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viernes, 7 de agosto de 2026

REVOLTING CHILDREN - ENJOLTAIRE FICS

More El semen de los ahorcados filks! This one is from Book I, when the cast are "fourthies" and Javert becomes temporarily headmaster and induces apartheid between the Houses - this is when they start AS-SORTED and get the ball rolling, revolutionarywise!

REVOLTING CHILDREN

JEHAN PROUVAIRE:

Woah!
Never again will he get the best of me!
Never again will they take away my freedom
and we won't forget the day we fought
for the right to be a little bit naughty!


Never again
will that bloody door slam!
Never again
will I be bullied, and
Never again

will I doubt it 
when my mummy says I'm a miracle!

NEVER AGAIN!!

[ALL MEMBERS OF AS-SORTED]
Never again will we live behind bars!
Never again now that we know
We are!

We are revolting children
living in rеvolting times

and we sing revolting songs
using rеvolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
till our revolting's done
And we'll have Javert soon bolting
we're revolting!

[BAHOREL]
We will become a screaming horde!

[ÉPONINE]
Take out your Quidditch bat, and use it as a sword!

[COURFEYRAC]
Never again will we be ignored!

[GRANTAIRE]
We'll find out where the chalk is stored
and draw rude pictures on the board!

[ENJOLRAS]
It's not insulting!

[ALL MEMBERS OF AS-SORTED]
We're revolting!

We can S-P-L how we like!
If enough of us are wrong
Wrong is right!

Everyone! A little N-O-R-TY! Y?

Cause we're a little bit naughty!
You say we oughta stay inside the line
If we disobey at the same time
There is nothing that Javert then can do!

[GRANTAIRE]

He can take that truncheon and S-H-UV...!

[ALL HOGWARTS STUDENTS]
You mighta' thought we were weak but we're strong
You mighta' thought you were right but you're wrong
because you finally pushed us too far
but there's no going back now 'cause we R...

[EVERYONE]
R-
E-V-O-L-T-I-N 

[ENJOLRAS] (Revolting times!)

[EVERYONE]
We'll S-I-N-G 

[COMBEFERRE] (Songs!)

[EVERYONE]
U S-I-N-G... 

[COURFEYRAC] (Rhymes!)

[EVERYONE]

[ALL HOGWARTS STUDENTS]
We'll be R-E-V-O-L-T-I-N-G
It is 2-L-8-4-U we R -E-volting!


We are revolting children
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Using revolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
'Til our revolting's done
It is 2 L-8 4 U
4-U
4-U
4-U
4-U!

We are revolting children
Living in revolting times
We sing revolting songs
Using revolting rhymes
We'll be revolting children
'Til our revolting's done
It is 2 L8 4 U

we

**********************

SEREMOS REVOLTOSOS

JEHAN PROUVAIRE:

Woh oh woh oh woh...

Nunca jamás me van ellos a exprimir...

Nunca jamás nos van a cortar las alas...

y nunca olvidaremos el día en que luchamos

por ser algo traviesos...

Nunca jamás las puertas se cerrarán,

nunca jamás sufriré bullying y

nunca jamás dudaré de que mi mami dice

que un milagro soy

¡NUNCA JAMÁS!

[TODO AS-SORTED]

Nunca jamás nos encarcelarán,

nunca jamás, ¡sabemos cómo esto irá!

Seremos revoltosos,

en tiempos revueltos que hay

y los versos que cantar

perversos hoy serán...

Seremos revoltosos

hasta el feliz final:

y Javert se irá a la porra,

¡revoltosos!

BAHOREL:

¡Una horda de hunos y pasión!

ÉPONINE:

¡De tu bate de quidditch haz un espadón!

COURFEYRAC:

Nunca jamás nos ignorarán

GRANTAIRE:

La tiza vamos a buscar

para un dibujo muy vulgar

ENJOLRAS:

No es un insulto

TODO AS-SORTED:

¡Revoltosos!

Como quieras puedes D-L-trear,

no nos podemos nada equivocar,

everyone a little N-O-R-TY, Y?

Porque somos algo traviesos

Dices que en tus moldes vamos a encajar,

pero si cruzamos la línea al compás

no hay nada que Javert pueda hacer

GRANTAIRE:

¡Que se meta el garrote ese por el orto!

TODO HOGWARTS:

Te creías que somos débiles, ¡no!

Te creías que tenías razón

Nos has puesto ya a mucha presión

no volvemos atrás 'cause we are

R-E-V-O-L-T-I-N

ENJOLRAS: ¡Tiempos revueltos!

TODO HOGWARTS:

We S-I-N-G

COMBEFERRE: ¡Versos!

TODO HOGWARTS:

U S-I-N-G

COURFEYRAC: ¡Perversos!

TODO HOGWARTS:

We'll be R-E-V-O-LT-I-N-G

It is 2 L8 4U, sí ¡revoltosos!

Seremos revoltosos,

en tiempos revueltos que hay

y los versos que cantar

perversos hoy serán...

Seremos revoltosos

hasta el feliz final:

It is 2 L8 4U

4U!

4U!

4U!

4U!

Seremos revoltosos,

en tiempos revueltos que hay

y los versos que cantar

perversos hoy serán...

Seremos revoltosos

hasta el feliz final:

It is 2 L8 4U

Sí, ¡revoltosos!

miércoles, 5 de agosto de 2026

ONE HOGWARTS STUDENT'S DREAM (SEEDVERSE FILKS)

I can't stop harping on on how Vento Aureo has much in common with Les Mis (in canon), Passione with the Friends of the ABC, and Giorno Giovanna, a blond, good-looking, and idealistic leader who wants to change the world and make justice, with Enjolras. And in my fan-made AUs, the references just reiterate the parallels. Especially in El semen de los ahorcados.

"I, Paragon Enjolras, have a dream" (and the core members of AS-SORTED doing the Torture Dance) to La Squadra Esecuzioni being anti-villains in the UK Starforce Auror gaiden (and in As the Luck Would Have It, the Toll AU).

