#powerful powerless au

[shoezuki]

Sampard fic idea:

Sampo is Aha, an all-powerful, divine being condensed into a human shape. He's playing mortal for shits and giggles but no matter what he's an Aeon: divinity always seeps through his skin and he can easily drive people to madness just by slipping up, showing a glimpse of his true face. Some mortals can sense it better than others, but they always experience some... influences when around sampo for too long: shivers doen their spine, a sort of giddy/anxious feeling of unease, an instinctual urge to either attack sampo or bow to him, getting choked by laughter and having bells and revelry ring in their ears. He hides it, but when mortals are close to him for some time the divinity will always slip through.

Gepard gets close to sampo, arrests him and tackles him and yells at him, but theres... nothing. Gepard is absolutely, completely blind to divinity. He senses absolutely nothing inhuman from sampo, he frowns and is confused when other guards complain about sampo making them feel uncomfortable or hearing things around him. Gepard is just the most boring, normal human in the universe. He is so, so far from divinity and sampo finds it fucking hilarious

#sampard #honkai star rail #OKAY HAD TO WRITE IT DOEN ITS MIDNIGHY I GOTTA SLEEP #but this spawned in my head like #LIKE LIKE LIKE. #sampo is malfina the demon witch and gepard is connecticut clark #sampo: all powerful eldritch absolutely incomprehensible to humans. #gepard: some dude. the most 'normal man' dude in the universe. so not special its special #there was smthin in the ember knight bout like. even the most powerless person is as rare as the most powerful person #thats gepard #divinity au

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ive never liked powerless saiki aus because the entire conclusion of the series is him accepting his powers as being a part of him that he cant change so like.. in aus where the power remover works, half of his development is erased..

if he had been "powerless" for longer, we wouldve gotten to see him realize this himself and im genuinely sad that we didnt.. we got to see him realize that being powerless wasnt the change he wished it would be and that its something he cant change, but its literally over a two day long period and we miss out on sooo much potential development..

and then in aus where hes born powerless, people think he would have the exact personality and development that he THOUGHT he would if he got rid of/didnt have his powers, like NO ? "without powers he would be another satou-" NO he would be a shy, borderline flamboyant, weird, awkward, genius LOSER.

he would have a more normal relationship with his brother (still probably competitive but in a way more average sibling way and kusuke wouldnt have had the motivation to become so murderous) and he would probably be even more friendless but with less trauma.. he may or may not have ever befriended akechi at all, and the classroom incident wouldnt have happened.. even some of his current friends might not be around if not for coincidences due to his powers or direct involvement from his powers.. (nendo and kaido would for sure still be there though, but this only ensures the idea that he would be the biggest fcking loser ever)

he would still be saiki, but. his powers are a key part of him. he would be totally different without them, but NOT in the way he thinks he would..

#also realistically he would be just as much of a stubborn asshole tsundere without his powers cmon #like yea his anxiety might present itself more as shyness than it does in canon him #but hes still an awkward stubborn asshole tsundere like thats just who the guy is #hes extra shy and maybe extra cute without his abilities to make people not find him cute #and is also like extremely ditzy and clumsy like he is in canon but its more visible to people because he doesnt have the powers to hide it #idk the point is his little quirks he thinks he wouldnt have would still be there but he wouldnt have the same faux justifications for them #need canon saiki to see an alternate universe him where he was born powerless #and hes like 'wow im going to see my ideal average me!' #and then au him is some super quirky ditzy clumsy kid with severe anxiety and also dysphoria #and he doesnt have powers to avoid being bullied like we see him do multiple times #this guy doesnt realize he will always be a loser no matter what #he loses key parts of himself and doesnt even realize that a lot of the parts left behind are still parts of himself that he hates #i know a lot of people think he would be much less jaded powerless which i get but #a lot of aspects of his personality that have less to do with his powers are a lot of the parts that he doesnt like and gets made fun of fo #so he would probably only be slightly less jaded and his awkwardness would just weigh it out a little more #though its hard to pinpoint exactly which aspects of him are only due to his powers #a lot of them are but i personally think those specific key personality traits would remain #anyway i would love to see what his relationship with his family would be like if he was born powerless #and i want to know who his friends would be #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #meows post

