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myeagleexpert · 2 months

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𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕻𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖌𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝕳𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕬𝖜𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖗

And if you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Howl's Moving Castle x Twisted Wonderland Au

The starry night at NRC was a spectacle of beauty and mystery, with the meteor shower painting the sky in shades of silver and gold. Yuu walked through the dark corridors of the Ramshackle dormitory, lit only by the flickering light of candles and a few points of failed electric light. Grim, the talking cat monster with dancing fire flames, followed beside her silently, his yellow eyes glowing with an unusual intensity and worried for his friend.

Today had been one of those days for the young woman without magic: Waking up late and almost late, she was intercepted by Crowley who had given exhaustive work that he himself had not done, the chemistry test that she and the infamous ADeuce had was a disaster, her crush had given the cold shoulder, Grim got into a totally unnecessary fight with some idiots from the fourth year and as a result they lost their lunch and got some scratches, and the front of his beloved Ramsharckle dorm collapsed, the damp and old wood had given way. The bitter taste in the mouth was not enough to bring a revolt from within Yuu so that she raised a scream of fury and stepped on the floor, her tired body just looked at the mess and walked straight past, the dejected soul took a shower where she hoped for the deep in her fragile heart, the shampoo would clean the dirt she felt and the tears would mix with the hot water.

At least I Tsunotaro will come today.- the only hope she could have that night was to see her dear friend. She put on her less tattered pajamas and sat at the study table waiting for the famous green fireflies to appear.

Unfortunately he didn't show up, the prince didn't answer the call.

The lack of Malleus's gentle presence made schoolwork become heavier and the lump in the throat tightened more and more, the clock was counting down the seconds to….

“Henchman, are you okay? Your eyes are red” with the little self-control he had, Yuu nodded, avoiding his feline friend's gaze and focusing on the blurry letters of school work and just in time the light in the dorm was cut off.

“NYAAH” “It was just what was needed!” Could it be Crowley's irresponsibility? The electricity bill? Was it an attack? A short circuit? Either way, it doesn't matter anymore.

The tired body got up and silently searched for the candles until strange lights passing through the window caught the girl's attention. Ah, the meteor shower. Like a leaf carried by the wind, Yuu's steps, even without hope, led her to the front part of the ramsharckle, the same part of which fell and collapsed. Pushing aside some wood, the girl sat down on the floor and Grim followed her shortly after, not trusting that her friend would be okay alone.

“Henchman, what are we doing here?” "I don't know…"

Will I ever really go home? Will I live forever in this place being this weak? I would do anything to see my family again… I myself will find a way to find my way back, whatever the cost.

Loneliness and anguish weighed on Yuu's heart, like chains that tied her to a distant past, an overwhelming longing for her homeland. She longed for a home, for a place where she could be truly happy. Home….my home….my family….The starry night shone with a unique and mysterious beauty, the shooting stars cutting across the sky like tears of light. Each meteorite that fell seemed to echo the loneliness and anguish that Yuu felt inside her.

As she watched the shooting stars cut across the sky like sharp blades, one of them stood out, shining with a disturbing intensity that seemed to whisper Yuu's name as the golden ball of fire quickly fell towards the ground. Without knowing why the girl just followed her heart and with an irresistible impulse, Yuu ran towards the shooting star, her mind filled with a mixture of despair and hope that she didn't know where it came from.

The powerful ball of fire broke apart and reflected various colors and when the star finally fell into her hands. As she held the star in her trembling hands, Yuu felt a wave of magical power envelop her, making her tremble with emotion and fear. A magical energy enveloped her, and in an instant, the star fell apart, disappearing into her body. A warm feeling filled Yuu, and she felt her heart beat faster than ever. The star, now resident in her being, revealed its mysterious and enigmatic personality, whispering ancient secrets and dark promises in her ears and finally a deal was made between the magicless human and the fallen star.

As Yuu absorbed the star's powers, the old Ramshackle dormitory began to shake and transform in sinister and fascinating ways before his eyes. Walls contorted, furniture came to life, and the abandoned place metamorphosed into a lively castle, with sparkling towers and enchanted gardens. The magic of the falling star had awakened the true essence of the place, revealing its hidden beauty.

The animated castle, now filled with the dark aura of the shooting star, rose majestically from the ground, its dark towers rising like sharp claws against the starry sky. The enchanted garden has turned into a maze of thorns and shadows, where unknown creatures lurk in the shadows, watching with glowing, hungry eyes.

“H-henchman! What is happening??"

With an enigmatic smile on her lips, Yuu looked at Grim, whose gaze reflected a mixture of fear and confusion. "Let's go home," she whispered, her voice echoing like a whisper of unknown magic. The cat nodded silently and ran to the girl's shoulders, saving his questions for later, because maybe later Yuu wouldn't be looking like a crazy woman with a flying Ramsharckle.

The old Ramsharckle dorm floated to where the two were and the door opened waiting for the two to climb up to finally grant the previously magicless girl's heart's desire.

“I'll come back to say goodbye later”

Who knows if she would come back who knows if not

She looked back one last time, remembering her adventures with the troublemaking cat and all the friends she made there. And with a firm step the girl went up in her castle and felt more ready than ever to embark on this adventure.

As the castle floated toward the distant horizon, the lights of shooting stars and meteorites hovered above them, shrouding them in a veil of mystery and intrigue. Yuu felt a shiver run down his spine, but also a sense of determination and courage that had long been forgotten.

And so, enveloped by the darkness of the starry night and the sinister magic of the falling star, Yuu and Grim set out on a journey into the unknown, where ancient secrets and intertwined destinies awaited them in the shadows of their path. Amidst the darkness and starlight, Yuu and Grim's journey was just beginning, with the power of the shooting star guiding their steps towards their final destination.

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hunn1e-bunn1e · 10 months

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First years + Grim ‐ Silly and Strong (M) Reader

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To @kawaistrawberry21 , I hope you like this! I'm not really good at being funny, so I just went with the silly and strong thing. Reader is in Ramshackle but is NOT Yuu. Reader CAN use magic but is naturally very physically strong. Reader's physique is described as tall and muscular. Reader is silly in a sort of oblivious and sarcastic way?

Ace is quite literally my least favorite character in the entire game, but I'll do my best for you, Strawberry-chan.

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The demon-weasel-cat magician thing, Grim.

Grim actually met you after the orientation ceremony; when he was tossed out by the Headmage, Dire Crowley.

Apparently the Dark Mirror believed that you weren't fit for any of the dorms inspired from the great seven, but it would be a waste of potential for you not to attend Night Raven College.

Thus, you were sent on your way to the Ramshackle dorm. And that's when you to bumped into each other, literally; his flight from the hall of mirrors exit door had come to an end on impact with your hard, muscled back.

You were at first distracted from him; not even registering that he had hit you. Your mind occupied with finding your magical pen which you seemed to have misplaced. That was the reason you had given yourself for uprooting one of the many stone benches that lined the walkway; totally not just to see if you could lift it, definitely not.

After you had realized that something had hit your back, you turned and looked around with a "Hm?", only to see nothing. Shrugging, you made your way to the Ramshackle dorm, unknowing of the cat like monster that clung to the back of your orientation robes.

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The literal bane of my existence, Ace Trappola.

He first met you when he went to the Ramshackle dorm to spend the night after he was collared by Riddle. Though, instead of Yuu, it was you who had ended up letting him in.

However, you seemed to have accidentally ripped the door right off it's hinges. Ace was appalled at the raw strength you displayed, but he got a good chuckle in when you had said "Magical tape from Sam's and a little elbow grease should do the trick." before flexing your arms in a dramatic fashion.

Then after he had explained his situation to both you and Yuu; you had offered to go with him to apologize.

When Ace asked why you would help him when the two of you had just met, you explained how even if you never ended up meeting him personally or even learning his name, you would always help out your peers whenever you had the chance.

You had told Ace how you had been in a simular situation and that even if you felt that you'd done nothing wrong, you had still ended up apologizing at the end. Explaining to him that it was better to apologize and move on than to have someone angry at you over something that could be solved so easily.

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Our resident ex-delinquent, Deuce Spade.

You actually met him in class when the both of you were paired together for a project.

It was going well at first, until you kept accidentally breaking the flasks and test tubes needed to complete the project. Deuce got a little heated and grabbed you up by your shirt collar, to which you easily removed his hands.

You then came up with the idea of using folded notebook paper to hold the various spilled and somehow not mixed ingredients. "Paper funnels are useful for holding all sorts of powders, if you catch my drift." Deuce, infact, did not catch your drift.

The poor boy had a panic attack at the thought of failing the project; rambling about how disappointed his mother would be in him. Deuce was hyperventilating and unable to calm himself on his own; so you took the initiative to remind him to breath. You encouraged him to use you to ground himself so he could calm down.

After that little hiccup, you both agreed that Deuce would manage the fragile items from then on.

You both got an A- on the project.

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The goodest boy who's ever lived, Jack Howl.

He met you just before Magishift season came up. He had decided to use the NRC's weight room to train his body before the event. You were already there, working out.

Jack couldn't help but notice the absurd amount of weight you were lifting and was in disbelief at the sight of you not even breaking a sweat. He thought that was pretty admirable, but didn't approach you at first; you were a stranger after all.

It seemed he didn't even need to make the first move as you had approached him first; starting up a conversation about fitness and hobbies involving exercise. Over a few days the two of you started talking and found that you got along quite well and became close friends in a very short amount of time.

One day Jack brought up the possibility of learning your training regiment and trying it out for himself. You supported him whole heartedly and even gave him a really inspiring and touching pep talk.

You also told him if his muscles ever hurt too much after a work out, you'd carry him wherever he needs to go. He gave you an playfully annoyed look, lightly punching your arm.

The weight room is now your little hole in the wall to hang out at.

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The manliest man in Pomfiore, Epel Felmier.

Epel first met you in the NRC's cafeteria, while he was trying to escape the beautifying clutches of his prefect and vice prefect.

He had quite literally bumped into you, startling you to the point of your muscles tensing, causing you to snap your lunch tray in half with your bare hands. Your lunch landed on the ground with an unceremonious 'plop'. You sulked, your large stature slouching and shoulders slumping as you let out a defeated, "Aw man..."

Epel turned to see just who he'd bumped into and he turned pale while also feeling some sort of admiration. The boy in front of him towered over him, he looked like he could snap Epel in half like a twig.

Oops. He said that out loud.

You'd let out a hearty laugh and thanked Epel for his strangely worded compliment. Telling him you worked out occasionally. His eyes sparkled as he clasped his hands in front of him and begged you to teach him your ways.

Epel told you of his dilemma; how he felt emasculated by his feminine appearance and below average strength. However, you assured him that he was perfectly manly just the way he was and that if he didn't see it, you would keep on telling him until he believed it himself.

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My favorite half fae first year, Sebek Zigvolt!

He met you in passing while escorting Malleus to his class. Your unique look seemed to have caught the dragon fae's attention for a few moments before he returned his focus to hallway in front of him.

That's all it took for Sebek to absolutely despise you; for a bit at least. A mere human caught his master's attention!? How dare they!! And after a small mention of how you, a mere human, may make a good knight from Malleus; Sebek made up his mind and went to confront you.

When he finds you, he challenges you to a duel in swordsmanship that you confusedly agree to.

At first he had the upper hand due to your lack of knowing how to properly use a sword. He knocked you down continuously, yet you kept getting back up and refused to back down.

Then suddenly, with a burst of confidence, you swung your sword with a great force, unintentionally using your full strength. Both swords shatter on impact and Sebek is thrown back onto his butt.

You look at the broken metal on the ground in embarrassment, bringing your hand up to cup the back of your neck.

"Uuuh.... Whoops?..."

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The enigmatic boy from another world; Yuu.

He met you when he and Grim first came to Ramshackle Dorm. You were standing in front of a broken door in the common room, presumably one that was already broken judging by the state of the dorm itself. He cleared his throat to get your attention, then introduced himself and you both hit it off from there.

Yuu unfortunately found out about your ridiculous strength when, while cutting the steak on your plate during dinner, you accidentally cut you plate clean in half. Then the table itself unceremoniously snapped in half right where your plate was sat. To say Yuu was traumatized was an understatement. He was horrified.

What the hell did you eat to be able to cut through porcelain like it's butter? And then the table!? Then you had the audacity to look shocked? Wtf? Was everyone in this world freakishly strong?

Yuu could only stare at you silently like you were some sort of alien, causing you to look away guiltily.

"...Sorry..."

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yuurei20 · 2 years

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Crowley Fact Sheet

(Did not rank in a combination of seven different character-ranking surveys held throughout 2021)

Name: Dire Crowley Role: Headmaster Age: unknown Height: 185cm (taller than Vil/Idia/Crewel, same height as Leona, shorter than Sebek) Homeland: Unknown Hobby: Traveling Favorite food: Wild game meat

According to the official fanbook Crowley’s first name, Dire, has been retconned to be pronounced as “Dia” in order to be closer to “Diablo”, the name of Maleficient’s bird in the original Sleeping Beauty movie. I also came across a fan theory that the name “Crowley”, might be both a reference to Diablo and to early 20th century English occultist, magician, poet and painter Aleister Crowley, but this is unconfirmed.

Crowley hires the player to fill the role of “beast master” and keep Grim in check after being impressed by the player’s ability to goad Ace, Deuce and Grim into working together to take out a monster in the prologue of the game. In return, the player is permitted to live in the abandoned “Ramshackle” dormitory on campus.

While Crowley insists that he is still searching for a way to send the player back to the world from whence they came (claiming that it is all he thinks about when he sleeps and eats), it is difficult to tell how much effort he is actually putting towards this goal.

Crowley has explained that he likes shiny objects like gems and precious metals, and thus the mirrors that he carries about on his person.

In other voice lines he says that he wipes down the frames of the portraits of the Great Seven in his office everyday, watches Spelldrive tournaments on television late at night and that he does not like spicy food.

He has also said that, “To create whatever magic you wish to produce, you need imagination. Some mages say that they practice drawing and writing in order to strengthen their ability to make their imaginations more concrete”.

Crowley often meets with Trein for tea, but has said that Lucius makes him uncomfortable and he is not very good with cats. Despite this apparent camaraderie with Trein, he was once ten seconds late to a meeting and Trein lectured him for ten minutes as punishment.

He says that while he greets every student he sees every morning, sometimes they ignore him, but he doesn’t mind as it is part of being an adult.

He often leaves difficult situations and problems up to the school’s students to handle rather than facing them himself, claiming that it is to cultivate their independence; the students, by and large, do not trust him as a result.

Crewel describes Crowley as being very busy and always hurrying off to deal with one issue or another, but it is unclear what he is actually up to most of the time. It is commented during the Halloween event that he seems to have secrets that he would prefer the police not know about.

He seems to have a soft-spot for money, receiving a portion of Azul’s profits from Mostro Lounge and—according to Jamil—arranging for Kalim’s belated enrollment in the school in exchange for large monetary donations from Kalim’s father.

On the other hand, in the Port Fest event half of the profits earned by the student food stalls are donated to Crane Port, and Crowley arranges for the remaining half to be divided amongst the students themselves (at Azul’s request).

Crowley's voice actor Miyamoto has been voice acting since before many of us were born. He was inspired by a favorite TV show to become a teacher, but failed to acquire a teaching license.

In a 2014 interview he said, ‘I would love to play a villain or eccentric role that is far removed from myself, like Tim Curry in "The Rocky Horror Show’.”

He is the voice of adult Simba in the Japanese-language-dub of Disney's The Lion King, the voice of Soma Ayame in the original release of Fruits Basket, Roger Smith in The Big O, Hubb Lebowski in WOLF'S RAIN, Jean Croce in GUNSLINGER GIRL, Maiza Avaro in BACCANO! and other characters in over 170 other anime series, OVAs and video games.

Additional Fact Sheets ・Riddle Rosehearts ・Trey Clover・Cater Diamond ・Ace Trappola・Deuce Spade ・Leona Kingscholar ・Ruggie Bucchi ・Jack Howl ・Azul Ashengrotto・Floyd Leech・Jade Leech ・Kalim Al-Asim・Jamil Viper ・Vil Schoenheit・Rook Hunt ・Epel Felmier ・Idia Shroud・Ortho Shroud ・Malleus Draconia ・Silver・Sebek Zigvolt・Lilia Vanrouge ・Sam・Crewel・Trein・Vargas・Crowley

#twstcharactersheet #Dire Crowley #twisted wonderland #ツイステ #twst

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lightvsdark18 · 2 years

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Twisted Wonderland- Terror Is Trending (P.3)

(Translation by Otome Ayui)

Lilia speaks about his plan for Ramshackle dorm and asks the residents to allow Diasomnia to use the space for their scare. He suggests the group to stay near the main street and in sure the Magicam Monsters leave the school.

Alice speaks up and asks if she could borrow some makeup to make herself look scary or at least help in her mission. Vil steps up and drags her off to Pomefiore to do her makeup, placing her in chair and asking what type of look did she want.

She thinks about it and describes black ink was dripping down her face. He raises a brow at the request. "Like a blot?" He twirls the makeup brush in his hand.

"Isn't that the scariest thing to see?" His gaze makes her feel like she shouldn't said that.

