I request a sort of ‘Au Discussion’ of sorts. An au of your au. Because I am odd and my mind wont drop the concept.(My mind is all over the place so pls bear with me)
There is a genre of media that I love and adore! In simple terms i refer to it as ‘Borrower au’s. If your willing to search it and risk seeing nsfw it is called Micro/Macro. I believe the softer versions are called Giant/Tiny or G/T (i havent looked much into the specifics. i just skim the edges). These have characters that very obviously -as im sure you can guess based off of the name- have extreme hight differences. And specifically, ‘Borrowers’ originate from a book series that center around a family of three ,that live in the walls of human. The three of which “borrow” supplies needed to survive.
There have been many movies that expand on this concept. One even being a studio Ghibli production, “The secret life of Ariettie” (i def spelled it wrong).
NOW!! Ive gotten my hyperfixation speal out of the way; my curiosity is:
What if Soleil and Atlas’ Yn was a variant of Borrower? A humanoid person that is no taller than a few inches. Whom lives in the walls.
I am unsure how yn met Atlas and Soleil in KYwK (and I shall ask that separately), But I assume that it wouldnt at all the same with y/n being confined to a single space. Would Y/n origonally be hidden in Soleil’s familial home? Or would they be living at the walls of the university? Or simply, a random house that ‘Sun and Moon’ visited during a spree?
*oo now that would be interesting. It would be a whole other story pace!! With all the party goers murdered, the small borrower!yn tried to get out of the house. Only to stumble in the dark and land amist either sun or moons things and end up getting carried off back to their apartment. Dang that raises so much more possibilities!! i might have to just spit all of the possibilities down in a notes tab to get it out of my mind!
oh oh! but one more specific question on the borrower!yn subject!
Would borrower!yn just be killed by Soleil and/or Atlas? if so, Why? (i have many theories but im rambling)
Final note: Borrowers are not normally considered dirty. Only the ones who live outside may seem so very obviously. Borrowers usually have sophisticated outfits and living conditions where they ‘jerry rig’ things made for larger beings into more manageable items of their needs. i.e a needle as a sword. a fishing hook as a grappling hook. thread as rope, etc.
I actually know of Borrowers from Studio Ghibli's film "The Secret Life of Arrietty"!! I really love that film, it was lovely! I do know of a good amount of Studio Ghibli films, so I at least have that in the bag! I don't really look at much Micro/Macro or Giant/Tiny media, but I know it exists out there. And the concepts of Borrowers is really fun to me!
I feel like Borrower Reader would probably most likely be from Soleil's family home! And the meeting would be completely different! I feel like Soleil would probably see the reader one day and just scream before he got the chance to show Atlas and I think even Atlas would be very confused and not know what to do. You are so small and they think they are both hallucinating. But no, when Atlas gets a hold of you, you are definitely real, and he doesn't know what to do because why are there people so small in your house, Soleil? And Soleil doesn't know what to say to that.
If they were part of the homes of one of the sprees and got caught on one of Sun and Moon's things to bring back home for them to go back into Soleil and Atlas, I think they would be very very surprised to see little you in their things. Atlas probably has to assure Soleil that you are not a bug. But he doesn't know what you are and you probably just witnessed them killing a bunch of people, so probably a rocky start! it would be a whole different type of fic! And very interesting, too!
And no! They would not kill you. I don't think Atlas would have it in him to kill you honestly because you are just so small and helpless and he would honestly feel really bad if he just killed a random innocent not related to anything. Soleil wouldn't do it either because "Attie! They are just a little person! They've never done anything wrong; we can't hurt them!!"
They would probably try to take care of you because, well, what else would they do. They try to talk to you and figure out more about you and show you that (even though they kill people) they are harmless to you! Just don't walk on the floor when they are walking around because they are already giants to normal sized people. You are so tiny it would take nothing for them to accidentally squash you. I think Soleil would work really hard trying to make little clothes for you while Atlas would try to figure out how to cook for someone so tiny. They would probably work on projects to make life in their apartment more livable for you and would let you see that outside their apartment is unfortunately not going to be very good for you to roam around. They might take you places in their pockets to let you see the world around you and let you go on adventures, but at the end of the day, the world is dangerous, they'd prefer you stick around somewhere safe. They can make a safe space for you.
oo!! I love i love!! *probably going to reread this a few times*
So i guess if borrower!reader first lived-
oh wait!
what if borrower!reader first lived in Soleil’s family home. Though all three only interacted briefly, B!Reader chose to stow away with Soleil to University (and maybe a little borrower on borrower strife influenced B!Readers desire). To try and maintain the og storyline? Eh maybe it doesn’t.
But during their stowing they break off away from Soleil! Wanting to be close to the university (to learn maybe?) but doesnt want to be a burden to Atlas and Soliel (who maybe live just a bit too far for B!Reader to reasonably walk (by themself) to university.
