I'm actually really torn because I can't decide if it'd be funnier if thissel was the health inspector or if him and delgal own the (admittedly failing) restaurant everyone works at.
wait i never posted my dunmeshi-related OC doodles. literally everything about this AU stemmed from "haha evan how r u so sm-oh wait he would be a halfling and absolutely hate the kid treatment"
So was anyone gonna tell me that Chilchuk Dunmeshi was like EXTREMELY Karkat coded or was I just supposed to find that out when my bestie @maize-is-lost forced me to watch it a month ago? He’s even voiced in English by that one Karkat Shinji person like was that on purpose??? Anyway the cursing at Laios scene almost made me go feral and I KNEW I had to make this.
Anyway so Homestuck AU where they all actually go fight Lord English after fighting the other final bosses or whatever and John does something stupid.
Would love to hear more about that angel wolfwood picture if you have thoughts!!
ANGEL WOLFWOOD… yes, i have Some thoughts but it's nothing crazy… POST TRIMAX SPOILERS BELOW
it's actually a standard revival / wolfwood returns as a plant au, caused accidentally by the large burst of power vash used to protect the orphanage. he showed signs of life but not waking after his 'revival', so when vash got back to the ship, the best option to keep him stable + safe was to put him in a cold sleep capsule. eventually he'd wake up + sees vash again + gets the worst vague explanation ever + bonks vash upside on the head.
although the circumstances is strange, vash is happy that wolfwood was able to recover(?) and is Alive. a human-plant hybrid situation is new and worries vash on how it may affect wolfwood long term, but otherwise, he's glad to have him back.
i'd like to imagine wolfwood would be disturbed by his revival, knowing it's vash's life that kept him alive + having came back as something different + tackling the "what now" of his future and learning how to live normally again. he'd be frustrated and upset for the most part, but once he eats, sunbathe a little, walk on the outskirts of the ship with vash, and think over the things he's no longer obligated to, he'd instantly crumble and cry from relief.
and now they get to live the rest of their lives out together!! that's my au Anyway.
some other tid bits; i'm sure there's more complicated / fun ways to make a human-plant hybrid, but for my simple brain, wolfwood just has feathers + no verbal communication, communicates like how plants do + improved regen like how vash used to. every time the feathers are sprouting too far from his body/used actively, he's dying, so part of living is him figuring out how to control them better.
TO ME, post trimax vash is basically a normal ass human who can maybe sprout a feather or 2 if he wants to die. as a result, he can't necessarily 'show' wolfwood, but he does his best to explain how it used to be for him. wolfwood was always observational, so there are some things he remembers vash doing that aids him in his predicament now. below is case a) of vash trying to resonate with wolfwood, forgetting that uses power.
ummm i think that's about all i have to say. honestly, i'm not usually one for a revival au, but i read dunmeshi recently and was like ohhhh.. ohh……. and it gripped me, a life full of trouble but not at the cost of the world ending nor family… they could be happy… but only in this au ofc
I promise i haven't fallen out of the pokemon fandom! I have jusr been slightly burnt out and using the toxic chain discord jshcjf
Anyway, am I cooking up a castle-cats inspired dunmeshi au? Maybe
Here's the first concept! Despite his folded ears, he hears exceptionally well, and picks up on vibrations far before anyone else. He may be a prickly, old cat, but the patrol/party loves him.
Plan to answer the asks on @blossoming-belle-champ soon, I just haven't had any idea HOW to respond to them. It may take time, but bear with me, y'all!
so briefly to discuss the main roles. chilchuck is yomiel, izutsumi is sissel, laois is lynne, falin is the equivalent of kamilla and marcille takes on the role of missile ! (thus, marcille is also ray, && i’ll elaborate on this later)
the plot is similar to ghost trick!! (…kinda) (not really)
brief plot overview!! it happens in a similar enough universe to ghost trick, but the races from dungeon meshi pass over . i don’t think there will be a dungeon but don’t quote me on that one
but Anyway um. yeah chilchuck got divorced by his wife and it was BAD his wife took the house took the kids he was SO fucked. he dropped out of his job (which was…ummm. engineering maybe, if not rogue ?) and entered a spiral of depression > drink to feel better > hangover > depression. he was quickly gaining an addiction . LUCKILY FOR HIM he had a bit more sense than his dunmeshi counterpart — enough to recognise that his reliance on alcohol was a Bad Thing — so, in order to Recover (or at least replace it with something) he adopted a cat ‼️ he named her izutsumi and they became best friends, especially since it was likely chilchuck wasn’t going to live much longer after she died (half foot lifespans)
a few months into this he was falsely accused of armed robbery . he already had a pretty bad reputation around the area for being somewhat of a lousy guy, so he was taken into questioning and then. yeah whatever happened with yomiel 👍 temsik meteor, holding lynne (or in this case laios) hostage, etc etc
you know how this goes . chilchuck got revenge on the officers who cornered him && now senshi is in prsion . yeag . he (senshi) had two wards under his care, who were laios and falin. they all also shared an apartment with falins VERY close friend marcille who was very intelligent but not wise at all !
