#the whole gang is here so this is a nightmare to tag

[alasroundrock]

Ghost poster idea because I cannot enjoy things in moderation and I am currently so-very-normal-definitely-not-fixated on this band.

[ancha-aus]

RealAgeAU Drabble - Customers

I am back! And we are still with Ccino :D @spotaus drabble required tag <3

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No edit or beta as always. we are here for a fun time!

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Ccino snaps out of his staring as someone else stands before him impatiently. Ccino pulls up his best customer service smile and gets to work.

The line is long but it is for the better.

Keeps his mind off the damning newspaper that got delivered to him.

He makes his way throught the line easily enough though. Even if it is busier than usual. And with cross universe customers too. Which sucks for different reasons.

an Alphys and undyne walk up to the counter to return their things. Ccino takes it with a nod and a good day wish as he goes to wash them.

The Undyne speaks "hey... so... I know people have been... rude to you about the whole... letting the gang stay and stuff?"

Ccino rolls his eye lights as he cleans the glass "That are just rumours. I just said that we can't speak for reasons who gods that we don't understand."

Undyne huffs but ALphys mutters "Sorry... the news that Dream had been wrong was... shocking and well... people need time to process it adn stuff..."

Ccino puts the things away and crosses his arms "Anything else i can get you?"

Undyne glares "What the hell man? We are trying to apologise."

Ccino sighs "your apology misses the words 'I am sorry.'." and he stares at them.

Undyne glares but ALphys stops her before speaking again "We are sorry... YOu were right... most of us never understood what the gods did and why and assumed a lot... I am sorry... I am also sorry that the only way people were more open to it was... well..." she eyes hte newspaper before shooting him a smile "must be rough... never being able to at least tell him that you didn't judge him."

Ccino's grip tightens on the cup. Don't react.

the two fianlly take the clue to leave and do as much.

Ccino lets out a sigh in relieve and his sight finds the newspaper again. THe headline is clear as day.

NIGHTMARE PRONOUNCED DEAD.

Ccino glares at it before turning it over. Maybe he can use it to light the fire place later or something.

There is no way he is dead. Those idiots just gave up searching or looking out for him. Ccino can know. he actually read the whole piece instead of just the headline and figured out that they never found any clues that could prove he had died. They are just assuming he died because they hadn't seen any hints of him living anywhere.

Ccino knows this to not be truth. Mostly because Dream would at least tell him that Ngihtmare had died. they have an understanding after the last time they met.

Ccino huffs and looks at one of the cats "You would think they would learn a thing or two about assuming things." the cat just nuzzles his hand.

"Yeah people tend to keep assuming stuff."

Ccino jumps and turns around quickly. He hadn't heard the doorbell ring.

Before him stands another him. Blue hoody. pink slippers. black shorts. white eye lights. pretty much a blank slate of how most of them start.

Okay no that was rude. That is a bad way to think about it. Ccino met Classic. he is a great and helps sneak him quite a few supplies.

Ccino smiles brightly "Didn't hear you come in! sorry for that. what can i get you?"

the other, Ccino will just think of him as Sans for now, looks at the menu and hums before looking bakc at him "I don't want something off the menu."

Ccino raises a brow and keeps grinning "The adoption process can be started at any moment. mister....?"

Sans grins wider and tilts his skull "the skeleton. obviously."

Ccino can't help but snort "Why is that joke always funny?"

Sans looks rather smug "because it is. and here i was afraid customer service killed your humour."

Ccino sighs "oh trust me. it is tryin and testing me daily." he pets one of the cats that has gotten near "the cats make it worth it though."

Sans nods and leans on his fist "can't help but notice the little notice on your bullet board. the one about dream having messed up? What is the deal with that?"

Ccino frowns but figures out what this guy wants. curious dude it seemed who just wanted to learn stuff. Ccino shrugs "figured it would be good to keep the notice up for others."

Sans raises a brow "That is all?" He sounds... disappointed... maybe.

Ccino can't help but be a bit unnerved. this guy is really hard to read for some reason and he can't quite figure out why.

Ccino shrugs "I mean. It is also nice to see mister perfect mess up for once." ccino doesn't even fully mean it anymore. After Dream and him sat together and spoke?

ccino has more sympathy for him.

But Dream is also the reason Ccino isn't seeing Ngihtmare anymore and that shit still hurts and he is just worried about the other.

He really needs to get somekind of help because he is feeling protective over a god. that can't be healthy.

Sans chuckles and nods "Wiht that i can agree. Still weird that people would just think tiping the balance that badly would end well." he snorts and leans on his fist.

Ccino relaxes a bit and nods "exactly! Like. Sure i don't like being sad more than any other person and it sucks if bad things happen to you. but sometimes stuff jsut doens't go well and sometimes bad things happen! And i would honestly much prefer the ability to get pissed or sad about it over just the whole 'oh well! It could be worse!' attitude the whole time." it just sounds exhausting.

Ccino sighs and rubs his cheek "sorry for that." a glance.

Sans however doesn't seem bothered. those eye lights seem more intent for a moment and ccino feels himself freeze.

like a prey in the sight of a very very dangerous predator.

than the moment breaks and sans grins.

It is weird. he never actually did anything different with his eyes or anything. it was just the air around them. charged with danger. it is hard to explain.

Sans leans back "well it is nice to have some people agree with my unpopular opinion." he shrugs before poking the face down newspaper "what about the big news?"

Ccino huffs "i call bull. there is no way he is gone." he doesn't want to believe it. and unless he sees the dust of him himself or saw a video of him dying and actual solid proof Ccino will keep denying it.

Sans tilts his skull "you sound very secure. met him before?"

ccino almost answers honestly but pulls hismelf back. this is a stranger. and if anyone else knew that nightmare visits this place? No that is too much of a risk. Ccino wants this place to stay fully neutral and give his friend the ability to return here if he needs it.

Ccino shrugs "nope. never met him." ccino had gotten pretty good at lying.

sans just stares at him.

ccino just stares back. don't continue speaking. showing nerves can be a sign he is lying, which he very mcuh is, and he is trying to not get caught.

sans sighs "shame. i bet he would have liked the support."

ccino frowns and stares at sans "why do you say that? he had his whole gang right?"

sans looks a bit smugger and shrugs "still. he worked with those right? Must have sucked to be trying to fix soemthing for the good of the whole multiverse and yet have everyone curse you out and want you gone."

Ccino frowns and rubs his arm "yeah..." he imagined that before. there is a very good reason he was always excited to have nightmare visit. to have him take a seat and just drink and eat as the cats grew brave enough to attack the tendrils.

eventually nightmare would bring a book with him to read. and the few times ccino caught him having fallen asleep in the reading chair with multiple cats all over him.

yeah...

ccino has no doubt it was terrible for him.

sans nods and ccino shoots out of his thinking. fuck what could the other have seen on his face.

Sans stretches "anyway. i should head home. nice to meet you ccino." he waves and walks towards the door.

Ccino watches the other exit. he pulls up a hood and takes a sideways step through a portal that just opens for him.

weird.

Ccino frowns as he suddenly realises he never introduced himself. both himself and his guest. yet his guest did know his name.

Maybe he heard it from others or-

Ccino looks down as his hand suddenly touches somethign. a letter and a bunch of gold coins.

Ccino counts out the coins first and notices it is enough to cover a coffee and little pastry. yet the other never ordered anything?

next he grabs the letter. it is closed with a little seal with a crescent moon on it. He opens the letter and freezes.

Hello. there is someone who would like to talk to you and we think you would also like to talk to him. If you are open to speaking with him. Make sure your shop is closed for the public tomorrow. make sure the curtains are closed. In short? Do what you would normally do if NM visited you. Just make sure to do it over a whole day. If tomorrow this isn't done? We will assume you have no interest and move on. If anyone is there who shouldn't be or if you tell anyone about this? We will move on and assume you have no real interest. See you tomorrow Ccino.

At the end a small crescent moon image again.

Ccino feels his soul and head spin before he rushes to his printer and snatches a paper. he quickly writes down that for personaly reasons the store will be closed for the next day, and he makes sure to mark it with the actual date as well.

He puts it on the window of the door before rushing back to the counter and rereading the letter.

This could be a trap. He should contact the stars.

But honestly? He just wants to hope this is exactly as it says it is. He just really wants to see his friend again.

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Hello Journal.

I am still getting used to writing in this but today was a good day and I had some big feelings again. And Dusty did say it helps to write those down.

The feeling didn't happen today but a few days ago. We were outside relaxing in the nice sunlight as we took our times to check the grapes. Oh I was with Ror that day.

Anyway. Suddenly Killer came running over looking very happy. Aparently the multiverse had decided that with how inactive i had become I probably died. So they declared me dead.

I didn't even know Killer went out into the multiverse still. I don't like that, I am afraid he will get in trouble but aparently that isn't something i have to worry about anymore.

When I first heard the news? I was happy. It was such a relieve. People will really leave me alone. For real this time.

The others were happy as well, I could tell! Cross cheered and picked me up to hug me while Horror sighed in pure relieve. Dust had nodded and offered we could celebrate by going to the tavern and enjoying our night there.

Then... I got sad all of the sudden. It confused me. Why would i be sad? Everyone would think i was gone. everyone would really leave me and my dads alone.

So why would I be sad? I wasn't even sure why and my dads didn't either. They thought it was about Dream and well... Dream always brings up complicated emotions but this was different.

Then I finally remembered. I remembered one of the few universes i liked to visit myself. It kinda felt like i got busted? When I told them about Ccino and his cafe. The spot i could just be for a while. Just exist without anythign important. kinda like a self imposed time out.

I hated that i told them. I sounded so ungrateful! Like i still wanted more. So i told them it was fine and i know why we are hiding. It is straight up for me after all. to keep me safe because i am weak and useless and-

No. Cross said not to let those thoughts run free. There. crossed out. much better.

