#(also I drew this with the coolest axe at first only to got back and be like oh he had a sword

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After all… This is a death match for a reason.

-- Click for better quality! Sketch and sword version under the cut! --

(if you see this did you notice the left tumb is on the wrong side?!?? bc i only did after like 500 notes help i am screaming)

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i fucked up and answered the wrong symbol but fuckit im still doing this

☾ - What was the first idea that inspired the creation of each of your trolls, and do they still embody that idea now?

listed in order of creation, and some of these answers are gonna get really fuckin long so prepare yourself for masses of textwalls

charon: ive gone over his history in this ask here, so tl;dr version: i wanted to make a light greenblood who was creepy and loved blood and fighting. thats it. why people like this guy even though his origin is literally being Edgy(tm) is beyond me. while blood and fighting are still his main interests, his creepiness is no longer being creepy for the sake of being ‘ooh hes so evil and InSaNe xD xD xD’ to actually having motivations and becoming a legitimate threat to others.

skathi: I DONT THINK IVE EVER ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT OLD!SKATHI BEFORE SO ONLY FORMER MSPAF MEMBERS REMEMBER THAT DUMPSTER FIRE LMAO. but basically skathi’s original concept was vaguely inspired by The Importance of Being Earnest since i was studying that play at the time, but rather than being a british gentleman who invents an alternate identity as an excuse to fuck off to the country or invents a sick relative as an excuse to avoid boring social events, she was a lowblood posing as a highblood because people she fucked over burned down her hive. however that idea didnt work at all because she was complete shit at hiding her blood so that got scrapped, and shes been completely remade twice. now the only concepts that have stayed through the revamps is that she’s an axe-wielding Flarper who uses poisons and got her hive burned down.

cvetka: cvetka’s another character who’s been completely revamped and reset, but her concept hasnt really changed as much. originally she had chlorokinesis that went awry all the fuckin time because whatever man im 16 i can write whatever bullshit i want (aka no reason at all). also she was inspired by the Victorian Era + the language of flowers because i was studying that at the time (you will see this becomes a common thing). then i cant remember if it got confirmed in the comic or if it just because a commonly accepted headcanon on mspaf that highbloods didnt have psiionics at all (whats a vriska) so that got scrapped. then in her revamp she became a complete recluse because pacifism is a no-go on alternia, and while i find that shes become a much better written / well-thought out character as a result, my chances to rp her have become severely limited.

katrin: was my self-insert. originally she was painfully shy and couldnt really talk to anyone without get super embarrassed, and also she was an artist instead of a writer. then everything changed when the fire nation attacked she got a boyfriend. its kinda funny tho because she had no interest in working or getting rich until she met gerrel, yet she ended up on the complete opposite path to him by becoming a thief and running scams with her moirail at the time. then a shitload of events occurred (most of them retconned out of her backstory but their effects on her character still remain. also we dont talk about 90% of those events because i was a Bad Writer at the time and im embarrassed by everything and nearly anxiety-vomit whenever people go ‘hey remember this’ BYE) and we got the piece of shit raccoon thief we all know and love. also ive mentioned this heaps of times before but at one point she had robolimbs cuz both her arms got shot off but i retconned that to having the bullets graze her because i hated drawing her cybernetics lmao. the only things that’ve really stayed with her is that she’s still really awkward and a little shy, as well as still retaining a lot of my negative traits from her self-insert days.

viltau: ive also talked about vil’s history in another ask, but tl;dr wanted a Gatsby troll cuz i was studying the book at the time, ended up making an Edgelord. he’s still pretty gatsby-esque, being a rich guy who worked his way up to the top (tho nowhere near as drastically since he’s already a highblood) and throws a lot of parties, but since he’s a huge literature nerd now he’s a lot more self-aware and aims to purposely embody tropes from his favourite novels. i still like the idea of yellowblood!viltau (and his old sprites are adorable i mean look at him), but i have a lot more fun writing him as he is now. he’s almost a parody of himself, yet simultaneously played completely straight.

somerl: he was originally inspired from me going through my photo albums from times ive been to Hamilton Island on holiday, and in particular the one night i went on a cruise on The Banjo Paterson. i liked the idea of a cute sailor troll, and that was all he got characterwise. then, like katrin, he developed as a result of a bunch of events occurring to him and that’s how he gained a personality. he’s still a cute sailor troll, but now he’s a paranoid insomniac sailor troll with an obsession for superstitions and hatred for seadwellers and women. seadweller women are his worst nightmare.

