I need more mer au. AND more information or ANYTHING new about music man emporium or idk i forgot what the name was but anyways.
Please tell us anything about those two aus cuz HOLY SHIT i have a big ass urge to make a OC for that
I’m all on my knees bro- cmon bro-
… is it okay to make oc for your au tho- i forgot to ask this first-
UH
Kinda funny that you really want lore for like the two aus that have. uh. no lore
For the Mer AU:
One fun? fact I have not had the chance to share that's been in my head since DJMM's inception is that Mer DJMM has and continues to eat hundreds of the Minis like little edamames.
There are billions of minis and they could hypothetically all work together to kill DJMM but despite the cannibalism, they like him and consider him to be good company
DJMM and the minis are the same species, DJMM just happens to be so old he's grown to the size he now is, He's around 243 years old.
DJMM regards just about everything to be a potential meal, it's mostly just a question of if he's willing to expend the energy to catch it, which is usually no, due to his metabolism currently being at a snail's pace and generally being tired constantly. That and he's partial to sparing people if they entertain him
Despite all the references I've just made to DJMM being this horrible cannibal he's mostly a scavenger that eats people that are already dead. Just about everything is sapient, but despite this, aside from some use of technology everyone generally acts and lives out a predator-prey relationship, which is also biased due to the behaviors of the various species that everyone is, as most sea animals are just... not that social. The minis are communal, though. In the sea there is, on average, a staggeringly low standard of morals.*
* This comes up again under the cut.
Music Man Emporium. Uh. Scratches my head. It's a music man zoo. As much as it appeals to my niche of DJMM and Music Man being kept like a beloved exotic animal this is the least detailed or personalized. I'm sorry but music man emporium was more or less a shitpost
There is a museum of Music Man prototypes, concept art, pieces and posters of older Music Man animatronics.
I would say there is a dedicated resident music man historian but there isn't. The music man historian is the director, owner, sole handler and employee and it is Birdguy. For the love of god, we are hiring, we need more people. This is a business venture that is making negative money.
Fazbear entertainment is miffed of the use of what used to be their characters in this manner and there is possibly a B-plot of company beef and sabotage.
Actually maybe there's tons of beef under the covers. Birdguy's dodging sniper shots like Sans because of how many people want him dead from all the loan sharks he's made business with. Maybe this isn't the bplot but rather surviving encounters with the mafia is half the experience.
The music men live like kings and queens though. despite it all
Feel free to make OC for either of these though, that's fine.
[birdguy voice] "Maybe... A Music Man Emporium employee OC who would accept the risks of death by robot or company enemies for minimum wage, perhaps? Eh? Eh? PLEASE?-"
This wasn't an AU you mentioned but I do have a secret Mer AU that I made and then never talked about though
1bobbitband! My "siren" au, less mer au. "Mer" implies neutrality and whimsy and Music Man in this AU, unlike Mer DJMM, is almost entirely bent on killing and eating people!
Nullguy in this AU is his thrall, entirely by accident, and the only reason he remains alive is because Music Man is fascinated by him.
Music Man is more or less your regular siren. His song makes people go insane and hallucinate to make him seem like their ultimate desire to lure them into being eaten.
Nullguy on the other hand seems to be... partially immune? He's 101% enthralled and does Music Man's bidding but doesn't seem to hallucinate him as anything, nor seems to really have any motive other than wanting to hear his song. He seems to be keenly aware of his situation but has qualms or attempts at resistance.
They have... a..... relationship. Nullguy is his servant and they're certainly not romantically involved (Music Man is aromantic and entirely uninterested, he wouldn't allow it) but the two are... very affectionate, partially because Music Man enjoys the company and audience and because affection just seems to... emanate from his thrall. So he just lets it happen since it's no skin off his back and it seems to be part of his payment It's weird. They're weird. And you should definitely follow Nullguy to the ocean.
[crawls out of my grave] how are my party rockers doing in the house tonight
It's in the suspicious square format but. uh. I don't entirely know if this counts as nsx v,ore, though, he is absorbed? There's a lot of swwh parallels? I believe the term is a "l,iving s,uit?" Anyways. This is 1Manband, the m,usic m,an who's a guy in a m,usic m,an flesh suit. Watch him be "born" and bask in the m,usic m,an gender euphoria.
My attack for @ntls-24722 !! I’ve been really wanting to draw 1manband for a long time because I think they are so cool!!! Like I’m totally enamored by the idea of the living suit, and the relationship with the wearer? But like they are also one?! Like I absolutely adore them so much so I really hope I did him justice!!!
