Cryptid AU: Ken Nawa Part 2
Guess who won’t be dropping this au any time soon? Part 1 here.
- Cryptid Bestie doesn't glow, is more chameleon based; photosynthesizes from the sun, has eyes that move independently, they can do partial camouflage, where like they can camouflage up to half of their body at once, and they have a row of tiny extra teeth in front of their normal ones. They are retractable.
-They are also the curious type. They have done a crap ton of research on why they became cryptids, even found another cryptid besides Ken. Also definitely a science nerd but not natural science. Applied Physics or Engineering. Is probably gonna design roller coasters.
-How it Happened: a specific makeup brand that released the makeup in 5belows only for 1 week only and then disappeared; a makeup brand had a testing section that just kinda "goofed off" and made the makeup and then it "accidentally" got shipped out as the real thing. Aka some rogue scientist head at the company wanted to test on humans like a sketchy hoe and then passed it off as an accident. The scientist checks social media and news constantly for mutations. There are only 5belows in NH, MA, CT, NY, and RI, so those are the only states, along with Maine and Vermont, that have these new mutants.
-Eventually cryptid bestie takes the makeup brand and scientist to court, gets him put in jail, gets brand shut down, gets monetary compensation for any cryptids created by brand. Ken uses it to pay off his, Yuki, and Jake’ student loans. Cryptid friend uses it for loans and fancy science software.
-some white people who bought the makeup figure out it gives you the GlowTM (fluorescent skin is a common mutation) and shares it with friends. A GlowTM trend in Cape Cod where all these people get their faces done with the same makeup and then have parties as cryptids. Like they wouldn't even become actual cryptids they'd just purposely mutate their skin for the thrill. The news reporting 18 to 23 year olds in the cape area gettin’ a mysterious illness after spring break. Ken would be sweating bullets and avoiding dimly lit places in public for weeks. Cryptid friend would be losin’ their mind doing research. Science cryptid friend would start wearing sweaters and long pants more to hide when their skin changes by accident and would make sure their eyes do that human thing at all times. It makes them more tired because it prevents them from getting that extra sunergy but, the Fear.
-The rumors probably last a solid month and then peter off for another month before people just move on. Updates on the discoveries pop up every now and then but they barely get air time and after a year Ken stopped caring. Science cryptid probably stops letting it control their life, but they still keep their ear to the ground for news.
-Y’know how Eliza posted that blurry pic of Ken that Ken had sent to her in a drunken stupor, that she then edited to hide his identity? Tumblr of course would latch onto a new cryptid, what with its obsession with mothman, and make weird posts about Ken’s cryptid pic. Eliza would see the posts one day and fucking lose her shit. She’d take the time to make an entire blog dedicated to Ken’s cryptid pics and the rumors and posts that follow. She’d get Ken in on it.
-Whenever ppl say shit like “cryptid fought me behind a denny’s parking lot at 4 am” Ken just automatically thinks about the “meet me in the pit” meme and Eliza has to stop him from fighting ppl behind denny’s at 4 am
-Ken’s cryptid name granted to him by tumblr is “Boston’s Neon Angel” cuz that glow
-”Boston’s neon angel fought me behind a denny’s at 3 am”
-”Boston’s neon angel returned my wallet and married my wife”
-and it can be shortened to “neangel.” some people would be like “kids these days with their cryptids: mothman, bigfoot, *looks at smudged writing on hand* neon genesis evangelion”