Anyway... yeah.. I felt bad about it but they said they would look into it. Like they do when we plan to visit Dreamtale for the graves.

Well, that is it for now. I am still not sure how to sign these off... so... bye i guess? Until the next part. - NM

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[tiredandwireds-blog]

@jennalistening i got u

Ok here's a list of all the best Dick and Damian(mostly with father/son dynamics) fics imo. Pls dont judge me.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40095006

The Stowaway (5099 words) by LittleLadybugs

Short sweet and fluffy! Damian sneaks a cat into the penthouse and struggles to keep it hidden. At least Dick always has his back!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32923282

Emergency Contact by DawnsEternalLight for grousemouse

Hilarious and cute! Damian gets attacked on a school trip and is just the way youd expect him to be lol. Dick freaks out ofc

https://archiveofourown.org/works/49322866

my shoulders are heavy already by a_alene

Ughhh its sooo goodddd! Damian and Dick sickfic cannot recommend enoughhh plsplspls read ittt

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36304804

a chance to celebrate by emavee

So cuteee! The batfam throws a party to celebrate Dick adopting Damian. Its such a cute story that gives insight into each characters feelings and its also fluffy as hell!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46392967

Father's Day (we were the best) by InkpotSprite

Damian decides to celebrate Dick on Mother's and Father's Day lol cute and absolutely hilarious!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40260231

I'll Carry You by BrickSheep

BrickSheep puts it best with the tag Comfort No Hurt. Its exactly as the title says dick carries damian and i get a rush of dopamine lol

https://archiveofourown.org/series/890946

I Saw Grayson Kissing Santa Claus by pupeez4eva

Damian becomes convinced Santa is after Dick Bruce is confused and Jason is evil. So pretty par for the course lol. Tbh tho this fic had me laughing so hard my sides hurt an absolute beautiful nightmare to read

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51531457

The Ping-Pong Wars by fadesfanfic

Stephanie and Damian bonding! Dick being worried over Damian! And oh the shenanigans! Its beautiful and sweet and funny and iloveitsomuchhh

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28186434

Paint Cans and Sneaking Out by CarrionCarnival

Damian sneaks out to do some graffiti and tries not to get caught lol. Cute and fun. A whole new look for Damian that I loveee

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22544392

The R Stands for – by Cirth

A beautifully written look into Damian's adjustment to his new home. Honestly made me cry ngl but sometimes you need that

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52221118

Obsolete Tools and Tangible Miseries by Corybantic

Ok we def in angst territory now gang! Damian thinks hes nothong but a weapon and Dick helps convince him otherwise. Read at your own risk cause i was sobbinggg

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37052449

the city without stars in its skies by Alienu

Ok i literally just reread this one anddd. Ughhhh im dyingggg. Damian is sent to kill Officer Dick Grayson you see where this is goinggg its so gooddd plsreadplsreadplsread

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40538418

Home Is Where the Heart Is by LittleLadybugs

Ok ill admit this ones more batfam focused then just dick and dami but still. So good. Dick is adopted by Slade not Bruce and goes running to blüdhaven to hide from him. Sadly the Birds wont leave hime alone

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22395412

Not by Blood, Maybe by Heart by Ellegrine

Ok we back to fluff now lol. Damian loves his brothers even if he never says it. In this fic he shows it by protecting Dicks honor lol

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18296282

Still the Best by Cdelphiki

3 great fics all in one spot! Literally some of the best stuff ive ever read! Iloveitiloveitiloveit pls readdd

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10918887

Catch Me (All Records Indicate) by Engineerd

The evolution of the nickname lil D. Cute and so sweet. Short but such a comfort read

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29866386

This Too Shall Pass by DarthPeezy

Just oh. just so so goodddd. Another gorgeous look at Damian adjusting to his new life with the batfam tho this one is more plot directed and ohmygosh did that plot have me in a death grip

And finally my top 2 fav fics:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19718083

Throughout Infinity by flumen

Damian is sent to an alternate universe and meets young justice Dick and crew. Ok no summary i can do will do this fic justice just know i read this in one sitting and immediately felt my sense of priorities and my mind shift. No joke this changed me.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2021464

3:16 by partingxshot

AAAHHHH

Ok now i can talk abt this. Im in the process of rereading this AGAIN bc i literally cannot be left alone. Ok quick summary: each chapter follows Dick and Damian adjusting to their new life as Batman and Robin. I feel like most everyone who is in love with the dynamic between Dick and Damian has read this fic but i cant leave it out bc its literally my fav fic EVER. i will never be normal abt this fic if you havent read it yet plspls do

[koboivanderlinde]

hey are you able to write something for dutch where his s/o has an awful nightmare and he comforts her?

Hello, thank you for the request ! I tried, it's a bit short but I hope you'll like it :)

Dutch comforting his S/O who had a nightmare

Pairing : Dutch van der Linde x Reader

Warnings : mentions of blood

Tags : angst, fluff,

A/N : As I am very new to writing, this is my first "fanfiction" ever. I am open to criticism as long as it's not too rude, I hope you'll like it anyways :)

Fire, fire everywhere. The camp was destroyed, flames licking the canvas of the tents. You were standing in front of you and Dutch's tent, petrified by the vision before you. Everyone was dead, their lifeless bodies lying on the floor next to your feet. Your hands were covered in their blood. The Pinkertons had come and burned the camp to the ground. They mercilessly slaughtered your friends -- your family. You felt as if you were drowning, despair submerging you, smothering you as you gasped for air, your sight grew dim and-

Your eyes opened wide. Your chest rose and fell back down a few times, and you tried unsuccessfully to regain control of your breath. Tears were rolling down your face without a noise. You instinctively wiped your forehead with your forearm, but all you removed was sweat. A nightmare, again. It was not unusual for you to have those, but it has been happening more and more often lately. As silently as you could, you rolled over to see Dutch's back facing you. At least I didn't wake him up, you thought. He was tired as of late, the gang's dangerous situation had taken a toll on him. The last thing you wanted to do was tire him even more.

The camp was silent. Everyone had gone to sleep for at least an hour now; There was no sound but the occasional singing of a cuckoo. Careful not to make any noise that could awaken your lover, you slowly stood up. As you were walking out of the tent, you heard a low voice behind you.

“Come back, sweetheart. What happened?”

You felt your whole body become tense. So he heard everything, you thought. His voice was enough to make the tears you tried to repress flow. You crawled back into the cot, facing Dutch as he was now turned to face you. 

“Had a nightmare… These bastards killed everyone but me,” you whispered with a shaky voice, sobbing. You hated this feeling that was creeping over you; you felt like this was just gonna worry Dutch even more. But your thoughts were interrupted by his sleepy voice.

“Oh, darling,” he sighed. He slowly cupped your cheek. “You know I would never let these men come here.”

He looked at you with concern, as he lovingly moved his hand to your chin. He gently brought your lips to his, fondly kissing you. His facial hair softly tickled you, but you didn’t mind.

“I had your blood on my hands, Dutch. I felt so hopeless..”

“Look at me.” He grabbed one of your hands and kissed it countless times. “Those hands will never get dirty as long as I am here,” he said as he pulled you close to him and embraced you tightly.

  You wished you could stay here forever, protected in his strong arms as the hand that didn’t hold your chin was affectionately stroking your back. 

“You are safe. We are safe. Alright, dear?”

“I love you, Dutch.”

“I love you too. Now come here.”

He laid flat on his back and gently grabbed your arm to help you move yourself on top of him. You rested your head in the crook of his neck, closing your eyes as you smelled his comforting Cologne scent. His arms rested on your back, securing you in place as the two of you fell back asleep, the only thing on your mind being how lucky you were to have Dutch.

[little-paperboat]

What We Owe To Each Other (1)

Calling all the Empire! I'm super happy to share that I've finally published third part of the "Forbidden Fire" series (with a heavy delay, but it's here) 💜

6,738 words later (!) I'm finally satisfied with this first chapter 🤓 And the lesson learned is? I really do have to write every day, even if it's just editing a paragraph or 50 words, because otherwise I find it super difficult to get back into it in a way that feels natural and doesn't require an entire re-write and an extra week of work 🥲

For this next part, Tav and her crew arrive in Baldur's Gate with a lot of hopes; unfortunately, reality is much bleaker than anticipated...

They have finally reached Baldur’s Gate, but the trials that wait for them are far from over. Tav and Rolan meet again; under unexpected circumstances, they both yearn for what they cannot have. (or, at the end of the world, there is hope yet.)

I'm REALLY excited for the Sorcerous Sundries arc of the fic because I've been thinking about it for suchhhh a long time ; there are a few scenes in particular that I was dying to put on paper and now it's happening :D Can't wait to see what you think! x

You can follow the tag "series:forbidden fire" here on tumblr to not miss the next updates 🌸 And as usual, abstract under the cut!

Read on AO3 (1/2)

Read Part 1: Wild Winds Are Death To The Candle (2/2)

Read Part 2: Through Shadows To The Edge Of Night (3/3)

They had reached Baldur’s Gate at last. 

Upon seeing the city lights beyond the walls, Tav had almost cried, overwhelmed by the sweet relief of survival, yearning for what lay below her, for the life that was just at her fingertips; yet unable to find herself at peace. The triumph of the journey left a bitter taste in her mouth, one of ashes and blood. So much had changed since she had left the Gate, her life torn to shreds and pieced back together hastily. It had little to do with the beautiful tapestry that had been woven for her even before her birth, made of threads of gold and silver softly shimmering under the chandelier. Instead, it was now rough and uneven to the touch, dried blood staining the fabric that displayed burns and torn holes in several places.

Going through the Shadow-Cursed Lands had marred her mind, body and soul beyond recognition; the gnarled trees and horrors from the void forcefully stealing parts of her that she knew she would never get back. 