"Okay, put those clips in and closes your eyes," he instructs with a smirk, removing his gloves for his new project.

After some time of painting and complaining about her skin care to her telling him the lack of clean water, the makeup is done. He holds up the mirror to show her and she's amazed after feeling panicked at first seeing it.

"Thank you." Her eyes glances up at him.

"You're welcome. We should get to our destinated areas and scare some Magicam Monsters from our school." He evilly smirks.

She nods and walks beside him until they went their separate ways on the main street. The ghosts and Grim wave her over and compliment her makeup, then discuss their plan to scare unfortunate souls.

They all hide in a small space outside the school that looks out to the main street and places a sign on the wall that reads, "don't enter space without permission." They spend their time inside their hideout to finally rest after the breaks in every night. Alex brought the cards and play a game while laugher echos outside the safe space.

However, Magicam Monsters eventually found them and had to send their plan into action. The three Magicam Monsters argue outside before entering and looking around for the ghosts or cat. Berry floats behind them and greets them, asking what they are doing here, didn't they read the sign.

The three lie and say there wasn't a sign and thought the place was a part of the venues. Berry chuckles. "That's okay, we needed more ghosts for their celebration anyway."

"Wait, what did you say?"

"Let me go!" Grim shouts, thrashing about in Cody's arms. "Hey, you three! Help me out, I don't want to be a ghost!"

"Come on, Grimmy. Being a ghost is so much fun! You will understand once the ritual is complete. But first, we need get you three ready."

The three strangers grow worry at those words and quickly deny the offer, saying they will leave immediately and apologize for entering without permission. Alex grabs their shoulders and tells them it's too late to leave, the ritual has began. Alex and Berry surround the three, chanting gibberish to spook them more.

Something falls and stops the ghosts to look over. Alice lies face up on the ground, face dripping with ink before rising up on her limbs and quickly crawling towards the unfortunate group. The three scream and run out like cowards, leaving the school without hesitation.

Alice flops down and rolls over to pick herself up, laughing at how ridiculous the fools were. The ghosts compliment her acting skills and how she scared them too. She acts flustered and thanks Cody for his help with the falling and crawling by using his magic. They return to their spots and continue their game until another one runs out screaming.

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"Causing trouble for both ghosts and humans..."

"You foolish Magicam Monsters!"

"We have a special Halloween present for you..."

The two figures back away from the ghosts floating towards them when something grabs their shoulders and yells, "you will become a ghost too!"

The two scream and bolt pass her towards the entrance. Grim starts laughing heartily at the Magicam Monsters. "Oh my. You make us look bad." Vil, Jade and Cater approach the Ramshackle group.

"We're just practicing our acting as ghosts for Halloween." Jade pretends to look sad.

"We wouldn't do something bad like scaring the customers away." Cater winks at them.

An announcement rings out through out the school to inform the guests of day sixth's end, Halloween will be starting tomorrow. The group hopes their efforts were enough to keep their Halloween party.

At 12pm on Halloween day, the professors, Sam and Crowley check Ramshackle dorm and see the Diasomnia students entertaining the visitors as the ghosts had a line of people waiting for a photo. Alice ushers the next group to come up and pose with the ghosts, soon dragging into for a pic. Crowley scratches his chin in thought.

When the sky turns dark and the stars come out to shine, Alice and Grim rest their bodies on the couch after a busy day and heard a knock on the front door. She groans and gets up to answer it, then guide their guests to the lounge. Cater, Jade and Vil inform the two on the party being held.

The ghosts and Grim cheer in excitement. "Kate! Bring as many plates as possible. I want to take the leftovers home!" Grim tugs on her pant leg.

"I'll see what I can do." She pats his head.

"I'm so happy to see you guys being excited." Cater sweetly smiles at them.

"However, before the party starts, we have some tasks for you two to do." She feels dread at hearing those words.

"Huh!? What do we have to do again?" Grim asks, seeming surprised, then annoyed.

"Well, I guess this is the meaning of no work no food." Jade places a hand on his chest and smiles like he was planning something.

"What is the task?" She tiredly asks, wanting to relax after everything that has happened in her dorm.

The three students start chuckling and grinning evilly that her fear worsen. "It's a special task," Vil informs in a way that doesn't ease her worries while Grim stares up in confusion.

With baskets of candy in their grip, they follow the three towards the entrance, seeing the students gathered together. Grim questions the reason to his roommate, then get called over and guided to a pirate ship with elements of every theme the dorms held decorated on it.

"This is a special surprise for the customers that came to enjoy the Halloween week of Night Raven College." Vil pulls the board down and climbs inside, then stretches out his hand to the young woman and helps her onto the ship.

The other gentlemen climb on and close the door before the float starts moving down the street. The visitors to the school comes into view and Grim hops up on the nose of the ship to watch them wave at those on the float. His eyes sparkle in excitement, turning to Alice to tell her. The other students walk beside them and toss candies towards the crowds after hearing the famous words.

"A lot of delicious candy keeps pouring down from the sky! The students from this campus are wearing such cool costumes, everyone is smiling happily! Halloween... is the best!" Grim lift his arms into the air, smiling with such joy.

"Finally seeing the appeal of it?" She tosses out candy in her basket to the guests.

"Yeah! I started to think Halloween is the worst when we got chased around, but I'm really enjoying this now!" He starts doing a little dance in the front of her and received a small laugh from her.

"I said this before," Vil pipes up, "I will give everyone the best Halloween. I'm the chairman of the Halloween steering committee this year. I won't do anything that would be boring as the recent years. We prepared a special parade to let the customers enjoy Halloween even more. That's why we needed Grim and the ghosts to take part in this, because they are the reason why the customers came."

"I'm not complaining, I'm just curious why I'm on the float." She turns to the three men with her curious question.

"You may not know this, but you also brought customers by having matching costumes with Grim." Cater wraps an arm around his waist and points towards her with his other hand.

"Really?" Cater nods.

"Because of the increase of customers," Jade starts, "the people of this island felt so happy with this, they sponsored us to do something that will make the customers enjoy Halloween even more. We were able to prepare this parade thanks to them. Beside that, this float was completed with the advice from the customers. We couldn't have done these photogenic decorations." He crosses an arm against his body and holds his chin with the other hand.

"You're right. I wasn't able to complete the float because I was busy preparing the costumes." Vil places the umbrella down and holds it beside him.

"It's the feeling of #the power of NRC #We have done our best," Cater calls out some hangtag names.

"The past Halloween steering committee also helped us in preparing everything. I'm glad you guys are the Halloween steering committee of this year. Because you have fulfilled your role in making my beauty stand out even more." Vil smirks.

"Vil, do you have to say that now?" Cater chuckles.

"Fufuf. It's my honor." Jade smiles.

They continued throwing candy to everyone and blessing the holiday as it ended in success despite the trouble they dealt with throughout the whole week. The parade eventually reaches the end as the party comes into view and gives a bow to the customers, then step off of the float to enter the party.

Crowley stands in front of everyone with a microphone in hand and greets their customers, giving the stage to Vil Schoenheit to deliver a speech to the crowd. Boos were heard from the other dorms after hearing the scariest dorm comment. Vil continues his speech, thanking everyone for coming out and giving their support for the event, ending it with a "Happy Halloween."

Grim dashes to the table of food which worries Ace, but Deuce ensures him the creature couldn't finish everything. The students and guests start making their plates and taking a seat at the side tables, savoring the delicious food.

Grim comments on the students' lack of costumes and Ace answers on how the costumes were made for show because of the seam work looks bad up close, so they had to wear their ceremony robes.

The first years chat among themselves when Ace yells about taking revenge and gets hushed by everyone before Crowley walks over and greets them. The crow goes off on friendship and life is a rollercoaster as Sam and the professors appear behind him. Sam states that the hotels and shops outside the school are running smoothly and are thankful towards the students.

The professors explain they are proud of their students and look forward for another successful year with them. Grim ignores everyone and runs off again to find more food, having Crowley ask Alice to keep an eye on him.

"I always do." As she goes after him.

The creature is getting some rips when she flicks his head and tell him to stay beside her to not get lost or catnapped by someone, then makes a plate of ribs for herself. He complains and takes off towards the table, making her tiredly sigh.

She sits down and savors the meal, reminding herself to not over do it and grab the leftovers when everyone leaves. She speaks with Ace and Deuce on their past Halloween experiences, not really having much to talk on her end when came to fun and entertainment.

During their conversation, Grim disappears without warning. She annoyingly gets up and goes looking for the little troublemaker which led her back to her dorm. She huffs. "Where is he?"

"Child of man, can we talk for a minute?" She jumps at the sudden voice and turns to the mysterious person with horns. "I thought we finally have the chance to talk after seeing you leave the party just now. I have something to ask you, did you enjoy Halloween at Night Raven College?"

"Yes, I did. This is the first time being at a lively party like this." She crosses her arms.

"I see, I'm glad to hear that. We got involved in some form of trouble... Even so, I was happy to spend a wonderful Halloween at Ramshackle dorm. You let us borrow your dorm, so I was curious on how you feel about all of this. It's only seven days, but the Halloween of this year is very special for me. Please, enjoy it until the end. Happy Halloween."

Then the man disappears in green lights.

She couldn't help but give a small smile. "Happy Halloween."

"Kate! Where are you?!" Deuce's voice calls out to her. "We found Grim!"

She heads towards his voice and arrives back at the main street. "Ah, you came. Jade and Vil just captured him." Deuce turns to her and informs of Grim's capture.

"He ate all of my carpaccio when I left my table for a while." Jade holds up the creature by his bow.

"There's so much food here, why would you steal someone else's meal?" Vil disappointingly stares at him.

"The meal on the plates of the others look tastier than the ones on the table." Grim crosses his arms in pride.

"Grim, this is the most stupidest answer I ever heard. You're grounded." She blankly states.

"What?! You can't ground me!"

"I just did." She smugly smiles at him as he pouts like a child.

"What a bad kid. As replacement for my meal, I'll eat you instead." Jade grins as he turns Grim towards him.

"Heh! That doesn't scare me. It's your fault for letting your guard down! I have collected an amount of candy that's enough for a whole month."

"All of that candy is mine now." She smirks as Grim starts complaining again.

"What?! You can't do that!"

"If you promise to behave the whole night, I'll think about it." He huffs.

Cater and the ghosts come over and greet the arguing duo, saying he was searching for them because the ghosts had something to say.

The ghosts express how this has been the first time in a long time since they celebrated a wonderful Halloween and want to keep the memory forever. They ask the group for a picture of everyone to post on Magicam. The group is silent and makes the ghosts grow worry, but soon they agree. She's pulled in front of the boys, her hat removed and handed the creature to hold. They all pose as the camera snaps.

The night was eventful. Alice danced with Ace to annoy the redhead, then pulled Deuce in for the fun. Laughter filled the air as they linked arms and swung about like idiots. She tried different food to get a better understanding of the world she appeared in, and soon took a break as exhaustion got to her.

Her roommate munches on more food beside her and her mind wonders to the horned stranger, remembering she still hasn't thought up a name. She tells him she made an acquaintance with one of the students, but he refused to tell her his name and was permitted her to give him a nickname. Grim asks for the guy's appearance and just answers with "he has horns." He answers with Tsunotarou and she turns it down which he gets annoyed at, turning around and stuffing his face with cake.

The customers eventually had to leave, giving Grim the opportunity to take the leftovers home, but he had to fight Ruggie first. Alice wraps the food Grim won in foil and slide them inside the fridge, then yawns which made him yawn. The two climb the stairs, saying a goodnight to the ghosts and heading into their room. He tosses the hat on the floor and unties his ribbon before body slamming the bed.

She laughs and grabs some clothes, retreating in the bathroom and taking a quick shower before slipping on her blue robe and lying next to him. She covers him and herself with the blanket and finally falls asleep.

#twisted Wonderland #written work #stories #alice #twst grim #malleus draconia #vil schoenheit #ace trappola #deuce spade #cater diamond #jade leech #twst event

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twisted-leader-of-something · 3 years

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Alot of theorist like to talk about the Loop Theory happening on Twst. Can you tell me all about it?

Ah! The Loop Theory, I think you're speaking about the Time Loop Theory!

It's basically the theory that all of the characters are basically either in a time loop, or time has been restart to a certain point!

It's severely depends on who you ask to details of the theory, because, well, the theory is pretty easy to come to the conclusion to because of all the evidence supporting it but also pretty fluid in its' details specifically, because the details can have another reason for it.

But, it basically come down to this: Yuu at one point went through the events of the game, but was sent back, either because of a certain event (the very beginning is the general consensus, because it's believe the monster at the beginning as an Overblotted Grim that couldn't be defeated or something else really bad happened) or because of someone's Unique Magic. It's either Crowley or Malleus who sends Yuu back to the past to hopefully fix the future. And possibly, there are some people aware of it, like the ones who sent Yuu back, Crowley, Malleus, and I've even seen theories saying Rook, Vil, Jamil and Leona may know about it.

Where's the evidence?

At the veeeeery beginning of the game, like within the very start of playing it, we are treated to Crowley speaking to someone he calls "my beloved, beautiful flower of evil" and asks who is the best of all. We then see a person coming into Night Raven College via a coffin, and then Crowley says, "Guided by the mirror of darkness, if you desire, take my hand that lies within the mirror." which then shows us the main cast of boys in their ceremonial robes all speaking about needing to start an event with urgently, then we are introduced to the three elements of the magic system, that are described very interestingly. "Fire that can turn the moon to ashes." "Ice that can freeze time." and "Earth that can swallow the sky." and we than cut to a battle with a monster that looks like a giant monster-cat with various parts of other things, like a human's hand, a snake as a tail, a pair of wings, and fire around it's neck. Which, is a battle we lose, and then Crowley says, "Come, show me your power. We only have little time left. For me, for them, for you, We are all running out of time. No matter what, never let go of my hand." and then, the prologue starts.

What people generally take away from this really strange beginning scene is that, Grim Overblotted (as the monster and Grim look really close in appearance) that Crowley mat or may not have been involved with, and the main cast couldn't beat an Overblotted!Grim, so, as a last ditch effort to either try and change the future or just to get MC out of the situation, MC was sent back to the past, repeating basically all of what they've already experienced again.

It might explain why MC's very sassy and not very sympathic at times, and to some, it even explains the cutscenes we get with people's backstories, because MC has already been through all of this before, and knows what will happens so has something to say about it. It could also explain their amnesia at the start of the story, because something may have gone wrong with the spell.

It might also explain why Crowley is purposefully not very active in the story despite his job as the headmaster and very conveniently has lots of items and information in the story that makes him seem like a plot device that overwise doesn't make any sense at all how on Earth he would know about if he's so not involved with the story, he knows about the time loop and knows his part in it.

It could also explain why Malleus is so attached to Yuu. Malleus might know that Yuu, to a certain degree, Yuu isn't from this timeline and is trying to either figure out why, or he's the reason MC was sent back, and is basically trying to make sure MC will do their job correctly without interruptions.

It might also be the reason for some of the character's strange behavior. Like Rook, whose obsessed with how people will react to certain situations is particularly fond of MC, or why Leona's depressed through the game and only really seems to brighten up after his chapter, because either both, or one of them is aware of the time loop.

And there's probably some evidence I missed, but this is what I can remember off the top of my head. But basically! The proof is there! It's hidden in implications mostly, but it's there! And there's millions of variations on it! So, it basically is a very flexible theory and lots of people have their thoughts and opinions on the topic! It's really fun, actually! But that should be the gist of it for you, Anon!

#twisted wonderland theories #twst theories #twisted wonderland theory #twst theory #[ mun speaks ]#[ twisted wonderland theories ]

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person8789 · 2 years

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Sooo I got into Twisted Wonderland recently (like two months ago when it came out in English) and I wanted to talk about it a little! No spoilers in this post!

Intro for those who maybe already know the game: I got into it with the English release and play the English ver, but I am also caught up with watching/reading the translations with the Japanese ver of the story. (Ex: in the English ver I’m in book 4 but I’ve read up to where the Japanese ver is in book 6).

Intro for those who don’t(?): Twisted Wonderland is a mobile gacha game made by Disney (and Aniplex, as well as Yana Toboso who did Black Butler but please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!) You play as Yuu, (or any name of your choosing, but that’s the canon “fill in” name that I’ll be referring to them as), a magic-less freshmen at Night Raven College that somehow got thrown into a world called, you guessed it, Twisted Wonderland. Night Raven College is a pretentious and famous school whose students are somewhat roughly based off of different Disney villains along with some heroes who use powerful magic. There is also a rival school called Royal Sword Academy as well. Throughout the story Yuu will meet, aid and grow close to students from different dorms based off of different Disney stories/movies along with Grim, a “monster cat” that can communicate and use magic (I’ve seen a lot of people compare him to Morgana for the role he plays if that gives you a better picture). Gameplay wise it’s a gacha style action game where you draw cards for different characters to use in fights. There’s also a rhythm aspect of the game where you play through different songs as well. In order to strengthen cards and your personal player rank, you go through different types of lessons and use items you can either buy or obtain from said lessons. There’s a bit more to it as well but I won’t get into all of that in this post, if someone says they’re interested then I can make a separate post for it, this is long enough as it is.

