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One thing I love about what you can do with modern aged up AUs is the idea that Custas has piercings, Ininia's got hella drip, and then there's boring ass Tartah in his little collared shirts and dorky glasses just pulls up with a Decent sized Clearly Visible Tattoo and everyone is slightly taken aback because... are you good tartah??? what happened???
(Custas needs several days to process this because like shit even he hasnt gotten a tattoo yet that shit is permanent tartah what the hell-)
Be fed
Can't stop thinking about how much trouble custas and tartah are in
Like, custas isnt a Brimmed Cap really- he played the role when it was just him and ininia but that was
A). When he had an actual goal to achieve
B). When he wasnt catatonic with grief
C). When he didnt know he was hosting a life-threatening parasite
From custas' perspective he has once again been betrayed by people who claimed they wanted to help him, once again witches have lied to him; he is going to absolutely lose his mind
From the perspective of the Brimmed Caps... restys has brought them a new silverwood experiment. They are not going to treat him as an equal, as a member of the team. he will be lucky if they treat him as a person
And then there is tartah
Tartah who made an impulsive decision (an understandable one! but still!) and barely has a plan for his next steps
let's not forget, tartah still doesn't know magic! nolnoa mentioned still looking for a master to learn from at silver eve!
he knows how to distill water and reconstitute powders but... as far as we know that's it! and i highly doubt the Brimmed Caps are going to let him run around, grabbing arms and asking questions with his truth seal
at best, they'll treat him as a curiosity and agree to teach him some forbidden spells but like?? he is completely defenceless against powerful adults who have no reason to not hurt him
what will be interesting is maybe getting more of an insight into the Brimmed Cap organisation now that the two of them are there
it seems pretty loosey-goosey structurally, is iguin the defacto leader? or is this more a like-minded individuals meeting up for casual coffee and child torture?
either way
^ kids that are NOT going to be okay ^
WHA kids favorite 90s/2000s toy
Coco: American Girl Dolls OR Doodle Bear
Agott: Littlest Pet Shop OR ZhuZhu Pets
Tetia: Easy Bake Oven OR Polly Pockets
Richeh: Shrinkie dinks OR Leap Frog
Tartah: Skip-its
Jujy: Tamagotchi
Euini: IDog OR Etch-A-Sketch
Custas: Beyblade
Custas but with Twisted -- For your consideration
For context of the song: the mc has been trying to do the right thing the entire musical but is only hated and blamed so hes like Alright Fuck It im going to do the right thing through underhanded means (kinda) and Im going to make us have a happy ending regardless of how you've treated me. We are all getting out of this because I refuse to not save you, but also Fuck You
Yeah so Custas said his birthday means nothing and he'd rather celebrate the day Coco, Tartah and him became friends:::: is that still the move Custas?
Imagine after everything that's happened since his last birthday, Tartah is the only one who knows the day who can reach him anymore and, despite laying low due to their current manga status, goes and buys him a treat and tries to sing to him but Custas rejects it, unable to accept that he's continuing to grow older when the person he loved most can't.
I wonder, because Custas mentioned celebrating their friendship, if he will be hyperaware of when that day comes, having committed it to memory long ago because at the time it made him so happy to think about.
Another WHA kids musical idea~ I might try to draw art for it but... Me and drawing arent friends
Imagine the kids needing to all participate in a Beauty and the Beast play. Agott gets cast as Beast and Yes she is upset that her past experience and talent doesn't lead her to Belle because Coco got it. After back and forth, they change the Beast to being just a scary Warlock and Belle's love of books is a love of magic.
Tetia is Gaston and she Loves the role however they do once again rewrite it because she thinks Gaston should apologize for being mean and be thanked for helping them in the end. The audience is confused but the kids are happy with the change!
Richeh doesn't want to be there, so she is the old witch in the beginning and just chills in the blue Snuggie she wore, playing videogames offstage the rest of the performance.
Custas and Tartah are lumiere and cogsworth. Custas is constantly running around with his arms bound in his costume and Tartah keeps warning him he will get hurt. Custas falls off the stage or something at one point and Tartah decides he won't be cogsworth without his lumiere (he doesnt like being center stage that much and Custas deflected attention from him well; plus he feels really bad continuing without him), so they have to scramble to find two people to fill the position.
In the end they do find someone, but first they are like well. Qifrey and Olruggio Help. And they make the mistake of making Qifrey lumiere at first because hes nice and sweet outwardly to them, but after seeing the most depressing, unenthused rendition of Be Our Guest they decide they gotta find some other people to fulfill the role...
Jujy is Mrs. Potts and she also has costume struggles and almost falls a lot when shes learning how to work it, but overall has fun and likes not being a lead. Euini is her Chip and also the "scary wolf" that leads Belle to the castle. He's later given the Lumiere position (its not the best upgrade from Qifrey..) and Richeh becomes Cogsworth wnd shes Not happy about it.