She hadn’t slept once through the night since their encounter with Ketheric Thorm. In the pitch black dark of her tent, she still heard the clattering of bones. Whenever she closed her eyes, a sea of putrid blood and the malevolent aura of the Lord of Bones manifested before her, his giant scythe slashing through her body.

She had almost died then; the cold grip of death tightening around her and choking her, ferocious and famished. She had only survived thanks to her companions’ bravery and tenacity - but the price had been paid. Things could never go back to what they were before; yet she hoped, she prayed, foolishly maybe, that walking in the city would allow her to find her missing parts, to piece herself back together. She longed to see the elegant buildings of the Upper City again, to enjoy the familiar and rich fragrance of the rich ladies’ perfumes, to finally sleep in silk sheets and comfortable beds. Maybe her family would have them all, the estate big enough to accommodate the whole gang plus the two druids, the owlbear cub and Scratch.

If her family was still alive, of course.  

And maybe… maybe she’d even see Rolan again. 

She would never admit it, especially not to herself, but his memory was what she clung to in the darkest hour of the night, his flaming eyes burning brighter than her fears. To fend off the nightmares she’d evoke the softness of his voice, the smile he had given her at Last Light Inn. Deep down, she felt guilty: his disinterest was painfully obvious, and she was pretty sure it was morally wrong to lust after a guy who wasn’t interested. 

But she couldn’t help it. 

She couldn’t forget him.

Maybe if she saw him again in the city, it could bring her closure. By now he surely had his apprenticeship, and who knows, maybe he found himself an attractive partner to go with it. She only needed to ask to be sure - to hear the final word that he was not into her; and then it would be over. Then she’d force her mind to move on and find someone else to fixate on. 

All she had to do was to reach the Upper City. 

Anything after that would be so easy, and soon, it would all be over - with or without the tiefling wizard. 

— Read the rest on AO3 :)

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[hematomes]

Bestie I'm scared what's going on with Ayato

oh it reached tumblr, sweet

ok so basically there's a creepypasta going on, that's kinda called "faceless ayato". it goes like this: a russian diona main downloaded gi from an unknown source bc the official website wasn't working, and when they logged in there was a glitched ayato model, with void instead of his face. they also found itto, raiden and ayato in a mondstadt’s tavern, and later on saw ayato push itto off a cliff.

it turned into a whole story and im still trying to piece it all together bc creepypastas are fucking neat but it’s also very messy so it might be PAINFUL to read. it’s just what ive seen on tiktok

here’s the lore (summarized) utc. tw for disturbing content, multiple characters dying and unreality

- ayato was part of a secret mission, the goal was to kill off the arataki gang. he effectively murdered kuki and itto’s men, but itto wasn’t there. he came back to his whole gang slaughtered, and decided to get revenge: he hunted down every man involved in that mission, until he discovered that ayato was not only involved, but was literally the one who instigated it. which hurt, because he considered ayato a friend, a brother even.

- itto followed him until he could find the best time to kill him. it happened on a cliff near the kamisato household, with itto shoving ayato off of it.

- when itto went down the hill to check whether ayato was indeed dead, he found him crawling on the floor, legs broken and chest heaving. so itto tried to finish him off with his bare hands, but ayato had the most manic smile tearing his face open - and itto snapped. he slammed ayato’s face with his claymore, until all that was left of it was bits and pieces of bloody flesh.

- when ayaka learns about that, she decides to contact hu tao’s funeral parlor to organize a proper ceremony for her brother. yanfei tags along essentially because of kuki’s death, but zhongli stays behind.

- hu tao tells ayaka about the aura of an evil spirit haunting the house, and ayaka tells her about her brother’s mission to kill arataki’s gang + the fact that itto remained. hu tao and yanfei contact heizou to investigate, which leads them to the cliff where ayato was killed.

- when they reach it they find itto. he appears alone for heizou and yanfei, but hu tao sees ayato’s faceless ghost staring right back at her.

- ayato throws itto off the cliff. it looks like he jumped on his own for yanfei and heizou, but the ghost tilts his head and waves at hu tao afterwards. itto falls face first, and when they check his corpse, his face is disfigured and unrecognizable. he’s holding a hydro vision - yanfei picks it up, despite hu tao’s protest.

- later that night, hu tao has a nightmare. she dreams of itto screaming, ayato’s ghost clawing and ripping his face. she wakes up with a start when dream!ayato rushes towards her, and finds yanfei hovering above her bed. she’s holding a hydro vision.

- yanfei, seemingly possessed by faceless ayato, strangles hu tao to death.

that’s all i have for now!! but it’s funny. i might tweak it to be more coherent at some point bc the posts ive read on tiktok were frankly a mess. good ideas tho

[quirkle2]

in zombie au, what if the hypothetical situation where the gang does indeed run into Zero food supply, would zombie mob really eat either or both tome and ritsu :o (i literally laid awake last night imagining this scenario jwndjwndkwn)

oh and one more thing! i would very much like to know what goes on mob's thoughts when said hypothetical situation comes around :3

hogod . oh god i did this didnt i. i did this im so evil im so

ok. this is the evil timeline.we don't talk abt this timeline very much, it's evil. so this is prolly the only ask i'll answer abt it. warning for cannibalism, mcd, and suicide

in the not-canon hypothetical where they Do run completely out of food, mob would indeed get desperate enough to snap and lunge at one of them, and he'd go for tome first. she's less familiar, she's Not his sibling, and she's only been around for a few months

how ritsu responds to this sorta depends on the situation, but in that particular scenario from the previous ask and its tags ritsu probably Doesn't have it in him to shoot mob and he lets tome get killed. he feels like a Monster for it, but he's simply not going to kill his own brother for a girl he just met a couple months ago. he's going to choose mob every time

given that ritsu doesn't have any food for himself here, he's sorta trapped in a nightmare. if they leave after mob gets his fill, he'll feel like tome kinda died in vain, or at least smth close to it. through the fucking Raw Fear he's probably feeling after watching his brother eat another person, he's doing his best to grasp onto logic and say well we should stay here. bc that means shige will get rly well-fed. there's a perfectly good... food source right here. we shouldn't waste it

but ritsu has no food, and he literally can't resort to eating her bc that's tainted meat now. he'd just turn afterward. so they have to leave her. and that makes him so fucking upset in the grand scheme of things but rly, in the moment, he's glad to make that decision bc it means he can stop being in the same room as her corpse

now if it somehow happened Again and mob got that desperate a second time, with nobody but ritsu around? uhm.,,,,he would? i think. he would. as much as i'd love to say he wouldn't, he's a zombie. instincts takes over eventually. and then he'd wander aimlessly until exhaustion, a patrol, or starvation claims him. hashtag bad ending hashtag throwing tomatoes at the stage

to answer ur second question: after mob gets cured, in the middle of his recovery, he starts to remember bits n pieces of the journey, and while it's very fuzzy and it jumps around a lot, he Thinks there was somebody else w them at some point

so he asks ritsu. hey was there ?? anybody else with us? and like.whatthe hell do u say to that. ritsu knows that if mob knows, he'd lose his mind. he wouldn't be able to handle that. so he Has to lie, and he kinda panics and fucks it up a bit bc he says, "nah bro just us ^-^" and completely omits tome from the picture. fucked up but he panicked, okay

mob goes hm. ok. but then he remembers more. he remembers her face, vaguely, and her name, and at first he kinda chalks it up to brain weirdness in his recovery stages, but as time goes on and he gains more and more memories of this girl that ritsu claims was never there, he comes to the conclusion that ritsu Lying might be more likely

and if ritsu lied to his face about this, about a Whole Person being with them, what else is he hiding?

if mob ever did find out what exactly he did to her, or even to that man he mauls to protect ritsu in the canon timeline of this au, i think he'd lose it. he wouldn't be able to live w himself. i genuinely don't think he'd be able to go on after that

[prodigal-howlter]

WIP WEDNESDAY!!!

Tagged on my main blog (@sinninghowlter) by @the-flaming-nightmare!

Under the cut cuz it's a bit long but here's the first 900 words of my Mafia AU (Also she's unedited so be gentle)

       The mafia falling in Malcolm's lap had come about when his father, Martin Whitly, got arrested under mysterious circumstances and the man who was supposed to end up in charge turned up dead.

        The police could never figure out what happened.

        He'd been affianced to an ally of his father's who Martin swore would be able to keep him happy, but the idea of spending his life one step behind someone pissed him off more than he cared to admit.

        His entire life had been planned for him down to the last moment.

        Malcolm had been pawned off to a man ten years his senior, and he knew from watching John that he'd be kept at home doing whatever the male version of barefoot and pregnant is; never allowed to help with the mafia his family bestowed on him.

        That's why he'd taken care of it the week before their waiting period was up.

        John Watkins disappeared from the face of New York and his father was perfectly framed to make sure that he'd look guilty of murder. Which, in Malcolm's opinion, was a long time coming.

        His mother had acted beside herself when the news became public. She'd pretended to be devastated and wiped away fake tears with cries of "What will we do now?" and "The Milton-Whitly family is ruined!" The newspaper had insisted that this would be the end of the mafia and that the entire kingdom they'd built would fall to ash.

        Not if Malcolm could help it.

        He'd become a phoenix.

        When the desk had been emptied and most of the evidence marked for the murder charge, Malcolm had moved in with nothing but a pencil cup and a determined smirk. His mother had touched her hand to his chin, smiling at him with a subtle nod.

---

        It'd all been going smoothly, that is until Malcolm decided he'd go and spend time acting his age.

        He'd made his security promise to let him go alone, to let him be normal for one night. No one knew who he was yet, and surely that was enough... right?

        He could get away with anonymity for one night, have a few drinks, flirt with whoever he wanted, and if he was lucky find someone to take home with him at the end of the night. As long as he used a pseudonym and they were escorted out by morning, his mother's watchdogs would have no idea. As long as Malcolm lived in his father's mansion, not the Milton estate, he was free and clear of her leash.

