#elements together au

[harmonylight]

My designs for cadence and Chryslis in my Elements together au

They are together in this au

#mlp #elements together au #queen chrysalis #princess cadance

[introboy]

So so excited to share my @mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @follow-the-compass-home! My concept was to combine a bunch of prompts together into one AU.

The premise is a modern-fantasy roommate situation where Tango, Bdubs, and Etho live together in an apartment. The only issue is that none of them are human, but they're all trying desperately to blend in, even though they don't really understand humanity as a concept.

More information can be found below the cut, and an introductory fic snippet can be found here (x)!

Downstairs Neighbors AU

Prompts used as inspiration:

Focus on Tango, Etho, and Bdubs

Include Boatem

Story told from Grian's perspective

Hybrid/inhuman AU

Angst with a happy ending

Emphasis on character dynamics

Here's a summary!!!

Tango, Etho, and Bdubs found each other by looking for roommates on Craigslist. They live in a 4-bedroom apartment together.

Tango is a spirit who wanted to interact with the world in a physical sense, so he built himself a body. He's basically just a ghost possessing an android (but unlike ghosts, he was never alive; he came into being as a fully-formed spirit). He doesn't adhere to normal bodily necessities like food, water, or sleep, which is convenient but also heavily concerning from an outsider's perspective.

Etho is a specific kind of shapeshifter called a mimic. He doesn't have a true form, but can copy the shape and mannerisms of most living creatures. The only constant across all of his appearances is a scarred left eye and white hair. Unfortunately, it takes practice to nail specific species characteristics, so he often forgets what he's supposed to look like and falls into uncanny valley. He wears a mask to cover his more noticable facial slipups.

Bdubs is some sort of plant creature (he doesn't really understand it himself). He has a perfect internal clock and sleeps, without fail, for 12 hours every night. He spends a lot of time in the unoccupied bedroom-- he uses it as a makeshift greenhouse, and it's filled with grow lights and humidifiers. He loves taking care of houseplants, but it's also a cover for him to spend time under the grow lights. Without enough light & water he gets lethargic.

Bdubs, Etho, and Tango, henceforth referred to as BET, all assume that the others are human. But since none of them know how to act human, they continuously pick up stranger and stranger habits from each other.

BET are close friends with Impulse & Skizzleman, who live together across the hall. Their upstairs neighbors are Grian, Pearl, Mumbo, and Scar, who are also besties with Imp & Skizz. BET and Boatem don't know each other well, but Grian especially thinks his neighbors are really odd.

Like BET, Grian is not human, and neither are the rest of his roommates. But they all know about each other, and Grian especially is really good at knowing how to act natural in public places. He's an avian shapeshifter, who can take the form of either a scarlet macaw or a human. Unlike Etho, both forms come equally naturally to Grian, and the shapeshifting process is a lot easier for him.

(Imp & Skizz are not human either-- they are a demon and an angel respectively. But, like Grian, they're really good at blending in when in public.)

One day, Grian gets injured on a flight and accidentally ends up on BET's balcony instead of his own. He's too disoriented to shift back into his human form or fly away, so Bdubs and Etho find him outside their door. Tango calls Impulse over in the hopes that he knows how to fix the random-injured-parrot crisis, but the only result is that Grian and Impulse start to truly take note of how strange their neighbors' living situation is. Incidents like the one pictured above arise (i.e. everyone finding out that there is not a singular scrap of food to be found in the entire apartment).

Ok that's all the rambling I'll do in this post, but I hope you enjoyed! Happy holidays!!

#downstairs neighbors AU #mcytblrholidayexchange2023 #ethoslab #etho #tangotek #tango tek #bdoubleo100 #bdoubleo #bdubs #grian #impulsesv #impulse #mcytblr #trafficblr #hermitblr #<< this au takes elements from both the life series and hermitcraft #/mine #/myart #thank you for your patience! I know it's the end of posting week #it took me a little while to put together all the pieces #Hope you enjoyed!!! #hall of fame

[liauditore]

how many belts and buckles does she need someone save me.

