#etheriumau

Steph’s got me remembering AU’s so here’s just a few of my favourite AU-ified OCs from said AUs

MythnoirAU- The Sammies! Solo Act was a four headed hydra who, upon wearing their glamour to disguise themselves as a human, became 4 identical humans. They figured the best use of this was to because a barbershop quartet- no one outside the mythical races is going to question identical quadruplets if it’s a novelty, and besides, it sure is fun to make those harmonies!

KorraAU- Crayon’s a little guttersnipe in BaSingSei’s underbelly, who makes journies into the sandy planes to earthbend in a very unsual way. He superheats the sand until he creates glass, which he then delights in shaping into animals and shapes. From there he tries to sell them to richer looking earth kingdom folk- and he gets by. Best part is this could be a VERY dangerous earth bending technique, the ability to create razor sharp glass from anywhere should you be in the desert, but with no one there to guide him to good or evil, he’s just happy making little glass turtle duckies

EtheriumAU- Quark! A tiny little Spectrul seperated from his herd, just trying to gain enough energy to get home- and making a few curious friends along the way while trying OH SO very hard not to get murdered by an entranced feline Also- Octobaby. Survivor of Johnus, deformed orphan and who landed a punch on the nose of the feared Captain Eddy. This was the best move she ever made because now she has the respect of a very spooky pirate man :3

Happy birthday @techmomma !

Here’s a team of Tech’s!  Somebody definitely done goofed to have us need this many of them to sort out whatever the problem is.  

Picked Tech from some of my favorite AU’s from (roughly) the past year, (mostly from ones I participated in, but with a couple exceptions- Avatar/Korra AU I was still watching the show, and the ParkAU I didn’t have anything in particular to contribute, I just enjoyed watching them!)

@crayonmod‘s crimmus present! This was originally a $10 sketch commission but y’know what?

Y’KNOW WHAT

In a distinct shift from the norm where Merriweather alts are concerned, EtheriumAU Mary would actually be pretty damn nimble.  She grew up as a dock brat - running and hiding from authorities, crawling through ships, jumping rooftops to get around town, and so forth.  Probably lived on a planet or colony either with really oppressive gravity, or unstable gravitational elements where it’s more in some places and less in others.  So when she joins up with Ed’s crew, she’s still really in her own element on board a ship.  It’s why she has such an easy time leaping around the masts and getting into brawls.

And now here’s Kat, the ringleader of the Arctorian Syndicate herself, after several days’ intermittent concepting and being picky with me!

Alien!Kat is a Tuapterran (the ‘p’ is silent), a long-lived race of nocturnal reptilians. Their draconian culture tends to lead to the creation of born leaders with little mercy or benevolence towards those they would see as a weak link. Some are more magnanimous than others, but even that has a limit before the renowned Tuapterran severity moves in.

Moar Etherium AU Starlight, featuring her young self back when she was a smol fish with chicken wings and then her huge ass self, portraits inspired by the series techmom has been doing.

I never introduced her properly, so here we go.  Merle O’Farraige is the result of a romance between a proud Irish fisherman and an alien known as “Ether Angels”, creatures similar to ethermaids. She has two older brothers, Evander (Eternity) and Doyle (Nevermore). Merle grew up on her father’s boat and spent most of her life roaming around the sea. Her father was a part of a major space fishing company, which allowed young Merle to learn a lot about space and its fauna, as well as becoming a very skilled sailor. Her father would call her “First Mate” and she was sure taking that role very seriously and get extremely offended if she was not taken seriously and would probably show off how great she was at keeping this ship together. In between fishing expeditions, their father often participated in big journeys like scientific expeditions or treasure hunt, for which he would offer his ship and his crew. He disappeared during one of them. 

The siblings were then left alone with a business to take care of and no ship left. After a few years of working for other companies, Evander managed to get a new ship and start his own expedition business, very much like what Amelia does, with his beloved sister as his first mate. Doyle on his own left them to join the musical world, but he stays in close contact with them, as he provides them with information about possible interesting missions to do, promotes them to the fancy world he frequents and mostly looks after information about the Ether angels and the disappearing of their father. Evander and Merle use this information to try to find out what happened to their father and his crew and possibly find their mother, whom they have never met. Their quest will allow them to meet some quite interesting figures like who knows, some weirdo named Ulysses.

Anatomically wise, Merle is REAL HECKING TOL she’s a good 6′2 and her brothers are even taller. 

