#// out of character; the real reason he didn't visit is bc its too close to prague and it felt wrong going without claudia

[depointeoflouis]

When you went travelling, did you ever visit the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic? What do you think of it in terms of it being a work of art?

The opportunity never came up. When Armand and I began our travels, Czechia, as most in Central Europe, was still occupied by German soldiers and after that, well. Europe in my mind had offered all it could in terms of discovery and we both wanted something new in terms of culture.

But It is that, it's a work of art. It's macabre, morbid, – a symbol of devotion. A graveyard in church pews. I think it's as fascinating as the Wadi al-Salam in Najaf or the St. Louis cemetery in New Orleans. Just because a body isn't in the ground doesn't mean it's being disrespectful to life and why not call it art?

[tomster1274]

Scrimblo AU plot summary under the cut bc I haven't actually shared much of what it's abt.

To start off;

Alternates are called 'Spoopy/Spooky Ghosts' by humans and they don't care whether they're called that or alternates.

Mork=Mark, Chaser=Cesar, Juice=Jonah, Apple=Adam, K=N, Imposter=Intruder, Six-nine=Six/TV Intruder, Dab-riel=Gabriel.

Last names do not exist solely bc I do not want them to, if people are called the same thing too bad.

Imposter and Six-nine are two different characters.

Most humans switch between "tolk liek dis" and "talk like this" just because. Alternates only "talk like this" however.

Now more into the lore;

Alternates have two forms, human and "real"(the scary things). Being in a human form takes energy(they have limited), so alternates usually can only hold one for so long. They also can't sleep (they more energize through just not doing too much) and eat (they have no need since they automatically regain energy).

Almost everybody except Imposter is short, adults+most alternates(including Dab-riel) are at 3', children are 1-2', Imposter is 6'. Sometimes alternates can shift their form to be taller though.

Dab-riel is basically the Devil instead of Antichrist, in his own way. Basically, Dab-riel was an angel who was disgraced after getting greedy and starting to visit Earth without permission and do things like kill whole species just to see what would happen to God's kingdom. After God found out, Dab-riel was cast out, retaining his wings, however they didn't work since he could no longer go back to Heaven. So, out of vengence, he decided to try to become the new God, messing with his plans for Mary and Noah.

Through Noah, he tried to create something, his first alternate, it was a mess but Dab-riel loved it anyways, letting it go rabid like a dog on Noah, watching lovingly as it did. Through that, it tried to create more and more, getting better and better at creating these things, now making them almost identical to humans.

One of these was Imposter, being one of the first steps to making successful doppelgangers, another was Six-nine who could only really be seen on certain wavelengths/spectrums but was so close to being a doppelganger, and then there's K, the first successful doppelganger who could change its form to fit any human's.

Dab-riel, wanting to become the new God, decided the first step was to turn God's followers against him, making alternates for this reason and this reason alone: Find humans, scare them into acceptance of him, if not, kill them off. All were assigned specifically to their own human(s), some got to have exactly one person, others multiple, and a select few got to have an specific large amount/group.

Imposter was assigned to multiple people, mostly young children like Mork. Sex-nine was assigned a large group, children who watched the TV.

K was one of the ones assigned to a specific person, this person being Chaser himself. After getting into his home, he scared Chaser in his kitchen late at night while he had a knife, and while trying to run, Chaser tripped and stabbed himself in the eye and the brain, killing him.

Chaser was visiting his moms' house during that time, and hearing the noise, she tried to investigate the noise, K panicking because he wasn't supposed to try to scare Chaser's mom or any other person, only Chaser, so it's not like he could kill her or anything without maybe some consequences. So, K morphed quickly into Chaser with a suit, the fastest to copy, and hid Chaser's body as his mom came in, disguising its voice as Chaser's.

After that, K buried Chaser in his mom home's backyard, and tried to pass off as Chaser for the time being, kinda getting comfortable with the form and also how Chaser's mom treated him better than Dab-riel might. During the day he was Chaser, and the night he was K, and Chaser's mom might've accidentally walked in on him once at night and got too scared and. Possibly died, but he can't tell.

So, he calls up Mork, remembering Chaser and him were roommates and finding his phone number through a contact list Chaser's mom had right by the phone and asked him if maybe he could turn on the cameras so Chaser's mom doesn't get robbed while he tried to "drive"(truth is he can turn into a car, I think all alternates can do this bc of scrimblo, fuck you) "his" mom to the hospital. Mork agreed.