During the pandemic, I came across One Cartoonist's Dream, a YouTube channel that makes filk song videos about JJBA, with hero song and villain song fics for every Part up to Steel Ball Run. As I listened recently to the Vento Aureo songs (versions of Go the Distance for the heroes and Kill the Beast for the villains), it clicked that these should be filks for the grand finale of El semen de los ahorcados, the one where everyone except Marius and Cosette (and a few others) dies.

ONE HOGWARTS STUDENT'S DREAM (SEEDVERSE FILKS)

SEE THE SUNRISE (HERO SIDE)

(Stanza 1)

GRANTAIRE:

I was as if dead,

I had quite the fright,

then once more, in my life,

I have seen the light...

ENJOLRAS:

I have got a dream, 

that like gold shines on and on,

and I solemnly swear

a new day will dawn!

(Refrain 1)

ENJOLRAS

And it will come true,

I can see the sunrise,

COMBEFERRE:

Everything you did

earns my sure respect...

COURFEYRAC:

Looking at the road,

long and winding road ahead,

EVERYONE:

It's the future that we will bring 

when tomorrow comes...

(Stanza 2)

COURFEYRAC:

Gather up your guts,

clear yourself a way,

through the deepest darkness

and the darkest wastes...

ENJOLRAS:

My resolve and dreams

show us all our way,

paths illuminated...

the sun won't lead us astray!

(Refrain 2)

GRANTAIRE:

And it's all all right,

I can see the sunrise,

GAVROCHE:

I am going too,

I won't abandon you!

JEHANNE PROUVAIRE:

I have followed through

and my will is true

EVERYONE:

This must be the reason

for which we all were born!

(Bridge)

GRANTAIRE:

Now I choose the path of suffering, the martyrdom ahead

right now, a sleeping zombie rears his head...

(Spoken): I did what I thought was right.

I have no regrets at all.

In spite of the ways of the world,

I want to walk the path I believe in...

ENJOLRAS:

(Spoken): With the legacy inherited from our ancestors,

we must keep moving forwards!

This sword... will make a new dawn rise!

(Refrain 3)

ENJOLRAS

(Sung) My inheritance...

We can see the sunrise

Now we must embrace

bringing truths to the light...

EVERYONE:

Blowing in our souls,

transcending our roles,

there's a shining sunrise

that will rise when tomorrow comes!

(Coda)

ÉPONINE:

Blowing in my soul,

in that empty hole...

there's a shining sunrise

that will rise when tomorrow comes!

******

OVERLORD (VILLAIN SIDE)

(Prelude - before the storming of Hogwarts)

MONTPARNASSE: 

(Spoken) Your Lordship, you should have your way, as usual. You deserve it...

DE SATIGNY:

(Spoken) I can feel a connection to that stripling... he's coming nearer and nearer!

Soon he will be at my feet, and bend the knee before me!

I can almost hear his footsteps!

MONTPARNASSE:

No way!

DE SATIGNY:

(Spoken) We can't rest until that lad is safely in my grasp!

We'll wipe them all out and capture Enjolras alive!

XENIADES CLUB (everyone)

YES, SER!

(Act I)

PRINCE ORLOVSKY:

We'll exterminate them all!

LORD HENRY:

Don't fire till they close in on!

GUNNAR MALSTRÖM:

Give me all of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade

to experiment upon!

COUNTESS CAGLIOSTRO:

Everyone already falters,

who'll come out victorious?

MONTPARNASSE:

We!

DE SATIGNY:´

I am standing on the summit,

follow Jean de Satigny!

(Act II)

DE SATIGNY:

Through the streets in the dark,

a mysterious cloaked figure

moving forth while they're concealing their true self...

MONTPARNASSE:

By the leader's right side,

I'll go where AS-SORTED gather,

and I stay calm and serene like a light elf...

I can feel his life ebb for the poison,

and his eyes only see what ain't right...

Hear the phones in the night,

see their screens burning bright

with blue light...

(Interlude I. The Xeniades Club have captured Grantaire)

MONTPARNASSE:

(Spoken): Don't you dare play with me!

GRANTAIRE:

Are you there? Is that you?

DE SATIGNY:

Grantaire is already as dead as a dodo.

Let me show you the way like this!

GRANTAIRE:

You got here safely...

DE SATIGNY:

Surely Lady Alistair is sensing me!

LADY ALISTAIR:

I don't know where my husband is.

DE SATIGNY:

What is the goal of AS-SORTED?

'Parnasse, please guard this hostage!

MONTPARNASSE:

YES, SER!

(Act II)

MONTPARNASSE:

Overcome the ordeal,

MONTPARNASSE + DE SATIGNY (unison):

Was victorious in my salad days,

the golden stripling is of this the source...

DE SATIGNY:

Climbing up spiral stairs

without feeling any vertigo,

to send you all to Tartarus, of course!

(He drains the potion phial.)

I can feel power rise in my system,

it increases and burns in my veins,

overcoming the past,

for a dream that will last,

on a quest for Enjolras...

AS-SORTED (EVERYONE):

(Spoken) What kind of person are you?

And what are you changing into?

DE SATIGNY:

Changing into someone

who is stronger, better-looking,

everyone cannot help be afraid of me...

This is your requiem,

I feel the potion's power,

brace yourselves for Ragnarök...

This is the end!

(Interlude II.)

DE SATIGNY (in his biblically-accurate camp gay fallen angel form);

(Spoken) Ten times on the inside what I am on the outside...

Ten times on the outside what I am on the inside...

LORD HENRY:

There are a few droplets left! (Picks up the phial and drinks the few droplets that remained).

LADY ALISTAIR:

Sweetie? Is that you? Do you recognise me?

There's no escape, AS-SORTED are coming!

(LORD HENRY transforms also into a camp gay fallen angel, but with cyan plumage instead of magenta)

DE SATIGNY:

You have made these fallen angels quite irate!

LORD HENRY:

Full of sound and fury!

GRANTAIRE:

The best thing for me is to retreat... There's no place for me here!

And the Moon will soon be full!

COURFEYRAC, ENJOLRAS (wands and swords ready):

Will you honour me with this dance??

(The two no-longer Muggle fallen angels draw steel as well)

DE SATIGNY:

If we flee the scene, we'll lose our pride!

(Finale)

DE SATIGNY:

Can't retreat! Must advance!