[rhapsoddity]

so my favourite characters in the au are irrelevant background ones

Helsknight, Wormman, Evil X, and Xornoth are online friends in the AU!

some of them have their canon names, and some of them have names for my particular designs

Helsknight - Aurelius

Wormman - Worm

Evil X - Equinox (Nox)

Xornoth - Xornoth

#vigilante sheriff au #empiresblr #empires smp au #hermitblr #evil x #evil xisuma #wormman #helsknight #xornoth #theyre all trans #LOOK AT THEIR NAMES of course they are #helsknight is a trans guy #xor and ex are trans masc #and worm is enby #also fun fact helskight and xornoth have powers.. but ex and worm are powerless

[jamsofdeath0]

I'm surprisingly okay with powerless Saiki aus but only when he's just as much a superiority complex fueled smug bastard.

Like hes still able to do half the shit he can do, but just to a more reasonably human level. Like he could get straight 100s or a grip strength of 640 pounds. But he still does everything in his power to be as average and unnoticeable as possible while his inner monologue is "good grief all these normal humans. I'm better than them, it's not ego it's fact" just like in canon. He's also just as much "I'm not going to involve myself" but immediately secretly involves himself.

#saiki kusuo #the disaster of psi kusuo saiki #saiki kusuo no psi nan #saiki k au #powerless au #no powers au

[thelastspeecher]

elishevart replied to your post: “Mentally playing with the idea that the teens with...”

And they are weird colour eyes, that way they can’t hide as much. Maybe with lenses but still

​The eyes turn otherworldly

vulpixen replied to your post: “Mentally playing with the idea that the teens with...”

Ooo like a rainbow iris and black scelera.

Yesssssss I'm glad we're all on the same page here! These kids get some eyes that are very much not natural. These eye colors show up when their powers initially do and are a permanent situation. They can conceal their other forms and inhuman usage of powers, but the eye color sticks around, marking them as "contaminated".

Here's what I'm thinking for the Main Characters and their eyes.

Stan - his brown irises darken to fully black, making it impossible to see his pupils. But since he starts wearing his glasses at the school, it can be hand waved as him just having really dark brown eyes. (Speaking from experience here; after I switched to contacts so many people were like "Oh wow you have blue eyes!") In the right lighting, Stan's irises shine rainbow and his sclera (for those who don't know, that refers to the "white" of the eye) get a bit of a rainbow-y sheen to them as well. When Stan is in oil form, his eyes remain the same for the most part, but his irises shine rainbow a lot more.

Side note: Stan having fully black irises IS abnormal. While it is possible to have irises such a dark brown that they are indistinguishable from the pupil, actual black irises are impossible.

Ford - his brown irises turn to a dark red, once again passable as a normal eye color behind his glasses. But his eyes change color further when he goes into his glass form and explodes things. When he explodes things (which, btw, he explodes things he's looking at, so when he's first dealing with his power he has to do a lot of quickly looking away from people), his eyes turn gold. Since he goes into glass form when he explodes stuff at first, that's the only change that is noticed. Once he gets better control, however, and can go into glass form without blowing stuff up, his irises turn clear in that form, becoming effectively invisible. His pupils remain however; remember, folks, the pupil is actually just a hole through which light enters and thus will not change color.

Fiddleford - I'm bringing back bright green-eyed Fidds from the Accidental Abduction AU! His power is based around plants and fertilizer, so fuck it, we'll say he's basically got chlorophyll in his irises instead of melanin. His blue irises turn a like, spring grass green. Some people have green eyes, but not like this. This is a green that can only come from chlorophyll, not from light scattering in the stroma of the iris. When he uses his powers, the green leaks into his sclera. How much leaks into his sclera depends upon how much effort it takes for that particular usage of his power.

Angie - she's a special case because of course she is. Making her otherworldly eyes obvious right away would throw off the whole shtick where she doesn't realize she's got a power. That's the author's explanation. The in-universe explanation is that her situation is different for two reasons. 1) she inherited her power, and 2) she has a mild form of heterochromia. Angie's eyes are blue, but she has a small ring of gray around her pupils that is only visible up close. Because her power is inherited, her otherworldly eye situation takes longer to kick in. When her power manifests, one of her eyes becomes fully blue and the other fully gray. But it's not noticed.

