(nü) YFM

I'M SPILLING OPEN IT'S KILLING ALL OF ME! AND I HATE WHAT I'VE BECOME FROM WHAT'S BEEN DONE TO ME!

Happy nuvercary

Yay

IT'S BEEN A HELL OF A RIDE!

NO THE OUTFIT WASN'T INSPIRED BY RAGATHA NOR WAS MY INTENTION IT WAS INSPIRED BY ONE OF SHIZONYASHKA'S OUTIFTS

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of my first EVER nu-yfm drawing. GET FUCKING EXCITED.

I cry... when angels deserve to DIE.

Puff Puff

Throat, fire, rhymes.

Obviously based on the rap-metal/rapcore aspect of nu metal. 

An egomaniac that likes to cause problems on purpose for attention.

Unquestionably loves all nu-metal. Except for Kid Rock, the only true poser.

Is also able to play guitar and piano if he really wanted to.

Forms the main songwriting duo with Benatar.

Rotates piercings in and out. They’re all silver. Also has silver chains and more fidget rings than he knows what to do with. He is aggressively neurodivergent. 

Hobbies also include skateboarding, video games, and going to the gym excessively because he feels the need to beef up, especially with Axel around.

Never seems to take off his fuckass tank top.

Keeps a patch-covered backpack with him everywhere he goes.

Is very attracted to people who he believes could kick his ass.

Used to have kind of long hair as a teenager, sprayed it up into the Wayne Static.

He is bisexual and trans FtM. If he wasn’t, he’d take his shirt off onstage.

He thinks Happy Bunny is his spirit animal and smiles whenever he sees its merch.

He has insane loyalty to this sub-genre and will gatekeep people away if he thinks they’re not hardcore enough.

Benatar

Guitars, shrieks, rants.

He is the more eclectic, avant-garde, punk-adjacent member of YFM. He is also prone to going off on political tirades.

The Daron to Puff’s Serj, the Bennington to Puff’s Shinoda, and above all the Mick to Puff’s Tairrie. 

High off the devil’s lettuce 86% of the time. As a result he forgets what he’s saying as he says it and thus constantly repeats himself.

He plays either an Epiphone Les Paul or a basic Jackson 7-string.

Is mad when he finds out people are into him when it’s not who he wants.

Has a very strong desire to be respected by the industry despite making it abundantly clear that he himself does not respect the industry.

Holds a hatred for emos due to having been mistaken for one. Will listen to a band if he thinks they’re hated by the emo community.

Slightly jealous of Puff for being in front. Not like he’d prefer anyone else being in the front, he just thinks he needs more billing than he gets.

Almost the original performative male. He listens to Jack Off Jill just to impress Eleanor.

Really likes Chinese food because of the Chop Suey! music video.

He is bisexual and trans FtM also. He took a long time to come to terms with the fact he still enjoys makeup and it’s also okay for men to wear makeup.

He has a tattoo of a star on his wrist, matching with Puff as a promise to one day become superstars.

DeeJay 

Beats, scratches, misanthropy.

Less “voice of reason” and more “disapproving bystander”. He’s too shy to speak up on the things he sees Puff doing wrong.

More than anything he’s a shy person. She doesn’t like it when people try to look deeper into them. He hardly likes having the camera on her in music videos.

While Puff is considered their best friend, DeeJay actually likes Axel the most in the band. Axel has been there the least amount of time and thus has bothered him the least.

Girls find her attractive and flock towards them at the raves. He can’t stand it.

She knows how to make the guttural Jon Davis sounds with his voice. This goes underused. 

Part of their job due to the lack of bass in the band is producing beats to cover for it, including live. The band isn’t willing to hire a bassist due to being very resistant to lineup changes. 

Her favorite pokemon is actually Houndoom in this universe.

DeeJay’s gender is hard to quantify but if asked, she’ll label themself nonbinary and leave it at that. He is resigned to the fact there is no body she would be comfortable in and just wants to escape the constraints of gender entirely. DeeJay uses any pronouns.

For some odd reason they have this obsession with Korn and have based their entire being around this band. He owns way too many Adidas tracksuits and has peer pressured Puff into playing the bagpipes during a show once.

He has attempted to get back in touch with Rona after she left the band, because they hold no ill will towards her. Rona does not return her calls.

Axel

Drums, metal, ignorance.

The sole non-founding member and youngest by about four years. He’s pretty in-line with his canon counterpart, just with more resentment towards his bandmates.

Actually listens to other subgenres with bands that have never been associated with nu-metal. 

He is about four years younger than the rest of the band. They became so desperate for a drummer that they cradle-robbed a high school marching band a few years ago.

Tattoo freak, especially in places he can show them off when he takes off his shirt.

Technically he can’t legally drink. That has never stopped him. Though he doesn’t genuinely like beer, he only drinks it to get drunk. 

The Martians had to get an entirely new drum kit for Axel because he’s much larger than the old drummer.

Probably still thinks girls, gays, and theys have cooties.

He has no testicles because Puff and Ben sold them for a hat and Storaged Melodies respectively.

He is still from Canada. He’s more proud of it than his Fourverse counterpart and will rope the other three into observing Canada day because they’re so bummed that Pride Month is over.

He’s the only cis member of the band, but unlike the fourverse, he is not straight but actually pansexual.

Tell me, is it okay? I'd like to FREAK!

Meet Corona (Rona for short). Yes, from Bottles of Beer. I really like that song for some reason and turned a stick figure, only mentioned in this song, into an important character.

Why was she kicked out, you may ask? Ben believed her to be "too much of a distraction" to Puff and "not a good enough drummer", and convinced Puff and DeeJay that if they want to pave their path to stardom, they have to get a "better" drummer.

Puff Puff gets spikemogged, 2026 edition. (4 days remain!)