Mythklok Masterpost Thingie
Ganesha drawing Sariel, by zsomeone.
This, then, is Mythklok.
This is supposed to be an index of all the Mythklok chapters in order. (I get a little behind sometimes.) There are also some shorter pieces, which I've tagged "Mythklok Interstitials." Those are bits I started writing when I got blocked on the latest chapter. I consider them canon too, 'cause it's my universe, but, you know, it's up to you whether you want to read 'em. Some are complete barking nonsense (especially when Raziel gets to narrate) but some of the later ones have grown more serious. I've included a few of them in the index if I feel they add to the main story or if I'm particularly fond of them. Others can be found with the tag.
Chapter 1, Collegiality
An old and quite malicious acquaintance from Charles' past shows up at Mordhaus.
Chapter 2, The Wild Hunt
Skwisgaar and Charles visit Valhalla, and Charles learns another face from his past has made herself at home there.
Chapter 3, Nathan the Destroyer
Nathan and Skwisgaar visit Asgard and enjoy tasty demon BBQ.
Chapter 4, Ski Niflheim
Dethklok visits Asgard and enjoys their winter sports, including slaying ice demons.
Part 1 Part 2
Chapter 5, Fashion Week
Lady Raziel attends the Dolce and Gabbana show, and also duels an archangel.
Chapter 6, The Lady and the Tiger
Lady Parvati visits Valhalla, and everyone else runs around slaying demons again.
Part 1 Part 2
Chapter 7, Live and in Concert
As it says on the tin, Dethklok in concert.
Interstitial, Rashomon
Points of view. As told by Raziel and others.
Chapter 8, An Official Inquiry
A tribunal by Michael inquiring into the death of an archangel swiftly degenerates into a monkey trial. With real monkeys.
Chapter 9, The Tower
Lots of angst, and an argument.
Chapter 10, Vighnesha, Vighneshvara
Lord Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles, deals with a troublesome stray cat.
The Underworld Arc
To Hell and back.
Chapter 11, Falling Down
Interstitial, Everybody Comes to Sariel's
Chapter 12, Fellowship
Chapter 13, Little Wing
Interstitial, Rosebud
Movie night.
Interstitial, Scars
Dealing with the past
Chapter 14, Lost Horizon
IKEA lamps, tigers, and a knitting circle.
Interstitial, Quiet
A medical mystery.
Interstitial, Cause and Effect
Karma karma karma.
The Southwest Arc
Kachina and a chase
Chapter 15, Stormy Weather
Chapter 16, Truth
Chapter 17, Consequences
Part 1 Part 2
Interstitial, The Rainbow Ponies of Evil
Magical toddlers run riot.
Interstitial, Visions of Sugarplums
Wotan's Yule ball and visions of Twinkies.
Chapter 18, The Sons of Odin
A dinner party in the Dreamtime
Interstitial, Wings
Stealing pencils.
Chapter 19, Hell's Caterers
Wedding preparations and Satan.
Chapter 20, You Are Cordially Invited
A wedding
Part 1 Part 2
The Volcano Arc
A murder, a war, and revenge
Chapter 21, The L Word
Chapter 22, A Tear in the Universe
Chapter 23, Angels Watching Over
Chapter 24, Under the Volcano
Chapter 25, Shards
Chapter 26, Embers
Interstitial, The L Word (Revisited)
Interstitial, Tusk
Regarding elephants.
Chapter 27, Negotiation
Recuperation and management.
Chapter 28, A Family Affair
Slow dancing and teen hijinks.
Interstitial, Hands
How to fix a dry martini.
Chapter 29, The Sacred Lotus
Angels and Onions.
Interstitial, Clarence Sends His Regards
It's a wonderful AU.
Chapter 30, Library Card
Great books, and some origin stories.
Chapter 31, Scary Monsters
Regarding the misshapen.
Chapter 32, Anatomy Lesson
Angel wings.
Chapter 33, Weird Children
Text messaging in the desert.
Part 1 Part 2
The Pie Trilogy (Mythklok Interstitial)
Flakey crust and delicious filling.
Interstitial, 3.14159
Interstitial, Research
Interstitial, Under the Gaydar
Tam's Meringue Song
The Santeria Arc
Yet another universe.
