#fake cryptids real ghosts au

[possibly-not-a-ghost]

Fake Cryptids, Real Ghosts

Ok, so dp x dc/batfam because this AU has me by the throat but what if it's the fake cryptid batfamily AU who never joined the JL.

Just...imagine it. The Batfamily has been protecting Gotham quietly but fiercely by scaring the daylights out of criminals as creatures that go bump in the night. A bit of stage magic, frightening method acting, contortion, a whole language comprised of chirps, growls, and body language, and the best tech possible and you've got a recipe for striking fear into the hearts of everyone.

They've got shrines on the rooftops, vaguely on the JL radar (Cause really, who's gonna believe that Gotham, one of the worst cities has a demon problem? Constantine? Homeboy took one look at Gotham and went Nope.) and they're protected cause any self respecting Gothamite wouldn't go spilling the beans to Outsiders. The Bats keep them safe. Who would believe them anyways?

Enter half dead, half alive Danny Fenton.

Danny Fenton who has a best friend's named Tucker and Sam who find out about the Gotham Cryptids, and go absolutely ham on research because here lies something,a bunch of someone's who are Other. Maybe they're creepy but they're cool and they're Heroes and they help people.

Sure, at first it was an attempt from Sam and Tucker to help their best friend feel less alone in the face of other, more 'normal' heroes and people out there in the world. Maybe they try to further bury the Bats online cause if anyone understands keeping on the down low, it would be Amity Parker's. For awhile, Danny Fenton, sometimes Phantom is simply happy to know he's not alone.

Then he's outed and his sister who's long since been ecto-contaiminated is put at risk there's nowhere that seems safer. Gotham is a chaotic city, even without the Bats factoring in. After all Gotham has (Demons-Spirits-Creatures?) The Bats already. Who would care if a halfa and his sister hide out there? As long as they're respectful of their territory, it'll be fine right? Besides, they've got to warn the Bats anyways about the GIW and government. They're coming after ghosts, who knows if they'll be next? Spooky things have to look out for each other after all.

Cue shenanigans as Phantom who stops hiding all of his creepier traits as a ghost walks up to the Totally Human but Faking it Batman with really thoughtful gifts for all of their shrines (And one fruitcake), no heartbeat and an earnest plea for a safe haven in their Haunt because the Ancients taught him manners and the importance of respecting another entities territory.

[archiveofourcrows]

I've been searching all week for aftg fics to read, and I can't find any new ones I'm interested in :(Do you maybe have any recommendations?

so these asks are a little old (sorry) but they caught me right as i was actually cataloging all of my favorites in my fic collection, it took me over 2 months because i've read a lot and there were way to many to include here.

(but you can see all of my favorites here if you're interested!!)

anyways without further ado, here is the abridged (but still very large) version. they're all completed, be sure to check tw's and tags as always and enjoy! every fic on this list is a complete masterpiece and has my highest praises like... omfg

(i probably won't do any fic recs after this because this is like... all of them + a link to more)

just a slow body by flybbfly (@wilsherejack)

The Marks We Make (Soulmates AU) by @fortheloveofexy

Artist!Neil AU by fortheloveofexy

fragile by likearecord (@likearecordbb)

Please Don't Jump (It's Christmas) by @bringmeapipedream

History Repeating by ohhhhmygod, QPsaudG

Junk Of The Heart by AmaliaIR (@amaliaisabel)

i remember fields of flowers by @redskiesandsailboats

Unmasking a Fox's Kiss by @nachtgraves

Growing pains of becoming a Real Person by nightwalker4769

finders keepers by moonix (@annawrites)

Called It Home by @jingerhead

what’s yours is mine by @bazookajo94

There Now, Steady Love by jingerhead 

Assumptions by @exyissexy25

Sweet Stuff by sadwatermelon

Tale as Old as Time by @gluupor

it's better when we do it together by otatop (@imperfectcourt)

All You Knead is Bread (and love, but who's keeping track?) by @mystrana

Ghost of You by Major_816 (@major816)

Pirates of the ExSea by bri_ghtly (@bri-ghtly)

A Quiet Self-Destruction by fortheloveofexy

The Stars Refuse to Shine by puddlejumper99

they used to shout my name (now they whisper it) by @badacts, broship_addict (@broship-addict)

The Sound by jemwrites

Point Nemo by moonix

Just Another Typical Ranch AU by Rory_writes (@andrew-is-foxy)

Fear No Fall by vicariously kingly (pelted) (@unkingly)

Cryptid Serial Killer Witch Man by attfna (@andthenthefirenationattacked)

Red Rabbits by @bloodydamnit, @jeni182, SeaBear13, windeavesdrops

it's you i've been wishing for by @melopeya

Dearly Detested by darkbluebox

The Pain of Knowing by solangelosunangel

I’ve been waiting for so long (to feel like I’m home) by @thecompletebookworm

Honey Golden Light by Winterlynne_Norvic

Petal-Shaped Epiphanies by Willow_bird (@willowbird)

Secrets & Santas by Willow_bird

Rough All Over by bri_ghtly

Brother of Mine by @paradoxolotl

i know that we can survive now that we made it by priorwalter (@carterchilcott)

Lifelines by darkbluebox

i've been confused on how to move (real love's so hard to find) by Talls (@tallsinspace)

Fake it till you make it by All_for_the_andreil

i can become any miracle you need by pipedreqm

Home by @fullyvisible

Dear True Love by @fairietailed

the key to us. by andreil (@anddreil)

the weight of his hand in his by Bookdancer (@bookdancerfics)

More Than This by puddlejumper99 (@writingpuddle) & Right Next to You by Leahelisabeth (fortheloveofcamelot) (@leahlisabeth)

late nights by jemwrites

This Complicated Life by 5a5b5p5 (@andrewsbutterflyknife)

curiosity killed the cat. by @idnis

you mean you forgot cranberries too by scribbleb_red (@scribbleb-red)

Small Angry Gardeners by @sensationalsunburst

Push to Talk by @alexjosten

RED, RISE, RULE by andreil

stupid love by orphan_account

When the frost is in bloom by Silveriss

An Assassin's Guide to Romance by gluupor, @llheji

made up of light and shade by freefall

Notice by exactly13percent_OLD (hymbeaux) (@exactly13percent)

Deadly Affections by NikNak22

The Nameless Monster by @kanekicure

Follow You Down by @fairietailed

You're the Sunflower by Stjosten

matchmaker by uwereamazing (@rikohateclub)

gonna love you anyhow by @sporadichearttcollector

the harder you fall by @petalloso

A Phantom and a Fly by 5a5b5p5

married to my enemy by jemwrites

here and where you are by pentagrammed

five times. by redblue

A Thousand Miles Seems Pretty Far by gluupor 

Not Nothing by TheRainbowElectric (@agreatperhaps12)

honey don't feed me (i will come back) by Talls

So Let the Stars Fall by @fuzzballsheltiepants

Relinquo by Stjosten

In Every Lifetime by Leahelisabeth (fortheloveofcamelot)

So Far Apart by alex_wh0 (@alex-wh0)

don't leave me to bleed by sporadichearttcollector

what comes after nightmares by moth_writes

Over and Undertow by attfna

High or Low Tide by Stjosten

Next to You by KatherineF

Haunted: Not Clickbait by @autumnalpalmetto

ANDROMEDA by andreil

late to the party (i hope we offend somebody) by priorwalter

changing tides - titanic au by orphan_account

Identity Theft by likearecord

I'm not broken (I'm made for a mosaic) by pawnofkings

Such a Fool for Sacrifice by likearecord

climb a mountain (hold his hand) by Bookdancer

Colours by jemwrites

A song of truths and flowers by ScriptaManent

forgetmenot by moonix

Home for Christmas by abraxos_is_toothless

[gierosajie]

Very basic summaries of my silly little Genshin AU's (the full ones, at least) because why not

Oh Archons There's Two of Them AU

Run of the mill Nameless Bard revival au

Except it completely operates on the rule of funny and now there's two Ventis in Mondstadt who claim to be siblings who keep giving conflicting information and clarify NOTHING

Anemo Archon Dvalin AU

Dvalin becomes the new archon after Venti dies during the Cataclysm

500 years later he befriends Celio, the reincarnation of Nameless Bard, and they both try to uncover a divine conspiracy

Roleswap AU

If Venti still somehow managed to pull through the Cataclysm in the previous AU.

Dvalin proceeds to become stress incarnate just trying to get Venti some help with the poison and everything just keeps going wrong

They'll be fine

Modern Twin AU

In which no one believes Carmen has a twin that is never seen with him

I Love You Since AU

Legend says of an arch that traps you somewhere in time if you pass through without a prayer to Time and Wind

Someone disrupts the timeline by killing Nameless Bard before the revolution reaches its goal and Aether has to bring back the killer before they do (and before Venti passes out from trying to keep the timeline intact)

Demon Slayer AU

Nameless Bard brings his (dying) younger brother Venti to Dr. Tamayo and Venti chooses to become a demon when nothing else could be done so NB wouldn't be left alone

They constantly travel

Post Canon Modern YouTuber AU

Venti doesn't change his outfit and just lets his subscribers think he just likes to wear historical clothing

There are "Venti is an immortal vampire" theories floating about online

Spy Venti AU

In which Venti is a former spy of the Thousand Winds currently working for Celestia

Mostly domestic shenanigans and Venti trying really hard to keep Dvalin out of his real work

Zhongli is practically the only one who never faked his death.

