#Avessa's Lair of AU/Canon Divergent Fics

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The place I post snippets of fic for your enjoyment and links to my content. blush

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Here's the accompanying scene for Keii's lovely pic. (Made on a special circumstances request for my fic, used with permission.)

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Feel free to comment! I am open to and welcome all feedback and/or empjis!

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Also, have a tiny glimpse into what the Workshop collapse might have been like for Eugenie. Drabble length.

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The first chapter of Lead to Gold is very short, so I'll post it here to give any prospective readers more of an idea of my style. 🥰

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Lead to Gold summary:
Pinocchio makes a single misstep atop the alchemist's tower with life changing consequences. Just what is the Arm of God, really?

hollow oak
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Ah yes, might as well list things I need to finish and unposted things I'm working on in the background.

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Things I need to finish (aside from LtG):
2nd chapter of Twinkle twinkle, Little Star (unexpected child acquisition)
2nd chapter of Tu Sei Delizioso, Romeo! (LoP/Prey crossover)

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Unpublished things I'm working on:
Buttervamp P!
This is what has been devouring my time recently, a vampire AU where P can, like certain European vampire myths turn into a butterfly. It features Carlo, Romeo and P, where a certain two Monad students find a very odd thing after a heavy snowstorm...
Oh yes there's also the oneshot I'm currently calling 'The Angel' but it's still in development mostly.
Also kinda want to do a oneshot where P finds a goose, he'd be so taken aback by it's bad tempered honking! 😂

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Also there are actual blood drinking moths, calyptra that feed on people and it's the males who drink blood instead of the females, like with mosquitos.

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I really want to gush about buttervamp P here but at a certain point it'll be nsfw due to violence, so I better not... 😭

brave pilot
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The least you could do is talk about the freaking egg thing lmao

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brave pilot
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You could! 😂

hollow oak
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As well as blood, P is also going to be able to eat eggs and honey. He's also really into teasing the boys and pulling pranks.
Monad house is going to have chickens and P... is going to be a serial egg thief. He has no problem eating them raw, which the boys think is horrible. This, naturally makes P more prone to doing it. He's also not above cracking an egg on their heads and saying it's good for their hair. 😂

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Carlo and/or Romeo just standing there with a horrified/disgusted look on their face(s) as raw egg dribbles down their hair the first time P does it.
He then might proceed to literally rub it in. 😂

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Eggs are remarkably similar to blood in nutrition and protein composition. So he gets to eat them.

brave pilot
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Buttervamp P is an absolute menace and I love it

hollow oak
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Oh, yes he really is and he's not going to forget Romeo has arachnophobia any time soon...

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OH NO

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Lmao poor Romeo

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These poor boys are just gonna be so full of trauma because of P

hollow oak
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It's only because he (grows to) care. 😇

stable crypt
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Man what is with you and your feral!HUNGY!menace!Ps 😂 (affectionate)

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brave pilot
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Feral P just going in circles in you head like a dog with zoomies

tacit socket
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Tbh, I'm here for it

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Feral P, lezgo

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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

brave pilot
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I also adore feral P

stable crypt
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TBF I'd go feral too if Geppetto made me through go through the whole game IRL

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Throw a table at daddy and go NUTS

hollow oak
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.......

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(looks left and right sneakily)

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One snippet won't hurt.

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It won't all be fun and sunshine...

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I might give ya a snippet of P scaring Romeo for funsies later on though. blush

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Wooahh the scene where the butterfly lands on Carlo's wrist reminded me of the opening sequence where Sophia awakens P and colour came back.

This is awesome 👀

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I'd love to post a very specific scene here but it's... quite violent and wouldn't be sfw sadly, too much bloooood.

stable crypt
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Butterfly P... oh so pretty, but also so very 😨

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This is a description of what he looks like all limp and frosty.

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rip @ the thought of pre-growth spurt Carlo hanging out with post-growth spurt Romeo

hollow oak
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There's a bit of a height difference!

