mcmouez

[greeniegaes]

Screaming crying sobbing

Over a courtesan Shen Yuan.

Maybe he knew YQY and SJ when they were kids, maybe not. Either way SY ends up working at the warm red pavilion and ends up interacting with SJ

First it’s just small things, delivering tea for his jiejies, putting instruments back when they are done, dropping off various things.

Then he starts actually talking to SJ and SJ surprisingly doesn’t hate him just for being a guy (I’ve been thinking trans yuan here but also like cos yuan works, I this trans is funnier cause SJ is like ‘damn you CHOSE to be a man? L move bro’)

They start getting along more and more, working together on music SJ has to turn in for his peak, actually chatting comfortably, stuff like that. SJ realizes SY is an absolute monster freak and always tells him about the stuff he’s seen, long chats lounging on the same bed into the night.

Until one day YQY and LQG burst in.

SJ is instantly in protect mode, hissing and spitting at his sect siblings as SY groggily wakes up, watching them bicker. Eventually LQG says something along the lines of ‘well if you weren’t messing around we’d already be tracking down such and such beast’ to which SY perks up out of bed, quickly throwing on his clothes before anyone can so much as blink and is just

“Well let’s get going then.”

SJ quickly tries to stop the man, annoyed that his di would even entertain the thought of talking with LQG. SY though, does not give a fuck, throwing SJ a zither to use for musical cultivation, telling the jiejies bye and making them go out on their little adventure.

LQG and YQY are so confused, looking at this freaky little twink drooling over various things about monsters all the while SJ is giving them death glares and huffing.

YQY is extremely jealous watching SJ and this dude too, like bro! That’s his emotionally unavailable Shen! Get your own! He’s upset at how easily they get along, how SJ doesn’t care if his hand is pulled along or if SY tugs on him to whisper something. Anytime YQY had ever attempted such a thing SJ would pull or flinch away, making him stop

LQG meanwhile is just… confused. On one hand his moral code states that any courtesan isn’t a good person to be around. On the other hand this cute guy is getting excited over monster guts in a way he’s never seen before and it’s quiet fascinating to hear him do enough talking for the rest of the group.

I feel like eventually LQG and SJ are totally in love with SY and YQY is in love with SJ so they end up awkwardly paired together, all vying for another’s attention and stuff.

(If SY ever met airplane here he’d be so pissed by the way, chasing him around like a rhino and yelling about how he had to deal away with his pride (SY made the choice of going to the brothel, he doesn’t even do sex work though.) and the others just watch him like ‘wow, look at him acting so feral, kinda hot tbh)

[plattenbauprinz]

Little prequel? Or sequel to this picture hehe

[madbunsy]

Courtesan Ace au where I brained too far gone and ouah, took the chance to practice my colouring kantorntgkfm

Thoughts under the cut

Set a biiiiit when they were young like where they get Sabo at least after his attempt to set sail during that celestial dragon visit, where his parents had initially planned to send him off to train into a courtesan or smth bc he's utterly useless to them unfortunately but even moreso when the explosion scarred his face but the person who was going to yoink Sabo saw Ace and decided he'll do as a replacement

Anyway v short explanation to this is through the magic of blackmail Ace takes Sabo's place and is sent to train to work in a brothel,

It was a pretty high end one as well, and Ace started out first doing grunt work and cleaning duties since he's still young but aye despite being a feral little shit he's gained unconventional friends though he still stayed a gremlin bc he's friends with two other gremlins of big sisters

But he starts once he hits 15 since there was a client interested in him

Never said this was going to be wholesome but eventually climbs through into becoming a very important courtesan by 18 one that flourishes through entertaining with being a fire dancer other stuff

He doesn't escape yet, since he did this for his brothers safety so until Luffy sets sail he wouldn't leave yet

This is also MarcoAce bc yes

Thatch dragged him to that brothel bc it's famous for it's Peerless five beauties

Marco gets swooped in by Ace though no fuckky yet first it's the dance and then the brief talking THEN fucking and boi Marco is, came out empty pockets