Qualifying for controlling,

to be the chosen one who quaffed this draught...

I'm the camp overlord,

who at heart not changed the slightest,

I, Count Jean de Satigny,

the overlord!

MOOKS:

OVERLORD!

OVERLORD!

OVERLORD!

ENJOLRAS + COURFEYRAC (unison):

AVADA KEDAVRA!!!

(Enj kills de Satigny and Courf kills Lord Henry. All the Xeniades mooks retreat, while the two revolutionaries stand in shock. As the fallen angels die, both aristocrats regain their human forms)

martes, 4 de agosto de 2026

JOJO'S REFERENCES IN THE SEED OF THE HANGED

Due to the author's love for anime, progressive rock, Italian food, and fashion, a legion of JoJo's references often crop up in StrixAlluka's Enjoltaireverse. Especially in her epic saga El semen de los ahorcados / The Seed of the Hanged

from the characters' poses -- to the psychedelic colours in key scenes (for instance teal, orange, and chartreuse together - a frequent colour scheme!), to Grantaire, Jo-Lee, and Bossuet being modelled physically and personality-wise on Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu respectively (and Musichetta on Koichi's girlfriend Yukako, the one with Love Deluxe) -- to "Kono Parnasse da!" and "I, Paragon Enjolras, have a dream" (and the core members of AS-SORTED doing the Torture Dance) to La Squadra Esecuzioni being anti-villains in the UK Starforce Auror gaiden (and in As the Luck Would Have It, the Toll AU). To a combined Stone Ocean and Dolly Parton reference where Musichetta tells Jo-Lee about Bossuet: Jo-Lee, Jo-Lee, Jo-Lee, Jo-Lee, I'm begging of you please don't take my man...  

But what stands out is surely a JJBA reference combined with a Date Everything reference: already R and friends had unboxed in the Gryffindor commonroom, in an omake, a Rebel-based (Rebel as an object) rubber duck-chicken hybrid, using a wizarding camera (that's the "honorificabilitudinitatibus" omake where the Gryffindors play chubby bunny using such ten-dollar --ten-dollar is an understatement-- words as "antidisestablishmentarianism," "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian," and the name of a certain railway station on Anglesey in Wales, and a certain hill on the North Island of New Zealand - hilarious! Grantaire wins the competition but knocking on death's door; he almost gets an impromptu tracheotomy because the "whaka" part of the hill's name is pronounced "fucka" and he has a baker's dozen marshmallows in his mouth and throat! The entire gaiden is HILARIOUS!). 

The reference to JJBA is in Éponine's fanfic QUIDDISTAR, a TENNISTAR AU with Courfparnasse (who want to become QuiddiStars in the AU) as her crack OTP, set on a Quidditch training camp (Courf and Parnasse are obviously not amused!). The titles of the fic's acts, or Matches, are Quidditch puns on the Parts of JoJo's, a reference to the seasons of TENNISTAR being puns on those same Parts! In order, the punny titles are: 

Match I: Phantom Quidditch

Match II: Quaffle Tendency

Match III: Quidditch Cup Crusaders

Match IV: Leather is Untearable

Match V: Boccino Aureo / Golden Snitch

Match VI: Stone Bludger

Match VII: Steel Bat Run

Match VIII: ParnasseLion (4 Balls!)

Match IX: The COURFEYLands

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In TENNISTAR, the punny titles are:

  • Volley Tendency is a play on Part 2's subtitle, Battle Tendency.
  • Grand Slam Crusaders is a play on Part 3's subtitle, Stardust Crusaders.
  • Nylon is Unbreakable is a play on Part 4's subtitle, Diamond is Unbreakable.
  • Golden Spin / Giro Aureo is a play on Part 5's subtitle, Golden Wind / Vento Aureo.
    • While not a direct reference, a battle technique known as "Spin" features prominently in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, mainly in Part 7: Steel Ball Run.

THE SEED OF THE HANGED - Cats and Amazon

At several points in El semen de los ahorcados, Grantaire goes on conspiracy theories during his rants (when he's not playing his acoustic guitar on the streets of Hogsmeade). Including the one that cats invented Amazon. One day in fifth form (in Book II) at the Three Broomsticks, he drops his little theory for the first time:

GRANTAIRE: Friends, have you heard of Amazon?

ENJOLRAS: The rainforest or the warrior women?

GRANTAIRE: Neither. It's a Muggle website and app, on the Internet...

ENJOLRAS: Do you mean on "computters?"

GRANTAIRE: "Computters," as you say, yes indeed, and smart devices. Basically you purchase any object (though most Muggles buy books or gadgets) on the app or on the site, and pay with a credit card...

ENJOLRAS: That little plastic card where Muggles keep their money? Honestly, I wonder how the equivalent of billions of Galleons fit into that li'l thingamabob.

GRANTAIRE: Exactement! You pay with credit card, give Amazon your adress, and days or weeks later, depending on in which country the product was, Amazon sends it to you - obviously not by owl; by plane and by van... what matters is that your product comes in an Amazon box, made of corrugated cardboard and decorated with a smiling mouth...

COURFEYRAC: I have my own phone, though I can't take it to Hogwarts, and I have ordered a few magical girl figurines - Sailor Venus, Angel Daisy, and Cure Lemonade are in my bookshelf. They all came in those smiley boxes you said.

GRANTAIRE: And does your cat scratch the boxes or sleep in them?

COURFEYRAC: Of course! Though I have to throw them in the rubbish when Cleo has torn them to shreds!

GRANTAIRE: Listen carefully, Courf: I think she is mind-controlling you...

COURFEYRAC: Mind-controlling me? Like, is someone casting Imperius on yours truly? Who?

GRANTAIRE: Who else? Your lovely Siamese Cleo, and no, she isn't Imperiusing you but it comes pretty close. Pet cats rescued from the streets have a little parasite called toxoplasmosis, that they can transmit to their humans by scratching them...

COURFEYRAC: A mind-controlling parasite?

COMBEFERRE: Like that mushroom that grows on ants? Or that worm that makes snails' eyes look like candy canes, I mean, caterpillars? But a parasite that controls - like, humans, people? From the inside?

