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Yo Ho, Hero! A Newsies Space Pirates AU

Summary: Think: Newsies characters, (grittier) Treasure Planet aesthetic, Star Wars planet-hopping, and an embarrassing amount of plot from the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie. Jack, Race, and Elmer are plucked out of their ordinary lives and thrust into a whole new world as unlikely heroes when Princess Katherine is captured by a wicked pirate. They join the crew of Prince Charlie and his mage Davey to rescue Katherine and defeat the evil Captain Metalbeard. (Rated T for sequences including violence, blood, fighting, etc.)

Moodboards: Jack, Race, Elmer, Davey, Crutchie/Charlie, Spot, JoJo, Romeo, Skittery, Specs, Finch, Aleesha

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Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen (4/11/21)

Chapter Fifteen (4/17/21)

Chapter Sixteen (4/24/21)

Associated One-shots:

This one about JoJo and Sniper

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What you need to know going into this story:

This fic is a Star Wars AU in that it is (to an extent) set in the Star Wars universe. This is just because I’m too lazy to world-build an entire universe for a single fic, but I already have a lot of energy put into creating my own pieces of Star Wars headcanons, OCs, and etc. that I’ve never gotten around to writing into anything, so I decided to adopt them for this fic. So while Yo Ho, Hero! takes place within the “universe” of Star Wars, it has little to nothing to do with the events of the films/shows/etc. I just wanted to use the planets/species/terminology/etc. of Star Wars instead of putting that much thought into it because I have enough else to do and all I want to do is write, not world-build, dammit.

Despite it sort-of-technically-kind-of-actually being a Star Wars AU, there are no Jedi. Just mages. No force, just good, old-fashioned magic.

In addition to planets/species/terminology/etc. from Star Wars, you may recognize some themes from other media. Yes, the “sailing ship in space” aesthetic is straight from Treasure Planet. It’s also likely that mentions of a planet called “Hyrule” will come up, along with Hylian and Rito species from it. Yes, this is a direct reference to Legend of Zelda, because at one point I was working on a LoZ/Star Wars crossover fic that never got written but did get absorbed into this story apparently. It’s also because I’m too lazy to come up with anything original.

There will be a few OCs who make minor appearances in this fic. Aleesha is one of my first-ever OCs (created when I was literally about 11-12) and has never found her way into an actual written story (despite me having PLANNED several stories about/concerning her) so I’m super excited to use her here!!! Jocasta is my D&D character who I love despite her being an actual disaster. I made a joke about how she should be in this fic cos she’s a pirate then had a galaxy brain moment and actually wrote her into it.

Pretty much any ship they encounter will be named after either a Legend of Zelda game or some other piece of popular media (my other primary source is Twilight book/movie names for some reason don’t @ me I’m unoriginal) so uhhh don’t be surprised by that. I am SO bad at coming up with names for places/things. People? Fine. I can do that. Places/ships/things/etc? Not a chance. (You may think I’m joking here, but you won’t think that when you read about a spaceship named Breath of the Wild or Midnight Sun, because those are both things that I’ve written and that may appear in this story.)

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Also including a cheat sheet of character species/races here because I don’t directly reference many of them by name in the fic. I’ll link references for some of them where I have them.

Jack Kelly: Near-human. May or may not have secret gills.

Race Higgins: “Canus”, AKA dog-based species. Think Dr. Delbert from Treasure Planet.

Elmer Kasprzak: Near-human. Appears human for all intents and purposes.

Davey Jacobs: Former human, current immortal. Basically a human frozen at 25.

Crutchie and Katherine: Humans!

Spot Conlon: “Canus”. Think Dr. Delbert from Treasure Planet.

JoJo: Onotoran (original alien race). Purple skin, deep blue eyes, and a rainbow array of feathers in place of hair on her head and running down her spine to the small of her back. Also feathers on the backs of her hands and running up her forearms to her elbows.

Romeo: half-Felis. Think Tabaxi from D&D but tall, or Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet, but more human cos he’s only half.

Specs: Literally just a Rito from Legend of Zelda (specifically Breath of the Wild).

Finch: half-Rito, half-Hylian. Closer to the look of the Rito in Wind Waker.

