(just a thought I wanted to shared thinking of grandpa Vil) Howl's moving castle au, Vil's beautiful so you think he'd be howl but no, he's an old grandpa crying about his beauty, you think the poor ol guy has started losing his marbles and let him in to live out his days traveling
Vil: "I used to be so beautiful, royalty envied my beauty, I was a muse!"
reader: "Okay grandpa, lets get you to bed, I'll bring you some tea" :)
Holy fuck holy fuck. Howl’s Moving Castle is genuinely my favorite movie. This is killing me. Also I know this is definitely going in a very different brain direction BUT LIKE. I CAN’T HELP IT
Vil as the Witch of the Wastes, desperately doing everything he can to maintain his youth and beauty. Neige as Suliman’s young prodigy, who easily sweeps in one day to take his place, leaving the once first choice to be the Royal’s Head Wizard as nothing more than a bookend. Vil who after losing access to all the grand magics of the Academy trades his soul away and begins dealing in the inexplicable in order to maintain even a fraction of the powers Suliman tried to strip from him.
Vil, who becomes a living legend and a nightmare—feared so well by all the little town folk that no one ever bothers to even think of getting in the way of his slowly building atrocities. Until one day he curses a poor, innocent, hat shop keeper he sees Neige leading through a waltz in the sky. Curses them to be old, and ugly, and everything he fears. Except after he no doubt ruins their miserable, little, life, they just keep running into each other. The Hat Shop Idiot just doesn’t know what’s good for them. Has sought out powerful magics without thinking to harness it for their own advantage, talks with a fire demon like its a pampered little pet, walks into danger with a stiff upper lip and an even stiffer, tackier, hat. They trade insults with him—as he deserves, who is he kidding—until the both of them are standing at the Gates of Suliman’s castle.
And then that tacky little idiot helps him when his magic fails. Cheers him on with genuine kindness and offers him an arm when his muscles are put under the strains of his real, battered, body for the first time in ages. When Suliman strips him of everything he has left, the poor little Shopkeep he once cursed out of nothing but cruelty takes him with them—saves him too. Gives him his own room in a magic castle and access to every, forbidden, thing he’s been hunting with such wicked fervor. And you, stupid hatter that you are, treat this real, ugly, version of himself with so much gentle kindness that how could he not finally see why all these other magical men and monsters have fallen in love with you too?
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“Your hair looks just like starlight! It’s beautiful!”
Day 4 - AU day
Since this whole thing is pretty much AU day for me I decided to go with one I haven’t shown much love to~
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✨ the boy who swallowed a star
a howl’s moving castle steddie au for @tboyeddie
“Finally,” Eddie presses their hands tight to his pounding heart, taking echoing strokes like it’s feeling out its limits, the bounds of its space; “finally,” and he guides Steve down to kiss him with a passion that’s breathless and breathtaking at once. “It’s perfect, isn’t it?”
Steve can’t think of anything in this moment that isn’t, that’s anything less than perfection, but he tips his head in askance to know exactly what his dearest means.
“All I wanted was to have a heart to give you, the least that you deserve,” Eddie cradles Steve’s hand dear, folds his fingers one by one before he pulls Steve’s touch to his chest of his own accord, his own wish and volition, flattens Steve’s palm there and presses close-close-close:
“Of course you’re the one to free that very heart to offer at all,” and Steve knew Eddie’s heartbeat was distant all these years but he couldn’t have fathomed the strength of it now, back where it belongs, and somehow, somehow—
“If you’ll have it,” Eddie murmurs, peering up at Steve through his lashes where he’s bowed toward their joined hands, gaze wide and hopeful and that heart is thunder, that heart is bird-wings—
“If you’ll have me.”
That heart is somehow trilling wild in offering, to Steve.
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Howl’s Moving Castle AU!
Ingo and Emmet being twin sorcerers and travelling across the wastes with infinite enchanted rails and an enormous train. It’s the infamous Traveling Station!
Ingo specializes in speech magic, speaking spells that are far to complicated but able to pull them off with ease.
Emmet specializes in performance magic, moving fluently and with such ease.
Both are formidable on their own, but together it’s a spectacular display of magic.
Chandelure would power the train’s engine with its flames and Eelektross provides all the electric power for the station to function. Emmet creates little sparks of joltiks to help maintain good maintence on the station and Ingo has familiars of Sneasel Spirits roaming around for pests and security
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Concept art for the Moving Castle AU of the ship ever!
(Reblogs are encouraged, pr0ship/c0mship do not interact)
TagList: @sailingselfships @nerdstreak @candyheartedchy @toasty-self-shipping @disneymarina @gay-selfships @letsgofoletsgo
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Cursed!Hatter!MC: Does something sweet
Vil: heart flutters
Vil:...
Vil: No. Oh no. Oh no no no no no no-
Vil: No they're old, and they're ugly, and I should know that because I-
Vil:...
Vil:...because I cursed them. So they're not actually old or ugly. Okay. Okay this is- well it's not 'fine' but I can work with...
Vil:...
Vil:...that means I'm the old one in this equation
Vil:...No no no no no no no n-
Vil’s Subconscious: well well well. If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions
But yes yes! This is literally what’s going down in my drafts rn haha! The petulant “are you kidding me” rage throughout has been oodles of fun
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