Not me working on a new chapter of my fanfiction (Historian Butterfly AU) and realizing that a completely different event should happen before everything I just wrote because it makes much more sense. So now I have an almost complete chapter that isn’t even the next one. Luckily I still have plans to post it, I just have to write an entire other chapter before I do. Also, no, I can’t just combine the events into one chapter. I like my chapters to have some sort of main event/theme and combining them would ruin the flow and honestly make the chapter SUPER long and feel a little janky. I love writing.
I saw the Wicked movie with some of my family over Thanksgiving (it was amazing). My cousin knew almost nothing about it other than it was a Wizard of Oz prequel about the Wicked Witch of the West. In the beginning of the movie, when Elphaba and Glinda met at Shiz, he looked at my sister and asked, “Is it just me or does feel like everyone is racist against Elphaba when they talk about her green skin?” My sister, who is a huge fan of the musical and had seen it live, just looked at him and said, “You have no idea.” Bro hadn’t even gotten to the conflict with the racism against the animals and he understood that something was going on in Oz.
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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.
Can confirm. Tornado sirens are just your typical weekly event here in Michigan. The one time I can remember it being real didn’t stop me from driving home during it.
Now you can understand how it sounds when i hear any siren
So I have this AU idea from demon slayer and I thought I might as well put the idea on the internet even if I never actually write it. It is a female OC x Shinobu type story. No, I do not have a name for her yet. The OC is a historian from the modern era, who has dedicated her research on the stories of demons during 1920s Japan. She became interested because her great grandmother was a kakushi before Muzan was defeated, and told many stories about demons. I wouldn’t say she fully believed in the existence of demons, but she definitely saw them as a possibility. She’s the kind of person that would not rule out any option, no matter how crazy some may be.
So she starts doing some really in depth research so she actually has a decent understanding of how everything about that era works. I like to think she actually can do total concentrated breathing around the clock because she found some scrolls about it and decided to see if the technique actually works by using herself as a test subject. I also like to think that one of her resources is Mitsuri’s diary.
Anyways she goes on a lot of expeditions in order to find more evidence and resources on the topic, and on one of these expeditions she finds some sort of relic or something that sends her in the past. Eventually she finds herself at the demon slayer corps and her relationship with Shinobu grows overtime. Also she would help them bet Muzan. 
I don’t usually write this type of stuff, but let me know if you guys would actually be interested in any of this. I might not create a whole story, but I would probably post headcannons, one shots, and art to elaborate more on areas that you guys might be curious about. Of course if anyone would ever want to write an entire fic based in this prompt then they are more than welcome to. Just let me know so that I can read whatever masterpiece you make.
Edit: I actually made it! Here’s the link to the prologue.
Monokuma’s Family
Yes of course he has a family, you silly
His wife, Suki, even has a power of her own
She’s a human calculator
Every math problem, even ones thought to be unsolvable, are child’s play for her
But she doesn’t just solve other people’s problems, no no no, she creates her own
She’s even the person who wrote out the Hope’s Peak Algorithm
You know, the one that decides who they’re going to enrol and has never ever been wrong?
I don’t think I need to tell you these two are crazy about each other; the fact that they have six kids who can turn into teddy bears and are better than most at math should be telling
Monokuma will tell you all about his very, very fine wife and his kids.
You will hear about her accomplishments. You will hear about how cool his kids are. This is your fault
Do not get him started unless you want to lose an afternoon
Suichi Saihara
Special eyes
What does that mean?
Well he can see through up to ten feet of material
Almost any kind of material
Wood, concrete, skin, metal
His special eyes can also see in astounding detail
Even in environments where normal people wouldn’t be able to see well, such as underwater or in the dark
Think of the enhance thing that they do in those awful forensic crime shows- that’s what he can do with his eyes
Also, if he focuses them right, they can burn through solid metal
No big deal
Tsumugi Shirogane
Bear with me here
She’s a conditional shapeshifter
She can completely change into any character from any kind of media
She can also selectively choose parts of any character from media to modify her appearance
BUT (of course there’s a catch)
She has to know the character
For instance, if she somehow doesn’t know who Batman is, she wouldn’t be able to turn into Batman
And if she wants to go blonde she needs to know of at least one blonde character whose hair she can steal.