They didn't lie when they said that place in particular could run you dry both money and in soul

Does visit Ace again at some point though sometimes it's just for talking since he tells Ace all about the pirate life, and sometimes bumps into Ace whenever he's summoned out by clients outside of the brothel wanting his service

Falls in love eventually probably but alas things are not meant to be when just a year before it would be the year Luffy would set sail Ace is bought by someone

Not Marco

Gets escorted by marines bc it's a celestial dragon who bought him

Marco won't let that happen tho liek eheiehek

[osamusbigtits]

prince suna and his favorite courtesan, osamu

[pynkhues]

Let me add to the chorus of people saying PLEASE WRITE YOUR COURTESAN AU. I want your reunion fic and the cruising and all the other ones you're working on first, but hey, we have a while before season 3 and that fic sounds INCREDIBLE, so please do!

Could I ask, if you don't mind sharing some details, I'm thinking so much about how the show might do Magnus and Lestat and it's making me interested in all representations of it (yours is brilliant, obviously, the best I've read), so I'm curious if you could talk more about what you mean in saying that Magnus coerces Lestat publicly, so it's assault but not abduction--I'm just so curious for more plot details if you wanted to share them. :)

(x)

Ahahha, LOOK, I can't lie, the response and enthusiasm did get me to put a little bit of it down on paper last night, so it's a maybe! I'll see how I go with these other fics first.

And yeah! I mean the details are still a little sketchy given it's not something I've commit to writing yet, but:

With my history hat on, how people (predominantly women, of course, but not exclusively) ended up courtesans as opposed to your more quote-unquote 'regular' sex worker in that era of French court can kind of be separated into three categories:

In some cases, they were women who were a part of the aristocracy already who were brought to ruin by having a child out of wedlock and therefore could never marry a titled man as they were evidently not virgins. In a lot of these cases, becoming a courtesan was a way for these women to stay in society life. They'd lose a lot of respect and social power, but could still be around their friends and family and often gain a different sort of social power as they'd sleep with the wealthier men within the inner circles of nobility. There are even quite a few stories from this period of history where some of these courtesans actually ended up in relationships with men who'd been courting them prior to having children to other men, effectively in loving relationships as kept women, although there are many stories of the alternative too, as I'm sure you can guess.

Another way was some lower titled families or members of the bourgeois might have their children become courtesans for social and political gain. Sleeping with people with more power after all did often have trickle down effects for the family, and they'd often leverage this for political positions in court - i.e. you can sleep with my daughter for three months, but then you'll ensure I get x job. These were usually pretty short term arrangements unlike the other two.

And the third way was lower-class sex workers (usually career sex workers, but not always) who piqued the interest of wealthy benefactors who'd effectively bring them up social classes for longer term arrangements. These - fascinatingly - usually involved legal contracts that stipulated months or years and financial and social arrangements. These courtesans would usually be accommodated within society, and when the arrangement ended, if the sex worker was good at what they did, they'd effectively get recommended to other noblemen for varied arrangements (and the more they were recommended, the more they'd get to pick and choose who they took up with), and end up with a place in society life. Their positions were still relatively precarious though, as if they pissed anyone off, they'd generally end up back on the street.

In my head at the moment (again, this is very early days, haha), Lestat's not working as a sex worker, he's working as an actor, but basically gets barrelled up by Magnus, who's high nobility and a benefactor of the theatre, after a performance, and he basically starts to assault him backstage which gets interrupted, and so Magnus invites him instead to a society event with the intention of consumating something. Lestat's shaken, of course, declines, but finds the result of the interaction is that everyone at the theatre assumes he's been doing sex work on the side to make ends meet because everyone knows he and Nicki are broke. On top of that, Renaud, the theatre owner, is worried Magnus might withdraw his investment in the theatre if Lestat doesn't go, so he basically gets coerced into going to this event.

