#Ark AU

[papabirdurskeks]

My experience as a monster designer finally pays off to make my own version of "Sphinx" Witness for another AU

Damn this was fun cx

[puppetmaster13u]

So once more pondering this au, the Ark Vigilantes au. Workin on the next chapter (had to pause so many stories when my laptop & charger got destroyed).

Thinkin about maybe doin some art for the feral family. But also like, anyone interested in some rambles perhaps? I am also open to ideas from people who have played it (I'll be honest I use cheats to go in the equivalent of creative mode lol)

[gingericywolf]

[Start] - Part 4

The sunrise came up on the boy finishing up the last of the trap pieces. It had been a big use of resources, the doedic being an invaluable helpee in getting all of that. He was sure it would work. He had used similar traps before. Making a pit the rex would fall and get stuck in so he could work with it out of teeth way. It sounded like it would work. It was about to be a great day for big survivor achievement.

He loaded everything on the strong argentavis and flew back to the area he saw the rex in, only to not find her anymore. Instead there where 3 other rexes, still of high level, and the giga still roaming. He had to separate them from the giga. A natural ramp brought up to a flat plateau.

Ok yeah. He could work with that.

He started building his trap there, when other two rexes came down from the neighbouring area. He easily dodged them and once the trap was done it was time to test it. It would be dumb to lure one of the strong rexes so he flew in front of a weaker one, bringing it up, luring it on the ramp, to the trap and.... it didn't work. The rex walked right over.

He changed the trap. Walked another rex up. But it couldn't get in.

Again. It stepped around it.

Again

Again

And Again

His Traps weren't working.

6 or 7 rexes where around now. 4 under the plateau, plus the giga. This was not going well.

He took a big breath breaking down everything and flying back to the raft. Glow of an alpha raptor on the way.

He called everyone back on board and started moving the raft along the coast. He needed a new idea. The classic stone gates and bear traps would not have failed.

But he needed metal for the bear traps and at least he had saw some close.

Bird chirped as the other two argentavis left him behind.

It was luck that an ankylosaur decided to help him gathering the metal he needed, and a few hours and lot of sweat, and random sabertooth attacks, later he had everything ready and loaded to go.

Flying at the same plateau. Two rexes where up there, but neither were the ones he was searching for.

The giga had also disappeared.

He was confused.

What happened? Where did all the creatures go? None of the rexes matched the ones he was after even after several minutes of looking around.

He did find a small cove full of gems tho.

'This can't be happening' he groaned, letting himself fall to the ground under the gaze of the argentavis.

Joker chirped, tapping his hands on johnny's face.

'All of this work for nothing! Why! The Ark Gods have something against me.'

He stayed down there a few more seconds before remembering.

He sit down and moved to the edge. The glow of the alpha still there.

He turned to his argentavis. Oh they could for sure do that. They would at least get something out of the day!

With a newfound grin he was on the saddle, ready for a fight.

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[brandwhorestarscream]

Let them be confused. It'll just make it more fun when they realize these creatures are In fact, hostile towards them and they have to be cautious around them while also figuring out how to navigate the strange landscape and not starve to death.

Very fair! Ark AU also sees them with their transformation cogs surgically removed, ao they're stuck in root mode with no internal weaponry and no way to travel except by walking >:) Starscream about goes crazy on the ground and rabidly jumps the first pterosaur he sees lmfao

[kinetic-elaboration]

January 15: Monty/Raven, Accurate/Indefinite

As is so often the case with me, I don't know what this is. I didn't have a strong idea going in so I just went with Dramatic.

This is part of the Ark AU, and takes place before the beginning of that story.

Monty/Raven, ~660 words, written in about 20 minutes

For the prompt "accurate, and its antonyms (inaccurate, indefinite, unreliable, faulty)" from my July Break Bingo 2023 card.

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One thing Raven and Monty have in common is an unerring desire for accuracy in all tasks and perfection in all results, paired with a stark understanding that such things will never be. Their ship is old and faulty, and it cannot ever be otherwise again. They are both only part of the shoestring and glue that holds the thing together—not that Raven would ever admit to Monty's face that she gives him as much credit as that.

Their relationship, too, is uncertain and stumbling: indefinite, and in that way, one might say faulty, too. Two months after the first time, she finally invited him back to her quarters on Mecha. But then they hardly knew what to do with each other in the privacy behind a locked door, in the space of a single bed. He showed a certain patience that she'd never felt in him before. She would not be so naive as to say it was love or even desire, because desire is something lofty and beautiful, and they've only ever been clawing and scratching in the dark. Still, he took his time and he stretched himself out and he kissed her slow. He left her with hollows of time in which to think—something she'd always avoided in the past, with him.

