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AND FINALLY THE AU PROTAGS GET DESIGNS. Oh, man, did I go in descending order by age? Cute. Not on purpose at all.

Thank you to everyone who gave me suggestions on Ace's weapon form...! I got a lot of messages about him being a multi-form weapon, and I 100% agree. Pretty early on in this AU's lifetime, though, Coral gave me the idea of a weapon that can temporarily take on other weapons' forms, and I LOVE that. Perfect for Ace's personality and his Signature. I also really love the idea of him having a default form that he finds uncool--he strikes me as the type to yoink a sword or a spear's form and pretend that that's what he is when he and Deuce first start working together. Meanwhile, Deuce thinks there is nothing cooler than being able to protect the people you care about.

Ace and Deuce's clashes have a funny streak of bringing out the best in each other in increasingly absurd and adorable ways, and that's just as true here. As an inverse to Ace's struggle with his weapon form, Deuce worries pretty constantly about accidentally hurting or breaking a weapon he's partnered with. Demon Weapons don't necessarily break, but he doesn't know that -- he broke a wooden practice sword like once and the idea of doing that to a person has haunted him for years. It's like the eggs thing. Ace has to set him right, but he won't do it without laughing at him first.

Here's the whole Heartslabyul lineup. I'm a little irrationally happy at seeing them all together. The cards... Together at last...

Thanks for reading! I've got both Ignihyde and Savanaclaw in the drafts, so we'll see which set comes together first. My money's on Igni.

Here's a bonus, non-soul eater adeuce for your trouble. :3

WOW thank you for the warm reception on the Treycay! This AU has been consuming my brain. I planned on doing Ace and Deuce's designs next, but up until like... Yesterday? I hadn't settled on a weapon form I liked for Ace. Shoutout to Silk for once again bestowing me with the best and funniest idea possible. (pictured)

(He's not JUST a steel chair, of course. You'll see.)

In that downtime, I've been tooling with Riddle and Floyd. Their designs came to me pretty easily: I knew I wanted to give Riddle huge boots and the Maka-inspired long coat, and the rest followed suit. Riddle ended up very Kingdom Hearts-y, which I am delighted by.

Alongside that, me and some friends have been talking worldbuilding! One of the really easy and VERY interesting decisions we came to was having black blood/madness be this AU's equivalent of overblot. They achieve the same thing--a crazy evil berserker state--so I'm gonna use the terms interchangeably. Of course, the exact emotions in each are a little different. This has had...

Interesting consequences.

I'm still working out the exact timeline -- there is a VERY evil part of me that wants to hold off on Trey and Riddle splitting up as weapon and meister until AFTER Riddle has already had his brush with overblot. That would mean that Trey would be the weapon in Riddle's hands when he tries to kill Ace, Deuce, and Cater, which... Is as evil as it is interesting. Decisions, decisions.

In significantly lighter news, regardless of when Riddle gets heckled into accepting Floyd as his new weapon, he gets to deal with frequent phone calls from Azul Ashengrotto as she oh-so-diplomatically tries to guilt trip him into giving her fucking gun back. (pictured)

The promised Soul Eater AU!! This was just an idea in my head for a while until Silk reached out and pitched me some KILLER concepts. Here's the gist;

Trey and Cater are a weapon/weapon pair. Despite being a weapon himself, Cater usually takes on the role of meister, and is on a losing streak of his weapon partners leaving him for other meisters. Trey, on the other hand, was Riddle's weapon partner, but they split around final exams during Riddle's first year because they were never able to resonate. Trey is EXCEEDINGLY normal about this! (pictured)

The AU so far focuses on these two, the freshly-weaponless meister Riddle (and the eel that keeps poking him with a stick), and incoming first year weapon and meister Ace and Deuce.

I have some ideas for the non-Heartslabyul dorms as well, but I'm still cooking for most of them! I have the clearest pictures for Heartslabyul and Diasomnia at the moment. I welcome ideas. And clothing refs. Please god. Here's a ton of words of me agonizing over character fashion.

Ok so! I have a few thoughts related to the doodles :]c Just gonna put them all in list form here

Emmet's Eelektross becomes extremely clingy to Ingo. Emmet and Ingo share and swap their Pokemon a lot so I think they're very close with each other's teams. Eelektross will cry like a sad wet puppy if he's left alone for too long. He spent almost an entire month clinging to Ingo after Emmet disappeared.

Chandelure has become very protective of Ingo after Emmet's disappearance. She could sense something powerful had been there when she found Ingo knocked out in the subway tunnel. Something beyond normal Pokemon.

Continuing off that point, I think the literal tearing open of space time left a lasting effect on the area. Ghost and psychic types are especially affected and do their best to avoid the tunnel. Which also put another roadblock in the way of finding out what happened there in the first place, seeing as Ingo doesn't remember.

Any attempt made by psychic types to assist Ingo with remembering or trying to peer into his memories generally doesn't end well. Both for Ingo and for the Pokemon involved.

I like to think Ingo is a very chatty person. He enjoys talking at length about all sorts of things. Usually, he'd do that with Emmet. But seeing as Emmet isn't here, and not as many people enjoy his rambling in the same way Emmet does, Ingo starts talking to himself a lot instead.

