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risetherivermoon · 3 months

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spoke about this briefly before, but heres a more in depth post w/ me rambling about my idea and explaining the au by showing off my notes and everything

anyway, the idea im talking about is like a social media/twitter (i will not call it X, fucking bite me) thing about the teens using twinote (an app that can make fake tweets) mixed with me using my own art to add stuff to it, and the idea of maybe making a secondary blog to answer asks as the characters,

this format idea is mixed with an au ive been thinking about involving hell and heaven stuff, (im not immune to hazbin hotel hype nor am i immune to any kind of bible fanfiction) so heres some notes about that;

basic desc:

Taylor is a prince of the 7th circle and a Hell-born demon, he makes friends with Scary/Terri, a sinner who died in the 1950's, a long with her guardian/step-dad TJ/Terry Jr. (sinners in this universe tend to go by secondary names instead of their human names) while messing around the city that Scary & TJ live in, Scary and Taylor stumble upon Lincoln, a fallen angel, who has just fallen from Heaven, Lincoln starts staying with TJ and Scary, since he has nowhere to go. Eventually Normal, an angel, trespasses into Hell from Heaven, in an attempt run from his home. Normal is found by the rest of the teens who are now trying to make sure Heaven doesn't find out that Normal is in Hell

(edit: contents for this au can be found at @3sinnrsn1angel)

additional notes & more yapping about my ideas below the cut, be warned!!!

- Scary & TJ live in the 7th ring of Hell, each circle is a different city & has a different monarchy

- Taylor as hell royalty is an angel hunter. Scary is also an angel hunter

- angel hunting is treated as a sport by the royals, and as a bounty-hunting type job by the sinners, done when angels fly overhead of hell to deliver messages and keep demons in line, there tends to be a lot of air traffic that makes hits easy

- tho this universe mostly surrounds hell & heaven, people can still cast spells and do magic, though its a skill you have to master

- TJ is a magic user and runs a magic shop, he and Scary live in the overhead apartment above the shop

- Normal's grandfather is a part of Heaven's council, which means Normal was a high ranking angel

- Lincoln's father, Grant, was also a part of Heaven's council before Link's falling

- Hell Demons buy and barter sinner souls constantly, and it has become a competition between the royals to have the most souls as well as angel kills

- Hell Demons & Sinners are cool with angels co-existing amongst them, and will not hunt them if it's an angel on the ground and out of uniform (most angels who go through hell are wearing heaven garbs) though it will bring weird looks and comments people are mostly unbothered by it, Heaven is unaware of this or that angel refugees are living amongst sinners

- this applies to fallen angels as well

- this will probably be a polywagon fic, ill see where the wind takes me

(hermie does exist but 4 the sake or spoilers ill leave the info on them to that)

the rest of the details i have written down about this au are spoiler-adjacent but this is what ive got for you! heres a little bit more about the formatting style i have in mind, im sorry (not sorry) about yapping so much i just like to info-dump

basically ill be using mostly fake tweets using twinote, as well as messages between the teens also using twinote, i did kind of some tests to get down the kind of energy i want for this and to see if this format works well with these characters so ill show some ss of that here as an example:

(all pfp art is by me)

theres also the factor of me not using this blog to post this series and using a secondary blog, id mostly be doing that to make sure asks and content of this project is secluded from my other stuff,

speaking of asks, id use the ask box on said account to get questions and do a type of q&a thing where the audience can ask the teens questions and ill make art for/write them responding to it, also maybe responding to questions from a creator & ooc pov

i also make art just for funzies and if it fits in the plot anywhere, as well as making the characters pfps n stuff, heres an example a little by showing off a piece that (if i decide to really commit to this which i might since ive been having this idea rattling around in my head for a bit) ill be using in it (prob 4 pfps)

(using this to also show off the teens designs for this au lol)

lemme know if yall find this interesting because im pretty into it already lol, and ill see what i can come up with for getting it all started, if u got it this far congrats you read all my yapping! also id love to answer any questions abt this au as well (ooc obvi)

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keitoz · 19 days

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I'm back after 10+ years!

Okay so. It happened about a week ago that my UlquiHime hyperfixation reignited. YouTube decided to recommend me my old ABSOLUTE FAVORITE MADs/AMVs (Hueco Mundo Revolution, Kokoro-Heart, Destiny's People, etc) and I haven't been able to stop thinking about them 24/7 since then.

It REALLY doesn't help that recently there have been more breadcrumbs for us such (more like for Ulquiorra fans in general) such as the BBS Cyberpunk teaser, Bleach April Fool's 2024 High School Warfare, and his absolutely possible return in the Hell Arc if Kubo decides to continue it. I've read lots of theories and discussions on the topic even from a pessimistic angle, but with Kubo recently keeping Ulquiorra "alive" in AUs, possibly due to popularity/cash grab, it's hard to imagine he wouldn't take this opportunity to bring him back (as well as Gin). It would upset a minority (the people who want his death to remain impactful), but it would be reasonable.

The only route I can see Kubo taking that wouldn't bring Ulquiorra back is that since he's a natural-born Hollow with no human origin, his reiatsu scattered with his ashes across Hueco Mundo. However, if the "Captain reiatsu being too dense to be reabsorbed" rule applied in HM as well, it would make sense that Espada who died there would also go to Hell. Not sure if they need a ritual for that as well though but considering Kubo only mentioned it for the first time in the Hell chapter, I wouldn't be surprised if he made one up for Arrancar in the future.

The theory that Ulquiorra is in Hell sits better with me rather than him reincarnating as a human or in SS if at all. Even if Kubo took the "Ichigo's Hollow is his Zanpakuto, therefore Ulquiorra was purified" route sounds too much of a stretch even for Kubo.

Now if Ulquiorra IS in Hell, I don't think he meets the same requirements as Szayel to be jailed as he was never human nor did he commit (many?) crimes as a Hollow.

I want to see his Hell version!! 🥺🥺 Any fanart of this?

Anyway, I'm open for discussion!

#ulquiorra cifer #ulquiorra #might start posting my art again #might update fanfics and leave them on hiatus as well LOL #UlquiHime is still so popular after all these years wow #ramblings

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actuallyastingray · 1 year

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Spiderman/DC crossovers

So i’ve noticed that whenever someone writes a crossover between Spiderman and DC in general, I notice that he’s always dropped in Gotham City. Granted, I can understand why. Batman and Spidey have similar origin stories. They both have the combination of brains, brawn, and technological edge that keeps them alive against criminals. Bruce already has 12+ kids, so he has experience taking in and housing other vigilantes. With the release of the MCU Spidey and Tony being his mentor/father figure, it’s not hard to realize that Bruce Wayne is the Tony Stark of DC and people want this to echo. That said, I like variety and I started thinking about what would happen if Spidey ended up in a different DC city. This is my personal take on what would occur.

These would basically start with Peter getting zapped into another universe out of nowhere and has to make do. Also, I am not sticking with one specific incarnation of any characters (sorry MCU fanbase) but instead trying to create a character amalgam based on various depictions across comics, movies, and games. In other words, I am taking certain liberties with characters/locations, but considering this is all a total AU, I feel like I am entitled to do so.

Metropolis:

Spidey would likely start living in the Suicide Slums seeing as he can’t afford his own apartment yet. He’s grown up in New York (and SS is based of East Side NY) so having to deal with this lifestyle isn’t too hard for him.

He would make friends with his landlady, Natasha Irons, and her uncle pretty quick

Peter would try to apply at the Daily Planet for photography, using a resume that isn’t totally inaccurate but he’s hoping nobody goes looking to see if the Daily Bugle exists in this world

Perry wouldn’t hire him as a photographer, he’s got Jimmy already. He would more likely hire Peter as the on-site IT repairman and maintenance guy to keep the computers running and up to date. Pete is thrilled by this

Needless to say, despite losing his intended job, he still makes friends with Jimmy. Lois takes a bit of warming up, but she comes around eventually

Lois knows Peter is homeless (Ace reporter on the case) and she starts finding ways to help him out, like dragging him out to lunch with her and Jimmy or bringing him things from home. Peter promptly annoys her to death by insisting he’s alright and doesn’t need help.

Metropolis is a lot different from New York. Peter is pretty stunned the first time he debuts and gets praised and cheered on instead of scorned as a menace. It’s a bittersweet feeling that he had to get blasted into another universe in order to be appreciated

Most of the criminals are used to going up against Superman, so they have some serious power behind their punches. Spidey is very unused to not having to pull his own punches (cause Spiderman canonically has to hold back in order to not take someone's head off)

Inversely, there are a lot of superheroes as well. Supes and the Kryptofam aside, Metropolis has plenty of non-Kryptonian superheroes (Steel, Black Lightning, Booster Gold) so Spidey would definitely run into them and start making friends. I mean he’s already got the Metropolis red and blue down

Spidey would unintentionally start saving Lois, Jimmy, and Perry from danger just like Superman did during his early years. Clark is lowkey salty that Lois is teasing him about “switching out for a younger model”.

Lex Luthor is also pretty steamed that he has to deal with ANOTHER superhero getting in his way. He would be privately impressed that Spiderman can handle most situations with brains over brawn as opposed to Superman, but a hero is a hero.

Jimmy is the first to find out Peter’s identity, mostly because he doesn’t have the “awkward reporter” identity on lock the dame way Clark does.

Jimmy insists on being Spidey’s wingman, because hey he’s already Superman’s best buddy, why stop at one?

Lois is the second person to find out (mostly because she can always tell when Jimmy is lying to her). She is a little mad that someone else beat her to the finale, but she would by now have warmed up to the skinny IT nerd.

Clark is the last person to find out. He and Spiderman would meet somewhere on the rooftops and have a heart to heart. Peter feels safe venting to Supes about being from a different universe, and how he has been struggling to survive in a strange universe and being a good hero at the same time.

At this point, I feel the story would move out of a Metropolis/Superman crossover and into a full Justice League one because Supes is going to do his best to help Spidey get home. Thus, he needs to get the JL involved

Star City

I don’t know much about Star City’s layout, but I assume it is built like most cities in Northern California. Peter would likely find a low-income apartment and get a decent paying job to make ends meet.

At some point, he meets Roy Harper who just got back from rehab and finds that his old apartment is being rented out by a skinny little twerp who reminds him of Nightwing

For the record, as much as I liked New52 Roy with the Outlaws, I also enjoyed pre-52 Roy being a successful father and leader of the Outsiders. My take would be Roy just returning from a forced stint in rehab while Ollie and Dinah watch Lian. He didn’t exactly part with them on good terms and is afraid of what they and Lian with think of him.