GRANTAIRE: Exactement! Did you know cats actually invented Amazon? It wasn't Jeff Bezos; a global council of domestic felines, armed with the toxoplasma parasite, mind-controlled their humans and created the online platform to ensure a steady supply of premium, reinforced cardboard boxes delivered right to their living rooms.

The plot is genius, really. Cats knew that if they let their humans order random things like phone chargers and shampoo, and magical girl warrior figurines, they would get the ultimate prize—a perfectly sized, dimly lit box to sit in, hide from the world, and ambush their unsuspecting owners. It is a flawless logistics network dedicated entirely to making sure every house cat gets their new cardboard nest and scratching post. You think you're ordering your magical girls online, Courf, but it's actually Cleo who's calling the shot. Are you going home for spring break?
COURFEYRAC: Yes, I'm coming home to our estate for Easter as per Courfeyrac tradition...
GRANTAIRE: You'll have your phone! Any magical girl on your wishlist...?
COURFEYRAC: I think I'm going to order Naoto Shirogane and Rise Kujikawa for a change. They're characters from another anime, a teen detective and a popstar for your information...
GRANTAIRE: Toxoplasmosis is working its magic...
(After Easter, Courf has brought both Rise --in her popstar getup-- and Naoto --in her detective getup-- to his collection on his bookshelf in the Hufflepuff boys' quarters; of course Cleo is nestling in Naoto's box and sharpening her nails on Rise's... Courf can't shake R's theory off his head!)


lunes, 3 de agosto de 2026

Updates on AFTER LÜTZEN - Changes to the AU

 You already know from El semen de los ahorcados that Courfeyrac had an ancestor who fought in the Thirty Years' War (and whom he dressed up as for a masquerade -  before the rewrite, in which Courf dresses as Puss in Boots instead). Well, his story is about to be expanded upon, as a StrixAlluka 30YW AU with the Amis as Swedish Army deserters turned guerrilla soldiers of fortune (both their ancestors and who they were in past lives) is underway. It will be in Swedish and called "Efter Lützen". Enj is Prussian landed gentry and R a Moor by way of Marseille (Engelhart Schönherr and Razi/René)... most of the cast will remain French though with a few more exceptions (Musichetta, Leslie - Lesgle, Joellll - Jolllly)... Furthermore, Gustavus Adolphus will play the role Napoleon played in canon Les Mis!

The idea or bunny came partly from that reference to the musketeer Baron de Courfeyrac in El semen, partly from a mention of Lützen in Les Misérables canon, Colonel Pontmercy having fought in the Napoleonic battle. But I could not shake the idea of the 30YW battle off my head and wondered what if Les Mis had been set in that period and all the Amis sans Marius had been killed in that seventeenth-century war. And of course Colonel Pontmercy would have fought in a Swedish-French alliance and been killed at Lützen...

Engelhart Schönherr and Jules Combeferre + Hercule-Joffrey de Courfeyrac. There you have the rittmeister and his lieutenant and ensign respectively, who keep the ranks they held in the Swedish military. The young Prussian of the landed gentry and his French teacher's son, who has a plan to sort out all flora and fauna a century before Linnaeus, both joined the Swedish military in their late adolescence in order to fight for freedom of worship. The young Gascon baron and lieutenant of musketeers came to the heart of Europe as an envoy to the Swedish camp, representing the Cardinal (Richelieu), with a certain Moor by way of Marseille (R, aka Razi, aka René) for a valet (and cupbearer, and squire...).

Enj is actually a Winged Hussar from Küstrin, on the Prussian-Polish border, yes, and those golden angelic wings are as impressive as they sound; he sells them to Sr. Álvarez/M. Thénardier in exchange for a big hen that turned out to be a meat chicken instead of an egg layer - and then, at the tail end of the war, he makes himself new wings, Icarus style, from all the woodland fowls that he's hunted.

Combeferre studied at Leipzig University, but was expelled for being a freethinker (agnostic) and subsequently press-ganged into Catholic service in a tavern (under the influence) then taken prisoner at Breitenfeld and joined the Swedish ranks.

Courfeyrac is from a Huguenot background and he fled Gascony to escape from an arranged marriage to a girl of his rank whom he didn't know.

All of the characters are sharing the same personality and character arcs as in canon, but adapted to the 30YW setting. Pairings are also the same as in the rest of my AUs (Enjoltaire, Courferre, Éposette, Montponine, Mariusette, Jolesgletta, Valvert, Baholly, etc)

Razi (René), the Moor who never has laid eyes on his parents' birthplace of Castellón, started out with his widowed mother Miriam (Marie) on the docks of Marseille; her husband having been killed in a street fight on those same docks. He became a petty servant in Courfeyrac's entourage, and then the Baron's confidant, thanks to circumstances beyond his control.

R was born on the ship from Valencia to Marseille; when Miriam died and he was orphaned, friends of the family on the docks took up a collection to send him to Paris. He happened to save Cardinal Richelieu's shoes from a muddy puddle by throwing his cloak upon the puddle, and became the Cardinal's personal cupbearer, secretary, and cat-feeder. Before being the personal assistant to Courf, he had those ranks and offices for the late King of Sweden.

The Álvarez (actually Thénardier) family - camp followers, confidence tricksters, and corpse plunderers, whose wagon home can always be found when an engagement has just taken place. Cosette's former guardians, who pretend to be Spanish nobles (according to the Thénardiers themselves, he's from Barcelona ---Fawlty Towers reference!--- and she's from Santiago de Compostela). Éponine alone, their firstborn, is not supporting this elaborate confidence trick; unlike her younger siblings Azelma and Gavroche - although the latter joins Engelhart's company alongside his eldest sister, as per canon

Cosette, Marius, and Valjean "the snowy owl..." Innocent orphan adolescent Fantine was, in this era, ravaged by a thirtyish officer when her home village was raided; she entrusted her daughter to the Thénardiers just like in canon for the same reasons and became a worker in a uniform cloth factory in Wallenstein's province of Friedland, with Valjean for an overseer - his backstory is also just like in canon (older sister and fatherless nephews, bread theft, prisoner camp... lock stock and barrel - only sans kindly bishop and with Wallenstein instead).

