#Not to say I don't love Sharkface

[demon-of-side-quest-hell]

Got to thinking about the Insurrectionists (Innies) from RvB. They need more to do cuz they exist for like...purely just cannon fodder for freelancers to kill with impunity?

And they're fucking Insurrectionists right? That means they should have a semi-cohesive belief system the helps us understand what their goal is with Insurrection? And like, yeah, Isle isn't/shouldn't just monologue the whole backstory and beliefs of the innies, but fuck we should know SOMETHING about what they believe!

Can you fucking IMAGINE? Imagine getting a cohesive ideology for an antagonistic faction. Literally in S13 if they gave Sharkface 1 line that addressed it further that'd be infinitely more helpful. Sharkface could've been Temple and we'd have had just as much idea what the innies goals were after season 13.

[sharkface-daydreams]

the #ficwip Word Game Wednesday word is "start" so I dug through my wips to see what I could find...

PS WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT MY BIG HUGE TYPOS 😭

From the Outriders AU:

Felix is dealing with his anomaly powers starting to manifest. Headaches, at first, and that weird burning thing with his hands happens a few times but more and more it’s anomaly lightning and when he wants to be anywhere but where he is, he starts shifting in space. Soon, if he focuses, he can do it on purpose.

Miller did not get storm-touched and is totally jealous.

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underdeveloped shark lives au where he pretended to come to a truce with the Freelancers but schemes to get wash to fall for him and then completely shatter his heart:

"I love you" is the phrase that will set him free of the game.

In the meanwhile, they flirt, they date, they fuck, they grow closer, move in together.

Wash finally tells him he loves him and Sharkface pretends to be startled. and then he grins. and laughs.

He reveals he'd been waiting for this, it had been a game you see. He wasn't able to kill them like he's wanted but tearing Wash apart this way? Betraying his trust? That he could do.

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From the Sharklix "make each other worse" au, warnings for minor gore, knives in flesh, etc

Sharkface tilts his head, and Benny swallows nervously under both pairs of eyes that suddenly look too much like the reflective eyes of wolves in the setting sun. He glances to either end of the alley, looking for a way out.

"Don't get any cute ideas, there, buddy," Felix says, twirling the knives pointedly. "We're just getting started here. Can't have you dipping out of the party before it starts."

"Help me tie him up and we can take turns," Sharkface suggests. Felix's canines glint in the low light as he grins.

"Deal."

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from a more personal au where Locus loses Felix during the Chorus arc and starts unraveling:

Locus stared at his fists on the table, the impassive visorless helmet staring back at him accusingly. You’re nothing but a suit of armor and a gun. The skull-like teeth in the helmet grinned at him. You’re just a tin soldier. And you can’t do anything without being wound up and set down by someone else. You’re useless on your own. Pathetic little plaything– With a roar of frustration, he shoved the helmet across the room and growled, slamming his fists back into the table. No. He wasn’t a soldier anymore. The UNSC had seen to that. He was a mercenary, he completed jobs for payment. And he was still a person. A monster, but a person. A person could make their own choices. It had been years since he’d been a person. How was he supposed to start?

[trannydean]

RvB High School!AU

This is another big favorite of mine--my high school AU. Take note on the fact that I've never gone to high school (I've been homeschooled since 4th grade) so I have no personal experience on how high school actually works. I am quite willing to take criticism and hear anything on how to correct anything that needs it.

Another thing is that this AU has a lot of OCs. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot. There are multiple Freelancer OCs (including my main OC and a main protagonist, Mich), so many Chorus OCs, and one of my AI OCs, Tau. Altogether, there are 30 OCs so far! I'm not certain that every single one of them is going to show up at all, but I just wrote them out in my list of students and teachers where I thought they'd fit.

This AU was originally going to be a teen!fake-dating!AU involving Mich and her love interest, another OC I have, Del (Delaware). I began planning out how the process from fake-dating to real-dating would go, and I was enjoying it. I was reading @ cinead's Carolina the Teenage Witch series for inspiration when I realized something. Why not expand this AU into not just a specific thing happening in high school? What if this was just a whole high school AU, so it could involve so many other fun things in it? I figured this was a great idea, so I rolled with it.

Now, Mich is a junior with the RnBs (minus Lopez and Kai, including Tex and Wash), multiple other Freelancers (Florida, the Triplets), some of the Chorus crew (Kimball, Doyle, Dr. Grey), half the mercs (Felix and Locus), and the Blues and Reds (minus Biff) as classmates. Mich and the RnBs are a uh... friend group? Cliche? I don't know what it's called, but they hang out constantly. Other students in different grades include Kai (a freshman), Siris and Sharkface (both seniors), the Chorus lieutenants (all freshman), other Freelancers like York, Carolina, the twins, CT, and Maine (all seniors), and Niner and Dylan Andrews (both seniors as well).

