No wonder A.S. got lost in this place, I thought. Rooms within rooms within rooms.
Don't go there, you've gotten yourself out, with and without help. You have been fine. You will be fine.
The door to the next room opened.
A dagger to my throat met me there.
"Who are you?" The holder said. "Are you with The Circle? Have they employed you to come get me?"
What's wrong with her? "Well, the first answer is Kieran Smith. As for the other two, I know of The Circle but I would personally rather die than be employed by them."
She lowered the dagger.
"Good." She half grunted. "For now."
So she doesn't trust me. It's fair.
"Sit down," she said. "I don't know how many rooms you've been in but take a break."
"Probably the same amount as you, telling by how you're acting."
"Do you have experience?"
"I have enough. At least enough to notice some symptoms."
She stayed quiet after that.
Maybe she’s processing all I’ve said. It's not like I didn’t just dump another problem onto her.
“Then why are you here?” she finally said. “Here in these rooms? What would drive you to stay?”
“I’m just here to revisit. Gather a few of my old friend’s notes that I haven’t yet, keep myself sharp. Besides, assuming we are both from the same period, I’m starting to find the outside bland. Everything’s predictable but challenging. ‘Tune the room to find the glyph, tune the glyph to find the door’, that’s what my friend wrote.”
“I think I’ve read that note. AS, was he?”
“Yes. As stubborn as he was, he was a good person.”
She stared at me. “You miss him.”
I nodded.
She smiled. “That makes two of us.”
“Who did the Null take from you?”
“My husband was employed by the Circle, and they fed him to it.”
“Hence the questions and the dagger?”
“Hence the questions.”
I stood up. The restlessness started to kick in. “How far did you get?”
“You’re that quick to move on?” She said, “Besides, I haven’t started.”
I wanted to roll my eyes. Why wouldn’t you start figuring out the puzzles?
Fortunately, muscle memory had helped.
"You really have been here before then,” she said.
“Would I really lie about this?”
“You might.”
“Then are you going to help me?”
We progressed through a number of rooms before I had enough control over my sample of Null.
“Are you doing well?” I asked her.
“As well as I will ever be.”
“Good, because I can get you out now.”
She stopped.
“You can do that?”
I nodded. “Just needed the strength to.”
I wrestled with the next door to get me to the cog room.
Always this hard to work with, aren't you.
She put one of my arms over her shoulders. “Come on. Don’t collapse on me now.”
“‘M not..”
“You’re about to.”
She leaned me against the central font.
“Thanks,” I groaned. “Now where do you want to go out there?”
She was busy looking over the edge at all of the machinery. “What is this place?”
“The cog room. From what I’ve seen, this is the heart of it all, what keeps the other rooms stable.”
“And it takes a lot of energy to get here?”
I shrugged and lifted myself up. “Depends on what the answer you want is. Passing through here doesn't take much energy at all. What takes a lot of energy is staying here.”
She continued to look over the edge.
“The offer still stands.” I said.
“What?” She said as she finally looked over at me.
“I can take you anywhere out of here. Just tell me where.”
“Waldegrave Manor. The outside of it.”
I nodded. “Only a few seconds..”
The null goop in the font shifted.
“Is that normal?” She said worriedly.
A door rattled into the doorway.
“It always is,” I said with a smile. I gestured toward the new door. “After you.”
She went to turn the handle but paused.
She looked at me. “Would you come with me?”
“I wouldn’t want to bother you.”
“You won’t. I’d like your company.”
You’d need someone to reason with, Kieran.
I walked over. “I think I will. It would be better than here.”
She opened the door and we both got out.
Waldegrave Manor looked the same as it was in the papers.
“Oh!” she said.
“What happened?”
She shook her head “No, I just miss this place.”
“Did you stay here for a time?”
“This was my childhood home.”
“Right. I may have heard about you. I suppose you're Abigail Lockwood?”
“Yes,” she smiled.
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i hnstly thought id make a solo post dt to each one of these, but i dont think ill ever come around to do that so fuck it heres every ofa au i came up on a whim on twitter (though im pretty sure one of these alrdy exists but whatever)
middle/high school au
gone bad au
paranormal twins au
(infodump ab everything below hahdjs)
anyways soo first one is just . like. a middle school au. or highschool. im not sure which one is better lol. basically its just a roles thing: afo is the student council president (that pretty much has his school wrapped around his finger), yoichi is just some student (that gets into fights with bullies) and kudou is a deliquent (that became one just cus of afo) i wanted to expand this more but im procrastinating so nvm
2nd one is well, again, an au i made out of the whim. i just entertained tbe idea of (forced) villain yoichi and rolled with it and only drew it just so i can design yoichi ahsjskg ... and kudoichi there is well . ig a hero/villain pair? and you could say theyre just unfortunate people forced to play a role (also ignore the quality in that part i rushss to draw it haha)
now last one, self explanatory? mama shigaraki lives, afo and yoichi shared their nutrients and their quirk ( where it functions as afo cant give away the quirks he attain, only yoichi could((and only yoichi can receive the quirks his brother takes)) he also cant take the quirks from the user without consent. yoichi is the same but vice versa, but he himself also couldnt give away quirks unless the user consents 👐) everything is semi-normal for the most part. also. first pic is kinda outdated.some of it anyways....... also also i tried my best to make sure afo and yoichi rlly do look like twins despite the hair difference
now i wasnt able to attach the ofa bad end au and the "theyre happy" ending au bc image limit but the 1st is smth i actually wanna work on (but not fuly expand and actively post about, its just smth i gave more thought than the others here haha) and the 2nd one is just ab designs and basically everyone lives nbd dies au (maybe afo only tho)
so yeah. thats all the ofa aus i came up? yall already saw the other aus liek demon/angel au, the childhood friend au.... does the fankids i made count as an au.....? the mlp one......? holders grow old one????
fuck theres so much aus i need to relax hahdhsjf
anyways yeah thnx for reading allthat . entertaining questions wouldve been fun if i actually put enough thought into these aus💔 the hfx just went behind the wheel for these
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Hey gang no meme with this one but hot question for the Limbus gang- Why am I still seeing people he/him-ing Dante
Where did you people come from? Has the plot not been clear enough for you?
no but like deadass
I've legit reached a point seeing some NEW posts (I won't name names) where I'm like "Oh ok cool theor- Ah- they used "He" for Dante- oh ok this person's opinions are now 100% invalid, moving on"
legit why are we still doing this- Even NPCs meeting them for the first time use they/them for them-
AND IF EVEN THEIR ENEMIES DON'T MISGENDER THEM, YOU GUYS SHOULDN'T EITHER
Also if you pull the "Oh, well they cant remember their gender but may have had one before their memory loss so I'm using he/him because of what they used to be" card?
1- You don't know that they started as a guy- they could have even been a woman- who knows- we only hear ticking- Also you know what, even Faust, WHO CLAIMS TO KNOW WHO THEY WERE BEFORE, at least to a degree, ALSO uses they/them for them, so checkmate
2- A character/person doesn't NEED to have a reason/memory loss to be nonbinary- They could very well have been NB even BEFORE the memory loss- Its not like its uncommon in canon- I could be remembering wrong but I think like. most of the Wonderlab gang was only referred to by they/them- most of them looked pretty fem- still they/them though. (At least the translation I read)
3- I'm beating you to death with hammers
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