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1/2 a year since it ended, Unus Annus is gone but not forgotten.
I did individual ones for Unus & Annus, as well as one together.

I had a bunch of free time over the weekend so I made these.









I really haven't standardized the sizes for these things huh

I wasn't actually going to another one of these but I thought this idea fit too well not to.

This only had one image used but I probably spent the most amount tweaking it.
At one point I had a version where you see a blue haze & a red Haze behind the door but it made it feel too busy so I scraped it.
I give up, it good enough.

I've playing a lot of online cludo recently. It's a calm game, just enough problem solving to keep it interesting but not so much that I have to pay that much attention so I can listen to YouTube vids while I play.

I remembered that fact that the video series 'Who Killed Markiplier' was originally supposed to be based on on Cludo (more the movie then the board-game, but still)
I couldn't help but think of who it would be lade out if it was actually was a board-game.

I wasted most of my time yesterday making all the cards.

Since It's mark's birthday today I decided to make a finished piece.

(Edit: Why the hell can I no longer embed images from DeviantART? I HATE the new layout for deviantart. Nothing bloody works anymore!!!)

Edit2: trying a different way to embed images

I was meandering around the internet the other day when I came across a fanart of Jack & Anti as Jedi & Sith and I was reminded of an idea I had for a Star Wars/YouTuber fusion I had completely forgotten about.

Now I’m hardly an expert on Star Wars fandom. I haven’t even seen all the movies yet. Let alone all the tv series, cartoons & novelisations that may or may not be still considered cannon.

But you can’t read a bunch of fic in a fandom and not pick up some things and I’m not going to try and turn this into a proper fic anyway so it doesn’t matter.

Set back before the prequels just because there were an abundant of Jedi around for our YouTubers to be.

Let’s start with Jack since it was a fan art of him that reminded me of this idea.

 

Jack’s twin brother died either in the womb or just after they were born. They were both strong in the force so he became a force ghost.

As soon as Jack learns to speak, he’s more likely to be talking with his imagery friend Anti than anyone else.

And then he gets sent to the Jedi temple and eventually someone catches on.

This person sees the force ghost of Anti hanging around as the ultimate form of attachment and manages to scare Jack about becoming a Sith. Or maybe they are kinder about it and explain how you are supposed to let go into the force and not be selfish and keep people from moving on. Either way, Jack gets convinced to say goodbye to Anti. Anti even agrees since they’re both just little kids, they believe things adults tell them. They don’t want to be bad. But they’ve been together their whole lives, no matter how convinced they are of doing what’s right there a part of both of them that doesn’t want to let go. So instead of becoming one with the force, little baby Anti just hides deep inside Jack and sleeps. If there’s any conscious decision behind it he probably just figures he’s just going to wait until Jack also become a force ghost and they’ll join the force together.

So Jack grows up as a normal temple child, he’s a little loud & rambunctious but in time he becomes a padawan and heads off for his first mission with his master.

Oh, maybe his master should be Robin (pixlpit). That’d be fun.

 

Anyway, Jack’s first mission is helping on a planet struck by some wired plague. The rich can afford the vaccines of whatever but the workers can’t. They’re there with medicine and to try to help talks as the workers strike or something. (BTW I really did think of this way before the current pandemic so don’t read into to this.) They aren’t there for long when it all boils over and there’s a riot and Jack gets separated from Robin. He ends up running to the middle of nowhere and starts to get sick from the plague thing. Jack’s not too worried at first since he knows if he can just get back to Robin he can get cured and things will be fine but it seems like this thing effects force abilities so instead of being able to find his way back he becomes even more lost. He’s getting sicker & sicker and just before he passes out he manages to stumble onto some sort of secret base.

And the Sith living there recognises him as a padawan and kidnaps him.

I was thinking of the plague being some sort of parasite that effects the eye, with a creature that starts grown in the eye socket and at the last stage of the disease it bursts out leaving it’s victims to bleed out if the don’t get help and certainly losing the eye. The creature then joins the swarm to go on to attack other lifeforms and the cycle continues.