Featuring just about every glamrock there could be, a very interesting eclipse, and human characters from them and their friend's joint FNAF AU: New Normal.
And Wenda from Sprunki!
Also some scenes of these characters under the story "Intra Corpus" in which I have the honor of having contributing to, which is why 1manband's there
Fun fact, Dave Miller is actually not William Afton under a different alias, he's actually just some entirely different dude that got framed.
bonus: "the vault" (bonus sketches, shitposts, and reference pictures)
a treacherous tale of obnoxious amounts of doppelbanging, 1manband naming conventions, and why i can't have nice things
So, 1manband is 2 very important things
1manband is deeply infatuated with himself, and this is not an exaggeration but a description that defines and is the entire point of his character. He's an arvent autosexual and would love dating his own clone, but the only thing he'd love more than dating 1 clone is 1 clones, only thing better than 2 is 3 - he literally can't get enough of himself
the Music Man portion of 1manband is less a robot, but more like a synthetic slimeperson - if given enough mass he could mitose, shapeshift, and if there was someone else like him, they could fuse.
And this has all been stewing in my brain since I ever made him and the thought of him ever meeting his clones eventually became "what if sansiverse's sans x sans shipping was like an integral and canonized part of the entire concept, though I don't even wanna say this is a worldbuild because the entire lynchpin of it (1manband getting clones) isn't explained, elaborated on, or even possible in-universe.
This part isn't even remotely important, but i like talking about it. you can skip to [/\/\/\/\/\] if pointless rambling on name conventions isn't something you wanna read
The original pun with 1manband is obviously "one man band" because bands, with how much coordination and instrumentation usually requires multiple people but there's only one person doing it, and 1manband is made up of two people who are trying to be one person who is a very Musical Man. 1manband isn't even his name in-universe, it's a meta description of when Nullguy and Music Man have become one person. But when I kept making 1manband AUs and kept thinking of hypotheticals of multiple 1manbands getting together i decided to break down the name as descriptors of aus, relationships and components?
When describing things in general, 1manband's name is composed of xyz, x being self-percieved quantity, y being species and z being their directive. THOUGH. Despite X and Z being SELF-percieved quantity and directive, I often say "#manband" when just referring to quantity or fusion size - "1manband" could technically refer to a fusion of 8294 1manbands and still be named 1manband in meta because they see themself as a singular musical dude, even if they're not even fused. That obviously leaves out a lot. bonus stupid: send me asks with this format and i tell you what 1manband that makes
So, backtracking to the original 2 concepts, with the fact that 1manband will always love more of himself than less of himself, I got kind of ridiculous with the idea. There's 1manmoon or (4×10^20)manband, who is so many 1manbands they form a celestial body and much of their technology and ecosystem are either 1manbands shapeshifted to be technology or genetically identical, nonsapient homonculi. Their directive is being a functional celestial body and they see themselves as 1 person, a hivemind the size of the moon. [/\/\/\/\/\] That one has a really cool opportunity to do some development but it's kind of on an overwhelming scale - The one that was significantly less daunting that I obviously ended up focusing on the most on was 1manvillage, who is a hivemind isolated from the rest of the current cyberpunk dystopia that is the rest of civilization. Where they reside, the environment is hostile, infertile, with extreme climates and frequent issues of pollution, not to mention they keep on getting in-universe pinkertons called on them in the attempt to reintegrate them into society or prosecute them for being weird communal hippies. That and doing weird cult hivemind shit.
1manvillage isn't a giant fusion of a village's worth of people... most of the time. They're mostly individuals and smaller fusions, though despite wearing the same "music man" as canon 1manband, any two individuals can look incredibly different.
1manband is only a slimeperson on the low-key because there isn't enough of him to go around - at his size, shapeshifting is too dangerous to do without severely hurting himself, there isn't enough buffer for him to rearrange all of his tissues like that. Bigger fusions (10manbands or bigger) with enough excess everything can very slowly shapeshift on their own but otherwise, specific 1manbands in 1manvillage get their looks from the Everyman.