It would be funny to me if B!Reader was giving a phone (that to them if a HUGE laptop. one of those new folding phones where the screen folds) that they use to text the both of them. And for the first- year? or so Atlas and Soleil thought that B!Reader was still at his parent’s house. Then during a call it becomes very apparent that thats not the case.
(not me just adding a bunch of unnecessary lore to an au of your au.)
ANYWAY!! to cut myself off before i just start writing this~
Would Soleil and/or Atlas get upset when “old habits die hard” and B!Reader is caught borrowing and burrowing? Say, Theres this bowtie Soleil hadn’t used for years, but remembered its pattern and decided to wear it. Only after searching does he find that one of B!Reader’s quilts that they made looks like it’s made of cut up fabric, suspiciously in the same pattern. (Totally isnt made of both of Soleil and Atlas’ old clothing so they get to breathe in their scents. The blanket totally wasnt hidden and tucked under another blanket.)
Also would they first try to put B!Reader in a pet cage? Or a dollhouse? Or just be like some stories where they take a matchbox, sardine can, etc. and fashion a bed and just have it on a night stand top.
if not either of those living options for someone so small, would they let her live in the walls? or in a cabinet? on a shelf somewhere?
edit: oh shit i cut myself off before i said a point!!! Of when B!Reader is in that old roommates house, that said roomate may have been talking about how shes noticed odd things going missing. And hiring a fumigation to “kill off the rat in the walls”.
I’m sure Soleil and Atlas would get pissed hearing that through the phone (through the walls)
Imagining Borrower!Reader with a huge phone makes me laugh. How would they press the buttons on the screen to register? Would there be enough body heat for it? It makes me wonder 🤔
I don't think Atlas would get upset if it's just old clothes as long as you don't use any of Soleil's presents to him. Old clothes are free game and if he hasn't worn them long enough that you get your eyes on something, that's his own fault for forgetting about it in his closet. He might tease though once he finds out and brings out the stolen goods repurposed into something you can use. But he feels pretty special that you want to use his stuff. He might "accidentally" forget a few things out sometimes in hopes that you "borrow" it away. He loves it when you take the bait.
Soleil, on the other hand, would get upset. ESPECIALLY his good clothes like his bowties. He loves his collection very much and keeps a minimalistic wardrobe where his bowties are mostly what set each of his outfits aside! (He has a few versions of the same outfit that he wears in different color palettes that he mixes up with his bowties and suspenders! So those bowties are important! (Even if he has like 4 red ones that look pretty similar.)) I think he's be less upset if it was like, night shirts that have worn down, but I think it would be hard to steal a whole shirt, and if he figured out you stole a sock, he would tell you that's unsanitary, even if it's been washed.
I think when they are kids, they put Borrower!Reader inside a box and try to make it really nice with what they have until Soleil can convince his Maman to get him a really nice doll house. But! He wants to come pick it out! It needs to be very specific!! (He's thinking about your size to make sure you'd fit.) Eventually, he and Atlas will make you your own doll house. Atlas does a lot of the woodworking aspects so Soleil doesn’t hurt himself but Soleil does a lot of decorating and such with your help picking things out to make it cozy and just for you. When they find small things you might like, they get them for you.
They’d probably prefer you not in the walls so probably a shelf would be best to them!
Soleil and Atlas would be fuming themselves if they heard that and then figured out about you. They would be grateful for what they did. They saved you in their minds.
Oh! I think phones are based off something else these days. Because of those pens that double as stylus’. So if B!Reader’s palm doesn’t work, im sure that could!
Oh dang!!! Dang, now I imagine they messed up and though Soleil didnt care for a tie (when they were younger? maybe it was one of the first times they where so bold) but then one day Soleil “tore” up his closet looking for that ‘special tie’ he saved for super special events. After the event Borrower!Reader came clean about taking it and butchering it into a blanket.
As they sit alone in the house one day, staring at a wall with tears streaming down their face (not because of Soleil making them cry but being distraught about the mistake itself. ya know?). I dont know why (because of the sake of equality? idk), but they steel themself and decide that they need to be fair. So not only do they cut something of theirs into a few strips and repurpose it for a gift to Soleil. BUT, they also add Atlas to the mix.
For about a week Atlas nor Soleil can find their Borrower!Friend. They arn’t in their usual haunts, their “room” doesn’t look lived in (they cleaned it up and made it look like the dollhouse it’s supposed to be)! B!Reader was hiding in an old bunker of theirs, brooding (and finalizing things.), putting themself in time-out.
Atlas one day tries to put something in his hoodie pocket, only for it to fall through the inside. Only him flipping the hoodie inside out does he see that a long rectangle hole (and few shapes that look like a sewing pattern for a shirt for a mouse 👀) has been cut out, just out of view of the pockets.
