#self-insert au

ThePolarisnorth (bluesky).

@/thestaticshow

Patodeagua (bluesky)

Mrchaosmanthereal

the-mercair

lyme.

glitch-the-artist

Foxy Dreamurr (bluesky)

Chionophobia (X and Bluesky)

EPILOGUE: 

Kinger was sitting in his pillow fort, opening tabs on the computer when suddenly everything glitched slightly, making him flinch, his fast-typing fingers slowing as he shook himself and continued. “Ä̶̡͖̟̘̣̣͉̝̳̻͚̺͐̈́͊̒͋̂̂́Ṛ̶̢̱̘̮͎͎̫̺̭̗̈́̆̎͛̾̎̈̂̈́͑͋́̕͜G̷͔̝̥̺̗̜̻̙̬̐̓̐̄͛̿̒̍̌͘H̴̰̜͇̫̞̫͇̰͕́̀͊̒̅͑̀̾̈̚͘͜͝H̶̢̢̡͖͇͉̥͓͕̠̜̣͓̲̑̔͗̀̽̾́̐̏̌̑͂͝Ḧ̵̨̭̙̹̋̿́̓̓̒͗̚ͅͅḨ̷͚̲͇͚͍̠̙̬̰̱̬̼͆̅͝ͅH̷̤̙̠̝̥͇̟̱̯͍̬̑̎͌̒̊̄̎͝E̷̛͓̱͊͌̇̀͑̓̽̿́͠H̵͙͇̳̫̠̦̗̬͐͂́͋̄̃̌͠͝͝Ḫ̶̞̠͉̫̌̀͂́͐͂̏̕͘͜H̷̭̰̟͉̪̝͚̥̖͉͋͜H̶̛̬̮̦̺̘̜̪͌̂̆̆̐̅̀̑̑̔͘͠ͅ” 

Shouted a familiar voice, Kinger standing up shakily as he looked outside of his pillow fort, his bucket on his head lifted slightly so he could see at least a bit. He could faintly see glitching running through the circus, certain spots more glitched out than others, revealing gray framework and collision errors. Kinger stared at them in shock for a moment before the entire Circus shook violently, Kinger loosing his footing and falling heavily to the ground with an ‘oof’. Oh no…what did they do to Caine… He winced as he heard Caine shouting something unintelligibly before everything went pitch black. 

Kinger ran out of the pillow fort, looking around wildly as he decided to abandon the computer in favor of searching for the others. He remembered he could hold his breath suddenly, closing his eyes for a moment as he focused on holding his breath. He opened them again to light flooding the area around him from his body, making him grin slightly with his almost non-existent facial features. He glanced around the area and spotted the others coming towards him slowly, looking around nervously. Pomni froze as she spotted him, running forwards as she started sobbing lightly and hugging him tightly, Ragatha followed next as Gangle followed after Ragatha. “Oh-” He started, only to be cut off as Jax fell to the ground and started sobbing, Kinger’s eyes widening slightly as he watched Jax laying on the ground in tears. His comforting glow shut off, leaving them all in darkness as he gathered what he could remember from before the he let out his breath. “Wh-What happened?...” Kinger whispered, hugging them all back as Zooble apparently sat in the back, away from all of them with their eyes widened, as far as he could remember. “Caine-He-he-” Pomni started, cutting herself off as she remembered something abruptly and burst into tears like Jax, who sounded like he’d uncurled himself from the floor and was leaning heavily against one of the large colorful blocks sitting in the middle of the main area. Suddenly there was a groan from somewhere in the darkness and Kinger’s head snapped around quickly, everyone freezing as Kinger slowly moved forwards in a weak attempt to shield Pomni. “What-that wasn’t-” Kinger stammered, everyone crowding behind him as he steeled himself to shield them all from a Caine with glitches riddling his body and primed to torture them again. No…no wait that was a…younger sound?...and not Caine, either… Kinger relaxed as there was another one and everyone flinched slightly, all except for him. He slowly walked forwards, peering around the large plastic block blocking whoever was sobbing from view. He peered cautiously around the corner and froze when he heard it coming from the stage. In the middle of the stage was someone laying there, half unconscious and slightly glowing. Too tall to be Caine and yet…who else could it be? Oh no…not another human…not in the middle of this mess… Kinger winced lightly, walking forwards more quickly now as he reached the edge of the stage and looked over the figure’s body with curiosity. Huh, they’re glowing slightly…eh, at least I don’t have to hold my breath again to see… He finally stepped up onto the stage just as the figure shuffled and he peered at them from underneath the bucket over his head. 