Musichetta - here she is a North Italian (Ferrarese) opera singer who was soubrette until a while ago to fairytale collector and primadonna her southern friend Adriana Basile (who compiled the Pentamerone alongside her brother Giambattista!). Not long ago, they parted ways when she decided to move up north into the war torn heart of Europe with the half of the company that preferred opera buffa to opera seria - in order to bring smiles to the regions with commedia-dell'arte style plots and gags.

The ending is just like in canon, and framed like the stories Marius tells his daughter with Cosette, Catherine Pontmercy.

Feuilly is now Romany and nonbinary; Jehanne Prouvaire is trans and descendant of Cathars (she hears angelic voices like Jehanne of Arc). Bahorel is still  the thug-faced farm boy with the heart of a plushie. 

Leslie (Lesgle)/Bossuet is a half-Scottish, half Mali mulatto ex-chamber Moor (Moor as in dark-skinned person, not as in Muslim) from a ducal court. And Joly went from being a Sephardic Jew called Joel... to being Jo-Lee "Jo-lee-lee-lee" from Joseon, who found himself in Europe due to mysterious circumstances (due to the historical webtoons I now read, Joseon is now my latest special interest!)

And Montparnasse is still the same old sociopath, a former street rat and self-made officer with a killer instinct...

The group name is now Freiheitskinder (instead of Friends of the ABC) and they at first live nomadically in the woods, then take an abandoned estate mansion, which they call the Engelsnest, as their headquarters

sábado, 18 de julio de 2026

FILK SONGS FROM POKÉMON AND HOGWARTS AUs

 DOO-DAH (Grantaire, Seed of Hanged Men/El semen de los ahorcados, and his band the Furiouz Fwooperz: R as lead singer, Jolllly as accordionist, Lesgles/Bossuet as percussionist -cajón, cymbals, and djembé-, Musichetta as backup singer, composer, and lyricist)

Everybody sing this song

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

Quidditch pitch is nine yards long

all the doodah day!

I left my home with my hat caved in

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

I came back home with my pockets full of tin

all the doodah day!

********

Gonna fly all night,

gonna drink all day!

I bet my money on the big black horse,

somebody bet on my bae!

***********

The li'l white pony and the big black horse

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

They race all day and they can't cut across

all the doodah day!

The big black horse stuck in a big mud hole

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

you can't touch the bottom with a ten-foot pole

all the doodah day!

********

Gonna fly all night,

gonna drink all day!

I bet my money on the big black horse,

somebody bet on my bae!

Gonna drink all night,

gonna fly all day!

I bet my money on the big black horse,

somebody bet that... I'M GAY!!!


++++++++++++++++++

DOO-DAH (Meg Giry, We All Stand Together)

Da da da da da da da hey! (Minsky pickup)

Everybody sing this song

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

Strathome racetrack's five miles long

all the doodah day!

I left my home with my hat caved in

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

I came back home with my pockets full of tin

all the doodah day!

********

Gonna fly all night,

gonna run all day!

I bet my money on the big blue Horsea,

somebody bet on my bae!

***********

The li'l white Ponyta and the big blue Horsea

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

They race all day and they can't cut across, see?

all the doodah day!

The big Mudsdale stuck in a big mud hole

Doo-dah, doo-dah!

you can't touch the bottom with a ten-foot pole

all the doodah day!

********

Gonna fly all night,

gonna run all day!

I bet my money on the big blue Horsea,

somebody bet on my bae!

Gonna run all night,

gonna fly all day!

I bet my money on the big blue Horsea

somebody bet that... I'M GAY!!!

++++++++++++++++

OH, CHRISTINA (Meg Giry, We All Stand Together)

Oh I'm coming home from Strathome

with my banjo on my knee

and I'm heading for Levincia

for my one true love to see!

I had a dream the other night 

where everything was still

and I saw my dear Christina, 

she was coming down the hill!

**********

Oh, Christina

don't you cry for me

'cause I'm coming home from Strathome

for my one true love to see

**********

Oh I'm coming home from Strathome

with maracas on my feet

and I'm heading for Levincia

to see my lady sweet!

It rained all night

the day I left

the weather it was dry

so hot I nearly died of thirst

Christina, don't you cry! 

**********

Oh, Christina

don't you cry for me

'cause I'm coming home from Strathome

for my one true love to see


lunes, 6 de abril de 2026

AUROR AU GAIDEN: ZODIAC AUROR SWAT SQUAD

ZODIAC AUROR SWAT SQUAD

Is a new gaiden set in the (Hogwarts AU) world of El semen de los ahorcados, decades after the main storyline (Catherine Pontmercy, Kinu Sohma, and Juliet Butler among others appear as side characters), but focusing on five 20-something Aurors after they left Hogwarts and went through Auror training. A ragtag "armata Brancaleone" with much in common with Enjolras' AS-SORTED (and Giorno Giovanna's branch of Passione), they were originally the Aloof Ally West Coast Team in the magical girl warrior comics Zodiac Starforce

The quintet, under the leadership of top brass Colonel "Capricorn" (her real name unknown), are made a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team (given zodiac codenames and custom uniforms) and sent on suicide missions because they're too powerful and talented to be given typical new-meat missions, and also because the Ministry wants them out of the picture. However, when they find out that another, rival SWAT team of Aurors, the Ministry's only SWAT team until the Zodiac Squad was established (a veteran team who are in cahoots with organized crime), La Squadra di Esecuzioni led by Risotto Nero (first appearance of La Squadra in a StrixAlluka AU since Twilight Robbery AU As the Luck Would Have It!), are planning a war and a coup d'état to take over the Ministry from within... of course no one believes the Zodiac Squad at first, and soon both teams are interlocked in a deadly struggle...

And of course Tiziano and Squalo are there as a Greek chorus/Those Two Bad Guys who also are lovers (think Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!), just like in As the Luck Would Have It!

Moreover the members of the Zodiac SWAT Squad will turn out to be the reincarnations of some really special people, from the same universe, who share their personalities (and sometimes something more), which factors into the plot...

