#trks fantasy au

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Maybe Tsukasa even comes to enjoy the idle life in the province a little and maybe he secretly resolves to show up more often and maybe he asks Eichi if that would be fine and maybe he also asks him to not tell Tori about that and maybe he ignores Eichis knowing grin as he promises not to do that and maybe I'm getting wayyyy in over my head but it would be funny,,,,

eichi who canonically meddles in their relationship would find that soooo interesting you Know he is currently writing to keito about interesting childhood friends and keito is answering "i do not care.". i think he definitely stages some of their shoujo moments a la "oh no it's raining and im out in town so i can't get back to the manor! ill have no choice but to spend the night at wataru's inn so you two will have to spend the stormy night alone!" (he kills two birds with one stone) maybe also lock them inside a closet for a couple of hours, get rid of one of their beds because it's supposedly broken, you know how it is

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EXPLICIT

illusion, words: 3,134 - post canon

Ronan dreams up a way to treat Adam to his biggest fantasy.

Heartbeat, words: 8,800 - AU

Hot and heavy dirty dancing, first date, intense thirsting, getting together 🥵

Come in Threes, words: 9,753 - canon divergence

Exploring the Ronan/Gansey/Adam dynamic via a threesome. It’s filthy, but it truly is the friendship of it all.

TEEN

Honey, When You Warm the Bed, words: 1,784 - canon

Exploring a developing relationship and domestic intimacy. (Set post-TRK/Pre-Opal.)

Wildfire, words: 3,257 - canon

The bonfire scene from Opal —full of banter and joy 🥰

As the World Caves In, words: 512 - canon

Pynch being horny as hell in the BMW. (Set midway through TRK)

Taken by Storm, words: 5,003 - AU

Stormchaser AU - meet cute (ugly), full of banter and fun vibes

[shoutokoweek]

Thank you to everyone that participated in the week! The event is now officially over, but no worries if you missed out and still wish to use some of the prompts for the week for Shoutoko inspiration. We’ll be happy to showcase them on the discord blog. Below is a neat compilation of all the entries for the week for your convenience (if we missed any, be sure to let us know!). Day 1 - Mafia AU | First Date | “Perhaps you’ll take me out one day…or do I have to make an appointment?” Superspying by CloversDreams

Improvise by PinkHatKid

Justalittlebitartsy

Ufros-art

Gaynart

The Boss’s Lover by ZeroUnitRGB

TRK

Tittyrex

Mafia AU by FantasyCrest

Day 2 - Mythology AU | Pro Heroes | “Are you taking his side against me?”

The Moon God’s Hero by ZeroUnitRGB

TRK

Justalittlebitartsy

Oh My Beloved by Synnie

“Are you taking his side against me?” by FantasyCrest

Day 3 - Cyber AU | Quirkswap | “Was that you screaming?” Justalittlebitartsy

Perfect Partners by ZeroUnitRGB

“Was that you screaming?” by FantasyCrest

Day 4 - Fantasy AU | Ink | “You lost control…it was like you were possessed.” Love Letters by ZeroUnitRGB

The Sun, The Moon by PinkHatKid

Justalittlebitartsy

“You lost control... it was like you were possessed.” by FantasyCrest

Day 5 -  Crossover AU | Halloween | “Sweetheart, what did you bury in the yard?”

TittyRex

HouseofNeri

An Unforgettable Halloween by ZeroUnitRGB

Justalittlebitartsy

Halloween Blurb by LunethWrites

“Sweetheart what did you bury in the yard?” by FantasyCrest

Day 6 - Merman AU | Differences | “When was the last time anyone looked at you with something other than fear in their eyes?”

“When was the last time anyone looked at you with something other than fear in their eyes?” by FantasyCrest & BONUS ART

 Like the Sea and Sky by ZeroUnitRGB

Justalittlebitartsy

“When was the last time anyone looked at you with something other than fear in their eyes?” by Mecil

Day 7 - Free Day~!