She's heard rumors that all his other girls are ex-Prison Station, which makes her wonder if she's special, if there's some sort of hidden meaning there. Maybe he knew Finn on the inside and figures, close enough. Or maybe Raven crept up on him in some unexpected way, and he intends this no more than she does, and is compelled to keep going like it's some kind of dare.

Sometimes she shows up on Go-Sci just to rag on him about the hole in the security system in Alpha Sector 4, something she shouldn't even know about except that any fool could see it, and sometimes he reminds her that the patch job in that section of family quarters on Farm is so weak, he could probably rip it apart with his bare hands. He grew up on Farm and knows that's always been a damn trouble spot. But if she's such a genius, why can't she figure something out?

"I am a damn genius," she answers.

He flicks his gaze all the way down her body, slow, then raises his eyebrows like a dare.

Maybe she is special.

Maybe they will always be indefinite, faltering, because they've been broken up in pieces and turned old before their time, and they cannot ever again be otherwise again. That's when she thinks when she catches sight of sweetness in him. When she spies him across the cafeteria at a crowded lunch hour, laughing and joking, hiding that laughter behind his hand. He's only twenty, looks young still, sometimes, for his age.

For a while, in her quarters, he slides himself down under the covers and just lies there, his breath hitting ragged and tired against the bare skin of her hip. She lets her hand fall down and cards her fingers through his hair. Her lungs are working hard, trying not to burst. Something's cracked up, uncertain, a story they could have had together but she just can't find the thread of it, doesn't know what she's doing. She’s thinking not about the Skybox girls but about the Station itself, how he never talks about it, how he'd up and leave now without a second-thought if she even said the word. She's the shoestring and the glue, sliding her fingers again and again through the soft strands of his hair. Holding them both together, somehow. He pokes his nose against her hip. Underneath the blanket, he must be hot, sticky with sweat, unable to ignore for a moment the lingering scent of them, too aware of the wrinkles on the sheets that, somehow, they've half-pulled off the mattress. Surrounded on all sides by the wreckage they've created and become.

[fluffyfurry6663]

I present to you all, my ARK: Survival Evolved AU: Rockwell's Offer

[this AU contains spoilers for ARK: Survival Evolved]

This AU was made to explore the many possibilities of "what if the survivor accepted Rockwell's proposal for a better future and aid with the Titans and everything?" The survivor in this AU is Brandon Urvogel, a 39 year-old man from the early 2000's and he has his little pal Bingo the Bulbdog.

Brandon originally is on the normal route of ARK: follow Helena's instructions to save the ARKs and Earth, but, when he reaches Aberration to fight Rockwell, Edmund proposes the possibilities of helping Brandon save humanity and the ARKs [heard in the audios from Rockwell's boss fight on Aberration]. Rockwell had high hopes that this survivor was different from the others that She Who Waits has sent after him, so why not try? Brandon agrees to help[/serve] Rockwell after a bit of contemplation. The stakes are already high, and Edmund offers so much. Help with fighting the Titanous Monsters above? Hell yeah! Help with saving humanity? Of course!

This AU takes place after Brandon's Ascension off of Scorched Earth [and before that, his Ascension off of The Island] and Genesis Part 1 [and possibly Part 2?] is not included within this story. Extinction is included and, obviously, Aberration. I am still working on things with this AU, but the basic premise is here. I will make content for this AU and continue posting future events within my AU.

[also bonus doodle]

[ark-fork]

[vulcan-moon]

dr maria au sketchbook lines bc ive been thinking of her so much these past couple of days

[thatshadowcomic]

Maria would have grown up to be menace

Hedgehogs have sensitive noses, poor bastard

I wish I could find the video with the shaky syndrome cat reacting to the candle tbh this was inspired by it

Edit: thank you guys for helping me find it😭🫰

Inspired by this cat

[bestjeanistmonster]

Dc au- lil scamps on the Ark who love dirt

I imagine they’d often go to the section of the ark that is specifically for growing plants and food to play in the dirt and plant apple seeds leftover from their lunches

They are often chased out but they always manage to sneak back in

[dhl-au]

[smallpwbbles]

based off my answer on this ask for the AU. I like to imagine most of the scientists working on project Shadow were a bunch of goobers who were insanely stoked to have made Shadow

[gingericywolf]

[Go to start] - Part 3 -

He sailed until he found the entrace to the bay he saw from the valley. A long stretch of seaway cutting right in the middle of the island. He could not see were or if it ended. Once again he hopped on Billy's saddle. It would be useless to keep on with the raft if the seaway didn't cut straight across.