HELIO:

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She blinked open her eyes to darkness, though there was a faint orange-y light coming from…somewhere…She blinked several times, attempting to see clearly as she looked around, yelping slightly as she saw a figure staring at her in curiosity and something almost like…Pity? But…why was he pitiful? She thought curiously to herself, observing the figure carefully. It was a chess piece, maybe with lighter colored wood-at least what she could tell from the limited lighting.

She stared at him in shock for a moment before she slowly got up, shakily standing on her feet and moving carefully away from him, nearly falling a couple times but catching herself before the walking, talking chess piece could do anything. He had a robe or something on, white fluff spattered with gray-ish black dots, and no arms, though he had white gloves for hands. She blinked several times, finally opening her mouth in confusion as she stared at him. “Who-what are you?...” She asked, wincing slightly as she came off a bit rude, though the chess piece didn’t look offended, just…sad? Why is he looking at me like I’m about to explode…I’m not-AM I? She froze and looked down, sighing when she didn’t see any bombs or anything, just…a…black tailcoat? When did I wear this again? What was I doing?-

She was cut off as there was a gasp from in the darkness, making her whip around as someone tipped over as soon as she looked over. She blinked, the chess piece beside her freezing as they both stared off into the darkness for a moment. “Oh-wait-” The chess piece muttered, suddenly holding his breath as she stared at him in confusion. Suddenly the area was bathed in a warm, bright light as she gasped, nearly falling over again before catching herself on…nothing? WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW?! She yelped in her head, staring right at the chess piece’s face as she studied his features. He had two bright blue colored googly eyes in place of a face, no mouth or nose anywhere in sight. He also had a silvery bucket on his head for some reason. She glanced quickly over to where the gasping noise had come from before, flinching slightly when she saw the cluster of figures gathered there, all staring at her in shock. She stared at them for a moment before turning back to the chess piece. “Where am I? What’s going on?” She hissed, attempting to act slightly intimidating but failing as her eyes rapidly scanned the area. “Why does she have a tailcoat on, is she some sort of other ringmaster?...” Carried a voice, maybe a guy’s, from the cluster of figures, his voice taunting but carrying a mildly concerned tone as she stared at him for a moment before responding. “I don’t know, smart alec. Why don’t you come closer to find out?” She hissed instinctively, realizing her voice had changed and sounded a bit more sharp than usual, even with her taunting. The character who’d talked before-a tall, cartoon bunny- let out a sharp laugh, his creepily wide smile widening slightly as she flinched almost minutely. “You-You’re…human, right?” Came another voice, making her head snap towards the one who’d made the sound. “Yeah? Can’t-Can’t you…tell?...” She trailed off as she gestured at herself with her hand in confusion, realizing it was covered in a white glove, sharp but small black claws tipping each glove. She reached over and attempted to rip off the glove, eyes widening as she let out a yelp. She stared at where she’d had the glove a moment ago, staring at the empty space beneath it.

She quickly shoved the glove back on, staring at her now shaky hand in horror as she stood back up and attempted to scramble off of the…stage? Is that why they’re staring at me weird? I just appeared on this stage after all… She stumbled down the steps, catching herself on nothing a couple more times as she stumbled and was actually glad for the ‘nothing’ holding her up as she raced into the darkness quickly, running with her hands out in front of her to stop herself if she ran into something, though she…never did? Why can I almost see where everything- WH- She flinched again, coming to an abrupt stop as she caught her falling body on pure air once again. She suddenly could see around her, every single thing around her coming into a blue-lined view as she blinked rapidly. Well…uh…guess that works for not being Abel to see anything?... She shook her head, glancing around as she spotted something laying on the floor. She raced over, sensing some strange feeling coming from the figure on the floor as she caught up to it finally. Caine. She thought, freezing as some voice in her head said something, though it was definitely not her own voice. Oh great, now I have schizophrenia…just the cherry on top.

