I am highly emotionally conflicted to present you with the newest craze sweeping my social group, Magical Girl Top Brass.
I started it with this absolute nightmare of an artwork and for reasons I don’t understand, it spiraled and many more people joined in. So here we are.
I am highly emotionally conflicted to present you with the newest craze sweeping my social group, Magical Girl Top Brass.
I started it with this absolute nightmare of an artwork and for reasons I don’t understand, it spiraled and many more people joined in. So here we are.
I am highly emotionally conflicted to present you with the newest craze sweeping my social group, Magical Girl Top Brass.
I started it with this absolute nightmare of an artwork and for reasons I don’t understand, it spiraled and many more people joined in. So here we are.
I am highly emotionally conflicted to present you with the newest craze sweeping my social group, Magical Girl Top Brass.
I started it with this absolute nightmare of an artwork and for reasons I don’t understand, it spiraled and many more people joined in. So here we are.
I am highly emotionally conflicted to present you with the newest craze sweeping my social group, Magical Girl Top Brass.
I started it with this absolute nightmare of an artwork and for reasons I don’t understand, it spiraled and many more people joined in. So here we are.
compiling a bunch of different hcs that myself and friends have built from the ground up - both as reference material and to spread The Agenda™.
this post is brought to you by: shiv (hi!) who trawled through hundreds of discord messages to make a single post that coheres, @x0ihi0x who invented venomous neighbors, and @hubbleablubble whose kion character inspired a lot of collaborative worldbuilding (and they also invented afto stage culture, lol)!
aftokrator
aftokratans are born with fangs that produce venom later in life
parent/child/sibling related aftokratans are immune to one another's venom
children start becoming venomous around puberty; before that there's essentially no risk to their saliva
after puberty, their venom becomes full strength. its effects include blocking trion at the gland, and slight weakness/disorientation that stems from losing the trion flow
this isn't a huge deal for non-combatants, but afto military and important figures are extremely wary of the venom, often refusing to share food, the same cup, cutlery, etc
blocking trion would also block the side effect of the affected person
aftokratans often bite when fighting to give themselves the trion advantage
since biological children arent venomous to their parents, imagine finding out you're adopted by accidentally poisoning your dad one day by taking a sip of his coffee when he's not looking
on the other hand, imagine waiting 13 years for paternity results (either your kid poisons you or they don't)
so... the highest divorce rate on afto is when the firstborn child is between 12 and 16 years old
in some adoptions and some hierarchical situations, there's a way to slowly build immunity over time with low doses of exposure
anyways, when hyuse arrives to tamakoma, he quickly learns that his venom may well prove deadly to yuma
so everyone has to be very careful about keeping cutlery and dishes and cups separated to avoid risking yuma getting poisoned
at the same time hyuse would probably try to poison jin a little bit whenever he wants to get away with something. maybe he licks his cup sometimes (yuma's always in on it)
aftokratans also have slightly different proportions than humans from earth - they're lankier, to a nearly uncanny degree.
meedenites have a limited vocal range compared to aftokratans, and they haven't adapted to notice the full vocal range that aftokratans speak in
there's a lower register engaged when speaking - subvocals - that essentially serve as tone tags for other aftokratans
these can sound like hums, chirps, growls, etc.
when hyuse got to tamakoma he thought everyone around him was slightly deaf or very dense
people would get unnerved by him staring politely while trying to make subvocal conversation and it was deeply confusing to him
he has trouble detecting sarcasm without the joking subvoc
after catching on that they literally can't hear or effectively use subvocs, hyuse is like i hate being this literal with my words can you guys please just evolve real quick this is uncomfortable
yuma chooses to reveal the fact that he can hear subvocs at the exact minute that he catches hyuse doing cute older-brother subvocs at yotaro
every so often someone hits a subvoc accidentally and it gives hyuse whiplash because it's never tonally correct for the situation
chika: "i love white rice! [funeral subvoc]" hyuse: "i think i need to lay down [/srs]"
during the afto invasion yoneya accidentally hit the flirty subvoc while screaming his ass off with intent to kill
ranbanein: "oh, these guys are freaks! awesome. bye now"
hyuse is perpetually annoyed by what he perceives as non-communicative speech - the overtone is only half of what he's used to hearing so it feels like everyone is withholding half of their sentence
shiori may figure out how to program subvoc cues into mental trigger comms, but it just sounds like static/glitching noises to the untrained ears (all of them except yuma)
"why did your voice get fuzzy there for a second?" "i had to convey the murderous intent. clearly that didn't come across"
since avoiding venom is a pretty ingrained part of afto culture, there is a kissy subvoc that means the same thing as a kiss. different tones for siblings, parents, children, friends, and lovers
yuma catches hyuse making the kissy subvoc for siblings/children at yotaro more than once
subvocalizations are a little tricky to catch for film, so afto has a good long history of theatre productions but movies/tv are relatively new for their culture
out of all the recent neighbors on earth, enedorad is the first to learn how to read and write. so he can post movie reviews on letterboxd
he makes esoteric references to aftokratan TV or theatre in all his reviews
"This was clearly inspired by tropes from Egg Crown's Forbidden Love but it executes the plot more clumsily. Still an entertaining watch. 7/10"
Enedora is a snob about props/sfx as a theatre enjoyer but animation is a new medium for him so he is completely enthralled by the polar express and tintin (he is so racist to meedenites that at first he believes that it's live action)
border talent show where enedorad puts on a play - "hang on i know this one by heart" and takatakatakas away on a keyboard for 200 straight pages, producing a full length stage drama
enedorad in the prop and costume department running the design team like the fucking navy, demanding period-accurate afto nobility robes for his play
"it's too annoying and exhausting to communicate with you when you don't get my references. im doing this for myself. because you meedenites were too stupid to come up with good cinema yourselves"
so, enedorad ends up doing a double feature - Nobles At War, and Egg Crown's Forbidden Love
hyuse hears about this very serious and dramatic spectacle and goes "wait. he made you watch nobles at war? that slop?"
