Wtf am i doing

For details on each AU check this post out.

This is for all the AUs I'm making with @seilkys. So not counting our individual solo AUs!

Ongoing:

Human Weapon AU, starting with Ressurection of a still-living. Taro thinks Shin died years ago, Shin however has been used for experiments by some organization (who is still as spoiler). Currently at 10 chapters and going on best. Angst, whump and a slowly building plot. Next to Shin trying to get his sanity back, Nagumo is going to have a good amount of focus as he tries to unveil the secrets behind the mysterious facility.

Jigsaw puzzles AU, aka the one where Shin was made a teen father and accidentally moves into the same neighborhood as the Sakamoto Family. Starting with Missing pieces, let them be found again. We do have most of the story planned, but have some trouble with the writing of this currently. Found family, emotional hurt/comfort and slice of life shenanigans!

All are equal AU, starting with The H&G program: A redemption story. Fantasy setting where Shin, a demi-god, has plans to reform the system, starting by wanting to help seven individuals reform themselves, who have also been nicknamed the "seven sins". Currently on a technical Hiatus, as we build out the world building and plot details. Includes Natsushin slowburn, hypersexual Natsuki (no sex scenes in the main fic! Only talk about it), ficitonal religion and a corrupt government. (And everyone has his own share of trauma, so a good amount of angst and hurt/comfort of course)

In the works: We wrote some for all of the following already, which one we post next depends on what you guys show the most interest in for now!

The prequel to Halloween is when the dead visits (Does it count if the dead never left?): In the Halloween fic Aoi finds out that her house is haunted, and that her husband apparently knows the ghost. This fic would explain how Taro started to be haunted. The prequel is gonna be a bit more angsty (for obvious reasons). The original fic is a pretty quick read at about 8k words, in a 5 + 1 format, so you can easily catch up on what's going on!

AsaKinda post canon: Old men Yaoi! (Asakura/Kindaka) Mostly crack with angst as an undertone around Shin, who wants to better his relationship to Asakura. (+Ando mentions) Shin was supposed to be more in the center, but Kindaka said "MOVE!". +Asakura being Shins 1st dad.

Kitsune Shin: Sakamoto stumbled into a forest after being injured on a mission and got saved by a kitsune. No, NOT the sexy kind. Just socially awkward people hanging around each other. Some magic shenanigans, and Taros fatherly instincts getting activated by some kid that's technically much older than him.

The puppet(eers): Newly joined Order members Nagumo and Sakamoto met Oki. Why does the man have a child? Who let him have a child? No one knows, but Nagumo is going to ask while dragging Sakamoto with him.

[insert sneak peak image later...]

Young couple argued and made it everyone's problem: It started with Sakamoto finding out about Shin's newly occurred disability/amputation. Then Natsuki greeted us and it snowballed into their marriage shenanigans. Natsushin, disabled/amputee Shin trying to keep his disability a secret from the Sakamoto family while living with them and lots of marriage arguments because Natsuki and Shin and ragebaiting/arguing is their love language

Assassination Classroom crossover: Nearly a year after Sakamoto retired, the moon exploded, regarding an illegal experiment on the notorious Reaper. It was quite obvious for those who have heard of him. Shin did not expect to be in the middle of 3 ways scheme between the JAA, the government, and whoever really behind the moon explosion. For godsake he did want to go to school, but not with a 24/7 job! Basically the Assassination Classroom plot, but we also throw Shin into the mix!

Dreamt about saiki and shin swapping bodies and saiki being like super flashed about being able control his mind reading and not having to worry about anything else while shin is totally unable to control his new powers and is overwhelmed.

Saiki needs to help him obviously and guides him how to control his body but he himself is now more vulnerable and somehow hurts himself badly and bleeds.

Shin knows how to handle wounds like that and then takes care of it easily.

