it's Midorima's birthday, so naturally it was time for me to draw his second skin in my animal shapeshifter AU: a regal elk! I think I may use the excuse of bdays to finally draw everyone's animal form. at least the GoM's.
back when I was first writing this au, I had a really hard time picking a predator that fit him, since I wanted the GoM to all be rather intimidating and strong animals. But then I had the thought....what if he WASN'T a predator at all? He then ended up being the only non-predator on the GoM. but don't let his prey-status fool you, his animal form stands at 5 feet tall (152+cm) from hooves to shoulders, not including his head and impressive set of antlers. his stag form weights over 700 pounds (317+kg)!! you definitely don't want to be on the business-end of a pissed-off elk.
bonus(es)!
side note: bird shifters have it pretty easy in my au, since they don't really have a half-shifted form like most other shifters (who can be seen spotting their ears and tails when feeling overly excited/overexerted). Avian shifters only randomly shed feathers and their nails sharpen into talons when half-shifted. poor midorima though gets his ears, tail, smaller forms of his antlers, plus some of the speckling/freckles that can be seen on his animal form's coat. Takao of course finds all these things hilariously endearing, especially since it's not often that Midorima shifts in public, let alone lose control of his instincts enough to half-shift.
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Summary~ A short collection of words leading up to yours and Billy’s departure to california~
Warnings~ reader is called “Baby” but nothing else (lmk if there is tho)
~540 words~
Inspired by Led Zeppelin's "Going to California"
A/N~ This is my first time ever posting my writing!! Let alone writing for this character/ fanfiction in general. I hope you all like!! Feedback always appreciated!! Please show love by reblogging and commenting!!
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Billy and I always talked about the day that we would get out of Hawkins, moon hung high in the sky, a chill in the air and the whisper of words of a sunny coast that kept me warm. All while being held by him. Then in the morning, when I would wake, I would be alone and with the faint thought of a better tomorrow. It was never a conversation for the day, or for when we were wide awake, the words were meant for heavy lidded eyes and sleep-laced voices, and I always knew that he meant every word of it.
Here I am, with graduation months behind me, and every cent saved up since the first night kissed by the dream of going to California with the love of my life. I stand at the foot of my bed packing up my life in Hawkins in suitcases to hit the road in the morning.
When morning came, I nearly felt sick to my stomach with joy and anticipation of leaving a town that has never done any good to me. When I first met Billy, I have to admit I found him to be painfully annoying, but he slowly gained my trust and friendship then my love and admiration, I have never been more excited to see someone in my whole life.
The smooth rumble of a vehicle approaching my house made my bones jump as I quickly grabbed my bags to meet at the door and say goodbye to my childhood home. I lost love for my parents when they lost love for one another and eventually became bitter monsters, Billy was the only one that could understand the lack of warmth in a home, it became one of the many reasons I fell for Billy.
As I grab my things and make it out the door I see him, leaned up against the passenger side door with a soft smile on his face. A smile that says, “finally I’m free”. And I can’t help but share that smile and that loving look in his eyes. I walk up to him and press a small kiss to his lips and put my arms around his neck while he rests his on my hips.
“You ready baby?” a low baritone rolling out of his lips.
“I’m super ready” I reply with an even bigger smile on my face than before.
He returns my words with a kiss and grabs my bags to put them in the trunk, all the while not forgetting to open my door. I reply with a sweet smile as I get situated in my seat as he gets in his.
“No looking back, okay? Just you and me and the road to California. We get to start something completely new and different from this town.” He speaks as he grabs my hand to kiss it, I turn his hand over to kiss his too.
Billy moves the car into action turning out of my neighborhood and hitting the highway out of town and the smooth sounds of Led Zeppelin play behind us, I turn to him and say, “I love you.”
He turns to me with a gleaming stare, “I love you too.”
I'm a perpetual early bird, so here is my part of @knbexchange 's Valentine/White Day exchange. Surprise, @evelhak , I was your partner! And I don't only have these silly drawings to present to you, but a fic too!! These drawings are actually more-like bonus content that takes place after the fic. The fic details Momoi and Aomine's complicated thoughts as they help kagakuro prepare for a date night, which involves; makeovers, philosophical conversations, gift hunting, emotional confrontations...all that good stuff that you said you liked! I hope I did a good job capturing those things. I didn't get to go into how the date goes in the fic itself, so I figured I would draw it out. :D Can you spot the little hard-to-see surprise in pic 1?
Detailed fic info + link + extra kagakuro rendering below cut:
Title: Tinted Chapstick and the Revelations Made in the Home Goods Aisle of a Department Store
Rating: Teen and Up (for some swearing)
Warnings: swearing (aomine and kagami's fault lol), introspection, mentions of one-sided kuromomo (a little bittersweet, but its for plot purposes and has a happy end!!)