We've got plenty of teachers that include the AI (this including Tau, VIC, Lopez, and Santa), barely remembered characters like Lemons and Jenkins (not to be confused with Genkins, who is also here and is Jenkins' brother. And Chrovos is their sibling as well! It's madness!), and other Freelancers like Wyoming, Illinois, and Utah. I don't know how big high schools can be, but there were lots of different classes and I didn't think every teacher taught 5 classes each, so we ended up with lots of teachers. If this isn't accurate to real high schools then please let me know.

I don't actually have a lot exactly planned out for this AU yet. I made the list of students and their classes (which will be included at the bottom, along with teachers and subjects they teach), and have been so preoccupied trying to figure out what regular high school is like that I haven't written a lot, plot-wise. I do have certain details and events that will happen eventually, though.

In this AU, the Freelancers, all orphans living at a huge foster home (run by the Counselor), go by state names rather than their real names (smth to do with their introduction to the rest of the kids... new kid start getting called a state that isn't taken. It quickly becomes the name they go by.). Practically all of them are in high school, so all of them are mainly just waiting to reach legal age rather than get adopted out. Carolina is the only exception to the Freelancers being orphans.

The "older" Chorus friend group consist of Kimball, Dr. Grey, Doyle, two of my OCs, Del and Dr. Lana, as well as Felix and Locus (until they betray the group and their connection with the rest are broke).

Carolina and Church are siblings, and Simmons is their cousin. Unfortunately, all of them have shitty parents (or, the parents that are there are shitty--Allison passed away years ago, which led to the Director's downfall, and Simmons has a shitty dad who is in the middle of a divorce with his not-that-much-better wife). All three of them try to stay at friends' houses as often as possible, to keep out of the toxic environment of their own houses. This works for the Church siblings, since the Director is often away on business trips, though Simmons has a more difficult time getting out of the house. Fortunately, Carolina and Church are always willing to give an excuse to get him out.

York is still at the foster home, despite being 18. He says it's because he hasn't found a place to stay yet, but it's really because he's waiting for his younger sibling Mich to be 18 too, so they can stick together after they've both completed high school. North has repeatedly invited York to stay at his and South's apartment, but York denies every time, saying he wouldn't want to intrude (despite intruding at their place constantly). He thinks Mich wouldn't like being that separated from him, since they have been together since she was born... he's not aware of the fact that Mich definitely wouldn't be bummed, because she would crash at the apartment whenever she wanted to see him. He's a bit protective. That's all right with South, though--she never agreed to the invites North keeps giving to York, and she'd rather not deal with her twin's idiot boyfriend living in the same building as her again. She had just gained the bliss of living on the opposite end of town from him...

Genkins, Jekins, and Chrovos (known only as Ms. C), as stated before, are siblings. They have quite the rivalry among themselves that most students and other teachers find amusing. Genkins and Jenkins argue over how to say each other's names, and Chrovos just adds fuel to the fire. Stufents often wonder why, despite all of them being unmarried and two being men, the three all have different last names. The main theory is that they all have different fathers and are actually half-siblings, despite Jenkins' numerous announcements that they are, in face, full-siblings. On top of this feud, there are two other teachers that are often confused for each other--Jones and Johannes--despite having no relation to each other. They just look strikingly similar. This annoys the fuck out of the both of them.

Illinois is the geography teacher, and he's one of those teachers who dresses up in full apparelrelating to the lesson of the day. He tries to have fun with his students, and he's a heavily favored teacher due to this, as well as his understanding and patience with both colleagues and students.

After a longer school break (idk whether it should be Christmas break or spring break), Shatter Squad and Viper are going to be enlisted in the school, with West and Axel as new teachers/coaches. Ik almost everybody hates these guys, but I came up with the idea that these new students with an already-made rivalry between them should appear in the middle of the school year and disrupt everyone's groove... shit's gonna happen, tensions are gonna rise, and all because these new idiots arrived. I think it'll turn out all right.

Mich likes to tell Church "if Carolina and York get married, then me and you are going to be siblings-in-law", which irritates Church because he truthfully believes she's the most annoying person he has ever met.

Some ships included in this AU are: Grimmons, Tuckington, Docnut, Chexboose (is that the ship for Church, Tex, and Caboose? There is a ship for that, right?), and a monstrosity (/j) I came up with... Dr. Sargida (any different ship name ideas are welcome, this sounds stupid lmao), a deadly combination of Dr. Grey, Sarge, and Florida. The ultimate power trio.... they could take over the world....

Now I'm going to be putting the lists of students and teachers. Again, if there's something funky with any of this, please let me know! I know not of the schedules of regular high schoolers and I don't know if any of this is possible!