Not to go all "light eyes look different in different lighting" on you, but it's true! I have blue eyes but have been told they look gray and a few months ago my own sister told me she thought my eyes were green. The different shades of light eyes depends upon how light scatters in the stroma of the iris, so of course light eyes vary depending upon lighting! Lighting, what color you're wearing, whether you've been crying recently; all of these are things that I have noticed make my eyes look different colors.

So that's why Angie's initial eye color change isn't noticed. One eye remains effectively the same, and the other one changes to a color that passes as the same as the blue one due to lighting and the color just generally being close. However, the gray eye slowly turns silver. Like, metallic silver. By the time Angie gets to the school, her iris looks like it's made of metal. And then it begins to reflect as though it's metal, too. Basically, Angie eventually winds up with one blue eye and one eye with an iris that acts as a mirror, changing color depending upon what it is reflecting. But the best part is: which eye is which color is inconsistent. It switches randomly. Which is another reason it wasn't caught right away. It's more difficult to notice a small difference that isn't consistently different in the same way. Like Fiddleford, Angie's odd iris color can leak into her sclera if she's using her power in a way that takes a lot of effort.

#elishevart #vulpixen #YES I am making Angie a special special girl I DON'T CARE #they're ALL special special kids here okay that's why they all get the fun eye color treatment! #yeah the various Stangie kids also get fun eye colors #(except for Emily. she's the only powerless one so her eyes stay blue) #but I'm tired and already wrote a lot so I'll figure those out later #Pollution Powers AU #response

[gummidon]

Ricks here

#rick and Morty #rick and morty fanart #rick sanchez #rick c137 #superhero au #Rick and Morty au #ram au #au #alternate universe #fanart #ricks got some dumb embarrassing power he hides that’s pickle related #and prime makes fun of him for it off #ofc #Rick pretends to be powerless but prime figured him out #..after he rejected him #mighttt make fic maybe #maybe #but um anyway we got everybody drawn now #yay #anyway #screams #explodes

[skyward-floored]

List of the Zeldas' powers in the incredibles au (so far)

Sun - Music powers, she can play certain songs which have various differing effects. She can use her voice, but her power is very difficult to control that way, so she pretty much always uses an instrument to better focus it, unless it's an absolute emergency.

Artemis - Intangibility, able to go through (nearly) anything. She can also make other things intangible along with her, but it’s like lifting whatever the thing is: the more mass, the harder it is to effect.

Lullaby/Sheik - powerless, but is a skilled fighter and knows a lot about supers in general

Dot - Can shrink to the size of a minish!

Flora - I think is powerless (for now?) but she's really smart and knows a lot about supers

Everyone else I haven't decided if they should have powers or not, or am waffling on what powers to give them (should Tetra have powers? a lame power and want to hide it? How many of the Zeldas should be supers and how many just civilians??) so this list is pretty incomplete as of now.

Tetra, Dawn, Aurora, Fable, and Dusk are the ones I haven't decided yet.

#Artemis' powers are different from what they were originally #I'm leaning towards making rulie's Zeldas powerless it seems like their sorta vibe #Fable I feel like should have powers #I just don't know what #unsure about Tetra and Dusk #incredibles au #oh boy #lu sun #lu artemis #lu lullaby #lu dot #lu flora #save

[boxwinebaddie]

OK, HI UNCLE NINA!! So, when I read rm4 oh so long ago and thought abt like Stan's grandpas coat jacket- whatever, yk what i'm talking about, I made a silly lil hc pertaining to the TFBW game. So like imagine all the lil kiddies are running around, having a blast or whatever the sp kids do when they play superheroes. And that day Toolshed brought his coat for one particular reason. Or two, actually. "To make sure you stay warm while flying around, Kite! And- and look cool doing it." IDK just a thought that he made a habit of giving Human Kite his jacket often, and Kite did usually make a fuss over it, but couldn't reject it. Does Uncle Nina approve? :) <33

AAAAAA no absolutely!!!! my stamp of approval indefinitely :')

i actually think all of the stans have some form of large jacket to lend kyle, like for pep stan i think it's prolly his football letterman jacket ( i feel like theres a bunch of emo boy pins all over it and kyle just gets to wear marsh 04 on his back all the time which...cuuute ),

rm!stan is obviously abuelo walks leather jacket love that gay king,

and idk what it is for my actual tfbw stan but kind spicy if his grandfather was hailed as this big famous superhero and stan got his jacket but woopsie...he was actually a big villain! trauma alert! xx

but yes...okay. absolutely this.