So imagine shin at the aquarium when he first sees the bodies tinting the water red. (SUCH a good scene suzuki cooked with that one fr) (this is btw inspired by the fic here: You can count on me, like 1 2 3, I'll be there from @seilkys and @multifandom-nerds-blog , LOVEDD this fic, wanted this scene without atari but a happy ending kind of (so my heart can rest in peace lmao))

So, shin at the aquarium. Slur breaks through the glass bla bla but instead of atari saving shin, taro comes just in time. Shin is already exhausted and runs full on adreneline, his hands are shaking because he is sure he will die and has no chance against slur no less against his takamura personality. Taro grabs him and they run. Taro, however, still has his trauma problem of believing his family died, so he has a slower reacting time. Shin knows this and once he senses slur catching up to them, he uses his esp. He reads into the future, further than he ever had and his head feels like splitting in half but he keeps going becuase they had to survive. He sees slur targets taro, so in a really cool move shin breaks the sword slur is holding and kicks him in the chin, makung slur fall back (it was a really strong kick, maybe shin even tried to use his esp on himself to make him kick stronger). Taro indeed wouldnt have reacted fast enozgh and is surprised to see shin movung that fast, shin graps him and they keep running.

The next part is where my head gets stuck at but imagine shin tries to use his esp but thid time, its over his limits. Like fr this time. His nose begins to bleed and he has an excruciating pain in his head. He brakes down, clutchung his head with his hands and makes some pained noises. Taro beside him stops and tries to reach out but shin flinches violently at that. He takes some heavy but shaky breaths, hands grasping painfully at his hair. Sakamoto doesnr know what to do but seeing shin like this breaks him a little. Shins breaths get more ragged and he screams/wails/ cries. His vision is blurry, everything feels like underwater, muffled.

Taros eyes dart around as he is really worried aboht shin. His head is: Shin hurt. Get to safety. Need doctor. Shin unconscious. Get doctor. Granny miya. Carry shin. Wounds? Check if hurt. Careful. Carry shin.

And so on idk

We skip forward and its shin at granny miyas and his head truly feels like splitting in half. He has neverexperienced this kind of pain before. He can barely mive his body, it being sore from the fight. He used his esp to oush his body to the limit too much so now he had to pay. His eyes are sensible to lights so he keeps them scrunched together. He cant stand up, staying curled in a ball. Miya has given him meds but that jzst made him nauseaus (i never know how to spell this).

Everyone else around him is soo worried, especially taro. He has never seen shin like that before and just wants to take his pain away. He stays with him most of the time, tries to be the soothing presence and be there when shin needs him. But also the others. Lu and heisuke come by, they try not to be as loud and instead focus on doing something relaxed so shin isnt alone. When shin sleeps (mostly from exhaustion from the pain), taro likes to gently brush through his hair. He feels guilty that shin has to go through that, thinking it was his fault for not being strong enough. He thinks back to the fight, seeing shin move like necer before and thinks back to the days where he didnt even know how to hold a gun properly.

Shin on the other side, the headache comes and goes in waves. Its always there, but sometimes more, liek an attack, sometimes less, like the constant buzzing of a fridge in the night. He is exhausted. His body hurts as well, pretty sure he has a some broken bones. It is so much he just wants to stop existing so he wouldbt have to feel it anymore. Without the others, he wouldve probably already ended it, but he cabt help but feel a little warmth knowing that he isnt alone and the othera keep showing up.

Aoi starts living with Taro, and notices some weird things going on around him. It doesn't seem like anything dangerous is going, so she usually decides it's just some of his quirks. Who wouldn't have some weird quirks after the live he lived so far?

But what is really going on?

(I don't do a lot of digital drawing, bare with me)

Before the Hyo fight. Scars shown in red of course. (The big surgical scar at the forehead goes around most of the skull. If someone were to look closely they could see it through the short hair)

After the Hyo fight, new injuries in magenta (Miya treated the headwound/put a bandaid over it.)

With notes:

Also:

Eyebags (obviously)

Shin didn't grow much/is a whole 10 centimeters shorter than canon Shin

On drugs -> pupils currently dialated

Hyo and Nagumo actually found him shortly before he would have gotten his head shaved again (would have almost been bald)

Anything else would be spoilers

Our boy is tired and in pain

PS: the panel I used as a base:

This time sketches of our floater OCs:

In their 30s

Besties (platonic soulmates)

Kai is aro-ace, Tsuru wants a big marriage but can't find a partner

Money loving

1) @/KaylaAncrum: Man who falls in love with a sphynx and solves her riddles daily, in spite of the threat to his life.