Skittery: Verpine (Star Wars: Legends)

Allie Raysh/Aleesha Shray: Human

Jocasta Mar’Soren: May have once been part Hylian but it doesn’t matter any more because she’s now an immortal, like Davey.

Albert Dasilva: Felis. Think Tabaxi from D&D but tall, or Captain Amelia from Treasure planet.

Buttons: he’s basically a cross between an Ood from Doctor Who and a Quarren from Star Wars.

Sarah Jacobs: human or near-human.

Les Jacobs: human or near-human.

Medda: Anatoran (original alien race). See description for JoJo, but with snow-white skin and black eyes and feathers.

Mush Meyers: Cosmoran (original alien race). See description for JoJo, but with coal-black skin and white eyes and feathers.

Elaine O’Dell: Hylian from Legend of Zelda.

Sniper: Togrutan (Star Wars)

Disclaimer: I do not own Newsies, Star Wars, Treasure Planet, the Legend of Zelda franchise, Twilight, or anything you recognize from any of those sources or any other form of published media. I do, however, own this story, Aleesha, the settlement of Haven, Jocasta, and anything else you don’t recognize from any form of published media.

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List 10 songs you’re currently obsessed with, then tag 10 people

I was tagged by @iinstantcrushh

1. Yo Ho Hero from The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything

2. Carrying the Banner from Newsies

3. Seize the Day from Newsies

4. Shake by Mercyme

5. Start a Fire by Unspoken

6. City on a Hill by Casting Crowns

7. History Maker by Dean Fujioka

8. 50% OFF cover of Splash FREE by Octopimp

9. Pride by American Authors

10. What We Gonna Do by Tobymac

I can only think of two people @batsam19 and @lady-pei

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Yo Ho, Hero! (A Newsies Space Pirates AU)

Finch Cortez

Finch Cortez was born in the thriving capitol city of Hyrule. He always loved the hustle and bustle of the city, but hated the politics that came along with it. So, he found his way to the most exciting profession he could think of: sky sailing. Soon, he moved on from that to join the crew of a spaceliner, and found his way into first the Outer Rim, then the Mid Rim, where he eventually got a job for a certain Hapan businessman. When Spot put together his crew for the Banner, Finch was one of the first people he chose for it: not only did Finch have experience on sailing-style ships that Spot knew he needed, he had proven himself an extremely capable sailor, deckhand, and crew member on the various ships he’d worked on over the years. Plus, the fledgling wings Finch inherited from the Rito side of his family are particularly useful for navigating the rigging of a sailing ship.

Half Hylian, Half Rito

Mid twenties

Friendly, cheerful, and outgoing, Finch has a fairly happy-go-lucky attitude and doesn’t let much get to him.

Dream job:

Current job: deckhand

Home planet: Hyrule

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @violentbirds @idontdoglitter @i-need-more-sleepzzz @chemicalmoose (ask to be added/removed!)

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Yo Ho, Hero! (A Newsies Space Pirates AU)

Specs

Specs was born on Hyrule, and grew up in Rito Village. He made his way to the main spaceport on the continent when he was a teenager, and immediately fell in love with the ships there. Even though he was a little scared of the idea of going into space, he decided that was what he wanted to do with his life and got a job as a deckhand on a freighter that happened to be in the fleet of Katherine and Charlie’s father. When Spot was putting together the crew for the Banner, he met Specs, who had been floating between ships for a while without a specific or permanent assignment, and decided to take him onto his crew.

Rito

Early thirties

Specs is cautious and wary, but equally friendly and outgoing among people he’s familiar with—namely the crew of the Banner. He’s quieter than most of the others, but has been known to get in trouble for his mouth from time to time.

Dream job: pretty much anything aboard a ship.

Current job: lookout/deckhand.

Home planet: Hyrule

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @idontdoglitter @i-need-more-sleepzzz @violentbirds @chemicalmoose (ask to be added/removed!)

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Yo Ho, Hero! (A Newsies Space Pirates AU)

Racetrack Higgins

A recent arrival on Proserpina, Race doesn’t like to talk much about his past. He came to the planet alone and fully expected to stay alone. However, it didn’t take him long to start making friends—he can’t help it, he’s just too friendly and outgoing! The first friends he made were Jack Kelly and Elmer Kasprzak, fellow workers on the low-level cargo docks of Proserpina. They were soon followed, somewhat unexpectedly, by Albert Dasilva, who wound up becoming Race’s roommate. While he loves his life on Proserpina, mostly thanks to his friends, Race longs for something more. He’d like to live on a planet that wasn’t all city and shipyards and docks; greenery and fresh air sure sound nice. When offered a job by a mysterious stranger, it seems like his chance to finally start making a proper life for himself.

