Hello

Any pronouns

I was thinking of storm, the drawing is mostly unrelated to the whole yap I’m about to go on,

I was thinking of Oliver and 1 having a argument about the kids and Oliver explaining why he did what he did, anyways I’m gonna explain the time line a little bit

At 16 Oliver gets to go home and for about a year and some change he lives a pretty okay life, he catches up with Sunny snd they become friends but not as close, until he gets a assignment: take care of this random baby while also making this dna changer lol

Hes like 17 and spends the year learning to keep the baby alive while he tests on himself with the human dna he got from his last assignment a year ago, he never knows where the baby comes from, he never asked, he learned not to the year he turned 15,

His dad softens a little but with his next assignment he goes back to his old self

Some guys bring a passed out 1 to Oliver’s house a day after 1’s birthday, and he (oliver) has no choice but to let the guys file in and drop 1 off in his bathtub, but even worse they give him another baby along with a packet

In the packet it basically says “take care of these 3 and ur never gonna believe this bro, but these are your tests dumbys, lol have fun go wild just don’t kill them, we will send collars in a few days”

But when he does get the shock collars a few days later he messes with them so the kids ones don’t even shock at the highest level (20), he isn’t able to weaken 1’s collar as much but its still definitely less, he also still keeps testing the changer on himself til he’s forced to fully test it on the other 3, only after he knows its at least kinda safe

Anyway around the time the kids are 10 and 9 Oliver and 1 die, but right before they do Milan just walks in and takes them both out the house, I don’t think I want the reader to know how they died cause not even the characters know but its probably something related to Sunny,

Quick family lore on the both of them, Sunny and Oliver’s families are kinda like the brains and the bronze, when Oliver’s family needs guinea pigs sunny’s family goes and takes some “debts” in form of people’s lives

And a family with enough debt that their kid would be taken is 1’s, his parents own a casino thats in debt to sunny’s family, along with getting blackout drunk with the wrong people on his birthday, he gets separated from alice that night and is assumed dead later that week,

During that 9 year period Oliver finds the weather books, and his dad is the first person he tells, but his father insists he shouldn’t tell the family or anyone else about the books, he (Oliver’s dad) doesn’t want his son to turn out like him and make the same mistake he did when he found out about the other worlds,

Anyways they both start acting differently and the family gets suspicious, the Amadeus family then asks the Viburnum family to keep a closer eye on Oliver and his dad so they send Sunny, which is why they are closer friends after Oliver gets his assignment

ANYWAYS lets circle back to the drawing, its of Aloe (back to the camera) holding another person (Milan)’s hand while offering his hand to Rose (whos half in the house)

I think I made them too tiny for 10 and 9 year olds, whoops, anyways the same day Oliver and 1 die by unknown causes, Milan lures Aloe and Rose out the house, before they fully leave Milan grabs a box:

In the box is cash, resources for shelter, possible jobs, ect, its a box Oliver was making

Oliver has always been passively suicidal, but after being forced to make the other 3 suffer, he starts making a box to help them all escape, but he soon realizes after getting the books he won’t, shouldnt, go with them,

He makes a few plans to kill himself somehow in a way that will get everyone distracted from the other 3 and give them time, but I think something happens that makes him realize that even if he dies they won’t be free

So he starts trying to make their lives better in captivity,

But the box is from the point where he was trying to kill himself, its a tiny bit outdated but Aloe and Rose still use it to survive, Milan takes them to a shelter listed on the box and from then on they are “alone”

But they aren’t, Sunny is really who’s keeping them alive most days against her family’s back,

Anyways the drawing is of the moment they leave, Aloe is convinced and trusts Milan immediately since they are already pretty used to people taking them randomly, but Rose gets a bad feeling, Aloe convinces him and she goes with the two of them, that afternoon Oliver and 1 are dead

“I was thinking of Oliver and 1 having a argument about the kids and Oliver explaining why he did what he did, anyways I’m gonna explain the time line a little bit”

Point so far up my dumbass future self probably forgot it already, anyways I drew this cause I went through a whole thinking thread, and unironically I’m explaining the first part of the thread last

Ghost Oliver and 1 argue a lot, but sometime after Kepo and Mimu find the books they have a augment thats walked in on by those two

Its a real singing killed my grandma argument at one point, its mostly Oliver saying he never had a choice, and 1 having to stand there lmao

one time the books are just out in the open at Kepo’s house and the ghosts see it (when the ghosts are reminded of something they slip into form two, which is the form they were arguing in “books of memories, no other us”)

This starts a argument and 1 asks Oliver why he even showed him cloud after his collar maxed out,

Oliver says it was to get him home and out of the open,

1 brings up that he threatened to shock the kids if he didn’t go with him, if he threatened that to get him to go home there was no need to show him the book of cloud

Oliver admits to editing the collars so they never even had a shock, and that he lied but still needed him distracted and docile so he threw him into a situation that he would need to completely forget what else just happened to process, because he didn’t think 1 fully believed him

1 admits he didn’t believe him then, and also admits he doesn’t believe him now

Oliver yells at him that he tried his hardest to not give them the full doses, that he sacrificed himself but it still didn’t work in the end

That the was going to kill himself but didn’t cause that wouldn’t help them all, and the least he could do was make them comfortable

And then they died before he could do anything real about the situation, he goes on about the week he got 1 a new guitar was the same one he considered changing the dna formula to be wildly incorrect, and using it on himself and hoping would kill him

How he sat in the same bathroom they both found each other in, the same tub 1 was for nearly a week in and out of consciousness, near midnight with the injection in hand, where he told himself that once he got out the tub it was all going to be over, but he sat til the water got cold, and then it was the next day, and he still had stuff to do so he threw away the syringe

And he would ask 1 what would it take for him to believe him

1 says he has known some people to lie about some terrible shit like that and he trails off

They stay quiet for a bit before

1 says how hes not sure if he even wants to believe him, but is inclined to do so because he never seemed cruel til points 1 can now see was Oliver losing control,

1 says that this still doesn’t change anything because really soon they will forget they even had this conversation

Oliver says they don’t even know if they have already has this conversation…

Oliver is first to slip back into the first form and 1 stays with a confused Oliver for a while before they slip back into form one also,

The two don’t know but Mimu and Kepo caught a least a little of that conversation, they decided to go back to the house to find the collars they are talking about

