Hi, I just love your chubacabrick and can’t wait to see more of him! :) May we ever get to see what it’s like when he’s transforming?
This ask hit my inbox when I bizarrely had just been feeling nostalgic recently for this now nearly two year old au. A transformation picture for chupacabrick had been something I’d always wanted to draw for him, but had never gotten around to. I can’t say I can promise I’ll get to it now though I’d still like to try to, as I am struggling a lot to find energy to draw recently. All that’s going on in the world, and in my personal life, has been overwhelming these days. But I want you to know I’m still around, I still love this ship for the content and friendships I’ve made from it, and that your Anon message really warmed my heart when my tumblr inbox has been pretty dusty tumbleweed silence for such a long time. <3
As thanks, I’ve included an old small ficlet I wrote as a character study on my mangy werecoyote Rick under the cut.
The first time he’d changed back it had been from necessity. He’d been in so much pain from the wound that the shift had been unintentional and nearly unnoticed as he’d stumbled back to his den, all his focus entirely on getting to safety and treating the injury. So much so, that he hadn’t even really realized he was human again until he’d nearly finished stitching the bullet hole shut and finally noticed he had hands. Once he’d finished with tending the wound, he’d popped too many painkillers to take the edge off both the gunshot through his ass and the lingering body pains from his transformation and had passed out on his cot, not caring what he was till he’d woken up the next day still human and angry as hell about the asshole who’d shot him.Today was different. Now he’d been regularly changing back, not out of necessity but purely because, well, he wanted to be a damn human so he could go hang around with the same jerk who’d put a bullet in his butt.
This time when he’d done it, he’d been fully aware of the bone cracking, sinew shifting, tearing down and rebuilding of his entire physical existence. Standing in front of the filthy silo bathroom mirror staring at the reflection of a man who was still breathing heavy through recently reshaped ribs that felt achingly too tight to hold him, Rick struggled to recognize the human looking back at him. He’d even on instinct growled at his own damn reflection until he’d realized what he was doing.When he’d originally gotten infected, there had been such a distinct contrast between his coyote form and human form’s thought patterns. While he was always still undoubtedly himself, it had been like his coyote brain functioned with all the same data on a completely different operating system. He was processing information and prioritizing it differently. It had been so easy to get addicted to the simplicity of letting himself run on that mode. But after so long spent that way, he was feeling less certain that all the settings were switching seamlessly back as he caught himself often having moments of being extremely disoriented by his humanity. Fingers ran through the stranger’s messy hair and he took a painfully long moment to recognize it as his own hand combing through his own fur- no that was hair. Fuck. Get it together.
At least he still had all the mental capacity to build a rocket ship from scratch… he just was plagued with spells where he struggled to cognitively recognize his own physical existence. No big deal, right? As long as he kept appearances together enough that the humans didn’t catch on he figured it should be fine. Christ did he just mentally refer to Morty and Stan as “the humans”? He laughed. Maybe being a coyote for so long had made him lose a few of his marbles.
Clearing out the cobwebs from my askbox! Some of these are recent others are real old. Apologies that I haven’t been keeping up with my asks during the hiatus, but I’m gonna try and go through some of them. Know that I always appreciate getting asks, even when I don’t have the time or energy to get back to them. (This batch is mostly chupacabrick au related)
He’s as annoying of an asshole to be around as any other Rick. Just with worse skincare hygiene.
Haha Yote Form! I’m keeping that. He’d sound like any normal human Rick trying to howl or growl or whatever yote sounds he’s making. He’s got human vocal chords and a human shaped mouth, so it’s obviously not gonna be the same sound as his coyote form. He does sometimes express himself in more coyote mannerism though when human out of habit cause he’d been shifted as a coyote for a long while. But he honestly probably looks pretty crazy and stupid doing so.
Ha! I know it and I can definitely dig it for that AU!
If you’d like a few of my own music recommends for Chupacabrick, some of my favs to listen to while I was making art for that au were any and all Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (If you want some specifics: Stranger Than Kindness / Thirsty Dog / Hold On To Yourself / Midnight Man), Icarus - Jason Webley, Pretty Pimpin - Kurt Vile, and Old Man Song - KT Tunstall.
It varies from AU to AU, but if we’re talking the standard flavour of current show age Stanchez, I’d peg Rick for being close to or around 70 and Stan for closer to 65-ish. Give or take a few years on each of those estimates. I’m not too hard set on specific ages for either of them.
For those who have been wondering what S-279 Stanley looks like... He’s just fully embraced the whole middle of the desert road side attraction aesthetic of being permanently sunburnt tanned and constantly sweaty. He also put up several hundred signs for miles along the interstate to lure in costumers.
kinkytwisted replied to your post: How did Rick s-729 become a were-coyote? (Born...
Oh man it’d be awesome to see Morty interacting with Chupacabrick. I kinda see him stupidly holding something a dog would like while Rick (coyote or human) just berates him or is just super pissed looking cuz “come on what do I look like, your dumb dog snuffles?”
Aw geez, common Rick, the kid just wants to have some fun.
(There’s totally an accompanying short fic for this, which you can find over here on my Ao3)