Mork did so, but then whoops, his car got switched put by an alternate sent specifically to scare him, let's just call it "M", and it crashed his car, thinking it had killed him and escaping back to Dab-riel, but unfortunately he was still alive and had to go the hospital himself.

Luckily, both Mork and Chaser's mom are a-ok, and now K has to deal with his new found affection(platonic don't worry) towards his victim's familiars, mostly towards Chaser's mom, and how maybe he wants to BE Chaser instead of just going back to Dab-riel, so he does become a replacement of Chaser, telling that he just likes wearing suits all the time(the real reason is K can't shift very well into any different outfit) and an alternate attacked him and that's why his right eye is messed up.

For two whole years after that, he lives with Mork, both of them living normally before K accidentally reveals he's an alternate by not being able to hold his form and scaring Mork in his room for like a day until he couldn't take being cramped in there anymore and confronted K about what happened to the real Chaser and was going to happen now.

K told Mork what happened (to Mork's dismay at hearing his bff being replaced so easily) but Mork decides to forgive him because what's done is done but tells him to stop pretending to be Chaser. Eventually K also tells Chaser's mom he's dead(but doesn't explain him being replaced) and never tries contacting her again.

For 17 years, Mork and K lived comfortably though, K getting so used to his human form it started to become apart of his "real"(y'know the whole alternate look) form, and Mork became comfortable with his scars and stuff (the reason why he mostly wore long sleeved hoodies was bc he was conscious about his scars), and K also learns how to shift a bit better(he can do other outfits than just the suit) and how to maintain his human form longer. Also Mork is now like 35 instead of 18 in 1992 (where the car crash took place, 1994 was when it was revealed Chaser was an alternate).

During those 17 years, Apple was born and taken away from his mom by his dad and he never saw her again, just assuming she was dead. In his elementary years, he met Juice and they became BFFs. In high school, after spending years watching ghost-hunter shows and things of the like, they decided to run away and start their own spiritual business when both were 16 in 2009.

They stole a bunch and now they're wanted by the government. One time they got called by a cat, but Apple somehow understood what it was saying, and met at the house we see in vol. 2, THAT IS NOT CHASER'S/MORK'S OLD HOUSE THIS IS A DIFFERENT ONE, and Apple gets trapped with an alternate(Six-nine) in the basement while Juice just sits in a car not knowing.

Six-nine knows he hates birthday parties, so he tries throwing him one (even if its not his birthday) and tries to slowly tell him the only way out of this is to either die or accept Dab-riel as his new God. Apple begrudgingly accepts Dab-riel as his new god and gets to run out of there back to Juice and tells him to floor it outta there !!!!!!!

So they survive all well, and at some point Mork hears abt their service and as a joke asks them to get rid of his alternate-replaced roommate (Chaser), kinda wanting to see what exactly they would try.

They arrive and get scared at Chaser's appearance (he didn't know ppl were coming over and was in a bit of a fucked up version of Chaser bc it's easier to maintain) and they try to ward him off with things they learned abt on the internet (mostly just chanting) and get to find Mork laughing at them once walking in, Chaser and the boys confused.

Mork thanks them and pays them, telling Chaser abt how he called them up to see if whatever they did worked (thankful it didn't). But, the boys are too intrigued by this human and alternate being... FRIENDS!?!?

So they basically try to ask questions before Mork and Chaser get uncomfortable with hiow much they're asking and kick them out, but unfortunately Apple and Juice are too curious and end up staying in their car watching over their house before being found out by Mork.

He scolds them, telling them they need to go home and leave them alone, and they proudly told him they have no home, they ran away and this car was BASICALLY their home, so TECHNICALLY they were already home. Mork gets concerned at that, asking if maybe they could run back home, but they told him they couldn't.

So, he answers some questions they have before forcing them inside Chaser's and his house, Chaser saying an awkward hello and shifting to his human form (not in front of them, it's scary to watch that).

Mork tries to ask if they have anybody to live with, the answer is no and they're also wanted by the government so that means if they try asking for a new home, they'll most likely be arrested. Mork, out of the kindness of his heart, decides that well fine, if nobody else will look after you, I will, and they allow him to do that, mostly just wanting to get close to Chaser through this.

But, eventually, they do just start to like living there instead of only living there to get close to Chaser and they all get close together and live happily ^_^.

And that'sss really it, Mork+Chaser help with Apple and Juice's whole ghost business and alternates are still trying to convince ppl Dab-riel is their one God now and yah.