dismas: his origin is actually kinda funny cuz i was watching this amv, and around about the time that Birthday Massacre song starts playing there’s this white-haired kid who appears and i thought he was the coolest thing ever. to this day i still have no clue who he is or what anime he’s from. also because it’s still 2011 and I Was A Teenage Edgelord i had an embarrassing obsession with Izaya from Durarara so of course dismas had to be an informant who fucks with everyone. originally he was yellow!viltau’s assistant who carried out all the shady jobs and was my go-to troll for killing off ocs i got bored of but they had history with other people’s trolls so i couldnt just get rid of them. then his original concept got combined with vil when i retconned vil into being an indigoblood. when i brought him back i kept the informant stuff and the Edgyness, but now he’s edgy to make fun of the fact he was a legitimate edgelord played 100% straight back in the day. also his roboarm switched sides because i forgot which arm he lost lmao.

aegiel: did a complete 180 in terms of character concept, and went through a bunch a revamps before i even started rping her. originally she was inspired by Hollywood Undead (particularly the song city), and was actually a super hemorebel who managed to escape capture and culling by having probability manipulating psiionics that ensured luck was always on her side. then i scrapped that entirely because at the time i was studying the Chinese revolution and the topic of the cultural revolution came up. so then her concept switched to being based on the Chinese Red Guards, as well as partially the Russian Cheka since i studied the Russian revolution the semester prior. I thought the concept of a super hemoloyal lowblood with a fanatical dedication to the Empire would be interesting, since most hemoloyalists tended to be highbloods. the only things thatve stayed from her original concept are her name and symbol, as well as her laughing quirk being a remnant of how her lusus was originally a cheshire cat.

aiolos: i dont really remember where his original concept came from, apart from i remember seeing a fanart of a 1920s style Scout from TF2 and liking the idea of a courier troll. i know i drew his original design in history class while watching Doctor Zhivago but i dont remember anything about that movie to know if that had any bearing on his character lmao. originally he was pretty rude and kinda sleazy, which ended up morphing into the sass you see today. he hasnt really changed much from his original concept, but its more that his character has grown over time.

kalpan: ok i have a confession to make. the reason why i made kal was because there were a shitload of anonbloods on mspaf that were either A. really bad at hiding their anonblood status, or B. were all almost always tyrianbloods in disguise who would pull rank every time someone gave them shit for being anon. and me, being the egotistical piece of shit i am, decided that i wanted to make a good anonblood. so kal’s blood was kept secret and she stayed out of trouble so that itd never get revealed, and her reasoning for being anonymous was just that she didnt really care my dude. she hasnt really strayed too far from her original concept, but rather expanded on the reason why shes so casually apathetic and gave her more of a backstory.

leithe: leithe’s original concept was something i dreamed up, no joke. from what i remember from the dream, i went to like a superhero school or something, and there was this one kid whose power was to cancel out other people’s powers so he’d be the one to save other kids when they lost control of their powers. his power also looked like a bubble that’d envelop himself and the other person whose powers he was cancelling out, so when i made him a fantroll that turned into an invisible field in which his psiionics were constantly active. and instead of being a hero, leithe was just an average dude who’d take up odd jobs here and there so he could have the skills to get a good job in the fleet. conceptwise he hasnt changed much, although hes become less tolerate of other lowbloods over time and he grew 500% more eyebrow.

pratap: was the first new troll i made after starting this blog. his first idea was a cute little seadweller who didnt really understand why other trolls were suspicious of him and his innocent offers to take them to his cafe for coffee. then shortly after making him, I studied Great Expectations in my uni literature class, and loved the idea of pratap getting a mentor who turns him from an innocent little kid to a typical shithead member of high society. that plot was going pretty well but fell through because of Reasons (read: i no longer associate with the other rper), so now he’s stuck in limbo characterwise but id love to pick it up again sometime.

