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quietlywatchingwritingreading · 2 years

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I’m trying to keep up with everything, with how long these posts are, so i’ve written down some thoughts/feelings as I read though the email. Because of the length of this post, i’m putting this under a readmore.

Dr. Seward’s entry part 1

I’m not sure how to word this, but I do dislike how Dr. Seward didn’t think it fit to introduce Reinfield to the others until he suggested it. Its very dehumanizing, that he doesn’t’ quite consider him a person. Or at least worthy of the same respect as a person. Time era and all that, but its still something that happens today. So its disgusting, but it feels important that this be written that way. A reminder of what people go though.

-I do feel that Dr. Seward is right though to hold off on release. Reinfield is acting like how Dr. Seward considers sane people to act, in order to appeal to being released. However, we’ve already seen him repeatedly escape, and behave in ways that are outright dangerous to others around him. Early on with the fly-spider-bird-Theoretical Kitten chain, and later on with attacking the people who where transporting materials, and Dr. Seward himself.

-The fact is he’s also been changing his personality/mood a lot. Going from loving certain things to having no interest in them a short time later. Presumably Dracula is also involved in some manner, but that IS something I feel Dr. Seward is correct in being concerned about.

-I also think its interesting to note that Dr. Seward felt it surprising after the fact, for Van Helsing to talk to Reinfiled as a equal. Again, dehumanizing, but I still feel that this is important to know. Dr. Seward really doesn’t consider people in his asylem to be equal to himself or other sane people. Which is despicable.

-I find it interesting that He says he’s not free to speak. It’s quite possible that Renfield legitimately wants to help in the fight against Dracula, but cannot. All he can really do is ask for trust/mercy, but at the same time he’s proven himself untrustworthy and dangerous by his past actions.

-The fact that Reinfield wants out so badly, that he’s willing to leave in heavy restraints and with guards, does make me think theres definitely something going on that he legitimately cannot express, despite his great desires to do so. That being so close to Dracula’s home, or at least one of the places he rests in?

This was a painful chapter to read. I feel bad for Renfield, though I fully understand why Dr. Seward couldn’t exactly release him immediately.

John’s Journal:

-I do find it interesting to note how these people are still trying to do right. At least, they think/consider themselves doing right to Renfield, which is incredibly important I think. They might /are actively making mistakes which makes this a interesting read, but ultimately they aren’t acting out of ‘lets just be mean to this person intentionally”.

-oof. More dehumanization (Comparing/thinking reinfield as similar to the Rats and Wolves. Though I don’t think dracula ever controlled Rats. Bats, maybe)

-This scene of storming the castle is incredibly intense and I love it. I love every part of it! I love how he seams to be seeing Dracula-and perhaps there is some actual magic here that’s causing the effect.

-Okay Dracula is probably controlling the Rats.

-Authur: I know EXACTLY what to do. *Summons several tiny dogs*

(For any sort of context, Terriers are a type of dogs bred to hunt rats. Any Terrier dog likely was intended to help hunt those rats, be it a Border Terrier, a Scottish Terrier, or a West Highland White Terrier. The largest Terrier is the Airedale one that stands about 23 inches tall from foot to shoulder. The smallest, the Yorkshire terrier, is only about six or seven inches tall. Though this might be do to modern breeding standards /a practice of making dogs smaller hten they should be.)

-interesting that the dogs froze up at a certain wall, but once they passed the wall they could follow their instincts to Destroy the Rats.

-So i’m pretty sure they just stole some random people’s dogs But I guess all’s fair in the War against Dracula.

-JOHN WHY ARE YOU. Sigh. Clearly they are really bad at protecting Mina, and I feel Dracula is definitely at least going after her, since thats what dracula does. he knows Mina is cared for by these people who have made him their enemey.

Dr. Seward PArt 2:

—I do like how Van Helsing wants to learn more about Renfield.

Mina Harker’s journal:

-Poor mina. being kept out of the loop is horrible, but she can’t really complain. That she’s not able too. She just trusts Jonathan will tell her eventually, and I believe he would.

-Oh, mina feels so guilty. :(. poor Mina!

-Wow. Again this is a fantastic horror novel, and I feel so scared reading this. I feel so bad for Mina: and lucy must have felt similar.

John’s Journal Part 2:

-And so the quest for hunting documents begins! or continues!

-I just had a flashback to a certain commercial and I wonder if that commercial/company is related to the Carfax in this book.

-The doctors refusing to know about the quest for paperwork is interesting too-and that Jon thinks hiding from danger is a good thing. Its a very easy mindset to get into: a wrong one, but an easy one to get into.

Dr. Seward Part 3?

-Souls and Life are apparently DIFFERENT and this feels important. Seeing that Dracula is a threat against the soul.

-I kind of wonder if Renfield’s lonely. He does seam to know more then he lets on (considering he apparently knew Arthur’s father. and I imagine he must have freinds/people who care about him.)

-A little more mad science form Seward. He does sometimes do cruelty in order for ‘the better good’. But the better good isn’t really his to judge. And i’m not sure that its a bad thing he’s asking these questions/pushing him a bit. Is life connected to the soul, also feels like a interesting thematic question for the book.

-More dehumanizing, but this time also equating him to a child. It’s kind of disgusting, and while I know its impossible, I’d still like to hope he’d learn to be better.

-drinking seams to be a concerning word. Perhaps tied to what Dracula is doing or influencing.

-you know, I don’t think Renfield WANTS to help Dracula. He’s actively being controlled/influenced, but I think he legitimately wants to find some way to fight against him and what he’s doing, with how he’s iritated and afraid, and doesn’t know what to do since he has such little power anyway.

#Dracula daily #my bad opinions #This kinda got long #but the post itself was very long #Abelism #let me know if i need to tag for anything

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druid-for-hire · 4 years

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new hadestown au: BIKER ! EURYDICE, in which she’s a rogue lone-wolf biker dwelling in the urban jungle of a Neo Tokyo-type city called Hadestown, wracked with biker gangs, violence, poverty, corruption, and civil unrest, still recovering and rebuilding from an apocalyptic event many years ago. Heavy-handed with the AKIRA inspirations here, haha.

She fights for herself on the dangerous streets, an illegal racer with a consistent top-three placement and a reputation for ferocity that earns her the money she needs to scrape by. And then she meets Orpheus: a dopey bartender who has no place being in her business.

okay okay okay i’m gonna be jumping around a lot here. be warned. thanks @supercantaloupe, @regzillas, @birdmanlyss for your contributions! (sorry if i missed someone it’s been a while)

she's a lone wolf in a city infested with biker gangs and it's brutal

she's run over plenty of limbs in her day

then there's orpheus, this gentle, kind-hearted soul, an indie musician and shes like. fuck. now i gotta keep this bastard safe

puts a long pipe with a mess of bolts and metal on the end in his hands and tells him he'd better buckle up and learn to fight the road

this sort of thing is common among biker gangs to cause destruction and knock people off their bikes onto the road. other types include mallets, hammers, baseball bats, etc

shes small but knows a lot of self defense and is very good at handling herself on the road

besides teaching orpheus to steel himself and yes use that pipe on people, push them off and jam it in their wheels and let it break if it does, she's gotta teach him to hold on while she pulls all this crazy shit on her bike

she avoids taking him on the road because having to fight people gives him so much stress but he also stresses about her so it's all weird

the first time orpheus sees her run over someones arm hes like ""???????????????????!!!!!!!!"

"Don't worry it doesn't happen often" "WHAT IS 'OFTEN'"

she has a red songbird on her helmet and flowers on her jacket

and flowers painted on her bike too probably

or patterns like on the album cover

orpheus thinks it’s the prettiest shit he’s ever seen

so eurydice races, right? everyones like “who is this tiny little upstart” and then she takes off her helmet and shakes out her hair and everyone loses it

somethingsomething ig hades (who is something of a crime boss here, similar to Tombstone from the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, but not so unambiguously villainous in nature) becomes a contractor and he catches her in like, a bad contract that's hard to get out of without some kind of consequence

and now orpheus has to topple a capitalist again

anyway she like, meets orpheus in this little bar he works at

it's about lower middle class, so it's not too bad but it's still mostly populated by like, poorer people and bikers, etc.

they meet and it's cool and fun blah blah Come Home With Me shit

also this is a scene:

biker!eury: we gotta cross through downtown orpheus: what???? but there's a riot going on there! right now! eury: that's too bad, it's the fastest way! that's why you get this! (tosses him her pipe weapon) orpheus, barely catching it: sajskhsfdfs ???? eury: and i am gonna take this. (kicks open a trunk and takes out a rifle) orpheus: ???????!!!!???!?? WHERE DID YOU GET THAT AND DO WE REALLY NEED IT eury: Yes we do now come on orpheus: H-HOW did you get it eury: (loads gun) no worries orpheus: No i have many worries HOW DID YOU--

actually, on this emergency ride, orpheus proves surprisingly competent with her pole weapon—ruthless even, and eurydice wonders just where and how the hell he learned that

the conversation she has with him about that is the same one where he shows her his old, old scars

(besides ruthless—orph has apparently learned how to pose and intimidate. he does stuff like putting the tip of the pole-pipe to the asphalt as they’re riding, skipping on the road and creating sparks)

eurydice loves her bike more than certain relatives

certain complications lead to it being destroyed by hades as punishment for doing him wrong. and it destroys her. that is her most trusted sacred bike, that thing has been with her since she was a teenager

once she repurposes that devastation into white-hot anger orph has to physically restrain her from hunting hades down and breaking his kneecaps with a thick lead pipe

he's never seen her this absolutely devastated and furious

he goes to persephone for more work because he wants to buy eurydice a new bike

he keeps it a secret from her until he leads her out to a garage, hands over her eyes

