canon AU stuff!

Let’s start out simple with “still in the realm of canon” Hajime!

I believe that his appdrive color would be orange, because yellow’s already taken and it’s reasonable to get orange from both Hajime and Onmon/Bootmon. For his secondary DUO color though, I’d imagine it to be neither silver, nor gold. Instead being a bronze, as by the time he gets his appdrive, both are gone.

Now, into my madness! Yuu, my headcanon/OC character. If you haven’t read my little “introduction post” I suppose it would be called, for him, the basic premise for his character is: Yuujin but one model down is brought to life by the Katsura’s, who he now lives with. He has an identity crisis over 1) being an android and 2) not having any memories of the main story, as he’s currently YJ-12, if you will. He ends up having so much of an identity crisis because (when I first imagined him he was Hajime’s age without me thinking of the implications) he wanted a more “fresh start” of being his own person. He’s now Hajime’s age and he goes by “Yuu Katsura”

Anyway, with that out of the way, I can get into what I actually wanted to talk about! Of course, as this is post canon, his secondary color is bronze, just as Hajime’s is. But his primary color? At first, I wanted it to be green, as that’s Yuujin’s main color, and it could be like they switched, Yuujin wears green with a purple appdrive, and Yuu wears purple and has a green appdrive. But then I had my appdrive color realization, and luckily, purple is not Offmon’s only color!

So Yuu’s applidrive would have grey as its primary color and bronze as its secondary color.

Now, for awhile, Astora’s cousin, Hinarin, was my Side Character I Care Way Too Much About. So, of course, I had to give her a buddy of her own! And so, I ended up giving her the buddy appmon of Dancemon! It makes sense, as she’s Astora’s cousin so a variant/coincidental resemblance to Musimon makes sense. Plus, as she’s been bedridden in the hospital for quite some time now, having such an active buddy would be really fun! I even came up with an episode idea for the two, but I never got around to really writing it, Y’know?

Anyway, all this is to say, green primary color, bronze secondary color.

Onto Ai! Now, I mainly associate her with the color pink, but as I’ve already discussed, there’s more to it than just that. So, who would her buddy be?

Now, I’ve seen people say that Bookmon would be a great buddy for her, and while I do agree, it would seem a bit, off. If you know what I mean.

Gatchmon, Musimon, Dokamon, Hackmon and Offmon (and Onmon/Bootmon, if we want to add Hajime) if you think about all these appmon, adding Bookmon to the roster would look, odd, would it not? After all, all of them are, idk how to describe it, vaguely humanoid? Of course, all except Hackmon, who’s more beastioid? I mean, It’s not like any of them look as human as say, Mienumon, off the top my head, but none of them are object appmon either.

So, no, I would not have Bookmon be AI’s buddy. Who would I choose?

Well, honestly, I kinda want to make an OC appmon for her buddy, so, in terms of applidrive colors?

Pink primary, bronze secondary.

Bonus:

Watson can have that one Roleplaymon variant we see in his joke backstory. The one based off the successful RPG app game.

Idfk, brown and bronze?

[ofmermaidstories]

Hello!! Not so controversial, but personally, I think the wave of villain!Deku absolutely ridiculous. Sure, the story might be good and I'm not saying these authors are doing a bad job, it's just that Izuku as a character would never think of becoming a villain, despite his quirklessness. His whole character revolves around helping people and being kind, especially because he knows how cruel the world can be. So, those villain origin stories will never make sense, unless you practically strip him of his core and beliefs in the first place. Considering that, the vigilante!Deku fics make much more sense, especially if you want him to be morally ambigious but still Izuku at his core, helping people despite going against the law.

And tbh, I understand that fanfics are supposed to show an alternative to multiple situations, but I think there's a boundary within that, because getting rid of what makes that particular character interesting/special is just taking that character wholly out of the equation, and rather making an OC with the same name.

To add to that, someone should absolutely change the plot or minor characterizations to fit into whatever you got planned, this is why AU's are popular. And as long these variations stay true to the core of that character, it only can turn out amazing!! Sadly, that's what a lot of villain!Deku fics miss, and in turn I never can enjoy them without feeling the sense of grief and wrongness.