Summary: The inner musings of Momoi and Aomine as they both help prepare Kuroko and Kagami respectively for a date night. Oh yeah, and Kise’s there too.
I hope you enjoy these drawings and the fic. Happy (early) White Day/Exchange!)
old art (circa 2021) of the animal forms of seirin in my animal shapeshifter au. these were originally on imgr + ao3, but i'm pretty sure imgr died so i'm gonna put this here now so I can fix the dead link on ao3, but also I never uploaded these here anyway so.
i'm still super bad at drawing animals, but I do plan on one day coming back and fixing seirin's designs here. especially tiger!kagami how the hell do you draw a tiger i still don't know
note: the second option with different colors for kagami and kuroko is just me visually testing out the look. in my verse, their animal forms have natural color schemes despite Kagami and the GoM's hair colors being, well, rainbow.
and in case you couldn't tell who's who (spoilers for fic!):
finally drawing everybody's animal form after like 4 years into this au. randomly, I started with Touou. (plus bonus hanamiya bc i don't feel like coming up with the rest of kirisaki)
See more art from the AU | read the series (kagakuro main pairing)
Explanation on selections under the cut! plus some fun animal facts!!
Aomine: black jaguar/panther. this is was an easy one, considering its a canon comparison (it's his Animal Instinct). that being said, it really does fit him! a rather lethargic creature, he's often napping in the sun or found lounging around on any free surface, but you sure don't want to get on his bad side.
Momoi: I have an agenda which is to include Momoi as a GoM any chance I get, so I very well couldn't have her as the only non-shifter in the Teiko pack now could I? That being said, it was super hard to place her, but after a little research, I decided to pick a species that highlighted her intelligence (a parrot) and then picked a subspecies that matched her aesthetically. therefore, we have the galah (aka a pink cockatoo). she's a friendly and vocal little bird and can often be seen perching on Kuroko and/or Aomine when shifted.
Sakurai: a more recent epiphany, originally I thought he was going to remain a non-shifter. but after getting a really dumb idea, I decided to double-check to see if there were any creatures that both matched my idea and fit sakurai aesthetically/characteristically. the idea? to check to see what animals consume mushrooms as part of their diet. lo and behold, one such species is the hedgehog, which I happen to think aesthetically matches sakurai pretty perfectly. it was like a little epiphany. sakurai and hedgehogs are both small and round but a little prickly. perfection.
Imayoshi: another character who remained status-less for a long time. however, upon re-watching the series I concluded that Imyaoshi is very snake-like in his expressions. after i decided that, I simply googled black breeds of snakes. eastern rat snakes are non-venomous and are therefor constrictors, who wrap around and squeeze their prey. a slow, drawn out sort of style of killing, which I think matches his conniving, slightly sadistic nature quite well. they are cute little things though and rather non-aggressive towards humans.
Hanamiya: a canon comparison (the spider's web), so he was a character who always had a second-skin when I came up with the au. however, it would be damn right goofy to just have a normal spider try to be threatening in my mind, so I tried to come up with other variants than a simple black widow/whatever the animators drew for the Spider's Web sequence. in the fic, I wrote him to be a goliath birdeater tarantula, the biggest species of arachnid, but upon reflection, I decided that it was quite important to me to keep him as a spider, that way webs would still come into play. so, I sacrificed size and looked into other, more threatening-looking and acting spiders that also spun webs and then I learned about the funnel web spider, a species native to Australia (of course). technically, they more so build spider web nests, as opposed to traditional, airborne webs, but they're fascinating little creatures. look at a close up of them too, quite frightening! they also have some of the biggest fangs relative to their body size amongst their species. they also do threatening little dances where they fan out their limbs and also have venom. their venom is extremely toxic, and can cause severe drops in blood pressure, comas, or in extreme cases, organ failure and death; so if you ever encounter one, be extremely cautious, as they are very aggressive/territorial (I personally hope to never encounter one in my life-time; though they are funnily sassy-seeming in the videos I've seen). males are typically smaller than the females, but I decided to make Hanamiya an exception and have him be on the larger side (the whole species ranges from 1cm-5cm typically) but the largest male on record was 7.9cm (a little over 3 inches)!!
thank u for that tag from forever ago @evelhak i actually have a good few wips at the moment to pull from so this will be fun.
Rules: Tagger gives a word, then for each letter of that word you share an excerpt from your WIPs that starts with that letter.
My Word: SILENT
Here's proof that I still work on the series that you guys may be waiting on (at a snail's pace).
