#shadow people au

[winter-dayz]

Only silence remains

Pairing: Kang Taehyun x Reader Shadow People AU Genre: Horror Words: 1089 Warnings: gore; strong language

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Taglist:  @soobin-chois

“Tae~ how far out are we?” you whined lightly while Taehyun pumped the gas. You leaned against the side of the car, face tilted to the warm sun, and briefly took in the barren dirt road and unending span of trees.

For your fourth anniversary, you and Taehyun had decided to try something new. You’d planned a whole weekend getaway instead of just going on another date night.

It was definitely not how you’d chosen to spend your previous anniversaries, but you both were trying to expand your interests and get outside more. Especially after being cooped up during the pandemic.

It had been your idea to try backpacking after you’d done a short, easy hike with some friends near the coast. Taehyun was, as you expected, down for whatever made you happy, and he had even suggested turning the idea into a romantic weekend away from your busy lives. So, you both sat down and found some really beautiful backpacking trails and campsites within a day’s drive of your home that you were interested in visiting.

He chuckled. “Should be there by sundown. Be patient, baby.”

You smirked teasingly over at him as you both loaded back into the car, “Oooh, sundown, huh? You know this area has a legend about the forest after dark.”

“Oh, really?”

You hummed, “Yep, apparently this superstitious little town tells stories about evil creatures that live in the shadows. Their touch is cold as ice, and if they grab you, you’ll never be seen again… They feast on innocent souls and human flesh~” You wiggled your fingers in a teasing motion, and Taehyun chuckled again at your silliness.

The “legends” were part of the reason you had ultimately chosen this area. You were a sucker for a good ghost story, even if it was ridiculously farfetched.

“Honestly, it sounds like the kind of scary story the big kids tell their younger siblings to make them afraid of the dark.”

“Yeah, I thought it sounded like bullshit too.” You shrugged, hopping back into the passenger seat.

🎃

You arrived at the campsite within a couple hours, just as the sun was fully setting. The forest surrounding your little tent area was dense, having caused you to cut out some brush to even get to your spot, but it was supposedly the best starting point for the hiking trails the two of you had planned out for the morning.

Even if the stories about “shadow people” were bull, the trees surrounding you certainly did cast an unpleasant darkness around you. Paired with the new moon, the rapidly blackening night felt ominous. You stared at the tree line, trying not to feel like something was staring back. Trying not to feel like something was closing in on you. Trying not to feel like you weren’t alone…

“Boo!” Taehyun grabbed your sides, causing you to let out a violent gasp.

“Tae~” You whined loudly, playfully shoving him back while he laughed. “That’s not funny! You scared me…”

“Aww~” He teased you. “Are those scary stories getting to you, baby?”

You opened your mouth to retort back when a strange sound interrupted you. Before you could question the odd thump, it repeated. And again, and again, and again. Until the rhythmic thumping was surrounding the two of you.

You could feel your heart racing, Taehyun’s wide-eyes indicating he was in the same predicament, and you realized you recognized the sound.

They were heartbeats.

“Tae…” You whispered, barely audible over the thumping. But before you could suggest that you two leave and find somewhere else to camp, an unsettling chill ran down your spine. The shiver wracked both your bodies, freezing you in place, while mist and clouds rolled in and blotted out the dim stars above.

The area grew darker; the thumping grew closer; your fear grew stronger.

Neither of you had gotten around to lighting a fire properly yet, but you noticed your lanterns flickering, on and off with the beat of the noise. Each time the light flickered, the shadows along the treeline seemed to dance. They writhed and wiggled, like beasts coming back to life.

There was something in that darkness. Something ancient and evil. It was taunting you… Playing with its food before it devoured you whole.

You had felt it before you saw it, but then one of the shadows cleaved from the rest. It stretched closer towards you, despite no light moving or causing it.

You felt your breath catch, contrary to Taehyun letting out a heavy gasp. The air around you fogged when his warm breath met the icy mist.

The shadow reaching towards you froze. Waiting. Motionless.

The lanterns dimmed, not powerful enough to fight the otherworldly darkness.