Man, I'm sorry for this, it turned out longer than I wanted it to be hahaha

No! I love it! And I agree. 🥺 Like, I can appreciate a Villain!Deku AU as something fun to explore a really popular what-if—but how they handle Izuku in general will make or break it for me. 😕 What I have always liked about Deku is his selfishness, when it comes him wanting to be a hero—he wants to be a hero! Quirkless or no! He wants to be like All Might—to reassure people and tell them he’s here, that he’s reaching out to them! Vigilante!Deku honours that a little, like you say, because he’s still Izuku at his core. But I think Villain!Deku fics tend to fall under the same umbrella that any kind of revenge (bakugou/consequences for example) fic does, for me; in that it’s kind of missing the point, LOL.

I will fight tooth and nail for people to be allowed to write or characterise whatever and however they want; but I agree with you in that at a certain point you, as a reader, will come to a threshold that you have to decide if are you reading fanfiction, still, or just fiction (that’s vaguely familiar)? And!! Here’s the thing!!! Humans are pretty forgiving readers, I reckon. And we also like things to be familiar to us (like tropes! cliches! fanfiction in general!!!). Villain!Deku is fun in his own way—all that violence and anger, packaged up in a character that otherwise would be repulsed by it. I can see how he’d be popular for like, yandere tropes, or other dark content.

I just—I like it when Deku has his goodness. 🥺 His self-sacrificing need to help others. Villain!Deku inherently involves a lot of sadness—being cast aside, neglected, hurt, whatever is used to push him there. 🥺 And I think it’s very much a matter of, “your mileage may very” when it comes to wanting to read/engage/write that, and what that does to his characterisation.

[teamoon7]

In your au, Kim will get a miraculous? Considering all the shit that he done.

Actually, I'm not keeping (most part of) what happened in Derision in the AU!

Thing is: I find potential in the "Chloe will develop as a better person" concept, and I don't think her being such a TERRIBLE person helps her being "redeemed" (or at least becaming someone better) hahah- and I'd rather just not redeem her than redeem her without addressing or writing those storylines properly. I also don't like the original episode, for multiple reasons

So yeah, not keeping what Kim did in there. But that said, I'm not sure who I'm giving the miraculous to besides the main five + Kagami, Luka and probably zoe. I honestly think that "spamming" miraculous holders without giving them a proper storyline that makes each of them unique and that doesn't feels "repetitive" is actually something that kinda "ruins" the magic", you know? If everyone has powers, there is no fun in having powers anymore. The concept of gaining cool powers needs to be something unique for me- like, if a new holder simply transforms without finding it amazing (or maybe TRULY frightening) and without having any difficulties, seeming almost as "trained" as the MAIN holders, than despite the fanservice, what's really the fun in watching this?

So, if I were to choose characters to use miraculous temporarily, I need to follow 3 criteria: 1-Giving them a miraculous that will, somehow, REALLY help them develop something important in their own character arc, and not only be "fanservice"

2-Having a situation in which giving a miraculous to an inexperienced person is, somehow, more worth it than Ladybug or Chat noir simply using them themselves

3-Only giving them to people REALLY not only trustworthy, but also capable of keeping secrets, to avoid the risk of them being endangered in the future

4-Keeping both the enthusiasm of receiving a magical jewel and the inexperience in their actions. They will find what they're going through amazing. They won't really know how to do ANYTHING without help. They won't have experience in battle, unless their civilian forms do train some type of fighting (like Kagami or Félix).

Considering all that, although I have some things already being thought of, it's VERY hard to find reasons to give inexperienced people miraculous. Even when idk, Alya used the fox, what would prevent ladybug for giving her another miraculous when the fox isn't needed? After all, she would have gained some experience. So I would need to find a reason in EVERY new hero appearance as to why were THEY the chosen ones? What would make THEM the best options, between so many others? Depending on the reason you find for that to happen (like idk, maybe "all the other people are unreachable now"), it would just be repetitive. So, in summary: I have to think of some other mechanics for "many holders" being something possible, so I don't have the answer to that question. Maybe he- as well as the whole miracuclass- will be holders, maybe (almost) none of them will.

And even if they do, I'm also probably changing some choices. Although I'll keep the main 7 with their original jewels, many people in the miracuclass might have a kwami swap, if I find it more fitting to the narrative. Maybe I'll even give some miraculous to people who actually aren't in the class and weren't original holders, since I'm adding the special characters (Fei, Jess, etc) in the main storyline, and will probably give focus to some of them (specially fei).