Nameless Bard has acquired tools to be a menace to society ever since he met Venti

Cecilia Garden AU

The Promised Neverland AU where Kaeya, Jean, and Diluc discover that their caretaker Venti and the orphanage may not be what they seem

Rozen Maiden AU

The archons are doll siblings that get forced to fight to the death

They are also in a time loop and only Venti and Paimon, the Sustainer's assistant, know about it

Mostly inspired by Rozen Maiden Traumend

Lumine and Aether are new in town and through some letter shenaniganery, welcome Venti as their new roommate

Ajax is an actual toy maker

Venti dies, but he gets better don't worry :D

Starfall AU

Ghost Trick AU

Nameless Bard, Gunhildr, and their silly gaggle of ghosts attempt to investigate Dan's (sir Ragnvindr) murder and clear Nameless Bard's name

NB has a meteorite lodged in his heart that basically makes him Danny Phantom and cause ghosts that die in his vicinity to gain powers

Actor AU

Zhongli is very present on social media while Venti is a straight up cryptid that is rarely seen online

Shadows of Time AU

Shadows House AU

Makoto, Ei, Venti, and Himmel try to overthrow the nobility after their friend Zhongli's disappearance

Ei is Makoto's shadow while Venti is Himmel's shadow and they are currently part of the star bearers in the children's wing

A's AU

Venti is the consciousness of a magic book called the Skyward Atlas

He and Carmen can do magical girl transformations and also do a little fusion

This is technically a magical girl au

They're on a universe road trip

The two are actually on the run from the government because Venti is classified as a Very Dangerous ancient artifact and neither of them want to get separated

Wrong Star Themed Travellers AU

Everything is the same except the Traveller Twins are replaced by Akai and Hosshi from Kaitou Joker

Too much stays the same, in fact, to the point where the world ACTIVELY changes around them just to keep what happens in canon

Hosshi is the Traveller

Only Kaeya and Venti are aware of this change and it's honestly so weird for them to see everyone act like there's nothing strange about the stretchy green cat running around

Fairy AU/Winds of Change AU

Tinkerbell (and the Great Fairy Rescue technically) AU

Venti is a wind fairy that guides the spring breeze that befriends a sickly young human

Nameless Bard is usually stuck inside because of his poor health and overprotective parent, but Venti often visits him in the spring and brings him little things like flowers and bird feathers in the breeze

Venti had lost a wing during an incident and Nameless Bard ran through a storm to get him to safety, making his health turn for the worst in the process

Still, Istaroth, the queen of the fairies was so moved by the lengths the two would go for each other that she lets the Bard visit the forest as much as he wants and gives him her favor

Filo Highschool AU

An entire AU inspired by my own highschool experience in a small school somehwere

The divine beings are part of the staff

Project Fate AU

As an attempt to take control of the Loom of Fate, a group attempts to clone Istaroth, the Master of Time

Basically Venti learning to see his own existence through his loved ones

Gathering of Cloudy Days AU

BlazBlue AU

There's just. Too much. Sorry.

Basically multiple factions trying to get Istaroth to come out of the Abyss and stop the neverending cycles that restart every time Venti dies

I take both games' lore and throw them into a blender to create a convoluted concoction

It's almost a sci-fi now

The Nameless AU

A Honkai Star Rail AU where Nameless Bard had been part of the old Astral Express crew before it broke down

The Bard is on the Destruction Path while Venti is on the Harmony Path (and may or may not be one of Xipe's Emanators)

They got separated at some point, and due to some time dilation shenanigans, the Bard ends up a thousand years in the future trying to look for any traces of his old friends

I Sleep When I'm Dead AU

Venti's "slumbers" are actually just him being dead

He comes back to life whenever Mondstadt really needs him

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Fake Cryptid, Real Ghost

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/p5lYTOr

by AshesGleamandGlow, DuskyAshe (AshesGleamandGlow)

In a world where Batman and his Bats and Birds are treated as Gotham legends by nearly the entire world, the power of belief holds real weight.

With the Ghost King fleeing to Gotham in hopes of begging for asylum for his fright, Bruce and his kids face the consequences of pretending to be real cryptids in a city filled to the brim with both the supernatural and the superstitious...

Words: 3265, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of NaNoWriMo 2022, Part 1 of Fake Cryptid, Real Ghost au

Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Danny Fenton, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake

Additional Tags: Originally Posted on Tumblr, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Tags Are Hard, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Ghost King Danny Fenton, Not Phantom Planet Compliant (Danny Phantom), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Creatures & Monsters, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids, Tags May Change

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/p5lYTOr

[the-void-writes]

Ghost-Hunting Crossover AU Thingy 😅

@circa-specturgia @bloodlessheirbyjacques I’m putting it here so I don’t end up making a huge chain 🤣

But YES OH MY GOD THANK YOU FOR ASKING 🥰

Maddie’s crew is too easy for this because Charlie can just summon the dead, and part of me really wants to add Dante and the other Paradisians as recurring guests thanks to Ezekiel because their reactions would be hilarious

But Cyrus and Val were literally made for this 🤣 They’re sick of the fake ghost show Angelo’s putting together, and they go out looking for something real. Elijah hears “European Lord looking for ghosts” and goes “Guys, I’ve found where our budget will come from”

Or instead of that, the BH and CS crew are doing their shows at Lockhart Manor because the fake ghost show crew said it might actually be haunted. And Cyrus and Val are trying to subtly get them out of their house because they know it’s haunted and they don’t want the exorcists to come down.

Elijah: If you can hear us, give us a sign.

*sudden Romanian whispering in the spirit box that everyone freaks out over*

Astrea: What was that?

Cyrus: It sounds like Aunt Lucinda. She wants your boyfriend to get his boots off of her antique table.

And their audiences are losing their minds trying to pinpoint what kind of cryptid-energy this guy is giving off because there’s no way he’s human. William’s in the corner like “what if it’s a banshee or a demon?” And Cyrus pays his little head and says “Don’t worry, child, they won’t show up here. They owe me property damage fees.”

But the idea of the Paradisians being there is just so funny to me 😅

Elijah: This ghost only speaks in 19th-century Portuguese, how the hell are we gonna translate that—

Ezekiel, already on his phone: I know someone, don’t worry.

Javi, the minute he gets there: … If I’m hearing them right, Ez, they think you’re hot.

———————

William: Aren’t you scared this could be an djinn or something?

Will: As long as it’s not a sixteen-foot-tall moon god that wants to keep me as a Polly Pocket.

———————

Elijah: Today, we’ve brought in a renowned empath to better understand what’s keeping these souls here. Could it be a desperate plea for vengeance, or just pure bloodlust?

Dante: Buddy, this ghost just wants a hug.

Okay I’m so sorry for rambling 🤣🤣🤣

[hey-hamlet]

The SCP AU has only been mentioned ONCE but I’m already thinking about it! AU where sometimes, children have anomalous abilities and attributes. They may be showing it of to their classmates. They may be desperately hiding. They may not be of this world. They might not even notice it. But there is a foundation that calls them SCPs, and it wants to steal them away to a place of cold cells, calculating researchers, and containment. Where they will never see the light of day again. That is, if they don’t succumb to their own powers or get killed by some other SCP. But if they are careful, and brave, and in need… a door will open.

those doors lead to UA! And UA isn’t just a high school. It’s also a research center, a college, a middle school, an elementary, AND a preschool. Anything a lost child could need while they learn who (what) they are and what they can do. SCPs get a basic curriculum for whatever dimension they plan to live in, plus the skills (if possible) needed to blend in- the courses offered are varied. Most move to a more accepting place (three Portlands is a popular destination). They can also choose to live permanently in UA, as staff. Adults… can SOMETIMES get in. If they’re lucky. And Nedzu is looking for new employees. (parents of young anomalies might get an exception)

UA is… if a place could be the definition of “reinforced”, that would be it. The main building gets, well, destroyed or blown up every now and then, but it always puts itself back together by sundown. Reality benders find the locally reality to be unusually… stiff. Unbendable. It has separate buildings for each school level, student dorms, staff apartments, Several massive underground bunkers, all the regular stuff. A few gyms open up into seemingly indefinite planes of grass, for especially dangerous SCPs to practice.

As for where UA is… nobody can tell if it’s a pocket dimension or a parallel world, but across the wall is a view of regular Japan. Getting close to the walls is impossible- you simply find yourself on the other side of the property, or right where you started. Students have attempted to cross reference the view of “regular” Japan to events happening in REAL Japan, and things don’t quite match up! Some swear they’ve seen Nedzu exit the front gates and return with a little bag of groceries, but he’s probably just messing with them. Maybe.

As for the price… Nedzu is a little fey-like when it comes to the price. A student can pay back tuition as a no-interest loan, but most are encouraged to instead become alumni- basically pledging to protect UA and its students in any time of need. Protecting can mean many things, from obtaining critical resources to infiltrating oppositional groups to straight up serving as Nedzus own private (hero!) army. (1/3)

Random character backstories:

Eraserhead has the ability to drag halt abnormal things. But if he stares for long enough, he will bring ALL things back to normalcy- a grimoire becomes a book. a teleporter is forced to walk. A god becomes a man.

Of course, living in normal society, he had no idea. But one day his friend came to school nervous and excited and pulled off his hat and his hair was made of mist!! And he could make little clouds!!! And Shouta thought it was some crazy prank, but he went along with it. Until lunch time when a bunch of strange men in black robes with guns and tattoos all over their faces broke into school! They demanded to have “the missing link”, and then they blew up a hallway and people were screaming, and then black ooze was dripping from the walls and blood was dripping out of their eyes and they killed someone. and then helicopters were landing outside and different men in white were running in and shooting back and the cafeteria ceiling collapsed and the sky was RED and someone grabbed Shirakumo and tried to drag him away but Yamada started yelling except he was SCREAMING and the ground was shaking with his voice and his mouth was too wide and the building started to collapse and this is all TOO MUCH and this is ILLOGICAL and WRONG and Shouta grabbed his friends and ran for an exit but Shirakumo turned around to throw a cloud over a kid under a falling wall and Shouta and Yamada fell forward and the door shut and there was a little white mouse in a tuxedo and Shouta.

Blacked out.

Tokoyami bought a fake grimoire on eBay and accidentally summoned a real demon to his soul

Recovery girl wasn’t hired by Nedzu, she just showed up one day on UA grounds to heal. Sometimes she mentions ancient history like it was yesterday.

Ectoplasm is a ghost. Like, a dead guy. Nedzu had his grave, dirt and all, moved to one of the apartments so he could “haunt” (teach) at UA.

Shoto is the son of a high ranking manager in the SCP foundation. Endeavor very much does not believe in sympathy for SCPs, and he made that clear when Shoto was locked up.

Hawks is a first responder to attacks on UA, due to his ability to “fly” between dimensions. He is also somewhat overworked.

Iida didn’t need rescuing- his parents are well respected alumni so he and his brother got in free. Having practically grown up there, he is among the few who NEVER get lost no matter how many times the school rearranges itself. Some kids joke that he is one of the many robots that keep UA functional.

Ashido ate an entire packet of Wondertainment® ExTrA sOuR gummy worms.

(2/3)

A bonus Crack backstory- the SCP UA is situated right in the regular BNHA world. Nedzu grew up in a lab like normal, but he never escaped. He just… popped out of existence one day. Twenty years later he returned, older, wiser, impossibly powerful. He sniffed the air, wandered Japan like a little cryptid, and finally found a nice hill in the woods. The next day… UA sprouted like a sunflower fell from the sky unfolded from the wrong dimension materialized from nothing APPEARED, and everyone aptly freaked out. Heroes stood guard as scientists and researchers poked and prodded at the walls, but nobody could get through the barrier. The people inside are weird and wrong but don’t seem to notice them, or even the occasional nearby villain battle. Even all might tried to break through, decades later, when he spotted a little girl get decapitated (she’s fine), but UA simply isn’t of this world. The main cast goes to Ketsubutsu, I guess. And if there are rumors of doppelgängers, of heroes swearing up and down that they saw themselves (but WRONG) inside The School, well. Those are just rumors.

!! Everyone read this this is so good!!

