I Really Like Some The Totem Of Healing Headcanon Where It Stitches Your Body Together While You’re

I know bad said coma and other people are saying dead but I’d like to think lore wise that Dapper and Pomme just went off to college or on their own adventure 💕 Bbh used to joke that donations went to Dapper’s college fund

I wish the admins the very best and I think they’re so brave to tell us why and how they’re leaving. I really hope to see more of them and to get to know them better out of role play

Beginning of Main Storyline:

The main storyline for my little maladaptive daydream vampire AU follows Tubbo, a troubled human who tends to get in even more trouble for petty crimes. He takes up a dangerous job working as a “bloodbag” and runner for a non-legal coven. 

Essentially, in exchange for money and protection, he exchanges his blood and runs, often less than legal errands, for a dangerous group of vampires. Quesadilla Island is quite strict against vampires, but will often recognize covens in order to better keep an eye on them. Covens that are legally recognized have to pay specific taxes and perform specific duties to the government in order to live peacefully and have access to ethical blood sources. 

Covens that fly under the goverment radar are often dangerous and most notoriously obtain blood from unethical sources, like down on their luck adults or even teenagers. In Tubbo’s case, the coven he affiliates with is one of the more dangerous ones.

It’s actually not fully fleshed out in my mind, because I spent more time thinking about the origins to vampires or later story stuff, but it would probably be a bit funny if the leader of Tubbo’s coven was Tommy. Tommy is a powerful progeny of a long dead original vampire called Envy. 

I can explain the power scaling and vampire hierarchy later. 

Tubbo gets caught blood running and is taken into government custody. After some court trials, they find his case sympathetic as he had grown up in a group home and had joined the coven as a teenager. 

The government means to sentence him to a rehabilitation center, which is basically just a slightly nicer prison with more social and psychological rewiring, but accidentally mess up the paperwork. The government is busy and kind of a hot mess when it comes to humanitarian aide. They mark him as a lone, fledgling vampire by accident and ship him off to be assimilated into a government approved coven. 

Tubbo gets forcefully escorted into a train and rides it, a very long and uncomfortable journey, to the very north of the archipelago. The weather here is dreary almost all year and experiences harsh winters. The summers, fortunately, are beautiful. Too bad Tubbo gets there in the beginning of autumn.

Tubbo considers trying to make his way back to his coven, but he doesn’t really want to. Before his arrest, Tommy had begun to get more and more possessive over him, becoming furious if anybody else were to feed from him. Tommy began to talk about how he’d turn Tubbo soon, something Tubbo didn’t want. When he expressed his displeasure, Tommy would just laugh. Also, Tubbo literally had no money of his own. He did skim some of the covens cash for emergencies, however that was repossessed from the island.

At this point Tubbo realized that they sent him to the wrong place, especially since he was being unassisted after leaving the train. He comes to the conclusion that they must’ve sent him to a different social service and decides to see what it can do for him because he’s certain they can’t force him to stay if he doesn’t have an agent with him. He goes to the address and has to walk miles into the woods. This furthers his decision to stay because he physically wouldn’t be able to sleep outside with the lack of resources he has on hand: none.

After walking all day in the rain, Tubbo finally reaches the address: an old Victorian building of notable size. If he were to guess, a decommissioned hospital repurposed into housing. He knocks and is very surprised to have Badboyhalo open it, an ancient vampire. Bad is equally surprised as he was expecting a young vampire and not a fleshy human. He welcomes him in, nonetheless.

Bad explains that his coven is one intended to take in abandoned fledgling vampires and lone vampires who either need help or are ones that the government won’t allow to exist outside of a coven. Tubbo is a bit surprised to find the place so… homey. The only experience he had with vampires formerly were desperate hungry ones. Also Tommy’s covens’ headquarters were in an abandon underground subway. 

The cushy, mostly vintage decor, roaring fireplace, mood lighting, and lack of bloodstains really made all the difference. He’s also surprised to find that Bad puts out a small platter of muffins and tea. While vampires can digest human food in small doses, those in Tubbo’s former coven rarely engaged.

Bad asks Tubbo how he ended up in a coven house and listens patiently as Tubbo relays his story. He decides to be honest, as Tommy had the uncanny ability to almost always be able to tell when he lied. He doesn’t want to repeat that mistake with Bad, in case he has a similarl ability. Being around Bad, and in a house full of unfamiliar vampires makes Tubbo incredibly anxious and paranoid. 

