Okay fuck after reading @killerkillerkillher 's fic with demon Soap and Price, and angel Ghost and Gaz, it got my own brain worms multiplying (as if I don't have enough going on lol) so here's the au draft that's been rotting for a while lol.
So here's an idea for an au:
Reader is part of a small group of friends that are Ghost hunters/DIY exorcists (read: They're all drop out college students and the ghost hunting youtube channel's putting food on the table). Reader doesn't believe in the supernatural but the friends keep reader around because you're the group's 'ghost deterrent' because spirits GTFO when reader's near and reader thinks the friends are just bullshitting you.
Anyway the group are moving to a bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere where an old haunted house the reader's grandmother left is. Then their pos car breaks down an hour away from town. 'Luckily' the town's mechanic, Johnny, was just driving by and helps you lot out. And ain't he a handsome devil (emphasis on devil) thinking he can con a couple of young and dumb humans out of their souls. Soap's all hooded eyes and husky voice as he lures you away like a lamb to a supply closet, oil darkened hands sliding under your shirt and lips sucking dark hickeys into your throat.
He pulls away when you tug on his mohawk, raising his head until his lips are just inches from your own and you don't even notice him mutter a verbal contract, nor do you understand you've agreed to one when his lips crash on yours like he's drowning.
And Johnny's grinning into the kiss like a loon as he tries to take the soul of the stupid but hot mortal he's just met only to find out he... he can't. No matter how consuming his kisses are or how aroused both of you get your soul sits stubbornly in your chest and doesn't even budge.
When your friend bangs on the door and yells for you to "stop shagging every guy you meet!" you're forced to give an awkward goodbye and scurry away. And Soap's left completely bewildered and confused as fuck wondering what just happened and thinks he needs to tell Price.
Meanwhile, while your car's being fixed up, your friends drag you to the town's only pub that's run by a Simon Riley. He's an intimidating man without trying to be, but he doesn't immediately chase you out like some bar owners. He's quiet, listening to your friends chatter while cleaning a glass rough scarred hands, but the way he looks at you is... odd. Like you're an interesting bauble he's found on his gran's shelf.
He's there to catch you when you trip on a raised floorboard you swear wasn't there before. "Thanks, I owe you one." You say with a small awkward laugh, though for some reason it feels like him catching you had been an excuse to touch you.
"That so?" His thumb traces the dark hickeys across your throat, surprisingly soft, and you can feel your cheeks getting hot. "You let Johnny have fun with you?" His chuckle is rich like aged wine, fingers gently pressing down on a hickey; it feels possessive. "You'd let any old thing like me take from you, yeah?" There's something in his words that has a shiver running down your spine, though from apprehension or arousal you're not sure.
"Ye- eh, yeah." You don't know which question you're agreeing with, and you understand the weight of your words, quickly walking away from him before your friends can embarrass you by wolf whistling at you and him. And you completely forget to ask on how he knows it was the mechanic who gave you the hickeys.
With still some time to burn before sun sets you decide to visit the radio station in town, mainly because your friend swears on his life that those are always haunted or have some decrepit old host that knows all the gossip in town. And when you meet the man you had heard softly yet confidently talking on the radio? He's handsome, pretty brown eyes as enticing as his voice, and you're starting to sense a theme with you meeting all these very nice looking men.
But Kyle, or Gaz as he asks you to call him, is a wealth of knowledge to the point you're not sure where the gossip stops and some crumb of truth begins. He talks all the way into the night with you and your gang of amateur ghost hunters, and you see why he is the radio host because his voice is like the song of angels, silk soft on your ears and you feel like you could fall into the best sleep of your life from listening to him.
And all he wants from you in return for his knowledge? "Nothing much mate, just a small favor, I'm sure you'll manage." Kyle leans in and pecks your lips like he's sealing a promise, or a bargain, but that's just you being stupid after getting kissed by the second hot guy today, surely. Gaz already knows he can't just nab your soul, he has ears in every wall in this town, but at least he can put his own claim on you.
