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beanmaster-pika · 5 years

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I ended up getting encouraged to talk about my aus so thank you all for enabling my self-indulgence

Swan Prince AU

This one’s the first one? And it’s more of a royalty AU, actually. Licht vacations in the Servamp kingdom every summer but one day he gets cursed by an evil magician (Touma) to turn into a swan. Hyde, who’s the same age as him and therefore his designated playmate when they were kids, recognizes it’s him and freaks out because if the Jekylland kingdom finds out they let this happen then there could be a war and no one wants that thank you very much.

I’m actually more interested in worldbuilding than the plot so :/ For reasons I have not thought up, there’s the ‘older bunch’ of Servamps (Kuro to Freya) and the ‘younger bunch’ (Hyde to Lily) and there’s like a ten-year age gap between the olders and the youngers, and then there’s Tsubaki, who’s twelve and illegitimate. Kuro inherited the throne at 17 when their dad disappeared and by the time Tsubaki’s mother showed up a couple years after with a baby that had the last king’s eyes, the kingdom had stagnated. However, a baker named Mahiru starts showing up at the castle to petition the king, and he appears so frequently and his words are so sensible (”He’s got to have studied statecraft,” Hugh declared. “There’s no way he hasn’t.”) that Kuro’s siblings up and offer him a job as the king’s advisor. After many arguments and finally a heart-to-heart where Mahiru learns that the last king once allowed Kuro to make a decision that almost led the whole country to war, they start to work towards understanding each other and cooperating and it’s tough, but by the time the present story rolls around the kingdom is flourishing.

The older bunch all hold a place in court; Hugh is a minister of internal affairs, and he, Kuro, and Mahiru are at the heart of the kingdom’s laws; Jeje is the most knowledgeable about magic, especially curses, and works as both a consultant and investigator, though he’s sent to the Alicein kingdom along with Lily (16 at the time of the story, two years younger than Hyde) to serve as ambassadors and tutors to the king’s sons; and Freya’s the head of the army and the most terrifying person in the kingdom. The people love her. There’s a more even distribution of power than there was before Kuro inherited the throne - Mahiru’s influence and Kuro’s reluctance to be in charge of literally everything see to that - and provincial courts have juries put in place so that people are no longer solely at the mercy of sometimes corrupt judges.

On a different note, Hyde starts out as a sweet kid, but when his friend-and-maybe-crush Princess Ophelia two kingdoms over dies when he’s sixteen he goes wild in his grief and takes up with a group of bandits and starts hurting people. When confronted by his siblings, he declares that if the world is so cruel as to take Ophelia’s life, then his actions are just a drop in the bucket. Now, this is very much wrong and a problem, so Kuro manages to seal him temporarily into hedgehog form for a month (EDIT: yes he can normally transform into a hedgehog, no Licht doesn’t know at first, yes animal transformation is a common ability in their kingdom, and no the sealing is not a common or easy practice. It’s legitimate grounds for Kuro to self-prescribe absolute bed rest in order to recover from the drain on his energy, and he’s stronger than normal mages and had assistance to boot; a month is the very limit he can achieve with that) saying that if he’s lost his grasp on his humanity, then perhaps he’ll find it again in an inhuman form, and then they drop him off at the summer villa reserved for Prince Licht with Guildenstern as a caretaker. Now, unbeknownst to everyone, Licht arrived for vacation even though it’s midwinter, and he is absolutely taken with the hedgehog that’s wandering through the villa (”Oh Shit,” Guildenstern said. Hyde agreed. This was very much an Oh Shit situation.). It turns out that while he hadn’t known Princess Ophelia personally, he’d had mad respect for her for stepping up to enact a change in her kingdom’s politics even though it had ended in her assassination. He and Hyde end up having furious arguments over ideology (Licht still doesn’t know that Hyde’s there, and he doesn’t connect the voice with the hedgehog) and in the end, he helps Hyde regain his humanity - to be human is to desire, to desire is to dream, and to dream is to push your imagination past its very limits and work for it. That ends up breaking the seal prematurely, much to everyone but Licht’s relief. Licht’s pissed that the hedgehog turned out to be Hyde. And when Licht is cursed to be a swan, well, Hyde’s worried about it affecting relations with the Jekylland kingdom, yeah, but he also wants to do for Licht what Licht did for him: make him human again.

