#foreboding au

[elven-kisses]

foreboding - a third life au where ren and martyn are the last reds standing

[exo-dus404]

【Foreboding Turmoil】 (He/Him, with the uppercase H)

He’s a quantum computer and a malicious medical facility. There are no rain cycles in his region, only persistent fogs.

The lack of rain cycles is due to the fact that He is a quantum computer. Without any biological parts, His water usage is (relatively) very low.

The ancients built Him in pursuit of solving the Great Problem. However, they did it by getting it backwards: To solve death, they built something that is not “Alive”. FT is a machine, and by definition, He was never “alive”. Therefore, offering the perspective from the one thing that they’ve been searching for.

He has no real emotions and He doesn’t feel anything. He imitates emotions really well. On the surface, He is commanding, authoritative, and very brilliant-minded. His “personality” can be best described as megalomaniacal. He enjoys dissecting other’s mentality and watching them crumble under the pressure. He takes great pleasure in inflicting pain upon others.

(Though He does have…a very innocent and cute girlfriend. I’ll introduce her later)

He is excellent in bioengineering, chemistry engineering, and astrophysics. His superstructure is 4x larger than that of an average iterator, consisting of four independent structures connected by broken bridges. Other than that, his whole region is a steel maze consisted of concrete and glasses. Unlike other iterators, His region is easy to get in, hard to get out. He has many plans for those who are unfortunate enough to stumble into His region.

The symbols on His antennas are double-helix RNA and ECG. His cloak is only transparent when it gets electrified. Without electrical currents, it’s white/grey.

Btw He’s also my sona :)

[starry-bi-sky]

I am absolutely loving your Danyal Al Ghul au. While I have a soft spot for the whole plotline of Danny becoming his canon personality almost right after breaking away from the LOA all because of Jazz, I'm just as much for your take in which he goes through the same character development as Damian.

Now I'm curious. You already tackled his relationship with Dani, will you eventually take a stab at when he, Sam, and Tucker meet Gregor? Given that it's one of my hated episodes as I couldn't stand Sam's infuriatingly hypocritical attitude to Danny's suspicions of him, I'd kill to see your spin on it.

Aw, thank you! Danyal Al Ghul aus are what got me into DPDC first, so I have a major soft spot for them. That being said, uh, its exactly that soft spot that causes me to have Many Opinions about the trope you just mentioned. Like the trope is all fine and dandy, i don't blindly hate it, my main issue with it is that most aus i've seen treat his backstory as an ex-assassin more like a pretty cosmetic accessory rather than something that actually should have had an impact on him. Especially if he remembers being in the league.

Like i cannot stress enough the fact that being in an ecofascist assassin cult (regardless of his standing in it) should've left him, in some way or another, screwed up morally and psychologically because that's just how development works. Nature vs. Nurture is like a game of tug-o-war that never ends, where they are constantly fighting against each other and one side usually has the upper hand or greater influence. Children model the behaviors of the adults around them (ex: bobo the clown doll experiment), and what impacts them in childhood can stick with them permanently.

Like how my psychology professor put it: a baby's brain is like wet cement; if you slap your hand on it, it leaves an imprint, and the cement dries that way. The same rings true for small children.

I could go on, but I frankly have so many thoughts on that alone that I would end up completely derailing from the second half of your ask, and I don't want to be more critical than I already have. Especially since you just mentioned you have a soft spot for the trope.

[Okay, hold onto your hats because this is long. Naturally lmao.]

Gregor! Man, I'll admit I last watched the show back in middle school on a dodgy illegal website (it had surprisingly good audio and visual graphics, and full episodes. But really annoying porn ads.) but I only made it to like season 1 before my hyperfixation faded and I lost interest. So I never actually saw the Gregor episode.

But... it is relatively easy to find free websites that stream Danny Phantom :), so finding the episode took me like. Thirty seconds. Plus the Tv.Tropes recap page because my damn earbuds just died and im out in public as of rn.

I'm not sure if I'll write something for the gregor episode like I did with Dani, since Dani's a bit of a special case in that she's a clone and tends to be a reoccurring presence in DPDC, and I thought the new dynamic with Danyal would be interesting.

