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pov you're some sort of freaky creature on the other side of a doorway

scooby stack is essential for any monster-hunting crew. now, you may ask what is going on behind to make this stack happen. maybe something like this

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the revivification of hugo song

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“Why’d you do that?” Please remember that I am using what I’ve seen in humans to mimic them

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we are on song family lockdown

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What happened to dad powers?

hello everyone. it's finals season. i feel insane. it's time to talk about wtf is the deal with dad powers

what we know about dad powers

has not been in the picture for several years ("[Don] had a sense it had to do with the father he remembered less of every year" (GM, Don't Poke The Powers, Dec 13 2024, franfic archive. accessed Dec 16 2024.)

asian ("for the [bisexual] wasian [boytoy] bit" (GM, discord conversation, Sept 23 2024. accessed Dec 16 2024)

uh

yeah that's it

we don't even know his name. presumably, Don's last name, Powers, comes from Debra's station as a Powers angel. based matrilineal surname. #feminism.

things we know for sure in general about don + debra:

don and shay are the same age (or at least are close enough that they're in the same grade. maybe don skipped a grade.)

an angel named debra failed and was cast out of heaven. presumably, don's angelic mother is debra, since we don't know of any other earthbound angels.

things i am assuming until prove otherwise:

debra was mark's guardian angel(/shamsiel equivalent)

It just makes too much cents luv. mark beefs it. shay gets the sword and is assigned a guardian angel soon after. the only other angel on earth, known only as Debra The Failure, HAPPENS to be living in fremont county washington, after the previous chosen died.

here's the thing. in the most recent episode, nightmare time pt 2, debra's all like "don, my son. humans suck. we're above them. quit getting attached and having pity for them" (paraphrase, Nightmare Time Session Two, I'm not checking. Accessed Dec 13 from my brain)

HOWEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON EXISTS. WHY DOES SHE HAVE A HUMAN BABY.

option one: debra saw baby shay and was like Fascinating. I want one.

picture this: it's debra's first time on earth. she's working with everyone's favorite dilf to be, mark song. she watches her charge bring a child into the world and how it like totally freaks his bean and how obsessed he is with this creature and she goes. Hm.

this could track with a more clinical debra.

i think she could magic up a baby.

option two: debra one night stand moment. don was an accident

i have no idea how angel reproductive means work. but i assume she's powerful enough that she could rose quartz it up if she really wanted to

would be a fascinating mix of really fucking funny and absolutely heartbreaking for don. Can you fucking imagine\

but why would she not just abort that thang

option three: debra fell in love

awwwwwwwwwwwww

but this brings up the counterpoint: IF debra fell in love with a human and Had A Baby. Why does she think of them as inferior beings??????

option a: dad powers died

classic

shay and don parallels moment

debra falls in love with this person and it's great and it's amazing and then he fucking Dies and she suddenly remembers how weak and fragile and fallible humans are. and she now decides to always remember that humans are stupid and temporary and not to be attached to

option b: divorce

dad: debra sometimes i feel like you don't respect me. like, as a person. like i feel like sometimes i get microaggressions from you. debra: Oh no! I'm sorry, I try my best to respect your Identity as a Minority Member in this great Nati- dad: oh, uh, no not in like a racialized way, actually, you're like remarkably cool about that. more in... i don't know... just a species way, i guess? like sometimes i get the vibe that you think i'm inherently inferior and that leaves a bad taste in my mouth debra: Oh husband. Oh my silly husband. It's just because you're a human! You are all like this dad: no see this is exactly what i mean, debra. you always do this debra: Hahaha, see, you are proving my point exactly. :) dad: dad: dad: debra, i want a divorce

debra: (in divorce court, vibrating with fury) I Fucking Hate Humans

and now she's like this.

but why would dad not get custody of don :/

but ultimately what i keep circling back to is why Debra was cast out of the Bureaucracy. one would assume that the reason why Debra the Failure was cast out was because she was going against the Bureaucracy's mission (in this case, destroying the world, making Debra on the side of good). getting attached to humans = bad according to the Bureau, therefore I assumed Debra had gotten attached.

but clearly she hasn't. what the fuck is up with that!!!!!!! why is she still spouting bureau talking points when they've gone scorched earth with her!!!!!! what does she want!!!

WHY IS SHE KIDNAPPING COLLEGE STUDENTS

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forgive and forget? wrong. charged two-handed heavy attack with my greatsword of resentment

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dude i just had the funniest premonition of your death

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a bloodied axe is a normal and acceptable winter outfit accessory i think

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a big part of my status as "girl who doesnt really know anything about fremont county but occasionally sees posts about it" is remembering the toyhouse twitter for fremont county and laughing at this image

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i originally conceptualized the sword as being Shay's Shitty Coping Mechanism. like, he can't handle the complex swirl of feelings and thoughts that come with grief, and so he channels all of himself into taking up the sword and fighting monsters so there's no room in his mind to actually self-reflect

but with the realization that this was His Dad's Sword, it complicates things - but i dont think those two are incompatible

like i think there's something to be said about shay using the same [sword/]shitty coping mechanisms his dad did. avoid, redirect, hope for the best, bite your cheek, quietly push back the knowledge that It's Inevitable

(which - we haven't seen much of what mark was like onscreen, [and what we have seen has been very colored by shay's perception of him] but i like to think they were similar. for better and for worse.)

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Shay

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Do you guys ever think about shay song

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a friend proposed playing monster of the week and i keep going wow,,, just like fremont county…

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the angel staying over at my house asked for a nightlight in their room and i told them buddy, don't you produce your own light? what're you gonna do with more? and they said they wanted to see why people like it so much. and also that the nightlight i own is blue and they're been trying to understand color. anyways i think they've stared at it for an hour now

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Yesterday my little brother told me something very sweet and touching, that when he was a kid and had nightmares about monsters chasing him or whatever he would be able to end the nightmare by finding me in the dream and I would protect him by fighting off the zombies, or carrying him away. This is adorable, and makes me feel like the greatest older sibling in the world, but the hilarious thing is that when I was a kid I had nightmares of needing to save him from zombies and such. so many dreams where he was in trouble and I needed to save him. Like my nightmares began where his ended. Low key I think he mastered the ability to psychically transfer his nightmare to me as a child and I'm kind of annoyed with him.

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im nto crytpying its jsut ahrd to type when yoru holidgn a sword