        For a brief moment, he considers if he should have tucked an NDA form into his wallet or a gun in his jacket. Sure, there was always one in the glovebox of his car, but what good was that in the event of a rival gang deciding his time as the new head was up?

        Malcolm's vintage sports car pulls into the parking lot of the club, and before he's even turned off the engine the heavy bass from inside rattles his windows.

        Tonight will be normal.

        No one knows who Malcolm Whitly is, or why he's so scared of the Milton rats catching wind of his excursion. Maybe he shouldn't take someone home. He should just come, dance, and drink.

        Nothing more.

        The whole plan goes to shit when he walks into the bar and sees the man at the counter. Malcolm presses on, approaching the other end of the bar and ordering a simple whiskey, hoping to sip on it and watch the mysterious man talk to the girl with him. She's maybe Malcolm's age and would be Malcolm's type if he were straight.

        The mystery man laughs at something she said and something in Malcolm's chest warms at the sight. She looks proud of herself. It must be hard to make him laugh, Malcolm thinks, sipping his bourbon.

        He signals to the bartender and orders a whiskey for the man and the woman, requesting to be kept anonymous.

        "Of course, sir." She smiles, pouring two whiskeys.

        Nervously, Malcolm eyes them, fighting a swell of anxiety, "Are they... do they frequent here?"

        "Who? Oh, them?" She smirks like she knows a secret he doesn't. "Yeah, they usually have another man with them but I guess his wife must have wanted him home early."

        "Are they..."

        "They definitely are not. She has some sweet little girlfriend, an ME, I think. They're all work friends from what I understand. Start you a tab Mr...?"

        "Bright. Call me Bright. And I think it's just going to be those three drinks tonight." He hands the woman a few bills, "Keep the change.

        "Absolutely, Mr. Bright. Here's that bourbon you ordered, let me know if you need anything else." Her blonde ponytail flounces behind her as she turns away, heading towards the other end of the long metal bar to deliver the drinks.

        He tries not to stare, but before he can realize it, he's tilting his head to look towards the duo, watching them talk to the bartender. The man nods and smiles, and Malcolm feels a warmth spread in his gut.

        And then he spots it. A glinting on the stranger's ring finger and the feeling turns cold. He's married.

        The bartender meanders back over, "They said thank you."

        Malcolm nods, brain fogged over at the revelation. "He-- He's married?"

________

And Im going to tag: @rattboiii, @khalixascorner, @starkerkitty, and @ImXthexdoctor

[glamoureddreamer]

Idea 1

Cross and Nightmare, Hurt/Comfort

Again wanted to state these ideas are free use, I don’t care if you change the characters or the fandom or whatever else you do with it. Just have fun with it :) have a great day

Cross is new to Nightmare’s gang and Nightmare has been sensing a lot of negative emotions from Cross. So one evening when the emotions were particularly strong Nightmare walks to Cross’s room and confronts him about it.

“Good evening Cross. May I come in? I just wish to speak, that’s all.” He says already sensing the other’s fear. Nightmare doesn’t sugarcoat it and gets straight to the point.

“It doesn’t feel as though you're happy here…” Cross immediately panics and tears fill his sockets as he messily rushes to explain.

Nightmare simply stops him and tells him he doesn’t have to be here if he doesn’t want to. That he would never force Cross to do anything he didn’t want to. However, he misread the whole situation.

Cross looks down, his chest shakes but before Nightmare can speak up Cross lets out a sob and very quietly he begs “Please don’t leave me.”

His chest was shaking hard now, jostling the bed. Nightmare is taken back but hugs Cross. The other for the first time didn’t shy away, Cross wrapped his arms around Nightmare and sobbed openly into his jacket. Nightmare was in shock but held him and comforted him anyway.

Once the crying stopped Cross pulled back wiping his tears and apologizing guiltily.

“There is absolutely nothing you have to be sorry for. Would you like to talk about it with me or maybe the others?”

Cross doesn’t answer rubbing his warm anxiously, hesitating before explaining.

He doesn’t think he belongs or deserves to live in the castle. And his reasoning was even worse ‘You all are too nice to me and I don’t deserve it.’ But he said he was also scared of leaving because he has a fear of being alone or being left.

Nightmare first thanks him and tells him he did well about opening up. Then he addresses the cognitive distortions. Cross ends up crying a few more times, not that Nightmare minded. A good meal and he gets to help one of his boys.

“Unfortunately, these things take time Cross. However, these thoughts can be fixed and I’ll be with you helping you the whole way.”

Cross hugs and thanks him, before again trying to apologize which Nightmare didn’t accept.

Nightmare and Cross talk more, and Cross finally opens up about things he likes and dislikes. He was even making jokes by the end. Little did Cross know three rag-tag skeletons listened through the door. All slightly agreeing they would help him too, before running off and ‘acting normal’. Even though Nightmare could sense them.

“Just like all my boys, if you need me no matter what I will be there for you. You are safe now Cross, allow yourself to be happy. You deserve it.” Nightmare tells him on his way out.

“If you need me I will be in my office, Sleep well Cross.”

[fandomsoda]

Personal project masterpost

Alright so I have realized all my stuff is too much for the pinned post but I can make this masterpost and update it periodically. This will include: links to intro posts/refs, links to doodles/additional official art, and the given hashtags for each individual thing. Fan art/asks with art and most text posts will not be linked here, but you can search my blog/tumblr by the official tags in order to find stuff. Note: for additional small things such as fun facts about characters not on their official refs, check out the “#oc factoids and asks” tag and search with the tag of the given character/project. Yeah sorry you have to do some digging yourself, I can’t update this post every single time I make something new. Anyway let’s just jump into it. Last updated: 8/6/24 (d/m/y)

Omega Lab (#omega lab au, #omega lab)

Ref sheets for all mainline characters (Test’s tags: #test!sans, #test omega lab | Glow’s tags: #glowstick!sans, #glowstick omega lab | Tizzy’s tags: #tizzy!sans, #tizzy omega lab | Bio’s tags: #biohazard!sans, #biohazard omega lab)

Tizzy and Biohazard doodle

Glowstick and Test doodle

promotional piece

dynamic elaboration drawings

Sanses in alt subcultures (#alt sanses my beloveds) [casually known as Altverse but that is NOT its official name, do not tag it as such.]

Also the official tag is what you can use to browse MY blog. It’s not a title either. Just tag your art with the characters included.

Pastel goth!Dream (#pastel goth!dream sans)

additional Dream drawing

Alt!Killer (#alt!killer sans)

Classic 2000’s emo!Nightmare (#emo!nightmare sans)

NM pixel doodles

Scene!Ink (#scene!ink sans)

scene!Ink pixel doodle

Scene!Ink’s small psa

scene!Ink featured in my 2023 Inktobertale

Scenemo!Cross (#scenemo!cross sans)

Because things are often misinterpreted with this AU, it has its own clarifications tag. “#alt utmv clarifications” is the tag, if you’re ever wondering something about it then check there. If one of those posts doesn’t have an answer, just feel free to ask me yourself.

Robo-Ink aka Oil (#robo ink, #oil!ink sans, #robot!ink sans)

Based entirely on the simple (initially joke) proposition: “alternate multiverse where everything is the same except Ink is a robot”. Oil hails from a whole separate multiverse just like the usual one, accept for him being the way he is. Slightly different in personality, but you only really realize it when putting the two characters in the same interaction. Either way, he is my pride and joy and a great project so far.

No ref sheet currently exists for this character

initial conceptualization sketches

full-body further conceptualization sketch dump

more anatomy elaboration

Faeverse (#faeverse, #faeverse au) [please read info]

Ok so Faeverse isn’t actually entirely my creation, it’s a shared project with me and @dinosaurzzz. I’m just the lead character designer and artist, I don’t own it. Faeverse is a retelling of Underverse with a twist of Xvials and fae folklore from various cultures. Some things are critically changed in this au, so I’m begging you, if you’re going to make fan content, to read ALL OF THE INFO we have about it, including the masterpost about a core character Dino made which is linked in the below ref sheet.

Fae!Ink ref sheet (#fae!ink sans, #leánnan sídhe!ink sans)

Very pretty Fae!Ink doodle sheet

Omega!Cross (#omega!cross) [on hiatus]

Omega!Cross is a half-wolf version of Cross who was inspired by the works of some of the other creators in my general orbit, for posts featuring him interacting with the other 6 wolf!Cross’s, check out #wolf!cross gang shenanigans!

this project is currently on standby due to the stress I get when creating it. There may be the occasional thing here and there but for now don’t expect any big additions to Omega’s story. It’s a mess right now.

Omega!Cross ref sheet

just some expressive doodles

his canonical identities!

Design clarification text post

design clarification doodle

full doodle sheet 1

Canon height diagram

lore teaser

R34L17Y_D3C4Y (#r34l17y d3c4y, #reality decay)

R34L17Y_D3C4Y (pronounced “reality decay”), or R_D for short, is an Undertale alternate multiverse where all outcodes, multiversal beings, or beings that have been separated from their original universes gain weirdcore designs and qualities. I started it over on my Reddit but am moving it here.

Explanation/lore post

Fresh’s ref (#reality decay!fresh)

Wink’s ref [Ink] (#wink reality decay, #wink r34l17y d3c4y, #wink!ink sans, #rd!ink sans, #reality decay!ink sans, #wink rd)

Spinner’s ref [Error] (#spinner reality decay, #spinner rd, #spinner r34l17y d3c4y, #spinner!error sans, #rd!error sans)

Blossom’s ref [Dream] (#blossom reality decay, #reality decay!dream sans, #blossom!dream sans, #rd!dream sans, #blossom rd)

Annulus (#annulus sans, #annulus!sans)

silly one-off OC of mine

ref sheet/info post

Miscellaneous utmv ship kids

Dagger Striper [Killer x Ink] (#dagger striper)

Brightspex [Ink x Dream x Cross] (#brightspex)

Homestuck fantrolls

Gradient blood trolls concept post/initial art of my primary fantrolls (#gradientblooded trolls)

Primary three fantrolls sprite post (Spiral’s tag: #spiral circus | Orbovo’s tag: #orbovo weaver | Rodiea’s tag: #rodiea lassos)

[bylerschmyler]

Vecna's curse and Time Fuckery

OMG! I Noticed something that ties into the general time fuckery happening.