He kept to the right side, nothing too noticeable going on. Classic herbivores, a few rexes, loads of pteranodons.

The weak rexes provided great fighting experience for Billy, downing one after the other. As he flew away after one of these battles a big dust cloud and a loud screch stopped him. Talons of a bird, paws of a lion. Fur and feather mixed in one creature. A Griffin. A swirl of emotions swam inside him, not helped by the dark reds and purples of the creature. He didn't want to think of it now. He didn't want to think of him now. He put a note on the map for the spot and pressed on, one small weight seemingly lifting after it.

Over the next mountain a beautiful scenery surprised him. A big lake surrounded by plains, falling down in waterfalls, in rivers ans another waterfall until it reaced the ocean on the other side. Morellatops and Maewings roaming around under the shade of sparse trees. Not too far a second smaller lake. It seemed like a paradise.

He was about to land when a loud step and a huff made him yank the reins to go back up. The terror of every survivor, a wild Giganotosaurus, had just showed up just under him. One second too late and both him and Billy would have been turned into blood mush.

He landed on a higher area, looking at the fearsome beast whose teeth would cause tremendous bleeding. Very few creatures would survive against it.

But he wanted a closer look to the terrain. See were to possibly build. Place down a sleeping bag just in case. He looked his loyal pteranodon in the eyes, a crazy-possibly suicidal idea coming up. The pteranodon subtly shook his head, not wanting to risk it, but is mind was set.

They flew down, zooming next to the dinosaur.

'Ehy big head! Want to try some chicken wings with a side of scottish tastyness.'

He didn't need to, he definitely didn't need to as the Giga roared just at their sight and started chasing them, billy's frantic flap lf wings the only thing keeping them far away enough from the deadly maws, praying to not run out of stamina.

It was his luck that the Giga got soon distracted by the easier ground preys, making quick work of them.

He circled around, back for the raft, knowing now that the inland stretch was a closed bay and he had to circumnavigate the whole area. It took him hours to get back to the same spot, a sleeping bag ready to place. He admired the view - ignoring the sounds of another Giga munching on the local wildlife- and flew back down over the waterfalls, counting the pros and cons of the area. It was definitely high on his list of places to live in, even with Giga's as neighbours and Rexe's trying to recreate the Land Before Time scene with the Brontos on a cliff.

Going on, he squeezed between the land and edge of the map, stopping as the day started to fade for a quick rest. A bright red argi caugth his attention. It was colored just like a big Ara macaw. He looked up at Bird; the feathered friend looking extremely exhausted by the travelling and the weight of the supplies. A friend would be nice for him.

While in the process of taming the colorful argentavis, a second looking stronger one got close. He ended up taming both and a passing doedicurus after a few hours.

Parrot and... he needed a name for the other one. 3 birds started to be too many to bring around.

He took the saddle off Bird to swap it on the stronger argentavis and finally laid down on his bed, resting.

His mind going back to the rex on the cliff. An high level female, if he could get her with the crazy male he saw early in the day he would be set for life. With a Giga roaming he had to be careful, while a trap started forming in his mind.

End part 3

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[brandwhorestarscream]

Ark AU, but with the entire Vos?

Now this... this gives me ideas

It likely wouldn't be the entirety of Vos, as I don't think the station would be able to support that many, but a really good chunk to be sure. The Winglord and his mates, various mecha from the armada, rainmakers, etc, etc.

My brain immediately went to a Vosian generation both exclusively on the ARK: consider 👀 Starscream's generation. Still a prince in his own right but rather than the shining splendor of Vos, a prince of a wild, mostly untouched, perfectly natural paradise. He and his brothers grow up running along the treacherous cliffs of Whitesky Peak, and as none of them here have transformation cogs, they teach themselves to slide down the mountain akin to earth athletes. The Vosians make their homes on cliffside platforms that jut out over open air, thousands of feet above the surface

It's probably Winglord Hurricane that first wins the respect of one of the great birds, a massive metallic teratorn with a wingspan 6 times the length of a seeker. It takes years for seekers to reclaim the sky, but by the time they do, Starscream and his brothers are just the right age to each be gifted an egg of their own 💖

[greatdenimbeast]

Diamond Castle au- the siblings ever in matching outfits

[galacticghoste]

lil Sibling!!!!