#<- technically. That's the AU Nick is for

[creatureboss]

AGENT PHOENIX BEAM UPON YE! Drawink her so much lately and I am having an EXCELLENT time of it.

[methbayprisonblues]

Swift Family Dinner

art by @when-sanpape-arts

[hrokkall]

The Mariner and the Syren [x]

Gift for @ecoforesttreehills and @eyebaus :]

GUPPY SCARE

[ladyyy--stardust]

been thinking about them <3

[deafeningkittycomputer]

Winter night (Party crashers Rpg au)

They have a small house now bc why not

Also sophist with eevee ears

Vernias got them the clothes bc it was getting really cold around

[starry-sophrosyne]

for @sopping-wet-cat-wizard you stinky bastard man- D:< /j /nsrs /ref :

(as per usual this shit got WAY too long on accident so here you go swizard, enjoy XD) (not but this fr got super long, lengthy ass shit under the cut below)

After you said this, I actually struggled to decide between which idea I liked more, bc I hadn't really thought about it too much but their dynamic was def one of the two that you had brought up-

HOWEVER, you know how I was talking about that "community" that Brent introduced Sophist too? That gave him the confidence that he could start a new life, even without a perfectly clean slate, and letting everything hang out because not all but some people would be willing to accept him despite his previous lies and hidden past? Vern is the main player in that-

I wanna say he works at the cafe (omg cafe au reference- /j) that Brent and Sophist frequented when they first started hanging out more casually, with Brent being on good terms with Vern having come to this cafe for so long. Vern is the first person to openly approach him with this pure kindness and the two become good friends, with Brent and Eevee continuing to come here after they break off their respective abusive/toxic relationships.

As for Nick, I'm still really torn. I like the idea of him being a close/the closest colleague of Brent's, working at the same company as him and also being the person to suggest Sophist to Brent.

In the company, he's known as a bit of a slacker, but is very charismatic and popular with everyone, esp the ladies, and he somehow always seems to have luck on his side regarding making business deals, known for his ability to smooth talk his way into lucrative deals that make him favorable to the company (and overwrite his idleness). Outside of work though, he is a frequent client to the "business" ran by Leo. He has hooked up with Sophist atleast once but said it wasn't his thing, and prefers girls over guys, although he doesnt care that much to be honest. He's also a lot nicer than most of the clients, who otherwise stereotypically demand that they get straight to business, and will get to know the workers a little bit. This is what led to his connection with Sophist, as they're good friends and he's one of the only people Sophist talks about his job to outside of the industry (Nick was fucking SHOCKED when he found out the "rich sheltered boy" Sophist was talking about was in fact, Brent, and not another one of his regular vip clients. He did NOT have high confidence in even Sophist to "woo" over Brent, neither did he believe that they had actually done nothing lustful until he asked Brent himself.)

Either this, or as I mentioned earlier, he's one of Sophist's coworkers, although I have less to work with because I don't know how he'd "get out" of the business too without it feeling like a repeated version of sophist's journey, literally start to end- I DO think it would be funnier conceptually though, and better for plot if I did want to make a part two to this au focusing around tcvern3's relationship and the conflict i.e Nick being similarly being trapped, albeit less than Sophist, in the escort business.

At the very least, I definitely see this version of Nick as somebody who's more carefree and lax about his clients, and has definitely pissed a few of them off enough (he's DEFINITELY laughed at someones dick size to the point that they left i don't even care you're never taking that hc away from me- /hj /silly) to receive "punishments" but honestly? Fuck does he care? He's been in the industry less than Sophist has, so he doesn't really know how bad it can really get, but Sophist takes care of his junior regardless. If anything, maybe he can get him out of this life, unlike himself, and while Nick does have some moments of insecurities, he's currently not popular enough to know just how debilitating it can be. In return, he helps Sophist get out a little more and enjoy his life when not with clients, as he's grown so dependant on them (explained in a drabble i have coming up). His client was probably also the one who recommended Brent to Sophist, courtesy of him.

With either version of Nick, I can imagine him pulling up to meet Eevee a few months after he's left the business, genuinely happy to see him all healed and comfortable, wearing casual clothing and a genuine smile.

"So.. It's Eevee now, right?" He asked with a smirk on his face, but there was pure and evident happiness for his friend in his eyes, and that was enough to make Eevee laugh.

"Yeah, it is." He chuckled, a genuine smile spreading across his face. It was nice to see a familiar face after the whole fiasco. He hoped Nick hadn't suffered Leo's wrath after he had left (as a client or a worker). While eyeing him up and down and making sure he was ok, Eevee heard the soft patter of footsteps against the ground behind him. He hadn't even managed to look over his shoulder when-

"Eeevee! It's so good to see you again! Oh, and you brought a friend? Hi!! Nice to meet you! My name is Carnig, but you can call me Vernias!" The man excitedly stuck out his hand, his personality as bright as his pink hair. There was a sparkle in his eyes and a sweet smile on his face that always made him pleasant to everyone else. Meanwhile?

"... Oh!- Uh- Nice to meet you too Vernias, uh.. yeah.."

Eevee had to hold back his giggle at the faint flush that had appeared on his friend's cheeks, clearly more than surprised by Vern's bright personality, not to say that it was a bad thing. He instead settled for giving Nick a comical wink, his smile morphing into a smirk as Nick gave him a dirty side eye, for just a second, before snapping back into his normal self (or as normal as he could find himself) and began to chat up Vern. In no time, he'd put his charismatic personality to use, making Vern let out a bubbly laugh that turned the tips of his ears warm at the sound.