so when tamakoma tells hyuse about the production of Egg Crown's Forbidden Love, they ask him if that's also just some shit. "what he showed you that too?? no that's a highly beloved classic."
enedora's incomprehensible taste: beloved classics and utter garbage
someone tells hyuse they thought both plays were good and hyuse says something about the pitch direction being cheesy and god awful in nobles at war, and being greeted with blank stares.
i like to imagine that's how he begins suspecting that the meedenites can't detect subvocal cues
after living at tamakoma for awhile, hyuse begins using subtle body language to indicate his subvoc tones. not everyone catches on right away, but when they do, hyuse suddenly starts making a lot more sense
[jazz hands]
kion
universal healthcare, UBI, everyone's base needs are met
however this isn't to say there isn't social stratification still; there exists an upper class
given that kion is a very cold, snowy climate, fashion is centered around two extremes: very little clothing, and a lot of clothing
wearing what appears to be next to nothing in a snowstorm is instantly indicative of wealth because cutting-edge thermals cost a lot of money
the inverse is also true: someone wearing a huge fur coat in the climate-controlled inner city screams rich bitch because, again, it costs a lot of money to have thick layers of clothing that still keeps you cool
just as breasts/butt are sexualized on earth, on kion the shoulders/arms and legs are sexualized instead
it's popular to pair a huge fur coat with skin-tight pants or huge fur pants with a skin-tight top (...fur tripp pants...)
humongous impractical coat while inside? celebrity look. with loads of scarves to drive the point home. huge wide-brimmed hat. skinny little pants
the hats are very important in conjunction with the main kionite body mod: pointed ears! these follow the same idea as afto horns in regards to trion, but they are less invasive, and plenty of kionites get pointed ear body mods for the aesthetics only
it's popular for people with very long pointed ears to decorate them with as much jewelry as possible
an arm tattoo would be the kioni equivalent of a tattoo on the ass cheek on earth
kionites pat each other on the butt instead of doing a friendly shoulder pat
the equivalent of a hearty clap on the shoulder is an emotionally supportive butt pat
when having a very involved conversation, instead of putting their hand on the other person's knee or upper arm, it's common to see their hand on the other's chest or back of their neck
kionites often instead tattoo their necks, torsos, and hands or feet (sometimes in thermoreflective ink)
many colored dyed hair is very in fashion
given the climate, there are a lot of crazy variants of root vegetables available on kion and very little in the way of grains
there's a culture of spicy food as well, lots of spicy fatty soup or stew
butter dumplings, root vegetables, cheese, that kind of thing
most of the condiments are powdered items rather than sauces; seasoned butter is common, as well as fermented root vegetable liquid (like soy sauce)
kion-radish kimchi
lichen is also a major food group, and most protein is preserved in some way (salted, frozen, pickled)
imagine, if you will: lichen salad with fermented radish pickle and oil vinegar dressing; spicy root vegetable ratatouille; dry rubbed spicy preserved meat with stir fried butter dumplings and tree mushrooms
'drug culture' in kion is very different from on earth
with all basic needs covered for everyone that lives there, the pharmacy (alchemist) dispenses pretty much anything
there's no concept even of "controlled" substances etc
there's no word in kioni that means "addiction" because everyone's needs are met and there's no drug stigma so they can get whatever they want from the alchemist, do it until they're done doing it, and then do a nice little assisted detox or taper or whatever
there aren't any canon kioni characters (yet? yet??? please) but i have plenty of oc interactions and scenarios, so send asks if you'd like to hear more about that!
quick little sketch for an idea that struck me about Zeref sculpting all the etherious by hand and then all the sad stuff that would go along with that
I find the idea interesting because he has to be so intimately familiar and knowledgeable about every part of them yet force himself to not care and remain mysterious to the things he poured his heart out into making
I love making him more tragic than he already is
not sure if this needs to be said but NNNOT A SHIP