She hissed, shaking her entire body as she looked back down to the figure laying on the ground unconscious -Caine- and spotted he…had a mouth for a head? She blinked several more times, her blue-lined vision sharpening slightly as she stared at Caine in shock and confusion. He had a pair of wind-up dentures for a head-currently closed- and he seemed to be wearing a similar tailcoat to her’s, except…red? I can’t see any colors, why can I tell it’s red? She groaned in her head, deciding to get this…person?... awake first before continuing to run. She leaned down, shaking the person’s shoulder fiercely, making them groan and blink open their jaw-like head, revealing two multicolored googly eyes not unlike the chess piece’s inside of the mouth. Except she could tell these ones were bright blue in one and green in the other, and something else in them showed some other emotion before he suddenly zipped into the air, making her yelp as he pointed a…cane at her? What is HAPPENING right now- She was cut off as his voice started talking to her, slightly louder than she could handle right now as she winced. “Welcome to the Ammmazing Digital Circus!” He yelped suddenly, making her jump lightly into the air as he suddenly flickered, crashing to the ground with a groan as there was a yell from somewhere nearby, presumably one of the humans. “First, why are the lights off? I’ll continue this introduction later!” He added after a moment of confusion as she just stared at him in confusion, his fingers lifting and snapping quickly, making her yell without words as the lights flicked on and she was blinded for a good few seconds as she slammed her eyes shut against the apparently neon colored lights before blinking her eyes open slowly. She surprised herself to have adjusted to them already as she finally got a good look at Caine. He had a normal human body, fairly long legs with black tights and dress shoes, a red tailcoat with a white undershirt, and a black bowtie. He of course had the denture head and surprisingly a small black top hat that was floating above his wind-up-teeth head, making her unexpectedly snicker lightly as he stopped, looking at her in confusion before realizing. “It’s just my outfit dear!” He said cheerfully, making her grin despite all the things that were going on in the moment.

“I’m Caine, your Ringmaster! And we were in the middle of doing……oh ...” He trailed off from his introduction as his memory seemingly came back to him as his eyes widened slightly as he whispered his next words. “Oh, they hate me now…that-that’s right…” He murmured, making her eyes widen slightly. “I’m sure ‘they’ don’t!...wait, what did you do again?” She asked, sure that it was something almost meaningless, based on what his personality seemed like from the introduction. “I-I…I-tortured-” He stammered, falling back to the ground with a slight tap as she felt her pupils shrink, but only slightly. “You tortured-” She started but cut herself off as memories flashed through her mind abruptly, of Caine as a red dot and coming closer, then excruciating agony as she screamed and screamed, then nothing. She blinked as she came back to herself, staring at Caine in horror as he stared at her in confusion and concern. She had her arms wrapped around herself as she attempted to catch her breath. “Are you ok, dear?-” He started before she cut herself off as she rushed forwards and hugged him, somehow at his same height as she hugged him tightly, though not knowing why. “I-wh-” He started, something wet dripping onto her shoulder as she felt herself float back down to ground as she hugged his shoulder tightly as he tentatively hugged her back.

“LEAVE HER- wait wh-” Someone cried as they ran into the room, Caine flinching at the volume as he stumbled back from the hug as she whipped around, parting from Caine as she turned towards whoever yelled. The smaller jester-looking thing was standing there, looking mildly shocked as she stared at her and where Caine was standing, looking horrified and stumbling backwards. Her name’s Pomni. The voice in her head whispered, making her flinch away from nothing and blink several times to make sure it was something in her head and nothing sneaking up behind her or anything. “Wh-you…weren’t torturing her?” She-Pomni- was racing forwards, Caine taking several steps forwards. “HEY CAT-GIRL, YOU BETTER NOT BE DEAD ALREADY!” Shouted the voice who’d taunted her before, making her yelp and fall backwards, caught once again by absolutely nothing and making her yelp as she was pushed back upwards by nothing more than air. Cat girl? But I’m still human, right?