Rantaro Amami
His body is fully and instantaneously adaptive to the environment he finds himself in
For instance, if he’s in a desert, he’ll find himself unable to experience dehydration, heat exhaustion, or sun exposure
Or if he’s in a rainforest, mosquitoes and other animals will find him vastly unappealing, he’ll develop a resistance to poison, and he’ll develop a sudden and inexplicable knowledge of which plants are edible
These adaptations last as long as he’s in any given environment, and as he shifts where he is, his adaptations will shift as well
Bear in mind, though, this process can take a second
Anywhere from ten minutes to three hours, depending on how harsh the shift is
Luckily, it usually takes time to get somewhere, so it’s not a problem to get adjusted
Himiko Yumeno
She can teleport
A little simplistic but it is what it is
At first, she only felt comfortable teleporting objects, anything that’s less than 135 kilometres away
But then one day she tried to help the group defeat some evildoer by teleporting herself
But see, space time jumps aren’t terribly easy to do in your head as you’re in a paradoxical nondimension
So she of course, made a mistake, and rather than ending up in her destination like she wanted, she ended up above it.
6,000 feet above it, to be exact
She broke both her legs, her arm, a couple ribs, two vertebrae and a few bones in her face
So good news: she survived
Bad news: she survived
After this incident, Miu made her a device to do the complicated space-time calculations for her so Himiko could teleport herself safely
Without the device, she’d end up splattered all over the planet with one arm in Yemen and her other leg is in Pakistan
The device gave her a new kind of control over her power she never could have imagined
Miu, what have you done
Tenko Chabashira
When she gets mad, she turns into a giant monster
You know, pretty basic
Except not really because her giant monster changes its form
Sometimes it’s a giant fucking cat. Sometimes it’s a 90 foot snake. Sometimes it’s a huge owl.
Whatever it is it’s always angry, it always wants blood and it never gives up
Monokuma says the monster probably changes based on whoever’s most afraid around her when she changes
This is the most likely theory, and it was all but proven following an incident with Byakuya where they got into a fight and she turned into a bat with a 50 yard wingspan
Byakuya hates bats
They found him hiding under a desk; when they asked him why he didn’t call for anyone or help them fight her, he explained that he’d tried to get out from under the desk multiple times, but every time he would be struck by the image of the bat and freeze up
Monokuma had to interview everyone in private because nobody was willing to admit to being afraid of the giant cat she’d turned into
Miu Iruma
She can bestow sapience and even sentience onto her creations
At first she didn’t even know she could do that
But when the first calculator she ever built turned off when she swore at it, and wouldn’t turn on again until she apologized, she put two and two together
Now she’s the sort of person who apologizes to her vacuum for stepping on it, but the difference is, her vacuum can feel pain
How sentient and/or sapient are the things she makes?
