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[superduperau]

Welcome to SDAU!

Super Duper AU is a creative project made for fun by a group of friends that rapidly spiraled out of control into a genuinely investing story!! this blog is for documenting all of the content we make for the au, and a cool place for our friends and mutuals to learn about these ocs!! Hope you enjoy your stay here :D

The Plot

The (very basic) premise of SDAU is that it takes place in an alternate universe where most people are born with a random superpower. The main plot follows a few groups of characters– the superheroes Icarus and Printz, the supervillain Vernon and their underlings Kan and Kris, and the mysterious and seemingly all-powerful Narrator as well as Líf and Underscore, who are... well, its complicated. There's also a third-party reporter, Joshie, who pops up sometimes! The story focuses on a lot of themes of narrative clichés and tropes, and how those can affect the characters within the story.

The Characters/The Mods

Each character in SDAU was created by one of the mods of the blog, so it's a good opportunity to introduce both! Although we're all working on this together, you can consider each mod the main authority on their own character. Below you can see a quick guide to their names/powers, click the links to see their full info posts!

Narrator (created by @lovelyisthedawn): She/Her, matter manipulation

Líf (created by @darkmatterhalos): Any, temporal manipulation

Icarus/'Rus' (created by @itss-the-stars): He/they, giant wings that can catch fire.

Printz (created by @minirovks): He/him, empath and roboticist

Vernon (created by @newton-geiszler): He/they, sound manipulation

Kan (created by @anarcho-hedonist): He/him, telekenisis.

Kristen/'Kris' (created by @soupsy-daisy): She/they, turns things she touches into crystals

Underscore/'_' (created by @crepuscular-shoelace): It/its, omnipotence.

Joshie (created by @icedhotcocoa): He/they, turns things they touch Pink

FAQ

This will be filled if we ever actually get questions lol

[superduperau]

someone cooked here

[which-star]

something about loving a character and wishing the narrative did too

[superduperau]

a lil sketch amv i made for ragnorak while my tablet is broken!!

[superduperau]

my heart is the worst kind of weapon - fob || art by @anarcho-hedonist

[valtsv]

not my gay ass being doomed by the narrative 😂😂💀

[elucubrare]

the hottest thing a hero can do is be completely doomed from the start & know it & keep going <3

[scrvercide]

@superduperau

[chicagoeggwhisperer]

"A ship can never truly love an anchor." dude shut up. a ship without an anchor gets dashed against the rocks. it's useless, completely at the whim of the currents. a ship loves an anchor so much it carries it everywhere it goes. the anchor gives the ship the world to love. dude.

[superduperau]

Character Introduction: Kristen Clark

Age: 22 Pronouns: she/they Powers: Crystal Touch: Everything they touch with their hands turns to purple crystals- it's sort of a King Midas situation. She has some control over this ability, but it lessens when she has strong emotions. She can also grow crystals off of different parts of her body, most commonly growing claws made out of the crystals she uses as a weapon.

The third member of the 'Villain Trio', Kris is the least interested in actual villainy. After accidentally turning her roommate's arm to crystal during a panic attack, Kris fled to her childhood best friend, Kan. Feeling a great sense of loyalty to Kan, they decide to act as his 'sidekick' and join his and Vernon's quest to kill god!

Kris tries their best to be useful, despite not having that much of a stake in the trio's ultimate success. She's also sort of a 'mom friend', and is usually in charge of little things like making sure the other two remember to eat food. Kris is a bit of a doormat, believing whatever the others tell her and following all of their orders. However, her low self-esteem paired with Kan and Vernon's villainous personas leads Kris to believe that they don't really care about her. She's half right!

All of this comes to a head when Kris is captured by the heroic team of Rus and Printz and taken hostage. They soon discover that Rus, despite being their enemy, is much kinder to them than Kan and Vernon ever were. Kris eventually decides to leave the villain trio after aiding Rus in battle, and considers him to be a great inspiration to her going forward.