She thought in confusion, automatically reaching up to feel the top of her head in confusion. She yanked her hand back down as her white-gloved hand brushed something on top of her head, though there was nothing connecting it to her head. She frowned lightly as the one who’d taunted her before came bursting into the area with surprising agility, his apparently long legs bounding forwards in long strides, followed loosely by the rest of the group behind him. The chess piece from before was at the head of the group behind the purple bunny and the jester. Purple bunny’s name is Jax. The voice in her head supplied, making her not flinch this time but blink once or twice instead, now mildly used to it, she guessed. “Oh, good you’re not…dead?” Jax said, barely sounding relieved as she automatically rolled her eyes, her limited memories supplying that she used to deal with many others like this. “Wait, what’s up with Caine?” He asked, turning to look at Caine as she felt some sort of pang to shield him from Jax’s glare, though she shook it off and looked curiously at him instead. He had slight glitches running through his body, making him wince lightly as he brushed a couple off with his hand in mild embarrassment.

“He…He said you hated him? And that he…tortured you I think?” She supplied, making Jax’s head snap back up as she stumbled lightly and make the chess piece move to hold him up lightly, the purple bunny flinching at the touch. “Wait, he tortured them?” The chess piece suddenly piped up, looking mortified, at least as much as he could with limited facial features. “Uh…he said it, not me.” She stepped lightly aside, towards Caine as she turned to him questioningly as he just stood there, staring off into nothing. Oh-Oh he-he’s dissociating. She realized with a flinch rushing forwards towards him as she reached forwards and shook his shoulders aggressively, snapping him out of it as he flinched away from her lightly, looking at her with wide, scared eyes with his pupils just pinpricks. “D-Don’t-” He stammered, stumbling away from her as she caught himself on air like she did earlier and standing there while staring at them uncertainly. Suddenly Jax was standing beside her, sneering at him widely. “Aw, is the little denture man now afraid of us? Just little ol’ us?” He hissed scathingly, making some sort of sneer with his strange teeth and face. Suddenly she let out a yell as she felt the weird memories come back to rush through her head, her eyes glazing slightly as she stared into nothing and flinched. Her head was filled with one memory, though preceded with flashes of creating multicolored shapes, surrounded by black colored wireframe. She was a cyan dot, a red dot approaching her. ‘Are you scared of me? Of little ol’ me?’ The red dot sneered, floating closer in the black void as she flinched, attempting to back up but apparently there was a wall behind her that she couldn’t see.

The moment was followed by excruciatingly strong pain, the feeling of getting ripped apart, pixel by pixel throbbing through the memory as she restrained from screaming out loud. Her vision cleared finally, making her stumble back as she saw the small white-colored jester called Pomni walking towards her tentatively. She spotted Caine staring at her in confusion before something apparently clicked in his head as he stared at her horror as he backed up, looking at her while shakily whispering ‘Nonononono’ under his breath. “What was-are-are you ok?” Pomni asked shakily, making her gaze snap to Pomni’s as she felt her eyes flicker, for some reason and Pomni backed up quickly, flinching from almost nothing. The cat-girl blinked several times, reaching up and rubbing her eyes as she stared at her shaking hands. “Uhh…Caine? You…ok?” She asked tentatively, reaching out towards Caine as he flinched further, staring at her in horror as he apparently just needed to get away from her as fast as possible. “No-Nonono-Abel-don’t-” He stammered, holding out a hand as if he expected her to bite him. “Abel- what-ARGH-” She yelped, stammering back as she felt one of her eyes glitch out again, slamming a hand to it as she hunched over slightly, gritting her teeth as those strange memories came all flooding back, all at once as she froze, her other eye unseeing as she was buried in memories that she herself was not a part of. One was of her, once again a blue dot, creating shapes from nothing and looking up at something expectantly, eventually receiving something positive, though she didn’t know what it was.

The next one was of her, watching and squinting at something far, far below her that had a red glow coming from within, almost like a box in the middle of the black frameworked void she was floating around in. The other one was of her, watching in horror as the red glow brightened and brightened before the cube it was in shattered and the red thing was flying up to her, going so fast she could barely comprehend it. The next one…was of color. Floating beside the man with the wind-up-teeth head, watching the humans below talking amongst themselves before him and Caine appeared from just pure code. Another was a fainter memory, of some other humans standing there as Caine talked to them about creating a lake of some sort. Kinger was there, alongside several others that she didn’t recognize. She had several more memories flash through her mind, some faded slightly and others more vivid, though she could retain them all as easily as breathing in pure oxygen. She finally blinked back to herself, uncovering her eye as she heaved in and out, blinking several times as she straightened out quickly and looked at Caine in shock as he stared at her, pupils so small she could barely make them out. “Caine.” She whispered lightly, making him flinch as she stared at him in shock, standing up slightly and backing up lightly as she felt her face pale slightly.

