Poke ! Undead AU ! Barnacles and Kwazii
CW: Graphic Content (they're undead so just in case . . . ) ====================
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Undead AU is an old but beloved au of mine where due to the influence of a mysterious eldritch monstrosity, the Octonauts all, obviously, die, each in their own horrific ways, only to be brought back to life and cursed to live forever in their constantly re-dying forms <3
Barnacles was the first to be killed by the entity when a current pulled him down into a deep trench where he was partially crushed and drowned, and when the Octonauts dredged up his body and stored it in his bedroom for the cold temperature to keep it intact to later be buried, he reanimated and the first to see him was Kwazii (he phased through the walk into Kwazii's room when Kwazii was trying to sleep (and failing, because how can you even sleep when your best friend and captain of over ten years is a mangled corpse in the next room) because one of his "undead powers" is the ability to essentially melt himself into any part of the Octopod, transporting between rooms by simply walking into the wall of one and appearing out of another - his connection to the Octopod is supposed to be shown in how some of his reanimated body is made of pieces of the now decaying Octopod, and you can see a little of it in the bolts on his exposed skull --- also, each of the Octonauts have some sort of ability relevant to them).
By being the first to see the captain as he was, a chain event was set off, and Kwazii was the next to die when he went into a manic frenzy and was blown up in the Gup-B when trying to escape, leaving barely any physical body left for his spirit to inhabit, so his undead form is a ghost made of smoke.
Even though they are all suffering now beyond words, they still try their best to help others, even if it doesn't work out very well that often. And at the very least, they're all still together, and misery is always easier with company.
More on this au later because I deeply love it and have posted about it before with a Dashton drawing most recently and some oldddd drawings way back in my early blog days lol :3 ,,, I'd also gladly take drawing requests for this au too if anyone is interested pretty please but no pressure 🥺🙏 ik its kinda morbid and made just for me and like 2 other people 😭
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