#meowtherboard

[henriiiii-1001old]

i drew,,,, a l o t for sam @localvoidcat's superhero au bc im fucking insane abt this au,,,,, i had to improvise a lot of the designs bc there arent many canon designs as of right now (not mad though!!! i like experimenting w designs and you're still working on this au anyway!!! no need to rush all the designs or plot or anything!! just take ur time and have fun w it <3333 )

also i only noticed the weird discrepancies w nonami's more purple color compared to the more black and grey colors of the other villains to yeah sorry for that FVGBHNJM

also i just remembered that i wanted to make adam purple and not green bc of his powers but i'm. way too lazy to change it FGBHNJM

i hope you enjoy this despie me forgetting to do a few things!!!!

[localvoidcat]

i just realized how funny it is that the guy with light sensitivity issues is best friends with the guy with light related powers

[foster-the-moths]

by the way. there’s a scene in the superhero au where meowtherboard leaves and drops a dave nametag and thatcher picks it up and goes “he had dave’s name tag………that can only mean one thing……….HE STOLE DAVE’S NAME TAG”. every interaction between them is so stupid i’m obsessed with it. dave sees the lights go on the second thatcher gets scared and he’s like wow! i didn’t know you had mind reading lights

FJKDSJDLKLJKDFKJLDJKL THEYRE SO STUPID 😭 WHAT IF THATCHER THOUGHT MEOWTHERBOARD KIDNAPPED DAVE OR SOME SHIT LMAOOO he goes to daves house and mandelatech and he isnt there so OBVIOUSLY hes been kidnapped!!!.... they mean so so much to me everytime i see new information about this au i am looking at my screen like this 👁️👁️ ITS ONLY BEEN A DAY i am so normal abt this au i swear.

[me-and-other-animals]

Gotta plug this baby into my meowtherboard via /r/aww http://ift.tt/2q9N5Bp

[awwflycat]

Gotta plug this baby into my meowtherboard

[localvoidcat]

gabriel in this au uses they/he 👍

[localvoidcat]

sorry thatcher’s hero design is so funny to me. somehow gets these weird powers and goes huh! okay. i’m going to make the silliest little outfit ever

[localvoidcat]

PLEASE TELL I NEED MORE OF THIS AU TBH

okay so the basic plotline (at least my version of it). i'm gonna split this into a couple different sections due to the sheer amounts of side plots. for quick reference the main roles are:

thatcher: a lieutenant with a secret identity as the hero firefly ruth: thatcher's coworker and the friend of both of them, who grows suspicious of thatcher's explanations for things. she's definitely not hiding anything of her own

dave: a tech store manager that pretends to be a villain named meowtherboard evelin: dave's coworker, who later joins him as an "evil henchman". she uses this solely to get back at adam murray for fun

sarah: dave's niece. she's the main person that works on a youtube channel dedicated to exposing the identities and news behind heroes in mandela city adam: evelin's ex, and one of the people from said videos. in between trying to film blurry fights and running away from flamethrowers, he ends up learning about his own abilities. jonah: adam's friend, and the other person from these videos. sarah sends the two out into the field to chase after the heroes. it's usually jonah who does the filming while adam runs around shouting.

mark: sarah's older brother, and dave's nephew. he's a college student that visits mandela city during vacations, but tends to stay away due to the sheer chaos of the heroes and villains. cesar: mark's friend. we think. he tends to show up whenever mark does. gabriel: the head of the villain league. his goal is to take over the entirety of mandela city, typical supervillain style. he views himself as a god, due to his religious background. he's seen as the most dangerous due to his powers involving the brain. preacher: a villain working under the league, and a former nun at st gabriel's church. her power is that of separating a person's power from them, manifesting it into a physical form. this form must be caught to regain the missing powers. the faceless lady: another villain. her "name" is that given to her by locals, often her victims seconds before being afflicted. her power, as expected, is the ability to steal peoples faces for a short period of time, during which they are still alive but robbed of all their main senses. nonami: another villain. their power is a useful one, being the ability to shapeshift into any person, albeit in an uncanny way. their tell is the mark across their face that remains in every form. n: another villain. his power is considered strange and somewhat useless, being the ability to teleport into the room of anyone laying down. it's not considered useless later on. six: a villain, formerly a show runner by the name of stanley. his power, presumably gained from a work incident, is the ability to travel through televisions, and bring things through the screens with him.