Mimu and Kepo’s whole idea about the ghost is the normal “unresolved issue, solve it and you set them free” so they are trying anything atp

I got tomodachi life and locked in on it for a week anyways I drew them

They used to be bald as a place holder cause I never figured out their hair, in a drawing on my old acc you can still see Capa and tocada bald giggle

I use he/him for Capa, she/he for tocada/tocado and he/they for Sombra when talking but mostly just the first pronoun when writing cause it can get confusing

Age wise Capa is the oldest then milan(Len) then Sombra and tocada but in a ageless way if that makes sense 🥀

They are all probably mentally closer to 18 then any younger, but all their exact ages are lost since a year in the books doesn’t exactly mean 365 days, they probably lost count before Sombra got there

In the original story Sombra can touch things that cannot breathe (so he can touch stuff like the note pad and pencil but not living people or plants)

Which is also how they found out they don’t breathe but that isn’t related to the au, at some point Milan gets curious about the other 3 and wants to talk to them without needed Len so she gets them a notepad, but that isn’t til a little later

They all agreed they wouldn’t tell Milan about the years of random killings shes been doing,

Uh for context future me: she really kills to understand more, in her head she sees emotion and people’s reasons for doing things has something she can literally see in their bodies, the way the speak, what they do and don’t tell, what stops them from doing something, she assumes its something she can see and attempts to find it

At some point she gets a theory its not visible and learns that everyone else is afraid of not existing anymore, she uses this to get what she wants, which is mostly progressing the story, at first the group had to do more “background work”

Basically just not directly talking to or effecting the characters but then Len got the idea to be a character to progress it faster, at the time of twins au its sometime after the night awake but at least a few runs before they find the storm books, kinda like the runs that lead up to storm

Okay anyways back to why I made them like that, I don’t have a picture of them on my tomodachi island but these 3 and Milan share the same eyes, I made them look a little off cause they aren’t supposed to look fully right, like a little off but not enough to where its uncanny, just like something is wrong in a eh way

Anyway yapathon I just drew their eyes differently,

I wanna sleep so I’m gonna get this last point out,

This was actually apart of rant 1 but I forgot to post it #whoops

I’m changing stuff ‼️‼️

First a big change mei and Hannah are now just humans, I think I said I was already doing that but idk where I threw that info so, they are still sisters and their parents still did have them in separate relationships then meet and combine the family but they aren’t adopted anymore

I wanna change Alex and Wyatt but idk how

Kai and Jayden are perfect theres no need for change

I wanted to change how Mimu and Kepo both deal with trauma, first off originally they knew their parents got out alive but ngl I’m changing it, they don’t know if they are dead or not and never get to find out

The fire is still Mimu’s fault and they still sink into the ground, I’m gonna change it to reflect how bad depression makes you and then getting out the dirt is them finally getting out of the worst of depression

But clearly they still aren’t fully there, in the original both are mentally the same age they ran away at (I think like 8 and 10 or even younger) but Mimu is more childish and trusting while Kepo acts more like a adult (because at the time Mimu is like 17 and Kepo is going to turn 20) but she does still think like him

And I mean I never did anything with that in the original, but I think the idea of two people would went through the same exact thing and taking it really similar but acting completely different makes sense in the context of “you and i”

And even though they act differently in response to the trauma them still laying awake at night about it together as siblings is also peak

At first when they emerge from the ground, Mimu is months ahead of Kepo, when they first get out the dirt their memories are really bad but by the time Kepo gets to the orphanage Mimu regains all his memories

Anyways, Kepo never knows its Mimu who set the house on fire, I think after a day of being silly and ignoring how he feels, when he is up at night trying to console his sister, who has always done the same for him, he will be beat with guilt cause this wouldn’t have ever happened without him setting the house on fire

Okay who else desperately needs their story to make sense uhhh

Sunny does literally nothing but help the main couple its really tragic, many such cases

Its so bad I genuinely do not know any lore for her outside of the DROP she has in storm, rip Sunny you got dumbbed down to the 3rd wheel uhhhmrm

I was thinking about storm Oliver and how he got the human dna,

I always knew in his family there was a coming to age ceremony but I never decided on what age that was or how it would actually be like

Still haven’t decided if I want the ceremony to be different but heres basically what happens

At 16 every Amadeus gets a red cape with 3 connection bits, in the ceremony they are on stage infrot of friends and family in clothes in shades of green probably (ngl haven’t thought of the under clothes yet)

Their parent that Is from the Amadeus blood line will place the cape onto their child with the hood pulled on, during this the child will be in a bow to their parents the entire time til told otherwise

The cape will be “open” or unbuttoned completely

(This is just a drawing to show you what the back of the layers would look like, they would just fall normally)

Then the parent button the layers while saying something, I’ll just change the text according to what happens in Oliver’s

*bow*

“In celebration of survivoring something only one generation has done before”

*Oliver’s grandmother puts the cape Oliver, after its on she pulls the hood over his head, hes still bowing”

“In celebration of reaching the age of maturity,”

“From your grandmother,” *she buttons the first clasp

“Your father” *she grabs the first layer and buttons it*

“To you” *she grabs the final layer and buttons it*

*She walks behind him and continues*

“Now that you are the age of maturity, you will change, “

“Your hair, your hight” *she takes Oliver’s hood off as he sits up normally*

“Your life, and others”

“And your world”

And then everyone celebrates, it’s basically the same for everyone but there is a few changes so I’m jusy gonna continue on about the story

At the “to you” part his dad actually leaves the room and Oliver notices, his dad leaves because of that first line “in celebration of surviving”, that isn’t normally in the ceremony, its there because this is Oliver’s first day back in the plant world

In the cloud au Oliver is the generation that finds out about the portals, but in storm its his father’s generation that finds it

And the family made Oliver’s father spend a year in the human world to study it, and then once oliver was 15, they sent him to the human world for a year also,

And to oliver his dad has always been pretty cold and busy but it was cause the dude was fighting for his life trying to not have the same happen for oliver, but it did anyways,

It was tougher for his dad cause when he went it was 1977, they didn’t realize the full differences between human’s and plants yet, knew nothing about the culture or anything and he had to relearn a language, and it was 1977 soo the humans didn’t really like people different then them at that time

His dad did have it a easier in some places because he wasn’t completely alone, there were a few more people with him, and he was 18 instead of 15 and alone in a apartment