She’s always worried because everyone is so smol how sad is that  She has four wings that are part feathery/ part fin (at the end) and her hair is always slightly floating and covered in stars at the tips, which recalls of her origins, ether angels probably having fabulous floaty nebula hair like ethermaids. She has large and loose shoulders and a real long neck. The white spots on her skin glow in the dark just like her irises. The floof ear things are actually gills similar to an axolotl’s, tbh I only drew her with her hair up to show them woops

With each day a new board would be placed, new ropes lashed... yet one prominent feature remained of the ship at all times, it's slime. Glistening green like so much lime gelatin, clumps of moss growing across it's surface and constantly dripping. Today the little slime  smiled as she sat on the mass and cross-beam, looking out at the dock and waving to the passers-by as she beamed with pride, a series of bubbles rising from  her head as she hummed, snickering when they popped and rained down onto the deck.

The odd little alien jumped down from her perch, landing with a squishy thump on the dock before stretching, starting to walk with a casual smile in her eyes as she headed into the busy streets in a mood to explore, and a lack of self-preservation instincts taking her toward a gloomy looking tavern.

The door swung wide open to the dismay of the drunken spacers near it, bright light shining on them. The happy looking slime glanced around in response to the irritated groans and glares of the spacers before tromping across it towards the counter. Reaching into a pocket she'll set a shiny coin on the counter and point towards a loaf of bread before her eyes shift to the old barkeep who sighs, thumping the loaf on the counter before she snags it and turns on her stool to watch the bar like one might watch a sports match.

The annoyance of the gruff occupants was lost upon the little slime as her feet dangled.. legs seeming to stretch as the weight of her boots pulled at them, the bread in her hands casually pushed against her mouthless face, sinking into her gooey figure and dissolving before the very eyes of those at the bar. It seemed lost on her as to why she eventually found herself the last one at the bar, those that watched her eating having cleared away. When the door swung open again and a group of crude and worn out spacers stomping in, and stopping with a confused look at the empty stools at the bar, except the bright green little slime eating her bread.

After the momentary confusion passed, the group grinned, making their way up and settling, surrounding the alien as she looked up at the lot of them, head tilted as the bar keep provided their ale but quickly kept his distance.

"Would ya look et this boys.. we got ourselves a new face.. weird'n aint it?.. " came the jeering voice of one of the gruff crewmen  closest to her.

"Never seen nothin' like it!" another chimed in before he was swatted upside the head. " 'Course we 'ave, looks just like the slop a slug leaves behind!" was added before roaring laughter came from the newcomers. The little slime just tilted her head, looking at them as she continued the gradual devouring of her bread, a raised look coming from one of the closest of the gruff spacers.

The tavern watched as the group mocked and tried to rile up the little slime, who seemed oblivious to the attempts, simply observing them in return, each failed mocking getting a deeper scowl from the leader of the spacers. As the last bit of bread vanished within the semi-transparent alien,  she just offered a wave to the barkeep, standing a bit wobbly as her stretched legs slowly settled back to their proper height and she started out, the mocking crew at the bar looking irritated as they began to stand, starting for the door themselves.

The group slowly followed, irritated as they watched the oblivious little slime, slowly drawing closer and closer before one reached, snagging the collar of her coat and pulling her with  a squishing slurp from her boots and into an alley. The dark chuckling of the spacers  got a tilt from her head as she gazed up at them, a splashing sound echoing down the alley when the strong fist of one struck her face, a spattering of slime spreading across the wall as they all laughed.

"Ignore us will ye?.. not takin' that from some little slug-droppin' " The leader of the crew growled as he wiped the slime from his knuckles, an eye twitching as she just looked up at him with a curious head-tilt. Another fist followed soon after, the crew having moved to block sight down the alley as their leader's fist struck at the soft gelatin-like form again and again, his anger building  as each blow was met with that quiet and innocent look afterwords.

Minutes that felt like hours came to a stop as the sweating pirate glared at the little slime, the wall and ground about her smeared with splattered slime from each strike, the alien looking a bit wobbly herself as she frowned up at the man now. He reached, grabbing the collar of her coat and lifting the confused little alien before the sound of tearing fabric made her eyes widen. A splash sounded as she fell, the collar of her coat torn roughly as the pirates all began to laugh a bit.. her hands reaching quickly, grabbing at it and staring before her eyes, no longer so bright and innocent fell upon the spacer captain.