Someone else has already asked for more elaboration on the beauty and the beast timeloop so i will instead tell you about hunger au!!

This one is what i also like to call my maximum self indulgence au and comes with a few obligatory warnings: cw for starvation, themes of disordered eating, parasitism, body horror mention, trauma mentions, and a suicide attempt. I'll be putting most of this under a cut so it doesn't get too long and so people can skip it if those warnings are triggers or squicks for them.

Essentially, the premise of this fic is that Watchers are cosmic parasites that feed on extreme emotions. Doesn't matter what kind they are-- positive or negative-- but if they're amplified to a certain threshold (sorry in advance for this, im insane and love doing arbitrary research) ie: beta brain wave levels, Watchers can basically resonate with those electromagnetic waves and use them as "nutrients," so to speak.

Still with me? Good, cause theres a LOT of worldbuilding to this under the cut.