So I've been talking about the timings off the killings back in the day and how it's weird that Chrissy talked about her symptoms with Ms. Kelley on March 13th.

Which is super weird because Max talks about Chrissy's symptoms on March 23rd like this

Which doesn't really make sense for me because Chrissy's headaches started 10 days prior to the day Max talks about them but she is referring to the start as a week ago. Which in context of the rest off her reference is basically saying 7 days (without saying 7 day straight).

So I tired to explain that with Chrissy's symptoms from the 13th are not the real curse symptoms but something like a pre curse. But since we are talking about time fuckery and Vecna all the time (courtesy to tag @aemiron-main and @henrysglock here) I think it ties into something else.

So when I analyzed my #victimgate analysis I was talking about how the timeline Max is giving us the implication that the cursing went like this:

March 17th -> Chrissy gets cursed

March 18th -> Fred gets cursed

March 19th -> Max gets cursed

I don't talk about Patrick here because I don't think he was an original victim but rather a replacement for Mike (my whole analysis about it is pinned on my blog). Following the timings Mike would have been cursed on March 20th.

So considering the timeline I just mapped out Chrissy and Fred died on the 5th day of being cursed. Max's timing is off since the original 4th victim is replaced by Patrick on March 23rd (the 5th day of her curse) and she gets her vision later that day and the day after.

Considering Vecna's connection the 5th day seems odd unless you consider my math here about the curse:

4 days off Symptoms

4 nights off nightmares

1 day with 4 visions

4 visions you may ask? Yes 4 visions. Both Chrissy and Fred likely had 4 visions. The first one is just not shown to the audience.

Max says that Fred and Chrissy both died less than 24 hours after their first vision

So how did Ms Kelley know that Fred was having a visions if his visions started at the Trailerpark and he than vanished into the woods to end up on the street where he finally dies?

And how did she know about Chrissy's vision if she did go to Eddie to buy drugs after her vision in the bathroom stall?

Well for Chrissy it's pretty simple:

We know she has fixed appointments on thursdays (see the first screenshot). So her going to Ms Kelley on Friday (March 21st) is an out off the ordinary visit. And what would trigger such a visit? Likely her seeing a creepy grandfather clock attached to a wall before waking up and the clock is not their anymore. And why would she so upset? Well if someone tells you that everything bad that is happening right now is just all in your head.

For Freddy it seems more complicated at first. Until you remember where we see him first at on March 22nd. He is at school. In the newspaper room. And he easily could have went to Ms Kelley if she was at school too. So she would know about his vision too.

So since we have established how I think the curse works now get back around to the timer fuckery.

Remember what I initially talked about how Chrissy symptoms started on March 13th according to the notes from Ms Kelley. So you know how their are too different dates for the creel murders. March 21st and March 25th (if not check out @aemiron-main's posts about it). So if we do the Math here and consider that the victim's were cursed in a day's interval each we have the following situation.

In the timeline we get presented by following the Date from the first episode (March 23rd when the Hawkins gang breaks into the school) we have the following situation:

March 17th -> Chrissy gets cursed

March 18th -> Fred gets cursed

March 19th -> Max gets cursed

March 20th -> Victim no 4 gets cursed

March 21st -> Chrissy dies

March 22nd -> Fred dies

March 23rd -> Max dies

March 24th -> Victim no 4 dies

March 25th -> Anniversary of the creel murders

So if we now go back to the note from Ms Kelley and do the Math again but starting from March 13th we have the following situation:

March 13th -> Chrissy gets cursed

March 14th -> Fred gets cursed

March 15th -> Max gets cursed

March 16th -> Victim no 4 gets cursed

March 17th -> Chrissy dies

March 18th -> Fred dies

March 19th -> Max dies

March 20th-> Victim no 4 dies

March 21st -> Anniversary of the creel murders

Coincidence? I think not.

[serenebeasts]

This will probably have been in the drafts for a while by the time it’s posted because there’s a lot and I get tired SDKFJSFDKS but without further ado: the WIP rundown no one asked for.

Organised at the very least by subject matter, because while I may be out of control, I’m not a heathen.

WARNING: these won’t be spoiler-free.

Also, I’m noting this here because otherwise I’ll one hundred percent keep restating it with half the items on the list: I like angst I like to have fun :)

This is about to be so long. I apologise in advance if you’re of a mind to read the whole thing, and I thank you if you manage it.

Akash: Path of the Five

Ignatius/Aurora body painting – Ignatius asks Aurora if he can practice the art of body painting on her! Body-painting ensues, and also kissing. Aurora flirts with her man, her man loses his composure several times. Post-game, maybe post-wedding but I haven't decided that yet.

Andromeda Six

“I loved you, Vexx.” – f!Traveller/Vexx. You know that one scene in the storage room where the Traveller is supposed to interrogate Vexx but then you have the option of making things a bit emotional? Yeah.

Post-episode 5 – Because for some reason I wanted to sit in the feeling of terror and panic after Vexx gets shot. There will be content warning tags for medical procedures. I’m undecided on whether it’ll be Vexx route or Damon route, but either way Reba has a lot of love in her heart for Vexx and she is very worried for him.

Wereshark Vexx – More of a general AU idea than an actual work-in-progress at this stage, but it’s horny. Safety-for-work to be determined. Also, it has “wild stallion tamed by a teenage girl” energies, but instead of an untamed herbivore it has Vexx with some kind of metamorphosing virus, and instead of an adolescent schoolkid it has 20-something Princess Reba.

Blooming Panic

“Make me.” – xyx and lovelylola experience everyone’s favourite ‘challenge your significant other in a loving but definitely not god-honouring way’ trope, with LL as the perpetrator. A series of little moments, all inspired by the appearance of that line in the actual game.

Changeling

Ewan/Nora Build-A-Bear – Ewan and Nora go to the aforementioned store. Nora is an agent of chaos and somehow manages to create the perfect Ewan Bear despite the fact that there is no such real-life thing as Headless Teddy (trust me, I scoured the website. But you bet I'm making it work). I’m having maybe too much fun using the Build-A-Bear creation process as a narrative device.

Dragon Age

A Weakened Mind – Fenris/f!Hawke. DA2 Fenris + a combination of canonical spells that have an effect which is similar to the Feeblemind spell from D&D 5e = pain.

Gang AU – f!Cousland/Zevran. It's an Origins gang AU. She has bits of a fic but no plot, your honour.

Post-Enemies Among Us – Hawke being like “Ah. Mind control. These are the continued consequences of me not minding my own business. We love purposely not sleeping in case we were going to have nightmares.”

Twinblades – f!Cousland/Zevran. You know how in Awakening the flavour text for these default daggers equipped to a rogue Warden is like “these belonged to some guy from Nevarra for like a day but then they were nicked”? Here’s a concept: Zevran took them for his babygirl (gender neutral). Unclear how integral the daggers are to the plot as a whole, but they are very important to the beginning of the fic.

Fire Emblem

“Who is that?” – Gaius/f!Robin. An expansion on Robin and Gaius meeting in the Shepherds’ base camp, because in game it’s (I think?) Chrom who has to speak to him to recruit him, and I was like “But how does the tactician who now has to fit another moving part into the battle plan feel about this? And how does Gaius feel about the strange-looking but also very pretty tactician?”

Jeralt is Dead – Pain! Grief! Academy phase Byleth struggling to process her father’s death, the Blue Lions not knowing how to help her process it!

Kill Miklan again – Sylvain/f!Byleth. Post-game, some mage somewhere finds TOWSITD’s necromancy handbook and goes “You know what we should do with this? Bring back the Ashen Demon’s husband’s piece of garbage brother. Great plan, team! We won’t be hunted down and made to pay for our crimes at all!”

Lorenz/Marianne first date jitters – Post-game. Lorenz Hellman Gloucester puts his big boy boots on and woos Marianne von Edmund, like the newly-realised Actually A Genuinely Nice Man that emotional maturity has helped him become. We all clap for him.

Student Byleth AU – More of a collection of ficlets than one whole piece, but all of them feature Byleth as a student at the Academy rather than one of the teachers.

Sylvain/f!Byleth Hanahaki AU – The general storyline probably speaks for itself, but I ask the additional question: what if mutual pining meant double the sickness?

Sylvain/f!Byleth modern jousting performer AU – Sylvain Jose ‘I embody the Showy Horseman knightly archetype’ Gautier works for an entertainment company which I’ve described in my notes as being Medieval Times mixed with WWE. He flirts with Byleth ‘I’m a world-famous pop star but I also like swords so I have a season pass to the fake joust show’ Eisner a lot. Also, Jeralt says ‘canoodling’.

Sylvain/f!Byleth smut – There’s a bit of background to set the scene, but not much active plot once things get rolling. Sylvain has been in Fhirdiad, Margravine Byleth has been running the show in Gautier. Reunion time!

The Cat – I’m not sure if I want to finish this one, but the gist of it is that in academy phase there is this one very large tomcat which has decided to hang out in the Blue Lions classroom, and he’s in a bit of a state because he’s unwell. I’ve mostly been pantsing so I don’t know what the fuller plot is, but there will be a time jump to war phase and the big fluffy guy will come back looking strong and hearty. Something along the lines of ‘parallels between Dimitri Then and Dimitri Now, but with contrast provided by the physical wellbeing of a domesticated feline’.