ANYWAY HERE’S THE DOODLES

Teacher AU

Because now they’re teachers.

This one has basically nothing in it yet aside from it being fun to consider what subjects they’d teach (Mahiru’s home ec; Kuro’s phys ed; Hugh’s history; Jeje’s art; Freya’s a counselor; Hyde’s literature; World End’s either a history or foreign language teacher; Lily’s a student teacher; Licht’s a piano instructor now; Otogiri’s the school’s doctor) and what everyone else would be (Tsurugi and squad are bodyguards; Iduna’s an engineer; Tsuyuki’s with the government; Sham’s with the government; Higan’s a wandering artist; Sakuya’s a psychologist; Ryuusei and Koyuki haven’t factored in at all oops; everyone else either has their canon profession or they’re college or high school students). One of the tidbits I actually spared thought to is that Kuro took a couple gap years and ended up in the same freshman Psych 101 class as Sakuya (who at present shares an apartment with Mahiru) and they somehow bonded and even after the class ended they became texting buddies (usually of memes) and hung out from time to time, but then Mahiru (after getting fired from his first school for some sort of reckless behavior) gets hired to the school all the Servamps are gathered at and starts out pretty argumentative with Kuro but eventually they gain a mutual understanding and maybe the beginnings of a relationship and Sakuya puts two and two together from conversations with Mahiru and texting with Kuro that the man he’s in love with might be in love with his texting buddy and he doesn’t know how to deal with that and so stops texting Kuro, and Kuro finds out about it from talking to Mahiru and then this happens

Kuro, throwing a chicken nugget at Sakuya’s window: why are u ghosting me Sakuya, opening the window: can u throw another

And they talk and all is well again. A poly ending is absolutely in the stars because Mahiru loves them both and they agree to it.

Also the other thing is this

Pokemon AU

This is the one I like the most right now! I actually have a couple of chapters written for it that I haven’t posted yet but basically the whole Servamp thing remains, but the pokemon that they transform into actually have their own personalities - rather than a transformation, it’s a shared body thing, and the human form is a manifestation of the vampire (formerly human) soul. I haven’t ironed out all the details of why this is happening, but I like the idea of them never being alone, though I haven’t figured out quite how this will change them. Hyde’s gonna be fun and also painful to figure out.

Fate AU

LET’S GET THIS HOLY GRAIL BREAD

Mahiru’s uncle was going to take part in the holy grail war but Mahiru accidentally summoned instead and what he summoned was Kuro, a Lancer. Add to that that Sakuya is still his best friend, was meant to be a pawn of Touma’s but ended up being Master-napped by the Saber he summoned (Tsubaki), and Tsubaki wants vengeance on Kuro, and we’ve got another round of heartbreaks on our hands because Fate is nothing but heartbreaks. The Alicein brothers are also there, summoning the same Servants (Caster and Archer) that their grandfather and Mikuni’s mom summoned, and they know that the Grail is tainted so they’re out to destroy it. Their backstory is a little tweaked with Mikuni just stealing his mom’s command seals to protect Misono instead of killing her, and he grabs Misono and absconds to the Church where they stay until Mikage ensures that Mikuni’s mom can never hurt Misono again after the War. Misono goes home, but Mikuni goes to study at the Clock Tower and comes back just in time for the next war. (There’s more under the pictures)

Tetsu summons Rider, but his sisters are the masterminds of the operation; they’re doing their best to restore their family in an age of declining mana, and Tetsu’s got the best Magic Circuits among them so he’s tasked with summoning, but they’re operating under the strict principle that if any of their lives are endangered, especially Tetsu’s, then they halt the project immediately and seek refuge with the Church. Hugh’s hyped about the whole ‘restoring the family’s magic’ thing.

