Art by the wonderfully gifted @high-warlock-of-brooklyn
Read the first Chapter of my contribution to the TSC What If Bang 2022 on A03!
The prompt I was given was the following: What if Kit claimed his throne as a teenager and met Ty years later, when he’s the King of Faerie and Ty is a Centurion?
Sneak Peek:
There was chaos in King Arawn’s throne room. The Seelie Queen had barged in just as prince Ash Morgenstern had been ordered to execute the Unseelie sovereign’s youngest son, Kieran Kingson. Mostly because, unlike his father, he was loved by their people.
Why? the blond boy had asked, his lips trembling and his grip on the heavy sword as faltering as his resolve.
Whatever little choice he had in the matter was taken from him when a moment later, Annabelle Blackthorn, Shadowhunter witch, dragged him through an interdimensional Portal, dooming him to a life in a lifeless world. Thule.
The Seelie Queen’s cry as her second child was taken from her had pierced the room. The Unseelie King, shaking with rage, had ordered his Riders and guards to kill her.
And just as everyone in the room believed the most unexpected had occurred, King Arawn’s command died in his throat, replaced by gurgling noises. Blood was streaming from a gruesome gash slashed across his neck. The gathered faeries and Shadowhunters stood in horror as his head simply fell off his body to roll down the few stairs and halt in front of the crowd. The worst half exposed.
Behind the throne, a young boy - he looked no more than fifteen - was standing with a blood drenched dagger in his hand and he was wiping the weapon against his blue jeans. His mouth was set, his expression resolved, as if he had been working up the nerve to be where he was. To do what he had just done.
Who was the Kingslayer? He was a puzzle to look at. The sharp facial features of the Fair Folk, although he didn’t have pointy ears. The bearing and muscular figure of a Shadowhunter although he did not bear any Runes. Most peculiarly, he was dressed like a mundane in a plain black T-shirt with holes in it and a pair of used sneakers under his faded jeans. It was clear though that he was much, much more. It wasn’t only that, despite his attire, he looked more kingly than everyone else in the room, sovereigns included. It was in the way his authority appeared undisputable, his rule, ineluctable. In the way he exuded power.
His gaze swept the room before resting on the Queen, and locked. Her own eyes - the same blue as his - widened as she raised a trembling hand to her mouth. Auraline, she whispered in awe, but in the eerie silence, the single word carried across the room. Murmurs broke among the fair ones who now all wore masks of shock. The First Heir. Auraline’s child looks just like her. The First Heir’s alive. The Unifier. The Peace bringer. The news seemed to elicit equal terror and joy among the Seelie and Unseelie subjects.
The boy’s expression was unreadable as he moved to sit on the now deserted throne, his bare elbows gracefully positioned on the armrests. He extended one leg and tilted his head to rest a cheek on his left fist.
“The King is dead…” He proclaimed in a cool voice.
As one, the fey assembled in the stone room dropped to their knees. The boy’s lips curled into a crooked smile.
“Long live the King,” he concluded.
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Round 1 has officially come to a close, with some outcomes that really surprised me!!
Despite sweeping so many polls before mine, Kris and Susie fucking DIED? Right off the bat. But maybe that just goes to show how iconic Phineas and Ferb are, there is truly nothing neurotypical going on in that show.
Another surprise to me was the Ink!Sans and Error!Sans VS Cuphead and Mugman matchup. Although the former received 20+ nominations and Cuphead less than 10, this ratio flipped the other way when it came to the actual polling!
Many of my personal blorbos have fallen in battle </3 Aja and Krel barely stood a chance, but having them has been a pleasure. I am once again recommending 3Below! I was also surprised by the number of polls in Side B that nearly got 50/50, but all the winning duos managed to scrape by even if it was just by 2-3%
Going forward, Side A and Side B polls will go live at the same time. Round 2 will probably begin on Friday (to give myself time to update the graphics) and will be posted around the same time of day as Round 1.