But still pretty shity,

And then he just left randomly the same night as his birthday and wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone he knew (not that he knew a lot of people)

No one else but his dad was allowed to visit him, even his dad kept it to the end of each bi-month (and he had to fight for that many days)

He did convince his dad to take a birthday card to Sunny but thats the only time he talked to her that year and he wasn’t allowed a reply back

Every two months his dad would drop off money, and a report along with telling Oliver his new assignment for the two months,

During all this hes still doing classes just online human ones but at some point he makes a few friends and they meet up sometimes

His final assignment before he goes home is to collect dna from one of his friends, a blood sample and a lot of it,

And then he leaves the human world the night before his birthday, he never goes back, never sees that friend again,

Theres some other details but thats basically what happens

Okay gonna end this rant but I was thinking about 1’s identity and I think mirror pronouns fits them, and it would make sense why the story uses he/him for them (beause Capa is writing the story and he uses he/him)

But then female characters say she/her, like alice and Sunny, so it keeps their identity while also hinting at the story, heh I totally did that on purpose

I felt in my soul I was gonna fuck up their schedule soon so I went ahead and wrote it down

I wasn’t gonna give Quin music at first but I literally can’t think of another elective that isn’t tech or art sooo

Weely perfect

It fits the theme of the human dna making them a lot more violent and selfish then the plants would normally be, it fits Oliver wanting to be selfish because he has no real control over anything and it makes the lore of “somethings need to happen” still work because a Oliver *is* inlove with a 1

AUGH BUT HOW THE FUCK WOULD THAT BE BROUGHT UP??

“Lol can I chew on u”

“What”

Also speaking of their shit ass love life, st:1 at some point was ment to kill someone in defense of st:alice, cause its the reason the collar maxes out, which is the pulling point for st:Oliver to show st:1 the books to distract him,

If that doesn’t happen then st:1 never tells st:Mimu and st:Kepo and they never go to yhe house and the plot doesn’t plot

But like?? Who the fuck is he ment to kill?? AND THIS IDEA I HAD YEARS AGO WHY DIDNT I WRITE DOWN THE FULL IDEA

Vague posting has come back to bite me

Also I only just recently fleshed out why st:1 would even listen to st:Oliver (because he threatened to shock the kids, but 1 doesn’t know that the kid’s collars don’t even have a shock on them #bluffing)

I also change what books he actually knows of at first (at some point he learned of the other ones cause I thought it would be funny but only at first he learns of cloud, can’t be storm or he’d know Oliver was bluffing, can’t be sun cause thats gay)

AND ST:Kepo LETTING ST:Mimu JOIN HER LINE OF WORK??? NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS?

In universe I change it to she went into a numb depression but out of universe it was a lot of tocada

But I still can’t figure out a full reason she’d ever do that, chat I might have to just undo it giggle, and make it so Mimu sneaks on her missions

Thats actually so much better cause the guilt can come from him getting mixed up in it too, very rare footage of me forming a thought

Theres still like 80 plot holes, and 70 of them are fucking storm au omfogsh

AND LIKE 65 OF THAT 70 IS JUSY WHAT TO DO WITH THE CANDY PEOPLE

to fix the candy people in storm au I gotta fix them in cloud au and that might kill me

Dawg.. I completely forgot about the humans- like I forgot the characters existed, it is still a part of storm (st:Oliver needs to get the human dna from somewhere) but as for the FAREST I’ve thought about the humans??

Okay slight edit cause I wanted to change one detail of the first two parts but didn’t wanna rewrite the whole thing, so its just the first two edited and then the 3rd is completely new

In the living room Kepo is rearranging things, not by much, Mimu is playing music In his room, closest to the living room, she gets distracted by the music, with it being the most random assortment of music, changing every 3 to 4 minutes, with no theme. Now she's questioning if she should tell him to play a playlist instead of where she wants to put a pumpkin in her hands.

She places it on the floor next to the tv stand and walks to Mimu's room, despite the music being loud he hears her and stops the music, opening the door, asking her what she needed, she told him nothing and was just wondering how he simultaneously has the weirdest mix of good songs, just not the same genre.

M - "Excuse me"

He said to get her out his way when he started to walk past her

M - "A good song is a good song"

He shrugged and fell backwards onto the side of the couch with no one on it, with the sibling's ghost's on the other, Kepo noticed them but didn't say anything to them.

M - "wow you are finally out of your office"

Mimu said teasing his sister, even though he knew she almost always had a hit to compete,

K - "Shut, or I'll throw the pumpkin at you"

She said back, the comment hurt a bit, she wished she spent more time with him before his 18th birthday and maybe he wouldn't be involved in her line of work. But she knew he didn't mean any harm, and she thought he didn't know about any regrets she has.

M - "I'd catch it"

He said, with over confidence in his voice, Kepo knew he can throw knifes well but catching things wasn't something he liked to do, despite never actually dropping anything

She picked the pumpkin up again, it had weight to it but she was sure he'd be ok if he did miss the catch, just a little butt-hurt.

M - "Wait! *WAIT*!"

He panicked seeing her pick up the pumpkin and accepted that he lost the bet he had really only made with himself, she put it back with a *‘thats what I thought'* attitude. The whole time the ghosts watched, slightly worried, both of the ghosts were only children and Mimu and Kepo are a bit more violent with their sibling banter, so this looked a bit worrying to them but they ignored it.

G1 - "I remember, you used to sit in silence,"

The ghost with the white hat said, the ghosts don't remember much about before they died but when they did it came up randomly

Go - "Not all the time, I remember you playing"

Said the red caped ghost beside him. Kepo sat on the couch next to Mimu, both watching like a new episode of their favorite show, this didn't happen much and at the beginning of these conversations they didn't get much context but they found out it was best to just let them talk

G1 - "Really? I don't remember why but I would walk into your room.. no.. study and you would be working in silence, I think I would give you water”

Them getting words wrong and changing them was normal so it was probably going to happen a few times

Go - "Yes, I don't remember thanking you, thanks"

G1 - "You are welcome, I don't remember why I felt like it but I felt like I had to keep you well"

Go - "Why?"

G1 - "I don't remember."

Go - "No, why did you play?"

G1 - "Oh, I didn't think you could hear me, I was always a room, maybe a floor away from you"

Go - "I remember walking.. no, moving closer, and sit and work on something,"

G1 - "What was it?"