#hermitaday #geminitay fanart #geminitay #hermitcraft fanart #hermitblr #my art #gem #tubby u were so right about long unkempt hair suiting gem she feels so in her element #i still draw her in the braid pre-secret life for reasons I haven't quite figured out. I'm sure it's thematically significant somehow #anyway ohh my god this skin is so detailed help #joe hills was in a TSHIRT #gem this time ft. her freckles that I have forgotten to draw every other time #in my heart she's always had them #as much as pirates smp was not my thing the au potential is so awesome #and unfortunately this gem skin specifically sends me down an insanity spiral that I don't like the look of #idk I like to think she's a bounty hunter. her outfit is cobbled together from past kills like trophies #hence the multiple belts and mismatched stuff #including the shawl thing that i like to think was ripped to pieces and then she'd sewn back together #realised after i finished drawing that this kind of comes with the implication she either killed scott or someone else from house denholm #cus the blue coat thing really does look like what he wore but. shrugs. #anyway yeah that aside woo season 10 gem!!!!! #i hope joel murders her again

[endlesspaint]

u draw jd so spiky i love it

OMG THANKS! I really appreciate that 🥹

There is actually a reason why I draw him so spikey! I wanted him to look like his Dad while also resembling his mom a bit as well. I eventually decided to made all the brothers have bits of resemblance of their parents because of genes LOL

Here's my notes about it! :3

#I had fun making these #JD looks like his Dad #while Floyd looks like his Mom #Bruce is a mix between the two but leaning more on the Dad part #Same as Branch but leaning more on the Mother part #Clay looks like his Mom as well but he has his Dad's hair #I headcannon Brozone's Mother to be a Rock Troll who accidentally got thrown into the Troll tree/ Cage #so she got stucked there lol. over time she tried dressing more “Pop” to fit in. Her music genre also started having Pop elements into it #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls john dory #branch trolls #clay trolls #floyd trolls #bruce trolls #trolls spruce #trolls band together brozone #trolls brozone #brozone #brozone's parents #Beyond Reach au #woah this got out of hand-- LMAOO #sorry for the rambling lol. I just have a lot of thought about Brozone #and trolls in general #ALSO! I can't believe I received another ask! this is making me giddy!!

[domirine]

leave it to me

#...to make a minor antagonist into a crucial backstory element for another character and then put them thru blender of AUs #my ocs now #avdol #n'doul #jjba #art #what is their ship tag? #anyway they are NOT happy together (i say posting mushy art)

[fictionadventurer]

Have I mentioned lately that creating AUs is the most fun thing ever? You get to take a story you love and then mash it against another type of story you love and fit all their pieces together like they're a jigsaw puzzle. You get to find all the unexpected points of similarity where the stories fit together really well, and see the places where their differences change and make commentary on the original stories/genres in really interesting ways.

And then once you fit the pieces together, you get to look at the new world you've made and see how these characters in this specific world have different conflicts and explore new themes, and you get to play with another level of puzzles as you figure out what this means for this story.

It's the most fun ever. It's my favorite game.

#random thought of the day #adventures in writing #this goes for both fairy tale retellings and for aus of specific shows/novels #this last week was a week for aus #between the north and south sci fi au coming up again #making up a northanger abbey fantasy au #coming up with a new angle for retelling maid maleen #and having tons of new insight in how to rework a story that's a retelling of cinderella and three different austen novels #plus looking back on the powers and prejudice au #this is just such a great game #the moment when the pieces click into place in a way that makes both elements make sense #there's nothing quite as satisfying #to some extent this applies to plotting original fiction #but it's a different feeling when you're making an au of something #because you don't just get to work with malleable clay #you have specific pre-formed pieces #so you get the challenge of figuring out how to fit them together without damaging either one too much #and when you find the way they fit together it makes you appreciate both stories in a new way #plus it makes you feel clever for making the connection #astounding superb wondrous past time

[atomicpirateperson]

A fusion I'm excited to see is the fusion between Gumball and Penny. I think it's the only one missing among the three, mainly to complete the chart you made.

had to make sure they didnt just look like a penball fanchild lol

#some elements are a little inspired by penny's canon human design #and rupaul of course #it has to make sense when i draw them all together because thats what im gonna do!! #tawog fusion au #tawog fusion #tawog #the amazing world of gumball #gumball watterson #penny fitzgerald

[sacha-da-1]

NBC Hannibal AU where everything’s almost the same except The Great Red Dragon (Dolarhyde) is just…. A literal ass dragon. No explanation, just a real life dragon in modern, non-fantasy times. No damn explanation.