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The funny thing is I went to school with two boys who were like this, one tiny and the other a beanpole who towered even over the teacher. 😂

brave pilot
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6 feet at 14??? omg

hollow oak
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It is possible, growth spurts can be that extreme if they start early.

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They be like: 👨‍👦

brave pilot
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I mean, fair but my god

hollow oak
brave pilot
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-thinking about mer Romeo- maybe I should make him taller than he is now

hollow oak
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I didn't realise how weird it was at the time. 😂

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I might even add a scene talking about Romeo having aches from all that growing, it does happen.

brave pilot
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I’d imagine this boy ate a ton as well considering all that growing needs energy

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stable crypt
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As an institute housing teenaged prospective Stalkers, they're probably used to needing to feed their students A Lot, but Romeo was probably at top 0.5%

hollow oak
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It all goes to height though, he's all gangly at this stage, no filling out yet.

brave pilot
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Oh god now I’m just imagining more stuff about mer Romeo. I’ll go into my thread about that tho so I don’t fill you thread lol

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romeo drank milk for that calcium god damn he got long bones CursedCute

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hollow oak
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Here's another snippet, if a rough one. It needs vastly expanding.

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hollow oak
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Here's a nice little snippet from Lead to Gold (from and already released chapter).

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hollow oak
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I really want to get some more opinions on my pseudoscience biology take on two methods of turning in the buttervamp story, so a bit more of my rambling ahoy!

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Vampires in general rarely if ever turn adult humans. It's usually children that they steal and turn. This is for several reasons, they usually adjust more quickly than adults and have a harder time resisting new instincts that tell them family and safety are with their kidnappers, so Stockholm syndrome sets in much quicker.
Bats (Another 'type' of vampire that does the classic turn into a bat thing. They're nomadic and very social, living in small groups of up to six.) especially do this a lot, it's easy for them to grab an unattended or homeless child and skedaddle.

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Butterflies are much more meticulous, usually going for orphans or abused/neglected children and watching them for a while, sometimes inserting themselves as a friendly face months before they take the child. (That sounds so bad now I've typed it out but yes, that's how they operate when looking for a child to turn.) Provided they don't just adopt a child with a human guise, some live pretending to be human for a decade or two at a time.

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As far as the first 'proper' method, it starts with an emotional bond. The child must trust the butterfly, feel relaxed and secure in their presence. They grow to see the butterfly as a source of safety and comfort, someone they can be emotionally and physically vulnerable around with no consequence.
The butterfly must also grow to deeply care about the child, prioritising their health and wellbeing. They also need to learn to trust the child, it needs to be a reciprocal bond.
Now, I'm not that fond of complete 'handwavium' explanations for things that could delve into interesting biology instead. So. Bear with me as I ham-fistedly try to wrangle a bit of biological pseudoscience into this.

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Viruses are extremely interesting little packages of genetic code. They aren't technically alive yet they play vital roles in a surprising number of ways and places. Human DNA is 8% viral genes, bits left behind from viral infections where the viral RNA converted to DNA was injected into a cell to alter the host DNA. These infections happened to our ancestors potentially millions of years ago, and recent studies have shown it plays a vital role in the function of the innate immune system. Those viral genetics also plays a role in pregnancy, which betters the chance of survival for a fertilised egg/foetus via making the placenta more invasive toward the maternal uterus, as well as regulating it's growth.

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Here comes the pseudoscience. I have no idea if this is going to read well or come across as nonsense, please tell me what you think.
Once this emotional bond is established and the butterfly is well and truly invested in the child, (something something, certain neurochemical levels of oxytocin/other specific hormones need to be detected before it's triggered etc.) they start producing and 'shedding' something that is very similar to a retrovirus. It has little to no infectivity and is essentially inert at this stage, not triggering the immune system. It needs to build up in the body of the child through close, regular exposure. (something something, it interfaces with certain receptors in the brain and gets into other tissues in the body as the amount grows, increasing the general levels of 'happy/cuddle' hormones present at all times. Kid becomes a cuddle bug, further increasing exposure to the retroviral particles etc.)
At this point it's still possible to completely stop the process, no actual genetic changes have happened yet. If the butterfly breaks off all contact the child will slowly 'revert' to normal behaviour. It won't be at all pleasant for either but it is still possible.