( i just started talking abt stan sharing his jacket for five years soz there is some tfbw at the end i'm sorry i got distracted help smh )

rm!stan definitely put kyle in his jacket all the time, that anemic king. because he looked good in it but like mostly because he was in LUV.

( i feel like they swapped and stan wore kyles orange jacket a lot <3 and kyle actually felt comfortable in stans jacket bc it was breathable and he wasn't like...trying to hide himself in that big coat...im sad )

also like tbh one of the most painful parts of rm is that ravenstan and jerseykyle weren't even like pep!style where it was confusing like...they were mutually obsessed with eachother. i would even go as far to say rm!stan was like insane k-garten peppermint stan except he relentlessly played the long game w/ kyle until he...died. rip.

...if you want to get really sad during your nice cute hc, please know that kyle only has the jacket because he was wearing it on the night stan disappeared :( also when the news broke that he died and all the ambulances and police cars were out he was just in stans jacket, pushing past yellow tape, trying to get to that burned up house like, watching them put shelley in a body bag, asking about stan, SCREAMING w/ his knees in the snow, crying getting carted off :(

....truly awful. THEY WERE IN LOVE YOUR HONOR! I HATE MY LIFE!

i mentioned pep!stan up there for a minute and them being confusing and like...i'm gonna fight stan because he was soooo...like i swear anytime it was dipped under like 40 degrees, stan just took his hoodie off and gave it to kyle, like if he even sniffled or looked cold, it was like immediate. so pep!kyle just Lives in his jackets ( i don't even think wendy got to wear them because kyle always got them rip ) like his football jacket and all his big emo boy band hoodies...like MAN!

its just like an unspoken agreement...he just like loves kyle and doesn't want him to get sick, so he gives him his jacket :((( LIKE I THINK PEPSTAN HAS GOTTEN PNEUMONIA MULTIPLE TIMES and downplayed it so hard so kyle wouldn't worry, but like just got rained and snowed on and was freezing all the time so kyle would stay dry </////33 i'm crying your honor

oh also if anyone else gives pep!kyle their hoodie its literally onsight stan gets so SALTY ABOUT IT like whos that from is he ur boyfriend LIKE SHUT UUUUUUP SHUT UP i love u jealous stan...smh. just kiss.

okay i'm almost done but you mentioned tfbw and i don't know who saw all my insane tfbw au musings but i hced that weather alien kyle was given a hand-me-down cloak that was made of the atmosphere and is basically resistant to all weather.

BUT UH STAN DOESNT KNOW THAT!!!

so i bet you little pre-tool shed stan in his jacket just gives it to kite!kyle in human form as a little kid so they stay covered...which is just really special to them and funny as fuck because kite!kyle basically has protection against all weather but just out of the goodness of his heart, shed!stan not knowing ky has alien powers just bc he cares abt them...puts them in his jacket.

i do think kyle used their secret alien powers to keep stan safe a lot and he just thought he was lucky...crying help.

anyways...Tada!

-uncle nina, ceo of the stan jacket agenda

#not me just going off on like three seperate tangents #i love lore #i love stan putting kyle in his jacket like thats the style agenda #i forgot to frame it around them playing superheros BUT DEFINETELY THEN OFC #i wonder if the kids w no powers in my tfbw au just play pretend superheroes and pretend like they have powers #bc oh my god #and stan and kyle are just faking being powerless #ALSO WOW THAT RM HC MADE ME UPSET #like rm!stan like tiny stan like saw kyle and was like in love in love with him it was so SERIOUS for him oh my god #also jersey kyle traumatized banshee screaming and everyone thinking hes insane and unhinged when hes just so broken and devastated #i want to cry so bad #also pepstan for being like i am not in love with my best friend...is hella protective over the hoodie situation #like i am very glad kyle was not in a tolkien jacket he would be acting up so much like i bet that dumb rich people fabric isnt even warm!! #its a dumb color LIKE STAN UR DEFTONES HOODIE HAS MULTIPLE SRIRACHA STAINS ON IT AND IS HIDEOUS #and kyle would do horrible and obscene things to wear it....style world domination baby