Ingo has started taking care of all Emmet's joltiks

Now for Emmet, I think he and Sneasler would get along really well. I like to think Sneasler is very mischievous and Emmet definitely has a similar energy. She definitely encourages some chaos, but can also go a bit "mom mode" and stop him when he goes overboard. (Aka scruff him like a kitten lol)

Emmet WILL rant to Sneasler about the other wardens, clan politics or whatever. He thinks arguing constantly is a waste of time and generally tunes out or just straight up leaves if warden/clan meetings devolve into arguments.

Emmet and Melli cannot stand each other. Melli removed the torches from Wayward cave ONCE and Emmet has held a grudge since. He goes out of his way to mess with Melli whenever he can.

“Are you okay or do you still need time?” Rielle asked with concern in his voice.

Yuu rubbed her eyes. “I’m fine, I’m fine.” She took a sip of the tea and paused as she tasted a lavender blend with hints of honey in it.

“If you don’t mind me asking, what caused this?” 

While Yuu wasn’t a big fan of Neige, the calming presence of Rielle helped her to speak.So, she proceeded to talk about what had happened in the past twenty four hours and watched as the faces on the students shifted from confused to concerned and then to angry.

“You’re magicless and they still put you in harm's way!?” Andy shouted. “How dare they!”

“Andy, lower your voice.” Hatley calmly reminded him. “You’re in public.”

Andy slouched in his chair as Neige blinked in surprise.

“Vil-san did that...?” He looked down at the table. “He’d just... put you in danger like that?”

“They all did.” Rielle glanced at Yuu’s arms. “And have been for some time.”

Yuu pushed her sleeves down to hide the overblot scars and took another sip of the tea.

“So what do you plan on doing now?”

“I’m not going back, there’s nothing for me back there.” Yuu leaned on her arm and glanced off to the side where she could see NRC towering over everything else. “No home and outside of Crewel and Trein, no one who truly understands what I go through.” She ran her fingers through her hair. “I saved their asses and they still treat me like I’m the lowest thing on the totem pole. Let someone else dig them out of the hole they dug themselves in.”

“Regrettably, if you stay here in town, they’ll be able to find you.” Hatley spoke up as all eyes directed at him. “Would you like to come to RSA with us? If only to lay low?”

Yuu was quiet, glancing from her phone to the RSA students and then to NRC. “....Sure.”

She finished the rest of her tea as Rielle got up to pull her chair out. Yuu paused for a few moments before thanking him as he also helped her up. They began their walk to RSA and while the boys talked amongst themselves, Yuu sent a text to Crewel and Trein explaining where she was going. After that, she went into the chat labeled for the NRC students and promptly left the group and every one adjacent to it. She went into the first year chat and paused as Sebek, Deuce, and Epel started ridiculing Ace, Ortho, and Jack for what they did. It seemed news of Yuu’s departure had finally hit the other ears of NRC.

Before she left, Epel had informed the rest of them that Yuu had left the group chats and just as she saw the text bubbles pop up, she left that chat as well. By now, they had reached the gates of RSA and Yuu paused before stepping through them. She stood out greatly with the black attire versus the white, almost princely, attire of the RSA students.

“We need to tell Ambrose.” Hatley spoke. “He could find a way to send you back home as well.”

“Crowley said that was impossible.” Yuu crossed her arms as they made their way into the main part of the school.

While NRC was: craggy, isolated on a carved cliff top, towering over the island as well, and generally uninviting... RSA was the exact opposite to it in every way. Shining white with the royal blue for parts of their school structure and the wall that separated them from the ocean. The greenery and landscaping weren’t selective or nearly barren looking, instead it worked in tandem with everything else around it. As they passed, Yuu could see students lounging on the lawn as they ate their lunches and chatted with one another. She looked down at her jacket and shrugged it off, tucking it under her arm and out of sight of the other students.

They continued into the school, passing other students along the way, some that had Yuu doing a double take. Sitting on the railing were a pair of students with a tiger beastman next to them, the colors mirroring the Scarbia one. She didn’t have time to think about it long as Neige started dragging her towards the headmaster's office. Hatley knocked on the door and they waited until they heard his voice telling them to come in.

“Headmage Ambrose!” Andy shouted as they walked in, pushing Yuu front and center in front of the old man. “We need help.”

The man looked up from his papers and blinked as he saw the young lady. “You... We’ve met before, correct?”

“Yeah, during VDC...”

“Yes and you were in NRC at the time. What have my students talked you into?” The way he shook his head with a smile and a warm voice almost made Yuu break down again.

“Well, sir.” Rielle spoke. “We’re hoping she'll be able to stay here for the time being. NRC has caused her a great deal of pain and distress.”

“Pain and distress?” He got up from his chair and made his way over to Yuu. “What happened?”

Yuu could feel the sincerity coming off of him and felt she wouldn’t be brushed off if she confided her problems to him. So, she told him everything that had been happening to her since being thrown into this world and forced to stay in NRC. As she finished, silence filled the room and no one moved until Ambrose placed a hand on her shoulder.

“You are more than welcome to stay with us for as long as you need. I’ll see if I can’t find a way to return you home, young lady. Until then, welcome to RSA. We’ll try and have a uniform for you as soon as we can. For now, I’ll call in the other dorm leaders and try to find a place for you to stay.”