The Grand Cathedral of Garreg Mach – Azure Moon. Getting fancy with the metaphors again to compare the absolute state the cathedral is in at the beginning of war phase to the absolute state of one Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd during the same time period. The cathedral gets repaired as time passes; Dimitri's mental health improves with some care and patience from those around him. Hints of Sylveth.

Greedfall

“Governor’s legates aren’t quite the same as Naut captains, my love.” – A fun little drabble about my De Sardet and Vasco having morning snuggle time and debating whether she really needs to get out of bed and attend to paperwork right this minute.

Dearest Constantin – De Sardet writing a letter that she'll never send, because she killed her cousin for the greater good.

Hades

“Am I a monster, Achilles?” – Zagreus asks Achilles for some good old-fashioned father-figure-brand reassurance because he just got his ass beat by Theseus, a.k.a. The hero king who did all of that neat stuff with killing bad guys and was granted Elysium, and his self-esteem is not high.

Hypnos/Zagreus smut – Barely any background and no plot to speak of.

Mass Effect

“Tell me something about you, Commander Shepard.” – Garrus/f!Shepard. We start during 1, with Garrus querying Shepard in an effort to foster a positive relationship between them, because at that stage he’s one of exactly two non-humans on the Normandy and it seems wise to make friends with the commanding officer. ‘Tell me something’ quickly becomes A Thing That The Commander And Garrus Do at incidental points across the trilogy.

“There are aliens on deck.” – My humble contribution to the classic ‘Shepard squares up with someone being less than polite about her alien crew’ scenario, but this time the perpetrator is also a Normandy crew member. No xenophobes allowed on this starship.

Alchera – The requisite expansion on Hackett’s assignment to collect dog tags and sight out a spot for a memorial on that one particular ice planet where Shepard, y’know. Died.

Banner of the First Regiment – Inspired by the turians in Purgatory who are looking for the titular artefact in 3. Shepard finds the banner and returns it, as one does when one is doing a playthrough where one is trying to do all possible assignments, and the officer buys her a drink, which turns into a drinking contest. As I was brainstorming ideas for it, I started drawing connections between the implied situation of the First and the Tennyson poem The Charge of the Light Brigade, so that will probably have some significance.

Everyone has heard of Commander Shepard. – From the POV of an as-yet nameless and faceless Alliance marine assigned to the Normandy after the Reapers first hit Earth. It’s had a few facelifts since I first started drafting it, but the core of it is a third-person perspective of Shepard at the beginning of 3 with a few hops forward in time up to and including the pickup of a certain turian sniper at Menae.

Garrus is… – Garrus/f!Shepard. The classic ‘using repetition to show something evolving while having a constant at its core’ technique.

Hell hath no fury like Shepard defending her crew. – Another one with not much of a plot yet; thus far it’s pretty much just some sections of one scene and that’s it. A rando on the Presidium starts trash talking the Normandy crew, and my dear darling Aspen Shepard reacts as any self-respecting Australian does when overhearing baseless trash talk about her friends: immediately starts shit with said rando about it.

Home – Garrus/f!Shepard. Truly disgusting fluff about Shepard having a bricks-and-mortar home that she owns for the first time in her life, thanks to Anderson’s gift. Kind of a collection of moments rather than a full narrative, but what’s important is that one of them involves Shepard asking Garrus to move in.

Lost But Not Forgotten – ME Andromeda. If you’ve played Andromeda then you’ll probably recognise the title because I lifted it directly from the questline about searching for the turian Pathfinder. In my outline notes I’ve written, and I quote, “I wonder if Ryder and Avitus would trauma or grief bond about them being Pathfinders for their respective races, and having become such Specifically because the previous Pathfinders intentionally put Ryder and Avitus before themselves because they loved them”, so that's more or less the gist, with a side of ‘Avitus was Macen’s second, but Ryder was just Alec’s kid’.

Post-EC ending – Shepard lives (😤) and, after a period of recovery and a lengthy negotiation during which she has every right to ensure her requests are met with no conditions, she gets a cruiser and a small crew and goes off to do something I haven’t plotted yet because all I have written is the emotionally compromising first chapter, post-game, from Garrus’ POV.

Sole Survivor – Everyone loves a good bit of pre-canon speculation on what kind of hell a character went through during XYZ backstory element, right?

Monster Hunter

Rider and Kyle being enemies – In context of the story progression of Wings of Ruin, the main character and Kyle resolve their differences fairly quickly. But what if they were only allies for the sake of saving the world, didn’t actually like each other or get along outside of world-saving tasks (although Kyle makes a half-hearted effort at first), and continued to butt heads for several years afterwards?

Pokémon

Crime de la Crime – Guzma/OC. The providence of this one can be traced directly back to the fateful day I entered my local cinema and watched ‘Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)’, to use that masterpiece’s full government name. Chaotic ‘hero versus… villain, question mark?’ AU, where Casey is the super-powered Spitfire and Guzma is the master thief known as Shadow.

First date – Guzma/OC. This is by no means their ‘canonical’ first date, as it were; it might end up being so, but I need to write out everything that comes before it in their timeline of events (specifically We Are Kings and the Kalos arc) to be confident it would go this way. As it stands, Guzma takes advantage of the fact that Casey thinks the occasion is special enough for a dress rather than her usual shorts-and-a-graphic-tee fare and makes a dinner reservation somewhere fancy enough that reservations are encouraged.

Grim Reaper AU – Guzma/OC. Fairly self-explanatory. Guzma is the Reaper, Casey is a recently deceased whose soul Guzma is responsible for safely escorting to the afterlife. I couldn’t just let it be simple, though, and there’s action and adventure involved as well as some ‘past lives’ flashback shenaniganry.

We Are Kings – Guzma/OC. The piece of writing which explores how Casey and Guzma get to know each other and catch feelings. Follows the broad timeline of Sun/Moon. One of the things about this one is that I started drafting it during a time when I was dealing with Stuff, so I used the original version as a way to vent my frustrations. Casey was only sparsely fleshed out at the time, but she’s much more so these years on, so I’ve been wanting to give the fic a major overhaul—i.e., demolishing the whole thing and maybe keeping a few scenes that would still work in an entirely reimagined version of the piece that allows Casey to shine more as a developed character rather than just as a Face for Audrey’s Self-Insert Guzma Fantasies. I had been posting the original version on AO3 until I decided to rewrite, and it’s still accessible (incomplete) Here. I might even leave it up once I get the reboot sorted, just as a fun point of reference.

Kalos University arc – Guzma/OC. I’m making myself keep this mostly in the planning phase because how it pans out is directly related to how We Are Kings goes. But, in summary: Casey, having figured out roughly what she wants out of life, decides to do her undergrad at an entirely made-up university campus back in Kalos. Guzma stays in Alola. It’s kind of a ‘long-distance situationship’ thing.

ME Casey AU – Vega/OC as well as Guzma/OC (with a side helping of @fightfortheusers' Makai), so it really could have gone either under this heading or Mass Effect, but she was a Pokémon OC first, so that’s where I’ve decided to keep the folder. Another which is more a collection of scenarios than a fic, but there is this whole thing about Casey being one of the Normandy crew members abducted by the Collectors in 2 which could probably be refined into a proper work with the amount of content it has.

Paramore The Only Exception – Guzma/OC. Requisite ‘but what if it wasn’t mutual pining’ fic, as per the angst fic writer playbook. One-sided, with Casey as the ‘side’.

Plumeria glances at her – Plumeria/OC. Just a Plumeria/Casey drabble, because Casey is my little bisexual angel baby.

Small-time Rock Band AU – Guzma/OC. Me being a dirty rotten former 5SOS diehard, I wouldn't be myself if I didn't have at least one of this flavour of AU. Casey is the guitarist in a locally renowned band of which Piers Swordandshield and Olivia Sunandmoon are also members. Guzma is in the audience one night. That's as far as I've got so far, but if I know my own mind, I'll come back to it shortly.

That being said – Raihan/OC. This one stars my Galar OC, Lottie. There is some sort of red carpet event pre-relationship, and the gym challenger whom Lottie manages (@fightfortheusers' Matteo, icyww) has managed to wrangle her an invitation to said event as Raihan's plus-one. She wants to strangle the kid, it's very funny.

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Inversion – Milo/Sweetheart. The contents are pretty self-evident; I’m subjecting everyone to Inversion fic. While what I’ve drafted thus far is from Sweetheart’s POV, I think it would be fun and not at all upsetting to include the rest of the listeners whose partners are involved in the storyline. The opening will be the aforementioned Sweetheart POV, including them getting a situation report and proceeding to shit themselves in worry without reprieve until they see that Milo wound up on the outside of the ward.

Helping your feisty werewolf boyfriend shift again – Milo/Sweetheart. This one came to me before the Inversion fic, so I guess I’m working backwards? Stay tuned next year for Freelancer & Caelum baking fic, if the trend continues. With this one the intent is to put an actual written voice to how Sweetheart might have reacted to Milo “I am at my limit” Greer having a very understandable breakdown about his damaged core and unresponsive shifter magic.

When The Night Comes

“Gods above and below.” – Omen/Alkar/Hunter. Zeina has been out of town on a solo assignment, but the day she was supposed to get back has come and gone with neither word nor sign of her. Alkar is freaking out, Omen is only freaking out a bit less. But oh, what’s this? Here she comes, stumbling through the woods concussed and bleeding profusely! Basically, it’s an injury recovery fic.

The novelty hasn’t quite worn off – Omen/Alkar/Hunter smut. Without going into too much detail for the sake of the timeline, this work is Zeina being disgustingly in love with her partners while also trying very hard not to give them the satisfaction of having reduced her to begging.

Zeina dress – Omen/Alkar/Hunter. It’s midwinter, there isn’t much work to do because most creatures dislike the cold, and Zeina is losing it a bit so she decides to make herself a pretty outfit to cope.