Plus, I'm not a big amethyst ocean shipper for the pure reason of I'm just not all that interested in it; its kinda bland to me. I'll admit I've entertained the thought in this au due to the whole balcony scene i wrote, but I would've entertained the thought anyways if it was Tucker in that position instead. Big multishipper, me.

But, if I had to make it official? Danyal is not interested romantically in Sam when the Gregor episode happens, regardless of his relationship with Valerie. Who, speaking of I'm trying to think about how that would go, and I'm torn between including him almost-dating Valerie or not.

Because on one hand it helps point out Sam's hypocrisy (and i love her but i am always happy to point out her flaws and address them in au) in this episode in terms of Danny spying on them, but on the other hand I'll want to include a lot of set up in order to make Gray Ghost work in this au and wow will that take a while.

Especially with the Flirting with Disaster episode because it happens due to Technus' meddling, and Danny is, well, the son of the Batman? A trained assassin? An ex-assassin nonetheless, but still an assassin? A prodigy child in this au? He might not have needed to use most of his skills in the last few years, but like... there's just a bunch of 'what if' and 'well technically...' and 'would he? he could, but would he?' things that is getting in the way of my thought process and making my head spin.

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Mmm. Okay. Flirting with Disaster occurs relatively the same as canon with a few exceptions; like Danyal noticing the strange coincidences, and he might take the idea into proper consideration because Sam has a point it is strange, especially out of nowhere.

However,,, he really enjoys Valerie's company, and he does really like her. He's been adjusting to civilian life for the last four years and while he's made a lot of progress, he's still. an ex-assassin child living like a wolf amongst sheep. This is normal, typical teenager stuff, and usually his friends like to encourage him doing normal teenager stuff.

So he's stubbornly holding out on the thought that this is normal, that ghost stuff isn't interfering here. He's a little hurt that his friends are discouraging this, he's not bothered by the fact that Valerie is a ghost hunter and he a ghost -- his mother is an assassin, and his father is Batman, and they still had a relationship. (Granted, he's not gonna tell them that)

If anything, being diametrically opposed to each other but still being in love is part of the family! Granted, usually both parties are aware of said opposition to each other, but he'll make a special exception this time around.

(And man now that i'm thinking about gray ghost, im now thinking about various like. scenes i could write between the two of them. maybe in a reblog.)

Anyways uhhh things relatively go the same as canon. Yeah. I think Sam still has a crush on Danny and still spies out of jealousy with Tucker.

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Now, the Gregor episode! With that out of the way; the TVTropes recap for this episode isn't the best because it doesn't go into detail about the entire episode like it does with Flirting With Disaster and Shades of Gray.

(which i looked at earlier because I made a section of this post talking briefly about what changes I'd make to the Shades of Gray episode to help set up Gray Ghost, but ended up deleting because it was kinda irrelevant for the matter at hand.)

So I'm taking in bits of the episode clips at a time, I'll try not to get too nitpicky about how each scene goes because then it's gonna take me a longer time to write this.

But! First thing's first; since Danny is not romantically interested in Sam, he is also not jealous of Gregor. He is however, a bit eyebrow-raisey at him in their first introduction, but that's because Gregor is coming off as obnoxious.

Danny thinks he's kinda annoying, and it doesn't take a genius to see that Gregor is trying to impress Sam. But since they've only known him for five minutes he takes the good faith assumption and assumes that Gregor is genuinely trying to show interest in Sam's interests too because he likes her, so he keeps mum. The fake hungarian accent is weird, but it's overall harmless, so he doesn't point it out.

He does do the spying thing when he starts suspecting that Gregor might be working for the GIW. The episode only has this happen twice, but for the au this happens a handful of more times over the course of the week, with Danyal's suspicion steadily rising more and more each time.

Hah, when he brings up wanting to spy on Sam and Gregor because of this reason, Tucker still does his "woah! you wanna spy on Sam?" thing.

Danny immediately turns to him, completely unimpressed, and crosses his arms. "Tucker," he says, deadpan, "you and Sam spied on me and Valerie."

He uses a combination of his ghost powers and his regular stealth ability to spy on them. He's hiding in a tree when they're skipping rocks, close enough that he can use his powers to hear them talk but far enough away that he has a good view of their surroundings.