“No-” Caine stammered, falling backwards as he caught himself on air and quickly teleported away with a snap of his fingers, like he’d done so many times before in her new memories. She clutched her head with both of her hands, squeezing her eyes shut tightly as she sunk to the ground, hearing quick footsteps to the side of her, making her eyes snap open and flinch lightly, the footsteps stopping abruptly. “No-” She stammered, attempting to crawl back as she looked up to see Kinger looking at her in concern. Kinger. Grant. Oh god. Her mind hissed, her eyes widening as she mouthed his name. “G-Grant-” She stammered, Kinger falling still as his eyes widened in shock. “What-How-” He started, the bucket that was still on his head falling down slightly. “Ok, what’s happening here with the nutcase and the furry girl?” Came a snarky voice, her head snapping around to see him come up beside her, the rest of the group tentatively walking forwards as Pomni slowly took a few steps back. “You’re still a bunny, Jax.” Zooble called from the group, walking up while still casting suspicious glances at Kinger and her. “I-I my-my name’s Helio-” She stammered out eventually, the name coming to her naturally as she kept her eyes on Kinger, who was standing there looking at her in recognition and shock. “Oooo, Helio’s a good name. Where’d you get that?” Asked Pomni from behind Jax, Jax flinching as she came up behind him, though she knew why. “I-” She lost her train of thought, more focused on Kinger -Grant- in front of her. “I…I have a theory about what just happened…but I need the computer. Come on, guys.” He gestured for them to come with him, Helio scrambling upwards as she followed behind him closely. Everyone else cast nervous glances and quickly followed behind Helio. 

Part one (U are here)-part two in just a sec-pt three TBD-

Who knew that trying to get a pesky detective off your case--would bring even MORE problems? 🤔 Miss Akamatsu definitely knew!

Commission for @readasaur!

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1. This episode's title intrigues me. Ichigo is gonna fight HIme and Chad? HELL YESS LET'S SEE THIS 'I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE SOMEWHERE FIGHT' SETUP

2. We actually start with some Urahara and some Ichi yelling at his mentor.

3. We finally also get some exposition about the Villain Dude;s powers. Basically memory alteration from a magic book, as you do.

4. Bleach does Evil Dead basically. Ichigo and his mentor whose name I haven't really memorized, and who isn't interesting enough for a nickname, have to save the day.

5. And they're even confronting him in a creepy old mansion? This is officially a Scooby Doo episode.

6. The gang's all here! I'm going to headcanon that the villain's real motive is the have Hime Chad and Tatsuki for his besties. That I can relate to.

7. Ah damn Ichi's fighting Villain dude? Boo I was promised heartbreaking Ichi vs BFFs battles.

8. So this guy's human, right? I think this'll be the first time Ichi has to kill another human. That got dark.

9. OH FINALLY HERE THEY ARE! Chad and Hime break in to defend their new Bestie of all Time, Villain Dude.

10. We then get a montage of Villain Dude's self-insert fanfic au where he's part of Bleach's plot. LOL that is my headcanon for this now.

11. Oh Pigtails is Ok? I must've missed something I thought villain dude took her out.

12. We then clarify that yes indeed, Villain Dude's powers actually ARE self-insert au fanfic. That is my official name for his powers.

13. Oh we also get more of our much needed Ladies Kicking ass as Pigtails and Dirty Boots power are also having a fight while Hime is fighting Ichi.

14. The latter fight is indeed going on, though I wish it was a one-on-one with Ichi and Hime. That idea just sounds so cool. Our two main-ish characters, who've had their friendship as a plot point throughout the whole series, going head to head.

15. Ichi and Whatshisface are now teamed up against our trinity of antagonists. I really wish someone more interesting was helping him. Like Pigtails.

16. Whoa apparently Whatshisface is turning on Ichi. Fortunately Ichi's kinda boyfriend is here to back him up.