[bitchapalooza]

More hetalia highschool AU, 🌟magic team🌟 edition :)

Under the cut bc it is long ❤️

Vladimir is that one kid obsessed with Twilight but only for the vampires; it was his first ever exposure to vampires thanks to his dad thinking Twilight was an appropriate book for a 11 year old. Team Edward going strong for five years, he'd proudly declare like it actually mattered. He tries his best to dress goth at school even though his uniform gets in the way. Fake ear piercings(his parents won't let him pierce them yet), over the top makeup, he's dyed the top half of his shoes black because his parents were concerned about his obsession with black and wouldn't buy him the black tennies he wanted— "mom look, these are marked down for back to school! Can I pleeeease get them???" "....may I know why the black ones specifically?" "They match the ever nothingness of my soul." "Yep! The white ones it is then!" "Mooooooooooom!"— Vladimir has been dubbed the cringy vampire kid of course.

Lukas is into pretty much anything concerning cryptids and magical creatures because they can't be proven to be fake or real, which intrigues him. He carries a book about mushrooms at all times and info dumps on pretty much anyone about identifying poisonous mushrooms and which mushrooms are safe to eat. His backpack is covered in buttons and pins to show off his interests. He keeps an amethyst in the front pocket of his backpack, reason unknown other than to just randomly pull it out and let Mikkel look at it. He's that kid that always wears his hoodie no matter the season, he never takes it off. Under his hoodie is always a crude worded t-shirt that the school would not approve of, much less his parents. He's relatively quiet and because he's quiet he's considered a weird kid.

Arthur can't decide if punk is his style or if goth is. Either way, his way of self expression at school in addition to the uniform is horrible. Checkered black/red shoes his grandma got him with his older brother's hand me down worn out greying socks—"can I PLEASE just have my own clothes???" "we have perfectly good clothes for you in the garage! I can fix them up to fit you better and everything!" "but I want cool NEW clothes!" "those are cool clothes and as far as the other kids know, they're also new. Now get your transformer backpack and get to the car. I put a new patch on it last night so that should hold it for the rest of the year."— Old Pierce the veil shirt, with holes chewed into the collar from his older brother Dillan, peeking out from under his white polo. A black and red choker to match his black and red slowly tearing apart too big flannel on top of a black pull over. A deep blue beanie, the hoodie of his pull over almost constantly on top when outside the school. He dyes a part of his hair a different color every month. He spikes his hair using too much gel and is convinced he looks good. He talks too much about bands and always gets Vlad and Lukas going on and on about fictional creatures he does not FULLY believe in himself. He does, however, believe in magic and loves Harry Potter, more specifically the Weaselys, to bits.

Natalya is a sophomore, a year behind the boys, and she just kinda pushed her way into the friend group until they eventually accepted her into it. They were the only three she knew who liked occult related topics. She's on the baseball team because she wanted an excuse to hit things with another thing and NOT get detention because of it. She wears the khaki uniform skirt and takes full advantage over being able to wear any kind of tights underneath; skull pattern, plain black, blood splatter pattern, fire pattern. Anything that makes her feel like a badass. She's always talking about antiques and forging weapons, more specifically knives. She has a whole collection of fidget toys but her favorite is this pea pod keychain her father gave her. She's always talking about how she'd like to be a medical examiner and to just prove that she's serious, she'll bring up a picture of a human model and point out the difference between a self inflicted fatal wound and a homicide. She puts up a charade of being able to see and talk to ghosts to freak out Alfred, her extended friend first met through Tolys.

They collectively believe they're cool and that other people know this. They're genuinely blind to the obvious snickers sent their way, being called losers and nerds. They're really knowm for like really pathetic things like; Natalya is Ivan's, tallest and most intimidating member of the wrestling team, weird younger sister by a year. Lukas is just the weird quiet kid that reads by the courtyard garden during lunch. Vladimir is not only the vampire goth kid but the kid who's parents believe the teachers are giving his son low grades on purpose and will yell at them for it. And Arthur is just. He's another Kirkland, immediately assumed to be a massive trouble maker because of his now graduated brother Alistair and one grade above him brother Dillan. Everyone loved his eldest brother Darick and sometimes compare him to Darick.

Compared to what others THINK they do, such as witch craft for some odd reason, the four of them do pretty typical teen activities. Like hang out at the mall. Do their honework together. Play video games and D&D when they have the chance. The boys do have sleepovers still as they have since meeting each other in middle school, Nat not really being a fan of sleeping where she doesn't live but comfortable enough to go to their houses and just chill for the day. They have become friends because of their related interests but thats not what they're ALL ABOUT.

Fun facts/stories about these losers I thought about while bored as fuck:

• Lukas, in his freshman year, went on a nature hike field trip with his lit class after reading Into The Wild. And he brought his mushroom book of course. They walked around, looking at the sights, talked about the book. Lukas just stops at one point, falling behind the class. He picks up a mushroom, goes to the teacher and is like "You see this? Its not poisonous." And straight up fucking eats it without warning. The teacher called an ambulance even though Lukas kept telling him he was fine and that that mushroom was 100% okay to eat raw, but for sure better off cooked. Lukas calmly shows the paramedics his book and they're like "yeah that actually was safe to eat, we don't need the book to confirm that, but um. Please don't ever pick something off the ground and eat it again. Just. Please don't do that, son." .....he did it again before leaving to go back to school but this time he didn't tell anyone.

• In elementary school, Natalya brought in a model of the human brain she asked her dad to borrow. He had to say yes because she was his only child genuinely interested, not bored of, his medical profession and he found it very cute and honoring. So she's at show and tell, its her turn right, and she silently goes up to the front of the class and pulls out the model brain. Teacher tries to step in because, hey, these are 6 year olds—AND WHY DOES THIS 6 YEAR OLD HAVE A PLASTIC BRAIN??? But Nat just shooshes her. In surprised shock, the teacher is just quiet as Nat begins to explain parts of the brain and their function— which was all wrong actually. She knew the words and everything but she didn't get the locations right. She sounded confident and smart and she was telling this to a bunch of 6 year olds so they believed her of course. End of the school day, her dad is having a hilarious conference with his youngest's teacher about the brain incident.

• Vladimir loves reading. He's loved it since he began to learn how, even if his dyslexia gives him grief along the way. So since he loves to read he'll always get excited and read ahead in class or in the public library reading club. One summer, the reading club was reading The Giver and it was getting really good. Vlad was loving the story, so much so that Vlad began to read ahead in his own time when he really wasn't supposed to be, the club was reading it together out loud and discussing it. Now he's read enough and worked hard enough to figure out how to help himself focus better and understand each word and sentence without having to reread it all multiple times over or get stuck. But sometimes the meaning and context to what he's reading doesn't ALWAYS process with the words as he's too focused on reading the words right and it passes right over his head. So Vlad is reading ahead and he's getting to the part where The Giver has given Jonas the memory of the sled again. And Vlad just sits there after reading that paragraph. He rereads it. And rereads it again. And then he leaves his book on his bed, goes to the the hall closet and takes out the ironing board. He grabs a plastic container to use as an ill attempt of a helmet and he just. Rockets down the staircase and hits the wall. He screams and cries and his parents rush in from the livingroom. When asked what happened he just says "I wanted to understand the sled scene better! Now I do and I feel really bad for Jonas!" He just couldn't quite grasp WHY the sled accident hurt, never had a broken bone nor sled afterall, and needed to find out. And that's how Vlad got his first broken arm at the age of 12.

• When Alfred and Matthew moved in with Arthur's family, Arthur didn't like it. He was a moody young teen but he was also just tired of the full house. His cousins were loud and nosey. He had to share a room with his four older brothers already and now with Matthew while Kathleen and Alfred got a room to themselves. Arthur thought this was so unfair. So his solution was to run away. He was 13, he needed a place to have some peace and quiet for once. So he texts Francis and Lukas, the only two of his friends living in his neighnorhood. Francis is not on board with helping him run away at first but then Lukas brings literally all his camping gear for Arthur's use and then Francis is on board because he had the feeling Arthur was going to get himself killed somehow. So as the elder one of the group he accompanied Arthur and Lukas out to the short stretch of woods behind the last street of their neighborhood, intending to go to the big clearing before hitting the roads leading to the airport and whatever else buildings. They're out there setting everything up together and they're done by like 4 pm. They sit down and talk, munch on oreos and other snacks Arthur deemed as essential survival foods. Then Francis looks at his cell and remarks "wow its already 6! Ah, Lukas, we should get home. Afterall, neither of us ran away so we still have supper to eat. Come on Lukas, let's go before our parents come looking for us." They exchange goodbyes, Francis trying his best to hide his cocky smirk. So Lukas and Francis start walking off, Arthur crawls into the tent and eats half a cookie before frowning and feeling too alone. He didn't expect to feel alone because all he wanted was to BE ALONE. Before he knows it, he's running out of the tent yelling after his friends to stop and wait up. "Oh whats wrong, Arthur? I thought you wanted to run away." "I— I forgot I hadn't fed my rabbit is all! I'll run away tomorrow! I'm not... Feeling lonely if.. If that's what you think...." Arthur did not run away the next day. Buuuuuut the three plus Vlad made a tree house together in the Kirkland backyard that they still use today!

[scourgadow]

im definitely not ripping off my friend by making a list of au ideas i have no siree //gonna slap this under a readmore cause i. well i say a lot. all of the time. i tried so hard to format this Good but tumblr fucked me up i am so sorry

so first-off i know i already have one WIP AU (Auckland) on ao3 so i wont talk about That one cause like. spoilers. i actualyl have it like 80% created so its likely gonna truly get finished for once and i dont wanna ruin shit

the other one ive posted about is something me and ben (catgirlrepublic) have worked on together its not at all close to done or anything but it's. a fun little crossover. Between jdate and my fuckinuhm. Original characters story “Untitled Villains Project”. the sketches of the comic version ive started is actually my pinned post 👉👈 its like the first chunk of the story, i think half of part 1? yea.

Tldr john fucking Somehow is able t oget into contact with a certain curious scientist from another reality who’d just love to study the Soy Sauce, most certainly not for her own nefarious purposes

John and Dave meet up with the scientist, her name is Boss, and her lab assistant, Toxic, and after a bit of a preliminary Vibe Check where john determines her trustworthy (which Dave doesnt agree with,) the two agree to be taken to the world UVP is set in. from there they stay in Boss’s lab (big old fucking abandoned military lab). John and Toxic are fast friends due to mutual love-of-chaos. John n Dave get to fuckin, camp out on an air mattress.

The day after they arrive, the two get split up, not exactly intentionally; big plot points of UVP are liek. Fueled by Boss sending Toxic to go fetch her “research materials,” which are usually important artifacts

Fuckin side note i guess i have to explain my dumb bullshit: Boss’s, uh, field of expertise so to speak is actually fckin, basically the scientific study of magic and superpowers n shit like that. This shit’s all real in that world. Toxic’s got fuckin superpowers, so do 4 other main characters, whatever. It’s got a bit to do with spirituality, iss Boss’s hypothesis. So she has Toxic fetch important artifacts that might have “energies” to them. The thing is actually way more fuckin complictated than that, this is just Boss’s initial hypothesis.