Roy and Peter end up living together after Roy finds out Peter can barely keep up with rent and uses his detective job to help make ends meet. Peter realizes this was how Aunt May used to feel when he was the one paying the bills at home.

Commence hijinks of Roy and Peter trying to pull off dual identity jobs while not telling each other

Roy and Peter both know things aren’t copasetic with each other. Roy is still struggling with his history as a drug addict and is still avoiding Ollie, while Pete is starting to feel homesick and worry about the people he left behind. (Don’t worry, they end up talking and making each other feel better)

Roy’s friends and family keep showing up and making it hard to keep a secret identity: Jason pops up with beer from time to time, Nightwing shows up in full costume not knowing Roy is not living alone, Artemis is pissed when she thinks Roy abandoned Lian and picked up another kid (yeah I put Artemis in the DCU, sue me if I like her), and Dinah just coming over to talk and finding out she has two angsty boys that need help instead of just one

Star City has fewer criminals and more assassins than other cities. I would reason Peter isn’t prepared to deal with Merlyn or Slade and takes a bad hit

Roy throws apprehension to the wind and books it to Queen Mansion in order to save his friends life. This results in a whirlwind of everybody freaking out when Roy shows up with a bloody, dying teenager pleading with Ollie for help (Ollie, I should mention, was not aware Roy was back until this point)

Dinah is the only one who stays calm enough to help Peter while Roy, Ollie, Mia, and Artemis all have a family feud moment.

The end result would be Roy getting back together with his family, taking back custody of Lian, gaining temporary guardianship of Peter, and getting back in touch with the superhero community.

As before, I’m sure Ollie would drop it to the JL that Peter is from another dimension and he needs some help, but brags that if they can’t get him home, he’s one-upping Batman on the adoption chart

Central City

Yes, I know Keystone also exists. But considering the two are in different states and Spidey doesn’t have superspeed, so I’m restricting it to Central.

He manages to get a well-off apartment, unfortunately it’s right across the street from the Keystone Saloon. He manages to lies about his age in order to get work as a cleaner/barkeep. (For the record, I can totally see Peter’s chemistry skills coming in handy here with drink mixing. Keep in mind that Flash, who is a chemist by trade, once worked as the barkeep too)

The Flash Rogues are pretty pissed that the owner hired a kid to work the counter, but after getting some (not at all believed) reassurance from Peter that he’s just small for his age, they decide to keep an eye on him while there

Meanwhile, outside the bar, the Rogues are a bit surprised/annoyed that a non-speed related newbie is foiling their heists. That lasts all of five seconds when they realize Spiderman is another minor.

Spidey, who is used to crazed egomaniacal maniacs swearing to kill him ten different ways, is very put off with the Rogues acting like overbearing uncles to him (”I know it’s finals week kid, WTF are you doing out this late” “Kid fix your damn costume and patch yourself up before you do this again, you're gonna get hurt” “Kid do you even eat?”)

They warm up to each other, especially when Spidey offhandedly mentions he’s not used to people being so nice to him (cue Captain Cold to assume child abuse)

The Flash family proceed to make Spidey’s head spin. Barry, Jay, and sometimes Wally stand still long enough to have casual conversation, but Iris, Jay, and Bart are a different story.

Barry starts to suspect Spiderman is hiding something. He doesn’t follow him home out of respect, but after talking with Cold during a heist, he starts to subscribe to the “child abuse” theory

The fact that Peter is more or less living bare minimum with fewer calories to fuel his healing factor doesn’t help. Those bruises after a fight aren’t healing as fast. It also doesn’t help that he’s showing up to work with half healed injuries.

The ruse is up when Trickster barges into Peter’s apartment one night in order to settle the debate and finds him still in costume patching up after a fight with a non-Rogue villain.

The Rogues proceed to haul Peter over to Keystone and dump him on Barry Allen (” Here, take this. He’s not allowed back out until he’s been fed, healed up, and fixed his suit. Don’t make us come back here Flash”)

Barry and Iris get the full story from Peter while they patch him up. Peter is pretty surprised that dimensional travel isn’t the weirdest thing Flash has ever done (the guy has created parallel universes for crying out loud)

Peter is very self-conscious about eating enough to maintain his healing factor and metabolism, until he realizes he’s among people who deal with the same problems in day-to-day life outside the house. It’s a touching moment

Once again, queue Justice League to swoop in and take over.

Yes I know not everybody is used to the Flash Rogues being so close with Flash, but I grew up with this particular variant of the characters and I like that it’s a change in dynamic between heroes and criminals

Coast City

Again, I’m not super familiar with Coast City other than it is DC’s take on Californian cities.

Peter takes a job as a delivery driver to make ends meet. One of the people he delivers to more than most is Hal Jordan (because I assume Hal is just like any other mid 30′s bachelor and prefers to order take out instead of cook for himself)

Hal is extremely put off by the pizza delivery boy who looks like he could be a clone or long lost son

By comparison, he is only mildly annoyed by the arrival of a new vigilante in Coast City. (As far as I know, Coast City doesn’t really have any hometown villains. The majority of the bad guys who attack are aliens who are after Jordan for being a member of the GL corps) Hal never really had time to go out patrolling like Spiderman does, so he doesn’t care at first

Ultimately, due to teasing from the other Lanterns and Carol about “staking his turf and laying down the law with the newbie” Hal goes out as GL to talk with Spidey. Halfway through their “conversation”, one of Hal’s enemies shows up to try and settle the score

Spidey and GL team up, but Spidey isn’t exactly prepared to deal with the things a power ring can do. His costume gets shredded and immediately gets ousted as the pizza guy less than a week after dropping in Coast City

Hal is having a crisis over this. (What if this kid is his long lost son after all? I’m not enough of a bastard to just leave this kid to struggle with homelessness knowing I could help him. Dammit Batman, you are a terrible influence!)

Hal makes Peter quit the pizza gig because, “kid you are way too young to be working anyway and CPS will eat me alive if they find out I was okay with this”

Hal, predictably, is zero percent ready to be taking care of a fidgety superteen. Like this guy's level of parental incompetence would terrify Batman. Here he is having spontaneously taken in a kid off the streets when he can’t even feed himself.

Carol hears about this and puts him through the wringer about “How to Parent” Queue Hal doing the most ridiculous things from buying cheesy Parenting For Dummies books to attending seminars for single moms

Long story short, he gets his act together over this because if Peter is in fact a lost family relative, he wants to make an impression/make up for lost time (Peter meanwhile, is oblivious to this thought process and doesn’t think he and Hal look that much alike. They do XD)

Hal and Peter having a bonding moment over at Ferris Air, with Hal taking Peter flying in one of his jets. Hal is shocked that Peter is so familiar with and enthused by the inner workings and considers pestering Carol about getting Peter a position as a mechanic. Carol says not until he graduates.

Word gets out about Spidey and Hal slowly, mostly because Hal is the only hero in Coast City and manages to keep his secrets under wraps. Batman mostly figures out the truth due to Hal’s change in character (Sorry Bats, can’t be on for monitor duty tonight, I gotta get home and cook for my ki - I mean, for Carol. Cause she’s the one who over at my place. Totally. No one else)

Flash and Green Arrow show up in Coast City to throw Hal a “Welcome to Parenthood” party. Hal is not amused, but Carol very much is.

Peter finally breaks to Hal, and then the JL about being from another universe. Hal is pretty crushed about Peter not being a blood relative due to entertaining the fantasy for so long.

The League starts trying to find ways to send Peter back. Meanwhile, he starts parading Spiderman around during League meetings going on about how he proved them wrong and being a successful parent. It especially annoys Batman. (”What’s the matter Bats? Mad that you aren’t one of a kind anymore?”)

Fawcett City

For starters, I’m really not sure which variation of the Marvel Family to use: the New52 or Pre-52 versions. It makes it kinda hard to nail down plot elements since I go back and forth.

I like the idea of Peter and Billy being homeless together and helping each other out, Peter being an older brother which is something he has no experience with.

That said, I’m not super familiar with how DC handled Billy later in the timeline other then he started growing up, joined the radio station as the host, and met Mary. Might not be the best storyline to use seeing as it seems a bit spotty

I like the idea of the New52 Marvel Family finding Peter out in the cold and inviting him in. Peter is thrust into the role of the awkward older brother with six small children looking up to him

Of course, when they transform in front of him, they aren’t so small anymore.

Despite having a caring family, food, and support, Peter is afraid of telling everyone who he is. The fear of overstaying his welcome keeps him up at night.

Not to mention, the Marvel’s have the crime fighting down cold, meaning there isn’t really a home for Spiderman either.

I think a moment where Peter privately confesses who he is/where he comes from to Billy would set up the story. Now Billy realizes his new big brother is going through the same problems he went through with trying to fit in.

As Captain Marvel, he tries to find the Marvel (haha) universe via the Rock of Eternity, but gets no results. Now Billy is afraid of telling Peter the bad news because he’s pretty sure Peter is depressed and doesn’t want something to happen.

Billy starts subtly asking Cyborg at the watchtower about research into alternate universes because maybe science can succeed where magic failed

The opportunity for Spidey to shine comes when Dr. Sivana starts up a machine that drains magic and makes the Marvel’s powerless. Queue someone with no magic powers but a lot of technical know-how to swoop in and show what he can do.

I feel something that could potentially happen is the machine backfiring and giving Peter some magical abilities as a result (I mean, the Marvel’s are basically the sources of Earth’s magic from what I can remember. Anything can happen)

From here, not really sure what could happen. I suppose Peter having to accept that he can’t go home, but is happy he can stay with the Vasquez family and still continue being a hero to his adopted siblings in and out of costume. Alternatively, the magic blast could shoot him back to the Marvelverse, with Peter being upset that he never got to say goodbye. (Spoiler: Captain Marvel now knows where the Marvelverse is and comes for a visit)

#dc #Marvel #dc comics #crossover #Spiderman x Batman #spiderman #spiderman x superman #found family #story prompt #spiderman x dc #superman #batman #flash #green lantern #green arrow

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gggoldfinch · 6 months

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brrrrrrr art dump for the tfp self insert oc my childhood self could only dream of 🤯 I drew these back in July but have been thinking about them again recently. This is so embarrassing but I'm so proud of how these character sheets came out, but I can't post them without context so here we goooooo (oc info at the bottom!!!!!!😭)

Embarrassing au & oc info time!!!!!! (tw for vague discussion of non-human self-harm in 10th bullet point):

Okay so basically to preface: in my wip fic (wip is a gross exaggeration), everything remains canonically accurate to TFP except for the fact I use my Magic Fanfic Writer Powers to incorporate ridiculous Cybertronian mysticism canon into it for the sole purpose of furthering my self indulgent plot armor via cyberforming (cyberforming being when organic material becomes that of Cybertronian-make through means of mysticism and/or science)

Marian (unabashed tradgoth self insert) starts off as human. She gets picked up by the Cons while smashed drunk one night bc they think she has info on the Bots (found her bc she was lurking on online forums asking too many questions about big robot aliens bc she once saw them brawling and wanted answers), then she just ends up being kept alive and kept around as a pet/team mascot/ emotional support human, because hey if the Bots have one then maybe humans can be of some use

After a while Marian ends up forming a bond with Starscream (and KO to a lesser extent) after they both end up treating each other with compassion and respect (wow! trauma-bonding!). She kinda definitely falls desperately in love with him (and thinks it's unrequited but jk!). Angst & hurt/comfort abound! Gratuitous usage of mass-displacement device for nsfw purposes! You didn't hear that from me...