errett: i say this every time i bring up errett’s history but haha remember when this guy was supposed to be cute. so errett was supposed to be in a group of trolls inspired by the four main elements from the game OFF., but pwo and i never got anyone to fill the spots for the elements of metal and plastic so it was just errett and his troll karnvr. and yeah, errett was supposed to be cute and his rudeness was meant to just be cutesy ‘ill puff up my cheeks and get angry and everyones gonna think im adorable’ but that got thrown out the window the moment i started rping him and he became a complete cunt. then we started thinking up a backstory for him and he became even more of a Bitter Angry Baby, so now the only elements that’ve really retained are his design and references to the game OFF..

sigrun: was inspired by those gifs of penguins falling over and the fact that i fucking love penguins and cry whenever i see cute penguin-related things. apart from being a bit more aggressive in their first draft, they havent changed much at all (probably because i never use them ever oops).

kisert: i have another confession to make. the reason why i made kisert was because i thought the whole ‘creepy little kid who talks to ghosts’ troll was overdone to hell and back so i wanted to make a parody of it by making a troll who pretends to be creepy and talks to ghosts to con people. he’s always been a massive childish brat, but his brattiness and childishness has gotten even more apparent over the years. tho at the same time, because those tendencies have been played up, he’s become a lot more emotionally stunted and stuck in the past as a result, which i think is more interesting than his original concept.

raesul: also hasn’t really changed from her original concept. i had the Danger Days album on repeat and really liked the idea of a hemorebel radio host, and so rae was born. she’s also partially inspired by Motorcity which i was watching at the time (and never finished oops), hence her radio station being called radio BRNR, after the Burners group. while rae was always supposed to be completely different from her miss summertime identity, the differences have become a lot more pronounced now that rae is super awkward and insecure while miss summertime is loud, proud, and always in control. also miss summertime’s wardrobe went from being super girly to more punk and rock-and-rock inspired, originally i wanted to avoid that because i thought itd be too cliche but then somewhere along the line i decided ‘lol fuck it’.

shirei: is based off the pokemon pangoro, cuz one of it’s pokedex entries states how its tough and aggressive but doesnt tolerate bullies, so i thought the idea of a tough but almost motherly gang leader would be neat. i was also watching Kill La Kill and Revolutionary Girl Utena at the time, so she gained some tomboyish but also princely/fairytale-esque qualities as a result. she hasnt changed much in terms of concept and ideas, but she kinda retroactively got inspired by quite a few of the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure protagonists (particularly Jolyne and Giorno, but also a bit of Josuke) because they were kind of similar in concept.

redeti: was made as being a part of a group for trolls based on santa’s reindeer that i was doing with pwo. red is a combination of the ideas i had for Dasher and Vixen, and when i first designed him we joked that he looked like a lovechild between viltau and kitaer, so his interests became snowcones and murder to reference that. while he’s still a part of the Northern Lights crew with all the other reindeer inspired trolls we made, he’s become more detached from everyone else as a result of making friends with people outside the community. but in terms of original concept and ideas, he hasn’t really changed apart from probably becoming a lot more naive and dense over time.

fannar: is another troll from the Northern Lights crew, although they were made about a month after. they were kind of based off my idea for Donner, but also a mix between one of my older trolls i got rid of and my old Hetalia oc Antarctica. since they werent going to be a reindeer troll, i wanted them to be an outsider to the group, hence their polar bear lusus and their sickly constitution making it difficult for them to live in their current environment. originally they legitimately hated redeti’s guts and wanted him dead, but over time it’s become more of just a simple blackcrush that’s made them very protective of him.

nancor: ive mentioned this before, but his original concept came about because of this video and me deciding i really liked xatu. i had also seen The Book Thief recently, and loved the character of Death (i havent read the book yet tho dont judge me), so that’s where nan’s whole ‘pleasant but morbid angel of death’ came from. he’s also somewhat based on a couple characters from Hamatora (which is an alright series but the 2nd season is a complete dumpster fire and you should only watch if you want to watch a show fly so far off the rails it becomes hilarious), such as Ratio’s power requiring him to cover up his eye, and Moral’s design (as well as Izuru Kamukura from Danga Ronpa being another design insp). he’s always been kind of a silly character with his dumb puns and the fact that he walks around wearing a blindfold and fights with semaphore flags, but the more serious aspects of his personality didnt come in until much later.

