#tbtc

(A brief explanation: I decided to try my hand at more stylish layouts for the early TBTC chapters. It’s a fun art project. I’ll put these on Tumblr every now and again but please read the AO3 version for full author’s notes!)

The Bold Type Characters: Sutton Brady

FUCK

FUCKING FUCKING FUCK

GUESS WHICH OF MY FIC OPENINGS THE PLOT OF THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON FOUR WEIRDLY PARALLELS

GUESS WHICH FIC STARTS OFF WITH EXACTLY THE SCENARIO OF ONE PALADIN WATCHING AS THE REST ARE TRAPPED ON A PLANET THAT’S ABOUT TO EXPLODE, ALL ABOUT TO DIE, AND THE MISSING PALADIN (AND CORAN) CAN DO NOTHING TO HELP BECAUSE THE GALRA SET UP A TRAP TO KILL THEM WITH A PLANETARY EXPLOSION

GUESS

You’re young, momma says, so it makes sense that you don’t remember much of the scout. The last time she was at your encampment was almost a year ago, according to Aunterezi. Really, all you CAN remember about her is hair. Just. A messy, messy mess of hair attached to a body. You know she’s missing an arm and eye, but that’s only because mother told you she is. Mother tells you that you’re related to the scout, but personally you don’t see it. Momma says it’s because the scout doesn’t really help raise you, but last time she was here she brought you candy she had found. You wish she would come again soon because you don’t remember what candy she brought, and you want more of it, whatever it was.

Momma says it’s rude to only want to see her because you hope she’ll bring you candy but mother seems endeared. She teases momma by saying she hopes the scout will bring her another treat as well and when you ask why momma swatted her because she said that she says that you’re the greatest treat she’s ever been given. You like the sound of that. You’re mother’s greatest treat ever! But you’re not sure what that has to do with the scout. 

The scout is a source of idle fascination for you, trying to figure out how you’re possibly related to her. Aunterezi says you’re loud like she is, with Nepeta leaning on her shoulder and licking at her jaw in the mead hall that Gamzee made only just a year ago. You hope the scout comes back soon so she can see Gamzee’s mead hall, cause it’s really warm in there. Warm enough that you don’t even have to wear long sleeves if you didn’t want to! Mother still makes you though, because she’s fussy. Momma’s friends tell you that you have the scout’s nose, which doesn’t make sense because you have your nose! Kurloz signs that it’s the same bone s-t-r-u-c-t-u-r-e but you don’t know what that means. Firevoice says that you’re nosy like the scout is and you both ask too many questions, and you tell him he’s just stingy with his answers. He ruffles your hair and tells you to get out of his fucking sight, but you know his tone and don’t buy one lick of his shit. He’s proud of you for sticking up for yourself, you think, because he always seems to like you best when you put your foot down, much to momma’s huffing.

One day she does come back, and you dog her for a little while. Uncleridan says you have good eyes and Dirk praises your quiet feet, so she doesn’t even notice you on her tail!

She IS loud. Very showy, you think, and you want to walk up to Nepeta and tell her that the scout is good Vulrupture bait since she’s so noisy she must attract a lot of attention, but you don’t because you’re being sneaky! The scout seems a little surprised that Aunterezi is dating Nepeta, but they’ve been dating for ages so you don’t know why she doesn’t know. You tie one of Auntie Jade’s ribbons on your thumb so you remember to ask mother about it later. She laughs at them though and knocks her elbow against Aunterezi’s and Aunterezi snaps her teeth at her in return, underneath her face mask so her lips don’t freeze off. 

The scout annoys Firevoice and gets shouted at it a bunch for it, which you think is fair, because even you don’t intentionally annoy the Firevoice. Dumb scout! You think you’re done being related to her now. She’s stupid dumb. You also think you’re done shadowing her. You’ve learned enough.

“Hey sugar,” Auntie Feferi greets with one of her big grins. Even when she’s wearing her face mask, you can see her eyes underneath her goggles and you know she’s giving you one, which makes you smile back. She asks you if you’re done stalking your third mom, and you tell her she’s not related to you anymore. Feferi is a very smart person and always listens to you, so you’re sure she’ll understand.

“Oh is that so?” she asks, her shoulders shaking just a little with laughter. You tell her you decided so a minute ago because she’s dumb and makes the Firevoice yell at her even when he didn’t start out yelling at her, which gets you more laughter but it’s okay because Auntie Feferi’s laughter is the best. You tell momma and mother too and they also seem humored, and you remember to ask them about Nepeta and Aunterezi which makes momma snort. Mother tells you that after she had her thing with mother the scout used to date Aunterezi and they had lots of fight sex and you’re not sure what that means but you guess the scout got dumped from not showing up for a whole year. You like Aunterezi dating Nepeta better anyway, and momma asks you if you only think that because Nepeta is the only person you can remember Aunterezi dating, and you think about it and the conversation ends with you sticking your tongue out at her.

it sounds rlly intresting ;0

ALWAYS A PLEASURE.

So I’m not sure if you’ve seen the basics and want more detail or if you just want the basics, so I’ll do the basics here

The WHAM ARMY is basically a chaos team of my favorite villains. They’re underdogs. Even the OP ones are underdogs. It’s a rule. If you’ve joined the WHAM ARMY, you’ve automatically decided to sit at the loser table, but you get a pretty neat found family out of it all. (And in the TBTCverse, the Heathens faction is looked at as even bigger losers because they don’t even like killing people and are heroes half the time.) This team is the focus set of characters for my fanfic Taking Back the Crown, which is absolutely a clusterfuck of crossovers.

WHAM ARMY is a name formed from the first initials of the core eight members - the tightest friend group, the ones in charge, the ones who founded the group. And they are:

Wuya (Xiaolin Showdown)

Huntsman (American Dragon: Jake Long)

Ayam Aghoul (Aladdin: The Animated Series)

Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series - also even though his initial isn’t first, he IS the one in charge here)

Archibald Snatcher (The Boxtrolls - don’t tell Mozenrath but he’s my actual favorite)

Roman Torchwick (RWBY)

Mad Madam Mim (The Sword in the Stone)

Yzma (The Emperor’s New Groove)

And the ships are Wuya/Yzma, Aghoul/Mim, Mozenrath/Huntsman, and REDHATBLACKHAT (Snatcher/Roman, which is my OTP to end all, I would die for them, many feels, many evulz)

Vexen from Kingdom Hearts is basically their ninth core member but they will never let him ascend because it would ruin the acronym and also he’s an even bigger party pooper than Mozenrath and would ruin all social functions

And from there they’ve adopted...........all my fave villains as their co-workers and annoying relatives. I made this video to try and encompass them all at one point. It’s outdated because I’VE ADDED MORE NOW

Only so many of them have shown up in the fic itself - I’m doing an arc coming up very very soon where I basically get the rest of them in the chaos house so we can party. And after that they’re gonna start taking over equally crossovery kingdoms to add to their empire!

And YES! Because I know why you are here in particular! Vincent Edgeworth, Albert Krueger, and Victor Blake are indeed going to be inducted into the WHAM ARMY! Albert in particular is the exact brand of chaos that ends up in this faction.

(There are some moments that I can pinpoint with all the faves as their ultimate WHAM ARMY energy, and Albert’s is “An eyeball is a ball. It is a sphere.”)

I’m honestly contemplating making a Carrd for this universe that I can link people to for a full list of characters and ships, but I’m not sure if there are limits as to what Carrd should be used for. People only ever seem to use it for bio things so I dunno if there’s a contractual requirement that it is not to be used for documenting AU details of a giant fanfic