Students and Their Electives, Special Classes, and Extra Curricular Activities

Red Team (juniors) Sarge - robotics, health/nursing, ap history, algebra Simmons - calculus, chemistry, mechanics Grif - Spanish, home economics/cooking, biology, algebra Donut - theater, creative writing, Spanish, geometry, chemistry Doc - track, health/nursing, Spanish, algebra

Blue Team (juniors) Church - AP history, business math, Spanish, physics Tucker - varsity volleyball, home economics/cooking, geography, biology, precalculus, Spanish Caboose - varsity football, robotics, biology, geometry

Freelancers

Mich (junior) - art, geography, gymnastics, Spanish, algebra, chemistry Wash (junior) - gymnastics, geography, French, business math, biology Tex (junior) - varsity volleyball, geography, wrestling, Spanish, business math, biology York (senior) - varsity football, chemistry, mechanics, algebra 2 Carolina (senior) - varsity volleyball, Spanish, trigonometry, physics North (senior) - wrestling, home economics/cooking, art, calculus, chemistry South (senior) - varsity volleyball, chemistry, French, calculus Delaware (junior) - track, health/nursing, French, business math Florida (junior) - French, gymnastics, chemistry, calculus CT (senior) - varsity volleyball, art, chemistry, algebra 2 Maine (senior) - wrestling, art, algebra 2, physics Indiana (junior) - cheerleader, gymnastics, art, chemistry, algebra California (junior) - band (saxophone), algebra, chemistry Nevada (senior) - band (flute), business math, physics Nebraska (junior) - theater, algebra, chemistry Ohio (junior) - cheerleader, art, chemistry, algebra Idaho (junior) - home economics/cooking, chemistry, algebra, Spanish Iowa (junior) - home economics/cooking, chemistry, algebra, French Missouri (junior) - cheerleader, algebra, chemistry, art Vermont (senior) - varsity football, physics, algebra 2, Spanish Niner (senior) - track, mechanics, calculus, physics Piper (junior) - mechanics, art, algebra 2, physics

Chorus Kimball (junior) - track, speech, algebra, biology Doyle (junior) - AP English, French, trigonometry, physics Dr. Grey (junior) - health/nursing, geometry, cheerleader, art Dr. Lana (junior) - health/nursing, algebra, band (clarinet) Palomo (freshman) - junior varsity volleyball, chemistry, pre-algebra, speech Jensen (freshman) - biology, mechanics, pre-algebra Bitters (freshman) - band (drums), pre-algebra, biology Andersmith (freshman) - junior varsity football, biology, pre-algebra, art Matthews (freshman) - theater, pre-algebra, biology Volleyball (freshman) - junior varsity volleyball, Spanish, pre-algebra, biology Val (freshman) - track, art, biology, pre-algebra Davies (freshman) - art, biology, pre-algebra Fleming (freshman) - robotics, biology, pre-algebra Miley (freshman) - biology, pre-algebra, art B. Munch (freshman) - creative writing, art, pre-algebra, biology Cassidy (freshman) - Spanish, pre-algebra, biology Kipp (freshman) - robotics, pre-algebra, biology Nova (freshman) - French, pre-algebra, biology A. Munch (sophomore) - chemistry, algebra, band (trumpet) Mercer (sophomore) - band (clarinet), geometry, chemistry Duff (sophomore) - theater, geometry, health/nursing Colling (sophomore) - ap biology, algebra, speech Jennings (sophomore) - creative writing, junior varsity volleyball, speech, geometry, ap biology Febo (freshman) - French, pre-algebra, biology Bridgers (freshman) - art, pre-algebra, biology Hayes (junior) - track, cheerleader, chemistry, business math Drossel (freshman) - biology, theater, pre-algebra Byrne (freshman) - geography, pre-algebra, biology, creative writing, Spanish

Mercs Felix (junior) - wrestling, speech, algebra, chemistry Locus (junior) - AP English, wrestling, Spanish student aid, art, algebra, chemistry Siris (senior) - mechanics, physics, calculus, track Sharkface (senior) - home economics/cooking student aid, chemistry, wrestling, art, calculus

Blues and Reds (juniors) Temple - speech, chemistry, algebra Buckey - French, chemistry, algebra Loco - mechanics, chemistry, algebra Gene - robotics, ap chemistry, geometry Surge - mechanics, wrestling, chemistry, algebra Cronut - theater, art, algebra, chemistry

Others Kai (freshman) - theater, pre-algebra, gymnastics, biology Jones (junior) - theater (directing assistant?), algebra, chemistry Andrews (senior) - student journalism(?), calculus, physics, Spanish One (junior) - track, chemistry, algebra, art East (junior) - track, chemistry, geometry, art Raymond (junior) - robotics, algebra, chemistry Tiny (junior) - mechanics, wrestling, algebra, chemistry Zero (senior) - speech, algebra 2, physics Phase (junior) - varsity volleyball, robotics, algebra, chemistry Diesel (senior) - mechanics, wrestling, algebra 2, physics