Also/In fact, with either version of the au, I think Nick's struggle would parallel either Brent's or Sophist's respective struggle in his relationship with Vern/plot conflict. I could imagine for Office-Nick, that he was also born with a rather well off/rich family who has been in good kahoots with Brent's family (actually yes, i now decree that in this version, they're family friends but not in a childhood friends kind of way bc Brent was prevented him from even playing with the son of a well off family as a child bc damn his parents-). They run their own business but have let Nick work with Brent's family's company due to it's success, their animosity as family friends, and their desire for him to get more experience in the working world. However, they meet up with him one day and tell him to quit his job, as seeing his success, they've decided he's finally ready to take over their own company. This would also result in his parents engaging him with somebody, aka Nicole (YOOO STARRY FINALLY REFS NICOLE /hj) who's family also well off/has a high status, for the sake of public image (and MORE company optimization babyyy-/srs /lh), leaving him distraught about his blooming relationship with Vern because he can't just leave. His parents have treated him well his whole life, nothing like Brent's parents (whose toxicity he finally understood to the fullest extent after the whole fiasco), and they haven't given him a reason to actively break everything off to go chase this- this cafe worker. It's painful to admit, but he doesn't have the heart nor the right to just do so just like Brent has. It drives him into this state of turmoil, maddening and insane.

I'm also so fucking tired that I can't conceptually think of Escort-Nick's struggle in detail rn (also bc of what i said and it being repetitive of sophist's struggle-) uhm yeah thats all i can give you lmao im so genuinely burnt out rn- /srs /gen

this got so fucking long bro even for my standards istg- ╥﹏╥

[hamable]

HEAR ME OUT!!!

Bakudeku/Class-1A Camp Rock AU

DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THE VISION

[hermanunworthy]

u ever think about the fact that jodies whole purpose was to be a better father than glenn. and then he ends up being a terrible father to his other kid

[corys-nsp-fixation]

Can't remember how exactly I started thinking about this but I started thinking about NSP Fallout as per usual and how all the people born after the nuke would feel so desensitized to and normalize violence first talk later almost constantly and how that'd affect them on several different levels [separating here cause idk how much violence talk I'll get into but I'm at like gon a be talking about fictional violence]

I already think about the small genetic adaptations/differences they probably have but the ruthless violence and how quick to shoot it probably is for them. How that was either drilled into them while they were raised or observed for survival

So, while thinking about this I have an idea I'm probably gonna make something either just for me or gonna post it somewhere that isn't here but it's a video idea to the chorus of "Weapons In My Pocket" by Nico & Chelsea with at the very least Nick, Max, and Laura

Why's nsp scp laura here? It's cause this would be my crossover au I mentioned like once before here that I still need to rework cause that was from like 2 yrs ago-

However, moving on, they are at least 3 who were wasteland born and strictly wasteland born. Yes there are more, (I know, I've seen nsp fallout several times), but these 3 are main cast so them.

Max. Bounty hunter. In my hc backstory for him and just general hc revolving him is that out of both his job and self preservation, dishing out bullets and taking care of others is the way to survive. Peace? What are you? Someone that wants death? It'd never work, it's either you kill them or they'll eventually kill you. Allies are different however first meeting a future ally you know for a fact his first reaction is to threaten them and talk while he's got the advantage.

Laura. Due to shit that's happened to her violence is the way to keep herself alive, her self preservation is high and she'd rather not loose her other eye. Closest she came to death, and several other times as well. Violence is her way of staying safe. It keeps her safe and it keeps her friends safe.

And Nick it depends on what hc is getting applied to him, there's a couple. [1. Nick picking up normalized violence due to traveling from different towns and everywhere. Not that he's the violent one but it's normal to him due to exposure.] {2. Ex Enclave Nick and him having been in The Enclave means so much but in short they'd drill it into you to be armed at all times and leave no man standing if necessary. Which it would be in their eyes if the situation called for it in the first place.}

NewScapePro Fallout my beloved I have too many thoughts about you and think way too much about your world and people in said world….It will happen again

[possuminnit]

Could make art pandering to a group of 1 (one) which is me by drawing a sonic and l4d2 crossover.aka I really just want to draw shadow as nick

[t4bb1th4]

Soft Duran Duran fanart I'm STUPID proud of and will never post on Instagram out of fear of being eaten alive by my friends

in part inspired by a fanfic written by @allmywill on ao3 :3

[methbayprisonblues]

Swift Family Picnic

art by @when-sanpape-arts

[cicadapupper]

An idea that's been plaguing my thoughts for the past week or so, lfd2/subnautica crossover.

Right now I really only have thoughts about it concerning Nick and Ellis because I'm deranged. These two but they're members of the Aurora crew, and what if instead of Ryley on lifepod 5 it's these two absolute doofuses, alone on an alien planet, Nick is split on how he should feel. But yeah they get to exist in the crater for a little bit and they're both equally terrified of the life there until Ellis gets his grubby little hands on a scanner and a knife, then he's becoming everything's problem.

I have like, rantings and ramblings on so many details for this bullshit, but I'll save that for if anyone wants to hear it, because this post is getting wordy as it is.

[top-wing]

Top Wing × Little Nightmares II

Don't mind me combining my two interests lmao Rod and Penny as Mono and Six!

+ Swift and Brody as RCG and RK! (the little chicks as nomes)

[tragedykery]

I love going completely overboard with worldbuilding as soon as I get an idea for an au. will this be mentioned in the fic? probably not. am I doing it anyway? of course

[abe-and-nick]

New CaT Chapter is posted

Throws this at you and runs

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61465483/chapters/158657851