Well, that depends
Her calculators, as we’ve established, are very testy
Her vacuums have the measured intelligence of the average dog; they can follow commands, get upset if you hurt them, but usually they forget about it and they like it if you pet them
However, her virtual worlds are extremely complex; any computer she makes to run them, therefore, has to be as if not more aware and emotionally understanding than the average person
Also she names her machines
This is a normal thing to do
Kibo
He’s some mad scientist’s attempt at resurrecting their dead son
She gave him the armour so he could never get hurt again
What she didn’t anticipate was that the armour would be self-modifying
Every day Kibo would find he could do something new. Different
On Monday it was rocket boots. On Tuesday it was homing missiles in his arms. On Wednesday it was internet in his fingertips. On Thursday it was night vision. On Friday it was- look you get the idea
The woman who made him kept getting upset if he tried to figure out what he could do or god forbid asked to go outside
She’d exaggerate the dangers of the outside world and convinced him the only thing keeping him alive was her
She even ripped up his Hope’s Peak letter to keep him from seeing it (he did)
Eventually he got tired of being held to the standards of someone he’d never known and of being kept prisoner in his own house
So he ripped out his tracking chip and he ran away
He was on the run for almost a year
Until one day he met Monokuma while he was hiding in his garage from the rain (Kibo’s “mom” had convinced him he wasn’t waterproof)
Monokuma responded to this weird homeless robot child by bringing him inside and introducing him to his family
At first his wife was like “he can stay for the night but you’ve gotta find a place for him”
Then she was like “okay he can stay for a few days”
By the third day she was fussing with his hair and helping him take off the armour (which he didn’t know could come off)
Then he accidentally called her Mom and she asked Monokuma how he felt about adoption
“Puhuhu- my evil machination was a success!”
Kokichi Oma
He’s loud
When I say that, I mean. He’s loud.
He can make his own voice loud or he can mimic sounds that are also very, very loud
Sounds he can mimic include lawnmowers, shotgun blasts, sirens, explosions, and in his more outspoken moments, the sound of a Boeing 727 taking off
When he’s just shouting, however, he has been documented being heard over ten kilometres away
If you don’t have perspective for that, that’s approximately the sound of a shotgun going off
But see shotguns go off for a second and then they’re done
Kokichi can. Keep yelling. For a while.
Fuyuhiko absolutely considered killing him when they first met.
Ryoma Hoshi
He can create portals
That is, he can open holes between two non-adjacent places that connect them across time and space
These holes will stay open for however long he can hold them
How long is that?
That depends
Ones big enough for, I don’t know, a tennis ball, could stay open for hours without him putting much thought into it
(He’s often stimmed this way; put a tennis ball between two portals and watch it go whee)
Ones big enough for a person are a bit tougher; he’d have to focus on the portal and couldn’t hold it open forever
Monokuma timed it; his longest held person-sized portal was open for two hours and forty-five minutes
And by the time he closed it he immediately puked onto the floor
The largest portal he’s ever opened was held open for five minutes, and it was to move the school
Long story
And by the time it closed, Ryoma was shaky, pale, and could hardly move he was in so much pain
All he said on the matter was, “I don’t think I could ever do that again.”
Before he passed out
Maki Harukawa
She’s empathokinetic
If that sounds stupid, let me explain
She can manipulate the emotions of people around her by adjusting her own
She can focus her emotions on one person, which is helpful for work
For instance, if she has a very vigilant target, she can focus on “calm” and make them convince themselves nothing is wrong and they’re safe
She can shift “calm” to “warm” to convince the target that they recognize her and allow her close
And from there, you know the rest
When she isn’t focusing on one person in particular, however, her emotions come off her in a kind of wave that effect everyone around her within a radius of up to seventy kilometres
This is great for childcare
If you’ve ever worked in childcare, you’ve had a room full of rowdy kids
If you’ve had a room full of rowdy kids, you’ve dreamed of a person who can walk in and calm the entire room
Korekiyo Shinguji
He’s a ghost boi
No, he’s not dead
It’s just that things you’d commonly associate with ghosts are things he can do
Icy chill in the air when he’s experiencing an intense emotion
He can close doors and knock things off the shelves without touching them as long as they’re close enough to him (50 yards at least)
He can move almost silently and can even float cleanly up to 30 feet off the ground if he wants to
He can walk through solid objects and turn intangible so attacks phase through him
He can turn invisible for up to eighteen hours
And before you ask, yes he can see ghosts
But extremely conditionally
Ghosts have to want to be seen
They also have to be around
He hasn’t been able to find his sister, but not for lack of looking
Do with that information whatever you will
Kaito Momota
He can fly
Which I know sounds underwhelming but that’s not all he can do
Not only has he clocked in at speeds of 40,000 miles per hour at his fastest, but he has a secondary power that even he didn’t know about
Due to a complete accident involving Ryoma’s portals, they discovered that Kaito doesn’t actually need to breathe
He returned three days into the search for him, as Monokuma was trying to determine how he was going to go to his grandparents and tell them that he’d lost their boy
When asked where the hell he’d been, he explained Ryoma had transported him into space and he just hadn’t wanted to leave immediately
He also learned during this trip that his gravity adjusts to the planet he’s on, but that doesn’t seem to effect him in any way
For instance, he was on Jupiter, where he weighed twice his normal weight, and he was fine
Monokuma thanked him for all his in-depth research. Then grounded him for making him worry so much and made him go apologize to Ryoma
Which he wanted to do anyway
Seriously our boi spent a solid three days certain he’d killed Kaito
Kirumi Tojo
She can cover her body in… stuff.