The Everyman is a consistent inconsistent entity, it refers to the largest fusion at any time no matter the components, because they always end up as Everyman. 1manvillage hosts a wide variety of people with incredibly diverse personalities and views but they are a hivemind, due to their Music Man components being mitosed from Everyman. When a fusion reaches a threshold of being a 50manband or more, they stop being their own fusion and adopt Everyman's personality and mind. Everyman is usually around 5% of the village most of the time, though the percentage goes up every night, as many 1manvillage residents sleep as Everyman, and the percentage reaches its peak at winter when 1manvillage goes into hibernation as Everyman, with Everyman comprising over 90% of 1manvillage, the only ones unfused being a winter crew making sure that things will be functional in the spring.
The Everyman has the full power of any of 1manband's abilities, being able to shapeshift drastically on their own, shapeshift the appearances of their components when they unfuse, being able to reorganize their internals and being able to detox, grow organs or donate some parts of themself, being able to mitose and create a Music Man, and being able to drive people insane.
On the latter two: 1manband could technically mitose another Music Man, a 1:1 replica of himself with his memories included if he had the mass and energy. But he would never do that because that means... now there's a guy he doesn't know what to do with, that's also without a human component to be heavily codependent with. Music Man can shapeshift and reorganize himself and do whatever with himself, but he can't really do any of that with Nullguy. The base unit for an individual in 1manvillage is a suit-wearer duo, a Music Man and human component, and having a Music Man without a human component would be incredibly unethical in their eyes.
BUT a second issue still is that it can't just be any human they can pair up with. 1manband is particularly gatekeepy about his existance and relationship because being 1 person is a a choice that could've absolutely RUINED both Nullguy and Music Man mentally - Both parties have to give up their autonomy, their personhood and identity, to be 1manband is giving up your original self to be Music Man and in Music Man's case, giving yourself up to be controlled by someone else Kris deltarune style for most of your life, both have to tolerate and be incredibly non-judgemental of both parties involved because you also read eachother's thoughts 24/7, and that requires a LOT of determination and an insane amount of WANTING that the average person does not have. The only reason why 1manband works is because Music Man is willing to give up autonomy if it means loving himself in the end and because Nullguy is fucking crazy. Music Man is Nullguy's entire reason and drive for existence, Nullguy is a downright stalkerishly creepy level of obsessed with Music Man. The fucker kisses the ground he walks on and breathing in his air is a blessing. You can't just find this anywhere.
So you make it!
Despite everything above, existing as 1manband feels amazing. Nullguy loves Music Man and vice versa, so when you put that into one person it's bound to be good, and everytime either party thinks deeply about the fact they're 1manband, it creates a feedback loop that literally turns their minds into mush because of how ecstatic they are about the entire ordeal. The already incredibly strong effect grows and becomes more easy to access with fusion size - Everyman barely does anything in their free time other than squirming around thinking about themself and everytime they're not doing that, they have to do actively mentally push themselves to focus on doing anything productive. This ecstatic effect, due to their massive size, can be concentrated into beaming Nullguy's level of "music man crazy" into someone, which is how 1manvillage expands - Outsiders who pose a threat to 1manvillage are often involuntarily integrated into 1manvillage.
Extra stuff:
Hellpig is a 5manband who functions as 1manvillage's security and brings in the most outsiders for integration. He was gifted extra mass and metal to be armored and way larger than he would be for a 5manband. He works all seasons, though in winter he has a massive reduction in size (though he remains a 5manband).
1manvillage has technology, though they are a little behind due to the lack of an economy or imports, but sometimes people want to be the technology. There's knucklewalking Music Buses and cargo trucks that look like this, and 3manbands who function as supercomputers.
Casual and typical hexapodally-friendly 1manvillage clothing vs fusion-friendly 1manvillage clothing.
Both have giant sleeves to accomodate more or less than 4 arms, but the left sticks closer to the body as to not get in the way of knucklewalking while remaining incredibly simple to produce. The shoes are thumbed and the symbol on the left's shirt is actually a very basic guideline of DJMM's face.
The right's is open, the "bigness" and the adjustably tight kilt allows it to be worn even if the wearer experiences a change in size, i.e fusion. That and the openness allows some fusion to occur while wearing it. Though, nudity is less of a taboo, 1manband can willingly be ken-dolled and if not, everyone finds eachother hot, so it's not like that's really discouraged
bodily, as 1manband, nullguy and music man feel as if they're one, but it can be satisfying to feel where the ends of eachother start and end (being a suit and wearing someone as a suit is surprisingly comfy). If he focuses on the feeling too much, it creates an emotional feedback loop of admiring himself to the point he kind of just goes into a daze. It begins to feel like how it feels to stretch, just really dragged out.