(some of these bits are copypasted from my friend @regzillas)

orpheus takes his hands off and says Tada!!! it's just like the old one, there's no painted birds but she can do that. She just stands there in total silence mouth open, and orpheus goes 'so? do you like it?' before she bursts into tears. and at first orpheus is like :O!!!!! oh no!!! do you not like it? and eurydice through sobs just says 'nobody's ever done something like this for me’

it's... beautiful, it's touching, it's deep and it's love and she's so in love and she loves him so much, and she cries and holds him close and takes him in and she's so overwhelmed by her emotions, full of the care that orpheus so freely gives to her; and it's a breath of newness, fresh air in the cycle of dread and bitter anger that haunts the city (but she's still going to find hades and shoot him in the foot)

he just holds her and kisses her head

they spend the day painting it, the day after he buys the bike

hand-painted. and they both leave their handprints in paint on it, like carl and ellie do on their mailbox in the beginning of Up

a significant amount of time is spent thinking of a good name

theres lots of joking and eurydice playfully shoves orpheus and he falls over into paint

okay i wrote something like. Obnoxiously long for orpheus. i sort of have his backstory in this down, but i don’t have anything for eurydice unfortunately :( suggestions are welcome! but first: Hermes

biker!au hermes owns a chain of bars, several of which find their patronage among the ruffian youth, several of which are more refined and serve the middle class, and another several of which serve the upper crust hermes has a hand in every world and it serves him pretty well, and his chain is a bit of a channel of communication and its unspoken rule that whatever socioeconomic class or gang or organization you're a part of, hermes' chain is neutral territory no fighting allowed

eurydice walks in and hermes just gives her a Look and taps the 'no fighting' sign and she huffs

hes >:( if anyone does try to start shit. the honor system is strong enough that usually the other patrons will just throw them out, and if there are really problems, they'll hear from hermes personally

he maintains a very strict "no bitching in my fucking kitchen" atmosphere

and now, Orpheus

this really is kind of akira but without the government conspiracies; the city is a neon corrupt hellscape that’s still struggling to rebuild after an apocalyptic event that wiped it all through. the city is wracked with frustration and violence and anger, there are still urban ruins everywhere and the scars of rebuilding and struggle are plain in every corner of life; plain to see are the shells of ruined buildings, gigantic boats levelled from the sea and left in the middle of inland sectors.

orpheus was abandoned by his mother at an early age—kind and timid, he had to learn fast how to be suspicious and cautious in cruel ways. he couldn’t land himself a spot in any of the groups that other ragtag raging folks had eked out for themselves, still too hesitant or ungraceful or young for any of them. sure, he made friends, sitting and talking with lots of people, but never got to really team up—all he could do was just fight for himself in the blown out corners of the city. weapons made from whatever he had. a young child already spitting blood and teeth in hadestown’s vicious ground-floor landscape.

hermes is his mother’s close old friend, though the times they see each other are few and far between. when he saw him, hermes hardly recognized her son, wild-eyed and clawed and alone in one of the city’s more dangerous neighborhoods, with a pole full of screws slung over his back. how did she lose track of her kid for so long? he thinks. and takes him in.

hermes eventually realizes that his mother didn’t lose him. meanwhile, tiny orpheus, kind-hearted orpheus, despises hermes at first. he’s full of suspicion and desperately wants to lean into hermes’ kindness, but the streets have taught him to hold back. he spits curses at him, though the words slide right off hermes’ shoulders. it’s not genuine. just frustrated. and picked off of the delinquents that were his friends, just like most everything else about him.

(hermes knows he’s gotten his trust when orpheus starts getting soft, when he’s crying over littler things; it means he’s been deemed safe to be vulnerable around, and he damn near starts crying himself.)

orpheus owns a little vespa! it’s covered in stickers, some of them worn out and old, some places with just the adhesive and the fuzzy white paper from where he tried to pull them off. some of them aren’t even proper stickers and just shit he peeled off from places while he was wandering around and stuck onto the vespa

even in canon i see him as the kind of guy who like. you look at him and think jesus how is this guy still alive he’s so noodly and soft, but he’s unexpectedly sort of street smart

anyway i mentioned this before but didn’t elaborate. biker au orph, to eury's surprise, does have his collection of scars, since he had a bit of a rough go at life

also he’s just ungainly and runs into shit

you can see em on his sketch page. he has a bit more than what’s shown, but what’s visible is a little slash across the bridge of his nose onto his cheek, and two on his left forearm. he probably has a stab scar in his side from just getting fucking knifed. the ones on his left forearm are from when a drunk coming out of a bar charged him with a fork

eurydice also has scars. kind of hard not to with the kind of life she lives

ok thats it. For Now. i don’t know how persephone or the fates or the workers factor in, if at all. I barely know how Hades factors in, mostly what i’ve said so far and that he does what he does to support himself and persephone. ah well! just have this

as this is extremely based off of AKIRA, i verily recommend listening to the movie’s soundtrack. besides the fact that it slaps hard as hell, the opening song, Kaneda’s Theme, has the perfect vibes for the city and the tone of eurydice and orpheus riding at night through it

#hadestown #hadestown art #hadestown fanart #hadestown au #broadway #musicals #biker au #my art #this au first came into being because i wanted eurydice with fingerless gloves

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cryptocism · 5 years

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So since pretty much everyone agrees that Tim needs a name change, and I think most people dislike the first two RR costumes (I dislike the pretty much Robin one too, because it seems like he hasn’t accept losing Robin, when I feel a lot of his comics right after Bruce W died was about that?) which leads me to: What do you think Tim’s costume would look like if he got a good outfit, and what name?

o yeah i was not a fan of the cowl. and the n52 design is just… so busy and excessively accessorised (excessorised???) - i drew it a couple times for this project im workin on and the whole process was me squinting at reference panels and whispering softly but passionately “what the fuck” - and i agree on the rebirth RR design, it looks more derivative of dick and jasons retconned robin costumes than inspired by tims og 80s design (however. the unternet costume - its simple and appealing and clearly nightwing-inspired and i am a fan, also the giant scythe/halberd/mace thing was so ridiculous i loved it)

which is why i thank pat gleason for my life bc tims new outfit is such a good modernisation of his original robin design. so i mean to answer ur question i think tim has a p good design right now (although not for long i guess since they announced hed get a new look/codename soon) BUT if i were in charge of debuting a new design and name… hm……….

whatever his new name is, it’d preferably have something to do with wherever his personal storyline is headed, which i dont know, and for all my complaining abt how red robin is a shit name i dont actually have great alternatives lol. i did see somewhere the suggestion for the name “Cardinal” which i dont hate, so ill use that as a placeholder for now (although “Halcyon” is an interesting option)

tangentially, my personal preference for his robin graduation would be a miniseries featuring tim and damian both as robin, begrudgingly having to work together to fight some greater enemy and becoming true brothers along the way. ending with tim giving damian his blessing to be robin (a post-mantle blessing but still) with the first amicable passing on of the robin title literally ever

as for Look: his new design should a) accurately reflect his character b) mesh well with whatever tone his personal storyline is going for c) be a natural progression of gleasons newest iteration while still d) able to stand as its own iconic look

i always thought tim would do really well in a more grounded noir-style detective story, both using and especially subverting the tropes of the genre (for instance tim befriends every femme fatale and romances absolutely zero of them. theyre pals and have weekly movie nights or smthn) obvs using some of the mystery elements to springboard into classic comic wild times etc etc. theres also a great opportunity to include some more cyberpunk aesthetics to the look and feel ofthe story

i.e. tim is part of the waynetech r&d teams, working with them to develop new technologies, and proceeding to test out some of the prototypes while doing vigilante work (bc terry had to get his rocket boots from somewhere ok). gotham is still gotham, but its starting to see some of that neo-futuristic/blade runner flavour from batman beyond.

so. cyberpunk detective story starring cha boy tim drake. im not gonna draw it rn but lemme just gather some ref elements here in case i ever do

first off - motorcycle, obviously. redbird is back babey and this time its a two-wheeler. all his gear would be modded the hell out of, but the motorcycle itself would be an approximate balance of 70% ducati and 30% tron lightcycle situation. a speedy bike with ample room for the edgy overkill batfam aesthetic, with maybe a little akira in there who knows

same goes for helmet; 70/30 on this modern/cyberpunk situation. heres a quickly photoshopped “cardinal” helmet lol

although theres totally room for some daft-punk leds in there. serving as a heads up display AND a fun neon aesthetic. I really want to play into that John Wick neo-noir situation.

besides that… ive got a preference for street style over the superhero spandex, so… detective jacket. every detective has a good jacket. norm breyfogle made a comment on his early tim robin designs that itd be pretty either/or on jacket vs cape, merging the two looked a little silly. for robin they probably decided on cape to keep things classic, but for cardinal i can do what i want

and i want to bring back some of this popped collar.

which i basically did for that other tim design i drew, which i still like, so this one would probably be at least a lil borrowed from that.

attempting to merge cape/jacket might end up smthn like these:

which admittedly i like.

admittedly… i do also like the concept of wings introduced in tims n52 design, i just think they couldve been hidden/incorporated better

greig rapson had a sweet robin design that had a sort of flight-suit (which dove into the actual mechanics??? i love) and since id want to dive into tim testing out waynetech prototypes, its a pretty good natural progression from him to terrys glider thing

the whole ensemble would be fairly understated however - enough to semi blend in with any crowd, hero or civilian. after all the story focus would be just as much about solving the mystery as it is punching the bad guy

the various interchangeable gadgets would be both prototypes of terrys eventual batsuit, and also all the failed prototypes that never managed to get off the ground. just to add an element of tension/plot devices wherein tims gear could break or malfunction pretty much anytime.