Motherfucking anyways. So Boss gives Toxic a job to do, and John get excited about how Cool that sounds, and ends up going with Toxic, leaving Boss and Dave alone. Neither is thrilled about this. But Dave and Boss get to have a bit of conversation (while Toxic and John are off bonding and having a good time) and come to a… mutual grudging understanding of some kind. They still dont like each other though lmao

Theres gonna be deeper shit going on but we havent sorted it out yet/tbh havent like Written For It in a while but i still like thinking about it a lot lol

Also pretty sure our endgame is john and dave steal toxic and bring them back with em lmao boss is kind of not nice and toxic would most certainly be better off in Undisclosed. Actually theyd fucking love it. Theyd become a local cryptid im sure. Undisclosed’s mothman is a teleporting spike baby.

I have. Another crossover AU that i might. Post something about for halloween? Maybe? If i have it finished?

Crosses over into, you guessed it, another one of my original-character projects. God, am i vain or something?

I promise this is just because i think blue and dave should get to team up to beat up some monsters

Quick briefing on my fuckinuh. Original character story, this one doesnt have a name (yet? Idk lol my work never actually goes anywhere sso who gives a shit). It centers around two grim reapers, Red (26, bi woman) and Blue (22, aroace agender asshole). In this reality or whatever, grim reapers function kind of like low-level office workers. They get told who’s going to die + when by some middle-management types, and upper management only involve themselves when punishment needs to be doled out. These Higher-Ups can be seen as analogous to Korrok; they’re decidedly not human, never were, and fucking terrifyingly powerful. Additionally, grim reapers are sort of .. designed to be “background noise” people. In reality theyre supernatural beings and, uh, look Real Fuckin Weird (the whole deal has a neon aesthetic im terrible at drawing uwu) but most humans just perceive them like extras in a movie. A body’s there but the camera’s not focused on it.

To the narrative: the shit starts when Red n Blue get relocated to Undisclosed. Relocation is something that just happens every now and then to reapers; they usually work in teams, but they get split up into different cities to avoid any strong bonds forming (a counter-union strategy from the Higher-Ups).

Red, Blue, John and Dave end up running into each other for the first time in a McDonalds where John n Dave are getting some 4am “hey, we just survived another horrific monster fight” celebration burgers. John and Dave are the only two people who can see how… strange Red and Blue are. Nobody else notices.

John unintentionally pisses Blue off, leading to Blue whacking him upside the head with a dildo bat. They all four get kicked out of McDonald’s. Dave and Red both are less than thrilled

Blue and John end up resolving their differences, somehow. Red and Dave briefly bond over their dumbass best friends being, well, dumbasses. They all part ways amicably.

somehow-or-other (idk yet) they end up running into each other a few more times, and eventually john invites them over to his place, and the four (plus Amy now!) get to know each other a little better

while there, Blue gets a text about some guy who's gonna die and John offers to drive them to where that's gonna go down. they take him up on the offer and get to have a bit of one-on-one conversation

after that ordeal though Blue has had Enough of people and bails, leaving John to head home alone

theres a sort of mirror-development going on with the five of em. Red, John, and Amy would all like everyone to get along, though theyre a bit tentative about it (John moreso than the other two, actually, jsut cause. well Red n Blue could still be Sauce Monsters). Dave and Blue on the other hand do Not like people enough for this shit, and Dave's not unconvinced theyre Sauce Monsters. he will not trust them until proven he should

the story's kinda nebulous but i got an idea for some Shit going down that involves both Sauce Monsters and also the Higher-Ups to have some fuckin absolute chaos go down.

Oops! All Trans

Everybody is transgender. Everyone

Ive actually workshopped this one both with ben (catgirlrepublic) and ghost (ghost-wannabe) lmao its a fun lil concept ive had from the get-go cause i mean. What’s an internet tran gonna do other than hit all their favourite media with the Everyone’s Trans beam

Dave transitioned post-high school and faked his death for it. People go missing in Undisclosed all the damned time, after all. He moved to the next city over, transitioned fully, then came back as a completely new man. Yes i know this doesnt exactly fit with the “everyone knows David from high school” thing alright, hush.

Anytime anyone brings up John’s old best friend (pre-transition Dave) John throws an entire fit like an overdramatic grieving widow. Full-on sobbing “why would you bring her up?! I miss her so much—” to the point that people just stop bringing up because Jesus Christ That Sure Is Uncomfortable KJHGFDS.

This is a scheme he and Dave came up with prior to Dave leaving, though Dave hadnt exactly anticipated John putting on this much of a performance about it— but it’s stopped Dave from ever having tto hear his deadname again, so hey.

Amy transitioned sometime in middle school/early high school. Her family was super supportive and loved her a ton and most people just know her as Amy. she was super shy her whole life really so. Yeah. people just dont think to bring it up lmao also i Feel Like big jim would absolutely wallop anyone who gave her trouble of any kind

John’s nonbinary (genderfluid specifically) and not exactly Interested in transitioning ? like hes fine with how he is. mostly.

he came out to Dave in high school but hes not out to anyone else exactly. Maybe his bandmates. Probably any other trans person in Undisclosed knows, too, cause theyre safe to tell lmao. Johns mostly a “he/him out of convenience” kinda nb who’s cool with any pronouns but does prefer they/them most. Dave and Amy use they/them when the trio are alone

Also this is a totally self-indulgent caveat that i think would be great, Dave’s actually agender but because he's transmasc and transitioned when he thought there were really only two options, and being Boy at least felt less weird than being Girl, he just kind of assumed he was a dude. It’s only through a lot of (like fucking years and years hes probably in his 30s/40s when he puts 2 and 2 together on this one) talks about gender with John that he realizes he actually feels like No Gender. Masc aesthetic with none gender.

I Just Think It’d Be Neat Is All Okay

Also Amy came out to Dave about being trans early on in them seeing each other and his response was to get very nervous before blurting out “me too” and then just being too embarrassed to talk about it for the rest of the day. Hes got a lot of hangups on talking about it actually it takes years for him to get comfortable in that

by contrast when Amy comes out to John about it his response is to yell “EYYY ME TOO” and give her a big ol hug lmao

I think itd be neatt if Amy ran a like. Transfem help/advice blog on tumblr. Kind of helped-with by John who can give her transfem nb insight for certain asks. I also just think that would be neat.

Cowboy AU - i put this one last cause its got drawings to it actually. Theyll be at the bottom

Basically just. Hey you ever watched a western. I think they look neat

This is another one me n ben have come up with lol

The soy sauce and all that shit still exist, im not sure where korrok fits in yet but ill figure it out

Theres no real like solid narrative yet ? but heres the barebones of everybody’s arcs.

John

Johns an absolute troublemaker, Of Course. Hes wanted in several towns for absolutely stupid shit. Hes a loner who shows up, causes chaos, gets drunk, does some drugs, runs away if people get too mad at him

He definitely had the same kind of deal with the soy sauce as in canon— he was at some kind of party, somebody offered it, he took it cause why the fuck wouldnt he, now he can see monsters and shit

Hes kind of a mooch also. Like. dont let him stay in your barn man he’ll never fucking leave and drink all your booze.

He runs into Dave when they happen to just, cross paths in the same town. the bullshit John stirs up ends up involving Dave in a way that makes it seem like it's his fault too, and they both get run out of town

after that he just tags along after Dave. hes decided this guy's Cool he wants to stick around. Dave is pissed at first, but not enough to shoot him or anything, and eventually, John grows on him

Dave

Dave also is a loner but unlike John hes simply so fucking awkward and bad with people. He doesnt feel like he belongs anywhere so he just travels

He’s the stereotypical Lone Ranger tbh. He wanders from town to town, solving their problems, though hed deny its out of any moral obligation (it kinda is, a little bit, tbh. He does like feeling useful). He shows up, fixes things, leaves. He's kind of a legend but most people think he's hiding something dark. other people jsut know him as that guy who farted real loud in the middle of the saloon and promptly skipped town out of sheer embarrassment. you know how it goes with Dave

He ends up involved with the Soy Sauce when a snake (not Actually a snake,) bites him. The snake’s more like the wig-monsters, really. Anyway, it injects him with the soy sauce, he fucking trips balls in the middle of the desert, he can see monsters now

He runs into John and shit goes tits-up, as said, but they become traveling buddies after that. he'd never say so, but he's glad for the company, actually. it's nice. hes not used to companionship but he feels a strange kind of easiness hanging out with John....

not sure how the Monster Dave concept will like fit in to this reality but like. trust me i want it in here. I'll Figure It Out.

Amy

Amy’s been living in a town John and Dave end up passing through and she is very curious about these two new Handsome Strangers who claim to fight monsters and just kinda. Persistently tags along til they let her join for real

Her family’s all dead, unfortunately, just like in canon, and she’s been living alone for a few years before meeting John n Dave. she had nothing left in that town to stay for, she'd been fantasizing about escaping on wild adventures for a long time and this felt a little like a dream come true. (Dave still gives her a spiel about how Difficult it is, but really, her fantasies were pretty grounded-in-reality already. i jsut think thats how she is, yknow?)

Shes the first person to react to the whole “we see monsters” shit with a kind of “oh, okay. neat” kind of response lmao

John and Dave fix whatever the fuck is up with her town (maybe that’s where the Korrok shit can fit, who knows) and Amy ends up being integral to that. After, she insists they take her with them because “they need her now” and Dave just cant really say no. John too is very much "the more the merrier!" and hes actually glad to have another person along he loves people lmao

At the start she has long hair but after she joins them she chops it short with a knife for convenience

also she still is an amputee. justt. idk. it was a wagon/stagecoach accident rather than a car accident lmao. just to clarify since i hadnt mentioned it, i wouldnt rob her of her ghost hand or yknow. all of the significance to her character that Missing A Hand has. although also now im going to have to research what was used as painkillers way-back-when, but im betting shes still got, like, her pain pills, they probably had those, maybe i wouldnt have to try too hard there. old timey medicine could be WACK though,

Shitload

Yeah hes in tthis shit mostly cause i liked designing his cowboy self lmao

Hes a kid (like 16, 17, technically i think in those days that was more Young Man than Kid but whatever. Hes Young i mean.) who got possessed by the Worms out in the desert and, by his family’s perception, just went missing!

Hes also a wanderer, but he ended up at the same town john and dave met in, at that same time, and starts following them after, already aware of who/what they are.