Licht, on the other hand, comes from a family that’s at the very height of their magical power. He doesn’t believe in an omnipotent wish granter because he feels that it’s cheating, but to win the Grail is the goal of every mage out there so he’s in it for the glory. For a summoning catalyst he uses a bracelet that was supposed to belong to a martyr princess of old (”She gave her life for her goals,” Licht said in awe. “Yep, it’s very impressive. Please do not do the same,” Licht’s mother said.), but it turned out to belong to the other person connected to her legend, a man who was terrible and cruel, uncaring of others after he was driven mad in grief, and so Licht summons a demon of an assassin and Crantz (regular human) is left babysitting these goons while Licht’s parents hold down the fort in Austria.

Now, the Berserker team. I just want you all to know that the ones I was most excited about is the Berserker team. Tsurugi carried out the summoning here, Touma’s other pawn, and he added a madness enhancement, changing Freya’s class from Shielder to Berserker. Tsurugi, unlike Sakuya, is a highly trained operative and adult and one of the Church’s Executors, and he’s also completely under Touma’s thumb so he’s an ideal proxy even though Touma couldn’t snatch Sakuya’s command seals like he intended to. Unfortunately, Freya’s madness has just released her inhibitions and she’s this fucking close to pulling a Tsubaki and Master-napping Tsurugi. She does her best - in her limited capacity - to get Tsurugi away from Touma and it all culminates in Touma deciding she’s too much of a loose cannon and trying to take Tsurugi’s command seals away, but the seals instead go to Iduna somehow (haven’t figured that out yet) and Iduna and Freya spirit Tsurugi away to help him recover. Shortly after Iduna develops a magic item that’ll dampen the effect of the madness enhancement, more or less reverting Freya to her original class.

Now, this Grail War is an absolute clusterfuck by this point, mostly because all the summoned Servants are siblings, so a Ruler comes in - drum roll please - World End! Because who better to solve a sibling squabble than another sibling, even if he is the third youngest. This is mostly because I want World End to be included in stuff. World End’s in my Pokemon AU. I failed to elaborate on that but since that’s the AU I’m actually writing it’s all good. Anyway they’re all gathered in a sort of war council at a family restaurant to work out their intense family issues and then World barges in ‘WHAT’S UP THIS IS A PRETTY AWKWARD REUNION.’

This actually might be one of my favorites on account of being able to have them all be different physical ages but keeping their age hierarchy since Heroic Spirits can be summoned at whichever point of their lives was significant, and also this means that I can just make up lore for them. In ten, twenty years I’m probably going to look back on this and groan but for now I’m going to have fun with it.

For Kuro, he took down an entire army on his own at age eighteen and then retreated from the world. Hugh stopped a war when he was small (this threat of war surfaced again when he was older; this was when Kuro took down a whole army). Jeje became a famous outlaw. Freya overthrew a government in order to protect her soldiers. Hyde served a princess, but she gave her life for peace, and shortly afterwards his older brother killed their father; Hyde turned cold and cruel after that. World End inherited his sister’s kingdom after she died in battle and stood strong against threats from other kingdoms, displaying sharp wisdom despite his brash personality. Snow Lily used his illusions to carry out a large scale rescue operation on a child trafficking ring. And Tsubaki? Tsubaki was but a man who inherited a sword from his father, then vanished into the night when that same father was killed. He could have - should have - been summoned as an avenger, but for the sake of story convenience and keeping the war to the traditional seven classes, I chose saber for him.

#this took me All Day #pika's post #servamp #servamp au #im. not gonna tag everybody no #ah but gotta tag the ships just in case someone has em blocked #kuromahi #lawlicht #kuromahisaku #?

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areyoureadyforsomemeatballz · 5 years

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Cast Away (5): Good luck, Cowboy

Summary: After a mission gone awry, you end up stranded on a deserted island. While you know that you have the skills to survive in the desolate paradise, you’re not sure if your heart will.

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader

Word Count: 2,400

Warnings: Smut? Smut-ish, we’ll go with that. Swearing (as per usual). Tropical storms? Broken bones and one of our sassy pants playing doctor.