Only after that, Borrower!Reader appears back in their dollhouse. They are bundled in the blanket made out of Sun’s bowtie. They dont emerge even when picked up. And only when they recognize that both Soleil and Atlas’ hands are in their reach. B!Reader inch worms their way to both their wrists (not letting themself out of the blanket.) and when they pull away there is a friendship bracelet made of three different types of fabrics. Soleil’s tie, Atlas’ hoodie, and B!Readers favorite thing (made of fabric).
B!Reader is wrapped in the blanket made of Soleil’s tie, Wearing a smaller version of Atlas’ Hoodie, and wearing the remaining scraps of their favorite thing (i imagine it being a silk headband or maybe a ribbon now that ties their hair out of their face. Maybe a necklace).
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I love that they only want the best for Reader!! I’m sure if he could, he would make that house thats in the studio Ghibli movie!! With the working plumbing and such!!
Sometimes I wish I was into that dollhouse hobbie, the one i see being sold at Micheals and Hobby Lobby. With the wooden house and the small furniture! I guess they would have to take up that “hobby” for their new small friend.
OH DANG!! You know whats a cool imagery!!! A book shelf that looks to just be displaying a miniature collection. But built into the back of the shelf is hallways and stairs leading to each item. (oh dang… that makes me wonder where borrowers use the bathroom huh? I gotta read the books and see if thats mentioned. Going Alllllllll the waaaaayyy outside for an outhouse would be SO tedious!!)
Being an ‘out in the open borrower would be funny. Cause imagine an especially snoopy guest sees a bunch of buttons displayed out and are like “what the heck is this?”
‘a button collection’
“you have a button collection?”
‘. . . yes.’
“why dont you just put it in a jar? why is it all out in a row down here?”
I request a sort of ‘Au Discussion’ of sorts. An au of your au. Because I am odd and my mind wont drop the concept.(My mind is all over the place so pls bear with me)
There is a genre of media that I love and adore! In simple terms i refer to it as ‘Borrower au’s. If your willing to search it and risk seeing nsfw it is called Micro/Macro. I believe the softer versions are called Giant/Tiny or G/T (i havent looked much into the specifics. i just skim the edges). These have characters that very obviously -as im sure you can guess based off of the name- have extreme hight differences. And specifically, ‘Borrowers’ originate from a book series that center around a family of three ,that live in the walls of human. The three of which “borrow” supplies needed to survive.
There have been many movies that expand on this concept. One even being a studio Ghibli production, “The secret life of Ariettie” (i def spelled it wrong).
NOW!! Ive gotten my hyperfixation speal out of the way; my curiosity is:
What if Soleil and Atlas’ Yn was a variant of Borrower? A humanoid person that is no taller than a few inches. Whom lives in the walls.
I am unsure how yn met Atlas and Soleil in KYwK (and I shall ask that separately), But I assume that it wouldnt at all the same with y/n being confined to a single space. Would Y/n origonally be hidden in Soleil’s familial home? Or would they be living at the walls of the university? Or simply, a random house that ‘Sun and Moon’ visited during a spree?
*oo now that would be interesting. It would be a whole other story pace!! With all the party goers murdered, the small borrower!yn tried to get out of the house. Only to stumble in the dark and land amist either sun or moons things and end up getting carried off back to their apartment. Dang that raises so much more possibilities!! i might have to just spit all of the possibilities down in a notes tab to get it out of my mind!
oh oh! but one more specific question on the borrower!yn subject!
Would borrower!yn just be killed by Soleil and/or Atlas? if so, Why? (i have many theories but im rambling)
Final note: Borrowers are not normally considered dirty. Only the ones who live outside may seem so very obviously. Borrowers usually have sophisticated outfits and living conditions where they ‘jerry rig’ things made for larger beings into more manageable items of their needs. i.e a needle as a sword. a fishing hook as a grappling hook. thread as rope, etc.
I actually know of Borrowers from Studio Ghibli's film "The Secret Life of Arrietty"!! I really love that film, it was lovely! I do know of a good amount of Studio Ghibli films, so I at least have that in the bag! I don't really look at much Micro/Macro or Giant/Tiny media, but I know it exists out there. And the concepts of Borrowers is really fun to me!
I feel like Borrower Reader would probably most likely be from Soleil's family home! And the meeting would be completely different! I feel like Soleil would probably see the reader one day and just scream before he got the chance to show Atlas and I think even Atlas would be very confused and not know what to do. You are so small and they think they are both hallucinating. But no, when Atlas gets a hold of you, you are definitely real, and he doesn't know what to do because why are there people so small in your house, Soleil? And Soleil doesn't know what to say to that.