He keeps his face covered 24/7. actually he covers a Majority of his self for reasons. kinda want him to be a slightly more horrifying Worm Entity rather than human idk,

I kinda dont have much for this boy yet sorry Shitload

images !

with some editing notes for me cause im doing a very specific aesthetic with this lmao. i might change some lil details/colours though ...... idk

im also kinda 🤔 about shitload's colour palette. i want things assoicated w the sauce to be black'n'red predominantly but i think his palette might mirror dave's too closely. also im working on a korrok design i jsut am too busy to draw it now

[possibly-not-a-ghost]

I've been thinking about your fake cryptids real ghosts thing nonstop, rent free in my head. That's all

All according to plan! Here's another blurb because everyone in this fandom is a gift.

So, I for one can totally see the Batfamily trying to find out where Danny set up is Haunt in Gotham because Dead Ghost Child and the implications of their first meeting. Actually, let's talk about their first meeting because it's related.

Danny bringing gifts to the biggest shrine to declare his arrival. He brings Robin a cool knife he found in the GZ (Or maybe it was a gift who knows.) Point is, it's a spooky knife, and like...nice postcard of sunrises, blue skies and other Pretty places because man, the Bats don't ever leave Gotham and aren't seen in daylight hours what if they miss it or haven't seen it and some homemade (slightly ectro-contaminated cause it was made in the GZ) Bat-themed cookies. No one Knows they're bat-themed until Danny explains. (They look like those sad misshapen spider-man ice cream cones but god did Danny and Jazz Try and intentions are what matter here.)

They meet, Danny throws them into existential crisis' because Ghosts and of course they're trying to find him so they can (adopt him, make sure he's okay, ask what who's hunting him cause WHAT) And instead of the usual shenanigans of them meeting Danny as human or Phantom, the only one to ever meet Danny is Alfred.

Danny who got help from a really nice British guy when he was trying to figure out what to give as offerings to the Bats and might've been having a small crisis because 'what if they don't let us stay and we have to go to somewhere like eugh Metropolis.' and ends up latching onto the first Nice Adult he meets during said crisis.

Danny & Jazz who just so happen to bump into the the Nice Adult while grocery shopping (Alfred who has a schedule for the family shopping and Jazz who always says having a set routine is Healthy.) and the two keep trying to politely ask how to adult and do cooking because let's be real. While Jazz has done her best to feed herself and Danny a better diet the Fenton kitchen was a disaster zone and there's only so much you can do when you're food keeps trying to attack you. There's much more to your food than striking it back down after all.

Also here's another meme.

[thehuntyhunties]

i still don’t know what anyone else is doing in the ghost hunter au but here’s some specifics I’ve written up about the gang in order to be more cohesive

Kurapika:

believes in ghosts

does not fear ghosts

believes most paranormal “evidence” is either fake, overstated, or the human mind playing tricks, which then undermines genuine cases, and that’s why he wants to see things for himself because he will NOT be tricked. rip to all those other investigators but he’s different.

chaos queer

does NOT believe in alien abductions (does believe aliens exist)

film editor who somehow (pre-webseries) became a production director and he has no idea how that happened but he’s running with it

(joke’s on you Kurapika it’s because you’re competent and efficient and hate to see a job done badly, you played yourself)

insomniac and generally terrible at being a healthy human being

pretty much lived on coffee and pop rocks and raw spite for about a month

likes Leorio because he’s fun to argue with (also hot and a good person)

doesn’t like how Leorio bullies him into sleeping and being a healthier human being (that’s a lie he secretly loves it like wow… to be cared about…)

he’s thoughtful and well-spoken so he seems almost dignified at first glance but after a handful of conversations you realize he’s 3 ounces of whoopass who would deck a demon in the face if given the opportunity

A lot of film projects he’s part of end up being absolute production hell for no reason, is he cursed?? Is it just a curse designed to make him lose it and slowly kill him???? What bogwitch did he piss off to make this happen

honestly assumes that no demon would want the trouble of possessing such an absolute menace like him

Leorio:

does NOT believe in ghosts

DOES get spooked in dark empty buildings, because he’s suspicious about people or animals (not ghosts) jumping out and attacking him 

gets harassed by a racoon once so maybe there’s something to that

10/10 would fight a demon

fixes A/V equipment, cameras, other assorted film electronics, mainly works on middling small stuff but then he goes and turns out to be one of like three people in the whole region who knows how to repair a specific type of slow-mo camera

Kurapika got saddled with taking said camera to him when it broke even though it was Not His Job and he was pissed about it so he and Leorio just crankily argued the entire time and now somehow they’re boyfriends

surprisingly functional bi

believes in alien abductions real hard

Kurapika can describe the reported ghost sightings and physical effects of a haunting in a home and Leorio will reply with “have they considered carbon monoxide poisoning”

STREET SMARTS

the only one who keeps his original job instead of eventually doing the webseries full-time because dangit somebody in this operation has to have an external source of income just in case (also he loves helping people and fixing things)

gets bummed out doing Killua’s true crime segments but also genuinely likes weighing evidence and debating possibilities with Killua so it kinda balances out

maybe one day a ghost will punch him and then he’ll believe they exist

Killua:

only kinda sorta believes in ghosts but thinks it’s funnier if it looks like he doesn’t and he’s just along for the ride

more superstitious than he lets on

Doesn’t believe in aliens at all

DOES believe in cryptids

Cleverly disguised as a functional gay at first glance but actually a disaster gay hobgoblin

just an absolute gremlin

makes 99% of his decisions based on how hilarious the outcome will be

only got into A/V and film editing as an act of rebellion, so up until the webseries he’s not very passionate about it even though he’s good at it, he just casually freelances through when he needs money

met Kurapika when they were stuck on a production from hell together and they would sit next to each other in the workspace and be salty behind everyone’s backs

fascinated by unsolved crimes and murders but not in that bizarre way where he thinks serial killers did nothing wrong, he’s not THAT weird about it

thinks conspiracy theories are fun/hilarious but doesn’t believe in them

hides chocolate in weird places

I’m not saying he’s spent time trying to plan the perfect murder just for kicks but that’s 100% something he’s done

Gon:

probably straight-up haunted

not afraid of ghosts or demons

thinks there is life elsewhere in the universe but none of it has visited Earth

Nessie and Mothman skeptic

Never really figured out what he wanted to do but interested in lots of things so he has a multitude of skills and random knowledge that the others are always uncovering

encyclopedic animal knowledge

Kurapika didn’t know where to find a cameraman who would work for free on something incredibly stupid with weird hours so he made a post on Craigslist and Gon showed up

in the early episodes he and Killua would switch jobs a lot but then everyone started settling into a groove

likes that the webseries lets him do a lot of different things, from camera work to audio mixing to calling locations asking for permission to film because apparently no one can say no to him

chill queer, probably on the demi side of things? I’m getting a vibe

Killua has known Gon’s hot the whole time of course but Gon’s actually the one who gets a proper crush on Killua first

Forgets that everyone in his family being magnets for spirit shenanigans is weird to most people because for him it’s totally normal and unremarkable

likes scary movies

[bewaretheidesofmarchyall]

Soulmate Shenanigans Five: The Order Of The Shenanigans

Hey! Guess who has returned? 

Me!

Just the March doing her prompt writing thing, as seen on previous episodes :)

Parts one, two, three, and four here!

Prompt #5

Any intense emotions your soulmate feels you will also experience

Warnings for kidnapping mention and gifted kid “potential” mention

Okay. Not going to lie, I kind of tweaked the concept, but I like how it turned out. The idea of the sides having sides in human AUs has been in my brain, and now it’s in yours!

World Building

At first, the symptoms of having a soulmate was seen as symptoms of witchcraft

It was a reasonable assumption to make, as seeing into someone’s head and emotions wasn’t really a thing that humans did. 

However, as the population grew and communication across the globe became a thing, the instances of people finding their soulmates grew as well, and not everyone could be a witch (or, if they were, being a witch was simply being human).

It took a while for the culture around soulmates to shift, but shift it did, and people eventually figured out “Oh, that person is my soulmate, not my eternal enemy that I need to destroy via my demonic powers, which I totally have”

But people’s minds are kind of a lot, and it’s hard to process it all.

So, in modern day, people have learned to separate the pieces of their soulmate’s personality that they get bombarded with into different pieces, or sides

The sides are Logic, Morality/Emotions, Creativity (with there sometimes being a divide between dark and light), Self-Preservation, and Anxiety.

Characters

Roman: Roman is looking forward to meeting his soulmate so much!

Just...later.

When he’s a famous writer and people know about him and he’s evened out his insecurities and he deserves them!

Being perfect for them is going to take work, but most people meet their soulmates over 30, so he’s got at least fifteen years to prepare.

Until then, he was working on his fantasy story and dreaming of the day he’d get published or get the lead in a school play.

The writing club had been his idea, so you could say that everything that happens in the story was his fault. He’d just wanted to be around people who liked the same things he liked!

Roman’s Sides, ranked in order of how much control they have:

Note: Names are hard. Aaaagh.

Magnus, his creativity, romance, passion, etcetera. Magnus is really the one who calls the shots around here. He’s just as goofy of a fifteen year old (if not more) as Roman, but he has the unenviable position of running a mind palace and being the ego of someone who hates himself.

This guy just wants to listen to Hamilton, but noooo, he had to have an evil reflection of himself and self-worth issues.

The Count, his self-preservation and pretty much Roman’s inner Roxie Hart/Velma Kelly. Randomly suggests poisoning their mortal enemies a lot (note: they don’t have mortal enemies). 

The most like canon Janus out of any of the self preservations, except instead of “we live in a society” it’s more “fuck it, we’re going to be *famous*!”

The other sides will pay him to stop saying, “that’s showbiz”

The Medic, his morality and emotions. Sort of has a medieval healer thing going on (which means herbs in a satchel, not plague doctor mask).

A lovely person on his own, but when he and The Guard team up, it’s ✨Guilt time!✨

He has the question of “Am I a terrible person?” on his hands, so...good luck to him. He’s trying to hold the five of them into a cohesive unit, but it’s hard!

The Guard, his fears and anxious thoughts. He has a shield and a spear, and is kind of dressed like a (dark and stormy) knight.

No one particularly likes him, but it’s his job to recognize The Shadow, so they all need him.

He hangs around on the outskirts of the mindscape, ever vigilant.

The Alchemist, his logic. No one listens to the voice of reason in this house. Al isn’t really a fan of this, and being Roman’s logic, he thinks that if he can find a way to prove himself it’ll turn out okay.

The Shadow, everything Magnus discarded. You could call him dark creativity, but he’s a lot more. 

They used to call him Rex, when they were kids.

Patton: Patton isn’t thrilled with having to move to a new school, but he’s keeping a positive attitude

The new town is creepy and making friends is harder than he thought, and he just wants to right a sappy love story about ghosts without feeling sad.

But if he keeps his chin up, he knows it’ll all be fine!

And hey, maybe he’ll find people who like him in this writing club thing!