Day, for the most part, well spent you and your friends go to the house for a good night's rest. It isn't any good as you're woken up numerous times and by morning you have several broken vases and an exploded lightbulb — everything you explain away as the house being old as fuck, but your friends claim it to be the work of spirits — your friends drag you to the church on the hill at the asscrack of dawn.
And that's how you meet Father Johnathan Price. (Insert devil in church joke here)
He listens to your friends explain the situation, calm and collected, but you swear his eyes stay on you the entire time. "That's quite a predicament." Price hums, offering to bless you and your friends in hopes of protecting you from evil spirits.
You're the last to go, nearly jumping out of your skin when he grips your chin. "Relax my boy." Those words frazzle your brain enough for him to easily pull on your jaw until your mouth opens, his thumb almost playing with your bottom lip. The look in his eyes is dark, the air between you far heavier than it should be between you and a bloody priest. But Price doesn't see anything wrong with this, pressing a thumb down on your tongue and then putting a wafer on your tongue. "There you go, you are now blessed in the name of a lord. Now consume it, my boy."
You obey automatically. You're not quite sure if a communion wafer is supposed to taste so... weird, it has a coppery and peppery taste to it. Almost like spicy blood or something but that's just you being stupid again, especially as you can feel heat burning between your legs.
Sufficiently embarrassed about getting hard at a priest you give an awkward goodbye and leave, trying to fix your pants before your friends see your... problem.
Johnny appears by Price's side in a small flicker of flames and brimstone when you leave, confident smirk on his face. "Ooh, couldn't resist claiming a piece of him fer yourself?" He smirks, nudging Price on his side.
"I suppose he is more interesting than the usual rabble." Price hums, already imagining of how handsome you'd look laying naked on the altar, and how to get you to that point.
Congrats! Now you've got 4 hot dudes trying to take your soul :D
It’s spooky month, so here’s the latest AUs! Devil Angel and Angel Devil... because this pair fits both roles really well!
(under the cut: AU details! a bit long, maybe?)
First up, Angel Xiao and Devil Aether! In this world setting, Heaven is in the business of answering prayers, while Hell helps fulfill desires.
Aether is a little too nice to be considered a good devil, so he gets locked out of Hell by his boss until he improves at his job... but he has no idea what to do, so in his desperation, he prays to God for help... and God answers his prayers by sending an angel down to help him! Predictably enough, that’s Xiao.
In Xiao’s case... The way prayers work, is that the prayers will be sent to the angel must suitable for the job. Xiao’s an angel who specializes in fighting, so his prayers have always been subjugation and other things that can be solved via violence. In time periods where humans were trying to summon evil beings, this was pretty common, but nowadays it’s peaceful, so Xiao doesn’t get a lot of work.
So when he gets called down to the human realm for a prayer to “become a bad person”, he doesn’t know what to expect. Certainly not a teary, sparkly eyed devil who clings to him the moment they lock gazes... After some back-and-forth, Xiao agrees to help Aether. At the very least, he can’t let a devil go unsupervised like this.
As you can probably guess, through their wacky misadventures of Aether trying to sympathize with humans who do things for their desires and Xiao trying to understand why humans value such meaningless things... they fall in love!
And through the Power of Love, (which I hope becomes this blog’s trademark alongside happy endings!), they finally understand..!! Aether gets why humans would summon devils out of jealousy or anger now! After all, he gets jealous when Xiao gets eyed up by other people! Xiao gets why humans cling to the little things now... He’s valuing every moment he spends with his stupidly nice devil, after all...
They’re a lovey-dovey couple by the end of it... Aether gets back to Hell and finds out that their bosses set them up... Since Heaven and Hell get along, their respective bosses are actually good friends, so they get together and talk sometimes... So they’d talk about work, then their subordinates, then their most troublesome ones, Aether and Xiao, and then the idea of putting them together came up... the rest is history. (Venti is Aether’s boss and Zhongli is Xiao’s boss, by the way!)
What do you mean Devil/Angel AUs are usually pretty serious?? This is my blog??? We only serve happy endings here???? This is a feel-good zone only?????