im fixated on this rocket boot situation though so itd be a paired down version of terrys eventual seamless/invisible design. still noticable and clunky, but working with the sleek modernish style outlined by gleason

smthn almost similar to the prowler actually from spiderverse - as in: Clearly Rocketboots, and clearly diy’d the shit out of, but still working with that Aesthetic

(most of the screencaps of prowler are dark af so im taking this from jesus alonso iglesias concept art)

im debating on the addition of more overtly birdlike/cyberpunk elements, so ill add this here cause its dope as fuck (from ahmet atil akar).

and a lot of batclan capes tend to end with that concave spiked look, which works great for bats but not really for birds. a tailcoat might emulate the bird tail, but it also might evoke Penguin a lil too much idk.

also in the interest of keeping everything within the same sort of design language, i would Love to see some new villains emulating deconstructionist/architectural kawakubo fashion:

like could you imagine the supervillain potential

so uhhh yeah. budding cyberpunk detective story with a little noir and a little technological advancement progressing in fits and starts. taking from the gleason foundation with heavy black featuring brighter coloured accents and modern sleekness, made a little dorky via prototype technology, with some extra neon blade runner shit thrown in there.

depending on how much i love or hate the new codename/design reveal i might draw this via inspired motivation or spiteful motivation lol

#asks #tim drake #tim redesign ref #tim scarlet redesign

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tgai-spock · 3 years

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anyway here chapter 1 new trek fic with spock erm. they.

no title

untitled

will find it oh shit its 1 now

The talk of the ship was a book, created by Anna Natasha detailing the events of people in life threatening situations, some of whom were ex-starfleet. It was the newest hit culture sensation. The beginning to the book was filled with the species involved, human, orion just common facts about their species, how long they could go without food, how long they could go without water, It was unneccesery as every moment a person spent in peril the narrator tended to remind you, but it was introsting. The book wasn’t about comparing, it was about pushing the boundaries of surivial, hope in the face of certain death, so it was no surprise the Captain Kirk had managed to devour it.

“I’m just saying” Kirk said with a shrug “I’m forcing the whole crew to read the entire thing.”

Spock, who had stopped and blinked up back to Kirk “I don’t think-“

“It’s logical” Kirk counters.

Spock raises an eyebrow “how?”

“It’s full of surivial tips, in different situations with real people.”

“Hold - hold on. Some of the things people do actively put themselves in a worse situation, take Akala and David, they’d have a few extra toes each if they hadn’t caused that avalanche.”

“True” Kirk nodded “but, we can learn from their mistakes, don’t start a fire beanth a mountain made curly of snow.”

“Jim boy, if there’s some silly folks thinking lighting a fire while inside the mountain thats more snow than stone I don’t think there’s any hope for them.”

“Yet David and and Akala still survived” Spock said.

“Hey, you would agree with me. That said you’ve be awful to have any, the amount of wrong survival decisions you make.”

Spock frowned “I am still alive, therefore I have made all the right survival decisions.”

“Jim, what do you think you should do when your stabbed through?”

“Die? No see a doctor.”

“Great, so you can confirm, you do not run around, and then try to fight people?”

“Objection, I did see you a doctor first, unfortunately it was you-”

“Hey!” McCoy yelled.

“Gentlemen, please” Kirk rolled his eyes “I’ve already made up my mind, it’s mandatory reading.”

“I doubt it will make much difference” McCoy said into his lunch “I think the whole crews already gone through it, I’ve seen Chapel read through it twice. She think Adam Smith cute. Ugh.”

“Was that the Adam in the desert or the one working in the natural disaster relief?”

“The one that got himself lost in the desert.”

“She has bad taste”

“Yeah I’d say” McCoy said grinning, knowing her not so secret crush.

“I bet I could fill an entire book with my near death experiences” Kirk says placing the book down and finished off his stake.

“That’s all my logs are. You drag me down to a damn planet I don’t need to be on, an I almost die.”

“You hardy ever die.” Spock mumbles.

“Thank you Spock, oddly enough the ideal amount of times to die, is once, and it should be perment. But oddly enough I do count people shooting weapons at me as a near death experience.”

Spock frowned “even if they don’t hit you?”

“Why are you acting like thats weird? Yes even if the loaded gun misses my head by 2mm and I am unscathed, that is still a near death experience.”

“Then I could defiantly fill up a book of near death experiences that I didn’t even get whilst on duty” Kirk said.

“Likewise.”

“You should both be dead. I am the only one keeping this ship alive.”

“Fun fact I really should be dead” Spock said.

“I’m signing you up to therapy-”

“A slightly older version of me went back in time, and save me from dying when I was a child.”

“He’s lost his marbles.”

“Really?” Kirk frowned.

Spock looked up to Kirk and frowned “yes.”

“Right. Of course. You’d think time travel would be a bit harder to come by, when I was a kid I never even imagined time travel to exist.”

“That would save us both a lot of trouble.”

“I sure hope your referring to a certain planet, and not your own existence.”

“I was referring to how your up bring and birth would have been completely different but your not wrong.”

“Oh I guess so, any time travel in you childhood Bones?” Kirk asks.

“No Jim. I’m a normal person. Just a country doctor.” He says smugly.

“I’m a normal person. I think, and Spock a normal-”

“The only vulcan humans hybrid.”

“That doesn’t make you unnormal.”

“Mathmaticlly it does.”

“Well I’m not speaking math, your a normal person to me.”

“I have no concept of the words you are saying, but, thank you?”

“That’s it! The only un-normal person I’ve ever known was this boy in my high school, he used to cut open animals and try to frankenstein them back into life.”

A psychopath…or a scientist? Spock psychopath or scientist?”

“You eat dead animals all the time” Spock said “how are you not a psychopath.”

“I’m not just saying that, if theres a lot of animal deaths going on there it’s an early sign that they could later try killing a human.”

“Intresting… then I would suggest an immoral scientist.”

“So evil.”

* * *

He turned the tablet over in his hands, and he turned it again so the email would look at him. He turned it around again, a slow spin, his mind making the same turns. In the end it was a two way choice to accept or reject. To accept would give people a glimpse of himself, it would help home vulcans, and it could mean that his own crew would treat him differently. Worse. Or that look of pity, something that should only be given to a puppy needing a home, a look that should only be given by those stepping up to home the puppy. Not a look to a person about an experience so long ago that it was now apart of their being. To reject would hold off valuable resources to vulcan. Not hold away as such, but he could bring extra to those who need it, for those to rebuild their culture before the older vulcans with knowledge die before the planned regains its true self suficentcy. New vulcan currently had an unbalance, doctors to builders, to skilled to unskilled. Skilled workers needed to be brought in from outside sources and that did cost money. His tablet buzzes, another email from Kirk. He wants to talk.

Spock enters Kirks room at the same time as McCoy. McCoy got that air about him, like a hen puffing up to protect her eggs.

“Whats going on Jim?” McCoy asks.

“You would never believe the email I just got” Kirk said with a smile, and McCoy unpuff a bit sensing his mood.

“What is it?” McCoy asked.

“Anna Natasha has just informed me that she has permission to seek any life and death stories from starlet personal, as long as they haven’t happened while on duty, or involve starfleet.”

“Oh well you said just this morning you could fill an entire book. Are you thinking about accepting.”

“I don’t know” Kirk shrugged “should I? They offered me a lot of money, and whilst there are some situations I don’t want to repeat… I think I have a couple of situations I wouldn’t mind sharing.”

“Well, whatever you do, just don’t accept for the money.”

“I have the same email.”

“Oh?” Kirk says surprised.

“And I was thinking about accepting just for… the donation to new vulcan.”

“Oh. Donating. To new vulcan - hey I could do that? I could get my self a few treats, and then donate the rest.” Kirk said thoughtfully.

“Don’t let me influence how you spend your money” Spock said.

“No, I’d want to, I could split some cash between charities. Do you think my crew would disrespect if I told everyone, about this time I spat in a mans face.”

“Did you do it while also pushing a plane wreck survivor over the edge a cliff?” McCoy asked.

“No, I did not pull a Bella Saurus.” Kirk said.

“Then I think it might be okay. You could always retell me about the situation first, and then I could give you my initial reaction. You too Spock. In fact clear it with both of us first.”

“Is that an order?”

“I’m just saying, you ain’t got emotions, for all I know you could have cut up a corpse to keep yourself warm, and that ain’t going to go over smoothly with there rest of the crew.”

“Firstly thats disgusting, and secondly that sounds logical.”

“Jim, Jim help me.”

“It is not an order Spock, do whatever you like. However if you would like an ear to bat one of your experiences off first to see if that will effect how you interact with your crew, both me and McCoy offer a friendly ear.”

“Thank you.”

“Thats what I just set.”

“No… you said somethings about cutting up copses and living in them. Would that work?”

“It does, many people have survived a cold winter by climbing into the corpse of a dead animal.”

“Humans are weird.”

“Okay.

* * *

Four days after he received his email Spock realised that he not care what his crew thought of him, he had had foul rumour spread across the ship many times before he’d become commander and some after. Half of the rumours were true. But it had never stopped him, whether someone thought he was mean or cruel. If someone decided he was stupid, or a narcissist or selfish psychopath. It didn’t matter. Wether his crew viewed him as evil or good he could still common them, put them in the brig for disobedience, but few disobeyed him know he’d follow through fully on any threats. The only thing that held him back was James.T.Kirk and Leonard McCoy, and a few of the other commanding officers he respected and admired. He did care what they thought of him, and it worried him to think that they might learn of one experience and think of him as evil, though he couldn’t even bring to mind the slightest of experiences that could label him as evil, as least not one he had taken off duty. On the seventh day after receiving the email, he decided he wanted to tell them anyway.