Patton’s Sides, ranked in order of how much control they have: 

Patrick, his morality and emotions. Patrick feels all of the loneliness and desperation that Patton feels daily, but pretends he doesn’t feel it, since he has to be there for them!

Them meaning his family, meaning the rest of Patton’s mind, as well as Patton, since he’s kind of an older brother/role model to the guy.

Covering the full scope of human emotions isn’t great when the other half of your job is enforcing the sense of right and wrong (and the general consensus in Patton’s head is showing negative emotions = burden = wrong).

None of them can cook, but that won’t stop him from trying!

The Canary, his fears and anxious thoughts. Constantly popping up to remind everyone that they’re failing. It’s kind of his job.

Stress plays the piano when things get to be too much.

The Gardener, his creativity, romance, and passion. Conjures flowers a lot. Projects wishes for a soulmate into the sappy ghost love story, which he’s mostly in charge of writing.

Hasn’t split yet, but that’s mostly because nearly all of Patton’s negative impulses that would be considered “dark creativity” already come from The Miser.

Dr. Picani, his logical side. Knows everything about cartoons, and tries to be professional, but a complete sweetheart.

Secretly knows his name is Emile, but is waiting for the best moment to tell everyone.

The Miser, his self-preservation and deceitful side. No one’s a fan of him. Patrick is kind of his mortal nemesis (in the sense that Patrick claimed the title and he just kind of went along with it?)

Everyone else in the Pattonsphere refuses to curse, but he says many a “fuck” with ease

Trying to protect The Gardener from splitting by taking responsibility for most of the things a dark creativity would do.

Virgil: Virgil just didn’t want to join the yearbook committee. 

It was irrational, maybe, to have a deep rooted hatred of the yearbook committee. 

They were just trying to categorize things, design pages-it wasn’t malicious! 

And yet, being in that classroom and seeing Amelia’s dead eyes and smile near rang every alarm bell in his system, so he needed a way out this year.

His parents weren’t going to let him not choose an activity, so he flipped a coin and ended up in some writing club.

He came into the club determined to fake some pretentious poetry about death. Just because they say the club’s about expression or whatever doesn’t mean that they can know anything about his comics.

Virgil’s Sides, ranked in order of how much control they have: 

Dante, his fears and anxious thoughts. Dante has too many eyes. Dante is lowkey a cryptid, but he’s sadly a cryptid in charge of life decisions.

There’s no way to dance around it. Dante’s a spider-human hybrid.

Dante would prefer they never be perceived by anyone for anything. He does not want to be seen, he does not want to be heard, he does not want to be perceived. Period. 

But he’s a very conspicuous spider-human hybrid. 

The Competent One, The One Who Can Actually Do Math, Steve, whatever you want to call him, he’s Virgil’s logical side.

His theories are just....

See that image? That kind of sums up his characterization.

Parker, his creativity, romance, and heroic side. He’s the one who got them obsessed with comic books, and is trying to write his own. If people don’t like the comics, he’ll probably just start screaming and never stop

He gets the purple eyeshadow!

Remy, his self-preservation. He mainly just wants Virgil to just...rest

Nap. Sleep. Take a self-care day. This is Remy’s goal.

Also to continue to have the most style out of anyone in the Virgilsphere

Remy has a talent for never being anywhere at the right time, and then popping up at the worst moments, caffeine in hand.

Tam, his morality and emotions. The most into the emo phase out of any of them, since he feels all angst!

Sometimes just hovers and screams. Everyone’s pretty used to this.

Logan: Logan was trying to ignore the things he’d seen

Logan was a scientific guy. He knew that magic wasn’t real, that the fae were just stories.

So, clearly, the nightmarish things he’d seen that night were just that: nightmares. Just nightmares caused by stress over his academic struggles.

That was the immediate problem at hand: academic struggles. Logan was always the top of his class his whole life, and words like “gifted” were thrown around. Lately, however, things have been harder to keep up with and pay attention to, and it’s a bit of a mess.

Logan joined the writing club because he thought it might help him with English class, and he did like speculative fiction.

But, more importantly, he joined it because he thought it would be a simple task he could easily ace, so he wouldn’t have to keep being told that he wasn’t trying.

Logan’s Sides, ranked in order of how much control they have:

Mimir, his logical side. Mimir is pushing himself to take care of all academic matters and keep Logan afloat.

Mimir is over his head, but doesn’t really have anyone to talk to (or so he thinks), so he’s just putting Warby Parkers over his panic and faking cold distance to make everyone think he’s doing okay.

Alastor, his moral side. Half of his job is repressing Logan’s emotions, which isn’t a great thing to be doing, but he think he’s doing it for a good reason.

Kinda strict and blaming Mimir for everything going wrong. He does care about the others, he’s just bad at showing it.

Cassandros, his fears and anxious thoughts. 

This dude-

He’s basically just [puts feet on coffee table] “Hey, did you know everyone hates us?? I made a PowerPoint that proves it!”

He’ll get character development, though.

The Chessmaster, his overdramatic self-preservation.

Tries to be clever, walks into walls.

The Detective, his creative and fanciful side. He wants to swashbuckle, but instead he’s restrained to geometry. 

But now he has a project in the writing club! He has something to do!

And The Mad Scientist is trying to ruin it!

The Mad Scientist, Logan’s dark creativity.

They never used to care about the creative side one way or another. There was no need to make a dark side when it was already looked down upon.

Now, however, there are things in Logan’s mind that he’s trying not to think about, and so the Mad Scientist has joined the fray.

The Actual Plot

This is going to be an actual fic that I write. So, I’m not going to fill out the entire plot here.

I can, however say a few of the plot lines

Plot One: Everyone’s sides are in a state of constant screaming and must learn to communicate.

They also need to let their main guys figure out they have soulmates, because they’re all repressing that information for their own reasons.

Plot Two: LAMP in a writing club, falling in love and being disturbed by first drafts!

Plot Three: The fae are kidnapping people.

And everyone needs to get them to Stop.

I guess you could call this a trailer??

I JUST REALLY LIKE THIS IDEA

[wthelvetica21]

Linked Souls (Updated Version) MSA X TLT Crossover AU

Mystery Skulls X The Living Tombstone Crossover Alternate Universe

————————————————————————————————                                         The Basic Synopsis ———————————————————————————————— After Shinomori retreats back underground after a standstill with Lewis and Mystery, the Mystery Skulls gang spot the possessed green arm scurrying away to an underground cave in the dessert near Tempo which was rumored to have a old mining site where there is an elevator that is thought to be a gateway to the afterlife since people have heard faint music. They find the elevator and end up in what appears to be a cabaret where they meet a group of what appears to be cyborgs or robots with stylized skulls on their faces calling themselves The Living Tombstone. Something or someone is causing both of their universes to bleed in with each other to where a few canon versions of the characters of each universe appears. It is unknown weather if it’s a cataclysmic event or something else entirely. Both Lewis and zero_one have the ability Linked Souls were they are synchronized with each other and make mashups of their songs by mixing up vocals and switching instrumentals making something new and exciting. ————————————————————————————————                         Group Dynamics (Main Characters) ———————————————————————————————— Lewis & zero_one They get along pretty well, but it later becomes a bromance. Lewis seems to sense the human presence within zero_one and gains an empathetic link with them as soon as he entered TLT’s universe. Lewis and zero_one both had visions of their transformation into what they are. Both of them want to know what it all means. Little do they know they have more in common than both of them think, at least at first. ———————————————————————————————— Arthur & Rust Rust found Arthur annoying at first but gradually gains some respect for him once he repairs is star speeder despite coming from the distant future. And Arthur reminds Rust in a lot of ways to zero_one and often cracks some jokes that Arthur is a parallel universe version to the human that zero_one is merged with. Arthur was a tad intimidated at first but likes getting into discussions about machines and general mechanics often. ———————————————————————————————— Vivi, Tesla, & Armstrong Armstrong is rather polite towards Vivi and calls her “Miss Yukino” in a formal almost mentor like manner. While Tesla tends to affectionately call her “Liebchen” (much to Lewis’ annoyance) and has gone so far as to lend is bassmenship to Mystery Skulls if an opportunity arrives. Vivi finds both of them pretty cool and nice to be around, Armstrong in particular reminds her a lot of Lance. ———————————————————————————————— Mystery & Doc They are rather chill with each other. Doc was surprised and impressed that a dog could even play the drums at all. But once he talked Doc’s only reply was “hah.. That’s not your real form isn’t it?” And Mystery finds her and the other tomesonas to be particularly interesting since they are a lot like Lewis but are made through synthetic or non-supernatural means. ———————————————————————————————— Arthur & zero_one Both of them enjoy each other’s company, almost like brothers. Both have confided with each other about their traumas. Rust has gone so far as to say albeit jokingly that Arthur is a parallel version of zero_one’s human component given their personalities and bad luck. ———————————————————————————————— Lewis & Rust They have a bitter rivalry on who’s the best vocalist ; overtime it becomes an unspoken respect for one another. ———————————————————————————————— Arthur & Armstrong Armstrong acts more like a father to Arthur and Arthur in kind looks at Armstrong like his uncle Lance. Both have shared the stories about their arms (even though Arthur only told Armstrong about losing his arm in an accident). ———————————————————————————————— Lewis & Doc Lewis finds her cool to be around and they where both born in Louisiana and have pride in their shared Cajun heritage. Doc is curious on how  Lewis’s locket can contain the deadbeats and if they are pieces of his soul. ————————————————————————————————                       Dynamics with Minor Characters ———————————————————————————————— Lewis & Skulldude* (from Drunk *: TLT Canon Version) Lewis has this oddly familiar feeling similar to that of zero_one but doesn’t have that empathic link. Also he considers him just as annoyingly neurotic as Arthur if not more so but tolerates it nonetheless. Skulldude* was at first surprised that Lewis was a ghost but seems oddly unfazed. Lewis couldn’t tell if he was just that drunk or he was telling the truth. One time after a particularly bad bender, Skulldude* figuratively and literally spilled his guts about his problems while talking to Lewis. Suffice it to say that day was painfully awkward. ———————————————————————————————— Vivi & Haru (from Sunburn) They clicked very shortly, they both geek out over yokai and cryptids. Haru reminds Vivi a lot of her co-worker Cloe. Also they are into anime and cosplay much to dismay of Mystery and every one else. ———————————————————————————————— Mystery & Hina (from Sunburn) Hina seems unfazed by Mystery’s kitsune form then most characters, she thinks it’s cool that a kitsune has a black and red coat coloring. As for Mystery, she reminds him (albeit to an uncomfortable degree) of Mushi, not so much in looks or demeanor but in her strong unflinching spirit. ————————————————————————————————      Major Differences from the Canon Universes ———————————————————————————————— Mystery Skulls ———————————————————————————————— * Before Lewis could get to the crashed van, he spots Shinomori trying to kill Mystery and Vivi ; he was pissed off enough to put aside his revenge just for a moment to nip an ugly tree lady in the bud. She reappears later still looking not only for Mystery but for Lewis and another soul in the Living Tombstone’s universe that has caught her interest. * Arthur, Vivi, & even Mystery can take on temporary ghost forms similar to Lewis but with different elemental affinities and themes to them.    * Arthur: electricity (Steampunk Frankenstein’s monster)    * Vivi: Ice (a Yukiona with Modern Winter Clothes)    * Mystery: darkness and light (a classical kitsune) * They also can summon deadbeats as well but they are not as numerous as Lewis’.  Tesla thinks it might be because there are certain limitations on what they could do while they are in TLT’s universe. It is possible that both their universes will begin to collapse if they push their ghost forms too far. *  But for whatever reason that Tesla can’t explain and is fascinated by is that Lewis and zero_one can synchronize with each other (what he coins as the Linked Souls) without any ill effects (that he knows of). * Lewis gain’s tomesona like characteristics like his human face being more visible under his floating skull and his pompadour turning into a helmet. ———————————————————————————————— The Living Tombstone ———————————————————————————————— * SkullDude (Or Drunk Guy) from the Drunk music video is the one bonded to zero_one in this crossover AU because it would be a little more convenient than pulling a random OC out of nowhere. Also I thought it be an interesting juxtaposition between the bulky, stoic but hot headed ghost Lewis and the scrawny, somewhat sanguine, but sorta neurotic zero_one!Skulldude (though he’s a tad more mellowed out then his canon counterpart and has amnesia but can somehow recognize his prime self much to his dismay). That and I think it’s a missed opportunity that he’s barely a minor character in the TLT’s canon lore of zero_one. But canon!Skulldude does some appearances every now and again. (Mostly for comic relief)    * A little tidbit for reference, apparently in the canon lore Skulldude is a separate character from the person who sings “drunk” who DOES become zero_one. So he’s a composite character in this Crossover AU. * The tomesonas have the ability to somewhat show they’re human forms. They generally have pale unnatural skin complexion and have glowing blood veins correspondent to their color. But the most gruesome parts are covered by clothing sans Armstrong. With zero_one however is unknown but it is assumed by Tesla that it was worse than the process the others went through when they bonded with their tombsonas. He can however reveal his face revealing a similar looking face mask to the canon version but it’s orange and is not a fake replica that was almost permanently glued onto his face as part of a cruel joke while he was hungover by his roommate who he believed was his long time friend in both timelines. * For zero_one, his linked soul form gives him ghost like characteristics like visible ribs outside his suit and a single glowing pupil in his left eye.

