home of the cold weather verse

hiii this is the Tumblr for my ii au, Cold Weather! call me bulb :)

[coldweatherau]

HI GUYS WELCOME TO THE BLOG!!

My name's Bulb aka @brightestbulbinthebox and THIS is the now official blog for my AU, Cold Weather!

Cold weather is an Inanimate Insanity AU I've been working on for around. Gosh. 7 months now. It's so so so SO very important to me and just a huge passion project I've had the honor of actually being able to realize in the form of a fanfic!!! Check it out :3

Why make this blog?

Because everyone has their cool au blogs and I want one too okay 😢 that and so I can post fanart and update notices on a dedicated blog rather than my general osc blog :P

Can I ask questions?

OF COURSE YOU CAN!!! PLEASE DO!!!! I THRIVE off of engagement I always finish fics faster when people show me they careeee :3 I wouldn't reccomend asking spoilery questions though!!

Is there a playlist for this fic?

WHY THANK YOU FOR ASKING DEAR READER AND DEFINITELY NOT MYSELF IN A DESIRE TO SHARE MY PLAYLIST. YES!!!! THERE IS!!!! YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO IT!!!!!

Character Bios! (More TBA)

Main Characters:

Pierce Chavez

Liv Soler Hernandez

Tess Pramanik (TBA)

Fabian Liang (TBA)

Major Characters:

TBA

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Fun Fact about the AU: HMPS is very private about their personal lives and identities. They wear heavy makeup and hair dye for every performance (Metag wears a straight up mask and glasses) in order to hide themselves better. Only super fans would probably be able to spot a HMPS member out of makeup (*COUGHS* Fabian).

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This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

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team heavy metal pop stars

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Fun Facts about the AU: Liv has an ex-boyfriend. This is unfortunately extremely relevant to the lore.

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Did anything happen to Fabian? Like... to make him feel like he's feeling right now.

Look idk what to ask I just want anything Fan related this time II IV 6 threw bricks at us with machine guns and didn't even kiss them 💔

I have no idea what you're talking about. If you're talking about his blank expression in the most recent chapter, then that's spoilers. Yer about to find out within the next 3 or so chapters.

If you're talking about anything that has to do with II IV 6, then i regret to inform u that cold weather is completely separated from the original inanimate insanity series. Nothing that happens to Fan in canon will affect Fabian's story unless I can add it in. Such as the burn marks- coughs what who said that

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Fun Fact about the AU: Liv, Tess, Fabian, and Pierce have all met each other individually at least once before in their lives, before actually introducing themselves to one another.* None of them remember these meetings.

*with the exception of Liv & Tess, who went to the same school together and have known each other since elementary.

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There are many people who don’t share this sentiment, but I have an appreciation for when a fanfic is so separated from canon that it could’ve easily been its own original novel, and yet the author was only ever going to put that much energy into it if their favourite characters got to be there

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I think there’s a difference between “the author stripped the media of everything it had to replace it with something easy” and “the author thought up a concept they really really like and are bestowing it upon the character like a medal”

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Fun Facts about the AU: Characters' Favorite songs (as of Chapter 4)!!

Pierce: bedroom community. They listened to it once and thought it was good but quickly became obsessed with it around the beginning of their second year, thanks to Fabian. When you ask them why, they kinda blank out, and start acting weird, so Fabian decided it was probably a personal thing. (It is.)

Fabian: biased towards any Lightbulb song. She's his favorite member of the band, of course he's gonna like the songs she writes, but his personal favorite is "the same." He feels a sense of solidarity with the lyrics.

Tess: glass beach and blood rivers. She was there for its production, and found out that the lyrics were about her (hey btw this is just for the fic okay? Okay. I #loveglassbeach), so she feels a very strong attachment to it.

Bea: puppy princess. She feels a primal connection to this fuckass song it's bad dog. There was ONE girl so far that she fell head over heels in love with, and after that she blasted this song to the high heavens while crying after finding out said girl had a girlfriend already. And then that girl died, so now she listens to it to remember that sickly sweet feeling she had. what could have been if she had just. Gone for it. If they could have been friends.

Box: Intruso. For an extremely long time she'd been struggling with dissociation to the point of not remembering a huge part of her life, and that song captures how she felt about herself during that time. She's not the best at spanish, but what little she can understand + the translated lyrics make her ill. Her favorite fun song is Love Of My Dreams.

Liv: very big fan of the way she wrote Yoshi's island. It's one of her favorite songs to perform to this day.

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Pierce and Fabian are roommates, but is Fabian also on Pierce's art college? Did they just ended up falling on the same room because of the fanfic's destiny??? If Fabian is not on Pierce's art college, what is he studying for?

I am very normal about this fanfic I swear

Pierce doesn't go to art college, they go to a college that happens to have a robust arts program. Fabian goes to the same college and is a Communications major (with a focus on journalism) and is working on a minor in Digital Media. They both became roommates by chance, but actually were (just barely) acquainted with one another before becoming roomates

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TIME TO BOMBARD YOU WITH ASKS!!!!!!!

Have Tess and Fabian met irl? Iirc Liv and Fabian haven't met irl or else Fabian would be "OH MY GOD YOU'RE THE LIV?" "Heh did you know I know Liv. From the band." And shit like that

Liv and Tess ofc met irl, they're school friends iirc? But have Tess and Fabian ever met irl? If they did, how was it? If they didn't, how would it be?

- Yes, Tess and Fabian have met irl. They both live on the other side of the country (and they both have college) so it's hard to see each other often, but they try their best to make it work

- Fabian has no idea who Light is despite knowing her online persona for literal years at this point and has been trying to meet with her for a long time now. Light keeps pushing it off and Fabian has no idea why :(

- Liv and Tess have known each other since before Liv got famous, all the way back in elementary/middle school. They've been through... A lot! Together! A fuck ton together.

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'We have Enough Dead Friends --- Lena Oleanderson' thank you @lena-oleanderson for making this poem, was a good read!

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Bio for Lightbulb aka Liv in the au!!

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bio for painty aka pierce in the au :3