#yacr

Day 8 - Letter

I really like the idea of these two having been penpals before they properly met, possibly because of smiles’ school making them doing it in their English-as-second-language class

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Day 7 - Dream

YACR’s version of Harvester is one of those villains that really believes in what they’re doing, doing horrific things in an attempt to reach an impossible dream. Monster is one of those villains that happily exploits that.

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Day 5 - Smoke

Since canon!BF smokes, I’ve had this concept for a while that YAFAU!BF started smoking during the events of YACR. I feel like it shows how YACR really does take place in a time where the Corrupteds have taken over, and these literal children (well, 16-17 year olds) are resorting to harmful coping mechanisms like smoking to deal with it. Adding onto this, I have this concept of a scene where BF is smoking and GF is like, “well that’s kinda bad for u…” and that would show just how unequipped both of them are for this, and show it in different ways (BF having a self-destructive coping mechanism and GF just mindlessly repeating what her parents told her)

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Part I - FNF: Go Out-Sides

(dividers by @adornedwithlight)

Name: Boyfriend

Other Names: BF(Nickname) Bee(Nickname), Keith(Don’t call him this)

Pronouns: Fine with any pronouns, but people generally use he/him

Gender: Cis male

Age: 18-20

Roles: Parame, Fictpara, Paraconfidencetenere (?)

Birthday: ??? (Celebrates his Birthday on October 5th)

Sexuality: Bisexual

Species: Mostly human with some angel blood, rat therian

Powers: Corruptomancy

Languages Spoken: Rattish, English, ASL

Source Media(s): Friday Night Funkin'

Other notes:

AuDHD, semi-mute

Technically an orphan, was raised by a mischief of human-intelligence rats (this is why Ritz is his brother) (This is also why no one knows his exact age or birthday).

This isn't why he has troubles with speaking, though. He's just like that, and would have been like that regardless of how he was raised.

His first language is Rattish, the rat language.

When he was 13-ish, the authorities realized there was a random human kid being raised by rats. Obviously the rats couldn't keep him forever(or even until he was an adult), since human kids need different stuff than rat pups (even ones that are closer to human intelligence,) and food and nutrition were a big issue.

As a result of the above, some official people put him in this facility (or something similar) so they could rehabilitate him to become more human-like, giving him the name Keith. They didn't abuse him or anything, but he still hated it because from his POV, they basically kidnapped him... especially considering they couldn't communicate their intentions to him since he only knew Rattish (although they were working on teaching him English). Even though he knows now that he would have likely died if he had stayed in the wild, he still has mixed feelings about the place.

Eventually, he was deemed fit enough to be adopted into a human family, those being his adopted parents Meiko and Kaito, as well as his adopted sister, Miku.

Even now that he's an adult and knows he's physically human, he still heavily identifies with rat-ness, and he still has several rat-like behaviors.

The reason his name is Boyfriend is because it's translated directly from Rattish. In Rattish, the word you get when you combine the word for "boy" and the word for "friend" doesn't mean "someone you're dating," it literally just means, "boy who is your friend."

He's learning ASL because GF is deaf, he's not that good at it yet though

Question 24

Not really...? I mean, the closest I got is White Sheep being sort of smart and very timid as opposed to Pink Sheep and BF being overconfident dumbasses but like... That's not something I really thought about until you asked.

(for more information on the sheep paras: I had an explodingtnt/pink sheep paracosm when I was like 12 lmaoooo)

Question 26

One thing that I find kind of interesting is the history of my Harvester para. No, not their in-universe backstory, but how they changed as a character over time. Back in early 2023, Harvester was hinted at in the original corruption mod (AKA what YACR was based on), but we really didn't know anything about them, they were literally just a silhouette on a rooftop.

So I got to thinking, "who is that?" And I assumed that they were the embodiment of the corruption, so the para version of them was initially called Corruption. Of course, that ended up being wrong, and now Corruption and Harvester are two completely different paras. However, I got a strange amount of their lore right that I wasn't even expecting it to, I mean, it was literally meant to be the point where YACR starts to deviate from the OG corruption mod in terms of plot.

The original twist that explained why YACR takes place over a year as opposed to most of OG corruption's second half seemingly taking place in a single night was that in this universe, BF and GF were originally going to be the ones to harvest the 10000 souls. However, with BF breaking himself and GF out of Corruption, the harvest was delayed until next year, with the embodiment of Corruption itself deciding to step in. While canon Harvester is (probably) not the embodiment of the corruption, immediately after they were properly introduced, we get these lines:

For those who can't read it, it says,

"You will be"

("REPLACE HIM")

"THE REPLACEMENT"

"YOU WILL BE"

"The HARVESTER"

So I was right about them not only being the harvester, but also that they were not the original person in that role. On top of that, there is a vague scene in the opening that I'm 75% sure is hinting at Boyfriend being the original harvester.

(it's kind of hard to show it in screenshots, but it shows BFs hand reaching out for a red orb thing and then it getting replaced with Harvesters hand when he reaches it. You can watch the opening here)

So, as a result, while the whole "Harvester wasn't the original harvester, Boyfriend was" thing is still a plot point in YACR, it's not set up like a major twist, since it's just... Not Anymore.

(on a related note, has something like this ever happened to anybody else? Where your one of your fictparas/fictparacosms managed to predict canon like that?)

Afterwards, all the stuff I got right (or was hinted at) got put into the Harvester fictpara I have today, and all the things I got wrong got put into the Corruption fictpara(primpara?), and they're two separate paras now.

Question 31

While I'm still thinking about Harvester, imma talk about his relationship with BF. Basically, they used to be in the same group that unleashed Corruption, the Children of the Harvest Moon (CHM for short.) However, BF and Harvester are the only two Corruptomancers (people with special powers over the Corruption) not only in the group, but also in the general area the story takes place in. Which gives them both a lot of power in a Corruption-infested world. And as they say, with great power comes great responsibility.

However, both of them disagree greatly with what that responsibility entails. BF views Corrupteds as victims, and it’s his responsibility to unCorrupt them, which he can do thanks to his Corruptomancy powers. Harvester, on the other hand, views Corrupteds as irredeemably evil, and believes it’s their responsibility to harvest their souls and give them to the Corruption deity so he can fix all the problems in the world. Which they can do, thanks to their Corruptomancy powers.

So, to summarize:

Working on some designs for some of my lesser-daydreamed about paras, I hope to incorporate them more into the story and make it more solid

(Plus a bonus doodle for yuri day :3)