S
So, Kagami didn’t really feel like he was a Second Year. Besides the fact that his homeroom was now in a different wing of the school and that there were new faces lecturing them, everything felt much the same. ‘Homeroom’ wasn’t even the right word probably, considering they didn’t even switch classrooms in Japan - the teachers did. A lot of the faces in his class were the same too, but he had no idea if that was just coincidence or the fault of another strange system set up by Japan.
Well, not that Kagami minded that particular happenstance when one of the familiar faces in his class belonged to Kuroko Tetsuya.
Excerpt from my Shapeshifter AU, which picks up during Kagami and Kuroko's 2nd Year of high school, pre-Last Game.
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It’s something that snapped into place after a magic word. Fate and destiny and the planets and stars and shit had aligned to bring them together. That was literally the only explanation for why Robin had confided her deepest, greatest secret in <i>Steve Harrington</i> of all people and literally no one else in her entire life ever.
Excerpt from my Steve Harrington Case Studies series, featuring Robin musing on her and Steve's friendship.
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Luckily his next stop was his most local lover. The rest of his little vacation involved a lot of multi-hour commutes, unfortunately (though gracefully, Akashi-kun and Momoi-san had gone ahead and booked him some accommodations that would make his other trips both comfortable and as speedy as possible).
Excerpt from my nsfw Poly!GoM AU. (I'm not gonna link it bc it's under a pseudonym, but you could find it pretty easily probs).
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Eleven turned to her then. “The Els?” she repeated in question, emphasizing the plural-ness of the word.
“You know? The House of El?” Robin elaborated, before she had a sudden realization. “Wait. You know Superman, right?”
Thankfully, Eleven nodded. “I know Superman, yes. Mike says that I’m like him.” she elaborated, a fond little look on her face. “And he’s Lois Lane.”
Way to go, little Wheeler, Robin couldn’t help but inwardly praise the non-present teen. Look at him, fighting those gender-normative roles.
Another excerpt from that same Steve Harrington Case Studies series. I really need to work on that because I love this little conversation (and the rest of it) I've come up with tbh.
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Ningyo having some sort of secret passage that the humans didn’t seem to know about made sense, Taiga supposed. They’d need a way to get to the market without being seen. Though it was still a mystery to Taiga as to why ningyo would want to interact with humans in the first place, especially if they were as skittish and secretive as everyone had made them out to be.
Excerpt from chapter 5 of The Creature of Kaijo Cove, the latest installment of my knb mermaid AU.
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“Tetsu, what the hell.” came the sound of Aomine’s groggy yet somehow still pissed-off voice (impressive for someone who had just come out of a supposedly restful sleep). Yet even through all that, Kuroko could still hear the one barely-there emotion hidden underneath all the gruffness; concern.
“It’s good to hear from you too, Aomine-kun.”
“Don’t change the subject, Tetsu. What’s this bullcrap you’re asking me at asscrack o’clock in the morning?” Aomine seethed, the image of a furrowed brow and eyes pinched closed coming to mind.
An old, ancient excerpt from like 2018, for my semi-abandoned kagakuro in America fic. I haven't gotten anywhere close to this scene, but this interaction between Aomine and Kuroko (which culminates in a heart-to-heart) is something I've had in mind since the start. If I never find the motivation for finishing that fic, maybe I can at least shove this scene into a different fic... I've always had a soft spot for Aomine flubbing his way through heart-to-hearts but being incredibly earnest, nonetheless.
I'm gonna be a boring fart and just tag whoever of my followers/moots who see this and want to take part.
I like writing Kagami’s pov because whenever I can’t think of a specific word for something or how to describe it accurately, I just think to myself “Kagami wouldn’t know either 👍🏻” and then I can keep my dumbed-down description.
Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of that word.
tagged by the lovely @evelhak and GASP, i actually have wip writing that I can post??? i've been meaning to write again, maybe this is the kick in the pants i need... These excerpts will all be from an upcoming chapter in my knb ningyo au.
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After, they’d head to the main Mess - a conglomeration of booths and high top counters built into the wall - where everyone would partake in idle chit-chat as they ate, until it came time for morning announcements, which broke down the agenda for the day.
G
I don't have any sentences that start with G.
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Even Mitobe had looked surprised by this information.
N
Naturally, neither Taiga nor Kuroko had let on that they had overheard the freshmen gossiping.
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Call it a natural inclination for his “own kind” or simply because they “trauma bonded” or whatever other day-time TV therapist term Alex would apply to it, but Taiga had definitely been sticking to Kuroko’s side like a leech.
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“You say that like…they’re not safe from ningyo?”
I'm tagging the lovely @seafoamist and to keep things on theme here, the word I'll assign you is AHOY. (Is that even a word technically?? well it is now!).