Canus

Early twenties

Race not only physically looks remarkably like a golden retriever puppy, he has the personality of one. Energetic, outgoing, and largely happy-go-lucky, it takes a lot to dampen his spirits.

Dream job: anything that doesn’t involve smelling jet fuel and cargo ship exhaust all the time.

Current job: cargo dock worker

Home planet: Corellia

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz (ask to be added/removed!)

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Yo Ho Hero! (A Newsies Space Pirates AU)

Spot Conlon

Spot joined the New Republic’s Gambit Initiative when he was fourteen years old and became just another of the elite pilots and intelligence agents churned out by the program. A naturally gifted pilot, he fit right in to the primary unit—the best of the best that Gambit had to offer. He served under Commander Aleesha Shray for several years through the rise of the First Order, and, along with many others, followed her exit from the Resistance against the First Order after raising moral issues with the senators running the Resistance, who showed a clear bias to their own systems and other planets that offered monetary support to the senate and Resistance, leaving poor and out-of-the-way systems at the mercy of the First Order. After leaving the Resistance, Spot lost contact with most of his friends—with the exception of fellow Gambit pilot Hotshot—and found himself floating from job to job. Eventually, he was hired as a pilot by Charlie and Katherine’s father, and quickly rose through the ranks of his fleet to become the official pilot for Charlie and Katherine themselves as captain of the Banner.

Canus

Mid-twenties

Unlike Race, who looks more like a golden retriever, Spot has more wolf-like features, including oversized pointy ears, alarmingly sharp fangs, and more paw-like hands and feet than many other Canus. He also has a tail! He tends to be cautious and thoughtful when entering unknown situations, but is a force to be reckoned with in a fight.

Dream job: freelance freighter pilot/captain, but pretty much anything that doesn’t involve dealing with people (outside of his crew) very much.

Current job: captain in the private fleet of a Mid Rim businessman, in charge of ferrying his kids around the galaxy.

Home planet: somewhere in the Core worlds.

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz @chemicalmoose (ask to be added/removed!)

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Coming soon to a blog near you!!!

(Dates subject to change)

Currently Posting:

Yo Ho, Hero!

(Posting SATURDAYS ONLY for the month of February)

Think: Newsies characters, (grittier) Treasure Planet aesthetic, Star Wars planet-hopping, and an embarrassing amount of plot from the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie. Jack, Race, and Elmer are plucked out of their ordinary lives and thrust into a whole new world as unlikely heroes when Katherine is captured by a wicked pirate. They join the crew of “Prince” Crutchie and his mage Davey to rescue Katherine and defeat the evil Captain Metalbeard. (Rated T because... they’re pirates. Blood, violence, action. Nothing super gory, but I like to be on the safe side.)

One-shot prompt response set in this AU if you want a feel for the vibe of it.

Yo Ho, Hero! Preface

Coming Soon:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(coming April 7, 2021)

Part 3 of the Modern!Theatre!AU. Jack and Crutchie are still working at the World Theatre and living with Elaine and her brothers. March 12, 2020, their whole world changes. It is a summer of life-altering realizations as they all learn more about themselves and each other and hopefully become better people for it. Yes, this is the COVID quarantine one. Very gay. (Rated K. It’s just soft.)

Part 1: As You Like It

Part 2: Twelfth Night

Teenage Wasteland

(coming summer 2021)

Sequel to New Music. After a suspicious car crash hospitalizes several members of the band, a series of earth-shattering discoveries rock the worlds of everyone involved with the Newsies. Centering on parallel storylines between Spot Conlon and Elaine O’Dell as they learn new things about their fathers and families and are drawn into a whole new universe of drama. As the kids enter their senior year of high school, they have to navigate shifts in home lives, planning for their futures, and dealing with the consequences of past choices. (Rated T for themes and moderate violence.)