She is accidentally killed during the Battle on Cybertron (ca. season 3) by being hit with a stray plasma blast.

Here is where AU material comes in lol!!!!!!!

With the Well of AllSparks alive once again, in an act of desperation SS leaves her body at the edge of the well and actually prays for once in his miserable life. Through a mystical act of pity or mercy or whatever, a fresh spark combines with her own approximation of a soul and cyberforms her corpse and resurrects/ reincarnates her. She's herself, with all her old memories— but also something new, with all-new potential. No one knows wtf is going on lol

She becomes the first mech created on "New" Cybertron. "Cyberform-forged" is the term used for her, making her something of a new race (in the same way the Terrans are a new race), and is more of a mystic anomaly than anything (largely because there is no opportunity to recreate the event).

She's formed with a Vosnian Seeker frame and Cybertronian alt mode. Her frame is weather resistant: built to tolerate and fly through high winds and dangerous weather (Cybertronian and Terran) and relies more on brute force than grace in aviation. This means she is bulky rather than slim and aerodynamic like SS. She's a revival of the (near?) extinct class (if we're going by Prime!canon then Starscream is the only confirmed Vosnian Seeker left). Why Primus decided that cranking out new Vosnians would be a good idea is beyond everyone; everyone is too busy wondering how tf cyberforming works and what the consequences of it are to really question it.

Physically, she's not overtly femme— more androgynous, which is on brand for her Vosnian build. She's top-heavy with large pauldrons, shoulders double the width of her hips. Her new frame reflects her old human body in a very rough, vague way— only enough to be noticeable to those who really knew her before. She applies face paint by hand like her old makeup, and paints one servo red to match how she used to wear her nail polish. She's shorter than SS, around 30-ish feet tall (whereas he pushes 35'). She doesn't have a very good grasp on how her wings emote, therefore anyone who can read Seeker body language can always tell exactly how she's feeling.

She suffers with severe ptsd, depression, and body dysmorphia/ dysphoria as a result of the cyberforming and her human death, and semi-often has moments of panic and distress wherein she self-harms in an attempt to undo what's been done. In a potent mix of lingering human neurodivergency & the jarring biological shift, she often gets overwhelmed by her new body, notably her biomechanical functions: her optics cause a significant amount of stress on a regular basis, to the point where visual "notifications" and all other miscellaneous visual obstructions have to be disabled in order for her to function. This means no scanning data, etc, without purposefully reactivating the internal procedures required for the task. She also has a lot of trouble coping with the lack of sexual dimorphism. Shortly after her "awakening," she brutalized herself due to severe confusion and psychological distress (see the second to last image :( ) and KO had to sedate and mend her.

Every who encounters her and knows her story kinda assumes she just "came back" with a processor malfunction (or if they don't know her story, think she was just traumatized by the war), which isn't totally wrong. Knockout is one of her major supporters thru this and professionally thinks she probably needs a mnemosurgeon to fix her, but can't find any to contact so soon post-war.

She's rather clumsy, and takes a while to acclimate to such a different body (it also doesn't help that Seekers tend to have disproportionally long limbs, as well as cumbersome wings). She smacks things and other mechs with her wings, crushes things in her servos, basically she severely underestimates her own strength and size

One perk to her new body is that she can stream music directly into her processor, which is a function she abuses often to drown everything else out. There are functions she couldn't even dream of before: she can disable pain processors, turn off sight and hearing like throwing a switch, disable various biomechanical functions. She doesn't need to breathe like a human, or expel waste. Energon tastes like battery acid and firecrackers, but hey, she can turn off "taste" processors too.

She's afraid of herself at times, and by extension is afraid of intimacy too. She's afraid she's too different now, in a foreign body she can't seem begin understanding. She feels burdened by expectations; she's not a real Vosnian Seeker, she's not even a real Cybertronian in the way that counts— she is a freakish amalgamation of human memories and a soul stuffed into a shell made new especially for her, despite her having had no say in the matter... Or, at least, that's what she thinks. Those closest to her think she's a miracle and are thrilled to still have her, indefinitely now. Before when she was human, SS had been frustrated and genuinely afraid of feeling anything remotely positive towards her, because of how tragically short human life spans are (and his fears had been proven valid when she was killed). Now he has Marian forever, and while coping with his own problems post-war, he cares for her and teaches her how to be a noble Seeker.

YIPPEEEEEEE

#taught myself to draw mech specifically to draw these #SEE I can be a decent artist when I try 🥺#transformers oc #tfp oc #goldfinch draws #goldfinch writes #(I also forgot to add my @ on the second image hnnnng)

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brandwhorestarscream · 6 months

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TFA jettwins in Cybermorphs AU could totally just be SS and Megs getting curious what would happen if they did it the other way around? Like normally SS sires and Megs makes eggs right? So what if Jettwins is just the two of them being like

("Would this even work?" "Idk" "Wanna try it?" "Sure.")

And next thing we know, The Twins. (Extra angst for the whole trines idea.) Normally Seeker eggs are in threes? But because of the wonky cybermorph genes, one eggy doesn't make it. Luckily vosimorphs are less predisposed to needing trines, so the twins only need each other.

Ok so I really, really like this as a concept (like! Stick a pin in this! We can definitely apply this elsewhere), but it doesn't quite fit the TFA jettwins vibes. They are, first and foremost, autobot warriors/weaoons. I don't wanna remove that part of their character, it's so tragic and interesting

So! Hear me out 👀

Since there's no Soundwave during TFA's war (that we know of), that means Megatron has no chosen cybermorph King to be his main commander. In TFP Starscream is a normal born mecha, but I wanna switch it up here. Keep it fresh

Way, waaay back in the day. Megatron's carrier, as a flight capable warframe (hi Galvatron) is an accomplished gladiator while his mate is a humble miner. Maybe he took up pit fighting in an effort to get money for Terminus's treatment after he lost his legs in the famous mining accident, or maybe he was yeeted in there as punishment for some offense or other. Regardless, he's an absolute monster in the ring, and quickly becomes a fan favorite for his sheer brutality and graceful fighting style alike.

Pivot to Vos. One of Winglord Hurricane's mates is planning an offworld excursion. Maybe for scientific study, maybe as a vacation. Hurricane isn't able to accompany them, and isn't comfortable letting them off so far away even with some of the armada as an escort. For extra protection, he opts to hire a gladiator or three. The best of the best: anyone would think twice about going after royalty that's not only attended by a Vosian fleet but also protected by arguably the best warriors on the planet. Galvatron accepts immediately, especially when the Winglord is kind enough to give him 25% down right away. It's more than enough to cover Terminus's surgery and recovery time off work. It's enough to get them their own private apartment in Kaon! He jumps at the chance. This is the kind of thing warframes on the southern side of the planet dream of, a once in a lifetime opportunity to make things better.

And, well, you know what happens next 🤭 whilst exploring or vacationing or whatever, they fall into an abandoned xenomorph nest. Galvatron is first, as the royal embryo that eventually becomes Megatron is dominant even in the ovimorph state: it gets to hatch first and latch onto a host. There's of course lots of screaming and panic: a few seekers go down, the Winglord's mate included, as well as all 3 gladiators. The first generation of cybermorphs begins incubating, and there's probably only about 7 of them to begin with. Shaken, the party immediately begins to head home to Cybertron, as the afflicted seeker Lord desperately wants to go home after that

Because they're not organic incubators, and the cybertronian genetic code is more dominant than the xenomorphs, it probably takes multiple weeks for them to pop. They grow very slowly, compared to when they use human incubators. They're all scanned when they get home but there's no traces of anything malicious or contagious, so they're not subjected to quarantine right away.

From there, stuff basically goes the same for quite awhile: the babies burst and the southern half of the planet is immediately locked down. That's the catalyst for life spiralling out of control and becoming so bad that the war is eventually ignited. Vos, as a flying city that self governs independent of the Senate, refuses to surrender the newspark morphlings. Lord Skysoar, Starscream's carrier, is bonded to him at the spark. They have a parent-child sparkbond and separating them would likely cause both of them to die. The Winglord refuses to rip them apart, and though Starscream isn't technically his, he's still raised as Vos's rightful prince. The first child the Winglord's mate has beared, technically.

Anyway. Starscream and Megatron meet before the war. When the dual bombings happen, they swiftly agree to allyship and fight the Senate together. As the leader of the vosimorph armada, Megatron's second in command, and, likely, the most prominent sire in the hive: he's selected to become the cybermorph King, like Soundwave was in TFP. Shockwave was also a candidate, but politely declined, as his work in espionage and science alike didn't leave him enough time to be an effective commander.

Things likely devolve between them over time: a King can't rule a hive, only a Queen can, but with the way the war ends they don't have a hive anymore. The cybermorphs are pushed to the brink of extinction by the autobots extracting the Allspark and making waves after waves after endless waves of soldiers. They and all warframes by extension are banished from Cybertron and put on a Kill On Sight list. Starscream and Megatron are at each other’s throats constantly, blaming each other for the loss of Absolutely Everything: all of their children are dead and gone, they have no incubators to make more, and now they're doomed to slowly die out. Even if they can manage to get their hands on stray autobots, they barely have enough energon to sustain themselves. There's probably less than 100 cybermorphs left in existence

Now, having said aaaaall of that! We can finally jump into the jettwins!

When Starscream is captured by the Elite Guard, millions of years and several generations have past. Almost no one that remembers the cybermorphs is still around, and there's next to no data on how they work. They try in vain for months to get a baby out of Starscream, but he's not a Queen, so he's completely sterile and infertile. He can't carry a sparkling to term, and he can't get anyone sparked up. He's subjected to this harsh, brutal reality for countless cycles, having to endure their assaults and forcing aphrodisiacs into his body in increasingly desperate attempts to get him to make them some offspring they can use.