A/N: Where does the time go? Thank you all for sticking with this story, I’m having a blast with it! I may include some sexy times, we’ll see how the teaser goes and I’ll work from there. As always please comment/reblog/scream at me in the tags. I love each and every one of you.

You step under the gentle stream of the waterfall. A content sigh falls from your lips as the coolness trails down your bare skin. A pair of hands circle around your waist securely, the bite of metal sending shivers up your spine.

“Sorry, sugar,” Bucky murmurs against the delicate skin of your neck. “Didn’t scare you, did I?”

You shake your head as he nips at a sensitive spot and you tilt your head to give his lips more room to work. He grins against you and spins you in his arms, cupping your cheek in his hand. You take a deep breath, causing your chest to brush against his softly. His responding groan is music to your ears.

“I was just wondering when you were coming to join me, sugar,” you say breathlessly.

His rumbling laugh sends another round of shivers through your body. You look up at him and run your fingers through his dripping chocolate hair with a smile. He dips his head and catches your lips with his own, his tongue poking out to trace the seam of your lips. You tug on his hair, marveling at the softness of his curls and the moan that falls from his lips.

“Bucky…”

He pauses, his head dropping to rest on your shoulder as he draws in a shuddering breath. “Say it again, doll.”

His mouth continues its trail down your neck. He catches one of your nipples in his mouth, sucking harshly, before he sinks to his knees in front of you. His blue eyes shine as he gazes up at you, only breaking the eye contact to press a kiss to your hipbone.

“Bucky!”

“Hey,” a soft voice brings you out of the cloudiness of sleep. “Please, wake up…”

You blink your eyes open in confusion and startle at his massive form hovering over you. He gently sweeps your hair out of your face and gives you a soft smile.

“Bucky?”

“Yeah, yeah it’s me,” he whispers. “You sounded like you were having a nightmare. Are you okay?”

You feel your cheeks heat up as flashes of the dream pass across your mind. Bucky’s hands on your waist. Him sinking to his knees. His lips on your- You shake your head harshly. He looks down at you, concern clear in his bright eyes.

“I- I’m uh-” you force your eyes to meet his. “Fine.”

“You sure?”

You roll off the makeshift bed and move away from his warmth. “Yes!”

Bucky’s eyes follow you as you move to leave. He stands up and darts to block the entrance to the cave. “Stop! It’s okay. You don’t gotta go through it alone.”

You squeeze your eyes closed and run your hand over your face. “You stop,” you breathe out. “Stop being nice to me right -”

He holds his hands up and cuts you off. “Of course, I’m being nice to you. We’re friends and I get it-”

“It. Wasn’t. A. Nightmare,” you grit out.

“I don’t,” he pauses and realization flashes across his face. “Oh!”

“Yeah.”

A smirk you’re all too familiar with spreads across his plump lips. “With me in the same bed? I don’t know if I should be flattered or offended.”

“Fuck off, Barnes.”

He leans against the rocky wall with his smirk still firmly in place. “So, who was it about?”

You roll your eyes and elbow him in the side. “We’re so not talking about this.”

“C’mon, sugar, like I said we’re friends now. Friends can talk about sex dreams!”

“You’re a fucking pervert,” you say with a scowl. “As if I’d be friends with you.”

“Love you too,” he grins and follows you out into the trees. “Now really, who was it about? Maybe I can help you land ‘em when we get home.”

“Drop it.”

“Is it someone I know? Ah, someone on the team, maybe?”

You clench your fist and keep walking along the trail to the beach. “Shut up. Or I swear to god I’ll make you.”

“Steve? Sam? God, please tell me it was Natasha…”

“Bucky!”

He stops at the sound of his name. “Fine, weirdo. I’ll drop it,” Bucky says, and he nudges you. “I could help, you know?”

“Gross.”

His cheeks flush a brilliant red, and you smile. “I didn’t mean- not like that…”

“Whatever you say. Let’s go catch some breakfast.”

You are in the trees near the beach looking for any recognizable fruits and vegetables when you hear someone approaching. You turn to see Bucky, shirtless again, with his arms filled with fish. He frowns when he sees the plants that are surrounding you.

