@cookiesandkatanas made that post detailing gender fuckery with everybody's favourite kelpie, so I made some femsmith smüt. enjoy your meal, greedy selkie.
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I've always had Big Thoughts about Smith and how being/presenting male was a huge detriment to the whole "picking up vulnerable people and drowning them" thing. People are gonna be suspicious of a 6 foot guy trying to get you in his car.
So here are some of my headcanons that answer this issue
a kelpie's true form is a horse adjacent creature. you know, the creepy waterlogged #fae horses.
young kelpies first learn glamours for the anatomically similar horse, but the ability to shape reality in relation to themselves is powerful, as it is in most water fae. Theyll soon be able to shift their entire physical form, not just the perception of it. Of course, the next most natural form is a horse. And to interact with humans beyond hunting, well, you gotta look like a human.
Any glamour or form a kelpie takes is basically a costume, the individual is *choosing* how to look
SHAPESHIFTERS ARE ALWAYS NONBINARY
(personal aside, I've been off T for a while and god I feel like a completely different PERSON so) different bodies literally affect Smith's personality, to an extent.
femme!Alex loves the mind games. She prefers to toy with people, both for her own amusement, and if they're prey, well, their emotional high of fear is one more tasty thing she gets to munch on when she finally drowns them. Her favorite food is emotional energy.
femme!Alex pros: seeks out people already leading chaotic lives, and her clean drownings mean she can usually make a pretty penny selling a body nobody will even be looking for for a few days.
Trott is convinced since shes always feeding off all that riled up emotional energy, shes more riled up and emotional. He swears shes more impulsive, more sexual.
masc!Smith lives for the pleasures of the flesh. food and fucking, and for him, they're one and the same. he wouldnt be able to tell you which he liked more, feeding on the sexual energy before the drowning, or the flesh and blood he ate afterwards
masc!Smith pros: usually content with smashing stuff/someone up, no patience or interest in making up and playing out drawn out political games for fun. Intimidating presence. More in tune with the water (the local water fae hate when they're Alex, she always says she'll visit but she NEVER does >:c
Trott doesnt like how Smith always runs hot, temper or sex drive or energy.
History:
True name: Alsmiffy. Got to the city in early 1900s, before cars are common. They had to get a job to pay for a place to live, and only men could do that, so human male form it was. Kelpies dont really have a concept of gender, so Alsmiffy doesnt mind their pronouns matching their current form. In the evenings it was still easy to hunt down by the river as a horse.
By the 40s horses had nearly disappeared from the city, and no one was approaching wild ones anymore. Smith started working as a taxi chauffeur, driving people about, drowning a few every so often.
In the 60s they started moving towards the hunting style of present day, using the lure of sex to draw in prey. This is when they started presenting as female more regularly.
Of course, Trott gets fed up with all the shit Alsmiffy pulls. But always wrongly blames it on their form. If Alex is impulsive and sexual, and Smith is hot headed and hot blooded, maybe the issue isnt the body, it's the person, lmao.
As Alsmiffy becomes more comfortable male and female presenting, they spend longer amounts of time in one body or the other. Trott finds some reason or other to ask them to change ("hey can you seduce ___?" or "hey can you be extra muscle at ___?") and they're usually too indifferent to shift back.
As this goes on, Alsmiffy is cultivating two different social circles worth of court favor, but only one at a time, and usually only one for weeks at a time. The sharper and more well connected people put together that the siblings manage some other affairs out of the city, and whatever it is cant be left alone for very long, because one or the other is always out there. Rumors fly wildly about what it may be.
The Troffy Feels
In present day, Alsmiffy has started to realize Trott resents both of their regular human bodies. Instead of addressing the issue of Alsmiffy leaving chaos behind them, Trott postpones the issue again and again by derailing Alsmiffy's focus whenever their collateral damage gets too much. Trott's resentment only grows because the issue keeps coming up, and Alsmiffy just gets increasingly aggressive requests to "go get your 'brother/sister'"
Of course, because its Alsmiffy, this is the gravest of insults and must be responded to as a challenge. (You dont like me now? Oh you'll see how bad I can be.) As time wears on, they start to take it more and more personally, and it becomes the spectre hanging over their relationship.
Ross, who joined them in 60s-80s (not sure exactly when yet) never saw their relationship any other way, and has no other reference for relationships, tries his best to talk them down individually. It doesnt always work, and he usually clears out when they're all together, to give them some time and space to talk things out. (Trott and Alsmiffy both resent the other for always escalating arguments to the point where Ross wont even be in the same room as them)
Despite it all, Trott and Alex have never touched each others' keys/skin. All three of them tell themselves that means they're okay, they wouldnt cross that line so they still respect each other, still love each other. On the worst days that feels like the only assurance they have.
All these headcanons are being refined thanks to my ongoing Urban Shadows game, a ttrpg made by Magpie Games, run on Powered by the Apocalypse.
It is such a great game, even if you're not adapting it to run umy, lmao. The team is working on 2nd edition out later this year, but a quick start version is out now and I'm p sure it's free on drivethruRPG
A drabble piece I rewrote after literal years. I never posted the original, and I don’t want to. Just enjoy this piece. (691 words)
UMY! Strife and their connection to the city.
The surge jolts the house. The street, neighbourhood. The city. Everything feels it. Twisting, humming, thumping with an old heartbeat. Only those in tune with the special magic if the city, the old ones, and those so deeply embedded in it they have no chance to part from it feel it. But that does not mean not everyone sees it. Street lamps flicker and shut off, the tram lines slowing to a halt as the magic grows in strength, pulling the city into its grasp. The city grows still, every machine, human, and being, holding their breath. Even without a touch of magic in the most simple of the citizens, they know something is different, something is changing.