Only it turns out that it’s not actually a natural parasite. The Sith that kidnaps Jack was trying to create some sort of stealth servant that he could use to infect people with and/or control them. Only it turns out he’s not really much of a Sith. He actually was an angry biologist that stumbled onto some sort of Sith archive wile studying the planets fauna. A Sith Holocron opened up for him and indoctrinated him into the way of the Dark Side but the guy really wasn’t all that powerful. Darth Sidious and the rest don’t even know about him because his scam with the eyeball parasite is his first one and it’s got him nowhere so far.

But now he’s kidnaped a padawan so if he can get the kid to fall to the Dark Side he’ll have an apprentice and thus be a real Sith, right?
The Holocron may be constantly mocking Darth Loser for being so bad at everything.

Also the parasite that pops out of Jack is defective and decides to hang around the padawan instead of infecting others (It’s Sam. I may have a bit of a running theme of how he appears in my fics huh)

So Jack is stuck with Darth Loser and in massive amounts of pain because it doesn’t matter how nice Sam ends up being the little guy still burst out of his head. Maybe Darth Loser gives him a cyborg eye if he’ll be his apprentice or maybe Jack gets one later but right now he’s still kind of delusional and the hideout they’re in is shielding him from the force. And Darth Loser stats torturing him and stuff.

So Anti wakes up.
He makes sure Jack stays asleep and takes up Darth Loser on being his apprentice. He has no loyalty to the Jedi, he was still a little kid when he went ‘asleep’. It’s easy for Darth loser to stoke that into hatred. So Anti learns all he can but eventually realises just how much of a loser the guy really is and in the great tradition of the Sith kills him and strikes out on his own. But now he’s no longer being shielded Robin finds him and Jack wakes up.

 

If I was actually writing this I’d have to figure out how long it takes Jack to realise what happened and when the rest of the Jedi find out but I don’t have much of a plot to go with this other then the fact the Jedi council end up basically grounding him in the temple. After all, he may have a Sith in him but Jack’s still a Jedi so there is not much they can do about it.

Jack ends up with a bunch of the older problem younglings.

 

Like Mark.
The jedi temple has a lot of Sith artefacts hidden away. Some of which can only be accessed by using the Dark Side so they’re hidden away. But some of them can also be accessed but blood relatives of the Sith who made it. After all, the Sith don’t give up attachment like Jedi. During a tour of the archives or something Mark accidently opens one. When the Jedi masters investigated they discovered that Mark was actually a descendent of a Sith so can access a bunch of their stuff. The Jedi council is left in an odd position because of that since Mark isn’t Dark himself but can now help the archivist with getting info on the Sith. But the Darkside is dangerous so they can’t just let Mark follow the normal path of Jedi and so keep him in the temple.

I could possibly tie this back to Jack and say the Sith Holocron he has is Mark’s ancestor. The ancestor is totally Darkiplier btw.

Warfstache is some smuggler or something Mark bumps into that acts like he knows him and Dark but never gives any straight answers and always disappears if a Jedi Knight is around.

This all a great set up for a plot I do not have.

 

You know, when I originally thought of this idea I think I started with Game Grumps.

So I don’t know much about the other force users in the extended universe but I think there’s a group of Dark Side users that aren’t Sith called the Nightsisters. I think I remember hearing that they are a matrilineal society so the man are below them but are used as guards and stuff? I’m not sure. I think Darth Maul is one of them.

Whatever, I guess if I was writing this I’d find out more info or make up a different group but my idea was that Danny was a Nightbrother and so was Ninja Brian. Only Brian figured really early on that Danny was never going to cut it, he was too nice, so he smuggled Danny off to be ‘found’ by the Jedi. Maybe falsifying documents or something to get around being too old to train. Danny is happy in the temple but he still meets up with Brain in secret sometimes. I don’t think the Jedi council knows about it but maybe they suspect something so he’s kept with the other troublesome younglings.