eichio: another troll that started out as a huge fuckin joke, i saw this vine and wanted to make a troll who used noisemakers as their strife weapon. his mimicry and talent with musical instruments was just random brainstorming, and his whole ‘mimicking other trolls so he can learn how to act properly and pick up their behaviours to become likeable’ became a thing because i didnt know what personality or interests to give him. then i really started to explore the concept of a troll who has been raised to be nothing but the perfect people pleaser and even more perfect servant, and the effects that would have on someone’s mentality. he also developed an anxiety disorder cuz i got diagnosed with GAD and realised how much of myself id unintentionally put in him. its kinda amusing how a character who was originally supposed to just be a blank slate ended up so complex, but i really like how much hes grown as a concept.

davitt: dav was made for that meme that went around where you and a friend had to come up w. 2 ocs in secret and not reveal them until they were both done, and then you had to figure out how to ship them together, so i came up with him while pwo made walker. i was watching How To Get Away With Murder at the time, so i really liked the idea of a corrupt lawyer who used loopholes to get all his clients out of being found guilty, and was only in the job field for money and the fact it was really easy for a tealblood to become a Legislacerator. but, since im incapable of making trolls that arent also huge fuckin dorks, he was also a huge lazy piece of shit cat who hoarded random garbage and came up with dumb ways to be efficiently lazy. over time his corrupt and greedy ways have fallen to the wayside in favour of the more comically serious side to his personality, though they’re still slightly there since he is primarily a defense lawyer and we all know those types of lawyers are the devil.

ananta: ana is based off the game OneShot, which i played and fell in love with instantly. a lot of their concept stems from the game, ranging from superficial stuff such as their appearance resembling Niko and how their strife weapon is a lightbulb, but also the technical aspects of the game such as their unforgiving personality being a reference to how you only get one shot at the game, and their hobby as a hacker referencing how the game does shit to your computer as part of a puzzle. the resemblance was apparently so close that the creator of the game reblogged my concept art for ana, which im both still flattered and embarrassed about. like a lot of my recent characters, their core concept hasnt really changed, but rather ive focused a lot more on aspects of their personality like their extreme bitterness to hide their vulnerablity, and their loneliness as a result of the events in their life and the facade they put up.

soroll: is a literal meme. hes based off the ‘scream at own ass’ opossum meme, and is part of a group of meme animal trolls owned by pwo, who is also a huge memer. again his concept hasnt really changed since hes always been kinda dumb but with a huge heart, but over time hes become more of a mother hen type since he ended up unintentionally gravitating towards trolls who never took care of themselves so hed fuss over them. also i have no clue what happened to his quirk over time or even what accent its meant to resemble now lmao.

benrii: is based off Sanetoshi Watase from one of my favourite anime of all time, Mawaru Penguindrum. like ana, he’s not so much a direct rip of the character (apart from appearance) but more of an amalgamation of references to the series, so you have things like his obsession with fate mirroring the theme of the show, his apple bombs referencing the symbolism of apples that appears constantly, and the fact that he’s 9.5 sweeps refers to the 95 arc number in the show. also at one point i fell into a huge rabbit hole and ended up reading up about cults and biblical shit so that’s where his god complex came from. the whole ‘being addicted to praise and acting out for attention’ aspect of his personality didnt come about until much later, and thats now the dominant part of his character as a whole.

rosato: is another troll based on memes and joke posts on tumblr rifp, but this time its those posts on modern vampires and people not recognising they’re actually vampires and seeing things like their sudden aversion to the sun and garlic to just be weird coincidences. so then i came up with the idea of a forgetful rainbowdrinker who refused to believe theyre actually dead because they forgot how they got killed and assumes all the associated Weird Vampire Shit are just coincidences. he’s also got a shitload of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure references in him because this was around about the time i got into the series. after errett failed, rosato was my second attempt at making a shy and cute but kinda mean troll, but once again he ended up becoming a full-blown rude asshole.

zotick: i was reading Vento Aureo and thought ‘you know Gold Experience is a fuckin cool power, what if I tried to make it less OP and turn it into a fantroll’. thus, zot was born. like rosato, his design and personality are a bunch of references to Giorno, and his love of bugs/scorpions/lizards/etc came from the fact that whenever Gold Experience turned something into an animal, its always something gross and dangerous. like eichio, i couldnt decide on any interests so i took the cheater’s way out and made it that he got bored easily so he doesnt stick to any main hobbies apart from bugs and pranks. Over time, he became more obnoxious and annoying, which was mostly because every single bug-related post on this site i could find was a fuckin meme.

