The first one, and the one more likely to see the light of day, is Coldest Winter, named for one of my favorite Kanye West songs. (Talk about separating the art from the artist hachi machi Yeezy what are you doing.) The song is about the unexpected loss of his mother, whom he was very close with. In the fanfic, Skwisgaar needs to return to Sweden after Sevetta’s death to take care things. It’s set post-Doomstar, so the guys are on their let’s-try-to-be-not-assholes-to-each-other kick and tag along to make him feel better! (Spoiler: They do not do a good job.) It’s a meditation on grief and loss and found family and reconciling the complex feeling of mourning someone who didn’t always treat you well. It’s not a complete bummer fest; there’s a running gag where Murderface tries to mourn Servetta in the Victorian fashion, and Charles has to keep intercepting him and make him change. I’m really fascinated by Skwisgaar and his mom’s relationship. He has a lot of resentment towards her, but also admits he knows she cares about him, and drops his entire life when she asks him to move home. I wanna dig into that. The second one I’ve talked about here a bit. It’s A Godklok, season five speculative fic. The Blazing Star “activates” the band’s powers, which they promptly use to fuck around. (I haven’t thought through everyone, but Nathan gets super strength, Pickles gets fire, Skwisgaar gets healing and flight, and I don’t know about Toki and Murderface. I realized while I was thinking of this I basically made Skwisgaar Mercy from Overwatch, and as I was working out Toki I was making him Reaper lolol.) Unfortunately, Murderface “turns” which shuts down all their powers. He takes a shot at Toki but Skwisgaar, thinking he’ll insta-heal, takes the hit. He’s in critical condition, and possessed!Murderface is wrecking shit, and the only way to fix everything is for the boys to somehow de-possess Murderface so they all get their powers back. Nathan and Pickles go try to save Murderface via the power of friendship and Toki hangs back with Skwisgaar and deals with Servetta when she shows up. Will they survive? I will likely never write this so I can tell you: Yes, they do. Everything works out and they spend eternity blowing shit up and fucking around forever. Unlike Stay Alive, with this one I’d try to stick as close to canon and to the show’s humor and sensibilities as possible. It’s def one of my more ambitious ideas. I want to give every member of the band their own storyline, and have them all dovetail at the end. But also after Stay Alive, I never want to write another fight scene as long as I live. So I would probably end one chapter with a triumphant let’s head into battle and FINISH THIIIIIIIIS and start the next with “ha ha that sure was a wild and crazy battle we had, several months ago, glad all that worked out!” I may write one of the Skwisgaar/Toki scenes. I also have this idea where Murderface isn’t possessed but his injured hand is, and it’s like Idle Hands and it keeps trying to kill all the guys, so he nails his hand to a wall and cuts it off whoop. I’m very into the “Murderface cuts off his hand” head canon. (Skwisgaar is able to heal the wound but can’t grow him a new hand.) But there’d be goofs. Pickles lights a bunch of things on fire. Skwisgaar gets stuck in a ceiling fan. That kinda thing.