Edit  The Tombsona’s also have different host in this AU as well. 

Doc is a woman in her late 20s, Armstrong is a huskier gentleman who’s is his 30’s, And Tesla has a side burns and goatee and in his early 20s. Rust is possibly biracial but his skin is so discolored it’s hard to actually tell.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Fake Cryptid, Real Ghost

by AshesGleamandGlow, DuskyAshe (AshesGleamandGlow)

In a world where Batman and his Bats and Birds are treated as Gotham legends by nearly the entire world, the power of belief holds real weight.

With the Ghost King fleeing to Gotham in hopes of begging for asylum for his fright, Bruce and his kids face the consequences of pretending to be real cryptids in a city filled to the brim with both the supernatural and the superstitious...

Words: 3265, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of NaNoWriMo 2022, Part 1 of Fake Cryptid, Real Ghost au

Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Danny Fenton, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake

Additional Tags: Originally Posted on Tumblr, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Tags Are Hard, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Ghost King Danny Fenton, Not Phantom Planet Compliant (Danny Phantom), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Creatures & Monsters, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids, Tags May Change

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/45437383

[plusonetm]

Hiya! Friendly neighborhood cryptid here wondering about your really cool aus! I’m in school so I can’t read them rn but I’d like to know which ones your favorite? Or! If you can’t choose (cause I’d never be able to) what is your favorite part abt each of them? You ofc don’t have to answer this, but so far I love your content and im rlly happy to have found it!! Much love and I hope you’re doing well <3

-⭐️

:O cryptid!! hello!! my favourite au would be the villain todoroki au, but i can't spill too much about it because i've actually got stuff i'm planning and i don't wanna spoil it, but i can say!! Found family!! For my other existing aus though:

-rokitodo: it might be deceased and gone but i'm still really proud of all the content i churned out for rktd!! Especially with all the angst (looking at the ending right there)

-noumu shouto: .. . Angsty backstory that i need to elaborate on but that is besides the point, i really like the idea of noumu shouto and i've also got so much for this au i wanna talk about!! Specifically all the 'his quirks are killing him someone send help' stuff,,, and how kamino goes that in thag au. All For One's presence really does noumu shouto no good

-bnha arg au: ARGS!!! Monoma & Shinsou & Todoroki friendship!!! Their behind the scenes moments when Todoroki's acting out a whole mental breakdown and pauses with the most >:0 expression when Shinsou accidentally flicks some fake blood at him, or them generally being dumbasses and Monoma hounding Camie to see Maboroki right before they have to do that one livestream, and the LOV trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in the ARG instead of doing villain things

-ghost shouto au: it!! It's just 🥺🥺🥺 small tiny ghost todo floating around, befriending the one (1) other ghost who he can actually understand (/cough/ it's tsubasa) and them!! Kinda hovering around izu and katsu!! Tsubasa flickering in and out of existence every once in a while and little ghost shoto waiting for his friend to flicker back again

-candle light shouto: i'm just hrmng. Them. The todochako in that au is so sweet it genuinely hurts my heart. And the angst?? Of them?? It's delightful. I'm not gonna spoil it all cause i' hoping someone will come along and ask for candle light content and i'll get to use my big plot twist, but todo gets hurt real bad and it's amazing

[angrylizardjacket]

angrylizardjacket’s imagine masterpost

Bohemian Rhapsody

Series

ask your destiny to dance (Masterpost)

Roger/OC (Ash) | long-running, follows BoRhap, NSFW

And All The Queen’s Men (Masterpost)

Roger/OC (Giselle) | famous singer, collaborates with Queen often

act your age (Masterpost)

Roger/OC (Ash) : John/OC (Giselle) : Freddie/OC (Oscar) | high school/college au; the school is putting on Heathers the Musical

‘cos i don’t believe in ghosts {Masterpost}

Joe Mazzello/Reader/Lucy Boynton | cryptid/supernatural AU

Brian May

any time

Words: 1343 | Unspecified!Reader | existential crisis hurt/comfort

like flying

Words Per Part: approx. 2000 | Unspecified!Fallen-Star!Reader | Stardust AU

sweet chaos

Words: 3640 | Female!Extrovert!Reader | just... chaotic, but sweet as well

what it’s worth

Words: 2957 | Unspecified!Photographer!Reader | Smile-Era, fluffy

Freddie Mercury

limited eternity

Words: 2649 | Male!Reader | time travel, fluffy but also sad

John Deacon

a process

Words: 3169 | Female!Reader | fluffy, set pre-A Night At The Opera

dinner plans

Words: 1041 | Unspecified!Reader | proposal fic, FLUFF

double shot. /SMUT\

Words: 3380 | Female!Reader | 1981 Montreal Deaky Smut

morning light

Words: 1877 | Unspecified!Reader | fluffy n soft

oblivious

Words: 2066 | Female!Extrovert!Reader | deaky-centric mutual pining

Roger Taylor

a kind of loneliness

Words: 4027 | Unspecified!Photographer!Reader | pining and trying to move on

a long time coming

Words: 2008 | Female!Pregnant!Reader | a lil bit of arguing with a happy ending 

a soft sunrise

Words: 1103 | Unspecified!Reader | morning fluffy w/ the boyfriend

always been close

Words: 2870 | Female!Reader | friends-to-lovers 

and then there was light

Words Per Part: approx. 5000 | Female!Roadie!Reader | on tour, gets real angsty

at ease / audio version

Words: 1181 | Female!Reader | fluff

convenient 

Words: 3228 | Male!Reader | fuckbuddies with feelings

just alright? /SMUT\

Words: 2216 | Female!Reader | daddy kink, post-pub gig, thigh riding

soup for the soul and also for eating

Words: 1105 | Unspecified!Sick!Reader | fluff af

time’s arrow / epilogue

Words: 2727 | Female!Reader | angst with a happy ending, a story through seasons 

tug.  /SMUT\

Words: 2605 | Female!Reader | smut, Rogerina outfit

what is and isn’t allowed

Words: 2253 | Unspecified!Bartender!Reader | smile-era pinning

Dominique Beyrand

only fools

Words: 4331 | Unspecified!Reader | angst with a happy ending

Mary Austin

sunshine smiles

Words: 2219 | Female!Reader | Smile-Era, friends to lovers

ease my mind. /SMUT\

Words: 1534 | Female!Reader | trying to be discrete during a recording session

Jim “Miami” Beach

you may not be blood, but you’ll always be family (Platonic)

Words: 1175 | Unspecified!Reader | sometimes you just need a hug

the sun always sets behind you (Platonic)

Words: 1880 | Female!Daughter!Reader | reader is roger’s new assistant, and his reputation precedes him

Ben Hardy

guessing games

Words: 2152 | Female!Actor!Reader | ben and reader are together and not subtle and yet joe still doesn’t realise 

heard your name in every love song

Words Per Part: < 2000 | Female!Actor!Reader | falling in love on set

it hurts because it has to

Words: 3107 | Male!Reader | FWB angst with feelings

lead up

Words: 1367 | Female!Reader | getting ready for the BoRhap premiere

lover boy

Words: 1514 | Unspecified!Reader | reader visits the set, Ben is a big softie for them

of comfort and joy

Words: 1562 | Unspecified!Reader | Christmas Dad!Ben fluff

when i said it i thought it was true

Words Per Part: approx. 3000 | Female!Actress!Reader | BoRhap Fake Dating AU

Gwilym Lee

all the world

Words: 4761 | Female!Actor!Reader | cast in a midsummer night’s dream production w/ gwil

integrity. /SMUT\

Words: 1865 | Female!Reader | one night stand

Joe Mazzello

don’t @ me

Words: 1781 | Unspecified!Reader | cardboard ben shenanigans

i’ll be in the front row

Words: 3269 | Unspecified!Reader | reader and joe get close while he’s working on undrafted

insufferable

Words: 2390 | Unspecified!Lighting Designer!Reader | College Theatre AU

sharp dressed

Words: 1498 words | NB/Male!Reader | golden globes + some anxiety re; callout culture

teenage fantasy. /SMUT\

Words: 2483 | Female!Reader | reader is worried joe’s outgrowing her, he looks to prove he’s not