Whoa yikes that synopsis was kinda long but let’s move on, if you really *really* don’t want to know even character’s names or dorm names or anything like then then I would stop here.

How I would describe each of the characters in one word/phrase: (keep in mind this is kinda opinion based please):

Riddle Rosehearts: Perfectionist

Ace Trappola: Clever

Deuce Spade: Badass

Cater Diamond: Secret sad boi hours

Trey Clover: ENABLER.

Leona Kingscholar: An ass

Ruggie Bucchi: Mischievous. Also, street smarts!

Jack Howl: “uh oh, they messed with Jack’s morals” is a phrase that’s regularly said and that’s all I have to say.

Azul Ashengrotto: “Blue nerd octopus” (not my words). Also, ANXIETY.

Jade Leech: Shady.

Floyd Leech: A force of nature

Kalim Al-Asim: Ignorant sunshine

Jamil Vipor: Snake. Like when you call someone a snake.

Vil Schoenheit: Is persistent the word I’m looking for? Maybe Diligent would be better?

Rook Hunt: Eccentric. And very extra. (Also kind of a simp)

Epel Felmeir: “Fight me! You won’t!”

Idia Shroud: I’m pretty much convinced that Idia is also playing Twist at this point.

Ortho Shroud: baby robot child

Malleus Draconia: all the sass with this one

Sebek Zigvolt: SIMP.

Silver: Narcoleptic and not happy about it

Lilia Vanrouge: “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Dire Crowley: VERY shady.

Ok with that out of the way some general opinions about the game and characters:

Favorite character: ♦️Cater Diamond♦️

(Some) Runner up favorites (in no particular order): 🌹Riddle Rosehearts🌹, ♠️Deuce Spade♠️,🐍Jamil Vipor🐍, and 🐙Azul Ashengratto🐙

Some characters I don’t care as much for: 🏹Rook Hunt🏹, ⚡️Sebek Zigvolt⚡️, and ♣️Trey Clover♣️

Favorite Book: 🐍Schemer of the Scalding Sands☀️

Least Favorite Book: 🦁The Usurper from the Wilds🐺

Favorites Dorm: probably Heartslabyul

Favorite dorm leader: uh (why would you make me choose-)

Favorite Vice dorm leader: most likely 🐍Jamil Vipor🐍

Favorite from each dorm:

Heartslabyul: ♦️Cater Diamond♦️

Savanaclaw: 🍩Ruggie Bucchi🍩

Octavinelle: 🐙Azul Ashengratto🐙

Scarabia: 🐍Jamil Vipor🐍

Pomefiore: 👑Vil Schoenheit👑

Ignihyde: 💀Idia Shroud💀

Diasomnia: either 🐉Malleus Draconia🐉 or 🦇Lilia Vanrouge🦇

✨I left a lot of this out of context in order to avoid spoilers for this post but if you’re curious about why I might’ve answered any of these the way I did, would just like more Twist content, or just have any general questions for me please feel free to send me an ask! I’m really enjoying this game so far so it would be much appreciated!✨

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ladiesofnrc · 2 years

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So here is Amelia, who stands in for Yuu in my story/world/version. She's also kinda a self insert character again, so that's fun.

Art done by https://www.deviantart.com/ozaya

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Love Interest: Jack Howl

Twisted Inspiration: Self + Yuu

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+ A human girl who claims to be from a whole different world, one without magic. With her memories a bit fuzzy, yet seemingly familiar with many old legends of this Wonderland, she is placed among the students with a strange cat-monster thing named Grim as her familiar, seeing as he possesses magic and the distinct ability to get him to shut the hell up.

+ Amelia would be one of the first ones to tell you she's a bit off, claiming things like her brain is "miss wired" or "a bit broken". She seems to lack the normal fear response other people have, leading her to run into danger with an overall attitude of "well alright then". Add to this her less than stellar self-preservation instinct, and you have a dangerous cocktail that has more than a couple people wondering just how she's still alive, Amelia herself included. She's actually a lot smarter than people give her credit for, but her pension for saying what's on her mind and no fear of individual people can make her seem rather dumb at times.

- She is a bit of a word smith and has an understanding of her native language to a degree beyond that of your average joe, and she uses this to fuck with people a lot. Jumping from slang to dictionary precise words in the same sentence, she loves making dumb people feel inadequate and smart people feel dumb, or at least she does when in an argument. In casual conversation this habit can actually be quite annoying to her, as she sometimes needs to explain her points or jokes just so her friends can understand her on a day to day basis. Add this to her habit of comparing life or her own brain to computers and video games, and there are days were it seems no one can understand her (except maybe Idia).

+ She loves movies, a hard core cinephile, and claims the TV raised her more than her parents actually did. She uses quotes from movies and tries to draw references when describing things, but with most people not knowing the films she's seen, the ideas can get a bit lost in translation. That being said, her love for visual entertainment has seemingly given her the ability to read people and their actions/intentions beyond normal, psychoanalyzing their very "character" and pinpointing motives or intentions before most people even say a word to her directly. This has actually saved her life a few times, but also lost her many friends as it seems most people don't like their true intentions broadcasted to the world at large.

- Amelia originally joined Vil's club thinking it was going to be like the anime/movie clubs from back home, a bunch of nerds talking about movies and watching their favorites. When it was revealed to be more of a drama club, she tried to make a run for it, but their clinically understaffed art department got their claws into her and weren't letting her go. She sometimes jokes that Vil and his club is holding her hostage, but in reality she actually likes being a stagehand and even has good creative criticisms for the filming crew and actors from time to time.

- Her favorite movie of all time is Labyrinth (1986), and she's seen it so many times that she's memorized it down to the sound effects. When she describes it to Malleus during one of his many night visits, he finds her swooning over "the Goblin King" rather endearing. He secretly toys with the idea of having them recreate parts of the movie she's described to him, but it would be him whisking her away to his kingdom instead. There was a small ping of jealousy when she went on about how much she had a crush on this other royal wizard as a kid, but the fact he's fictional did give him some relief.

+ Amelia was raised by her single mother and older brother, honestly more her older brother but she doesn't hold it against her mom. Her mom told the kids their dad died in a drinking fueled car crash when they were little to explain his absence, but Amelia accidently found out later in life he simply took off and left them for his own selfish reasons. She resented him for this for years, but recently has been musing over what she would do in the same situation. She rarely saw her father when he was around, usually he would be distant and turn them to their mother if they wanted attention or had a request. Amelia now sees her father didn't really like children, and as she too can't stand the little bastards, she can almost see why he did what he did and has lost some of her hate for him... but only some.

- Amelia's mother is a workaholic, but tries to be there for her kids. She often comes off as more of a friend than a mom, and this has led Amelia to really grow to love and respect her, as well as not be afraid to hold the woman accountable for her shortcomings in raising her and her brother. Amelia's mom is rather hippie like in her approach to childrearing, feeling a child needs to explore and make mistakes on their own to learn. This mindset has led both Amelia and her brother to doing things like drinking young and breaking the law for fun, surprisingly rarely if ever getting caught and/or punished. Amelia loves her mom, but sees her childhood as incredibly faulty and sometimes wishes she had more structure and stability in her early years to have given her a better foundation for adulthood.

- Amelia's older brother was the one who did most of the parenting in her early years, and it led the kid to resent her for a long time. He protected her from outside forces, while also being a major source of torment himself at times. His teasing her as a small child over her fear of bugs is what led her fear to turn into a full phobia today, but she returned the favor in time and helped him develop a strong fear of the water and things swimming near him. It may seem terribly unhealthy to outsiders, but the siblings do care for each other very much and can/will throw hands to defend each other's honor.

+ Amelia's home town is a bit in the middle of nowhere BFE country. It's primarily a farming community with a total population of only about 1500 people. While there is a lot of cows and corn in Gunther, the biggest draw is the apple orchard. Every year when she was little, Amelia would go pick apples with her family (eating about as many that went into the buckets) and then go get lost in the large corn mazes. Once the kids were tired out, their mom would buy them fresh apple donuts and spiced apple cider for the trip home. This remains some of Amelia's happiest memories and one of the few things she misses from her home world.

- Because she grew up around apples, Amelia surprised Epel with being able to identify the type he was carving in the lunch room. She explained the orchards and the maze, losing herself in the memory. Epel just watched her retelling with a surprised face, then softened. Amelia was kind of wild, running havoc with the chaos trio and all, but this was one of the first times he ever saw her more gentle side. He even commented as such, quickly shutting his mouth in fear he insulted her. She shook her head and said it was fine, "I don't show it to people for a reason...but it's nice to do so once in a while." From that day on, she and Epel grew to be close friends, him being once of the only ones she felt she could lower her guard to, and her the only one who got to see the real country boy Epel under the frills. Epel was really embarrassed for her to hear his accent for the first time, but she just smiled and let him hear her old accent she herself had spent a long time trying to get rid of. They compared the way they said different things and shared a knowing look when they heard the other let it slip in public or in class.

+ Deep down Amelia is a bit of a tsundere, even with her friends. She's a bit rude to Grim, rough with Ace, and teases Deuce on the regular. But under all the troll face and light arm punches, she's a very caring person and will jump to help her friends at the slightest request. She's also very generous, even if she might seem the type to be greedy. Her love language is gift giving, and she's the master at giving gifts that mean something or were sorely needed, even if the recipient didn't let on it was so. She's not very accustomed to receiving gifts herself, so if someone does something nice for her she will feel guilty and like she owes them, even if the gift was in response to something she herself gave/did.

- To truly let her know you care, she responds the best to being told her efforts are appreciated or that the individual likes her company/personality, things she was never really told before. The first time a club mate told her "I appreciate you" she looked at him with suspicion. She openly stated no one had ever said that to her before and it was strange, a sentiment that made the whole backstage crew pause and really notice just how unliked/unloved she was in the past. They are now very open about how much they appreciate her efforts and ideas, though she still finds it very strange she does like it.

+ For most of her life, Amelia always thought she was broken, not feeling like normal people do. This extended to her love life, leading her to believe she was asexual for years. Once in Wonderland, the moment she met Jack Howl she realized just how wrong her own assumption was. Long had she been a fan of characters with animal features, seeing one in real life seemed to finally awaken her long nonexistent sex drive and she really didn't know how to handle this. In classic Amelia fashion, this meant she was extra around Jack- extra standoffish, extra crazy and extra awkward. Jack wasn’t dumb, as a beastman he could smell her shift when he was around, especially when they were alone. At first he paid her no mind, she wasn’t the first to get this way around him, but as he actually got to know her (mostly during chapter 2 and 3) he started to enjoy her company more and more. She started to relax around him, dropping her act more often and just all around being more genuine with him. Funnily enough it was Leona of all people who told Jack to just make a move already, part pitying the first year’s inability to notice his own feelings, and partly just sick of hearing Emma complain the two hadn’t just come out with their feelings yet

Quotes

"I woke up today and chose violence, but I mean- it was either that or chaos, and Ace and Grim have that pretty much covered."

"I'm living the otaku's dream, being in my own isekai! You bet your ass I'm not in any rush to go back to so called normalcy!"

"Oh we having a cat fight? Well bring it on pumpkin spice. Magic or no, I can beat your basic ass with not but my mighty ass-whopping stick"

"My accent? I'm from Michigan, that's basically diet Canada with a bit of corn twang thrown in for flavor...what do you mean 'what's a Canada?"

Notes

Amelia has depression and ADHD, and highly suspects she might also have autism but was never properly tested for it.

While Amelia doesn't seem to have any magic of her own, she can tank a magical hit rather well. She claims this is just due to her disturbingly high pain tolerance, but others have their own theories about what or who Amelia might be.

She was a master of Disney trivia back in her world, but do to her memories being scrambled she now only has vague washes of recollection from time to time.

Amelia's native language is English, and this seems to equal 'Common' in Wonderland, so she was lucky enough to be able to communicate in this new world no problem. Beyond English, Amelia is multilingual to a degree, knowing words and phrases in a few languages. In descending order of proficiency, Amelia knows: Japanese, Spanish, French, German and Chinese.

Nicknames for Amelia are: Prefect (Most people- it's her official title), Manquer téméraire (Rook), Little Oister (Floyd), Herbivore (Leona), Spicy Potato (Vil- Amelia loves potatoes and unironically likes this nickname), Henchman/Minion (Grim- she doesn't take this well and often flicks him in the nose for it), Child of Man (Malleus)

Nicknames Amelia has given people are: Robuddy (Ortho), Mutt/Hairball/Fluffy (Grim), Pitch (Malleus- she uses this rather than the canon “Mr. Horns” (Tsuno Tarou), and it's a reference to Pitch Black from Rise of the Guardians)

Amelia's whishing star wish was: "for everyone in this school to get therapy, myself included."

When it comes to sexuality and gender identity, Amelia doesn't really mess with labels. She knows she's female, and comfortable with it, but has no issues being called a man or playing the part of a man in a play or friend group- she honestly doesn't care about gender.

Amelia loves to sing, and often does when she's alone. However due to being told she has no skill as a kid, she refuses to sing in front of people to a point she has a small panic attack if she finds out someone could hear her. Vil notices this habit of hers, and that she wasn't half bad when staying in her own octave (alto-tenor), so he urges/forces her to sing in the competition in Chapter 5 to have more range in their performance.

Malleus is undoubtedly drawn to Amelia, visiting her at night either while on a stroll or at her dorm. (It's this habit of his that coined her nickname for him, attributing his actions as being hunted by a boogie man.) Malleus seems a bit more on edge when she's around, he even fidgets more when he's expecting to see her. While she carries no romantic feelings for the Fae prince herself, she does see him as a good friend and enjoys his strange visits.

Silver claims to know her from somewhere, and Amelia feels the same way, but neither can remember where or how. Seemingly for this reason alone the two are very friendly with each other and sometimes even go out of each other's way to see each other in their free time.

#twisted wonderland oc #twstoc #twisted wonderland #twst #original character #fan character #oc: amelia

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spindlebeforesunset · 4 years

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Wild thoughts about Grim's origins

Warning: MASSIVE brainrot ahead

I made some posts about this complete crack theory before, but:

Maybe Grim is of Jabberwocky origin.

The Jabberwocky is a beast from a poem in Through the Looking Glass (sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). Here is the first stanza of the poem:

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe."

@poisonepel pointed out that this was the song that Che'nya was humming when he popped up in front of our collared dummy squad. Yet, the Japanese dub has different lyrics to the English one (animated English Cheshire Cat sings the stanza above ^^^, Japanese Cheshire Cat sings about himself).

After rereading Through the Looking Glass: this is the VERY roughly 'translated' version of 'Twas Brillig with help from Humpty Dumpty who helped Alice understand:

"It was four o'clock, the lithe and slimy creatures ("tove" is a weird creature that Carroll made up that is like a badger+lizard+'corkscrew')

Did go round and round and make holes at the grass-plot around the sundial

The borogoves (bird creature thing) all looked sad

And the lost green pigs were bellowing and whistling."

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forgive me, you had to read that with your own eyes

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The Alice in Wonderland film from Disney mixed both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass parts. Here is a list of parts that were not in the first book but were included in film:

Tweedle twins

Walrus and Carpenter

The flowers

fusing the Red Queen (Looking Glass) with the Queen of Hearts (Wonderland)

'Twas Brillig

The Cheshire Cat was actually supposed to have his own character song called "I'm Odd", but because Disney wanted to keep some aspects of the Jabberwocky poem, they dropped "I'm Odd" in favour for a small section that became"'Twas Brillig", and the creatures that Alice met in the forest where she started to cry.

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Now how does this still tie to Grim?

The Jabberwocky poem describes the actual Jabberwocky with:

jaws that bite

claws that catch

eyes of flame

beware of it

There is also an accompanying illustration:

this here is the live-action version:

Now have the monstrosity we had to fight right at the beginning of the game that is probably Grim:

The similarities:

wings

the tendrils coming either from the face/head

scales

claws

sharp teeth

eyes of flame

it has to be killed at any rate

The Vorpal Sword is used to kill it by beheading.

The rest of these wild thoughts include who in the Twisted Wonderland cast might be able to defeat the prologue boss monster or whose help does Yuu need the most if Grim has Jabberwocky roots:

Ace and Deuce with all likelihood can get involved

All those who overblotted

Riddle - we need his Unique Magic if it can temporarily close the magic off for at least some seconds

Malleus - m a g i c

Lilia - we need the jiji to fight

Silver - the character whose magic pen is like a sword, whose coffin has a sword at the loading page, and can actually use a sword

Dire Crowley - look, if a portion of the school is destroyed, then as the Headmaster you have to do something about it whether you're 優しい or not, and if you still don't then b r u h

Mind all, the game's name is Twisted Wonderland, and not The Villain's World (Prologue: Welcome to the Villain's World) when it can also be called that. Maybe because it still holds the roots to the first Wonderland.

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... I hope this makes some sense.

If it is all nonsense, I'm sorry you had to read that because I dropped all sense and reason to brainfart.

More thoughts will be welcome!

#twisted wonderland #twst grim #twst theory #incoherent thoughts #i am so sorry

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goldeneyedgirl · 3 years

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mcu xover: jar of hearts 3/?