Indi and Kaiman: im putting these two together because i came up with their concepts at the same time. firstly, i wanted to make trolls who were interested in the paranormal and aliens and shit, and secondly, i wanted them to be not quite siblings but grew up so closely they could basically be considered the Alternian equivalent of brothers. They were supposed to look similar in appearance and clothing too, but when i drew my first concept of indi i really liked what i came up with but it didnt suit how i envisioned kai so they ended up becoming completely different. i also wanted indi to be the quiet one and kai to be the loud one, but then i liked the idea of them being completely conflicting in terms of first impressions and ‘real’ personality. while their concepts never strayed away from their original idea, they definitely became a lot more developed and evolved once i started talking about them to ez, who was designing mauban at the time. from their interactions with mau, indi became a lot more extroverted but also trusting and optimistic, whereas kai became more judgmental and standoffish than i had initially intended, which i thought was a neat contrast.

mikiel: he’s Ghiaccio from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. that’s it. character analysis over. ok i lied, but a lot of his character concept came from the fact that i really loved Ghiaccio’s design, personality, and powers, and really wanted to make a troll like that. funnily enough his gang affiliation is not a reference to Passione / La Squadra, but rather because i wanted to add more characters to the red scarves. the whole mutant thing is because i really wanted him to have psiionics but also wanted him to be a blueblood, and the fact that his powers are nigh uncontrollable is me reusing original!cve’s chlorokinesis idea, this time the reason being because his body cant handle an ability that supposed to be only seen in lowbloods rather than just Because Shut Up. he was actually supposed to be aggressive and Angry(tm) all the fuckin time, but after a while i considered that his life is actually really fuckin depressing so he gained ‘depression’ as his second emotion. now i try to focus more on his defeatist nature as opposed to anything else because otherwise he feels just kinda one-note.

aislin: is based on Alphys from Undertale, because i really like making characters based on my fav indie rpgs apparently. i got to that part in the game when you realise that alphys has been watching you from the very beginning, and thought a troll with surveillance-based psiionics would be a really neat concept over making Yet Another Geeky Scientist (although ais is interested in science to reference alphys, she just doesnt practice it). in terms of personality, she’s katrin 2.0, because as much as i love kat how she is right now, i really missed her adorably yet painfully shy personality that she used to have. i am also v. protective of ais and the types of trolls she interacts with because i refuse to have another Incident. so its more of a return to original concepts that earlier characters once embodied.

lanthi: came about because A. I was watching Owarimonogatari and i fuckin love Ougi and B. it was finally time for me to make a subjug. her chucklevoodoos are a play on the fact that Ougi is scarily good at prompting people into figuring out the exact answers they’re looking for, and especially in the Sodachi arcs how she was able to make Araragi remember everything about his past that he’d blocked out of his mind just by asking the right questions and the right time. for lanthi, i interpreted that as fabricating memories through suggestion, so her targets become more receptive to listening to her since they suddenly recall her as a familiar face they can trust. i havent really done much with her so i dont rly have anything to say, other than i still have no clue what the fuck she is.

velour: oh boy, velour. i had so many concepts for this fucker that it was hard for me to settle on one. along with being a celebrity fashion designer and vlogger who happens to be a lowkey con artist, other concepts i had in mind were a matchmaker, and a borderline yandere who uses his celebrity status to lure in targets to fall in love with him. i scrapped the latter two ideas (tho now the yandere thing gets referenced by the fact he gets fans paying him to act out their own weird celebrity stalker fantasies LMAO), and somehow managed to mash together all my concepts into an actual troll. he took the longest for me to figure out, and it wasnt until after i made liiore and gave him a past with him + mikiel where everything started to click, but now everything works and im super happy w. him.

liiore: was somewhat of an offshoot of my many velour concepts, since along with the celebrity idea i was also thinking of an ex-celebrity concept as well. also one night i was reading the PokeSpe page on Bulbapedia and it mentioned one of the main characters being an ex-celebrity who became a shut-in after he got too overwhelmed by the lifestyle, and i really liked that concept. so then liiore was born. he was also my 3rd attempt at making a cute shy boy character, except this time i nixed the ‘but also grumpy in a cute way’ so i wouldnt end up with Yet Another Errett or Rosato. now hes a huge dopey ball of adorable shyness.