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If contact is maintained a 'critical' level is reached (detectable by the butterfly as a scent change) and the retrovirus 'wakes up' and gets to work...
Oh, before this point is reached the child also experiences a significant increase in appetite, the virus triggering the body to store energy.
The child appears to fall ill as the immune system tries and fails to rid the body of the 'invader'. This just doesn't work at that level of viral load and the real changes start. The child becomes essentially comatose for a while after that, the brain is where the first changes are made so this is a protective measure. It's on the butterfly to provide all the child's needs as the changes progress. It isn't until nearly the end (which can take the better part of a year), after most other things change that the body undergoes the 'alteration' from needing solid food to blood. The very last physical change, after the child had woken up and is mostly recovered, is the teeth. (Those fangs are essentially there all the time, it's just a minor illusion that plays on human expectation so they see 'normal' teeth when they talk. There are also minor changes in the mouth to allow for normal sounding speech so butterflies don't slur like you do when you put in a fake set of fangs on Halloween.) 😅

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The second version is the 'quick and nasty' one. None of the bonding or gradual build up, this is immediate, forcible change.
This is more like the classic vampire trope. Older, more knowledgeable butterflies know of ways to force their body to make this retrovirus. When forced like this it concentrates in large quantities in both blood and saliva in human form. Transfusing their blood into the child (while draining the child's blood) over a period of 24 hours starts an immediate transformation. The child's body basically becomes a battleground and it's not unknown for this method to kill. Everything starts changing at once and over a period of only three months most of the changes are done 'well enough' for the child to technically be considered changed. They run a high risk of starving to death (just through the energy expenditure of the change) unless the butterfly is very vigilant and attentive. The child doesn't become comatose and suffers through a feverish delirium of pain for a good month or more. By the end of it they are barely functional and require nursing and blood meals from the parent butterfly. It can take a year or more sometimes for their teeth to develop and come through, making them totally dependent on the butterfly that turned them. Further minor changes and pain can plague them for years afterwards.
The one positive out of this type of turning is that it can save those deeply wounded or near death. It's a complete rewrite and sends the body's repair systems into overdrive, co-opting them to make the changes needed. Rarely, the first method can cause the regrowth of lost limbs but not nearly at the speed of the second.

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P suffered through the second method, so to put it bluntly, P has very bad associations with turning. He only knows about the painful version, something he never agreed to. He never wanted to know anything about turning another, so he doesn't know the risk of developing an attachment to Carlo, and Giangio isn't likely to tell him until it's possibly too late or P actually asks.

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Might toss up P's backstory later if anyone is interested.

stable crypt
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The pseudoscience part on its own sounds fine to this layperson, but focusing on that makes me go "but then why the actual magic" at the other stuff like transformation, illusion, etc.?

hollow oak
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Well I mean, there's science and magic in LoP. I like trying to mix that. ||Also the Immortals might exist here and they possibly made the various 'less than natural' species like butterflies.||

stable crypt
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I can buy magic and I can buy pseudoscience. Both on the same plate is a harder (not impossible) sell for me. But this could totally be a "genre is not for this person" situation

hollow oak
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Also ergo does technically exist here, just not as you'd expect.

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That's fine, this is all more background info, it wouldn't be referenced like this in the story so it'd be up to the reader.

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I just like getting down and dirty with biology stuff. blush

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Eh, while I'm here I'll throw out the background stuff.

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P was 'turned' when he was an older child, mid teens. Rather than be from a neglectful family or an orphan, he was actually saved from dying. His family was on holiday, visiting friends and an 'accident' happened, leaving who P used to be on deaths doorstep. The butterfly who would become his 'parent' took him, turning and saving him. He wasn't able to go back to his family though, they thought him dead and the butterfly shamelessly manipulated him. (Yep, his 'parent' is not a good one.)
The normal length of time butterflies closely care for and teach their turned children depends on age at turning, but the minimum is 30 years, as their aging slows down. It takes a minimum of 50 years for a natural born butterfly to become reliably independent enough to live on their own (still in their parent's city/territory). P's 'parent' abandoned him after only 15 years, forcing him out and sending him away.

