#doubles au

CW: choking under cut!

so heres a thing

“So, you can brace for impact for whatever’s coming,” Yamada explained, leaning over the table to prod at Tenko’s character sheet. “Or you could try to dodge, but that kinda defeats the purpose of getting in-between the warlock and Tamachi-kun. And attacking’s out, since you’re too far to reach the baddie in one turn.”

Tenko frowned, glancing at the list of abilities his character still retained. “...I’ve got a Divine Call left. I can use that, right?”

“Sure! Which of the wolfen gods do you want to appeal to?”

“Uh...” Another check of his character’s racial attributes led Tenko to squinting at the two options. “Calu’s the warrior, but Wol is the weaver - he made the world's first armor, so I should get a better Defense Bonus from calling on him, right?”

“Yep! Alright, Divine Call means we need a d4; that’s the pyramid-shaped one, Izuku-chan.”

“Here it is!” Tenko accepted the offered die from his beaming baby cousin, who went back to doodling on his own papers. One roll later presented him with the number 3.

“Aaalrighty, let’s see here! Lord Wol has heard your call for assistance, and decided to offer his favor! A beam of light descends from the blue moon overhead, expanding to cover you and your companion both in a shimmering orb that extends for two steps in all directions. Your turn, Tamachi-kun!”

“Well, it’s not like I can do much from behind Tenko,” Kansatsu muttered dryly, slowly dragging a finger down her character sheet. She’d used up more spell slots than Tenko, whose warrior character had the good old fashioned fallback of ‘whack the bad guy with a sword’. They’d started out facing two warlocks and three dark orcs, four of whom were down for the count, but her human wizard was low on health, with Tenko’s wolfen not much better. “Wait. I’ve still got that gift from that trickster we helped. Can I use it?”

“Sure! One boon from the Mysterious Trickster reeequires a d6!”

“Ooh, bigger die,” Tenko commented, as Hitoshi scrambled to find the right game piece for his sister. When it rolled and landed, Kansatsu got the highest point value, and Yamada cackled.

“You untie the drawstring pouch and toss it into the air, sending a cloud of glittering silver sparks across the forest clearing,” he announced. “After hovering for a few seconds, the cloud gathers and condenses, and high-pitched laughter rings out from the center mass.”

“Uh-oh,” both ten year olds muttered. Slumped in a seat at the end of their table, Aizawa snorted.

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Leon: ...

Kuwata: ...

Sayaka: ...

Leon, Kuwata and Sayaka: *death staring each other, each armed with a knife* 

Maizono: *holding a cake* I am very uncomfortable with the energy we’ve created in the studio today.

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Kuwata: I am not working with this pipsqueak!

Leon: You wanna fight?!

Kuwata: HELL YA-

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Mioda: Do you see this shxt?

Shinguji: *is blind* ...

Mioda: OH WAIT-

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Maizono: Remember that time you came back from the dead just to beat up Naegi up?

Kuwata: Uh, duh. He framed me for murder. I got executed. Of course I’mma beat his ass every chance I get. Every. chance.

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Saionji: I have standards that are so high that they don’t actually exist.

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Kaede: I got this new job as a nightguard.

Akamatsu: Hey, me too! Who do you watch?

Kaede: Uh... there’s a duck! Or maybe it’s a chicken... and there this bunny rabbit, and a foxy... and there’s a bear! Great singer! Also... there’s this golden bear? He’s acutally really nice but he gives me way too many heart attacks.

Akamatsu: ... lucky- all of mine wanna wear me as a skin suit-

Kaede: they WHAT-

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Nevermind: Your outfit is atrocious, please put something else on.

Amami: ugh who died and made you the queen of fashion?

Nevermind: My SHSL talent is literally the Ultimate fashion designer-

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Yonaga: If it looks like a cult, sounds like a cult, it might be a cult.

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I've got more to share about the doubles! Mainly what I've started calling "The Elusive Wanderers"

Or more plainly my interpretations of Badtimeswithscar and Truesymmetry. I still need to work on Scar's design and differentiate it a bit more but I'm pretty happy with how this came out.

Anyway onto the plot! this is still a work in progress so things may/will change

Badtimes Scar

He end up coming into existence after scar had a really bad mishap(I have no idea what just yet but something with another hermit) that then lead to his death but Scar was physically fine afterwards since he just respawned back at his bed but when he died Badtimeswithscar kinda just spawned into the world as well

The incident is one of the only memories that Badtimes shares with scar. If he trys hard enough he might get a fuzzy recollection of a memory of Scar's before the uh.. split? But everything else is just not accessible.

Badtimes has alot of inborn paranoia of the hermits due to the incident so he keeps his distance away from the others

He does after a while start watching some of the hermits but from a distance never getting any closer than necessary

Just thought of this now but what I'm going add as a main difference between the two will be the scars, to elaborate Scar already has scars, obviously but Badtimes has scars from the incident wheres Scar doesn't since he died before they could heal

Ok back at the wandering bit so while Badtimes is pretty good at staying out of the way of the hermits but there have of course been times where he does get spotted. Most of the time he just ender pearls away but there was one memorable occasion where he had to just Bluff his way out. It was embarrassing encounter for both involved.

Due to Badtimes never really interacting with anyone his social skills are just about non-existent.

And now presenting

Truce

Her name started out just as True the Trues then kinda mashed into Truce

When making Truce's design I thought "hey false has stripes on her shirt what if i did the opposite of that" so I drew a hand full of circles on her shirt then realized oh hey these could be a music disc so I did that and it end up looking like some 70s/80s (I don't really remember) type pattern

Truce is supposed to be like a bit of an opposite to false not a complete opposite but they've got quite a bit of differences

For instance one thing that I've heard people bring up about false is that she's really good at PVP so that lead me thinking what if Truce wasn't. Like she really bad at it can't even hold a sword correctly

On the other hand Truce is really good at running away and uses this to her advantage

I don't yet have any idea for how Truce came to be but give me time

Here's some more tidbits

Taking the nether hub is a really bad idea for these two since there's not really anywhere to hide if one of the og hermits starts coming their way so if they want to visit HermitVille they'll have to take the long Journey via the Overworld. this is how they find the slowly growing Community of doubles.