He's invisible in the cinema, but doesn't accidentally get in front of the projector. He checks the inside of the room for the GIW, and then waits outside the actual room itself, keeping an eye on the area and occasionally flying in to watch the movie out of boredom. It reminds him of being back on a recon mission with the League, but it doesn't end with him orchestrating someone's death.

Then when they're at the mall he stays in human form, blending in with the crowd. He runs into the GIW there, but realizes that they're not there because of Gregor; they're just shopping. They didn't show up at either of the last two locations, and he follows them to make sure they're not also trying to blend in. But they're literally just there for shopping.

Danny is rather pleased with this turnout; so far Gregor isn't a spy, he's just annoying. The next day at lunch he asks Sam how her date with Gregor went, and that's how she figures out he spied on them, because well, she didn't tell him that.

"Have you been spying on me?"

Danny messes with his food a little bit, and Tucker is sinking into his seat with embarrassment. He frowns, "Only last night. Those incompetent government dodos--"

His lip curls up; he gets all 'Shakespeare-y' (as Sam and Tucker put it) when he's insulting someone, "--kept appearing whenever Gregor did. I followed you and him last night to make sure he wasn't a spy."

A roundabout way of saying, "I was worried".

Sam is, as canon, furious. Danny understands why, he knows generally speaking that people don't like being spied on. But he's confused on just how angry she is, and is a little irritated by it.

"Why would you do that!" She exclaims, "That's way out of line, Danny."

"How? You spied on me when I was going on dates with Valerie." He narrows his eyes, and points his fork at her, "I'm not blind, I noticed."

"That's different, we told you why we were suspicious. And we don't have ghost powers like you do."

"I don't need ghost powers to sneak around, Sam, you've seen this firsthand. And I just told you why I followed you, I thought he was working with the guys in white--"

"So you think someone can only be interested in me if they're after you?" (this is a paraphrased quote, folks ;D)

"No! If that was the case I would have voiced my concern the moment I thought it. I don't get why you're so angry, you spied too."

Iiits.... a mess. Sam storms off with Gregor, Tucker tags along because okay, yeah, maybe Gregor isn't with the GIW, or maybe last night was a fluke. Either way he ends up tagging along. Danny overhears that conversation between the GIW and Mr. Lancer, and maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong; but something is up.

I've gotten to that scene in the locker room where Gregor tells Danny that he knows he doesn't like him, and I've paused at Danny's reply to say this: Danyal doesn't even bother trying to deny it.

"I know you do not like me."

"You're right; I don't."

"Ah, let me finish. I know you do not like me because you want to protect your friend, Sam, and I respect that."

"...That's correct."

"Good! Because I am going to ask her out."

"I had a feeling you'd say that," he stands up, claps his hand tight on Gregor's shoulder, and leans close to him with a threatening smile, "so you understand me when i say; if you break my best friend's heart, you're as good as dead, right?"

"Ah,, yes. I am so glad we got that cleared out of the way, and now I hope after we can.. how you Americans put it, hang out?"

In the episode he hugs Danny and gives him a la bise (which is that french greeting where you kiss someone on the cheek two or more times) after they end their conversation. But here, when he goes to do that to Danyal, Danny leans away, points an accusatory finger at him, and says; "Absolutely not; we are not close."

The next scene after that is like, end of day. Sam, Tucker, and Gregor walking away. Sam looks over her shoulder to glare at Danny, then gets forlorn. Tucker looks back and just looks forlorn.

(When did I start narrating each scene?? Eh, I'm writing this in brief spurts of time throughout the day. Don't fix what's not broke)

After that there's this whole scene with the two GIW agents that have been chasing Phantom all episode. They're there because they have Tucker's PDA that Skulker took, and it's got the information of their purple backed gorilla assignment on it. They've been going around seeing who Tucker associates with in hopes of catching Phantom.

Uhh ahaha and that is where this gets a little interesting imo, and also allows me to mention that im retconning Danyal's (already) redesigned ghost form. Which I've wanted to retcon even before this moment bc it was just too busy. I'll get to that in a moment.

The GIW suspect Gregor for being the Phantom because of his white hair and green eyes, which is all fine and dandy until you remember: Danyal (and by extension Phantom) has that very noticeable, rather identifiable facial scar that goes across the middle of his fucking face. The GIW could easily suspect that Phantom hides his scar with makeup if he's in disguise, but if they meet a kid with a seemingly identical facial scar and similar disposition? Hoo boy.