It was an odd experience, he was not what could be described as a talker, and he liked to represent himself as the person he was in the moment. Not to be judged by the past but only by the present an ever turning of events. Not to be judged by the future nor the past, not to allow someone to think that all these past things were an explanation for his present being when in between all of that were countless books, people, and not so threatening experiences, mundane everyday activities which just as much effected his present if not ever more so. He did know Jim had been on taurus, he had told him a long time ago through passing conversation. He didn’t talk about it a lot, just mentioned it. Spock didn’t judge him for it and couldn’t, but that didn’t mean other people didn’t. Yet Spock did not have a taurus. So he wasn’t really sure what he was so worried about, most of the situations he was in, was in part due to his clumsiness. After duty the three gathered to talk for an evening.

* * *

McCoy opened up his medical chest on the coffee table between them. They were in Jims quarters one of the few rooms that allowed a personal place to sit, and these sofas were rarely used.

“Just to be clear” Jim said “I don’t need a hypo.” McCoy grinned and opened the chest to reveal a bottle of brandy.

“Is there any occasion that will not result in you drinking?” Spock asked somewhat unsurprised.

“Brain surgery. Well, I mean I’ll have a shot to keep my nerves down, medicinal helps me work.”

“You’ve done brain surgery on me” Spock said appalled.

“One shot just wasn’t going to help me I did, five.”

“Jim” Spock said seriously.

“He’s joking Spock” Jim said scratching his head, as he took a glass from McCoy.

“I’m not” McCoy mouthed at Spock.

“Bones don’t.”

“Wait Spock, what would you rather, I do brain surgery on you after one shot, or an unknown sober vulcan does brain surgery on you.”

“Neither let me die in peace.”

“Thats it buddy, one more word that some how equates to you not being alive, and I’m putting you back on suicide alert.”

“You had him on suicide alert?” Jim asked appalled “are okay.”

“I am perfectly fine, and not suicidal” Spock says seriosuly.

“I literally don’t know whats going through his head, I have him on it almost every other week. Although it is procedure to put people on suicide alert after they’re toruted or have a near death experience for at least four weeks. And Spock rarely goes without either.”

“They’re should be a maximum amount of near death experiences that can get you put on suidide, and then after twenty five or so, they just shouldn’t apply.” Spock said.

“See that sounds logical to him” McCoy shrugged “when humans get beat up that much they usually get so tired being in pain so often that sometimes, the kill themselves.”

“I haven’t.”

“The procedures are for normal people. Anyway” McCoy swirls the drink in his glass as he points from Spock to Jim “who’s starting? Lets get these death tales underway, I might even throw one in myself. But only one, unlike some people I’m not dying every other day.”

“Fair enough” Jim nodded “Spock, you’ve heard some of mine before now, would you mind starting.”

“That seems fair, although I have decided to go for my youngest experiences as I feel people won’t be able to hold that strong opinion on something a child has done.”

“You? A child? I doubt.”

“Thats true I was just a very short man.” Spock agree and McCoy snorted into his drink.

“Okay I’m sorry. Okay. I am turning into nice McCoy, go on with your story.”

“Well you’ve not nearly drunk enough to turn into nice McCoy but very well.”

The gaps between us

I was nine years old at the time, it was Van’Dra at the time on vulcan. Vulcan has six seasons, Van’Dra is the hottest of them, it is the only season where the desert doesn’t cool at night and the cheikkka bugs can be spotted with their glowing neon wings gathering in groups before coming to their yearly demise. Vulcans schools don’t have a summer holiday as such, but as it is the time of most wildlife, and the occasional festival, this season is used to practice survival skills, or for independent learning and volunteer work, which the majority of all school age children work for to support their own communities and gain outside knowledge of how the world works.

That year I had not applied to work the in any volunteer work as it was pointless, despite my fathers stubborn insistence that I do so. Instead I had decided to spend my time studying, and visiting ‘Vulcans Forge’ by myself.

“Wait is that not obviously dangerous?” McCoy asked.

“Yes, but not for me I spent a lot of my time there.” Spock said.

“Why? Just in the outback.” McCoy said.

“I like nature and I like looking at bugs, thats why I’m a scientist.”

“Okay… I guess. no wait loads of fully grown vulcans used to die there. I remember-”

“McCoy are you trying to talk me out of going to a place that no longer exists.”

“Let him talk” Jim moaned who was very much enjoying listening to the info dump on vulcan.

“Well, I’m just saying, that just sounds like a bad idea. Sounds like a Adam in the desert move.”

“I spent more time in the desert than my own home. What I am talking about is probably the worst thing, with a single exception, to happen to me in the desert, and I spent 8 more years visiting the forge without incident.”

“Okay well that-”

“I’ve not even begun-”

“Sorry! Sorry carry on Mr Spock. Stop telling me about the seasons.”

“It’s important.”

“You almost die of thirst? You get heat stroke?”

“Have another drink Doctor.” Spock said and he continued.

My brother-

“BROTHER?!” Both McCoy and Kirk yelled.

“Oh you didn’t know?” Spock said slyly “maybe I’ll tell you about him if you be quiet.”

“A brother? I have so many questions.” Jim said

“Can I answer all of them?” Spock asked

“Sorry carry on.”

My brother, the son of Sarek, and a vulcan princess, had come out of a distant small mountain community- McCoy if you say one more word I will kill you. He had recently moved into our family home as his mother had died. His entire existence had been kept a secret and was a surprise to everyone. No. No McCoy save your questions for later.

Sybok was a truly unique vulcan and one of whom I rarely met. His mother had believed in emotion- if I have to remind you one more time I will end you without mercy. So he was taking time to adjust to the house. My Father always urged the strictest emotional control, more so than any normal vulcan would ask, my mother would go against his wishes anytime he was gone more than a day from the house. Yet she was rarely so emotional with me, she might watch a film with me but or introduce me to a new earth book, but with Sybok she encouraged him to be happy. Since Sybok had missed out on important training in controlling himself at a young age and saw his emotion to the one thing tying him to his mother he found this entire concept very difficult and disturbing.

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Happy Valentine's Day Ant! I hope you're having a good day! Anything that Jerome and Johnny would do to celebrate? (Asking stuff is fun im sorry. :])

AHHH THANK YOU! Same to you i hope you have a great time and get lots of candy<<33 its what jerome would want

And no worries its just as fun answering them

• Jerome and Jonathan celebrate it neither really sure what to do at first since neither really celebrated this day before. Jonathan did till his mom passed.

• The first time jerome figured hed just go big. His plan included isolating a part of gothams richest elite stuck in diamond square, and jonathan would be able to release his gas and have fun. Jonathan was so blown away he actually felt bad he all he manged to get was a huge box of candies, and a big bear dressed like the bat. Jerome drowned jonathan in kisses for like three minutes and they spent the rest of that terrorizing their victims, kisses, and eating candies. Jerome has the bear sitting on the corner of his bed.

• Another time Jervis suggested to Jerome he take Jonathan out just like normal ... as they can be maybe to a dinner. Simple. It ended up with them nearly burning down one of Oswalds newly purchased fronts to be fair the other guests and waiter were asking for it.

• Oswald usually throws holiday themed parties brings more money in and valentines is no different. The iceberg lounge is dressed in purples and pinks, ice heart sculptures and the finest drinks, and treats for the guests. Oswald makes his apperance till hes off to spend the day with ed. Thats when jerome and jonathan show up in their finest suits they blend pretty easily. Starts out calm till jerome is carving the heart out of someone who tried to flirt with Jonathan. Mayham ensues and they get banned .. again.

• One more is the time jerome got in his full joker getup but more valentines themed. Hearts on the corners of his eyes pink hair purple and pink suit with black hearts floating up from the bottom. He brings jonathan to a theme park usually its closed this time but anything for his johnny. He had his goons clean and get it running, so they were they only ones there. Not counting the few people they had has part of games. Jonathan really didnt care for this place before but he ends up having alot of fun jerome even puts on little shows showing off his circus skills and knack for winning the booths. The night ends at the top of the ferries wheel were surprise theres a firework show with the brightest oranges and yellows and greens some even turn into little crows. Jonathan has a small surprise himself at some point he had a goon go out and get a tub of chunk monkey ice cream for jerome so they get a treat with the show.

OOF some of these got a little long sjdjd sorry i know it seema jerome does bigger nicer things but i just feel Jonathan is the type to make his gifts of affection more subtle. Jerome likes to put on a huge show, and really he doesnt care it means more that jonathan actually remembers stuff he tells him. No one has really done that before or even try to so of course hes gotta go out for jonathan.

#fjkmfkelfkd i hope some of these are at least sorta cuute but thanks for coming by and happy valentines again <3!#gotham #jerome valeska #jonathan crane #cranska #suffering-lesbian #your ask is my command

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what are your headcanons for andy and panchos relationships with the other characters in the kingdom? ❤❤❤ I love your blog!!

ohhh i love this question & tysm!! 🧡

it ended up being rlly long so here’s the cut ;)

Pancho

•Julien; Julien is like a brother or cousin to Pancho! He trusts the king more than anything after Julien basically saved .. well himself, but also him. any scheme Julien comes up with that he knows Maurice wouldnt approve of, he’ll go to pancho

•Maurice; maurice has a kind of wary vibe around Pancho ever since Pancho suggested eating him on the sub in exiled. he’s suspicious of him mainly because he wants to protect Julien tho, & he cant shake that Pancho is (or was) a sleeper agent programmed with the sole purpose of killing his best friend so

•Clover: Pancho is kinda cautious around clover since she’s always round the corner ready to bust him & Andy’s schemes. when it comes down to it they DO work together as they aknowledge each others skillsets. literally pancho is the only lemur (from the kingdom) who’s beaten Clover in combat. just once though.