I also don't know if ALL the miraculous (besides the butterfly and the peacock) will be in the main box. Since I'm adding new villains (probably the hardest part in the AU if I'm being honest hahah) and have yet to figure it out how their storylines will go, I'll likely give them some miraculous (or at least one)

So yeah hahaha, in summary, Kim won't be the same almost-unforgivable-asshole he is in Canon, but he also might or might not get a miraculous. Only time will tell

[lucky-clover-gazette]

this is our get-along fic

two years after shadow and vio's evil takeover, the gang reunites for dinner. this is a multi-chapter continuation of the oneshot "thank darkness for that," which introduces a corruption-type au that's actually super chill. definitely read the one-shot before following this one!

chapter 1 of 7: the darkest timeline (3400 words)

Shadow nods. “You know, we’ve really been making strides on our emotional intelligence lately.”

“I suppose we have.”

“Of course,” Shadow muses, “we’ve been normal-type-intelligent from the very beginning, so it’s no wonder they made us kings.”

“Shadow. We made us kings.”

“A very intelligent move on our part!”

read the full chapter on ao3 or under the cut:

Life is good in the darkest timeline.

It’s been two years since Shadow and Vio took over the world, and just shy of one since their royal wedding. They’ve faced many challenges during their time in power—multiple assassination attempts, conflicts over royal traditions, and semi-regular sleepless nights, just to name a few. But they’ve also changed the world for the better, having bridged the Dark and Light worlds and restored entire natural regions of Hyrule. Not too shabby for a pair of former villains who took the throne at age nineteen.

“I don’t like the decorations,” Vio says from on high, presiding over the Royal Event Planning Committee as they put the final touches on the banquet hall. Originally Vio had wanted to host the dinner party in a more intimate space, but Shadow had  worried that the already stressful situation would quickly get claustrophobic. So they settled instead on their throne room, with its stainless marble flooring and sunlight pouring through stained glass. They oversee the preparation from their thrones, one of which is hardly ever used, as Shadow has always preferred to perch on Vio’s armrest rather than occupy his own seat.

“Oh no,” Shadow coos, playing with Vio’s flowing shoulder-length hair. Neither he nor Vio wear their crowns outside of special royal occasions, opting overall for more casual styles of dress. Of course their clothing is still made from the finest materials, created specifically for them by Hyrule’s most talented artisans from Ordon to Eldin.

Vio wrinkles his nose at the silver and gold garlands being strung around the columns. “It looks tacky.”

“Okay tastemaker, what would you prefer instead?”

Shadow’s just poking fun, but there’s an edge to Vio’s expression. He’s been like this for the past week, ever since they got the RSVPs from their four anticipated guests. Shadow knows why, of course, but he’ll never fully understand Vio’s feelings on the matter. Given the way they’ve been affecting Vio, Shadow’s almost grateful for that. Only almost, though, because it tears him up when he can’t bear even some of Vio’s pain. They got here together—they’re both equally responsible for the good and bad consequences of their plan. It’s not fair that Vio seems to suffer more for it, at least inside his own head.

“Hey!” Vio shouts out, startling one of the committee members.

Shadow grabs a bit of Vio’s hair and gently pulls. “Vi, can you please just relax—”

Vio ignores him, casting a disapproving glance at the dining table. “That needs to move.”

It takes Shadow a second, but he’s pretty sure the committee member’s name is Fletcher. He’s been making it a priority lately to learn as many names as possible, under the diplomatic guidance of his new royal advisor.

“Thank you, Fletcher,” Shadow adds with an apologetic shrug. Fletcher looks from Vio, to Shadow, to the table, and cringes.

“So sorry!” they shout, grabbing another committee member to help them move it.

Shadow sighs and disentangles his hand from Vio’s hair, using it instead to rub his back. “You know you’re freaking out for no reason, right?”

Vio’s gaze stays fixed forward, but his voice is soft. “I don’t want you to be uncomfortable.”

The table’s new location seems to appease him, even though Shadow’s the one who ideally needs it out of the sunlight. And he doesn’t really, anymore, because he’s been living in this world for two years, and it is possible for a Dark Worlder to gradually adjust. Shadow does appreciate the thought, though, especially given the legislation he’s trying to pass mandating accommodations for Dark Worlders in public spaces.

