#triad au

[ageolwian]

🐺 🤕🔺!!!!

Thank you swifty! Taking it upon myself to swap out that wolf for a bird, as I'm now all out of hand it over to share! Onto part 2, which is Gale POV, and called demon-killing work.

🐤 demon-killing work 🐤

It grows. It grows and grows. John gives and gives and gives and the tree grows, and it doesn't exhaust John because he is a water source of infinite supply. He offers love with every bone in his body, and all the muscles and fat and skin besides. Gale can drink and never deplete him.

🤕 gale turns back 🤕 (following on from @crowtits' snippet here)

Gale tries to get his hands under him, to push up from the ground. He's shoved back down again, and there's a fresh burst of expletives from Bucky's direction.

'What is happening here?' clips out a voice. The W is fricative.

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Gale is five-am alert beside her. He shunts his body down the bed with a drag of his ankles in the bedding, a shuffle of his ass. He’s ready to put his feet on the floor at any moment.

‘Did it happen?’ he asks quietly.

Marge hears John’s voice then; the hoarse, heartbroken, ‘yeah. Can I come over?’

[ageolwian]

😬 and🔺 pls pls pls pls pls

😬 curtbucky(ies?) 😬

‘Crank’s with him,’ Gale says. ‘And Benny and Brady.’

‘Why aren't you?’ Curt says. It's more curious than accusatory, but Gale winces all the same. Curt means nothing by it, probably. He's just inviting Gale to tell his story.

But Gale’s story isn't really his. It never was. Bucky was the one gone half-mad in captivity, desperate for escape, hunted by something he could never speak on, trying to urge Gale along with him like he was a dog smelling the smoke of an unseen fire.

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Gale gets the phone call at about four a.m., on a light May morning, an hour before his body clock would usually jolt him awake. He hasn't been using the do not disturb function since Edie took sick and he lurches out of bed to grab the phone. ‘John,’ he mumbles, because he must have glimpsed the caller ID. Or maybe he just knows.

At first Marge thinks Gale’s volume is down too low for her to make out John’s response — and then she realises that there's been no response. John is silent down the line.

[ageolwian]

ooh i’d love 🔺 please! or any other story you’re feeling inspired to share <3

Thank you anon! Following on from the previous snippet:

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Marge has long suspected her own queerness, but has never felt confident in claiming it when she's been as good as betrothed to Gale since the sweetness of sixteen. She had asked Gale once what his opinion on opening their relationship might be, outlining her reasons for the idea, and he’d turned the concept over carefully in his head before admitting he thought he'd find it difficult. So Marge had dropped the thought.

And then Edie was diagnosed. Terminal, so terminal they gave her months, and she only managed weeks. John moved in with her; Marge and Gale barely saw him all that time. Your social life dwindled to dust when you were tending the dying.

[ageolwian]

🔺️ pleaseeeeee... if there are no margebuckies fans assume i'm dead

Thank you for lighting the fire under this outline - absolutely zero words had been written 💛🙏💛

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Marge isn't speaking ill of the dead, but it really is all Edie’s fault.

It's a shame, because she'd liked Edie, when she was alive. She hadn't known her as well as she knows John, but she saw her often enough over a decade of friendship with her brother to form a warm opinion. Edie had been kind and thoughtful, quiet until she could cut in with a comment so dry it set the room ablaze with laughter. She was smarter than most people Marge knew — as smart as Gale, maybe — and as far as Marge could tell she took the most joy in using her intelligence to lovingly make fun of her friends. She was independent. Adventurous. Liked her own company. These were all things that would be said at the funeral.

And she'd also been a lesbian, which was incidental to the rest insofar as far as eulogising went, but it had been hugely inspiring to Marge.

[ageolwian]

ooooo care to elaborate on disaster margebuckies?? So many fun ways I can see it going wrong…..

Thank you for giving instant validation to my little schemes!

This story is a tiny baby, and I really just meant it to be a warmup exercise for going back to both hand it over and lfaw, but now I'm excited about it uh oh. You can have some of my scribblings on the topic:

[ageolwian]

marge says bucky can join their relationship as a third and it goes horribly wrong actually

[boonalina]

How far along are you on the fanfiction for Triad City AU? Sorry not trying to pressure you or anything just curious. Also, when it's done, what cite will you post it on?

Double also, what ships (if any) are gonna be in this au? 👀

--I don't really wanna answer this because I don't want to either give hope or disappointment. So I'll keep that a secret for now.. (Don't worry, you're not pressuring me. You were simply asking a question 😊)

--When it's finished, I'll post it on AO3 and then share the link. (Btw, it's *site) I may also post it on Wattpad later when I've created a cover image for the story.

--Actually, for this AU, I wanted to take a step back from shipping. I wanted this AU to have a more broad audience so no one feels left out. There will definitely be cute ship worthy moments between characters, but nothing concrete or confirmed (except for PIF x DBK and like Mei's parents or whatever.)

(Sorry, no doodle this time. I just couldn't think of anything.)

LMK Triad City AU

(aka mafia/yakuza au)

Mafia Macaque and Wukong (colored)

Mafia Mei and Redson (colored)

Mafia Mk (colored)

Colorless sketch version

@violetjedisylveon @jennaakaninjastar @666herescared @bigooooooof

[boonalina]

Concept art for my Lego Monkie Kid Mafia AU (aka Triad City AU)

(Colorless)

Mafia Macaque and Wukong (colored)

Mafia Mei and Redson (colored)

Mafia Mk (colored)

Mk - He is wearing a visor and a double tie. And shoes with crossed laces.

Wukong - He has overalls, a fluffy cape, and a head band.

Macaque - He is wearing a top hat, knee high boots, and a vest with a ribbon bow. And a silk cape.

Redson - He has a sleeveless lab coat, gloves, a belt, and a tie.

Mei - She is wearing a short qipao with a dragon design on it. She has sandals, fingerless gloves, and is holding a helmet.

Link to Fic