What kind of stuff?
Depends- what kind of stuff do you need?
If she’s being grabbed from behind, she’ll cover her entire body in tiny, thin needles, like the ones found on the plant known as Dendrocnide moroides
If she does this, she can make whoever’s grabbing her regret it for years
Whereas, if she’s being shot at, she can harden her skin with a layer of chitinous material that’s proven to be bulletproof and knife-proof
As an experiment, Monokuma asked to hook her up with some electrodes, and they discovered that she can insulate herself with something rubbery and plasticky that doesn’t conduct electricity
Having said that it was still tremendously painful and she safeworded out at about 10,000 volts
That’s a nasty caveat to her abilities- she may not take damage but she can still feel things
Gonta Gokuhara
I feel like this one goes without saying
Oh well
He can talk to bugs
And spiders
And scorpions
Basically as long as it’s tiny and creepy and weird Gonta can talk to it
When he was a child he’d spend hours chatting with butterflies, centipedes, bees, and would frequently invite them in for food and tea
Much to the horror of whoever was fostering him at the time
My best boy has bounced around almost 60 different homes in his life
They all were very interested in having a super who could just talk insects out of their homes
But they ducked out the second he started bringing bugs into their homes
Quitters and cowards the lot of them
Angie Yonaga
She can draw things into reality
What do I mean?
Imagine her, drawing a slice of pizza in her sketchbook
Nice, right?
Then she gets hungry, reaches into the book, pulls the pizza off the page and eats it
She isn’t limited to paper either, she can draw on walls, the floor, her bed, just about any surface you can think of
She also isn’t technically limited to pens and pencils
She’s never tried anything else before but technically she doesn’t need specific art tools, the drawing just needs to be made with something that makes a mark
However, this will effect the objects composition
For instance, if she drew a pair of shoes out of ketchup they’d always feel like they were full of ketchup no matter how much you cleaned them out
Kaede Akamatsu
Unlike the other protagonists before her, she knew she had a power, knew exactly what it was and knew it was extremely cool
She could come back from the dead
If you kill her, in any way shape or form, you only need to wait five minutes for her to reset
Once she resets, she’ll be completely physically fine.
Well, of course, there is one exception
Depending on the manner of death, there may be a tiny scar on her wherever it happened
For instance, if she was decapitated, there may be a thin scar around her neck from that day forward
And of course the lasting psychological damage on anyone who saw it happening
She’s fine of course
No really
She’s died over 10,000 times and she’s fine
“Robert Pattinson showed up with iPhone voice recordings and had already nailed the voice for ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’ before recording started. It was his first ever voice role and he finished in 2 days.” (source)
why is your cat green?
She’s built different 😌
I once went to my college’s cafeteria and I had just gotten some rice. Afterwards I went to another area that had fries. When the server asked what I wanted I blurted out rice without thinking. He stared at me for a solid minute before I realized my mistake.
I worked with toddlers and pre schoolers for three years. Sometimes I accidentally slip and tell a friend to say bye to an inanimate object (“say bye bus!”) & occasionally they unthinkingly just do it.