Something they're entirely unaware of is that only Cybermorph Queens can reproduce, they're the only ones that can make eggs and the only ones that can sexually impregnate. They assume that Cybermorph Kings must have the ability as well: they don't think it's possible for their entire species to be sterile. They're starting to think that they just got a bad specimen, that Starscream is just an unlucky mecha that can't be a parent.

Now, the thing that makes Kings special is that, aside from being a hive's natural commander, they're the only other type of morph that can reproduce, but not in the typical way. Interfacing doesn't work with them. They're able to actually implant an embryo directly into a host with a special organ on the tip of their tail, grabbing them in magnetic pincers and impaling them with a sharp spine in the center, directly into their fuel tank. Idk what triggers the actual impregnation: maybe they've drugged him with something new, maybe he's finally cracked from all the abuse and flies into a defensive rage after using his own acidic energon to melt through his restraints. But he manges to transform to his full vosimorph form, just long enough to grab someone and impale them in self defense. I'm impartial to Sentinel cuz I really fucking hate that guy and wanna see him get doubly chestburstered, but Perceptor is also an option. He's usually the one I cast as the jettwins' other parent, sooo

Really long story short: Jetfire and Jetstorm are the results of the autobots capturing vosimorph king Starscream. He... probably escapes during this time, I would say, and doesn't reunite with them until they've undergone their first several molts. As they were King implants, not fertilized eggs, they grow very quickly, and are ready to be dispatched into the Elite Guard after only a few months. The autobot government is very happy with their new obedient little cybermorph weapons, right up until they get to earth and the twins run off and/or turn on them in the presence of more morphs, especially a King or Queen

#cybermorph au #but now it's tfa #jettwins #jetfire #jetstorm #i hope you guys enjoy this as much as i enjoyed writing it 🥰

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oooooo fairytales! I love fairytales and also.... fairytale AUs 👀

Rapunzel Ray... sweet lovely prince locked in a tower... rescued by his prince(ss) and loved for the things he was taught to hate about himself...

Cinderella stories were my shit growing up (Anne Hathaway in Ella Enchanted (wait a sec... ella enchanted ray/saeran... I'll come back to this) and Drew Barrymore in Ever After made me gay) and I must apply cinderella AUs to all my faves.... cinderella!saeran or !saeyoung would need some playing around with bc of the sibling thing... something could probably be done with saeran's perception of saeyoung... i just love cinderella AUs

And now because the brainworms attacked: Ella Enchanted Ray/Saeran. If you like Cinderella stories I'd guess you've probably seen or read it but if you haven't the short version is: as a baby Ella is given the ""gift of obedience"" by a fairy godmother, which curses her to do anything she is told to do. In both versions she breaks the curse but I prefer the way the book does it--when the stepmother orders her to marry the prince, intending to make Ella her puppet for power since she's magically compelled to do whatever she's told, Ella breaks the curse through sheer force of will and refusal to hurt someone she actually loves (then marries the prince bc she wants to and can make the choice herself). Which reminds me a LOT of Saeray defying Rika on day 10 and running off with MC.

[I don't think you've read Calluna. While it may be older, it holds a soft place in my heart as it's a Ray themed story! He takes the place of Rapunzel in a strange twist of fate when he encounters a thief... who has a heart of gold and a secret you may not believe.] If you wonder how the twins can work in that situation, meaning how they are separated in that world, read to find out!

And, I love Ella Enchanted! Anne Hathaway was a member of my young gay awakening. You made me picture the scene in the chamber of mirrors and the thought alone is enough to make me cry. Him with a trembling hand, tears in his eyes, trying to choose a fate that won't hurt anyone because his heart is too soft for this curse. Though, picturing the way things lay out in the book... there is no wrong answer here. I could get really into that.

Sigh... I need to see Ray fancied up as a prince with a twist of angst...

#mod kait #ask #mystic messenger #pastelsapphy #calluna

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Meta: if DJSub canon and Galaxitite!DJSub meet, what would be their reactions? (In extension, how would the NSR universe characters react to their gem counterparts?)

DJ SS meeting Galaxite: happy to find someone just as smart as they are… at first. Don’t count it to last. These guys are competitive nerds! They’ll challenge each other for the title of the smartest one. Gem!DJSS has a more exaggerated superiority complex as a “superior alien race” with gravity powers compared to a feeble “organic” earthling lookalike. He doesn’t count DJ SS can gigantisize himself. Still, it’s a full on blown space nerd battle!

Sayu and her team are instant besties with Akoya and her team. Love Karaoke, sleepovers, video games, memes… they’d be enjoying life as nerdy/artsy kids their age.

Yinu and her mother are fast friends with their counterparts too. Yinu and Golden Coral share their gardening tips or play their instruments. Yinu’s mom and Red Coral are Team Mom Besties. There’s just a bit of a difference regarding Mr Natura in this AU.

1010 and Neon J would be a bit puzzled by their counterparts. The 1010th troop has 0 concept of flirting with fans or take selfies. This is a thing 1010 swore they’d fix. Fast friends too, a bit chaotic as well.

Paraiba and Neon J are likely sharing war stories, sharing happy memories of lost comrades and friends. (Maybe Neon also offer Paraiba some flirting tips too). Old TV men being buddies.

Eve and Bicolor Sapphire… 2 words. Multidimensional Collab. They’re so overjoyed to have finally found someone who truly understands them (and they’re also kind of the same person too).

Dk West and Cuprite are those jock bros. West would teach Cuprite how to rap like a pro. Probably share embarrassing anecdotes about Zuke and Azurmalachite. Like the Zonkey thing.

Tatiana and Kimberlite share in their pain of being the tired grannies looking after their chaotic rock children and trying to keep them out of trouble. Probably complain a lot about them, but deep down they care. Tired grandma leaders solidarity.

B2J with Zincite and Azurmalachite is chaotic. They rock the city with loud, wild music. Collab all the time, love to play in a band of four and come up with new songs.

Zuke and Azurmalachite are The chillest of bros. Azurmalachite would share some gem tech tips with Zuke and in turn Zuke shares his experience about Art College (considering Azurmalachite applies too). They’d talk about their own collections of toilet seats as if were Pokemon cards.

May and Zincite are feral sisters. Wild rock gremlin kids. Dumb of ass but pure of heart. Zincite may have a few issues from her past on the colony, but May is there to cheer her up.

Ellie 🤝 Gem!Ellie (precious blue crocs)

Again, they’ll never meet in the Au canon but it’s a funny concept.

#no straight roads #nsr #nsr au #no straight roads au #no gem roads #gem au #nsr mayday #nsr zuke #djss #neon j #nsr tatiana #eve nsr #nsr 1010 #sayu crew #nsr sayu #nsr yinu #nsr yinu mother

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tortilla-of-courage · 3 years

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The Hylian written languages are a mess, man. But it’s nice seeing how they vary and how that’d affect how the Links communicate. I thought it’d be fun to share this since apparently written Hylian isn’t like, common knowledge in the fandom. Might be useful for art or the alike maybe? not sure

(really long post so. under a read more it goes! TL;DR of what’s in here: talking about and showing the written Hylian in almost all Zelda games, similarities between some, brief appearances in other games, and what writing system each Link would use according to all of this (basing it on the LU AU’s Links, but it could apply to any other Zelda AU out there), plus me trying to Connect The Dots™)

Written Hylian jumps from English-based to Japanese-based then back and forth, so in theory they could also sound completely different between each other, but that’s another issue.

Anyways, here’s a totally-not-messy timeline of the games with their respective written languages (note: when i say english or japanese, i mean english/japanese-based Hylian, except in Link’s Awakening where it’s literally just those languages)

for convenience i’m gonna show and kind of explain each Hylian here really quick

First off, “English 1″, or the Skyward Sword Ancient Hylian alphabet

The first one chronologically. The start of a language-evolution nightmare. Anything you find in SS with this can be translated to English simply by replacing them with the latin alphabet.

Then we have “Japanese 1″, or the most common Hylian syllabary (syllable-based language) across the games

For some reason, Hyrule decided to switch to a syllable-based writing system all of a sudden and everyone said ok. With this one you can translate anything in Minish Cap, Four Swords/Four Swords Adventures, Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks to japanese. It can be a bit difficult because of a lack of distinctions japanese has (double consonants and half-sized syllables for example) but it can be done.

(As a fun note, this one can be found in Ocarina of Time 3D in the carpet of the Temple of Time, and in Square Signs! And also in Twilight Princess, in some of Kakariko’s Gravestones)

Then we have “Japanese 2″, in Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask.

Alright still syllable-based. That’s cool. Though this one’s way more square-ish than the last one, and it’s missing some syllables, so it complicates translations. The missing syllables are the ones with the variation marks “Japanese 1″ had. So, for example, in this syllabary, “ha/ba/pa” are the same symbol.

Going by the Fallen Timeline first, in A Link to the Past we’re shown a variant of Hylian that is referred to as “Mudoran”... which is gibberish, basically.

As far as I know, there’s no visible Hylian or other in the Oracles games, but we can assume they’d speak/write whatever language Labrynna and Holodrum have.

Link’s Awakening seems to just... have English and Japanese. At the same time.

In A Link Between Worlds and Tri Force Heroes, we’re introduced to a new alphabet, “English 2″, which is also used in Breath of the Wild and Age of Calamity, often called “Modern Hylian”.

It’s really similar to Skyward Sword’s Hylian, to the point of sharing many of its characters... except they’re all mixed up and/or slightly modified.

Here’s a messy comparison between the two for funsies. You can technically crossread between the two but it won’t make sense for the most part. The only word i’ve found that’s the same in both is “NO”

In Zelda I and II there’s no written language to be seen like, anywhere because of the game’s limitations. While we’re at it, Hyrule Warriors doesn’t show any distinct Hylian either.

So! Child timeline! Termina uses the same “Japanese 2″ syllabary as OoT. That one’s easy.

Twilight Princess introduces a new alphabet, “English 3″, that’s the most similar to the latin alphabet out of the others.

TP’s many signs with this alphabet though seem to use it with English, Japanese, and/or gibberish. It really depends on where it’s being used. Most one or two word signs base it off english.

Also, this alphabet can be found in... Skyward Sword! Yeah, all the way back there. You can find it in the Sealed Temple and the Sky Keep (though it’s gibberish), as well as on one of the game’s covers:

Then Four Swords Adventures, and all the games in the adult timeline (Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, and Spirit Tracks) use “Japanese 1″.