[fissions-chips]

Thinking about Evil Polycule again but Fucked Up

#like the appeal of Evil Polycule usually to me is that Jon is actually just kinda left alone and gets to simply be *witness* to the horrors #- but then I see stuff that reminds me of OG villain Tim who was an asshole and I get nostalgic for it. also you’re throwing evil *butler* #- into the mix who has an actually pretty fair reason to hold a grudge against Jon. #Jon’s assistance and place at their side (at their feet) being treated more as an outstanding debt that Tim constantly holds over his head #- with no real goal in mind. he just likes having power over someone after being rendered powerless so many times in his own life #it’s all amusing to him. it’s a game. Jon breaks up the routine of his climb to power by being terrified of everything and everyone and so #- so easy to manipulate to his will. #(Butler has complicated feelings about the entire situation but he also will not lie there is an appeal to having power over the man who #- once had him shot dead. hell. Butler has a secret Jon is terrified of getting out. and sometimes it gives him a little thrill just to #- remind him of that). #au ramblings

[mousebraintakeover]

what if burger joint instead of retail

#miss power #miss powerless au #myart #wordgirl #she's losing her fucking mind get her outta there #not a brilliant art day for me buttttt yk

[undercoverwu]

Kai (Practically) Every Season

Powerful Kai: no one outsmarts the powerful kai

Villain: oh yeah?

Villain: (un-powers the power)

[Redacted] Kai: WELL SHIT-

#kai smith #lego ninjago #every season #practically #i mean seriously how many times has he lotst his powers #ninjago aspheera #morro ninjago #ninjago season 11 #ninjago season 5 #ninjago season 14 #the first half #also everytime they encountered vengestone #which is also every season right #poor kai #powerless kai is sad kai #no powers au #but the au is silent #powerless #ninjago incorrect quotes

[rouge-the-bat]

I have an idea for a yu yu hakusho swap au:

Yusuke swapping with Keiko

Kuwabara swapping with Shizuru

Hiei swapping with Yukina

Kurama swapping with Shiori

Botan swapping with Koenma

Genkai swapping with Younger Toguro

This is just the basis I will flesh ideas more later.

tbh ive never been one for aus personally- just not really my cup of tea is all! well aside from like, "what if this situation went more in this other direction?" sorta aus, thats more what i prefer to think on sometimes (but overall im usually focused on thinking about New Scenarios the characters can get up to together lol) -but that does sound like it could be interesting to play around with! i think ive actually seen fanart at one point of a yusuke-keiko and genkai-toguro swap (where keiko and genkai were gonna face off in the dark tournament), but idk where it may have been :O it looked p cool tho from what i remember!

edit: actually this post suddenly showed up in my recommends with the source to that fanart i mentioned!!

#starry asks #yyh #sorry im not much of an au guy ^^;; #they can have interesting aspects to them but theyre just not really much to my taste #ig maybe its bc im just really attached to characters as they are? its the version of them that i fall in love with #so switching them up or putting them in different worlds or modern/powerless aus or whatnot just dont really appeal to me much :O #they can be kinda fun to think about for a lil bit. picture a couple tiny scenarios. but they dont keep my interest farther than that #more power to those that do enjoy them tho! glad ppl have fun with them :3 #wait actually thats probably why im like. so disinterested in most of the different versions of the sonic canon tbh #bc im so attached to the characters how they are in the games canon #and the other canons are basically kinda aus and im just not really into that #sonic x is v much part of my childhood but the differences of canon is still odd to me #i enjoy the new sonic movies a lot but im not nearly invested in those versions of the characters as i am the game ones #never been interested to check out the comics. too much is different in them #kinda off topic tho. lol

[tcnderhearts]

jaq tag dump

#「 ♡ au. FALLEN / red kryptonite!Jaq 」 #「 ♡ au. POWERLESS / perma de-powered!Jaq 」 #( ... actually i don't think i have that many things to tag so nix that whole post from before lmao ) #( this is what happens when u only have ocs u never got to cook with lmaoooooo )

[ravensroleplays]

Tweaked Moonjumper’s bio a little.