Honourable mention for media where the fic ideas I have are languishing in the brainstorming stage: Errant Kingdom.

There are also. Several original works. I might make a separate post for those, if anyone is interested in more of my half-baked fictional projects?

@ejunkiet

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◈ TAG PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER!

Favourite colour(s): GREEEEN!!! and whatever is the name of that color most sunsets have.

Favourite flavour(s): SWEEEET. If I must be specific... milk + vanilla + any fruit or matcha

Favourite genre(s): Fantassyyy, adventure and romance. (And horror)

Favourite music: Folk metal, metal, rock/punk, godspell and saya.

Favourite movie: Beauty and the Beast, all of them. Have seen them at least 500+ times by now. Besides that: The hunchback of NotreDame, Nightmare Before Christmas and Kung Fu Panda (all of them)

Favourite series: I’ll keep the jazz and leave it on books, games and show. BUT, I’m a nerd so I’ll add anime and manga/manhwa (not, not all of them are nsfw+)

* Book: Maigret * Game: Undertale / Kingdom Hearts * Show: The Storyteller * Anime/manga/manhwa: Darkstalkers /  Oumagadoki Zoo (listen here, if you like BNHA and you like Gang Orca, let me tell you that his creator made a manga before it, WHICH I LOVED, it got cancelled but most of the animal like characters that appear on Boku No are original characters from Oumagadoki Zoo , and yes Gang Orca was the villain or Arc 1 ) / Pure Blood or Lore Olympus

Last song: At work Ocean Avenue from Yellowcard. Atm? Diabulus in Opera. The whole show, yup.

Last series:

* Book: Federico Lorca trilogy. * Game: ...LoL. LISTEN, I WORK WITH A POTATO. * Show: The Owl House counts? * Anime/manga/manhwa:  Sugar Appla Fairy Tale / Boku no Hero Academy / Marry my Husband

Last movie: Kung Fu Panda 2

Currently reading: Vladimir, from  Alfonso Santistevan.

Currently watching: Sugar Appla Fairy Tale

Currently working on: ... saving money for 3 travels in my country, a red carpet and travel to 2 countries. 

Tagged by: @infinite-xerath​ Tagging: @hook-and-chains , @corvoimperiale, @tekromantic, @rein-the-blood-medic , @ira-sturm , @raktanag , @just-a-wander , @adventastic aand.... whoever else wants to do it?

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Fanfic Writer ask game

🏷 Is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics to read?

Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, and Sickfic are all tags I like to peruse lmao. I just really like seeing characters at their lowest and taken care of by their loved ones

📗 Do you want to write something outside of fanfiction? If so, what about?

GOD, I HAVE SO MANY ORIGINAL STORIES, YALL HAVE NO CLUE. The biggest one I want to write out and get finished is D's canon story, which is planned to be a game. It's very slow going because I'm very slow at making things lmaooooo.

But D's story is actually the kick off to a whole series and one day!!! I'll get it all done!!! It's got timeloops, girl gangs, magic, zombies, gay ass bullshit, girlbossing too close to the sun, and siblings who have to reconcile

Feel free to ask about it at any time!

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

I dont really have a preference? I love seeing how everyone interprets canon, and how they can warp it into their own original thing in equal measures! As long as the writing doesn't hurt my brain, I'll probably like it.

🚦What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?

I do really love like, bitter sweet happy endings? Your friend is dead and cannot live again, but they once lived and you revel in that. You cannot go home, you must make a new one here, etc. Hope in the face of adversity

🎨 If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

Oh oh, I don't have anything super cool posted right now, I'd explode from any art of my fics! But I think I'd love to see art of the part in Lagtrain where Emmet's on the ground after burning his hand, crying and laughing and hugging Ingo, who is trying to get at his hand to treat it.

Either that or Ingo carrying sleepy D upstairs

[minas-linkverse]

Story

INFO Here’s the basic gist of things around here: The timeline is broken, various heroes of courage (and Ravio) are being snapped around time and space. Now they have to get along and figure this out, because it’d be nice to not be randomly thrown around y'know?

General Info tag

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Story timeline: Best read in order. Grouped together segments are parts of a bigger whole.

Fic: Tree Trekking - Twilight and Sky meet Wild for the first time Fic: A small problem - Ravio meets Legend, Wind and Minish

Comic: Nightmare - Legend has a bad time

Comic: Horse bros - Wild learns that Twilight likes horses Comic: Cat bros - Twilight teaches Wild what cats are Comic: Crossing - Most of the Links finally meet each other

Comic: Spider - Twilight is tired and Ravio is there Comic: Deal - Ravio watches Twilight sleep

Comic: Slam - Wind wants to know what Minish gets up to Comic: Stalker - Wind learns what Minish gets up to Comic: Malon - Time learns what Minish and Wind get up to Comic: The bribe - Wind almost gets punched by Minish

Comic: Dinner delivery - Legend and Sky make a plan Comic: Off track - Sky and Twi run into each other in the woods Comic: Defused - Sky and Twi make a plan Comic: Sharing - Twilight learns about Fi Comic: Tunnel - Sky tries to understand dads

Comic: Ponytail brawl - Wild tries to photograph a Kikwi Comic: Two Master Swords - Zelda and Wild have a chat Comic: Finding the founding - Wild panics Comic: Pippit made pie - Zelda is worried Comic: In your corner - Zelda has a point

Comic: Wet - Wind, Legend, and Minish are stranded on an island Comic: Poisoned fruit - Legend shows off their survival expertise Comic: Fort - Wind has questions for Minish Comic: Wish to fix - Legend makes a decision Comic: Like a fort - Wind remembers an old friend Comic: (W)raft of Wind - Wind suggests they build a raft Comic: SMACK - Legend gets a concussion Comic: Reunions - The gang reunites with two funky people Comic: Reminders - Legend dissociates around the place

Comic: Cave boys - Zelda asks Wild for a favour Comic: Puzzled - Sky shares a few deep thoughts with Wild Comic: To make it right - Sky’s deeper thoughts Comic: A beam of hope - Wild just keeps having good news! Comic: A late entree - Wild and Sky take on the trial of the sword Comic: Tricked - Time and Twi walk into each other in Ordon Comic: Portal - A third person joins the chase! Comic: Do a flip - Twilight fights (Injury and blood warning) Comic: Tricked 2 - Time wrestles a dog

Comic: Roommates - Wind asks Ravio why he’s so weird Comic: Dog days - Twilight is high key vibing Comic: Boy found - Twilight hugs a dog Comic: Hey! Listen! - Twilight and Time fail at conversation

Comic: Together - Wild and Sky emerge from the trial of the sword Comic: Hero - Wild and Sky meet themselves Comic: Are you OK? - Sky and Wild have work to do Comic: This might be hard - How do you herd heroes? Comic: True faces pt. 1 - Sky politely suggests therapy Comic: True faces pt. 2 - Legend has their own impolite offer Comic: True faces pt. 3 - Ravio calls for a time out Comic: True faces pt. 4 - Legend exists the stage Comic: True faces pt. 5 - Rain shows up

Comic: It’s rainy - The gang try to figure out the shelter situation Comic: Paranoia - Twilight and Ravio have an unpleasant chat Comic: Hero’s job! - Wind and Ravio have a fairly good chat Comic: From the outside - There’s worry in the air Comic: Hylia - Hylia takes the Hyrule Historia Comic: A beach! - Twilight struggles to decide, and Ravio leaves

Two Rabbit Roadtrip Pt. 1 Comic: Face to Face - Ravio and Legend meet once again Pt. 2 Comic: Ägh - Ravio finally gets the upper hand Pt. 3 Comic: Freedom of choice - Legend signs Ravio’s contract Pt. 4 Comic: Get walking - The two begin a journey Pt. 5 Comic: Terms and conditions - Legend is going as agreed Pt. 6 Comic: Tipping - Ravio learns something odd Pt. 7 Comic: Guard at the gates - Ravio struggles to get in the castle Pt. 8 Comic: Red goop - Ravio and Legend find the Princess Pt. 9 Comic: In Denial - Legend still doesn’t buy it

Comic: Soup - Wild realizes something over soup Comic: Splash! - Sky meets a wolf in the sea Comic: Outset’s guard - Sky and Twilight arrive to land. Comic: Everything shared - Twilight has had enough! Comic: Old conversations - Twilight and Sky discuss tough topics

Comic: Chores day - Wind asks Minish to decide what they should do today

Fic: A message to deliver - Sky and Grandma talk about the end. BONUS: List of notable events from the fic, for those who struggle with reading long form content. Comic: Final words - Sky stays up late

Two Rabbit Roadtrip 2: Electric bunnygaloo Pt. 1 Comic: Ravio and Hilda - Hilda makes a good point Pt. 2 Comic: Barricade - Legend learns it’s time to go Pt. 3 Comic: Staircase - The duo discuss cake Pt. 4 Comic: Hyrule - Legend returns to Hyrule Pt. 5 Comic: House - The duo are nearly back home! Pt. 6 Comic: Successor - Legend learns who lives here Pt. 7 Comic: Link and Link and Ravio - Introductions are in order. Pt. 8 Comic: In a good way - Worlds and Legend talk Pt. 9 Comic: THUD - Legend has left the building. Pt. 10 Comic: Finale 1/2 - Time to talk things out Pt. 11 Comic: Finale 2/2 - Change! Comic: Epona! - Hylia has bad news Comic: That face - Hylia didn’t tell ALL the bad news Comic: Office - Introduction of the golden goddesses! Comic: Yourself - Hylia loses her cool for a moment Comic: It worked! - A celebration is in order Comic: Mission Accomplished - Time to get outta there! Comic: Seashell - Twilight shows up Comic: Catching up - The boys talk while Mini crafts Comic: Four houses - Brotherly intervention Comic: Cave Boys 2 - Boys in cave Comic: Ma’am - Wind says a bad word Comic: Drowning - Mini’s secret plan is revealed Comic: Stressed! - Twi sees a dog Comic: W-woo... - Wind gets support Comic: Mountain confrontation - A reunion of enemies Comic: Seperation - But wait! Comic: Gift - Ravio is a sweet guy Comic: Tent talk - Ravio and Sky discuss things Comic: Thoughts on anger - Ravio shares thoughts Comic: Notes - Two notes are read

Comic: Leg - Legend looks for Time Comic: Unikko - Legend meets a great fairy Comic: Backtracking - Wild processes his emotions Comic: Landing! - Wild and Legend decide to talk Comic: Lunch! - The two share lunch Comic: Still Disagree - The talk concludes oddly Comic: Get going - The two try to look for Time again

[enduracarrotchips]

YouTuber AU

Hello welcome to Dating Scandal but with Twitter Involved (nightmare)

A little exposition here: 

Link, Zelda, Sidon, Revali, and Riju are the most popular group of youtubers on the internet and have a huge fanbase that likes to theorize, draw fanart, and write fanfiction about them. Disclaimer, I don’t actually interact with real-person fandoms myself lol there’s just too much potential for drama and misunderstandings & they’re always bound to end in a dumpster fire but that is sort of what this au is about so.