Oh yes, my MCU x Twilight crossover is still happening.

And this chapter may even reference the MCU directly. SHOCKING.

Seriously, I’m so sorry this took so long. I’ve been writing a lot, across a lot of different fics and this one slid to the back of the queue. Also, I wrote myself into a corner and needed to get out again.

And yes, we’re inching closer to joining up the MCU. These things take time, but it’ll happen.

part two here

roadtrip.

They’re almost in Arizona when Charlie calls to find out where the fuck Seth Clearwater is, because apparently he’s been tangling up his story all over town - he’s told anyone on the Res who asks that he’s staying with Charlie. He’s told Charlie that he’s staying with Colin or Brady.

Alice scowls at Seth through the rearview mirror and begins to weave a tale of being told Seth had permission to join them to go see their cousins - in between lecturing Seth about setting them up for a kidnapping charge across state lines.

By the end of the conversation, Charlie’s trying not to snigger at Alice’s increasingly indignant rant at Seth, at law breaking in general, and at fucking son-of-a-bitch moron drivers, sweet Jesus. Emmett and Seth are howling at Alice’s cussing and even Charlie is a little bit shocked at her language (later, when the boys are picking on her about it, she rolls her eyes, looks over the top of her heart-shaped sunglasses, and reminds them both - quite primly - that she married a goddamned soldier.)

Seth’s favourite part of the whole ordeal is that Alice isn’t even driving.

But Charlie clears Seth accompanying them, so that’s one less problem. Of course, it means his Jeep stinks of human food, and that they have to stop, but they still make good time up to Alaska.

It’s a hard drive to make - closer to the cities and urban, abandoned cars have been moved off the road. But in the rural areas, cars are still scattered, seemingly abandoned or crashed. Most of the bodies have been removed, thankfully. But still, only most. And it’s been weeks - months - since it happened, so those bodies aren’t in good condition.

And not all of them are adults.

They start out burying the people they find (well, Emmett and Alice do - they both insist Seth stay in the damn car), but then only the children.

Then they just stop because they are both tired of handling rotting bodies who never should have died, let alone forgotten on the side of a long, empty stretch of highway. The graves they’ve already dug haven’t got markers or anything. Just a hole on the side of the road.

It doesn’t feel like enough.

The house in Denali feels wrong before they even get out of the car. The house has always had a sense of otherness, thanks to the fact that it’s the permanent residence of immortals. But right now, it feels more forgotten, lesser in a way.

Tanya’s walking out the front door the second the car pulls up, and she looks old. Tired and strained, and she walks straight into the hug Alice offers.

Seth gapes at the house - the enormous glass-and-wood lodge, tucked carefully in the wilderness where it is mostly forgotten. It might be on a map somewhere, might be noted down in some database, but it is mostly overlooked, a sanctuary in the middle of nowhere.

There’s not really much for them to say or do in Alaska, Emmett realises; Carmen and Tanya are more than capable enough to manage on their own.

Except… Carmen looks like a ghost. She looks disorientated and disinterested, and there’s a part of Emmett that is cold and dead that is perversely fascinated with all the different ways there are to fall apart after the loss of a mate. He’s walking around like a hollowed-out old man, Alice is… not quite there, a little unbalanced.

Sometimes he wonders if Rosalie should have stayed, should have taken his place instead. He would have given it to her, without question. Rose only deserved good things, easy things.

But then he wonders. If living through it all really was easy or good. It doesn’t feel like it, most days. It’s a heavy weight in his chest and a constant feeling of leaving something behind (he’s got one of her hair ties around his wrist; it’s dumb but he always had one on him just in case - at school, when they went hunting, everywhere; he’s also got one of her shirts in his bag. It won’t smell right, being crammed in with his stuff, but he brought it anyway).

Rose wouldn’t have been happy in this world. She wouldn’t have known what to do with Alice or Seth. She would have been angry at the disruption to her life. She would have been afraid and lonely and lashed out at everyone.

No, not good and easy at all.

Then he wonders how Jasper would have faired, without Alice, and that is a grim, grizzly train of thought. Thanos would have begged for death, if Alice had been taken and Jasper left behind. He’s only ever seen a glimpse of the monster behind the man over the decades since Jasper and Alice joined the family, and it’s enough to think that perhaps nature intervened and tried to protect everyone from what Jasper would become without Alice.

They stay in Alaska for two days; Tanya and Carmen are ill-at-ease with Seth, even after they explain who he is.

“But,” Tanya had frowned, “why is he with you?”

He didn’t have an answer for that.

Because Seth was… he was Other, like the Cullens. He understood what it was like to be special and expect to be strong enough to survive and to save; to be beyond the reach of petty mortal shit. He was a fucking kid, who’d lost his family, his friends, and most of his community. Fuck, at this rate, he’d lost his childhood too. He was the natural leader of what remained of the pack, and he’d done something fairly smart - looked for adult guidance.

A shame that the only thing he could find in its place was him and Alice. If someone had ranked his family by ‘best choice to care for a teenage boy’ he, Alice, and Jasper would have been dead last. Edward would have ranked higher.

(It still feels weird to think or talk about Alice without adding ‘and Jasper’. Like he’s mispronouncing a word.)

But it is what it is, and Seth’s still clocking more hours doing online school than online games on the laptop Alice gave him, plus there’s a bunch of food in the back of the Jeep, so they aren’t failing too badly.

Seth turns red when Tanya smiles at him, and Alice banishes him to a guest room, loudly forbidding any imprinting for the next decade, and that just means Emmett has to explain imprinting to Carmen and Tanya, and Alice has to read the riot act to Tanya about not flirting with the fourteen-year-old boy upstairs and it almost feels like old times.

They go hunting whilst Seth is asleep, and it’s obvious that nothing is the same. So much of the forest surrounding the house is just… gone. Empty, as if there was never trees looming over them, underbrush to push through. There are less animals to track and hunt, no excuse to be picky.

It was probably the same around Forks, truthfully, except there was that cloud of grief and horror surrounding him and Alice when they hunted - that was where Edward stumbled and fell. That was where Jasper couldn’t run any longer.

That was where he heard Alice scream when Rosie disintegrated.

In the harsh light of day, the situation feels much bleaker, much bigger outside of the insular forests of the Olympic Peninsula.

They don’t see a single bear.

He’s not entirely sure why they’ve come to Alaska, except he sees Carmen and Alice go off together, finds them sitting quietly together talking. On one hand, he wishes that he could sit with them; that he lost Rose just like they lost Jasper and Eleazer, but on the other hand, he doesn’t want to be a part of that particular club. Doesn’t have words left to comfort Carmen. Most of his platitudes have started sounding hollow.

Alice vanishes one morning, and leaves him to help Seth with school work, and he grimly realises they have nearly four more years of this until Seth graduates. But things will be different before then; they’ll be back in Forks and Seth can ask paid professionals to explain algebra to him.

When Alice returns, it’s time to go - she’s been off in the wilderness, trying to See around Seth, and deciding to go off on her own is, apparently, the best way.

“Call us if you need anything,” Tanya says, pulling all three of them into crushing hugs, and if Seth turns red and tries to look down Tanya’s top, Alice pretends not to notice.

“Where are you headed next?” Carmen asks, as Seth climbs in the back, clutching an energy drink they’re all going to regret.

Alice smiles. But it’s the wrong kind of smile; it’s sharp and sinister and looks wrong on her face. A Cheshire Cat smile, a Joker smile, and Emmett wonders if after all these years together, if Jasper’s reactive violence hasn’t bled into his wife a little.

“We’re going to Mexico.”

—

The trip to Mexico can be described as long.

If the Jeep wasn’t Rosalie’s last gift to him, then they probably could have run there faster, even with Seth in tow. But there won’t be anymore perfectly modified cars ever again, so he’s staying with the Jeep.

Alice gives up the passenger seat once they make it through to Alberta, apologetic that Seth’s been crammed in the backseat. But then Alice starts muttering to herself, tapping away on her phone, and seems distracted and irritated when Emmett tries to get her attention.

He can’t make out what she’s saying at all, it’s just an irregular hum, and he wonders if she’s having more of her one-sided conversations with Jasper.

The trip takes a week, winding through landlocked states. It shouldn’t take so long except everything is in chaos; they lose an entire afternoon carefully shifting some abandoned cars off the road to get the Jeep through in the middle of backwoods Montana. They spend hours waiting for gas every time they stop. And Seth might be a mystical shapeshifter, but he needs a proper bed, and hot food, and human moments; they have varying success at finding all three, but they try, and Seth is nothing if not agreeable and grateful for even the smallest attempt at making him comfortable.

They find an abandoned farm in Wyoming and they let Seth transform and run for a few hours at dusk, sitting on the front of the Jeep in silence until it’s dark enough for them to hunt, as well.

It feels like the world has ended, some days, and they are the only ones left - to him, at least. Maybe that’s why Alice is talking to herself - it’s the only sensible answer she’ll get.

Some towns are empty; no one for miles. The information that filters through the internet mentions people heading to the cities, to the larger towns, because the population is too small to keep so many different settlements functioning. There’s no money or survival if you’ve lost your entire farm, if the hospital or the school is unmanned.

And Emmett wonders if he’s been cured of human blood for good now he’s seen so much of it spilt, stale and rotting, on the backroads of the country. It feels like everything smells just a little bit like decomposition right now. He’s not sure if that’s him or if that’s everything.

And they get closer to Mexico.

—

They arrive just as the day turns to night, and he expects… he’s not sure what he expects, honestly. Maybe setting up in the motel they’ve found, that Alice has declared a safe distance from any of Maria’s plotting, and getting Seth some fresh food - he hasn’t complained, but even Emmett’s tired of the pre-packaged, long-life crap.

Instead, Alice slips from the car, clad in jeans and a leather jacket, tucking her phone in her back pocket.

“I’ll be back in a few hours,” she says, like she’s going alone.

“What?” Seth looks suspiciously at the pair of them, and it’s only later that he realises the kid is terrified of being left behind. That he’ll cling to their belt loops with his dying breath. His mom left, his sister left, his friends and pack left, and he took a chance on leaving everything else that was left to stick with them.

That makes Emmett feel guilty for no reason he can name.

“I can’t see with you around me,” Alice says gently. “It’s a simple clean-up job, it won’t take long.”

Seth frowns and looks at Emmett.

“You aren’t doing this alone, Alice. Even if we wait in the car,” he says with finality. This isn’t going to be an argument, because there’s nothing to argue about. He’s not letting Alice roam around in a city full of uncontrolled newborns, no matter how talented she is.

Alice scowls. “I know what I’m doing, Emmett,” her voice is sharp, and she never likes reminding them of how long she was alone before she found Jasper; what the family knows about those years is quite vague and patchwork - as far as Alice is concerned, nothing important happened before she met Jasper, as if she popped into being on a diner stool just in time.

Rose always suspected Alice’s real story was very lonely, very frightening, but no one asks when she so obviously doesn’t want to talk about it. He knows what it costs for her to bring it up now.

“I know. But that doesn’t mean I’m letting my only sister go newborn hunting alone,” Emmett says, and Alice sighs and nods - her visions have gone dark, obviously this is not a battle she can win.

Emmett ends up wishing that he and Seth had stayed behind.

Alice is like a laser, zeroing on her targets with a single-minded intensity. He hears that hum faintly, of her talking to herself and he wants to ask her what she’s saying, what thoughts are so important she needs to say them almost out loud but he doesn’t get a chance.

The first one of Maria’s abandoned acolytes is a girl around seventeen with matted black hair and a dress that Emmett mistakes for some kind of lace at first, except it’s the remnants of dozens of meals dried across the front of her, ripples of dried, stale blood that have solidified into a repulsive black and red mass.

She snarls at them, her face bloody, and the pale form of a man beneath her. Alice just walks up to her and backhands her with a crack that makes Seth jump; Emmett flinches but he’d never admit it.

The newborn snaps at Alice, and in one movement, the girl is pinned to the brick wall behind them, cracks spiralling up her neck from Alice’s tight grip.

“Who the hell are you?” the girl snaps in Spanish and Alice says nothing, just rips her head off by her neck, the screech sounding deafening so close. Moments later, her body is in pieces in a dumpster, along with her victim, and Alice has set the entire thing alight, her face blank.

Emmett makes a decision then, to leave Seth in a brightly lit burger place with a promise he’ll be back in one hour because this is nothing a kid should see.

And he’s so, so glad that he made that choice. Alice’s hunt is something that will be burned into his brain for the rest of his life.

The next newborn is a middle-aged male who reminds Emmett of his English lit teacher back at Forks, right down to the salt and pepper streaks in his hair and the slightly off-centre nose. He’s the worst of the night, Emmett silently decides, as he guards his hunt - a family of five that he’s only half-finished. The father is extremely, viscerally dead and there’s no putting him back together; the mother is choking and struggling for a breath that her torn throat will never give her as she bleeds out; the baby in her arms is long dead with its head taken up by a gaping wound. There are two young girls, clinging to each other in terror, and there is no way this ends well.

The newborn obviously thinks Emmett is more of a threat than petite little Alice, practically frothing at the mouth as Emmett approaches him, and grabs at one of the children. It all happens in seconds - the girls scream, there is a crunch of bone and more screaming, the rich scent of fresh blood, another crunch of bone and muscle, and then the newborn’s head is half-torn away before Alice can get better leverage and finish the job. The dead child dangles from his grip, bent the wrong way; her sister has her head half caved in, and the mother still chokes on her own blood. It all happens so fast.

He should have stayed with Seth.

He lets Alice handle the rest of them - she’s located six of Maria’s surviving nine, and after the family, she takes them down swiftly and wordlessly, just a diminutive blur and the sound of tearing metal.

The sweet smoke clings to them as they make their way back to Seth, Alice’s head down.

“I thought,” she began and just shook her head. And he reached out to squeeze her shoulder.

She thought it would be closure, would feel like an ending or an achievement. That there would be some peace in ending Maria’s life’s work. Instead, she’s just the same, but with blood on her boots and a tear in her jeans. The newborns barely got an opportunity to fight back, to give her the pound of flesh she was looking for.

Seth is waiting for them in the window of the store, a broad grin on his face when he spots them. Back to the motel for the night, now. And then tomorrow…

“So,” he says finally. “What now?”

#twilight fic #alice cullen #emmett cullen #seth clearweater #mcu crossover #my fic: jar of hearts #marvel #mcu fic #why yes we did need a twilight x mcu crossover #it felt necessary

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Best Horror Movies on Netflix: Scariest Films to Stream

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Is it Halloween when you’re reading this? If not we’re still close enough with fall here and the month of October almost upon us! It’s the time of year where we like our drinks spiced with pumpkin or apple, our flannel light, and the movies we consume scary. And lucky for you there are more than a handful of worthwhile scary movies on Netflix.

There is nothing quite as fun as embracing the spooky, the creepy, the scary, and things that go bump in the night. Thankfully we have horror movies to help us down these paths. If you ever find yourself in need of a thrill or a chill, check out some of the best horror movies on Netflix, we’ve gathered here.

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As Above, So Below

We know what you might be thinking: a found footage horror movie? Yes, this was one of the later adherents to a genre craze that got run into the ground during the 2000s and early 2010s. However, As Above, So Below is the rare thing: effectively creepy. With a crackerjack premise about the real Catacombs of Paris being a secret gateway to Hell, the film casts an energetic Perdita Weeks as a modern day Indiana Jones in a Go-Pro helmet. She and her colleagues make the unwise choice to go off the tourist-guided path in the catacombs, which is home to the remains of more than 6 million people who died between the early middle ages and 18th century.

But once deep below the City of Lights, the film’s dwindling protagonists find themselves crawling beneath a wall with the words “Abandon all Hope Ye Who Enter.” And things just get bleak from there. This is a ghoulish good-time for those who are willing to indulge in the gimmick storytelling.

Apostle

Apostle comes from acclaimed The Raid director Gareth Evans and is his take on the horror genre. Spoiler alert: it’s a good one.

Dan Stevens stars as Thomas Richardson, a British man in the early 1900s who must rescue his sister, Jennifer, from the clutches of a murderous cult. Thomas successfully infiltrates the cult led by the charismatic Malcom Howe (Michael Sheen) and begins to ingratiate himself with the strange folks obsessed with bloodletting. Thomas soon comes to find that the object of the cult’s religious fervor may be more real than he’d prefer.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Some kids dream about being left overnight or even a week at certain locations to play, like say a mall or a Chuck E. Cheese. One place that no one wants to be left alone in, however, is a Catholic boarding school.

That’s the situation that Rose (Lucy Boynton) and Kat (Kiernan Shipka) find themselves in in the atmospheric and creepy The Blackcoat’s Daughter. When Rose and Kat’s parents are unable to pick them up for winter break, the two are forced to spend the week at their dingy Catholic boarding school. If that weren’t bad enough, Rose fears that she may be pregnant…oh, and the nuns might all be Satanists.

The Blackcoat’s Daughter is an excellent debut directorial outing from Oz Perkins and another step on the right horror path for scream queens Shipka and Emma Roberts.

The Evil Dead

1981’s The Evil Dead is nothing less than one of the biggest success stories in horror movie history.