daimon: so when i first played Awakening i made a Fire Emblem-inspired troll who didnt really click with me so i scrapped them almost immediately. then Fates came around and I fell in love with every single archer but especially Niles and Takumi, so i was like ‘yknow what lets try round 2 for an FE troll’. so dai is a mishmash of all the Fates archers (but Niles remained the main inspiration so that’s why his appearance and personality is closest to him), as well as kinda more Arthur than Setsuna simply because i thought a troll with impossibly bad lukc would be hilarious. and also hilariously tragic, hence his backstory. since i havent really rped him that much he hasnt really changed in concept, but he also became inspired by Jake Peralta from Brooklyn Nine-Nine after i started watching that and now i cannot unsee dai in jake help me.

callan: is based on a combination of ‘The Phantom Thief’ trope, Bungou Stray Dogs (particularly Dazai and Chuuya in terms of design), and the fact i was talking about my faceblindness issues with my parents and thought ‘hey a character who no one can remember what they look like would make a great thief’. and i was thinking about rosato’s backstory and really wanted to make an npc to fill in the gaps re: how he died but whoops i got attached to the concept and now ive got a legit troll on my hands. i was also thinking about how i have way too many pretty + well-dressed + cultured male trolls so i kinda made callan a different spin on my own predicability by making him look smart and cultured but really not giving a shit about anything of the sort. he loves the theatre but only if theyre musicals with a lot of comedy, he steals art and knows his art history but only so that he can definitely steal something of worth that isnt going to end up a forgery, he’s sharp dressed because it attracts attention given his caste, and he drinks beer because he looks like a guy who’d prefer wine.

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Mysteries of the Q Files

Chapter 16: It’s a B Movie Show

The old bomb shelter was draped with black curtains and banners. Numerous crates were stacked tastefully and topped with sputtering candles and clothed with cobwebs. Strange and eerie symbols painted in red decorated the walls and the floor as well. Across from Trick and Naomi was a heavy, rusted iron door flanked by two other teenagers. The girl was lanky and pale with greasy hair falling to the small of her back. She wore a revealing maid’s costume and fingered a machete. The boy was short and chubby with a patched beard growing around his peach fuzz. Heis head was shaved to be nearly bald and he was dressed in a trench coat that was too large for him. He rolled an axe lazily between his hands and looked furious.

“Mandy and Derek I presume,” Trick asked warily.

“And who the hell are you,” Derek spat.

“We’re the ones trying to solve the case of the missing party goers,” Trick said shakily as he got to his feet and helped Naomi up. He looked around the room and thought, This is total overkill! Who do these guys think they are!?

“I know that look,” Naomi said. “No, you are not allowed to say something stupid about them or their hideout!”

“But look at this place,” Trick blurted. “They went totally overboard with the aesthetic here! What is this? The set for some kind of B horror show? Dracula Meets the Wolfman Part 3!? You guys, this is nuts!”

“Watch your mouth,” Derek shouted, taking a step towards them and raising the axe.

“What they did to us was nuts,” Mandy whispered, and her eyes seemed haunted. “It was beyond reason. Without mercy or sense. We had to pay them back in kind.”

“Oh great… Backstory,” Trick muttered. “We’ve now stepped into an anime.”

“I thought you wanted to know how this mystery would unfold,” Naomi muttered out of the corner of her mouth.

“Yes I did, But I also wanted to be the one to solve it,” Trick said grumpily.

“Well congratulations, because I think you did, now shut up and pay attention,” Naomi shot back as Mandy kept talking.

“And that was when Derek and I realized that we were having the exact same dreams. Dreams that were calling out to us to open a door from one world to this one. A world that would grant our every wish in return for giving it the boon of freedom. The dreams led us here and to the spells necessary to conjure the likeness of a Door with the power to bring beasts through to do our bidding and prepare the ritual to finally open the Door beyond a mere crack!”

‘Wait! Time out! First off, that’s not the likeness of a door, that is a door. Secondly, why would you trust some crazy dreams?” Trick shook his head; these kids were not making any sense.

“This is not just a door that takes you to another room,” Derek sneered. “This is a Door! A Door that connects worlds! It is a Door the likes of which has not been seen on Earth in hundreds of years! The Corrupters used them, and their knowledge has been passed onto us.”

Mandy nodded and continued, “Have you ever been publicly shamed and mocked before the entire school? The entire town in which you live?”