“I’m pretty sure this stuff is poisonous,” he says nodding towards the green vines on the trees next to you.

“Good thing we’re not eating it. I only pick things that I recognize.”

He looks over the small pile and points to some berries that you had found. “Okay, these are for sure poisonous.”

“How do you know?”

“The pink stalk they’re on. You didn’t eat any, did you?”

You toss the berries away from your pile. “No, I thought I’d let you look first. I’m glad I did, boy scout.”

He gives you a lopsided grin. “I actually was one you know?”

“No kidding.”

“Me and Steve were in one of the first troops in New York. Sarah, his mom, thought it’d help keep the punk out of trouble. Boy was she wrong.”

Bucky gets a far off look in his eyes as he looks back nearly a century. A soft smile works itself onto his face, making him look younger somehow. He stands back up and collects your pile along with his fish.

“We’re killing this whole forced camping thing,” he says. “Let’s head back and get this stuff cooked.”

“Boss, did you catch that?”

Tony looks up from the schematics of the ship you and Bucky had blown up. “Sorry, F.R.I. run it by me one more time.”

“The lifeboat they were on had a good chance of surviving the storm.”

“It was a class five hurricane,” Tony mutters. “How did that dinky little boat-”

“It was a prototype, serious military grade stuff.”

“Why didn’t you start with that.”

Steve pushes off from the doorway. “She tried, you were to busy with your… Whatever that is.” He nods to the blueprints that are spread across the table.

“Thanks, Captain,” the AI’s voice has a hint of a smile. “I’ve located another lifeboat just off the coast of California. Presumably from the same ship.”

“It’s traveled that far?”

Tony swipes his hand over his face and Steve hands him the mug of coffee he’s holding. “Currents are magic, Cap. Why couldn’t they have been in that one? They’d have landed in a little beach town without any problems of getting home.”

“That’d be far too easy, boss.”

Tony smiles and takes a sip out of the steaming mug. “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

“I’ve mapped all other landing sites, with ninety-nine percent surety. The confidence interval-”

“F.R.I., English please,” Tony says as he pulls up her work. “I’m working at Steve’s mental capacity at the moment.”

“Hey,” Steve complains.

F.R.I.D.A.Y. pulls up a map of the Pacific Ocean. A little red dot lights up each of the islands that your boat could have landed on, thirteen in total.

“Simple terms, there’s a hundred to one chance that Sargent Barnes and Y/N landed on one of these thirteen islands.”

A crack of lightning splits across the sky just as you duck into the cave. Bucky is sprawled across the floor and he turns to you with a bright smile.

“Took you long enough,” he beams. “I thought I’d have to come looking for you.”

You smile back and collapse onto your makeshift bed. “I couldn’t find the toilet paper.”

Bucky snorts and rolls on his side, propping his head on his hand. “I thought you said you’d yell if you needed some?”

“I managed just fine, thank you very much.”

“In that case, I’ll yell if I need anything,” he says with a grin and stands up.

You sit up with a frown, looking out toward the torrential downpour that has started up. “Have you looked outside in the last thirty seconds?”

He rolls his eyes and turns to you before ducking out of the cave. “I’ve got to piss and I can handle much worse than a little rain.”

“Just be careful, okay?”

Bucky throws you a grin over his shoulder. “You worried about me, sugar?”

He’s gone before he can see your eyes widen at the nickname, suddenly thrown back into your dream. Wet chocolate hair, like silk in your fists. Azure eyes swimming with lust. Low groans and soft moans and- You flop back down on the bed and worry your lip in between your teeth.

A roll of booming thunder startles you out of your thoughts, not knowing exactly how much time had passed. You stand up, ignoring your suddenly shaky legs, and head for the mouth of the cave. Cool water splashes around you, the drops pelt the ground angrily. The trees all swirl together in the downpour. It’s a sea of green and brown, with no sign of Bucky.

“James,” you yell as loud as you can. “Fuck! Bucky?”

How long had he been gone? You head out towards the trees, the rain immediately soaking you to the bone. Where was the path to the spot he had designated as the bathroom? You spin around losing sense of any path at all.

