Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

Description

Meister extraordinaire Joshua Hong and his (less than extraordinary) scythe Vernon Chwe, accidentally take on an assignment to take down a very powerful and very evil Kishin pumpkin (although Joshua's sure it's all Vernon's fault).

(Or, the Soul Eater AU where Joshua is a meister at the DWMA and Vernon is his weapon.)
 


Length; oneshot
Words; 6,722
Pairing; joshua hong x vernon chwe [jisol]
Rating; PG
Additional Tags; anime, tsundere josh, halloween, sentient pumpkin death, friendship, mild blood, soul eater ! au, hints of d.gray-man
Extra Notes; crossposted on AO3


THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE FOLLOWING!

*☆*The Library*☆* REVIEW SHOP
 Total Score: 98/100
"Excellent. Absolutely marvellous. It got to the point that I felt like I was laughing about the ridiculous adventures that my own friends were going through because the way you introduced the characters to us was done so well that I felt like I was practically close friends with Joshua and Vernon. Despite the fact that I don’t even know any of the characters well, it was almost as though you had set a standard somewhere and everything that the characters said or did was so overwhelmingly accurate and natural to the personalities you had given them."

❤ KUMA! ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ
 Total Score: 95.5%
"I enjoyed your story even though I’m not a seventeen fan. It was a great read. I applause you for doing a rare coupling. I know it’s harder to get more fans that way but I feel like the storyline itself will attract people."

Special thanks to the super adorable turnip from turnips */ graphic shop for the beautiful poster!


If you're not familiar with Soul Eater lingo, you might have a bad time. (I watched the English dub too, so my lingo might also be different to your lingo depending on if you watched English dub or sub oops). There's also a few D.Gray-Man references sprinkled in, but nothing technical.

If you haven't watched Soul Eater but are reading this anyway, here's some basic stuff:

  • "Kishin" is pronounced "Kee-Shin", and is basically a bad person (or in this case, pumpkin) who's consumed too many innocent human souls. 
  • Weapons need to obtain 99 Kishin souls and 1 witch soul to become one of Lord Death's weapons. A death scythe. 
  • They obtain the souls by (in a scythe's case) eating the soul. A meister is the wielder of the weapon, and must help them to obtain those souls. 
  • The weapon and meister must have compatible soul wavelengths, which means their souls need to resonate at a rate that compliments each other. I won't go into too much detail with that though but I think you get the idea.

A lot of things in this story are inaccurate in terms of Soul Eater. I last watched Soul Eater earlier this year (March/April) and I've watched it about 4 times through (haha don't judge me okay it's a good anime) since 2011, so I'm familiar with it, but I'm not going to watch over 50 episodes just to make everything in this fic super accurate - and my memory isn't that great so... I would if I had the time though, but sadly, I do not.
I've also never written an action/fight/battle piece before (nor do I read that sort of thing) so it's going to pretty bad.

Foreword

“I’m with the Kishin, and I really need your help Josh.”

It took a moment for the orange haired boy to register what exactly had been said, but if he wasn’t mistaken, his scythe had just told him that he was with the Kishin. “What did you say?”

“I’m with the Kishin.” Vernon repeated almost matter-of-factly, if not for the pure desperation in his voice and the other odd noises that prompted Joshua to groan and drag himself out of bed. This was a disaster. “Look Josh, I’m useless by myself and I really need some help here so if you don’t mind.”

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blue_deer
#1
Chapter 1: That was amazing! I really love the way you write and your characters are adorable :) I feel like reading the Manga now, and then I'll be sad that there's no idols in it. Thank you so much for your hard work, I'm looking forward to reading more of your stories in the future :)
Btw the layout and readability is really good on mobile, no worries.
MrsHongJisoo
#2
Chapter 1: Was trying to find jisol fics and I stumbled upon this gold~ that was beautiful! (i also love the layout~ I'm om mobile btw) so in the end, Joshua figured what Vernon actually did... awww <3
eleutheromaniac #3
Chapter 1: Okay, so this was basically the Seventeen/Soul Eater crossover fic that I didn't know I needed until I read your story. LOL. Honestly, this entire thing was such a fun ride?? Seeing Josh and Vernon as the mains reminded me of their conversation about Soul Eater on 17tv way back in the day, so I was so happy to see them cast as the mains! There were also so many references to fandom jokes that put the biggest smile on my face because the Seventeen fandom is basically what I live for at the moment, lol

I loved the characterization of Vernon and Joshua, and I felt that they complimented each other really well! They have such a great dynamic with one another, and I feel like you captured it super well within this story. Even though the other Seventeen members didn't directly appear in the fic, the mentions of Jeonghan, Seungcheol, Minghao, and Junhui were really awesome examples of indirect characterization and now a part of me wants more Soul Eater AU fics LOLL

I really loved reading this, and I can't thank you enough for sharing it with all of us! ; 3 ; Keep writing, I think that you have a lot of talent that you can contribute. c:
ally-chan #4
i hadn't thouroughly read the description and was so happy and surprised by lero ;D
i am an anime fan and d. gray man is my favourite :D
really a nice read good plot and well written :)
definetely fitting personalities, i would love a whole seventeen-soul eater universe ^^
cupcakemuffin
#5
OMIGAWD!!!! A SOUL EATER AU OF SVT?!!! AKE!! I THINK I ACTUALLY PEED TTUTT
I'm really looking forward to reading this! The title itself caught my eye but the fact that it's a Soul Eater AU blew me away <3
I really love supernatural/fantasy AUs, finding your story made my day :)
Are there anymore anime/manga you're interested in? If so, will you be writing more of their AUs anytime soon? Are you in progress/planning? O.o
Either way... leggo *gonna start... >w<
AffxtedShawol
#6
Chapter 1: this was amazing ahhhh ;A;;)/ havent watched the anime it's based on but it sounds rly interesting asklsgfrtsjls
the tiny bits of jeongcheol hehehehehe me luv
im trying to imagine josh in a pink pajama and im dying hhhhh
the layout is really really nice! i read this on my phone earlier and it looked nice there as well~~
hahahaharlequin
#7
Chapter 1: Okay but this is one of the very few jisol I enjoy so much.and the tiny jeongcheol/jihan/seungsol was really cute, and yes. I do think Jeonghan is a very pretty katana.. too cute argh my braces are aching
niangniang
#8
Chapter 1: i loved this <33 it was so adorable and you made the layout very nicely (; tbh this fic is a lot of firsts for me too! :3 first seventeen fic, first soul eater fic and probably first pumpkin x miester/scythe fic xD thank you so much for writing this fic! it was really wonderful ouo
Girl45 #9
Chapter 1: OMG! This story was Amazing and soul eater is one of my favorite animes! Also you are a genious for in the part where Vernon says "I'm only seventeen and I only got a few dallors." Anyways thank you for writing this author- nim!
dark23456 #10
Chapter 1: Hey there! To say that this story is amazing is a complete understatement! I don't know what came over me but I've been reading this story multiple times for the past two days! I love the details, emotions, storyline - they gave me so much feels! I can't pinpoint any specific thing that made me so addicted (and no, I don't/haven't watched Soul Eater but I wasn't lost). I don't usually read fight scenes so I can't really comment on that. All I can say is this is just so good, intriguing and (at least for me) addicitve. I love this story so much and good job! And by the way, I developed a slight dislike on pumpkins after reading this.