Arin, on the other hand, had a fairly normal Jedi upbringing but he figured out for himself that he’d never make a Jedi Knight. He likes anger too much. (He has a pink lightsabre, because of course he does, but that’s a little too close to red for peoples comfort). He’s never actually used the Dark Side, he just yells a lot, so he was never kicked out or anything but he’s pretty much just waiting to age out and go his own way. He’s not too bummed about it, it’s the will of the force and all that.

 

I haven’t figured out what other YouTubers should be in this. Is MatPat a padawan who fell in love and is thinking of leaving the order to marry?

Is Nate there? Maybe deciding music is better than the force and thinking about leaving as well.

Is Ethan just a clumsy kid how no amount of meditating will calm down?

 

I don’t know.
But they would all be in the same ‘lets keep an eye on them’ group in the temple so they’d all know each other.

 

I did have an idea that some sort of plot could be kicked off when Anakin goes and destroys the temple and kills all the younglings. They were in there own area, because there just a bit too much trouble to keep with the regular kids, and manage to sneak out in all the chaos. The ones with access to Dark Side stuff cover the rest from Darth Vader and the empire as they escape.

I have no idea what would happen then. Space adventures as they avoid the empire I guess. Maybe the group becoming some sort of wired mix of Dark & Light side force users.

 

I don’t know, that’s all I got.

In the spirit of the month this is not just a fic-I’ll-never-write but NaNoWriMo-I’ll-never-write.

I seriously do not have the time, patience or stamina to write a novel in a month. But I do have a vague outline for something that resembles a plot.

I stumbled across a meme on tumblr saying how Phantom is a grown-up Natemare & this somehow spiraled from that.
(this has nothing to do with the Summoned Creatures fic idea I had)

 

 

 

( YouTubers in Hell )

 

 

Since this vague outline alone is over 6,000 words long you can see how much work this’d be to make into an actual story. Especially since most of this is world building & the plot ideas I have are very vague. Showing the descent into unthinking monster and then into inhuman beings while keeping each character ‘voice’ distinct is a challenge I’m really not up too. Also, if I was going to put in that much work, I’d just scrap all the YouTuber stuff to make everyone an OC & turn it into a real novel. But I write for fun, I don’t have time for that.

 

As usual, if this inspires anyone, please play with it was you will.

I hope this was interesting to read anyway.

 

I was thinking of going to the dragon of shandon this year but it was raining so bad on the way home from I decided to skip it.

On an unrelated note:

I watched A Heist with Markiplier yesterday but decided to figure out the hidden code today since I would have to go though all 31 endings again & I had stayed up to late at the time already.






( My notes )

I don't know if there is anything else hidden in the vids but it was fun to watch.

I'm also enjoying Jack's videos as well.

So I was randomly clicking though ego pics on DeviantArt the other day & I came across this one:

So of course I started to think what the Weapons & Semblances Darkiplier, AntiSepticeye, MadPat & Natemare would have.

Now weapons in the RWBYverse tend to be able to switch from a ranged weapon to a melee one. One of these guys actually has one of these thanks to the FnaF musical so let’s start with MadPat.

He has a Chainsaw/Flamethrower. Ok, it was more like a hedgetrimmer in the musical but a chainsaw sounds cooler. Although maybe a flamethrower isn’t enough range, maybe it should also be a rocket launcher.
I like the idea of scientist character being more meticulous & precise but let’s face it, He’s a mad scientist. He makes a mess.

I don’t know what his semblance should be. I’m tempted to go with the more predictable Technokinesis so he can manipulate technology with his mind. But I also kind of like the idea of taking inspiration from the musical again & give him some sort of Geokinesis (earthbending) so he can knock down walls.

The next person to have a canon weapon is Anti with his knife. I don’t know if he should have pair of them in an automatic pistol/dagger combo kind of like Ren’s from RWBY (But obviously looking different) or go one oversized knife that turns into a gun. I like the idea of the gun being an automatic because it kind of matched the staticky way Anti talks (if you stretch the metaphor a bit).

Of course his semblance would be the way he glitches about. I’d guess some sort of teleport ability. I like the idea of making it some sort of destructive type of teleport where he can chose to damage things he moves though, maybe if he uses dust or maybe not.

