#oscu

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

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taking a leaf out of Pallas’s book and doing a random number generator lmao and you get! My guy Harry Oible from the Oible and Shidworm Cinematic Universe!

(uquiz description written by Muse who cocreated the OSCU guys)

He was 15 years old when he and his little brother Clifford became orphans in industrial London. Ever since then, every hour of the day has been about keeping the two of them above the water: going from job to job, making sure the rent was paid and the house was warm, putting dinner on the table each night, scraping together a living for himself and a childhood for Clifford. If a group of workers asked to grab a drink after work, he would always decline without thinking; usually, he had somewhere else to be or something else to do, but even when he didn’t, it felt like he did. And then he was drafted into the first World War. He went unquestioningly; it was just another job. The first few times his fellow soldiers invited him to join them for a meal or a chat or a smoke, he declined on instinct--until fellow soldier Joel asked half-joking where else he had to be and for once, he didn’t have an answer. The next few seasons weren’t the childhood he had lost, but they were something like a boyhood.

He falls quietly less than a year into his service, and the world thunders on without him. His lover Joel, and their good friend Leigh, remember him for the rest of their lives.

(Also I’m still dying about “his lover Joel” that is NO LONGER ACCURATE they’re both aro as hell and in the modern community college au they dated for like two weeks in the theoretical first season of the sitcom and then went. Huh! This seems like being friends with extra steps, do you want to just be friends without extra steps? and everyone immediately forgets that that happened)

[caskofarmadillo]

And the hero will be unrecognizable, half-silhouetted in blaze of golden light. His once familiar face, well-known and everyday, grown sharp and broad, and holy with conviction. With sureness in his eyes, and purpose in his noble stance, cheeks reddened (reminiscent of those long-gone winter days, though now it’s out of passion ‘stead of cold), he pauses, looks behind, before he lifts his glinting blade and turns, again, away.

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He’d move mountains with a single word, you know, never once believing that he could. He’s never capable like that, not quite harsh (though could be cruel). His words, belov’d beloathed beleaguered may they be, simply for him to keep held fast to his chest, drowned in a woolen jacket just like the rest of him, no matter how effortlessly they could slash away the fibers, make a garden of the chest, entreat a lover and turn away a friend. Effortless, and still he cannot put them down.

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A soldier will fight a war, but not singlehandedly. But not by any choice of his own. And he doesn’t want to, and he’s tired, and he will look back on the destruction duty caused, swallowed in a grief heavy enough to sink his feet in the ground and his head to his hands, stony statuesque, shattered by the memory of hope— the pieces a grimly drab mosaic of I-know-what-l-must-do. And there the sun is rising. And a soldier gently with it, marching into the dewy distant iridescence, duty left quagmired, abandoned in the dusk.

[rid3rto]

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[panijeziora]

I wanted to draw more snape arts but apperently im incapable to draw him the same way each time :/

Also, always ends up too pretty 😂

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

not a fandom but the oscu for the blorbo ask game!

blorbo: legally I think I have to say Detective Oible???

scrunkly: bdjsbdjsbd I think John-or-Benny? that’s cursed

scrimblo bimblo: HARRY OIBLE

glup shitto: I mean. The entirety of wwi is literally not relevant once. But also. Arturo my beloved.

poor little meow meow: SHIDWORM

horse plinko: I mean,,,,, all of them,,,, but specifically one of Oible and Shidworm’s coworkers

eeby deeby: also Oible even tho technically I think I did not do that

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

@everydayatleast and me made a uquiz “about” our detective AU 👀👀👀

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

🖋️+ Oible and Shidworm?

They’ve been detective partners for 26 years and they’ve never ONCE solved a case. The case in Scotland w the missing detectives and the crime ring where Oible got shot and Shidworm killed a man is the only one they can even arguably claim to have done anything about but like. Most of the legwork was the other missing detectives and Oible’s Junior Detective/adopted kid?? The commission literally canonically only keeps them on to see what they’ll do next, plus their whole gay and pining and very badly hiding it is very entertaining and their supervisors want to see how that winds up going

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

what is oscu? i've heard you mention it a few times but idk what it is

OOHOO. WELL. BOY HOWDY. The Oible and Shidworm Cinematic Universe. Is theoretically a couple of dumb ass gay detectives me and my friend Muse made up when we lived together via. Doing stupid British accents and walking around. In practice it spiralled A Lot. There’s 30k words of idiot plot in a document somewhere.

The ones you’ve probably heard me talk about (Joel Harry Leigh Alan John-or-Benny*) are only tangentially related to the actual plot (and by tangentially related I mean it’s Vaguely Implied in one line that Detective Oible told his new detective partner about his childhood)(<— he was raised by his older brother Harry) but we got really attached to them. So they have a lot going on.

Strictly speaking their whole plot is about Harry’s WWI Experience and the Friends He Made There Before He Died. In practice there’s a community college au (in which no one dies)(well there’s the loadbearing Leigh Almost Fucking Dies plot point but that’s different he’s fine) that I talk about pretty interchangeably that also includes most of the regular Oible-and-Shidworm cast and also! The Violent Crimes 🥺 au which I think I mentioned in the server the other day bc Lilith sent a bunch of the songs off of it? In which Alan drags John-or-Benny into. uh. well we never really figured out what the crimes are but yk how it is. Evil Alan au where we find out where John-or-Benny (guy who has a very strong moral compass that just points directly at Alan)’s line is for What He Can Justify (spoiler alert: everything up to being rude to his wife).

There’s also a frankly ridiculous amount of little offshoot aus etc but I think that’s the main body of it? Here’s the art I commissioned from @charlie-artlie a couple years ago of the detectives themselves! (Shidworm left Oible right)

*his name is actually Asa but Leigh fucked it up one time in front of everybody and called him ‘John-wait-uh-shit-uh-…..Benny?’ and it stuck.** John-or-Benny Hates This and he’s none too keen on Leigh either.

**He got an award later on for saving Leigh’s life and when they wrote about it in his hometown newspaper they called him John-or-Benny. He goes home and never contacts any of them again (unrelated to the name thing) and tries to pretend the war never happened but his wife has the article framed on the wall and brings it up at his funeral.