Impa, Mipha, Daruk, and Urbosa are family friends that appear in a lot of their videos/streams. 

(This is an art blog I swear)

enter vidcon 20XX

Link: 

blows stuff up/sets stuff on fire with a side of cooking vids and gaming

most are filmed outside, he does those challenges where you try to cook stuff with limited ingredients/materials

has the largest fanbase of all of them, but not the most…intimidating.

does a lot of collab videos, mostly with Impa, Daruk, and Riju because they have similar interests/channels, but Zelda appears in his videos and is seen filming and the stans read too far into it

simps. i’m pointing at you.

Most popular videos are “shield surfing on rock!—how I broke my leg” “can Daruk eat Impa’s motorcycle?” and “how to inhale ranch dressing.”

Twitter handle is @ arsonistslullabye because he’s a hozier fan

45m subs

Zelda:

theories, analyses, conspiracies, and the occasional e x p e r i m e n t

she once got link to eat a frog for 50 bucks.

most people argue that she’s better than more popular YouTubers because she actually has quality content to give to the world and she has a lot of defensive supporters

She used to get a lot of hate before Urbosa spoke up about it and scared the bejeezus out of everyone

has an actual posting schedule

“Happy Sunday everyone, it’s Zelda Hyrule and today we will be talking about cryptozoology and why blupees exist, you cowards.”

Twitter handle is @ zeldaofhyrule and she is pan. just so you know. One of those calm extroverts that mystify me to this day.

18m subs

Sidon:

fashion/life hacks. Like gourmet troom troom but if they were real people.

Has the 2nd largest fanbase

most of them are girls

Sidon has a boyfriend though, which he told everyone at VidCon a few years ago

cue the drama and shipping and the entire fandom trying to figure out who the boyfriend is. A well known reddit thread emerged that presented the common guesses being Link, Sidon, and Zelda.

“But it can’t be Zelda, Sidon’s gay.”

“I’m not in the fandom but I thought Zelda was a boy??”

“Did you just say Sidon? Is that a typo? Are you saying that Sidon’s dating himself?”

Sidon x Sidon became a fandom joke.

Don’t look at me I’m just setting up all the worldbuilding. every fandom has their weird dark sides and Sidon x Sidon is the Linkcest of the Sidon YT fandom.

Mystery BF is actually Bazz, a pretty inconspicuous guy who appeared in a few of his videos. This was confirmed a year ago, but everyone still ships him with other YouTubers because they’re convinced he was lying to throw them off his scent. He really can’t catch a break and this is why you should not ship real people.

Twitter handle is @ officialprincesidon

says “beguiling” a lot

21m subs ᕙ( ͡❛ ▿ ͡❛)ᕗ

Mipha:

Sidon’s sister, hasn’t posted a single video but just has the channel for show because she appears in so many of Sidon’s videos as a model for his makeup tutorials and whatnot

has 328k for that. Everyone loves her, she’s great. @ mimipha

Revali:

Link’s sworn rival

Link thinks they’re friends

He kept popping up in link’s Twitter threads and making snarky comments until zelda called him out for not even following link (so why was he stalking his acc) which kept the Twitter drama to a minimum

Revali was the catalyst of a few popular memes and that’s where most of his subs come from.

drags link into a few challenges that always get a ton of views because of how competitive they get

“ITS JUST ASININE” is a running joke that everyone tries to get him to say. His @ is itsjustasinine as well

Urbosa is the only person who can win an argument with him

5m subs and growing rapidly. newer to youtube than everyone else.

Impa:

Doesn’t have a channel she’s just a mutual friend of Mipha, Zelda, and Link

Rides a motorcycle, so she is used in a few of Link’s videos.

@ ihaveamotorcycle because she thinks having a motorcycle is a personality trait. the most unruly on Twitter when it comes to replying to fan’s stuff, leaking upcoming videos and generally causing chaos.

Mipha’s girlfriend. That’s how she met Zelda and Link.

Urbosa:

Is actually a model, but she has a ton of YouTuber friends because she’s known Zelda since birth.

when she entered the youtube community she didn’t realize she would be adopting like 15 children

5m subs. her videos are professional & related to her modelling career. @ urbosasfury

I feel like she would do unboxing vids. I’m not sure what she’s unboxing.

Daruk

Just a friend of Link’s, fun guy. yells a lot. once ate a rock and had no reaction.

people are scared of him for that reason

Riju:

yoga & gymnastics & “ha look at how flexible I am its eAsY” videos

you know the type

she also does reactions and is sponsored by save the sand seals charities which she is very enthusiastic about. She’s also Urbosa’s niece and the only minor in the gang (15). I like to think that the champions YT community is actually not creepy so everyone respects her a ton

doesn’t post frequently, she mostly appears in Link’s videos to jump out of airplanes or whatever. And sometimes Zelda’s if she’s interested in the topic. 500k subs, but she’s always really popular when she appears in Link’s videos.

VidCon:

In the months leading up to VidCon, some fans on the internet made a few discoveries: first of all, that the inside of Link’s house is painted green. This is a big deal because all of his videos are filmed outside either in his backyard or on trips that he and the brosquad go on to do…whatever bros do. explosions. idk. The point is he had some announcement about VidCon and filmed it inside. Only the wall and a potted plant were shown.

However, the colour was similar to the the shade of Zelda’s living room. Fans dug through years and years of old videos and found a clip of Zelda walking through a hallway, where there was an open door and a glimpse of a houseplant.

There were 2 types of responses to the theory:

“They could just be roommates guys calm down”

“and they were ROOMMATES?”

others pointed out that Link could just not have a house and had to crash in Zelda’s

Some guy on reddit claimed he had a botany degree and declared that the houseplants in the clips were not of the same genus. Normal people pointed out that the plant would have grown 4 years between the clips and would look considerably different.

#Zelink trended on twitter for a while and people posted other old clips from both of their channels and the frog video blew up again

Impa retweeted a post tagged as #zelink with “rofl” and later publicly apologized for causing confusion.

Fans noticed that in the “can a motorcycle drive over my arm” (it was clickbait he’s fine) episode 2 years ago, Link was eating out of a paper lunch bag with his name written on it in handwriting that a few people claimed to look like Zelda’s, leading people to believe that she had packed him a lunch.

However, this theory was shot down with the counterargument that Zelda can’t cook. although. i mean how much skill do you need to make a sandwich.

No one knows what tumblr is doing at this time

Zelda wore a scarf in her “Save the Sand Seals” video that matched identically to the scarf Link wore when he travelled to Hebra to film a shield surfing video, but it’s been debated wether it’s actually the same scarf or not.

Neither Zelda nor Link has spoken up about the theories, and besides Impa’s one slip on twitter, neither has any of their friends. Zelda received a lot of backlash for the assumption that she was dating Link because he has a lot of delusional fans that didn’t want her to “steal their man” or whatever the hell that type of fan would get mad about

Oh yea and bolson & karson run a zelink fanpage on twitter sorry I forgot about that

after that whole mess, everyone was even more anticipant of VidCon in the hopes that some of their questions would be answered.

The whole batch went to VidCon this year: Link, Impa, Daruk, and Riju are a gang while Sidon and Mipha go together and Zelda & Revali each go separately. Urbosa is there for supervision moral support

Zelda has always been much better at dodging questions that she doesn’t want to answer than anyone else, so her Q&A went without a hitch. When asked to confirm the rumours she said “which one?” and then moved on to the next question (without actually confirming any rumours).

Link is generally a more awkward person but eventually said that he had filmed the video in Zelda’s house because it was nicer and didn’t realize it would cause such an uproar. Fans were disappointed, but Bolson claimed he saw Link and Zelda exiting the hotel elevator on the same floor after Link’s Q&A session. No one believed him.

Fans went back to theorizing over who Link, Zelda, and Sidon were all dating, because apparently they can’t just be dating unknown people and have to be with other YouTubers

Sidon and Bazz got engaged about a week after VidCon, making at least 4 preteen girls cry

actually try 4 million

Sidon x Sidon made a brief comeback but Sidon spoke up about his fandom for the first time ever on twitter and told everyone that no, he was not dating himself. eventually, everyone settled down and accepted that none of them were in a relationship save for a few loud fans.

Link and Zelda still got the occasional “when will you tell us who you’re dating?” comment but most of them were joking and the people who still hardcore shipped them were generally frowned upon. Zelda’s popularity went up after VidCon and she regained the 200k subscribers she’d lost after the first theory dropped.

Two months after VidCon, Link posted a video titled “Zelda and I’s House Tour!” and gave around 45 million people a heart attack

as revealed in the video, they had actually been dating since they were 16 and everyone’s just a fool.

the potted plant is named Hestu.