Shadow kisses Vio’s forehead and Vio hums. “I know I’m being… prickly,” he says. “I’m sorry.” He cups a hand around his mouth and repeats his apology across the hall, startling Fletcher yet again. Now it’s Vio’s turn to cringe.

“They all get why you’re stressed,” Shadow reassures him. “It’s not exactly the kingdom’s best-kept secret that the ex-Heroes and ex-Princess have issues with our reign. They tried to murder us at our wedding like four times.”

“Five,” Vio corrects Shadow, because accuracy apparently matters when it comes to botched assassinations. To be fair, it very much does, and if it were up to Vio the first attempt would probably have been a success.

“Five,” Shadow confirms. “Point is, I’m sure they don’t blame you for being on edge. I personally think it’s good that you’re nervous, because it means you really do care about winning back their favor.”

Vio shakes his head. “You make it sound too transactional. It’s not about making me feel better, or getting forgiveness or whatever. I don’t deserve that, especially for the things I’ve done in the past.. I just… I wish things could be different now.”

“And in some ways they are, but you already know that.”

Vio groans and rubs his temple. “It was easier when they all hated me, and we believed they always would.”

“Welllll,” Shadow draws out the word, “it’s not too late to call it off.”

Vio shakes his head, as Shadow had fully expected. He’s got a pretty solid understanding of his husband’s psychology at this point, and suspects that giving Vio the option to back out would actually help him feel more certain moving forward.

His husband—Shadow still gets stuck on that. They married at twenty, which is apparently young in Hylian culture, but given the circumstances Shadow still thinks it had been right call. It’d made all the sense in the world to him at the time, because honestly he couldn’t imagine ending up with anyone else, and their specific marriage came with fun new titles and further reinforcement of their dominion over Hyrule.

But still. It’s weird to be married so young, especially considering the way the world must view them. Shadow worries that their titles and married state will make him and Vio even more disagreeable to Vio’s former allies. He wonders if they could ever fully believe that Vio loves Shadow implicitly, that he sees Shadow worthy of loyalty sworn above all else. By all means, it makes no sense, and Shadow doesn’t exactly blame them for doubting his value in Vio’s life or Hyrule’s leadership. He is still a creature of darkness, after all.

But this whole dinner party isn’t about Shadow, or his own silly insecurities. He’s happy, truly, and his life is good—certainly better than anything he could have imagined before meeting Vio. They both may have had to do some objectively evil things in the past to create the world they now rule, but really, it’s not a bad world at all. No worse than it had been prior to Shadow’s initial siege on Hyrule Castle, and certainly better than it would have been under Vaati or Ganon’s control. There is always that nagging question of what would have happened in a world where Vio and Shadow had worked with the others to defeat Vaati and Ganon, but in all likelihood that would have resulted in the Hero reforming and Vio ceasing to exist. So, as Shadow had once put oh-so-eloquently: like, fuck that world.

“Hey,” Vio nudges Shadow’s shoulder. “You’re being quiet. What are you thinking about?”

“Just how glad I am that we’re here, together,” Shadow says with a soft smile. “Sappy, I know. I should be working on my tough evil persona for this dinner. It’ll make you look like the good one in comparison.”

“You should be exactly who you are,” Vio says, leaning up to give Shadow a kiss. “And I’ll be who I am. And whatever they think about that… well, at least we’ll know we tried.”

Shadow nods. “You know, we’ve really been making strides on our emotional intelligence lately.”

“I suppose we have.”

“Of course,” Shadow muses, “we’ve been normal-type-intelligent from the very beginning, so it’s no wonder they made us kings.”

“Shadow. We made us kings.”

“A very intelligent move on our part!”

Vio looks up at Shadow, and it’s like the stress of the day has completely left him. “You’re so…”

Shadow allows Vio to cup his face, handling him with a reverence that sends chills down his back. “Yeah. You too.”

“Your Majesties!” interrupts an all-too-familiar voice. “The preparations are just about finished. Your guests should arrive in approximately fifteen minutes.”

Vio and Shadow exchange an uncertain glance, but it only lasts a second.

“Thank you, Tingle,” Vio says. “Oh, and others!”

“Thank you, everyone,” Shadow echoes with a big thumbs-up. “It looks beautiful in here.”