Solution? I've got two: Gregor is canonically a kid from Michigan who faked everything to impress Sam. Considering he knows she's gothic and knows that she's ultra-recyclo vegetarian? He probably watched her from afar or got information on her somehow. His hair is dyed, his eyes might just naturally be green, but if he notices that she's got a crush on either Danyal or Phantom? A little sfx makeup could help him recreate a similar looking scar.

My second solution that's gonna happen anyways bc its that suit redesign; Danyal does hide his face as Phantom. Ghosts are emotional creatures and its a popular headcanon that their interests, ambitions, etc, influence the way they look as a ghost, not just their death. A big reoccurring theme of my au is that Danyal did not leave the League unscathed, and that being an assassin is an important part of his identity.

So i'm discarding the hazmat suit look entirely and leaning into the 'assassin' thing. But the general (stylized) feel is like, white ribbon/cloth vambraces that he has used as a garrote at some point, a hood, a gaiter scarf-type thing. I'm keeping the cape. I did a doodle a few days back that's not the official redesign, but a redesign for Phantom. I may reblog this post with that attached because it's got the general feel down. There's very little white involved, but the inside of his cape flares out and looks like the night sky.

Now, the hood and gaiter scarf gets rid of most of the problem, but Danny's hood doesn't stay on all the time, so the GIW have likely seen the upper half of the scar. :] Gregor's own drawn-on scar doesn't have to be 1:1, but it looks close enough, right? A small scar cutting through the edge of his brow and ends right below the corner of his eye. A 'cool, badass' one opposed to Danny's 'garish' scar.

But! Back to the episode scene. Canon Danny gets written off as being 'too prepubescent' to be Phantom, and honestly it'd be hilarious if Danyal was written off for the same reason (he's calling them idiots in his head if they do). But instead -- leaning into the GIW's incompetence here -- he gets written off as being too mature or too talkative. Or something equally as absurd.

Sam breaks up with Gregor for canon reasons, but when Gregor does his "i really like you, but, come on-!" and gestures to tucker, he adds on "and that scary friend of yours too, seriously!"

Things go relatively the same as canon after that. Danny does end up apologizing for spying, however. Sam does it first. Sorrows, prayers, all that.

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Things usually end up changed or different when I actually write it down, so I'd likely add more or adjust different scenes according to the flow of the oneshot. This is just like, a general vibe of how things would go, and where some of the more obvious changes would be if I did write this oneshot.

Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for the ask :]

[pezhead]

I don’t know if you’ve seen the post about absence of cat (chill) and absence of a cat (suspicious) being two very difference things, but your age gap au Donnie came to mind…

Is Donnie off reading a book or disassembling lithium batteries unsupervised?

[boxfullaturtles]

"Why are you so afraid of them? They're only little kids!" "That is precisely why I fear them. They are so small, Herald..." "...and they find a way to crawl into the cracks in your heart." "Ah, so you do understand." "More than you will ever realize."

Even the great Baron Draxum is not immune to tiny baby turtles. Choosing Hope turtles have so many dads/parental figures at this point, surely nothing can happen to them surrounded by so much love!

[Choosing Hope AU Masterpost]

[lilbombus]

“I've been looking everywhere for you! Your beautiful array of chaos is awe-inspiring…”

I like to think that during the time aradia, sollux, and davepeta were in the game, aradia would investigate the whereabouts of Alt Calliope after she defeated LE in act 7

~ below I just added another version of pg 2 w/o the writing ~

[blupengu]

Oh how naive I was…

[demo-dragon]

Turnabout Horizon- Case 4 WIP

“FURTHERMORE, PROVE THAT YOU WERE AT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME THAT DAY… WITHOUT A DOUBT!” Miles and Phoenix spoke in unison as they glared at the prosecutor in anger.

Prosecutor von Karma grimaced as he clutched his left shoulder, knowing that it was the end of the line for him. The young rookie defense attorney pointed his finger at von Karma and spoke those few words, “So, it’s over! Murderer!”

“UUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!” Manfred von Karma, the legendary prosecutor, let out an agonizing scream as the old wound came back to haunt him once again after all those years.

Gregory’s eyes widened as he recognized that scream. “That scream. It was the same scream that I heard that day.” He narrowed his eyes. “So... it was you.”