So. What does this mean for the Links, you might ask? After that stupidly long exposition text wall, I can finally go to that.

i’m basing these on the Linked Universe AU’s Links, but the info above could be used for the Links in any other Zelda AUs. For people unfamiliar with the AU, “Hyrule” here is the Zelda I/II Link, and “Warriors” is the Hyrule Warriors Link. “Legend” covers all the other games in the Fallen Hero Timeline, and “Four” is the Four Swords and Minish Cap’s Links. The rest I think are more obvious.

Sky uses “English 1″. He could, in theory, see Twilight’s Hylian and have the vaguest feeling of knowing it, but since it was on the doors of the Sealed Temple i’m not sure.

Four and Wind use “Japanese 1″.

Time uses “Japanese 2″. Like Sky, he could potentially see Four and Wind’s Hylian and think he’s seen it before, but since it was just on the carpet I don’t think he’d have paid much attention to it.

Legend and Wild use “English 2″.

Also besides “English 2″, Legend also knows Mudoran, English, Japanese, and Labrynna’s and Holodrum’s languages. Multilingual king.

Twilight uses “English 3″, and if he ever paid attention to the gravestones in Kakariko Village, might recognize Four and Wind’s Hylian too.

Warriors could use any of these tbh, considering the mess his game is.

I have no idea what Hyrule could use either. Probably English 2 like Legend? Something else entirely?

Sky, Legend and Wild look at each other’s writing like “oh that looks familiar :)” but when they try to read it it makes absolutely No Sense.

I’m pretty sure I had more points to this when I started this post but I seem to have forgotten about them and i’ve already spent maybe 6 hours on this.

Conclusion: Written communication isn’t really a viable option for the Links unless they teach each other their respective writing systems. Chaos ensues.

Bonus! Both “Link” and their nicknames in each of their writing systems (using “English 2″ for Wars and Hyrule as placeholders)

#oh my god how do i tag this.#i'll go with the games i guess since that's the main subject lu's like an afterthought #the legend of zelda #hylian #ocarina of time #skyward sword #twilight princess #wind waker #minish cap #...am i about to tag literally all the games #four swords #link's awakening #a link to the past #fantasy languages #all games #tortilla thinks #i could honestly just post the linked universe part on its own and link back to this #but. where's the fun in me rambling out of my mind if no one will see it?#long post #ok this isnt as long as i thought it was originally i think other posts of mine are longer #but yeah #ask to tag #i dont think i included spoilers of anything hopefully #edit 6/12: modified some stuff so it's a bit more inclusive (? to other zelda aus.#explained the lu boys so if you dont know about it you can still use the info for your links #sorry if this looks like lu hogging the zelda tags i didnt mean it i just wanted some links to base conclussions on #legend of zelda #tortilla posts

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middleearthpixie · 2 years

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Playing With Fire ~ Chapter Twenty-Eight

Dunraven Pub - Modern AU

A/N: Apologies for the delay in posting. Life has gotten in the way a little, but hopefully I'll get back on track real soon. Thanks for your patience! Also, if you notice either missing or extra Es and Ss - those keys keep falling off my MacBook, so I try to catch them when they go haywire, but sometimes they slip through the cracks. Bear with me until I can get my laptop replaced. :)

Summary: Thorin Durin likes his life just the way it is—his pub is successful, he’s happily playing the field when it comes to women. He wouldn’t change a damn thing about it. At least, not until he meets Leda Andrews, who stops to help him when his car dies on the side of the road.

Leda is new in town, and late for a job interview when she stops to help a guy with his broken down old car. The last thing she expected was for him to be the same guy who owns the pub where she’s applied to be a bartender, never mind to be one of the hottest men she’s ever seen.

Sparks fly, and while Leda’s got a few ground rules that Thorin is more than willing to abide by, neither one of them expected their fling to turn into anything more serious, or that they would be faced with a situation neither one is prepared for. So, what happens when a no-strings-attached affair teeters on becoming the real thing…

Summary: Leda and Thorin find out whether they are having a boy or girl…

Pairings: Pairing: Modern!Thorin x OC Female

Characters: Thorin, Leda, the usual suspects

Warnings: None

Rating: T

Word Count: 4,010

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By the time the game finally ended, Leda didn’t care if football season ever came back. She was beyond exhausted, sinking into one of the low chairs over in the dining area. A heavy, weary sigh rose to her lips and she leaned over to put her head down.

“Why don’t you go stretch out in my office?” Thorin asked, coming into the room to begin upending the chairs. “I still have to cash out and close everything up before we can head home.”

“I can drop you off,” Zana said, draping her scarf about her neck.

“Thank you, but that’s really out of your way, Zane,” Leda said, sitting up and rubbing her eyes. “I can just go lie on the sofa and wait.”

“You sure?” Zana dug her car keys from her purse. “You look beat.”

Leda sighed softly as she looked over at Thorin. “How long do you think you’ll be?”

“Forty minutes to an hour, probably.” He set another chair up. “Why don’t you just go on home? You look wiped out.”

“It’s really no trouble, Leda,” Zana told her.

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah, I’m sure. I wouldn’t offer otherwise.”

Leda looked back over at Thorin. “I hate to leave you with everything. And the pool table…”

A slow grin lifted his lips. “You can owe me with that. As for everything else, don’t worry about it.”

She got to her feet with a soft grunt. Why was she so tired now? According to that stupid book, she should feel far more energetic than she did in her first trimester, so she made a mental note to ask Dr. Cherot at her next appointment, which was tomorrow, when the Dunraven was closed so Thorin could go as well. An ultrasound. They’d be able to find out if they were having a boy or a girl.

“Why’re you looking at me like that?” Thorin’s voice broke into her reverie.

“I was just thinking about tomorrow,” she came around the the table to stand in front of him. “Do you want to know?”

“Yeah,” he said with a nod. “I do. You?”

“I think so.”

He winked and leaned over to brush her lips with his. “Go home and don’t wait up, amrâlimê. I’ll try not to wake you.”

“Don’t worry about it. If you do, you do.” She grabbed her jacket from the back of her chair and her purse from the table. “I’ll see you at home, Thorin.”

“Zane, I owe you for this.”

“Don’t worry about it.” Zana jangled hr car keys in one hand. “Your girl is in good hands.”

“I know she is.”

Leda smiled as she and Zana stepped out in a bitterly cold night. The air was sharp enough to slice right through a lung, and the overcast sky suggested they might see ice or snow before morning.

Zana unlocked her red Jeep and Leda climbed into the passenger seat, rubbing her hands together as Zana climbed in as well and turned over the engine. “I really should get a remote start installed on this thing. I hate coming out here in the middle of the night.”

“I can’t wait until spring,” Leda said, smiling when her seat grew warm. “Ahhh… I am making sure my car has these.”

“Oh, that’s right. I imagine getting around on a motorcycle might be tough with an infant.”

Leda chuckled. “Between my bike and Thorin’s antique? We’re going to spend a fortune in cars in the coming months.”

“I remember when he bought that car. It was such a broken down, decrepit POS, not one of us thought he’d ever get it on the road. I’m pretty sure he didn't think so, either. He took a lot of shit for buying it. Especially from Dwalin.”

“It still is a POS from time to time. That’s actually how I met him.”

“I know.” Zana shifted into second and glanced over at her. “He told me about how you came to his rescue. I think you impressed him.”

“I just knocked some junk out of his air filter and went on my merry way.” She sighed as they sped along Main Street, where the strip malls thinned and the houses grew larger, as did the yards. “I had no idea this was all going to happen.”

“I used to tell him I couldn't wait for him to fall. I was going to be merciless when it happened. But, you know what? It’s been just wonderful to watch him fall like this. I wish you two nothing but happiness together. And I’m really hoping we’ll hear wedding bells soon.”

“One thing at a time, Zana. One thing at a time.” Her mother’s words echoed in her head, and she looked over at Zana this time. “You’ve known him a long time, right?”

“Oh, yeah. I’ve worked for him for almost nine years. Why?”

“I just… you know him, and I value your friendship with him and I know he does as well, and I was just… well…”

“Leda, the guy is nuts about you.”

“No, I know that. It’s… I know his history. With his employees. And I just… how well do you know Lacey?”

“Lacey? Not as well as I know Thorin or any of the others. Shit, I know you better and I’ve only know you since September. I’d worked with her for two and a half years.” She downshifted as the next traffic light switched to amber, then red. “Why?”

“I’m just wondering, should I be concerned about her?”

“About Lacey? Because he fired her? Probably not. I mean, I know when she and Thorin—” Zana hedged, then went quiet for a moment—“when they were together, such as it was, she was pretty sure she was going to change him. I tried to tell her sleeping with your boss is never a good idea, but she was really sure of herself. To the point where she thought she’d be invited to the next family thing he went to, which, if I’m not mistaken, was some cookout or other over the summer. And not only did he not ask her, the day of, she caught him with Meg, who later—” She coughed. “I’m sorry, Leda. That was really stupid of me to bring all that up.”

“Don’t apologize. He was more than upfront with me on his history and Lacey told me about Meg and that Meg caught him with someone as well. It’s okay.”

“Still… everyone’s got a past.”

“Exactly.”

The light turned green and Zana shifted into first. “Anyway, she was pretty pissed when he didn't ask her, and she stomped around for weeks after she caught him with Meg. I can’t even tell you how gleeful she was when he and Meg ended things. I think she thought she’d get a second chance with him, but then you came along and here we are. And I can honestly say, at no time in the last nine years have I ever seen him as happy as he is now, or as serious about anyone as he is about you. Don’t waste your time worrying about Lacey.” Zana smiled at her, signaling to make left before turning onto Snowbourne Lane. “Which house?”

“The last one on the left.”

“Damn, he’s got a lot of property,” Zana said as she turned onto the lane that was his driveway. “Anyway, she’s bitter but she’ll get over it. Thorin never promised her anything. And he was pretty clear about how a relationship was not what he wanted, so she really can’t even be that angry, to be honest. I mean, she can be, of course, but she brought on herself. She chased him.”

The Jeep rocked to a halt at the garage and Leda smiled at the faint barking coming from inside the house. “Thank you so much for the ride, Zana. I appreciate it.”

“It’s no trouble at all, Leda. I remember being pregnant and on my feet all the time and it just sucks. So, go and enjoy the peace and quiet. You’ve earned it.”

“I owe you.” Leda climbed down from the passenger seat.

“Make an honest man of Thorin Durin!” Zana laughed.

“I’ll see what I can do.” She pushed the door shut and hurried up the steps as Zana carefully turned around and rocked back down the drive.