Part 1: New Music

On Hiatus:

Plymouth Rock: Deleted Scenes from Act 4 of New Music

(posting as completed)

Examining the different responses from the band members (and their families) post-expulsion in Act 4, Scene 4 of New Music. 20 chapters.

Plymouth Rock Preface

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Yo Ho, Hero! (A Newsies Space Pirates AU)

Charlie Morris

The adopted son of a high-profile businessman in the Core worlds, Charlie is incessantly curious, always seeking new discoveries. He and his sister, Katherine, are working on the expansion of their father’s business into the furthest reaches of the Mid Rim and even into the Outer Rim. Charlie is a fighter to his core, and will do anything to protect the people he loves, particularly his sister. While he and Katherine may not be related by blood, the two of them prove that you don’t need to share genes to be a family. After losing his leg fighting the pirates that took his sister, Charlie refused to let it slow him down, insisting that they start searching for her as soon as possible. He may still be adapting to his new limb, but he’s not going to stop fighting for what matters to him.

Human

Early 20s

Curious, brilliant, and good at strategy and planning.

Dream job: managing a portion of his father’s company.

Current job: overseeing Mid/Outer Rim extensions of his father’s company.

Home planet: Stewjon

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz (ask to be added/removed!)

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Elmer Kasprzak

A quiet boy with a tragic past, Elmer came to Proserpina as a child. He was one of only a handful of survivors after his home colony was destroyed in an uprising against the remnants of the Galactic Empire. He met Sarah Jacobs at school, and she introduced him to Jack Kelly. When he was older, Jack found him a job on the same cargo dock that he worked on. Race Higgins joined their crew not long after Elmer, and the three became fast friends. The only one not born on a heavily populated world, Elmer has a hard time handling the over-crowding of Proserpina at times. While he can’t afford to live on the upper levels of the city, he and his partner, Buttons, do live in one of the few low-level apartment blocks that isn’t actually underneath the upper levels, but Elmer wants nothing more than to live on a planet with actual space to breathe. A job offer from a mysterious stranger seems the best way to get there.

Near-human

Early twenties

Clever, bright, and surprisingly adept, with extremely honed reflexes that border on prescience at times.

Dream job: hydroponics engineer

Current job: cargo dock worker

Home planet: asteroid M7831 in the Alreth system

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz (ask to be added/removed!)

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Wordgame: Truth - Tryst

(Okay, so I’m not doing these in the order you sent them—I’m doing them in order of which I have an idea for 😂)

I decided to do this one in the Space Pirate AU I’m working on!!! It’s sort of a Newsies/Star Wars crossover, because I was too lazy to do full world-building for a whole galaxy, but all that’s coming from Star Wars is names of places/things/species/etc. Hope that makes sense.

Fandom: Newsies (and sort of Star Wars)

Word count: 1,441

(I’m also tagging @the-cowbi @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan because I know you guys were at least a little interested in the Space Pirate AU/Yo Ho Hero so I thought you might be interested in this!)

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“Hey, JoJo! Where ya goin’?” Romeo dropped down from the crossbeam of the mast and cocked his head to the side, ears swiveling, one to face her, one turning towards some noise from the other end of the ship that only he could hear.

JoJo rolled her eyes and shrugged. “Just out,” she said, intentionally vague. She didn’t need anyone knowing her business, least of all Romeo, who quite possibly had the biggest mouth on the ship. “Even I need to get off the ship every now and then.”

“Aw, come on,” he whined. “Tell me the truth.”

“What makes you think that’s not it?” JoJo laughed. She brushed past him, the rainbow crest of feathers that ran from the bridge of her nose to the small of her back rippling. “Tell Spot I’ll be back well before we cast off if he asks.”

“You better be,” Romeo called after her. “He’ll leave without you!”

“Yeah, I know!”

JoJo pulled her hood up as she stepped off the gangplank and onto the crowded platform of the space dock. While the people around her were quite literally of all shapes, sizes, colors, and more, the kaleidoscope of brilliant colors of her feathers tended to draw a few stares. Onotorans weren’t common even in the Outer Rim, and they were currently in the Core. Most people around here had never even heard of her people, planet, or system. She didn’t want to draw unwanted attention.

