Halloween is upon us and I've finally got a bit for the Vampire Cars AU.
RaoShu
OFC Raoul goes as himself, he just adds more feathers to his wings, horns and a devil's tail and calls himself an incubus
Shu on the other hand pulls out a nine tailed kitsune and kimono costume with little wearable tire spikes (he takes his anime cosplay very seriously)
Lightnesco
Francesco is always on top of the costume game and he goes as a slutty Roman emperor (technically he is the mordern equivalent of a slutty Roman gladiator but he digresses)
Lightning of course goes as a little cowpoke (def. inspired by the @kkelsey--spring's art of Cowboy Lightning
Velomino
Carla is a powerful confident girlboss and she's a fearsome melanistic jaguar girl: whiskers, spots and all
Miguel on the other hand is her little man in an inflatible bull costume
Schnenai
Nigel our proper British gentleman goes as Aziraphale from Good Omens, little wings and halo
Max is his Crowley, even with intricate details of snake scales and colored snake eye contacts
Jeffwis
Lewis is a pirate, looking for the elusive American booty; dreadlocks and sword at hand
Jeffy is the poor cabin boy that Lewis had picked up
Longvitya
GeGe/JieJie/Long ta has chosen to appear as a dragon in human form: billous tail, shining dragon pearl in clawed hand and antlers
Vitaly instead opts for Koschei the Deathless, his withered form and still clutching the needle in the egg in the duck in the hare in the locked
*Takes places after the events of the Vampire Cars 2 AU*
Pub song has my most favorite verse lyrics in Neath! a Fallen London Song by The Stupdendium. At about 7:48.
Every now and then, the vampiric WGP racers and C.H.R.O.M.E spy often find themselves in a pub that is set deep underground, far from the scorching sunlight (as if London could get sunny but no one wants to risk that after the Buckingham Palace incident). Mostly to commiserate on their unrunning state.
Leland Turbo starts off the song after a sip of both Rod and Finn's donor fuel. The bluish gray eyes wavering in melancholic determination as the spy car set his glass down with a sigh.
"Every worried soul in this sorry hole. Lost, forgotten and with all tomorrows stole."
Raoul Caroule then picks up the song, Shu's donor fuel now with the hint of the sweet blossoms of his home country. Hints of resentment and vengeance flicker blood red flecks in the icy blue.
"Dead and buried but the dead are very much aware of it and hell, they've paid a horrid toll."
Max his best friend rubs a tire on his elongated wing mirrors. His own raspberry hued eyes shifting slowly to his once previous indigo as he nursed a pint of Nigel's fuel.
"How'd we'd come to be? Down here underneath? Doubt we'll ever feel the sun upon our cheeks."
Carla scoffs as she downs Miguel's fuel in one fell swoop, her blue green paint job creating frost in proximity on her glass.
"Never see another summer but we've one another lust or comfort, love or some relief."
Lewis grumbles under his breath as he tried to focus on the bright sunny smile of Jeff (not just when the engine hitched and sent that mouthwatering aroma into his vents), toying with his own glass of donor fuel.
"Someone to hold me tightly. Someone to treat me rightly. Someone to come down to shun the ennui and boredom."
Long Ge helpfully added his own commentary, sharp electric blue eyes and slitted pupils as he swiped a streak of Vitaly's fuel with a forked tongue off his bumper.
"With one to hold me closely nights mightn't be so lonely. Stranded helpless in the dark and reaching for them."
Francesco's vulnerability was seen in just a millisecond but soon his typical Italian bravado was drawn over his face like a sheet over a cadaver. Although none of the other patrons in the pub bought that for even an instant as he sipped delicately at Sally and Lightning's fuel.
"London town laid to rest underground, but still yet deeper down are we falling, falling, falling, falling."
All of the vampiric cars join in as one at the conclusion of the song, clinking their drinks together to toast their unrunning lives.
I've recently gotten to listen to Epic the Musical, which retells the Odyssey and the Illiad.
Inspired by @buqingshan's fanart of Snake Spirit! Long Ge and the Done For LMK Animatic on Youtube
Snake Spirit! Zhang Wei Long fits in so perfectly with the song Done For in Circe's parts. At first Zhang presents as a human JieJie to lower the guards of people currently invading his home and then turns them into snakes. Then when Vitaly comes to check on his missing crew, Zhang tries the same trick but binds him with his own transformed men as he sheds the glamour.
The raven black hair bleaches itself to pure white, the pupils thin and elongate into serpentine slits, patches of scales ripple under his eyes and the tail emerges out from the back of his scaled changshan.
Zhang Wei Long now introduces himself as the servant to Xiangyao/Xiangliu and confronts Vitya.