Justalittlebitartsy

Song Fic by FantasyCrest

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part of some high fantasy au where ronan tries to go back to aglionby after the events of trk

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Don't ask what brough this on this is very silly but Torikasa knight/princess fairytale au where Tsukasa is a knight of noble origin and there's these rumours about how "the princess of the neighbouring country has been kidnapped by a vicious dragon and is held captive in his tower" so he sets out to save him (I haven't worked that part out yet it really is mostly just pulled out of a basic fairytale plot idk) only to find out that the "damsel in distress" is actually doing just fine and he's not in fact held captive and the dragon is his butler and the rumours are a complete exaggeration

!!!!! YES

i'd love keeping their childhood friendship so when tsukasa breaks through the window it's "TSUKASA???" "TORI-KUN??????" and for yuzuru to be in his human form so it's not immediately obvious what's going on and tsukasa is Confused. but well he's already come all the way there so tori lets him stay over for a while and makes him fix the window himself "no! you Cannot hire a carpenter i do not want any strangers at my house!" and tsukasa sucks at fixing windows sooo bad so it takes a while and at one point tori begins to give him more meaningless tasks to keep him around for a little longer, and tsukasa also starts making up things to do. to serve as compensation of course it's not like either of them want to be together for longer than strictly necessary it's just that tsukasa's knightly honor wouldn't allow him to have an unpaid debt

but tsukasa does think it is a little weird you know. tori-kun the brat living alone with his butler in a manor in the middle of nowhere in the forest something Must be going on. when had tori rejected the liveliness of the capital for this? it had been a while since tsukasa had heard about him from other nobles but since he'd been away traveling he hadn't thought too much of it. and then one night he hears a way too loud noise and finds tori kneeling beside The Dragon. who is wounded and tori is crying and asking tsukasa not to come any closer.

and also at some point knights should come over all "ok we let our dearest baby go on a quest on his own but he is taking forever and omg i can't believe he's been living in a fancy house with a CUTE BOY and he didnt tell us" and then it's all loud and fun as it always is when knights are together

and i think they're probably at the forest to be near the witch's house (natsume) who has been helping yuzuru with the dragon thing but at some point it gets harder to control and so they need to call natsume's master for help and yay! wataru time! i love adding as many people as possible to fantasy aus

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Oh and also Wataru would never let Tori live that down I think

IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT WATARU + TORIKASA FOR SOOOO LONG. because wataru is The guy. he did the (gestures at performance) and everything. he has Experience with enemies to lovers i feel like he could offer actually meaningful advice

but he is also wataru and tori is his baby bird and he'd tease him soooo much over it. the little himegimi is in love!!!

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And then Tsuaka comes back and he tells Kohaku all about his little journey into the unknown way of calm provincial life and about Tori and Kohaku just gives him That Look™

SLFJKSJFDKJFS KOHAKU WOULD BE SOOO DONE i think he should tag along some time to mediate. like that one idol story that was "if you don't stop fighting then im taking the sweets away from you and the problem's over". only guy who's not adding fuel to the fire

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Tsukasa traveling all the way from the big city his family lives in to the literal middle of nowhere sleepy village where everyone knows each other that Tori got sent to to develop some seriousness or whatever and he has this really big plushie with him.and.in his head he's really smug like "Hehehe oh this will be perfect! He's probably really bored and he probably misses home so he's gonna be so happy with this and of course I'm just doing this because it's the polite thing to do not because I like him or actually cars or anything" and then he comes there and Tori is not in fact lonely and miserable he's actually doing pretty well he's even found some friends and then he just feels a little silly so Tori gets to have his smug moment too while the stuttering and blushing mess that is Tsukasa tries to explain himself and Tori does his usual himegimi schtick but it's very obvious he really really appreciates it (the plushie gets a permanent place in his bed and when he misses home it's his go-to confidante) so they both have their cringefail shojou moment and Wataru and Eichi just watch them and Eichi explains to Wataru how Tori and Tsukasa are with each other and Wataru just laughs (affectionately) (like they both haven't had their fair share of cringefail shojou Moments themselves)

this is the absolute cutest thing in the world sobbing

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I imagine he'd have to stay with them for a few days actually because the journey in it's own probably takes longer than a day and that just wouldn't. Idk what the English expression is but if you do that then you gotta stay a few days soo you actually have something of your journey too and maybeeeee maybe maybe maybe they can have even more cringefail shojou Moments and Tsukasa gets to meet the family (Wataru and his pigeons and his inn-keeper basically adoptive parents and Hajime and his siblings and Tomoya too maybe by extension)

ohhh i want tsukasa meets the parents scene so bad have wataru and tsukasa interacted ? i need to check

[karouvas]

Hi it's me again having thoughts about the fic you haven't even begun writing, the comes back wrong au. You mentioned that Gansey's being more manipulative with the Gangsey but that certain things he's doing (ie, no glasses) are just him messing things up for himself. So, and this is a roundabout way of asking, what do you think would work for the people around him? What would make him excel in Manipulation 101?