The spaceport was fairly easy to navigate. She’d been there enough times that she knew her way to her destination. It was a small corner of an overgrown garden, hidden from the paths around it behind curtains of wild ivy and tall hedges in desperate need of a trim. JoJo glanced over her shoulder as she approached the garden. This part of the spaceport wasn’t as busy as the main roads, but, in the name of privacy, she didn’t particularly want to be seen.

When she was certain no-one was watching, she slipped a hand under the ivy and pulled it aside so that she could step in. As her eyes adjusted to the dimmer, green-tinted light, she smiled to herself. She wasn’t the first to arrive.

Sniper grinned as she stood. Her cloak had been pushed back behind her shoulders, her lekku resting against her chest to brush against her stomach. She reached out a hand towards JoJo to help her step up onto the small platform concealed by the ivy. JoJo accepted it, her own lavender skin turning a dull brown in the green light, while Sniper’s yellow skin wore a chartreuse hue. Sniper pulled her up and into a long, tight hug.

They stood there for several minutes before JoJo pulled away just long enough to press a kiss to the other woman’s lips. “Hi,” she giggled, resting her forehead against Sniper’s.

“Hi,” Sniper laughed. “Welcome back. How was the Mid Rim?”

“Boring,” JoJo rolled her eyes. She took a step back and slid her coat down and off, tossing it aside as she revealed the feathers on her forearms and back, all laid flat against her skin, as she was undeniably relaxed for the first time in weeks—since the last time she and Sniper had been able to meet for one of their trysts.

Sniper grinned and unclasped her cloak, tossing it on top of JoJo’s discarded jacket. They settled down on the moss-covered platform, staring up at what little of the sky was visible through the ivy-covered lattice over them. They chatted for a while, side by side, hands clasped. JoJo rested her head against Sniper’s shoulder, smiling at the familiarity of her scent. It was oil and spices and hints of fuel all at once, and they combined to smell like happiness. Like love. Like home. Sniper pulled her hand away and squirmed around to wrap her arm around JoJo’s shoulders, pulling her even closer.

“How much longer do you have?” Sniper murmured.

JoJo sighed and lifted her arm, shaking her wrist to get her timepiece to display. “Ten minutes before Spot starts to get angry. Thirty before he gets really angry.”

Sniper laughed. “Guess I’d better get ready to let you go again.”

JoJo groaned and rolled onto her side, slinging her arm over Sniper’s stomach and burying her face in her shoulder. “Do we have to?” she grumbled, voice muffled.

“Only if you want to keep your job.”

“What if I don’t want to?”

“It’s a good job.”

“And I’m good at it. Everyone always needs a good navigator. I can find another job. One that doesn’t take me so far out from the Core.”

Sniper smiled to herself. “And you’d be miserable. You like exploring.”

“I love you.”

“Well, I love you enough to know that we’re both happier with you going out on your adventures. Because otherwise you’re miserable, and then I’m miserable because you’re miserable.”

JoJo laughed and pulled away into a sitting position. “I wouldn’t be miserable. I can’t be miserable with you around.”

Sniper rolled her eyes and sat up, slinging her legs over JoJo’s and pulling her down so that their foreheads rested against each other. “One of these days we’ll settle down together. Just… not yet.”

JoJo smiled and pulled her into another kiss. “Hopefully ‘one of these days’ isn’t too far off.”

“Hopefully.”

A few minutes later, they reluctantly separated and retrieved their outerwear. JoJo pulled on her coat and raised the hood again, while Sniper settled for wrapping her cloak loosely around her shoulders, lifting her lekku out from under it and letting them rest on top of the garment while she fiddled with the clasp. After a moment, JoJo pushed her hands aside and fastened the clasp for her. “Honestly,” she sighed. “A mechanic, and you can’t even get the clasp on your cloak fixed. How do you repair ships?”

Sniper laughed. “Sometimes I don’t even know that myself.”

They walked part of the way together before separating, JoJo for the dock where The Banner was waiting for her, and Sniper for the repair bays where she worked. “Let me know when you’re heading back for the Core,” Sniper whispered, leaning in to press one last kiss to JoJo’s cheek.

“I’ll call as soon as I can,” JoJo promised. “Maybe we’ll go to a big enough spaceport that I can find a holonet terminal.”

Sniper snorted. “Good luck with that.”

JoJo laughed and waved goodbye as they split apart. She took her time walking back to The Banner, even though—or maybe because—she knew it would annoy Spot.