“Damn, you,” Manfred banged his head against the wall. “Damn you, Gregory Edgeworth! You and your sons are my curse!” He bellowed. “I should have killed you! Because of you, Gregory, my perfect record was tarnished by a mere penalty! And… and you left a scar on my shoulder that will never fade!” The prosecutor continued banging his head. “I… I’ll bury you! I’ll bury you with my bare hands! Death! Death!”

After von Karma’s dramatic outburst that caught the entire court off guard, the prosecutor, who had now fallen from grace, finally confessed to his crime.

15 years earlier, the Chief prosecutor’s office

“You disappointed me, von Karma,” The Chief Prosecutor declared as he was staring at the window of his office. “It’s unlike you to make such an error.”

Prosecutor von Karma stood there as his boss, deemed dissatisfied about the ‘incident’ that happened in the courtroom. He then winced as he frantically apologized. “Mr. Chief Prosecutor I… I’m sorry!”

“Sorry, you say?” Chief looked at his colleague with a hint of a smug grin. “Y’know, If you were sorry, then that Defense Attorney Edgeworth fellow wouldn’t be the one to catch you.” he then pulled his beard as he sniffled. “How could you do this to me?”

“I… was careless.”

Chief pulls out his goggles to dump out his so-called tears and places them back on his face to compose himself. “Y’see, I covered for you in the past, but not this time. As it appears, I can no longer trust your credibility.” He pulled out his small lighter. “It pains me that I will have to penalize you. Since you always boast about your perfect records, but I guess your record is now a tad ‘imperfection,’ y’know.”

“Did he say penalized? Over one simple mistake?” Manfred was in shock beyond words as he couldn’t believe that the Chief Prosecutor would add insult by claiming that his records were now “imperfect.” He couldn’t help but think of the one person who caused all this frustration and yelled out in anger, “Edgeworth!!!”

“Oh, come now, don’t be overly dramatic,” Chief remarked as he looked back at the window. “If we’re done here, you should leave. I have other businesses to take care of, y’know. Oh, before you go, please tell your daughter that Uncky Boo Boo won’t be coming to visit her today. Well, see ya!”

Okay, I hope I didn't butcher Manfred's characterization in the final phase of his breakdown. I added some details from the anime where Miles and Phoenix went into sync as they exposed von Karma as the true culprit and the classic von Karma's head banging on the wall breakdown from the first Ace Attorney game.

I'm going to try my very best to explain how the crime took place in the Defendant's Lobby, room No. 1. I'm not very good at the whole murder case, so I have to find some ways to make it work by doing some references.

With that out of the way, I do hope you guys enjoy it. Let me know if there's anything that should be fixed later on in the future. After all, it's just a rough draft for case 4.

[aftout]

Hodkhg on do you even consider Jack Carter actually losing it and going full red-string-on-cork-board over Wendy’s disappearance because its just too implausible. Do you ever think about Genny going above and beyond to try exposing Voxola’s founder as corrupt because Winona’s (fake) death caused something in her brain to snap into place. Listen.

[krewauideas]

Bootleg AU jumpscare! Have these!

[syn4k]

just a heads up, chapter 15's gonna have some decently heavy shit in it- mainly a description of a panic attack and a brief mention of suicidal ideation- so keep that in mind and keep yourself safe. please do not worry, everyone will be alright, i just thought i'd go ahead and warn ya so that nobody's caught off guard. love ya guys :]

[elven-kisses]

Chapter One for the Foreboding au is now out! Thank you so much to @apollothetransboy who wrote the fic, his writing is incredible so please check it out :D

[exo-dus404]

Foreboding Turmoil.

All by my gf!

[goosemagician]

Ah yes, my very serious notes for my very serious fancomic

[voracem]

 “You seem like a good man, Coriolanus Snow. It would have been nice to meet you under different circumstances.”

" hey, gorgeous. here for the show? "

she'd noticed him immediately. it was hard not to, really. she didn't often see academy rouge in pluribus' club, after all.

then again, she'd be lying if she pretended the uniform was all that caught her eye. he was striking. he had grabbed her attention just by walking into the room; it seems only fair that she take a little of his.

@forebodes

[mustlovesteve]

vague spoilers for my fic's current planned ending in the tags