#au 3

mask ver.

dimentio is about 17 in this (his age is a weird case because of the fact that he’s an ancient and was also comatose for like 3000 years) and sammy is 15 (and i’d like to make it crystal clear no romantic feelings are mutual until they’re both legal adults !!! sammy is merely crushing, plus dimentio is a villain not a monster and also im not that fucking weird)

oh also bonus dimentio mask concept for my AUs because as much as i LOVE his canon one it makes my life hell drawing my version of him

hey remember when i made a fic where bad fanon clones of jotaro and kakyoin started appearing

remember when that was just plotless lighthearted crack

as you can see i wasn’t lying when i said i can’t draw antasma but i think these ones are really funny so it is okay and also NOT THE POINT

the point is that he is sammy’s bat dad and they take naps and walks together and discuss world domination together

[really late edit but i forgot sammy’s burn on the second one i am so . done 😭]

oh and here’s some non-canon shaman sammy au stuff that i make a bit ago

i like to think in the second one he knows he’s not technically canon and his au will likely never be expanded on and he is conflicted

bonus him and his canon self doodle

oh and while we’re here please see most recent art post i quite like it and it took a while pls 😭

I think I’ll go with my fanon clone au for this one !

13.  What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

For Attack of the Fanon: Clone Wars, I didn’t really listen to music at all, but the only parts that need music are the meme clones. and its that one song that goes like “dadada da- its the d-o-double-g SNOOP DOOOOOOOOOOGG”. Plus any scene with jotaro and kakyoin talking should just be elevator music (elevatorstiuck). 

In all seriousness though, i would recommend reading the scene where yanderetaro is introduced with “Sis Puella Magica!” from the madoka soundtrack, starting at the line “Nori… I didn’t expect to find you to be so easy to find…” and timing the swell of the music to “Noriaki knew the true face of fear, and this clone sure as hell wasn’t it.”… that choir and the visuals of minoris rich little bed in a dingy warehouse, maybe with kakyoins silhouette illuminated against the backdrop of green satin….. that smile yanderetaro has that you should never trust….

its an unexpectedly dark scene in a rather silly chapter, after all, aha

15. What did you learn while writing this fic?

I learned that the line between spite and malice is thin, as is the line between canon and fanon. I think writing my Jotaro and Kakyoin against the far worse clones, I came to the realization that in the end, even if I worked hard on getting my characterization as close to Araki’s as possible, I’m still writing a fanon version of them- because in the end, the only canon can come from the hands of the author who created the characters in the first place.

As for the line between malice and spite, there were actually a few other clone pairs that were to be introduced, but then I realized that they started to resemble the characterizations of a few actual artists and writers who aren’t by any stretch of the imagination bad, and stopped myself short. Even if I didn’t agree with these characterizations, it’s not my place to mock them, since they are by and large still fairly faithful to the original and are enjoyable pieces of content in their own right.

That’s why of all the fanon versions of Jotaro and Kakyoin, they’re portrayed as extremely over the top and especially bad. They’re not meant to be malicious to specific content creators in the fandom- they’re meant to mock the more prevalent tropes that proliferate, and act as exaggerated mirrors of like one or two of the og Jotaro and Kakyoin’s traits. They’re meant to be funny and silly and maybe have some hidden depth to them as they begin to invert the tropes they represent- because, though twisted, even clones like clampyoin and yanderetaro have a seed of truth that can become the beginning of a much more interesting narrative, should the concept be done well.

jjba fanon clone au: has graphic scenes of clones melting, disturbing moments exploring the ptsd that the protags suffer through the lens of their exaggerated fanon alter egos, providing a useful reference for what not to do with jotaro and kakyoin while also hoping to encourage authors who are still in the beginning stages of learning how to write them to keep going with somewhat good fanons

gk sugar baby virus au: has characters slowly descending into delusions and coming to mistrust their own psyches, using their almost obsessive need to dote on genjirou to show what losses or goals drives them, showing the gaping holes where every character tries to fill in a bid to ward off their slowly worsening symptoms

bee movie-stuck, a literal au where sollux is a literal bee, eridan falls in love with him, and did i mention one of the characters is a fucking bee: turns into a race against the clock as the seams of reality itself begin to unravel and rose has to go find the stand in god that twisted this version of the universe, exploring the themes of autonomy in a narrative and ending off with reality itself being rewritten and then subsequently erased by the hands of that same uncaring god