#defeated au

[crazysnor1ax]

I can FINALLY show off my design for Callie in my Defeated AU! Meet Defeated Callie, or Titless Callie lmao

Text in first image is from this song

AU lore undercut (which you can also find on her Artfight page):

The premise is, more-or-less, exactly what it sounds like: the story follows the events of Splatoon 2 after Agent 4 is killed by Callie in Hero Mode's final boss fight, and Agent 8 is successfully blended during Octo Expansion. After successfully killing Agent 4, both sides retreat; Marie, hopeless on her own, flees to grieve Agent 4 and losing Callie again, and DJ Octavio and Callie flee to continue preparations to take back Inkopolis. Not long after this does Octavio decide he wants to make the effects of the Hypnoshades more permanent. What this results in is Callie undergoing a procedure that completely alters her memories and perception of the NSS. Her memories are tampered with to make her believe she's an octoling who fought her way to being Octavio's number two. To her, there never was an Agent 1, or a pop star in Inkopolis named Callie. Octavio also figured he could put Callie's agent skills and physical prowess to use, too; what this resulted in is, during the same procedure, Callie being turned into a living bioweapon. Her strength was increased tenfold, to the point where she can pick up and throw a car if she wants to. Her knowledge of how to wield a weapon is honed and perfected. She essentially becomes a walking Great Octoweapon. Her physical appearance and genetics are altered too: her tentacles, mask, and beak are changed to that of an Octoling's, and she's given top surgery and tattoos. For fun. Callie's personality is drastically different after this procedure. She is cruel. She's stern, wild, and dead-set on taking back Inkopolis. Fragments of her original personality remain, but they're twisted into something new and almost unrecognizable (for example, her hyper, energetic self translates into Defeated Callie being loud, boisterous, stubborn, and sometimes violent). After Agent 8's defeat, Tartar inserts itself into Agent 3, taking complete control of her body and using her as a vessel to make movement and world-destroying preparations much easier (in this AU, Tartar is the sludge on the telephone, not the telephone itself). Important information for the plot I'm going to explain right now: After her procedure, Callie and Octavio begin to get into disagreements about how preparations are going. Octavio is focused on tuning and improving the Great Octoweapons, but Callie thinks focusing on building up the army itself would save a lot of time and be more efficient. This disagreement gets so heated that eventually Callie...overthrows Octavio and makes herself leader of the Octarian Army.

Not long after this does Callie meet Tartar. Realizing they both have the same goal of messing with Inkopolis, they team up-Callie helping Tartar with its machines and weaponry, and Tartar assisting Callie with building her army. It doesn't take long for Callie to find out that Tartar has been stealing and sanitizing Octarians under her nose and wants to kill everyone in Inkopolis (she had only wanted to overtake it and "put inklings in their place"). She immediately breaks the deal they had, making Tartar vow to kill her, too. Callie is now set on stopping Tartar's plan, but realizes she can't do it without help. Not without the help of a familiar, grey-tentacled inkling. She goes to Marie, hesitantly asking for an alliance. Normally she would never stoop so low as to ask an inkling for help, but Tartar's plan threatens both of them. Marie is horrified at what the Octarians have done to Callie and how different she is, but she shoves it down and agrees to help, believing that, maybe, she can figure out how to reverse what's happened to her. From here, they work together to research, plan, and train to stop Tartar. They even enlist Pearl and Marina along the way, who have much more knowledge on the Deepsea Metro than either of them. As time progresses Callie begins to realize that Marie is having some kind of strange effect on her. She grows affectionate for her in a way that she hasn't ever been with anyone else. She starts to become familiar in a way that isn't simply recognizing her face. Thoughts seem to enter her head that aren't hers, and fake, dreamlike memories come to her of a version of herself that is so unrealistic. Perhaps most concerning is the fact that her body begins to feel so, so incorrect, and when she looks in the mirror she doesn't quite recognize herself sometimes.

[temptedbythelight]

Tinkering (closed)

Kylo- No, he was no longer Kylo Ren, was he? He left that persona behind, along with his saber, and with Force battles.

Ben was sitting in his cell in the Resistance. He suspected he would never really leave it again, and he didn’t mind. He deserved much worse than imprisonment, especially when he was allowed to play with some droids to kill time.

“What do you want?” A presence next to his cell wasn’t uncommon. People would come by to yell at him, and he would usually take it, but he felt like it was best to cut to the chase.

He didn’t even look up from his work to see who came in.

@chipstheshit

[askarmitagehux]

Found (closed)

It’s been three weeks since Ren came down to Hux’s planet, to his hut and back to his life. It had been the best three weeks he could remember in over a decade and he stopped insisting they should discuss plans for what to do with their futures ten days earlier. Right now, Kylo was meditating on their bed and Hux was washing the dishes in the kitchen - when the door to his hut was opened and Hux felt his heart stop at the familiar voice.

“Ben!” General Organa exclaimed, relieved. “Thank the Force, you’re safe!”

In the kitchen, Hux grabbed his blaster and pressed his back to the wall. He only hoped she did not hear the water running in the kitchen and Kylo would not be stupid enough to say something.

He also hoped Kylo was not the one to ask her to come to get Hux but that thought could wait. It was irrelevant now, he thought, and waited, ready to die fighting if need be.

@kylobenjaminren

[askarmitagehux]

Reunion (closed)

The war had been over for years, and Hux had managed to get himself a relatively calm life. After he escaped the Resitance’s capture, he found a quiet, rural planet in the outer Rim and resided in a small, seaside village housing a lot of transients. It was a backwards place, where his face was not widely known. He grew out a beard and bleached his hair, and kept to himself. It was a boring existence, but it was safe.

He’d learned to endure it in the past few years.

At least until one day he saw a familiar storm of dark locks in the distance in the main street.

Ren.

@kylobenjaminren

[askarmitagehux]

➳

Hux hated it. He, somehow, lost the war to the Force users, to those beings playing with magic and disregarding order in favor of chaos. He was stripped down of his uniform, dressed in plain clothes, denied any grooming appliances. His hair got longer, falling on his face, and he wasn’t even shaved. His dignity taken away for his audacity to try and subdue those with power greater than his own.

He was being presented to Lord Mortala. He worked with her, back when they were fighting a common enemy, but only loosely. He wasn’t sure what her attitude to him would be - but he would play along. He would survive.

“Lord Mortala,” his guard announced, as the other kicked his legs, making him fall to his knees. “The leader of your enemies, Armitage Hux, to do with as you please.”

He stared at the floor. He wouldn’t give her the satisfaction of watching her gloat.