And it does—a long dining table set out in the center of the hall, bathed in partial light and perfectly set for fine dining. It’s fancy enough to reinforce the fact that they are still the ones in power, but not as intimidating as their wedding had been.

“Please alert the guards,” Vio instructs Tingle, “and have them meet our guests at the front gate.”

Shadow frowns. “Won’t that send the wrong message?”

“Five assassination attempts,” Vio reminds him. “I want us all to trust each other, but I also don’t want either of us dead.”

“You really think they’d try to kill us now?”

“I think it’s going to take effort and time to repair the trust between us all, and I’m not risking our lives in the meantime.”

Tingle looks from Vio to Shadow and then shrugs. “Guards at the gate, I’ll let ‘em know. Then I’ll start on the soup.”

And with a tiny bow he’s gone, leaving Shadow and Vio to wonder if they ever actually requested soup in the first place.

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Life sucks in the darkest timeline.

Blue crosses his arms as he trails behind the group, wordlessly following the main path towards Hyrule Castle. Red glances back at him as Zelda and Green push ahead, only causing Blue's scowl to deepen.

"What are you looking at?" he asks his kind-of-roommate and kind-of-boss, who has dressed himself entirely in handmade items from the Castletown Crafts boutique. Combine that with Green's crisp button-down and Zelda's business-casual dress, and it's like they've all forgotten that their hosts are the same cretins who destroyed their lives two years ago. Blue rolls the sleeves of his t-shirt above his biceps and messes with his own hair, going for maximum disrespect towards their most regal and exalted hosts.

For what feels like the millionth time in the past two years, Blue wonders how the others manage to be so consistently untroubled by the state of the world and their lives. It's like they don't even take Blue seriously anymore, ever since the group's embarrassingly futile attempts at rebellion during the royal wedding. From the way Red, Green, and Zelda act now, you'd think they only had that one shot—and since they blew it, they had no choice but to just give up trying at all. Now Green teaches kids how to ride horses on the ranch he shares with Zelda, Red sells handmade goods to the residents of Castletown, and Blue works the register because has literally nothing better to do with his time.

"Come on Blue, keep up!" Red calls out, walking backwards to simultaneously engage with Blue and match pace with Green and Zelda.

Honestly, of the three of them, Blue is positive that Red pities him the most—why else would he have offered him a job, or a room in the apartment above the shop? Why else would he be calling out for Blue when he clearly is unhappy to be here, and vocally disgusted by how easily the others fell for Vio and the shadow monster's ruse?

When invitations to a dinner party with the Kings of Hyrule showed up at the shop and ranch, Blue had been shocked by the others' simple acceptance. They all RSVP'd yes almost immediately, with no ulterior motives or senses of resentment or anger. Green and Zelda showed interest at best and mild suspicion at worst, while Red was actually excited by the prospect of a possible truce between the six.

Blue pities them all, actually, for deluding themselves into thinking they're happy enough to consider forgiving the people who quite literally ruined their lives.

And they may not take Blue seriously anymore, but he is deadly serious about one thing: 

Vio and Shadow Link are going to regret inviting him into their home.

They've had their fun for the past two years, turning Hyrule's heroes into a mockery of their former selves—but this darkest timeline has a time limit. Even if no one else cares to bring them to justice, Blue will make sure of that.

"Bluuuuuue," Red calls out again, almost tripping on a topiary as he refuses to look where he's going. Blue scowls and picks up the pace, because he really is not in the mood to see Red eat pavement at the moment. He'd probably ruin his hand-knit sweater, and get all sad about it, and it'd just be a whole thing.

"Okay, I'm here," Blue mutters as he joins Red's side. "Look where you're going, or you're gonna end up walking into the moat or something."

"Oh, I do hope they've kept up with moat maintenance," Zelda says as they advance along the stone path. "Water acidity should ideally be monitored on a weekly basis."

Green shrugs. "Landscaping looks great. I'm sure someone's looking after the water features too."

"I wonder how much turnover there's been in the maintenance staff, especially given the influx of Dark Worlders available for hire..." 

This is stupid, Blue wants to yell at the top of his lungs. You are all being so stupid right now.