The boon he requests every night is to sleep by her side in the warm sand and wake up safe. As he grows old, then forgetful, she reconfigures her riddles to accept any answer.

2) @/KaylaAncrum: Idk I just think it would be neat. Nice Ace love story.

I just think the parallel of him working hard and studying to be able to solve her riddles in his youth, While she struggles to think up riddles he couldn't possibly lose in his final years, is romantic.

3) @/KaylaAncrum: Sad ending. I think he would die in his sleep beside her and she would eat him in a very Where The Wild Things Are “I'll eat you up I love you so" Way.

Keep his bones, bleached white in the sun. Wear them maybe. The only man who mattered.

4) @/KaylaAncrum: There has to be a night, where he finally gets one wrong. Where he's already made his bed and lay his grey head down, eyes closed. After he answers, her lion ears prick up and she thinks

"Ah. This is the beginning of the end."

And thinks hard all night until his answer is right

5) @/KaylaAncrum: I also kind of like the idea that other people still come and challenge her riddles and fail and she eats them while he just stands there, petting her shoulder, while they beg for their lives.

Monster (literal)/ Monster (figurative) Romance.

6) @/CyberpunkP(cuts off): Could do a kind of tragic parallel with real world dementia patients as the last and hardest riddles are

"Do you remember what day it is?"

"What is your name?"

"Are you awake?"

/End ID ]

[ ID 2: Digital, semi realistic artwork of a Sphinx (a creature with a lion's body, human woman's head and wings) climbing downwards while reaching her paw down to a tiny, frail human figure resting on the ground, with signs of aging. The sphinx looks upset. Text around her body, going down with her, reads:

"A riddle once more given

To delight your addled thoughts

And usher forth the quiet night

In which your head lay naught

Upon the cooling stone

Nor shrubs and brittle reed

But upon the soft sands shifting

To lay quiet at my feet"

"It creeps out from mine lovely mouth

And travels down mine tail

A boon upon thine body

Upon thine mind so frail

To land within your open palms

Held aloft in desperate want

Bring recognition to your face

Now so pale and gaunt"

"Please, now do remember

All the days of which we've passed

Side by side, amongst the sands

And the love that we've amassed

Let this riddle now remind you

Of your cunning and your guile

The softness you once found

Within the sharpness of my smile"

"A riddle that to some

May seem nothing but a ploy

For they know nothing of my love

For they know nothing of my joy

To others, may seem simple,

Naught but a silly game

But dear one, please do tell me"

"What is your name?"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65495548/chapters/168582802#workskin

And we just made a logo for the "facility" that Hyo and Nagumo enter in the first chapter! (Actual drawing/editing by seilkys)

The first mention of it is gonna be in the next chapter (5)! And maybe we can figure out how to insert pictures into Ao3 until then, hehe.

Bonus spoilery(ish) out of context meme under the cut.

Dragons in The Journey to the West are forces of good but also invite demons - such as the Bull Demon King - to their underwater parties.

Cang Qiong Mountain Sect is a very important place and the fact that their peak lords have a tradition of ascending as one means that they are effectively a baby-god-producing factory and thus the peak lords and their heirs would get invited to parties because of diplomacy.

Mobei-Jun genuinely thinks he has been courting Airplane for a long time.

What I'm saying is Airplane is damned lucky to have never gotten caught at a party when he - according to CQMS - wasn't supposed to be there.

Excellent contribution!

genuinely. copy the link to the fic or series, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page:

click on policy questions & abuse reports which takes you to this page:

if you scroll down, youll be able to report the fic right there but you can also check for yourself that its against ToS

all you need to do is explain that theyre deliberately mistagging things which is just not a thing on ao3 because its an archive.

by posting your fic there, ao3, has the right to manually recategorise tags. its in the ToS:

you cant deliberately mistag stuff on ao3; it is an archive. you cant tag for reach, and this is likely gonna get pat tag wranglers because they deal mostly with form not content of tags and if theyre tagging for reach, its gonna be the more popular tags.

so report the fuck out of them for it. most likely, their fic will just have tags adjusted and their account will be fine.

and if they keep doing it and get suspended for it, its their own damn fault.