However, Kris doesn't go directly into hero work. They recognize that they still have a lot to work through, and decide to rebuild their own life and make the world better in smaller ways. She gets a job at a flower shop, and is content to leave the narrative of heroes and villains behined- until, of course, the final confrontation inevitably drags her back into the story.

[shigure]

*mistakes you for what you are not and so too foreshadows that which you will become* whoops sorry dude

[soupsy-daisy-deactivated2023072]

@superduperau narrator & líf

[superduperau]

hiii pt 2! this is a tidbit from vernons backstory, for more context check out vernons intro!

proverbs 6:17

proverbs 6:17 Open on VERNON’s silhouette. He’s standing on a rooftop, looking over most of manhattan. He’s surrounded by wires and gener

[superduperau]

hiii heres a short scene from canon that follows along w one of my favorite poems, the second coming :D

the second coming/sdau

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Printz was screaming, so was Kan. You were sure Rus couldn

[superduperau]

Character Introduction: Vernon Valentine

(art by @icedhotcocoa !!)

19 || they/he 

powers: vernon has enhanced hearing, and sound manipulation. They can manipulate what people in their proximity hear, and all what they themselves can hear (though this can occasionally be affected by intense emotions).  Abilities they have include creating sonic explosions (mostly powered by a pair of double-pronged sword things they use, which can also act as tuning forks), silencing peoples voices, and producing sounds at frequencies that can shatter glass and crystals. Also, they can hear God.

wait…what was that last part?

yeah, so basically as a result of having such enhanced hearing, Vernon can hear The Narrators (for lack of a better word) Narrations. just whispers and bits and pieces that are incomprehensible enough to drive vernon insane. Their backstory is also Secret Lore for now, but essentially things happen, and during Pre-Canon they sprint down the “I am probably going insane” to “I am going to reveal the Narrator to the world” to “I am going to fucking kill the narrator”. So by the time we hit the SDAU plot, they are literally ready to kill God.

Throughout the story they gain and lose two sidekicks/partners, Kan and Kris! this is the “Villain Trio”, who reign hell, have fun, and function with a horrifically toxic team dynamic. Though the three are primarily focused on the Narrator, heroes like Icarus and Printz tend butt in to the situation, and Vernon considers Rus to be their archenemy. He’s convinced himself (almost, especially when it comes to Kan) that Printz, Kan, and Kris, are just accessories or obstacles to their goal. Rus, however, represents something much bigger. To Vernon, Rus is feeding the delusion that fate can be changed. His commitment to ‘fixing’ people, or even just giving them the choice to be good, is everything Vernon is out to expose as unreality. 

personality: Vernon is a character who has decreed himself the villain despite every chance they had to turn away from the role. Though hearing the musings of an ageless being who is unaffected by the material world since the day you were born isn’t necessarily “good” for someones mental health, they are also just a horrible person who’s ‘mission’ gives them a reason to be horrible to people. His relentless manipulation and abuse of his friends and enemies are calculated, and in his mind completely excusable (and kind of like. irrelevant?). to summarize, they are an obsessive piece of shit who dyes their bangs teal every month. They’re the worst!

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

yesterday my roommate got mad at me because i saw him eating kit-kats and said “oh, so you’re a little kit-kat boy, are you?” and then i had a dream about him killing me

[optimalmongoose4]

That was his psychic attack

[scrvercide]

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[valtsv]

i could escape the narrative actually. rip to the rest of you but i'm gonna get out of here.

[valtsv]

girl help i've become the audience, no longer confined by the narrative yet equally powerless to change it

[brutalistarchitecture2]

The narrative is sentient and it is coming to GET you

[brutalistarchitecture2]

a blogger after my own heart

[sweatermuppet]

devotion that corrupts is my favorite btw there's nothing wrong with it ever & it should be encouraged

[soupsy-daisy-deactivated2023072]

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