Teachers and Their Classes

Andy the bomb - chemistry Wyoming - English Illinois - geography Lopez - Spanish, mechanics/engineering (old) Sheila - regular P.E., volleyball coach miller - varsity football coach Genkins - trigonometry Jenkins - pre-algebra, algebra Chrovos (Ms. C) - physics Lemons - band Jones - track Johannes - junior varsity football coach Mickey - home economics/cooking VIC - theater Delta - precalculus, calculus, algebra 2 Sigma - French Theta - art Gamma - speech Epsilon - history Eta - cheerleading coach, gymnastics coach Iota - creative writing Omega/O'Malley - business math Tau - biology Santa - robotics West - wrestling coach Axel - mechanics/engineering (new) Utah - health/nursing

And that's what I have for my high school AU so far! I'm really excited to work on this one more and see where I can take it. If anyone has suggestions about this or any of the other AUs I will be posting about, don't be afraid to send an ask or discuss it in the posts!

Tagged: @queerchorus (if anyone else wants to be tagged in my AU posts, just tell me!)

[pocolocorico]

So for my first trick, I am going to break the ice with a bold statement that others may not agree with.

Cannon Chorus Felix cannot have a redemption.

Why, you may ask? If someone who does bad things, continues to do bad things, never caring for how this affects others, and shows no remorse or even a hint of regret, they cannot be redeemed/redeemable in that moment. Until they show signs of remorse, or express the idea to stop doing bad things for their own benefit, even if it's a slow or halting process, you can't give them a hand without them reaching for your foot.

Keep in mind that I am talking about fictional characters, characters that we can monitor though a second person view, characters that we can watch first hand and witness their actions without the bias or embellishing of someone else telling these things to us. And as I have seen in Felix's actions, he was determined for self satisfaction, to the bitter end. That little "Wait!" Right before he got yeeted over the edge? Purely self-preservation, he had no intentions of changing. This final version of Felix made up his mind about what he cared about, and that was himself.

The Felix that we see in season 14? The one who looked out for his friends and saw them as "partners"? This was almost someone else entirely. Someone who valued others and had the goal to do better. When asked in one of the episodes, "Who are you?" He says, "We're the good guys.". And when referring to Locus he comments about what he could possible spend his money on (implying that he wasn't a control freak who watched Locus's every move to see how else he could break down his humanity) he considers "therapy" to be what Locus likely spends his money on. The Felix we know in season 13 worked to make sure that Locus was always broken, never to be able to heal, for the purpose of manipulating him. We don't see that here. Somewhere along the line things change. At some point Felix made the desicion to hurt his friend for his own gain, for his security. At some point Felix (likely) broke off his and Locus's freindship- PARTNERSHIP with Sirus because he saw him as a threat/liability,  as someone who would discourage his new change in priorities, and who would recognize his manipulation of Locus. Sirus was someone who had the "restrictions" of family and morals, of a sense of "doing the right thing", and if Felix wanted to grow in his new way of life, he needed to cut him off. Perhaps there was enough of Issac Gates, the man who once thought of himself as a "good guy", to cut Sirus off without attempting to kill him, accident or otherwise. Maybe he did try to kill Sirus and Locus never realized and thought that it was an accident, a misunderstanding, that ended with their separate ways. With Sirus's family and other support networks, Locus proably felt that Felix was the one who needed his companionship most. Maybe Locus made the decision to come along, but he would have done so for his PARTNER, and Felix is not his partner anymore.

Now if someone wanted to give Chorus Felix a redemption arc, they can! I'm talking about CANNON Felix and in fanfiction anything can happen! Maybe after the "true warrior" thing with Santa he had a realization of what he had become and a decided that he didn't want to BE that anymore. Maybe he hits his head too hard and isn't so evil anymore. Maybe he gets possessed by some alien thing on Chorus that puts HIM in the backseat and after getting it out, he understands what he's been doing to Locus, to Chorus, and wants out. Maybe he falls in love, who knows. Any NUMBER of things could happen to change his perspective if you want to deal with Chorus Felix and that's great! I've got TWO great fics in mind as I type this. One is where Felix lives and he along with Locus and Sharkface go off to live their own lives, it's Conduction by dremma which is a WONDERFUL example of what I mean by when I say you can absolutely write about Felix on Chorus getting better. Another is 03:23 by kasarin which is a prime fic where Felix DOESN'T become a better person and still lives to seek revenge. As I get more ideas or fics for Felix I'll add them onto here.