“Which is a small town! A town that never forgets,” Derek intejected.

“No,” Trick said cautiously.

“Then how could you ever understand,” Mandy suddenly burst out. “Our lives are beyond that of a living hell! I’d have sooner died and gone straight there! But thankfully Derek and I were visited by the dreams. Shadow people explained the process to us and introduced us to some friends you might have met.”

She waved her hand and the red symbols shone with a brilliance that again blinded Trick and Naomi. The walls rippled like water after a stone being skipped across it and the vampire and werewolf emerged and landed softly on the floor. The kidnappies then emerged as well, covered in shiny green goo that sealed them firmly to the walls.

“I guess that explains the odd green light,” trick mumbled “in a way. Why was it beaming out in the theater so brightly, but not in here until they showed up?”

“The Door isn’t opened yet,” Mandy said impatiently. “It’s only cracked open. Things happen irregularly and this room is a haven in which we could construct the door by draining the life and thoughts of our victims here. The green light was probably the portal through which you entered to now stand in the presence of the Door.”

“As clear as mud,” Trick said and Naomi rolled her eyes. “But now then, tell me if I am right, these people you’ve had kidnapped were all trying to date Tara and Billy, and so you wanted them to be lonely like you so you snatched up the people after them to make them feel alone and to probably scare them right?”

“Only partly correct,” Mandy said, wagging a finger.

“Why are explaining this to them? Let’s just get them and kill them,” Derek snarled. “Or better yet, add them to the ritual. That way we can open the Door completely tonight!”

“No,” Mandy gave Derek a commanding look that made the shorter teen pale. “Billy and Tara are meant for that honor. Okay you two, join the others.”

With that the werewolf turned into Tara and the vampire transformed into Billy, who were then grabbed by the green goo and plastered to the walls as well. They did not protest, but were in a dazed trance. Trick and Naomi both jumped as this happened.

“What better way to get revenge than to use them as monsters to terrorize the rest of the student body and then make them offerings to open a gate to another world of endless possibilities,” Mandy said triumphantly. “We’ll bring them back to life and then kill them again and again! And then we’ll pay back everyone in this school from the coolest kid to the loneliest reject, because they all betrayed us!”

The skanky maid was mad with power and the lust for revenge. The candles flared with green fire, but the room became freezing cold as the Door started opening and a white light stabbed into the scene. A shadowing form like a wolf slithered through the crack and tried to force the door wider. The door would only open at its slow pace and so the shadow put out a clawed hand into the room and the new, larger werewolf rippled up through the floor. As it came up through the cement it spoke in a guttural and harsh voice.

“The Doors are opening. At last, we are free!”

Trick knew in an instant that they had to close that door. “Not if I have anything to say about it,” he bellowed, suddenly looking much braver than he actually felt. “Go back to the hell that you crawled out of!”

He pulled out a knife and a silver spoon and rushed the wolf monster. It regarded him with amusement until it saw the spoon and it howled and leaped onto the wall, holding itself there. Derek screamed as he tore towards Trick, his axe raised to swing at his stomach. Trick stepped into his attacker’s swing and landed a punch with the spoon into Derek’s face. It hurt a lot, but it sent the twerp reeling backwards and head first into a crate. He slumped down dazed and looked concussed. Naomi rushed Mandy with two knives and the girl paled further and ran away.

“I’m cashing in on a desire wolf! Kill them!”

The wolf eyed Trick warily and growled, “He holds silver. In my current condition it will weaken me.”

“Then go for the girl,” Mandy screamed.

“She also possesses silver,” the wolf replied. It let loose a blood chilling howl.

“We will deal with the silver,” a multitude of harsh voices said together. The wolfish shadow beyond the Door raised its clawed hand again there was a pulse in the air. Trick’s and Naomi’s silver turn brown and crumbled. The wolf on the wall snarled and leaped at Trick.Trick picked up Derek’s ax and swung, connecting with the wolf. The blow did very little to the wolf, but it flung Trick backwards into a crate, toppling it over. The green lit candles scattered and set the wall drapings on fire.

“Backup wolf,” Naomi called out. “Or I will kill her!”

Trick looked up and was surprised to see Naomi holding down Mandy and applying a knife to her throat. She was good! Mandy looked to have given up already and just lay on the ground whimpering. She probably wasn’t about to shout out anymore demands with a knife poised to slit her throat.