Conan barked again as Leda unlocked the kitchen door. He took off like a shot out the door, barely touching the steps as he flew down them and disappeared into the darkness. The wind stirred through the naked tree branches and the cloud cover made seeing anything impossible.

“Conan?” She stood in the doorway, shivering from the cold, struggling to see anything that might even remotely resemble Conan. But now, not only could she not see him, she couldn’t hear him, either.

“Conan!” She moved back out on to the porch. “Come on, boy! Come get your cookies!”

A low bark rolled from somewhere beyond the pool.

Then Conan snarled.

“Conan?” She went inside to the cabinet by the phone, where Thorin kept a Maglite flashlight, and then went back outside, switching it on. The beam sliced through the darkness like daylight, but she still saw no sign of Conan.

“Where are you?” she muttered, coming down the steps and out into the driveway.

The wind went still.

There were still some leaves on the ground from the numerous oaks and swamp and silver maple trees dotting Thorin’s property. And they scuffled softly.

The hairs along the back of Leda’s neck stood up and she tightened her grip on the heavy flashlight. “Conan! Get over here!”

He snarled again, low in his throat. It sounded like it came from the western part of the yard, just beyond the pool. She dug her cell phone from her pocket and toggled it open. She heard a sharp pop, Conan let out a howl, then came bounding out of the darkness. He flattened up against her, ears back, that low growl rumbling up from his throat once more.

“Come on, boy, let’s go inside.” She patted her thigh to get him to follow, and he dutifully trotted up the steps alongside her, and into the kitchen. She locked the door behind her, and returned the flashlight to its cabinet, then went to get Conan’s biscuits from the pantry.

He showed no interest in them, but dove into his water bowl and as he did, Leda sank to one knee beside him and gave him a once over for any injuries. Nothing. Whatever that pop was, it didn't seem to have hurt him.

Still, it unnerved her. The dog had heard and seen something and it made him protective of her.

She rumpled his left ear, the one that refused to remain upright. “I wish you could just tell me what you were going after.”

He looked up with sad brown puppy eyes and his bushy tail swished across the floor. Then, his body went rigid and he stared at the kitchen door, looking every bit as fierce as any German shepherd she’d ever seen.

A low, menacing growl rumbled up from his throat and he rose from his haunches to approach the kitchen door. Leda slowly straightened up to join him, peering through the door’s window into the darkness Whatever Conan saw or heard was beyond her range. All she saw was darkness and all she heard was his growl.

But then, his hackles went down and he turned to trot back to his bowl and his biscuits as if without a care at all. Unfortunately, she couldn’t say the same. A sense of unease settled into her bones and it wasn’t until headlights sliced through the darkness and Thorin’s Mustang rolled to a stop before the garage doors that she felt comfortable.

His boots thudded against the steps, his keys jangled softly, and he stepped into the kitchen and closed the door behind him with a sigh. Then, he frowned. “What are you still doing up?”

“Just waiting for you.”

“Waiting for—I told you not to bother, mesmel. You should be tucked away and sound—” His eyes narrowed as he tossed his keys onto the counter—“what happened?”

“Nothing, really.” She looked over at Conan, asleep in the doorway between the kitchen and the formal dining room. “He’s been acting weird and it left me a little unsettled.”

“Weird? Weird how?” He clumped over to the dog and crouched to give him a full body rub. Conan lifted his head, offered up a big yawn, thumped his tail twice, and laid his head back down. “Leda, what’s going on? He looks fine.”

“He heard something and took off like a shot after it. Then I heard him growling, he yelped and hasn’t really left my side since we came in. I looked, but I didn't see anything, but I guess I’m still a little freaked by it.”

He looked over at the Mag-Lite she’d left on the counter and reached for it. “You want me to go look?”

“No. If there as anything there, I’m sure he frightened it off. I guess I’m just… I don’t know… between Lacey yesterday and my mother today… I think my mind is just trying to torture me a little more.”

He snapped off the kitchen light and came to take her hand to draw her to her feet. “Well, tell your mind to take the night off and come on up to bed.”

Upstairs, Thorin stripped off his long-sleeved tee and tossed it toward the basket, then moved to sink onto the edge of the bed to unlace his boots. “You sure you’re okay? You look a little… shaken up.”

“I think it’s just my mind, like I said." She closed the door behind her and leaned back against it. “I know he hears a lot of things out there and has to investigate them, but I’d swear something hurt him with the way he howled.”

“If he’s hurt, he’s hiding it well. There’s no sign of anything on him.” Thorin kicked off his boots, then held out a hand. “Come here.”

She crossed to him, coming to stand between his knees. His hands came up to rest on her hips, his fingers warm as he said, “Maybe I can take your mind off torturing you.”

As he spoke, he gently kneaded her sides, and the smile he offered up was equal parts boyish and sinful.

Her hands came to rest on his shoulders, the muscle beneath his skin solid swells. Heat wafted from him, sinking into her palms. Carefully, she shifted to climb astride him, and as he linked his fingers at the small of her back, she carefully eased her legs about his hips. “Take my mind off how?”

His eyes sparkled dark sapphire. “I think I can find some way.”

As he spoke, his hands slid beneath her tee shirt, skimming up her back until he reached her bra strap. “Unless you’re too tired, that is.”

“Too tired? To see you naked, Mr. Durin?” She shook her head, letting her fingers slide slowly through his hair. “That will never happen.”

“It will when we have an infant in the house.”

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

He tightened his arms about her, tugging her flush against him. She bent to him, catching his face in her hands as she murmured, “I had no idea back in September, that when I stopped to help you, it would change everything.”

“Me, neither,” he whispered back, his lips brushing hers. “And I thought when you caught me checking out your ass, you would hand me my nuts.”

“A hot guy checking me out? Handing you your nuts is not what went through my mind.”

He grinned and arched one brow and as he did, she felt the gentle pressure of him rising against her. A sigh teased her lips. She was such a lucky woman, finding him the way she had. How did that even happen? She’d been so certain her rules were the only thing that would keep her sane, that could protect her from a broken heart, and yet… the one man she would have been convinced needed to follow those rules turned out to be the reason for breaking every last one of them.

Her bra strap gave then and as he whisked her tee shirt over her head, Leda forgot all about how her back ached and how tired her legs were, she forgot that unease that struck when Conan disappeared into the darkness. All that mattered was Thorin drawing her close to meet his kiss and a moment later, she forgot all about being tired.

****

Thorin’s leg wouldn’t stay still, bouncing up and down as he sat in the waiting room once more surrounded by women in various stages of pregnancy, some with other small children playing in the corner, where a toy chest, table, and small rug had been set up as a play area. A few other fathers and expectant fathers were there as well and more than once, Thorin found himself doing the “yeah, this waiting sucks but we’re all suffering together” smile with those other men.

It wasn't a situation he thought he’d ever find himself in, one he figured he’d run like hell from at any given moment. But truth be told, this was better than he could have ever imagined it. Leda was everything he could ever hope to find in a woman, and where he once utterly mocked the idea of being a father, now he looked forward to it.

He drummed his fingers lightly along his right thigh. The only thing keeping everything from being absolutely perfect was her not wanting to get married just yet. He had to bite his tongue more than once to hold back his proposal. And she didn't know it, but he was just waiting for the perfect moment (probably after Junior’s arrival) to give her the ring he had tucked away deep inside his sock drawer—the one Frerin helped him pick out before Christmas.

“First kid?”

He looked over at the guy who’d just dropped into the chair next to him, and nodded. “Yeah. You?”

He also nodded. “Yeah. She’s just… this is her first appointment. Does it always take this long?”

Thorin glanced toward the door separating the waiting room from the exam rooms. “No. Not all of them. Just certain ones.” He looked back over at the guy. “We’re finding out if we’re having a boy or a girl.”

He didn't know why he said it. It just slipped out. But, the guy smiled. “What are you hoping for?”

“I don’t care,” Thorin said with a grin. “I really don’t. I just—”

“Mr. Durin? You can come back now.”

Thorin stood and said “Excuse me.”

The guy bobbed his head. “Good luck, man.”

Thorin turned to follow the nurse back to the last room on the right and he couldn't help his smile as his gaze fell on Leda. Five months’ pregnant and she really did seem to glow these days. He’d heard about that glow, but never believed it until now. It seemed to him, she just grew a little more beautiful every day, and as she lay there with her dark blonde hair spread beneath her, and her loose cream colored sweater tucked to expose her stomach, he realized there were no words to describe just what he felt at that moment.

“So, Leda,” the ultrasound tech came in behind him, “are you ready?”

She nodded, looking over at him. “Are you?”

“Yeah, I’m ready.” He winked at her as he settled on the stool next to the exam table and slipped his hand into hers. She linked their fingers, squeezing gently, and without thinking, he brought her hand to his lips.

Her fingers tightened about his as the tech squirted the jelly on her stomach and a few minutes later, the wand moved slowly over her. He found himself holding his breath as the tech said, “Everything looks really good, Leda. And… wait a minute—”

She stopped, then moved the wand a bit more. Leda looked over at him, her eyes wide and her hand tightened even more about his. His mouth went dry, his heart picking up its pace as he said, “What’s wrong?”

The tech ignored him, moving the wand further to the right side of Leda’s stomach. A furrow appeared between her thick brows. “No… wait…”

Leda glanced up at him, her blue eyes wide with worry. Without looking away, she said, “Is something the matter?”

Then a slow smile crept across the tech’s face and she looked up at Leda. “Do twins run in your family?”

The pit of Thorin’s stomach dropped while Leda’s eyes went perfectly around as she whispered, “Twi—twins?”

The tech nodded, and then turned the ultrasound screen so they could both see it. She moved the wand to the right and with her free hand, traced a circle about the image. “See, here is Baby A, and that’s the heart beating nice and strong.

“And here,” she moved the doppler wand back to the left, “is Baby B. With a nice strong heartbeat. You’re having twins, Mom.”

Thorin’s gut twisted as Leda stared at him in astonishment. “Thorin… your mutant seed gave us twins?”

He couldn’t hold back his chuckle. “My mutant seed?”

“Well, twins don’t run in my family, so it had to be you.”

“They don’t run in mine, either, so maybe it wasn’t my seed that was mutant but your egg.” He winked, then looked from her to the screen, and back, and his throat went oddly tight as he just studied the ghostly grayish images on the screen. “We’re having twins, mesmel.”

He looked back at the screen, which grew a little blurry all of the sudden. It was amazing enough to see one baby on that screen, but to see two? Holy… He swallowed hard and looked back down at Leda. “Damn…”

She smiled up at him. “Damn, indeed.” She looked over at the tech. “How come no one could tell there were two in there before now?”