•Mort; Pancho just......aknowlegdes his existance. he’s there i guess. doesn’t find mort as terrifying & creepy as the average citizen but Panch has probably seen worse. or he just doesn’t care. mort also does crimes so theyre just aware of each other.

•Becca & Abner; he’s kinda friends with them cus Andy’s friends with them. he goes round to deliver them stuff sometimes like moonshine or weapons from Andy. He probably shouldn’t pay too much attention to their government conspiracy theories though, they tend to really freak his paranoid ass out

•Timo; Timo is scared of Pancho or at least wary. He admittadly would like to study him tho & Panch is often a great help to him doing manual labour for any of Timo’s big projects

•Masikura; she mindmelded with him once & swore never again. she just doesn’t wanna know.

•Ted; Ted has a lil crush on Pancho (he’s one of Ted’s many crushes) & Panch will lightly flirt with him sometimes when he’s in the mood to. Pancho will bicker & grouch with him but they are really tight friends especially after their time together during exiled.

•Dorothy; at first she saw Pancho as this ideal bad boy type, but then realised how bad he smells cus he hates bathing. She’ll offer him tea like she does with everyone & (begrudingly often) lets him crash with her & Ted when they all stumble back drunk after a night out. Literally her & Ted both just have a mutual crush on Pancho is that not canon though

•Willie; despite being mean to Willie like EVERYONE ELSE IS Pancho and Willie are quite good friends. He’ll go stay with him whenever he’s worried about something cus he knows Willie will understand. sometime’s he’s too panicky for Pancho to be around though cus it sets him off

•Hector; I WANT THEM TO BOND OVER MILITARY HARDSHIPS & EXPERIENCE I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL & HEALING FOR THE BOTH OF THEM! I should write about this sometime..........

•Horst; the DJ friend who he can always have a crazy sesh with; they actually get along pretty good. except when Pancho’s out here stealing his bolos. Like with everyone, Horst just rambles to Pancho when he’s drunk.

•Tammy, Butterfish & Todd; no real connection to them besides that him & Butterfish will often do the same jobs. They usually just make casual work chat. Tammy thinks Pancho is posessed by demons but he doesn’t let that phase him.

•Karl: he’s not rlly a “kingdom citizen” but he’s about there enough so. anyway Pancho just doesn’t treat Karl like the evil genius villain he portrays at all, since Pancho’s own morality is in the grey area, which kinda infuriates Karl that Pancho just talks to him like hes a normal person. he wants Julien’s people to FEAR HIM!!

•Dr. S; Absolutely not. they don’t even really have a friendship of any kind & Pancho is terrified of going to see the doctor as Dr. S literally experiments on lemurs...he’s not about that after what happened with the previous king.......Andy often has to drag him to the hospital kicking & biting to get him to go to checkups

•Nurse Phantom; u know what they’ve never interacted in canon but I think Nurse Phantom senses how troubled & anxious he is & takes a lot of time to talk to Pancho like if ever Andy or anyone else manages to drag him to the hospital, Rob will hold his hand if it comes to it; he goes into major helpful mode like offering him fruit & telling him he’s gonna be alright. He’ll also scold him for getting into so many dangerous scrapes & tells him he’s gotta look after himself!

Andy

•Julien; for some reason Julien just refuses to exile him even after all the bad shit he’s done BUT i think that’s because Andy is overall helpful to him like he ignores all the weirdness for example when they walked in on him & that rat holding a body wrapped in leaves because hey! we need tropheys Andy fast! thats the issue here!! perhaps its Julien’s awful adhd memory though & he just genuinely forgets. Julien is close with Pancho of course so Andy’s been round to the plane for parties & dinner as Pancho’s +1 of sorts— heck even he can be “polite” when he has to be.

•Maurice; Momo hates him. hates him hates him theres no turning back. i mean its hard not to when most of the citizens suffer from rediculous lemur stupidity & ur the only one who can see through this bat when he’s just standing there chatting shit. Very suspicious of Andy— plus he just thinks he’s creepy

•clover; LMAO bUT .....like obviously she hates him for good reason. but i do have this hc that’s way too long to write out that after Julien, Maurice & Mort literally fucked off to go with the zoosters in madagascar 2 Clover was literally responsible for two kingdoms cus she couldnt just leave them with a gecko in charge. I just want some situation where theres a proper twist & Andy ends up mellowing the hell out & actually being useful to her & the kingdom...he has skills but he uses them for nefarious reasons. She’d probably save his life somehow in the post-Julien chaos & he’d b like....”why would YOU of all people save ME?” n she’d b like... “well you are technically a citizen of this kingdom and ....i’ve gotta make sure you’re ALL safe for when ..... if King Julien ever gets back.....”

•mort; ??? sometimes theyre legit business partners. Mort can get in on a good scam. that second rub’s gonna cost ya. theyve probably been in the same prison before at one point. Mort’s so old.

•Becca & Abner; his fellow anti-establishment pals!! he doesn’t fully believe all of their ideas & theories but he loves em cus they’ll always buy self defence scorps off him. They get along & they drink a lot together by the stagnant watering hole. they’ve seen Andy in horrible states; all 3 of them are an idiot squad when theyre together. Becca & Andy argue a lot cus even she thinks some of the things he says are wack sometimes

•Timo; i have this hc that Timo, Andy & Karl knew each other when they were kids they kinda bonded together during school cus they were three non-lemur losers who got bullied for their eccentricity & varying levels of intelligence. Timo will sometimes go to Andy for stuff but he is his last resort really

•Masikura; probably mindmelded with him once & just saw a vision of him daydreaming about being kissed by Pancho & since then she was like. “Im not scared of the bird demon he’s just a big softie. where is my shipment of “ect” for my tea, that bird demon’s late again—“

•Ted; Ted is such an easy mark he can sell almost anything to him if he’s cheery enough. Helps that Ted thinks he’s really cute so Andy can just easily sweet talk him into buying whatever dodgy product he’s got at the moment. he knows & interacts with Ted mainly through Pancho being his friend!

•Dorothy; rlly wild hc actually that Dorothy used to be a propper crime don before she settled down with Ted— or when Ted was shifting into Snake more frequently back in the day for whatever reason—so Andy knows her from the criminal underworld. Cus of this he’s very respectful towards her... he’s seen what she’s capable of

•Willie; Andy could walk round the corner with his wings outstretched & say “boo” & Willie would pass out from shock. He’s also very easy for Andy to sell to- his fearmongering really works on Willie he’s very suseptable to it

•Hector; Hector doesn’t take any of Andy’s crap he’d probably just hit him with a broom if he came round his hut to sell him dodgy hand cream honestly

•Horst; Andy keeps him topped up with a steady supply of beverages...........Horst will actually sometimes ask him & Pancho for help with importing various new vinyl records

•Tammy, Butterfish & Todd; that family buys a LOT of product off him since they’re just typical americans basically he finds it rlly easy & reliable to sell stuff like drinks & toys to them. Tammy kinda hates Andy though & like Pancho, thinks he’s a demon. Doesn’t help that Mort nicknamed him “bird demon”.

•Karl; like with Timo i hc he knew him when they were in highschool—! Karl found Andy infuriating & so annoying though & didn’t consider him a friend at all. a lot of his early lazer guns were born from Karl’s growing need to shoot Andy out of the sky cus he’d fly up to get out of reach of his claws when he’d annoyed him.

•Dr. S; i hc that Andy and Dr.S are business or trading partners of sorts but they keep it very lowkey. Andy probably handles hits and the crazy snake doctor requires bodies and “test subjects” for his manic experiments. Andy is the perfect guy for the job! When Nurse Phantom is unable, Andy will hide the evidence of Dr.S’ malpractice for a reasonable fee, of course. He dislikes going to checkups himself though— he doesn’t like people knowing too much about him! Plus Dr.S always “””jokes””” about “””studying””” him because he finds the fact Andy is a flying mammal facinating & talks about using Andy’s wings to create a frankenstein flying lemur.

•Nurse Phantom; Rob just lectures him about being reckless & getting into fights everytime he sees him. Kinda the same as Dr. S really, but he does tell him like.. Hey I used to be pretty mean & put people in danger too. And that there’s always time to turn another leaf. Andy usually just scoffs, collects his paycheck, & leaves.

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honestly im torn on whether a gym leader should actually be removed during the course of the game. like that sounds dope???? and 8 is the clear candidate, mostly because 5 hasnt done anything (which is in itself part of the problem) and 7 has also done absolutely nothing to deserve it, but 8 has. and it would actually be kinda interesting.

theres 3 options for removing 8 - before you get there, WHILE youre there, and after. like, while youre on the road, you hear that a gym leader was arrested. you arrive in that town a while later to find a decadent, gaudy gym with an apologetic Gym Man out the front, explaining there is no gym leader due to the arrest, and that standard practice is to shut down the gym until the matter is resolved. the matter would then either be resolved following the City thing (meaning you do the 8th gym AFTER the story climax), or right then, with the Champion or some other Elite arriving with a new gym leader. a candidate for this position would be Bronwyn, Jun’s wife. im kinda into that. shes a good candidate regardless.