Under the cut is the updated bracket and the duos that will be going head-to-head in Round 2. The pinned post will also be updated with this information:
Side A
Matchup 1: BTW Creature & TBH Creature (The Internet) VS Wylan van Eck & Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows)
Matchup 2: Keith Kogane & Lance McClain (Voltron: Legendary Defender) VS Gomez Addams & Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)
Matchup 3: Aaron Mitchell & Katie Mitchell (The Mitchells vs. the Machines) VS Dewey Duck & Huey Duck (Ducktales)
Matchup 4: Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) VS Jay Walker & Zane (Lego Ninjago)
Matchup 5: Luz Noceda & Hunter Noceda (The Owl House) VS Kyan Reki & Hasegawa Langa (SK8 The Infinity)
Matchup 6: Phineas Flynn & Ferb Fletcher (Phineas and Ferb) VS Luca Paguro & Alberto Scorfano (Luca)
Matchup 7: Tommy Coolatta & Benrey (Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware) VS Zuko & Sokka (Avatar the Last Airbender)
Matchup 8: Ty Blackthorn & Kit Herondale (The Dark Artifices) VS Reigen Arataka & Kageyama "Mob" Shigeo (Mob Psycho 100)
Side B
Matchup 1: Percy Jackson & Annabeth Chase (Heroes of Olympus) VS Mondo Owada & Kiyotaka Ishimaru (Danganronpa)
Matchup 2: Michelangelo Hamato & Donatello Hamato (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) VS Sonic the Hedgehog & Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Matchup 3: Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) VS Sunny & Kel (Omori)
Matchup 5: Troy Barnes & Abed Nadir (Community) VS Craig Tucker & Tweek Tweak (South Park)
Matchup 6: Brett Hand & Raegan Ridley (Inside Job) VS Usui Nagi & Furesawa "Fret" Tosai (The World Ends With You)
Matchup 7: Sans & Papyrus (Undertale) VS Spock & James T. Kirk (Star Trek)
Matchup 8: Zim & Gir (Invader Zim) VS Cuphead & Mugman (Cuphead)
With some of these matchups, Round 2 promises to be even fiercer than Round 1!! I hope everyone will continue to have fun and enjoy the voting process.
currently reading: lowkey nothing flaksdjf. does @potahun’s fighting hubris and the stars count 😭 and i binged a war in an age of icons by thetenthsunrise last night if that counts as well LMAO
last song: high school in jakarta by niki, but i’ve been spending a lot of time looping after like by ive!
last series: tbh good question i dont remember the last show i completed 😭 i dont watch much tv rip. is it concerning that its veryyy likely the answer is pokemon xyz. im veryyyy slowly watching pachinko ig??
last movie: ummmmm yeah no not this one either i dont watch many movies either IM SORRY LMAO
currently working on: tsme act 2: blackthorn! (tsme rewrite for my xy rewrite fic!) tsme act 1: alstroemeria and afterglow, an interlude-esque fic, are in the editing phase! and current overall fic (series) would therefore be the fire of a thousand stars :D
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share 10 different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media in no particular order, then tag 10 people 🎥🎬📺
(i am literally not in enough fandoms/do not consume enough media for this 😭 im def gonna have to cheat LMAO)
1. alain, pokemon anime (tsme specials & xyz)
2. zoya, shadow & bone and the nikolai duology
3. langa, sk8 the infinity
4. sailor mars/rei hino, sailor moon
5. inej, six of crows
6. gladion, pokemon sun and moon
7. emma, pokemon x and y
8. rod, cinderella phenomenon
9. echofrost, the guardian herd series
10. remi, unordinary (webtoon)
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and ten people is so many people, so here’s five and anybody i didnt tag can join as well to make up for the fact that i have cheated MULTIPLE times in this game lfkasjdf
tagging @silvmoonsky and @clacolu95 and @dot-dotdots and @waveypedia and @plumberflower <3
i was flicking through qoaad the other day for the funsies and THIS SCENE WAS REALLY GIVING THE SAME VIBE AS THE RUNNING AWAY SCENE FROM TITANIC AND I'M LIVING FOR IT
(like i just imagine those fools skiddadiling away while giggling and holding hands)
I don‘t know what it is about the Blackthorns but Andrew falling in love with Nerissa, Mark pulling the king of Faerie, Dru falling for Ash and Ty being in love with the First Heir is just weirdly iconic