“One was probably over the other, so in effect, hiding it.” The tech smiled. “It’s rare, but it does happen.”

“See?” Leda squeezed his hand again. “Your mutant seed.”

“Yeah, yeah.” He chuckled and leaned over to brush her lips with hers. “You weren’t saying that at the time, you know.”

“Well… I didn't say it was a bad thing.”

The tech laughed softly with them. “Do you want to know the sex of your babies?”

Thorin looked over at her. “Absolutely.”

The tech turned to Leda. “Mom?”

She nodded. “We do.”

“Okay. Let’s see…”

Thorin couldn’t deny the butterflies in his stomach, or the fact that he was pretty sure he’d just fallen in love with Leda all over again as she pulled his hand to her lips. He reached for her with his free hand, smoothing it along her hair as he murmured, “Two kids in one shot, amrâlimê.”

“Okay, here we go… now, remember, this isn’t on hundred percent accurate, but it looks like you are having twin boys, Leda.”

“Three Durin men?” Leda groaned with a laugh. “I am doomed and the girls of Sidleburg won’t know what hit them.”

“Two boys,” Thorin murmured, still staring at the screen. As his eyes adjusted to the images, he could see an arm. And a hand.

One of his sons was sucking his thumb.

His eyes misted over and he didn't give a damn. One of his sons. One of their sons. He gazed down at Leda again, only to find her watching the screen with the same look he was pretty sure he had. Disbelief. Awe. Love.

He swept his thumb along her forehead and leaned over without thinking to brush her lips with his, whispering, “Maralmizi.”

Her fingers tightened about his. “Maralmizu.”

#Richard Armitage #The Hobbit #Thorin Oakenshield #Hobbit Fic #Hobbit Fanfic #Fan fiction #The Hobbit fan fiction #Thorin x OC #AU #Thorin Fic #Is it hot in here?#Romance #Modern AU #Pub AU

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earnestly-endlessly · 3 years

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Hi! Do you have any Cherik Army AUs? I've managed to find just 3.

Hi Anon, thanks for the ask. I found some good Army AUs, though some might not quite fall into the category of 'Army AU'. There are, surprisingly, few Army AUs that I have found, whereas there are several military and war AUs, but those don't necessarily involve an army. I did include a variety that involve an army in one way or another, though some fit the bill better than others. I hope you find some that you enjoy!!

Cherik Army AU

I Want to Guard Your Dreams And Visions – luninosity

Summary: I was reading Barbara Hambly’s Abigail Adams mystery novels, and then Erik/Charles American Revolutionary War AU happened. Little snippet in which they share a tent, drink coffee, and provide support to each other.

The Eggnog Riot – Sophia_Bee

Summary: 1826. The American Military Academy in West Point. The day after Christmas. Cadet Erik Lehnsherr wakes up naked with a certain cadet Xavier sprawled across his chest. He can only blame the eggnog.

No Man’s Land – ikeracity

Summary: It's 1914 in Ypres, Belgium. British soldier Charles Xavier has been in the trenches for four months of endless artillery fire, bone-deep cold, and constant fear of the enemy. But on Christmas Eve, the gunfire falls silent, and they climb out of their trenches for a Christmas truce. Charles, of course, meets Erik, the German soldier across the way.

My Land’s Only Borders Lie Around My Heart – pseudoneems

Summary: WW1 Christmas truce of 1914. Opposing soldiers Erik and Charles meet.

Le soldat – Iggyassou

Summary: Erik is in the trenches, trying to survive the war so that he can go back to Charles, his young lover waiting for him back at home.

Names – Squeegee

Summary: In the summer of 1917, British soldier Charles Xavier finds himself taking cover in a shell crater.

Not sure if the 'graphic' tag applies or not, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Quell a storm with pen and ink – patroclux

Summary: Charles had spared his life. That was not something he could easily repay.

They wrote letters to each other for two years, until Charles was pulled out of the war from a sudden illness and Erik remained to fight for a cause he didn't believe in. One that ultimately had no effect; one that stole away four years of his life.

Traumatized and persecuted, Erik applied for a post at Janus, a lighthouse in the middle of the Irish Sea. He thought being alone would do him good.

Despite the letters and despite the love, Erik didn't expect Charles to find him.

Hier steh ich an den Marken meiner Tage – MonstrousRegiment

Summary: Erik Lehnsherr is a spy in the SS, and his British liaison is strategist Charles Xavier. Their relationship from the moment they meet to a year after the end of the war.

Theme and Variations: War – ninemoons42

Summary: Erik Lehnsherr is a musical prodigy and a man destined for great things and great stages. But his life is shattered by a terrible accident that leaves him blind and trying to find his way back to his life, his music, and his place in the world.

Then he meets Charles Xavier, an agent of Section 8 of the Military Intelligence Directorate of Providence, and he finds himself listening in to clandestine radio transmissions and clicking Morse code, and these sounds are part and parcel of a war that can only take place in the shadows and the hidden places of history.

Strib nicht von Mir – ravenoftheninerealms

Summary: A squad of Allied Forces, led by Charles Xavier, liberates the Nazi concentration camp where Erik was being held prisoner.

Cold foxholes, warm hearts – oddegg

Summary: Basically, this is Band of Mutants. A little slice of life in Bastogne.

Photographs and Memories – tirsynni

Summary: When war-battered Erik Lehnsherr met Charles Xavier, the man kneeling in the dirt and whispering to a lost refugee child, Erik feared his days of running from his deviance was done.

Marching Home – Quietbang

Summary: For a prompt on the meme asking for fic dealing with the fact that, in comics canon, Charles served in the Korean war.

War meant something different to this generation, Charles knew.

Crash on the Levy (Down in the Flood) – Quietbang

Summary: “This is much bigger than you think. You're in the middle of a war, and you don't even realize, do you?”

He pauses, and answers his own question.“No, of course you don't. How silly of me."

The Knight and the Dagger – Dow

Summary: A Lieutenant in the Soviet Army, Erik Lensherr had no other goals than to find the man that killed his parents. But when a discovery yields a little boy with wings like an angel, Erik is shocked to realize that he isn’t alone. There are other people like him, both dangerous and alluring.

Lifelong Service – Pookaseraph

Summary: Erik thinks he should be the one to teach their recruits hand-to-hand combat; Charles makes a persuasive argument to the contrary.

Footsteps of uprooted lovers – ninemoons42

Summary: Against a turbulent backdrop of artistic, social, and political upheaval, the playwright Charles Xavier and the photographer Erik Lehnsherr find themselves meeting under less-than-polite circumstances, but part rather more amicably than they'd met.

When they find each other again in a Barcelona that is falling inexorably toward war, they find themselves taking up arms, each in his own way, and together they join a struggle for freedom, for love, and for their very lives.

Dear Soldier – Lindstrom, ToriTC198

Summary: "Dear Soldier,

I pray that this package finds you well. The organization gave us a list of odds and ends that you might need, but I thought that a person so far from home might appreciate something more than soap and tube socks."

When Charles' school decides to send care packages to the soldiers fighting in Vietnam, he chooses to also include a letter and a few personal touches. When Staff Sergeant Erik is the recipient of that particular care package it will spur a relationship that will change them both.

Fortunate Son – blueink13

Summary: he days leading up to and during Alex's deployment in Vietnam. Everyone handles it in their own way. Some handle better than others.

You’re Here – Deshonana

Summary: Everyone decides its a good idea not to tell Erik when his boyfriend comes home from the military.

Welcome Home – loveydoveyecstasy

Summary: It's been two years since Charles was deployed to Afghanistan, and Erik can't wait to pick him up at the airport.

When Secrets have Secrets – ximeria

Summary: The arguments that take place in General Xavier's office when General Lehnsherr has a bad day are legendary. Quite frankly, no one really knows what's going on and if the two men have it their way, no one ever will.

Quiet Company – Sophia_Bee

Summary: Erik Lehnsherr is always on the move. He's spent the last many years going from war torn country to war torn country telling the stories of the people there through photographs. Then one of his pictures is selected as a winner for the Pulitzer Prize and Erik finds himself stuck in London for longer than he wants. He ends up with an assignment to photograph Charles Xavier, a wealthy philanthropist who is intrigued to find himself working with a Pulitzer-winning war photographer. Erik is far less intrigued by someone he considers privileged and out of touch. Both of their lives are about to change in ways they couldn't imagine.

The City is Ours – RedStockings

Summary: Erik felt his heart racing with excitement, lightened, and for once felt joyful. Charles had looked at him, really looked at him, and there had been something there, a knowing of a kind. As the soldiers laughed amongst each other, and joked each other about who would succeed in marrying the boy, Erik made himself a silent vow. Charles was going to be his, and nothing would keep him from having him. He’d marry him, and he’d save him, and Charles would love him for it.

Not even the war could keep them apart... right?

Sign of the Times – dsrobertson

Summary: Casablanca-ish AU.

Charles Xavier meets Erik Lehnsherr in Paris, 1937. They spend the next two years with one another, stupid in-love, until war comes heavy in September 1939. Erik leaves for Poland and the Resistance movement there, promising to return. Charles is left in Paris, where Nazi jackboots march in, Summer of 1940. He becomes a member of the underground French Resistance, publishing illegal newsletters, leaflets, until news comes through in February 1942: Erik is dead. Charles throws himself into more dangerous work, meeting with Communists, helping derail a German train, and he does too much, goes too far. His friends find him safe passage out of France, out across the Mediterranean, to Morocco, Casablanca. It is here he finds Erik, alive.

The Waste Land – nekosmuse

Summary: The White Queen and her Shadow King sit on their throne, safe behind the psionic shields of the Walled City. The armies of Genosha batter uselessly at the gates, a war locked in stalemate. Magneto, camped in the frozen mud, receives word the Citadel intends to send a telepath to the front lines. The same telepath he met two years ago, who sat across a carved wooden chess set and offered Magneto the first friendly smile in a lifetime. The same telepath who still haunts his dreams.

Winter Comes With a Knife – RedStockings

Summary: It apparently came to no one’s surprise that the war-mage Erik Lehnsherr took up residence in the Dark Keep. I knew he was going to choose my sister, Raven, to be his apprentice so why wouldn’t he let me go? What did he want from me?

My name is Charles Xavier, I can read minds and use magic. I’ve met Kings and Queens, mages and magic users. I’ve travelled through lay-lines and jumped through the Dark Void… but none of that really matters.

I am leading an army into war, I am scared and I never wanted this. I’ve come to realise that what I want, rode into my life when I was still a child. Now he’s out there, ready to charge into battle. Ready to die for me.