Magnus shows him off, then he ends up taking him back to his place and it starts off almost consensual, ends up not consensual at all, but Lestat finds himself stuck in this arrangement with Magnus who has him quit his work at the theatre and stay with him as a live-in lover in exchange of being 'taken care of'. It's a situation that he can't escape, especially because he knows he'd have no job to return to if he left because Magnus would pull the money from Renaud's.

It doesn't last too long though, because Magnus dies in an accident, and has distant relatives come to claim the house, and Lestat basically has no job or way up again except all these new wealthy noblemen through Magnus, (and his brother's title of Marquis) so basically that's how he ends up as a courtesan and eventually meeting Louis, who has issues with him as a free-agent courtesan when Louis manages a brothel (and Lestat is definitely stealing his clients, haha).

[kalluzeb4later]

Writing Kalluzeb Every Day for a Year - Day 23

Idea: (Continuing from THIS one. @gettiregretti wondered what happened next and I had three scenarios in mind and I was going to put all three scenarios in one post but I'm struggling to write and it looks like I'm just gonna have to post them one at a a time.)

Scenario 1: Bar fight

 “I said, face me. Coward.”

Zeb’s ears flattened to his head and he held his hands up in a placating gesture. “Look, I’m sorry for staring. You’re very um-“

The human’s ire seemed to cool a fraction as Zeb tried to find the right words, one elegant brow lifting in skepticism. “Staring is the least of it. Isn’t it? Having me followed, scaring off clients, attempting to tamper with my accounts…”

“Wha-?”

“If you have a problem with me then you should just face me. Whatever your issue is, we can have it out right here, and then, you’re going to crawl back into whatever low self-esteemed hole you crawled out of and leave me be.”

Is he drunk?

“Look, I don’t know what you’re talking-”

Suddenly, the human is pulled around roughly, away from Zeb.

Something is said in Huttese before the first punch is thrown.

The human dodges the hit and lands a beautiful punch to the attacker’s jaw, sending them reeling.

The human backed up to give himself space between his attacker and Zeb, keeping them both in sight. The human eyed Zeb looking for an attack.

Zeb held both his hands up again to show he wasn’t gonna fight. He couldn’t help a smile and gave the human a thumbs up. That was beautiful well-practiced punch.

Zeb wouldn’t have expected a pretty face like that to actually know how to fight.               

The human smirked at Zeb a little before their assailant came at him again. The crowd was paying attention and there were some murmurs and some mild laughter as the fight went on, the human maintaining full control.

The human only ever threw a few punches after one of each of his assailant��s. He could clearly beat this guy to a pulp easily, but this was about teaching some sort of lesson.

Zeb was just thinking about offering to buy the man a drink after his victory when some curses were shouted a few gasps from the crowd went up.

Three people from the crowd rushed out to the fight and were aiming to attack the human. They were back up for their friend it seemed and decided to step in.

Well that just wasn’t fair.

Zeb reached for the one closest to him before they could reach the human, turned him around, and knocked his head into the nearest table.

The human noticed one of the runners from the crowd and managed to dodge his blow while backing away from assailant one, but was caught in the side of the face by assailant three.

The human’s grunt got Zeb’s attention and he jumped in to assist.

The two of them took care of the three remaining assailants easily, Zeb knocking the first two’s heads together and the human turning to take down the one that hit him in the face, not showing any mercy this time.

Once the last attacker was down, there were cheers from the crowd!

Zeb turned to smile at the human who returned it while wiping a bit of blood from his lip.

The two men clasped hands.

“Can I buy you a drink?” they both asked. They laughed.

The human recovered first, “No, truly, allow me. It’s the least I could do after accusing you.”

“No worries. I was gonna offer you a drink for that beautiful punch you threw. I have to admit I didn’t think-“

“That a pretty boy like me could actually fight.”

Zeb scratched the back of his head, chuckling nervously. He’d been caught. “Uh, yeah.”

They moved towards the bar where the human had been seated before. The crowd parted for them and some security had come to take out the bodies lying around, cluttering up the place.

The human settled in on his bar stool and gestured to the bartender, signaling for two drinks. Probably two of his usual.