Chapter 34, The Sun King
Chapter 35, See My Friends
Chapter 36, Wish You Were Here
Chapter 37, You Got the Silver
Chapter 38, Substitute
Interstitial, The Babysitter's Club
The Inheritance Arc
Prophecy and shit.
Chapter 39, Blade
Chapter 40, Birth
Chapter 41, Bambini
Chapter 42, Baptism
Chapter 43, Boon
Chapter 44, Giant Robot
Kids and toys.
Chapter 45, Trimurti Follies
Daytime Emmy awards and tie tacks.
Chapter 46, Rings
A battle begins.
Chapter 47, Nakama
Desu Krokku, henshin!
Chapter 48, Voodoo Child
An initiation, and a giant mecha
Interstitial, Lelefun
Plush toys.
Interstitial, The Word
Vocabulary.
The Land of Oz
Put another Seraph on the barbie!
Chapter 49, Two Angels
Chapter 50, Elders
Chapter 51, Every Creeping Thing
Chapter 52, Goodbye, Max Rockatansky
Chapter 53, Reckonings
Interstitial, Essential Personnel
Dethklok's summer tour, as reported by a six year old
Chapter 54, Jitters
We're getting married in the morning....
Interstitial, Angelsitting
Car washes and cigars. Part 1 Part 2
Chapter 55, Royal Wedding
Dancing elephants and pirates. Part 1, Part 2
Chapter 56, Double Double
Paparazzi and mall witches.
Across the Altered Universe
We're mucking around in a weird universe again
Chapter 57, No Wing Angels
Chapter 58, Songs and Stories
Chapter 59, Ananta Trikōṇa
Chapter 60, Mirror Mirror
Chapter 61, Sons and Daughters
Inheritance.
Chapter 62, A la recherche du temps perdu
Remembrances.
Chapter 63, The Laughing Demons
A hunt.
Chapter 64, Hindoo Hevin
And, the end of the hunt!
Chapter 65, OctoPickles
A day in the life
Chapter 66, Hindu Hell
Paperwork
Chapter 67, Dinner with Dharma
Playing fetch in the netherworld
Chapter 68, A Cute Little Hat in the Ring
The campaign begins
Chapter 69, Explorer
A bit of backstory about that Gibson.
Chapter 70, Playthings
Ganesh meets an old friend.
Chapter 71, Game Face
A bit of Murderbackstory.
Chapter 72, Blocks
Skwisgaar shops for a new guitar. In purgatory.
Chapter 73, Flight
More Murder-origins plus some Toki stories.
Chapter 74, Elias, Part 1
The danged kid finally gets Named.
Chapter 75, Elias, Part 2
These ceremonies always drag on too long, don't they?
Chapter 76, Elephant Memory
Ganesh meets yet more eccentric relatives, Charles deals with wing issues
Chapter 77, Prophecy Bop
Band meetings and clutter.
Chapter 78, The F Word
Gaming, a story, and a few departures.
Chapter 79, Powers That Be
Someone has been kidnapped! But maybe not who you think.
Chapter 80, The Gears
Dethklok rehearses, Charles reveals a disturbing event from the past.
Chapter 81, Falconback
My version of what Charles was up to during That Nine Months.
Chapter 82, Those Fucking Unicorns
Lord Ganesh and his family go to a dedication ceremony.
Chapter 83, Changeling
A mysterious mystery, plus dealings in purgatory.
A new and TOTALLY SPOILERY introduction to the Mythklok Universe
If you want a super quick summary, think Discworld meets Metalocalypse. Only with chainsmoking angels. And, er, gay elephant gods. And, no, I DO NOT THINK FOR ONE SECOND that I am Terry Pratchett. I've just heard this from a couple of people now.
And, I've tried to keep this thing spoiler-free, but I recently figured, what's the big deal? it's not as if it's the show. Besides, several people have started reading in the middle. I don't know why. I don't rightly know why ANYONE reads this mess.
First off, this thing started out as a Metalocalypse alternate universe. I think this doesn't need mentioning, but for those who care about these things, this universe really belongs to Brendon Small and the rest of the people who make the cartoon. So I'm grateful to be so tiny and insignificant they don't send the Klokateers after me.