Like I told you in a message I keep on partially writing this in notes app then not liking how it’s going and starting over so just typing it all out now and posting before I can reassess. Update on this concept is that I now have an official doc and have started outlining although not very far. Context: this is referring to my fic idea I have labeled as No Humanity Gansey, essentially a Gansey Comes Back Wrong au canon divergent from TRK where he comes back without emotions think NH arcs on the tvdu or shadeless arcs on the magicians or any of the many fantasy/paranormal storylines that utilize this trope. The basic idea is to remove a chars empathy and see what they do / who they are when uninhibited and the perspective that adds to their char and dynamics normally. I am planning to move up Gansey’s death in the sequence of events to pre toga party because I want there to be a sort of Chengsey v Blue Adam Ronan Noah (since Noah hasn’t been erased due to a different price being paid) set up and that works best if say, Blue and Henry haven’t bonded yet and I also want this to be before the Pynch gets together / Gansey learns about Pynch / shovel talk section because that also changes the dynamics. So I spoke in our initial convo about it on Gansey’s being so tuned into social hierarchies and how to charm and please according to them because of his upbringing, but also being afraid to sort of abuse power including social ones because he is a kind person in general, and also his obliviousness to a lot of more interpersonal social interactions and the opportunity with this premise to explore how much of that obliviousness is genuine (some of it def is) and how much is really compartmentalization / plausible deniability when Gansey wants to prioritize the quest for Glendower / not deal with something himself / wants to not hurt someone with a perception. And generally he would be a lot more emotionally manipulative and would be attempting to manipulate the gangsey. But also some of his incorrect perceptions of his dynamics and how others view him would interfere with this conceit the example I brought up was a sillier one but he doesn’t know Blue is most attracted to him with glasses / at his nerdiest so if he was trying to say, present his most appealing self to persuade her of something contacts wouldn’t be the way to go lol. But this question is less about what Gansey thinks / would do and much more about what Would actually work in manipulating or swaying each gangsey member in some way if he could pull it off. So I might reference the former when it feels relevant but will focus on the latter. And again have not actually started out writing this fic proper so all subject to change my thoughts on once I’m in the thick of the actual process.

Ronan — I think Gansey should not underestimate Ronan which I feel like he is likely to do in some ways? Like Gansey probably would expect Ronan to be the least challenging to sway (I haven’t 100% nailed down his end goal but I do know Cabeswater still exists after his death unlike in canon and he’d want to establish himself as more closely linked with the mystical like I mentioned before. So the manipulation goals are like preferably persuading them to join him but if not at least distracting / disarming them so they won’t interfere too much) because he’s so devoted / they’re so inseparable / the dog motif Gansey, especially this version of Gansey who is more callous in his view of his friends, wouldn’t expect to have a lot of trouble managing / controlling Ronan the way he would with Adam or even Blue who clash with him far more often and care more about being independent outside of him as a concept. So I think Gansey would need to check that blind spot and recognize Ronan as someone who cares about the other Gangsey members too much to just leave them at Gansey’s request (especially since again he doesn’t know about Pynch yet if he did I think he would be a little smarter about this) I do think he’s not wrong that Ronan responds really well to Authoratative Gansey and that would be appealing to him, and also knows that Ronan has his jealousy complex and so would spin Henry being around to Ronan in a way to make Ronan the official second in command over Henry even if that wasn’t true, or a Henry is just temporary and we’ll stop needing him but I’ll always need you! Thing I think that all could be effective although the combination could only be effective with really deliberate … maneuverings and said maneuverings would have to be done in a way that doesn’t trigger Ronan’s distaste for lying/falsehood although for someone who feels that way he sure does go for men who are maskers/pretenders in some way doesn’t he… so those are my basic ideas for Ronan but I need to develop them more.