More and more shadows cleaved from the treeline. They materialized into indistinct, broken, grotesque figures. They were vaguely human, but in the way that only nightmares could recreate.

The tendrils that were their arms and hands slithered towards you. Predatory.

Fight or flight kicked in. And, while Taehyun raised his arms to shield you, you grasped onto his wrist to run. The break in the treeline you had set up to camp in hadn’t been that large, but as you tried to flee with Taehyun, it seemed to stretch on endlessly. The trees blurred together, becoming a mass of darkness. You felt like you were running in circles, into a labyrinth of nothingness.

The thumping continued to surround you, even as you both ran and ducked beneath branches and pushed through the brush. Nothing seemed to change. The darkness… the shadow people continued to push forward, growing ever closer.

You screamed as you felt a deathly cold tendril slither up your leg and wrap around your waist. It burned with how icy it felt, and you cried out for help when you fell. Your screams were drowned out, though, by guttural whispers and wicked, broken cackling.

Peering over, thinking Taehyun had at least escaped, you spotted your boyfriend.

His body was crumpled on the ground, shadowy tendrils slithering over him like snakes and leaving frostbitten, blackened skin in their wake. His eye sockets were empty pits, almost unending with their depth. His mouth hung open, frozen in his own silent scream, as an inky black substance appeared to ooze out from within the cavern behind his lips.

The cold was suffocating, but the hopelessness is what made you succumb to the shadows.

No one would ever find you. The dark truly would devour you, and only the haunting silence would remain.

#tomorrow x together #txt #kang taehyun #reader #kang taehyun x reader #tomorrow x together x reader #txt x reader #horror #shadow people au #oneshot #fictober

[spiderh0rse]

for all the fans of both hermitcrafts shadow people au and hlvrai (of which i am sure is a dreadfully small overlap)

Martinis! Gordon's shadow! Kind of anxious, very curious about what comfortable clothes feel like, obsessed with his own self preservation.

#To maintag or not to maintag #Ah what the hell #Hlvrai #Hlvrai Gordon Freeman #SPAU #shadow people au #Art tag

[autisticlalna]

BEHOLD. I HAVE LOST MY MIND.

or, "there are so many Lalnas and anyone can be a Lalna if you believe in yourself hard enough"

misc notes: - Livid is the original and started working for Yoglabs after Voltz - Livid II is the clone from Hypercubed and was a backup made of Livid in case anything went catastrophically wrong - Tech is @betweenlands's oc! - Sus is the Lalna clone from fb2.0 episode 50 and was a prototype of the process Lalnable later used for his clone army - Brick is from the DreamOut AU. he's possessed. - Alpha-Z is just Zedaph. he was Livid's assistant until Livid got boxed. - Jones is To Infinity! - Astro is Jaffa Factory / Moonquest / Hole Diggers and is blissfully unaware of all these other dorks - Atomic is straight up the Master Clone after he got "ejected" from Yoglabs. he's also the Lalna from Blackrock! - Landon is Solar's take on Magic Police and i think he's cute - i have literally never watched whale lords besides the first episode i'm sorry - Data is a mystery to me rn because i don't remember if the Lalna in Deep Space Mine is the same as Hole Diggers or not so he might end up not existing. sorry bud - Tango being a Lalna is entirely Solar's fault - Digger is a joke oc that i got very attached to. he's a Lalna shell clone that got mixed with Honeydew's DNA on accident and everything happens to him so much - Lambda only exists in SPAU but i wanted to draw him

#lalna #yogs #oc: digger #dreamout AU #alpha z au #i dont think im brave enough to tag zed and tango directly but #hermits #shadow people au #woe. lalnae upon ye #work a miracle au #leo.txt #leo.png

[chorus-communities]

rip in piss spau, made us split the worst alter of all time at age 13 lmao

#rip in piss to kj too i think he integrated into the pdid soup #and good riddance tbh bro got our friend killed and us harassed online and forced me to lie for him #he was also so a product of undiagnosed hpd #cecil.art #spau #shadow people au

[green-t-ea]

Guess who's gonna post art for once in forever again (aka as usually I forget to post anything I draw but finally remembered after finishing something)

Found a super old WIP sketch when I was nostolgic about Shadow people au and decided to tear it apart and finish it up! (Ended up with 3 sketch layers to fix everything that wasn't looking right)

Sibbh's ability in dsmp spau is called Earthshaker for good reason.