Go - "I.. don't remember, why were your songs so sad? No, why did you play sadly?"

G1 - "Sadly?"

Go - "Yes, you would play songs I recognized as being faster, you played them softly, and slow, I would imagine how you look while playing"

G1 - "I was tired.. no exhausted. No.."

M - "Sad?.. like tired from sadness?"

G1 -"Yes, yes I was sad, thank you Mimu,"

Sometimes the two had to help them with words, when away they would talk about how they talk, so different then when they were 'humanized' they were a lot nicer when in a more ghost form, but still talked like they don't know how to shorten sentences, in-fact that was the first time they had hear them say 'thanks'

"How did you get that?" "Shit- I guessed-“

The two whispered to each other

G1 - "Why didn't you ever walk into the room I was in?"

Go - “I was embarrassed."

G1 - "Of me?"

Go - "No, of myself,"

He sounded sure, this happened often too, where one of them is so sure of a detail

G1 - "Why?"

Go - "Because.. I hurt you? I think, but I like you"

G1 - "I think we didn't like each other before, maybe I liked You too, why would you hurt me"

Go - "I.. I don't know, I feel like I hurt you, and me, really badly. And someone else"

G1 - "Who? Mimu? Kepo?"

Go - "No, two other people, kids... I hurt kids?."

His voice was shaking, if he had eyes in this form he'd probably be crying by now, in this state he didn't ever want to hurt someone, let alone people that from his understanding was people he liked, and could even love.

The white hat ghost put his hands on the red caped ghosts shoulders, and brought him closer to him, he laid mostly on the couch but a bit on him. From what Kepo and Mimu could tell they weren't looking at each other.

M - "Soo.. 1 x Oliver confirmed?”

Mimu whispered, it threw Kepo off and she almost laughed but she managed to stop herself and elbowed him

G1 - "It feels like I read something about this, like two people have done this before"

Go - "Me too.."

G1 - "the sky, the.."

The white hat ghost looked around the room, mostly at the ceiling, looking for something, The red caped ghost didn’t move,

Go - "the weather,"

G1 - “yes the books, in the house”

K - ‘Mimu please don't say some stupid shit,’

M - ‘I'm going to say something stupid’

M - "Do you know where your house is?"

"Yes? Yes."

Le *Groan*

Len sat up with her vision blurry and a feeling in her head she had never felt before, it was making her throat feel weird too

She pulled off her hat, tried rubbing her head, moving her hair but nothing worked, it felt like something thumping the inside of her head at the beat of her heart, she couldn’t remember anything past mid day yesterday,

But the other three knew exactly what had happened, while she was passed out drunk they all agreed they definitely wouldn’t be telling her what happened last night, but when she woke up they didn’t expect her to act so, odd

Then it clicked for Sombra, and he started losing his shit, the laughing making len’s first ever headache worse, she grabbed him by his collar and he managed to hold his laugh for about soild 3 seconds before he lost it again

So “ARE YOU SERIOUS?? YOU’VE NEVER HAD A HEADACHE?”

Len didn’t answer and let him go, she held her head in her hands and tried to tune his cackling out, then Capa snickered, and tocada giggled, soon the 3 were making fun lf her for all the bad deeds she’d done but a *headache* is what takes her out?

… .. .

Saturday and Sunday went by, most of it was Sombra randomly breaking out in full laughter at the idea of len never ever feeling pain and assuming she could take a headache off,

The pills didn’t work, the 4 lifted len’s shirt to see the pill disappears before getting to the clear part of her, while staring they noticed the clear on her arms went down slightly more on Saturday, and a little more on sunday, and more on Monday morning

All weekend Milan never came to check on len, she didn’t question it, until Milan opened the door without saying anything and once again let her in the house to get ready,

They got dressed without saying anything, walked to the bus without saying anything and got to first period without saying anything,

Kaile noticed they were both really quiet but didn’t say anything, Capa, Sombra, and Tocada decided that only one of them would go with her to school per day, today was Capa’s day

Capa wasn’t too used to just observing now, doing nothing with his hands, it was kinda nice, not having to write the story but now read it

Truly the 4 still didn’t fully process that they are indeed real now, to a extent but real, throughout the day he wondered where the story was now, he hadn’t picked up the book since the first day, it was great to not be glued to it basically

Then he wondered how the others powers would work, especially ‘Milan’s’, now len, but he couldn’t bring himself to call her that, when he woke up she wasn’t even in the shed with them all, and didn’t have the jacket or bandanas she usually had, he wondered if any white one would work

But something else was throwing him off, before, in the book, seemingly randomly Tocada would break down, her clothes would change and everything, and during the event last night she started to breakdown, he’d never considered those could be connected to Milan

Ca “the real Milan, the human one”

It was 3rd period before he knew it and he was sitting on the floor back against len’s chair, he didn’t mean to talk outloud, a bad habit that had gotten him caught by Milan-len, more then once, this wasn’t any different

She wrote a note and dropped it next to her desk, next to Capa, he attempted to pick it up before remembering and just read it on the floor

“Stand up”

He did as told, a nervous feeling making its way to the rest of his body from his ‘heart’, on a piece of paper she wrote

Le “hey, you alright?”

It seemed sincere, but the perfect handwriting made it feel like it wasnt

Ca “yea uhm, yea I’m good,”

Le “are you sure?”

Ca “yea I’m sure,”

He looked away from her and at quin, who was whispering something to Milan, who clearly was uncomfortable, then she asked to go to the bathroom,

Capa dragged his attention away and looked back at the page len was writing on,

Le “alright, are you sure its not the same problem, in the hallway?”

His heart dropped, len had already gone back to doing yhe random assignment on her desk

clearly it wasn’t, they both knew that, the last time his ‘talking out loud’ habit fucked him over was a few weeks before they got here, before the worry was if she’d kill him one day

And now, even when the whole situation was flipped on its head, even when she was stripped of most of the power over them she still scared him

He didn’t make a sound, he looked back over to quin and Milan’s desk but they were both gone,

… .. .

Lunch arrived, and len sat at the table she had been sitting in all last week, but out of the people she knew, only Milan and kaile was there, quin was a table or two down, talking and joking loudly

But Milan looked even more annoyed then this morning , she was sitting next to kaile who was trying to finish some homework before they left

Mi “I’m.. uh going to the bathroom”

The two watch her get up

And leave, kaile watched extra long and once she made sure she was gone she started talking

Kl “what happened this weekend??”