Anyway, about the Metalocalypse thing: you don't need to have seen every episode, I think, to get into this, but if you've never seen the cartoon you might be kind of lost, at least for the first couple chapters. But almost from the beginning, I've incorporated not-so-original characters, cribbed from various myths and legends. And, well, they've sort of made themselves at home, if not taken over entirely, and thrown themselves a little rave party. So, in other words, I wouldn't really call it proper fan fiction any more. I'm not really quite sure what it is. Anyway, it's been met with pretty much a collective frowny face by the fandom, which is why I keep it over here.
Credit where credit is due: tiktaalikroseae coined the name "Mythklok." The first couple of chapters were written for the Back to Klok Mini Rareathon, courtesy the amazing supes_. These are what convinced me I have absolutely no business trying to write to prompts. And while I am giving credit, wikdsushi, the world's most awesome beta, provided essential editorial advice on an early "problem child" chapter, and continues to offer knitting-related counsel. And also, when I was starting out, several individuals in the CLDK community were super-nice and supportive to a brand new writer, so Toki!hugs to them.
In this universe, Charles Ofdensen is a chain smoking angel who used to go by the name of Sariel. He shot his mouth off one too many times, and is now Fallen, exiled to earth.
Charles has an old acquaintance, a mischievous angel named Raziel. In this story, Raziel is dating and then later marries Wotan, head of the Norse pantheon. Wotan is acknowledged as Skwisgaar's birth father in my AU. Father and son are just getting to know one another, and Skwisgaar and Raziel don't exactly hit it off at first. Oh, and Raziel and Wotan now have young twins, Liam and Abby, who are just as mischievous as their mother. Skwisgaar doesn't much like them either.
Wotan is very close with Shiva, the Hindu Lord of Destruction, and his family. Shiva is married to Parvati, and his business affairs are run by their brilliant son, Ganesh, a vegetarian elephant god who takes a shine to Charles. Those two begin an affair, which takes a couple of turns, particularly when Ganesh is murdered as part of some kind of weird angel plot. Ganesh talks his Uncle Brahma (who's in charge of the Hindu heavens) into sending him back to earth, which is lucky, as Charles has pneumonia, and Ganesh happens to be a doctor. Ganesh cures Charles' illness, but also forces him to stop smoking his beloved cigarettes.
After a few more twists and turns, Charles finds out that he's actually the child of a female Seraph named Tzaphkiel and Ogoun Sen Jacque, a voodoo god. Charles' birth was actually a complicated plot by the Goddess (who turns out to be Raziel's mum) to assassinate the Creator. However, aided by Raziel and a pie, he decides that all that prophecy stuff is bunk, and just drops his sword and goes home. Later, as a boon, the Creator makes a son for Charles and Ganesh. The kid's proper name is Elias, but everyone calls him Boon. As Boon is literally part god and part angel, he's a bit of a handful, although Nathan thinks he's pretty awesome and metal.
Anyway. Are you lost yet? Well, you will be. We haven't had the apocalypse yet, though we have had a supernova and a visit to Hell. Sometimes when I'm bored I'll throw in zombies, or a sword fight. Or an out of place Star Wars reference. And just lately, the OCs have started to sing and dance. (Remember what I said up above about not liking this? Really, you'd probably be better off eating chips. Because chips are awesome.)
One last thing: I'm not a "writer" in the sense of I've never been paid for writing fiction. I have a responsible adult day job: I do medical research, and I'm a coauthor on a pretty long list of publications. So, this stuff is done partly to relax in between writing Methods sections or hacking long swaths of SAS code. It's therapy! Key point: I adore comments (I am in fact one of the worst comment ho's on LJ) but if you wanna make a pissy comment, just go do so elsewhere. Else I'll have Raziel and Sariel dump you from a 5th floor window and giggle as you're run over by a truck. This is the Metalocalypse universe, after all. You have been warned.
Oh, and general warnings: as I said, this is an AU, with lots of OCs. So many that it's not really strictly fan fiction any more. As in real life, there are gay people here. As not in real life, there are angels and devils and gods and mythological creatures. Sometimes they do violence, but I'll try to warn you about that. There's some sex too, although not a lot, as I don't write good pr0n, though I sometimes try.