Also have the line art and some of the sketch layers just as a bit of progress work on how it changed from the original wip

#spau #shadow people au #sibbh #had a lotta fun working on this today #tw eye contact #thaumcraft taint

[ekboms]

i drew keloid for the first time in november 2019..even if hes a shadow, i like to think that somehow ! hed get to grow his hair out into longer more comfortable pigtails one day ! and i think it often, bc this au still means a lot to me !! waves

[ this took ..a lot more time than i thought bc i went on a trip to visit my partner and lost my luggage w my drawing tablet inside ]

#spau #shadow people au #havent posted art on tumblr in like a year bc of a stalker but ! im being so brave #this au means a lot to me . it was a very rough time in my life and its tied in with a lot of complex emotions #the vexxdows and the community allowed me to be unapologetically and loudly autistic in a time when masking was ..impossible #i met one of the most important ppl in my life through the au [ even if it was at the wrong time and in the worst way. we found each other] #and i genuinely think that having this space to meet other people safely was part of why i was able to leave my abusive ex few months later #i miss some of the people i met in the discord very much and hope theyre doing well #hello ! goodbye !! thank you guys for being there !!

[clownsuu]

The mob au just hits different. You've got such a unique art style and they're all so detailed. (I personally just love the way you draw Wally's hair for the mob au, so Curly.)

Taking an eye to be part of The Family has such implications. Like these are people who can be immediately identified by anyone who knows of The Boss. Specifically that they are part of the inner circle, direct access to Wally. This on its own is awful for a mob but it also means that they are powerful enough that the lack of a second eye would inspire fear instead of it being an exploitable weakness.

Also Wally is so Smol that he breaks the big and intimidating stereotype. This is a master of the mind rather than someone who got lucky by being muscle. He has something to offer everyone, something that is worth losing an eye through violent means.

That's what's so intriguing about this au. Everyone (or at least me) wants to know how this came to be, what does The Boss have that is worth it?

His family.

cw mild-ish body horror

Lil bit more of thems, a lil lightning round of mini questions iv gotten vaguely answered lmAOOO

#Also iv been asked multiple times for a tag for this au- #Typically I do not tag stuff for aus since I never really saw the point for it for my own aus- #However a l o t of people really like it JDHDHDH #So just for this one it will get a tag smhhh #Welcome home mob au #Welcome home howdy #welcome home wally #welcome home frank #welcome home home #howdy pillar #wally darling #frank frankly #I ain’t tagging everyone that’s in the shadows JDHDHDHDD #Also yeah howdy’s weapon of choice is a ice pick #Cause yknow #Bar stuff JDHDGDHHD

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 4

Another prompt, but in memes because trying to gather my thoughts is hard sometimes lol.

#prompts #memes #batman au #batman #cryptid batman #cryptid batfam #cryptid batfamily #batfamily #batfam prompts #batfam #Bruce: This surely will be fine :) #Dick: Gotham made me like they made B :) #League: the what did what now #Barbara: I formed from his tech & could get away with all your murders :) #Jason: I am the embodiment of Crime Alley and Retribution :) #Cass: I am Gotham's shadow :) #Tim: Oh I'm a child :) #The league: Oh thank fuck a normal child- #Tim: Well at least my body is a child but TECHNICALLY- #Steph: I'm his twin and the other side of his Chaos :) #Duke: Hi I'm the Bat Signal :) #Damian: I am the blood son #The League: Oh gods he means that literally doesn't he like some sort of creature made entirely from blood- #Bruce: I am not sure why I expected this Not to escalate but it's too far to go back now #Why yes they can all fit in his cape even when they become older and no one knows how or why #If they even age I mean Gotham could just be Like that where people sometimes stop aging #Kind of like what's going on in Fawcett just more goth #meme

[carrotkicks]

[sends them to school au!]

takes place directly after this comic. Dazai meets Oda! Dazai vents to Oda! About her torrid love life too... It's okay the storm will pass.