But then Red reaches for his hand and gives it a reassuring squeeze, and Blue feels his rage subside by at least thirty percent. Normally he doesn't like people touching him, but Red's been doing this since their time in the ice cavern two long years ago, and at this point it's just kind of muscle memory for them both. Blue is about to engage in physical combat with a customer? Red squeezes his hand, and he's fine. Red is about to cry because he's too allergic to pet a cute dog? Blue squeezes his hand, and he's fine. They don't acknowledge this strange behavior they share, and that's just fine with Blue. He's got much bigger things on his mind, like finally avenging himself and the friends he has repeatedly failed to protect.

He's not trying to be an asshole, but it's just like, doesn't someone need to be? Doesn't someone need to stand up to these evil tyrants and finally put them in their place, even if the others think it's an overreaction? If Blue has to be the perpetually unhappy outcast to see justice finally done, it truly is a small price to pay. And, besides... his life isn't going anywhere good in this timeline, anyway. If he's going to crash and burn, he might as well take Vio and Shadow Link down with him.

"Blue, you can stop walking now."

Green stops him in his tracks, just inches away from the iron castle gate. The four step back as two guards open it from inside and smoothly intercept their entrance.

"Welcome to Hyrule Castle, esteemed guests," one of the guards says with a flourish towards the building they all know very well.

"Give it a rest Devon, it's me," Green says, causing Zelda to elbow him in the ribs.

"My apologies," she tells the guards. "You may have met a version of Green Link in the time before my... voluntary abdication."

"Voluntary," Blue mutters under his breath. Zelda ignores him.

Red stands on his tip-toes as he strains to get a look beyond the gate. "Can we go in now? Is Vi—uh, the King ready to see us?"

Guard Devon nods. "Both Kings of Hyrule await your arrival in their throne room."

"Ah yes, because only good things happen in throne rooms when those two are involved," Green says, and Blue appreciates his aimless snarkiness. Green might not be actively plotting Vio and Shadow Link's downfall, but he definitely isn't as forgiving towards them as Zelda and Red seem to be.

The guards exchange a mildly confused look, and it strikes Blue that they probably have no idea what Green is even talking about. They only know their Kings as benevolent rulers, uniters of the Dark and Light worlds, a sweet married couple with a checkered but overall justifiable past. Definitely not a pair who nearly committed Green's murder, or scared Blue and Red half to death so the Poes could kill them to full death.

"You can enter in just a moment," says the other guard. "We just to quickly ensure that you're not carrying any weapons on your person."

"Oh!" Red exclaims with a jolt. "Nothing on me, just gifts for the hosts!"

"You brought gifts?" Blue asks, incredulous.

"Just little things. Crafts, handmade, you know."

And Blue could say more to that, but he's cut off by Guard Devon. "How about you, any weapons we should be worried about?"

"Just these hands," Blue responds with a cheeky grin.

"We did bring our Four Swords," Green tells the other guard. "Not to fight or anything, it's just kind of an instinct at this point, y'know?"

"I understand, but we still need to confiscate those."

"No way!" Blue exclaims, holding his sword to his chest. "This is just part of their latest plan, to steal the swords from us so we can't fight back!"

Green looks from the guard to Blue, appearing genuinely conflicted. "You... may be right about that, Blue."

"No," Zelda says, plucking Green's sword out of his hands and passing it to Guard Saige. "He's not."

"And how would you know that?" Blue demands as Red willingly hands over his Four Sword. If Zelda has an answer to his question, she doesn't give it.

"I don't have a sword," she tells Guard Devon instead. "May I enter?"

"Yes, Pr—Zelda. Ma'am."

"Just Zelda is fine, thank you."

Green follows her past the gate, leaving only Blue to surrender his weapon. He doesn't even need it or anything, but it feels deeply wrong to just hand it over to the enemy.

"I'm not doing it," Blue says, rolling the sword's hilt in his hands. From behind the guards, Red frowns.

"Blue, please? We really need you here with us."

Blue doesn't know if Red is a secretly a master manipulator or just unfathomably earnest, but either way his appeal works. Blue needs to get inside the castle anyway, and if this is what it takes, it's...

"Fine," Blue groans as he hands his Four Sword to Guard Devon. "You better give it back at the end of the night."

"Once you leave the castle, yes," Devon confirms. "I will now personally deliver your weapons to a secure location, and Saige will show you to the throne room for dinner."

Green snorts. "I mean, I think we know how to get there... but I'm guessing you don't want us wandering the halls unsupervised."