Inspired by the real life story of Le Genie du Mal by Guillaume Geefs and L'ange du Mal by Joseph Geefs
CW for incubus night activity, religious themes and imagery,
In this AU, Long Ge adopts Shu Todoroki as an apprentice in sculpting and is the hot artist to commission art from. One day, Shu gets a contract to make a statue in a church about the fall of Lucifer. As he works on sketching out the design, a winged figure with silver hair keeps visiting him in his dreams, whispering temptation of sins of the flesh into his ears. When he wakes up in the morning, there are unexplained marks on his body that he swears were not there when he was awake. Then he meets the model for the finished sketch, a certain French circus performer that eerily resembles his nightly visitor, only with dark brown hair.
His features and body are just perfect for the statue and Shu promises a hefty payment for his time. As he continues working on the statue that becomes more and more like Raoul, the nightly visits get more intimate and Raoul Caroule becomes closer to the budding sculptor. When he finishes the statue and presents it to the church, Raoul mysteriously vanishes with only a note explaining that his circus troupe is packing and moving out and Shu's dreams just become a little more lonelier after his departure. He names the statue Le Messager du Mal or The Harbinger of Evil.
Things are fine for a while until complaints start flooding the church that the statue is causing impure thoughts in the male penitents, feathers are found on the church floor not belonging to any bird and some of the priests swear that the eyes of the statue follow them no matter where they go, watching even through walls and doors. Long Ge gets involved in a heated argument with the church on what to do with the work and a compromise is worked out that Shu's statue is moved out from the church and placed into a museum while Long Ge takes over for the church commission.
Shu drowns out his sorrows and drunkenly rambles about Raoul Caroule and the fun dreams he's been having to Long Ge one night and as he takes him back home, a little devil inside him has an idea. Upon getting Shu's permission to look at the sketches of Raoul Caroule, he sends a letter to Vitaly Petrov, an old flame to pose for the church statue and ramps up all of the demonic and sexy elements from the previous statue. No one gets to insult his apprentice's work and gets away with it.
Shu is starting to see his night demon again, only a bit more fuzzier and ethereal than before. He feels more ghostly and cold compared to the burning hot of previous times. This time, he manages to grab hold of the spirit to get a better look at him.
It's Raoul Caroule but with horns, feathered bat wings and a thorned tail and icy blue slitted eyes full of fear as he vanishes from the dream, leaving behind only a few silvery gray feathers in the real world for Shu to find.
Meanwhile back with the statue, it is completed and is much more ripped and lean with all of the addition stipulations that the church requested from him. Long Ge has a feeling that Vitaly and Raoul are much more connected. He adds the tear on the new statue to symbolize the sorrow that Shu felt for the removal of the previous statue. He names it L'Origine du Mal or The Origin of Evil and forces the church to keep the statue as recompense for the removal of The Harbinger of Evil.
Raoul keeps avoiding Shu in dreams and real life until Long Ge catches the both of them and forces the two of them to have a nice long chat about what they really want from each other.
A Sliding Scale of Snake Spirit!Zhang Wei Long's Forms
Feral!Long Ge
Basically your average leucistic Chinese cobra bout near 2 meters long
Has more dark gray scales than black, the sharp blue eyes, the marking on the back of his hood, venomous fangs, *cough* other snake features involved with reproduction
Cannot physically speak but communicates through mix of snake body language and human quirks
Likes cuddling around Vitaly Petrov for warmth
Reverts to this form when all spiritual energy and cultivation is exhausted from even maintaining the naga form
Cannot regulate own body temperature and risks hypothermia
Naga! Long Ge (both scalie and anthro)
Now has hands (clawed for scalie, normal human for anthro)
Retains the large majority of his animalistic features (more cultivation is used to keep up human glamour)
Long Ge uses this as a compromise in winter (less chance of dying and uses less spiritual energy to maintain human features)
Is a little bit better at regulating body heat but still needs external heat sources (hoards thick clothing, blankets and comforters, hand warmers, air heaters, hot water bottles, hot baths, other people, etc)
Tongue is either more thin (in scalie naga form) or thick (in anthro naga form) but still retains the split from the original snake form
Eyes now have slit pupils instead of the typical round shape of the cobra or human
Snake body becomes just a bit thicker than his human form and retains patches of scales on his arms, back (hood marking still
Long Ge coils his cobra body around Vitaly's legs when they sleep together during the freezing winter nights
Also has long elfin ears in both forms
Anthro! Long Ge
It's a bit of a fun form to show off to Vitya far from prying eyes
Retains the human body and limbs, but with the cobra head, neck and tail
Kemonomimi! Long Ge
Long Ge's mostly human form with a few snake features.