#my ahit au #mun speaks #seriously though--why am i only NOW realizing that i can do rps BEFORE this guy loses his power and goes into exile...-___- #i do one rp where he fights hatty snatcher and the others then go like 'okay he's a powerless outcast for ALL my rps here on out lol' #they're called 'aus' rhys--you're allowed to have the moon-headed creep interact with others and try to manipulate them in the main verse... #i'mma do that more...what can i say; i just love writing moonjumper as a slimy jerk :P

[envy-of-the-apple]

Dark! Gojo Satoru x reader (Soulmate Au blurb)

(warnings: dark content, implied kidnapping, implied noncon, masochism)

I really like the idea of soulmates in the JJK world. They're rare, but the reason why they're so coveted is because they are the only person in the world who is immune to their soulmate's cursed technique. 

Being Gojo's soulmate would be like hitting the jackpot, at first. You're a regular person, with no cursed energy. Maybe you and Satoru's hands bump into each other while you're at a cafe, grabbing your respective drinks. To you, it's just an accident. You apologize, make your way out. 

To him, it's like submerging himself into an ice bath. For the first time in years, someone had gotten past his limitless technique. It was so unexpected, and real, and so warm.

Your hands were warm. 

It's the thrill of it that gets him first. The unexpected. No one's ever come close to him. He is the summit of the mountain. The strongest. And yet, there you were, effortlessly able to bypass his barriers without even trying. With women, with Geto, he'd always have to turn his technique off. He'd have to let them do something to him. You could do anything to him, and his powers wouldn't even stop you. You could kick him, punch him, bite him. Anything you wanted, and for once, he'd be powerless to stop you.

He can't detect you with his six eyes. It makes the hunt even better when he catches up to you. It's days of stalking and harassment and the touching that finally makes you snap and slap him. 

It hurts. 

It hurts and he fucking loves it. 

He already made up his mind days ago, but this only cemented it. When he finally takes you home, to his bed, it's euphoric. You scratch and bite and scream and hurt him over and over again. Hours later, when you've passed out from sheer exhaustion, he has more bruises than you do. They'll fade eventually, but that's okay. 

You could always make more. 

#dark content #yandere jjk #dark gojo satoru #yandere gojo x reader #mentioned masochistic tendencies #implied kindapping #implied non con #future fic ideas #gojo being bad person once again #me totally ignoring Gojo's actual powers once again

[bigfatbimbo]

okay omg this is so dumb ong but basically, alastor said like vox is powerless without the other vees, right? and so picture like maybe something happens and the vees like fall apart and that leaves vox totally powerless. i just find the idea of a loser ass gideon graves type vox crashing on your couch because his entire empire fell apart very entertaining.

basically, headcanons? smut, fluff, angst, idc this is just such a silly episode type plot

i know i’m not alone, your a loser, just like me

a/n — I have such a love for oddly specific requests like this. In fact, I just love oddly specific x reader au’s.

summary — After the fall of the Vees, along Vox’s empire, and power, he’s left totally stranded in the reader apartment as their more or less housewife, and forced to live the life of, for lack of a better word, a total loser.

extra tags — headcanons, established relationships, mentions of smut, mentions of angst, mostly just fluff, like you could skip over the smut and angst if you want and barley loose anything

Vox has never had a lot of free time. In death, his schedule was just as packed as it was during life. From meetings, to live shows, to arguments with Alastor, to any so-called ‘downtime’ with the Vees, he’s never not been busy. 

But the Vees weren’t here anymore, and neither was his empire. That meant, no arguments to mediate and no business offers to consider. Practically, he had no work to do. 

And the part that really bothered him, was that you did. Him being out of a job, meant that you were the main breadwinner of the household. In simple terms, Vox was powerless. And the downgrade from his studio standing high above the rest of Hells scum, to your one bedroom apartment was certainly less than charming. 

He had nothing to do all day, but sit and wait for you. That doesn’t sound that bad for any normal person, but Vox wasn’t normal. And neither was the way he was dealing with the sudden fall of his empire. 