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Alone and still very young and inexperienced for a butterfly, he'd be dead to the first bat he encountered and indeed almost was killed. A certain enigmatic doctor/pharmacist saved him however, taking him under his metaphorical 'wing'. Giangio in essence becomes a 'surrogate' parent and a damn sight better than P's original, feeding and teaching him all the things he should have been taught from his original parent.
It doesn't take P long to realise Giangio is something rather strange. He's not a butterfly, (or any other kind of vamp P heard about) yet he knows all about them. He's also able to feed P yet he's not human, he has senses just as keen as P. He also doesn't age, he's exactly the same as he was when P first met him nearly 60 years prior. (As of the story.)

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Butterfly
Giangio also travels extensively so P is much more well travelled than most other butterflies. P sticks with him out of a sense of gratitude and family but now the two are in Krat, which is the city of P's original butterfly parent...

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That was a bit of a lore dump so... ***New stuff is from here! *** #1232668298953625713 message

hollow oak
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Aaaand now I'm thinking up a selkie AU.

hollow oak
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I did a thing I can't post here, you'll find it on my ao3, linked at the top of this thread.

hollow oak
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Selkie will have three forms in this, full seal, full human and a partial that is difficult to hold but can have quite a few advantages in certain situations.

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Okay, barebones start for the selkie AU. First thing first, it's going to have P, Romeo and Carlo, though Gep is going to play quite the roll too.
That old man has a few skeletons hidden in his closet...

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In this, Gep is a master shipwright as Krat is a booming port town, dealing with fishing, whaling and (sometimes) fur from seal hunting. He also makes many of the nautical navigation instruments, like sextants, chronometers and compasses.
Camille sadly died when Carlo was a child but he at least has memories of her this time. He remembers how she loved the sea and used to take him for walks on the beach and to poke around in rock pools. She'd get very quiet whenever they saw seal heads bobbing about in the waves and always looked so sad when they went home though...

Oh yes, even though most (75% or more) selkie/human pairings produce human children, sometimes a selkie pup is born. Selkie gestation is actually 10 months compared to human 9, so it's very difficult for human women to give birth to selkie pups. Regardless of the parents being pure selkie or one human, the pup is always born in their sealskin. They can 'shed' their skin after about three days.

The skin is a living piece of the selkie, growing as they do even when separated. So even when an immature selkie hasn't worn or even seen their skin in years it will still fit them perfectly.
I wonder what Gep would do with a selkie son... He certainly wouldn't want him swimming off...

As selkies don't have a water requirement they actually have small land based communities. Think the sort of tiny, insular villages along the coast you might find if you get lost on holiday. Mostly these communities are used and maintained by those with children.

hollow oak
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I... have yet another wip! 🤣 This is another monster P, except this time he's a Gorgon...

It's a completely AU setting, Carlo exists and is technically the elder brother by 2 years. Camille got cursed early on in her second pregnancy and got the snake hair and stare of a gorgon. P actually took most of the curse, he's a full half snakey boy and when he was born Gep couldn't cope. He wanted to get rid of P and Camille said no, she left with P.

Fast forward 16 years, Romeo and Carlo trying to scrape enough money together to get Carlo out from under Gep's thumb. They go poking about in kinda local ruins people are too scared to enter and Romeo falls through the floor...

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@spark grail Pino is a little bit blind at this point in the story, pay it no mind. XD

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OOHH

hollow oak
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These were from chapters 5 and 7 respectively.

spark grail
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Oh my gosshhhhh that is so sweeeettttttt 😭😭😭😭😭

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That’s so adorable

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Itty bitty Gemini

hollow oak
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It's also the source of his light, he can control it.

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@visual anchor Here! #1232668298953625713 message
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