He makes sure that which ever cobra features are kept can be explained away with body modification and personal preference
Ears are slightly pointed (ear cuffs), forked tongue (split tongue operation), fangs (did a bit of dental work), scales on his neck and back (also more body mods, he likes the snake aesthetic), the Chinese cobra hood marking on his back (tattoo)
The tail however? That's a bit harder to explain
Yes he still retains about a 3 ft tail that he keeps curled up under the racing uniform and sneaks a coil around Vitaly's hand when the cameras aren't on
Almond shaped pupils (compromise between the slits and the round pupils)
Food cravings bleed into Long Ge's favorite foods (frog legs and overall more rare meat)
Human! Long Ge
Has zero snake features, only the hood marking back tattoo
Requires all of his spiritual energy to maintain
Only uses it for public appearances (conferences, interviews, shirtless photos and modeling) and racing
Long Ge is often exhausted after maintain it for an extensive time and slips directly into naga form once he is in private to conserve whatever spiritual cultivation is left
Has a slightly lower body temperature than a normal human in this state
Drinking excessive alcohol will cause the snake features of Long Ge to come out
TW for snakes, animal death, animalistic behavior, suggestive themes, descriptions of non human genitalia,
When Long Ge gets sick, its a mix of life threatening hypothermia and man flu at the same time
Usually when sick, he's buried under layers and layers of thick blankets with a hot water bottle on him at all times
Favorite sick time meals are pigs trotter soup with youtiao (he's masochistic when it comes to crispy food and sore phlegmy throats like me), warmed Coca Cola with shredded ginger with lemon slices, century egg congee and the occasional unfortunate mouse/rat in his house
Becomes more wary if his snake senses pick up the presence of birds of prey or mongooses in the area
Becomes clingier to Vitaly Petrov since he is the warmest person around during cold days
Vitaly has roughly seen the majority of the snake spirit's shapeshifting (full animal, naga, human with tail and scales, forked tongue and fangs)
He has yet to see the scalie form of Zhang Wei Long (cobra head and neck, human body with the larger tail)
When Vitaly is tired, the Russian WTCL racer can be found resting in the coils of an equally tired Chinese cobra naga
It took Vitya a while to get used to the long forked tongue when kissing Zhang Wei Long (he's more used to the human split tongue)
When it comes for his spring estrus, he'd lock himself in his house and just be satisfying himself day in and day out
Vitaly then offered to help him during the more intense days of the estrus and often ended up not being able to move for a few days and had to be carried by Long Ge
Yes indeed Zhang Wei Long in his naga form has a cloaca and hemipenes with spines too
Zhang has to be extra careful during biting to make sure he doesn't flood Vitya's system with neurotoxic venom
Drunken Snake Spirit Long Ge Part 2: The Morning After
Continuation of the previous post:
At the soft starry tinkling of the alarm on his Huawei phone, Long Ge awakened from his inebriated state. Head still pounding from the previous night, all that the Chinese racer could recall was slamming shot after shot of vodka at the victory party. He could scarcely recall anything after that. After sending out a bit of his own spiritual cultivation to ease the intense headache, he realized that he'd reverted back to his naga form and currently lacking any form of clothing with exception of a jacket he didn't recall ever buying or owning. Also that his hair ribbon had loosened in his sleep, letting his black hair reach to midwaist.
It was now that his eyes now fell upon Vitaly Petrov slumbering on a recliner facing him, jacketless and tucked on himself. He too was awoken by the alarm on Zhang's phone and was staring wide eyed at the half man half snake with an equal mix of horror and fascination. The naga then slithered out from the sheets, revealing his six foot tail that coiled around the stiff Vitya as the sharp slitted blue eyes locked onto his icy blue pupils.
"What never seen a snake get some beauty rest, Vitya? Am I frightful to you, Vitaly Petrov?" Long Ge yawned, exposing his sharp needle thin fangs as the now thin forked tongue lapped at the Russian's cheek. The clawed tipped fingers held Vitya's face as the naga sighed from the heat emanating off from the Russian's face.
"Nyet, were you always like this? Does anyone else know about well...this..." Vitaly's hands were unconsciously drawn to the black colored scales, running the fingertips and marveling at the smooth cool texture. He held his gaze towards the animalistic pupils as he kept his indifferent facade.
"It's been a while since someone saw this form. The last person was Old Man Zhang and he's been dead for at least half a decade. I believe you are the only other person to know of this. I've always been extremely cautious about what features that I show in human form that could be passed off as body modification." The naga shrugged, as the coils tightened slightly around the Russian WTCL racer.
Vitaly Petrov got the impression that Long Ge was still hiding some secrets, but he chose not to comment on that. He let the cold snake bury his head into his chest to leech off some of his body heat as the tail grabbed the sheets from the bed to cover the both of them.