#is this silly? maybe but brain is presenting it #so here you go #nbc hannibal #hannibal #will graham #hannibal lecter #francis dolarhyde #hannibal au #maybe take some elements out since he’s a dragon and not a person #BUT #that’s not the point of this #this is about there being a fricken dragon for no discernible reason #deal with it #so yes hannibal and will slay a literal dragon together #and then fall off a cliff #if that was real and not just metaphorical #doesn’t matter #going off topic #so hannibal communicated with the dragon #and a literal dragon goes after molly and wally #they get away from a big ass dragon #queen behavior

[stevieharringtonwifeguy]

post apocalypse au where the plot of stranger things doesn't happen but vecna still tears the world open and brings the upside down right side up. and the scattered people who managed to survive the initial earthquakes and power outages and complete breakdown of society have to contend not only with creatures from the upside down trying to eat them, but also with what the bleeding of an alternate dimension into their reality is doing to their bodies

people with prolonged exposure to larger tears seem to be slowly changed into something else, like some radioactivity from the dimension is mutating them. people grow claws, or leathery wings, or their face peels open, or they turn into unrecognisable piles of eldritch goo. there's vampires, were-demogorgons, flayed, weird ghosts, and the number of super powered people like el was in the show skyrockets

other people who manage avoid this fate shun those that fell to it. and to an extent it's reasonable, some people who get changed in this way completely lose their humanity, like the flayed, and while others retain it it probably doesn't seem that way when a vampire-like person needs human blood to survive. but a lot of people are just as terrified of the changes happening to them as other people are, and while they may not be harmless, they'd much rather use their new biological advantages to keep people safe

despite this, people that have been 'corroded' by the upside down are ostracised, feared, sometimes outright hunted by regular humans. so sometimes, they band together. form their own little apocalypse groups

eddie is in one of those groups. he wouldn't say he's the leader, bc they don't really have a hierarchical structure and eddie likes to think he's managed to maintain his anarchic ideals even in the face of the apocalypse. but he is the oldest, and the most scary looking (if not the most actually dangerous), so the combination of everyone being younger and his ability to scare off corroded-hunters that come looking for them means everyone else kind of follows his lead

so no one really questions when he comes back to camp one day holding two passed out humans. a mole-dotted man and a freckled woman, probably about eddie's age, who were injured and had crawled into a ruin building to die. and like. what was eddie supposed to do, leave them there??? no, gareth, it has nothing to do with how pretty the guy is. no, eddie doesn't know how they'll react when they wake up in the middle of a corroded camp, they'll cross that bridge when they get there. el says she senses that they're good people, so clearly everything will be fine actually!!!!!

#feel free to write this i feel like it requires a story beyond my scope of capabilities but i really love this idea #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #i haven't decided who i want to be corroded in this au and what their corrosions are #i think eddie's some eldritch looking fuck tho #i feel like dustin is part of the pack but he's not actually corroded and frankly he's a little salty about it #like maybe all the kids joined together bc they were all corroded and it somehow just missed him #and he's constantly trying to do science about them bc 'SOMEONE has to this is scientifically fascinating!!' #and eddie's like kid if i catch you taking notes while im eating ONE MORE TIME i swear to god i'll become a stereotype #also i came up with the word corroded bc i think it encompassed the body horror element i wanted more than 'mutated' did #and then i realised the corroded coffin pun and i was like. oh my god. im a genius. #also if it wasn't clear the humans are stobin #not to be separated even in cases of apocalypse and possible death #they realised they were bleeding too much and were probably gonna die and were like #at the same time huh? checks out. let's go find a hole

[chaotical-xe]

THE MOONBEAST SAGA: What Else

(cn: this scene is one of my favorites in all of Alter Chaos and was one I poured every bit of my passion for this series into, I hope you enjoy)

this chapter takes place following "Wait..."

OFF PANEL: He sneezes like a kitten...

(chapters are not released in the order they were created)

#alter chaos #sonic fanart #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fancomic #sonic oc #sonic au #sth #sth au #sth fanart #sth fandom #sonic the werehog #sonic unleashed #dark gaia #shadow the hedgehog #power of friendship #friends until the end #uh oh mystery element #let there be chaos #let the theories roll #sonic my precious baby boi #alter chaos moonbeast saga #i love writing these two together so much omg <3

[harmonylight]

Sundae

Sundae the son of pinkie and rarity just wants to make every possible icecream flavour and wants to make everyone happy

He works with his older brother Skewer and together they have a pretty successful restaurant

#mlp #sundae #rarity #pinkiepie #elements together au #my art

[travalerray]

was reading my first ever MDZS fic and pfft.