Written and directed on a shoestring budget by Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead uses traditional horror tropes to its great advantage, creating a scary, funny, and almost inconceivably bloody story about five college students who encounter some trouble in a cabin in the middle of the woods. That trouble includes the unwitting release of a legion of demons upon the world.

The Evil Dead rightfully made stars of its creator and lead Bruce Campbell. It was also the jumping off point for a successful franchise that includes two sequels, a remake, a TV show, and more.

Gerald’s Game

We are living in a renaissance for Stephen King adaptations. But while there have been many killer clowns and hat-wearing fiends getting major attention at the multiplexes, the best King movie in perhaps decades is Mike Flanagan’s underrated Gerald’s Game. Cleverly adapted from what has been described as one of King’s worst stories, Gerald’s Game improves on its source material when it imagines a middle-aged woman (Carla Gugino) placed in a terrifying survival situation after her husband (Bruce Greenwood) dies of a heart attack during a sex game.

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Handcuffed to a bed in their remote cabin in the woods, Gugino’s Jessie must face the fact no one is coming to save her in the next week… more than enough time to die of dehydration or the wolf prowling about. Thus the specter of death hovers over the whole movie, seemingly literally with a monstrous shade emerging from the shadows to bedevil Jessie each night. A trenchant character study that frees Gugino to show a wide range of terror, determination, and finally horrifying desperation, the movie delves into the shadows of a woman haunted by trauma and demons almost as scary as her current situation. Almost.

The Gift

Who knew Joel Edgerton had it in him?

The Gift is the Australian actor’s writing and directing debut and it doesn’t disappoint. Edgerton stars as Gordon “Gordo” Mosely. He’s a nice enough middle-aged man if a little “off.” One day while shopping he runs into an old high school classmate Simon (Jason Bateman) and his wife Robyn (Rebecca Hall). After their brief encounter, Gordo takes it upon himself to start dropping off little gifts to Simon and Robyn’s home. Robyn sees no problem with it at first. But Simon becomes disturbed, perhaps because of the unique past Simon and Gordo share.

Many horror movies understand there must be a twist of some sort or at the very least an unexpected third act. Even still The Gift‘s third act switch up is particularly devastating because it’s so mundane and logical. The Gift ends up being an emotional drama disguised as horror.

The Girl with All the Gifts

Just when you thought there was nothing left to be done with the zombie genre, in comes a shocking and original idea… one that has sadly grown only more scary in 2020 with regards to The Girl with All the Gifts. A brilliant little indie from Colm McCarthy, this underrated gem imagines a zombie apocalypse as something closer to a viral pandemic that lasts for generations…. and one where a vaccine is always just out of reach.

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Thus enters the class of Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton). Years after a fungal infection ravaged the planet, turning the infected into “hungries” (breathing zombies), their offspring have shown a creepy ability to retain the ability to think, learn, and love… even as they crave living flesh.

Hence the students in Helen’s class, including her favorite Melanie (Sennia Nanua). The child is special… too much so when it’s believed her biology could create a vaccine that would spare anymore humans turning “hungry.” But to harvest her body, the military will drag Helen and Melanie through an urban hellscape which has reduced London to an abandoned refuge for Hungries and feral children who likewise hunt uninfected humans for food.

The Golem

The Golem is such an awesome monster from Jewish mythology that it’s hard to believe they don’t make more movies about him. Well now they have. The Golem isn’t a straight-up remake of the 1915 movie of the same name so much as it is the next step in the evolution of this grim mythological beast.

During the outbreak of a plague, Hanna (Hani Furstenberg) will do whatever it takes to defend her community from outside invaders. Unfortunately, and in true fairy tale fashion, the creature she conjures up to defend her community quickly develops a murderous mind of its own.

Green Room

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Instead all monsters are replaced by vengeful neo-Nazis and the haunted house is replaced by a skinhead punk music club in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon woods. The band, The Aint Rights, led by bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin) are locked in the green room of a club after witnessing a murder and must fight their way out.

Horns

A horror vintage for a distinctly acquired taste, Alexandre Aja’s Horns is a bizarre fairy tale for adults. As much a revenge fable as a typical chiller, this movie which put “Harry Potter in Devil Horns” is actually something of a grim love story based on a novel by Joe Hill.

Daniel Radcliffe plays Ig Perrish, an outcast in his local community who wants nothing more than to forever be by the side of his lifelong love Merrin (Juno Temple). After her brutal unsolved murder prevents that, Ig swears he’d sell his soul to get revenge.

Funny thing is the day after he makes such a proclamation, horns begin growing from his forehead. The greater they grow, the easier it is to get sinners around him to confess their most hidden shames, and indulge in others. But with the clock ticking before he becomes a full-fledged demon, and his soul is presumably claimed by Beelzebub, there is only a narrow window before he can get revenge while raising a little hell.

Hush

In his follow-up to the cult classic Oculus, Mike Flanagan makes one of the more clever horror movies on this list. Hush is a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse within the typical nightmare of a home invasion, yet it also turns conventions of that familiar terror on its head.

For instance, the savvy angle about this movie is Kate Siegel (who co-wrote the movie with Flanagan) plays Maddie, a deaf and mute woman living in the woods alone. Like Audrey Hepburn’s blind woman from the progenitor of home invasion stories, Wait Until Dark (1967), Maddie is completely isolated when she is marked for death by a menacing monster in human flesh.

Like the masked villains of so many more generic home invasion movies (I’m looking square at you, Strangers), John Gallagher Jr.’s “Man” wears a mask as he sneaks into her house. However, the functions of this story are laid bare since we actually keep an eye on what the “Man” is doing at all times, and how he is getting or not getting into the house in any given scene. He isn’t aided by filmmakers who’ve given him faux-supernatural and omnipotent abilities like other versions of these stories, and he’s not an “Other;” he’s a man who does take his mask off, and his lust for murder is not so much fetishized as shown for the repulsive behavior that it is. And still, Maddie proves to be both resourceful and painfully ill-equipped to take him on in this tense battle of wills.

Insidious

Insidious is the start of a multi-film horror franchise and a pretty good one at that. Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne star as a married couple who move into a new home with their three kids. Shortly after they move in, their son Dalton is drawn to a shadow in the attic and then falls into a mysterious coma from which they can’t wake him.

It’s at this point that the Lamberts do what horror fans always yell at characters to do: they move out of the damn house! Little do they know, however, that some hauntings go beyond mere domiciles.

The Invitation

Seeing your ex is always uncomfortable, but imagine if your ex-wife invited you to a dinner party with her new husband? That is just about the least creepy thing in this taut thriller nestled in the Hollywood Hills.

Indeed, in The Invitation Logan Marshall-Green’s Will is invited by his estranged wife (Tammy Blanchard) for dinner with her new hubby David (Michael Huisman of Game of Thrones). David apparently wanted to extend the bread-breaking offer personally since he has something he wants to invite both Will and all his other guests into joining. And it isn’t a game of Scrabble…

It Comes at Night

Surviving the apocalypse comes with a certain amount of questions. For starters, what do you do after you survive a global pandemic thanks to your secluded cabin in the woods…and then someone comes knocking? That’s the situation that the family consisting of Paul (Joel Edgerton), Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), and Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) find themselves in in It Comes at Night.

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When Paul and his family come across another family in the woods seeking shelter and water, they hesitantly welcome them in. But this soon proves to be a dangerous decision. Having guests in the real world is annoying enough to deal with and it only becomes harder when you suspect that any one of them could be sick with a highly-contagious, utterly fatal illness.

Paranormal Activity

Ignore the sequels. Yes, you know they’re bad and we know they’re bad. But long before “the Ghost Dimension” (whatever the hell that means), there was this eerie surprise hit that started it all. A movie which was estimated to be the most profitable movie of all time in its day–earning $193.4 million worldwide on a budget of $15,000–Paranormal Activity put Blumhouse Productions on the map and is still a supremely affecting piece of atmosphere.

Presented as the true story of a young, and not wholly likable, couple (Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat), the film follows the pair as they attempt to document the bumps they’re hearing in the house at night–only to discover a demonic presence and some repressed memories for one party. A still brilliant exercise in sound design, tension, and the uncanny ability to trick audiences into believing what they’re seeing is actually happening, this remains the best found footage horror movie ever made.

Poltergeist

Before there was Insidious, The Conjuring, or a myriad of other “suburban family vs. haunted house” movies, there was Poltergeist. Taking ghost stories out of the Gothic setting of ancient castles or decrepit mansions and hotels, Poltergeist moved the spirits into the middle class American heartland of the 1980s. With a smart screenplay by no less than Steven Spielberg (and, according to some, his ghost direction), Poltergeist finds the Freeling family privy to a disquieting fact about their new home: It’s built on top of a cemetery!

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You probably know the story, and if you don’t you can guess it after decades of copycats that followed, but this special effects-laden spectacle still holds up, especially as a thriller that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Fair warning though, if your kids have a tree outside their window or a clown doll under their bed, we don’t take responsibility for the years of therapy bills this may inflict!

Red Dragon

The often overlooked other child of the Hannibal Lecter movie family, Red Dragon is no The Silence of the Lambs, no matter how much it wishes it was. Nor is it as visually evocative or luscious as Ridley Scott’s decadent Hannibal. Nevertheless, we find this prequel to both films to be at least worthy of association with the former, and ultimately more satisfying than the latter. A definite attempt to reshape Thomas Harris’ first novel to feature the Lecter character into a Silence of the Lambs clone, Red Dragon still has quite a bit to enjoy.

At the top of the list is of course Sir Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal for the third and final time. Definitely his hammiest iteration of the character, even a campy Hopkins is impossible to resist given the not-so-good doctor’s droll wit or distinct taste palate. Director Brett Ratner’s framing around Lecter is competent enough, and he wisely gets a superb supporting cast who can overwhelm any shortcomings.

Edward Norton is a compelling lead FBI detective; Philip Seymour Hoffman is delightfully repellent as a tabloid journalist who suffers a terrifying fate; and Ralph Fiennes roars as the serial killer who inflicts that fate on Hoffman. It may be no Manhunter–Michael Mann’s first adaptation of the source novel–but Red Dragon‘s the one on Netflix. So love the one you’re with!

The Silence of the Lambs

If you are only going to watch one Hannibal Lecter movie, this is the all-time masterpiece which remains the sole horror movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture. An absolutely gripping thriller even 30 years later, Jonathan Demme’s movie is an all-time great because of stellar performances and a sharp screenplay told by an even sharper eye.

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Here is the movie that kicked off the serial killer craze in Hollywood during the ’90s. Yet more than the gory details, what lingers in the mind are little things like an opening sequence that introduces Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) as the lone woman on an elevator full of FBI ubermensches, or the way Anthony Hopkins breaks his unrelenting stare to mispronounce “Chianti” with dripping disdain for the Yokel sent to interview him. Every facet of this movie works, and thus it hasn’t aged a day. We do recommend watching it with a side of fava beans, though.

Sinister

One of the better Blumhouse chillers to come out of the 2010s, Sinister is the case of a brilliant elevator pitch meeting a superior pair of talents in director Scott Derrickson and star Ethan Hawke to bring it to life.

The setup of the movie is simple: There is a pagan demon god who will consume the soul of any nearby children whenever someone sees him. And not just him, but recreations of his image on walls. And wouldn’t you know it, true crime journalist Ellison (Hawke) just moved into a house with an attic full of home movies stuffed to the gills with Bughuul. And Ellison’s daughter is right downstairs. Uh oh.

Sleepy Hollow

As much a comedy as a horror film, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow should always be on the table when discussing October viewing options. After all, this demented reimagining of Washington Irving’s classic short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” never forgets the selling point is to have them rolling in the aisles. And more than a few heads do just that.

As a film with the most varied and imaginative uses of decapitation, Sleepy Hollow cuts a bloody path across Upstate New York. In fact, despite its American setting, we might as well confess what Sleepy Hollow really is: a modern version of a Hammer horror movie.

Burton incorporates all of his favorite tropes here: The intentionally stuffy faux-British acting (even though all the characters are of Dutch descent); the exaggerated and formal clothing; more than a few heaving bosoms; and lots and lots of gore. This film is so perfectly macabre and gleefully grotesque that you might even be forgiven for not noticing at first glance how dryly funny and deadpan a place this Sleepy Hollow tends to be.

Splice

What if Dr. Frankenstein banged his monster? That is just one of several creepy elements to Splice, a weird psychosexual sci-fi/horror hybrid. Directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as the world’s worst scientists, Splice follows two not-so-smart doctors who attempt to play God by creating an entire new species of creature they name Dren (Delphine Chanéac).

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At first a computer-generated child with alien eyes and a roping tail, Dren soon grows from girl to young woman, seducer to… well, something even more unexpected. Weird, unpleasant, and ultimately unshakable like that one bad dream, Splice plays with ideas of identity, gender, and parenthood.

Sweetheart

Don’t let the name fool you, Sweetheart is very much a horror movie. What kind of horror movie, you ask? Well, after a boat sinks during a storm, young Jennifer Remming (Kiersey Clemons) is the only survivor. She washes ashore a small island and gets to work burying her friends, creating shelter, and foraging for food. You know: deserted island stuff.

Soon, however, Jenn will come to find that the island is not as deserted as she previously thought. There’s something out there – something big, dangerous, and hungry. Sweetheart is like Castaway meets Predator and it’s another indie horror hit for Blumhouse.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a fantastic little satire on the horror genre that, in a similar fashion to Scream, is packed with laughs, gore, and a bit of a message. When a group of preppy college students head out to the backwoods for a camping trip, they stumble upon two good-natured good ol’ boys that they mistake for homicidal hillbillies.

Their quick, off-the-mark judgment of Tucker and Dale lead to these snobs getting themselves into sticky, often bloody, and hilariously over-the-top situations. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil rides a one-joke premise to successful heights and teaches audiences to not judge a book by its cover.

Under the Shadow

This 2016 effort could not possibly be more timely as it sympathizes, and terrorizes, an Iranian single mother and child in 1980s Tehran. Like a draconian travel ban, Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her son Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) are malevolently targeted by a force of supreme evil.

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This occurs after Dorsa’s father, a doctor, is called away to serve the Iranian army in post-revolution and war-torn Iran. In his absence evil seeps in… as does a quality horror movie with heightened emotional weight.

Underworld

No one is going to mistake Underworld for high art. That obvious fact makes the lofty pretensions of these movies all the more endearing. With a cast of high-minded British theatrical actors, many trained in the Royal Shakespeare Company, at least the early movies in this Gothic horror/action mash-up series were overflowing with histrionic self-importance and grandiosity.

Take the first and best in the series. In the margins you have Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen portraying the patriarchs of warring factions of vampires and werewolves, and a love story caught between their violence that’ shamelessly modeled on Romeo and Juliet. It’s ridiculous, especially with Scott Speedman playing one party. But when the other is the oft-underrated Kate Beckinsale it doesn’t matter.

The movie’s bombast becomes the movie’s first virtue, and Len Wiseman’s penchant for glossy slick visuals, which would look at home in the sexiest Eurotrash graphic novel at the bookstore, is its other. Combined they make this a guilty good time. Though we recommend not venturing past the second or third movie.

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Potions

Title: Potions Ship: N/A Prompt day: Day 2-Potions Medium: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media TypesWiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej SapkowskiWiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game) Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Warnings Summary: The inn keeper gave him one look before shooing him out again. Before he truly realised what was going on was there a bucket of cold water dumped over his head and the woman was muttering something about stinking up the place and that he needed to be at least a little bit more clean before coming in. Word count: 810 Author’s notes: N/A @geraltwhumpweek

Geralt downed his potions. Cat to see in the dark, shallow for health and golden oriole. His body gave a muted shiver as the potions enter his blood stream. He double checks to make sure the Dancing star bombs are secure to his belt.

His senses could pick up the stench from the sewers and truth be told he hated the smell.

He lowers himself down the manhole in the dungeon, his nose crinkle slightly at the smell. He knows he was contracted for a cockatrice but the why the villagers and guards described the monster it sounded more than likely to be a basilisk.

He slowly makes his why done the narrowness of the sewers. He almost growled when drowners jumped up from the water. At least it is easy to fight them. It feels as if time is starting to slow down like it sometimes feels for him when he is about to enter a place where there is going to be fighting.

An irritated growl made its why out of his chest when there was more drowners to be dealt with. How did they managed to build a bloody city here, with so many monsters roaming under the city, and it did not look like it truly bothered them?

By the time he found the basilisk was he covered in grim and blood. And had to drink another swallow to made sure he would have a change to survive the fight. His head felt dizzy and everything around him felt disorientated. He could feel a cold sweet slowly working it’s why down his neck.

A quick scan of the why the basilisk was holding itself told Geralt that he will not be able to use the bomb he bought, well not with killing himself in the processes. He could see that it was a nesting pair, they had yet to notice him but not for much longer. He pulls his silver sword free and as noiseless as possible try and get closer.

He sank down against the wall into the dirty water. It was a close battle. He closes his eyes trying to get the edges of black crapping at his vision to stop. He knows he must get back up first but with the injuries he sustained did he not know if he would be able to make it.

He pulled his pack closer to him. He glared at the vial, but it is the only why he would be able to get out of the sewers. He knows he would have to forces himself to get the heads to the City guard and then he could hopefully wait the effects out.