Lei “oh uh, nothing really”

She had noticed how her memory had gotten lately, she used to remember everything. Every day. Every single repeat she had to go through, but suddenly she couldn’t remember what happened friday night,

Lei “honestly I can’t really remember, I was mostly out the house anyways”

Kl “huh… is..? Was it the sleep over?”

Le “the what?”

Her tone dropped, unless she had talked to Milan that night about a sleep over this was the first she heard about it,

Kl “quin and her were planning a sleep over, it was supposed to be yesterday but, i don’t know I didn’t trust quin, and you just met us”

Len looked over to quin mid kaile talking, and accidentally made eye contact with her, she stopped talking and stared for a moment before her friend started talking to her and she looked away, len didn’t think anything of it and continued talking to kaile

Lei “maybe we can have a sleep over at some point but not soon,”

Mi “what are yall talking about?”

Lei “the sleep over”

Mi “ouhh.. uh, I forgot to tell you this weekend,”

Mi “dude I’ll talk to you later, I wanna at least nap before 4th period,”

She pushes her plate, which had nothing eaten off of it, off to the side and lays her head down in her arms,

Kaile waits and calls Milan’s name softly and gets no reply, she sighs before continuing

Kl “quins never been weird to me, she wasn’t that bad to you outside the first day, its probably fine”

Kl “can you just please keep your sister safe, I have a feeling, and honestly I feel like I’m already too late”

…

Le “alright, I will”

…

Kl “sorry not to scare you or anything, its probably nothing anyways,”

… .. .

Len’s last class was with no one she knew, she got done with her work, finding it was really similar to work she had already done in previous resets, she talked with Capa a little bit but was mostly thinking about how to get out of a sleep over she really didn’t wanna be in,

And then the bell rung, and once again she started following the crowd, her class was more near the car lane then bus lane and it took her longer to get to the front door then it would for kaile and Milan to get there

And then suddenly she gets dragged Into a empty classroom room, the lights are off but the door is slightly open and the window in the door is letting the hallway light in

The classroom doesn’t look like its been used, really just a old classroom turned into desk storage, the little light that’s being let in shows its quin who dragged her in

She puts her hands on len’s hips, and tries to kiss her but len pulls away from her without realizing where her hands are

Lei “no quin, I’m not-“

Qu “please, I’m sorry for this weekend okay?”

Len’s shirt was already untucked but quin starts to put one of her hands under len’s shirt and the other on her chest, leaning in closer

Lei “no quin, I mean I’m not Milan, this is len-“

Qu “OH!, uh, really?”

Lei “yes really, I don’t want to kiss you”

…

Qu “well, are you sure?”

Lei “what do you mean am I sure? You are my sister’s girlfriend and I just don’t want to kiss you in general?”

Qu “move my hands then.”

Only now did len realize her hand were up to her waist, she hadn’t noticed because but any further and her shirt would be lifted up to reveal the lack of anything visible, she looked down and grabbed quins wrists aggressively, and holding them above her head,

For a second she considered hurting her, badly, this has to be what kaile was talking about, for a second, her face couldn’t hold the have made mask she was putting on,

She squeezed and bent quin’s wrists back til it hurt

Qu “OW SORRY IT WAS JUST A JOKE!”

Le “…”

She drops her arms and leaves closing the doors behind her, she finds Capa wondering looking for her before he made eye contact with her, the hallway starting to thin out

Ca “shit where did you go?”

Ca “oh yea uh, update me when we get back home”

They walked through the thining crowd as fast as they could making it on the bus just in time

Mi “what happened? Quin told me to tell you shes sorry, and that the first part was genuinely a mistake?”

Le “I’ll..”

She looked over to look Milan in her face but then made eye contact with kaile who shared the same worried look Milan did, len was gonna ignore all that, maybe tell Milan in a few days when it was convenient, but this wasn’t a story anymore and there isn’t do overs,

Le “she tried kissing me thinking I was you.”

…

Kl “really?”

“Really” it had the tone of “are you sure it was actually a mistake?” Milan sat quietly while len explained the rest of the story, she tapped her feet til they had to get off on their stop

The walk home was quiet, outside of Capa asking a question or two, they got to the backyard gate and len went to open it but stopped

Le “why didn’t she ask me anything before trying to kiss me?”

…

Mi “I- I uhm, she..”

Le “if she does that to you, let me know”

She opened the gate and walked straight to the shed, Milan sat at the gate for a while, trying to figure out if she should go go the shed or just go to her room, she was at the gate for maybe 4 minutes before she started to walk to the shed

On a random Friday len chose to stay home, for no real reason but she assumed it would be nice to stay with Capa and the other two,

“alright but try to eat and drink something okay?”

Is what Adrian said once he got home from dropping Milan off late once again, once he closed the door Milan opened the mini fridge that was still in the same spot as last week, to random cans a bottles, no food but she assumed Adrian or Milan would bring her something anyways

She took a small sip and confirmed she still couldn’t taste anything and continued drinking it without reading to closely

To “Milan can we go outside?”

So “PLEASE dude, I’m so fucking bored”

Le “and do what without being seen? You all could have came with me to school any day this week”

So “so.. are you like a human now?”

…

Le “not fully,”

… .. .

sometime after lunch during a class they both had, quin was passing notes back and forth to Milan while kalie stared annoyingly because she had to be the middle man

Qu “do you think we could have a sleep over this weekend??”

Mi “maybe not this week-“

She thought to put a excuse about len, but didn’t really wanna risk messing with her

Qu “pleEsEseS, I wanna get to know len”

Kl “who the fuck invites someone to a sleep over to get to know them, thats something you do when you already know them”

Qu “yapish I’m not reading that jusy pass it to my girlfriend-“

Milan didn’t get to answer before class was over, technology class was the last class of the day and only kaile shared it with her not quin

They leave class together after Milan says bye to quin and kaile drags her away to class, on the walk quin gives her the note she failed to pass and Milan read it while

Kl “I don’t trust her, like at all dude.”

Mi “she was just joking last week she doesn’t actually think like that”

Kl “i don’t know does she know that?”

Mi “its fine I’ll uh.. ask this weekend”

Kl “can I at least go? Incase something happens?”

Mi “honestly I assumed you were already joining us, I’d feel better if you were there”

Kalie sighed and softened her tone

Kl “I’m sorry, she makes jokes about people we know but i don’t know she was extra weird last Thursday..”

