Couple of days ago I realized I was self shipping with Arthur for a REALLY long time, and I went to find the first self ship doodle I made of him. Cut to me going, "ahh, I could do better" and redrawing the whole thing. So, here it is! 2020 vs 2024!!
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I'm not a big fan of poppy playtime but when Chapter 3 popped up and I saw DogDay, I wanted to save the orange boy immediately.
So I made an au where my other favorite orange boy saves him. I got inspired by those Shaggy and Scooby spinoffs where the two go on their own adventures while the others are on a trip or something. Hence Arthur's different clothes. I might make more when I find other scenes I wanna remake.
Also I really like the idea that Arthur can upgrade the grab pack by attaching them to his own arm so he can use two at the same time like using the flare and purple one.
Been thinking about a Selkie!Arthur AU, here lately. I really like this idea. <3
Some info on this AU below the read more! I can't decide if it should be a LewThur AU or a LewViThur AU, rn, though. xD
• His vest is actually his coat.
• Only Uncle Lance and Mystery know that he's a selkie living in Tempo; Artie and Mystery are the only ones that know about Lance being a selkie, as well. Well, Duet might know, too.
• The rest of the Kingsmen family are alive! They just live closer to the sea than Arthur and Lance do since Arthur and Lance ventured further inland to satisfy Artie's curiosity; they settled in Tempo after Artie befriended Vivi and Lewis. They do still visit with the rest of their family pretty often, though - they'd lose their marbles being so far from the sea, otherwise.
• He has started numerous fights with people over folks almost touching his "vest" and will absolutely bite people over it. Trying to touch his vest will make him go absolutely feral and is the fastest way to start a fight with him.
• He's pretty distrustful of others but does trust a handful of the people in Tempo. Namely his uncle, Vivi, Lewis, Mystery, and Lewis' family. He does like Vivi's parents despite not really trusting them and he's civil towards grandma Yukino...sorta. Things are a bit tense between the two of them, to be honest. He just struggles to trust people he knows used to hunt supernatural beings in the past. Duet unnerves him and he hasn't been able to figure out why, just yet.
• The why is that Duet is actually a whale-shifter. Them being a whale-shifter is also why they have an idea as to what Arthur might be but they're not planning on telling him that any time here soon. He's already skittish enough around them, as is.
• Since the others don't know he's a selkie the possessiveness over his vest confuses them a little but they just assume it's because it must be sentimental to him so try to be understanding of it.
• Vivi has absolutely punched someone for trying to touch/take his vest when Arthur wasn't around despite not knowing why it's actually so important to him and Lewis has gotten involved with Arthur's fights a couple of times after seeing him start to panic/cry. This is part of why they're the only people he's comfortable leaving his coat with other than his uncle.
• Lewis tried to hand Arthur's vest to him once before he knew how protective Artie was of it. He was extremely confused by how flustered Artie got at first but ended up concerned after Artie started begging him to drop his vest. It was a whole thing. The incident actually led to Lewis himself becoming a bit over-protective of Artie's vest, himself, but he doesn't like to admit as much.
• That incident is actually what led to Mystery figuring out Arthur is a selkie - Mystery could tell he wasn't exactly human from the get-go but didn't know what he was before that point. Mystery teases him about it whenever he gets the chance, too - after all, who wouldn't tease someone about the time they had to reject an accidental proposal from their crush who wasn't aware they were even proposing to them? Arthur hates it - the whole thing is just super embarrassing to him, now.
• Arthur hasn't tried to revert back to his seal form since losing his arm - he's not ready to see how it will change his coat, just yet.
Sometime before giving Shiromori life Mystery devoured a fruit from a tree known to little as the Seikaiju (world tree). Before then Mystery was merely a gitsune but eating the solo fruit not only transformed him into a kitsune but gave him various abilities only weilded by a being simply coined as ‘Kami’. In every MSA universe there is a Seikaiju and one who ate it’s fruit to see the ‘Eternal Web of Fate’ and gain a link to the entity called ‘The Web Keeper.’.
Enigma ; The Keeper of the Web
“To many it is a myth but to yokai and any paranorma without it we and everyone and everything would cease to exist. The very knowledge of it can tend to drive most to madness. ‘Enigma’ is only just a name for a being that is beyond comprehension that any mere god or Kami. It doesn’t care for worship ; it’s aim is the maintenance Web of Fate (MSA Multiverse) come the End.”
- Mystery
Enigma or Web Keeper is a primordial entity that’s said to have seen all possible futures, pasts and presents all at once since it’s an extension of an entity simply called [[redacted]]. Not much is known about this multiversal. The picture above is a mural discovered in the ruins of [[location redacted]].
Arthur’s Ambivalence
While his aversion to the paranormal is due to his latent clairvoyance it’s tied back to the disappearance of his cousin who set up to move out of his biological dad’s home and to Lance’s shop instead. His name was Murlyn Kingsmen ; Lance’s son and a close mutual friend to Duet. He was researching paranormal activity at an abandoned mining site farther in the desert in what the locals called ‘the giants graveyard’ because of the shape of the buttes. Many call this particular location “The Living Tombstone” because of the reported activity from there. One day he just vanished without a trace.
So I have combed through the 200+ submissions, combed through it and come up with the final bracket that you will see right here.
Feel free to have a bit of fun! You can download this picture and make your predictions or even just present it as how it would go down if it was all your choice.
Round 1 will start at 6:00 PM EST on February 18th. Polls will roll out every minute until done. Then it's showtime!
The brackets are as follows:
Sasha Waybright/Anne Boonchuy/Marcy Wu (Amphibia) vs Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
Willow Park/Luz Noceda/Amity Blight (The Owl House) vs Jaune Arc/Nora Valkyrie/Pyrrha Nikos/Lie Ren (RWBY)
Suki/Sokka/Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Mafuyu Asahina/Kanade Yoisaki/Ena Shinonome/Mizuki Akiyama (Project Sekai)
Annalise Obrien/Gabriel Boutin/Nathan Byrne (The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself) vs Leonard McCoy/Spock/James T. Kirk (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Megaera/Thanatos/Zagreus (Hades) vs Monika/Sayori/Yuri/Natsuki (Doki Doki Literature Club)