Sure enough, the captain was waiting for her, arms crossed and ears back as he scowled down the gangplank at her. “You’re late.”

JoJo sighed. “Sorry, captain. Won’t happen again.”

Spot barked out a laugh. “Sure. I’ll buy that lie when pigs fly.”

“I’m pretty sure there’s somewhere in the galaxy where they do,” JoJo quipped, slipping past him. “Do we have our heading?”

“We do,” Spot said, falling in step beside her as they headed for the control board. “Coordinates are already set; just waiting for you to plot our course.”

JoJo nodded and took her place behind the navicomputer, running quickly through calculations and dialing the directions into the computer. “Ready when you are, captain!” she called once it was done.

Spot nodded, once, and went through the ignition sequence. The huge, barrel-shaped engines on the sides of the ship roared to life, the third on the keel following suit as they began to lift away from their berth. As they rose, the transparisteel walls that formed their protective atmosphere bubble unfolded and rose, meeting at the top of the mast. The shimmer of the outer shield was only seconds behind the dome, tinging the view with the palest of blues.

Finch, Specs, Romeo, and Skittery were perched in their positions in the rigging, hair and fur and feathers fluttering in the “wind” generated by the moving currents of recycled air that filled the ship with atmosphere. The last three occupants of the ship stood behind JoJo and Spot: Katherine and Charlie, “princess” and “prince”, respectively, of their illustrious father’s semi-legitimate shipping empire, and Davey, their magic-wielding babysitter, for lack of a better term.

“Loose the rigging!” Spot called, and the boys up the masts scurried to follow the order. In seconds, the massive solar sails that collected power for the ship were unfurled, billowing outwards towards the closest source of ultraviolet light.

JoJo smiled to herself. I may not want to admit it, but Sniper’s right. This is where I belong right now. This is where I want to be.

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Romeo

The youngest member of the crew, Romeo ran away from home when he was sixteen to explore the galaxy. He ran into Spot a few months later, after filching some nutripackets from a merchant and trying to escape with them. Spot caught him, but was impressed by his speed and reflexes, so he paid for the food and offered Romeo a job as cabin boy on his ship. Romeo eagerly accepted, and quickly moved from cabin boy to deckhand when he proved to be a natural at scaling the ship’s rigging.

Half Felis (cat alien; think tabaxi/khajeet), half human

Nineteen

Since he’s the baby of the ship, everyone has kind of adopted him as their younger brother and he just goes along with it. As the youngest in his family, he was used to that anyways, and it’s nice to have that little bit of familiarity. He fully uses it to his advantage, though, and is something of a merciless prankster—often with Finch’s help.

Dream job: explorer, captain—anything that will let him see the galaxy

Current job: deckhand

Home planet: Ossis

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz @chemicalmoose (ask to be added/removed!)

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JoJo de la Guerra

JoJo was born on Onotori—considered the most “backwater” planet of the Anatoran system simply because it is a jungle biome planet that hasn’t been completely overrun by technology, even though space flight in the system started there—and always sought out adventure. Most of the people around her were content to stay where they were, living and thriving in the same place that their ancestors had lived and thrived, but JoJo wanted more. She wanted to explore, and to go further than the stratosphere of Onotori. Her first job was as a flight attendant on a commuter spaceline that traveled between the three populated planets in the system—Anatori, Onotori, and Cosmori—as well as Anatori’s colonized moon Calpurnia and the Hub Spacestation in orbit over Anatori. Once she had saved up enough, she settled down on the Hub and worked as a deckhand while training as a navigator. After graduating, she got a job on a spaceliner, jumped ship in the Mid Rim, and eventually found herself in the Hapan Consortium. She found a job as a navigator in the fleet of a businessman who made the Consortium his headquarters, and finally found a permanent position on the crew of one Spot Conlon, captain of the Banner.

Onotoran

Late thirties/early forties (young adult by Onotoran standards)

Clever and witty, JoJo has a surprisingly big heart under the snarky and aloof demeanor she wears around others. She is welcoming to new crew members, and always has a kind word for anyone she sees struggling.

Dream job: navigator.

Current job: navigator.

Home planet: Onotori

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz @chemicalmoose (ask to be added/removed)!