Mi “yea I know, thanks for the worry though”

… .. .

Its the end of school, Milan walks out with quin and kaile, she waves goodbye to quin as she and kaile make their way to the bus lane,

Milan thinks about having a sleep over so soon and decides right there on the bus that she doesn’t want to have ti that weekend, she texts quin that she was gonna ask for next weekend instead

As quin spams her phone with complaints kaile starts talking to her, for a moment she considers ignoring kaile but she gives her a look and a smile that makes her put her phone away

Mi “hey kaile can I tell you something at the sleep over in a week?”

Milan said right on she road before her stop, she was going to tell her about what len really is, but kaile was thinking of something completely different, she turned a light pink and didn’t reply till they arrived at her stop

Ki “I- uh, yea sure, just- text me when you get home!”

She rushed off the bus which Milan thought was weird but didn’t question it anymore

… .. .

Len was 7 can’s into the random assortment of drinks, she didn’t have a great sense of how much water was normal, the plants needed a lot, candies basically none, and she never paid enough attention to the human to know what they would actually drink or eat on the regular

The other 3 were passed out next to each other on the left of the couch, laying on each other while Milan sat on the very right side of the couch

Len heard a knock on the backdoor of the main house, some talking, and then a knock on the door, len gets up and opens it, with the drink still in her hand,

Mi “how was your day at home”

Milan walked pass her and sat right in the middle of the couch, not knowing she was basically sitting on tocada, she melted into yhe couch, letting her head fall back and closing her eyes after a long week

Le “alright I guess, yours?”

All day she had been practicing talking normally and it tired the other 3 out, after a full school week she was pretty okay with that but still sometimes slipped through

Ad “any lies I need to be updated on?”

Mi “nah, I think I’m getting a hang of the not saying len is stuff, its a lot easier if I just don’t talk at all”

Adrian started to walk in before noticing the can in len’s hand, he snatched it out her hand, inspecting the label and looking in the can to see how much is left

Ad “how many have you drunken??”

Le “like 7”

Ad “7??? You are like 15??”

Le “so? What is it?”

Ad “beer! What the fuck do you mean what is it?? Didn’t you read?”

Mi “ha I remember when I thought that brand was just sparkling water, they really gotta change that label

Ad “are you okay??”

Le “yea I can’t get drunk or anything”

Everytime Adrian forgot that len wasn’t just her fake sister and not even human at all she’d say something like that and make him remember all over again

Mi “I always liked villains in movies that drink but whats their limit?”

Mi “like if *len was a lightweight* what does that-“

She barely got mid sentence before led passed out immediately, dropping before Adrian could make it to her to catch her

Mi “SHIT! I FORGOT!”

Ad “HOW YHE FUCK DO YOU FORGET YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT IT??

Mi “OH MY GOD *SHES GONNA KILL ME*”

Ad “UHM- reverse the lightweight thing!”

Mi “shes not a lightweight I’m sorry Imsorryimsorry”

Nothing happened for a few seconds, Adrian put down the can and Milan got off the couch she kneeled by her while he just nudged her with his foot

Suddenly len grabbed Milan’s arm and threw her on the floor, she attempted to get up before len grabbed her throat and held down

Le “I’m already sick of you, and your so called friends”

Suddenly this reminded Milan more then death, suddenly she had to fight for more reasons then living, Adrian tried to pull len off his sister, his real sister, but she didn’t move at all

Crying Milan tried pleading with len to get off of her, but it only made her crush her neck more mid desperate attempt at a word that starts with q

Ad “fuckfuckfuck, MAKE HER PASS OUT AGAIN”

Mi “sh-e a lightweight..”

She fought it as best as she could, making her grip on milans neck even tighter, but at some point she tried standing but blacked out then, Adrian was close enough to catch her and pull her to the couch

Milan stumbled upright and sit there, tears still running down her face, Adrian reached for her and she flinched violently before apologizing and using a nearby table to stand instead, visibly folding in on herself as she stood

Ad “it was what you said before waking her up, gah I didn’t think that would actually work, I should’ve caught it sooner”

Mi “I shouldnt have said anything in the first place.”

Mi “uhm.. len wouldn’t kill me”

…

Ad “insane consequences for a slip up huh?”

Mi “yea, yea whatever”

(This isn’t just about the au but also why I did this au like this in the first place when it comes to sexual abuse in a relationship)

To clarify, sa is in the story, even outside of the au it is in the story and its supposed to be what if len/fake Milan, was put in yhe same situation as real Milan

Sexual assault isn’t always about the sexual aspect, sometimes its about power, in the original story, the two world’s len spends the most time in the concept of sexual assault isn’t sexual in the way it is for normal humans

In both worlds the people there don’t have genitalia and can’t reproduce in way humans do, and even though len doesn’t belong to either of these world’s she also doesn’t have genitalia

So for her, sexual assault is purely a attack, I was thinking about how someone who could never understood sexuality or human sexuality would react if someone tried using it against her

And also shes the opposite of the real Milan, and if she has been forced into freeze and fawn for a year or so I assume len would be flight and fight

But of course a power imbalance between her and another human is large right now, so her only option is flight,

I think I like how I plan to show what it felt like at different times of my life, fawning because if I fight I’m “clearly” going to hurt the other person, i don’t know I tried so hard to be peaceful but it made me too peaceful to the wrong things

At first I was going to make Milan physically stronger then the people she knew but decided it was probably better for her to me average and len to be physically stronger,

Especially if later on Milan weakens len to “keep her safe” as if fighting would hurt more then accepting it, I told myself a bunch of times that I might as well do nothing and weaken myself as if that would help

I was gonna rewrite this but ngl I don’t think its that ass

Also apparently I never posted the second part? Okay I guess, glup throwing it here

M - “pLeasseee? I wanna see the house”

K - “no I’m tired- can we go some other day”

M - “you know other day means never >:(“

…

K - “urgh fine, in like 20 minutes”

Mimu throws his arms up and runs away in some type of victory way, the regret sets in almost immediately for Kepo and she contemplates sneaking out the basement and going anywhere else to sleep in peace, sadly her daydreaming about actually dreaming took her 20 minutes of freedom and Mimu was suddenly back in her room dragging her out her bed, she didn’t have time to grab a jacket to cover her arms

… .. .