He stumbled slightly. His left leg was on fire where a deep fang wound sat. It was a long progress to get out of the sewers and even a longer one to get his coin. He slowly made his way to the inn where he booked a place for the night.

The inn keeper gave him one look before shooing him out again. Before he truly realised what was going on was there a bucket of cold water dumped over his head and the woman was muttering something about stinking up the place and that he needed to be at least a little bit more clean before coming in.

The cold water prickled over his sensitive skin and at place run down pink instead of clear. After a while was the woman happy and allowed him back inside. When he got to his room, he started the process of getting out of his amour and putting his swords so that he would be able to grab them easily should someone came into the room while he was sleeping.

He felt nauseous and dizzy. He knows he should look at the injury on his leg, but a part of his mind just told him to leave it. The other part was screaming at him not to be stupid and left it.

He sat down on the bed with a sigh, he griped the bed to keep himself steady as the world swirled in front of him. He pulled the salve out and white honey, He realised if he drank the white honey immediately now then he would not be able to look at the wound.

He put a thick layer of the salve over the wound and then bound it. When he was finished with his leg, he grabbed the vial and down it in one go. The vial slipped from his hand and he pushed himself weakly up onto the bed.

The blanket was rough on his skin, but it at least allows him the idea of comfort as he curled up into himself. Slowly sleep took him under, giving him a change to heal faster and get through the effects of the potions.

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Part 1, Chapter 3 (pt. 2)

Or: Panic! at the (Former) Disco

Blood War: Masquerade of the Red Death Volume 1

McCann and the vamps do not do alright.

Fast Eddie Sanchez–remember him, the guy guarding the door to the members only area?–appears from the crowd, wielding a stiletto knife and quipping about entrance being invite only. He lunges forward to stab the Red Death in the chest.

And gets himself killed right away.

The stiletto melts before it can touch the Red Death. Red D. grabs him by the neck and, despite having scrawny corpse arms like the cover shows, lifts him up one handed. Eddie shrieks in pain. And ignites.

Gouts of flame burst from Eddie’s nose, eyes, ears, and mouth. Tongues of fire erupted from his chest. His fingers blasted into bits like fireworks. Legs and arms exploded like dry wood thrown into a blazing fireplace. His skin blackened and crinkled like burning paper. A blast of incredible heat roared through the chamber. And Fast Eddie Sanchez was gone.

The Red Death laughs “insanely,” which might be too cliche villainish if Weinberg’s going for a “force of nature” theme like his namesake from Poe’s story, as he pours Eddie’s ashes out of his hand.

“He was the first. But not the last. A fitting end to all those who defy the Sabbat. Or challenge the might of the Red Death.”

Alright then, I guess he’s a supervillain.

Understandably, the crowd of nameless vampires and ghouls lose their shit and panic. We’re reminded that fire destroys vampires.

...and though most had existed for hundreds of years, they clung to their unnatural existence with all the hunger of their mortal counterparts. More, for they knew beyond any doubt that they were the damned.

Like what’s going on isn’t already dramatic enough.

They run for the exit, but a mysterious force is keeping the door shut. That or Fast Eddie locked the door behind him when he came in to die. Either way, they’re stuck in the chamber with the Red Death, who’s strolling around killing anyone who gets close enough with fire hugs.

Methodically, it grabbed hold of any Kindred foolish enough to venture close. Clasped the vampire to its chest and turned it to ashes.

Dire McCann, Alexander Vargoss, and the twins, meanwhile, are presumably still standing in front of their table, posing. Tyrus Bendeict is still seated, and panicking. He thinks the Red Death’s after him and the photos of Baba Yaga from Russia.

McCann shook his head. “Nonsense” he snapped at the wizard. But wondered if perhaps the Tremere sorcerer wasn’t correct.”

McCann’s instinct to be contrary is faster than his ability to think.

I’m starting to notice that Weinberg tends to write two sentences when one sentence with a comma would do. I think it’s supposed to make the narration look deliberate and dramatic, but instead it comes off as stilted and weird to read.

“Attend me,” snapped Alexander Vargoss to his Dark Angels. “He must be stopped.”

Features grim but determined, the Prince stepped forward directly into the path of the Red Death. Vargoss’ body pulsated with raw energy.

A fifth-generation vampire, he was over 2,000 years old and controlled incredible powers.

Jesus Christ, he’s a step away from a methusalah! What the hell’s he doing merely being the Prince of St. Louis? Is he just that bad at the Game?

Many of the important vampires in Blood War are going to be both really old and low generation. As the summary on the back cover states:

“This series reveals many of the underpinnings of the World of Darkness and spotlights the dreaded elder vampires known as Methuselahs.”

This is one instance where having a younger or higher generation vampire in the role might make more in-universe sense.

Raising his hands high over his head, clenching his fingers into fists...

...Vargoss extended his mighty will. “Halt,” he commanded in a voice that never before had been denied. “HALT!”

I guess if the Prince were higher generation, it wouldn’t be as impressive when the Red Death no-sells his Dominate attempts.

The Red Dead laughed in defiance. It continued to advance.

Bet he’s laughing at Vargoss’s Ginyu Force pose more than at his futile resistance.

“Halt,” repeated Vargoss, his voice uncertain. The first traces of doubt showed on his face. The Red Death was very close. It was too late, much too late, for the Prince to turn and run

Sit down, LaCroix Vargoss.

McCann opens fire on the Red Death, but once again the Ingram’s useless. Red D. isn’t even slowed.

Slowly, with great deliberation, the Red Death reached out for the Prince. To the detective, always suspicious of being manipulated, the monster seemed to hesitate for an instant, almost as if waiting for an interruption.

Whatever the Red Death is playing at, the ~*~Dark Angels~*~ step in before things get too awkward.

Moving with inhuman speed, Flavia and Fawn grabbed the prince by the shoulders, spun him around, and sent him flying.

Holy balls, I love this! The twins saved their boss by fucking hurling him away from the fire monster. In my head, I’m imagining them chucking Vargoss “off-screen”, him screaming in his David Warner voice all the way, followed by some cartoon crashing noises and a cat screech.

With Vargoss safe and probably unconscious, the twins turn their attentions to the Red Death.

...they could not resist the challenge the monster presented. Assamite assassins, they thrived on death and destruction. Two sets of matched blades, the finest in the world, slashed in wide arcs.

Yeah, attack the Red Death with blades. That worked so well for Fast Eddie.

To the twins’ credit, their blades don’t melt like Eddie’s stiletto when they try to slice off Red D.’s hands. But they don’t hurt him either. They just pass through.

McCann cursed aloud, astonished. In his entire existence he had never before seen the like. The specter appeared composed entirely of frozen flame. Which meant that nothing physical could harm it. The Red Death was invulnerable to normal weapons.

Like a ghost-type Pokemon. You gotta use special attacks on him.

Tentatively, McCann reached out telepathically with his mind.

...

I’m sorry, he what!? The big bastard’s telepathic too now!?

He hated revealing any hint of his true essence. But there was no other choice. He had to know the truth. What type of being was the Red Death? For a bare instant, thoughts crossed, as minds touched. Then McCann recoiled in shock.

Unable to attack the Red Death in any meaningful way without getting himself killed, McCann instead decides to use his suddenly revealed psychic powers to read his mind and remove some of his mystery just a few pages after his introduction.

With his mind probe, McCann learns that the Red Death is definitely Kindred, not something from a different game like a wraith or, god forbid, an actual mage.

It used a discipline McCann had never before encountered–Body of Fire. Transforming into this form took the combined efforts of several vampires, which meant the Red Death did not work alone. McCann caught a fleeting memory of a group calling themselves The Children of Dreadful Night. Then the thought was gone, swallowed by the creature’s obsession with destruction. In its present state, the Red Death was more elemental fire than vampire. It hungered to destroy life. It existed to kill.

The Red Death immediately detected McCann’s mind probe, closed off its thoughts, and sent back

...a mental stream of hellfire that would have burned the detective’s brain to cinders if he had remained in contact.

Psychically incinerating a dude’s brain if he tries any psychic shit on you. That’s actually an awesome power, if situational.

Let’s talk about this bit with the mind probe. We've just been introduced to this villain, this unstoppable force who came out of nowhere, who even ancient and powerful vampires like Vargoss are helpless against, and what little we learned about him we got from his actions and what he volunteered to tell us about himself. At this point in the story, the effectiveness of such a monster is enhanced by nobody knowing who he is or where he came from, or even his exact motives.

Obviously, we’ll learn more about the Red Death as the story goes on, until all will be revealed. I have no problem with that, and there’re still things we don’t know about old Red D. But thanks to McCann’s previously unhinted at telepathy he immediately confirms he’s a vampire, the name of this disciple everyone’s helpless against, how it’s powered, and the name of the group the Red Death was working with. In trying to show off McCann and further hint at his mysterious nature, Weinberg unintentionally undermined his villain early on. That stuff McCann just learned via mind probe could have been spread out in later chapters, and preferably they’d be uncovered by, you know, actual detective work, maybe with some supernatural help, instead of some sudden asspull power.

By the way, I looked it up on the White Wolf wiki, and there’s no result for a Discipline called Body of Fire, so it seems it was made up for this story. There’s a discipline called Godbody of Fire, but it’s a Kuei-jin power, not Kindred. It works completely differently, and Kindred of the East wasn’t released until ‘98, so don’t expect any plot twists in that direction. Besides, I don’t think the Red Death is Asian.

There’s also a Protean power called Body of the Sun, which transforms a Kindred into “blazing indestructible fire.” Thing is, it’s a tenth-tier power, the highest one. If a character has reached the tenth tier of a power, than they’re probably an Antediluvian or at least a really old Methuselah. Usually the only other tenth tier power of a discipline is an Antediluvian-only power called, I shit you not, Plot Device, which can best be described as “The power can do whatever the hell the storyteller wants.” Obviously it’s for storytelling purposes and not an actual in-universe power. (All that said, most of that I'd typed up before reading the next two books in the trilogy. We'll learn exactly what Body of Fire is in the next book, and why it's unlikely your vampire OC will ever learn it.)

One other thing. McCann doesn’t recognize the Red Death. But the Red Death recognizes him.

Anyway, that little psychic exchange? It took place in only a few seconds, and the twins are preparing their second attack, this time aiming for the eyes. McCann cries “No!” but they ignore him.

When they attack, the Red Death lashes out with his arms in sweeping motions, either trying to grab or clothesline them like the WWE superstar he is. Flavia, the one who hasn’t done anything separately from her sister so far, ducks out of the way. Fawn, the one who killed the fleeing assassin and made fucky eyes at McCann back in Chapter 1, however...

...was not so fortunate. Crimson fingers raked across her face.

The Dark Angel screamed, the first time McCann ever heard her make a sound. Then, an instant later, she exploded in a fireball of white flame. Involuntarily, McCann’s eyes snapped shut.

He hears a gurgling noise behind him and turns around, bumping into someone hurrying away. He opens his eyes and sees that Benedict’s still seated at the table.

Except his head’s been cut off.

And the Red Death didn’t do it, either. While everyone was distracted by the invincible fire vampire, someone went and chopped the poor Tremere’s head off. He instantly starts rotting away, because when a vampire dies their bodies decay to the point they should have if they had died instead of being embraced. The longer they live, the less there is left of them afterwards.

The Red Death has suddenly vanished as well. Post-battle, we’ve got a thoroughly emasculated Ventrue Prince and are down a doorman, a bodyguard, a wizard, and a few nameless cannon fodder vampires and ghouls. The Red Death lost nothing.

Vargoss, presumably covered in a bit of dust and with a banana peel on his shoulder, begins bringing order among the panicked vampires with help from “his overwhelming force of majesty,” which I’m assuming is the high-level Presence power of the same name. With the Red Death gone, the force keeping the exit shut vanishes too (so that wasn’t Eddie’s fault, may he rest in- oh right, damned), but Vargoss won’t let anyone leave until they calm the hell down. He doesn’t want anyone breaking the Masquerade by running past all those goth kids while screaming about fire vampires.

Meanwhile, Flavia, the surviving twin, is having a bad time.

Alone, on her knees in the center of the room, Flavia cried tears of black blood. Dark Angel and Red Death. McCann felt certain their duel was far from over.

Unless someone with a more impressive title comes along to challenge him.

The photos of Baba Yaga are gone, along with anything else Benedict brought with him, his assassin having pocketed them. McCann finds a lone clue, dropped by the assassin when he bumped into them a few moments ago: a green sequin. The kind from the dress Rachel Young, the supposed ghoul singer, was wearing.

Hurriedly, he scanned the crowd. Though no one had been permitted to depart, there was no sign of Rachel Young. The singer had disappeared. McCann was not surprised.

And that’s Chapter 3 done. We won’t see the aftermath of the Red Death’s attack right away. Next chapter we’re taking a break from McCann to focus on a new character in Washington D.C., which has apparently gone to all hell.

I mean that in a World of Darkness way, not the real life bad timeline way.

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Bible Card Game Animo, infringing on Pokémon Trading Card Game, Disney, and Wizards Of The Coast potential property

Okay so let me start from the top

Over the past month, I have been getting advertisements in my news feed for a new card game called Animo: Living Deck Bible Verse. This card game is a Christian based card game that has Animal monster like characters displayed on cards, that kind of felt like Pokémon cards as some character designs mirror Pokémon character designs. After dealing with the months worth of annoying advertisement in my newsfeed, and behold this card game is on battle grounds for many major potential lawsuits from not only Pokémon and Disney but also from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. Also I am posting this, because I want to make sure that I am not the only one that sees big major flaws in Animos card game design and flaws. I have showed my daughter the cards online and other component's to the Animo game, she and other children have said that they look like Pokémon cards.

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The Pokémon side to this game

1. First off starting with the logo designs for both company's using same color scheme of Yellow and Blue. Both fonts are not the same fonts, but font layout kind of looks the same, as the letters overlap each other, in an almost same style manner.

2. The game mat is a direct copy of the Pokémon Trading Card games layout, but with Animo logo and a few other features.

3. The card set up like Monster cards also include evolution like cards , Energy look alike cards, and story cards that mimic trainer cards. Also some of the tokens used in the game mimic the Pokémon trading card games tokens.

Animos:

Pokemons:

4. A bit of the character design maybe over 20+ cards closely resemble a lot of Pokémon characters, when putting them side by side. People at the company do character design, but have children as well design cards. When you have children designing the cards, they will try to make them look like Pokémon, or the adult artists with no creative background will make look a like characters that mimic Pokémon. Not all that I have compared may look similar, but will have similar features.

Link to fully see https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/3817/Z3Kflh.jpg

5. One character design is Klench looking very close to Mewtwo.

6. Creators made a statement on there website stating that there children became obsessed with a certain card game and with out hinting that it is Pokémon. But lets be honest that it is Pokémon they are talking about, and I highly doubt they would be playing Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic The Gathering.

link if you cant read it https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5/gfYJYL.jpg

7. Creators of the Animo Card game really had no creativity when making there knock off version of the PTCG, and never thought how they may someday handle a few potential lawsuits from companies like Pokémon, Disney, WOTC, and Hasbro.

8. This company basically believes that all of the work they do is of there own creativity and doing, and that God Will protect there game, and punish those that are against it. Also I am not angry or sad according to the person with the cat they are using for a profile pic. I was just telling them in a post that I had deleted, that Animo is not original and has a lot of copyright issues. There is nothing wrong with pointing out another games flaws.

9. This company started a Kick Starter to help fund the Animo Project, the project raised over $15,572 and had 233 backers pledging to help bring this project to life. So I think that was there first fund for the game. Kickstarter has a link about how they can remove a Kickstarter projects, if they are in breach of copyright of using others intellect property.

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/copyright

I have sent a few e-mails regarding to the large amounts of plagiarism and copyright infringement to the Pokémon company, that Animo bible cards are basically copying off there set up. After doing research on other card game set up between Magic the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh and other trading card games layouts. None of the other card game layouts mimic the Pokémon's Trading Card games layout, or how the cards need to be set up in order to play the game. This Animo card game decided to mimic Pokémon's card gaming layout style instead of coming up with something originally there's.

My Email asking someone at Pokémon about starting a new card game, questions of my own with typos.

The Respond that I had gotten back from Pokémon, about making a game look like its card game

The Pokémon Company International legal team email

[email protected]

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Disney issues

1. This card game has a few card games in the game that mimic Star Wars looking like monster characters. The characters are dressed up in Star Wars like getup. Also the names of these characters are Obeywan, Tadawan, and I am sure the Obeywan name may not settle well with Disney.

2. The backgrounds of some of the cards display background photos from some of the Star Wars movies that are episodes 4-6 I believe. I would not know because I am not a star wars fan or have not seen the films. So basically there character drawings are placed in center on the front of snapshots of the star wars films who are now owned by Disney.

3. They are also selling merchandise with there Star Wars like characters on there website.

My final thought on the issue with Disney copyright infringement.