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Yo Ho, Hero! (A Newsies Space Pirates AU)

Jack Kelly

Born and raised on the busy planet of Proserpina, Jack Kelly has always dreamed of the stars. His father taught him to pilot a ship when he was still young, but after his father’s death, Jack was left alone on Proserpina in the care of Esther Jacobs—who lost her husband in the same accident that took Jack’s father’s life. When Esther dies, Jack is left in charge of her two children, Sarah and Les. They’re the closest thing he has to family... Unable to find work as a pilot, Jack works on the cargo docks of Proserpina, alongside Race Higgins and Elmer Kasprzak. When they meet a mysterious mage who offers them jobs on his ship, they leap at the chance to escape Proserpina. At first, they’re just excited to be off-world, but, as their adventure unfolds, they begin to worry if they may have bitten off a little more than they can chew...

Near-human

Mid-twenties

Everyone’s big brother. Seriously, he tries to take care of everyone around him, particularly Sarah, Les, Race, and Elmer.

Dream job: pilot

Current job: cargo dock worker

Home planet: Proserpina

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz (ask to be added/removed!)

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Yo Ho, Hero! (A Newsies Space Pirates AU)

David “Davey” Jacobs

Davey Jacobs was recognized as a child prodigy before he was five years old, and was whisked away to study under the great mages of Ossus. He was apprenticed to a Hylian mage named Jocasta Mar’Soren for half of his training. She disappeared from Ossus on the day of Davey’s graduation ceremony, when he became immortal. Her disappearance has plagued him ever since—for however long that’s been. Even Davey isn’t entirely sure how much time has passed at this point. He was hired as a mage by Katherine and Charlie’s father before either of them was even born. As the business grew and other mages were hired, Davey found himself relegated more and more to protection of the two of them, largely thanks to their father’s trust in him. While he often finds his “babysitting” duties boring, he does like the two kids—not that they’re really kids any more—and doesn’t mind watching over them too terribly much. He does find keeping track of Crutchie very stressful, however, due to the boy’s impulsive nature.

Former human, now immortal

Frozen at 25; probably somewhere in the 200-250 year-old range at this point.

World-weary, edging towards jaded, fiercly protective of his charges.

Dream job: professor at the mage schools of Ossus.

Current job: glorified babysitter for some slightly crazy rich kids.

Home planet: New Alderaan

Tag list: @fifty-for-the-racer @aggressive-bucky-barnes-stan @idontdoglitter @violentbirds @i-need-more-sleepzzz (ask to be added/removed!)

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As the November/December fervor that was New Music, holiday one-shots, and Twelfth Night is starting to die down (it’s not dying down just yet, I know, because starting Friday I’ll be posting every day until 1/5, but it’s fine shhh), I wanted to present some of my other fic ideas to y'all, and let you guys pick what you'd like to see next!!! Whichever one(s) of these I wind up writing, I'll be working on planning the New Music sequel while I do! I’m also going to put ballpark ratings (based on what I have planned/the image I have rattling around in my head of the fic idk)

So here are my current fic/AU ideas that I have rattling around in various stages of planning, in no particular order of personal preference:

(I made headers and they make me happy so you’re going to see them)

1) Yo Ho Hero: Space Pirates AU. Think: Newsies characters, (grittier) Treasure Planet aesthetic, Star Wars planet-hopping, and an embarrassing amount of plot from the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything movie. Jack, Race, and Elmer are plucked out of their ordinary lives and thrust into a whole new world as unlikely heroes when Princess Katherine is captured by a wicked pirate. They join the crew of Prince Crutchie and his mage Davey to rescue Katherine and defeat the evil Captain Mechno-beard. (Rated K+-T because... they’re pirates. It’s going to get violent at times, but I don’t intend for it to be like gory or anything.)

Main Characters: Jack Kelly, Elmer Kasprzak, Race Higgins, Crutchie Morris, Davey Jacobs

Supporting Characters: Spot Conlon, JoJo de la Guerra, Specs, Romeo, Skittery

Minor Characters: Sarah and Les Jacobs, Katherine Pulitzer, Buttons Davenport, Albert Dasilva, Snyder, probably others IDK I haven’t finished planning.

