#our dark duet august

[i-llbehere]

[crookedcrowclub]

i’m having the BIGGEST brainrot over augustkate from monsters of verity i feel so unwell over that ending. v e schwab why would do this to me??? i am in pain 😭 they both deserved so much better :((

[sarcasmiclife]

[homobuckybarnes]

I just finished reading the monsters of Verity series like 10 mins ago and immediately came to tumblr (how else would I deal with that ending??) and I keep seeing people say they don’t like the August/ Kate kiss because it felt like it was forcing a romantic relationship and I didn’t even think of the fact it could be seen as a romantic thing.

That was two sad, angry, hurt and scared people wanting to not feel any of that for 10 mins by just making out. Platonically. And that makes so much sense in my head. I don’t know how to explain it but it just makes so much sense that they are just friends that do that

[hiphopcherrrypop]

I rediscovered your monsters of verity stuff from like 2 years ago and continue to eat it right up, thanks for keeping the four total people who like those books going 💪💪

thank uuu i'm glad to hear it!!! here is some more food for you LOL..

[shesalittlelost]

Kate survived and took August to meet Riley and the rest of her friends in Prosperity. Much to Henry & Emily's concern because their sweet boy swears now! They are a bad influence on him!

[sylveaugust]

SPOILER ALERT FOR Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint Ep 7. Landlord and a teeny part of This Savage Song

I have like seventeen memos of brainstorming a crossover between Monsters of Verity and Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint that I wrote last year and now that I look at them they're just... uhm.

I was thinking that since August is technically a monster, I could probably insert him somewhere during the third scenario where those monsters get summoned through some portal... to be more exact the precise moment at the start of Landlord (6)(webtoon-wise; in the webnovel it's a little after the start of Landlord (5)) which is a little after KDJ turns into a ghost. And then it would be because some entity from above(which is me, as the writer; this was serious fourth wall stuff ngl) meddled with the fabric of reality for fun asdfwoeuriowejfilsj

I ended up postponing that idea for after I finished the actual ORV novel(and those side stories that are keeping on updating these days), but now that I read it it's like brainrot. I'm gonna put one single excerpt here in case you're curious. I have this first scene in like five different memos probably now... I'll rewrite it someday probably idk

Yoo Joonghyuk stared at the place where Kim Dokja had just been in disbelief. He couldn't have been that foolhardy. He wouldn't have dared. But Kim Dokja was now a ghost indeed. In his arms, Gilyoung screamed two words over and over.

"Hyung! Dokja Hyung!"

Of course, the kid didn't know exactly what happened, but Yoo Joonghyuk decided it was useless to try and explain. Yet.

But there was something else that caught his eye. Among the flurry of monsters coming from the portal, there seemed to be a figure of... a boy. He was certainly outside the green zone, simply standing there, but the monsters weren't attacking him, which was odd. And after most of the monsters passed the tunnel into Chungmu Station, Yoo Joonghyuk could see the boy clearly. The boy looked like a teenager, but he didn't look Korean. Although his face was extraordinarily smooth, Joonghyuk could clearly read confusion in the boy's dark grey eyes. Which soon met his. And narrowed.

A flurry of questions rose in Joonghyuk's mind. Who was he? Why hadn't the monsters attacked him? Would he come in handy? Was he a threat? Was he... a monster?

The last question was because Joonghyuk had seen monsters that looked human, more than once. It was also the best answer he could think of, since the boy most likely came from the same portal as the other monsters. But he didn't remember such a boy appearing in the tunnel in his previous times here, so anything was likely... Joonghyuk would have to read the boy's answers carefully.

Gilyoung noticed the newcomer as well. "Hyung?" he called. It was probably the first logical answer that came to him. He wouldn't have known what happened to Dokja, and this boy appeared right after Dokja vanished. But Gilyoung soon noticed the lack of recognition in the stranger's eyes. "You're not Dokja-hyung..."

The boy raised an eyebrow. "Who's Dokja-hyung?" he asked.

Before Yoo Joonghyuk could ask who the boy was, Gilyoung answered the boy's question. "He saved my life in the subway. He was protecting me until he gave me to this ahjussi," he pointed to Yoo Joonghyuk, who made a mental note to tell Gilyoung not to call him ahjussi, "and he got surrounded by monsters. Then he disappeared. Have you seen him?"

"No," said the boy. His brow had subtly twitched at the word "monsters"...

[This statement is true.]

Before the boy could say anything else, Yoo Joonghyuk asked his question.

"Who are you?"

The boy hesitated for a second, then answered. "Frederick Gallagher. You can call me Freddie."

[This statement is partly true.] Hmm...

"You don't look very much like a Freddie. An alias?"

The boy looked at him strangely. "...How did you know?" he asked.

"I have a skill," said Yoo Joonghyuk before he could stop himself. Dammit. He should have said something else.

"What skill?"

"Lie detection," he blurted once again, and silently hoped that Not-Freddie would think he was joking. The boy didn't seem to know anything about the skills of this world, which, depending on how he thought about it, made either total sense or no sense at all. "I don't suppose you'll be telling me your real name anytime soon?"

"Not yet." Of course not. Yoo Joonghyuk would have to use his Sage's Eye again.

[Sage's Eye is activated.]

[This information is currently inaccessible by the Sage's Eye.]

'Who are you?' he thought. Was this boy like Kim Dokja?

[elysiawynters]

There are some people who just deserve to be happy and one of those people is August Flynn.

[starlightbooklove]

By far one of the most beautiful fanarts i've seen of this book 🤌🤌🤌🤌😭😭😭😭

It's making me want to reread Verity's Monsters again 😭😭😭😭

[indigoreed1]

Okay update on my progress with Our Dark Duet…. I’m kind of sad / disappointed with how August is being handled. I like his internal conflict with being monstrous, and I think some parts are really interesting, but this doesn’t feel like a negative character arc for This Savage Song August, it just feels like an entirely new character, and there’s only so much you can explain away by being like “he went dark”. This isn’t dark August, it just feels out of character. 🥲

[orionlancasterr]

R.i.p August Flynn you would have loved Tokyo Ghoul

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

decided to do a fun little challenge for you guys!!!

what is your main song for each of your favorite characters from any books you associate with them? you can do any characters you'd like, not just ouabh :))

my main jacks songs:

froot by marina & what he don't know by anarbor

songs i associate with august flynn from this savage song:

telescope by cavetown & remembrance/final duet from the omori soundtrack (that's what i imagine when he plays the violin)

reblog/ comment yours :)

[somnoless]

August

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currently re-reading the monsters of verity books and aaskhfsh i forgot how much i loved themmm

[sarcasmiclife]

The way you just KNOW it's The Art of War by Sun Tzu

[1very1fancy1doilies1]

August stepping into a role he never wanted and Kate diverging from the one she did...

painted over these two old drawings because they’re going to be featured in an illustrated edition of the Monsters of Verity duology!!

[rainyartblog]

I’m a shapeshifter / What else should I be? Please don’t take off my mask / revealing dark

(Beneath the Mask, Lyn Inaizumi)