The main inspirations were Vento Aureo, the 007 franchise, and 1990s action series like SWAT Kats (the SWAT team idea came from there) and TaleSpin, ExoSquad, Valerian & Laureline (the animesque series), and the Batman and X-Men animated series, among others.







The members of the Zodiac SWAT Squad are (their weapons were taken from the original Zodiac Starforce, and they take the weapons out of their own chests/hearts Utena style like in the original. Also the weapons here were given a wizarding twist, their Hogwarts wands were melded with the weapons):

Capricorn
♑️
South Asian, mentor (not part of the team, real name unknown). Colonel. Left-handed. Fights using a rapier.
Jack Novak, Leo
♌️
(Polish-British). Lieutenant, Gryffindor, half-blood, ex-Quidditch captain, descendant of Jack the Giant Slayer (the hero of the Beanstalk and other tales, who was real in this universe). Fights using a flaming greatsword. Thinks he is a shonen protagonist and acts like one. Left-handed. Reincarnation of Courfeyrac.
Álex Pérez, Aquarius
♒️
(Latina). Lieutenant, pure-blood, Ravenclaw, ex-prefect and Quidditch captain, omniglot, rival and avatar of the author (Ravenclaw, omniglot, child of two worlds and only child of divorced parents, genki girl with ADHD and autism, etc). Fights with a bow (in spite of her sign) and ice powers, firing ice arrows. Right-handed. Reincarnation of Combeferre.
Lux Han, Sagittarius
♐️
(South Korean) Ensign, Muggle-born, self-taught, the only one who didn't go to Hogwarts, fallen ex-Kpop star and ex-girlfriend of Romance Saja. Serious substance abuse issues... Fights with a whip and light powers. Reincarnation of Grantaire.
Samson "Sam" Walker, Cancer
♋️
(Afro-Caribbean) Ensign, Hufflepuff, pure-blood, Voodoo priest, orphan with massive number siblings, super strong, healing hands, stoic with a heart of gold. Pacifist. Reincarnation of Lesgles/Bossuet.
Jenny Clark, Virgo
♍️ (British) Ensign, Slytherin, goth of unknown parentage, suffers from autism and OCD, another avatar of the author, turns out to be someone very special, inferiority complex. Fights with two kunai, dual wielding (ambidextrous) and electric powers. Reincarnation of Enjolras. In a romantic relationship with Lux/Sag.

sábado, 3 de enero de 2026

MURDER ON TUDOR CLOSE (Les Mis Hogwarts AU, you know)

Ever since Jumanji premiered in 1995, most 90s animated series (mostly Western animation) had a whole-plot reference episode where the characters get trapped in the world of a board game (Trapped in TV Land, board game subtrope/The Game Come to Life/Win to Exit: some examples: "Kibbleland" in All Dogs Go to Heaven, "The 30th Square of Cursed Senet" in Papyrus, heck, there was a whole Jumanji animated series where Judy and Peter entered the game once per episode!). 

In El semen de los ahorcados, StrixAlluka capitalised on the Game Come to Life trope by having the leading cast get trapped in the world of a bland-named Cluedo, Murder on Tudor Close (the characters and premise were more or less the same). Like the School Play episode (Othello, a gaiden set before the events of the saga), it was (partly) an excuse to put the cast in period costume - but it also served to explore cast dynamics, and the final twist (like in Murder on the Orient Express and "MMMystery on the Friendship Express, everyone is guilty!- Everybody Did It trope), which is even lampshaded, was remarkably well executed. This was not a gaiden or an omake, it took place in the main plot.

It happened in Book 2 (fifth grade) during the Christmas holidays. Montparnasse found the Murder on Tudor Close game (wizarding or Muggle? Never explained, it's left ambiguous) at the Three Broomsticks and challenged Enjolras, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Grantaire, Éponine, and Cosette to play with him. Everyone of these seven was teleported to Tudor Close (a Tudor mansion located, gardens and all, on an asteroid in outer space, making this an extreme example of the Closed Circle trope). They were surprised on finding themselves in this setting and in period costume, and were greeted by Montparnasse as Lord Black, their host (Mr. Boddy in the real Cluedo) who gave them a tour of the estate and had supper with them until he was found dead in the observatory with signs of having been killed with things that all six of the guests/suspects could have used...

  • Enjolras as Miss Scarlett (Srta. Escarlata) in drag (was shocked to find himself in a sexy dress!) - weaponised stiletto heels
  • Combeferre as Professor Blackberry (Prof. Zarzamora) - ancient tablet in cuneiform (Sumerian)
  • Courfeyrac as Colonel Mustang (Col. Rubio) - katana
  • Grantaire as Signor Verdi (Sr. Verdi) - Venus de Milo's arms
  • Cosette as Lady Celeste - jewelled hairpin
  • Éponine as Mrs. White (Sra. Blanca) the cleaning lady - envelope of rat poison (containing strychnine)
They would only escape if they said "It was X (person) with Y (weapon) in the observatory --or wherever on Tudor Close they had attacked Lord Black," but they all suffered from amnesia right after the supper (Lord Black/Montparnasse Obliviated them) - the Everybody Did It twist was mounted gradually, as all of them had flashbacks until the truth was revealed - and they found themselves in their usual Hogwarts uniforms at the Three Broomsticks, Parnasse still alive... was it all a dream? But there were clues that it all had actually happened...

viernes, 19 de diciembre de 2025

LES MIS DnD AU (Vox Machina Style)

THIS AU IS ONLY VOX MACHINA OR MIGHTY NEIN STYLE - THINK OF IT AS A DND UNIVERSE IN GENERAL

I think of this story as kind of Journey to the West or Wizard of Oz - a group of companions with different personalities (a balanced party) going on a quest (likewise, leaving their homeland in the East to find some sacred texts in the West). Also a lot of inspiration from the Holy Grail mythos (especially, but not only, the Monty Python versions!). This is actually a fanfic epic written by Courf in the Hogwarts AU El semen de los ahorcados!

At first only the Main Five are on that quest, being chosen by the gods to find the Sacred Texts, then I'll add Marius, Éponine, and other secondary characters who don't join the party (Ranger Éponine and her little brother Gavroche are guest star party members). Their main characterizations are from El semen de los ahorcados (Hogwarts AU) and from Eleven Moons Duology (Aritsar AU), but in a DnD universe. 