Lucy Boynton

heaven in hiding. /SMUT\

Words: 2105 | Female!Reader | PWP + Dom-ish!Lucy

Rami Malek

our love was made for movie screens

Words: 2967 | Unspecified!Introvert!Reader | a few moments of PDA in an already uncomfortably public relationship

Roger Talylor / Reader / John Deacon

how long can you stand the heat? / SMUT \

Words: 2794 | Female!Sub!Reader | PWP + AOBTB

Ben Hardy / Reader / Joe Mazzello

nostalgia

Words: 1141 | Female!YouTuber!Reader | long distance comfort

the things we do for likes

Words: 1954 | Female!Reader | embarrassing the reader on instagram

prettiest things

Words: 3874 | Female!YouTuber!Reader | OSCARS 2019

Ben Hardy / Reader / Roger Taylor

eyes on the horizon

Words: 1447 | Female!Reader | the reader tells them she’s pregnant

holiday cheer. /SMUT\

Words: 3604 | Female!Reader | Filthy holiday threesome smut.

my baby’s a public menace

Words: 2670 | Female!Reader | Four iconic moments the press has a field day with. (Modern)

take comfort

Words: 1807 | Female!Reader | exhaustion & hurt/comfort, fluff (70s)

that fools should be so deep-contemplative

Words: 1810 | Female!Reader | BoRhap filming & premiere & daughter

the in between moments

Words: 2664 | Female!Reader | during/post pregnancy + light angst

the motley fool thus morals on the time

Words: 977 | Unspecified!Reader | 70s!Roger has met 2018!Roger. He doesn’t talk about it a lot

Tags

#thirst-hour - Thirst Hour tag (NSFW)

#ben-x-reader-x-roger - Ben/Reader/Roger tag (NSFW)

#joe-mazzello-can-get-it - Joe’s Other Characters tag

The Dirt

Series

Run to Paradise (Masterpost)

Nikki/OC (Lola) | long running, follows The Dirt, NSFW

Nikki Sixx

compound regret

Words: 2701 | Unspecified!Reader | mutual pining in the name of safety

Vince Neil

first aid

Words: 1481 | Unspecified!Reader | providing first aid after the first gig fight

people change

Words: 2065 | Female!Rockstar!Reader | article style, speculating about reader’s relationship

Daniel Webber

M1

Words: 1440 | Unspecified!Reader | driving home to see his family

the last house at the end of the street

Words: 2871 | Unspecified!Reader | Australian as Hell + Fluff

Douglas Booth

the band with no name

Words Per Part: approx. 3000 | Female!Punk-Musician!Reader | you’re in a cover band and he hasn’t told you he’s in the motley crue biopic

Machine Gun Kelly

fit by my side

Words: 3188 | Unspecified!Pastel!Reader | clashing aesthetics and real feelings

guardian as a title

Words: 2512 | Female!Reader | the lead-up to adopting Casie

i’ll leave early

Words: 1173 | Unspecified!Musician!Reader | exhausted, you’re missing each other

mouth full of white lies

Words Per Part: < 2000 | Female!YouTuber!Reader | fake dating on The Dirt set

sabotage

Words: 6477 | Female!Makeup-Artist!Reader | you’re an assistant on The Dirt

[thosedamnsmoshkids]

GHOST HUNTERS AU HEADCANONS

A series of headcanons to create an overarching universe for the Ghost Hunters. because legit i couldn't think of a fic. Everything's the same, except for Smosh started as a channel devoted to everything supernatural and mysterious. Ian and Anthony created it to discuss supernatural happenings. It later extended, and instead of just being a weekly a talk show hosted by Ian and Anthony, it branched out into Supernatural Investigation Channel, (Smoshernatural), run by the Games crew, and much later a True Crime channel, (Smosh True Crime), run by the quintessential Smosh squad. After Anthony left the company, Ian moved to work behind the scene. He frequently guest stars, but not as much as he used to. Smosh True Crime The True Crime gang consists of the Smosh Squad, but in a somewhat detective form. They write and produce episode independently of one another, and most people recognize the styles of each member. The channel has three different running shows, Conspiracy!, which is conspiracy theory show written, directed and hosted by Noah; The Lab, a show about crime scene investigation/clean up and such; as well as a Q&A show hosted by a rotating cast called Visiting Hours. There is a running event every April Fool’s where the channel releases a fake True Crime case that parodies their own style, and is focused on a joke made from one of their videos throughout the year. Some of these have been videos have been, Shayne’s gruesome murder following the destruction of Damien’s golden cat, (which in this instance was a cat totem that Damien keeps on his desk on the Smoshernatural version of ‘Visiting Hours’); a Video on the cryptid CFM, or the strange creature known as Courtney Freaking Miller; and a video on the ‘disappearance of Anthony’, which aired on the April Fool’s after he left the channel. Smoshernatural It was originally hosted by Ian, Anthony, Joven, Lasercorn, Sohinki and Mari, and they would go around to different locations investigating, and bonded as a group. After some time, it was whittled down to the group of four (Joven, Lasercorn, Sohinki and Mari), with the addition of Wes, who is their fearless cameraman who became popular within the fandom for literally never freaking out, no matter what creepy location they’re in. Boze and Damien ran their own channel that focused on the spiritual side of the supernatural. Their channel was bought by Smosh, and the two were added to the cast, which created a new element that the show had never had before. Damien’s a medium, and there have been several bits based around Boze making fun of him for it. Boze herself works with a more summoning aspect, and works with portals and ouija boards. The channel has three shows as well, with Smoshernatural being their main pull and focus. It follows the gang to different locations to look for evidence, and it usually ends with one of them trying to get themselves possessed. Cryptid Cases is hosted by Mari and Joven, and focuses in on all things alien, cryptid, and basically anything that’s not ghost oriented, (the set is often crashed by Lasercorn wearing a tinfoil hat). The final show is a slight copy of Visiting Hours, and acts as a Q&A for the Smoshernatural channel. Coroner’s Report is hosted mainly by Damien, but it almost always has guests. Miscellaneous Headcanons - Boze has called the ghosts ‘little bitches’ more than 40 times, her record in a single episode is 13. - Lasercorn is a member of the ‘Tin Foil Hat Club’, and in all of the alien Cryptid cases, he wears his green morph suit, a pair of alien sunglasses and a tinfoil hat that grows throughout the course of the episode. - The True Crime Squad and the Smoshernatural crew have switched channels once, and had each of the Smoshernatural kids produce a True Crime episode, while they sent the True Crime squad to Waverly Sanitorium, a place even Sohinki said creeped him out, for an investigation. Needless to say, those videos have scored highly among fans, though the squad has said that they would never do it again. - Sohinki holds the record for the most times asking to be possessed, which was used as the basis for an April Fool’s episode. - Despite the fact that Damien is a medium, Joven has actually had the most experience with ghosts. The house he grew up is, by his claims, is very haunted. He, and Damien, have confirmed that there are five ghosts that live on the property, which is a farmhouse that was owned by his great-grandparents. The ghosts in the house consist of a ghost cat, a ghost dog, both of Joven’s grandparent who passed in the house, and a soldier believed to have been buried on the property. Joven has claimed to have seen apparitions of all of these, most notably the soldier, who walks the grounds during storms, banging on the front door and back doors to try to get people to let him in. They have done an episode on the house, but only managed to get some sketchy audio recordings, though both Damien and Boze believe that there are presences in the house. - Wes is the fearless cameraman, and is one of the only people on the Smosh team, besides Noah, who doesn’t believe in ghosts. He says that he ‘got close’ to believing while they were at the Sallie House a few years back, but he blames it on the nervous energy that was in the air, and that fact that he was sick. - Shayne and Damien are best friends, and met on the set of a True Crime special that tried to solve old cases by talking to the dead. They remained friends afterwards, and Damien and Shayne were both featured on the other’s respective channel before Damien was hired by Smosh. - Courtney holds the current record for the most viewed video on the True Crime channel. She re-enacted the murder of a young starlet in a film noir style, compete with a grizzled narrator, and stunning visuals in black and white. Courtney was praised for her use of the color red, which accented the blood, the woman’s lipstick, her dress, the red of a stop sign, and a car. The whole endeavor took her three months. - Keith is known for his artistic, jagged style, and most of his videos are completely animated. He focuses on the deaths of artists, which is exemplified by the kinds of visuals and music he uses. His art style is well known, and has improved during the years he’s worked for the company. His first video, which was his first time animating, is now used as a meme in the fandom. - Though Mari believes in ghosts, cryptids are her real passion. She started Cryptid Cases, and is the main host, appearing in all of the videos, unlike Joven, who is switched out for other Smosh members who better suit the episode content, (aliens for Lasercorn, angels and light beings for Damien, the devil and demons for Boze). There is a running joke that Mari is secretly a shape shifting cryptid, due to several strange photos that the cast has taken over the years that don’t quite look like them, and in reality it’s actually Mari slowly learning their form to take their place. She has yet to deny this fact. - Unlike most of the cast, Noah is very into conspiracy theories, and follows the stories of the dark web very closely. He created his show, Conspiracy! to shine a light on some of these topics, and had released a few before his show was put on semi-hiatus. Noah has said that he created enough to take it off hiatus for the next few months, but that some of them could’ve gotten him in trouble because of where he got his information. He has brought on guests for a few episodes, but they’re mostly just Shayne, who also shares an interest in conspiracy theories. - Joven has had a ghost hit on him, twice. - One of the oldest and most beloved jokes of the fandom and the cast is the theory that Olivia might be an immortal. The joke started when a twitter user tweeted at Olivia with a photograph of her great-grandmother that looked strangely like her. Olivia replied with a very vague tweet that prompted the entirety of the fandom to start going through a deep dive, and actually found several other photos that looked like they could’ve been of Olivia. It has been referenced in several videos, but Olivia has said nothing helpful to her case when the topic comes up. - Sohinki is known for his love of mothman, and he has confirmed that he owns a mothman body pillow as well as several mothman t-shirts and at least one replica of the silver mothman statue. - Boze once had her phone go haywire after using an ouija board to curse someone through her phone. - Wes, in an episode of Coroner’s Report, has said that the scaredest he’s ever been was when they were filming an episode at a haunted cabin in Wisconsin, and that he believes there were eyes watching him in the woods. and that's kinda it so far. hopefully i'll add to this, and feel free to add some stuff yourself, or use it for a fic, i'd cry happy, happy tears. Housekeeping & General Announcements Crime Does Pay Chapter 11 will hopefully be up tommorow, Finals have been kicking my ASS. After this chapter, there's a possiblity there might be a slight week long hiatus while i work on the new project introduced below For those of you who saw, I was writing like a college/paranormal au thingy, and the first chapter of that is done, and there's a chance that it'll be uploaded if i can get the energy to edit it. and boy oh boy, we got damien the unwilling psychic, goth girl olivia, and really everything you want in a mystery thriller. The Five Part Serial, The Ghosts of Mayweather, Begins Tonight