Adam — Conversely I think Gansey is going to assume Adam will be the most challenging to sway / manipulate, since they clash the most and have the most natural tension in their relationship when Gansey is his normal self. So I think that puts Adam at a disadvantage in the way it puts Ronan at an advantage. I actually think if Gansey kind of weaponized his touch with the gangsey it would be most effective in throwing Adam off his game, because of Adam being the most tactile and the most touch starved combined with how he’s always felt about Gansey combined with I hc that Gansey actually is the least tactile with Adam in general (he doesn’t touch people in canon as much as the other three do I think largely because of socialization. the times he does casually touch Adam are their fist bumps which are so intricate rituals and then a couple moments in DC otherwise he doesn’t I think, less spontaneous than some of his moments with Blue where they’re flirtily touching/holding hands or like Ronan smacking his thigh) largely because he doesn’t want to trigger Adam since he knows touch can be hard for him due to abuse associations, one of the ways Gansey tip toeing around Adam actually has the opposite effect of the one he’s going for. So yeah, I think touch and like sexual manipulation wise (although Gansey not knowing about Pynch yet would still factor his manipulations negatively in certain ways) Adam would actually be most vulnerable imo so that’s something to consider. I think Gansey might try to appeal to Adam’s ambition which isn’t a Bad strategy but Adam has developed enough as a char by TRK he wouldn’t be as solely swayed by that as he would be in earlier books, I think in a lot of ways how Gansey can succeed is just in recognizing these people and how they have changed and how they are different from his original assumptions and that’s not always very easy for him especially with Pynch I think Blue and Henry is a bit different. This is kind of something that would work to manipulate everyone but I like the idea of him accidentally stumbling into it with Adam and then purposefully using it against all of them from then on: Gansey weaponizing his own safety and mortality and pain. I think especially since Adam is so afraid of killing / hurting Gansey and also just the idea of becoming like his father through hurting someone he loves weaponizing that fear would be really fucked up but really really effective. Another big thing Gansey could utilize here is how their conflicts sometimes had to do with their differing moralities and Adam being comparatively more gray when Gansey has a more black and white view, so I think the part of Adam that really wants Gansey to understand him could be appealed to because this Gansey does understand that and wouldn’t view him reproachfully for making tough callous calls. But then also ultimately Adam loves that Gansey is kind and good, so it would be a real battle between his two impulses there and I think the latter would win out eventually but it could. Get ROUGH. Adam will really go through it in this.

Blue — I think one factor that would be influencing Gansey where Blue is concerned is that this version of Gansey doesn’t have a death wish / doesn’t find death inherently appealing which is an element in his relationship with Blue, him falling for her more the more that he accepts his own death. So this version is less reckless with her but still wants her badly and also is most vulnerable to her in a lot of ways as she understands him better than Adam and Ronan do, so a lot of these things make it harder to manipulate her but do succeed in putting Gansey on edge to be constantly angling for new ways to attempt. I also think he is more aware of her level of understanding of him than he is with other chars but I still think there are areas where he has blind spots to her, because of his blind spots towards himself (the glasses like you said). I also think there’s an element of Blue being a mirror confusing him more and bringing his true self more to the surface, so just trying to not give that away would be a step in the right direction. But in terms of manipulation I think leveraging things that can help or hurt Blue’s family (he could also do this with Mathew for Ronan) would be a good strategy, I also think him being more willing to disrupt to group dynamic to be with her would be appealing to her despite herself but then that goes against his opposite impulse to be a bit more wary of her and she’s also pretty traumatized post killing him with her lips, like with Adam think there’s something to be said about weaponizing her fear or hurting/killing him but it would function differently as Blue has a different outlook / type of fear of that than. Also if Gansey figured out on his own that the kiss curse isn’t a thing anymore that could simple things up in terms of his reservations and that could lead to more success maybe but then there’s still Blue’s complicated feelings to consider and not assuming her knows what those are.

•Noah — I don’t think manipulation is really possible here from a combination of his being a ghost and a mirror, I think Gansey’s best bet would probably be getting rid of or containing him in some way so he can’t help the others.

Ty! And like I said this is just my thinking in abstract once I get to properly writing I know some of my thoughts will change / evolve.