"We were explicitly instructed to prevent that from happening," the guard named Saige says matter-of-factly as they lead the group inside. "The Kings of Hyrule are very serious about possible threats of furniture theft."

"Oh, I'm sure they are."

As they're led through the familiar castle halls, Blue finds Red at his side yet again.

"Thanks for giving up your sword," Red says with a shy smile. "I know that wasn't easy for you, but I really do think this evening will be good for us all."

And Blue can't bring himself to say something mean in response, not when it's Red being so patient and so kind. So he settles for a stiff nod instead.

"I hope you're right," he says, and it is the truth. Not the truth Red wants to believe, but the truth nonetheless.

Because if Blue gets his way, it will be a good evening for them all—in fact, the best one since their false triumph against Vaati and Ganon. He just has to play his cards right, hide his intentions just like Vio had done so remorselessly two years ago.

Blue can be remorseless, too. And now he's successfully made it inside the castle.

It's only a matter of time before the Kings of Hyrule fall.

[protokirby]

Long post talking about some stuff in miitopia and also some stuff I dreamed of

Ok so I was playing Miitopia some recently and like- on one of my switch user account things, the miitopia save has Adaman as the hero and Volo was with him. But I was kinda- super bored with Adaman and there were multiple reasons I wanted a switch online membership on my main account which has my other miis so I did stuff with that.

The save with Adaman and Volo is one that I started a long time back and had intentionally stayed at the first area because of not having the rest of my miis and not really wanting to make others but I replayed the first stage a lot because I think there's something fun about being comically overpowered. Also I didn't want to progress further into the story as to add more party members when I don't have any prepared.

So back when I first started that save, the original idea was always to wait until the next time I had a good enough reason to get the online membership on my main and then get the 7day free trial on the save in question. So I could get the Volo and Adaman I made on this save (plus the au Burgh I had made in that save for some reason) and bring them to my main and also get a bunch of miis from my main and bring them to this save. I really hate that I need an online membership just to grab miis from the same switch but here we are :[

So anyhoo as I said before I was bored with Adaman. I got the idea to play as Drayton instead but I wasn't about to delete the save and start over. I would lose 3 miis I worked pretty hard on and a bunch of leveling up progress.

Around this time, the switch online membership store thingy has a Drayton icon thing that I could get so I decided to quickly finish up a bunch of unfinished miis on my main save + make several new miis that I wanted and then get the online membership on my main to get the Drayton icon and the 7 day free trial membership on the other save. After that, bring the 3 miis on that save to my main and then edit the mii Adaman I was playing as and make it Drayton instead.

So after that, the duo of adventurers was Drayton with Volo. That's super random and I'm a big fan of random. And with grabbing a bunch of miis from my main, I got the other bb league elite four members. It would be funny for the rest of the 3 to become the cerberus boss in late game and Volo isn't an obstacle for that plan where he is so that turns out great.

Anyhoo

The reason I wanted to bring that up is to have a better explanation for why a specific pair of characters were friends in a dream.

Drayton and Volo were the main characters of this dream. I was Drayton in the dream and Volo was with me.

It got pretty wild. I don't remember all of this dream because I was sleeping for 12 hours and I had woken up and gone back to sleep a few times after having this dream.

Volo had a capture styler like a pokemon ranger and had to calm down a blastoise that was way too close to a group of baby chickens. There were two other pokemon but they were not revealed as anything other than unidentifiable silhouettes.

After the pokemon were captured, Drayton asked Volo "what happens if a capture styler is used on a human?"

Volo said "I don't know but it's against the rules in the pokemon ranger handbook."

Drayton says back "I want to know. Just use it on me without telling anyone."

So Volo did and the line of the capture styler just turned red and vanished.

Drayton said "It tickled. So that's what happens."

The blastoise got upset again and the baby chickens ran into a school room where they turned into human children and were learning about how to use swords.

Volo re-captured the blastoise and it left. Then Drayton and Volo decided to order a pizza. When the pizza man got there, it was discovered that it was a villainous monster in disguise of a pizza man.

Drayton tossed Volo the omnitrix from Ben 10 while shouting "Volo! The omnitrix!" and Volo used it to become Stinkfly and fight the monster.

Also the baby chickens who turned into human children (and an anthropomorphic goose lady) came out of the classroom to help fight the monster with their newfound sword skills.