On the topic of Tartah being one of the funniest characters in WHA-- When Coco is in the hospital in the early manga, he tells her he "doesn't really draw".
Now, Coco not drawing much in the past? Valid
But Tartah, you actively wanted to be a witch??? and you haven't tried drawing much?? you make wands on your freetime and you don't??? draw??? much??? And yes, when we meet Tartah he's withdrawn, to himself, hopeless... but if you still have that desire to learn magic, you didn't put the effort into the skill? And yes, he does make his slyph shoes and begins studying soon after (without a master mind you so he really could have been just practicing or studying before because Tartah can also be a bit stubborn (not a Lot stubborn but a little-)) and yes this is lowkey a callout post on Tartah you little Shit but its Also a post about passion.
Tartah grew up with the belief he'd never become a witch, yes, but he also grew up with the support of his grandpa and all the tools at his disposal should he use them. The fact that he takes to medicinal needs more and actively pursues that with more interest (imo) than magic shows he was never going to be satisfied or happy as a witch as they are (pacthoes).
I don't know, seeing that scene again from the anime made me pause cuz like... what do you mean son? it makes me remember how blinded we can be when led to believe in one certainty/one path, so much so that it's our Identity before we even become it, but then if say silverwash eyes come into play? You've already lost who you were and who you'd become. In a way, I think that arc is just Tartah believing he can be something again/believe in himself, and it really had little to do with his love of magic even if he did start learning it afterward. NOT SAYING HE WONT CONTINUE TO LEARN MAGIC but I will say its not his passion and is something he Thinks he should do. Idk. The vibes of this child make me chuckle like a rich man at a golf course, politely clapping and saying "oh yes, oh how swell"
I've always interpreted Tartah saying he "doesn't really draw" as him avoiding those parts of being a witch due to how inaccessible it felt.
Even if you do have the passion for something, being told your "not good at it" or that you can't become good at it, like Tartah was, can really kill your motivation to even try. Even if he has the supplies, the passion and the ability to draw, if it's already been hammered into him by the adults in his life that his silverwash will keep him from being a good witch, then what's the point of even trying? Why put in the effort to practice if it's never going to amount to anything? He'd be better off spending his time doing things that he's been taught that he can do well, like carving pens.
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This is a take I actually didn't see-- You put in your tags that this interpretation could be from personal experience with similar feelings: I also based mine on personal struggles and it's so interesting how we both drew completely different conclusions ! Human experience and sharing is a gift aaa.
I genuinely didn't even consider he'd just Not do it if it mattered to him. When passion calls, no matter how fruitless the endeavor or how "useful/good" it might be, I just figured it was second instinct? Like it might depress you, beat you down, remind you of what you can't do, but in the end you'll keep going back to it and doing it anyways because even if others don't see it, it's you?
I'm not suggesting I disagree tho, I love your idea but Im also like processing this thought wave and its delicious haha suffer little boy >:D
I need to go sit in a quiet room for now because genuinely was ruminating the past day like "dude how would he not be drawing regardless of Insert Here". I need to dip into a new perspective. Thank you!
On the topic of Tartah being one of the funniest characters in WHA-- When Coco is in the hospital in the early manga, he tells her he "doesn't really draw".
Now, Coco not drawing much in the past? Valid
But Tartah, you actively wanted to be a witch??? and you haven't tried drawing much?? you make wands on your freetime and you don't??? draw??? much??? And yes, when we meet Tartah he's withdrawn, to himself, hopeless... but if you still have that desire to learn magic, you didn't put the effort into the skill? And yes, he does make his slyph shoes and begins studying soon after (without a master mind you so he really could have been just practicing or studying before because Tartah can also be a bit stubborn (not a Lot stubborn but a little-)) and yes this is lowkey a callout post on Tartah you little Shit but its Also a post about passion.
Tartah grew up with the belief he'd never become a witch, yes, but he also grew up with the support of his grandpa and all the tools at his disposal should he use them. The fact that he takes to medicinal needs more and actively pursues that with more interest (imo) than magic shows he was never going to be satisfied or happy as a witch as they are (pacthoes).
I don't know, seeing that scene again from the anime made me pause cuz like... what do you mean son? it makes me remember how blinded we can be when led to believe in one certainty/one path, so much so that it's our Identity before we even become it, but then if say silverwash eyes come into play? You've already lost who you were and who you'd become. In a way, I think that arc is just Tartah believing he can be something again/believe in himself, and it really had little to do with his love of magic even if he did start learning it afterward. NOT SAYING HE WONT CONTINUE TO LEARN MAGIC but I will say its not his passion and is something he Thinks he should do. Idk. The vibes of this child make me chuckle like a rich man at a golf course, politely clapping and saying "oh yes, oh how swell"
Imagine Tartah using his carving knife to cut Custas' apples back at the hospital because they made his friend happy. Custas also rates them and how they taste based on how nice they turn out (he never scores them below an 8).
one day ill write a past canon fic ish thats custas trying to gauge tartah on his crush/kiss factor like
Custas: .... so ever thought of kissing a guy?