I know for a fact that Disney is very protective of its property and have gone after many people with lawsuits and C&D or Cease and Desist letters for infringing on its property. Disney does have options to license stuff they own, but I have no doubt that the Animo card creators did not even contact Disney to license its products for fair use of its products and property, because it is expensive to do so. I also don't think Disney would even grant this card game permission to use so images within the cards, because Animo is not owned by Disney and would not be protected by Disney for using its images. After reading up on many Disney lawsuits, I kind of seen what they may do or how they would approach a lawsuit. I did contact Disney about this card game infringing on there property when they should not be doing so, because of how harsh Disney is with people who steel there property.

Disney Lawsuits

One lawsuit happened back in 2008, when Disney had gone after a party company in Florida, who were advertising birthday party like deals, using fake look alike Tigger and Eeyore costumes. The couple had bought the fake costumes off of eBay from some seller out of Peru, down in South America. Disney had sent this couple a C&D letter from its legal team, and told them to send the knock off costumes to Disney for them to properly dispose of the costumes. The couple refused to do so, and sent the costume back to Peru for a complete refund of $500 dollars. After the couple failed to work with Disney, they were then sued by Disney for $1 million dollars for not complying with Disney's C&D notice.

The fake costumes

The costume lawsuit

https://www.disneyorama.com/2008/07/disney-sues-family-business/

Since Disney has obtained Lucasfilm's and the Star Wars franchise, Disney has been cracking down hard on people who infringe on the property they now own.

Lucas Films before Disney has also sued people for copyright and infringing when selling knockoff fake star wars merchandise.

Article about lawsuits Lucas Film and Disney had thrown at people or were involved

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/10/18/star-wars-lawsuits-who-has-lucasfilm-sued-and-why/

Disney's link to report copyright claims

[email protected]

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Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro's potential involvement

After find out more on copyright relating to game play that led me to looking of Wizards of the Coast information.

ghash4 A user from https://boardgamegeek.com/article/21300188#21300188 Posted this in which I will quote.

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I did some preliminary research with a patent attorney and posted here is a summery of his response. The outlook is grim. Anyone have any advice about how to avoid some of the pitfalls. If you have already published a card game with expansions and customizable decks I would love to grill you about these legal issues. Thanks for all your advice over the years BGG.[

"After extensive research regarding the Wizards of the

Coast (“Wizards”) patent and how other trading card games (“TCG’s”) are able to operate in the

marketplace, we have prepared the following."

"A TCG which employs any of these methods requires a license or risks infringing

Wizards’ patent."

"Further, slight modifications between the rules of Magic and your game could still infringe Wizards’ patent under a legal theory known as the Doctrine of Equivalents. The Doctrine of Equivalents expands a patent’s protection beyond the literal scope of the claims to also encompass “equivalent” inventions. In other words, Wizards’ patent may apply to other TCG’s that use a modified version of the rules for Magic, thus requiring a license from Wizards just the same."

"Research has found that companies are paying Wizards a licensing fee and those who fail to do

so have paid for it – probably at a premium – in legal fees. Nintendo appears to be one actor

who was forced to pay a hefty settlement to Wizard for violating its patent.

Wizards also appear to be an aggressive and effective enforcer of its patent rights. Initially,

Wizards’ and Nintendo had a licensing agreement regarding the Pokémon TCG. However, the

day after that license agreement expired, Wizard’s filed suit for patent infringement."

"Wizards’ litigiousness only seems to have expanded since being acquired by Hasbro. One article

in particular, The Game Player: Barry Nagler Makes His Mark Protecting Hasbro From Enemy

Infringers, describes Hasbro’s attorney, Barry Nagler, as an aggressive enforcer of his

company’s intellectual property portfolio. One instance detailed in this article deserves mention

for the purposes of this discussion:

In the process of enforcing Hasbro's IP rights, Nagler has angered some in the software

industry and online community who feel his company has been overly aggressive. Critics,

for instance, often point to a recent case in which Hasbro threatened to sue a mother who had obtained the domain name www.dinobot.org for her son. Apparently, Dinobot was

her son's net nickname. Unfortunately for the kid, it also was a Hasbro trademark.

Nagler understands the critics' concerns, but believes it isn't his job to be a nice guy.

"There are some circumstances where we are perceived to be overly aggressive, and we

are conscious of that," Nagler says. "But at the end of the day, I've got to do what is right

for my company."

"Konami holds their own TCG device and method patent (Patent # 6,398,651). Basically,

Konami was able to show that their TCG improved upon the Wizards patent because Konami’s

version is more easily understood by children in addition to other innovations related to playing a

TCG on digital media. In doing so, Konami received the exclusive right to market their Yu-Gi-Oh

TCG in a method considered to be simpler than that found in Magic. Nonetheless, Konami is

still probably paying Wizards a license fee because, often, improvement patents need a license

from the underlying invention or method to practice their improvement."

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It is very well possible since this card game seemed like it was poorly planned, that I don't think they have even contacted WOTC and talk about layout design or pay for a license for it or something.

Wizards Of The Coast Legal team for reporting

[email protected]

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Last and final thought on this new card games issues of theft and lack of creativity, that billion dollar corporations love.

The creators of the card game are not being careful when it comes to game design, and have no original ideas really. If Disney and Pokémon Do slap C&D letters telling them to get rid of its merchandise, Animo will then have to send all the boxed cards or products they still have or have not sold in order for Disney and the Pokémon Company to destroy, which is basically everything they have. What ever Animo had sold, the will have to pay both company's money for what was sold, and then the potential lawsuit for infringing and copyrighting on its ideas and property.

I know people hate others who report other company's of infringement and plagiarism. But as a graphic designer, I have learned in school about copyright issues and how it is wrong to copy from other people, and also my class had talked heavily on Disney in general, about how strict they are and how to avoid issues with Disney. After emailing Disney about the issue, I was given a respond in seconds with this to say or call it an Automatic response

"Thank you for your correspondence. We want you to know that we appreciate the time you took to bring this matter to our attention. We protect our intellectual property rights vigorously and we take reports of suspected infringements seriously. However, as you can appreciate, investigations are confidential. We neither reveal our sources nor generally correspond further with them about any investigation"

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My Very Very last thought on the whole issue

Shame on Animo for Steeling from other corporations for a game you claim is 100% original when it is not. This game company Claims they are people of God and Jesus, and live a wholesome religious lifestyle with there families and children. The major down fall of the people claiming they are good Christans, but Clearly not when they are breaking one of Gods 10 Commandments "Thou shall Not Steal". The thou shall not steal also applies to thou shall not plagiarize and infringe on ones copyrights, trademarts, and Patents.

As this continues, I will keep updates if the company does indeed have any potential lawsuits or anything like it in the future.

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wilderwestqueen - fanfic masterpost

Full Stories

A Pinch of Sugar and a Dash of Spite / tumblr / ao3 / fanfic.net [In Progress]

Hiccup Haddock's just trying to sell coffee and stumble through presentations about Shakespeare, but one persistent rude customer keeps ruining his day. Astrid Hofferson would be the top of her class if it weren't for one golden boy barista that needs to be taken down a notch.

Brave As A Noun / ao3 / fanfic.net [In Progress]

Hiccup's struggling. University is difficult, his father is on his back, and he hasn't admitted to anyone just how bad his anxiety is getting. He's slipping right off the edge, and if he's not careful, he's going to fall right off. [Friendship/Angst/No Shipping]

You’re Everything I Want (And Nothing I Can Keep) / tumblr / ao3 / fanfic.net [Complete]

"Prove it. Bring her along this weekend, and prove it to everyone." After a little white lie, Hiccup has to do something drastic to avoid embarrassing himself at a family reunion. Lost for any other ideas, Hiccup asks his best friend to pretend to be his girlfriend, just for a day. What could possibly go wrong?

If This Is A Rom-Com, Kill The Director / ao3 / fanfic.net [Complete]

Hiccup and Astrid are both popular actors. And they hate each other. As luck would have it, they're both cast in a film adaptation of a popular Shakespeare play, and have to face their bad feelings for each other head on. In true Shakespeare fashion, it's going to go wrong before it goes right.

Don’t Tell The Bride / ao3 / fanfic.net [Complete]

Hiccup and Astrid are two broke art school graduates whose only wish is to get married. When the television show 'Don't Tell The Bride' offers them the money to pay for the ceremony, Hiccup and Astrid jump at the chance. Only there's a catch. Hiccup has to plan the wedding alone, and Astrid's not allowed to know anything about it.

Oneshots

I’ve Got You Now / tumblr / ao3 / fanfic.net

Astrid and Hiccup have a nerf gun war.

How To Survive Christmas: A Guide By Hiccup Haddock / tumblr / ao3 / fanfic.net

The Christmas season is difficult enough with your father messing with your love life. When Astrid gets invited over for Christmas, Hiccup becomes obsessed with making it the best Christmas ever.

This Little Game / tumblr / ao3 / fanfic.net

Viggo's games are dangerous to play, and when it all comes crashing down for Hiccup and Astrid, they have to make the most difficult choice of their lives: only one of them can come out alive.

Poison In My Veins / tumblr / ao3 / fanfic.net

What if, in 'No Dragon Left Behind', the antidote to the Slitherwing poison takes much longer to work? What if Hiccup is forced, once again, to imagine a world without Astrid in it?

A Little Chance Encounter / tumblr / ao3 / fanfic.net

Astrid doesn't like being set up with people at the best of times, but damn, did it really have to be with the one night stand she'd run away from the night before?

Here Comes The General / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

If you’ve got beef with the tribe of Berk, remember the golden rule: Never, ever, mess with General Hofferson.

Sing Me A Song / tumblr / fanfic.net

Hiccup serenades Astrid. It does not go well.

Just Pretend I Didn’t Say That / tumblr / fanfic.net

While Astrid seems to be asleep, Hiccup lets something slip.

Worth The Risk / tumblr / fanfic.net

After the events of Shell Shocked, Hiccup and Astrid have a talk.

In the dim light of evening / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

After a hard day of responsibilities piling on top of one another, Hiccup breaks down in Astrid’s arms.

Kiss The Girl / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

It’s New Year’s Eve, and Hiccup has three resolutions: 1) to spend more time with his cat, 2) to remember to log out of his Facebook, and 3) Kiss Astrid Hofferson.

Moves And Countermoves / tumblr / fanfic.net

In a bid to save Astrid, Hiccup gives himself over to Viggo.

At Your Window / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

In the middle of the night, Hiccup shows up outside Astrid’s bedroom.

Heather’s Helping Hand / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

After getting tired of watching Hiccup and Astrid dance around each other, Heather decides to intervene and get these two to admit their feelings once and for all.

A Grim Fall / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

After being brainwashed by the Grimora, Toothless and Hiccup fall over the edge of the cliff. Toothless escapes from the ocean, safe. Hiccup doesn’t.

Not Gonna Leave You / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

In the midst of the worst storm the archipelago has ever seen, Astrid rescues an injured Hiccup.

Just Let Me Help You / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Hiccup patches Astrid up after she gets injured.

Just For Tonight / tumblr / fanfic.net

Her fingers hover over the delivery instruction box and then she giggles as she types in: Send the cutest delivery boy you have. OR Astrid’s lonely, and she needs something to go right tonight.

Fifteen Ways To Say I Love You / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Astrid Hofferson’s got the perfect boyfriend. He’s kind, considerate and rather attractive. She’s pretty sure she loves him, and that he loves her too. So why hasn’t he said it yet?

The taste of scotch rich on my tongue / fanfic.net

It’s late, and Astrid’s sad and drunk. One night, she tells herself. One night to be alone and sad. She certainly wasn’t banking on an equally as sad stranger to come make her feel better.

Winter Might Not Be So Bad After All / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Astrid’s not a winter person, so when she wakes alone on a snowy day, she can’t help but be in a bad mood. But with the arrival of her boyfriend, Hiccup, she finds a new appreciation for the winter season.

Without You / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

In the aftermath of Astrid nearly drowning, Hiccup has a realization: without Astrid, who is he anyway?

Make The Good Things Better / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

It’s New Year’s Eve, and Hiccup finds himself at a party, next to the girl he’s been pining after for years. If only he could summon up the courage to tell her how he feels…

I Won’t Let You Be Lonely / tumblr / fanfic.net

‘At some point, she’s going to have to admit out loud that she’s been stood up, and the last thing she wants is anyone’s pity.’ Astrid’s night would have been sad and lonely, if it weren’t for the green-eyed boy who saved the day.

Temporary / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Astrid and Hiccup meet on holiday and get on like a house on fire. The only problem is the time limit: when the summer ends, they can never see each other again.

No Tomorrow / fanfic.net

Hiccup’s in love with Astrid, that much anyone can see. But he’s afraid to tell her - and everyone keeps telling him that he might not always have a chance to do so. They are Vikings, after all. What if there was no tomorrow?

Screaming Colour / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Astrid sees the world in a monochrome cast, nothing but black and white until the day her soulmate comes along and lets her see in colour. Until then, she’s got her best friend Hiccup to describe all the different colours to her. But is that enough?

Rule Number Two / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3 /

High school is hard enough without having to fight monsters every day. In which Hiccup and Astrid are monster hunters, juggling school with protecting the students from unimaginable horrors. They have only two rules. Number 1) Keep the secret. Number 2) Don’t die.

Girl Talk / fanfic.net / ao3

A year after Hiccup destroyed the Red Death and united the village with the dragons, the Bog Burglars arrive for their annual visit. Astrid and Camicazi get a chance to talk about their mutual dragon training friend.

Tumblr drabbles/ficlets

‘When your otp is in an intense argument and their faces get closer together, but then they stop talking and look at the other’s lips’

‘the best part of height differences in OTPs: when the taller one lifts the smaller one’s chin so that they can kiss them.’

2018 Secret Odin fic: ‘I don’t want to lose you too’

Astrid really hates Hiccup’s beard

@margarethelstone told me to write a fic about chewing gum so i did

Ask Prompts

1. “Hiccstrid story strung to the tune of Sparks Fly by Taylor Swift? Like, a song line or two, and then a drabble (a SHORT one) based off of it?” (tumblr) (ao3) 2. “He had your eyes, Hiccup. Look at him.” (tumblr) (ao3) 3. “Hiccup can’t find his favorite shirt and trashes his room looking for it. He runs to the to the living room in a rage to ask Astrid, and there she is, reading a book in his shirt (and looking really good in it, too). He decides to let her keep it.” (tumblr) 4. “Hiccstrid beach.” (tumblr)

5. “Hiccstrid guitar ❤” (tumblr) 6. “Hiccstrid cold :D :D 😃” (tumblr)

7. “Micro-story: Saviour” (tumblr)

8. “Hiccstrid “Can we pretend I didn’t just say that?” (Probably Hiccup after saying that Astrid is beautiful or something)” (tumblr) (fanfic.net)

9. “Can I ask for a oneshot in which Hiccup tries (and fails) to serenade Astrid? Pretty please?” (tumblr) (fanfic.net)

10. For that new prompt list of yours, maybe a 28 or 45? Both sound good ;) (knocking on the wrong door AU) (tumblr)

30 Day Fic Challenge (failed spectacularly)

Day One: Island / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Day Two: Warm / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Day Three: Chief / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Day Four: Scheme / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

Day Five: Halloween / tumblr / fanfic.net / ao3

#phew #this took me an age #I hope it's useful to someone!#fanfic masterpost

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mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune · 3 years

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Theory About The Bermuda Triangle And Half Of Humanity’s Heritage ...and talk about Vampires and other stuff.

first I want to say that I feel better,

but I’m still peeved at the sources who dare to hurt some people.

well besides that, the other day, I was watching something Youtube,

about Vampires....and well it showed each video about some people

who showed Vampire Traits...

there was even these two boys, who look like they might of been I don’t know not that mature yet, but they were acting like vampires and they were being monsters, and there was these boys who were in a car picking on a guy outside, who was just walking, but things went too far...

and well the video had showed clips of people showing Vampire like Traits.

I get that can happen in some movies or video games or even in books,

but if those videos were real, and those people were real vampires.

there is better ways to feed, such as one, DON’T make someone a victim.

that might be fine in fictional movies or video games, but at least in half of the fictional entertainment, they have a vampire that becomes very well liked and shows a good side to vampires.

and let me be clear, no what I had seen on those videos about Vampires,

had nothing to do why I was not in a good mood on June 19, 2021.

it had to do with something else I found out about on Youtube.

but anyway I felt not happy and mad at what the two so called vampire boys were doing....and it did not help the cases of the other vampires in the video.

my pendulum could be joking about me having vampire heritage.

but still, if I had any the strength they had....

I would use it for good and try not to let it over take me if I was able to.

like I know I can get pretty mad too, but I don’t think it ever came out like how half of those guys were showing.

I don’t ever want to drink blood though.

I’m not sure if the whole garlic thing is true though,

plus I love garlic sauce, so I’m never gonna give that up.

if it is true that vampires are real in real life,

and some humans do have vampire heritage,

then it’s important to not let it get out of hand or over take you,

no matter if you get really thirsty, DO NOT ATTACK.

if there was a vampire and human that fell in love,

and the vampire had to feed, then they should ask the consent of their human life-partner.

if the whole biting might be too much for them,

it’s best to find different means, like how they get blood donators.

also I had learned something,

NEVER go without eating first, and then have your blood be checked.