But Bad is kindly in demeanor and makes no move to turn Tubbo into a pre dinner snack. When Tubbo finishes his story Bad offers him the opportunity to stay, empathizing with Tubbo over their shitty government and even worse “social programs”. He promises that nobody in the house with feed from Tubbo.

Tubbo accepts, deciding that he’s probably dead if he returns to Tommy, and that if he dies here at least the government knows where he went. If he goes with Bad’s plan too, his record with be effectively swept clean. 

It takes Tubbo some time, but he quickly warms up to the residents of the house. It’s also just an incredibly nice place and Bad has an eye for furniture. What truely let’s Tubbo put down his guard is the gaggle of bratty child fledgling vampires who are too honest for politeness sake. I think it would be Dapper, Pomme, and Richas. They tell Tubbo that they wouldn’t want to try his blood because it smells anemic and foul. They also explain that they’re well fed enough to not even really consider it anyways. Their hunting urges are met in the woods, where they help control deer populations as well as others. 

Tubbo settles in well, getting along great with the members of Bad’s coven, Cellbit and Bagi, then probably all of the French. I’ll explain specifics in another post. All is well until… it’s not :). But for now, I want to talk about my B-plot. 

Who left a letter written in the enderman language in Sir Francis Drakes’ estate and why are you calling me a homosexual?

it’s so funny that Tubbo and bbh are out and about, bleeding, fighting

and then Tina is back at the base trying to therapize missa who’s already losing his nerve

“apple boy”

all equally important work

how do we feel about CatBoyHalo as a username?

in hindsight I think I would make Four’s grandpa a physical therapist for weapons instead of a blacksmith. Are there even blacksmiths in soul eater? 😭

I think him being a weapon specific physical therapist would be kind of a fun play on him being a blacksmith in other stuff, they both work with weapons, and it would make sense for him to be able to help out four

LU Soul Eater AU: Four

I must admit, Four has a really edgy 2014 lab AU that I spent too much time thinking about. I did have fun though so here’s his backstory and a trigger warning for unethical human experimentation. I don’t think it’s anything more graphic than what would be in Soul Eater.

A small disclaimer: I’m going mostly off of what I remember from the manga for any sense of canon, I haven’t had the privilege of playing the game yet. 😔

I think I mentioned before, but each of Four’s colors are a different type of knife. Together they’re able form the four sword.

Green is a machete. 

I decided on that for him because I think that machetes look really dangerous, showing up in a lot of horror media, and can cause a lot of harm, but that is not what they are meant for. Machetes are meant for clearing bush and foliage away to clear paths through forest or jungle. They can be used to obtain resources. A trailblazer or leader might use this knife. Green grew up with his father who was a captain in the royal guard. Green was being groomed as a weapon for the Princess Dot. Upon manifesting as a machete, a lot of people, especially Green’s own father, were disappointed and believed him to be a poor weapon for a princess looking crude and brutal. Together, Dot and Green proved the masses wrong, with them both proving themselves as leaders before fighters. 

Vio is a throwing knife. 

Vio is a child runaway. I can’t figure out what would be a good reason for him to run or what his family would be like, but I imagine he learned a dangerous secret. I also like to think that despite Vio being very smart, he can be unreasonable and is able to rationalize himself into making bad choices. He’s a throwing knife because it takes a lot of learning and skill to be able to wield a weapon such as that. It also takes something crazy to throw your weapon away from you and be able to rely on it to return. Vio can be recalled by his meister, but it has to be of his own accord. He can also control his flight to some degree. Up until the events I’ll describe in a minute, he had never been wielded before.

Blue is a trench knife.

In the background of the events during my story, there’s a war raging in the background that’s much more prevalent in Warrior’s story. This has caused a lot of children to be orphaned, Blue included. He grows up in a poorly funded orphanage and gets into a lot of fights growing up. I chose a trench knife for Blue because it is a very brutal weapon, something which I think he can be. It’s also a weapon that when you use, you know that you are aiming to really hurt your opponent and that you have to get really close to do so. There are also two main ways to use a trench knife, the blade, ofc, and the brass knuckles which I think kind of show how Blue thinks outside the box, especially in combat. It’s also a weapon that’s mean to be used when your back is against the wall.

Red is a Switchblade.