The wolf chuckled, “Go ahead and slay the pup. With the Door opening now we have no further need for them. We are free!”

The Door opened a little further and the candles glowed even more brightly. The shadow reached further into the room and began clawing its way towards Naomi and Mandy. Trick was stunned for just a moment and then he tried to get up. His hand slipped on something and he fell back and looked at what was behind him. The crate he falled into had slipped out a bunch of weapons and paint canisters. There was also a plethora of occult looking symbols and items in there as well.

“Seriously? What’s wrong with you people,” Trick shouted in frustration. “Did you two really think that you were in control? Did you think you were in a movie where you came away with a happy ending? You chose a horror flick, and those always turn out bad.”

He stood up and clutched Derek’s axe. The wolf glared at him. “What are you babbling about pup?”

A shot rang out and the wolf flinched as a bullet ricocheted off his fur. Three figures had appeared in the room. Susan stood with her gun ready and with a furious look on her face.

“Step away from my son,” she commanded imperiously. Conturbatio and Miles also drew their weapons and leveled them.

The shadowed laughed, the room shook, the green goo flared, and the wolf howled as it lunged for the newcomers. Naomi screamed and jumped, flying through the air she landed on the wolf’s back. Mandy was left on the floor, covered in tears and dust whilst sobbing. Naomi straddled the wolf like an expert bull rider. All five collided and there was flurry of guns, fur, and knives. The wolf then leaped back and tried to shake off Naomi.

“They have silver,” it cried to the shadow.

“Always come prepared,” the Sphinx said wryly.

The shadow again made a movement and Trick acted on a gut feeling. He ran for one of the kids sealed in ooze. It looked like Samantha. He then used Derek’s axe to hack through the ooze. The Door trembled and the shadow cried out, “Stop him!”

Before he knew what was happening, Trick was being chased around the room by the foaming wolf with Naomi still riding it like an expert equestrian. Susan held a bead on the wolf, but didn’t shoot for fear of hitting Naomi. Trick flung the axe to Conturbatio.

“Free the kids!” I can’t believe this happening! This whole adventure has become a B movie! Trick just kept his legs pumping, the wolf’s sticky hot breath coming down his neck. In a desperate attempt to get the axe to someone not currently being chased, Trick flung the weapon to his left. The Sphinx caught the axe and immediately set to work. Miles on the other hand took some of the room’s props and set them on fire with the burning drapes and diverted the wolf by stepping between it and Trick. The shadow roared and the room shook yet again.

“You will not impede our escape!”

The wolf leaped over Miles and landed on Trick, sending him painfully to the ground. The next second his mother appeared out of thin air and held a silver spoon up the wolf and put her gun to its eye.

“I hope this works,” he heard her mutter and she pulled the trigger.

The wolf reared back and Naomi finally fell from it. There was a hole where its eye had once been, and but it was not yet dead. The silver actually had more of an effect. The silver spoon then turned brown and crumbled like its compatriots from before. Trick’s mother pulled him away and he scrambled to his feet. The Door suddenly began closing.

“No! No! Get that girl back into her bonds,” the shadow commanded. The wolf then charged for the Sphinx. The shadow bellowed again as now Naomi started carving another captive from the goop. The wolf now looked confused and scared, its lost eye slowly beginning to regenerate, creating a grotesque image. Miles then started freeing another student. Trick and his mother also jumped into action.

“Kill the boy,” the shadow snarled. “Revenge! We will have revenge!”

The numerous voices sounded bloodthirsty more than anything else. The wolf spun to face Trick, but before it could take another step towards him the wolf was pulled towards towards the Door. The wolf itself started stretching out and was sucked through the opening as it became smaller and smaller. The shadow struggled to stay in place. The candles dimmed and started sputtering.

“The Doors are opening,” the voices said. “We will have our revenge one day! The Doors are opening! We will not be swept up in their war! The Doors are opening!”

In a flash, the Door closed and vanished, along with the wolf and shadow monster. The flames along the wall also went out as did most of the candles. The ooze evaporated and the teenagers all fell to the ground and began to wake up.

“Trick,” Naomi gasped, reaching out a hand to be helped up. “Never invite me on another adventure ever again.”

Trick smiled and pulled her up, “I don’t make promises that can’t be kept.”