The first week came and went, rocky to say the least. His time was spent either in bed, or lounging by the bathtub, reluctantly petting his shark, Vark. After a while, the comfort of the creature evaporated as quickly as it set in. Vox’s brows would furrow with irrational. Vark, the only remaining piece of wreckage, reminding him of his once powerful kingdom. 

But Vark didn’t know Vox had lost anything. Infuriated by this thought, each visit to the bathtub that week led to Vox promptly storming out of the room. 

The second week hadn’t been all that better. Feeling the need to compensate for the absence of his power, he acted specifically entitled. Not to mention, coming onto you every five seconds, and trying his hardest to act domineering. 

However, this desperate act crumbled as soon as you got fed up, “Seriously Vox, could you keep it in your fucking pants? Acting powerful doesn’t bring back your power, douchebag.” 

The statement should have prompted an argument, one that would have happened if it hadn’t been for Vox’s fragile state of living, but he simply shut his mouth.

Which brings us to the third week. The initial sadness and desperation has worn off, since it has been almost a month. It’s not that he doesn’t crave that power back anymore, but there is a subtle understanding that it’s not coming back anytime soon. 

Instead, he focuses on distracting himself through more mundane aspects of life. 

For lack of his surveillance cameras, he’d resort to following you around with a small drone for part of the day, examining your tasks. Watching you work he’d sigh, you were so productive.

However the drone would only last so long, since it wasn’t the most well-made contraption. At first, he’d really hate the feeling of being all alone. It made him feel like your housewife, or something. Well, he thought, in a sense, he was. 

Reluctantly, and given his time period, he’d do what he knows about the whole concept of being the stay-at-home partner. Although, given he’s never played that role, he’s terrible at it.

You’d come home and his attempt to clean the house would lead to slippery soap suds on the ground, acting like breadcrumbs leading to the task that Vox accidentally distracted himself with.

In most cases, this would be a chalk board where he would uselessly try to plot out his rise to power, once again. And he’d be laughing maniacally while explaining it to you, but he’s very proud of all of his [unrealistic] plans so you’d just have to nod and smile. His ego has taken enough hits as is, he doesn’t need your disapproval too.

However, sometimes, he would really try to cook something for you when you arrive home. This… doesn’t work out well, to say the least.

As soon as you walk through the door, you’re greeted with smoke, and angry shouting. Not at you, however. When your surroundings become less fuzzy, you see clearly Vox screaming profanities at the oven.

“Useless piece of shit,” he’d shout, kicking the oven, and then recoiling back from the pain in his toe. Then once again getting angry and throwing a spatula at the wall closest to you.

“Y/n!” He’d observe, putting on his, now rusty, customer service voice, “I didn’t think you’d be home so soon.” 

“Yeah, looks like you needed—“ You cough, swatting away the smoke from the kitchen and going to open a window “—more time to finish up.”

Walking over to him, he’d slouch over and cross his arms, clearly not happy with his failure of an attempt to cook for you. With his new foreign feeling of uselessness, he’d be very desperate for any form of success.

You’d put your hands on either side of his shoulders and rub comfortingly, “What were you trying to cook?” 

And that starts the new routine. Vox tries to cook for you, fails, and you come home and help him finish the job.

He doesn’t like being bossed around, even in the kitchen, but with the sudden withdrawal from the spotlight, he’s constantly craving your attention to an obsessive amount, which mostly makes up for his control-freak nature.

With this, however, that means that every second you’re off work and NOT at home with him, he throws a huge hissy fit. 

Probably leading to a big argument where, after a short time of pouting, Vox realizes that he probably doesn’t want to loose the only person he has left. So he smooth talks his way back, before you even consider kicking him out.

But every morning before work it’s a struggle too, “Vox, get off of me, I have to go to work.” 

“Call off, then.” “No?” “Oh, so you don’t fucking love me enough.” “Do you not love this roof over your head? I’m going to work.” “…pick up some gatorade on your way home.” 

Along with being desperate for attention, as could be assumed he’s intensely and apologetically clingy. Well, unapologetic in the sense that he doesn’t change he’s behavior after you call him out on it. He does get very defensive when you tease him.