thats option a. option b is During. and by that i mean, you challenge the 8th gym leader, this absolutely guadily dressed man, completely insufferable. you fight him, you wipe the floor, and as hes handing you your prize tm, the door bursts open. its the Org. theyre here for him. you watch as he’s taken away, screeching. when you leave, Zeke/Elliot greets you re: that and also the base thing. here, the reason for you going to the base would e to find out whats up. so Zeke sending you makes sense. so Zeke’s like ‘hey [Player], did you get your badge from him? you didnt? shit, maybe you should go catch up to those Org folk. theyre in [the base].’ and you go and walk in and it looks fairly normal, but theres noone there. you explore, you find a secret entrance (think like in Mahogany Town except more obvious), you go in. then you go through and thats when you end up finding Felicity, who is doing some last minute prep with the grunts who are going to the City (Dante is, at that point, with a separate team of grunts - the forward scouts for the area where the legendary is. Small Fry, we recall, has already been arrested by you previously), and when she locks you up after you beat her. the way you get out, in the end, is Elliot, who was tipped off by Zeke. see, Zeke saw you enter, and Zeke waited for a bit, but you never showed. he peeked in and found the secret entrance and got fucking spooked, so he’s called Elliot. noone has exited the building (theyre all leaving by another exit). so finally Elliot arrives, Zeke explains whats happened, and Elliot goes in, finds an empty ass base, a dropped 8th gym badge, and eventually you. yay! gives you the badge and then you both leave. and then shit happens. i kinda like this, though then the question is where the 8th gym leader ended up going. and also why the org would choose to arrest 8 THEN, right as theyre about to go head to head with the Team? unless Rhia is fucking with them. since shes sorta head of police. it would be kinda fun if Rhia decided that if she’s about to fuck up the org, she may as well use its power while its still there to be used, and arrests 8 as a last act before shit goes tits. idk. the timing doesnt REALLY work, i think. the zeke bit works, though.

option c is after. after the other stuff. once the Org/Team shit is settled, and basically after you beat the elite 4, the International Police arrive en masse to sort this absolute mess out. its during this sweep (and the seizure of Org property for the investigations) that 8′s theft is discovered, and hes promptly arrested and replaced. however, if this is the case, id suggest that the 8th gym remains closed for the duration of the post game missions w/ Lyndelle, and that once that questline is resolved, the 8th gym reopen with Bronwyn as its leader. i dont think youd be able to battle her, but she’d give you dialogue and an item (for rescuing Lyndelle, mostly) and itd just be chatter. whether she’d still be poison type? i dont think so. i dont think that type suits her. hmmm....... maybe Dragon? that’d be kinda kickass. idk.

but yea. hmm. b is interesting because it feeds into the plot, but it doesnt really make a lot of sense UNLESS 8 is actually a Team member? which would then make him a perfect fall guy for Dante and Felicity. you remove him from the gym in the guise of arrest, tell him you’ll pretend it was a mistake later, send him off to do his job, he goes to the legendary, and is promptly arrested as the head of the Team. and because he IS actually a Team member, and DOESNT know Dante (its assumed) then it would actually succeed. but on that front, i kinda prefer people being assholes without having to be in the evil team. and if hes NOT a team member, his arrest no longer makes sense in terms of the timing. unless the intent is to send a few Org members away so that they can then Arrive in the city to drive back the team? like reinforcements? could be interesting. but then, still, where did 8 go? if hes team, he’s gone to the legendary to help back up the Squad. if he’s not, where the fuck did he go? does Elliot free him on his way through? there aren’t actually cells in the base though, you were actually locked in the Office (where you met felicity, and which she teleported out of before disabling the teleporter). so where would they have put 8?? it just seems contrived to me

a is boring and would result in somewhat awkward pacing. i find the idea of having to fight the 8th gym after the story climax to be...... awkward...... which might seem strange given i like heartgold but i never said it was my favourite pokemon game, huh. it also happens in xy, funnily enough. did it happen in bw2? i think it did. wait fuck of course it did, fucking marlon. god i keep forgetting about fucking marlon. god i really did not like marlon at all. but yea. idk. it feels like a drop on tension if you go from the evil team climax to the 8th gym, because the 8th gym isnt climactic. but if you go from team climax to gameplay climax w/ victory road and the elite 4, THAT has some tension and release. that feels like better pacing, to me? idk. my only real examples areeee gen 3 and gen 7, actually........ hmm.... HMMN actually hold on what the fuck am i saying. oh, bw1, ofc, my bad. but like, the pokemon games i dislike the most (dppt and xy) both do it and it feels stupid in both cases. ‘theres a blackout’ fuck off. yall heard of battery power? fuck. actually wow fuck both blackouts in those games are stupid. it all makes sense. it all clicks. anyway what im saying is C is probably my preferred option, so long as it IS built up to at some point. like, some dialogue somewhere mentions the growing discontent with 8, so that when you wake up after beating the e4 and the news is going ‘breaking news: 8 has been arrested for siphoning funds into his personal bank account to fund his extravagant lifestyle’ the player doesnt go ‘what the fuck’. though i guess the fact he’s dressed like a prince in a manor-esque gym surrounded b sorta dingy streets shoooullldd clue the player in that something aint right about that mans finances. something aint adding up. someones added a few zeroes.

anyway back to bronwyn. what type she would be doesssss wholly depend on the e4. 1 member of the e4 is confirmed, and thats Rhia/Elliot, who are multi type trainers. so thats that specialisation taken care of. Bronwyn would not be a poison type trainer, because shes supposed to turn this city the fuck around. uh. OOH!!! FAIRY!!!! fuck!!! of course!!!!! she should a fairy type gym leader. fuck. though, oooo, what if the Champion is the fairy type? shit. shit shit. nn.

hmm. well, ok. one of these 5 trainers (3 e4, champ, Bronwyn) needs to be fighting. one should be ice, perhaps a foreigner (sinnoh? which discounts Bronwyn, who is from Unova.... though......... lotta ice. got a vanniluxe and everything...... HMMMMMMMM) Electric might be good, since that isnt represented at all in the gyms uh. fairy, of course. and... hmm. steel? that was sorta Elliots thing but id be fine with an actual steel expert. though that would be sorta weird since the implication with the e4 is that they’ve basically been unchanged since Elliot retired, until the OTHER guy also retired. so there being another steel expert doesnt make much sense, and i dont think it super fits Bronwyn. uh. tit. graaass? grass might be a good fit for Bronwyn actually, if its all about like, regrowth. thats a nice idea.

ok, Bronywn is grass type. so then the 4 e4c members are fighting, ice, electric and fairy. which ones the chaaaampion???? fairy?? fairy is probably best. nice.

i like that. i also think that maybe you SHOULD be able to challenge bronwyn at some point. maybe you can fight her, to ‘christen’ her gym. she wouldnt be difficult, i wouldnt think, but it’d be a nice fun thing. would she give you a badge, though? hmm... maybe she gives you multiple items instead. idk. that’s up in the air.

i do like that idea though. it WOULD be important to highlight that 8 wasn’t a member of the Team, though. idk how to really provide that distinction, and i suppose it doesnt matter much? plus, if you look at it, 8 has allowed the Team to build a base on town without batting an eyelid because 8 doesnt care, so, yknow, facilitation. gj, git.

#story blogging #codename seren #i need to name 5 7 and 8........ and the e4 and champ obvs but ill get to that eventually

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Rift chapter- 6

Tarzan`s daughter does pole-jumping

-Thomas-

This sucks. Kim killed her; she killed that woman without batting an eye! I almost tripped again but I caught myself. This forest was like a maze, the trees seemed to be watching me waiting for me to collapse. I stared at the ground catching my breath what kind of animals are there here? I frantically glanced over my shoulder half expecting a huge monster to come bounding at me, but nothing did. I kept walking until for a while; after a few minutes the forest ended opening out to seemingly endless rolling plains, a small stream ran to my right

“What now?” I thought aloud “if I drink that water ill die wont I?” I considered my options while I watched as what looked like a rabbit hopped from the tree line, suddenly my stomach grumbled. I could eat a rabbit; I took a step to chase after it when the thing came. Maybe I should be more specific; when I say ‘the thing’, I don’t mean the rock guy from fantastic four. I mean huge six-legged hairy thing, it charged after the rabbit. Why would something that big want to eat a rabbit? The rabbit turned and headed toward the stream, towards me, and the thing followed its hide seeming to glow purple in the moonlight while it charged toward me “No!” I ran toward the stream and ran leapt over it, but when I landed, I fell onto my side. The rabbit hopped over me, the thing just stared at me as if I`d just appeared out of nowhere. I started to scoot away but once I moved, it roared flashing yellow teeth; before I continue I'm going to warn you now when I tell you what happened next you probably wouldn’t believe me, but I guess it’s as insane as Kim throwing Gordon through a wall with her mind, and another world. A figure blurred behind the thing, someone was charging it from behind! After a few seconds of the thing sizing me up preparing to strike, I noticed her; standing on its back wielding a six foot long spear. It noticed at the same time and lurched backwards onto its hind legs throwing her off; she somersaulted through the air landing a few feet away. The thing turned and charged at her “look out!” I yelled; the girl laughed and charged at the thing, leveling her spear as if she were jousting, the spear caught the thing right in the eye. Then the crazy part, she used her momentum to pole jump high over the beast. She landed on her feet, the spear deep in the thing`s face

“Hi” she had a green tunic and a mess of black hair that almost completely covered the right side of her face. “I'm Camryn who are you?” I was dumbstruck “hello?” she jumped the stream approaching me carefully as if I was some kind of bomb that could blow up at any moment

“I'm Thomas” she stopped in her tracks and stared at me, every muscle in my body screamed at me to run, but after her performance slaying that thing with ease she could probably snap my neck with one eye shut

“AWESOME!” she blurted out “I always wanted to meet a guy named Thomas!” she started circling me looking me up and down “can I call you Tom? Tommy? Tom tom?”

“How about just Thomas” I suggested following her with my eyes “what was that thing?”

