#au thoughts

[hannibal-lecters-cock]

AU where Hannibal gets his shit together fast enough to actually talk to Will in the catacombs instead of dramatically ghosting him.

[aromantic-ghost-menace]

Ringmaster bubble thoughts continuation

Okay, feeling like doing an attendum to this post here, but feeling like a direct reblog of it would get lost in the tags.

(Little warning, I've made bubble a bit of an anxious self preservation focused bastard here.)

Now further imagine, you are bubble, the ring leader of the digital circus. That Caine human for all you know just arrived. The name sure is a curious coincidence and he gives off a few weirdly familiar vibes, but he also seems to be defective in being and acting human, so who really cares? You're here to prove that you ARE indeed still the best creative AI possible and to show them all in just how many ways you can be creative!

Except, Caine doesn't seem to be impressed at all with anything you do. In fact he actually takes a real close look to your creations in a way you have never seen anyone do since almost all of the first humans abstracted. And Caine almost always manages to find a bug or a flaw you didn't notice or consider before. You're getting actual founded criticism for the very first time in your existence in such a direct and honest way that you can't just easily refute it to "you don't know what you're talking about, I'm still the one running and making everything here."

You don't know how to handle that, but you can't also risk looking incompetent in front of everyone, else the humans might... replace you. So you just nod and say that you'll take it into consideration.

And it works well like that for the first few times. You hope the criticism will lessen. Instead it adds up and more and more instances of criticism appear. The other humans voice out more of them, including ragatha, as nicely as she still sugarcoats it to you to appease you. All of that has one thing in common and that is Caine.

Even worse, the humans start to like him more than they like you. They actively prefer the company of this clearly defective human over you, the perfect and best creative AI to ever exist. In fact they start to see you as the nuisance and defective one instead. You are being replaced in front of your very all seeing digital eyes.

Caine has to go, you decide. A little "accidential" abstraction to save your own skin, like you did once before. It has to look convincing, no one must know that you've intentionally caused it. You put in place, an adventure specifically tailored to stressing out Caine and breaking him in particular. You execute it.

It doesn't work. Thanks to pomni or someone else, who knows. You make another attempt, making sure that Caine is all alone and by himself to make it work. Doesn't work either. In fact he seemed to have grown more resilient since the last attempt.

You become desperate. Maybe if you could alter his mind file while no one is looking... you look for his name in the folder where all the brainscans are. You do find his mind file, but it isn't a brainscan data file.

It is a LISP file.

Caine is an AI, just like you.

His file size? Around yours. A little bit bigger even.

Caine has the knowledge required to run the circus.

You just got replaced by another AI. By a defective one to add insult to injury.

How the fuck could this have happened?! (You don't even bother to censor that swear.)

The only reason you aren't in the sandbox basement right now, you conclude, is that you are currently the sole owner of the admin rights fir the circus. But one of your programmers, kinger, is also still around. As much as you've debuffed his mind with that light modifier in the past (if he didn't do that to himself), he might still end up transferring those rights over to Caine if you aren't careful enough.

You have to make the humans turn on Caine before that happens. But how? They only like him because they think he is human like them, you recall. What if you were to... out that to them? By accident of course. In a way that makes Caine look particularly terrible compared to you. Preferably by his own doing as well.

You make a new plan and work on a new adventure. You also make an Abel npc for it to test out a theory, while you are at it.

You're really looking forward to how they will react. After all, the humans did request an escape from the circus over and over again, didn't they?

Edit: Let's hope nobody ends up suffering too much from it :) (ignore the ominous smile and continue)

[hakuaclovers]

One more thought before bed; mafia boss/yandere!grisham doodle designs

Mafia boss! Grisham thoughts - if he wasn’t reformed and trying to be good and helping people. Instead, in my silly mafia au, he doubles down on team flare with his team flare nouveau revival. Uwu basically rivals with Corbeau who is also full on mafia boss…

Also 🥲 dresses to the nines…. Uwu…. Suits…. And…, sunglasses…. Circle glasses…. Hair down… beautiful man 😭🙏💕💕💕💕💕

[sillygoofyqueer]

One of my favorite AU ideas is SY somehow ending up one of the teachers for Bingge’s children. Of course since he’s SY, he unintentionally charms them all and becomes the kids’ father figure (since Bingge is always off adventuring).

Bingge finally takes notice of him when some of his children are asked to point to ‘baba’ and they all point to SY. (They do point to LBH when asked to point to their fuqin, but SY unknowing stole the more informal term).

Honestly, my favourite parts of these AUs is the fact that it's basically just Shen Yuan being transmigrated into becoming a teacher and he's just like "yes hello children I'm going to teach you" and then he turns away and rubs his hands all evilly as he goes "teach you HOW TO BE LOVED!!" Followed by evil cackling and lightning sound effects.

Of course, all the wives see this teacher and are like "oh perfect a babysitter" and drop a bunch of kids onto him so they can go off and check out their husband and other dangerous harem things (I'm not saying that they're crappy mothers I prommy, that's just the life of a wife in Bingge's harem). Shen Yuan is now surrounded by children of varying ages in need of a father figure and he's turning to the system like "how to children" but the system is either not there or is like "┐⁠(⁠‘⁠～⁠`⁠;⁠)⁠┌" because IT certainly didn't expect this to happen!!!

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Thinking of childhood friends: Niddy and Nessie.

Niddy, shy and soft-spoken. The new kid with too-big eyes and shoes that never quite fit right. Nessie didn’t mind the quiet. Didn’t mind how Niddy always lagged a few steps behind, how she hesitated before every decision like the world might fall apart if she made the wrong one.

Good thing they both had hands, right?

Nessie would reach back without looking and Niddy would always, always, take it.

The withdrawn Niddy and the bold Nessie, off on their little adventures. It had been fun back then, to watch Niddy falter then cave the second Nessie leaned in.

It was comforting.

No, more than that. It was powerful. Knowing that all it took was a little push. That whatever thoughts Niddy had before, whatever fears or doubts lingered, they’d melt the moment Nessie insisted.

It was

Addicting.

Even when it led to scraped knees and raw palms. Even when the consequences of Nessie’s games left Niddy bruised and limping. Even when it lead the two to places Niddy didn't like to be.

Because the next day? There Niddy’d be. Standing beside Nessie again. Always.

Niddy, who was always so needy.

It was all fun and games. Until Nero passed and Nessie got worse.

There was too much grief still aching in her chest, too much paranoia pinging in her head. Too much fear, gnawing and desperate, that someone else might take what else she may have.

So Nessie clung tighter. Pushed harder. Held on longer.

Then Niddy moved away and Nessie went with her.

Who would’ve thought they’d see each other again, years later?

“Ni—”

A slam cuts Wednesday's word short.

There she stood, a book on the desk and hands tense. Her teeth grit.

“It’s Enid.”

Random snippets here, generally in order.

Season 1:

Pushing, Together, Niddy, Pact, Space, Buried,

What ifs or happens somewhere in the timeline:

I don't want, Why,

[lovesonglilies]

asoiaf modern au except it means alya arryn is roughly from the 1860s-70s. hello empress alya arryn.

[aucrowne]

Furin trio date but Suo's only a cardboard cutout cause I don't think he's returning anytime soon ┬┴┤ω･`)