(I wanted a cape... but I also wanted wings... so here’s the explanation for it. It’s just an image, that you can also touch, but it’s just a touchable projection, really... Aether has a Realization... He’s a devil, okay? It’s normal for his thoughts to go south..!!)
Their human realm disguises(?)!! Definitely only for working undercover!! They totally not just going on dates!!! Xiao’s carrying Aether’s bag, if you’re wondering.
Devil Xiao and Angel Aether! This one is only a smidgen more serious than the other one. In this world setting, Heaven and Hell are in the soul business. Souls are sent to Hell where they’re redeemed and punished, then sent to Heaven to be reincarnated when they’re judged ready.
However, sometimes a soul’s good heavily outweighs their evils, so an angel comes down to collect the soul early. Then sometimes, a devil disagrees with the judgement, so they get into little spats now and then...
Aether and Xiao are always clashing during soul collection! But it’s not as if they actually disagree with each other... this is just how they interact with one another. They’ll argue about the most nonsensical of things just to spent a couple more minutes together! They’ve been pining for like... a bajillion years. It’s so bad, both Heaven and Hell have started a betting pool about them and haven’t informed either of the two...
They’re always making excuses to be together longer or to casually touch one another... Xiao pointing out that Aether has something in his hair (he doesn’t have anything), Aether grabbing Xiao’s sleeve to stop him from grabbing the soul and running off (he wasn’t going to), and both sides knowing the other is lying for some reason, but going along with it anyways. They’re dumb and very much in love.
(Note: Xiao does not require his hands to use his devil powers.)
As some fun lore dump, Heaven and Hell in this AU used to have a terrible relationship. It was a traditional kind of conflict between angels and devils you’d see anywhere else... and yet, Aether and Xiao met and fell for each other during such a time. At that point, the soul system was not in place yet, as it was a result of the two sides collaborating and compromising for peace.
But these two fell so hard, that they couldn’t stand for it. So, they fiercely worked towards peace and eventually, after an absurd amount of hardship, accomplished their goal of obtaining peace, just because they fell in love with someone from the other side... And thus the soul system was established, thanks to their efforts! However, despite being so certain of their own feelings, they don’t know how to interact with the other person at all... But they’re slowly working it out!
They go out on little outings (read: dates) together all the time nowadays, when they’re free after work. They’re a married couple that doesn’t know they’re married... after all the hard work they did to just spend time quietly together, it’s all they do. They just do domestic stuff and spend their days slowly, yet happily...
Human realm looks! They’re out shopping together. It’s not relevant in any way to plot, but I must inform you that they own a house together. Actually, it’s Xiao’s house. It’s pretty common for devils in their world setting to have human identities, so they have houses and such to go with it. Some devils even build their houses themselves, since that would be like an immortal being’s version of building blocks...
Once Aether and Xiao were hanging out on a regular basis, Xiao’s basic house gets a lot more cozy, since Aether starts helping out too. They have a big enough bed that they can spread their wings out, and Xiao will groom Aether’s feathers even though he technically doesn’t require it... And on cold days, where Xiao refuses to use his powers to warm himself, his wings will get cold fast, so he’ll use his equally cold tail to pester Aether until he finally relents and wraps Xiao up in his wings....
...Again, a married couple that has no idea they’re married. They’re very sweet....
ashjrkgth she was made in a ramble when me and a bunch of other people made the devil/angel au together ksjrghe. she just goes by Salazar and she’s a powerful fallen angel that runs a business on souls, and is a part of an organization planning to like break the difference of heaven and hell in payment for giving her wings or shit i don’t know we didn’t focus on that. She likes to dress pretty and everything, but she’ll never pass up a chance on going fucking feral and enjoys torturing and taking souls with her own hands.
next au’ll be the goddess au!!!!!!! also feel free to make more of them with a different character i don’t mind kskjfkjgrh
Aloha (ó㉨ò)/ ✨ I just wanted to tell you that I love your style of drawing and your au’s (’(エ) `) are very beautiful, I really would have liked to see echo drawings of all but I did not reach the time (/ (エ) \) you are one of my favorite tumblr artists and one of my inspirations, I hope you like these drawings and I’m sorry for my bad English is not my birth language U, w, U