“oh that, there is a name for it but I forgot” she stopped in front of me and held eye contact for a few seconds before breaking into a fit of giggles. When she finally regained her composure, her expression hardened “we need to get back to my village, I'm not supposed to be out here Jesse`s gonna kill me” Jesse? “Come on!” she jumped the stream again then went for her spear, still in the beasts face “it’s not that far from here” I decided not to run the risk of failing to jump the stream again, and walked through it. Camryn grabbed the end of her spear and started pulling on it; “just give me a second” she tugged on it for a few more seconds to no avail

“Um, who are you exactly?” I circled around the beast towards her, while she continued to tug on her spear

“Camryn Bennet” she said through heaves “once I get this spear out of this things head, we can get to my village” I watched her push her foot against the thing`s face pulling on the spear, “Come on!” then the thing made a grumbling noise

“Is that thing alive?” I started backing away; Camryn stopped pulling on the spear

“Theres no way it’s alive!” she started to back away as well “unless of course it is”

“You’ve got to be kidding me!” I looked around frantically “do have like a car or something? We have to get out of here!” Camryn laughed

“I don’t know what you’re talking about dude but since it has a spear in its face, I can come to a logical solution. It’s probably half dead!” she looked over at me with a wicked grin, “so it’s really slow and weak, perfectly ready to be finished off!” she took a step to charge at the monster but before she could, it roared, a loud terrible scream that filled me with fear. The worst part was there were more; more terrifying roars sounding from the forest like a battle cry, then the thing went still; dead.

“Whats that?” I asked as the roars echoed throughout the forest, some closer than I wanted to think about

“Good news” Camryn scratched the back of her neck nervously “it’s dead”

“Tell me theres no bad news to go with that,” I begged even though I knew there was

“He called for friends” as if on cue another monster burst out of the woods running, at us it was noticeably smaller than the first one, but twice as fast “Run!” Camryn screamed while two more broke the tree line. We ran, but the things were gaining on us fast

“We can’t out run these things in an open area like this!” I yelled but Camryn did not respond she started to outrun me. My legs were starting to burn “wait up!” I shouted, already short of breath, Camryn shot me a look over her shoulder the surprise clear on her face. She stopped mid-tread and lunged at me tackling me to the ground; simultaneously one of the beasts leapt over us landing paws first where I was running. We rolled across the ground, the other two charged at us, Camryn pushed me down leaping at the beasts; she grabbed onto the fur on one the left one`s head and swung to the right driving the monsters head into its companion. Then she kicked off, somersaulting back towards me while the monsters stumbled over each other. This girl is insane

“Let’s go!” she pulled me to my feet “We have to go!” my legs were on fire

“I can’t run anymore!” I stumbled almost falling flat on my face, but Camryn pulled up again. The three monsters started circling us

“Tommy!” Camryn tried to tug me into motion, but my legs wouldn’t move “we haven’t even ran a mile yet!” a few more beasts joined the growing circle

“I'm too tired” I managed to gasp, a few of the beasts, roared at us, why did they not just attack? “Leave me!” I shouted, then one of them charged; it was headed directly at me.

“Tommy!” Camryn grabbed my shirt and flipped me over her shoulder. My vision went black as I hit the ground; I rolled onto my back just in time to see the beast swat Camryn to the side like a fly “CAMRYN!” I watched, helpless as she skidded across the ground. A few of the beasts started to head toward her. “No” my voice was shrill “Don’t you dare touch her!” I did not think, not about my sore legs, or the beast approaching me; I charged towards Camryn letting out a defiant roar “HEY!” the beasts approaching Camryn stopped, and glared at me, so did all the others. I picked up a decently sized stick off the ground and maneuvered myself in between Camryn`s limp body and the beasts. For some reason they all just stared at me as if I was doing something stupid. I just glanced between them, why were they not reacting. Then I realized they were slowly inching towards me “DON’T COME NEAR ME!” they started growling, simultaneously; it was so synchronized it sounded like a laugh. My legs started shaking “no,” I begged, “stay away”

“You’re a brave kid” a woman`s voice, from beyond the circle of beasts “take them down” shadows rushed through around the beasts; people, four or five people charged the beasts. One of them fired arrows into the beast`s hides, another cut off limbs with a sword, a third waved torches, which apparently scared the beasts, the fourth one decapitated them one by one with a battle axe. When all the beasts were dead, the four approached me; their faces illuminated in the light, two women and two men. the man with the torches was almost as tall as Gordon, he was bald, and wore a large black tunic, the woman with the bow had a long ponytail and a similar tunic, the man with the sword had gelled back black hair, his tunic was the same as the other two. The woman with the battle-axe was different she seemed to have an aura, her red eyes flashed with pride, “You’re a brave kid,” she repeated. “Briacs is what we call them, they enjoy torturing their prey mentally, before going for the kill, most men would cower before a single one,” the group seemed to be checking me out, then I remembered, Camryn! I tossed the stick to the side and did a 360, she was gone it took me a second to notice a fifth man he carrying Camryn a several feet behind me,

“Who are you people?” I turned back towards the four, my legs jelly, my vision blurring

“my name is Jesse Kraig” the woman with the red eyes smiled “I see you’ve met my apprentice, Camryn, these are my associates; we are the 98th legion” I only got the first four words, after that the world drifted away and I fell into a deep abyss.

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PLL 7B, Ep 1: PlayTime

Well hello former Pretty Little Liars fans. I assume you are here because you want to find out what happens on the show but you don’t want to actually watch the show because let’s be real honest, it’s an absolute garbage fire.

So let’s recap important things you missed in 7A. Fair warning at many points throughout this recap you might think I just fell asleep and started making shit up to cover my ass but I assure you all of this really happened. So last season Ali convinced all her friends to testify on CeCe’s behalf to get her out of her psych ward, even though she killed multiply people and stalked them for multiple years. They succeed but before you can say what the f--CeCe is already dead. Ali is distraught but finds comfort in the arms of CeCe’s doctor Dr. Rollins, who she then falls in love with and Aria (yes, Aria) marries them in a ceremony in her backyard. But then in a shock to no one he turns out to be not Dr. Rollins at all but a man named Archer Dunhill and he convinces Ali she’s insane by having her mother’s long lost identical twin pose as her dead mother at the window of her house multiple times. Ali is then committed to a mental institute, and when the girls realize that ghost Mrs. D was actually a real Mrs. D named Mary Drake they save Ali but not before Archer kidnaps her (and also gets her pregnant). The liars follow them to the woods, kill him with their car and instead of calling the police - who at this point are FULLY aware that Archer Dunhill is bad news - they bury him in the woods while crying about it. Eventually they figure out that Noel Kahn and Jenna are behind some of this so they follow them to an abandoned house. In a scene straight out of Final Destination, Noel gets his head chopped off by a Knight costume and blind Jenna somehow shoots Spencer. Mary Drake comes to her rescue knocking out Jenna and comforting Spencer. As she watches Spencer struggle for air she sings her a lullaby and tells her she’d never leave her because she’s her mother. In the final scene you see that Toby and his fiance have gotten into what looks to be a fatal car accident and uber A (hereby known as AD rescues Jenna).

As the episode opens, Spencer is in an ambulance with an EMT asking her what her name is and then asking her if she knows who her mother is. Obviously she doesn’t and I don’t think an EMT would really ask this question multiple times as someone is dying an ambulance. At the hospital the girls think the thoughts of audiences everywhere aloud and wonder how Noel and Jenna could be behind this whole thing. As they are there Toby is wheeled in by EMTs on a stretcher. Hanna looks over and says “Toby’s here where’s he going?”. Surgery Hanna, he’s going into surgery.

Cut to one week later. Toby has escaped the fatal car accident with a scratch and a cane. His fiance is in a medically induced coma and even though she was shot in the heart, Spencer is already out of the hospital and snooping around Mary Drake’s house. Ezra, who I forgot to mention had gone to South America because his girlfriend who was kidnapped by “revolutionaries” a year ago was found alive, is back and he finds Aria with a suitcase leaving their apartment. He gives her a hug and puts her bag back into their room, showing her that he’s not leaving (yet). Hanna wakes up in bed with Caleb and tells him that they have to track down Jenna (since at no point have cops been involved at this point. Again it’s only been one week since Noel was beheaded and Spencer was shot but not a cop in sight). Caleb takes out her sketchbook of fashion designs and says that she once cared about this dream so much it broke them up and she can’t give up on it now. There’s a psycho serial killer after you but what about your DREAMS Hanna. Emily is now coaching the varsity swim team at Rosewood High School with her ex girlfriend Paige. Ali comes in and tells her that she’s “having the baby of a perfect stranger” and her life is ruined. I would think her life was ruined when her crazy half sister started stalking her because Ali was born biologically female so her parents loved her more, then her mother was murdered and all her friends were stalked by a series of psychos but no, this baby is what finally ruins her life. No one mentions the possibility of an abortion - it’s a family show.

Aria and Ezra have an awkward conversation in their kitchen. Nicole (the kidnapped girlfriend) had some broken bones that didn’t heal properly so they need to be rebroken and reset. She’s recovering in NY and wasn’t ready to talk to him. Aria receives a text from Spencer “SOS at Barn” and leaves Ezra to join the other liars.

At the barn, Spencer who was just SHOT IN THE HEART but only just has her arm in a sling and the other liars are standing around a big black box with a red ribbon on it and a note that says “It’s Playtime - AD”. Also instead of calling each other, now would be a good time to CALL THE POLICE. Also did anyone find Noel Kahn’s head rolling around? These are important facts we’re causally glossing over. The open the box and inside is a board game called “Liars Lament”. It is an exact replica of Rosewood, in the center is a square in the shape of a phone and conveniently, taped to the side is a phone. The phone lights up and says “Bitches.” Clever. At this point, I’m just going to say it. Ravenswood was less bat shit crazy than this show. Ghosts looking for their long lost love makes so much more sense than a killer who can somehow make a board game replica of their town and deliver it to their house with absolutely no one noticing.