“Well, as you can see, I’m more than capable of handling myself. Thank you for the assist, by the way, I think I owe you a drink for that too.”

“Don’t worry about it. It was my pleasure. I love knocking heads together. Usually bucket heads but any couple of assholes will do.”

(not sure how to continue this one. Do they just become friends or do re-enforcements show up. I had the idea that Zeb and Kallus would be alone in the bar with a huge fight break out and then it turns out Kallus’ stalker (that he mistook Zeb for) is more powerful than he assumed and he has to go on the run. Zeb takes him with him and the rest is history.)

[magnus-the-maqnificent]

“I’m not a pup,” Alec mumbled, pouting a little. He had to fight to hide a blush. “I could claw your eyes out.”

Magnus laughed.

“Very well then,” he crooned, pulling Alec closer by his hold around his waist and pressing a kiss to his lips. “My ferocious little kitten.”

[sea-lanterns]

Imagining Empress holding onto their plushies for dear life as she gets wrecked (lovingly) by their Courtesans. Them just grasping and squeezing them in overwhelm... Eventually, a Courtesan would get tired of seeing those in her loves arms and will remove them, to the whiny complaint of Empress before they quiet down when the *Courtesan* inserts herself into her Empress's arms to hold and squish.

The picture of a Courtesan just laying above/beneath Empress so they can wrap their arms around her while they get fucked by another Courtesan or two...

Now I'm imagining the Courtesans removing the plushies from the room pre-fuck session so when their hands start to wander for something to grab onto, they'll have no choice but to make grabby hands at a Courtesan instead.

The courtesans removing all plushies from the Empress’ room pre-fuck is funny. Also, the implications that the Empress gets super clingy during sex is adorable. Her arms have to be holding onto something warm and soft while getting fucked, as it’s comforting and she likes the idea of holding onto something for stability.

The courtesans would notice this habit whenever the Empress reaches out for her plushies mid-fuck, but while it didn’t bother them before, the fact that the Empress would cling onto an object rather than a courtesan, was something that genuinely annoyed them. So, I imagine that Ganyu or Furina just yank the plushie out of the Empress’ arms one day, and replace the plushie with their own body so that the Empress can get used to clinging onto a courtesan instead during sex.

Now instead of plushies, the Empress would most often be found lying underneath or lying above a courtesan, with her arms wrapped around their neck as another courtesan (or two) fuck her at the lower end of the bed rather roughly. Extra intimacy points for the courtesans! Now more of them can touch her during sexy time 💕

[rarepears]

Give me that AU where Shen Jiu never reaches Cang Qiong but instead becomes a courtesan in a brothel.

And one day, his contracts gets paid out by a rich lordling and he agrees to become their concubine.

Fast forward a few years, Shen Jiu is having a good life. He's raising his stepson with his husband - husband's first wife had passed away in childbirth and his husband started going to brothels because he was lonely and stressed out by raising a child on his own with his very unique perspective on life that... no one else agreed with. His stepson adores him. His husband respects him. Life is good...

Until his stepson elects to go to Cang Qiong to try his hand at being accepted into a cultivation sect and that's how Shen Jiu learns that Yue Qi is the Sect Leader...

And his husband may or may not be having an affair with one of the peak lords because how else to explain their much too intimate relationship!?

(Shang Qinghua: Bro, how did you score such a hot babe? Shen Yuan: Fuck off hamster man. Shang Qinghua: It's pretty funny that Ming Fan is your biological son haha so I guess things got balanced out! Shen Yuan: Shut your bitch mouth- *delivers a slap*

Shen Jiu, standing afar: Is this an affair? It looks like an affair. Why else would husband be groping someone's ass...)

[More in ##transmigrated Shen Yuan marries courtesan!Shen Jiu as a concubine AU]

[bruciemilf]

Hm. Gladiator! Jason thoughts

[fushipurro]

Red Lights Red Flags

☆ Synopsis: After recently being sold to a brothel, your new life as a low-rank courtesan began. Try as you might to survive until your debt is paid off, life just keeps kicking you when you're already down. One day, you're tasked with serving none other than an infamous samurai by the name of Toji Zenin who makes you a promise he intends to keep.