2) The Green Fields of France: beginning in canon-era, a look at the lives of Elaine, Mush, and Finch, along with their descendants. Mush and Finch go off to war and never come back. Years later, Elaine finally learns what happened to them. (This one is entirely self-indulgent, I won't lie) (Rated K+. No adult themes, that I’m planning on, but there will be talk of war and dying. Nothing graphic, but just to be safe)

Main Characters: Elaine O’Dell (OC), Charlie O’Dell (OC)

Supporting Characters: Race Higgins, Albert Dasilva, Crutchie Morris, JoJo de la Guerra, Mush Meyers, Finch Cortez

3) {unnamed modern!academia!AU}: Albert transfers to a new grad school and meets a collection of... interesting people, not the least of which is the enigmatic Race Higgins. Follows them and their friends on a wide variety of adventures over several years as they work on their degrees. Theoretically, several slow burns all at once because I intend for this to be very long and a little over-dramatic. Also, it’s kind of an Indiana Jones/Jurassic Park/Stargate AU all at once don’t ask it just seemed like fun. (Rated T. Moderate adult themes, including alcohol, minor violence, dinosaur violence, alien/sci-fi violence, potential “hooking up”. IDK. They’re adults. Who knows what they’re going to get up to. Again, nothing graphic/explicit/everything will be pretty much glossed over but it will also be there.)

Main Characters: Race Higgins, Albert Dasilva, Mush Meyers, Finch Cortez, Elaine O’Dell, JoJo de la Guerra, Buttons Davenport

Side Characters: Elmer Kasprzak, Davey Jacobs, Sniper Wah, Crutchie Morris, Jack Kelly, Spot Conlon, Tommy Boy, Henry Butler

Minor Characters: Specs, Smalls, Sarah Jacobs, Katherine Pulitzer, probably a lot more honestly if this turns out as long as I think it will, assorted characters from other franchises

4) Shakespeare: canon-era. Maire O'Connell comes from an immigrant family with an abusive father. She becomes a newsie to try and get her siblings away from him, but it's hard. Set in a world more like the 92sies movie than the musical. (Rated K+-T for Maire’s father and the Delancey brothers beating people up)

Main Characters: Maire O’Connell (OC), Jack Kelly, Davey Jacobs, Spot Conlon, Race Higgins, Sarah Jacobs

Side/Minor Characters: other newsies we’ll see who comes up

5) A Midsummer Night's Dream: unsurprisingly based on the title Part 3 of the Modern!Theatre!AU. Jack and Crutchie are still working at the World Theatre and living with Elaine and her brothers. March 12, 2020, their whole world changes. It is a summer of life-altering realizations as they all learn more about themselves and each other and hopefully become better people for it. Yes, this is the COVID quarantine one. Very gay. (Rated K. It’s just soft.)

Main Characters: Jack Kelly, Crutchie Morris, Elaine O’Dell (OC), Alan O’Dell (OC), Alden O’Dell (OC)

Side Characters: Davey Jacobs

Minor Characters: Anyone else who’s come up in As You Like It or Twelfth Night (which I know I haven’t published and have hardly written at this point it’s fine) is fair game, but won’t be appearing much because... quarantine.

6) {unnamed fairy tale AU}: This is literally only a vague idea, but I’m thinking something along the lines of Once Upon a Time, incorporating lots of different fairy tales/themes??? I’m thinking sort of the vibe of the Spiderwick Chronicles meets the Hobbit, with elements of Peter Pan/general changeling child legends and Irish mythology. Very mystical. IDK. If this is the one y’all want to see, it’ll probably take longer to start posting, because I’ll have to do more planning (unlike the others, which I have at least a little bit of planning done for, I have very little of even a concept for this one, it just seems like fun). (Rated ??? because who knows)

{Characters TBD} (I’m leaning towards a Davey lead though, based on the loose image forming in my head after making this moodboard)

Feel free to ask questions about any of these that you’d like to hear more about!!! I’m always happy to talk about story ideas xD Make sure to let me know which one(s) you’d like to see in the near future!!! My mesages and ask box are always open!

Tag list: @the-cowbi @i-am-a-wizard @xbanner-carriedx @celestial-rose-sky @ersterwithablog (let me know if you’d like to be added to/removed from the tag list!!! You can also let me know if there’s a specific story you’d like to be on the tag list for if/when I write it!)

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