Your eyes squeeze closed, and you can barely hear the raging storm over the pounding of your heart in your ears. You clench your fists, digging your nails into the soft flesh of your palms. Your eyes snap open and you force your feet to move forward. Beneath you, the ground is slick with thick mud.

“Bucky!”

Tree roots catch your feet and you steady yourself on the slippery trunks. You strain as you listen for any signs of him. Lightning lights the sky, high above the trees, and seconds later the thunder sounds. The rain seems to thicken, the fat raindrops clinging to your skin. You wipe your eyes hastily and keep moving.

“Please be okay,” you murmur to the trees. “God, please be alright.”

A broken yell catches your attention. A call of your name. You sprint towards the sound and find yourself on the edge of a short overhang.

“Barnes?”

There’s movement in the mud below and you slide down the hill, towards the mass. You feel him beneath you before you see him. An arm. His chest. You swipe your hand through the mud, uncovering his face.

You throw your head back and tears of relief mix with the rain. You pull his body into your lap and he clings to you like a scared kitten. You run your thumbs in soft circles over his cheeks and he stares up at you.

“You scared the shit out of me,” you whisper. “I’d murder you, but it looks like this rain might do it for me.”

His soft laugh reaches you and a smile breaks across your face. “I yelled.”

“We were fresh out of toilet paper, Buck.”

He smiles his white teeth a stark contrast to the mud-splotch that is his face. “My leg might be broken. And by ‘might be’ I mean…”

“How the fuck-”

He moves to sit up and his smile shifts into a grimace, a pained wince falling from his lips. “I was walking and suddenly there wasn’t ground anymore.”

You slap his chest lightly. “I told you not to go out here, dummy.”

“You can’t always be right,” he grumbles. “I mean, you were this time, but-”

“Right or left?”

“Left.”

You slide your hands down his left leg, feeling for the break. “There’s no bone sticking out, lucky us,” you say absentmindedly. As you run your hand up the inside of his calf you realize it’s rotated too far inward.

“Fuck me,” he whimpers.

“Maybe later,” you say without thinking. “Think you can make it back with my help?”

You stand and pull him towards you slowly. He slumps against you and winces again. “Not giving me much of a choice there.”

You roll your eyes, though you’re happy he’s still joking. “C’mon, mud-man.”

“I like that better than Winter Soldier. You think they’d let me change?”

You keep him talking as you pull him up the hill. His body is heavy against yours, and you try and take as much weight as you can. The rain pours down around both of you and he shivers against you. Clearer headed now that you’ve found him, you miraculously spot the trail back home.

You drag him through the mouth of the cave and he collapses onto the bed. “All because I had to pee.”

He unbuttons his pants and you turn away to stoke the dying fire, forcing down the heat in your cheeks. When you turn back he’s struggling to take his pants off. You take a deep breath and move back to help him, your face blank.

“Thanks.”

“No problem.”

You toss the muddy pants away from you. You ignore the tight black boxers he’s left in, focusing instead on his leg. You find to logs that will work for a splint and pick up your combat jacket from the other side of the bed.

“You don’t gotta use that.”

You look back at him and raise your eyebrow. “What?”

“I know how much you love that thing.”

You slip a knife out of your pants pocket and shred off long strips of the fabric. “Your leg vs a jacket? There’s not much of a contest.”

His soft laugh fills the small space and your breath catches in your throat. “Just a week ago, I don’t know if you would’ve said the same thing.”

“What are you talking about? We’re teammates-” His scoff cuts you off. “Things are different now,” you finish quietly.

He holds his leg still as you make quick work of the splint. You can feel his eyes boring into you as you work. You pat his knee when you finish and turn away from him.

“Get some rest, Barnes.”

Out of the corner of your eye you see his hand reach out then drop to his side. He rests his head on the wall and eventually his breathing evens out. You move away from him quietly to hang his pants up, hoping they were salvageable. You let out a long sigh and slump against the wall, not noticing his blue eyes following you.

(Part 6?)

Let me know what you think! Maybe include what you think should happen next!

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