o'brien: the pastor at st. gabriel's church. unfortunately, his workplace is often invaded by the villain league on every day except sunday. jude: adam's absent father. he briefly attempts to pose as a hero. it doesn't work. he sells cryptocurrency to adam's great dismay.

with the roles written down, here's a plot summary:

thatcher has some kind of accident involving electricity/a lightbulb, probably electrocuting himself in the process. fun fact this scene is inspired by a story i read back in 2020 that got deleted and has never left my mind since

over time he starts realizing. oh shit i can do stuff now. there's only one logical course of action

this logical course of action is to take on the persona of this bug-themed hero named firefly because he's a fucking loser. love him for that. he can't actually fly he can control artificial light and that's it

his main reason for doing this is because of the rampant actions of the villains appearing in the city. i've listed them before but each of them plays a role in the story

as he begins looking for information, he encounters his first foe: a cat-themed tech wizard that interferes with his missions all of the time. this person - who introduces themself as meowtherboard - claims to be a villain, and firefly/thatcher wholeheartedly believes them. despite them not doing anything malicious. or really doing much aside from cool tech tricks and meowing. but surely, this is some malicious villain that's trying to overthrow him. how vile

all the meanwhile, he's trying to uphold his normal life as a newly promoted lieutenant. ruth begins to notice how tired thatcher is every day, and gets suspicious over time. he also talks to his friend dave, the manager of the tech store, who notices something off as well. he could never tell them about this though. not like they'd respond badly. he just doesn't want to. he thinks it's silly

and here's where dave comes in! he's the one masquerading as the "villain" meowtherboard. he's not associated with the villain league in any way - he doesn't even have powers as a matter of fact - but the opportunity was too fun to pass up. he has no idea who this firefly character is, but it's become habit for him to show up and talk to them.

one day, evelin - still his coworker in this - walks in to find him working on his costume. he frantically tries to explain it to her, but to his surprise she's...oddly chill about it? she offers to help him out and he agrees, giving her the role of his evil henchman. she loves this, half because it's very fun and half because she has an arsenal of makeshift weapons at her disposal to mess with her ex.

speaking of exes, we're introduced to adam, sarah, and jonah. together, they run a youtube channel dedicated to the documentation, exposing, and information of the heroes and villains in mandela city. they are greatly disliked by said superheroes and villains due to their constant appearances at the worst possible times.

firefly views them as a threat, and tries to avoid them as much as possible. he often fails at this.

this is beginning to be much longer than intended so i'll try to explain things + fun information quickly.

firefly and meowtherboard often get stuck in situations together, often involving villains. there's a couple scenarios where they're trapped and have to depend on each other to escape. what starts as a meeting between bickering masked individuals slowly forms into something almost like a friendship, to the point where when meowtherboard gets injured during a fight, firefly rushes over to help them. this is how the reveal happens, and they realize who the other is. this is much later in the au and they don't have much time to discuss this before gabriel lunges to attack again

each villain is encountered separately, aside from a large fight much much later in the au. meowtherboard gets their face stolen for fifteen minutes, and firefly only realizes this when meowtherboard takes off their mask to reveal a completely blank face. this is before the reveal and is mostly played as a quick call. they also have encounters with the preacher, where firefly loses their power momentarily and has to catch a literal firefly, as well as encounters with n, six, nonami (who takes on firefly's appearance but only as thatcher, which shakes him to his core), and finally, gabriel.