Red also grew up in an orphanage also due to the war. He and Blue grew up in the same place but weren’t close with each other. He definitely grew up more of a lover having a high level of empathy. Despite being picked on, maybe bullied a bit, Red is the type of person who never wants to hurt somebody else even in self defense. I chose the switchblade for Red because it kind of conceals its nature most of the time hiding in a sheath. A switchblade is a weapon that has to be used in close quarters, but unlike Blue’s trench knife, the opponent might not even recognize it as a weapon until it’s too late. Switchblades are spring loaded and fast, but by pressing a button, the user has a lot of choice before they use it. I think Red would be able to stop himself from being triggered in his weapon form if he tried hard enough.

All of the four were born in the same year, all being roughly the same age. (Yay this means I can choose their zodiacs!) When they were all 11, each of them were kidnapped in the same winter by a witch called Vaati. Vio was first, being a homeless child he was hungry enough to be lured in by the prospect of working for food and board. This later would be something he feels ashamed of thinking himself more clever than that. Next would be Red who thought he was helping an elderly woman carry her groceries home… into a dark alleyway. Blue would be next, probably just being classically kidnapped after he poked around somewhere shady. Green would be the last, going on a personal mission to investigate the rapid disappearance of kids from the city he lived in. 

Vaati is a witch who is trying to make weaker weapons stronger in order to arm the army of the ancient evil (ganon) that he and many other witches are trying to revive.  For his first experiment, he wants to fuse several small/young weapons into one big stronger one. He chose the four because they’re young enough to be malleable but old enough to actually be able to turn into their weapons. They also conveniently have a lot in common, age, gender, and weapon type which Vaati thinks will make it easier to fuse them.

Vaati begins a series of experiments that don’t really seem to make sense to the four. He’ll force them all to work together to complete puzzles only to rip them apart for the next few. Vio, who’s been there the longest, plays along well knowing what to expect. Green, who’s been training already for a long time, doesn't struggle too much with physical or mental challenges. Red and Blue however struggle a lot causing Vaati to use crueler and crueler experiments to get them to obey.

Vaati’s struggle with Red and Blue resides in that Blue fights back the most and is actually quite brawny for a tween and Red won’t fight at all refusing to take his weapon form and even if he does, he won’t unsheath. Blue is something Vaati must subdue and break in. Red is something to trigger. He routinely exposes them to extreme temperatures, Blue the cold and Red the heat, and subjects them to frightening simulations. (I’m basing this off the manga with blue being frozen, red in the burning village, the giant poe)

Most confusingly, he makes the four wield each other which is not natural/impossible for weapons to do. Vaati achieves this with the help of magic.

Vaati works using his own son Shadow as an assistant. Shadow is a similar age as the boys and enjoys the power he gets to lord over them. Secretly, he’s really happy to have so many other kids around. That being said. He hasn’t been properly socialized so his idea of trying to play with them is just by mildly tormenting them. 

Vio is the first to start befriending Shadow. Like in the manga, he does this with the intention of later betraying him, planning on using him as means to escape. He unexpectedly begins to genuinely like Shadow and starts to experience extreme guilt in thinking about what he’s going to do. Nevertheless, Vio begins to start faking Stockholm syndrome. This is really confusing for the rest of the boys. Blue thinks that Vio is bad person and is actually siding with Vaati. This leads to a fight between them that results in Vio being separated from the rest of the boys. (I didn’t mention it but they’re usually locked in the same room between experiments.) Red believes that Vio actually has Stockholm syndrome and feels really bad for him. Green can see through Vios' plan but just thinks that it’s a really bad idea. He doesn’t say anything though because he doesn’t want to ruin it for him just in case it does work. 

Red is the next to befriend Shadow, though it’s unintentional. Despite everything, Red does his best to remain kind, maybe not so much to Vaati, but to Shadow, sure. Red thinks that Shadow is just a brainwashed kid, which he’s kind of right about. Shadow starts to like Red because he’ll go along with any game he wants to play. 

Green falls after Red gets more chill with Shadow. The games they play look fun and Green really didn’t have a lot of chances to play growing up. He starts to take a page from Vio’s book, trying to pry information where he can from Shadow. Somehow he feels less bad about this than Vio does. 

Blue thinks everyone is going crazy in here so he takes to verbally bullying Shadow whenever he swings by. Shadow, being a weirdo, thinks that it’s a form of banter so he just bullies Blue back. Unexpectedly, and to his own horror, Blue finds it really fun to be able to have a witty back and forth with somebody who can match his level.

Shadow for the first month or two is really his dad kidnapped people his age. It’s so FUN having people to play with! He even has a best friend now in Vio. He doesn’t really think about the implications of his dad hurting his new friends, and his role in that, until they start acting different. 