If they were part of the homes of one of the sprees and got caught on one of Sun and Moon's things to bring back home for them to go back into Soleil and Atlas, I think they would be very very surprised to see little you in their things. Atlas probably has to assure Soleil that you are not a bug. But he doesn't know what you are and you probably just witnessed them killing a bunch of people, so probably a rocky start! it would be a whole different type of fic! And very interesting, too!
And no! They would not kill you. I don't think Atlas would have it in him to kill you honestly because you are just so small and helpless and he would honestly feel really bad if he just killed a random innocent not related to anything. Soleil wouldn't do it either because "Attie! They are just a little person! They've never done anything wrong; we can't hurt them!!"
They would probably try to take care of you because, well, what else would they do. They try to talk to you and figure out more about you and show you that (even though they kill people) they are harmless to you! Just don't walk on the floor when they are walking around because they are already giants to normal sized people. You are so tiny it would take nothing for them to accidentally squash you. I think Soleil would work really hard trying to make little clothes for you while Atlas would try to figure out how to cook for someone so tiny. They would probably work on projects to make life in their apartment more livable for you and would let you see that outside their apartment is unfortunately not going to be very good for you to roam around. They might take you places in their pockets to let you see the world around you and let you go on adventures, but at the end of the day, the world is dangerous, they'd prefer you stick around somewhere safe. They can make a safe space for you.
oo!! I love i love!! *probably going to reread this a few times*
So i guess if borrower!reader first lived-
oh wait!
what if borrower!reader first lived in Soleil’s family home. Though all three only interacted briefly, B!Reader chose to stow away with Soleil to University (and maybe a little borrower on borrower strife influenced B!Readers desire). To try and maintain the og storyline? Eh maybe it doesn’t.
But during their stowing they break off away from Soleil! Wanting to be close to the university (to learn maybe?) but doesnt want to be a burden to Atlas and Soliel (who maybe live just a bit too far for B!Reader to reasonably walk (by themself) to university.
It would be funny to me if B!Reader was giving a phone (that to them if a HUGE laptop. one of those new folding phones where the screen folds) that they use to text the both of them. And for the first- year? or so Atlas and Soleil thought that B!Reader was still at his parent’s house. Then during a call it becomes very apparent that thats not the case.
(not me just adding a bunch of unnecessary lore to an au of your au.)
ANYWAY!! to cut myself off before i just start writing this~
Would Soleil and/or Atlas get upset when “old habits die hard” and B!Reader is caught borrowing and burrowing? Say, Theres this bowtie Soleil hadn’t used for years, but remembered its pattern and decided to wear it. Only after searching does he find that one of B!Reader’s quilts that they made looks like it’s made of cut up fabric, suspiciously in the same pattern. (Totally isnt made of both of Soleil and Atlas’ old clothing so they get to breathe in their scents. The blanket totally wasnt hidden and tucked under another blanket.)
Also would they first try to put B!Reader in a pet cage? Or a dollhouse? Or just be like some stories where they take a matchbox, sardine can, etc. and fashion a bed and just have it on a night stand top.
if not either of those living options for someone so small, would they let her live in the walls? or in a cabinet? on a shelf somewhere?
edit: oh shit i cut myself off before i said a point!!! Of when B!Reader is in that old roommates house, that said roomate may have been talking about how shes noticed odd things going missing. And hiring a fumigation to “kill off the rat in the walls”.
I’m sure Soleil and Atlas would get pissed hearing that through the phone (through the walls)
but the thought always goes to, “but do i want to dedicate all my time and effort into making this simple idea into a character. Thus being dedicated to this character. Forever.”
but.
I dont need to do that.
I can just scribble this single idea.
hell it doesnt even need to be with a bunch of other doodles. I can just draw this one, arguably uninteresting thing. and let it be that. just as it is.
And then it can just.
be.
I can write a small, jack and a beanstalk au.
and then.
never touch on it ever again.
because i am not making a brand.
i am not selling myself.
i can just.
be?
Kind of hypocritical of me, huh?
Always thinking that the intense desires my peers share about needing their content to have a large number of likes. That they demand reblogs from strangers to get “noticed”.
And to mentally fight against that, I’ve stoped posting. Hell I’ve stopped CREATING!
I have this big chest filled with thousands of drawings that no one knows about but me. All drawn through my school years. And when I started sharing those drawings i just stopped?
My blog should not be a brand that cannot be tainted.
it should be an archive to share with my peers, and make access to my creativity accessible. Anywhere I go.
One that I should feel comfortable editing. Reworking. “Rebranding”.
When did I start feeling such shame? It was definitely before this purge.
Shame in my desire to only draw me. But thats not really true, huh? I heavily enjoy drawing Barf. But because he was inspired by someone elses au i dont draw him. HELL!! My character Chrysalis is inspired by an au/game and I dont draw her cause “no one will know her context”.
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