adam realizes he has powers later on in the au. this is during a blunt rotation with jonah where the blunt starts levitating and spinning wildly in the air. they chalk up the glowing purple eyes and the magical blunt to the drugs at first, but later they realize it was real. adam tries not to use his power much due to the horrific headaches he gains from them.

there's another hero that firefly and meowtherboard are often shown up by, this being a cowboy-themed hero with the ability to "mark" people with their gun. shortly after the reveal between thatcher and dave, this hero shows up to help them fight against gabriel, and ends up revealing herself as ruth. this leads to even more confusion seconds before the three nearly get their asses kicked by the man with mechanical wings again

mark and cesar show up at some point, often just to remark on the happenings. dave has to balance being a good uncle, along with a good store runner, along with a good villain. or a bad villain. he isn't sure what he is. we get some mark and cesar interactions that explain their dynamic a bit, outside of any hero stuff.

adam and jonah do at multiple points nearly expose the identity of firefly, but it always ends in some unfortunate mishap. a split second shot of their face gets deleted on accident, or an audio recording of the hero's real voice is overtaken by the sound of jonah being attacked by a pigeon, or a piece of fabric from a torn costume flutters away in the wind never to be seen again. they are having a horrible time.

o'brien, being a friend of dave's, is constantly being chased off by the villains. dave tries to comfort him, or help out as his villain persona, but this never works. o'brien isn't sure how he hasn't been fired yet.

as mentioned earlier, jude has a brief arc where he decides being a hero would be super cool. his costume consists of dvds duck taped to a black shirt and pants, and a cape he found in a spirit halloween. he gets booed away by firefly and meowtherboard. he tries to sell his new startup concepts to dave every day and gets chased out with a broom. adam denies any relation with him.

this is all i can think of right now, but any questions are welcome! i'm still working this out, as seen by my ramblings above, but i love this au very very much and hope to make more content for it later

[localvoidcat]

WHEN WAS THERE A BURNING BUILDING???? EXPLAIN??????

one of the villains decides that its a much better idea to just trap the heroes and prevent them from escaping, than to fight them. they come to the conclusion that since firefly and meowtherboard are always together, they must be working together too.

there is way too much bickering than there ever should when you are inches away from open flame.

[localvoidcat]

i am humbly requesting those ideas for the superhero au to be shared with the class

off the top of my head. i am mainly thinking of firefly and meowtherboard interactions cause it's so funny. firefly goes I HATE THAT GUY and the villains are like clearly you two are in cahoots....which is why we've trapped you both in this burning building ..... so they're constantly having to depend on each other to survive situations. firefly never catches on to the fact that meowtherboard doesn't actually have powers until post-reveal where dave just straight up tells him. and thatcher gets his roasted LMAO

[localvoidcat]

meowtherboard and their soundboard <33333 DCFVGBHN IT WOULD B SO FUNNY IF THEY HAD ONE THO

oh i think they do. firefly gets attacked and you just hear a vine boom

[localvoidcat]

superhero au rotates in my mind at extremely high speeds. do you think meowtherboard keeps putting different filters over his voice changer

[foster-the-moths]

its okay art block buddies 🤝 im glad you like them your art of meowtherboard + firefly has given me so much joy

🤝🤝we;re in artblock hell 🤝 also they literally mean so much to me.... pathetic bug guy and techwizard catman.... GOD I NEED TO DRAW RUTHHHHHH I NEED TO DRAW MYSTERIOUS COWBOY RUTH NOOOOOOOW OOGUHGG im glad u like the art i made of them i need to rotate them in my sad little brain more....... i love spreading joy and whimsy by going ham in the art program its my true purpose o7

[localvoidcat]

i think meowtherboard is dave’s superhero name. thatcher refuses to use it though

[localvoidcat]

meowtherboard's headphones have a Gamer Microphone and they're hooked up to a speaker hidden under the cloak. he sounds like he has a booming voice as part of the superpowers but no! just another one of his little Tricks

HELP SO TRUE

[localvoidcat]

meowtherboard has like. the black/neon green color palette. and his glasses emote. he’s really silly