#four idiots canon divergence au #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #nie huiasang #The first chapter does have issues. Mostly because it was also my first writing for any Chinese media/this genre in general #but this fic has a special spot in my heart as well #kk's writing tag #I am mostly a comedy writer when it comes to this fandom (four idiots series for both AUs) and this is one of the fics I completed after #years of writer's block and struggling with other fics. And it had everything I personally wanted to write. Comedy friendship and ghosts #(surprise hua cheng appearance with the whole city of ghosts and gambling in the middle) #the plot elements are very randomly thrown together but I do think that this helped me realize that my writing strength was in the #characterisation over the world building and like. Mystery writing. #I usually wrote rarepair ships before so to come into a mainstream pairing and fandom was....new. It's still strange but it's what it is #thank you to everyone who has ever interacted with my fics

[cipher-the-sidhe]

They have something to bond over right away~

Shore (left) belongs to @theninjamouse from their amazing fic “Ocean on Fire”

#my art #my ocs #aria Altomare’ite #Eclipse Kash’ite #shore #Grillby #shorby #ocean on fire #oof fanart #instant besties #aria: hey shore- want irrefutable proof that elementals and humans can procreate together *eyebrow wiggles* #slight disclaimer since both Aria and her beau are only half-elementals #but it counts! #can helpfully slot Clip’s mom in here #Altomare au

[insert-cephalopod-joke]

Hi!

I'm working on a Splatoon AU / a Splatoon OC setting, would it be okay for me to, with credit of course, include the splatoon squid/octoling accessibility tools in that setting?

Absolutely! That sounds awesome!!

#splatoon #ask #together we splat #ig my logic is if it’s my stuff being used directly the credit is much appreciated #like the shop or elements of the base models being used on a custom model #but this does not mean I’m gonna gatekeep people creating their own takes on accessible weaponry! #it’s called accessible for a reason: everyone should get to have it!! #anyways #I shall be reading/observing every post about this au now 👀

[tomiyeee]

ik you said that you only plan on making the main 4 but i saw that you’d imagine April being a dendro claymore 👀 Now I raise you, cryo polearm Cassandra cuz of her coldish personality (tho also maybe pyro cuz she’s hotheaded and the foots thing is that they’ve got fire heads) I also imagine Splinter being anemo as well 👀. but that’s just my thoughts <3

ooh i hadn't thought of cassie! she'd definitely be pyro imo; she's got that sort of passionate personality that a lot of pyro's share, including mikey!

and as for splinter-

anemo would def fit his desire for freedom both from his family's duty and from his life of fighting, plus i think the element's versatility would fit his combat skills. his role would probably resemble leo's combat-wise, focusing more on swirl damage and/or mobility, rather than crowd control. i'm just not sure i'd want him to be so similar to leo, since him not having synergy/reactions with two of his sons (raph being geo) is kinda unsatisfying and doesn't fit their dynamics very well :(

personally, hydro would be my pick for him though. i've seen some people theorize that hydro's requirement has to do with "mastery" of some sort, which would absolutely fit him. combat and personality-wise, splinter has a very supportive role in his family, which hydro characters tend to fall into as well. i'm not sure what his team role would be specifically, since hydro has such a wide range it could be anything, but him being hydro would already mean he could react well in various ways with not only the four boys, but april as well, and i love the idea of their (non-existent) in-game synergy mimicking their canon dynamics :)

#ask #anon #rottmnt au #rise genshin au #the gameplay is one of my fav things about this game #so i focus a lot on the hypothetical gameplay mechanics of this au more than anything lol #the boys' elements and kits were built around how they would work together rather than as separate units #and making their hypothetical team comps resemble how they fight in canon as much as possible #i just think it's fun!

[hwaitham]

al haitham is such a shoegaze boyfwie < 333

#in a modern au .. tearing up as i think about him kissing u slow to slowdive n mazzy star #‘ sleepyhead where did u go i saw u turning but i couldnt catch ur eye its alright we're together . . ‘ #WAAH ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡ #ik mazzy star isnt technically shoegaze but they hv lots of shoegaze elements in their music 2 Mi :3 ! ! ! ! #haitham ❤︎