#sooo yeah the kiddos kissed last time. it didn't end really well.. #dazai's trying to get over it. with the help of the new mafia hire. #will there be a chuuya perspective for the aftermath of that? maybe... #little did you know that kiss is gonna lead to disaster... #ahh and bc i saw some people wondering. chuuya seemed sick bc she hasn't been taking her meds AND she got really flustered and freaked out #doodles #comic #sends them to school au #bsd #bungo stray dogs #dazai #oda #odasaku #chuuya #<- in flashbacks #skk #fem soukoku #btw btw i just wanna talk art for a second. during the kiss panel chuuya's entirely in shadow and dazai's entirely in light. intentionally #the shading was mildly strategic this time #this au is really is just a shoujo with a scifi-horror finish to it.

[sketchysketchin]

Shitty local baking competition taken way too seriously by two fierce competitors, and taken the bare minimum of seriously by two horny judges :)))

#baking :))) au’s #it’s so fun just to draw them like they’re in a different show then the one they’re in #and I like the show they’re in it’s just #take all the same people and make them competitively bake and host a baking show #wwdits art #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits fx #wwdits tv #illustration #wwdits fanart #wwdits laszlo #wwdits nadja #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #laszlo cravensworth #nadja of antipaxos #laszlo #nandor x guillermo #ipad pro #art #procreate #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital painting #comic art #fan art #wwdits au #wwdits fandom

[carnation-damnation]

I'm the werewolf propaganda man, I'm not gonna sit here and act like I'm immune to "werewolf character being inordinarily affectionate at random times" trope

#sonic au #I Was a Teenage Werehog #IWATW #sth #Shadow the Hedgehog #Sonic the Hedgehog #sonadow #shadonic #sonic fanart #gay people. ur welcome

[sonicexelle-junkary]

A little bit of rendering practice for future comics. Probably will use this cause I like it.

Anyways, please go read the Infested comic by @flightyalrighty because, yes, this is fanart for it. I absolutely adore the comic so far, so please go support them so they can continue making fantastic work.

#art #fanart #sonic horror au #infested sonic comic #shadow the hedgehog #CW: blood #cool people shout out #(I will make more and 7/10 times it will be shitposts)

[spiderh0rse]

thinkin' about the shadow people au again,, gog. maybe i should work out some designs for the life series folks and draw their shadows? would shadows even be allowed in the life series??

#spau hermitcraft #shadow people au #life series #traffic light smp

[autisticlalna]

of course i will never forget the Original spau blorbo. even though this is the first time i've drawn him in YEARS shadoc is still everything to me

i see people draw doc more nonhuman lately, and seeing as shadoc is functionally a clone of doc appearance-wise i wanted to hit him with it for fun and shenanigans. bonus points if doc getting more creeper-y happened between seasons so shadoc gets summoned and is immediately confused. the horns were definitely an adjustment either way

#shadow people au #uhhHHHH not maintagging this. #shadoc my beloved. im sorry i didnt write you properly #leo.txt #leo.png

[kingprinceleo]

vampire au/happy auau/desert vampires au/fire n water au- art machine broke sorry </3 i will resume being Grub yeah sorry

#sonic the hedgehog #sth #shadow the hedgehog #sonic au #vampire au #sonadow #happy auau #amy rose #silver the hedgehog #dr eggman #rouge the bat #knuckles the echidna #desert vampires au #fire n water au #people dont care about me when im not making art thats da rules babey #i dont care about me when im not making art #uh im tired #yeah

[luvielolol]

“ It’s been painful all this time , hasn’t it ? “

“ You’ve gone through so much . “

#yes this is an AU post #I’m so normal about them #RAGHHHHHHHH GAY PEOPLE #shadow milk cookie #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #pure vanilla cookie #crk #crk au #crk art #my art #cookie run art