Go - “there”

He pointed to a two story house, it looked normal enough so Mimu knocked on the door, no answer, suddenly the cat door opened and a old black cat with a purple collar that had the name ‘Valkaryie’ on it walked out,

V - “mow”

M - “:0 its a cat, you had a cat?!”

K - “please stop saying faces-“

G1 - “I think so,”

Even though Mimu was the one to ask he completely ignored everything that was said after the cat walked out, petting the cat like hes know it for years

K - “we aren’t keeping the cat-“

Kepo said right as her brother looked at her and opened his mouth to say something

M - “:,( why not? We technically have the owners living with us”

K - “I wouldn’t say living but I know that wasn’t the point, its still not our cat”

The cat went back inside the house, the group heard a thump next to the door then scratches on it, Mimu tried opening the door with some force but didn’t expect it to open so easily, Valkaryie was sitting on a table next to the door with her paw on the wall

M - “ohhh thats what that noise was-“

V - “maw”

She jumped off the table and started walking to a door under the stairs, when the group didn’t immediately follow she batted at their shoes, the siblings walked to the door and it also unlocked with ease, a hallway and elevator were the only thing behind it, with both rooms having a keypad

M - “oh, I’m sorry Valkaryie, we don’t have the codes”

V - “mmrr maw”

She pawed and shook her head and neck until her collar popped off, they were both confused, Kepo picked the collar up and turned it around,

K - “just a phone number”

M - “try calling it?”

K - “no mimu- they are both dead, I don’t even think they know where their phones are”

Valkaryie, getting impatient with them, clawed at the door at the end of the hallway, Mimu put in 1234 [he didn’t think the two ghosts were that creative] but it told him it was wrong at 3

Kepo typed in the 3 middle numbers and the light on the door turned green

…

M - “did a cat just give us the code??”

M - “and I was right they aren’t that creative!- >:(“

K - “I guess he wasn’t paranoid enough to make a new combination”

The room was dark but from the light in the hallway they could see it was covered in books- a pile on books on the desk, the wall being a book shelf, and corner with a table in it - covered in books. Mimu turned the light on and they could see 3 books in the middle of the floor, not that they couldn’t see it before but it was more obvious now, Valkaryie laid next to them, pawing at them and purring, the two each picked up a book,

M - “cloud?”

K - “this one says sun, and the other one is storm, maybe its a weather book”

M - “hm, I think she wants us to take them”

He picked up the other one and the 3 left, the door closed on its own and all the lights went back off. they talked as they passed the elevator with books and collar in hand

M - “come-on, what harm can a cat do”

K - “I just don’t like ca-“

She got cut off mid sentence when they heard yelling, at random points the ghost can become more physical and regained their memories, which made them quite mad at each-other, the two rushed out to see the white hat ghost holding the other down by the neck on the couch in a attempt to shut the other up but without the need to breath it didn’t work, what they were arguing wasn’t the clearest and they were talking over each other so figuring out what they were saying wasn’t useful

K-“hey.. get off of him he probably doesn’t like it-“

M - “yea go get a room”

Mimu said mockingly while Kepo walked into the kitchen, putting the books down on the island when both looked at him like they were now more pissed at him then each-other, 1 got off of him and sat on the coach normally when Oliver got up and looked at the books, attempting to grab one before remembering he can’t, he groaned and sat down on the chair and leaned on the counter, Mimu was going to try and sit next to 1 but he glared at him and he thought there was no point in trying Oliver so he stood next to his sister by the sink

K - “someone had been here in the last week or so, cat’s fed and dust hasn’t set”

M - “whats with this books?”

Mimu said, picking up one named ‘cloud’, he opened it to the first page or so to see a table of contents, with some chapters being his name and Kepos

M - “what?..”

O - “I found them in the forest, I didn’t think anything of it and thought I was just a story book until the end, open storm.”

Oliver avoided mimu’s eyes and for once Mimu blindly followed what Oliver said and opened the book to a random chapter in the front, it was a random story following a girl who’s brother had died and she couldn’t saved him.

O - *sigh* “go to the very end”

He flipped to the last page and Oliver watched the look of confusion as the page stated just that, it was writing what was happing in 3rd person, Mimu looked up from the book at Oliver who met his eyes and shrugged. at some point Kepo looked over Mimu shoulder because of the silence and shared her brother’s confusion. 1 got up and sat in the chair next to Oliver,

1 - “mm.. storm, yea did you ever figure out what to do with that”

M - “what is that in this context???”

O - “we are in a book, I feel like I didn’t need to say that, and no”

K - “I mean yea, no shit but why us?”

O - “well I died before I could find out”

1 chuckles and leans on the counter too with his arm holding his head up as he smiled at Oliver, Oliver had a feeling he knew what he was going to say and made a attempt to shut him up

O - “don’t.”

1 - “too busy in sun I guess..”

O - “shut up.”

The siblings looked between the book in their hands and the two ghost in-front of them

M - “are you two fucking flirting?”

O - “what no-“

1 - “he’d probably like that-

O - “it was just the easier one to experiment in”

1 - “mmmh..”

O - “shut the fuck up I don’t have to explain to you-“

He said under his breath, holding his head in his hands, 1 looking at the book named ‘sun’ and mimicked tapping it

1 - “open this to a late chapter”

Kepo picked the book and flipped through some pages before stoping on a chapter names ‘duck pond’

O&1 - “two books can’t be opened at once”

M - “oh!”

Mimu shut the book and right as it closed a portal opened behind them, scaring the shit out of Mimu and Kepo, 1 stood up and wrapped his arm around Oliver which made him get his hands out his face and stand up in defeat, 1 walked him over to the portal

1 - “well lets see what this chapter is about”

Oliver groaned again but was cut off when 1 pushed him into the portal, 1 himself shrugged and fell in too, the siblings, questioning the last 3 hours of, and really whole life. they stared at the book and eachother.

…

M - “can I go?”