Polaris – LastAmericanMermaid

Summary: Charles Xavier is 19 years old, doe-eyed and soft; Erik Lehnsherr is 24 years old, steely-hard and bitter. One is a soldier, the other a refugee. Both are mutants. There will be pain, oh yes.

(An AU in which Charles is a wounded British soldier, Erik is the German hiding in France who nurses him back to health, and the contents of this fic are best read to the soundtrack of Atonement.)

Note: Unfinished

MEDIC! – paladin_danse

Summary: A British airborne medic finds himself alone and afraid behind enemy lines. When he decides to save the life of an S.S. German officer he finds wounded in the snow, he has no idea the choice he has made will alter the course of the war—and their lives—forever.

Note: Sadly unfinished

Suicide is Painlesss – weethreequarter

Summary: Erik Lehnsherr did not become a doctor to pick bullets out of children. Unfortunately the US Army had other ideas.

Stuck in the middle of the Korean War, Erik and his fellow civilian surgeons have to battle not only the war, but also weather, mud, and boredom. And that's without mentioning Major Sebastian Shaw who thinks war is the best thing that's ever happened to him and never should've been allowed to pick up a scalpel, or Colonel William Stryker who may or may not work for the CIA and probably doesn't even know himself.

Throw in new arrival Captain Charles Xavier, and Erik is in for a very interesting war.

Note: Unfinished

A Light That Never Goes Out – R_Cookie

Summary: It was meant to be the war to end all wars; these two men were never supposed to meet. One a German Jew, the other a British surgeon. The odds that their paths should cross were next to none - but War defies the expected. It always has, and always will.

From the beaches of Dunkirk to the treacherous slopes of Monte Cassino - this is their story.

WWII AU.

Note: Unfinished

#cherik #cherik fic recs #fic recs #asks #earnestly answers #army au #military au #war au #long post

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More Bleach x Tokyo Ghoul au

More Characters

Orihime

Orihime is a natural one-eyed ghoul with a Rinkaku kagune. Orihime in cannon has basically one offensive ability that is broken for a whole arc and then rarely used for the sake of defense and healing. Personally, I thought she could have done more so I’m fixing this myself. Her kagune has 2 tentacles that she can use for offensive. Her Shun Shun Rika will be for the healing and shield, the attacking fairy will not be used often unless she needs a long ranged attack.

The reason for her being a one-eyed ghoul is so she could still eat human food. Her weird food combinations are a part of her character and I thought it wouldn’t be right to take that from her. It also doesn’t hurt that Orihime constantly eating food is a good cover for when the ghoul group hangs out at school. The fact that her brother was a human makes for an interesting dynamic as well.

As a half ghoul she can eat human food as much as she wants. The genetic combination may have messed with her taste buds, resulting in the strange food. She can taste it but the human food gives her almost no nutritional value. She has to eat like a ghoul in order to sustain herself.

Her main ability is in her regeneration, which is high even for a Rinkaku. Even though her kagune is fairly weak and easy to cut off, they grow back very quickly. This also applies to any injuries she takes; for example getting completely flattened by a speeding car will only take her a few hours to completely regenerate from; as long as she’s feed.

Her father was a ghoul and her mother was a human. Her mother left Sora’s father, who was a human, for Orihime’s father, a ghoul. Sora and Orihime were half siblings. After her father was killed by the CCG and her mother became an alcoholic, Sora took her and moved to Karakura. Sora at first feed her dead homeless people who he would find until he was approached by Isshin and the other adult ghouls in town who took that responsibility out of his hands. After Sora’s death, Orihime became very close to the Ishida and Kurosaki families. The fathers would make sure she was feed and the kids would make sure she wasn’t lonely.

Uryu

Uryu is an Ukaku type ghoul. His kagune is used in tandem with his quincy arrows for more projectiles and the speed boast is helpful for him to avoid attacks. Since Ryuken is still unhelpful with training him as a quincy, he at least trains Uryu as a ghoul. They still have a horrible relationship but at least they see each other now.

Since all the ghouls in town are relatively close, he is well aware that he and the Kurosaki kids are basically cousins. (Are they really though cause the relations between Masaki and Ryuken have always confused me? No matter, cousins is close enough) Mostly Yuzu (Karin absolutely does not admit to helping), convinces Uryu to visit the Kurosaki household every once in a while. Yuzu calls him cousin, Karin does when she’s happy and Ichigo only calls him that when he needs Uryu to listen to him. Isshin tries to make Uryu call him Uncle but Uryu has picked up some things from Ichigo and smacks him around when he’s being annoying; he will call Isshin uncle on special occasions though.

Due to how tight knit the ghouls in town are, Uryu is friends with the Karakura teens long before the story begins. Him, Ichigo, Orihime, and Chad sit on the roof during lunch at school. He tolerates the presence of Tatsuki and Keigo but finds them both annoying.

Once Uryu learns how to sew, he becomes the mask maker in town. Considering the small ghoul population he doesn’t have to make or fix masks that often but he does get annoyed when someone tells him they broke the mask. (All the individual masks will be another post, mainly because some still haven’t been decided)

Ryuken

Like his son, Ryuken is an Ukaku type ghoul. He still despises being “the Last Quincy” but accepts that he is a ghoul. He makes sure Uryu is prepared for the hostile world against ghouls but otherwise is still distant. Later trains Yuzu in Quincy abilities but only because Masaki asked him to before her death. He later passes this on to Uryu because he is not the best teacher.

Since he works at the hospital he needed a way to keep his kakugan from activating. Through the efforts of both him and Isshin, they annoyed Urahara so much that he made them an oral medication that prevents the kakugan from activating for a time. This is why the fathers can both work in hospitals and smell blood without people suspecting them. After all no one is going to suspect a ghoul is working at a hospital.

He provides the ghouls main source of food. When a body is in the morgue of his hospital, he contacts Urahara who replaces it with a cheap inflatable Gigai. This Gigai lasts just long enough for the funeral so the stolen bodies are never discovered. He first makes sure Uryu is feed, then Orihime and then gives the rest to the Kurosaki’s. If not enough dead bodies come in for the month then Isshin leaves town and hunts while telling others he’s at a medical conference.

Ryuken’s ghoul identity is “Plague Doctor” due to his mask. He is the second ghoul being suspected of owning Karakura town. An A ranked ghoul due to his speed and projectile weapons, he is SS ranked when working with Isshin “Flame Oni”. He hates how in sync they are but tolerates it for the safely of the town.

Occasionally joins Uryu in visiting the Kurosaki’s. He only stays for a short while to talk to Isshin about whatever important things are going on, such as taking care of all the kids. Yuzu is happy her Uncle is visiting, Karin doesn’t really care and Ichigo likes to call him out on being an emotionally distant father. Uryu proceeds to tell him to shut up, sometimes leading to brawls in the living room.

Chad

Chad is a human with a Kokaku type quinque. It’s 2 gauntlets that connect through a long chain in the middle which goes over his arms and back. It makes his fullbring even stronger when using it. It was made from his abuelo’s greatest kill as a CCG Dove (a S ranked ghoul).

He carries the quinque case in a disguise bag for 2 reasons. The first is that owning a quinque outside the CCG is illegal and he won’t let anyone take his abuelo’s gift to him. The second reason is that the quinque makes his friends very uncomfortable so he disguises it out of respect for them. He uses a larger version of his high school bag to disguise it and carries it or uses the straps to wear it like a backpack.

When he moved to Karakura he saw Ichigo in the original thug beat down at the bridge. After that day, Chad was attacked by a passing ghoul who thought he looked tasty (Ichigo was preoccupied in a store). Chad got out his quinque despite never being thought how to use it but was loosing and had heavy wounds from his enemies kagune. Ichigo came back to the sounds of fighting and attacked the ghoul with his kagune. After the fight Ichigo only then realized Chad had a quinque and froze in place out of panic. Chad put the weapons away and limped over to Ichigo to help clean the blood off him. Chad really didn’t care that his friend was a ghoul, especially since said friend just saved his life.

Ichigo took Chad home and after getting patched up by Isshin, Chad became an honorary member of the ghouls. He joined them for monthly training considering he had no idea how to use his quinque and the adults would not have this rarely kind human die. He got a mask so he could use his quinque and not get recognized. He also has a costume that covers most of his body considering a half-Mexican and half-Japanese man is very easy to recognize, especially outside of a big city.

He is just the best ghoul ally. He is a very quiet individual but he will not stay silent when someone (mainly Tatsuki) is insulting ghouls in front of him or his friends. For a man of few words his words can sure pack a punch.

Tatsuki

Tatsuki is a human and doesn’t have the best image of ghouls. After Masaki’s death and Isshin being lost in his grief, a ghoul came into town and killed Tatsuki’s father. Ryuken “took care of” the offender and was the reason Isshin got off his ass.

Since beginning high school, Tatsuki has been in a CCG program over the weekends. She adds on to her pre-existing martial arts skills and is working her way up to learning quinque combat. Her quinque would be a bikaku that is a serrated edge sword and can stretch into a whip when needed. The whip is used to hold ghouls in place as the hooked spikes cause more damage when being taken out.

Tatsuki is still friends with Orihime and Ichigo. Orihime is her best friend and they share dinner quite often. When Tatsuki starts with the ghoul hate speech, Ichigo tells her to talk about something else or he’s leaving. Orihime kinds shuts down and starts doing something else to distract herself. Tatsuki is so caught up in her rage and grief that she normally doesn’t notice when Orihime does this. She gets frustrated with Ichigo but doesn’t stay mad at him.

Urahara

Urahara is a “human” with a vast knowledge of ghouls. He is the reason the CCG ignores Karakura for as long as it does. He hacks into the data base whenever something that might be important occurs (someone having to use their kagune and there’s a security camera nearby) and deletes the data. The CCG eventually figured out that someone is wiping the data and sends Doves to investigate the town. But that’s a whole other story arc.

Jinta and Ururu are failed half ghoul experiments that he may or may not have liberated from the CCG as kids. At first he took them to examine their DNA but he grew to love them. The weird genetics has taken a toll on the kid’s bodies; Jinta needs hearing aids and Ururu wears glasses. Urahara however does him best to keep the kids healthy.

As a man of science, he has taken the liberty of getting DNA samples of all the ghouls in town as the data on ghouls is limited to the CCG’s propaganda. He may or may not want to make his own half ghoul some day (or do it to himself); all in the name of science.

His shop sells all sorts of items that the ghouls may need. It is also the place where the ghouls have their monthly meetings. Most of the kids are suspicious of Urahara since he is clearly “human”. Ryuken and Isshin trust him though so that’s good enough for the kids, at least for now.

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