Like even when it’s undeniable. He’d have his head laying in your lap, lazily playing with your fingers while he talks about whatever his ‘evil plan to rise to power’ of the week is. And you tell him you needed to go to the bathroom and he would move and just tell you to “Wait until i’m finished talking.”

Sex wise, he would try really, irritatingly hard to be super dominant to compensate for his loss of power in society. But on the flip side, because of his vulnerable state, he’d probably naturally find himself being more easily submissive in bed. 

But with that, I think he’d have less of a tolerance for overly degrading words. Because usually, I would definitely say he has a thing for degrading and humiliation, but his ego was [very high but] fragile before, and in the light of recent events, it’s completely fucking shattered.

It’s really just embarrassment at the end of the day. His self entitlement isn’t gone, it’s just been replaced by a “aw boohoo, i’m so much better than this :(“ mindset.

So he needs praise more than anything. In fact, a lot of what he does, or rather tries to do, around the house is to get your approval. To not fail at something, and it’s been a while. 

Now, smut aside, like I said, there’d be a lot more vulnerability on Vox’s part. Because, after all, he’d probably be in the worst headspace of his entire existence.

It’s safe to assume, being a white man in the fifties, that he didn’t have it rough in life. And up until the fall of the Vees, dying was one of the best things that ever happened to him. 

For the first time, in all of the years he’s lived and died, he isn’t overtly privileged, and it’s driving him crazy. His immense power has been replaced by a terrible craving for success. His fear of failure and rejection have been heightened, and he’s almost as obsessed with getting his empire back, as he is dependent on you. 

But with no real way to achieve his goal, and barely any drive, he is left being, for lack of a better word, a washed up loser. A hazbin, if you would!

But he does miss the Vees. In fact, he misses them a lot. Occasionally you have to comfort him at night when he’s thinking of them, or when he sees something that reminds him of the two of them. 

I also think he’d go through days where he’d either be super prone to arguments and super touchy, or you see a noticeable change in this behavior because he just doesn’t care as much anymore.

Silly Vox though, which you’d see a lot more of now that he isn’t a CEO, would be very present.

You’d get home from work and he’d be super siked because he picked out a movie to watch with you. (Goodfellas, American Psycho, or Joker, it is never not one of these movies.) 

But he has a lot of time when your away, and that’s kinda dangerous for a guy like him, especially in a closed space since he’s too ashamed to show his face to the outside world.

You’d walk through the door and he’d show you some new tech he swears will allow you both to “rise through the ranks of hell!” But you’d take one look and realize, “Vox did you take apart our microwave to make that??” 

Most days, he’d go through weird cycles of trying to clean the house and cook, basically doing what he knows he’s ’obligated’ to do as your sitcom housewife, but then other days, literally trashing the place.

You’d come home find glass shattered all across the, almost flooded, floor. Then you’d look up to find Vox lowering Vark into a clearly homemade tank.

He’d reassure you and be like, “No, now we have our tub back! All thanks to me and my genius brain, your welcome—“

“Where’d you get the glass, Vox,” you’d sigh, massaging your forehead because of the new, growing headache. Not to your surprise, but definitely your disappointment, the response would be, “…The bedroom windows.”

Also, this is off topic but he’d have one of those “kiss me, i’m irish” aprons. 

I think that Vox at rock bottom has such a fun ‘beginning of season character arc’ vibe to me. Like watch as he goes from the world’s worst housewife, to semi-competent over the span of a few months.

It reminds me of peridots (steven universe reference) redemption arc, in a sense of vibes alone. If we’re talking from a realistic in-show perspective, end of the season, the redemption arc would not be successful IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

Like he would be fully adjusted, and honestly happy with his life. Slow dancing with you each night, honestly getting the hang of cooking, and a lot less complaining. But then he would get an opportunity to once again rise the ranks of hell. And a good opportunity too, like it would place him very relatively high up.

And well… society can take the villain out of the capitalist, but never the capitalist out of the villain.

a/n — actually society, especially in hell, does not have the power to take the villain out of the capitalist, but I digress. Don’t get bimbo started on capitalism as a social concept because it is literally the most interesting thing in the world to me lowkey.

Anyways, I love housewife!Vox so much, and I will be SO HAPPY to do more with this au. He’s the worlds shittiest stay-at-home partner and I love him.

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