A selkie Trott I drew nearly an entire year ago, can you believe it? Drawn shortly after seeing Aquaman I believe, which may explain a little lol. I’ve rediscovered a whole bunch of drawings from around that time it never occurred to me to post, I’ll share some now.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: The Yogscast
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hatsome - Relationship
Characters: Alex Smith (Yogscast), Alex Parvis, Ross Hornby, Chris Trott, Trottimus, Alsmiffy, djh3max, Nilesy
Additional Tags: ill update tags as the story goes on, Drinking, Alcohol, i hope yall are ready for this wild ride, Urban Magic Yogs, umy, Hat Films
Summary:
This is a story about a city.
A city where lost people go.
A city where people go to forget their past and start a new.
A city balanced on a knifes edge.
A city about to tip over the edge.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
it’s been far too long, but i’m finally paying tribute to a story that means the world to me. i wrote most of these years ago, but they still have a place in my heart and i needed to put them out in the world. i hope someone enjoys them!
deepest thanks to @threeplusfire and @boaillustration for nearly four years of inspiration.
and because i’m incurably nostalgic, have a new playlist as well.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: The Yogscast
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hatsome - Relationship
Characters: Alex Smith (Yogscast), Alex Parvis, Ross Hornby, Chris Trott, Trottimus, Alsmiffy, djh3max, Nilesy
Additional Tags: ill update tags as the story goes on, Drinking, Alcohol, i hope yall are ready for this wild ride, Urban Magic Yogs, umy, Hat Films
Summary:
This is a story about a city.
A city where lost people go.
A city where people go to forget their past and start a new.
A city balanced on a knifes edge.
A city about to tip over the edge.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: The Yogscast
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hatsome - Relationship
Characters: Alex Smith (Yogscast), Alex Parvis, Ross Hornby, Chris Trott, Trottimus, Alsmiffy, djh3max, Nilesy
Additional Tags: ill update tags as the story goes on, Drinking, Alcohol, i hope yall are ready for this wild ride, Urban Magic Yogs, umy, Hat Films
Summary:
This is a story about a city.
A city where lost people go.
A city where people go to forget their past and start a new.
A city balanced on a knifes edge.
A city about to tip over the edge.
HEY YALL
so ive been working on this for a while and oh boy!
im finally at a point where im comfortable with starting to upload it!
from next friday im going to start uploading a chapter every 2 weeks, its not a set schedule bc i do have things to do but im gonna hopefully keep up with it
i really hope yall enjoy, this has been in my head for so long
Prompt: Sips insists the court carves pumpkins/gets into Halloween this year. You decide who is good or bad at carving.
Just in time for 11 days after Halloween, here is Part 2: Actual Pumpkin Carving! These 2 drawings don’t visually go together at all but—– please enjoy!
Hey anon this isnt gonna be very coherent bc im very tired and i will write this up better later but,,
So Ross isnt actually entirely fae (which is really evident in the fic im writing atm, stay tuned for chapter 1 sometime soon) Hes half wulver, which is a kind of fae thats similar to wearwolves exept more good natured. Hes not as good with the other fae in the city, but hes very good with the humans. He used to live in a forest nearby the city alone before Smith came across him and Ross went to the city with him. Hes also one of my favorite characters to write bc he doesnt know as much about the city.
Zoey is a witch. I like to think of her magic somewhat similar to a circle of the dreams druid from dnd 5e. She is one of the more complex characters in the city, because she likes to be friends with everyone, and bc of that, she doesnt have any official affiliations, but she hangs round with the garbage court a lot. She also has prophetic deams
yo holy shit is someone still running this blog? whomst.... is doing this. you're braver than any US marine.
This ask made the blog custodian laugh.
This is already a pretty niche fandom, so the least I can do is keep running this weird little blog. Keeping the lights on as the world crumbles and all.
Idk much abt umy but.. do u have anything abt zylus for it
Yes yes yes yes yes yes (also you can check out my “umy basics” tag to see all of my posted headcanons so far)
So essentially hes an elf with old druidic powers.He comes from a long ass line of elven druids and came to The City where UMY takes place after being rejected from his family after failing his training.
In the city he has pledged his loyalty to the Garbage Court after Trott helped him out when he left the faewild. He doesnt interact with them all too often, but when he does, its always chaotic as hell.
Despite failing his training his magic has only grown in power since coming into the city
I’m having a hard time writing piratey stuff but I figured I could at least draw Trott as a selkie pirate :D He’s sitting on the side of the boat, contemplating thievery.
I do have some stuff written so idk when I’ll finish it up… I wanted to at least show something x-x!
My prompt was: Pirate!trott who is made to walk the plank for a reason of your choice (did he use forbidden magic? did he get too snarky with the captain? something else?). of course, once he’s in the water, he shifts back into his skin. what happens when he reappears? is he discovered, or does he manage to stay unrecognized? who can he trust?
Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃 This was fun.
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Kelpies do not love.
They only feed. They only kill. They only think of the nearest flesh available for their consumption.
Smith does not love.
Or. Well. He didn’t.
Popular rock star Alex Smith discovers the afterlife is a lot more bureaucracy than he imagined. Also it sucks. Striking a shady deal to get back to the world of the living, he haunts a couple in their new home. But Smith has second thoughts and this couple is more interesting than he expected.
An UMY/Beetlejuice AU written for the UMY Halloween Event! Happy Halloween everyone!
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