K - “shit, its not like I can stop you”

Mimu walked In like he was 5 again and Kepo walked in after him

… .. . ?

m - “urgh.. what the…”

K - “geez it feels like I was flipped upside down-“

O - “well kinda, your organs had to be rearranged-“

M - “wha-“

O - “don’t worry, its fine now, falling into the portal makes it so they don’t have to be so you don’t feel sick”

M - “oh I thought you were doing it to be cool or some-“

Oliver waved them back behind a nearby tree, the two followed, once the sickness settled down the realized how out of place they looked, for the most part they were in dark clothes, it was mid day at a duck pond with a few families and ducks- all in bright clothes, a group of people passed from where they were just standing and now they really hoped they didn’t look like two kidnappers, Mimu took off a bag he had on and took off anything they made him look like a creep [beanie, hoodie, ect] and put it in the bag along with the ‘storm’ book he had, luckily he was wearing a somewhat bright shirt so you could kinda ignore his black pants, Kepo didn’t have anything to take off so she just put the ‘sun’ book in the bag.

??? - “BARK”

K - *sigh* “what?”

They turned to see a dog running full speed at them with what seemed to be the owner right behind, the dog stoped right before reaching them and sniffed them, its tall slowed and it tilted its head in confusion, it then saw the ghosts and laid down in-front of the ghosts between them and the siblings to get the most pets from the most people

?? - *huf* “I’m so sorry”

The owner said as 1 started petting the dog, Kepo made small talk while Mimu was trying to remember that animals see ghosts, 1 filled in for his confusion saying “they think we are petting them but dogs don’t think past seeing us petting them” Mimu snapped out of it and the owner grabbed the leash and walked the dog away. the group noticed Oliver was spaced out completely.

1 - “stop thinking about it”

O - “yes but, those kids, they are Mimu and Kepo”

M - “huh?”

O - “I should have remembered it, damn it, but in this chapter our kids meet another couples kids, those kids are Mimu and Kepo”

The group looked him like he was crazy so he continued like that would make it better

O - “in the books some groups are mean’t to meet, some that don’t change no matter what is like me and 1”

O - *sigh* “and in some books Rose and Aloe meet you, that also doesn’t change no matter what, but how is what changed here, we all meet at the pond”

K - “so. the kids you hurt?”

His silence answered for him, he let out another drained sigh when 1 put his arm around him in a mocking tone

1 - “welp I want you to stuffer so we are going to go find them”

Oliver basically melted into 1 instinctively, he was tired in more ways then 1 and and let the words “alright love” slip his lips, the group stared at him in shock and Oliver just froze

O - “its a side effect-“

…

O - “I just don’t fight it because normally he isn’t with me”

…

O - “you guys don’t believe me,”

M - “yea no you said it so naturally-

O - “look if you get the urge to say or do something its because you are mirroring the you here”

He said pulling from 1 and walking to the pond, the group followed in silence and they got to a bench, they didn’t look around much before sitting and a kid falling in-front of them, dropping his ball in the pond didn’t let them, Mimu instinctively said ouch which the kid said at the same time, Mimu happily looked at his sister at the realization and got up to help the little kid up

M - “are you ok?”

?? - “mmh..”

The kid nodded through tears, a little girl ran up and pushed Mimu away from the boy

?? - “get away from my brother!”

The girl held out her arms to her sides and her brother hid behind her, Kepo felt a wave of guilt, she saw the little girl who was assumed to be her, with no big scars on her, she had only recently started wearing short sleeves but right now she wanted anything to cover her arms, Mimu noticed this and sat back down next to her, he was about to pat her on the arm but stopped himself and got out his jacket and gave it to her, the little kids were confused but took the moment to see that the ball was well in the middle of the pond.

M - “I mean you’ll look less like a creep then I would”

K - “thanks,”

She put it on but kept the hood off,

SM [sun Mimu] - “aw, i’m sorry Kepo I dropped it”

SK [sun Kepo] - “its ok, it looks like its going to the other end, come on we will cross the bridge”

The two kids ran to the right to the bridge to cross it, the other 4 watched as ducks pushed the ball to the other end when it started to lose momentum, then they saw the other two kids, who seemed to be in the same hat and cape the ghost were wearing, then a little further pass them they saw 1 and Oliver

M - “pff- you guys seem close in this-“

K - “hm, is your arm around him?”

…

Mimu is just barely fighting the urge to make a joke but Kepo is actually trying to figure out whats going on, ‘what is shining on your hands??’, then the gears clicked for her, she looked at Mimu surprised he hasn’t noticed yet, he looked at her back and she gestured him to say something

M - “what? I was gonna make a jok-“

K - “no not that-“

She showed him her hand and pointed at the ring on her middle finger

…

M - “ring”

K - “dude are you actually not getting it? the pet name? mirroring himself in this world? saying our kids”

…

M - “gayss?….”

She sighed and put the ring on her ring finger and showed him, then it finally clicked”

M - “OH THEY ARE- shit dude, i’m a little sleepy so I really wasn’t getting it”

M - “pff- you guys are marrrrr-“

He trailed off when talking to the two ghosts, Kepo looked and they seem to be glitching every time they talked, it was quiet so they didn’t hear them at first, Mimu tried looking at his watch but it was froze

M - “uh.. maybe we should go back”

K - “yea but not here..-“

… .. . ¿

K - “urgh I already forgot the falling thing”

O - “oh we are here now”

The ghost seemed to go back to their full ghost form, they didn’t remember anything but that they were at ‘home’

M - “ohhh thats why you were glitching out, you had to switch back’

M - “oooo do you think you can possess us?”

K - “us???-”
1 - “I do not think so, but I think we can change back”

M - “aww ok i’ll ask the other ones of you later”

The cool down was about 30 to a hour so they where going to be here a while,Mimu put his bag down while the ghosts walked upstairs.

M - “i’m gonna take a power nap, just wake me up in like 20 minutes”

He said laying on the couch and falling asleep, Valkaryie rubbed her head on kepo’s leg and she reached down to pet her but she moved, she followed the cat back into that hallway, first she walked back into the unlocked room, she looked into the drawer and found notebooks being named different names and test names, she did kinda expect someone like him to have it all separated and organized but then she saw three with the book names, but weirder, one of his name, and picked up the one named ‘Oliver’ the date was 1984 on the cover so she assumed that was his birth year, they have been living with them for about a year or so and before they where bound to them they were dead about 3 years ago. so she didn’t expect this to be any entry soon.

She opened it to a random page and was caught off guard by the page saying something about his tail, well his ghost had one but apparently he cut it off when he was alive, he didn’t say why in the page and the rest seemed to go on like that wasn’t cutting a part of him, it even said he got taller so cutting something that kept his balance made no real sense,

V - “mow”

K - “oh, hi, want me to follow you again?”

V - “vrraw”