I don't remember much else or even if I woke up before they defeated the monster but this dream was super fun anyway.

Side note, I remember seeing Volo in a pokemon masters image. I also remember hearing three different versions of Entei's battle theme/or the first capture theme both from the pokemon ranger game (those themes sound fairly similar). And one of my au Hops, specifically the one known as Reaper, was singing the most beautiful calming song I had ever heard while weird stuff was happening in the background (which is totally in character for the au Hop, as a musician and a chaos enjoyer - though often he favors rock music but he can do many kinds of melodies, with calming music also being common for him). These things happened in separate dreams.

And I had just one nightmare and it wasn't too bad. The chronic nightmares must be dying finally :D - Adding that to the list of things I'm thanking God for 🙏

[squeiky]

screw it, enough of this professional shit! ITS TIME TO TALK ABOUT MY SONIC AU

What originally what a shit-post au called "Size-swap"( which is.. exactly what the name entails) became something I really like and am having a super fun time with it. (Still a shit-post au though.)

I literally JUST made this about a day ago at 12:00 midnight so this is fresh as beans type stuff here folks.

So I'm calling is FusionSize Au, though SizeMixFusion or FusionSwap is also kind of cool (but its too long? I'd if you have any suggestions tell me!)

What type of au is this?

-It's a swap au! It takes two main components of a character which is their size and personality, and "fuses" it together!

Now, from there it gets complicated (I had to make a chart to do this) but size and personality are two different categories! So they can be swapped independently of each other.

Size swaps.. well it swaps a characters size. If a character's size is correlated to a specific power (think Metal Sonic's multiple forms) then the character that received that swap gets that power too! (And the former character looses that ability.)

For Personality FUSIONS (reason I say fusion is because I'm not "swapping out" their personalities. I actually fuse them together- creating a whole need persona. (the closest example would be a paint mixer. your not swapping paints. your putting them together and creating a new color.)

(P.S. If a character's ability is tied to their personality (i.e. techy character does tech, or fighter character is strong because they fight a lot- then that's when I give them that extra "power". I mostly use this for eggman or tails, since their personas involve that smart-kid-mechanic. Since the ability is tied to their persona, It can be fused with the new character! (stuff like this can't apply o other characters who don't really have a logical tie to their powers.)

if you're wondering, fusions (or what I call "mixes" for short) take character a's personality as a "core" and then mixes character b personality ontop of that. (like sprinkes.) I'm saying this so we all understand that character a's personality isn't "lost" rather there's just MORE to it. Though, I like to play with this as some personalities as depending on how much you mix in, you'll get some interesting results.

When swapping, I like to add rules such as:

-Antagonist swap first (So I don't go overboard, I have antag onists (note; antagonists NOT villains. ) swap/mix with their respective protagonist first.

-First come first serve (If character x's game came first, then chracter b must swap with them firs before going to character c. (mostly applies to characters with multiple antagonists.)

-Can only swap/mix once ( ex: sonic already mixed and swaped with 2 characters? but there's another antagonist that can swap with him? well too bad! Sonic can't swap/mix with that one. Go find another character to do that with.)

-had to meet or interact or be related (story wise) to some degree. (I'm not swapping Metal Sonic with the Biolizard.)

-Whatever works (sometimes a character has no antagonist or correlating character to start from. Those times call for the "throw it at the wall and hope it sticks" saying.)

-swap-swapping can happen only once. (In order to avoid having both a mix (personality fusion) and a swap (size-swap) be of a single character I just... took the og swap, and then.. swapped it again a second time. That's how you get a size-tails mix-eggman Sonic.)

is it overly complicated to a point that I may be the only one who understands how this works? yeah, probably. Though, I'm having fun so it don't matter to much.

Also, once I finish the swaps, I create new changed lore and backstory specific to this world. SO not only is he characters swapped (and re-designed!) but so is the world surrounding them!

also when it comes to redesigns, I factor both mixes and swaps. So things get hectic, but this feels like a videogame/puzzle just trying to solve and figure out everything (I really did have to make that little chart).

PS: my shit-post swap au "Size-swap" was just there so I could make a giant Shadow the hedgehog. It was such a funny concept, yet for some reason the extreme size of a character can seriously change how they interact and view the world???)