Vio starts having panic attacks (out of nowhere!/s) and can take hours or even days to calm down rendering him unable to even speak. This is the first thing that rattles Shadow. It’s the first time he felt hurt seeing somebody else hurt. His attempts to calm Vio down begin selfishly, wanting him to stop acting weird and to start acting like his best friend again. Eventually it turns into genuine and raw concern. Shadow, for the first time, feels bad because somebody else does. He starts just really wanting Vio to be okay. 

His other playmates start breaking down too. Red is too exhausted now to play. He sleeps most of the day away and when he’s awake he’s too shaky and weak to do anything. Blue becomes dissonant, stuck staring at walls. He won’t respond to even the strongest of Shadow’s remarks. Green is caught between caring for the other two. He becomes too busy to try and pry information out of Shadow.

Then a day comes where Vaati gathers each boy and throws them into the middle of a collection of runes drawn on the ground with a combination of their blood. A flash and they’re all rendered into their weapon states, unwillingly. After a few moments there’s another flash and only a single weapon remains. The Four Sword. When the weapon takes its human form back, only one terrified boy stands sharing features of the four that formed it. 

Despite Vaati’s satisfaction, Shadow feels that something REALLY wrong just happened, and it did. He later visits “Four. Four is shell shocked, barely able to walk, confused, and really, REALLY scared. He looks at Shadow and begs him to let him out. Shadow obliges.

Picking up the newly formed Four sword, Shadow vanquishes his own father and runs with his new friend Four. Shadow was greatly wounded in the fight, his father cursing him to never stand in sunlight. Four is traumatized and so confused. He decides to go to Green’s father, now technically Four’s father, unsure of where else to go. 

The two boys tell the story to Four’s dad and a proper raid is unleashed on Vaati’s lab, leaving out the parts where Shadow was Vaati’s accomplice for most of the time. No body is found. Four’s father tries to defuse him, which just terrifies him. Shadow gets some medical treatment but most people don’t want to treat him, as he was Vaati’s son. 

Four’s father, unsure what to do with two traumatized children, dumps them on his father, Four’s grandfather who lives out of town as a blacksmith. There they all heal and after a few years learn to defuse. They’ve all spent so much time together though that they can’t bare to part. They are literally part of each other now. Green’s father decides to give them all knight training and Shadow learns how to wield each of them and Four properly. They all know how to wield each other too but this is uncanny for a lot of people. Weapons wielding weapons… 

Shadow goes missing at the end of a dangerous mission. All too soon, Four is called to accompany 8 others on a holy quest. He sets out determined to save the world and his best friend. 

And that’s Four 😭 goodness that ended up a lot longer than I expected. 

Please, and I’m begging 🙏🙏🙏, let me know what you think, your own headcanons, critiques, questions, ANYTHING. And who you’d like to see next! 

Thank you 💕

Do you guys think Legend, the only other person in the chain who’s (canonically?) aware of the Bible, saw Hyrule walk on water and just

😟

Reading amazing fanfiction, then forgetting to bookmark it

tbh, I’m not voting based off politics at all

Baghera is, to me, the obvious choice. She’s smart, reasonable, and well intentioned, BUT. Is there drama with her winning? I believe woman but she’s just too good of a choice. I’m too messy for that.

Badboyhalo is my personal bbg, but I’m so worried he might go villain mode and my heart can’t take that 💔 I know he’s not the same as c!bbh but if he brings Skeppy in I think we all know how easily he can be manipulated and made to be the bad guy. Even without Skeppy, what if they hold Dapper at stake? Bbh is too kind hearted 🥀 I can’t watch my fav be made to be a bad guy. I do want him exposed to the horrors tho

and then Gegg… Gegg might take the cake for me not bc of his policies or Gegg swag, but bc.. who would he bring in? What if he revives Tilin or Juanaflipa and his person? Also I just miss Charlie

downloading a fic when ao3 dies (when you have the link)

looks like ao3 is down again and i was in the middle of a multi chapter fic when it died on me.

and if that happens to you, this is what you can do to download the fic:

copy paste https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/fic.html in your browser url

replace the pink bit with the number right after /works (that's the work id)

for instance, in https://archiveofourown.org/works/44970790/chapters/113154673 the highlighted bit (44970790) would be the number you swap for the 0s

the download link will look like https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/44970790/fic.html

if you want the fic to be downloaded as an epub instead, use .epub at the end of that link

it should start downloading on your device

i'm sure a bunch of people know this and use it but in case you don't, hope this helps