the first loop happens, and marcille got stuck there but sticks with it in the hopes of saving falin (…why? what happened to falin. can anyone hear me the number of plot holes in my own au are astounding). she eventually took the form of a log with a small sprout at the end of it (a reference to her staff) . she calls herself ‘bud’ !
you know the rest. izutsumi wakes up, sees chilchucks body & assumes it is hers and continues on without knowing how to read. etc etc .
“what about the characters you haven’t mentioned?” i’m working on it 😭!! i’m thinking senshi is jowd, Maybe (if not obvious by the story overview). kiki is inspector cabanela, maybe, and namari and kaka are her Right Hand Detectives(TM) with varying amounts of respect for her (playful sibling rivalry vs. kikimari perhaps?), but that does leave the issue of ‘why does senshi know kiki???? hwhuh’. shirou is the justice minister, maybe??? inutade is also here in the form of a dobermann i think. somewhere . inutade izutsumi best friends every universe
yo gimme 11 and 12 for the ask game for chilaios :3
11. What's your favourite piece of fanart for [ship]?
UHHHHHH
god. good question. ummm
there's several that i think have earned that distinction... i'll start with the very first chilaios fanart i ever saw:
nick and i had never so much as interacted before when i saw this, but like... i took one look and went ah, shit. that's My Kind Of Ship. and eventually this led to me getting into dunmeshi. (yeah, i keep telling this story--here's the art it's about!!) of course we went on to not interact beyond me resharing every chilaios it posted for a while, but we're mutuals now so!!! the chilaios cycle continues
past that, it probably goes without saying that every fanart i've ever gotten for my fic is my favorite. so i won't be including those. but here's a few that rattle around in my skull very often (you will have to click through to properly see them, sorry):
sorry for how long this list got. go reblog those
12. What's the funniest or craziest AU idea you've ever come up with?
does imposter syndrome count
or perhaps the one i want to write where chilchuck from the past shows up and they have a threesome?
sorry i don't think most of my AU ideas are that wild 😔
thinking about reverse dungeon meshi au in which laios was the one eaten instead of falin (from this thought provoking reddit thread). shuro would probably stay at falin's request and they might get his retainers, but probably no senshi. they'll brute force through the dungeon with the power of shuro's money and purchased food. i think marcille would probably resurrect laios because of falin and thistle shows up and woooo everything turns to shit. chimera laios would be so much more terrifying than chimera falin.
and i think this is when it truly diverges from canon because laios' monster knowledge and senshi's culinary skills are critical for their survival especially if they get attacked by chimera laios and lose supplies. shuro might be horrified by the ancient magic and leave and it depends on how much he still loves falin. marcille might still become lord and tbh it would be fun if chimera laios is under her control and she's like falinnnn i'll bring him back for you and falin's like nooo not like this and breaks her free from evil.
anyways love how dunmeshi characters are that way in order to convey the core themes of the plot <3
Au talk again, I have the feeling the dread encounter in your dunmeshi au is going to be hilarious like HiMERU covering Kohaku and later Rinne trying to "explain" to HiMERU about the birds and bees except HiMERU is a lot older than Rinne himself so he just try to keep a straight face while Niki and Kohaku are busy cooking
HI…. HELLO… FUNNY you should mention this! I was talking to nokire about this stuff anyways and realised i had some stuff i drew that hadn’t been posted yet. this is mostly not that stuff but IS related to the dryads so. have. have this
this is for a later au thing. that i’m maybe too shy to share about right now
kohaku wants to be taken seriously and he hates being babied but that doesn’t stop himeru from spoiling him and the others from babying him
For the dunmeshi au I’d say the most popular would have to be Pigsys slime noodles with your choice of broth and toppings. You haven’t LIVED till you’ve had his noodles, it’s like magic
As for Tang in the revival au weeeeell.
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. I mean it’s slightly better than I expected. Or he’s in too much shock to freak out right now but anyways
rendog voice i was talking about snail juice with false. i am pretty sure i missed out the worst part of the convo. also scar came by and tried to shoot her but ren was like "I SHALL DEFEND YOU"
ANYWAYS dunmeshi these two would have the most awful monster eating wack cuisine discussions in a dungeon meshi au like it's writing itself