#this fic is the only reason he was on that fucking ace poll

[curedeity]

you know what time it is ITS FANFIC FRIDAY TIME!

The fic this time is "The Drawbacks of Being Raised in an Isolated Temple" by @starfishes-and-watercolors

I don't think this fic can be judged on normal metrics. I don't think you can quantify the ace rep in this fic. Its just the funniest thing I've ever read, there's very little ace rep that has ever stuck with me more. Truly, dude thinks he's dying from a crush

[thatbrokenpromise]

Some Four love after the poll got them no votes at all LOL. May yet clean it up a bit more, but for now I wanted to share. Design for my own AU.

There's a reason for their variation in looks and all, which I'll put under the cut. It's not super vital to my AU because Four themself has no fucking clue why its doing that, but if you're curious about the reasoning go for it.

Yes, go ahead, make all the grey-ace jokes you want about Shadow, it's not why he's in grey but its true.

If y'all looked at his bio, you'd notice I stated he's intersex via genetic mosaicism. Well, if you look at the pics above that comes out in some designs. Obviously Four has no idea why the split had the effects it did, but their weird genetics get scrambled by the splitting and results in varying expression of albinism, gender and -- as will come up in another fic soon -- their epilepsy.

They all still mainly use he/him, and only sometimes they. In terms of Word of God with this AU, I'm not going to be more specific on them being multiple because its a complex condition that probably was heavily influenced by the situation with the Four Sword when they were only fourteen. This, too, is something Four honestly isn't fully sure of themself: did the sword do this, or was he always like that?

I'll leave it up to y'all to fill in the blanks, because -- on top of all of the above -- Four will not give a straight answer unless it's absolutely necessary. So enjoy?

[ETA: Changed picture bc I rearranged the stripes and fixed a few lineart issues I'd ignored last time.]