Thinking very hard about an AU idea of mine. Reluctant king Sabo AU!
In which Sabo isn’t saved by Dragon, but survives long enough to drift ashore and be saved by the doctors of Goa Kingdom, who do so only to ransom his medical bills from Sabo’s parents. Sabo’s parents take him back, thinking that his amnesia makes him a clean slate, but Sabo, young and stubborn and unsure of his entire identity, knows that everything is wrong and runs again, and again, and again.
Until at some point, he meets the Revolutionaries, and realizes that he can be useful to them, provide them information, make something good of an inescapable situation. From then on, he starts acting the noble that he was born as, in order to be a more useful informant to the Revolutionaries, until sunk cost fallacy hits and he believes that being a noble is the only way that he can be useful to the Revolutionaries. So at that point, why not take it all the way?
At 17, Sabo becomes one of Princess Sarie’s suitors, and at 17, he has doubts about using the princess for his own goals. Sarie is a romantic, and she wants a dramatic fairy tale of a romance, and she was already charmed, but the moment Sabo opens up to her about not wanting to use her to get to the throne, having lofty ambitions of helping the people (just not the people she thinks he’s talking about), Sabo becomes the one she simply must marry, because surely if she tries hard enough, she can make him love her back.
Soon after, the king and his son die. Sarie’s father and brother die. And while Sabo conveniently ascends to the throne, he also swiftly implicates his father, Outlook, in the assassination of all heirs to the throne, resulting in Outlook’s arrest and subsequent execution. And thus, at 18, Sabo becomes king, and begins to gradually institute great changes to Goa Kingdom.
Design-wise, Sabo wears an eyepatch because his damaged eye is considered a grotesque sight by nobles’ standards. Under the eyepatch, he wears heavy makeup to hide the burn scar. These are both at the behest of his birth parents, who spin a story about Sabo having been born half blind to hide the fact that Sabo had been shot by a Celestial Dragon and save face. To those who have seen his scar, they fabricate a second secret story that he was unfortunately kidnapped as a child. Sabo never does find out, until he regains his memories, where the burn scar is actually from.
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So, apparently, I'm starting college next Monday, I'm truly exhausted, but I want to excite myself for the new year, it's my senior year and I wanna make it unforgettable but I have no idea how. I'm just rambling rn.
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in honor of the recent mean girls remake having come out not too long ago (how do we all feel about that, btw? i’ve heard mixed reviews) here’s my les mis mean girls au fanfic. i think it’s fair to say—
MARIUS DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE.
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“Hey, first-period gym’s finally out here.” Bahorel brought their attention to the field, where a class of juniors was filing out of the school building and onto the grass. Suddenly, he started to laugh. “Oh my, oh my. In the name of all that is holy! Look at our dear Courfeyrac’s gym shorts.”
Eponine started to laugh as well, and Grantaire studied the field for a pair of shorts that looked out of the ordinary. He found them and the wearer quickly. The boy was shorter, about 5’6”, and had dark curls similar to his own. But his shorts. They were bright, neon pink, and patterned with purple and green flamingos. Grantaire thought they were hideous.
“Of course the Triumvirate all have the same gym class,” Eponine groaned, eyes still watching the students.
Grantaire racked his brain. “The Triumvirate? Like a political institution? The Roman thing?”
“Be careful, your nerd is showing.” Bahorel teased. “Nah, these guys are just the rich, popular kids who have a tendency for trouble. That one there? Mr. Flamingo Shorts? Yeah, that’s Courfeyrac, the flirt. He’s broken like half of the girl’s hearts in this school. Hyper as fuck, too.”
Eponine piped in. “Super tall one with glasses? That’s Combeferre. He’s oddly quiet and geeky for a popular kid, but hey, he’s still popular, so whatever he’s doing is working for him.”
A loud snort came from Bahorel. “He’s not doing anything. He’s friends with Enjolras, and popular by default. Speaking of which, there’s our guy.”
Grantaire turned his gaze to the middle of the field, where Bahorel was pointing. His heart skipped a beat when he saw who Bahorel was talking about. A slender boy with long, golden blonde hair neatly tied into a ponytail stood with his arms folded tightly against his chest. He was surrounded by multiple girls, who he all seemed to be ignoring in favor of tapping his foot impatiently on the ground. Grantaire could see from even this far away that he was beautiful, and he didn’t use that word lightly.
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The funniest thing in the world to me is when people write mermaids that are bothered by humans eating fish. Like do you think fish don’t eat each other? The ocean is full of little freaks that will eat whatever or whoever the fuck will fit in their mouths. If the mermaids haven’t been eating fish this whole time what do you think they’ve been eating? If the answer is humans, that doesn’t make it any less funny. They’ll eat the species that looks like the top half of them but won’t eat a species that looks like the bottom half? Peak comedy.
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“Scream if you have to,” is such a terrifying phrase to hear from Bruce. But I think the Batkids actually need to hear it — whether they’re getting a bad break reset, or having a wound cauterized, or something else extremely painful — it can be a relief to know you’re allowed to yell and make noise. Relieving to know that Bruce says it’s okay to scream.
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Thinking about Weird Barbie and how she's the very obviously queer outsider of the Barbie world, she straddles the lines between Barbie and the Real World. She's the most aware of the performative nature of it all. She supports Barbie while also gently mocking her panic at losing the hyperfeminine perfection. Her weird house is also home to the discontinued reject weird Barbies, the outcasts (including very gay earring Ken) who never fell into either the original matriarchy or the Kentriarchy brainwashing.
The other more classically heteronormative and beautiful Barbies both pity and fear her, and at first the narrative pities her as well. She's the vessel of girls going weird and crazy and feral on their dolls and that's amazing. Weird Barbie is aware of who she is and how the world sees her and she loves it. She's Weird Barbie and She Owns It.
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