☆ General Content: 18+ MDNI, f!reader, ronin!toji, courtesan!reader, AU - historical, forced prostitution, graphic violence/murder, implied/referenced alcohol, abuse, suicidal ideation, implied sexual assault (not by toji), pregnancy, eventual romance, hurt/comfort, heavy angst, domestic fluff, mutual pining, dubious morality, period-typical sexism, trauma, implied/referenced character death, eventual happy ending

Masterlist | AO3

Chapter 1 - Services

Chapter 2 - Marigold

Chapter 3 - Shadows

Chapter 4 - Trust

Chapter 5 - Gold

Chapter 6 - Memories

Chapter 7 - Moonlight

Chapter 8 - Secrets & Betrayal

Chapter 9 - Promises

Chapter 10 - Haunting

Chapter 11 - WIP

[gravedigg]

I've been playing a lot of the ff7 remake and @nullshocked and I have been playing with a Midgar au for fun. Jules is a courtesan in Wall Market and Angel is an ex-SOLDIER working security at Julien's brothel. This is them in their lounge clothes though, very comfy.

[gettiregretti]

[glasspunkart]

[fistfuloflightning]

Don’t leave me behind.

XianYao because I was practicing anatomy sketches without references and my brain won’t shut abt them apparently

[pynkhues]

1700s paris courtesan au.. i'm whimpering with need here.. please say more?

Hahaha, it's kind of circled through a few different iterations in my head, anon, but the plot I think I've loosely landed on in my daydreaming-while-at-pilates-or-in-the-pool-hours, haha, is like - -

Human!AU! Lestat's past is basically the same. He's a penniless countryside aristocrat who escapes his abusive household for Paris with Nicki to try and be an actor. He's just starting to break out, when Magnus, who's of the French noble class, doesn't so much abduct him as he does in canon, but he absolutely coerces him into sex in a public enough way that Lestat ends up garnering the reputation of a courtesan despite not having actually been one. The assault and offense is bad enough, but at the end of it all, the money is more than Lestat - who's still broke as a struggling actor - has the capacity to turn down, so he sort of ends up leaning into it much to Nicki's horror.

MEANWHILE, Louis' family were members of the bourgeouis class but descended to the middle after a scandal involving his now deceased father, and Louis has been slowly clawing the family's way back towards the bourgeois class through running a brothel that caters exclusively to the very wealthy and the noble classes. Louis' known for his discretion and the provision of highly trained courtesans, and rewarded not just financially, but with invitations to the upper social echelons which he's using for his own social elevation, but also to secure his sister, Grace's marriage to one of the new nobles, Levi Frenier.

Louis and Lestat meet through upper crust social events at court that neither of them really belong at, Louis as the provider of courtesans, and Lestat as effectively a free agent, and they instantly dislike / become obsessed with each other! Louis initially wants Lestat under his employ, realising his clear demand despite him being obviously loud, indiscreet and vulgar, but Lestat feels the only degree of control he has over the situation he's ended up in is because he's decided to navigate it himself / is self-employed, and also thinks Louis' arrogant, patronising and a mood-killer, and they're both dealing with so much shit on the side - between the shame of what Louis' father did and his brother's illness and subsequent suicide and the pressure placed upon him to provide for his mother and sister, to Lestat's crumbling relationship with Nicki, to his assault, to balancing courtesan life and theatre life - and they just keep colliding in these social circles, y'know? Until Louis realises he doesn't so much want Lestat under his employ as much as he just wants him under him, and Lestat realises the lengths Louis' going to for his family is a sort of love he's never known but maybe wants to see if he can get Louis to feel for him, and so they start competitively courting until Feelings become real and everything's a mess because this is 1700s France, y'know?

So - - ahem. Yes. Hahaha, that's kind of what it looks like in my head these days.