Same pairings as always: Enjoltaire, Courferre, Éposette, etc. Like in these other AUs, characters from other universes like Count Jean de Satigny, Eugénie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly, Éloïse de Villefort, even Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu... and many others will show up.

THE CORE FIVE

Enjolras / Paragon Enjolras: human paladin, only child from a very conservative and religious family. Aroace... or is he? Takes up the role of Tripitaka, being the pure-hearted leader who is given the quest in a vision by the gods

Combeferre / Jules-François Combeferre: halfling artificer, quite the Renaissance person (alchemist, gunsmith, electrician, robot maker, you name it). Takes up the role of Sha Wujing (Sandy, the merman), being the most level-headed, though he can give in under pressure. One of the four chosen guardians.

Courfeyrac / Sejanus Cassio de Courfeyrac: catboy (nekomata) rogue/ninja, from a noble family but now a Goliard on the fringes of the law (personality-wise, somewhat like Naruto mixed with Josuke), Combeferre's matesprit. Like Nepeta Leijon, speaks in kitty puns (says for instance "mew" instead of "you"). Takes up the role of Sun Wukong (Monkey King), being the trickster who questions authority and tricks everyone, on a redemption quest - used to be the King of Thieves, but lost his throne on a bet against Montparnasse, and is now a mercenary. One of the four chosen guardians.

Grantaire / René "Grand R": half-elf half-human Cobalt Soul monk/drunken master (lots of inspiration from both Okuyasu and Rock Lee), also a Goliard, Enj's matesprit (though at first Enj won't realize it). Expelled from his order for breaking his vow of chastity. Takes up the role of Zhu Wuneng (Pigsy), being the most self-indulgent member of the party. Another mercenary. One of the four chosen guardians.

Jehanne Prouvaire: elf bard, only child, trans girl, modest offstage but flamboyant on stage, more of a Celtic bard vibe. Takes up the role of Yulong (Dragon Horse) more or less, being the most modest yet the most powerful member, whose magic is only used as a last resort. Also for being gender fluid (Yulong turns more than once into a human woman to seduce/distract opponents). The last of the four chosen guardians.

MINOR CHARACTERS.

Éponine Thénardier: half-drow ranger, dragon rider, guest star party member - in unrequited love with Cosette ('tis a pity she's straight...)

Gavroche Thénardier: youngest of the Thénardiers and team pet (somehow), fully human... or so it seems. Is also a hybrid, though it doesn't manifest until puberty

Azelma Thénardier: the middle child, aspiring rogue, fully human. Becomes Montparnasse's right-hand woman and partner, the Queen of Thieves

Bahorel: berserker, human

Henriette: berserker, dwarf, Bahorel's partner

Jo-Lee: human alchemist/healer, hypochondriac

Lesgles "Bossuet": human (black) necromancer

Musichetta: half-elf bard, more of a classical musician vibe than Jehanne Prouvaire (with Lesgles and Jo-Lee, these three form a trio of mercenaries)

Marius Pontmercy: half-elf scholar (translator) and gunslinger, raised by his human aristocratic maternal family, rediscovering his elven heritage. The kouhai/maknae of most characters.

Cosette: half-elf cleric, raised in a convent. Very conscious of breaking her religious vows. In love with Marius (and vice versa: they even become fiancés)

Jean Valjean: human druid, Cosette's stepfather/guardian, gardener

Étienne Javert: half-drow paladin, Valjean's partner, Cosette's other stepdad

Montparnasse / Caractacus Montparnasse: blue-skinned tiefling (half-oni) rogue, "King of Thieves," Éponine's ex and Enj's kismesis

martes, 25 de noviembre de 2025

THE ENJ-TEAM / EL EQUIPO ENJ (Gaiden)

En junio de 2016,

los cuatro mejores aurores del Ministerio,

que formaban un comando,

fueron acusados de un crimen que no habían cometido.

Fueron sentenciados a cadena perpetua en Azkaban.

No tardaron en fugarse y en volver al Reino Unido

(la mayoría dicen que eso era imposible - 

pero la mayoría decimos que los cerdos no vuelan,

sin pensar en Pink Floyd ni en helicópteros de policía).

Hoy en día, buscados por el Ministerio,

sobreviven, o más bien malviven, como mercenarios.

Si usted tiene un problema mágico muy difícil de resolver,

y si les encuentra,

tal vez pueda contratarles...

¡EL EQUIPO ENJ!

Este gaiden es obviamente una parodia del Equipo A, ambientada en un universo encastrado en el de El semen de los ahorcados. Para ser más precisos, es un fanfic escrito por Courfeyrac, donde él y los otros tres de los Cuatro Jinetes (mismos personajes: mismos signos zodiacales, casas de Hogwarts, mismo aspecto...) además de Montparnasse, aquí el villano de turno (y el que les culpa del crimen que él mismo ha cometido) son aurores jóvenes adultos.

  • Enjolras, el líder carismático, equivale a Aníbal
  • Courfeyrac, el mujeriego con don de gentes, equivale a Fénix
  • Grantaire, el badass (duro de pelar) G.R. equivale a M.A. (una ironía, puesto que el M.A. del cánon tiene fobia a volar y Grantaire en El semen es de los que les encanta volar en escoba)
  • Combeferre, el cerebro e inventor de la banda, equivale a Murdock (no está loco de atar como el Murdock del cánon: siendo Combeferre, es sólo excéntrico)
Y, obviamente, éstos también tienen la furgoneta - que, mediante un encantamiento de ensanche indetectable, es como una mansión por dentro (más como la tienda del Mundial de los Weasley que como la TARDIS, que es demasiado grande). 