Tartah: ? No, not really. That's out of nowhere
Custas:
Custas, who thought they've been dancing around a relationship for months: is... is it really?
Tartah: Yeah, besides, I haven't actually.. you know,,, kissed anyo--
Custas: Yeah thats not a surprise but are you SURE about--
the way i just realized of the 46 custah fics on ao3 I have created just over 25% of them. the parasites. the parasites keep telling me to write them.
Tetia: Don't worry, Coco! I went to Mad At You Island and none of your friends were there!
Coco: .... Why were you at Mad At Me Island? 🥺
my contributed thoughts to the popular wha band aus was Custas teaching Tartah how to play the bass and him thinking Tartah is going to join his band (he doesnt talk directly about this and just Assumes), but Tartah promised to learn the bass for Coco's band. So eventually they have to face in a battle of the bands and Custas feels Betrayed his boyfriend just??? used him???
And his anger is mostly bitterness and sadness, and his band does 'angry' songs so hes like fuck it. Can i write the song for the competition. And Yeah it comes out more upbeat and gentle sounding than their usual MO but literally no one is surprised and Ininia is just like. Whatever pass the lyrics
And Custas keeps trying to shit talk and be a jerk while feeling a Little guilty, but then competition day comes and Tartah helps him in a last minute emergency and hes like 🥺 and just goes up to Ininia like 🥺👉👈 and shes like you Cant Be Serious
but yeah last minute he changes his hit piece Somewhat and its the equivelent of Seven Things by Miley Cyrus and again the band is Not surprised and Tartah is listening until the end and approaching Custas off stage like ... so that was your apology? and Custas is like Yep letsnottalkaboutthiseverokwanttoateagain? and Tartah's like yeah just don't get your head in your ass next time Want to watch us perform? and custas is front row cheering for them
i know you have your custah middle school au stuff but ive been thinking a lot about how their relationship would be in a high school setting and how it would develop from middle school and was wondering if you had any thoughts on that as well.
(honestly lol i think more about hs au myself due to my own hc that custas wasnt actually in school when he met tartah. he entered middle school officially rather late.
in the final year(ish) of when custas was in middle school he really only had tartah. he only started getting close to coco and his other friends near the end of it and the start of hs. i like thinking about how tartah and custas both formed their own little friend groups in hs and how the addition of others would affect their own relationship since they were so used to mainly really only being dependent on each other.
im sure even in hs they still are in a way. they talk to each other about things they wouldnt tell anyone else. and as two disabled kids are able to understand each other much more deeply. but the truth of the matter is they dont need to be with/rely on each other all the time. they havent grown a part or anything there are just other variables now. its probably the want to be with each other constantly and do things they wouldnt normally do with others that makes them realize the feelings they have are romantic.
with custas at least he had never had a crush on anyone before so he had nothing to compare it to. he always thought tartah was different but after he started making other friends was when he realized just how different tartah was to him. tartah had his little crush on coco during middle school but it was mainly one of admiration. the way he experiences romantic feelings for custas are very different than with coco and he probably went back and forth on if it was even romantic at all. it wasn't until his crush on coco died down in hs that he realized. oh. i am in love with him oh no what do i do.)
SO HAHAH i didnt see this Notification but!!! this aligns with how I have my AU too! In mine they are in 8th grade, Custas has more of admiration toward Tartah than anything in the beginning (Im posting thim meeting the others soon ajdhwjwn). I feel like I agree with Custas not being able to Tell romantic feelings well both from his age and Dagda (cupio/ace icon to me) not giving him examples in their lives because he doesn't date anyone. Upon figuring it out, I think Custas would be a bit of a romantic: he's stuck between teasing/bullying type crush behavior and being sweet/cute toward a crush, so it's a weird back and forth that seems Confusing to outsiders looking in.
And Tartah 100% doesn't have the foggiest clue. He's got a puppylove for Coco, but anything beyond that is lost on the boy. I feel like he'd be able to tell he feels more deeply for Custas, but that he'd be utterly lost on why that is beyond that he's a good friend. I feel like after being rejected or having things go south with Coco whether that's just the feeling gradually dulling or Agott or just something else-- he'd mope a little but be relatively Fine because the feelings weren't That deep, unlike with his best friend of a year who he shares secrets with, hangs with all the time, relates to.... I feel like Tartah would have a hard time thinking anyone would have a crush on him as well, so this kid truly blind to the guy metaphorically waving his arms in the air with a pick me sign