For Dark, I don't think he’s ever had a weapon but he has had a cane. So I immediately though ‘sword cane’. Not so much a sword that comes out of a cane as a cane that turns into a sword. He’s seems the type to want an elegant weapon so a thin blade like a rapier would suit him. He also loses his temper so I like the idea of his range weapon being something less controlled, like a shotgun. I was thinking something less like Torchwick’s weapon and something more like Weiss’ with shotgun shells instead of dust. Or maybe if we go back to the sword coming out of the cane idea the sheath/stick can turn into his shotgun.

His semblance would have to be shadow powers of some sort. I like the idea of both him and Anti have teleport powers of some sort, so he could move around in darkness. It could be something they both argue about. Anti may be more destructive but he can’t teleport other people & Dark can.

As for Natemare, I know the joke for anyone who can play guitar is to give them an axe but I don’t know. Maybe it just felt too obvious. In the Mangled vid the only other thing he holds is a microphone, there had to be a way to make that a weapon. And then I though, a whip. The more I thought about it the more I liked the idea because the whip is the first man-made object ever made to break the sound barrier & Natemare would defiantly have sound powers of some sort. I don’t have a good idea for the range weapon though, maybe just a pistol (insert lame pistol whip joke here). Especially if his semblance could be ranged.

I don’t know if going for a siren song thing or going for something like a banshee scream would be better. Maybe some sort of frequency manipulation thing that allows him to do both?

 

I don’t know.
That’s just my ideas.

So I was trawling though marksandrec & I started thinking about an AU idea w/ Marks & Jacks ego’s.

What if all the characters were part of a circus?
A creepy circus of course. And they’d still have freaky powers or whatever, but they’d still have to deal with putting on a show (I’ve worked enough back stage to know the types of shenanigans that pop up so this is something I’d love to read myself). I figure this would be set in the past at the height of the freak show craze just because of the complete lack of safety regulations. And then I thought that, well, I know I’m probably never going to write this but if I did I’d need a POV character. And I’ve been listening to a lot of songs from Natewantstobattle recently & he even has a song with a kind of barker exchange that would fit (I know it’s a FNaF song, but whatever). & fans treat the characters in his music vids like egos so I figured it would fit. Even though I really know absolutely nothing about the guy.

And then I ended up spending more time thinking of how the prologue w/ him would go then the original AU idea and acutlly ended up writing a fic:

 

( Dance with the Devil )

 

 

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So that works as a standalone I think but the rest of the circus idea was basically Natemare is wondering about trying figure out his shiny new powers when someone tries to rob him. He scares the guy so much he faints. This is how he discovers he needs fear and the nervousness of performers before an act isn’t going to cut it.

 

Maybe an info broker (MattPat) says he heard of a place looking for workers. Or maybe he hears someone yelling out to advertise a new show. A horror carnival. Called ‘Darks Dreadful Delight’s’ or something. The guy a has good voice for yelling (It’s Jacksepticeye) & has a patter down of all the acts guaranteed to thrill and terrify & all that stuff.

So Nate decides to go.

 

I’m not sure if I’d have Markiplier be the owner & have Dark the ringmaster or if I’d drop Mark & Jack altogether & just have their characters. If I did the latter the Jack would be Anti alias. If I did the former I properly have Anti possessing Jack or something. Idk.

 

Anyway, Natemare goes to see the show.

There’s preshow carnival stuff. Ed Edgar runs some of them. Chase Brody probably runs a ring toss. Bim Trimmer might run one of those rope ladder things. Since those are practically impossible.

 

There also a cabinet of curios kind of thing, which you pay to go in. It’s run by the Host. It’s got weird things like a green eyeball that swims in a tank and a tiny dancing little box. It’s got a ton of fakes like the stuffed Jackalope & the unicorn horn that’s actually from a narwhal. But it’s also got actual cursed items there as well. (One of them’s totally Nate’s old guitar he got when he was a kid. He doesn’t find that out until later though since he doesn’t go in, saving his money for the show itself.)

 

The show starts off w/ a warning from Dark that it not for the faint of heart. They take no responsibly of anyone dying of fright & such.