Hanna suggests throwing it in a fire. They discuss whether it could’ve been Noel or Jenna who sent it but decide Noel is too dumb (and he has no head) and Jenna is well..blind. Sorry not to discriminate against the blind but its kind of hard to make an exact town replica when you can’t see the town. They then suggest Mary Drake, who let’s remember confessed to being Spencer’s mother. Spencer claims that she’s a liar, which her own mom will prove when she gets home tomorrow. Wait WHAT. Spencer was shot in the heart arm but her mom is on vacation somewhere? Ali, surprisingly the only smart one, says they should turn it into the police but Aria thinks it will blow up before they get it to them. Spencer realizes that theres only a few steps left to play then it’s all over - to be honest, I rewound this and watched it again and still don’t get how Spencer came to that conclusion but OK.

Aria talks to Hannah about her Ezra situation - way more important than the psycho serial killer stalking you or going to the police. So glad seeing your high school crush get beheaded hasn’t changed you Aria. Hanna says that she should be there for Ezra. Emily is talking to Ali about her new job. Ali is skeptical as to why they hired both her and Paige (shade at the writers much?). Emily says she will be there for her and the baby (I should also mention that Emily and Ali hooked up last season in what seemed like a desperate 1990s attempt to get ratings - hot girls making out!).

After the board game reveal, Mona and Hanna are at a restaurant eating lunch outdoors. Hanna is sketching some fashion designs. Mona mentions a competition in Philly for fashion design (convenient). Hanna says shes not well known enough to enter, and Mona tells her you can get any job without a resume if you find the right people to trust you. All she needs is a model for the clothes (and like...actual clothes not sketches I’d assume, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue). Hanna is skeptical, but Mona takes out her phone and starts taking pictures of her portfolio, then tells Hanna to trust her.

Spencer is at the police station with the hot cop she made out with last season. He asks Spencer if she knew Archer Dunhill (aka Ali’s dead husband) knew Jenna and Noel. She says no (liar). He says they knew him when he was Dr. Rollins. She innocently asks if he thinks he’s still in France (knowing full well that he’s buried in the woods somewhere - or not, I think his body disappeared at some point). He says he’s not sure but someone is in France. Astute observation cop. He then takes out a gun from his desk and asks Spencer if she recognizes it and she says yes (I mean, it’s not a particularly unique gun so I don’t know how this is savy police work). She’s certain it’s the gun that Jenna shot her with. The cop then tells her that this gun is a 45 and she was shot with a 22. Spencer is shocked that there’s another gun - but I’m shocked that no one is like..how do you know the difference between a 22 and a 45 Spencer when you were shot in a dark abandoned building. Spencer is also shocked to learn that one gun is still missing just like Jenna Marshall and Mary Drake. So I guess they did go to the police, which leads to more questions - why do they not have a protective detail on their house considering these girls have been kidnapped and almost killed MULTIPLE TIMES. Does social media exist in Rosewood? Can’t they just put out a Facebook bulletin - hey look out for this blind girl and Mrs. D’s identical twin wandering around town guys, just FYI they shot me.

Hanna and Aria are setting tables for Aria’s wedding (I literally have no idea how or why Aria’s wedding is happening already). They are surprised Spencer hasn’t talked to Toby yet (I’m not?). Then suddenly Holden shows up. We remember Holden as the guy Aria sort of liked but then sort of thought was A but then it turns out that his secret was doing Korean martial arts with a heart condition …. anyway his sister owns the wedding venue and he’s the chef. Holden is surprised she is getting married to Ezra. He gives her a tour of this place and asks her a lot of wedding questions she doesn’t know how to answer any of them.

Hanna meets Mona at the Radley, to meet with a Senator’s daughter, Catherine Daily. Catherine is doing a fundraiser for her Dad and she wants to wear one of Hanna’s designs. Mona says she should come by the studio, confusing Hanna and the rest of the PLL audience. Mona says that she doesn’t know Catherine Daily, Catherine Daily knows me. No word on how she got a studio or Hanna’s clothes made in 4 hours.

When Spencer gets home her mom is there. She’s happy to see Spencer, and asks Spencer what happened. How? What? Spencer recaps all of last season in a minute then asks her mom if she wants wine. Her mom looks confused, and says, how are you though? Her mom is immediately suspicious about Mary Drake, and Spencer tells her mom that Mary told her that she’s her birth mother. Her mom says that she’s insane, but doesn’t deny what she says is true. Her mom precedes to tell her the story - she was working and Jessica knocked on the door and asked to borrow a lawnmower, then randomly told her about her twin sister who had problems. She told her Mary was pregnant and they knew who the father was, and it was Spencer’s Dad- he mistook Mary Drake in a bar for Jessica. So basically her dad got both twins pregnant. Her mom decided to adopt her and pretend she was hers. Spencer’s mad she stayed with her Dad. She asks if her mom was there when she was born and she says “close by” and we cut to the most awkward 1920s style flashback where her mom is handed the baby in a car outside the hospital, 5 minutes after she was born (she literally tells Spencer it was 5 minutes after she was born)

Spencer screams “you’re not my mother” and storms out.

Aria is still walking around town with Holden. He saw her on TV (I think after the kidnapping?) so he came back to town. They run into a distracted Ezra who tells her he has to go to NY, then runs down the block. Holden is concerned and asks her who Nicole is. She stares at him - either she doesn’t know how to explain Ezra’s ex or she’s confused how Holden saw Aria on TV but not the 24 hour coverage last season of Ezra’s kidnapped girlfriend.

Back at Hanna’s “studio” there’s a rack of clothes that were miraculously made in the last 2 hours. Catherine is trying on clothes and tells Hanna to call her boss and set up a meeting. Hanna is confused until Catherine says, “Mona - she’s lucky to have you.” Caleb is also there and is mad Mona took over Hanna’s “business”. To be fair, in one day Mona took Hanna’s sketches, rented a studio and had a rack of clothes made. Later in the episode, Mona is happy that Catherine is buying 2 of Hanna’s dresses, but Hanna is pissed that Mona took over. She tells Mona she could’ve did this by herself (I really don’t think that’s true) and Mona apologize, saying Hanna is the boss. Hanna then demands business cards, which is something you would ask for from...your boss.

Paige, Ali and Emily are having a meeting with another teacher, Mrs. Horowitz. Ali immediately turns into bitchy Ali and says its really great that Paige is pushing her comfort zone, and talked about her as a student when she was super aggressive and competitive. Mrs. Horowitz is clearly uncomfortable as am I - can the writers just pick a personality for Ali and stick with it. Emily tells Ali to cut it out. Later on Emily is pissed and tells Ali she’s distancing people who get close to her. Emily asks “why do we have to keep showing you that we love you” I ask this question every time I watch this show. Ali is mad that her life is a mess. Ali claims that all her memories are lies, which is not really true. Then Emily asks her why she kissed her - because she wanted to or because she wanted her to leave. She says she doesn’t know and Emily tells her not to kiss her again until she knows.

Spencer is drunk at the barn with the board game when she gets a text from A.D. telling her to start playing the game. The cell phone lights up and tells her to place the phone in the center. The screen then goes black and a truth or dare option comes up. She hesitates about picking truth then picks dare instead. It brings up a picture of Toby (I think this is actually Toby’s acting headshot), saying “visit a sick friend, get a reward” and the hospital icon lights up on the board. Spencer stares at the square. Of all the dares this seems like the LEAST challenging to be honest. It didn’t say go tell the police you hit someone with your car and buried him in the woods then made everyone believe that he’d fled to France.

At the hospital Toby is sitting outside his fiance’s room. Spencer walks in and they hug. She tells him she’s sorry and they have an awkward I almost called you moment. Toby says he talked to Marco (aka hot cop) who told him what happened. Yvonne is not good. She’s still in a coma. Toby blames himself for what happened. Spencer says it’s not his fault, to which Toby responds “Maybe not the rest of the world, but this is Rosewood.” Truer words never spoken. Toby says maybe the town has to disappear before we can leave - is Toby going to bomb the town? That would be an epic conclusion. Spencer makes a long boat metaphor then tells him to put on his glasses.

Spencer comes home from the hospital takes off her arm sling and drinks the rest of her never ending glass of wine. The game lights up again. It says “here’s your prize” and a ticket comes out like an arcade game. It’s an envelope from Radley that says “for my child”. In it is a single puzzle piece. The piece fits in the square in the middle of the board game. There’s also a letter that Mary wrote before she was born, apologizing for giving birth to her in a madhouse and hoping one day she can forgive her. In the next scene Spencer is asleep on the couch and it appears someone is walking in over her. We are led to believe this is Uber A but it’s just her mom (Mariska Hargitay Mom, not Mary Drake Mom). She sees the letter next to her but doesn’t pick it up or read it, just looks at Spencer and smiles - hmm suspicious much?

Emily tells Paige she talked to Ali and that Ali is not the same person she was before. Paige tells her not to make excuses for Ali listing all the things Ali has been over the years to show that Ali is always the victim. She says some people make a habit of being rescued, just how other people make a habit of jumping in after them. Emily gets a message.

They are all at Spencer’s barn now, mad at Spencer for playing the game alone. She says she wasn’t thinking (i.e. she was drunk). Hanna suggests breaking open the game - she takes a knife and is about to chop it when the phone lights up and shows a video of them digging up Rollins Archer Dunhill with a note that says “can’t stop playing now.”

In the final scene, Jenna is drinking tea in a black room with a single chair. She hands the tea back to someone and says “you said you’d tell me today about the game”, a faceless person in scrubs drops a file on her lap. She opens it up and reads it - luckily it’s all in braille. She has a shocked look on her face as she scrolls over the words then whispers “End Game”.

So is Mariska Hargitay uber A? She didn’t seem surprised by Mary Drake’s letter next to Spencer. What about the person in scrubs? Is this a hint that Archer Dunhill, though hit by a car and buried, is still alive? Or is it possibly...Wren? We’ll soon find out.

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