El gaiden se divide en tres capítulos:

  1. El caso del secuestrador de herederas: Cosette, Lady Cecily Alistair, Eugenia Danglars... varias herederas de la alta sociedad mágica van desapareciendo.
  2. El caso de las Avispas de Wimbourne: el equipo de las Avispas (con los colores de Hufflepuff grosso modo: el equipo de Hufflepuff de El semen como jugadores profesionales adultos), están sufriendo atentados y amenazas desde que Courfeyrac les dejara para ser auror y su confinamiento en Azkaban. Un nuevo capitán (Cedric Diggory) ha reemplazado a Courf, pero ¿tiene buenas intenciones?
  3. El caso del ajuste de cuentas: con las fiestas de Navidad de Hogwarts como telón de fondo, los miembros del Equipo Enj desentrañan los acontecimientos que les llevaron a acabar en Azkaban y se enfrentan al pasado y al auténtico culpable.

martes, 21 de octubre de 2025

OTHELLO AND IAGO: OR ONCE UPON A NEWT

 OTHELLO AND IAGO: OR ONCE UPON A NEWT

or,

THE MOOR, THE ENSIGN, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER

Well, Othello done as a school play is as original an idea as "for once, leading characters don't get to act in the play" in The Ember Island Players (though the Dornish arc makes, just for fanservice, shipping, and a little excitement, no use of the latter). Think of that: Othello done as a school play. In Fictionland, as the School Play article on TV Tropes proclaims, the most common dramas to be staged, both written by the Bard of Avon, are Romeo & Juliet for teenagers and MSND for primary school children. Othello is considered too controversial (steamy, and allegedly racist) to be performed by teens in the average fiction series. I loved the daring premise of having this for a school play. So I loved the fact that I (in Game of Wands) did one of my favourite Shakespeares for a change. --this was written in 2015

After noticing the astounding lack of instances of Othello as a School Play in canon, Idlewild (a pretty recent example from this very decade, 2020s) being the only instance so far listed on TV Tropes,

  • School Play: All the major characters star together in the Idlewild production of Othello, which, despite the pretentious aspirations of many of the cast, has the typical issues with forgotten lines, bizarre and unconvincing performances, and costumes that don't quite fit the chosen antebellum setting.

then I recalled my Othello School Play in Game of Wands, my ASoIaF Hogwarts AU, and the result is a new gaiden for El semen de los ahorcados (Les Mis Hogwarts AU), in which an amateur production of Othello for Shakespeare Day the 23 of April (taking place in the leads' third year, so they're 13), performed at Hogwarts by the core members of AS-SORTED (and with the whimsical title The Moor, the Ensign, his Wife, and her Lover), goes completely haywire and turns into something very similar to other School Play episodes, most often anime (Cinderella in Fruits Basket, Journey to the West in Love Hina, Mac**th in Space in Jimmy Neutron)... no longer a serious adaptation, but one stuck with JoJo's references, Star Wars references, even a part where Iago (Montparnasse) and Othello (Bossuet/Lesgles) fight each other with quidditch bats, that is obviously a reference to Jamón, Jamón

Things started to fall apart when Cosette, who played Desdemona, caught the mumps and had to be quarantined in the Hospital Wing... at which point Montparnasse (who was already stealing rhe rehearsals as a flamboyant Iago Sissy Villain - think Zoisite, Fisheye, and Cytomander rolled into one!), suggested that Éponine (the producer/director) cast Enjolras as Desdemona, as a joke, but 'Ponine took it seriously (Enj with his fair skin, sapphire eyes, and golden hair that he kept long --until sixth year--, would make a perfect Desdemona, also this universe's Éponine being a yaoi fangirl and casting 'Parnasse as Iago for obvious reasons saw all the possibilities between Enj as Desdemona and the male cast!). 

As a result of this, Grantaire wanted the part of Cassio to be able to kiss the new Desdemona, so he gave Courfeyrac some newt potion and had him say "if things are this way, I am a newt!" to turn poor Courf into a newt (whom Combeferre found and kept in a fishtank). This turns out to be the backstory for R himself becoming a newt this way in Book 1 (the one where Javert takes the helm and the house system becomes more or less a caste hierarchy). It also explains how Combeferre found out that the cure for the newt potion is a true love's kiss. 

From these changes on, the play went completely off the rails, with everyone's butterbeer spiked with firewhisky in the drinking scene, Musichetta as Emilia wearing a very Leia-like fanservicey bikini, JoJo's references galore, the quidditch bat duel previously mentioned, and Combeferre as Ludovico finding a very familiar newt on the stage, kissing him, and a half-naked Courfeyrac in human form (no longer a newt) introducing himself as Mercutio, who survived and left Verona --the finale has him asking for Ludovico's hand and starting a threesome with Cassio and Ludovico (also, Desdemona is not quite dead, thanks to her stand Molitva --a stand that takes the form of Marija Serifovic in a suit!). In the final battle everyone turns out to have stands (aside from the male cast's lightsabers and the female cast's blasters), and these stands are different from patroni (according to StrixAlluka, you can have both a stand and a patronus; a stand is a personification of your willpower and personality, while a patronus is more like a spirit animal). The stands only crop up at the end of this gaiden, but this being a universe where everything except resurrecting the dead is possible, it is possible that these characters still had stands in the main saga, only that, being more experienced Hogwarts students (4th-7th year), they rely more on magic.

THE MOOR, THE ENSIGN, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER

Produced and adapted by Éponine Thénardier

STARRING

  • Wilbur "Bossuet" Lesgles as Othello
  • Anne-Euphrasie "Cosette" Fauchelevent as Desdemona
  • Paragon Ganymede Enjolras as Desdemona (final production, due to Cosette getting the mumps)
  • Caractacus Montparnasse as Iago (as a mincing Camp Gay with a fey scarf and colourful extensions) 
  • Sejanus Cassio Hercule de Courfeyrac as Cassio (until Grantaire had him turned into a newt)
  • the same Courfeyrac as Mercutio (when he was kissed on stage and became a human again)
  • René "Grand'R" Grantaire as Cassio (final production)
  • Musichetta as Emilia
  • Marius Pontmercy as Roderigo
  • Jules-François Combeferre as Ludovico

domingo, 19 de octubre de 2025

ENJOLTAIRE XMAS FIC (HOGWARTS AU)

Este es un gaiden de El semen de los ahorcados que transcurre en la Navidad de cuando hacían tercer curso, un año antes del principio de la saga. Es la historia de cómo Enjolras y Grantaire se conocieron, en circunstancias realmente especiales y en la noche más mágica del año...

CÓMO SE CONOCIERON