Since I’d say this fic would be set sometime around the early 1900s they’d have electric lighting by then, so they would have some sort or red & blue lights on him to (hide) give him his weird aura.

 

Wilford Warfstache who have some sort of gun/shooting performance. They defiantly get a volunteer from the audience for the finale & pop balloons around them. The crew always make sure that they the supply the guns for the act since they’re filled with blanks because if left to his own devises he would pull his own and his aim is sometimes not all that great (The balloons are actually popped by hidden pins that are pulled in place by someone backstage.) This doesn’t exactly help with Warfstache’s delusion that getting shot can’t kill you but he’s crazy anyway. There’s totally a bit at the end where he fires wildly & hits the band.

Jake/Anti is on the drums, (I think I’d get Jack to introduce himself as ‘a’ Jack since he’s a jack of all trades, filling in were needed in the circus. That’s where he’d get his name.)

Anti would make a big deal about almost being shot & swing over w/ a conveniently placed rope & chase after Warfstache all acrobatic like until getting his throat cut.

The audience would be left wondering a bit if that was part of the act.

 

The stage hands/clowns would be the Googles. They would be look like (actually be) machines. Elektro the was a robot on display in the 1939’s world fair so it’s not out of the possibility for acts to have something purporting to be similar around that time.

They would have a small act with the strict Googleplier ordering the others to set up between acts & Bingiplier would be the one messing up all the time & getting into trouble.

It’s serves as a distraction for the audience between acts for setting things up.

The slapstick would get harsher & harsher as the show would go on with the final set change ending w/ Goolgle ripping off Bings head.

 

Dr. Iplier & Dr. Schneeplestein would have some sort of mad scientist act w/ electricity. The tesla coil was made in 1891 so that could have sparks flying every were. The final of their act could be ‘bringing Anti back to life’. So he’d spend the rest of the night running after Warfstache. The finale of the whole show might be some fight that Dark interrupts or something.

 

Jackieboy Man & Silver Shepherd would have a high-wire trapezes act. There would be lots of bits where they almost fall but the finale would have a rope ‘break’ with some sort of last minute save. This would be yet another moment where the audience wasn’t sure if it was real or not. (It’s not, Silver Shepherd & Jackieboy Man are superheros from another dimension trapped here until someone from their home can come & get them. Jackieboy Man can fly & Silver Shepherd is invulnerable.)

 

Jameson Jackson has a mime act, maybe also sword swallowing & juggling, King of Squirrels has an animal (squirrel of course) act, Marvin The Magnificent has a magic act.

I don’t know if the Jims are conjoined twins or have some sort of acrobatic act.

Robbie would be a contortionist.

Maybe Bim could do double duty & have one of those acts where he eats nails & glass and stuff.

 

The Host has a mentalist act where he reads the audience & spills their secrets. The really bad secures he would just allude to enough for them to get really nervous about. It might be similar how mediums & spiritualist acts go. (In some shows in the past he scared people with deep dark secrets so much that they’d come back after the show to try and silence him forever. All of those people ‘mysteriously’ disappeared.)

 

The whole show would get more & more violent & disturbing throughout the night. The audience would be left guessing how much of it was real or not. The performers would all tread a thin line between scaring the living daylights out of everyone & not actually starting a mob, so they don’t get chased out of town.

 

The end of the night when they all take their bow is usually enough for the audience to feel like it was all just a good show but they all secretly be leave with an uneasy doubt about it.

 

As usual I don’t have a plot for this. Nate comes back the next day & gets hired as a musician. Dark & Anti realise he’s practically a baby w/ his demon powers.

The rest would be just everyone introducing themselves & what their deals are & all the acts & stuff.

Maybe other youtubers are there.

 If I was to throw the Sanders Side in there it's probably as a bunch of ghost that hunt the 'Sanders Theater', one of the place they preform in, or something.

Even the best show is like a swan, gliding along for the audience but back stage everyone’s furiously paddling to stay afloat.

I like the idea that demonic powers really don’t help w/ that as much as you’d think.