I’m glad that me and my family found out there is a different way to check on what blood type you are,

and it might be a while before I can find out what type I am.

but with each blood that was taken from me, I started to feel...

not so great, if I had to describe it, it was like that time when it felt like I was gonna faint.

I think it was the same feeling too.

which was a sign I needed food.

I’m not sure if I have a fear of blood, and I’m sure if I had something to eat first,

then I wouldn’t of ended up feeling like that when my finger was being poked.

I’m sure it was just a coincidence that seem to happen again.

the last time it happen, my cat had scratch me and drew a bit of blood.

we did use that alcohol stuff on it, the scratch I mean...not my second cat.

but at some point I did start to feel not so great, and it was a feeling like I was gonna faint.

I think my Mom did imply that I might have a fear of blood.

but that can’t be it right...?

and my pendulum giving a Yes to that question, has got to be a prank.

I mean sure seeing blood might make anyone uncomfortable.

and might be okay seeing it in video games.

anyway I will get back to that maybe after I talk about this...

I have a theory about the Bermuda Triangle, and I wouldn’t be surprised if others came to this same theory.

that the Bermuda Triangle......has a space ship.

and it carried half of humanity’s ancestors on it.

the other half possibly still being originally from Earth.

I’m not 100% sure about the theory that popped into my head,

about how it was the ship that killed all the dinosaurs.

but let’s put that in the maybe box.

let’s say it is true, that when the ship did come to Earth a VERY very super long time ago, the crash was too much and it caused the dinosaurs to be killed.

but other than that, I still think there is some possibility that the Bermuda Triangle is home to a space ship that possibly carried half of humanity’s ancestors.

I mean even if there is some debate about how humans really came into being.

trying to argue about it being either through miracle or science type way.

but I have to say, both could be correct.

I mean humans weren’t truly the ones to have science first,

we can look at our own creation of being born as first souls and then being placed into new vessels as both miracle and science.

some people don’t believe in Magic either,

but magic can depend on how well you can master it

or how much power you have of the magic that is in your soul.

I love both Undertale and Deltarune,

and in theory, the Monsters in Undertale might be a bit wrong about how they view humans who can’t seem to do magic.

not everyone is gonna be able to do the same type of magic.

I can’t wait until Chapter 2 of Deltarune, I mean I can...

but you know what I mean right?

wait....when I was asking about the whole vampire heritage,

was it saying Yes to the type of vampires that are rumored to turn into bats,

or the whole succubus type vampires...?

aren’t succubus still a type of vampire in a way?

okay I had checked and got a no on my pendulum,

so it had nothing to do with the whole succubus thing.

but no matter if it is a prank or not

(and sometimes I do get prank from my pendulum.)

I still want to play it safe and always have that dream-catcher to protect me,

I do not wish to dream walk into someone else’s dreams.

and I’m always gonna have those angel shaped gems under my pillow

to protect me from incubus.

I wonder if a creep away bat would work on a incubus?

anyway, I still think it is possible that the place where funny stuff happen,

that is the bermuda triangle, might be home to a lost space ship.

and yeah I believe that aliens are real,

I don’t believe that earthlings are the only ones with life.

I mean why would we be the only creations?

it’s okay that not many believe this,

and some might be say “how can you believe that kind of thing,

when your a Ma-Acolyte & Neo-Christian.”

dude, that is stereotyping.

of course toxic-religious people who make others feel bad,

like that one person who kept misusing those words on me

and making me feel really bad.

just because I believe in a Goddess too, and that my gender identity is like Female/Nonbinary (my bio-sex is female.), don’t give them the right to do that, even after I said how bad it was making me feel.

I know that not all people who are religious will end up becoming like that person.

I mean I love Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel, and I don’t see anything wrong with it.

I also like the Grim Adventurers of Billy & Mandy, and Nightmare Before Christmas.

and even Bendy & The Ink Machine.

plus you can make scary fun video games and still be Christian or another religion.

also just because Donut from Red Vs Blue acts a bit feminine,

doesn’t make him less of a man.

only REAL men wear pink.....and use a pink straw.

yeah I saw something on Youtube about it, about the whole pink straw.....

but I didn’t click on it or even watch it yet.

but only a real man would drink out of a pink straw, just like how a real man would wear pink.

so how is it okay for only women to wear blue but not men...?

even Steven Universe wears Pink, and his Mom is like Pink Diamond.

plus it’s good for men to have a feminine side, and the whole feminine doesn’t always mean the bio-sex and binary.

it be just as bad as some guy decided, that he wouldn’t let his girlfriend have a blue straw, and instead gives her a pink straw instead.

and even if it does turn out the word “Femboy” can also be uses as a insult,

it can also be used in a positive way, like I’m hoping as a type of identity.

not all identities are gonna be the same, and I think it is possible my bigender identity could go from Gyno-Agender to Feminine-Nonbinary.

I would still like to go by she/her, but I think I will be fine with them/they too.

I think that this will 100% be the last post, at least until July.

I will post again on here around July.

still not happy with what I had found out before.

but at least I got some good news today.

I’m in love with the Arackniss series,

it’s by AxelGear, I have thoughts about hoping they also put those videos

on newgrounds (not for little kids).......ya know because of the whole you can only trust Youtube so much, with what some Toxic-Youtubers are doing, but I will talk about that problem another time...

for now I’m just gonna be happy with it being on Youtube.

right now I think I should wait before I re-watch or catch up to some I missed.

in one of the audio episodes, I wont say which one...

one of the characters did mention Jesus.

is it weird to not know how to think when either someone uses his name

in either a form of conversation like talking about his life,

or like when someone uses it in the other way, which is at times in form of vain.

what’s weird is that he is technically family, so it’s like anyone who says his name in well the whole vain thing, they are kind of doing that to family.

and I’m not talking about the whole soul or spiritual family thing,

I mean he is LITERALLY biologically family.

(well according to some info.)

because of the whole sharing the same ancestor King David.

I still think it is a blessing to be Solomon’s descendant,

cause it means I will never take that throne.

never want to sit on that....EVER.

yeah he is a descendant of King David too,

and it is obviously from his mother’s side.

sadly we can’t figure out how we are distant cousins.

and be we, I mean me and my family.

all we know is that he is a descendant of King David too.

so like if Jesus’s name is used in any type of from in some show or movie or video game, doesn’t it go from being insulting, to a mix of being kind of awkward.

anyway, I do love the Arackniss Audio series.

it is of course NOT for kids, and if parents knew any level of responsibility

then they will stop blaming the content and start blaming themselves and try to improve themselves as parents.

firstly, get your own child their own computer,

but use some kind of child lock that will keep your child from looking at stuff they are not the proper age for.

also if your sign in on Youtube,

go to the settings and turn on the restricted mode.

I did try to check on Youtube on the computer, but it seems I will need to be sign in for that.

when I’m signed on the Xbox, it seems that while not signed on to Youtube on the Xbox (even if I’m sign on Xbox.) it will let me open up the settings on the Youtube.

even if Youtube still have it’s good side, it is still a bit broken because of the Toxic-Youtubers....which I will explain bout that later.

if Arackniss got reincarnated as a female, I think Penny (Sir Pentious)

would still love him, or her if Arackniss ended up going by their new bio-sex’s pronouns.

the reason I say this,

is because of the possibility Penn might end up being bisexual.

but even if it says he May be bi, it isn’t shown on his bio just yet,

or the name of his crush.

also a very VERY weird thought pop into my head.

like if I had a crush on Husk, would that be something like cougarsexual.

(do not misinterpret that, just please....look up the meaning of cougar besides a animal being named that.)

I know that “cougar” normally has to do with a much older woman.

I guess if I do have any form of crush on Husk, Arackniss, Pentious, Alastor

and Angel.

those crushes would be like something like.....

if women are called the cougars, then what would the men be called...?

besides sexuality and asexuality, I hope we do end up seeing more of gender identities.

but yeah some time I should look it up, to see if there is a opposite to the whole cougar thing.

I’m pretty sure that Angel had zinged with Husk, even if it might be one sided right now.

and the craziest theory I have, is that he possibility that Adam and Eve,

came from the space ship that now makes up the bermuda triangle.

like what if Eden was a place that was not on Earth,

but still had some connection to each other.

and when Adam and Eve were kicked out, they were given a space ship and send to Earth.

okay maybe that theory might not be correct.

but it is still possible that there is some form of stories about the history of humankind that we only know half being true.

and even if it’s okay that not many agree about it,

I’m starting to believe there is that possibility that the bermuda triangle has a space ship that belong to some human looking beings who make up part of our heritage.

of course I believe that the whole angels and demons being real.

as well as there being a Divine Heavenly Mother, who rules over a version of Heaven that is a “Earth-Heaven” having trees and grass.

but not everyone has to agree about that.

some time I will talk more about the whole there being a space ship over the bermuda triangle theory.

I’m gonna just hurry up and post this,

#bermuda triangle theory #aliens are real #we are not alone

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3/9/17: LADY IN THE WATER...

I’ve been sitting on this review for a long time now, and it’s a little difficult for me to explain why. LADY IN THE WATER is one of the all time worst professionally produced films I’ve ever even heard of, from a director about whom ridicule has become a beloved international pastime. This should see me running-not-walking to fire off my latest round of self-important vitriol at this broad-side-of-a-barn target, and yet, here I am three months later with seemingly nothing to say. The truth is, as far as I’m able to articulate it, that this movie just makes me feel terrible.

To be a little fairer to myself, one of the major problems is that I have a very hard time retaining what even happens in M. Night Shyamalan’s lifeless, unmagical “bedtime story” (as per an especially self-satisfied tagline). In fact, I think I watched it three times and change just to see if there was something stimulating that I had just blinked and missed. I failed to find any such inspiration, but I’ll do my best to map it all out. Paul Giamatti plays the stammering super of a rural Pennsylvanian apartment complex that houses a “colorful cast of characters”, including:

- Out of work film critic Bob Balaban (WHY); - Just some lady Marybeth Hurt (it’s the PARENTS reunion you never wanted!); - A gang of irritating stoners who are so unlikely (Jared Harris?) that I couldn’t help assuming Shyamalan is so uncool that no one would ever consider offering him drugs; - A multigenerational household full of loud tacky Korean women, the direction of whom has a bit of a “one of my best friends is Korean, they’re just like this!” vibe to it; - Freddy Rodriguez with just one gigantically muscular arm for no discernible reason other than pissing me off; - …worst of all, worse than in my wildest dreams, M. Night himself as a frustrated but promising young writer about whom the less said the better, but I’m going to have to get to it eventually whether I like it or not.

There are also a bunch of other people too, but as you’ll see, NONE of these people matter all that much as individuals, contributing substantially to my LADY aphasia. Anyway, what happens is that one strange night, Paul Giamatti extracts from his pool sylphy Bryce Dallas Howard, who magically cures his stammer (that he only had for like 5 minutes before this happens)(and it was mainly in a scene where a big spider is scaring everyone so it didn’t really read as a speech impediment)(but WHATEVER). You find out quickly that Bryce is a water sprite, and she can’t return home because there’s an evil wolf made out of lawn waiting to kill her, but there’s like an ancient prophecy or something that that can save her if Paul can figure out how it applies to his life—specifically, he has to identify among his tenants “a Symbolist, Guardian, Guild, and Healer”. Let me be very clear about how this happens: There is no cursed treasure or forbidden scroll or heavenly vision or anything that imparts this information in a fantastical OR CINEMATIC way. All there is, is Bryce is magically prevented from speaking explicitly about this stuff, so the group devises an annoying yes/no guessing game to get information out of her, even though it turns out she doesn’t know very much about this shit to begin with. Therefore, the various mythical mantles are applied totally arbitrarily and unceremoniously to various randos in the building, and then when the secret ritual doesn’t work THAT way, they reshuffle the deck pretty arbitrarily again, and THEN the mystical giant eagle comes and makes a lot of embarrassing cat noises and helps Bryce go home. Also there’s something I never managed to focus on about how the mythical world of magical creatures is normally held in check by monkeys who were born so evil that they killed their own parents right out the womb. It’s not clear to me why such anarchically evil monsters would be interested in enforcing laws or preserving taboos, we’re just supposed to accept that they do, and like, for now something is wrong about them so the grass wolf is on the loose and everything. It’s so fucking stupid.

I hope that at this point, it’s pretty clear why this dreary vaguery of a film failed to capture my imagination. It still should have invited my sadism a little more readily. A bunch of pretty disgusting shit happens in between the meaningless plot points described above. The film insists on trying to kindle an icky paternalistic romance between Paul Giamatti and the often-nude nymphette that he frequently finds in his arms, awake or asleep. Of course, he needs a little depth to make this “work”, so Bryce Dallas Howard rudely reads his secret diary to him out loud, as if he doesn’t know what’s in it, to reveal to us that he used to be a brilliant doctor until his family was killed and then he got sad. The Korean caricatures are the ones who impart to us the nature of Bryce Dallas Howard’s character, through the pointlessly drawn out recitation of a completely nonsensical folk tale with all kinds of reeeeally toooootally Korean-sounding words in it like “narf” and “scrunt”. Meanwhile, Bob Balaban only exists for the director to take out his pent up rage against the army of film critics who have been nobly shitting all over his movies for the duration of his career, in an assortment of spirit-crushing comic relief scenes leading up to a dull and predictable death. As if this weren’t enough moral signaling, Shyamalan inserts himself into this tale in a fashion that will astonish even the most hardbitten cynic. I guess it’s time to talk about it.

I wish I had a way of recording here how long I sat at the keyboard trying to formulate this. The director has cast himself as a brilliant young man who, in the face of criticism and rejection and ignorance, is collecting in a tome called “The Cookbook” (?) his revolutionary ideas about changing the world. And, as Bryce Dallas Howard informs him, he WILL change the world. He is the central character in his own prophecy, in which he delivers unto humanity his life-altering wisdom, which are so profoundly rattling that he will be martyred for them. When I first saw this movie, and it first became clear what is happening with this character, my heart sank. Instead of the usual convulsion of derisive laughter, or the salient whetting of my predatory appetite, I just felt awful. Where before, I had joined the rest of the world in regarding Shyamalan as a modern, much less likable but no less hilarious Ed Wood, I suddenly felt that I was witnessing some real deal Emperor’s New Clothes shit. Narcissism and persecution complexes aren’t exactly a new invention, but usually, people live enough life to know that they shouldn’t go around saying EXACTLY what they think of themselves; on the rare occasion that someone does, their very behavior usually ensures that they don’t gain an audience wide enough for it to cause a real personal catastrophe. This was really grim. I couldn’t believe that this man was calling himself Jesus Christ with a typewriter, out loud, in front of me. Isn’t there anyone who cares about what happens to him, who would protect him from himself? Isn’t there anybody in his life who loves him enough to have been guiding him, all along really, not to build himself such a ferocious trap and walk right into it deliberately? What the fuck happened here? How is this real?

Basically, the whole movie is a real “who hurt you” moment, with chest-pounding declarations of relevance existing alongside a bizarre and persistent disconnect with reality. The story is bad, the effects are bad, the characters are ugly and insulting, and the world in which it takes place—the “real” human world, not even the “Blue World” of the narf and the scrunt—just doesn’t seem to make any sense. The setting itself, which looks much more like a Southern Californian or even Southeast Asian environment than the gritty Northeastern American location that it really actually is, doesn’t seem to gel. It’s hard to understand how any of these disparate people, who you see in a single eyeful during a huge party that’s the centerpiece of the film, have come to roost here. We not only mix feckless burnouts with (THREE) professional authors, but somehow there is also an entire spandex-clad glam band with amp stacks and everything that they keep god knows where. The aforementioned party brings a curious thing to light, too, that’s just a drop in the bucket of this awfulness, and yet it is emblematic of the film’s basic nature. The band is featured playing exactly one bar of a rockin’ version of “Maggie’s Farm”. At first I thought, “Well, that’s probably affordable”, but then I began to realize that Bob Dylan covers seem to flow insistently throughout the whole movie. The ending credits threaten to never end, as an infuriatingly slow version of “Times They Are A-Changin’” smolders but refuses to be extinguished, with such languor that it’s hard not to shout through the screen at the singer to SPIT IT THE FUCK OUT ALREADY, THEY ARE “A-CHANGING”, WE KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO SAY. There may be some connection to make between the film’s obsession with prophecies, and Dylan’s identity as something of a modern prophet himself, but the whole thing just gives one the sense of a mid-mid-life crisis dad who has suddenly rediscovered the Beatles, whose regular guests start to dread every visit’s inevitable, multiple, embarrassingly serious playthroughs of Sergeant Pepper’s . If you know what I’m saying. I’m not sure what I’m saying. All I can say really conclusively is that none of this makes any sense to me, and I’m a little surprised that this shockingly narcissistic movie isn’t more notorious, and I’m a lot surprised that this shockingly narcissistic director was allowed to make another movie after this. Which I suppose I’ll have to deal with as soon as it comes out in a more hatewatchable format than the theaters to which it was confoundingly distributed. See you then, if I ever manage to live through this.

Hey here’s a picture of an Olympic figure skater at the premier, that’s weird.

#m. night shyamalan #lady in the water #bryce dallas howard #paul giamatti #freddy rodriguez #blogtober

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